Dongfang Ying finally stopped behind a Gobi mountain slope, and Shen Bai was sweating profusely in pain and panting.

The two hid behind the hillside for a while, and four people wearing the same robes came to them with strange incense, which should have been the incense maker who had arrived after receiving the letter from Dongfang Ying.

These people looked older than Dongfang Ying, but they were very respectful to Dongfang Ying, and after bowing their heads, they each sat down on the side, which at first glance looked a bit like the great protector that Shen Bai saw in his notebook.

Dongfang Ying put Shen Bai down, drank a sip of water, and pinched Shen Bai's chin to feed her.

The water is sweet in the mouth, and after it enters the lungs, there is a kind of cool comfort, refreshing people's hearts, Shen Bai squinted comfortably, Dongfang Ying said: "Wake up so fast, I hope you can sleep a little longer." ”

"I can't sleep, it hurts so much." Shen Bai said softly, his voice was very hoarse, as if he had been poured dumb medicine, Shen Bai was in pain all over his body, and his internal organs also hurt when he swallowed water just now, Dongfang Ying said: "The muscles and veins of the whole body are broken, and the internal organs are also damaged, it is already a miracle that he can still be alive, how can it not hurt?" ”

The veins are broken, no wonder I can only barely move my fingers.

Shen Bai was lying on the ground, but he was not afraid, and asked softly: "Lord Sect, what am I going to do now?" Even if you get to Hengyang, you shouldn't be able to kill that evil spirit. ”

Dongfang Ying sat down next to him, brushed the pigtails hanging down his ears, and said casually: "Take one step at a time, what else can I do." ”

"If this evil spirit swallows me, will you also die at its hands?" Shen Bai had nothing to say, so he could only rely on this way to divert his attention so that it didn't hurt so much, Dongfang Ying fed a piece of wood to her mouth again, and said: "No one can say for sure, maybe after this thing is combined with you, I will go to heaven to fight with the immortals, and I can't spare the time to play with us mortals." ”

That sounds reasonable, too.

Shen Bai nodded, and asked again, "Where are we now?" ”

"Outside Hengyang City, enter the city early tomorrow morning."

arrived in Hengyang so soon, Shen Bai was a little surprised, and he didn't know if Dongfang Ying carried himself all the way when he was in a coma before, if this was the case, Dongfang Ying's foot strength was really strong enough.

Dongfang Ying sat for half an hour, making sure that the resentful spirit didn't catch up again, so he just lay down next to Shen Bai.

Shen Bai was so painful that he couldn't sleep, but he needed to recuperate.

Early the next morning, Dongfang Ying carried Shen Bai on his back and took four incense makers into the city.

They were dressed a little strangely, and the soldiers guarding the city couldn't help but interrogate them for a while before letting them go, and the group first went to the city to find an inn to stay in.

The attitude of the officers and soldiers was quite polite, saying that the king had an order to invite them into the palace to live.

The group entered the Dongheng Palace, the layout of the palace was the same as before, Shen Bai was the second time to come, and he always felt that the Dongheng Palace looked much more dilapidated than the last time.

After entering the palace, Dongheng Guojun personally received them.

Shen Bai and Dongfang Ying only came as individuals, not as envoys, so this meeting was more casual, Shen Bai couldn't even bow down because of physical reasons, and the monarch didn't say anything.

Donghengguo and Nanxiangguo have been somewhat discordant over the years, although there are more private business contacts, but there are very few exchanges between the royal family, I heard that Dongfang Ying is a member of the Oriental family, the monarch's eyes have changed, and the attitude towards Dongfang Ying and several incense makers is very polite.

The monarch arranged for them to stay in the palace, and also set up a special reception banquet in the evening, Shen Bai was in great pain, so he was paralyzed in the house and did not go out, and the palace people sent the food to the house to feed her.

After the dinner, the monarch came to see Shen Bai in person.

Shen Bai couldn't get up, so the monarch condescended to be noble, and personally took two pillows and cushioned her to sit on the bed.

Shen Bai couldn't see any scars on his body, but after tossing this way, he still broke out in a cold sweat.

The monarch sat down on the edge of the bed, looked at Shen Bai with gentle eyebrows, and said: "The method of improving the bow and crossbow that Young Master Shen said before is very useful, this king has ordered the bows and crossbows in the Great People's Command to be improved, and he has also specially trained a cavalry, if there is a chance, Young Master Shen will also take a moment to see the results of their drills." ”

There are many nomads in Dongheng Kingdom, their riding skills and archery skills are not bad, and it is normal to improve after improvement, although he knows that Dongheng Kingdom should not fight with Zhaoling in the next few decades, Shen Bai still said by inertia: "The king has said so, this cavalry is naturally like a god soldier from the sky, and it is unstoppable." ”

After complimenting, Shen Bai changed his words and continued: "It is also very good that the king asked me to bring back the alchemist in Zhaoling, the military department has improved the forging technique according to his suggestions, and now the weapons in the Zhaoling army are much better than before, and His Majesty the Crown Prince told me some time ago that he would find an opportunity to thank the king." ”

The monarch nodded and said, "My health is not as good as before, and I will be ready to abdicate in two years, and then I can go to Zhaoling to have a good visit." ”

Emperor Hengde died, and the monarch of Dongheng also felt the pressure brought by age, and his resignation was about to unravel the prelude to the open and secret struggle between the younger generation of emperors.

Shen Bai slapped a few words on the horses, the expression on the monarch's face relaxed, and finally rushed to the topic, looked at Shen Bai seriously and asked, "Young Master Shen has seen Hanchen recently?" ”

After Hanchen returned to Dongheng, Shen Bai had seen him a few times, but it was all when the soul was out of the body, and she wasn't sure if this was really seen.

She did not directly answer the king's words, but asked, "What happened to the high priest?" ”

"He's gone."

The monarch said in a deep voice, his tone was very worried, sacrifices are prevalent in all parts of Dongheng country, and the high priest wearing a sad and joyful face is the symbol of Dongheng, in the past two hundred years, although the high priest is always elusive, but his whereabouts will always be reported to the monarch.

Since Hanchen took over as the high priest, he has only left Dongheng Kingdom once, and this time he disappeared, and he didn't tell anyone.

The high priest carried the national fortune of Dongheng Kingdom, and the canonization ceremony of the new emperor also needed to be presided over by the high priest.

The monarch didn't know that Hanchen was the Dongheng Kingdom Mu Duo two hundred years ago, even if Shen Bai explained it to him, he probably couldn't believe it for a while, Shen Bai thought for a while and asked: "After the high priest returned to Dongheng from Zhaoling, did he say anything to the monarch?" ”

She and Dongfang Ying only brought the most ordinary customs clearance documents, and as soon as they entered the city, the monarch sent someone to pick them up into the palace, if it wasn't for Hanchen to explain something, this matter would be a bit too abnormal.

The monarch originally wanted to ask for some valuable information from Shen Bai's mouth, but he didn't expect Shen Bai to say anything, but asked him vigorously.

The monarch pursed his lips, a little disliked the feeling of being led by a junior, but after hesitating for a long time, he still decided to say truthfully: "Hanchen has been living in a simple place since he came back from Zhaoling, and even this king has not seen him a few times, and when this king saw him for the last time, he said that if Young Master Shen returned to Dongheng in the future, he asked this king to take Young Master Shen to live in the underground palace where he lived. ”

Shen Bai couldn't go by himself, so with the permission of the monarch, Dongfang Ying took the four incense makers and Shen Bai to the underground palace where Hanchen lived.

The underground palace is under the rockery of the imperial garden, and the monarch pressed the mechanism, and for more than two hundred years, this underground palace ushered in the high priest and the monarch for the first time.

The underground palace is very mysterious, and there are hundreds of night pearls embedded in the stone walls, which do not need candle lighting, and the light emitted by the night lights is enough for everyone to see the things inside.

Walking to the gate of the dungeon, Shen Bai found that there was still sparkling water on the night pearl above the dungeon.

The entire underground palace was built under the pool of the Imperial Garden.

This scene is a little familiar, Shen Bai thought about it carefully for a while, and remembered that when she was in Dongheng, she seemed to have dreamed of this place, and before in Nanxiang, her soul was out of her body, and she had also seen Hanchen in this place.

Hanchen only told Shen Bai to live in the underground palace, and did not reveal more information, and the monarch left after taking them here.

The four incense makers inertly searched around to see if there were any organs, and Dongfang Ying carried Shen Bai around inside.

The area of the underground palace is very large, and the architectural style is not very similar to the Dongheng Palace, but it is more similar to Zhaoling.

Pavilions, carved beams and paintings, all exquisite.

Just thinking about it, Dongfang Ying suddenly said, "It's a little strange here." ”

"What's strange?"

Shen Bai immediately asked, Dongfang Ying stopped in a palace, frowned and looked at it for a while and said, "This place is very similar to Nanxiang." ”

Dongfang Ying woke up Shen Bai with a word, the architectural styles of Nanxiang and Zhaoling are similar, especially the palace buildings are almost eight, Shen Bai has always felt that this is built in imitation of Zhaoling, and when I think about it, there is actually a great possibility that this is built in imitation of Nanxiang Palace.

Shen Bai remembered that she had seen a bamboo house hanging above the magma in a dream before, and Dongfang Ying took her around the underground palace but did not find it.

Shen Bai's body couldn't bear it, Dongfang Ying first asked her to live in the underground palace, Shen Bai drew a drawing for him according to his memory, and he took the drawing and slowly checked in the underground palace.

The environment of the dungeon is quiet, and he can't hear the sound of the outside world at all, I don't know if his body is too tired or if there is some unknown magic here, Shen Bai didn't lie on the bed for a long time, and his consciousness fell into chaos.

I don't know how long it took, there was a baby's heart-rending cry in my ears, the cry was very heart-wrenching, Shen Bai heard that his heart hurt, he opened his eyes suddenly, and what came into view was a large and a small figure.

Shen Qi.

Shen Bai shouted in his heart, opened his mouth and couldn't make a sound, Hanchen stood four or five steps away from her with Shen Qi in his arms.

Han Chen was wearing a dark purple gold embroidered gold dragon robe, his expression was crazy, and the anger between his eyebrows and eyes was surging, which was completely different from what Shen Bai remembered.

It only took a moment for Shen Bai to recognize him as Mu Duo two hundred years ago, and Shen Qi in his arms had a white face, soft and cute, and there was no injury at all, like a little boy who had fallen into the mortal world by mistake.

"Let him go!"

Shen Bai shouted, trying her best but could only make a sound the size of a mosquito, she tried to stand up, her body was halfway up, and she fell heavily to the ground, and the sound of chains came from her ears, and the sharp pain hit her.

Looking down, she found herself covered in blood, her shoulder blades pierced by chains, and her wrists and ankles were also firmly locked by chains.

Shen Bai couldn't tell whether this was the pain of his own body or the pain that this body was suffering at that time.

If she guessed correctly, she is now in Dongfang Ling's body.

Two hundred years ago, Mu Duo used such a cruel way to imprison Dongfang Ling here.

Shen Qi kept crying, he was too young at this time, he didn't know what he was doing, he only knew how to express his uneasiness and fear with crying, but his little face was red from crying, his voice was hoarse, and Mu Duo didn't let go of his meaning.

Shen Bai lay on the ground weakly, trembling with pain, but was forced by the mother's tendency, difficult, little by little, crawled towards Mu Duo, and then she heard herself weak and humble say: "You can kill me, but don't hurt the child, he ...... It's also your blood and bones. ”

Dongfang Ling's grief and despair were too intense, and Shen Bai, as a bystander, was overwhelmed by the huge grief in her body.

Mu Duo looked at her condescendingly, unmoved at all, and said coldly: "If you let you die like this, wouldn't it be too easy for you to die?" Isn't that the life you've always wanted, shouldn't you be happy stealing someone else's life to satisfy your own selfish desires? What are you pretending to be so pathetic now? ”

Mu Duo should have discovered that Dongfang Ling and Dongfang Mengwan were very different, but he didn't say it, just asked people to investigate secretly, and after knowing that Dongfang Ling had incense-making skills that could reverse the fate of a person or even a family, he decided that Dongfang Ling was the one with bad intentions and stole Dongfang Mengwan's life.

But at this time, Dongfang Ling was still in his consciousness and didn't know what was going on.

She just loved her husband and children with all her heart, but she didn't expect that when she woke up, her husband imprisoned her here, saying that he had never loved her and wanted to murder their children.

Dongfang Ying shook his head hard and defended himself, saying, "I didn't." ”

However, at this time, Mu Duo was attacked by the spirit exchange technique, and his temperament changed greatly, and he couldn't listen to what Dongfang Ling said at all, and stubbornly believed that Dongfang Ling was extremely evil.

Shen Bai saw Mu Duo holding Shen Qi and taking a few steps back, the bamboo house in her dream was all hanging in the air, the heat wave was churning, Mu Duo held Shen Qi's waist and stretched out his hand.

Xu was burned by the heat, and Shen Qi cried more and more.

Shen Bai empathized with Dongfang Ling's heartache, Dongfang Ling struggled desperately, she forgot that she was once the favored princess of Nanxiang Kingdom, and she also forgot that she was the queen of Dongheng Kingdom alone, she knelt on the ground despite the severe pain, kowtowing vigorously and begging for mercy, just begging the man in front of her to let go of their child.

Mu Duo enjoyed the process of torturing Dongfang Ling like this, he didn't withdraw his hand, and happily admired Dongfang Ling's embarrassment, Shen Qi choked with crying, and suddenly kicked his calves and turned over.

"Don't!"

Dongfang Ling shouted, but he still watched Shen Qi fall from Mu Duo's hand.

At that moment, Dongfang Ling's aura exploded, and the divine sense sealed by Dongfang Mengwan broke through a little, and a strange fragrance spread, and the pink petals that appeared out of thin air supported Shen Qi, but it was too late, half of Shen Qi's head was burned by magma, and his flesh and blood were blurred.

The petals brought Shen Qi up and sent him to Dongfang Ling, his body was roasted red, his eyes were closed, and he had stopped crying.

The iron chain was stretched to the extreme, and Dongfang Ling couldn't even hug Shen Qi.

She slowly reached out to probe Shen Qi's snort, her fingers trembling undecently, but she couldn't feel anything.

A whimper erupted in her throat, and her sealed consciousness slowly poured out, and countless memories stuffed into her brain, as if she were about to burst her head.

Mu Duo became the last straw that crushed her.

Mu Duo said that Dongfang Qi died, but he didn't say what Dongfang Qi died for, only that Dongfang Qi died miserably, and before he died, he was skinned, his heart was gouged, his bones were broken, and his body was dismembered.

If it weren't for the blood feud, no one would have done such a thing.

Dongfang Ling couldn't imagine how the imperial brother who had always loved her could form such a blood feud with someone, the only thing she could think of was Mu Duo.

This man also treated her meticulously and loved her to the core, but now he showed his most ferocious side, killing her relatives and making her miserable.

She couldn't understand what she had done wrong to end up like this.

Mu Duo was not enough, and said indifferently that he had never loved her, and that he had always loved someone else.

The successive blows made Dongfang Ling almost collapse, she seemed to be standing on the edge of a cliff, she didn't need to be pushed, and she would immediately fall into the abyss.

Mu Duo stood under the abyss and said that he would crush the child's bones and ashes, and make Dongfang Ling an adult, so that she could watch it with her own eyes and taste the evil fruits he had planted.

He has completely wiped out humanity, and only the pleasure of torturing Dongfang Ling remains.

Dongfang Ling was desperate to the extreme, and she was also resentful to the extreme.

His reason completely collapsed, Dongfang Ling used his finger as a knife, stabbed it into his heart, and used his heart and blood as a sacrifice to spell Mu Duo.

Shen Bai was trying to see how she drew a talisman and cast a spell, when a bell suddenly sounded in her ears, and before she could react, her consciousness was pulled away, and when she opened her eyes, Dongfang Ying was fleeing behind her back.

Consciousness was still wrapped in great despair and grief, and it took a long time for Shen Bai to come back to his senses and find that she and Dongfang Ying were still in the underground palace, and it was none other than Gu Hengzhou who was chasing them.

To be precise, it is not Gu Hengzhou in this life, but Brother Gu in the previous life.

Unlike before, Gu Hengzhou did not wear a sad and joyful face, he recovered his appearance, almost the same as when he was dying in the previous life, his expression was cold, there was no expression at all, he just kept swinging his sword at Dongfang Ying, and every shot was full of killing moves.

"Brother Gu!"

Shen Bai shouted, Gu Hengzhou lifted his eyes and glanced at her, his eyes were scarlet, and he immediately swung his sword and stabbed at her.

"He's controlled by evil spirits, and he's not the one you know anymore." After Dongfang Ying finished speaking, he cut his fingers, quickly drew a talisman in the air with blood, and explained to Shen Bai: "Don't speak!" ”

When the words fell, Dongfang Ying jumped behind Gu Hengzhou with Shen Bai on his back, Gu Hengzhou stopped attacking, took two steps with his sword, pursed his lips to identify the direction, and couldn't see them, just now Dongfang Ying should have used a spell that can be invisible to the soul.

Shen Bai was lying on Dongfang Ying's back, his heart beating nervously.

The curse of sadness and joy has not been lifted yet, and she doesn't want to die at the hands of Gu Hengzhou like this.