Chapter 584 Doubts
The two men sat opposite each other. Yun Qingqing stared at Xiao Changheng for a while, then suddenly stood up and sat next to him.
Xiao Changheng was slightly stunned and subconsciously moved to the side to make room for her, but he saw Yun Qingqing reaching out to pull at his collar.
Xiao Changheng's breathing stagnated and he grabbed her hand.
"Don't move." Yun Qingqing said in a harsh voice without waiting for him to speak, "Let me take a look at the wound."
Xiao Changheng tightened his fingers slightly, then slowly loosened his hands when he saw her gloomy expression.
Yun Qingqing tore open his clothes without saying a word, revealing his shoulder. There was a tiny bloody hole on it. Not much blood had flowed out and it had already dried up, but the blood was black in color.
Her brows furrowed even tighter.
Xiao Changheng looked at her expression, turned his head slightly, and said softly:
"It's just a minor injury, don't worry."
Yun Qingqing paused, looked up at him, and asked calmly:
"The person controlling Lan Rui isn't some powerful person, so why are you still injured?"
Xiao Changheng was silent for a moment, and just as he was about to speak, Yun Qingqing said:
"Don't tell me you did it to protect the emperor. With your ability, do you really need to take this blow?"
When she was calculating Lan Rui's whereabouts, she found that she was already dead and showed signs of being manipulated.
When she arrived, Lan Rui was just trying to assassinate the emperor, but was stopped by Xiao Changheng and killed with a single blow.
As a result, Xiao Changheng was stabbed in the shoulder by her. The wound looked insignificant, but if Yun Qingqing had not arrived immediately and cleared away the evil spirit, there would have been endless troubles.
Lan Rui is just a weak woman, and her manipulation skills are not very advanced. With Xiao Changheng's strength, even without the protective light armor given by Yun Qingqing, he should not be caught so easily.
Xiao Changheng was obviously aware of this, but he didn't explain anything and just lowered his eyes silently.
Yun Qingqing glanced at him coolly, a ball of light condensed in her palm, and she placed her hand on his shoulder, concentrating on healing her wounds without saying anything else.
Xiao Changheng's silence was very telling. Yun Qingqing already had a guess in her mind and she just wanted to confirm it again.
When the carriage stopped at the gate of the palace, the light on Yun Qingqing's hand gradually dimmed, and the wound was almost healed.
Yun Qingqing slowly breathed a sigh of relief and was about to withdraw her hand to help him straighten his collar when she suddenly heard Nan Zheng shouting outside:
"Who are you? Do you know whose mansion this is?"
The two people in the carriage were stunned when they heard this, and subconsciously turned their heads to look at the door of the carriage.
A lazy voice sounded from outside through the car curtain. The tone of the voice was familiar:
"I naturally know that this is the Regent's residence, so I am waiting here..."
Before the man could finish his words, a gust of wind suddenly blew open a corner of the car curtain, and then closed it again.
Feng Yin, who had returned to his appearance as a middle-aged man with a long beard, suddenly stopped moving. The five senses of people who practice cultivation have always been far superior to those of ordinary people. Although it was only a moment, it was enough for him to see the situation in the car clearly.
Yun Qingqing was pressing one hand on a prince's bare shoulder and pulling his collar with the other hand, and it was very clear at a glance.
Two people in the car: ...
Yun Qingqing silently withdrew her hand, sat up straight, coughed lightly and said something nonsense:
"……arrive."
Xiao Changheng straightened his clothes without saying a word, stood up and got out of the car, looked at Feng Yin without any expression and said:
"What's the matter, Taoist priest?"
Yun Qingqing patted her hot cheeks with both hands in the car, and after calming herself down, she heard Feng Yin's casual laughter outside:
"I am new to your place and I am unfamiliar with the place. Apart from the Regent and his wife, I don't know anyone. I thought that since you are going to my sect anyway, why not let me stay in your house for a few days? How do you think?"
Nan Zheng who was standing aside was stunned, wondering where this foolish old Taoist had come from, and how he had the audacity to make such a request to the prince.
What beautiful things are you thinking about...
Xiao Changheng turned around and lifted the carriage curtain, motioning Yun Qingqing to get off the carriage, while speaking in a calm voice:
"Nanzheng, settle the Taoist priest down well."
Nan Zheng: “…Yes.”
Okay, I underestimated this old Taoist.
Yun Qingqing had calmed down when she got off the carriage. She looked at Feng Yin and narrowed her eyes slightly:
"Who is the Taoist priest hiding from?"
Feng Yin coughed suddenly:
"Hehe, it's not a big deal. It's just... related to the mirror. My Mingling Mirror was broken because of the prince. It's not too much to stay at your place for a few days."
Seeing that he was not very specific, Yun Qingqing did not ask any more questions. She just nodded without commenting and walked into the gate.
The group entered the palace, and Yun Qingqing went straight back to her own courtyard, saying that she wanted to go into seclusion. She forbad anyone to disturb her, and set up a barrier around the courtyard.
Back in the room, she took out a small black mirror used for communication with the underworld.
When she was in the palace, she found that Lan Rui was dead, but she did not see any soul in the body, so she sent a message to the Black and White Impermanence to inquire.
She looked at the reply letter on the mirror, frowned slightly, raised her hand and condensed some spiritual power, erased the words on it, and wrote a few words again.
Not long after, the corner of the room darkened, and a negative energy spread from that corner. Then the soul bell rang, the road to the underworld opened, and the Black and White Impermanence walked out.
"Lord Yun, Lord Yama sent us to pick you up, please." Bai Wuchang has been more polite to Yun Qingqing recently. After all, even Lord Yama has given her special treatment time and time again, so she has to take it seriously.
Yun Qingqing said unexpectedly:
"Go to Yama Palace? Now?"
She had only asked the Black and White Impermanence to check the whereabouts of Lan Rui's soul before. She just received news that they were unable to find it, so she asked them to take a message to King Yama and ask if he could use the Book of Life and Death to help check it out.
Unexpectedly, Lord Yan sent someone to pick her up.
Bai Wuchang saw her doubts, but he didn't know the reason, so he could only say:
"Lord Yan Jun is waiting for you, please come in."
Yun Qingqing knew that it was useless to think too much, so she nodded:
"Thank you for your help."
She followed the Black and White Impermanence into the underworld and once again came to the gate of the Yama Palace in the underworld.
The Black and White Impermanence retreated automatically, and Yun Qingqing came to the inner hall alone. Fengdu Jun was standing in front of the phoenix sculpture, staring at the small booklet in his big hand.
This scene was inexplicably familiar. Yun Qingqing always felt that Lord Yan seemed to treasure the sculpture very much.
Fengdu Jun heard the footsteps, raised his head and looked at her, raised the life and death book in his hand, and said in a rough voice:
"The soul you are looking for has never been to the underworld."
The Book of Life and Death glowed in his hand, casting a curtain of light in the air, on which densely packed names of people began to appear.
Yun Qingqing had used the Book of Life and Death before and knew that it was a record of all the souls that entered the underworld during the time of Lan Rui's death. She looked at it for a while and sure enough, Lan Rui's name did not appear.
And that’s not all…
Yun Qingqing stared at the screen for a while, then reported a time period:
"Can you show me the records for this period?"
Lord Yan nodded and waved his hand. The light screen flashed, all the previous text was cleared, and names began to appear from the beginning.
Yun Qingqing stared at the contents carefully until all the names were called out. She suddenly frowned and said:
"The Queen... Chen also didn't go to the underworld?"
Her spiritual eyes could see through the connection, and neither Lan Rui nor the Queen had the mark of Honghuang Palace.
Especially the Queen. After her deeds were exposed that night, the shield she had originally had on her body had disappeared, so Yun Qingqing would not have been wrong.
And now, the Queen and Lan Rui's souls disappeared inexplicably after their death.
Lan Rui also assassinated the emperor before her death.
With Xiao Changheng's strength, he was injured by Lan Rui.
Also, Yan Ning was assassinated by the black fog. If she hadn't noticed it in time, she would have been dead.
All these doubts further confirmed the previous suspicions——
The real reason behind the queen's sudden death is definitely not as simple as it seems.
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