Recently, many children have gone missing. At first, it didn't cause a big stir, but when some large families also started losing children, the situation suddenly became serious.
All the major cities are investigating, but no one knows who is behind the buying and selling of children. Even with the help of various families, they have been unable to find the culprit. In desperation, they can only ask the royal family for help.
For a time, families with children kept their children at home and dared not let them out.
In the imperial city, far away in the heart of the Canglan Continent, a sleepless night was destined to begin.
That very night, the emperor summoned the imperial advisor.
The Grand Preceptor of the Canglan Continent has white hair and silver eyes. He wears a long robe embroidered with cranes. He looks very young, but no one knows how long he has lived.
The aged emperor looked at the man before him, at his youthful appearance, and a flash of greed crossed his eyes.
The Imperial Advisor, Ye Su, looked at the elderly emperor before him. The emperor was shrouded in an aura of death, clearly indicating that his days were numbered.
"Grand Preceptor, do you know how long you've lived?" The emperor sat in the upper center of his study, looking down at the Grand Preceptor standing below.
Ye Su stared directly into the old emperor's eyes, his expression indifferent and devoid of any emotion. He did not answer the old emperor's question.
The old emperor wasn't annoyed; he had clearly grown accustomed to the other party's attitude.
"I am about to die, Imperial Preceptor. The ancestral teachings say that you are omnipotent. I don't want to die. Can you help me?" The old emperor stood up from the dragon throne and walked towards Ye Su. The greed in his eyes was no longer concealed and burst forth.
His steps were unsteady, and he walked with a limp.
"Where are those children?" Ye Su did not answer the old emperor's question, but directly stated the purpose of his trip.
Countless children have gone missing across the entire Canglan Continent, and none have ever been found. Only the royal family has the manpower and resources to do so.
“That’s right, the children are with me. If you, Grand Master, tell me the secret to immortality, I will release those children immediately.”
Mentioning children, Ye Su's eyes flickered with emotion: "There's no secret. If one's cultivation breaks through, their lifespan will naturally increase..."
His words were devoid of any emotion, coldness, or chilling indifference.
“Breakthrough is easier said than done! Those who can break through have long since gone to other continents! In Canglan, a place with scarce spiritual energy, there is only waiting to die. But Grand Preceptor, you are different. You have lived in Canglan for so long, you must have other ways, right?”
The old emperor stopped not far from Ye Su, staring at him expectantly, hoping to hear the secret to immortality from him.
Ye Su did not speak, and the only sound in the hall was the old emperor's rapid breathing.
The old emperor, agitated by his lack of response, grabbed the hilt of a sword hanging nearby and drew it. The sudden movement caused his sleeve to brush against a red cloth covering something nearby.
The red cloth, along with the contents of the plate, rolled to the ground, and a ball-like object rolled in front of Ye Su.
He lowered his head.
It was a human head, a human head that had been hollowed out.
The child's head was small, and a hole was made in the top of his head, hollowing out everything inside.
Upon seeing this scene, a hint of coldness finally appeared in Ye Su's indifferent silver eyes, and he shifted his gaze from the ground to the old emperor.
The old emperor held his long sword to Ye Su's neck.
"Imperial Preceptor, I know I can't hurt you, but this immortal artifact left by my ancestor..." Before the old emperor could finish speaking, the long sword he had been holding flew out of his hand, turned around, and pierced directly into his chest.
The old emperor was thrown away by a gust of wind. He fell to the ground, staring in disbelief at the sword stuck in his chest, and suddenly looked up at Ye Su.
"This sword was originally a gift from me to your royal family. You're going to use it to kill me?"
As if responding to Ye Su's words, the sword flew out from the old emperor's chest as he raised his hand, obediently stopping beside him. With a slight movement of his fingertips, the sword obediently flew back into its sheath.
The old emperor fell to the ground with his eyes wide open in death.
Before leaving, Ye Su glanced sideways at the head on the ground, then at the old emperor lying on the ground, and sighed.
Greed knows no bounds; even a snake cannot swallow an elephant.
After leaving the main hall, he appeared in the city lord's room in Lingyun City.
Upon seeing the person appear out of nowhere, the city lord's first reaction was to circulate his spiritual power, but he immediately withdrew it after seeing who it was.
"Imperial Preceptor? Aren't you in the Imperial City..." Before he could finish speaking, he was startled by the golden seal in the other party's hand.
...
As the night passed, someone discovered that the old emperor had died in his study.
The entire royal family began to panic, not because of the old emperor's death, but because the royal mark on their bodies had disappeared. With the royal mark gone, their right to be high and mighty was gone.
The reason why royalty is royalty is because the marks on their bodies can open the secret realm of the imperial city, which contains the best cultivation resources in the entire Canglan Continent.
The royal family's secret realm is open to outsiders once every ten years, but there is no time requirement for members of the royal family. As a result, the cultivation level of cultivators in the royal family is far higher than that of other families, which is why they can be called emperors in the entire Canglan Continent.
With the mark gone, all members of the royal family plummeted from the heights of power to the depths of despair, becoming ordinary people.
In just one night, the entire royal family was overthrown.
The vanished royal seal reappeared in Lingyun City, and the royal seal appeared on the bodies of people who were blood relatives of the city lord of Lingyun City, thus giving rise to a new generation of royalty.
The news spread rapidly throughout the Canglan Continent.
At this moment, Lin Jingge was still considering how to deal with the child in front of her.
In the end, it was Granny Lin who stepped in and fed the man who stole the child a pill, telling him to resolve the matter first and then take the antidote.
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