Chapter 82 Soul Returns
[Warning! Warning! The soul is detected to be about to dissipate! Automatically activate the protection mechanism! ]
[Space body repair progress 97%]
[Space body repair progress 98%]
[Progress of space body repair 99%...]
[Ding! Repair completed! Returning to the original plot point! ]
Before Lu Yan died, he finally heard the long-overdue system notification tone. He breathed a sigh of relief, and felt that the black heart that appeared out of nowhere before him was more reassuring than ever before:
"Take me back, system,"
The flames swallowed up Lu Yan's voice, but he knew the system could hear it:
"I want them all alive..."
Whether it was Shang Junnian or the Emperor, or the millions of immortal people, none of them should have become the victims of this war. If they could go back to the time when he was assassinated, everything would have been stopped in time.
“Boom——!”
The sky was covered with dark clouds, and suddenly a black vortex appeared. Heavy rain poured down, accompanied by lightning and thunder, as if to extinguish the flames that were rising into the sky.
New sprouts sprouted from the barren land.
The withered peach tree sprouted new branches.
After the snow comes spring, and another cycle of four seasons of withering and flourishing begins, silently foreshadowing the passage of time.
Lu Yan woke up on such a warm summer day. He opened his eyes in a daze and saw the familiar gold-thread curtain above his head. A maid was kneeling at his feet, wiping her forehead with a handkerchief. He was startled and suddenly sat up from the bed.
The maid was startled, then quickly responded with joy: "My Lord, you are finally awake!"
Lu Yan felt a splitting headache and subconsciously grabbed her wrist and asked, "What year is it now?"
The maid didn't understand why he was so excited, and stammered, "My Lord, it is the 35th year of Shenyao."
Hearing this, Lu Yan let go of her and murmured to himself, "Thirty-five years... Thirty-five years..."
Does that mean that Emperor Ming had not passed away, and Shang Junnian was not dead? But when he was assassinated, he was still in his 34th year of Shenyao, so how could he have an extra year for no reason? !
After realizing this, Lu Yan asked urgently: "Where is the Emperor? Where is Shang Junnian? Where are they?"
The first question was easy to answer, as the emperor was naturally in the palace. However, the second question was difficult for the maid, so she asked cautiously, "Your Highness, have you forgotten that Prime Minister Shang has already returned to Wuyun?"
This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, and it made Lu Yan's mind go blank. He was just stabbed and unconscious for a while, so how did Shang Junnian return to Wu Yun? !
"Your Highness, you were attacked in the suburbs and were completely dead when you were brought back to the palace. The Emperor searched for famous doctors all over the world and used countless rare treasures to save you. Prime Minister Shang took care of you day and night by your bedside and didn't sleep for several days."
"Fortunately, you finally woke up not long after. However, your temperament suddenly changed after you woke up. You liked to capture people and put them in the dungeon to torture and kill them for fun as before. Shang Guoxiang tried to stop you, but you not only didn't listen, you also... you also put him in the dungeon..."
Eunuch He knelt on the cold white marble floor and whispered what had happened in the past few days: "Last year, the King of Wuyun died for some reason. Not long after Prince Yuzhang returned to the country, he ascended the throne. He exchanged the national treasure for it and begged the Emperor several times to let Shang Junnian return to Wuyun..."
Lu Yan slowly squatted down to be at eye level with Eunuch He. His face turned pale and he managed to utter, "Did the emperor agree?"
Eunuch He couldn't help but feel even more sad: "The emperor is seriously ill, and there is no one to sort out the major affairs of the court. Your Majesty was forced to lift the confinement of King Guxu. Now he and King Nanxun are jointly assisting in supervising the country, and they agreed to release Prime Minister Shang."
Lu Yan closed his eyes, his heart filled with shock. How could things turn out like this? Could it be that someone's evil spirit possessed his body during the time he was unconscious? !
Lu Yan felt a throbbing pain in his temples. He frowned and held his head, but suddenly found a piece of gauze wrapped around his forehead. He paused and asked, "How did my head get hurt?"
Eunuch He said hesitantly, "You had an argument with Prince Nanxun in front of the palace, and he accidentally... accidentally pushed you down the stairs and injured you."
Lu Yan: “…”
Forget it. I kicked him in the balls, and he pushed it back. It's just a matter of time. I won't bother about it.
Lu Yan had no time to think about what went on during the time when his soul was out of his body. When he heard that the emperor was seriously ill, he suddenly remembered that King Guxu had poisoned and assassinated him in his previous life. His face changed and he hurried to the palace with his men.
At that time, Prince Guxu was just reporting state affairs to the Emperor. He bumped into Lu Yan as soon as he walked out of the bedroom. He saw Lu Yan's expression was slightly stunned, and then he smiled again: "Third brother, the wound on your head has not healed yet, what made you rush to the palace..."
Lu Yan didn't say anything, but suddenly stepped forward and grabbed King Guxu's collar, then lowered his head to sniff his neck.
The smile on King Guxu's lips froze: "..."
#Lu Yan, this evil cut-off sleeve#
King Guxu endured and endured, and finally managed to maintain a smile on his face: "Third brother, what are you doing? In public, you still..."
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly felt a sharp pain on his cheek and was knocked to the ground by Lu Yan. The guards on duty were shocked and rushed forward to stop the fight, but they heard Lu Yan coldly say: "Get out! I will see who dares to come over! Whoever comes over, I will chop off his head!"
The Yu Linjun could only watch the two of them fighting each other. Although King Guxu's martial arts was not as good as Lu Yan's, he would not be beaten in vain. In the end, he started to fight back in anger, but was still suppressed by Lu Yan.
It happened that Prince Nanxun was rushing to the Emperor's bedroom with a military report. He suddenly saw Lu Yan and Lu Sheng fighting with each other. He stopped unconsciously and asked blankly, "What happened to them?"
Yu Linjun said anxiously, "Your Highness, just now King Fengling punched King Guxu for some reason, and the two of them started fighting. We dare not disturb the Emperor, please help to stop them!"
Nanxun Wang was overjoyed. He said it would be best if the two of them fought each other, but he remembered that the Emperor was still inside, so he had to save face. He stepped forward and grabbed Lu Yan's shoulders and said pretentiously, "Okay, third brother, it's not worth it for you to fight like cockroaches. The second brother didn't provoke you. He has always been weak, so don't beat him up."
Hearing this, Lu Yan turned his head and looked at King Nanxun, and asked coldly: "Did you push me off the stairs a few days ago?!"
Prince Nanxun was stunned; "I..."
"Bang--!"
Lu Yan didn't say much and started beating him too. The three of them wrestled in front of the emperor's bedroom. It was so noisy that the palace maids and eunuchs passing by didn't dare to look at it. Seeing this, they all lowered their heads and quickened their pace to leave.
The Emperor was originally taking a nap, but was woken up by the noise. He sat up on the bed with his hands, closed his eyes, pinched the bridge of his nose and shouted, "What happened outside? It's so noisy."
Eunuch She had heard the noise a long time ago, but had not reported it. He thought that the three princes were getting more and more chaotic, and it would be good to have a fight and suffer some pain. Seeing that the emperor was awakened, he drew aside the curtain and walked in lightly:
"Your Majesty, the three princes just got into a fight outside by accident."
To be precise, King Fengling unilaterally beat the other two princes and beat them to death.
The Emperor was furious when he heard this: "What nonsense! Why would the three of them start fighting for no reason? Why don't we let the Yulin Army quickly separate them!"
With the Emperor's order, the army of the Yulin Army dared to intervene, and soon the three princes were brought in like prisoners. The worst was the King of Guxu, whose face was bruised and swollen and whose original appearance could no longer be seen; the second was the King of Nanxun, who had a purple swelling on his forehead; Lu Yan was the cleanest, with a white and clean face, and still so likable.
The Emperor was so angry that he felt dizzy and didn't even have the energy to be angry: "You three never give me peace of mind for a single day!"
King Guxu was just about to step forward and cry and tell about his grievances, but he saw Lu Yan leap forward like a tiger and directly to the side of the emperor's bed. He buried his face in the quilt and sobbed. It was so heartbreaking to hear and see that anyone who didn't know would have thought he had been beaten.
Lu Yan cried and beat his chest, "Father...wuwuwuwuwu...Father...I finally see you again..."
The Emperor felt that he was crying: "..."
"What do you have to say? Why are you crying like that? I'm not dead yet!"
When the word "death" was mentioned, Lu Yan cried even harder: "I am afraid that you will be killed by the traitor!"
As soon as he said this, everyone in the room was shocked. King Guxu's expression suddenly changed: "Third brother, what nonsense are you talking about? How could our father be harmed by a traitor?!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Yan suddenly turned his head and looked at him, his red eyes full of coldness: "Do you dare to say that you didn't secretly poison your father?! Do you dare to say that the incense on your body mixed with the medicinal fragrance in your father's room is not poisonous?!"
Upon hearing this, King Guxu turned pale, and finally understood what Lu Yan had just smelled when he lay on him, but how was this possible? ! How did Lu Yan suddenly discover it? !
The hand hidden in the sleeve of King Guxu could not help but tighten, and he forced a smile: "Third brother, I don't understand what you are talking about."
Lu Yan grabbed the emperor's hand, pointed at his blue nails and said, "Father, have you been feeling tired and drowsy these days? This is a sign of poisoning! The incense on his body mixed with the medicine you drink every day will become a deadly poison, but the imperial physician has been bribed and won't tell you!"
The air in the bedroom suddenly froze because of Lu Yan's long speech, making it hard to breathe.
Although the Emperor did not speak, his expression became particularly ugly. He looked up at the uneasy King Guxu, his fingertips trembling uncontrollably due to extreme anger, and asked without any emotion: "Second Brother, is what King Fengling said true?!"
"Your son..."
The pale lips of King Guxu moved weakly, as if he wanted to say something to defend himself, but Lu Yan shattered his plan. The emperor only needed to ask the imperial physician to check and the truth would be revealed. No matter how much he said, it would be in vain.
After a long while, a low laugh suddenly rang out in the air. It was not from Lu Yan or Lu Mang, but from Lu Sheng. Everyone looked puzzled, not understanding how he could still laugh when he was about to die.
King Guxu was particularly unwilling to give in. He was always gentle and polite, but for the first time in his life, he stared at his father straight in the face: "Father, you have always spoiled him since he was a child. You believed everything Lu Yan said. Have you ever thought that my elder brother and I are also your sons?!"
Upon hearing this, King Nanxun quietly knelt a little further to the side, fearing that he would be dragged into the water. This second brother, not only poisoned him, but also wanted to blame himself when he was about to die. How disgusting.
The emperor's voice was a mixture of joy and anger. "I'm asking you about the poisoning, why are you talking about something else?"
King Guxu shouted angrily: "Yes! I did poison him! So what? You killed me? Imprisoned me? What other torture methods do you have? Just use them on your own son!"
The Emperor had fought on the battlefield for half his life, and he remained calm even when faced with a mountain collapse. However, when he heard the desperate reply from King Guxu, his eyes went dark and he almost fainted. He raised his finger and pointed at King Guxu, his fingertips trembling: "You...you evil creature! You colluded with assassins to assassinate me earlier, but I just confined you to get by. I thought you would learn from it, but you became even more powerful. What did I do wrong to give birth to an evil creature like you!"
He was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of blood. Seeing this, Lu Yan's face changed and he quickly supported the emperor: "Father, are you okay?"
Eunuch She hurriedly shouted outside: "Quickly call the imperial physician! Quick!"
The bedroom was in a turmoil because of this sudden change. The imperial physician was urgently summoned and rushed over with a medicine box to check the emperor's pulse. He also carefully checked the medicine residue he had drunk before and the sachet that King Guxu carried with him. He stroked his beard for a long time before saying with a serious face:
"This poison is called 'No More Awakening'. It is a secret medicine from the palace of the previous dynasty. The person who takes it will fall into a deep sleep every day. As the poison takes hold, it will be difficult to wake up. However, because it takes too long to take effect, it was abandoned and gradually lost. I never thought that Your Majesty would be poisoned by it."
Lu Yan looked grim: "How do I solve this?!"
The imperial physician was silent for a moment. "The ingredients used in this poison are extremely tricky. They are all poisonous herbs that are hard to find in the world. If my father were still alive, he might be able to help. I am not well-trained, and I can only remove 50% of the remaining poison in your Majesty's body with all my life's medical skills. If you want to completely detoxify, unless..."
Lu Yan quickly asked: "Unless what?!"
The imperial physician slowly uttered three words: "Blood Toad Pill."
"This thing is a holy medicine in the world. Even if a living person steps half a foot into the Yanluo Palace, it can be pulled back. I think it should be easy to cure this poison. I remember that there is a pill in your majesty's treasury..."
Prince Guxu knelt in the corner without saying a word from beginning to end. He watched everyone busying around with cold eyes. When he heard the words, a laugh suddenly escaped from his throat. He was extremely happy and cheerful. No one else knew what he was laughing at. Only the Emperor, Lu Yan and Eunuch She looked gradually gloomy.
“Hahahahahahahahaha Father! Father! You didn’t expect this!”
The usually gentle and refined King Guxu knelt in the corner and laughed like a madman.
"Don't you love Lu Yan?! You love him! Are you regretting now, regretting giving him the only life-saving medicine to save Shang Junnian?! There is only one Blood Toad Pill in the world, you can't find a second one even if you turn the entire Twelve Continents upside down, hahahaha!!"
The Emperor privately gifted the Blood Toad Pill to Lu Yan. Only a very few people knew about this. It is unknown how King Guxu learned about it. However, he has always been a person who can get along with everyone and is well-informed. Maybe he has planted spies in the Wannian Palace.
When he was dragged out by the guards, he was still laughing, laughing crazily and unable to control himself, as if all the suppressed acting of the past twenty years had burst out in an instant.
"Lock him up in the palace... Let him have the same food, clothing and other expenses as the common people. Don't let him starve to death, and don't let him out again in this lifetime..."
The Emperor still couldn't bring himself to kill him. He closed his slightly red eyes, and in an instant he seemed to have aged a lot. He sighed in a low voice: "It's all fate."
Everyone could hear the bitterness in his tone, but it was not because of the life-saving pill, but because of the sadness of being murdered by his own son.
The one who was hit the hardest was Lu Yan. He clenched his teeth tightly. He never thought that the elixir he had asked for was so precious that the emperor was beyond help today: "Father... I... It's all my fault..."
Lu Yan said with a grim expression: "I will go to Tianshui now. They may have a second pill. The Blood Toad Pill is so precious that no one would know even if they wanted to keep it privately. Since they were willing to give it to the immortals, they must have more in private..."
The Emperor held Lu Yan's shaking hand, and his tone softened all of a sudden, even with a hint of relief: "Third Brother, I've said it before, it's all fate. Although I'm an emperor, I'm also a mortal. How can I escape the catastrophe of life and death?"
"It is God's will, and I can only accept it."
Lu Yan had already watched the Emperor die once in front of him, and he could not watch him die a second time. He tightly grasped the Emperor's hand and gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, father. I will rush to Tianshui as soon as possible and ask for a pill no matter what!"
When he first arrived at the palace, he had secretly brought meat buns, candied hawthorn, hibiscus cake, pea yellow, black plum cake, roasted biscuits, roasted lamb legs, and beggar's chicken to Gongsun Wuyou. The other party should give him some face... right?
Prince Nanxun had been invisible for a long time. Hearing this, he remembered something. He lowered his head to look at the military intelligence report in his hand, raised his hand in panic and said, "Father, I received an urgent report from Hongling today, saying that Wuyun, Dongli, and Tianshui suddenly gathered millions of troops to attack Xianling. Their momentum is unstoppable and they are now approaching Longxia Road!"
"What?!!"
The news that King Nanxun said was like thunder, shocking everyone. The emperor pushed away the eunuch She who was supporting him, stared at King Nanxun angrily and asked: "What did you just say?! Say it again?!"
Prince Nanxun didn't care whether he would be beaten or not at this time, and hurried forward and said anxiously: "Father, Tianshui is responsible for delivering food and supplies, Dongli and Wuyun are responsible for the assault, they are joining forces to rebel!"
The Emperor was almost fainted after hearing this. Why did the attack come at this time? He was seriously ill and could hardly get up, and his two sons were confused and stupid. How could he resist the attack of three countries with the power of one country? !
Lu Yan asked in disbelief: "They want to attack the fairies?! Why?!"
Prince Nanxun looked at Lu Yan as if he was an idiot. "Nonsense! They can fight whenever they want. What reason do they need?! When father unified the twelve continents, he just wanted to fight. When did he ever give a reason?!"
Lu Yan: “…” He’s so fucking angry.
As if that wasn't enough, Prince Nanxun stabbed Lu Yan in the heart again: "Father, the letter sent by Dong Li and Wu Yun also said that if we hand over our third brother, we might be able to survive when the country is destroyed."
“What a jerk!!”
The teacups and vases in the bedroom were shattered all over the floor. The emperor was almost angry to death, but he came back to life again: "They are trying to cheat me! I asked them to send Prince Chu as a hostage, and now they are forcing me to hand over the third child! Don't even think about it!"
Prince Nanxun couldn't help feeling a little sad when he saw this, thinking that his father really loved the third son the most. Handing Lu Yan over would be to hurt his heart, but what if he handed himself over?
Maybe at most a kidney would be cut off.
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