The fingertip was cut and a string of blood dripped into the blood bead. The color was originally light red, but it instantly became brighter red and more turbulent because of the blood of one more person.
Chi Lin looked at the changes in the blood bead, and a feeling of uncertainty crept up between his brows.
The Imperial Master coughed while trying to put the blood bead into the Queen's mouth.
"Let me do it." Chi Lin took the blood-extracted bead and walked to the ice coffin. The cold air blew on her already stiff face. It was very cold, but the queen's body was even colder.
Gently pinch the queen's jaw, open her mouth, and slowly push the blood bead in.
The light of the blood pearl was swallowed up the moment the queen's lips slowly closed. Gradually, her pale face regained its color, and Chi Lin's breathing became faster.
Her queen seemed to be asleep.
Chi Lin sat beside the ice coffin, staring at the queen carefully.
This was their first reunion after their wedding, but they didn't expect that they would be separated by the Yin and Yang.
Imperial Master: "Your Majesty, please let me bandage your wound first."
Chi Lin moved his fingers: "It's just a minor injury."
The Imperial Master looked at her back which was already stained with blood, sighed softly and said, "I am talking about the injuries elsewhere on your Highness..."
After hearing what the Imperial Master said, she began to feel some pain.
She has already spent half her life trying to come back.
When the Queen was still a princess, Chi Lin was her study partner.
The two were of similar age, and had known each other since they were first educated at the Imperial College. Later, they fell in love as they spent time together in the Taihua Palace. Two years after the princess ascended the throne, she named Chi Lin her queen.
Chi Lin is the first empress of this dynasty since its founding. On her wedding night, she was convicted and her entire family was exiled.
Although there are special soldiers escorting the road to exile, it is unprecedented that the Queen's family has encountered such a disaster.
When Chi Lin was exiled to Izu, he suddenly learned that the queen had passed away and there was a coup in the central government. He had always felt that there was something strange about being exiled for no reason, and it turned out to be true!
Chi Lin rushed back to Shangjing regardless of everything.
At this time, a coup had already occurred in Shangjing, and there was no leader. Only the last group of old ministers were struggling to hold on.
Chi Lin has been trained in both civil and military affairs since childhood and has been on the battlefield, so he has rich combat experience. After much effort, he was able to enter the imperial city and find the imperial teacher.
The imperial master and the old ministers have been suffering for many days, but still do not know who is the real murderer behind the murder of the empress. The enemy in the open is not the real enemy, and the murderer who wants to seize power is still behind the scenes.
When the Imperial Master and the others saw Chi Lin, they were extremely shocked: "Empress, why are you back?"
Hearing the Imperial Master call her "Empress", Chi Lin confirmed her guess. Looking at the once solemn and magnificent palace now covered with a layer of panic and blood, she smiled bitterly and said:
"I should have known long ago that His Majesty exiled us in order to protect the safety of the Chi family."
The imperial master and the old ministers fell to the ground and cried bitterly: "Your Majesty, the heavens are your witness to your painstaking efforts!"
Chi Lin said in a trance: "No need to ask the heavens, I understand. But..."
However, with internal and external troubles and the fall of the imperial star, where will Ohara go
The imperial teacher took her to see the empress.
The Queen's body was kept in an ice coffin in a secret passage in the imperial city.
From the moment he took the first step into the deserted secret passage, Chi Lin's blood froze.
When she stood in front of the ice coffin and saw the Queen, she had the illusion that the Queen would sit up in the next second and walk towards her with a smile.
Exactly the same as countless ordinary days before.
But the Queen did not move.
"Your Majesty has passed away, this is a fact."
Chi Lin felt that there was something else behind the Imperial Master's words.
Chi Lin said: "His Majesty has passed away for many days, and the funeral has not been announced yet, but rumors are everywhere. Could it be that the Imperial Master has other plans?"
The Imperial Master kept coughing. He was already over seventy years old with a head full of silver hair. After this disaster, he seemed to have aged ten years again. He didn't even bother to wash the stains on his clothes.
The Imperial Master approached her, his eyes bloodshot.
"I do have other plans. General Chen has sent a secret letter to dispatch 100,000 elite troops from Yubei to provide rapid support. This army is our last hope, and we must strike them right away!"
"But we still have no idea who the enemy behind the scenes is..."
"I don't know, but Your Majesty knows."
Chi Lin didn't expect him to say that, and couldn't help but look at the Queen.
"When His Majesty was killed, he tried to write a single word. But he fainted before he could finish half a stroke and never woke up again."
Chi Lin thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty must have noticed something a long time ago, otherwise he would not have sent me out of the imperial city and away from danger. But what's the use of His Majesty knowing everything? She has already..."
The Imperial Master whispered something in Chi Lin's ear. Chi Lin took a long time to digest it before looking at him with a look of confusion:
"The secret art of chasing souls? Chase until His Majesty comes to the world and asks for the truth?"
The Imperial Master took out the Blood Extraction Pearl and said, "This has been injected with your Majesty's blood. As long as your blood is integrated into it, I can perform the Soul Chasing Secret Technique and send the Queen's soul to your Majesty's afterlife. As long as the Queen finds your Majesty in the next life and opens her memories of her past life, she will be able to learn the true identity of the murderer, turn the tide, and save our Dayuan!"
"Wait a minute..." Chi Lin felt like he had heard some kind of fairy tale. "Soul-chasing? Afterlife? Have you ever used this secret technique, Imperial Master?"
The state teacher was quite honest: "No. I have indeed never used the Soul Chasing Secret Technique. This secret technique is a forbidden technique passed down by my master. It is against the will of heaven. Anyone who uses this technique will be punished by heaven! My master died of heaven's punishment. Because the cost of performing the secret technique is too high, no one will use it unless it is absolutely necessary. But now the country is about to fall, and I can no longer care about anything else."
"As long as you perform this secret technique, you will die?"
"Yes. My life will definitely be at stake, and Your Highness may not be safe either. Whether the secret technique is successful or not, and whether Your Highness's soul can safely reach His Majesty's afterlife and return, this humble servant cannot guarantee. After all, the person who witnessed the secret technique is no longer alive, and there is no evidence left! This soul-hunting journey will be a thorny and dangerous one, and it is very likely that Your Majesty will not be found, and instead the Queen herself will lose her life!"
The Imperial Master pressed on with every word, his voice getting louder and louder, his shrill voice echoing in the empty secret passage.
Chi Lin calmed down: "But this is Ohara's only hope. Ohara still has one last glimmer of hope."
Chi Lin didn't hesitate any longer, pulled out a dagger from his waist and cut his finger.
"I will go to find His Majesty. I will go even if there is only the slightest hope."
The old Imperial Master's eyes were filled with tears. He knelt down and kowtowed to her several times: "The Empress is the closest person to His Majesty. Only you can find His Majesty and restore her memory!"
Chi Lin helped him up: "There is no need for such a great ceremony, Imperial Master. I had made up my mind when I decided to come back. Huangquan Biluo, wherever your Majesty goes, I will go. This is what a wife and a minister should do."
When the Imperial Master heard her say this, he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it and swallowed it back.
No one knows how many years she will go and what kind of era it will be.
It is still unknown what the Majesty's name will be in the next life, whether he is a man or a woman, and what he looks like.
The Imperial Master was certain of only one thing: "Even if you have lost the memory of your past life, it is still the same soul, and some of your Majesty's characteristics may still be retained. It is even possible to find signs that can be identified at a glance. All these things require the Queen to experience them personally. The Queen is both civil and military, and before she was crowned the Queen, she was the youngest general and doctor in this dynasty. She is extremely intelligent, and it will definitely not be difficult for you."
As he spoke, the red light of the Blood Pearl had spread throughout his majesty's body and suddenly turned into an extremely dazzling light, piercing through the tunnel and piercing the night sky.
Chi Lin was almost blinded by the sudden bright light, but the Imperial Master seemed to see nothing.
The red light faded, and the Queen's body became dim again.
The imperial teacher took her to the Kunling Lake in the imperial garden.
"The passage to your Majesty's afterlife has been opened," said the Imperial Master. "Your Majesty must have seen the light of the secret technique just now, which is visible only to you. Now there is a new star at the top of the sky. This star is next to the moon, and only your Majesty can see it. This star is the guiding star of reincarnation, and it intersects with the moon once every three months. When the star and the moon overlap, your Majesty can jump into any place with abundant water and return."
Chi Lin indeed saw a strange star appear in the night sky.
It is almost the brightest in the entire Milky Way and can be clearly seen at the edge of the moon.
"There is one more thing that the Queen should be prepared for. I am only sending the Queen's soul into reincarnation. The Queen will use someone else's body to act. This body cannot be chosen. The Queen can only know the other person's identity after entering the body. It is not easy to find a person from the previous life in such a vast sea of people. Fortunately, no matter how long the Queen is in that life, she will return to this moment when she returns. There is plenty of time, and I hope the Queen will be patient in tracking it down."
It seemed that the Imperial Master had prepared these words long ago; he might have expected Chi Lin to come back.
No matter what the Imperial Master was planning, Chi Lin was ready.
She looked at the cold lake in the winter, took a deep breath, and jumped in without hesitation.
Soon, the ripples on the lake subsided, and only the Imperial Master was left by the lake.
The Imperial Master prostrated himself on the ground for a long while, kowtowed, and his eyes were wide open with blood almost dripping out.
He said to himself:
"I'm afraid that the only one who can come back alive from this unpredictable abyss is Your Highness. The hundred years of national prosperity and the lives of millions of people... can only be entrusted to you..."
A bolt of lightning struck from the sky, right on Master's head.
The imperial teacher turned into a ball of charcoal, kneeling beside Kunling Lake, never to move again.
The lake water is colder than expected.
Chi Lin hugged himself tightly and gradually sank.
The lake was bottomless, but I didn't feel suffocated. Instead, I was able to breathe slowly.
Don't breathe through your nose, breathe with every inch of your skin.
A ball of light came from the abyss at the bottom of the lake. Chi Lin tensed up and swam towards the light faster.
Just as I touched the light, my feet suddenly stepped on empty air and the scenery around me changed completely without me noticing.
Her body was hanging in the air and about to fall, so she quickly reached out and grabbed something to maintain her balance.
"There she is! Chase!"
Besides the whistling wind behind him, there were also shouts and screams.
She found herself in a dense forest, holding onto a thick branch.
The sounds of shouting and killing were approaching behind her, and she seemed to be able to smell the rust and blood emanating from the swords.
He stepped on the tree trunk and used the branches to push himself upwards. He did not have time to figure out what kind of body he had crossed into. The most important thing was to save his life!
As Chi Lin stretched like this, he actually flew into the air, flew a long distance, and landed accurately on a thicker branch.
She pushed her feet hard and rushed up to the treetops, and the view in front of her suddenly became clear.
She didn't expect that she could jump so high. The whole dense forest was left under her feet, and it turned into an undulating green land under the moonlight.
The city buildings in the distance were dotted with lights, and were pressed down by the huge orange-yellow full moon.
The full moon was so big that it frightened Chi Lin.
She had seen countless full moons, but none as bright and huge as the one before her.
And she was surprisingly familiar with the styles of those buildings.
Could it be that the era she arrived in was not far away from her own era
With an inexplicable assassin chasing him from behind, Chi Lin flew through the dense forest.
This body is more agile than her own, and his martial arts skills are amazing.
Three people rushed out from the front to block the way, and Chi Lin had no choice but to fight back.
He swung the two swords in his hands, and two bright sword lights appeared in the air.
Each of her strikes was incredibly smooth, from the sky to the earth, she found herself having traveled through time and space into the body of a peerless master, fighting against nearly ten people alone without actually being at a disadvantage!
But every time she hit the enemy, a line of strange symbols would float out, which made her a little confused.
Chi Lin became more and more excited as he fought. This body was truly amazing.
He kicked the last assassin to the ground with one kick, but the kick was too strong and his ankle began to hurt.
The assassin fled, tumbling and crawling. She didn't care about the pain in her ankle, she immediately chased him and wanted to know the whole story, and grabbed the assassin by the back of his neck.
The assassin turned around and was about to fire a hidden weapon. Fortunately, Chi Lin was prepared and dodged the hidden weapon by turning his head. He punched the assassin in the face and scolded him:
"Who sent you to kill me? Tell me!"
"Fuck... my eyes!"
The assassin didn't speak, but Chi Lin heard a sudden voice.
Suddenly her temple jumped, as if something was pulled out from the end of her eyebrow.
Then the surrounding scenery changed suddenly.
The dense forest, buildings, full moon and even the assassin were all gone. What appeared before her was a man with one eye covered, a ferocious expression and strange short hair.
The man looked to be in his early 20s, grimacing in pain. The clothes he wore were really ugly, just a thin layer, and the sleeves seemed to be broken, exposing his forearms.
Chi Lin was still pulling at his collar. There were countless people around him dressed similarly to him, looking at Chi Lin with horrified eyes and slowly moving forward.
One of the men whispered, "Miss, if you have anything to say, just talk it over nicely. Don't hit anyone in the Internet cafe."
Whispering around:
"Is it because I am hallucinating from playing games..."
"Another one who can't tell the difference between the holographic game and reality. He's gone crazy."
Chi Lin looked around. It was a large room with strange furnishings. There were rows of tables with large glass panels on them. Strong light kept flashing in the glass, and it seemed that there were petite people trapped in the glass.
Sliding chairs, men with short hair and no beards, women with disheveled hair and exposed thighs, and even people whose genders cannot be identified at first glance...
Chi Lin has reached an extraordinary era.