Chapter 143 [Spirit Pearl] Random Matchmaking
After a while, Nanny Li lowered her posture and invited the two into the hall.
Just now, Ye Musi could smell the incense burning inside when he was standing outside. Now that he walked in, the smell was even stronger, wrapping around him and making him feel at ease.
"Grand Empress Dowager." Yuying'er ran forward like a spoiled child, and then crawled beside the Grand Empress Dowager.
"Nannan is back, my dear." Although the Empress Dowager loved Yuying'er very much, she did not spend too much time reminiscing with her. She looked up curiously at Ye Musi who was standing not far away.
From the moment Ye Musi entered the hall, her eyes never left him. He looked so much alike. If Nanny Li hadn't said it, she would have thought that this was Ye Yuanqing.
At this moment, Ye Musi was also looking at the old lady sitting on the throne. She had a kind face and seemed easy to talk to, but he was a little at a loss. He didn't know what to do. He was wondering whether he needed luggage and what etiquette he should perform.
"Come, come here." After a long time, the Empress Dowager saw that Ye Musi did not move, and gestured towards Ye Musi with her old hand, indicating him to come over.
Ye Musi also went there as if possessed by some mysterious force.
The Empress Dowager stood up.
"Can you please let me see the Panlong Jade?"
Ye Musi quickly took off the jade pendant and presented it with both hands, not forgetting to say, "Junior Ye Musi."
The Empress Dowager said nothing, but carefully examined the jade pendant in her hand. The patterns and light scratches on it were exactly the same as she remembered.
The child in front of her was probably her grandson, so she tied the jade around his waist again.
"My dear grandson, where is your father? Why doesn't he come back to see me?" The Empress Dowager took Ye Musi's hand and cried with joy.
"He..." Ye Musi thought for a while, "Dad really missed you, but there was some trouble in the cultivation world, so he had to stay."
He couldn't bear to let the old woman in front of him know that his son was dead, so he lied.
"So..." The Empress Dowager seemed to be thinking about something, and then she let go of Ye Musi's hand, "Come here, please give me a seat."
Ye Musi sat next to the Empress Dowager.
"Your name is Ye Musi, so I'll call you Si'er. You've been wandering around for all these years, and I didn't even know Si'er existed. Yuan Qing didn't even mention you at all, and I don't even know how old you are."
"Just turned thirty."
"You are so old now, have you married yet? Let me hold your great-grandson?" The Empress Dowager opened her eyes. She loved children so much that she was looking forward to holding Ye Yuanqing's child. But now that her grandson was so old, she wanted to hold her great-grandson.
Ye Musi used a smile to hide his embarrassment.
“No.”
"That won't do." The Grand Empress Dowager seemed to have thought of something. She took Yu Ying'er's hand and said kindly, "Nannan is also from the cultivation world. If you get married, you can have someone to look after you in the cultivation world."
Without waiting for Ye Musi to refuse, Yu Ying'er waved her hand quickly.
"No, no." Yu Ying'er cherished her life and was also afraid that Lu Lishen would go crazy and wipe out Minghualou. "I'm from the demon clan, and he's from a reputable and upright sect. The cultivation world won't agree. Besides, he and I are cousins. I just can't bring myself to do it."
Ye Musi also declined. After a brief chat about the past, he asked, "Grand Empress Dowager, when my master Mu Chi returned to the human world more than ten years ago, did he bring any treasures with him?"
"Mu Chi? Are you the disciple of Master Mu Xian?" After receiving Ye Musi's affirmative answer, she continued, "There's no treasure, but the disciple he brought with him is the devil in the world of cultivation, right? I saw that child and he seemed quite well behaved, so how come..."
Ye Musi didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that the Empress Dowager didn't want to tell him anything useful and was avoiding his words. Could it be that something important had happened to his master after he came here?
He only knew that Mu Chi and Hua Jin had been in the human world for a year, and he knew nothing else. No one in the valley knew what Mu Chi had done in the human world, and they just thought he had come back to visit his relatives.
"Forget it, I'm a little tired. Nannan, you have to take Si'er to get familiar with this place."
"Okay!"
Yuying'er led Ye Musi away.
The old nanny leaned forward and whispered in the Empress Dowager's ear.
"Since my grandson has returned, and the strange phenomenon that appeared in the sky a few days ago is still unknown whether it was the emperor or this new grandson, I will let him meet the Imperial Master another day."
"Yes." Nanny Li withdrew.
A few days ago, the national teacher observed the sky at night and saw a strange vision. It also happened that a new emperor had ascended the throne. She believed that the current emperor was the true emperor and would surely bring prosperity to the country. Even Ye Yuanqing in the past had not seen such a strange vision. But now Ye Musi's arrival, with a face almost exactly the same as Ye Yuanqing's, made her wonder who this strange vision referred to.
If it is Ye Musi, then he can only be killed.
The Empress Dowager is over fifty years old and has already seized power. The current emperor is just a puppet.
She had already started planning when she was still a concubine. It happened that she had a child who was loved by the emperor, but this child liked to seek immortality and ask for advice, so she had no choice but to find a way to adopt another child.
Now she doesn't care whether the person on the throne is the destined one or not. As long as he is her own, someone she has watched grow up with her own eyes and she knows his weaknesses, that's enough, not blood relationship.
Ever since she stepped into this imperial city, she has no blood relatives to speak of.
If it really was Ye Musi...
Ye Musi followed Yu Ying'er out of the palace.
"You are in danger, do you know that? The Empress Dowager is not very welcoming to you, and I don't know why, but don't be sad. Maybe she is a little confused because she suddenly has a grandson?" Yu Ying'er couldn't explain it clearly, but the Empress Dowager treated Ye Musi differently from her, even... this feeling made her feel dangerous, she couldn't put it into words, and she had never seen it in the Empress Dowager.
Since she can see it, Ye Musi can see it too.
Ye Musi also knew that the Empress Dowager disliked him a little, perhaps because they had just met, and as Yu Ying'er said, there was not much deep affection between them.
"Well, maybe, but it doesn't matter."
Ye Musi followed the palace maid and saw Lu Lishen. At this moment, Lu Lishen was sitting at the table, watching Ji Wang eating the cakes brought by the palace maid.
I ate it all, leaving not a single crumb.
"Master!" Lu Lishen stood up excitedly when he saw Ye Musi's figure. Without Ye Musi by his side, every minute and every second was very difficult to endure.
"Well, let's leave the palace."
Yuying'er on the side was a little confused.
"What's wrong? Aren't you going to stay and cultivate your relationship with the Grand Empress Dowager?"
"The palace is a bit depressing."
"Okay, let's go to my house."
Yuying'er's mansion was not given by the emperor, but belonged to her mother. Since no one lived there, she simply cleaned it up. In addition, she had made some business, so she could support herself without asking for help from the palace. No one cared about her, so she was free.
They left the palace and arrived at Yu Ying'er's residence. Ye Musi couldn't help but frown. Why did he remember Lu Lishen saying that Yu Ying'er returned to the demon world because she couldn't make it in the human world? Now it seemed that she lived in a good place, not worse than the one in Xishan.
"I returned to the Demon Realm because I wanted to move my business to the world of cultivation and find a backer so that I could make more money in the world of cultivation. Who would have thought that I would encounter him killing everyone? I was scared to death. Fortunately, I have a good life." Yu Ying'er saw what Ye Musi was thinking, so she answered.
"It's not convenient for you to live here. You are a woman, and the world values a woman's purity."
"No one controls me, so who dares to control me? I'm a half-demon hybrid, so I'm naturally gifted with cultivation. Besides, you and I are cousins, so what can they say? Your apprentice is also quite formidable. I guarantee that with just one look, they won't dare to speak. Don't underestimate those people because they seem very powerful. In fact, they are the most timid of all."
At Yuying'er's strong request, they stayed.
It took Ye Musi and the other two two days to come to the human world just to fly the sword. Now they were tired, so they took a bath and rested.
The next day, Yu Ying'er suddenly said that there would be a palace banquet in the evening to officially announce the strange phenomenon that had occurred in the sky a few days ago. The emperor was the second true destiny after Ye Yuanqing.
The Empress Dowager specially invited Ye Musi, saying that she wanted him to return to his ancestral home.
Ye Musi wanted to refuse, as the palace made him too uncomfortable, but when he thought of Shenghe Mountain, he agreed.
He felt inexplicably uneasy, as if this banquet was specially arranged for him, and it was a Hongmen Banquet.
"Master, don't you want to go?" Lu Lishen saw it at a glance and held Ye Musi's hand. "If you don't want to go, then don't go. We are cultivators, why should we care about the rules of this world? Looking at the world of cultivation, isn't Master also the emperor?"
That being said, it seems that...
Puppet Emperor...
"Go, find the luminous pearl as soon as possible, and return as soon as possible."
At night, the three of them followed Yuying'er into the palace.
At first, he didn't want to take Ji Wang with him, but Ji Wang was too noisy. Not only was he noisy, he was also noisy and insisted on going to the palace banquet to eat a lot, so Ye Musi had no choice but to take him with him.
Soon after entering the palace, Nanny Li summoned Yu Ying'er away, saying that the Empress Dowager had summoned her, and then ordered another palace maid to take them to a banquet.
The maid, not knowing whether it was intentional, led them to a secluded place by mistake, then bowed and said someone wanted to see them, and then left.
In fact, Ye Musi had guessed it long ago, because Nanny Li appeared so suddenly and Yu Ying'er left so suddenly.
There was only a nine-story attic in front of me, surrounded by a courtyard. The courtyard was neither big nor small, and the surrounding shrubs were also surrounded along the wall.
"Master, don't be afraid, your disciple will protect you."
"Fool, how can a disciple protect his master?"
The two were joking when suddenly a voice with a hint of oppression was heard.
"Are you the son of King Rui?" The attic door suddenly opened, revealing a masked figure in black. "Why are there three of you?"
The Imperial Master looked at you and then at him.
"The three of you have extraordinary destinies..." The Imperial Master was silent. The Empress Dowager didn't tell him that there were three people. Besides, he had just taken office as the Imperial Master and he hadn't understood what his teacher taught him yet. It was just that there were strange phenomena in the sky a few days ago, and it looked like something bad was going to happen, but he didn't dare to say it. The new emperor had just ascended the throne not long ago. If he told it, would the Empress Dowager still give him a way to live?
The Imperial Master's gaze finally fell on Ye Musi. His white hair was too conspicuous, and the dragon jade hanging on his waist made him stand out.
"Unusual? How is it unusual?" Lu Lishen asked.
"Come in and talk."
Ye Musi looked confused, but still went into the attic.
Then I found that this was a huge library with a desk three meters long and two meters wide in the middle, and some kind of formation on it.
The Imperial Master took off his mask, revealing his slightly immature face.
"I have no ill intentions, and I won't keep you in suspense." The Imperial Master couldn't lie; it was his nature to do so. "I want a drop of blood from the son of King Rui."
"What do you want the blood for?" Lu Lishen disagreed.
"I was also forced by life. Even for a drop, I wouldn't harm him. A few days ago, a strange phenomenon fell from the sky, causing panic, and I said it was Furui, the Furui of the new emperor's ascension to the throne. But in fact, it's not, and it can't be caused by the new emperor. And you..." The Imperial Master was afraid of being exposed if he continued, so he changed the subject, "Actually, I just want to know who it is, really."
The young imperial teacher spoke sincerely, so Ye Musi took a drop of blood.
"Thank you so much!"
The national teacher smiled and began to set up the formation. He closed his eyes, muttered something, and then opened his eyes.
"What kind of strange formation is this? Are you trying to harm my master?"
"No, no, you misunderstood, and I misunderstood too. This strange phenomenon was not caused by the son of King Rui." The national teacher was afraid of causing trouble, so he quickly waved his hand to explain.
"It was the Empress Dowager's idea, right?" Ye Musi suddenly asked.
"Hey, how did you know?" The Imperial Master suddenly realized what he was saying and immediately covered his mouth. "Can you just pretend you didn't hear anything?"
Ye Musi was probably used to this. It didn't matter whether he had relatives or not, he still had to push him away.
"In return, I can help each of you calculate!"
"Then tell me first, what did you just calculate?"
"He has few relatives, but... something has blocked his life. I haven't figured it out, haha." The national teacher smiled awkwardly.
"What does it count? No!" Lu Lishen quickly covered Ye Musi's ears.
Ye Musi pushed Lu Lishen's hand away and said, "It's quite accurate."
"Right, but don't be sad. This isn't a bad thing. For example, the Empress Dowager is your blood relative. She's done a lot of bad things, and I don't like to talk about them. You'll definitely be able to defeat her when you come back this time." He realized he had said something outrageous and covered his mouth even more tightly. "I won't say anymore."
The young Imperial Preceptor was not cunning, but he knew what to say and what not to say. Now that he had spoken out, he was afraid that Ye Musi would tell others. He begged Ye Musi, "Prince, please don't tell the Grand Empress Dowager. She is old, and I'm afraid she can't bear it."
Ye Musi caught the strange vision from the sky while the Imperial Master was talking about so many things. At first he thought that the vision the Imperial Master was talking about was also about himself, but now it seems that either the Imperial Master was not good at his studies, or it was not him.
"No, in exchange, you have to tell me what vision happened a few days ago?"
"On the night of eight days ago, the sky was red, very red, a bloody disaster." The national teacher said without thinking.
"Eight days ago?" Ji Wang said. Wasn't that the day he suffered the backlash? "Then I guess there won't be any strange phenomena."
"Why do you say that, little brother?"
"Because, Bloody Night, I caused it."
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There was a long silence.
"I don't believe it, even though you..." The Imperial Master suddenly noticed the runes on Ji Wang's clothes, "You..."
"Heaven's Way???"
This rune is clearly recorded in the book. The national teacher has seen it since he was a child, so he can't be wrong.
"You, kid? You're... fake, right?"
But that book is a unique one, not even in the world of cultivation. Who knows about it except the national master of a generation?
"You..." The Imperial Master stepped forward to touch the cloth. As soon as he touched it, he felt a powerful spiritual fluctuation, but it didn't hurt him at all. "Really? Oh my God."
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