Zhongli Yueshui seemed to be unable to bear it any longer, and shattered the screen with a palm. When he turned to look at Fang Chaozhou, there was a look of clearing the house. Fang Chaozhou couldn't help but shiver, and without caring too much, he hid behind Xue Danrong again.
Dare not show your head, just speak out.
"Master, what you saw is just a fragment. If you go back further, you will find that it is not the case at all. This is just... just a temporary measure I made because I don't want him to cause me trouble again."
As soon as Fang Chaozhou finished speaking, he heard a sneer.
"Don't get me wrong, Fang Chaozhou and I are innocent, nothing happened." Song Lianyi has now returned to his original appearance, and his temperament has returned to what it was before. He was controlled by Zhongli Yueshui's magic and couldn't stand up, so he simply didn't stand up and just sat on the ground. He looked seductively, "Fang Chaozhou, right?"
Fang Chaozhou felt that Song Lianyi's tone sounded strange, but there seemed to be nothing wrong with her words, so he thought about it and replied with a "yes".
"Did you hear that? There's really nothing going on between Fang Chaozhou and me." Song Lianyi said, and laughed again.
Zhongli Yueshui's eyes darkened slightly, then he flicked his sleeves, untied the control on Song Lianyi, and said coldly: "In this case, you can leave on your own."
Upon hearing this, Song Lianyi glanced towards Xue Danrong. It was unclear whether he was looking at Xue Danrong or Fang Chaozhou who was hiding behind Xue Danrong. After a moment, he stood up and saluted Zhongli Yueshui, "Thank you, Sect Master Zhongli."
He walked forward, but when he reached the entrance of the main hall, he stopped again. He turned back and looked at Xue Danrong, "Ah, I almost forgot one thing, Xue Danrong, your senior brother's shapeshifting technique in the purification room this morning was really good."
As soon as Xue Danrong heard the words, he turned his head and looked at Fang Chaozhou behind him. He seemed to have understood something, and his eyes became extremely dark.
Fang Chaozhou met Xue Danrong's eyes, forced a smile, and then resolutely took a few steps back.
Junior brother looks so scary like this, even scarier than Zhongli Yueshui.
Hu Xiang who was standing by witnessed it all. He hid the astonishment in his eyes and walked quietly towards the old emperor. However, he had only taken a few steps when he was immobilized by a spell.
Zhongli Yueshui glanced at Hu Xiang and walked forward. When Fang Chaozhou saw him coming, he thought Zhongli Yueshui wanted to teach him a lesson, so he couldn't help but step back. When he saw the dragon couch behind him, he had nowhere to retreat and could only call him "Master" obediently.
And the next moment, he was pushed away.
Without Fang Chaozhou blocking the dragon couch, Zhongli Yueshui's eyes fell on the old emperor's obviously unusually young face. After a while, he calmly said, "Where did you learn the reincarnation technique?"
The old emperor did not answer this question, but turned to look at Fang Chaozhou, "Chaozhou, come to your father."
Fang Chaozhou was stunned for a moment when he heard Zhongli Yueshui's words, but when he heard the old emperor calling him, he instinctively wanted to go over, but was stopped.
Xue Danrong grabbed his arm and said coldly, "Second Brother, wait until the Grandmaster has dealt with it."
"What have you accomplished?" Fang Chaozhou looked at Xue Danrong with a puzzled look.
Xue Danrong did not say anything else, but held Fang Chaozhou's hand tightly, not allowing Fang Chaozhou to go to the dragon bed.
"You don't want to tell me where you learned the reincarnation technique. That's fine. I'm not really interested. All I have to do is destroy the demon baby in your body."
As Zhongli Yueshui's voice sounded, he raised his hand. When Fang Chaozhou saw it, he couldn't help but shout, "Master!"
Zhongli Yueshui did not stop, and when the old emperor saw Zhongli Yueshui raising his hand, the expression on his face instantly became extremely ferocious. His hands and feet turned into black vines, and they quickly crawled down the bed, trying to wrap around Zhongli Yueshui's ankles.
But before it could touch the vine, it was broken off at the root.
"Ah——" A scream came from the old emperor's throat that was almost impossible for an ordinary person to make.
At the same time, Xue Danrong covered Fang Chaozhou's eyes with his hands, blocking the horrific scene in front of Fang Chaozhou.
"Brother, don't look."
Fang Chaozhou's lips trembled, and after a while he asked, "Will he die?"
No one answered him.
In fact, Fang Chaozhou knew that the old emperor was very strange. No mortal would have a face of a man in his forties when he was over eighty years old. There was obviously something wrong, but he always thought that the other party was his original father.
And there was another strange thing, when he saw the other person, he actually felt a sense of familiarity, even though he was just a person who traveled through the book.
Logically speaking, he shouldn't feel any affinity for any of the characters in the book.
The screams did not last long, and Fang Chaozhou heard the old emperor calling him again.
"Chao Zhou, Chao Zhou, come here, Chao Zhou!"
Fang Chaozhou couldn't help but move his toes when he heard the voice, but the next moment, he heard Hu Xiang's voice, "Don't go over there! He's lying to you! He lied to you because he wanted to suck you dry, just like he sucked the others."
"Shut up!" The old emperor's voice suddenly became eerie and terrifying. "I'm talking to my son, you have no right to interrupt! Get lost!"
Hu Xiang gritted her teeth, her face was very pale at this time, "You are just afraid that I will expose you, so I will tell you the truth. I have not drugged the Ninth Prince in the past few days."
After that, Fang Chaozhou couldn't hear anything. Someone blocked all his senses and even cast a spell to immobilize him, so he didn't know what happened next.
When the spell was lifted, the old emperor on the bed looked dozens of years older. He lay on the bed, completely unable to move, and could only move his eyes slightly. He gasped and said weakly, "Chao... Zhou, let father take another look at you."
Fang Chaozhou glanced at Zhongli Yueshui, and seeing that the other party didn't seem prepared to stop him, he quickly walked to the dragon bed. He looked at the old man on the bed, not knowing what to say for a moment.
The old emperor slowly turned his eyes, reluctantly looked at Fang Chaozhou, and spoke with one forced breath.
"My son, don't blame the immortal, it's my father who is greedy. Decades ago, you were chosen by the immortal to cultivate immortality, and I wished I could live that long. Then I unexpectedly met a man who told me a spell and told me that practicing this spell would allow me to live forever. But who knew that since that day, I have been conscious and unconscious. There are some things I don't want to do, but when I wake up, it's too late. Fortunately, you are fine."
After he finished speaking, he moved his hand at his side towards Fang Chaozhou. Fang Chaozhou caught a glimpse of it and immediately reached out to hold it.
"That's fine, but I... I don't have the face to go down... to see them in the underworld..."
Before he finished speaking, the old emperor's head tilted weakly to the side and a streak of black blood flowed from the corner of his lips.
Zhongli Yueshui's cold voice then sounded.
"The evil art he practices is called reincarnation art, which can keep people young temporarily, but it requires constantly absorbing the essence of others. That evil art has controlled his mind, so now he has become a half-demon, half-monster who lives by absorbing the essence of people with whom he has blood ties. He asked you to come back, probably because you are the last one he can absorb."
Fang Chaozhou didn't say anything, just stared blankly at the old man on the bed.
He didn't know when Zhongli Yueshui left. In the end, Xue Danrong pulled him up from the ground.
"Senior Brother." There was worry in Xue Danrong's eyes.
Fang Chaozhou lowered his head after hearing that. After a while, he spoke, "I'm fine. I'm just... a little sad. Just give me another quarter of an hour and I can adjust my mood."
That's false.
In fact, Fang Chaozhou hadn't been able to come out for three days. During these three days, he kept sitting on the jade-white stairs in front of the emperor's bedroom, looking at the red palace walls in the distance.
On the day of the old emperor's burial, Fang Chaozhou, as the only living prince, had to follow the coffin to the imperial mausoleum. When they reached the innermost coffin room, even Hu Xiang was not allowed to enter. Only Fang Chaozhou and the coffin bearers could enter together.
Fang Chaozhou followed the etiquette and did everything one by one. When the coffin was finally closed, he kowtowed and knelt in front of the coffin.
After the funeral, Fang Chaozhou had no reason to stay in the capital, so he went to say goodbye with Hu Xiang. When Hu Xiang knew that he was leaving, she looked a little surprised.
"You want to leave? Then who will inherit the throne?" Hu Xiang asked.
Fang Chaozhou didn't even think about it and answered, "You."
"Me? You won't inherit it?" Hu Xiang paused, "Although Grandfather Emperor didn't leave a will, according to etiquette, the throne should be inherited by you."
Fang Chaozhou shook his head, "How can I manage a country? Nephew, you should come. I will return to the sect soon. Thank you for your hospitality during these days." At this point, he handed the medicine box in his hand to the other party, "These are all some health-enhancing pills. If you finish taking them and your health has not improved, please send me a letter and I will find a way to send them to you."
Hu Xiang looked at the medicine box in Fang Chaozhou's hand, her long eyelashes drooping and her eyes filled with complicated emotions. After a while, he reached out to take it.
When Fang Chaozhou saw that he accepted it, he smiled and turned around to accept the punishment. Zhongli Yueshui didn't leave, waiting for him and Xue Danrong to return to Tianshui Sect together. He estimated that he would not have a good life anymore.
"Wait." The person behind him suddenly spoke up, and he called Fang Chaozhou's name, "Fang Chaozhou, why would you pass the throne to someone whose last name is not Fang?"
Fang Chaozhou paused, turned around, looked at Hu Xiang, and said hesitantly: "You... your last name is not Fang?"
Hu Xiang frowned when she saw Fang Chaozhou's reaction, "You don't know?"
"I don't know." Fang Chaozhou answered simply, "Aren't you my nephew?"
Hu Xiang seemed to have helplessness in her eyes. "To be exact, I am not your nephew. My last name is Ye and my mother's last name is Fang. But I am only the emperor's distant niece. Over the years, almost all the Fang family members, both men and women, old and young, have died. I am the only one left who is somewhat related to you by blood, a tuberculosis ghost."
He paused, and looked at Fang Chaozhou as if he was looking at a fool, "I thought you knew it a long time ago, but I didn't expect you..."
Hu Xiang didn't finish her words, but Fang Chaozhou had a feeling that they were not good things.
Fang Chaozhou groaned, "I...no one told me, so I didn't know."
Hearing this, Hu Xiang suddenly smiled. This smile seemed different from his previous smiles. "Okay, I know. Go away. I hope I won't be old when we meet next time."
On the way back to Tianshui Sect, Fang Chaozhou once again got on Zhongli Yueshui's snow-white Pegasus carriage, but this time, he did not ride in the same carriage with Xue Danrong, but shared a carriage with Zhongli Yueshui.
Along the way, Fang Chaozhou tried his best to reduce his presence, and even dared not sleep, for fear of touching Zhongli Yueshui's reverse scale. However, he only lasted less than a day before he was so sleepy that his eyelids started to droop, and then he fell asleep.
In the dream, it seemed like someone was calling his name.
"Fang Chaozhou."
"Hmm?" Fang Chaozhou responded in a daze, and then he seemed to feel something stuffed in his hand.
That thing is kind of like wood.
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