Chapter 275 After all this time, Ah Jiu is your relative
"Take it out." The queen frowned slightly, but nodded.
Chu Xuanyi carefully took out a small cube neatly wrapped in oilcloth from his arms.
He opened the oilcloth layer by layer, revealing a cotton handkerchief that was washed white.
At the corner of the handkerchief, there was a dark brown bloodstain that had long since dried.
This was the handkerchief he used to bandage Jiu's wound in a hurry when she was injured in the Regent's Palace.
Later I forgot to return it to her and kept it with me. Unexpectedly, it might come in handy at this moment.
"This is..." The queen looked at the ordinary, even somewhat worn handkerchief, her eyes full of confusion.
All the merman elders present looked at each other in confusion.
Why make such a big fuss just to let them see a piece of blood-stained rag?
However, just when Chu Xuanyi completely unfolded the handkerchief.
A pressure originating from deep within the blood suddenly swept through the entire crystal palace with the handkerchief as the center.
"Plop, plop."
On both sides of the hall, the faces of the merman elders turned pale in an instant, as if all the strength in their bodies had been drained away. They collapsed to the ground uncontrollably, trembling violently in the direction of the handkerchief.
Even Captain Ling, who was standing at the front, felt his legs go weak and he knelt on one knee on the ground.
"What is this?"
"The aura of holy blood... Such pure holy blood."
"No, it's even more supreme than Her Majesty's bloodline."
On the throne, the mermaid queen suddenly stood up from the throne, her face full of shock and disbelief.
She stared at the handkerchief in Chu Xuanyi's hand and staggered down from the throne.
She stretched out her hands tremblingly and took the blood-stained handkerchief from Chu Xuanyi.
"It's the 'tomb keeper'..." The queen's voice was trembling.
"It's the sacred blood of the Tomb Keeper clan."
She held the handkerchief tightly against her chest, looked at Chu Xuanyi and Xiao Yu in front of her with tears in her eyes, and asked anxiously.
"Child, the girl named Jiu you mentioned."
"Who is she?"
This question left Xiao Yu and Chu Xuanyi stunned.
"Her name is Ah Jiu," Chu Xuanyi said in a somewhat dry voice. "I heard from her master that she was found in a killer organization whose family was wiped out. She was only six years old that year."
"A killer organization?" The Queen's brows furrowed tightly, a look of immense heartache on her face. "They actually... actually allowed a Saint with such noble blood to do such... such a dirty thing."
"She's lived there since she was a child," Chu Xuanyi added. "She has no parents and doesn't even know her own name. She's called Ah Jiu simply because her number in the organization is nine."
As the queen listened, tears flowed even more violently.
The atmosphere in the hall was so oppressive that it made people breathless.
After a long time, the queen opened her eyes again, and the tears in her eyes had stopped.
"You two, follow me."
She said something to Xiao Yu and Chu Xuanyi, then turned and walked towards the back of the hall.
"Your Majesty."
"No trespassing is allowed in this restricted area."
Seeing this, the elders on both sides cried out in surprise and wanted to step forward to stop it.
"Everyone, step back," the queen said coldly, "From today on, they are no longer outsiders."
The elders looked at each other, and finally could only step aside respectfully with their hearts full of confusion and shock.
Xiao Yu and Chu Xuanyi looked at each other and saw seriousness in each other's eyes.
The queen led them through a long crystal corridor and came to a stone gate blocked by a huge water curtain barrier.
She stretched out her finger and lightly touched the water curtain.
The barrier split to the sides, revealing a deep and dark passage behind it.
"This is the forbidden area of our clan, called 'Yiling Palace'."
The Queen spoke softly as she walked.
"It records the history of my clan... and the Tomb Keepers, a history soaked in blood and deliberately sealed away."
"Tomb keeper?"
"You will know soon."
At the end of the passage is an extremely spacious circular cave.
There are huge murals carved around the caves, and the characters in the murals are lifelike.
"Your Majesty, this is..."
"Here is the answer."
The queen walked to the first mural, which depicted a group of humans wearing strange costumes. They seemed to be holding some kind of sacrificial ceremony. Around them, countless beautiful mermaids were guarding them with extremely pious expressions.
"People outside think that we, the mermaids, are the natives of Penglai Island, but that's not the case."
"Our ancestors had only one mission from the day they were born."
"That's protection."
She stretched out her fingers and gently brushed across the elegant humans on the mural.
"Guarding the noblest bloodline on this land—the Tomb Keepers."
"Tomb keeper?" Xiao Yu frowned slightly. He had never seen this name in any royal secret book.
"They are the darlings of the world, the original condensation of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth." The Queen's eyes revealed deep admiration. "They are born with the ability to communicate with all things and transform all energy in the world. Their blood is called 'Holy Blood' and possesses the supreme power of purification and transformation."
"And we, the mermen, are their most loyal companions and protectors."
The queen said this and walked to the next mural.
The style of this mural suddenly changed.
In the center of the picture is a magnificent palace. A man wearing an imperial crown is sitting on the dragon throne, and next to him stands an evil figure shrouded in black air.
Xiao Yu's pupils suddenly shrank.
He was very familiar with the style of the dragon throne and the totem on the emperor's crown.
That is the symbol of the Xiao royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
"The days of protection lasted for thousands of years, until... a disaster struck."
The Queen's voice was filled with hatred.
"Hundreds of years ago, a former emperor of your Xiao royal family, in pursuit of the elusive immortality, did not hesitate to open the forbidden door and made a deal with the evil demon from outer space."
Chu Xuanyi's heart twitched violently.
The former royal emperor colluded with evil demons from outer space?
If this gets out, the whole world will be turned upside down.
"The evil demon told him that if he wanted immortality, he needed a special energy to reshape his mortal body." The Queen pointed at the figure shrouded in black energy on the mural and said coldly, "And that energy is the extremely sinister netherworld power, contaminated by the resentful thoughts of countless ghosts."
"Mortals simply cannot withstand the erosion of the power of the underworld, but the evil demon told him there is a way."
"That is to seize the sacred blood of the Tomb Keeper."
"Because only the holy blood of the Tomb Keeper can transform and utilize the netherworld power that is capable of destroying everything."
The queen's gaze pierced Xiao Yu directly.
"For his own selfish desires, your ancestors raised the butcher knife against our most honorable master."
The next few murals were extremely tragic in content.
Countless troops wearing the standard armor of the Great Zhou Dynasty rushed towards the holy land of the "Tomb Keeper" like a tide.
Fire, killing, betrayal.
The mermaids fought desperately, and together with the tribes loyal to the "tomb keepers", they launched a bloody battle with the royal army.
The last scene of the mural shows that in the sea of blood and corpses, several mermaid elders desperately protect a baby wrapped in holy light, break out of the siege, and escape into the vast ocean.
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