Chapter 185 Black Line is Stealing Luck
But Ajiu was not afraid at all. She ran to Xiao Yu, raised her little face and spoke anxiously.
"Brother Xiongxiong! The Queen Mother... The Queen Mother, there's something wrong!"
Xiao Yu took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart, "I know something is wrong with her. She is almost mad at her good nephew."
"No!" Ah Jiu shook his head vigorously, his eyes red with anxiety, "She's not angry! She was...she was bitten by someone!"
"Bite?" Xiao Yu and Xuan Yi were stunned at the same time.
"Yes! Biting!" Jiu struggled to organize his words, gesturing wildly in the air with his hands. "Her energy is that golden...round ball on top of her head. It's become so dark...and it's covered in so many black threads!"
"Those strings are so bad! They're sucking her air! I can hear them 'hissing' and sucking the Queen Mother's air, 'woooooo' and crying!"
She became more and more anxious as she spoke, pointing to her head.
"I have a headache! It's all because of those black lines! The sound they make is so unpleasant! And... it's the same smell as that evil prince!"
"It's just that the smell of the bad prince is overtly bad! This black line is sneakily bad!"
"They're biting her! They're biting her all the time!"
The little girl's incoherent description made Xiao Yu's pupils shrink suddenly!
He suddenly turned his head and looked at Xuan Yi: "Go to the Imperial Master's Mansion immediately! Invite the Imperial Master here! Now! Immediately! Immediately!"
He remembered Chu Xuanyi's previous guess!
When Prince Yu was imprisoned, the Queen Mother repeatedly pleaded for him, and her words and actions were somewhat abnormal.
Chu Xuanyi suspected at the time that Prince Yu might have used some kind of mental control or subtle evil magic on the Queen Mother!
At that time, he thought it was a bit alarmist.
But now, Ajiu's words were like a thunderbolt, striking his heart hard!
Not sick!
It’s not about worrying too much!
But... for many years, the evil things have been eating away at my spirit like maggots attached to my bones!
His mother, the Queen Mother of the Great Zhou, was actually used as a vessel for raising evil creatures by her own nephew right under everyone's noses!
A cold and violent murderous intent burst out from Xiao Yu!
"Xiao! Jing!"
He wants to cut him into pieces!
When Xuan Yi rushed into the study of the Regent's Mansion again with Chu Xuan Yi, who was sweating and panting, the air inside had almost frozen into ice.
Xiao Yu stood in front of the antique shelf that he had smashed with his punch, with his hands behind his back, not saying a word.
The murderous aura that emanated from him was so tangible that the temperature of the entire room dropped by several degrees.
"Your Highness!" Chu Xuanyi asked anxiously as he entered the room, not even having time to catch his breath, "You are so anxious to find me, but...Ajiu..."
His eyes immediately fell on Ajiu, who was sitting on the couch with a pillow in his arms and a pale face.
"She's fine." Xiao Yu turned around slowly, "It's the Queen Mother who's in trouble."
He simply recounted what he had just seen and heard in the Cining Palace, as well as Ah Jiu's description of the "black line" and the "bite".
With every word he spoke, Chu Xuanyi's face turned paler.
When Xiao Yu finished saying the last word, Chu Xuanyi's body shook uncontrollably and he almost lost his balance.
"Sir!" Ajiu jumped down from the couch and ran over to support him.
"I'm fine..." Chu Xuanyi waved his hands, leaning against the table, his eyes filled with horror and self-blame. "As expected...as expected! It was my negligence! I should have thought of it earlier!"
"Is it witchcraft?" Xiao Yu's voice was cold without a trace of warmth.
"Yes, and no." Chu Xuanyi's lips were dry. "This is a hundred times more sinister than ordinary witchcraft! Ordinary witchcraft lures insects into the body to devour the flesh and blood. But this... this is the secret 'Soul-Guiding Thread' of the Wugu Tribe! It doesn't harm the body, but directly parasitizes the person's luck and soul!"
"It feeds on the host's luck, subtly distorting their will and amplifying their negative emotions, turning them into the caster's puppet without them realizing it! The Queen Mother's irrational actions for Prince Yu aren't just out of love, but also because this 'Soul Guide' is constantly amplifying her 'worry', making her paranoid and blind!"
"The most terrifying thing is," Chu Xuanyi's voice trembled, "this evil technique is extremely secretive. If Ah Jiu hadn't had the chance to awaken this divine perception, even the secret technique of the Observatory might not have been able to detect it!"
"In other words, my mother has been raised as a sacrifice by Xiao Jing for several years right under the noses of all of us?" Xiao Yu's knuckles crackled.
Chu Xuanyi nodded heavily.
"What should we do now?" Xiao Yu asked, "Can this thing be solved?"
"Difficult!" Chu Xuanyi frowned. "The Soul Guiding Thread has long been fused with the host's destiny and spirit. Forcibly separating it would be like tearing the Queen Mother's spirit apart as well! Even if the evil spirit is eliminated, the Queen Mother will probably...become a living dead."
The study fell into deathly silence.
This result is even more cruel than killing the empress dowager directly.
"Is... there really no way out at all?" Xuan Yi, who was listening from the side, was terrified and couldn't help asking.
"There is a way...it's not impossible." Chu Xuanyi's gaze slowly fell on Ajiu.
Ajiu was stunned by his gaze and subconsciously hid behind Xiao Yu.
Chu Xuanyi gave a wry smile and said, "To untie the bell, we must find the one who tied it. The source of this 'Soul-Guiding Thread' is the Netherworld Qi, an evil spell of the Wugu Tribe. To completely eradicate it, we must find the caster, Prince Yu and that old Wugu Tribe creature, and seize the 'Mother Gu' they used to refine this spell, or simply kill them. Only then can this spell be broken!"
"Secondly," he paused and continued, "before we find them, we must find a way to suppress the growth of the 'Soul Guiding Thread' and prevent it from further eroding the Queen Mother's luck."
"And there are only two things that can suppress this extremely dark and evil thing."
"The first is the extremely masculine and masculine Ziwei Dragon Qi within you, Your Highness. The second... is the pure psychic power within Ah Jiu, which can 'see' through the essence of all things."
Xiao Yu's eyes instantly became sharp: "You mean, let Ah Jiu treat the Queen Mother?"
"No!" He rejected the idea without a second thought. "She can't even control herself right now. You're letting her come into contact with such a strong evil energy. Do you want her to die with you?"
"Brother Xiongxiong..." Ah Jiu tugged at the corner of his clothes and whispered, "I'm not afraid. Although that black line is annoying, I think I can drive it away a little bit."
Although she had a headache in the Cining Palace just now, she also found that when she concentrated her mind and used her "qi" to stare at those black lines, those black lines seemed to be afraid and would shrink back.
"Nonsense!" Xiao Yu scolded in a low voice.
"Your Highness, please listen to me." Chu Xuanyi hurriedly explained, "Of course, I'm not sending Ah Jiu alone. What I mean is that you use your dragon energy to suppress the roots of the 'Soul Guiding Threads', and Ah Jiu will assist you, using her perception to accurately locate the most critical 'thread' nodes. Then I will... use the secret method of the Observatory to try to sever a portion of them."
"This is a slow process and can't be rushed. But as long as we can weaken it regularly, we can at least save the Queen Mother's life and buy us more time."
This is a last resort.
"But your body?"
"No problem"
Xiao Yu was silent for a moment, and finally nodded.
"Okay. Then about finding Prince Yu..."
"I've already made the arrangements!" A fierce look flashed in Chu Xuanyi's eyes. "Before coming here, I divided all the inner disciples of the observatory into ten teams and sent them out!"
"Based on the 'abnormal points' we marked on the mine map, they will investigate them one by one! Those places are where the Nether Qi has most severely infiltrated, and they are also where the Black Bone Tribe is most likely to hide or establish new bases!"
"I've given them the best magical instruments and talismans, and ordered them to stop Prince Yu and that old man at all costs if they find any trace of them!"
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