"Queen Wu?"

Everyone in the palace was indeed inexplicably surprised when they heard this.

Empress Wu is the first wife of the current emperor. She was the crown prince and concubine when she was young. She has accompanied her mother all the way to this day. How could she suddenly sink in a coffin at the bottom of Yulong Pond?

Even if the queen is really dead, she cannot remain silent.

"The Queen is naturally fine, otherwise the news would definitely spread. But I don't know what happened to this corpse, but it looked so similar, so I immediately informed the people in the Supervisory Office." Chen Xuanlu said.

He has been living outside the city of Yudu for so many years, and he is considered a very experienced practitioner in the capital circle. Naturally, he is familiar with these principles of life. As long as there is no news of Queen Wu's death in the palace, then the identity of the corpse is fake.

, even if it is true, it is false, and there is no need for him to make a judgment at all.

"Not long after, someone from the Supervisory Government Mansion came to take away the coffin and the body together. I thought everything would be fine from now on." Chen Xuanlu continued, "But who knew later that I heard that the coffin was parked in the Supervisory Government Mansion?

Before anyone from the palace could come to identify it, a fire broke out inexplicably and burned it to ashes."

After hearing this, several people in Shushan couldn't figure it out for a while.

Jiutian is a worldly celestial sect. Even if there are overt and covert struggles and intrigues, it is more about the cultivation of the Tao. But the people in Yudu City are unpredictable, and the complexity is definitely far beyond their knowledge.

"Originally, the people in charge of the government warned me not to spread the word about this matter, so I just kept it secret." Chen Xuanlu added, "But starting from the next day, the villagers near Yulongtang will have a strange dream..."

"In the dream, there was a woman who was wet all over and shouted, 'Give me back my life'..."

"Three days have passed now, and this strange dream has affected the people in Yudu City. I don't know how many people have had this strange dream. It's not just my Xuanxin sect who dug up coffins in Yulongtang that day. Many nearby villagers also

After witnessing this, it was inevitable that someone would spread the word."

"Nowadays, there are rumors in Yudu City that the Queen Wu in the palace is fake, and the real Queen Wu has long since been drowned in the lake."

"Now I just regret why I took out the coffin that day." Chen Xuanlu looked like he really regretted it. "I didn't know if there would be trouble in the future for causing such a thing."

Although because of this incident, his Xuanxin Sect, which was not very well-known in Yudu City, became well known to the people of Yudu for a while. But sometimes, being famous is not necessarily a good thing.

If this bizarre and mysterious case is combined with the current situation in the harem, it would be even more worthy of scrutiny.

In the early years, the emperor and Empress Wu were very affectionate and did not even want to have concubines. It was only out of the emperor's responsibility that they had no choice but to expand the harem.

Because there is a disadvantage for practitioners, that is, the higher the level of cultivation, the harder it is to reproduce.

Maybe it's also a limitation of heaven, otherwise a powerful person can live for hundreds of years. If he really works hard, he could have thousands of children. And the children of powerful people are often born with spirituality that is beyond ordinary people. If

If this continues, the spiritual energy in the world will probably become scarce in a few generations.

The emperors of the Yu Dynasty were at least in the seventh realm when they ascended the throne. It was extremely difficult to reproduce dragon species. They had always had to recruit concubines. Sometimes, the emperor really had to rely on his sense of responsibility to have children.

Even though this generation of emperors worked so hard, they only gave birth to a dozen or so children, and only three of them had the divine fire destiny. Some of the previous emperors did not work so hard, and they only had one or two children.

However, no matter how many concubines there were, the emperor still favored Empress Wu. This was also a legend in the early years.

Just three years ago, a woman named Gong Yu'er entered the palace. Somehow she captured the emperor's heart and was quickly awarded the title of noble concubine. From then on, the emperor's thoughts were focused on the concubine, and he once neglected Empress Wu.

This is understandable. After all, Empress Wu is already in her fifties and sixties. No matter how well-maintained she is, she is not as young and beautiful as this little girl. But she comes from a wealthy family, is deeply popular among the people, and has a biological second prince, so her status

It is still unshakable.

What really caused the image of Empress Wu to collapse was the news that she had secretly taken the Beauty Elixir.

The Elixir of Beauty is an evil elixir that can only be refined by harming people's lives, but it is the best elixir in the world for nourishing the skin in spring, so it has been banned repeatedly. There have been rumors of the powerful women in Yudu City taking the Elixir of Beauty, but they have never been caught.

Real hammer.

I don't know how this news got out, and it quickly angered the people all over the world, destroying the image of a virtuous empress that she had worked hard for many years. Although the palace quickly issued a notice to clarify the matter, many people still did not want to believe it.

After all, the story of people taking evil elixirs to gain favor in the harem sounds very real.

In the following years, Empress Wu was secretly called the "Demon Queen" by many people.

In the last incident in the Roupu Kingdom, General Wu Anmin wanted to achieve military glory, but he brought the Roupu people into the palace, which caused a big chaos.

Although it was later discovered that the bones and teeth used in the Roupu Kingdom's ritual had been tampered with, the general, as the person in charge, was responsible for not noticing. Instead, he was demoted and his power was reduced, and his power was temporarily weak.

Many people in Yudu accused Wu Anmin of bringing the poison in. Even if he didn't mean it, if he hadn't been so happy about his success and insisted on holding a ceremony to present prisoners, how could such a chaos have happened?

In fact, the prisoner presentation ceremony was decided by the court before the expedition, and the decision was naturally made by the emperor. However, Wu Anmin could not pass the blame like this, so he could only silently bear this infamy.

As a result, the Wu family's reputation became even worse.

At this time, such an incident suddenly happened, and rumors spread all over Yudu City. They said that the virtuous Empress Wu was definitely assassinated by someone, and now she was replaced by evil spirits, so she caused trouble again and again.

…

After listening to Chen Xuanlu's explanation, several people in Shushan felt that this matter was not simple. Fortunately, the turmoil in Yudu City had little to do with them.

All they need to do when they come here is attend the Immortal Sect Conference. As for all these things, they just treat them as anecdotes.

While they were chatting, another young man walked in from outside. He stopped at the door and said suddenly: "Master, this disciple is late."

There were all practitioners present, so it was natural to hear that his voice was weak and his breath was disordered.

"Why is it like this?" Chen Xuanlu frowned and said, "Come in and talk."

The disciple then walked into the temple.

He was wearing a jade-belted brocade robe, with high eyebrows and bright eyes. He was a rather heroic-looking young man. However, he smelled strongly of alcohol, and his face was pale, and his eyes were dim, as if he had been seriously injured.

.

This should be the fourth person from the Xuanxin Sect who did not come, the disciple named Liu Yunzheng.

"This disciple just had an argument and suffered some minor injuries..." He lowered his head and said after sitting down.

"Slight injury?" Chen Xuanlu held his shoulders with anger in his eyes. His breath spread all over his body in an instant, and his expression became even uglier. "Most of your meridians have been damaged. Is this still a minor injury? What's going on?"

Liu Yunzheng's eyes dodge and he did not dare to look directly at Chen Xuanlu. After being pressed, he said as a last resort: "Disciple left early today and wanted to meet the master later, so... I went to Baihua Tower first..."

"Humph." Chen Xuanlu snorted coldly.

"Unexpectedly, I saw an eleven or twelve-year-old child acting violently in the Baihua Building. The disciple stepped forward to stop him... then he was injured..."

Liu Yunzheng hesitated as he spoke, looking extremely ashamed. Chen Xuanlu continued to ask questions before he came up with the full story.

It turned out that he had a sweetheart in Baihua Tower named Yun Shang. She was a good girl with a miserable life experience, living in the dust but pure and pure. Liu Yuncheng often went to hang out with this girl Yun Shang.

Today, he made an appointment with the team that would come to visit Shushan later, so he went out early. Seeing that it was still early, he went to find Miss Yun Shang to stay for a while.

Unexpectedly, a little boy came in and shouted that he wanted to take over Baihua Building and let all the good girls be his wives.

The child looked to be in his early ten years and not very tall. Everyone was just looking at him as a joke. Liu Yunzheng stepped forward and wanted to throw the child out.

Unexpectedly, when he grabbed the opponent with his hand, he didn't move at all. With a backhand palm, he knocked Liu Yunzheng to the street.

He was seriously injured immediately and could only leave in despair.

But when he was fighting for glory in a brothel and was injured by a child, he didn't show his face no matter how much he said it, so he just kept hesitating.

"Child?" Chen Xuanlu said in a deep voice: "Who can have such a strong cultivation level? If you are unlucky, you can be beaten to death with one palm! Is it possible that some master transformed it?"

"He said..." Liu Yunzheng said, "His name is Qi Lin'er. If you want revenge, you can go find him."

"No wonder!"

As soon as this statement came out, several people in Shushan immediately understood.

Naturally, they had to study the teams sent by Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to participate in the Immortal Sect Conference. Among them, in addition to Yang Shenlong, Yang Yuhu brothers and Xi Miaoxian, there was suddenly an unknown Qi Lin'er in Penglai, which surprised many people.

of.

After some investigation, only a little bit of his life experience was found.

It is said that Taoist Cangsheng entered the Shenxu twelve years ago and brought back a colorful stone. After cutting it open, a baby was revealed. Taoist Cangsheng felt that the child was strange, so he raised it in Penglai.

, let it always accompany Qinglong in practice.

Of course, this is the version given by Penglai.

Naturally, the other immortal sects don't believe it, and more people think that this child is the common Taoist who has grown stronger with age, has an evil heart, and has blossomed the iron tree... To put it simply, he created an illegitimate child at an early age and secretly brought him back to Penglai from outside.

Just raise it.

"It turns out he's from Penglai." Chen Xuanlu became even more angry.

If he was from a small sect, he could still seek justice for his disciples. This was a tough fight with Penglai, and he would have to suffer the consequences without even thinking about it.

Young people are full of energy, and such fights are inevitable in every Immortal Sect Conference, so it's nothing unusual.

"Disciple must take good care of his injuries so as not to delay tomorrow's competition." Liu Yunzheng saw the master's anger and said quickly.

"That's easy to say." Chen Xuanlu said calmly, "Although your external injuries are not serious, your meridians are quite damaged and you are unable to perform martial arts at all. If there is no healing elixir, you will have to recover for at least three months."

"Ah?" Liu Yunzheng was surprised.

If it affects tomorrow's competition, the consequences will be too serious. After all, a person can only participate once in his life. If it is delayed because of this...

But the healing elixir mentioned by Chen Xuanlu naturally requires the refining of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, which must be expensive. The family has already spent a lot of blood to allow him to participate in the Immortal Sect Conference this time. If he buys another one

The price of such a treasure is so high that even officials cannot bear it.

Chen Xuanlu didn't know that during the Immortal Sect Conference, the prices of those healing medicines had risen to an astonishing level. If the price was not high, in order not to affect the sect's performance, it wouldn't matter if he paid for it on his disciple's behalf.

Just as Liu Yunzheng was gritting his teeth, a hand suddenly stretched out from beside him, holding a jade box in his hand.
Chapter completed!