Because the palace has not been peaceful recently, the imperial study only made a thief some time ago, so the guards were specially strengthened. Two eunuchs came to the door of the imperial study, they are the eunuchs on duty today, responsible for cleaning the sanitary room of the imperial study, except that a famous eunuch seems to be a little strong, there is nothing special. The guards guarding the imperial study carefully checked the waist cards of the two, and after confirming that they were correct, they let the two enter the imperial study, and after the two entered the imperial study, they began to fetch water and clean. Taking advantage of another inattentive gap, a figure suddenly jumped out of the back of the slightly stronger eunuch, and this person quickly disappeared on the dragon pillar in the imperial study without the two eunuchs noticing. The two eunuchs finished cleaning and left.

In the evening, the emperor was in the imperial study to deal with state affairs, and several little eunuchs and palace maids served on his side. The emperor should have been a little tired, he drank a cup of lotus seed soup, cleared his throat and said,

"Stand down, you all stand down, I want to be alone. ”

After everyone saluted, they walked out of the imperial study one after another, and only the emperor himself was left at this time. He stood up, turned around and slapped the carved dragon screen next to him three times, and suddenly the door of a secret room appeared behind the dragon chair, and the door opened, revealing a red light inside. His Majesty the Emperor walked in slowly, and at this moment, a pair of eyes appeared on the dragon pillar, and these eyes glanced at the door of the secret room that the emperor had entered and disappeared on the dragon pillar. With the entry of His Majesty the Emperor, the door to the chamber also disappeared, and it was about an hour before the Emperor came out of the chamber.

In the dead of night, the guards guarding the imperial study began to be sleepy, relaxed their vigilance, and the patrolling guards patrolled back and forth wave after wave, and in the imperial study, a thin figure slowly separated from the dragon pillar. The man was dressed in a night suit that blended in with the night. He slowly walked to the dragon chair and patted three times on the carved dragon screen, but the door of the secret room did not appear, she held her chin and thought for a while, then gently put her hand on the dragon eye of the carved dragon screen and gently patted it three times. A stone door in the secret room revealed from behind the dragon chair, and the man in black turned into a black shadow and floated in. The door to the chamber closed slowly after the man in black entered. The guards outside the door of the imperial study heard some strange sounds inside, and hurriedly opened the door of the imperial study and walked in, only to see that there was no one other than the two palace maids sleeping in the gatehouse.

The man in black entered the secret room, only to find that there was a cave inside, and there were all kinds of rare antiques inside, in the middle of the secret room, a complex rune circle was slowly running, and the red light in the secret room was emanating from the eye in the middle of the circle.

In the eye of this formation, a red gem the size of a pigeon's egg is emitting red light, and every time the formation is running, the gem beats like a heart, and emits a red light, this gem seems to be alive. When the man in black saw the gem, she never took her eyes off it. Her hands were trembling slightly because of the excitement, and for decades, what she had been looking for even in her dreams was right in front of her. She reached for the red gem with trembling hands, but when she was still an inch away from the gem, no matter how hard she tried, she could no longer move forward.

Only then did she remember what the tribal archmage had said to all of them before she left the tribe.

"If you find the Life Gem, you can't reach it with your hands, only the palm wrapped in your blood can pass through the barrier of the Life Gem, and after you get the gem, you must put it in the Soul Box, because only the Soul Box can cover the light of the Life Gem. ”

The man in black returned to reality from her memories, she slowly took out the knife and the golden bowl that had been prepared from her arms, and took out a cold black box from behind her and put it aside, she picked up the knife and cut her wrist, the red blood quickly flowed into the golden bowl, when the blood reached the waist of the golden bowl, she stopped the bleeding in time, because of excessive blood loss she began to dizzy. She quickly smeared her hands with her own blood and reached for the Life Gem with her red hands. The moment her left hand caught the Life Gem, she felt the beating of the Life Gem, knowing that she and her brother's dream for so many years had come true, she really wanted to shout with joy, but she knew that now was not the time to get carried away, there were a large number of soldiers patrolling outside, it was difficult to get the gem, and it was even more difficult to take it out of the palace. She quickly pulled the life gem out of the eye of the circle, and the entire circle immediately fell into a state of stagnation because of the destruction of the eye of the array, and at this moment, the phantom of a dragon appeared in the sky above the entire Dragon City, and the dragon roared towards the sky and then turned into dust shining with golden light, and slowly drifted into the air of the entire Dragon City and even the Qianyuan Academy. The entire palace rang nineteen bells at this time, and the emperor only rang sixteen times when he died, but at this time there were nineteen bells, and only when the dragon city was broken and Dayin was about to perish, the nineteen bells would be ringed.

The man in black listened to the continuous bells outside, quickly put the life gem into the soul box, put the soul box against his chest, and carefully walked out of the secret room. Not long after she hid, His Majesty the Emperor rushed in, followed by two gray-haired old eunuchs, His Majesty the Emperor did not shy away this time, and the two directly opened the stone door of the secret room and rushed in. The two eunuchs paused slightly, and then they also walked in, and after a while, there was the sound of smashing things, and the sound of His Majesty the Emperor yelling.

Emperor Tang Ning, who was disheveled, hurriedly walked out of the secret room, almost shouting with a roar,

"Hurry up and go to Qianyuan Academy and ask the dean to come over. ”

Not long after, an old Taoist also rushed to the imperial study, this person was Niu Qingcao, the dean of Qianyuan Academy, followed by two people, respectively, the vice president Fang Chen, who had just recovered from his injuries, and the other was Lu Lin, the astrology master of the academy's astrology academy.

The two old eunuchs found the golden bowl containing blood in the secret room, and they handed the golden bowl to the astrologer Lu Lin, Lu Lin set up the divination plate and armillary sphere, covered his mouth with his hand and coughed gently, and then put the golden bowl in the center of the divination plate, his hands drew talismans in the void, countless complex and gorgeous runes swam back and forth on the divination plate like small tadpoles, the armillary sphere began to rotate slowly, a drop of blood in the golden bowl jumped out of the golden bowl, and the golden rune tadpole in the air fused and swam slowly. Suddenly, the red rune tadpole stopped spinning and pointed straight in the direction of the dragon pillar where the man in black was hiding. At that time, the black-clothed human heart hidden in the dragon pillar had already run to her throat, and she was ready to fight to the death.

Astrologer Lu Lin stroked his pale beard and said slowly,

"According to the hexagram, the gangsters should flee to the northeast of the palace with the treasures"

Emperor Tang Ning paused for a moment and hurriedly said,

"A few days ago, the investigation team of Qianyuan Academy found one of their hiding places in the back garden of the cold palace in the northeast corner of the palace. Where should this gangster go. Liu Cheng, you quickly lead people to the back garden of the Cold Palace to arrest the gangsters, and be sure to find the lost Zhenguo gem for me. ”

Liu Cheng received the order and hurriedly went to the back garden to arrest the gangsters.

The emperor invited everyone to go to Yuqing Palace for dinner, after all, everyone was a little hungry after a busy night's work.

After the black-clothed man hiding on the dragon pillar watched everyone leave, his nervous heart eased a little.

Three days later, the news of the loss of the gem of the town country spread like a gust of wind all over the world.