Chapter 413: Can be granted a title
The underground palace at the bottom of the thousand-foot cliff was the mausoleum prepared by the last emperor of the Yong Dynasty for himself. Unfortunately, the dynasty fell before it was completed, and the mausoleum was never used.
Later, Yin Lanci accidentally found this place and felt that the terrain of Qianchi Cliff was unique, so he secretly sent people to continue building the underground palace and set up many mechanisms inside, using it as his own treasure house.
Half of her collection is gold, silver and jewelry, and the other half is various strange corpses.
According to Jiang Yao's research, these corpses were all failed attempts at refining human Gu, and were therefore useless. Yin Lanci sealed them in stone coffins and preserved them with spices, presumably as a keepsake.
Before Chu Liuzheng reunited with Feng Jing and Chen Xing, Xiao Shiyi, who had followed the trail into the underground palace by jumping off the cliff, came from behind and accidentally broke out of the underground palace and found a cable car going up the mountain.
Xiao Shiyi reached the top of the cliff via the cable car. After a quick tour, he realized that nothing on the cliff could be left. So he simply took advantage of the backup plan left by Chu Liuzheng and set a fire, and all the monsters trying to escape were swept into the fire.
The fire on the top of the cliff illuminated half the sky red, so Xiao Jingfan and others naturally could not fail to see it.
Although he didn't know what had happened, the fire on the top of the cliff was obviously beneficial to his side. Xiao Jingfan was worried that this matter was related to Chu Liuzheng, and he was anxious. He and Huang Qian broke the formation and led the soldiers to attack the top of the cliff, just in time to intercept a group of monsters trying to escape down the mountain.
The clifftop buildings burned to the ground, and even the bizarre creatures hiding in the caves were not spared. The countless poisonous creatures in the poison pool were reduced to charcoal by kerosene. Xiao Jingfan ordered the corpses of the monsters to be thrown into the pool as well, doused with kerosene and burned. Then, they were covered with soil, forming a massive mound and erecting a monument as a warning to future generations.
Zheng Qianqian was lucky enough to survive, but was caught by Xiao Shiyi when he tried to escape. After a series of tortures, he found out the method of closing the mechanism of the underground palace. At Xiao Jingfan's signal, Zheng Qianqian was killed.
Xiao Jingfan led his men into the underground palace and took some effort to find Feng Jing and others. It is not difficult to guess what happened next.
"Sister, you don't know. His Majesty didn't let us get involved the entire time. He personally carried you back here. For the past few days, you've had recurring fevers and have been unconscious. Even Doctor Feng couldn't find the cause. His Majesty was so anxious that he was like an ant on a hot pan, his face was so scary that I didn't dare to speak."
Chen Xing sat on the edge of the bed, holding a dish in one hand, and winked at Chu Liuzheng: "I heard from Eunuch Zhou that in all the time he has served His Majesty, he has never seen His Majesty this nervous about anyone except the Queen Mother and His Royal Highness Prince Rui."
Hearing this, Chu Liuzheng choked on his meat porridge and looked at her resentfully.
[Don't tell horror stories while I'm eating! ]
Chen Xing smiled and was about to continue, but Chu Liuzheng asked first, "How is His Royal Highness Prince Rui?"
"Not good." Chen Xing's face fell and he sighed softly.
The life-saving medicine that Chu Liuzheng brought with him did save King Rui's life, but it was only his life.
Prince Rui was too weak, and the poisonous insects had devoured his blood. After being rescued from the underground palace, he opened his eyes once the next day and called out "Royal Brother." Without waiting for Xiao Jingfan's response, he fainted and never woke up again. His breathing was weak, as if he would die at the next moment. Even Feng Jing couldn't say for sure that he could be rescued.
Chu Liuzheng gasped and asked in surprise, "Even Doctor Feng can't do anything?"
"Yes, I do." Chen Xing held the side dish in his left hand forward and waited for Chu Liuzheng to take it before taking it back. "Doctor Feng said that in order to save His Royal Highness Prince Rui, we must first remove the poisonous insect from his body."
Chu Liuzheng understood. There must be something wrong with the first step. She scooped a spoonful of porridge into her mouth, and sure enough, she heard Chen Xing continue, "His Royal Highness Prince Rui is relying entirely on medicine to keep him alive. If you forcefully remove the Gu, he'll be dead before the worm is even out. Doctor Feng doesn't dare act rashly."
Chu Liuzheng asked, "Master Jiang, don't you have any solution?"
"No." Chen Xing shook his head and handed the small dish in his right hand to her. "Doctor Feng and Abbey Master Jiang have been discussing this for several hours. Unless there is something that can save Prince Rui's life, this Gu cannot be removed."
But if the poisonous insect is not removed, it will continue to feed on King Rui's blood and essence, and King Rui will die anyway.
Chu Liuzheng swallowed the food in his mouth and asked, "Can't we use ginseng?"
She remembered that in TV dramas, people who were about to die would use ginseng to stay alive. In Prince Rui's case, it should be possible too, right?
Chen Xing said, "It can be used, but Doctor Feng said that it requires thousand-year-old ginseng."
Chu Liuzheng choked and his eyebrows twitched slightly.
[Frog fun! There really is such a thing as thousand-year-old ginseng! I thought it was all made up in TV dramas.]
"Speaking of which, since there's no testing equipment in this world, how can we be sure whether this ginseng is a thousand years old or nine hundred and ninety-nine years old? If it's off by a year or two, wouldn't King Rui be dead?"
She thought about it for a while and asked Chen Xing, "Is there any thousand-year-old ginseng in the palace?"
Chen Xing shook his head: "Only the Empress Dowager has a ginseng plant that is over three hundred years old. His Majesty has already ordered someone to go back and get it as soon as possible."
Chu Liuzheng couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this.
[This old ginseng must be the Queen Mother's treasured possession. She actually gave it to Prince Rui. She would do the same for her own son.]
Chen Xing said, "Your Majesty has also ordered local governments to post notices stating that anyone who presents a thousand-year-old ginseng or heavenly lotus fruit will be granted a title."
Chu Liuzheng was shocked again.
[If I can find Millennium Ginseng or Heavenly Lotus Fruit, can I also get a title?]
[If I could be knighted... Hehehe! Hehehehe!]
"Sister, sister." Chen Xing called out several times before Chu Liuzheng came back to her senses. She looked at her with a suspicious look, "What are you thinking about?" She smiled so hard that her teeth were showing. If you didn't know her, you would think that Chu Liuzheng wanted King Rui to die.
"Nothing." Chu Liuzheng quickly suppressed his messy thoughts, finished his porridge in a hurry, and refused Chen Xing's request for company on the grounds that he wanted to rest. After watching Chen Xing go out, he lay down on the bed and quickly opened the system.
[Tianlian Fruit, Tianlian Fruit, Tianlian Fruit... Tsk, there's still so little news.]
[Looks like we still have to find the Thousand-Handed Scholar who stole the Heavenly Lotus Fruit first.]
She began to search.
[Speaking of which, under Yin Lanci's manipulation, the title "Thousand-Handed Scholar" has almost become an organization called "Thousand-Handed Scholar." No wonder he's a barber, a blacksmith, and a street performer. Turns out they're not the same person at all. I thought they were all fake accounts, after all the hard work trying to uncover them.]
Now that Yin Lanci is dead, the remnants of the Yong Dynasty will surely gather their forces and flee with the young grandson. If they hide in the mountains and forests for three to five years, they might emerge and stir up trouble again once the storm has passed.
Xiao Jingfan paused, looked at the translucent door curtain, and waved to Zhou Yuande.
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