Ming Dynasty: I am truly not the Emperor of Longevity

After vomiting several liters of purple blood, the Jiajing Emperor lay down on his imperial bed again.

Of course, he was not truly awake at this moment. The actions of getting up to vomit blood and lying down were actually all accomplished by Lu Chen using his telekinetic power.

After lying down again, Emperor Jiajing's chest began to rise and fall slightly, and he would occasionally make a muffled sound from his throat.

Xu Kun placed his fingers on the emperor's wrist, feeling the changes in his pulse.

The pulse is now much stronger than before, and the chest can rise and fall on its own, which means that breathing is beginning to become smoother.

The most dangerous moment has finally passed!

However, Xu Kun began to worry about another problem.

The emperor's "qi collapse" lasted for far longer than any other "qi collapse" patient he had ever treated.

Prolonged "qi depletion" can cause a lot of harm to the body.

No one can say for sure when the emperor will regain consciousness, or what aftereffects he will suffer.

But in any case, the emperor's life was saved, and so was his own.

. . .

Noon.

High-ranking officials such as Xia Yan, Zhai Luan, and Yan Song have all arrived at Renshou Palace upon hearing the news.

At this time, the emperor's pulse and breathing had become stable, and he had passed the critical period, but after two or three hours, he still had not woken up.

Everyone in the hall was watching the emperor's movements on the imperial bed.

Most people knelt, a few important officials stood with their hands at their sides, and only three people were qualified to sit.

Lu Chen and Empress Fang sat on two chairs beside the imperial couch, but the stool closest to the emperor was occupied by Xu Kun.

During those two or three hours, Xu Kun kept a close eye on the emperor's condition, his fingers almost never leaving the emperor's wrist pulse point.

But in fact, Lu Chen had been secretly using his telekinetic powers to check on the Jiajing Emperor's physical condition.

Smaller bleeding points inside the body are stopped one by one by pressing with mental power until the wound clots and stops bleeding.

For larger injured blood vessels, Lu Chen even used his telekinesis to tie knots at the rupture points.

Dozens of minimally invasive surgeries were performed inside the body, unseen by outsiders.

But there was one place Lu Chen dared not touch: his brain.

Prolonged oxygen deprivation will definitely have an impact on the brain, but no one can be sure of the extent of the impact.

Even in the world before Lu Chen transmigrated, humanity's understanding of the brain was still very rudimentary.

After completing the last minimally invasive internal surgery, Lu Chen stopped moving and only used his weak mental power to sense the condition of Emperor Jiajing's body.

Strangely, Lu Chen felt an increasingly inexplicable sense of familiarity with the place!

Lu Chen already knew that his face and voice resembled those of the Jiajing Emperor from over a decade ago.

Over the past few years since his transmigration, Lu Chen has used his mental power to sense the condition inside his body countless times, so he can be said to be extremely familiar with it.

However, during the process of using his telekinetic powers to heal the Jiajing Emperor, Lu Chen was surprised to discover that the Jiajing Emperor's internal skeleton was extremely similar to his own.

The same bone in different people is not exactly the same; there are subtle differences.

However, Lu Chen discovered that the length of the transverse processes of the vertebrae, the tilt angle of the articular surfaces, the anteversion angle of the femoral neck, the size and shape of the patella, and the curvature of the ribs on Emperor Jiajing's body were almost exactly the same as his own.

How could two completely unrelated people be so similar?!

Even among twins, it would be extremely rare to find someone who resembles them to this extent.

Moreover, although the true age of this body is impossible to confirm, it looks significantly younger than the Jiajing Emperor by more than ten years, so it can't be a twin!

What on earth is going on?!

Back in the Fei Dun Garden of the Xie family in Yuyao, after Lu Chen learned from Xie Pi that his appearance and voice were very similar to the Jiajing Emperor from more than ten years ago, he naturally thought it was a coincidence.

There are indeed people who are unrelated but look alike.

What makes him unique is that he happens to be impersonating "Lu Chen," who is suspected to be Lu Song's illegitimate son.

The Lu family had close ties with Prince Xingxian and the Jiajing Emperor, and Lu himself was considered to be the posthumous son of Prince Xingxian. He was successfully recognized by the Jiajing Emperor, renamed Zhu Houyu, granted the title of Prince, and recorded in the imperial genealogy.

From beginning to end, Lu Chen never considered whether he would actually have any relationship with the Jiajing Emperor.

He always believed that the body he possessed was just an ordinary rural boy from the mountainous area of ​​Yunyang Prefecture.

When he woke up in that meteorite crater, his clothes and appearance were similar to those of ordinary people he later met in Gucheng County.

The area around Yunyang Prefecture was originally a gathering place for refugees. Before the prefecture was established during the Chenghua reign, the number of refugees reached as many as one million.

Even now, there are still at least 100,000 unregistered migrants scattered in the deep mountains.

It's difficult to find out what the boy's original identity was, and there's no need to find out.

But at this moment, Lu Chen's heart also began to waver!

The origin of this body may not be as simple as I thought!

"His Majesty's eyelids twitched."

Just then, Xu Kun suddenly spoke.

Everyone, including Lu Chen, turned to look at Emperor Jiajing's face.

Sure enough, the emperor's eyelids twitched slightly a few times before he slowly opened them a crack.

"...water."

A faint, hoarse voice, almost inaudible, slowly escaped from the emperor's mouth.

Xu Kun, who was closest to the imperial bed, trembled, bowed his head, and slammed his forehead heavily against the ground.

"May Your Majesty enjoy boundless blessings!"

Immediately, everyone in the hall knelt down in unison.

. . .

That evening, in a private residence in the capital.

"Left Protector, we've found out."

Wu Nian went inside and sat down in the chair opposite Li Dali.

"The palace and the West Garden were heavily guarded today. It wasn't until evening that my spies in the palace finally found a chance to leave and send out the message."

Last night's assassination attempt on the emperor also failed!

The emperor was seriously injured and remained unconscious for several hours, but he woke up briefly around noon.

Although he later fell into a deep sleep again, his life was no longer in danger, and it was only a matter of time before he woke up.

"What a pity, all our efforts were in vain!"

Li Dali sighed deeply.

"Have you found out anything about the current status of the assassin who attempted to assassinate the emperor?"

"They're all dead!"

Wu Nian shook her head.

"Speaking of which, this is related to us."

According to the spies, Empress Fang originally planned to have the sixteen palace maids who attempted to assassinate the emperor, along with Consort Wang Ning and Consort Cao Duan, executed by slow slicing.

But then he suddenly changed his mind and ordered the Tengxiang Four Guards to behead and mutilate all eighteen women on the open ground outside Renshou Palace.

Shortly after executing these palace maids and concubines, Zhu Houyu arrived at the West Garden.

The spies believed that Empress Fang likely made her decision hastily after learning that Zhu Houyu was on his way from the Marquis of Wuding's residence to the Western Garden.

"It seems this Empress isn't so stupid after all!"

Li Dali snorted coldly.

"There was no need to disregard everything and insist on torturing his rival, Consort Cao, to death by a thousand cuts."

Knowing when to act decisively and silence witnesses!