Chapter 5 Conspiracy He
soon felt the fragrance entering his nose, and the strong feeling of drowsiness disappeared. He was actually cured of the poison. He slowly opened his eyes, pretending to have just woken up, and saw the Western Region woman in front of him, showing a wary look.
“Your Majesty, please forgive me. I just didn’t want others to hear what we said, so I resorted to this desperate measure.” The woman knelt down hurriedly, but she didn’t look panicked at all.
"What do you want to tell me?" Zhou An secretly summoned up his internal strength to guard against the other party's sneak attack, but the other party could give him the antidote, so he should not harm him.
"I am Sai Naimu, the Saintess of the Hundred Witches Cult in the Western Regions, and also the princess of the Hundred Witches Kingdom. The Western Regions are vast, but there are many countries, more than 300 countries, most of which are independent cities and countries.
Our Baiwu Kingdom is one of the nine strongest nations in the Western Regions. Knowing that the emperor was held hostage by the queen mother, we came here to protect the emperor and wait for his orders. " Sai Naimu said.
Zhou An was surprised and said with a smile: "Do you think I will believe it?"
"Your Majesty has no choice, right? Didn't Your Majesty realize that the Queen Mother sent so many beauties and collected all kinds of medicines for what? Even if a post-natal tenth-level strongman uses these things day and night, it is difficult to live long. What's more, Your Majesty has never cultivated internal strength, so how can he withstand the toxicity of these medicines?
Furthermore, the emperor may not know that the left prime minister's faction has united to assassinate the emperor and disrupt the queen mother's plan. Rumor has it that they have found the sixth prince and want to make him emperor."
Sai Naimu handed a secret letter to Zhou An and continued, "This is a letter intercepted from the left prime minister's men. Although it does not clearly state the purpose, the assassination of the emperor has been confirmed. If the emperor trusts us, we are willing to follow him until death."
"What if I don't believe it?" Zhou An asked.
"Then we servants and others will have no choice but to die. We know very well how powerful the Purple Guards are. None of us sisters have practiced martial arts, so it is impossible for us to leave." Sai Naimu said this without showing any sign of panic. Instead, she looked at Zhou An with her beautiful eyes, as if she wished he would pick more.
"Since you don't know martial arts, how can you help me? And what benefits can you get? There is no such thing as a free lunch." Zhou An said.
“Although the Hundred Witches Cult is not good at martial arts, our witchcraft and use of poison are second to none in the Western Regions. Even the big sects in the Qianyuan Empire are wary of our poison.
The Purple Guards are famous and powerful, but the fact that they were completely powerless to resist my poison gas is enough to prove our capabilities.
If we can help the emperor to stabilize his throne, please help the Hundred Witches to rule the Western Regions in the future." Sai Naimu said respectfully.
Zhou An thought that he really needed help. The person who secretly poisoned him must be found. He was currently under surveillance and was not good at investigation, so he asked them for help.
Regardless of whether what this so-called saint said was true or false, at least she would help me in the short term. I would only feel at ease if I could find out the person who secretly poisoned me.
What's more, his current situation is the worst. The more and more complicated the forces in the palace are, the more advantageous it is to him. If the Queen Mother's family is allowed to dominate, his death will not be far away.
What's more, he is now isolated from information. With these Western women, he can learn some information, at least he can understand the military system, and with a reference he can know what level his internal strength is in after sixty years.
Thinking of this, he said, "Someone did try to poison me recently. As long as you help me find the person who poisoned me and prove your ability, I will agree to your request."
"Okay, this Hundred Poison Pearl is made from a hundred kinds of poisons. As long as it is poisonous, the pearl will change color according to the different toxicities, so that the emperor will not be secretly plotted against by villains."
Sai Naimu took out a bone-like bead, which was milky white in color. If you look closely, you can find many extremely tiny holes on it. If he had not practiced the Yin-Yang method and strengthened his spirit, he would not have been able to see these holes.
He looked at it and asked, "How do I use this?"
“Your Majesty, you can soak anything you eat in this substance from now on. If there is no change within a breath, it means it is non-toxic. If it changes to different colors, it means it is toxic. The darker the color, the stronger the toxicity.
If it is poisonous fog, the Hundred Poison Beads can disperse the poisonous gas and prevent it from getting within three feet of you." Sai Naimu explained.
"Good stuff. I'll take it. You, Purple Guards, should have thought of a way to deal with it." Zhou An hid it in the secret pocket on his belt so that he could protect himself at any time.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. We in the Hundred Witches Cult have a secret method that can use drugs and witchcraft to make them temporarily forget what happened." Sainaimu waved his hand, and the fifteen women kneeling below began to act, actually taking out black needles as thin as hair from their hair.
In just a cup of tea, all the people were dealt with, and each one was kept sitting or standing in the same position with a fine needle.
Then he opened the medicine bottle, and a fragrance came out. The palace maids who had fainted were awakened first. They found that he had stopped playing and hurriedly played the instruments. They didn't understand what had just happened. They were actually daydreaming at this time. They were simply looking for death. They were all scared and broke into cold sweats.
In the palace, they dared not speak or look too much, otherwise they would be executed if they said something wrong.
Only then did the three purple-robed guards wake up and find themselves still standing in the same place. The Western women in front of them were surrounding the emperor, serving him drinks with laughter and joy.
Sai Naimu lay in Zhou An's arms and laughed. This happened every day in Changle Palace.
They just felt it was strange, but didn't find anything unusual, so they didn't say anything. After the person was brought in, the two purple-clothed guards turned around and left.
During the day, he enjoyed the singing and dancing of the Western Region women and spent the time happily with Sai Naimu. Late at night, he returned to Qianyuan Palace escorted by palace maids and purple-robed guards.
After a day of pleasure with Sai Naimu and others, he discovered that practicing Yin-Yang magic with a woman who had practiced it before actually helped him improve more. Over the past two days, his internal strength had increased by almost a year.
This was already an astonishing rate of improvement, which made him secretly happy.
Once entering the bedroom, all the palace maids will evacuate and the purple guards will only guard outside the house.
He is still very energetic and definitely cannot fall asleep. For him, daytime is a time for rest.
When he was staring at the room in boredom, he suddenly discovered that the layout of the bedroom was actually in line with Qimen. After learning the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady Talisman, he had memorized Qimen Dunjia by heart.
He discovered something unusual at a glance. The hard decoration in the whole house seemed to have eight doors, which were concealed by other movable decorations. However, he still discovered the unusualness.
After walking around the room, he stood beside a stone pillar and looked at it carefully. He knocked on various positions of the stone pillar with his hands and soon made a discovery. With a curious look on his face, he fumbled with the lampstand on the stone pillar and found that it could indeed rotate.
After trying to turn half a circle, the floor in the southwest corner of the room rotates, revealing a hole.
He immediately took an oil lamp, went down with great interest, found the mechanism on the stone wall inside, and closed the stone slab on the ground.
At this time, the oil lamps on both sides of the passage automatically burned and green flames appeared.
If it were in the past, Zhou An would definitely be a little scared, but now that he understands the art of Qimen Dunjia, this kind of design is child's play. People are most afraid of the unknown and are not very afraid of familiar things.
After walking through the long and narrow underground passage and turning several corners, I felt like I had passed through the entire harem. When I passed a bend, I found that there was some problem with the stone wall structure here.
However, he did not go to see it immediately. Instead, he walked to the bottom, which was a dead end. There were several stone carvings on the wall, and the gap of the stone door could be seen.
He did not open it immediately, but observed it here and looked at the color of the infected cracks in the stone.
After touching it with his fingers, he put them in front of his nose and smelled them, then raised his head to look at the eight lampstands around him and returned to the turning where he had just discovered the abnormality.
He simply pressed down on a wall brick, and the stone wall turned to reveal a door. He walked in with a proud smile.
There is a life-threatening mechanism at the bottom of the passage. No matter what method is used to open it, it will trigger three deadly traps at the same time.
The Dragon-Breaking Stone, poison gas and kerosene, it is a dead end. Unless you have the power to break through the Dragon-Breaking Stone, you will surely die.
This also shows that the person who designed this mechanism didn't want outsiders to find this place.
This time the passage is not long, just over two hundred meters. A stone door appears again, and the mechanism is also quite conspicuous, which is a stone beast next to it.
When the stone door was opened, there was a secret room used for cultivation. In the middle was a fur cushion with a diameter of three meters. Next to it were some stone cabinets that stored various elixirs and books.
But it is now a mess, with many traces left by swords.
Some of the sword marks on the stones were so smooth that they were incredibly flat, and the cuts were as smooth as mirrors, as if the bluestones were made of tofu.
On the middle stone platform, there was a corpse wearing a torn dragon robe, and its chest had been pierced by something, proving that it had died a violent death.
He stepped into the secret room and immediately received a system prompt: "The secret room of the palace has been discovered. Do you want to sign in?"
"Sign in." Zhou An signed in without hesitation, and a secret book of internal energy, Haohan Qiankun Jue, appeared in the system space.
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