Chapter 584 Doubts
The two 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 saw Yun Qingqing reaching out to pull at his collar.
Xiao Changheng's breathing stopped and he grabbed her hand.
"Don't move." Yun Qingqing said in a firm voice without waiting for him to speak, "Let me see the wound."
Xiao Changheng tightened his fingers slightly, but looking at her somewhat cold face, he slowly loosened his hands.
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 one 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 again:
"Don't tell me you're doing this to protect the Emperor. With your abilities, do you really need to take that 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 trying to assassinate the emperor, but was stopped by Xiao Changheng and killed with a palm.
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 able to fall into the trap so easily.
Xiao Changheng was obviously aware of this, but he didn't explain anything and just lowered his eyes silently.
Yun Qingqing gave him a cool look, a ball of light condensed in her palm, and she placed her hand on his shoulder, concentrating on healing her wounds and no longer speaking.
Xiao Changheng's silence was very telling. Yun Qingqing had already guessed it in her mind and 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 from outside:
"Who are you? Do you know whose house this is?"
The two people in the carriage were stunned when they heard this, and subconsciously turned their heads to look at the carriage door.
A lazy voice sounded from outside through the car curtain. The tone of the voice was familiar:
"I naturally knew that this was the Regent's residence, so I waited here specifically..."
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 clothes with the other hand, which was very clear.
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 burning cheeks with both hands in the car, and after calming herself down, she heard Feng Yin's casual laughter outside:
"I'm new to your place and don't know anyone here. Apart from the Regent and his wife, I don't know anyone. Since you're going to my sect anyway, why not let me stay in your house for a few days? How do you do that?"
Nan Zheng, who was standing aside, was stunned by what he heard. He wondered where this foolish old Taoist came from and how he had the audacity to make such a shameless request to the prince.
What beautiful things are you thinking about...
Xiao Changheng turned around and lifted the carriage curtain, signaling Yun Qingqing to get out of the carriage, while speaking in a calm voice:
"Nanzheng, take good care of the Taoist priest."
Nan Zheng: “…Yes.”
Okay, I underestimated this old Taoist.
Yun Qingqing had composed herself 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 that 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 vague, Yun Qingqing didn't ask any more questions. She nodded without comment 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 and forbade anyone to disturb her. She set up a barrier around the courtyard.
Back in the room, she took out the 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 her 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 he has to take it seriously.
Yun Qingqing said unexpectedly:
"Going to Yama Palace? Now?"
She had just asked the Black and White Impermanence to check the whereabouts of Lan Rui's soul. 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."
She followed the Black and White Impermanence into the underworld and once again arrived at 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 Yama 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 period of Lan Rui's death. She looked at it for a while and sure enough, Lan Rui's name did not appear.
Not only that…
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 the names of people began to appear again from the beginning.
Yun Qingqing stared at the contents intently until all the names were called out. She suddenly frowned and said,
"The Queen...Mrs. 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 been wearing 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.
Despite 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 died.
All these doubts further confirmed my previous suspicions——
The real reason behind the queen's sudden death is definitely not as simple as it seems.
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