Chapter 462 – Exploring the Tomb of the Late Emperor

Xu Qi’an brought Hengyuan back to the Xu Mansion and instructed his subordinates to clear the guest rooms and take the master to stay.

For Hengyuan to be able to borrow the Xu Mansion was undoubtedly a huge guarantee for Xu Qi’an, and for the Xu Mansion’s family. There was the Heavenly Sect’s Holy Maiden, the Southern Border’s Little Black Skin, and then a monk with a hidden relic.

The Xu Mansion’s guard force had actually been frighteningly high, far stronger than that of most princes and nobles.

Hengyuan folded his arms and said, “Excuse me.”

After saying that, he went to the outer courtyard along with the underlings.

Although he was a monk, he was a man after all, and it was inconvenient to live in the inner courtyard, where there were too many women.

Led by the subordinate, Hengyuan entered a room that was on the edge and secluded.

He did not find this to be negligence in the least, but instead was pleased with Xu Qi’an’s thoughtfulness; Hengyuan needed a room quiet enough for him to recite the scriptures for his morning and evening lessons.

After simply cleaning the room, Hengyuan folded his hands and thanked his subordinates.

When the subordinate left, he was about to close the door of his room to meditate, when he suddenly saw a small head poking out of the doorway, his dark eyes looking at him nervously with a few moments of curiosity.

Hengyuan revealed a smile and said gently, “Little Shi Master.”

He recognized this girl, Xu Qi’an’s youngest sister, and Hengyuan had come to the Xu residence several times.

“Are you going to live in my house too?” Xu Lingyin asked.

“Interrupting.” Everest apologized.

Xu Lingyin crossed the threshold, fished out a piece of pastry that would be crumbled but not yet broken from her pocket, tilted her face, and offered it with both hands, “For you to eat.”

What a understanding and kind child ……… Hengyuan showed a touched smile, smoothly took the pastry and stuffed it into his mouth, feeling that the taste was a little strange.

Xu Lingyin happily ran out, and before long, she ran in tugging a wilted orchid in her hand, its roots carrying dirt.

Hengyuan looked at the female child with some confusion, thinking that after delivering the pastries, do they still need to deliver flowers, Lord Xu’s youngest sister is just too enthusiastic and knowledgeable.

Xu Lingyin frowned with a small frown, distressed:

“I was just playing outside and knocked over my mother’s beloved flowers, I’m going to be beaten again. Uncle, just say you knocked it over, okay, you’re a guest, my mother won’t beat you.”

Hengyuan said helplessly, “Monks don’t lie.”

Xu Lingyin tilted her face in uncertainty, “What do you mean.”

Everest gently explained, “It means you can’t lie.”

Xu Lingyin watered and said, “Then give me back the pastry, I hid it in my shoe for three days and didn’t even want to eat it ……….”

……… Heng Yuan stayed dumb.

…………….

Returning to the study, Huaiqing and Li Miaozhen were indeed still waiting, the two Yeon’s out of the ordinary beauties were sitting quietly, the atmosphere was not heavy to say the least, but it was not relaxing either.

Seeing Xu Qi’an cross the threshold, Huaiqing’s reaction was even greater than Li Miaochen’s, rising quickly and ushering in with a brisk step with her skirts fluttering.

She paused violently in front of Xu Qi’an, her autumn watery eyes staring at him tightly, several times wanting to speak, trying her best to control the smoothness of her voice:

“Yes, who is it?”

“It’s not him.” Xu Qi’an shook his head, paused for a few seconds, and added in a low voice, “It’s him.”

Two answers, two he’s, corresponding to two portraits.

Huaiqing’s face abruptly solidified, her clear face was uncontrollably pale, her blood color receded a little bit, she seemed unable to accept this fact, a huge dizziness hit her, her body swayed, and she was about to fall down.

Xu Qi’an wrapped his arm around her waist and sighed, “Your Highness, I’m sorry for your loss ………”

“This palace is fine, this palace is fine ……..” Huaiqing pushed and shoved a few times, leaning softly against his shoulder, her fragrant shoulders rustling and trembling.

Xu Qi’an wanted to hold the beauty in his arms tightly, but considering that she wasn’t Lin An, he just lightly embraced her, lending his solid chest and broad shoulders to His Royal Highness the eldest daughter.

The unidentified melon eating masses Li Miaozhen stunned, and said What do you you you guys want to do ……… What do you want to do in front of me?

This process did not last long, and after Huaiqing had a small cry, she quickly suppressed her inner emotions and left Xu Qi’an’s embrace, saying softly, “This palace has lost its temper.”

Li Miaozhen asked, “What’s going on.”

Xu Qi’an glanced at Huaiqing and saw that she didn’t object, so he explained to the Heavenly Sect Holy Maiden, “The one underneath the dragon vein isn’t the Earth Sect’s Dao Head, it’s the late Emperor.”

The late emperor?

Li Miaozhen’s face instantly froze, she slowly opened her mouth wide and stared at her beautiful eyes, her mind repeatedly echoing Xu Qi’an’s words, and after a very long time, she heard herself murmur a question:

“How!”

“The one who is truly obsessed with immortality is the late emperor, and it’s hard for me to believe it, but that may be the case.” Xu Qi’an sighed again.

The late emperor’s physical condition was actually not good, although he faked his death, but the diagnosis of the Szetian Supervisor’s magician was not wrong, that is, the late emperor indulged in female sex and emptied his body.

This point, the history books are also very clear, “Jeanne d’Arc is good at women” just a few words say it all.

His own body knows best, which is why the late emperor had a longing for cultivation and longevity. However, because of the rule that those who are blessed with good fortune are not allowed to live forever, they can only suppress this longing in the bottom of their hearts.

It wasn’t until the head of the Earth Sect Dao came to the capital, and after this, certain hidden secrets that outsiders were not allowed to know must have happened, thus changing the late emperor’s understanding and allowing him to see the possibility of immortality.

Li Miaozhen took a long time to digest this news and retorted back and forth:

“Impossible, it’s not like the late emperor was a disciple of the Taoist sect, the late emperor wasn’t even a martial artist, and that being you saw in the underground dragon vein was so powerful that it made you tremble.”

Wyvern’s eyes reddened slightly and he took a deep breath:

“There is no causal relationship between the two, the late emperor was an ordinary man, but it doesn’t mean that he was not gifted, among the members of the royal family, but all the princes who are qualified to compete for the throne will all take consorts early, to open up a branch for the royal family. This is because having an heir or not is one of the important criteria for competing for the crown prince position.

“Even more, if the imperial son is obsessed with martial arts, it will cause the emperor and the princes to resent him. If you are obsessed with martial arts, where will you find the energy to deal with political affairs. Father ………’s twenty years of him being obsessed with cultivation, and the fact that the dynasty and the wilderness are in disagreement, is the best example.”

The meaning of this statement is that if you want to be an emperor, you have to give up your cultivation; after all, there are limits to what one can do.

The late emperor chose the imperial throne, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t talented.

In these twenty years, he was like a moth, lying on the national fortune of the Great Feng knocking the bones and sucking the marrow, extracting the people’s fat and wealth, even if it was a pig, so much resources to feed down, also fed into the heavenly canopy marshal.

What’s more, according to the current situation, the late emperor’s talent was not weak.

Li Miaozhen was speechless for a moment, she didn’t know what came to her mind, she was creeped out and lost her voice, “Where is the Zhenbei King’s body?!”

Xu Qi’an and Huaiqing looked at each other, not understanding why she was so agitated, “What’s wrong?”

The body of the King of Zhenbei was in pieces, dead beyond repair, and no one in the Chuzhou case cared at all about what to do with the body of a prince.

The Heavenly Sect Holy Maiden slowly stood up, sweeping over the two with an extremely frightened gaze, and said:

“One qi transforms three clearings, one of three, three of one, as long as they haven’t completely killed the three doppelgangers, then they won’t die. What dies is only the qi and blood accumulated over the years, and what dies is only one third of the Yuan Shen.”

Xu Qi’an and Huaiqing’s faces changed drastically.

………….

Sangpo, the reconstructed Yongzhen Shanhe Temple.

Yuan Jing, wearing a black background and embroidered gold silk brocade robe, stood with his arms folded in front of the statue of the founding emperor, narrowing his eyes as he stared at it.

He was in his fifties, but with his rosy face, dark hair, and straight posture, he looked no more than forty at most.

“Gaozu, you established the Dafeng Dynasty, gathered the Qi of the Central Plains, and advanced to the First Grade. At the peak, even the Witch God Cult could only hold their noses and admit defeat.”

“Wu Zong, you overthrew the corrupt first lineage, got the recognition of Confucianism, ascended the throne as emperor, and advanced to the first rank. And then Confucianism will flourish, and even the Buddhists will have to retreat to the Western Region.”

“The Great Feng was founded six hundred years ago, and apart from the two of you, there are no more first-class martial artists. But no matter how powerful you were during your lifetime, and how much you were overpowering the four seas, after a hundred years, you’ll end up with a handful of yellow earth.” Emperor Yuan Jing’s gaze was calm and his tone was certain:

“And I, who will be the first emperor of the Dafeng to live forever, soon, very soon ……..”

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The capital city boundary, the Voltron Mountain Range.

From a high altitude overlooking, the Folong Mountain Range looks like a sleeping dragon, this mountain Zhong Min Yuxiu, cohesion of the momentum of the earth’s veins, is the capital of the best feng shui treasure land.

About three hundred years ago, the emperor of that generation built a mausoleum here, and in the three hundred years since then, six emperors have been buried in the Fulong Mountain Range, so the mausoleum here is also known as the “Bong Six Mausoleums”.

The late emperor was also buried here.

A group of four people secretly sneaked into the Imperial Tomb, using the Si-Tian Supervisor and Confucian magic, avoiding the “defense line” of the coarse martial artists, through the outer buildings of the Imperial Tomb, into the mountains, and stopped outside the tomb of the late Emperor.

They came this time to make a final verification.

Being the king of a country, faking his death was not that simple, and the entire court, the imperial physician, and the Sithian Supervisor would have done some confirmations. Since the late emperor was sent into the coffin in the first place, he did die, at least at that time.

We’ll have to go down to the tomb to find out what’s going on.

Outside the mausoleum, Xu Qi’an tore off a page of Confucian spells, turned to the three beauties, and said, “Hold me.”

Zhong Li obediently hugged him from behind, Huaiqing and Li Miaozhen slanted him and pressed their hands on his shoulders.

Or is Senior Sister Zhong the best behaved?Huaiqing and Miaozhen have too much personality ………. Xu Qi An muttered in his heart, his mouth did not pause as he burned the paper with his qi and chanted:

“We’re not outside the mausoleum, we’re inside the mausoleum gate.”

The paper burned out, and the faint clear light curled around the four and disappeared.

Zhong Li sacrificed a magic weapon made of night pearl, causing it to emit a bright and clear glow, illuminating the dark interior of the tomb.

Li Miaozhen glanced back and realized that the four of her party had only penetrated the gate of the mausoleum and had not gone deeper into the mausoleum, so she couldn’t help but frown, “Why didn’t you just say that it’s inside the main tomb?”

Is it not a bit too wasteful to use Confucian spells to enter only one door?

Although it was impossible for them to open the gate openly, much less spend time digging a robber’s hole, Xu Qi’an was perfectly capable of teleporting directly to the main tomb.

Xu Qi’an grumbled, “You don’t love me at all.”

Li Miaozhen: “????”

She quickly reacted to the fact that Confucian spells were subject to backlash, and by merely passing through a door, the spell backlash effect would be mild.

If one teleported directly to the main tomb, passing through a variety of organs in between, the difficulty on the way would be returned to the caster by way of a backlash.

Zhong Li led the charge and said, “There are twelve major organs, seventy-two minor organs, and nine formations in the late emperor’s bedchamber ………. Everyone follow behind me and don’t wander off.”

She described it as she did.

The imperial mausoleum is the planner and supervisor of the construction party is the Si Tian Supervisor, Zhong Li is the disciple of the Supervisor of the Zheng, qualified to view the supervision of the construction of the late emperor’s bedchamber drawings.

“We’re in more danger following her, aren’t we ……..”

Li Miaozhen questioned in a small voice.

Xu Qi’an waved her hand, “It’s fine, just follow her, there won’t be any accidents.”

He had put the jade pendant gifted by the Supervisor Zheng into the Earth Book Fragment, and now Xu Qi’an, with the Son of the Realm buff in full effect, was more than enough to counteract the bad luck brought about by the Seer.

The journey was thrilling, and under Zhong Li’s leadership, smoothly avoiding the organs and cracking the formations, the four of them finally arrived at the main tomb.

The main tomb’s gates were two tall stone doors that were tightly closed, and Xu Qi’an stopped in his tracks, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly for a few moments.

“What’s wrong?” Li Miaozhen looked back at him.

Nothing, just seems to have ancient tomb stress disorder ………. Xu Qi An relieved his inner emotions by spitting out the body of the late emperor, it was always impossible for him to return to the ancient tomb.

I hope I don’t have the aura of bad luck that will raise a corpse in an open casket ………

He took a deep breath and pressed his palms against the stone door, his muscles bulging as he pushed it open.

Martial crisis instincts had no warning! Xu Qi’an breathed a sigh of relief as he entered the main tomb first.

Zhong Li held the night pearl in the palm of his hand, and the bright, clear light illuminated the main tomb, illuminating the pillars, clay figurines, vessels, and other burial objects.

Xu Qi’an looked his gaze toward the center of the main tomb, where the dark jade stone was the base for the huge coffin made of sandalwood and wrapped in white jade.

Placing both palms on the coffin and waiting for a moment to make sure that his powerful intuition had not warned him, Xu Qi’an sighed in relief and slowly pushed the coffin open.

Inside the coffin was a normal sized sandalwood coffin.

Opening the lid of the coffin, as Zhong Li approached, the scene inside the coffin came into Xu Qi’an’s eyes, inside the yellow silk-lined coffin, lay a withered bone.

Li Miaozhen walked over to the coffin and examined the dead bones, her mind recalled the information on the late emperor that she had collected before she set out, and said, “The heights are similar.”

Another look at the pubic bone and, “Man.”

This, the fact that there were bones inside the coffin meant that the late emperor had actually entered the coffin in the first place, rather than faking his death? Li Miaozhen frowned.

The scene in front of them was not quite what they expected, in their speculation, the first emperor first faked his death and entered the burial, and then quietly unveiled his coffin.

“Give me the night pearl.”

Huaiqing reached out and took the illumination spell from Zhong Li’s palm, she did not avoid the poisonous odor in the coffin, she bent down slightly and scrutinized the bones of the late emperor, and after a long time, she revealed a look of dawning realization:

“He is not the late emperor.”

Xu Qi’an stroked his chin, “What is your basis?”

According to the information gathered, the late emperor was a man of sound limbs, bone-wise, with no defects. This corpse is equally sound.

In a world that lacked advanced equipment to detect dna, being able to recognize an identity just by looking at it was almost impossible in Xu Qi’an’s opinion.

Huaiqing held the night pearl with a complex expression as he explained:

“His hand and foot bones are longer, to be longer than normal people, he is a eunuch ……… eunuchs were purified when they were young, and by the time they reached adulthood, their bodies would be different from those of normal men, much taller, but their hand and foot proportions would be microdeformed and longer than those of normal men. “

Xu Qi’an fixed his eyes and realized that the arm bones of this corpse were indeed on the long side.

What kind of principle is this? Eh, it’s worthy of being the No. 1 female schoolteacher in Dabong ……….. I have quite a bit of autopsy knowledge, but there were no eunuchs left in my time ……….

Xu Qi’an whispered, “So there’s nothing left to suspect now.”

The king of a country had the fortune to be a body, and it was impossible for him to be taken over by an outsider, unless the person who took over his life was also an emperor. In other words, the being under the dragon vein could not be the head of the Earth Sect Dao in the garb of the late emperor.

Right now, it has been proven again that the late emperor’s bones are fake, so the late emperor is the one behind the scene is already a nail in the coffin.

Huaiqing didn’t answer and said somewhat despondently, “Let’s go.”

Xu Qi’an sighed, Yuan Jing had long since ceased to be Yuan Jing, perhaps there had been an accident during the autumn hunt in the South Garden back then, or perhaps it had been changed when he suddenly took up monasticism twenty years ago.

Exactly how it would work, they don’t know yet, but the conclusion is in front of them.

……….

Outside of Yandu.

The ground exploded into a cannon crater, billowing smoke, and the corpses of the soldiers lay strewn across the ground, their blood seeping into the darkened dirt.

Nangong Qianlou leaned down and grabbed a handful of hot dirt, crimson blood spilling out from between her fingers.

The armor on his body was no longer bright, his face was no longer white and delicate, and sword wounds and scars were all over his body.

The words of Wei Yuan before he left flashed in his mind: if you don’t want to retreat within three days, then the deadline is six days, and on the sixth day, no matter what, you have to leave.

Today is the sixth day.

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PS: ask for a monthly ticket. Popular knowledge: eunuchs after purification, the body will become stronger, taller, life expectancy will become longer, bone development will show a slight deformity, the most obvious feature is the arm oddly long ………

So, if people want to live a long life, they might as well cut to rule forever!