Although he failed to find out Dongfang Bubai's background as he had planned, Lou Qianzong still felt very pleased to see Ye Xiao being humiliated, since he disliked Ye Xiao.
Ye Xiao discovered that he couldn't utter the word "nian" (念), and it seemed that he couldn't say anything he wanted to say. Could it be that, as the Great Sage said, he had contracted some kind of illness?
He gritted his teeth and glared at Chu Nian: He felt that apart from being extremely angry, he had no other emotions when facing this kid! Could it be that being extremely angry can make someone lose their voice?
Since Mr. Dongfang had given clear instructions, even though Ye Xiao was the kind of person who would give her nightmares, Nie Feiyan still quickly issued an imperial decree after returning home, summoning Ye Xiao to the palace, appointing him as the master of Yonghe Palace, bestowing upon him the title of Xiao, and making him a concubine upon entering the palace, known as Consort Xiao.
Ye Xiao now felt that his identity was incredibly strange. How could a perfectly normal man have become a concubine in the palace?! This meant that he might never be able to have any other women, never be able to leave the palace, never be able to face the outside world, and would be locked in this deep palace for the rest of his life.
He was the mighty Night King, the object of countless young girls' affections in the past. And now, he's become the emperor's concubine! Ha!
He wanted to escape, but alas...
Nie Feiyan now admires that Mr. Dongfang more and more.
Previously in the Green Bamboo Forest, he had called Nie Feiyan to his side and whispered a few words to her, giving her a "magic weapon" that was said to be able to completely control Ye Xiao and make him obediently listen to him.
Nie Feiyan was initially skeptical, but now she believed it wholeheartedly. She knew that if she blew on the magic weapon, Ye Xiao would get a stomachache and have no choice but to obey her.
She had to follow Mr. Dongfang's advice and keep Ye Xiao in the palace to prevent him from bothering her again.
Therefore, although Ye Xiao was summoned to the palace as a concubine, Nie Feiyan had no intention of favoring him. Ye Xiao could endure it at first, but as time went on, he couldn't bear it anymore. He tried to escape from the palace several times but failed. He even tried to find a palace maid to relieve his lust, but Nie Feiyan stopped him in time with her whistle.
After extensive research, Nie Feiyan finally discovered that the whistle was a kind of antidote for poison. Therefore, Ye Xiao had actually been poisoned by Mr. Dongfang without realizing it, and still thought he could control everything – how laughable!
Chu Nian lived quietly in the bamboo forest for nearly thirty years until Nie Feiyan passed away. It is said that although she was quite diligent during her reign, she was extremely licentious and died in her forties. With her profound qi cultivation, that was no ordinary case of dying young.
Before her death, she seemed to sense that her life was coming to an end, and ordered several of her favorite concubines to be buried with her. For some reason, Ye Xiao's name was among them.
Therefore, when the Empress was buried, Ye Xiao thought he could finally escape the deep palace, but he received news that he had to go to the imperial mausoleum to be buried with her. He didn't want to go, but a group of powerful martial officials with profound energy surrounded the entire palace.
Later, he figured out that the Empress was afraid that the concubines in her palace with high spiritual energy would cause trouble after her death and affect the stability of the court, so she left this imperial edict early on and made arrangements in advance.
It must be said that no matter how capable you are, you can't surpass the imperial skills possessed by Nie Feiyan, who has been an empress for decades.
When the old emperor heard at the West Cave Villa that his beloved daughter had passed away at the young age of forty, he was so enraged that he went mad and died after two years of madness.
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Chu Nian felt that the body she had transmigrated into was even more special than the last one. She tried to move, and with a thud, she fell off the cutting board to the ground. She finally realized that this time she had transmigrated into a knife!
A kitchen knife! And a kitchen knife with a huge chip on it!
Whether it was the original owner's heartache or Chu Nian's own, she felt incredibly heartbroken. The crucial point was that she sensed the original owner's vast amount of memories, many of which were even somewhat chaotic, perhaps because the original owner had just awakened her consciousness.
The original owner, Dao Nian, likely refers to the knife's will. Initially, it somehow gained sentience and was used by the mountain people for cutting vegetables, meat, and killing chickens; later, it was discarded because it developed a chip. However, it didn't want to be discarded, so no matter how many times it was thrown away, it would always return to the cutting board on its own.
Later, people determined it to be a demonic sword and invited sorcerers to perform rituals to subdue it. However, these so-called sorcerers were all charlatans and did nothing; instead, they were frightened away by the demonic sword that kept returning to it.
Left with no other option, the owner of the house also fled.
After that, only the knife remained. As time went on, its abilities grew stronger and stronger, and it even began to recall many things from when its intelligence was just beginning to emerge and its consciousness was still relatively chaotic.
Its original owner was named Zhou Cong, who started as a pig butcher but later attained enlightenment and ascended to become a wandering immortal in the celestial realm. As the saying goes, "when one attains enlightenment, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven," and it thus received immortal energy, which enabled it to gain intelligence and gradually awaken its self-awareness.
Dao Nian missed Zhou Cong terribly, and desperately absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, hoping that one day he could ascend to the immortal realm and see Zhou Cong again.
But as time went by, it discovered that the spiritual energy of the world was becoming increasingly scarce. What's worse, with the large-scale development of the mountains and forests by humans, it was discovered lying in the hills and brought into the secular world, where it was sold as an antique.
After changing hands several times, it ended up with a person who also had the same name, Zhou Cong, and even looked exactly like the Zhou Cong in Dao Nian's memory.
This is Zhou Cong, the male protagonist of the novel, a legendary tomb raider. Zhou's family has been engaged in tomb raiding for generations, and he has been exposed to this field since childhood, often going tomb raiding with his elders. After a few years, he had already become famous in the industry right after graduating from university.
The female protagonist of this book is named Yang Qiuyu, one of the few cultivators who has survived thousands of years of trials and tribulations in this world. She was originally cultivating in an ancient cave when Zhou Cong accidentally stumbled into it while tomb raiding.
Because she had been meditating for many years without moving, her body was covered in dust. Zhou Cong thought she was a corpse and left with his companions after taking the luminous pearl from the ancient cave. Yang Qiuyu followed them, only to find that the world had changed and was no longer the same as before.
She found the male protagonist by following the scent of the luminous pearl, used it to blackmail him, learned about the modern era through him, and joined his tomb-raiding team, embarking on a new journey. The two fell in love during their interactions.
During the tomb raiding trip of the male and female protagonists, the luminous pearl fell due to a small earthquake and was hit by the falling sword spirit. The luminous pearl turned into a stream of energy and was absorbed by the sword spirit.
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