Chapter 99 Calamity
The second day was indeed a busy one.
Master Jueyan came to invite him personally early in the morning. Before that, Xiao Qing had already completed the preparations for the ritual, such as burning incense, bathing, fasting, and changing clothes.
Master Jueyan led Xiao Qing to the Great Buddha Hall, accompanied only by Zhao Youchen and Ma Hong.
However, Ma Hong will accompany Xiao Qing into the hall and participate in the three-day memorial service for the deceased, while Zhao Youchen will not need to go in.
Out of concern for the young emperor's safety, Zhao Youchen had to stand guard at the entrance. Moreover, he and the temple's imperial guards needed to be stationed every five steps and every ten steps to firmly protect the main hall.
In addition, Master Jueyan had arranged for the temple's warrior monks to guard the area in advance, so the entire Mahavira Hall was surrounded like an iron barrel.
Xiao Qing thought that such an important religious ceremony would be presided over by Master Jueyan himself, but unexpectedly Master Jueyan said that precisely because of the importance of this religious ceremony, the one presiding over the three-day ceremony is Abbot Jueyin, who has fully inherited the true teachings of Tianyin Temple.
That was his youngest junior brother.
Xiao Qing saw his junior brother in the main hall.
He wore a tawny monk's robe with a red kasaya over it. He stood tall and straight, with focused eyes and a look that was both ambiguous and enigmatic.
Master Jueyan is at the age of fifty, but his junior brother looks incredibly young. Moreover, this Abbot Jueyin even has a handsome appearance.
Xiao Qing couldn't help but take a second look, but upon closer inspection, she felt that his appearance had changed somewhat, though she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
However, although she subconsciously felt a bit puzzled or curious about this, it didn't really concern her much, so she didn't care much about it.
Until she "saw" Abbot Jueyin again.
No one knows exactly how it happened, and Xiao Qing herself probably hasn't figured it out either. She felt that she had always been following the rules, sitting obediently on the ground, and occasionally following instructions to do what she was supposed to do.
But gradually, she realized that she was no longer in the main hall.
That's not quite right. At first, she could still see herself in the main hall, but then she stood up.
How could she possibly stand up so easily?
And she didn't know when it started, but she noticed that the people around her were becoming blurry. She subconsciously looked at Ma Hong, but Ma Hong was sitting motionless on the futon. She thought it was Ma Hong, but no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't make out his features.
What's worse, she gradually discovered that each blurry human figure was emitting a faint but discernible different light.
Most of them were white or gray, but two people stood out. One was Ma Hong, who was standing next to her; he was dressed in black.
The other person, who seemed to be facing her, yet also seemed to be far away, was the one at the head of the table.
His blurry figure was red.
She rubbed her eyes and looked again carefully to make sure she wasn't seeing things.
She felt that the red human figure was Abbot Jueyin.
This is intuition.
As she was wondering what was going on, she suddenly felt a lightness in her body, and then the places she could see changed direction.
She looked down and saw a gray humanoid figure next to the dark figure suddenly slump to the side, as if it had fallen into the dark figure's arms.
She immediately had a bad feeling.
She was about to try to make a closer look when she was surrounded by a cacophony of sounds. Although she couldn't make out what the sounds were, once her attention was drawn to them, she felt as if the whole world was filled with those sounds, which instantly overwhelmed her five senses.
Alright, stop thinking about anything.
The news reached Nanhua Palace on the morning of August 13th.
At this time, Fu Mingyi was in the palace teaching Xiao Yan.
Zhao Youchen sent someone to report quickly, and Fu Mingyi looked at the person in astonishment, thinking for a moment that he had misheard.
"What?" He involuntarily frowned.
"His Majesty fell into a coma during the memorial service for the deceased."
Fu Mingyi took a step forward, and somehow, half of the page in his hand was torn off.
"How could he have fallen into a coma? When did this happen? Did Physician He go? What did he say?"
Xiao Yan, who had been sitting upright in the chair, stood up and walked towards Fu Mingyi.
"Reporting to the Grand Tutor, it happened last night. Physician He examined the patient but couldn't find the cause..."
"You're only reporting what happened last night now?" Fu Mingyi unconsciously raised his voice and started walking out.
"We'll talk about it on the way."
Xiao Yan quickly called out, "Grand Tutor!"
Fu Mingyi paused, then walked back and squatted down.
“Your Highness, I must go to Tianyin Temple immediately. Please do not leave Chengguang Palace until I return.”
He whispered softly, "It's safe here."
Xiao Yan looked at the Grand Tutor with concern, "If Yan were a little older, he could help the Grand Tutor."
Fu Mingyi smiled and said, "Your Highness has done very well. Moreover, I am of low rank and do not deserve such kindness from Your Highness. Your Highness is too kind."
Fu Mingyi rushed to Tianyin Temple at breakneck speed. Inside, Master Jueyan was pacing back and forth outside the main hall, sweating profusely with anxiety.
Everyone was focused on the fact that His Majesty had suddenly fainted. After a flurry of activity, he realized that his junior brother, Jueyin, was missing.
It's not that it disappeared.
He rushed back to the main hall, only to find that Jueyin was also not quite right.
Because the matter of sacrificing the martial spirit was too important, Master Jueyan invited his junior brother Jueyin to preside over the ceremony.
The three-day Buddhist chanting and food offering ceremony was only on its first day, and it wasn't even over yet when something happened to His Majesty.
Jueyin seemed oblivious, still sitting there chanting sutras, so focused that it was as if the world was invisible to him.
Master Jueyan originally wanted to ask his junior brother about the young emperor, but now he didn't dare to disturb him, so he could only wait anxiously outside the Great Buddha Hall.
Unexpectedly, the wait lasted until the next day.
His Majesty remained unconscious. Imperial Physician He rushed up the mountain from outside the gate and examined the young emperor carefully several times.
There was no poisoning, and nothing seemed wrong at all.
The only problem is that His Majesty shows no signs of waking up.
The young emperor and his entourage probably couldn't tell, but Jueyan, who had studied Buddhism for decades, found the matter strange.
Thinking back to what Jueyin had said the day before, his heart started pounding wildly.
Until the Grand Tutor of the current dynasty went up the mountain.
Fu Mingyi rode at full speed and arrived at Tianyin Mountain in the afternoon.
He first met with Xiao Qing, and then personally questioned He Shu. Just as he said, Xiao Qing's complexion was normal, her breathing was normal, everything was normal, but she just couldn't wake up.
Fu Mingyi couldn't figure it out either, but after calming himself down a bit, he naturally went to find Master Jueyan.
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