Out of fear of death, Invest Everything into Health-Chapter 303 - 153: Once He Leaves, You Will Lose Him Forever

As soon as Ye Yixian recovered, he immediately discarded all ceremony and rushed straight to the Li Palace.

His figure was emaciated, his aura chaotic, resembling nothing of a Crown Prince, more like a disillusioned seeker on the difficult Immortal Path.

As soon as he reached the Li Palace, he rushed up the towering Qi Observation Platform.

A Dragon Guard stopped him, "Your Highness, the Qi Observation Platform cannot be trespassed."

The Qi Observation Platform is where the Holy Monarch Ye Chuxuan resides.

Then, the Dragon Guard saw Ye Yixian’s deeply sunken eyes, his pupils trembling like those of a malevolent ghost, with a voice like the last cry of the cicada, "I want to see my holy father!"

"Your Highness, you need a summons from the Holy Emperor."

"Get out of my way!" Ye Yixian was furious like an old lion.

He completely disregarded any protocol, forcibly charging up the Qi Observation Platform.

"Your Highness, this is overstepping!"

Ye Yixian charged breathlessly to the top of the Qi Observation Platform.

At this moment, Ye Chuxuan was standing at the very front of the expansive high platform, from where the entire vast Celestial Balance Upper City could be taken in at a glance.

Four Dragon Guards held onto Ye Yixian, preventing him from advancing further.

Ye Chuxuan waved his hand, "Let him go."

After saluting the Holy Monarch, the Dragon Guards withdrew.

Ye Chuxuan looked at Ye Yixian, "Crown Prince, it has been thirty years since we last met."

The last meeting was when Ye Yixian was formally established as Crown Prince.

After thirty years of absence, Ye Yixian was entirely devoid of familial emotion. His figure was haggard, his eyes glaring in anger and sorrow at his father, the Holy Monarch, "The Sickness City, what is truly going on?"

Ye Chuxuan’s tall stature cast against the sky appeared immensely imposing. He almost blocked out most of the light meant for Ye Yixian, "A city terminally ill." His voice was devoid of emotion, as if making a simple statement.

Ye Yixian’s voice was like a powerless beast that wanted to roar, "One hundred and twenty-eight Qi Observation Envoys, along with 7,342 others from five classes, took on all the backlash of the fortune for the Great Li, suffering from the terrifying fortune disease. They are painfully struggling in the Sickness City! These diligently devoted heroes, the treatment they received was this! So cruel, so brutal! They were even placed in a great life-force array, making it so they couldn’t live nor die, just to lock the backlash of fortune in that city!"

Ye Chuxuan squinted, "How did you find out about this? Ji Wenrui? Chengming? Xu Xiang? No, they all don’t know. In their eyes, the Sickness City is a deserted ghost town, no one dares to investigate there."

Ye Yixian’s voice bubbled like he was drowning, "The truth will always come to light!"

Ye Chuxuan no longer inquired by what means Ye Yixian had learned this, he turned and calmly said, "Crown Prince. There always needs to be someone making sacrifices, taking claims."

Ye Yixian asked in a deep voice, "You are the emperor, why don’t you take on the responsibility?"

"Precisely because I am the emperor, I cannot take it on. If I took on the karmic retribution, then who would be emperor?" Ye Chuxuan’s words were by no means out of hubris.

Ye Yixian was stunned, unable to refute.

Because, indeed, there was no second person suited to be emperor of Great Li.

Ye Chuxuan said, "Although the last path to the Imperial Dynasty failed, Great Li still has the greatest hope of becoming an Imperial Dynasty. At such a time, can we afford to be chaotic? Letting them endure the backlash of fortune is, for the entire Great Li, the best way."

Ye Yixian stared blankly at Ye Chuxuan. He believed the towering and imposing figure before him was nothing more than a cold-blooded beast, for how could anyone speak such words so lightly?

"Aren’t those over seven thousand people human too? Aren’t they the citizens of my Great Li?" Ye Yixian’s voice was gloomy, his eyes trembling, "They are heroes, not criminals, by what right are they subjected to such torment! Even on their deathbeds, they believed Great Li would save them!"

"Death?" Ye Chuxuan precisely captured that word, he turned his head, eyes sharp, "They died?"

Ye Yixian seemed to grasp a lifeline, his pale face suddenly flushing with a sickly red, he sneered, "Yes, they died, died over two hundred years ago!"

Ye Chuxuan relaxed his brow once more, "Impossible. If they were dead, the backlash of fortune would have fallen upon Celestial Balance Upper City. Crown Prince, you have lost your mind, saying such things."

"Heh—" Ye Yixian laughed hoarsely and dryly, "Holy Father, aren’t you said to never miss a calculation? Aren’t you the most powerful political machine in Great Li? How could you not know what happened in the Sickness City? Or are you too scared, afraid a bit of fortune disease might cling to you, so much so you dare not even glance?"

Ye Chuxuan looked at him indifferently.

Moments later, a Dragon Guard walked up quickly, saluted, and handed over a piece of intelligence.

Ye Chuxuan finished reading the intelligence, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "So that’s how it is."

Ye Yixian was not surprised at all, he knew well that with his holy father’s methods, he could easily grasp all movements of this Crown Prince. Everything he did was practically out in the open.

"Holy Father, have you stayed on the Qi Observation Platform too long, seen too much of the grandeur, and forgotten that there is such a terminally ill place in Great Li! Dynasty! This is an endlessly prosperous dynasty to become an Imperial Dynasty!"

Ye Chuxuan paid no mind to Ye Yixian’s hysteria. Instead, he laughed, "This Fan Wubing is truly a capable person, he managed to excise a long-standing affliction for Great Li all on his own. He seems to be one of your people. Crown Prince, well done, you finally did something that truly affects the Great Li National Destiny."

Ye Yixian looked at his smiling face, gritted his teeth and said, "How could holy father say such a thing. Just one ’well done’, to use someone else’s great merit to cover up your own shortcomings as the emperor?"