Datang: Longevity for Thousands of Years, Exposed by Xiao Sizi

Shen Lian paused for a moment and said, "It just so happened that we happened to be here, so that's why we happened just now."

“This is two chessboards put together!”

"We were psychologically induced to believe that His Majesty was fake! His Majesty was assassinated and believed that we were fake!"

"In this case, it's like enemies meeting each other, and they are extremely jealous. No one will give the other a chance to explain, and no one will explain to the person they think is a thief... So..."

Shen Lian glanced at them and said something that frightened Li Shimin, Ali and the others: "If I hadn't understood everything beforehand, tonight...either your majesty would die or I would really be dead."

The Royal Palace, in the Royal Garden.

At this time, the entire imperial garden was extremely quiet.

Everyone widened their eyes and looked at Shen Lian in shock.

After hearing Shen Lian's analysis, they all fell silent.

But beneath this silent appearance, there is a heart full of turbulent waves.

They really never imagined that there was such a conspiracy behind everything that happened tonight!
Two chess games!

Two chess boards!

Two conspiracies!

Because they were not playing on the same chessboard, neither Shen Lian nor Li Shimin knew the truth behind the game at first.

Finally, at the moment they met, the two conspiracies merged into one.

It almost, really almost turned into a disaster!
If Shen Lian hadn't seen through all these tricks, if Shen Lian hadn't been so powerful, he could have calmed Li Shimin down directly...
Then tonight, a tragedy really happened.

Either Li Shimin will die at their hands!
Either Ali and his men would have died at the hands of the Qianniu Guards.

There will definitely not be a third outcome!

Thinking of this, Ali and others, as well as Li Shimin, couldn't help but feel fortunate.

It's really too suspenseful.

It almost led to an unimaginable disaster!
At the same time, they also felt aggrieved, extremely aggrieved!
Especially Li Shimin.

As the emperor of the Great Tang Dynasty and the ruler of a country, he was actually being used by a villain and almost killed Shen Lian, whom the King of Chu cared so much about. How could he not be angry?

He gritted his teeth, looked at Shen Lian, and said, "Shen Lian, who did this?"

Shen Lian said: "Beidou Club, Beichen."

"Beichen?"

Li Shimin's eyes flashed with a chill, and he asked: "Beichen, who is he?"

Shen Lian shook his head.

"So far, I have not encountered Beichen head-on. This Beichen is more cunning and cautious than any enemy I have encountered before. He has a way to control puppets and rarely shows up in person."

"So...if we want to catch him, we must come up with a perfect and foolproof plan."

Li Shimin was quite surprised. The King of Chu said that Shen Lian never praised others. Was this the first time he saw Shen Lian praise an opponent like this?
Qin Wenyuan described Beichen as cunning and cautious, which Li Shimin felt was a great honor.

Li Shimin glanced at Shen Lian and said, "Do you need me to help?"

Shen Lian shook his head: "Your Majesty, not for now. I still need some time to prepare. If I want to attack Beichen... I must catch him in one go! Otherwise, don't attack him. Otherwise, once he is alarmed, it will be even more difficult to catch him."

Li Shimin saw that Shen Lian obviously had an idea in his mind, so he said no more.

He believed in Shen Lian. No matter how cunning Beichen was, he would never be able to escape from Shen Lian's grasp.

"Your Majesty, I have something that I need your help with."

"what's up?"

Shen Lian said, "We came from a place called Huanfu. It seems that Huanfu is a cover to lure us, but it is also a hiding place of Beidou Society. They use Huanfu to plot against us. If we don't demolish Huanfu, it will be a shame for their plot."

"So, Your Majesty, please order someone to tear it down."

When Li Shimin heard this, a cold light suddenly flashed in his eyes. Without any hesitation, after finding out the location of the Phantom Palace, he directly ordered people to solve the problem.

At the same time, Shen Lian also looked at Ali and said, "Ali, you should also work harder."

Ali said hurriedly, "Please give your orders, sir."

"Take some Qianniu Guards with you and go back along the passage to the stone chamber to see if it is as I expected. Then take note of the situation in the stone chamber and tell me everything."

"After that, we worked with the men sent by His Majesty to attack from both inside and outside, and directly wiped out the den of thieves."

Ali naturally had no objection. After nodding, he took more than two hundred elite soldiers of the Qianniu Guard and returned directly along the original passage.

After doing all this, Shen Lian finally let out a long sigh of relief.

He glanced at the blood on Li Shimin's cuffs and asked with concern, "Your Majesty, where are you hurt?"

Li Shimin shook his head and said, "That thief pretended to be you. I didn't notice it at first, but your temperament is very different from yours, especially your eyes. Your eyes are full of wisdom and confidence, while his eyes are full of malice. So at the critical moment, I saw through his disguise."

"He happened to be very close to me at that time and attacked me directly, but I was prepared in advance, so only the back of my hand was scratched. Other parts of my hand were not injured. You don't have to worry."

Shen Lian felt relieved after hearing this.

He looked at Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty, this Beidouhui Beichen is different from any thief I have encountered before. It is more mysterious, has more methods, and has no bottom line, so Your Majesty must be very careful."

Li Shimin's face was cold. This time he was plotted against and almost caused a disaster, which made Li Shimin really hate the Beidou Society.

Deceiving himself into hurting Shen Lian and hurting the confidants of his second son, the King of Chu, this has already touched his bottom line!

He gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, I won't be fooled a second time!"

"However, Shen Lian, you need to be more careful, because you are the one facing them directly, you are more dangerous than me!"

"If you die, I don't know how to explain to the King of Chu."

Shen Lian smiled, his expression calm and without any fear at all.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. I will certainly not let you and His Royal Highness the King of Chu down. The Beidou Society... they have many tricks, and I have many tricks too. Besides, I also find it very interesting to fight with them. I will not suffer any loss."

interesting?

Li Shimin complained in his heart that only you crazy people in the Chu Palace would dare to say that it is interesting to fight against such a group of sinister, cunning and vicious people.

After parting with Li Shimin, Shen Lian's eyes changed slightly, "Next, it's your turn, Tianquan..."

"Are you really dead? Or is there really a possibility of resurrection?" Shen Lian murmured, and then he regained consciousness.

He pondered for a moment, and then said leisurely: "If I really died, my head was chopped off, I don't believe I can live again."

"But you... are you really dead?"

"But on that day, I saw with my own eyes that you set yourself on fire."

"Besides, you really have no breath."

"There was nothing unusual about your burial afterwards. In a sense, you were indeed dead, but..."

Shen Lian narrowed his eyes slightly and said slowly: "At that time, there was no trace of his body left. It is true that he is gone."

"It's just that at that time, I, Shen Lian, hadn't seen the secret technique of the Yin-Yang School, so I had never thought about it much. But now, hehe..."

"In the secret arts of the Yin-Yang School, there was a record that there was a kind of Gu worm. If it was cultivated from a young age, it would merge with the blood of its master from an early age, and the two could coexist."

"This kind of Gu worm is different from other deadly Gu worms. It can save lives. When the owner's life is hanging by a thread, this Gu worm will put the owner into a state of suspended animation, allowing the body's functions to fall into hibernation, reducing energy consumption, and slowly healing the wound."

"According to the secret art of the Yin-Yang School, this is an extremely rare Gu worm. Even during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period when the Yin-Yang School was at its peak, it was still very rare to see this Gu worm. This Gu worm also has another name called the Divine Doctor Gu, because as long as there is a breath left, the Gu worm can use its own life to save its owner."

"So, people who possess this kind of poison usually have a second life."

Ah Bao, who was standing by, listened to Shen Lian's mumbling with a look of astonishment and surprise: "Sir, people have turned into ashes, how can they still be alive?"

Shen Lian was not surprised by Ah Bao's questioning. He shook his head and said, "I don't know either. This is what the book says. I am not sure about the details."

"Moreover, the books also say that everything in the world has yin and yang, and nothing exists that has only good sides. So this kind of poisonous insect also has problems. That is, although it can heal the owner's injuries and put the owner into a state of suspended animation..."

“But it can only go so far.”

A Bao's mind was moved: "Sir, this is the only way you can do it? What does it mean?"

Shen Lian looked at Ah Bao and said, "Literally, it can only repair the damage and put the owner in a state of suspended animation, but it cannot wake the owner from suspended animation."

"That is to say, if no one wakes him up from his suspended state for a long time, he will...sleep forever and eventually become truly dead."

Abao was silent for a long time before he couldn't help but sigh.

"My Lord, this is unbelievable! If there really is such a magical thing in the world, how many people would break their heads to fight for it."

Shen Lian also laughed: "Fortunately, this news didn't get out, otherwise, there would really be chaos."

Shen Lian believes that having an extra life is a temptation to human nature!
Ah Bao frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "So, sir, you think that Tianquan might know this secret, and there is this kind of Gu worm symbiotic in his blood, so he didn't really die at that time, but pretended to die?"

Shen Lian did not hide his guess.

"If we are solving a case, we must make bold guesses and carefully verify the facts."

"Under the current circumstances, this possibility is not impossible, and this is also a verification that conforms to my guess."

Ah Bao hurriedly asked: "Sir, what's going on?"

Shen Lian said: "If someone else wanted to steal Tian Quan's body, why didn't he steal it earlier or later, but went to Huan Mansion to steal it at this time?"

"You know, in this case, the difficulty is more than several times higher. I don't think anyone with a normal mind would make such a choice."

Abao nodded slowly.

Indeed, according to common sense, Tianquan’s tomb is not a place like an imperial mausoleum, so no one cares about it.

Therefore, if you really want to get rid of Tianquan's corpse, the chances are very high.

And it's safe.

But those people didn't do that.

Instead, after Tianquan's corpse was stolen, he ran to Huanfu's lair to steal. This is very illogical.

Or, there is a reason they don't know.

Otherwise, this possibility can be ruled out.

"so….…"

Shen Lian continued, "I am more inclined to believe that Tian Quan is really in a state of suspended animation, or a similar state."

"A person who is pretending to be dead cannot wake himself up, even with conventional methods. He is pretending to be dead because of the Gu, so the probability of the Gu worm waking him up is very high."

"When we were in that stone chamber before, the fake Qin Ziyi relied on the poisonous insects to control those corpses."

"So we can guess that after the fake Qin Ziyi dug up these corpses, he must have implanted poisonous insects into their bodies. And it just so happens that... after the poisonous insects entered Tianquan's body, they not only failed to control Tianji, but awakened Tianquan instead."

"You know, if my previous speculations are correct, since Tianquan can possess the legendary Gu worm, it means that he has done a lot of research on Gu worms. When facing other Gu worms, he must have a way to deal with them."

"So after he was implanted with the Gu worm, he gradually woke up. After realizing his situation, he secretly killed a servant of the Illusion Mansion and disguised him to look like himself, so that everyone would think he was really dead..."

After hearing Shen Lian's speculation, Abao remained silent for a long time.

He really didn't dare to imagine, if all of this was true, what an ingenious trick this would be.

If Tianquan is really not dead, then if it weren’t for the presence of my master this time, I would know that the corpse is not Tianquan at all…

The consequences are really unimaginable.

A person who everyone saw dead suddenly came back to life, and he was an extremely sinister and cunning person, watching them from behind, and no one knew what conspiracy he was brewing...
Just thinking about it made Abao's scalp tingle.

"even……."

Shen Lian looked at Abao at this time, was silent for a while, and then spoke again.

Da You seemed determined to shock people with his words: "I even feel that all this might be a trick of Tianquan."

"Tian Quan is a member of the Beidou Society. He must know about Beichen and Huanfu."

"And his wisdom and intelligence, at first, did not match the Seven Stars title, and were even worse than anyone else. I think... this is unreasonable,"

"It was too easy for him to die that time before. Of course...he was plotted by people from the Big Dipper Society, and he was attacked by his own people. There is no definite information about me, but after that time, I always Have doubts."

"And now, my doubts have been filled a little."

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"As the saying goes, good people don't live long, but evil lasts for thousands of years. People like her are very thoughtful, and she has a deep understanding of Beichen and Beidou. She will definitely be on guard."

(End of this chapter)