Chapter 363 Everything Makes Sense

"How dare you disrespect His Majesty!"

Qin Wei said in a low voice with a cold face.

Prince Chen showed no fear whatsoever; on the contrary, he laughed even more triumphantly.

"Shen Lang is your emperor, not mine. Don't try to show off in front of me! Even if Shen Lang comes, he'll have to kneel before me and beg for his life if I tell him to!"

"you!"

Qin Wei angrily drew his sword and held it against Prince Chen's neck.

Prince Chen remained motionless, as if to say, "What can you do to me?"

"Go ahead and kill me if you dare. But Shen Lang is begging me to prepare medicine for him. If you kill me, do you think you'll survive?"

Qin Wei reluctantly sheathed his sword and ordered his men to carry the swaddled babies from the ground to the stone platform one by one.

"Stop talking nonsense and get the medicine ready."

Chen Wang squinted at the swaddling clothes and snorted coldly.

"These aren't Shen Lang's children, are they?"

Qin Wei snorted before saying, "The little prince in Consort Chen's belly was born prematurely and died immediately after birth."

"Dead?"

The Prince of Chen was initially surprised, then let out a series of strange laughs, which grew louder and louder until he finally threw his head back and laughed out loud.

Enraged, Qin Wei once again drew his sword and held it to Qin Wei's neck.

"why are you laughing?"

The Prince of Chen's laughter gradually subsided, but the joy in his voice was still hard to conceal.

"Good riddance! This child was Shen Lang's only hope. Hahaha, who would have thought that after all his scheming, he would still end up dead!"

"His Majesty will not die!"

Qin Wei said sternly, pointing the swaddling clothes on the stone platform one by one with the tip of his sword.

"These babies were all born on the same day as the little prince. His Majesty said that their blood can be used to make medicine! Don't try to fool me!"

Qin Wei pointed his sword at Prince Chen's throat and said, "Use these children to make medicine immediately. I'll only give you three days."

If the antidote is not available within three days, I will send you on your way immediately.

I advise you to be sensible and hurry up and get the medicine. If His Majesty doesn't survive, you'll die before him!

Chen Wang curled his lip, stretched out two withered fingers, pinched the longsword, and moved it aside.

He said, "That dog Chen Lang really goes to great lengths to stay alive, tsk tsk tsk, am I worthy of him?"

"Move aside, you keep threatening me with your sword, how am I supposed to concoct medicine?"

He pointed at Qin Wei with his chin, signaling him to get lost.

Qin Wei's expression softened slightly, and he sheathed his sword and took two steps back.

Prince Chen stretched out his filthy hands, bent down, and unwrapped each baby to examine them.

As he moved, he tugged at the iron chain, making a piercing sound.

The baby in the swaddling clothes was not disturbed at all and continued to sleep soundly.

Li Nanke knew that these children must have been drugged, which was why they had fallen into a deep sleep.

brute!

What a beast!

How could they do that to a newborn baby!

The Prince of Chen hummed an off-key tune as he examined all the infants one by one.

"Tsk tsk tsk, these are truly excellent medicinal materials. It's just a pity they're not Shen Lang's blood relatives. I can't guarantee that the pills will be successfully refined."

He bent down and looked at all the children, his eyes seeming to admire precious medicinal herbs about to be thrown into the furnace.

Qin Wei impatiently pressed, "Have you seen enough? Can we start refining the medicine now? Let's start refining it first, whether it works or not."

Prince Chen glanced at him and snorted, "What do you know? Fresh babies have the purest blood."

However, to use them in medicine, it's necessary to activate the potent effects in their blood, so it's best to draw their blood while they are conscious.

As he spoke, he stretched out his withered, claw-like hand, grabbed a short knife, and began to scrape it repeatedly on a nearby stone.

Snap... snap snap...

It sent chills down your spine.

Li Nanke whispered to Shen Cong, "So... the little princes born a few years ago were all sent here to refine medicine."

Three years, three children.

Chen Meiren died this year, so they kidnapped someone else's child and sent them over.

"That skeleton must be the child born to Consort Wang, right? Consort Wang must have discovered the Emperor's secret and was silenced."

Li Nanke speculated.

It is likely that Prince Chen said that in order to refine the antidote to remove the poison from his body, there must be an infant with the blood of the emperor.

Using infants to make medicine, especially one's own flesh and blood, is utterly immoral and worse than an animal!

So the emperor announced to the world that Prince Chen was dead, but in reality he secretly hid Prince Chen in a secret room in the artificial hill of the imperial garden and forced Prince Chen to refine an antidote for him.

While taking a stroll in the Imperial Garden, Consort Wang unexpectedly discovered Prince Chen, who was being hidden, or perhaps overheard a conversation between Prince Chen and the Emperor.

In order to protect herself and save her child, Consort Wang could only pretend to be so frightened that she had become mentally impaired, hoping to deceive the emperor and secretly find a way to save herself.

However, the emperor did not trust her. On the one hand, he needed the child in her womb to save his life, and on the other hand, he was afraid that Consort Wang would pretend to be stupid and betray him.

Therefore, the emperor had been secretly sending people to keep an eye on Consort Wang. After discovering that Consort Wang had summoned her to the palace, the emperor suspected that Consort Wang was using her to pass on messages.

After a thorough investigation, nothing was found. The emperor dared not take the risk. On one hand, he moved Prince Chen to another place. On the other hand, he ordered his men to cut open the Consort's belly, take out the baby prince, and then set fire to the Consort, killing her.

And that little prince was sent to the alchemy workshop by his own father right after he was born!

If that's the case, then everything makes sense.

Even tigers don't eat their cubs, yet the emperor was so ruthless that it was appalling to both of them.

Having figured everything out, Li Nanke trembled with anger, but a sharp pain shot through his palm.

When she came to her senses, she found that Shen Cong's hand, which was holding hers, was also trembling, and his face was so somber it was almost as if water could drip from it.

Li Nanke shook his hand back.

Shen Cong met her gaze, his thin lips trembled, but he couldn't utter a single word.

At that moment, Chen Wang's hoarse voice, like a broken bellows, rang out from the other cave.

"They're here..."

He picked up one of the babies and placed it in the center, his eyes gleaming with a fanatical and greedy light.

Then he unwrapped the baby and raised the knife he had just sharpened.

Li Nanke and Shen Cong exchanged a glance, and without any hesitation, they rushed out.

"assistant!"

Li Nanke's voice rose in anger, and before he finished speaking, the whip lashed out, precisely entangled the knife in Prince Chen's hand.

With a strong pull, he snatched the knife away.

Bang!

The dagger fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Qin Wei's expression changed drastically. He drew his long sword and stood protectively in front of Prince Chen, his face looking extremely grim as he gazed at Shen Cong.

"King Xuan? What are you doing here?"

Shen Cong sneered, "How could I discover your secrets if I didn't show up here?"

Qin Wei's expression changed, and he immediately gripped his longsword tightly.

Prince Chen raised his head and slowly brushed away the hair that was covering his cheeks, revealing his sunken face.

His gaze remained fixed on Shen Cong for a long time, his brows furrowing tightly.

"Something's not right, Shen Cong. Your body is in better shape than I thought. This can't be!"

"Judging by the timeline, you should have been extremely weak and frequently vomiting blood this year, right?"

"You've found a way to break the blood curse? No, that's impossible!"