Father, who is both a heir and a descendant, is still biased; the bound system has gone berserk.

Xuanjing looked at Ying Nanyao and Old Lady Liu with a malicious expression. "Ying Huanchong ruined everything I had, so naturally I will ruin everything he has."

So I used the Longevity Gu, sacrificing twenty years of my lifespan to regain my youth, get close to Liu Xueyan, have an affair with her, have her bear my child, and have you raise my child!

As for Shangguan Tang, I also tried to get close to her, but she's different from Liu Xueyan. She didn't understand my hints at all, and she's truly devoted to you.

So, I had no choice but to let Liu Xueyan suppress her child. Interestingly, you, a grandmother and a biological father, actually agreed to, and even actively participated in, the persecution of them. Hahaha!

At this point, Old Liu and Ying Nanyao were practically seething with rage.

Xuanjing looked at them with a mocking expression. "Originally, I planned to reveal the truth after my son inherited the title of Marquis of Weiyuan."

But who would have thought that you were so useless, your titles were demoted, and you were reduced to the rank of Earl.

He looked disgusted as he said this.

Ying Nanyao's eyes were bloodshot, and he trembled with rage, but he couldn't move. In the end, he opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Where is Ying Huanchong now?" Emperor Cangxuan asked menacingly.

Ying Nanyao looked at Emperor Cangxuan with a look of horror.

"Who knows!" Xuanjing said indifferently.

"I was originally the high priest of the Southern Barbarians, and my family was extremely prosperous. After he seized my family's property, he wanted to become the new high priest of the Southern Barbarians and establish his own family."

Unfortunately, I cast a curse on him that prevented him from having children, so he disappeared.

However, he once said that he wanted to establish his family throughout the world, not only in the Southern Barbarians, the Eastern Chen, but also in the Western Lin, and he wanted to leave offspring for them.

He wants his descendants, his family, to be spread across the four kingdoms!

Therefore, there were at least four legal wives!

Xuanjing looked at Old Liu, who was struck dumb.

She...she was just one of them!

As she grew old, she discovered that her husband had not only faked his death to deceive her, but also had another family outside the marriage.

It's fortunate that he can't have children, otherwise, wouldn't there be a whole bunch of illegitimate children?

Old Liu suddenly looked at Ying Nanyao: "You were the one who prepared your father's body for burial back then, didn't you know that?"

You knew he faked his death, and you conspired with him to deceive me?

Old Mrs. Liu was absolutely furious.

Ying Nanyao's face turned ugly. "Mother, what nonsense are you talking about? How would I know?"

Old Mrs. Liu laughed heartily, "Good, good! You really are my good son..."

"So, you took the opportunity to dig up Ying Huanchong's grave. You dug up his grave not just to dig it up, but to expose his faked death."

Ying Yufu said.

Xuanjing looked at her. "That's right, this is exactly what I wanted to achieve. Now, I've accomplished my goal, haven't I?"

Ying Yufu looked coldly at Ying Hengzhi and Princess Mingluan, "So, what wrong has the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion done?"

Emperor Cangxuan also looked at Mingluan, "Mingluan, without evidence, how can you, as a princess, speak so recklessly? Why don't you apologize to Anguo at once?"

Mingluan looked at Ying Yufu with a face full of resentment and unwillingness, "I'm sorry, I misunderstood the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion. I only heard..."

She glanced at Ying Hengzhi, and seeing that Ying Hengzhi's face was pale, she ultimately did not continue speaking.

Ying Yufu smiled and said, "I will accept Princess Mingluan's apology on behalf of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion. After all, the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion did nothing wrong."

She looked in Ying Hengzhi's direction and said, "But Concubine Ying, weren't you very fond of your 'grandfather' before?"

Hmm, do you still worship him now?

Ying Yufu pointed with her chin at the skeleton in the coffin.

Ying Hengzhi: "..."

She felt utterly ashamed.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have successfully slapped the face of the culprit, found the real culprit who dug up the grave, and cleared the name of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion. The system rewards you with 1000 points. Your current balance is 5310 points.]

Ying Yufu was immediately overjoyed.

Ying Hengzhi, on the other hand, was not happy.

[Mynah, how could this be? Didn't you realize from the beginning that the person in the coffin wasn't Ying Huanchong?]

System 008: [Host, this is a real world. What I can detect are all matters related to your fate. Other matters, such as Ying Huanchong faking his death, are beyond my detection range, and I often miss them.]

All of Ying Hengzhi's previous performances were in vain.

Originally, the plan was to use the grave-digging incident to make the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion pay the price. However, it turned out that not only was it the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion that dug the grave, but the person in the grave was not Ying Huanchong either.

She was really about to vomit.

Just then, she heard Ying Yufu say, "No wonder Concubine Ying kept framing the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion; it turns out she was protecting your biological father."

After Ying Yufu finished speaking, she sighed, "After all, he is your biological father, and I can understand your desire to protect him!"

Ying Hengzhi was instantly disgusted.

Who's protecting Xuan Jing? She doesn't want to acknowledge him at all!

A sly glint flashed in Liao Kong's eyes. He suddenly took out the Thousand Gu Inducing Elixir and gently shook it in his sleeve.

This Thousand Gu Guide is a treasure specifically designed to counter Gu worms. His high-frequency shaking caused the Longevity Gu within Xuan Jing's body to become restless and agitated.

Suddenly, Xuanjing's expression turned ferocious, his limbs twitched, and veins bulged on his forehead.

Then, a blood-red Gu worm slowly crawled out of his left ear.

Liao Kong released the black centipede, which swallowed the blood-red Gu worm whole.

"ah--"

Xuanjing suddenly screamed, "How could this happen? How could this be—"

His eyes were fixed on Kong's direction; he could sense that Kong had tampered with things.

Liao Kong looked at him calmly.

"what!"

"Oh my God!"

A gasp suddenly came from the crowd.

Even Emperor Cangxuan's pupils constricted, and his face showed shock.

Xuanjing's skin began to age rapidly, with wrinkles appearing and brown age spots growing on her once smooth skin.

His once upright figure began to hunch, and his shrewd eyes became cloudy.

He went from being middle-aged to a seventy-year-old man in an instant.

Ying Yufu's eyes widened.

"He really was an old man, and Liu Xueyan was actually willing to have his child."

Ying Nanyao is such a failure.

Upon hearing this, Ying Nanyao clutched his chest and looked at Ying Yufu with immense bitterness.

Ying Hengzhi was even more unable to bear it.

It was one thing for her mother to have an affair, and it would have been another if Xuanjing were really young, but he was actually older than her grandfather.

Looking at the aged and frail Xuan Jing, Ying Hengzhi's eyes were filled with disgust and shame.

Ying Yufu was also deeply shocked. She said, "Concubine Ying, a daughter does not despise her father for being ugly. You protected him so much before, so you certainly won't despise him now, right?"

After all, he's your biological father!

Ying Yufu emphasized the words "biological father" very heavily.

The crowd immediately began to discuss the matter.

Ying Hengzhi stood there helplessly, looking flustered.

At this moment, she wanted someone to come out of her predicament. She subconsciously looked at the Second Prince, only to see that Cang Mingze not only did not intend to protect her, but his eyes were full of disdain.

She immediately felt a chill run down her spine.

Looking at Mingluan again, Mingluan was also looking at her with a complicated expression.

Even when she saw her looking over, Mingluan avoided her gaze.

At that moment, Wu Lingduo suddenly spoke up: "You are the High Priest of the Southern Barbarians, aren't you?"

Xuanjing was in a state of sudden decay due to old age, declining from his peak in an instant, which caused him great pain.

Upon hearing Wu Lingduo's voice, he immediately looked over.

A smile played on his lips: "Yes, I am Xuanling. Eighteen years have passed, and I can still see my Southern Barbarian Saintess before I die. I have no regrets in dying."

"I beg the Holy Maiden to burn my remains to ashes and send them back to the Southern Barbarian lands to be buried at the foot of Wufeng Mountain, where my wife, children, and clansmen reside."

With the Life-Extending Gu leaving his body, his lifespan has come to an end.

Wu Lingduo nodded. "High Priest Xuanling, rest assured, I promise you."

After saying that, Wu Lingduo looked at Ying Hengzhi: "She is your daughter, what are your plans?"

Xuan Jing glanced at Ying Hengzhi and said indifferently, "Although she and Ying Chengting are my flesh and blood, they were born and raised in Beixuan, and they were born for my revenge. They are not worthy of being my children."

Ying Hengzhi suddenly widened her eyes.

Xuanjing actually looked down on her.

How dare he look down on her!

Wu Lingduo accepted the answer calmly, nodding and saying, "Okay, I understand."

Xuan Jing smiled and calmly closed his eyes.

He stood there, motionless. A soldier from the Thousand Feather Army stepped forward, checked his breath, and then said to Emperor Cangxuan, "Your Majesty, he is dead."

Wu Lingduo stepped forward, bowed, and said, "Your Majesty Bei Xuan, please allow me to collect the body of the High Priest Xuan Ling."

Emperor Cangxuan glanced at the southern barbarian girl and said, "Granted."

Just then, the deputy commander of the Thousand Feather Army, who had left earlier, arrived with Ge Da.

Also present were the Dowager Lady of the Duke of Zhenguo and Shangguan Cheng.

They first paid their respects to Emperor Cangxuan, and then Ge Da stepped forward and recounted the events of that year.

Finally, Ge Da produced the account book showing Ying Huanchong's collusion with the bandits.

Cang Xuan scanned the area quickly, then chuckled and looked at Ying Nanyao and Old Liu with eyes full of killing intent.

"Someone come here!"

"exist!"

The entire Thousand Feather Army immediately stepped forward.

"Take Ying Nanyao, Old Liu, and all the other members of the Ying clan into the imperial prison. Shangguan Cheng, you and Yu Hai are in charge of searching and confiscating the Weiyuan Marquis's residence!"

Yu Hai is the deputy commander of the Thousand Feather Army.

Emperor Cangxuan's eyes were like knives: "Ying Huanchong deceived the emperor and betrayed the country; his entire clan should be executed!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Shangguan Cheng, standing at sea, responded in unison.

Old Liu and Ying Nanyao were both stunned.

Suddenly, Old Liu's mouth and nose became crooked, she foamed at the mouth, and her limbs twitched. The next moment, she collapsed to the ground, unable to get up.

The crowd erupted in uproar once again.

Emperor Cangxuan frowned as well. A royal physician stepped forward from the crowd, glanced at Old Lady Liu, and said, "Your Majesty, she has suffered a stroke."

"If he had a stroke, he had a stroke," Emperor Cangxuan said coldly.

"Your Majesty, may I ask what should be done with this tomb?" someone asked.

Emperor Cangxuan coldly said, "This grave is hereby declared unusable."

The person asking the question froze. What does it mean that this grave is now abandoned?

Regardless of what happened to the grave in the end, once this matter was settled, the entire Ying family was imprisoned, while Ge Da was pardoned, freed from slavery, and regained his freedom.

Ge Da knelt gratefully before the people of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, kowtowed three times forcefully, and then turned and left.

When Old Lady Liu was carried away by the Thousand Feather Army, her eyes darted desperately toward Shangguan Tang and Ying Yufu, and two streams of turbid tears flowed silently down her cheeks.

But neither Shangguan Tang nor Ying Yufu noticed her.

Wu Lingduo walked up to Ying Yufu, or more precisely, she walked up to Liao Kong.

Wu Lingduo looked at Kong curiously, "You were the one who drew out the Longevity Gu from the Xuanling High Priest's body just now. How did you do that?"

Liao Kong's dark eyes looked coldly at her. When Wu Lingduo met those eyes, she gasped and couldn't help but take a few steps back.

"You, your eyes—"

Liao Kong stared coldly at her.

Wu Lingduo took a deep breath, and a dark light flashed in her eyes as she looked at Liao Kong. "Tell me, how did you manage to draw out the Longevity Gu from the body of High Priest Wu Ling?"

"I am Wulingduo, the Holy Maiden of the Southern Barbarians. If you reveal the method to me, I will grant you the title of my First Great Shaman."

Ying Yufu's face darkened, but then she heard Kong Dao say, "Southern Barbarian Holy Maiden Wu Lingduo, you are merely a candidate for Holy Maiden. The real Holy Maiden has disappeared, and you only became the current Holy Maiden because of this. I look down on your position as the First Great Shaman."

Wu Lingduo's expression changed instantly.

She was both shocked and furious, unable to believe that someone in Beixuan would expose her identity.

Even more surprisingly, the person who revealed her identity was a child of seven or eight years old.

"How dare you speak to me like that!" Wu Lingduo exclaimed angrily.

"You ill-mannered child! It's an honor for you that Lingduo is willing to let you be her High Priest!"

Su Jinyu popped out again.

"She just wants my method to draw out the Longevity Gu from Xuanjing's body."

Liao Kong glanced calmly at Su Jinyu and said, "Get lost. Don't meddle in other people's business, or I might cast a spell on you."

Su Jinyu's expression changed immediately, and he retreated repeatedly.

Seeing this, Mingluan angrily stepped forward, "Ying Yufu, aren't you going to do anything about him? This is so rude!"

Ying Yufu said coldly, "Isn't she even more rude to ask my brother to be her subordinate right off the bat?"

Wu Lingduo looked at Ying Yufu with a gloomy expression.

Mingluan angrily said, "Lingduo meant well, but if you don't agree, then you don't agree."

The Crown Prince was right next to Ying Yufu when he said calmly, "Mingluan, keep your friends in check. Since you brought them back, don't let them cause trouble. Otherwise, I won't hesitate to expel them from Beixuan."

Mingluan was heartbroken and looked at him with a wronged expression, "Crown Prince, how could you do this to me?"

The crown prince turned his face away and ignored her.

Cang Mingze spoke softly, "Brother, please give Mingluan some face."

The Crown Prince glanced at him and said, "Second brother, you should take better care of your concubines first."

Cang Mingze: "..."

He looked at Ying Hengzhi, and his face immediately darkened.

He used to think Ying Hengzhi was perfect in every way, and even planned to make her his principal wife.

But at this moment, he found her to be an eyesore.

He suddenly felt exhausted. This was just one concubine; he could simply get rid of her later.

He said coldly, "What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and come back to the manor with me. You're making a fool of yourself!"

Ying Hengzhi's face was immediately filled with humiliation.

Ying Hengzhi hesitated, about to say something, when just then, someone rushed over to report.

"Your Majesty, Liu Xueyan and Ying Chengting have disappeared."