Chapter 65 Chapter 65 [VIP]
Ling Suye's body had not yet recovered and was even a little weak. Sheng Li could only hold his hand tightly.
This was a level of closeness that Sheng Li had never dared to dream of in the past.
But he didn't dare to use too much force, for fear that Ling Suye would discover his thoughts.
But Sheng Li found that the strength of their clasped hands was gradually increasing, and it seemed that they could feel each other's heartbeat at the intersection of their palms. He subconsciously raised his head to look, but only saw the back of Ling Suye's head.
This gentleman, who seldom reveals his emotions, now has slightly red ears, as if he is understanding something tacitly.
Sheng Li felt warm in his heart, but when he thought about what he was going to do later, his eyes dimmed - since everything started because of the Sheng family, then he would end it all with his own death.
The demise of the last direct bloodline of the Sheng family can put an end to this century-long revenge plan.
I hope that when Mr. thinks of him in the future... he will probably still blame him.
At least the gentleman will still remember him in the future.
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Meanwhile, within the dazzlingly lit palace, countless descendants of families connected to Emperor Wu's campaign against Xiang a century prior gathered. With the exception of Prince Duan and the Princess Royal, the others were completely unaware of the turbulent undercurrents at this banquet.
One noblewoman, having heard a fair share of gossip, said to her friend, "Isn't it rumored that the Princess and His Royal Highness Prince Duan have always been at odds? How come they're actually sitting together right now? Could the rumors be wrong?"
"Oh, everything you know is old news. I heard that Prince Duan went to the Emperor and personally interceded with the Princess, which gave them some wiggle room," her friend muttered. "The Princess then suggested setting up a stage in her name and inviting everyone to witness—"
Before he finished speaking, he heard the eunuch's shrill voice from outside: "The Emperor has arrived——"
"Your Majesty is here?"
"Why is Your Majesty here?"
Everyone stood up in fear and trepidation and knelt down to pay their respects.
The emperor said nothing. A bright yellow robe quickly passed by the steps and soon entered the inner hall - where were sitting the royal relatives of high status.
The eunuch closed the inner hall door behind him and said to the guests outside with a smile, "Please stand up, my Lords. Your Majesty has come here today simply to speak with your Lordship. Please feel free."
What it means is that the emperor is here to have fun with the people, so everyone should not be restrained.
But no one present was in the mood to chat and laugh. They were all confused by the emperor's anxious behavior. Some even said that the eldest princess and Prince Duan would definitely have a fight this time, and the emperor came to mediate the conflict.
But the inner hall was a completely different scene.
The Princess and His Royal Highness Prince Duan were chatting and laughing happily. When they saw the Emperor come in, there was the same surprise in their eyes.
It was the eldest princess who reacted first: "Oh, the emperor has arrived. I'm sorry for not welcoming him. Please take a seat."
The words were not polite at all, the tone was full of sarcasm, and there was no intention of getting up to greet him at all.
The atmosphere was tense in an instant.
The snake woman hiding in the emperor's body thought something was wrong and was about to hand over control of her body to the cowardly emperor to deal with this mess. However, she did not expect that the martial arts master Prince Duan had already hidden beside her without her knowing. When he saw the surprise in her eyes, he raised his hand to strangle her throat, picked up a glass of wine on the table next to him and poured it into her.
——Realgar wine.
And it is not ordinary realgar, it has been tempered for nine years. One drop is enough to make all the snake poisons in western Hunan dare not approach.
This is a full cup.
The emperor immediately raised his hand to dig his throat like a madman, as if trying to cough out the wine.
But Prince Duan was no pushover. He had been in charge of the military for many years, and no emperor in a high position could resist him.
Seeing her resistance was futile, she actually laughed out loud. Her voice was still the emperor's gentle and refined, but her words were completely different from his usual tone. Instead, they carried a woman's softness and charm: "Alas, I underestimated you. But do you really think a cup of realgar wine can subdue me? I just wanted to watch the show, but since you're so shameless, don't blame me for being rude."
As soon as she finished speaking, snake scales suddenly grew all over her body. Her hands, which had been easily subdued by Prince Duan before, were suddenly infused with tremendous force, and she actually broke one of Prince Duan's fingers.
The eldest princess's eyelids didn't even twitch. Prince Duan felt the pain and immediately changed from capturing to suppressing, and attacked with a counterattack.
Neither the snake girl nor the emperor was good at martial arts. Although they were extremely powerful at the moment and could crush Prince Duan's bones as long as they could catch him, they actually fought Prince Duan to a draw.
Prince Duan was even more afraid to let the snake woman get close. He secretly thought that it was not good, thinking that it was no wonder that his grandfather had conquered Xiangxi. If this kind of witchcraft was mastered by an ordinary person, he could truly become a regional overlord. If there were hundreds of people who could master this method, they could conquer an entire county and become a local emperor.
Prince Duan was accidentally hit again, and he gasped in pain - don't say it, he was a man who had fought bloody battles on the battlefield, but now he was forced into such a miserable state by a man who didn't know any martial arts. If this got out, it would be really laughable.
He could only ask for help from the woman sitting at the head of the table: "Still watching the joke, if you don't come and help me I can't hold on any longer."
The eldest princess snorted coldly: "A man can't say he is incompetent."
It seems that he has no intention of coming forward to help.
Prince Duan and the snake woman were fighting fiercely, and the tables, chairs, cups and plates in the hall were scattered all over the floor. The clan members present were frightened and fled as soon as Prince Duan stood up, but they soon fell into despair because the door was locked and the windows could not be opened. The only place they could hide was behind the few pillars.
Even if they don't know the truth about what's happening now, they can still guess a little bit of the reasons.
——It must be related to the curse.
Everyone was a clan member, and they were all quite old. They all knew the rumor that royal family members would not live past forty. Even if they didn't believe it, they had more or less heard some rumors about curses and witchcraft.
Some people who know the inside story may even secretly resent their ancestor Emperor Wu. If he had not been so aggressive and aggressive back then and insisted on conquering Xiangxi, the royal family might still be living a good life now.
But there is no medicine for regret in the world. Being born in the royal family and enjoying such great wealth and glory means that one must also bear the corresponding karma.
When Prince Duan saw that the eldest princess did not come to her rescue, he thought that his sister was really cruel. In desperation, he could only use his own means of saving his life - the soft sword at his waist.
People only know that Prince Duan was a fierce general who killed enemies in the battlefield. However, few people knew that when he was still in Beijing, he was a disciple of the sword master Zhang Zheng. He used a soft sword in one hand and a long sword in the other, and his coordination was superb. No one could compete with him.
As soon as Prince Duan used his weapon, the snake woman was instantly at a loss. She failed to dodge in time and many of her scales were chopped off.
One of the oldest relatives present was still worried about the emperor and said hurriedly, "Be careful, don't hurt the emperor."
Prince Duan spat out a mouthful of blood and cursed viciously, "Is he still your emperor now?"
Seeing that Prince Duan was becoming more and more ruthless, the snake girl's eyeballs actually turned completely green. At this moment, he not only had great strength, but also had the softness and swiftness of a snake.
Prince Duan was hit by his leg, and his wrist felt a pain. The long sword in his left hand suddenly fell to the ground with a crisp sound of metal and stone.
But his right hand still insisted on looping the soft sword around the snake girl's back and stabbing it deep into her heart.
The snake girl had lost too much blood and was shivering in pain. 'He' instantly moved away from Prince Duan and reached out to grab someone from among the clan members. He raised his teeth and bit the other person's throat. His teeth instantly became sharp, piercing the skin, and he was actually trying to suck the human blood in big gulps.
The relative who had just wanted to persuade Prince Duan to be gentler suddenly felt dizzy and fainted when he saw this.
At this moment, the eldest princess who had just been sitting high in the main seat swung up her long sleeves. The originally soft sleeves instantly became as hard as iron, knocking down the powerful snake girl in one fell swoop. She fell on the pillar and landed heavily on the ground.
The princess walked up to the fallen snake woman, who was barely able to get up, and looked down at him. "Is that all you can do? You're dead today."
The snake girl looked up at her, her green eyes filled with venom. It was the first time the princess had seen such an expression on her brother's face, and she couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. It was truly rare; her bet had paid off.
It wasn't really his brother who did it, but the witchcraft that grew in his body.
It's rare that my brother, who is so cowardly and afraid of snakes, has coexisted with such a weird thing for so long.
"Are you going to come out on your own, or do you want me to beat you out?" the eldest princess asked coldly.
"If you can't kill me, you will all die." The snake woman spat out her tongue viciously.
The eldest princess was disgusted by her appearance and attacked her without knowing how much strength to use. The only sound in the hall was the sound of the snake woman falling, and her pale green scales were scattered all over the floor.
At this moment, the snake girl suddenly laughed out loud: "You are so arrogant, so confident in your own strength, why don't you look back?"
The princess knew it was a trick, but she heard the people behind her screaming: "Snakes, all snakes - ah ah ah ah -"
The eldest princess thought to herself that something was wrong. She glanced back and saw that the hall was like a Shura field. The scales dropped by the snake woman were so attractive to snakes. She had previously sent people to sprinkle realgar outside the hall but it didn't work.
The snake woman seemed to know what the princess was thinking and said, "Is that the realgar outside? I had someone sweep it away before I came. Now, it's time for you to atone for your sins."
The eldest princess said, "It doesn't matter whether you redeem your sins or not, I will kill you first!"
The snake girl looked at the direction where the princess's sword was pointing, and it was exactly at her seven-inch spot - this spot would not hurt a person's vital parts and would heal in a month or so, but it could completely kill a snake!
She shouted hurriedly, "You can't kill me. The Sheng family still has blood! Your son saved a member of the Sheng family, Sheng Li. If you kill me, I will automatically cling to him—and your son will die!"
That being said, she was able to threaten the princess in this way because she didn't want to give up her position as emperor. This position was simply too useful, he could kill anyone he wanted. He could wipe out the entire Ling family with just one sentence - who had allowed the Ling family to have the Eye of Delusion?
The eldest princess indeed hesitated for a moment.
At this moment, she suddenly heard Prince Duan say, "The snake population is decreasing. Someone must be helping us—Princess, don't be bewitched by her!"
The princess's mind moved, and she heard a familiar voice above her head. It was Sheng Li's voice: "I'm here. If I die, you won't be reborn, and the witchcraft will be lifted."
She wasn't familiar with the other voice, as she had barely heard her son speak, but she knew it was her Ah Ye. "Princess, the realgar has been sprinkled, the others at the banquet have been properly arranged to go home, and the opera troupe outside is also in place. They will sing your favorite "Pear Blossom Moon Falling" later."
Upon hearing this, the princess no longer hesitated and pierced the snake woman's vital points. She lost her breath under the extreme resentment. However, the other soul within her frowned in pain.
Sheng Li was about to draw his sword to commit suicide, but he saw Ling Suye pinch the sword with his two fingers, and with a slight force, the sword broke.
Sheng Li exclaimed, “Sir!”
The princess knew who this name referred to, and quickly turned around to see her son's palms covered in blood. However, Ling Suye refused everyone's help and said, "You don't have to die. We have a lot of time. Get back the Eye of Delusion and find the source of the curse—"
He said, "Sheng Li, I will always be with you."
Don't be afraid of 'her' return.
Everything will end. We will all have tomorrow.
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