Chapter 398: A Conversation
At those words, the white-haired, withered elder glanced at Zhao Kuang from the corner of his eye, and deep within his own eyes a cold killing intent surfaced.
This person, so desperate to cling to life and the throne, was willing to debase himself this completely, to practically prostrate himself before Li Musheng in submission.
How could someone like this be entrusted with the throne of Great Xuan?
If the throne went to him, the dynasty the Great Xuan founding ancestors had built over a hundred years would sooner or later be ruined in his hands.
On top of that, what Zhao Kuang had just said was also precisely the hand of cards the withered elder had been quietly preparing to play in front of Li Musheng to preserve his own life.
That Zhao Kuang had beaten him to it and blurted it out first made him feel the stirrings of murderous intent. How could he not?
After all, he still had no idea what Li Musheng was truly thinking.
Li Musheng had said he came to kill the Great Xuan emperor, but whether he would also take the opportunity to deal with the Old Ancestor of the Great Xuan imperial family and eliminate the dynasty's last remaining foundation was something the withered elder still could not be sure of.
Even so, nothing of this showed on the withered elder's face. His eyes shifted rapidly, and then he spoke toward Li Musheng, "Though Great Xuan has no precedent of a woman becoming emperor, if this is the person Your Highness has chosen, this old one will overcome every obstacle and support this woman inheriting the throne with everything I have, without a single word of complaint."