After explaining, Jun Jianchou impatiently waved his hand at Jun Xiaoqiao.
"It's so miraculous! What kind of fate does Cen Xi have? She seems so glamorous, but in reality, she suffers countless hardships. Even in death, she can't find peace. It's truly..."
Jun Xiaoqiao seemed not to see his gesture and continued to mutter to herself.
Jun Jianchou didn't give her a chance to ramble on. He directly struck her pressure points, and with a flick of his sleeve, threw Jun Xiaoqiao away.
Then he sat upright in front of the tomb, his fingers flying across the paper, while he muttered incantations.
An hour passed, then two hours, and it wasn't until dawn the next day that Jun Jianchou finally stopped.
However, he did not look well. As soon as he stopped, his blood and qi surged and his tendons and veins were broken.
Finally, he collapsed in front of Cen Xi's grave.
The imperial guards outside the mausoleum were shocked to see this scene. Zhang Qi, the commander of the imperial guards, rushed over to Jun Jianchou, helped him up, and checked his breathing.
Seeing that there was no breath and no pulse, Zhang Qi was greatly alarmed. He rushed to Jun Xiaoqiao, released her pressure points, and asked her what had happened.
The first question Jun Xiaoqiao asked after she was able to speak was:
"How is he? Did he use forbidden magic to break the restraints?"
"He's dead, Madam Prime Minister. What exactly happened? Such a serious incident has occurred, we must go to the palace and explain it to His Majesty."
Zhang Qi pursed his lips and said helplessly.
"What? He... he's dead?"
Jun Xiaoqiao stared wide-eyed in disbelief, as if she had heard the biggest joke in the world.
"Yes! Madam is a witness, and this matter must be reported to His Majesty. Please come with us."
Seeing that he couldn't get any reason from them, Zhang Qi stopped asking and directly ordered the preparation of carriages so that they could enter the capital city as soon as possible.
"No need to prepare a carriage. I came on horseback, and I will return on horseback."
After a moment of shock, Jun Xiaoqiao took a breath and refused Zhang Qi.
"Then... what should we do with the monk's body?"
Zhang Qi glanced at the person lying in front of the tomb and asked Jun Xiaoqiao.
"Then let's prepare a carriage and take him back to the palace. I'm sure His Majesty would like to see him."
Jun Xiaoqiao glanced at the lifeless body in front of the grave, wiped her face speechlessly, and then gave instructions to Zhang Qi.
"Yes! Someone, do as the Prime Minister's wife arranges."
Zhang Qi glanced at the soldiers beside him with a grim expression and gave them some instructions.
Jun Xiaoqiao sat up and paced back and forth in front of Cen Xi's grave several times. What happened today was too strange.
I wonder if Jun Jianchou was able to help Cen Xi.
When Zhang Qi urged her to leave, she helplessly looked at Cen Xi's portrait and said:
"Sister, I hope Jun Jianchou succeeds. Then you can be free to reincarnate. Your life seems good, but it's actually a bad one. Remember to open your eyes wide in your next life and be reborn into a better one."
After speaking, he performed a set of sacrificial rites, then turned and walked out of Cen Xi's mausoleum.
In the palace, upon hearing the urgent report from the soldiers, Shen Jinchen immediately dismissed the court session and then hurriedly went to the palace stables to lead a horse out of the palace.
At the same time, the Imperial Guards reacted quickly. The emperor leaving the palace was a major event, and they immediately chased after him.
At the city gate of the capital, the two groups of people met. Before Zhang Qi could even pay his respects, Shen Jinchen had already climbed into the carriage where Jun Jianchou's body was placed and looked at Jun Jianchou's death.
Unable to figure out the reason, he asked directly:
"What happened?"
"We don't know either. The Prime Minister's wife went with him, so perhaps she knows part of the reason."
Zhang Qi knelt down to beg for forgiveness.
"Your Majesty, Jun Jianchou said that Cen Xi's soul was imprisoned by something after her death. He performed a ritual at her grave, and after that, he became like this. The rest of us don't know anything about it."
Jun Xiaoqiao knew she had to explain, so she spoke up before Shen Jinchen even asked her.
"Did he help Cen Xi break free of her confinement before he died?"
Shen Jinchen yanked Jun Xiaoqiao off the horse, his eyes burning as he stared at her.
"This humble woman doesn't know either. I saw that he fainted at the very end, so he probably managed to get rid of that thing, right?"
Jun Xiaoqiao looked at the crazed Shen Jinchen with utter innocence.
"press!"
Shen Jinchen pushed Jun Xiaoqiao aside, mounted his horse, squeezed his legs together, and headed towards the imperial city.
Upon arriving at the imperial mausoleum, Shen Jinchen gazed at Cen Xi's tomb with his eyes still burning with fervor.
He investigated for a while but found nothing.
He then instructed someone to invite Master Shenyin from Xiangguo Temple.
I've been anxiously waiting for you for an hour, but the Master of the Hidden World has finally arrived.
Regardless of whether the other person was tired or not, Shen Jinchen went straight to the point and told him what Jun Xiaoqiao had said to him.
Master Shenyin frowned upon hearing this, and finally uttered "Amitabha." He explained that such a forbidden technique did indeed exist, but he did not know it. If one wanted to understand the specific reasons, it would be best to go to the Hidden Sect and invite the sect leader to come down the mountain and investigate in person.
Upon hearing this, Shen Jinchen was extremely anxious, but he forced himself to suppress his turbulent emotions and finally sent five hundred light cavalry to the Hidden Sect.
After some searching, they finally managed to persuade Sun Li, the master of Jun Jianchou and Cen Xi, to come down the mountain.
After Gongsun Li carefully examined the imperial mausoleum, she said to Shen Jinchen:
"Their mission is complete, and they have now returned to their original places. There will never be two of them in this world again."
Upon hearing this, Shen Jinchen swayed. When he looked for the person again, the person was already gone, and he could only accept the fact.
Shen Jinchen clearly understood the old man's meaning.
Shen Jinchen thought of the word "time travel" that Cen Xi had mentioned before, which seemed to refer to a person's soul traveling to another world.
Did they return to their original positions?
This question had been troubling Shen Jinchen for a long time, until one day he met Jun Xiaoqiao by chance.
Seeing that she was just as unconventional, he grabbed her and asked her a lot of questions about time travel.
Jun Xiaoqiao admitted that she, Cen Xi, and Jun Jianchou came from another world, and also acknowledged Old Man Gongsun's deduction.
After hearing the explanation, Shen Jinchen asked:
"Why can they go back, but you can't?"
"I don't know either, and besides, I don't want to go back."
Jun Xiaoqiao shrugged, indicating that she didn't understand anything.
Actually, she really didn't understand either. She just inexplicably came into this world, how could she know if she could go back?
Seeing that he couldn't get any information from her after asking her questions, Shen Jinchen let her leave without asking any more.
After that, Shen Jinchen would invite a highly respected monk or Taoist priest to the Kunde Hall to "preach" every six months.
On the 28th day of the sixth month of the ninth year of Yongxing, the emperor invited a highly accomplished monk to chant scriptures in the Kunde Hall for ten days.
After that, Emperor Yongxing breathed his last and died in the Kunde Palace.
The crown prince was five years old that year, and at that age, his unreliable father put him on the throne.
From then on, the Later Qi dynasty changed its reign title to Jianxing, thus beginning a new chapter in its more than two-hundred-year rule.
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