Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 2597 Previous Life

The feeling of weightlessness came suddenly.

At the moment of falling into the crack of the ground, Ying Baoyue looked up and saw Li Ji rushing towards her from the sky. She saw the panic in the eyes of the man who was usually as calm as a mountain.

At that moment, it was as if they had returned to the moment when they first met in this life.

But the difference was that this time he couldn't grab her hand.

Ying Baoyue stretched out her hand towards the sky, but the crack in the ground closed before her eyes.

Endless darkness came, and Ying Baoyue also fell into a dream.

She saw a door in the white light, and Ying Baoyue inexplicably understood what this door meant.

This is the last illusion.

In this fantasy, she came to the end of her memories of eight years ago.

Ying Baoyue calmed herself down, walked towards the door, stretched out her hand and pushed it open. As expected, behind the door, she saw herself wearing Lin Shubai's sacrificial robes and sitting behind the desk.

Ying Baoyue looked at the familiar scene in front of him and became nervous.

This was her last memory before she died eight years ago, and it was also the memory that came to an abrupt end before she broke through to the Heavenly Stage last time and was not completed.

The last time in the illusion, she said goodbye to Miss Yao, who was still a young palace maid, and stayed in Lingxiao Pavilion wearing her master's sacrificial robes, and then waited for someone to come.

But before she could see who this person was, the illusion ended, and she returned to the battlefield and broke through to the Heavenly Stage.

This time she returned to this memory again.

A dizzying feeling came over him, and Ying Baoyue merged into the self on the chair. He sat on the chair behind the desk in Lingxiao Pavilion wearing sacrificial robes, with his back to the door.

Then she waited for that moment again.

A shrill wail came from the ceiling, "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

"His Majesty is dead!"

However, after the words "passed away" were uttered, the eunuch who spoke seemed to have his mouth covered by someone, and after a burst of hurried footsteps, the entire palace fell into deathly silence.

This is definitely not the normal reaction of the court after the death of an emperor.

Normally, after the death of a king, a regent would announce the will, the new king would ascend the throne, the funeral bells would be rung in the palace, clan members would enter the palace to mourn, and then all the temples and Taoist temples in the capital would ring the funeral bells 30,000 times, and the national mourning period would begin.

Yet eight years ago, none of this happened.

After Ying Baoyue was reborn, she investigated and found out that after Emperor Taizu passed away nearly nine years ago, the palace chose to "keep the death a secret", saying that it was to avoid turmoil in the court.

But the news eventually got out, and as a result the rulers of Southern Chu, Eastern Wu and other vassal states entered Guiyang to support the king, leading to the division of the six states.

At this moment, in the dead silence just after the death of Emperor Taizu, footsteps were heard outside the Lingxiao Pavilion under the Ganlu Palace.

With a creak, the door was pushed open.

This time, the memory did not come to an abrupt end.

The person outside the door stood at the door and watched her back, "You are back after all."

"I thought you wouldn't come back."

This time, the vague voice became clear in her memory, so clear that Ying Baoyue could tell who the other person was.

Ying Baoyue felt sad as he listened to the man's last question.

"Wait, is it you?"

"Why? Are you disappointed?"

Ying Baoyue's body turned around like a puppet, and a bright white light suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. But this time when she opened her eyes, the scene in front of her did not disappear.

After two lifetimes, two worlds, and nearly nine years, she finally saw the person in front of her.

The man in the black dragon robe, with familiar features but completely different from the one before him, was the founding emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Taizu Emperor Ying, who had passed away in the bedroom of Ganlu Palace a quarter of an hour ago.

At that point in her previous life, she hadn't seen this person for a year.

Ying Baoyue still remembered the last time she saw him after leaving the palace a year ago. This man still maintained the unfathomable dignity of an emperor, his body hidden under the dragon robe, as difficult to see through as a mountain.

But at this time, Emperor Ying, who was standing at the door, had hair and beard that were still black, but silver threads could be seen hidden in them. His cheeks were sunken, and his originally sharp eyes became very strange.

His gaze was still sharp, but not as deep as the sea as before. Instead, it became as obsessive and deep as a vulture's.

Although his body was not as haggard as that of an ordinary dying person, it had an eerie feeling of being forcibly stimulated after decay.

Looking at Emperor Ying like this, the word "living dead" suddenly appeared in Ying Baoyue's mind.

She remembered what was said in the intercepted secret letter from Ji Mo: "The emperor is in danger, return quickly", and a certain suspicion in her mind became stronger.

The death of Emperor Ying eight years ago was extremely contrary to common sense.

Regardless of whether it was a serious illness or a relapse of an old illness, a cultivator's body would not deteriorate to this extent within a year. Although Emperor Ying had not yet reached the second level of the realm breakthrough, he was also a cultivator who had touched the threshold of the heavenly realm. If there had not been an accident, it would have been impossible for him to die of illness within a year.

This matter itself reveals a lot of weirdness.

Especially after his death was announced in Ganlu Palace, he suddenly appeared here.

Ying Baoyue looked at Emperor Ying like this, sitting on the chair without standing up.

"how?"

Emperor Ying stared into her eyes. "You've been living in the woods as a savage for a year, and you don't even know how to perform a ritual?"

Ying Baoyue saw herself looking up at him calmly, "I was just wondering who you were when I heard the eunuch announce the emperor's death."

If a person who had just been declared dead appeared in front of them, a normal person would only think that there was a ghost.

Emperor Ying smiled, "If anyone wants to know who it is, it should be me."

His eyes stopped at the sacrificial garment she was wearing, and the smile in his eyes disappeared. "This is your master's clothes."

"The person who was waiting for me here shouldn't be you."

Ying Baoyue also smiled, "Master has already left the palace, and should have reached the Evernight Great Wall by now."

Emperor Ying looked deeply into her eyes and asked, "I didn't receive the notification. Did you spread false information?"

"Can't I explain everything here?"

Ying Baoyue saw her past life self and smiled at Emperor Ying and asked, "Do I look like Master, Your Majesty?"

Emperor Ying stared at her for a few seconds and smiled, "Very similar."

"You look exactly the same from behind in this vestment."

In the silent underground, Ying Baoyue stared quietly at the man in front of her who looked neither human nor ghost.

Emperor Ying's gaze seemed to be able to penetrate the sacrificial garments on her body. It was the look she hated the most since she was a child, filled with ugly desires.

"You came out of the Cloud Forest and sent your master away in advance, just to wait for me here?"

Emperor Ying looked at her deeply, "Do you want to be your master's substitute?"

"Before that, shouldn't you tell me what you want to do?"

Lin Baoyue stood up from her chair. "You took away Master's power, secretly gave orders to Xirong's secret agents, transferred the people around Master away, and tricked her into staying in this place. What exactly do you want to do?"

Even after two lifetimes, Ying Baoyue still couldn't figure out why Emperor Ying chose to attack Lin Shubai.

Killing Lin Shubai would do him no good at all, and Lin Shubai would not compete with him for the throne. It would be more like losing Lin Shubai's help, and it would be a problem whether he could keep sitting on the throne.

Why did Emperor Ying suddenly want to kill Lin Shubai when she had no intention of rebelling?