Chapter 58 Chapter 58 [VIP]
Ling Suye was also stopped tightly by Zhou Zhi at this moment. After a while, he managed to suppress the strong worry that was surging in his heart.
"Xie Qingnian is a demon catcher, so he can at least protect him a little." Zhou Zhiru said.
In the demon realm, Ling Suye's eyes, which had lost their pupils, regained their brightness once again. He took off his thin jade mirror, revealing his narrow and long phoenix eyes clearly.
For a moment, Zhou Zhi felt that Ling Suye looked a bit like someone.
Such phoenix eyes, such an expression of wanting to solve everything around, are almost exactly the same as those of the woman sitting in the high position.
But the next moment, Zhou Zhi immediately put his unrealistic idea behind him.
How could Aye be involved with the eldest princess? This is impossible.
"Sir?" Ling Suye also noticed Zhou Zhi's daze. He thought Zhou Zhi had discovered something in the demon realm, so he asked.
"I was distracted." Zhou Zhi pressed his chest. The wound there had not healed yet.
Ling Suye's voice was filled with a hint of protection and caution: "Master, follow me."
The demon realm opened, and fog filled the surroundings. The bustling convoy just now disappeared in an instant, and it was extremely quiet.
This gave Ling Suye the illusion that he was on the sea with the ship.
Ling Suye took two steps and felt his wrist tighten. Zhou Zhi had tied them up with the Du'esi's unique linked soul lock.
"It's so tight here, and you can't swim, so we must not separate."
"Thank you, sir." Ling Suye thanked him and continued walking in the direction he had chosen.
Ling Suye recounted bit by bit the dangerous situation Zhou Zhi had described when he last encountered this demonic realm—the same fog, the twists and turns of a maze, walking for days and nights, exhausted, yet still back to where he started.
Forced to do so, he finally resorted to a method that would hurt the enemy by a thousand and hurt himself by eight hundred: he took off his clothes, smeared his entire body with blood, and removed all his spiritual power to attract the big demon over.
The big demon knew that there was "blood food" here, and instinctively wanted to come over and eat him, but it would not take risks easily. Instead, it let the small demons in the demon domain go out first and bite Zhou Zhi half to death, and then came late.
During this period, Zhou Zhi will not die, because monsters are very picky about food. They like living "blood food", the kind that will gently sip a mouthful of blood and then flutter like a fish out of water.
When the big monster appeared, Zhou Zhi fought hard to kill it, and then smeared the monster's heart blood on its eyes, and only then did he find a way out.
If Ling Suye still has the strength to fight back, this method can be used.
But now Zhou Zhi's combat power has been greatly reduced, and Ling Suye is a disabled person, so neither of them mentioned any method to lure the monster.
The two walked dozens of steps in the fog, and Ling Suye suddenly realized that he didn't hear any footsteps at all, including his own and Lord Zhou's.
Something is wrong.
Something is so wrong.
He turned his head suddenly and hit Zhou Zhi's forehead hard before Zhou Zhi could react.
"Tsk..." Zhou Zhi sat up with his hands covering his forehead, his vision still dimming from the violent impact. He was just about to pull the Lianling lock and ask Ling Suye what he had just done.
I saw a dim candlelight in the corner of my eye.
this……
Where is this?
"Bang!" There was a sound of something heavy falling to the ground. Zhou Zhi looked up suddenly and saw Ling Suye crawling out of a large vat beside him. Then he looked down and saw a thick stone slab falling to the ground and breaking into pieces.
"It was just a dream, so we could only see the fog and hear no sound. This is because only our consciousness was there." Ling Suye summarized briefly. He looked around and with the help of the dim candlelight, he could see that he was in a large space with a low roof.
He was surrounded by large vats, and every two vats were covered with a stone slab, which circled the edge of this huge space for several times.
The large vat where he and Zhou Zhi were located was in the innermost circle. There was an open space at the innermost part. Ling Suye could still see bloodstains and fragments of the large vat on the ground.
Zhou Zhi obviously saw all of this as well, and both of their eyes fell on the four original marks at the front where the large vat had once been placed.
——As expected, all the people in the court should be in this jar.
As for the four large vats that disappeared, the people inside were probably killed.
"Someone is coming." Ling Suye heard a little noise, and immediately stood up and jumped out of the big vat with Zhou Zhi, hiding in the corners.
As they bent down, they heard the sound of a key being inserted into the lock.
The door opened.
A strange voice with an East China Sea accent said, "I just heard some noises over here. Could someone be stealing food?"
"Oh, sir, how could our brothers have such courage? These are all prepared for the banquet for you, sir."
"You know your men well enough," the man in front approached, took a quick look at the situation, and his tone immediately darkened. "You still say you didn't steal anything? That bloodstain on the ground, could it be someone ran away and left it there?"
"Hehe, sir..." The little demon guarding the door smiled embarrassedly.
"Considering that we have all been bullied by those officials of the Great Zhou, I will not bother with these jars, but you are not allowed to move the rest. I will come down once every hour. If one more person is missing, I will use you to fill the jars." The adult said this and immediately crawled away.
That's right, it's squirming.
Just now, Ling Suye felt that the sound was not like footsteps, but he could feel someone breathing, so he thought someone was coming.
Now that he had a glimpse of them, he realized that these... monsters were no longer human-shaped. Below the neck, they were almost like the soft and sticky tentacles of an octopus, but they had human heads. At first glance, Ling Suye thought he saw a monster.
——He had never seen such a monster before.
Throughout history, when humans transform into monsters, they maintain their human form; when beasts transform into monsters, they maintain their beast form; those with high cultivation levels can transform into human form.
It seems that God has destined that this form of human beings is the most perfect.
But now, a monster with a human brain and an octopus body appeared before his eyes.
Only after the door was closed did Ling Suye and Zhou Zhi slowly breathe a sigh of relief.
Ling Suye wondered, what on earth is this?
When did such a monster appear in the world?
Zhou Zhi said: "The Sheng family in western Hunan."
Ling Suye was stunned: "What?"
"This is the imperial city's top-secret record..." Zhou Zhi lowered his voice and explained in detail in Ling Suye's ear, "Emperor Wu was conquering all corners of the country and entered Xiangxi. He originally wanted to flatten the Shiwan Mountains, but he was seduced by a woman from the Sheng family found in a coffin. He took her into his harem and temporarily suspended his relationship with the Shiwan Mountains."
Gu Xuanyou told Ling Suye this story.
Even Gu Xuanyou, who grew up in the Sheng family, did not know what happened next. These were all secrets of the Xiangxi Gu Clan.
The Gu tribe in western Hunan formed its own clan, established its own court, and governed on its own.
The emperor's surname is "Gu" because it is a homonym of "Gu".
When he said this, Zhou Zhi looked at Ling Suye deeply, and his thoughts coincided with his own - Sheng Li, who was once thought to be the biological son by the master of the Sheng family, is now Gu Xuanyou. Could he have anything to do with the royal family of Xiangxi?
Zhou Zhi didn't understand the eldest princess' intention to keep Gu Xuanyou in Du'e Division and bring him back to Shangjing City.
Later, when Gu Xuanyou came to him and said he wanted to change his name, he suddenly realized this.
Zhou Zhi even felt that Her Royal Highness the Princess had probably known Gu Xuanyou's identity for a long time, so she wanted to keep him by her side.
However, Zhou Zhi later asked Gu Xuanyou several times indirectly and found out that he did not know how to raise Gu - let alone raising Gu, he didn't even know much about those basic insects.
However, due to his preconceived notions, Zhou Zhi still felt that Gu Xuanyou had a lot of connections with the Xiangxi royal family.
But Gu Xuanyou himself may not even know it.
Zhou Zhi continued, saying that it was rumored that the woman who was married to Emperor Wu and brought back to the capital was the most talented among all the younger generations. Therefore, the Xiangxi Gu Clan mobilized all their strength to make her "fake her death" and buried her outside the mountain. In this way, the soldiers who were about to crush the Gu Clan would ignore her, and when the Gu Clan was wiped out three months later, the girl would be the last remaining force of the Gu Clan.
——She shoulders the heavy responsibility of restoring the glory of the Gu tribe.
However, this woman did not act according to the plan of her clan. "Sheng" is also the surname of a large family in the Gu clan. She and the only prince of the royal family were childhood sweethearts. If it were not for Emperor Wu's action, they would have gotten married.
However, the two are about to be separated forever.
The girl from the Sheng family had originally promised her clansmen that she would retain her strength as they had planned, hide her identity, find a new place to live, and carry forward the Gu clan.
But as she lay in the coffin, the more she thought about it, the angrier she became. In the end, she was unwilling to give in and attracted countless poisonous snakes, wanting to die with the dog emperor.
But Emperor Wu was still Emperor Wu after all.
——The strength of the girl from the Sheng family seemed too weak in front of the murderous aura that filled him.
Miss Sheng found that she could not kill him by using the poisonous insect, so she chose another method: seduction.
The romantic and amorous Emperor Wu eventually fell in love with the land of beauties. Miss Sheng sacrificed herself in exchange for a hundred years of peace for the Gu tribe.
At this point, we can talk about the origin of the so-called "human-headed and animal-bodied" monster.
Emperor Wu was passionate but also fickle. He had many women in his youth, and during his wars, he plundered countless beauties.
The harem is full, and the women are like the poisonous insects, competing with each other for beauty in this small world.
After Miss Sheng came here, she was favored by the emperor, which caused a lot of dissatisfaction inside and outside the harem and the court.
——After all, many ministers at that time followed Emperor Wu to conquer the world, and their daughters were also in Emperor Wu’s harem.
At this time, Miss Sheng provided a kind of poisonous insect.
"Death Gu." Zhou Zhi said calmly, "I remember you've read this introduction before, so I won't elaborate."
With this poisonous insect, the ministers had to obey, and Emperor Wu's kingdom and throne became more stable. He loved Concubine Sheng even more.
But the good times did not last long, as Emperor Wu's unfaithfulness and callousness became apparent.
Zhou Zhi thought for a moment and added, "Perhaps this is also related to the fact that Concubine Sheng's position is stable and she no longer needs Emperor Wu's favor. The Death Gu not only helped Emperor Wu stabilize the court, but also helped Concubine Sheng maintain her position as the overlord of the harem."
So Concubine Sheng could no longer tolerate this old man. She stopped trying to please Emperor Wu and began to take charge of the harem.
"There was a concubine who, relying on her father and brother's military command, was always at odds with Concubine Sheng. She even somehow learned that Concubine Sheng had a lover, a man from the Gu family in western Hunan. So, she whispered in Emperor Wu's ear, summoning the man into the palace—castrating him and making him stay by Concubine Sheng's side as a eunuch, serving her."
At that time, Concubine Sheng was imprisoned for fifteen days by Emperor Wu. As soon as the palace gate was pushed open, her beloved, dressed in eunuch clothes and trained to speak in a soft voice, knelt down and kowtowed to greet her.
Concubine Sheng looked at this scene and just said calmly, "Get up."
Then he looked intently at the young man who was once full of vigor and vitality as he stood up humbly. Like all the other eunuchs, he bowed his head, his eyes fixed on the three inches in front of his shoes, not daring to look at the noble man any more.
Concubine Sheng was so calm at that time, so calm that everyone thought she had accepted her fate.
"Fifteen days later, while the concubine was having sex with Emperor Wu, her body from the neck down gradually became limp, as if her bones had given way, unable to move. The emperor was terrified, feeling as if he had crushed her into a piece of skin... and instantly suffered a stroke." Zhou Zhi continued, "As the concubine's body completely softened, her skin gradually became delicate and smooth, even beginning to turn green and secrete mucus. Day by day, she transformed into a frog with a human head."
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