With the advantage of distance, Gu Yuan and the others were the first to arrive at the Dingling Shrine of Tianshou Mountain at dusk.

Gu Yuan had come here with his grandfather to worship several times when he was young, and he was familiar with the internal structure of the mausoleum.

The moonlight was bleak and cold.

Rao is Shen Zhixi, who has touched the golden captain once, and also feels that the yin and humidity here are too heavy, and it is basically separated from the outside of the mausoleum.

"You...... You said this place is haunted? Shen Zhixi's voice trembled, and she subconsciously held Gu Yuan's hand tightly.

Gu Yuan nodded solemnly, "Yes, but what is Your Highness holding my hand for?" ”

Shen Zhixi was so nervous that a thin layer of sweat appeared in her palms, "You have a sword there, which can protect the safety of both of us." ”

Gu Yuan raised his eyebrows: "In that case, shouldn't Your Highness hold my sword?" ”

"This palace wants to hold your hand, you don't care about me!"

Gu Yuan's tone was leisurely, "Okay, wait a minute, if you lure the ghost out, I won't care about you." ”

Shen Zhixi: "......"

After walking for a while, she remembered another question: "You just said that this place is haunted, it can't be the ghost of the emperor buried in the Dingling Mausoleum, right?" ”

Gu Yuan smiled and said, "Your Highness, what do you think?" ”

"You...... Can you stop laughing......"

"Why?" Gu Yuanqi said.

"You're laughing so weirdly......"

Gu Yuan was bored with himself, but he still led the way honestly, and did not forget to add ghost stories while walking, "It is said that when Qianying fell, Emperor Qingyuan was hanged on the tree with his crooked neck, and after his death, his ghost lingered, turning into a powerful ghost......"

Shen Zhixi gave him a roll of his eyes, "These are all clichés, is it interesting for you to scare people with this?" ”

Gu Yuan smiled mysteriously, "That's not what I'm talking about. ”

"Then don't talk about it."

“…… Then the head of Emperor Qingyuan was eaten by a wild cat when he was buried. Gu Yuan finished filling this ghost story as if no one was around.

And then there was a real cat meow in the shadows.

Shen Zhixi couldn't bear it anymore and said: "In the future, if this palace hears you tell ghost stories again, this palace will throw you into the Yongding River to feed the fish!" ”

Gu Yuan obediently shut up, and then led the way.

The two of them passed through the Lingxing Gate, bypassed the Ming Tower, and there were three people standing in front of the heavy stone gate of the Dingling Underground Palace.

No, it's two stands and one kneel.

Gu Changan knelt in front of the offering table and didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and beside him was Zhao Xuanran, who was holding a blessing plate.

Cheng Jue stood a little farther away, and because he was wearing a mask on half of his face, he couldn't tell what he was thinking at the moment.

Gu Yuan opened his mouth to break the current deadlock, "How is my uncle?" ”

"The man is still alive, but he has passed out." Zhao Xuanran turned the dagger in his hand, "But I don't mind wiping his neck." ”

"What do you want to do?" A look of panic flashed in Gu Yuan's eyes, but in an instant, he regained his composure.

He knew that the more he was at the last moment, the more calm and calm he became.

Zhao Xuanran put the dagger against the neck of Gu Changan, who was already unconscious, "I think, revenge." ”

This time, not only Gu Yuan, but even Shen Zhixi were stunned.

"But not to him."

Shen Zhixi was the first to react, and whispered to Gu Yuan: "It is his father who holds a grudge. ”

Zhao Xuanran's tone was full of sarcasm: "Her Royal Highness the eldest princess only knows." ”

Cheng Jue didn't know when he was already standing on the gatehouse, looking down at everything in front of the steps.

"For this day, I have been dormant for ten years!" Zhao Xuanran had lost his mind now, and the dagger almost pierced Gu Changan's neck, "The person sitting in that seat should have been me!" Your Shen family snatched the throne of our family, and now you still want my life? How could I possibly give up my life to someone else? ”

"I know that as long as I live for one day, your father will not be the orthodox emperor! If it weren't for his father's edict, how could he have held the 160,000 army in Jiangnan? Everything in his hands was given by his father, and he vainly claimed that he had a destiny, which is ridiculous! ”

"Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs! I, Zhao Xuanran, seek benevolence and benevolence, and die without regrets! ”

"But Huai Qinghou is innocent!" Shen Zhixi tried to negotiate with him, "Your Highness, he didn't participate in the events back then, and he gambled with the lives of so many innocent people, this is what His Highness calls seeking benevolence?" ”

Zhao Xuanran sneered: "Which of you is innocent? Don't you deserve to die for that hypocrite? ”

"Your Highness has thought clearly, I am the concubine of the first emperor, if you let go of the Marquis of Huaiqing, I will bear all the things that happened in this mausoleum tonight!"

"Can you afford it?" Zhao Xuanran glanced at her coldly, the hand holding the dagger loosened a little force, and suddenly stabbed the dagger with his backhand into the mechanism behind him that was pulling the white jade door of the underground palace, and turned it gently.

Zhao Xuanran ...... You stop! Gu Yuan rushed over to grab the dagger, but it was too late.

With a muffled sound, the stone door of the tomb slowly opened.

Zhao Xuanran didn't say a word, and held Gu Changan hostage and walked into the tomb.

Cheng Jue's desolate and silent eyes hidden under the strange mask turned, "Some people will die tonight, but they can't kill my enemy, it's very boring." ”

With that, his neck flipped over in a posture that was impossible for a living person to do, and he walked slowly into the dungeon in this strange way.

Shen Zhixi wanted to follow, but Gu Yuan stopped her: "Your Highness, do you know what they are going to do?" ”

"I can't think of anything other than a blood sacrifice." Shen Zhixi glared at him angrily, "So what? Why are you holding me back? ”

"He is my uncle, if he wants to go, I will go, Your Highness must not be in danger!" Gu Yuan said undoubtedly.

Shen Zhixi sighed.

Gu Yuan lit the fire fold and illuminated the entrance to the tomb.

He used to be familiar with Bai Lu, the palace maid who built the imperial tomb, and the man quietly told him that the Dingling underground palace is completely a traditional arch structure, with four stone gates, and there are two halls in the underground palace and two side halls for worship.

It's just that after hearing him say this, Gu Yuan didn't remember it too much, not to mention that now that the situation is urgent, it is impossible to bring Bai Lu to draw a map on the spot.

He was pondering, and Shen Zhixi, who was beside him, suddenly asked, "Are you familiar with the structure inside the underground palace?" ”

"Unfamiliar."

Shen Zhixi was really anxious now, and a pair of affectionate peach blossom eyes were bloodshot at the moment: "Then you are still strolling here, what if something really happens?" ”

"They are also not familiar with the road inside, this mausoleum has not been set foot in for ten years, and no one will think of it as a secret."

"But what if that Bailu you just talked about is also there? I mean, if she leaks the inside of the mausoleum......"

Shen Zhixi's words reminded him.

Bai Lu is just a palace maid, how did she know so much about it?

Or rather...... She was an insider of the plan?

Suddenly, a cat meow was heard not far away.

Again.

The corners of Gu Yuan's lips hooked slightly, and he leaned over and picked up the eight-tailed cat that was huddled in the corner: "Senior, please come with us." ”

Shen Zhixi froze in place, "What did you just call it?" ”

"Senior." Gu Yuan carefully smoothed the fur of the kitten in his arms, and said after a while, "This thing is a yin thing sealed in the tomb, and you should know the way." ”

"Then why do you call it Senpai?" Shen Zhixi was puzzled.

Gu Yuan smiled: "Eight-tailed cats are rare in the world, and this one in my hand is at least a cultivator to the Finger Mystery Realm." However, because the eight-tailed cat cannot cultivate the ninth tail, it can only be used as an imperfect feminine object. ”

Soon Shen Zhixi realized that it was a good thing to have this cat leading the way.

Gu Yuan carved marks on the tomb bricks as he walked, they didn't have to worry about getting lost with this civet cat, but Lu Ran behind him definitely needed these marks.

The structure of the emperor's mausoleum is very similar, Emperor Qingyuan's coffin is placed in the apse, if Zhao Xuanran plans to use Gu Chang'an's blood to pay tribute to Emperor Qingyuan's spirit in the sky, then they will definitely go to the apse.

With a civet cat leading the way, Gu Yuan and Shen Zhixi were even faster than Zhao Xuanran and the others.

When he was about to arrive at the apse, Shen Zhixi suddenly tugged at his sleeve: "All the way, why didn't you see Zhao Xuanran and them?" ”

"It's not the same road." Gu Yuan frowned slightly, "But it's a good thing that they didn't show up, and that's how it makes sense to strike first." ”

Shen Zhixi didn't answer, but reached out and scooped up the cat senior: "Good kitten, is there anyone around here?" ”

Gu Yuan felt that she was a little funny when she did this: "Your Highness, what you are teasing is the eight-tailed spirit cat in the Xuan Realm, this is not what you raised!" ”

Shen Zhixi said casually while smoothing the hair of the cat senior: "It's okay, when you go out of Dingling, this palace will keep it." ”

Gu Yuan: "......"

How do you feel like you're being compared to a cat......

The civet didn't think as much as he did, staring straight at them with eyes as bright as magnificent gems.

It's weird.

Gu Yuan followed the cat's gaze and found that the tomb had been sealed at some point.

Shen Zhixi was the first to react: "There is a mechanism!" ”

In fact, Gu Yuan also knew that this imperial tomb was built by this dynasty, and in order to suppress the royal spirit of the previous dynasty, so many opportunities would be arranged in the tomb.

As soon as she finished speaking, countless dark arrows shot at them from all sides of the tomb.

Gu Yuan quickly drew his sword out of its sheath, and the surging sword qi blocked those dark arrows.

"Don't blame me for disturbing your sleep today."

With that, Gu Yuan cut off the lead that implicated the machine with a sword.

Without the traction of external forces, it is impossible for the machine to run again.

Only then did Gu Yuan see clearly that the so-called mystery in the tomb was nothing more than a crossbow machine that relied on a lead.

Just like a marionette, breaking the implicated thread is equivalent to abolishing the puppet.

But marionettes also need someone to match.

In other words, it's likely that someone else is being involved.

It was not safe in the tomb now, and Gu Yuan didn't have time to think about it, so he dragged Shen Zhixi, who was observing the machine, into the apse.

With a muffled sound, the stone door fell heavily, and silence returned to the mausoleum.

The deathly silence makes people's hearts panic.

In the middle of the apse, a huge golden silk nan wooden coffin was placed on the white marble coffin, which should be the coffin of Emperor Qingyuan.

Shen Zhixi put down the cat senior in her arms and turned to Gu Yuan: "Open the coffin?" ”

Gu Yuan tilted his head to look at her, "Your Highness wants to open the coffin for an autopsy?" I heard that Emperor Qingyuan's head was eaten clean by a cat. ”

The civet cat in the ground scratched the tomb bricks with its paws in dissatisfaction.

Shen Zhixi smiled dumbly: "Then don't open the coffin, wait for them." ”

Zhao Xuanran and the others really didn't let them wait for a long time, and about a quarter of an hour later, he appeared in front of Emperor Qingyuan's coffin with Gu Changan in tow.

Behind him are the unpredictable Cheng Jue and a woman with a slender waist and charming women.

Cheng Jue wore half of the mask, and the woman covered her face with a veil.

Gu Yuan's eyes turned pale, and he sneered: "The girl is a good means, but it is still a little difficult to kill me with this trick alone." ”

Shen Zhixi had already guessed that the woman opposite should be Bai Lu.

Since she has been involved in this plan from beginning to end, it is self-evident who she wants to kill.

Bai Lu was shocked when she heard this: "You have long doubted me? ”

Gu Yuan smiled, "It's a pity, when I was a child in a mass grave and grabbed food with wild dogs, I understood that the most terrible thing in this world is not hunger, but people's hearts. ”