The golden chariot ridden by the crown prince and the Zhu chariot ridden by the king of Yunjiang passed through the joyful and noisy long street and slowly drove outside the east city gate.

Everywhere they went, the people happily followed the chariot and sang and danced.

Until the car was about to drive out of the east city gate, everyone saw from a distance that a group of elderly people dressed as squires, about one or two hundred people, were standing at the city gate with a coffin.

These elders are the most respected people in the states and counties under the rule of Yunjiang.

Six years ago, when Yunhongshan was canonized as the king of Yunjiang by the Great Zhou, they also presented congratulatory gifts to Yunhongshan on behalf of the people at this gate.

It's just that at that time, what was presented was the abundant grain, melons, fruits and Wanmin umbrellas in various parts of Yunjiang.

And at this moment, send a coffin......

It's unprecedented, unheard of.

The noisy sound of gongs and drums, the interest rate reduction gradually stopped, and the car of the prince and the king of Yunjiang also slowly stopped.

From the officials of Yunjiang to the ordinary people of Yunbian City, they all looked at the scene in front of them in a daze, completely unaware of what these elders wanted to do.

The general Xiao Rui has been busy with this ceremony, as the head of the Xiao family, the first family in Yunjiang, he naturally has to stand up and ask for the prince and the king of Yunjiang on this occasion.

Xiao Rui stepped forward, stopped his horse in front of the group of people, pointed to the black coffin, and asked in a loud voice: "Fellow villagers, today is the day of the prince's great joy, what are you going to do?" ”

The leader was a white-haired, but energetic old man, he was on crutches, and said to Xiao Rui with full of energy: "I also ask General Xiao to pass it on my behalf, the grass people and others found the body of Sheng Kun, the former national teacher, on the snow mountain, and the corpse still holds the jade seal of the previous dynasty. ”

Xiao Rui couldn't hide his surprise on his face, and hurriedly beat his horse back to report.

The whereabouts of the jade seal of the previous dynasty were unknown when the previous dynasty died, and it was one of the regrets that the first emperor had been worried about when he was alive.

Now in this case, it is presented by such a respected old man in Yunjiang.

The crown prince is bound to come forward to inspect in person, in order to show the recognition and importance of the Great Zhou royal family on this matter.

Xiao Rui is a person who practices martial arts, perhaps because this is a great joy, he hit his horse and returned to the prince's car, and he was very excited to repay.

The sound was enough for the nearby people and officials to hear it clearly.

In the crowd, there were exclamations and cheers.

"Please also ask Your Highness and the King of Yunjiang to get off the car and accept this great gift from the elders." Xiao Rui said loudly.

Under such circumstances, Chu Yan, as the crown prince, if he didn't get out of the car in person and accept the offer on behalf of the Great Zhou royal family, wouldn't it be a disappointment to the people, and he would also lose the face of the king of Xinyunjiang.

"Let's go with the crown princess." On the golden chariot, the voice of the prince was heard.

The crown princess replied in a low and gentle voice, "The concubine obeys." ”

Everyone saw the prince take the princess's hand, lift the hanging veil, and walk down the wide golden bridle.

The hanging yarn slowly closed behind them, Xiao Rui unintentionally separated the hanging yarn, glanced at the person sitting on his knees in the corner of the wheel, glanced at it hurriedly, and hung it down very quickly, and a gleam flashed in his eyes.

He did not follow the prince, but held the hilt of the sword at his waist and remained quietly by the wheel.

The newly promoted Yunjiang King Yun Yu drove down from behind, crossed Xiao Rui, and followed behind the crown prince and princess.

The three of them and the prince's guard walked towards the coffin in full view of everyone.

As they approached, the elders bowed their heads and bowed.

They are all sixty or seventy-year-old white-haired old men, excited and sincere, and said in unison the words of praise for the Great Zhou, "I wish the Great Zhou a prosperous country and a thousand generations." ”

The scene was very touching, and the people knelt down with it.

It's just a coffin, a jade seal, all dead things, but people can offer it as a "treasure".

In this situation, who can remember that on the day of the death of the country six years ago, also in front of this city gate, there was a young girl who was pushed down the city tower as a human animal, and cursed the Great Zhou Dynasty "There is no successor to the country, and the Chu royal family has no children and grandchildren", and no one dares to touch the bones?

Chu Yan took the crown princess's hand with a gloomy face, walked to the coffin and stood still, without any joy on his face.

Chunjun and Shengxie stepped forward and pushed open the lid of the coffin.

An indescribable fragrance wafted out of the coffin.

This is the smell of special antiseptic herbs, which is exactly the same as the smell of Yun Xi's corpse.

The elder who took the lead said loudly: "This corpse is locked in the coffin with a delicate bracket together with the jade seal, if you want to take out the jade seal, you have to open the bracket. ”

Chu Yan frowned slightly invisibly.

It was almost a feeling of being forced to go, and it seemed to make him very unhappy.

Seeing this, the crown princess took the initiative to ask for help, and said in a gentle voice: "The concubine is the best at Xuanmen magic, so it is better for the concubine to take out the jade seal for His Royal Highness." ”

"It's fine." Chu Yan responded coldly.

The crown princess walked to the open coffin, raised her sleeves to cover her mouth and nose, and lowered her eyes to look inside.

I saw the body of a man wearing the official uniform of the former dynasty lying in the coffin.

The man was about thirty years old, and although his appearance was almost shriveled and withered, he could vaguely see that he must have been extremely handsome in his life.

Sheng Kun, the former national teacher of the dynasty, has unparalleled appearance.

This is the true face of the national teacher.

At this moment, his skinny hands held a square gold cage made of red gold firmly in front of him, and the gold cage contained a carved dragon jade seal of excellent quality, which seemed to have a streamer flowing in the jade in the gloomy skylight.

The treasure of the former dynasty, the Shengyuan jade seal, has been lost for more than 30 years.

The golden cage is surrounded by countless special silk threads, which connect the four sides of the coffin.

At the very top of the cage, a bracket was made with a Nine Jade Chain.

If you want to take the jade seal out of the golden cage, you need to unravel the Nine Jade Links first.

Otherwise, it is not possible to take out this golden cage unless the coffin and the body are dismantled.

Now is a peaceful and prosperous era, in front of so many people, the prince of a country naturally can't do such a thing.

The only way to do this is to untie the brackets step by step.

The crown princess's gaze swept over the coffin, and she was not in a hurry to get the jade seal, but put a hand into the coffin.

She murmured as if she were chanting some incantation, and walked around the coffin as if she were really doing it, as if she were really doing it.

The light yarn on her sleeves rubbed against the edge of the coffin, like a spring silkworm spinning silk in the coffin, making a "rustling" sound.

After the crown princess circled the coffin, she stood still beside the coffin and put her hand on the golden cage.

She leaned down, with an almost murmuring voice, lowered her eyes, and asked hesitantly at Sheng Kun's body in the coffin: "You...... Are you there? ”

Coldly, Sheng Kun's corpse's cold and withered left hand silently covered her wrist and tapped twice on the side of her wrist in response.

The crown princess understood, stood up straight, and deliberately whispered outward, "The concubine is beginning to unravel." ”

It's just that although she said so, the hand that was stretched into the coffin didn't move.

However, she didn't need to move.

Sheng Kun let go of the hand that was covering her wrist and began to untie the ring on the jade ring, skillfully and quickly.

However, in a few breaths, the nine jade chains were encompassed, and only a simple jade ring remained, which could be tied to the golden cage.

His withered hands were firmly grasped on both sides of the golden cage again.

The meaning is already obvious.

The crown princess turned her head and said to Chu Yan, "There is a nine-jade chain on this jade seal, and there is still one last step left, please come down and untie it." ”

When Chu Yan heard this, he was silent for a few breaths, and then walked to the coffin.

"Your Highness will take off this jade ring, and the concubine will open the golden cage, and you will be able to take the jade seal away." The crown princess lowered her voice and explained softly.

Chu Yan didn't doubt him, so he directly stretched out his hand and covered the jade ring.

"Hiss......"

Almost at the moment when he touched the jade ring, Chu Yan gasped.

He seemed to be in great pain, and the hand covering the jade ring began to tremble uncontrollably.

At the same time, Sheng Kun's body in the coffin, the two hands that were originally grasping the golden cage, also let go suddenly, and suddenly grabbed Chu Yan's hand covering the jade ring.

Sheng Kun opened his eyes, his dark eyes, staring at Chu Yan's side face gloomily.

Seeing Chu Yan's frowning and looking pained, the corners of Sheng Kun's lips hooked up a mocking smile.

"Heh......" he let out a smug laugh from his throat, "from now on, your body is mine......"

However, the voice has not yet fallen-

"Click, click......" with two crisp sounds of bones.

Sheng Kun felt that his hands suddenly hung down uncontrollably to the sides.

At the same time, the jade ring also fell into Chu Yan's big palm very lightly.

Sheng Kun suddenly raised his eyes, and saw Chu Yan's phoenix eyes, looking at him mockingly.

Between the eyebrows, there is still a little bit of pain.

In addition, beside Chu Yan, there was a pair of eyes that were darker and colder than his corpse, looking at him directly.

Obviously, she had the face of "Shen Lingxi", but those eyes were pitch black, revealing the coldness that soaked out of her bones.

At this moment, Sheng Kun seemed to understand something, "You ......"

"If I can be disguised as someone else, I can also be disguised as myself." Shen Lingxi curled his lips at him and smiled, "Surprised?" Accidental? National Teacher? ”

She smiled and took out the jade seal from the golden cage, handed it to Chu Yan casually, and deliberately picked up a jade ring and locked the golden cage again.

"The heirloom jade seal and the dark yin jade are really good treasures." Shen Lingxi sighed sincerely, "In order to lure us into the bait, the national teacher really made a bloody investment, and it was not in vain that I put up with your little girl, who stayed in my body for a month." ”

Sheng Kun gritted his teeth with hatred, "How do you know?" ”

"Know what?" Shen Lingxi raised his eyebrows, "Do you know that you borrowed the corpse to return the soul to the beggar, pretended to be a national teacher, and asked the Xiao family to set up this game for you?" Or do you know about the jade? ”

Sheng Kun's eyes narrowed slightly, "You already know about my soul?" ”

"No, no, no." Shen Lingxi said to him in a good voice: "You know, I'm not that smart, naturally I didn't know it for a long time, otherwise how could I have been calculated by you for so long?" ”

"I just heard that you were adopted by the masters of Taiyi Mountain since you were a child. The techniques you practiced also originated from Taiyi Mountain. I happened to know the closed disciple of the eighty-eighth generation of the Shangqing Palace, and I asked him to hurry to Yunjiang and ask him some questions about the magic of Taiyi Mountain. ”

"There are dozens or hundreds of Xuanmen in Taiyi Mountain, but the magic changes again, and everything changes from its sect. I can come back from the dead with two lives, and you can borrow the corpse to return the soul, according to the general rules of the magic of Taiyi Mountain Xuanmen, the left is just the eight characters of birth, charms, formations, etc. ”

"I asked His Highness to help me check on Xiang Zhou. Back then, in order to win the trust of the Yu family, you did not change the identity of the person you possessed, and Xiang Zhou was originally from the Great Zhou Dynasty, although the year was a little older, it was not difficult for the embroidered clothes to check his origin and birthday. ”

"After finding out Xiang Zhou's birthday, I found out that Xiang Zhou was born in the dark of the lunar moon and the cloudy day, and so was the national teacher. Then ask our eighty-eight generations of disciples to consult the classics of the Xuanmen of Taiyi Mountain, and we can deduce that anyone who has the same eight characters as you are born, you can rely on the secret method to borrow their bodies to return yang when they breathe. ”

"You disappeared for so long, and you didn't go back to the Snow Mountain to find your body, nor did you come back to find Uncle Taimei, so I expected that you must have borrowed the corpse to return your soul."

"It's not difficult to find you, just find the person who was born in the lunar month and the sun in the household registration of Yunbian City, and then check one by one, you can always find your body, find the foothold of your body, you can find your secret room, and naturally you can find out your whereabouts."

Speaking of this, Shen Lingxi sighed, "I thought that the Xiao family would not deal with you, but I didn't expect that you had already found a shell ten years ago, and dug the secret passage from the shell's home into the Xiao family's ancestral hall, so the Xiao family is really loyal to you." ”

Every time Shen Lingxi said a word, it was equivalent to opening Sheng Kun's hole cards by an inch, and Sheng Kun's expression was a little gloomy.

In the end, there was already a monstrous anger in his dark eyes.

"I underestimated you." He gritted his teeth and said, "You think you can kill me?" ”

"If you can't be killed, you have to try, don't you?" Shen Lingxi smiled at him, stretched out his finger and pointed around the coffin, "Ghouls don't have a sense of smell, so you keep your eyes closed, and you can't detect what I put in your coffin." ”

Sheng Kun's pupils were shocked, and he remembered the "rustling" sound he had just heard.

He looked around the coffin with great difficulty, and saw that along the gap around the coffin, something like white sand filled the circle.

"This is the finest flint powder, just a pinch of fire can burn your corpse to ashes."

"Originally, on the way here, I was still thinking, how can I not alarm others and break a few of your joints, so that you can't climb out of this coffin. Now I see you in the coffin, tying so many silk threads to yourself, just to lay out the layout for His Royal Highness the Prince...... It saves me a lot of things, and the way you look now, you should respond to four words - cocoon and self-restraint. ”

Shen Lingxi said this, then took out a fire fold from his sleeve and lit it, and threw it into the coffin.

The flames of the fire fold quickly sprang up like a fire snake the moment they touched the flint powder.

The flames burned Sheng Kun's body inch by inch, and soon spread to his whole body......

"Ah...... I'll kill you! Sheng Kun let out an angry and hoarse cry for help, "Xiao Rui! Save me! ”