blogombal Chapter 1947 He abdicated.
Chapter 1947 He abdicated.
The emperor could not believe his eyes, nor could he believe his ears.
Did he really see the retired emperor appear?
I think I heard his voice too.
But how could that be?
The Emperor Emeritus has been dead for three years!
However, he soon thought of the day when Master Yu wanted to kill Zhou Shize, when the Emperor Emeritus seemed to have appeared as well.
After waking up from his coma, he resisted thinking about what happened that day, and he also resisted thinking about the Emperor Emeritus's appearance. Because of this resistance, he didn't ask anyone for advice.
He kept trying to convince himself that it was probably because he had been injured by evil magic and his memory was faulty.
The Emperor Emeritus did not actually appear that day.
Many things that happened that day were fake; he might have misremembered them, or they might have been hallucinations created by others.
The Emperor Emeritus has been dead for so long, it's already absurd enough that he would appear in your dreams, how could he possibly still appear?
Now, the emperor tightly closed his eyes again at the thought of the dream.
"No, no!"
He remembered again that day, he seemed to have a sudden realization, that the Emperor Emeritus had been appearing in his dreams, because it was because he had become a ghost and was infiltrating his dreams.
But now he really doesn't want to believe such a thing.
"Rebel!"
The retired emperor roared angrily at him.
"Do you think you can pretend I don't exist just by closing your eyes?"
The Emperor Emeritus began to curse in a deep voice, "What did you promise me before? You said you would be a good older brother and protect A-Yue for the rest of your life! And what happened? You actually wanted to kill him!"
The emperor kept his eyes tightly closed, and he even tried to find his amulet and a talisman to ward off evil spirits in his robes.
After he decided to take action against Zhou Shiyue, he asked Master Yu to give him several talismans, amulets for protection and talismans to ward off evil spirits.
He hadn't asked for these talismans before because he didn't want anyone to find out.
However, after he decided to take action against the Crown Prince and Zhou Shiyue, he became even more afraid of danger and ghosts. He asked Master Yu for a talisman, and he carried it with him that day.
Now when he reached into his own clothes, he realized he was only wearing a thin shirt and had nothing in his arms.
Where is his talisman?
The emperor paused for a moment, then remembered that those talismans were given by Master Yu, so could they still be used?
And what about Master Yu?
“I’m standing right here. You can hear me even with your eyes closed. What, you can’t even look at your own father?”
The retired emperor was actually very heartbroken to see the emperor in this state.
After all, this is his eldest son.
He remembered that when the emperor was born, it was his first time becoming a father, and he was very happy and had high hopes for his eldest son.
Moreover, he put a lot of effort into the emperor's upbringing and even hired someone to properly tutor him.
If he hadn't still had expectations and some confidence in the emperor, why would he have passed the throne to him and never considered changing the crown prince?
However, as it turns out, he was truly mistaken.
The emperor had truly disappointed him.
"Father, why did you continue to protect A-Yue even after you died?"
The Emperor suddenly opened his eyes and glared angrily at the Retired Emperor. He recognized him now; it was indeed his father. He looked exactly the same as before he died, but how could a ghost look like a human?
It looks alive.
The Emperor Emeritus is actually in very poor health now; his face is pale and he looks weak.
If it weren't for this serious injury, he would have looked no different from a living person. This injury has indeed made him very weak.
But even though he was very weak, he looked much better than the emperor.
Therefore, in the emperor's eyes, the retired emperor was just like a living, breathing person.
The Emperor twitched his finger. At that moment, he even had a slight urge to reach out and touch the Emperor Emeritus to see if he had a body temperature.
"Should I help A-Yue?"
The retired emperor almost laughed in anger when he heard what he said.
"If I really continued to help A-Yue, I wouldn't let him be just a prince with no real power; I would give him some real authority!"
"Doesn't he have any real power? Look, Aze listens to him, Eunuch Qin listens to him, the entire Subei Camp listens to him, and now the army in the southwest listens to him even after just one trip there!"
Because the emperor was so angry and agitated, he was no longer so afraid.
Perhaps it was because the retired emperor didn't look like a ghost, nor was he as he often dreamed. He returned to his youth, or to his prime.
The retired emperor now appears old and frail, so the emperor is not as afraid as he was in his dream.
"Moreover, he's now forcing me to issue an edict of self-reproach! He wants to force me to abdicate and rebel! He clearly promised you before that he would never compete with me for the throne, but now he's going back on his word!" the Emperor exclaimed.
"You've already committed evil deeds and sins!" the Emperor Emeritus roared. "You've been raising a heretical cultivator, and not only are you trying to kill A-Yue, you're also going to kill A-Ze! Even tigers don't eat their cubs, what have you done?!"
"I...I didn't want him dead..."
"Didn't you think about it? When you handed him over to that evil cultivator, didn't you consider what would happen to him?" the Emperor Emeritus roared. "He is of royal blood, the Crown Prince of the Great Zhou! You handed him over to an evil cultivator! You almost turned my dignified Crown Prince of the Great Zhou into a puppet!"
The Emperor Emeritus was furious. "If it weren't for Master Ling's timely arrival to save Aze, he would be nothing more than a mindless puppet now, and might even be controlled to harm his own people!"
"By doing such a thing, you are a sinner to the royal family! A sinner to the Great Zhou! And you have also let down the First Mystic Sect! Don't you know what oaths and guarantees our Great Zhou made with the First Mystic Sect?"
The retired emperor, his face dark, said in a deep voice, "You've done such a thing, and you still say you're completely innocent? This edict of self-reproach is already too lenient on you! In my opinion, you should be sent to the imperial mausoleum so you can kneel before your ancestors and properly repent!"
The emperor was completely unable to refute the rebuke he received from the retired emperor.
"You wanted to poison your own brother, frame your own son, and even push me, your own father, to the evil cultivator when I appeared to stop you."
"Do you think you still deserve to sit on the dragon throne after doing such a vicious thing?"
The Emperor Emeritus grew increasingly furious as he spoke, “Even if A-Yue and A-Ze don’t force you to abdicate, I will still take action! I absolutely cannot allow you to remain the Emperor of Great Zhou! Because if things continue like this, Great Zhou will perish in your hands!”
The emperor trembled.
No, that's not true. He genuinely wanted to be a good emperor.
"If you confess your guilt and step down, I can ignore you. Otherwise, I will risk punishment to drag you into the underworld with my own hands!"
Zhou Shiyue looked at the Emperor Emeritus.
It seems that the Emperor knew about the current situation and came to help them.
"No, no, Father, I don't want to die..."