All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

The carriage wobbled and drove down the mountain.

As a "suspect", Shen Lingxi is naturally not qualified to sit with the prince and princess.

Chunjun pointed to a corner of the carriage and asked her to sit on the floor next to the corner of the curtain.

Chu Yan got into the car, looked down at Shen Lingxi, saw her sitting on the floor with her knees hugged, and was about to ask her to sit on the chair.

But seeing her shake her head invisibly towards him,

Chu Yan pursed her lips and sat down on the bench beside her.

During the bumps of the carriage, her shoulders could even lean against his legs.

Tai Shumei "woke up faintly", seeing Chu Yan sitting opposite her, felt her heartbeat beating extremely abnormally.

"Why doesn't Your Highness ride a horse anymore..." She smiled sarcastically.

But he moved his body to the opposite corner of Chu Yan calmly, hoping to create a greater distance from him.

But this distance, compared to Chu Yan's full body evil spirit, is simply a drop in the bucket.

Tai Shumei found that in such a small space as the carriage, the evil spirit towards Chu Yan was even more unbearable for her.

She pulled out the brocade handkerchief in her sleeve, carefully hiding her expression.

Uncle Mei was already upset, and suddenly saw Shen Lingxi squatting in the corner, and said with disgust in her eyes: "Your Highness, this concubine does not want to ride in the same car with this lowlife, you should drive her out of the car."

Shen Lingxi was so frightened that she hugged her knees and curled up into a ball, her thin and lonely shoulders trembling.

"Be patient for a while." Chu Yan said with a calm expression, "Her accomplice is so bold that he assassinated you in public. Since he failed, he will definitely not let go of the opportunity to go down the mountain. When he arrives, Gu will definitely catch the murderer with his own hands. revenge for you."

Taishu Mei pressed her heart tightly with one hand, covered it with her sleeve, and tightly grasped the jade pendant around her neck.

Right now, compared to the assassin, she is more worried that if she spends an hour alone with this one, she will not be able to withstand the evil spirit on him.

Shen Lingxi's dark, lifeless eyes kept looking in Tai Shumei's direction, not missing any of her expressions.

Naturally, I saw Taishu Mei's movement of clutching the jade pendant, as well as her increasingly pale face.

It seems that evil spirit still has an influence on Tai Shumei.

Just why, she keeps holding the jade pendant?

Could this jade pendant help her fight against Chu Yan's evil spirit?

Taking advantage of the bumps of the carriage, Shen Lingxi calmly pushed Chu Yan's legs in with her shoulders, implying that he should sit in.

Chu Yan: ...

He pursed his thin lips into a straight line, and moved an inch inward reluctantly.

Taking advantage of Taishu Mei's absent-mindedness and raising the curtain to look out, he stretched out his hand and pulled Shen Lingxi's collar, pulling her in by an inch.

Shen Lingxi: ...

But just moved a little closer, Tai Shumei's face became paler, and the movements of holding the jade pendant tightly became more and more frequent.

Shen Lingxi pushed Chu Yan's leg with her shoulder again, signaling him to sit down again.

Chu Yan's eyes became darker.

Reluctantly, he moved in again, and naturally he would not let Shen Lingxi go, pulling her clothes and pulling her in.

Obviously it's the way down the mountain.

The two kept squeezing sideways into the carriage.

Tai Shumei was already "disturbed" by the evil spirit on Chu Yan's body, and had nowhere to hide, so she could only lift the curtain of the car, face outside, slightly parted her lips, and took a deep breath.

She didn't even have the time to pay attention to the familiar fragrance that wafted into her nose from the carriage.

At this level, Chu Yan naturally noticed something strange.

"Are you feeling unwell?" He asked Tai Shu Mei.

Uncle Mei hurriedly supported her head when she heard the words: "Thank you for your concern, this concubine is just, just a little dizzy."

Chu Yan's eyes fell on the hand she was holding tightly on her heart.

He was the one who brought her out of the tomb that day, so he naturally knew that since that day, she had had an extra jade pendant on her body.

Just like that, Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan quietly watched Taishu Mei the whole way, seeing that her face was getting paler and her hand tightly clenched on the jade pendant was becoming more and more inseparable. There is a faint guess.

Until the carriage stopped in front of the Yunjiang Palace, the "assassin" Chu Yan mentioned never showed up.

Tai Shumei had endured to the extreme, as soon as the carriage stopped, she didn't even wait for Chu Yan to get out of the carriage first, and rushed out of the carriage.

When she passed by Shen Lingxi, the familiar fragrance rushed into her nose again.

However, Tai Shumei had no time to think deeply, so she subconsciously covered her mouth and nose with a veil.

Finally escaping from the range of Chu Yan's evil spirit, she leaned on the wall and took a deep breath, feeling like a fish that had just been thrown into the water from the bank.

Xiang Zhou floated to her side nervously, and asked with concern: "How is it?"

"I can still bear it." Taishu Mei lowered her voice resentfully, "It's just that I can't keep getting close to him. If this goes on, even if I become an empress in the future, I won't be able to firmly favor him, so how can I secure my position as an empress?" bit."

Xiang Zhou's expression was extremely gloomy.

"Just be patient, and when your soul is fused with this body, you don't have to worry about it anymore. What's more, what you want to be my empress in the future has nothing to do with him."

When Tai Shu Mei heard this, her eyes lit up, and the discomfort just now seemed to have disappeared.

Shen Lingxi got out of the car and heard Xiang Zhou's words clearly.

Being his empress means that Xiang Zhou also has a "resurrection" plan.

And Wuerda, who was missing in the ruins of the imperial mausoleum before, must have gone to do this for him.

Thinking of this, Shen Lingxi's heart sank slightly.

Nowadays, in this world, there are not many people who can be emperors.

Chu Yan is one of them.

Xiang Zhou thought so beautifully.

Shen Lingxi remained calm, followed behind Chu Yan, and entered the palace together.

Xiang Zhou looked at the figures of the two of them one in front of the other, and a look of suspicion flashed in his eyes...

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The Shenming Palace is adjacent to the Lingxi Palace. It was originally a palace where the emperor of Yunguo bathed and burned incense before worshiping the temple.

Ever since Chu Yan noticed that Shen Lingxi's body had changed, she moved to Shenming Palace.

Behind the Shenming Palace is the ancestral temple.

The night was quiet and the wind was howling.

Shen Lingxi was a corpse and didn't need to rest, so she took the initiative to mention to Chu Yan that she was going to visit the temple.

"I'll go with you," Chu Yan said.

Shen Lingxi originally planned to decline, but thinking of what Xiang Zhou said at the gate of the palace today, she couldn't help worrying about what he would do to Chu Yan, so she nodded.

Together, the two went to the quiet and deserted temple with the lantern in hand.

Those who went with them were Liu Meiren and several concubines.

The predecessor of the ancestral temple was the shrine of the saintess in Yunjiang, which was used by the priestess of the saintess.

However, after the fall of the Yun Kingdom, the Holy Maiden fell, and the Holy Mountain was destroyed, the shrine was changed from Yunhong Mountain to a shrine to enshrine the ancestors of the Yun family.

Even so, based on the reverence of the Yunjiang people for the saint and the shrine, the temple has not changed much, and still retains the layout left by Queen Zanxi when she was alive.

The ancestral temple is the most beautiful building in the entire Yunguo Palace.

The main hall is carved with beams and painted buildings, resplendent in gold and green.

Shen Lingxi walked into the temple, familiarly bypassed the incense tables enshrining the spirit tablets in the main hall, walked to the southeast corner, and opened an inconspicuous secret door.

A strong smell of books rushed over.

This is the place where the shrine used to store the classics. Only the saint and the chief minister are eligible to come in and look up the classics.

Since the jade pendant was passed down from generation to generation by the saintess family, the records related to it will definitely be kept in the Jingu's classics.

Xiang Zhou spent a lot of time digging the tomb of his mother, took the jade pendant away, and hung it on her body. After Taishu Mei was resurrected, he took the jade pendant with him and used it to fight against the evil spirit on Chu Yan.

It is particularly important to find out everything related to the jade pendant.

However, in this room, there is an entire wall of classics related to the saint.

If you want to search through all the classics and find out what you want, it is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack, and it is almost impossible in just a few hours.

Therefore, Shen Lingxi asked Liu Meiren to call all the other concubines, enshrine the entire wall of ancient books to them, and ask them to help find them.

Chu Yan, on the other hand, stood by the bookshelf a foot away from them to prevent Xiang Zhou's ghost from approaching.

Even so, it took one person with ten souls two full hours to read all the classics, but they still couldn't find a single word about the jade pendant.

Shen Lingxi's heart sank to the bottom.

It seems that in these classics, the part about the jade pendant has long been destroyed by Da Siming, and there is nowhere to check it.

"Hey, come and have a look, is there a porcelain altar behind here?"

When she was at a loss, Liu Meiren suddenly pointed to a corner of the bookshelf, the gap between two ancient books, and asked curiously.

Hearing this, Shen Lingxi hurried over and took a look at the ancient book. There was indeed a black porcelain altar hidden behind it.

She directly took out the porcelain altar and threw it on the ground.

"Whoa..."

With the sound of the porcelain altar shattering, a blood-stained jade tablet also fell out of it.

Shen Lingxi picked up the jade tablet and looked through it by the candlelight.

This is the unique jade tablet of the maids in the Yunguo Palace, and the name of the owner of the jade tablet is engraved on it.

"Shaohua... Shaohua..."

Shen Lingxi murmured out the two words on the jade tablet.

Naturally, she remembered that the most powerful female officer in charge of the empress had this name.

"Aunt Shao, didn't you come out of the palace to be raised? Why are you here..."

Her hoarse voice was extremely low, as if she was reciting a spell while muttering.

"You... who are you?"

At this moment, a ghost figure of a woman in her thirties, wearing a blue court lady's attire, slowly appeared in front of Shen Lingxi.

Shen Lingxi looked at the familiar face she hadn't seen for a long time, and couldn't help reaching out her hand.

"Aunt Shao, it's me." She whispered, choked with sobs.

Shaohua looked at Shen Lingxi suspiciously, his eyes could not hide the strangeness, "I have never met the girl, how could the girl recognize me?"

After she mentioned it, Shen Lingxi just remembered that she was still wearing a human skin mask today.

Concerned that Chu Yan was not far away, it was inconvenient for her to explain more, so she simply tore off the human skin mask, revealing Yun Xi's face immediately.

"Princess, it's you!" Shaohua was blessed with joy, tears welling up in his eyes: "Princess, I finally see you!"

When Liu Meiren and the concubines saw the two of them like this, they knew that the dead soul was an old acquaintance of Shen Lingxi, so they floated out one after another to give them space to reminisce.

Shen Lingxi was about to ask her who killed her and why she was locked here——

Shaohua seemed to think of something, his face changed, and he said directly to her: "Princess, you should leave the palace quickly, the commander-in-chief is going to attack you. He wants to kill you and raise his woman with your flesh and blood. If you don't leave, it will be too late." Already!"

When Shen Lingxi heard this, her breath trembled slightly.

The question that was never asked just now already has an answer.

Not long after the mother passed away, the scumbag's harem became more and more chaotic day by day, so she decided to send the people in the mother's harem out of the palace and let them raise them up.

Aunt Shaohua, as the female official in charge of the mother's harem, was the last to leave.

Shen Lingxi still remembered that when Shaohua left, she didn't ask her to resign face to face, but only left a letter.

The letter stated that he did not want to make her feel sad, so he decided to leave alone.

At that time, she was busy praying for the war, and although she was sad for a while, she did not suspect something strange in it.

Now that Shaohua said this when he met her for the first time, it is enough to prove that she did not leave at all, but was killed here.

"I'm already dead." Shen Lingxi looked at her and said calmly, "What you see now is just a corpse. Xiang Zhou used this corpse to feed the soul of that woman."

Shaohua's face turned pale, and he staggered back half a step, his soul trembling because of shock and anger.

She looked at Shen Lingxi in disbelief, and murmured: "But... He clearly said that even if the princess dies, she can still come back to life. Why is the princess's soul still in this body? Could it be that he really changed Soul succeeded?"

Shen Lingxi narrowed her eyes slightly when she heard this.

"What exactly did he say? Please ask Aunt Shao to tell the truth." She said solemnly.

Since she asked, Shaohua would not hide it, so he told her what she knew:
"The princess doesn't know something. In the ancient books that record the bloodline inheritance of saints, there was a saying, 'The saints of destiny were born in response to the calamity, and Mingyu recognized the master. Flesh and flesh can give birth to ghosts, and they will die in nine generations.'"

Shen Lingxi asked suspiciously: "What does this mean?"

Shaohua: "The first saintess appeared in troubled times when the ancestors of the Yun family founded the country of Yun. So far, there are a total of nine generations. According to ancient books, the Holy Maiden will end in the ninth generation, that is to say, the generation of Queen Zanxi will be the end of the Holy Maiden."

"Each generation of saintesses is not identified simply by blood, but also requires Mingyu to recognize the master. Those who are recognized as the descendants of saintesses must drop a drop of blood on Mingyu. If Mingyu changes color, it will be a new generation Saintess. Before the princess, generations of saints were identified according to this law."

"Bloodline is not the key to identifying a saint, Mingyu is."

When Shen Lingxi heard the word "Mingyu", she thought of the jade pendant around Taishu Mei's neck for no reason.

"What is Mingyu? What does it look like?" She hurriedly asked again.

Shaohua: "There is a saying in ancient books, 'There are two kinds of dark jade, Yin and Yang are divided into two parts, the yang one gathers the soul, and the yin one separates the soul.'"

"This dark jade is a sacred object left by the first generation of saintesses. There are two pieces in total, one is called Mingyang jade, and the other is called Mingyin jade. When identifying the bloodline of the saint, the yin and yang jades need to be combined into one. Then drip the woman's blood on the jade to verify her identity..."

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