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The next day, Chris went to the Pure Heart Hall to meet with the Imperial Medicine Master as scheduled. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info thought that Zhang Ruoshui could win over the boy with the method she taught her, and easily get the fish bag out of the palace, she was very proud in her heart, and unconsciously walked faster by a cup of tea. I entered the room on weekdays, but I didn't see any trace of the Imperial Pharmacist.

Xindao: Stinky boy, shouldn't you not come?

She couldn't bear it anymore for a while, and paced up and down the room in a hurry, and then simply walked out of the room and walked around the neighborhood. After wandering around the apse, he entered through a small door next to him, and then through a small garden, and into a large room.

The large room is a small room, and the door of the small room is also hidden. I only poked my head in, and the black ones didn't pull a few. Chris called softly, "Yellow ...... Medicine...... Division. "I didn't see anyone answering, and I called," Huang ...... Medicine...... Division...... Yellow...... Medicine...... Division......"

Yay, Chris suddenly remembered that her uncle had shown her a martial arts film called "East Evil and West Poison", and she was captured by the dazzling martial arts scenes in the film, and felt that Chinese kung fu was both mysterious and charming. At the end of the movie, he lived in seclusion on Peach Blossom Island, and this little ghost gave himself the name of a martial arts hero.

Chris sniffed and saw that sandalwood was burning in the room, and a ray of sunlight shone through the crack in the door to the bronze incense burner, and green smoke wafted up from the furnace. There was a dresser in the corner of the room, and she suddenly saw a dark shadow in front of the dresser, and at first thought she was dazzled.

"Huang ...... Pharmacist?"

The black shadow moved, and she couldn't help but feel at a loss, so she wanted to turn and run away.

Chris hurried back, going through the two corridors, trying to go back the way he came, but he always felt that someone was following him. Listen with your ears up, but hear no sound. So she stopped at the corner of a corridor, hid against the wall, took a diagonal step, and peeked over again, moving inch by inch, which was good not to see, and almost peed her pants in fright.

It turned out that not far away, a large black shadow followed, and the long black hair covered the face, no, it should cover most of the body, and a terrifying aura shrouded it. As Chris feared, the shadow was slowly approaching, getting closer.

The momentary panic made it difficult for Chris to breathe, but she made the most instinctive reaction - to run away.

The panic still gripped her, preventing her from making a sound. Running and running, he couldn't help but glance back, Chris caught a glimpse of black loose hair and big red eyes, and the black shadow quickly chased after him.

"Oh my god!

She ran lifelessly, and the black shadow chased lifelessly.

Running, running, Chris found himself running into a cul-de-sac, which was an embankment built by the Imperial Garden along the Jinshui River. She had reached the end of the viewing embankment, panting and unable to retreat. The shadows had already caught up.

"Don't come here. She could only scream.

"Waiji...... Waiji, why are you running?"

"Hey, aren't you a ghost?" Although she was shocked, Chris finally came back to her senses, and what stood in front of her was not a ghost, but a human.

"Waiji...... Waiji, you don't want me anymore?"

She found the woman delirious, babbling gibberish, perhaps a madman.

The woman stretched out her arms and wanted to give her a big hug, approaching step by step.

"Don't come here. It's dangerous ...... here."

The woman rushed towards her frantically. By the time Chris realized what she wanted to do, it was already too late.

With a plop, the two of them finally fell into the water together.

The madwoman obviously couldn't swim, and as soon as she fell into the water, she began to struggle desperately, and after a few mouthfuls of water, she became even more panicked, holding Chris tightly with both hands, and grasping more and more tightly.

Chris couldn't break free at all, and the two of them were entangled and slowly sank.

All the sound slowly died down, and the water returned to calm.

The water of the Bianhe River is unexpectedly warm.

Chris felt a chill to the bone, and the warm, moist water made his body extremely painful.

Separation of mind and mind?

She instinctively wanted to cover her head, but it was buried deep in her mind, and the memory she would never want to touch took over her body.

At this point, it was as if it was a Dé-jàvu, and the nightmare from which there was no escape returned.

At the age of thirteen, she almost died in the water.

There was the same darkness around her, her limbs were numb, her vision was becoming more and more blurred, and when she was about to give up struggling, she felt that all the liquid in her body seemed to be flowing outward, and she didn't know why her arms and legs began to swing desperately until she rushed out of the water and swam to the shore with the last bit of strength. She lay on her stomach on the beach, like a dying fish, and even the strength to breathe was exhausted. For a long time, although she still couldn't get up from the mud and sand mixed with the salty seawater, her consciousness felt very clearly that something in her body had changed, she was no longer her former self, the former she, had disappeared without a trace.

This time, are you going to die in the water?

Chris looked out of the water at the surface of the river with a very unreal feeling.

She calmly watched as her last breath formed a few bubbles in the water, staggering towards the surface, and chaotic thoughts kept breaking into her mind.

If you die, can you return to the original world?

Can you?

......

"Master, save them, hurry!"

At this moment, two people also chased over on the shore, one big and one small.

Tall men, standing on the shore, gazed at the waters.

"Master, Master, save Yuanxiao. The boy's voice was so anxious that he was crying, and he crawled on the shore and looked around.

Just as the man hesitated, another figure passed by him and jumped into the water without hesitation.

Chris found an arm enveloping him from behind, the muscles on his forearm were strong, like a small iron snake curled up, and his skin was as cold as a snake's body. Chris tried to relax himself, treading the water carefully with his legs, and when he was close enough to the surface, the water carried all the weight of his body and floated safely.

After leaning out of the water, she saw clearly that it was Zhang Ruoshui.

"I'm fine, save her!"

Zhang Ruoshui did not hesitate and went underwater again.

Chris grabbed the bluestone on the shore while staring at the water tightly. Before she could see the figure come up, she felt her blood grow cold.

Suddenly, she felt a force on her waist, and in an instant her feet left the water and landed on the shore, and Chris found that her waist was supported by a large palm.

By the time she stood firm, the big palm had already released her.

Chris raised his eyes and collided with a pair of dark eyes, and he was pulled ashore by the man. He was about thirty years old, with a resolute and cold countenance, handsome and neat, and his eyes as dark and bright as agate. He wore a crane crown on his head, a gray gauze robe, and his feet were dressed in ruyi head and cloud shoes, and his large cuffs rolled up to the middle of his arms, revealing his wheat-colored skin. Pulled her out of the water, but he didn't get wet.

The boy hurriedly rushed over and asked eagerly, "Yuan Xiao, Yuan Xiao, are you okay?"

The man turned and stood on the shore, as if looking through the river, his deep gaze hidden in the waves, nowhere to be found.

"Master, why haven't they come up yet?" the Imperial Medicine Master asked.

Chris was also anxious.

"Master Zhang is good at 'Nose Locking Sperm Technique', and this time is not a problem for him. The man's cold voice sounded, but it was undoubtedly persuasive.

"It's coming!"

Chris stared at the surface of the water, and sure enough, after a few seconds of waiting, he split the blue brocade-like river, and Zhang Ruoshui jumped out of the water. He tread the water, leaving a ripple wherever his toes went, and the blue and clear water gently lifted the two people in the water, and Chris couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

The woman's body was gently placed on the ground, and it was Chris who rushed over first. The woman is of short stature, with a pale complexion, purple lips, and prominent eyes. Chris brushed away a few strands of wet hair from her face and found that the woman was unconscious, and her heart stopped beating and she was breathless.

Without hesitation, she let the woman's body lie flat, clear the remaining water from the respiratory tract and mouth, and tilt her head back.

"She drank the water and wanted to turn her over......" Zhang Ruoshui froze before he finished speaking.

The men present were stunned by the scene in front of them. Chris himself took a deep breath, and she leaned over and kissed the woman mouth-to-mouth.

"Shameless! What are you doing? The man shouted.

Chris doesn't care about anyone's thoughts at the moment, she keeps blowing air in, and in order to keep the air from leaking out of her nostrils, she pinched the woman's nostrils with one hand. Then he placed his hands under the woman's breasts, one, two, three, four, and five...... She muttered silently as she performed heart compressions.

The man couldn't bear it anymore, he raised his right hand without warning, and suddenly flicked his fingers, and a force whistled through the air.

The Imperial Medicine Master showed a frightened expression, he was the closest to the master, he never thought that the master would suddenly use the master's peerless "finger magic power", the master's finger power was supernatural, and he shot towards Lan Yuanxiao's back, in such a situation, the attack can be said to be unavoidable, and the boy knows this very well. Even if he spoke out to stop it, it would be too late.

Said that it was too late and that was fast, this Zhang Ruoshui urged the small cave heaven secret technique, and the urgent luck finger force was issued, and there were three soft sounds, snort, snort, and the water on his body and clothes gathered at his fingertips, and the water droplets turned into diamond-shaped ice guns and flew out, which was the "gun out of the water" in the "Yuhan Divine Skill".

Two strands of ice and a force met in the air, and in an instant, the cold light flashed, and the ice spear was shattered, but the man's energy was also dissolved.

The man suddenly saw the third cold light coming, and his strength poured into the sleeves of his robe, and with a wave of his big sleeves, he waved the third ice gun invisibly, but he could feel the cold air gently passing by. He raised his hand slightly, and found that a small hole had been pierced in the sleeve of his wide coat.

"Lord Liang's 'magic power' is really subtle and amazing. Zhang Ruoshui was still smiling and opened his mouth first. Although Lan Yuanxiao's current behavior made people feel unbelievable and jaw-dropping, he felt that the master should be saving people, and he thought that as long as he could delay a little time.

The man snorted softly, "Your cold fingers, the power is really extraordinary. ”

Zhang Ruoshui studied under the Dong Ling School, and the man in front of him was named Liang Huaiji, who studied under the Tongxuan School. The two of them have the same root and origin, and they are both Taoist masters.

In Chinese history, there are various methods of Taoist practice, among which there is the theory of "hidden immortals", which are divided into heavenly immortals and earth immortals. In the Song Dynasty, the Hidden Immortal Sect was divided into four major factions: the Tongxuan Sect, the Xuanzhen Sect, the Dongling Sect and the Shaoyang Sect.

Among them, the Tongxuan Sect and the Xuanzhen Sect both belong to the Earth Immortal lineage, while the Cave Spirit Sect and the Shaoyang Sect are the Heavenly Immortal Lineage.

The so-called heavenly immortals and earth immortals, the difference between the two lies in "one visible and one hidden". The Heavenly Immortal Sect emphasizes the need to save oneself and all sentient beings, so it wants to enter the world, and the Earth Immortal Sect emphasizes the dual cultivation of one's own life, so it wants to be born.

The small is hidden in the wilderness, the middle is hidden in the city, and the big is hidden in the court. People who have entered the WTO either live in the deep mountains, travel all over the world, collect medicine and alchemy; or walk the streets and alleys, meet each other with yin and yang tricks, and teach people to cultivate; or worship the generals and serve the country, and Zhang Ruoshui is a person who is hidden in the court.

Liang Huaiji belongs to the sect of earth immortals, and they pursue their own cultivation and emphasize birth. Therefore, Zhang Ruoshui has always been very puzzled, why did Liang Huaiji choose to join the WTO? Zhang Ruoshui was adopted by his adoptive father since he was a child, and before he entered the Cave Spirit Sect to learn martial arts, he had already purified himself, he didn't understand why Liang Huaiji was willing to enter the palace to become a eunuch, and what did he want?

Liang Huaiji didn't say a word just now, and set up a killer, which is really dangerous. Zhang Ruoshui knew that this finger-snapping magic skill was created by Liang Huaiji. After doing it today, I realized that it was so powerful, and it was indeed extraordinary. And Liang Huaiji's internal skills are pure, which really makes Zhang Ruoshui jealous.

Liang Huaiji stepped forward.

Zhang Ruoshui looked at Liang Huaiji's eyes, they looked calm. Zhang Ruoshui's eyes are like this, maybe the eyes of the masters are like this.

But Zhang Ruoshui knew that the calmer he was, the more dangerous it was, and he was secretly on guard with his true energy.

Seeing that the two of them were about to make a move again, at this moment, the imperial pharmacist suddenly shouted.

"The princess is awake!"

Chris heard the boy shout, but he was surprised in his heart, this madman turned out to be a princess?

The woman spat out a few mouthfuls of water, Chris still patted her on the back, she couldn't stop coughing, "cough cough cough ......"

Liang Huaiji stopped his movements and walked over, he wanted to reach out to check the woman's pulse, but the woman dodged and drilled into Chris's arms. Wet body, trembling all over, she desperately grabbed Chris's hand, it hurt, and while shaking her head desperately, she said, "Huaiji, don't let him catch me, don't leave me, don't leave me, I don't want to be separated from you." ”

Chris knew that the woman needed to recover her body temperature immediately, and it was not okay to go on like this, so she raised her head and said loudly, "Take her back for treatment!"

"I'm not leaving, don't touch me, don't, I just want Huaiji ......"

Liang Huaiji gently brushed her with his hand, and the woman's body softened. He picked up the woman and turned away.

Zhang Ruoshui did not stop it.

The Imperial Medicine Master looked left and right, not knowing what to do.

Chris also had a lot of doubts in his mind, but he knew that now was not the time to seek explanations. She nodded, motioning for the Imperial Medicine Master to follow.

The boy didn't say a word, but turned to follow the master.

Chris felt soaked in a chill, "Ahh

Chris obediently lay on Zhang Ruoshui's chest, and was afraid in his heart, if Zhang Ruoshui didn't arrive in time to rescue him, what would be the consequences?

Zhang Ruoshui sped up and sped towards Baoci Palace without stopping.

Back at Baoci Palace, Liang Weijian kept asking more than a dozen little eunuchs to prepare the bath water. Xing Yun sprinkled incense in the bathtub and helped Chris into the bath, she got into the hot water, the steam was everywhere, and the hot water slowly warmed her up, and this heat completely relaxed her tense nerves.

Falling into the water today, she wanted to die, to see if she could go back to modern times, but she was wrong, the strong life instinct allowed her to survive, she didn't want to die, and she couldn't let her soul disappear into the water forever.

Although his body gradually eased, a fear rose from the bottom of his heart. If one day, someone finds out that she is not from this world, what will happen to her? If Zhang Ruoshui knew that Gao Taotao was dead, would he still be so affectionate to himself who occupied this body? Thinking of this, Chris smiled bitterly and slowly sank his body into the water, when did he become so sentimental and care so much about the feelings of others?

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On this side, Chris was troubled because he accidentally fell into the water and remembered the past, and on the other side, Liang Huaiji returned to the Qingxin Hall with the woman who fell into the water. Even though the boy was worried, he knew that it was inconvenient for him to be there and was ready to leave. Liang Huaiji instructed him two sentences to keep him silent about today's events. Seeing that the master did not have any emotions in his words, Zhao Hao was thoughtful, but he didn't say anything more and left.

On the bed, the woman was shivering from the cold. She had been soaked in the water for a long time, her face was as white as paper, and her breath was already weak. Liang Huaiji decided to use internal force to rescue, he helped the woman up, sat behind her, put his palms on his soaked clothes, and a wave of heat passed in his palms. The internal strength of the Tongxuan School is the superior dragon and tiger pill method of Taoism, with the dragon as water, the tiger as fire, the water as the Dinghu border, and the fire as the blazing blood. The water droplets on the clothes seemed to be driven out by this internal force, and in the blink of an eye, the room was filled with steam, and the clothes on the woman's body quickly dried.

Two hours later, the woman's breath was finally smooth, and after tossing for a long time, she had fallen asleep on the bed groggily. Liang Huaiji stood silently in front of her bed for a while before leaving the house.

Changing into a robe and slowly pacing out of the room, Liang Huaiji held a stick of incense in his left hand and a sword in his right hand, the blade of the sword exuded a lonely and cold color in the moonlight. Qingxin Hall is the place where Emperor Zhenzong cultivated the Tao in those years, quiet and elegant, at the moment in the dead of night, the courtyard is quiet and silent. Liang Huaiji inserted incense into the incense burner in the courtyard, and a puff of green smoke rose and floated in the air, faint but not dispersed.

He looked at the green smoke rising slowly and leisurely, and thought about his thoughts.

The woman who fell into the water was none other than Princess Fukang, the eldest daughter of Emperor Renzong. Princess Fukang has been smart and filial since she was a child, and she is the most favored by Renzong. It was precisely because he was too pampered that Renzong wanted to kiss and kiss, and married the eldest princess to Li Wei, the nephew of his biological mother. The Son of Heaven married a daughter, with ten miles of red makeup, and envied how many ladies in Beijing. Liang Huaiji is the head of the princess's mansion appointed by Renzong himself, taking care of the princess's daily life. only talks about making people, after marriage, the eldest princess found that Li Wei was vulgar and ignorant, and he loved to be vassals and elegant, and his mind was spent on spending a lot of money to buy antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and to cling to the powerful. The eldest princess was extremely disappointed and disgusted by her father's concubine. Although Liang Huaiji is a eunuch, he is very talented, and after a long time, the princess poured all her feelings into him.

Although the princess admires Liang Huaiji, she also abides by women's morals, Li Wei's mother heard the gossip in the house, ran to peek at the princess and Liang Huaiji, which made the princess angry, and entered the inner palace at night to cry to Renzong. The matter of making a big fuss about the forbidden palace was rumored, not to mention the absurd thing that the princess fell in love with the eunuch, which made the people talk about it and swept away the royal face. The gate of the imperial city is not allowed to be opened at night, this is a major event that violates the rules of the ancestors, the important ministers of the court have written one after another, and the officials advocate impeachment, Renzong has no choice but to send Liang Huaiji to the "sprinkling and sweeping class" in Luoyang, Xijing, responsible for cleaning the imperial tomb.

The eldest princess was forced to live in seclusion in the palace, and the separation between the two places made the princess depressed and lovesick, although Renzong summoned Liang Huaiji back to Beijing, but he was afraid that the imperial historian would discuss, only he worked in the former province and could not continue to serve the princess. Later, the eldest princess was really crazy, Renzong couldn't bear it, and asked Liang Huaiji to return to the princess to take care of it, and issued a secret edict ordering the two to live in the Qingxin Palace, not allowing anyone to enter or leave, and not to get closer. Those who discuss this matter will be killed!

Time has passed, and the former No. 1 lady in the capital has now become a taboo in the imperial city, and no one dares to mention it, but in private, some people still secretly call her "crazy princess".

Taking care of the princess was nothing more than another means for Emperor Renzong to keep himself in the palace. Liang Huaiji lamented that the eldest princess's love was not a burden to him. Today, the princess fell into the water, and he even wished that she would die in the water, so that maybe he would be freed. The palace is such a terrible place, has it been so numb and unbearable even for so many years?

Liang Huaiji raised his head to look at the moon with a complicated expression.

Suddenly, he raised his sword and danced in the moonlight.

The robe carried a breeze that rustled across the ground.

The sword blade swept the wind and made a "whine" chirping, just like the sound of the flute gradually rising, the sound was high and low, such as crying and complaining, and gradually there were occasional pearls and jade falling in the bass, crisp and short, only to see that his movements became light and short, and the tip of the sword actually carried a light roar; he danced faster and faster, and the overlapping sound gradually increased, one after another, first like a spring splash, then like a cluster of flowers, and like a hundred birds competing for spring, to the extreme, his figure suddenly pulled up, a few sharp turns, a sword swinged, the tip of the sword pierced the air, sharp and slaughtered, whistling past. After a few circles, the voice fell low again, like a drizzle, endlessly.

A shadow in the darkness. Obviously, after being there for a long time, he suddenly smiled and said, "You have always been calm and introverted, but I didn't expect you to have such a fancy trick." ”

Liang Huaiji didn't answer, and the sword flashed and stabbed at the black shadow.

The opponent's arm shook, and the dust in his hand turned, and the dust suddenly wrapped around the sword.

The sword froze, but suddenly the sword shook up and down.

There was a soft sound of "snort", and an extremely hot force came from the sword body, reaching the handle of the dust, and the black shadow was obviously unprepared, and his fingers were shaken off.

The tip of the sword was picked up, and with a "snap", the sword was returned into the sheath, and the dust was held in Liang Huaiji's hand.

The person who came had gray hair and was dressed in black, it was Shi Quanbin.

Shi Quanbin narrowed his eyes and stared at the man, but there was no hostility in his eyes. He said leisurely: "Our family was on the Northwest Road back then, and broke into Peng's village alone, and used this dust to snatch the blades in the hands of the five tigers of the Peng family, but I didn't expect it to be taken away today. ”

Liang Huaiji didn't say a word and handed the dust back.

This set of swordsmanship was recently realized by Liang Huaiji from the jade flute, and the seemingly fancy movements are not just for dancing swords, but also for internal force poured into the sword to stick to other people's weapons.

Shi Quanbin took the dust, waved it lightly, and put it on his left arm.

"You're coming sooner than I expected. ”

"Because it's been a long time since we've seen you light a cigarette. ”

Green smoke is the code of their connection.

Liang Huaiji nodded, and his face gradually became serious: "Yesterday, a chamberlain named Lan Yuanxiao came to the Qingxin Palace. ”

"Lan Yuanxiao, isn't he from the Gao Clan's Palace? The first emperor has an order, and he is not allowed to enter here. What is he doing here?"

He sighed softly and said, "It looks like I stumbled in by mistake." ”

Shi Quanbin hesitated for a moment, and then said, "You won't call our family over because of this kind of thing, will you?"

He asked calmly, "Do you know who he is?"

"Our family saw this Lan Yuanxiao some time ago, and later sent someone to check. Shi Quanbin squinted his eyes slightly, and continued: "In the seventh year of Qingli, Bianliang had a big flood, and the great eunuch Lan Jizong saved a pregnant woman, but unfortunately she died of dystocia later. He recognized this child, who had just been born an orphan, as an adopted son. A while ago, the Gao family handpicked Lan Yuanxiao to enter the palace, which somewhat took into account the arrangements made by her own close minister Lan Yuanzhen. ”

Liang Huaiji remembered today's events, under the water-soaked clothes, the figure was slightly visible, it was a woman's body, and he said slowly: "She is a woman." ”

"What?" Shi Quanbin was taken aback and frowned, "You can't be mistaken?"

"I'm sure. ”

Shi Quanbin said coldly: "Why do the women in the Queen Mother's palace pretend to be eunuchs?"

"I can't judge for the time being. ”

Shi Quanbin suddenly didn't say a word, just looked at Liang Huaiji quietly. The figure of a young girl appeared in his mind, when Renzong was in the Dynasty, only she dared to pretend to be a chamberlain in this forbidden palace, and he had seen the girl who succeeded in teasing the courtiers and had a smiling face. If she said that she was young and didn't do anything more, but now she is still here, what do you want? Why did she forget about the Gao family after so many years, she was in charge of the harem, her power was rising, and she was gathered into a surging force around her. That force is extremely powerful, and it will not be dispersed so easily just because Yingzong suddenly left...... Thinking about it, the muscles of Shi Quanbin's cheeks spasmed slightly, and the sides of his nose and the corners of his lips were also twitching.

After a short silence, Shi Quanbin's eyes flowed like blood, and he said coldly: "Okay, I know, let's take care of this matter." ”

Liang Huaiji was familiar with Shi Quanbin's expression, this was a murderous intent. In the past, in this palace, as long as any woman was a little eccentric, she would be closely watched by Shi Quanbin, and she must find out the details of the origin before she would give up. But in the past two years, Shi Quanbin's unexplained suspicion is very serious, perhaps because of his age, in order to fulfill the emperor's last wish, this idea has become stronger and stronger, more and more intense, and has never been so urgent! Therefore, he only needs to be a little suspicious when he encounters something, but he wants to get rid of it quickly.

Liang Huaiji sighed slightly, and he persuaded: "This matter involves the palace of the Queen Mother, and it should be considered in the long run, and it needs to be investigated clearly." ”

Shi Quanbin said a little excitedly: "Our family said, you don't need to ask about this!"

"I see. ”

Seeing that Liang Huaiji just responded softly, but his expression was thoughtful, Shi Quanbin said with a straight face: "You don't have to forget the great trust of the emperor." ”

Shi Quanbin is sensitive to the fact that in recent years, Liang Huaiji's martial arts have become higher and higher, and he has long surpassed himself, however, he has become more and more indifferent to many things.

With such a strong person, it was easy to leave the imperial city. After so many years of waiting, he has gradually become tired of "that incident", and the only thing that can keep him is probably the promise of the year, so Shi Quanbin deliberately brought up the old thing again.

Liang Huaiji replied coldly: "Of course I won't forget, let alone my oath." ”

Shi Quanbin nodded: "It's good if you know, if there is a situation, notify me." With a bow, Shi Quanbin turned to leave.

Liang Huaiji flicked his fingers and extinguished the green smoke in the incense burner.

Standing on the steps in front of the house, he looked around and suddenly felt that this huge palace was like a cage.

And he's just a trapped beast.