Death Princess

Xueming Valley, outside a closed door.Liu Yanxue walked back and forth to the left and right of the door countless times, and even though Chao Qing on the side looked much calmer, she actually clenched her fists behind her back and changed her shape.

"I know," Liu Yanxue settled down after countless back and forth, "with grandmother and Mr. Jing inside, Lu'er will be fine. After all, they are once famous sword immortals and sword ghosts. It's just... ...It's been two hours, but I haven't heard any movement. According to Luer's usual temperament, even if she scratches her skin, she can yell for a long time, today this..."

"It should be that the little grandpa created an enchantment with illusion to block the sound inside." Chao Qing let go of his fist, wiped off the sweat on his palm, and gently held his wife's hand, "Don't worry."

"Grandpa, grandpa," suddenly, the voice of the sword ghost facing the mirror came from the room, "Stinky girl! How many times have I told you, don't call me grandpa again! The howling ghosts and wolves are blocked, according to the temperament of the two of you, why don’t you use the guy to stab the old man into a sieve?! Since you have found the old man to help, then stay outside obediently, don’t question the old man!” After closing the words, there was only a flash of silver light, not to mention the sound, this time even the room disappeared from the sight of Chaoqing and the two of them.

"Well, look, little grandpa..."

"Girl Qing, get out of here!! If you don't go out, I quit!!" There was another roar from Chao Jing, and there was also a shoe that almost brushed Chao Qing's nose.

"..." Touching Jinggui's face that was almost slapped by the shoes, Chaoqing obediently walked out of the courtyard.

After a cup of tea, outside the courtyard, Liu Yanxue walked back and forth again.

"If I had known this, I would have broken Lu'er and Hui'er's legs, and I wouldn't have let them get involved... No," Liu Yanxue shook her head in the middle of speaking, "It shouldn't have happened in the first place." Let them get so close to Brother Palm's family."

"It's my fault." Zhao Qing's eyes darkened, and she lowered her head.

An apology full of self-blame awakened the person in the dream, "No..." Realizing the old scar she had unintentionally uncovered, Liu Yanxue tried to restore it, "Qing'er, I didn't mean that."

"I know, I just...just recently I can't help but think that Ruoruo made a different choice back then." Chaoqing calmed down, looking into Liu Yanxue's worried eyes, "Ruoruo 20 years ago, I didn't have the slightest idea. The 'Prince' of the royal blood did not change from He Kunjin back to Chaoqing, but participated in that imperial power struggle as King Ji, everything will be different."

"Hmm..." Liu Yanxue paused for a moment, "If you want to say that, it is yes, no and no. After all, it is a place that eats people without spit out bones. If I were to choose again, my answer should be The same." Looking away again, he sighed with nostalgia, "In this regard, Lu'er and Hui'er are completely different from us. Right, Your Highness King Ji?"

"Yes," the sound of "Your Highness" evoked the memory of the best and the worst in Chaoqing's heart, and a trace of unknown emotion flashed in her eyes. She seemed to have thought of something interesting, and she raised her eyebrows slightly. The corner of his mouth twitched, "However, if we had gone the other way, maybe the current 'Queen Liu' is you, Liu Yanxue, not your elder sister. Although my 'royal bloodline' is It's fake, but your blood relationship with the Liu family in the capital is genuine." Raising eyebrows, "Is what I said reasonable, Princess Ji?"

"Sister Changfang." Liu Yanxue turned her gaze to the distant mountain, "If you don't mention it, I will almost forget that I, Xueminggu Xueyan, are also the youngest daughter of the Liu family in the capital, the Empress Dowager's daughter. Niece, His Majesty's cousin, Queen's family sister... smack, smack, it's quite a scary title."

"Also," facing Liu Yanxue's gaze, Chaoqing said meaningfully, "Leng, He Tong's cousin."

"Leng Tong, He Tong, He Yuxi, Leng Yuxi." Liu Yanxue frowned, "If it weren't for the evidence in front of me, I really couldn't believe that my cousin would do such a thing for the throne .”

"How can a person who can sit on the dragon chair be so simple? You and I don't know about the second brother's temperament of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. I'm just afraid." Chaoqing turned to look back at the yard, "I'm afraid Lu'er and Hui'er have done thousands of calculations, but they missed the person on the dragon chair."

"You mean this assassination..."

"No, I mean everything. Is the dragon in good health? Incapable of managing the government? Empress Xu read the memorials? Delegating power? How much of this is true and how much is false?"

All the things have been calculated thousands of times, but the person on the dragon chair has been missed.

The atmosphere, which wasn't supposed to be relaxed at all, became even heavier.

. . .

A few hours ago, in the room, Zhao Lu was sitting cross-legged on the couch.Just a few days in a coma, she was only skin and bones.The sharp and thin joints seem to be able to pierce through paper, and the bulging meridians look even more terrifying under such thinness.

"Master..."

"Don't call me little grandpa!" Before Chao Lu could finish speaking, Chao Jing interrupted roughly, "Smelly girl, you learned from Qing'er, right? Your skin is itchy? Believe it or not Throw you back into the lost track now?"

"...Master Jing." Zhao Lu changed her words obediently, "Senior Yu, I'm begging you two."

"Little girl, do you really decide to do this? Do you really want to completely seal your internal energy?" Chao Jing asked, "You choose the way yourself, and it's too late to regret it now. This method of sealing is better than several forces fighting in the meridians It came much more violently, once Arjun and I have injected the true energy into your body, there is no turning back, no matter how painful it is, you have to bear it, and the one who gives up halfway and suffers the backlash will only be yourself."

"I don't know what kind of technique that Fengyuwei envoy is, why his true qi in your body will clash with spiritual power, and I have no way to get it out of your body. Therefore, the only choices left for you are Two: one, the simplest and the easiest, you pull out your own spirit feathers, as long as there is no spiritual power in your body, the source of true energy will be gone; the second is the one you choose now, Arjun and I introduced our true energy into your body, and forcibly sealed that true energy together with your own internal force."

"How long this seal can last, we don't know, but since you have chosen this path, in order to save your life, this seal is irreversible, you can't break it, and you can't let it break. In other words, from now on , your internal strength is completely abolished, and you will not be able to practice any other inner skills in the future, and you, the young master of the Shadowless Sword, will only be left with an empty shelf in the future. Of course, the same, another option is to unplug It is also impossible for Lingyu to return. There are two choices, Lingyu and inner strength, you can only have one." Chao Jing raised a finger.

"If it were me, I would choose the spirit feathers, just pluck a few spirit feathers by myself, how simple, painless, so I won't suffer this crime to seal the internal force." Chao Jing was still talking, " It only takes a moment for true energy to enter the body, but how long it takes for the seal to be completed varies from person to person. It can be as little as half an hour, or as long as a day or two. That is to say, you may be in pain for a whole day Two days, and this pain will make you more painful and clearer. You..."

"The identity of the young patriarch of the Sword Sect no longer exists," Zhao Lu interrupted, pursing her lips, "but no matter what, I am still, and even more so, the young patriarch of the Phantom Spirit Clan."

"Isn't he the position of the bullshit young patriarch?" Zhao Lu's interruption made Chao Jing angry, "If you don't want it, then you don't want it. How good is it that you won't be hunted down by Fengyuwei without spiritual power? When I was the Patriarch, I wasn’t as nervous as you. Can’t the Phantom Spirit Clan survive without you as the Patriarch? You haven’t forgotten that you still have the word ‘less’. Patriarch, right? Is Qingyatou old enough to let go of everything?"

"..."

"Don't listen to his nonsense." Sword Immortal Yuqiong, who had been watching from the side, finally said, "The decision is yours, and with us, no matter what choice you make, we can keep you safe. "

"I..." Zhao Lu took a deep breath, "To be honest, maybe I'm greedy, imagining that if the spirit feather is pulled out, it will be gone, but the sealed internal force may still be..." Biting Lips, not finished.

"Understood." Yuqiong nodded, bluffed Chaojing's words with her eyes, and asked directly, "Are you ready?" As she spoke, she put one hand on Chaolu's thin left side on the back.

"……Um."

"Hey, you are as stubborn as Qing girl." Chao Jing said so, but her hand honestly put on Chao Lu's right back.

It only took a split second for the two streams of true energy to pour into her body. Even though she was mentally prepared, when the thunder-like pain rushed into every inch of her body, Zhao Lu couldn't help letting out a miserable cry. call.After that, the sharp pains became more and more intense, and even her strength to cry out was exhausted.

With a plop, she rolled off the couch and rolled all the way to the corner, convulsing uncontrollably all over her body.It was not until she personally experienced this moment that Zhao Lu understood what Jing Lao meant by "the more painful the clearer".

Zhao Lu was so painful that she clenched her hands tightly into fists, moaning silently, her not so long nails pierced into the flesh of her palm one by one, but she didn't notice it at all.The knife wound on the left shoulder that hadn't healed yet again split open and oozes blood, and after a while, half of the skirt was stained red...

Seeing Chao Lu's appearance, Chao Jing and Yu Qiong couldn't bear to frown, but no matter how much they couldn't bear it, the seal had already begun, and there was nothing they could do except to protect the dharma.

Zhao Lu didn't know how long this torture would last, and no one knew.She only knew that in the pain that came from every inch of her body, time passed very slowly, so slowly that every moment was ten thousand years, and every moment was eternity.

The blood on the shoulders flowed down the sleeves, merged with the blood from the fingertips and the sweat from the palms, and fell to the ground tick-tock, and this tick-tock sound was actually the only sound in the room.But before I knew it, even the ticking sound disappeared, the voices of my parents outside the door disappeared, and the figures of Chaojing and Yuqiong in the room moved away, and even the corner of the wall in front of me became out of reach.

Zhao Lu felt as if she had fallen into a pure white world, where there were no other colors, no other scenes, no other sounds, and even no end or beginning.

She was in that piece of deathly white, waiting for the painful ending.