In the North Palace of the Endless Palace, the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of the imperial horse and the eunuch of the imperial horse Cheng Shao Hao bowed his head and led the way, followed by Ai Yuansaka in the phoenix costume and the empress in the dragon and phoenix embroidered suit, and there were white-clothed feather guards and war armor giants in front and behind.

"If you don't find anything definite this time, you don't have to go to the stable to feed the horses!"

Tosaka loves irritable reprimands, and Shao Hao is so anxious that his forehead is shiny. If he hadn't had to lead the way, he would have fallen to his knees and smashed the stone floor.

Three days ago, there was an accident in the Hundred Flowers Temple, and the teleporter and teleportation circle under the Hundred Flowers Temple had another origin, and he Shao Hao was just guilty of not paying attention. But the dozens of people invited by Concubine Luo into the North Palace turned out to be all demons, and they also cooperated with Concubine Luo to set a trap and almost trap Ai Tosaka, Shao Hao, who was the second person in the court of the Endless Palace, naturally couldn't escape the blame.

On that day, Shao Hao was instructed by Yuansaka Ai to take care of the chaos in the Fusang Wine House in Dongcheng, and took Yu Linwei and the alternate Xingtian to the residence of Concubine Luo, digging three feet into the ground in the literal sense, but did not find any trace of Concubine Luo.

The empress, Ai Tosaka, and Yao Zhenfu of the Yulin Weizhen Demon Division agreed that Concubine Luo should have died a long time ago, but was possessed by the bride demon who appeared under the Hundred Flowers Temple. That person is a member of the Tower of the Magic Tower, immortal and indestructible, and can even possess the dry bones that have been dead for decades, so it should be easy to manipulate Concubine Luo. Now that his whereabouts have been exposed, he should destroy the body of Concubine Luo and flee.

Then he checked the people in the North Palace, but he didn't find that there were still demons lurking, but he pointed out a missing eunuch. It was this eunuch named Beishan who led the demon into the North Palace that day, but instead of serving Concubine Luo, he was the eunuch who took care of several barren halls in the North Palace.

So there were a few more construction sites in the North Palace, and those halls were turned upside down in just two days, and nothing was found.

What I'm looking for is not Concubine Luo or Beishan himself, nor is it looking for a teleporter, but for all the artifacts and traces related to the demons. The people of Tali possessed Concubine Luo, and it should have been a long time since they drove Beishan, and they should always leave some traces of activity in Beigong. So far, there has not been a trace of discovery, doesn't it mean that the security of the Endless Palace is extremely lax, and the demon has enough room to erase all traces of existence?

In short, something must be found to prove that the demons of the Dark Hand Blood Tower have existed in the Endless Palace.

"It was discovered by the little eunuch who was cleaning another hall after Beishan was away. ”

Passing through several palace walls, ascending several stairs, and entering a deserted courtyard. The courtyard is a dilapidated and decayed temple, and the scale is not small. According to the situation when everything was in good condition, at least it was a noble concubine's residence, but now it looks like a dilapidated temple.

"This place is called Begonia Garden, and it is not in the scope of Beishan's management, or even in the list of Beigong's industries. Shao Hao said in an incredible tone: "Not far from the Hundred Flowers Temple, the slave and maid turned a blind eye, and the crime of death was a capital crime. ”

"The Lord of the North Palace has undergone countless changes, and with a little bit of inventory, he can hide a huge courtyard. The empress knew these bad things, looked at the plaque with the word "Qiu Tang" in the grass, and sneered: "How many concubines once they enter the cold palace, not to mention their people, even the place where they live has disappeared, I think this is a cold palace." ”

"What did you find?" Tosaka urged, the empress's expression was naturally remembering her mother who was missing, and she didn't want the empress's mood to continue to deteriorate.

"Here and here, ......" Shao Hao hurriedly ran into the hall, and Ai Tosaka and the empress followed, but were stopped by a young Yu Linwei.

"Sir, Your Majesty, wait for us to confirm before going in. "The young man is slashed and condensed, it is Yu Linwei, who has dealt with Gao De, who has experienced Liu Chengwang of the hundred households.

"Yo, I've finally found a chance to shake my majesty. Tosaka smiled and said, but obediently followed the empress to stop, and Yu Linwei and the alternate Xingtian went in to investigate.

After a while, Yu Linwei reported that they were safe together, and the two entered the hall, and then saw a decayed statue of the Emperor Zhenwu. Emperor Zhenwu is one of the various gods worshiped by the Way of Nature in Aurora, and he is also one of the few gods that can still be passed down after the inheritance of the Way of Nature has been annihilated. It's just that after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the steam was prosperous, and not many people respected the gods, and gradually the Zhenwu Emperor was not remembered by many people.

The Empress and Ai Tosaka just glanced at the idol, and their eyes quickly turned to the offering table beneath the idol. The curtain in front of the offering table has been lifted, and there is a bright red figure curled up inside, which is actually a bride with a red robe and a hijab.

"Attention!"

Ai Tosaka beckoned Yu Lin Wei and the alternate Xingtian to be on guard, and after the weapon was activated in the hand armor shield, he ordered to drag out the thing that didn't know whether it was dead or alive, whether it was a human or a demon.

Shao Hao beckoned a few eunuchs to do it, and he also went into battle in person, and dragged it out very lightly.

"Not like a living person......

Shao Hao was still muttering, and the eunuchs pulled their hijabs and exclaimed in surprise.

It was a black-brown skull, the flesh had withered and clung to the bones, and the jaw was still crooked, looking like a dried corpse that had been dead for hundreds of years.

Several eunuchs were so frightened that their hands shook and threw away their robes, and there was a loud noise, and various bones of leg bones, arm bones, and ribs fell out. Shao Hao's face did not change and his heart did not beat, he said "sins and sins" in his mouth, and covered his robe on the bone pile, revealing his skull.

"This is not Concubine Luo......"

Ai Tosaka stared at the skull carefully, and said very firmly: "I'm afraid it's been almost two hundred years since I'm dead." ”

"I can only let my aunt come over," the empress sighed, "She stayed in the North Palace for a long time when she was a child, and she knows a lot of rumors. ”

Not long after, the white-haired old woman entered the hall, stared at the skull for a while, and said something that surprised everyone: "I died three days ago." ”

"There are very faint traces of the power of the plague demons, and at the rate of dissipation, this pile of things was still alive three days ago. Granny Yao said: "It is also the first time I have seen this kind of living dead, the flesh and blood have shrunk to the limit, but after all, they are alive, they can stay in the soul, and they can sense the reality in this world." ”

"Could it be that we have all miscalculated, this is Concubine Luo?" Tosaka Ai asked in surprise: "But Concubine Luo is only seventy or eighty years old according to her age, why did she become like this? Could it be that she used some demonic spell to consume all her flesh and blood?"

"It shouldn't be Concubine Luo," Granny Yao said, "These flesh and blood are all naturally shrinking, and the power of the plague demon is slowing down the rate of shrinkage rather than extracting flesh and blood." According to my guess, Concubine Luo did die a long time ago, maybe this person ate it. And this man must have lived for at least four or five hundred years. ”

The old woman shook her head with a sigh, and she still sounded admiring: "It's really amazing, I'm afraid this guy has been a permanent youth for three hundred years." ”

Not to mention the little eunuchs, even Shao Hao subconsciously took a big step back, this pile of skeletons turned out to be demon bones that had lived for four or five hundred years!

"Four or five hundred years...... Tosaka frowned, "Who is this person?"

Granny Yao looked up and looked around, "I can stay here for four or five hundred years, but the power of the epidemic demon is not detected by outsiders, and it is not enough to rely on entrapment and coercion of subordinates." There must be something to cover the power of the devil, right here. ”

Everyone looked up at the same time, and then all eyes converged, it was an object hanging from a wooden beam above, which looked somewhat like a birdcage.

"That's a miner's lamp......," Shao Hao recognized it first, "It's the kind of miner's lamp that is only used in old coal mines, and it shouldn't appear here!"

The white shadow flashed, Liu Chengwang jumped up on the pillar, and took off the lamp with his hand.

Uncovering the gray and black lamp coat, a faint white light emitted from the lamp, illuminating a cold white light on Liu Chengwang's chest.

"Huh?" Ai Tosaka curiously took the lamp, and the same white light appeared on her chest.

"Soul Lamp," Granny Yao sighed, "I know who this is." ”

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The blazing white flames stretched out from under Gao De's feet, and in the blink of an eye, the entire space was transformed into a fireworks purgatory. One by one, palm prints lit up everywhere in the space, and the four colors were varied, and the dazzling colors flowed away.

Countless gray shadows twisted and struggled in the flames, emitting all kinds of inhuman sounds, which were not sounds, but all kinds of movements that directly hit and even scratched the soul. One by one, the gray shadows showed their human form, returning to their original appearance in the present world, but they squeezed out a hideous face like a demon, constantly changing back and forth. In this transition, the black ash swayed like a fountain or even a waterfall, until it faded again, leaving no more light and shadow.

In just a moment, dozens of gray shadows turned into black ash and were completely annihilated.

"Stop——!"

Hiding in the distance, Chu Niangzi, who was still maintaining a vague silhouette, shouted: "You are destroying Da Ming and destroying Aurora!"

"Who do you think you are?"

Gao De said disdainfully: "Could it be that you are the empress of the Ming Dynasty, you are resisting chaos, and you are protecting the billions of people of the Ming Dynasty?"

"I'm naturally not the empress," Chu Niangzi said angrily: "But it is my credit that the Ming Dynasty can continue to this day! Without me sacrificing my life to devote myself to the Secret Hand Blood Tower, there would have been no Ming six hundred years ago!"

600 years ago......

Gao De's heart was shocked, not because of the long time, but because this point in time happened to coincide with the Ming past he told Xiaoli.

"Even if you are the Empress Dowager Zhaojing," Gao De tried to condense his burning consciousness, "You did save Da Ming when you lived in this world, but Da Ming after you didn't rely on demons...... Especially these immortal Tari people have survived until now. ”

On the night of the Midyear Festival, Gao De and Xiaoli went on a date...... Uh, shopping. The two talked about the Empress's governance, and Gao De talked about the historical facts he had unearthed in the archives of the mahout. More than 600 years ago, in the era of Emperor Tianhui, the Empress Dowager Zhaojing was in power. Although the queen mother reversed the world with the momentum of female dignity and caused many cases, she calmed the Quartet and rested with the people, so the Ming Dynasty survived a huge crisis. Later, although there was the Jingling Rebellion, Daming relied on the foundation she laid to carry it over, which continues to this day.

"You're such an extraordinary person that even my mother knows you. Chu Niangzi's response was much more than Gao De expected, it was not the Empress Dowager Zhaojing, but the daughter of the Empress Dowager...... No, it's another daughter of the Zhu family.

"My mother Zhongxing Daming, even today, has the grace of 20 generations in Daming, but suffered a tragic end. Chu Niangzi shouted with hatred: "I did not avenge my mother, but continued to help Daming, but I was deceived into the gray realm by the holy mountain, and it is better to die than to die! If I was only for revenge six hundred years ago, how could there be a Ming Dynasty?"

"Six hundred years ago it was one, and four hundred years ago it was another. The Jingling Rebellion was only continued by me who took the Secret Hand Blood Tower to help Emperor Dingling. Then I used the secret hand blood tower to build a blood tower to gather the powerful and deter the demons. The bright and dark sides are dominated by me, and the existence of the Ming Dynasty for the past 600 years is not precisely from me?"

Ouch, the emotional secret hand blood tower is decent, and his troublemaker has actually become a villain?

"It sounds like without your secret hand Blood Tower and Blood Tower Society, chaos would have poured into the present world," Gao De would have wavered in his will because of these words, and the white flames of the demonic figure burning were still surging in the tower. "And the emperor who sits on the throne of Sheji and burns himself is just a decoration, and it has no practical significance. ”

"Since you are protecting Da Ming on the dark side, why do you want to use evil demons to plot against the old prince?" he continued: "When Princess Mo Li ascends the throne and becomes the empress, you can't wait for all kinds of operations, and you want to keep her on the throne of Sheji, is this also protecting Da Ming?"

"What do you know!?" Chu Niangzi avoided far away, and the black ash on her body gushed out, but she was not hit hard as if it was endless.

She roared imposingly: "Why does Zhu Moli sit on the throne of Sheji!? She is both a woman and a sage, and Da Ming will only be corrupted in her hands! With my 600 years of experience traversing the present world, why can't I be the empress of the light and dark sides!?"

Feel this front front ...... The eldest princess has a bit of a problem with her brain, but it's understandable, after all, it's a ghost with no brains.

Gao De asked casually: "The empress of the dark side, what should I do if there is no one sitting on the seat of Sheji?"

"There is no way out to maintain Daming by burning the flesh and soul of the Zhu family," Chu Niangzi's words actually made Gao Desheng feel the same way, but the following words were contrary to his thoughts, "To make Daming last forever, the real way out is to pull the essence of Daming into the gray realm and into the magic tower." Let chaos invade the present world, and when the chaos recedes, rebuild the present world. Although this is just another round of lingering, it has hundreds or thousands of years. ”

"That's a ...... idea."

Thousands of words circulated in Gao De's heart, but in the end, he only spit out a mouthful: "Let's not talk about what you think the essence of the Ming Dynasty is, let's just say this idea, it's really not a little fresh." ”

"I don't have the heart to argue with you about who is right and who is wrong," Gao De picked up the sledgehammer as if holding a torch, "what you are doing is harming me, destroying my ideal of earning a pension, I will not allow it!"

The sledgehammer fell, and the white flame spewed out, enveloping the whole Dechu Niangzi in the distance, making her let out a terrible howl of broken layers of glass.

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In the temple dedicated to Emperor Zhenwu, the others have retreated, leaving only Granny Yao, the empress, and Ai Tosaka.

"Mo Li," Granny Yao said in a complex tone of pity, "She is our ancestor, I have to call her Zeng Zeng...... Auntie and grandmother. ”

"Her name is Zhu Youchu," Granny Yao finally revealed the identity of the bride, "she is the daughter of the Empress Dowager Zhaojing more than six hundred years ago, and the sister of Emperor Tiancheng." ”