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The three of them exchanged a glance and sighed in unison.

As they were talking, the communication jade pendant at Liu Shuyan's waist suddenly lit up, shining brightly in the night.

Her expression changed slightly, and she immediately took off the jade pendant and opened it. A hurried female voice came from inside: "Fellow Daoist Liu, something has happened, return immediately!"

The voice belonged to Fellow Daoist Xiao, and in the background, one could faintly hear the screams and running of palace servants.

Jiang Chen and Lin Zhixu both tensed up at the same time.

The three exchanged a glance, and without saying a word, they took off heading towards the harem.

When the three arrived, the harem was already in complete chaos.

The emperor's bedchamber was surrounded by layers upon layers of imperial guards, and the palace servants knelt on the ground, trembling like leaves.

The palace was brightly lit. The new emperor lay on his back on the bed, his face ashen and covered in cold sweat. The eunuch beside him was so anxious that he kept wiping away tears.

Fellow Daoist Xiao was sitting on the edge of the bed, his palms hovering over him, continuously channeling spiritual energy into him.

The three walked in, and Liu Shuyan quickly stepped forward, lowering her voice to ask, "What happened? I was only gone for a short while, how could such a big thing have happened?"

Fellow Daoist Xiao withdrew his hand, his expression somewhat indescribable.

She glanced quickly at the new emperor on the bed, and stammered, "This... is a bit hard to explain. After you leave, I'll keep watch outside."

"Suddenly I heard a scream from inside. When I rushed in, I saw that His Majesty was injured and that the concubine had been kicked into a pillar by His Majesty and had already fainted."

Jiang Chen frowned: "His Majesty is a grown man, in the prime of his life, how could he be injured like this by a mere concubine?"

Lin Zhixu asked, "Where are you injured? Is it serious?"

Fellow Daoist Xiao's gaze wandered, finally settling on a certain spot on the new emperor's lower body.

The three of them followed her gaze, looking somewhat puzzled.

Fellow Daoist Xiao coughed and said, "Uh, it's that spot. It's injured, and quite badly. It's completely severed."

The three of them suddenly realized what was happening, and their expressions immediately turned strange.

This emperor had quite a few tricks up his sleeve.

Jiang Chen couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "This... can it still be continued?"

The eunuchs nearby brightened up, eagerly awaiting the answer.

If they could connect, then they...

Fellow Daoist Xiao shook his head and sighed, "It can't be reconnected. The main problem is that it was severed too completely, and that thing is gone too. There's no way to reconnect it now."

Liu Shuyan asked, "What does 'gone' mean?"

Fellow Daoist Xiao's face became even more embarrassed, and he lowered his voice to a very low level: "It's just... that concubine ate him."

Everyone: "??!"

An indescribable, deathly silence fell over the hall.

Even the eunuchs next to him almost lost their footing, their faces turning deathly pale.

Just then, the new emperor slowly awoke. He was initially bewildered, then it was as if he had been stabbed hard by some memory; his face turned from white to green, then from green to red, and finally he exploded.

"Execute her! I want her executed! Exterminate her entire family! Crush her bones and scatter her ashes—!"

He struggled to sit up, but the eunuch beside him held him down firmly.

The emperor of a country has only been on the throne for a few days, and this kind of thing has happened. If word gets out, how will he govern the country? What will the officials and the people think of him?

Are we going to put a disabled person on the dragon throne?

Lin Zhixu stepped forward, trying to make his voice sound calm: "Your Majesty, we can discuss the matter of executing nine generations of a family later. The most urgent matter is to find out why that concubine did this."

"How could a woman from the inner palace have the audacity to treat His Majesty so cruelly? Don't you find it suspicious?"

The new emperor was deaf to all reason, his eyes bloodshot as he hissed, "What's the strangeness? She's insane! If she weren't insane, how could she do such a thing! I want her dead! I want her entire family wiped out! Even grinding her bones to ashes wouldn't be enough to vent my hatred!"

Seeing that he was too agitated to talk, Lin Zhixu asked a eunuch to calm him down.

Lin Zhixu turned his head and asked Xiao Daoyou in a low voice, "Where is that concubine now?"

Fellow Daoist Xiao raised his hand and pointed to the side of the hall: "The scene was too chaotic just now, and we didn't pay attention to her. She should still be unconscious over there."

Lin Zhixu looked in the direction he pointed and saw a young woman curled up under a pillar, her hair disheveled, her face and body covered in blood, and she was already unconscious.

He walked over quickly, squatted down, and first checked her pulse.

The person was still alive, but his breathing was disordered and weak, he had kick wounds, and it seemed that two of his ribs were broken.

It must have been the new emperor who kicked him.

His gaze shifted downwards, landing on her blood-stained lips.

His eyes showed a hint of disdain.

They really don't mind the dirt; they can eat anything.

However, the question now is why she ate it?

Surely he can't have some kind of pica (eating non-food items) problem?

Lin Zhixu frowned, took out a calming talisman from his sleeve, and stuck it on the concubine's forehead.

As soon as the talisman was pasted on, the concubine suddenly convulsed, made a strange "hoarse" sound from her throat, and then became still again.

The talisman paper turned black and curled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually turning into ashes.

Lin Zhixu's pupils contracted slightly.

It was indeed demonic energy entering the body.

He abruptly turned to look at everyone and said in a deep voice, "Put her in solitary confinement, seal her meridians immediately, and don't let anyone near her. This is not a simple matter."

Everyone's faces darkened.

Liu Shuyan said in a low voice, "You mean, she's been corrupted by evil energy?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the palace servants and eunuchs in the hall all took several steps back, their eyes filled with fear as they looked at the unconscious concubine.

Lin Zhixu nodded: "It's pretty much true. Otherwise, there's no way to explain why she would suddenly do something so unusual."

Without saying a word, Liu Shuyan and Fellow Daoist Xiao stepped forward and firmly restrained the concubine.

Fellow Daoist Xiao channeled several streams of spiritual energy into her body, first sealing her meridians, then tearing off a section of the curtain, binding it with runes to serve as a rope, and binding her tightly.

Just as they were busy, a series of hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside the hall.

A beautiful woman hurried over, surrounded by several palace maids.

If Yun Ling were here, he would recognize that this beautiful woman was the same lady he had seen dressing in front of the mirror in the side hall when he sneaked into the inner palace at night.

"My son! How are you? You were perfectly fine, how could something like this suddenly happen?"

It appears this is the new emperor's mother, who was made empress dowager after his ascension to the throne.

Upon seeing the Empress Dowager, the new emperor immediately broke down in tears in front of everyone: "Mother! My life is so miserable! I... I will never be able to have sex again!"

The Empress Dowager swayed, and the color drained from her face.

"What do you mean?"

The young eunuch beside her quickly leaned close to her ear and whispered a few words, briefly explaining the whole story.

Upon hearing this, the Empress Dowager's eyes widened, and finally, she rolled her eyes back and fell backward.

"Empress Dowager!"

"Quickly, help the Empress Dowager up!"

The hall immediately descended into chaos once again.

Liu Shuyan reacted quickly, supporting the Empress Dowager and channeling a gentle spiritual energy into her back.

The Empress Dowager slowly awoke, her face deathly pale, her lips trembling violently. After a long while, she managed to squeeze out, "Where...where is that...that vile woman?"