"Human race." Sheng Lingyuan chuckled, and the tongue of fire rushed towards him, blowing away the black mist around him.
Xuan Ji: "Why are you laughing, be careful!"
Sheng Lingyuan raised his sleeve and covered the baby in his arms with his arm, and Li Huo left a shocking burn on the back of his hand.
He didn't even look at the wound, he lifted the lid of the coffin abruptly, and sparks shot out from the secret passage along with him, burning the corpse in the coffin.
Empress Dowager Chen let out a hoarse scream, and wanted to rush forward, but was pushed down by several guards.
Sheng Lingyuan flicked off the sparks on his body, and looked down at the corpse that was burned together with the coffin: "Dare to ask my mother, where is the nobility of the human race?"
Xuan Ji was taken aback, and subconsciously went to look at the guards brought by Sheng Lingyuan. She didn't know how confidant these guards were, and they all seemed indifferent after hearing such outrageous words.
Wait... no.
Xuan Ji couldn't help taking another look, and suddenly found that these guards were more or less of inhuman blood.
His heart moved, and he vaguely understood something.
"When the burning is over, pack up King Ning's ashes and put them in the ground for safety. I have to respect them." The baby's cries echoed in the strange mourning hall. Sheng Lingyuan checked the little thing from the beginning to the end, and saw that there was no real damage, so he Putting one hand on his arm, he let him cry without coaxing him, "He lives without dignity and freedom, and if you don't let him die, he will have no peace."
"He's my son! He's mine!"
"He was born to you," Sheng Lingyuan glanced condescendingly at Empress Dowager Chen, "It's not yours."
The Ice Palace has been dark all year round, and it is extremely gloomy. The burning coffin baked water vapor, and the water vapor fell on the Emperor's face, rendering his face into a pale color almost like that of the dead. Yi Yi's cruelty: "Mother, are you really King Ning... are you just a son?"
Empress Dowager Chen glared at him: "What do you mean?"
"It's nothing interesting. When he was alive, you had to summon him several times a day, and you would be furious if you didn't see him every day. Now that he's gone, you ask someone to steal the coffin and put it in the ice cellar of your bedroom. Why, can't you see him?" Is he buried with my sister-in-law?"
"Your sister-in-law is living a good life, but... is bewitched by the remnants of witches!"
"You said the one in Prince Ning's mansion, but I forgot, offended, don't blame the queen mother, I can't remember that one, sometimes I saw her in a daze, and thought she was a puppet you cut after yourself." Sheng Lingyuan stared at her like some kind of cold-blooded poison, "I also heard that my brother and the first emperor were carved out of the same mold. You hide your coffin here, what is this? You can't live together, you must die together Is it?"
Empress Dowager Chen was a little too late to realize what stupid words he was talking about, and she shot him embarrassed and unbelievable eyes: "What are you talking about? You are not as good as pigs and dogs, you..."
Sheng Lingyuan laughed out loud.
That laugh made Xuan Ji shudder for a while, but anyone with a bit of humanity would not make such a laugh.
He stared blankly at the man a few steps away. He had never seen Sheng Lingyuan like this before.
"The human race is of course noble," said Queen Mother Chen, unable to straighten her waist, but she still had a proud expression in such a humiliated posture, "We are the only race in this world that can grow and grow naturally without relying on anything. Those monsters rely on their innate blood, relying on natural materials and earth treasures to cultivate, and the cowards of the witch race hide under the protection of mountains and rivers. Only the human race, the mountains, the sun, the moon, and the spirit of all things, cannot enter the seven orifices. But my human race has masters who practice against the sky , there are runes that make good use of the situation, and even those rural folks who open up wasteland and farm land live with their own hands! Now that the aura on the mainland is exhausted, those inferior species that rely on it for a living should be extinct, and the human race is the choice of the gods of heaven and earth It's not that we covet Chi Yuan's devilish energy, and the melee in Kyushu was not initiated by our clan!"
As a former female politician, the Empress Dowager Chen, although she seems crazy now, has not lost the basic skills of impromptu speech. Listening to the first half of the paragraph, Xuan Ji was almost driven away by her, and she almost nodded. It was not until the last sentence that she felt that she Nonsense—the melee in Kyushu was instigated by Emperor Ping. As we all know, the human race admits so, otherwise, how could he have such an unlucky posthumous title after his death
Although it is not a famous faint title like "You" and "Li", considering that his son is the successor, under the background of "the son never speaks of his father's faults", the posthumous title puts an ambiguous word "ping". , basically equal to "you know".
"Your lowly biological mother, let the monster princess not do it, sneaked into the palace of the first emperor, made troubles for the government, deceived the emperor and the master, and provoke conflicts between the two clans. In this way, those monster clans can cross Chiyuan in a legitimate way!" His voice almost shattered the ice in the hall, "Let go of me! You bastards! Do you know why he wants to protect you? Because he is also a bastard himself!"
Sheng Lingyuan waved to a guard, stuffed the baby in his arms to him, and said with disgust: "Don't make him cry, it's not over yet."
After finishing speaking, he walked up to Empress Dowager Chen, waved to the guards next to him, and signaled them to back down.
Then he knelt down halfway, helped the woman who was lying on the ground in a panic, and asked softly, "Isn't my biological mother your empress?"
"You deserve it too!" Empress Dowager Chen spat at him, Sheng Lingyuan turned her head away, her expression turned cold.
The Empress Dowager Chen stared at him fiercely, as if she wanted to gouge out his flesh with her eyes: "You are the evil seed that the demon girl put into my belly with the magic method! I knew it as soon as you were born, you are exactly the same as that female demon!"
Xuan Ji: "..."
And this kind of operation!
"You were originally a born bastard, but you were refined into a demon... It's ridiculous. Those people still say that your mind has changed drastically because you were affected by the magic sword. Isn't this your nature? Those who worship you Civil and military officials, if they know the secret of your origin..."
Sheng Lingyuan raised a hand, and Empress Dowager Chen's voice stopped suddenly. For a moment, even the crazy woman trembled under the approaching breath of the demon.
However, Sheng Lingyuan just straightened her crooked hairpin, and carefully pulled her long gray hair behind her ear: "Queen, why are you talking nonsense?"
Like a little son coquettish, he leaned close to her ear and whispered: "Mother, how sad are men in the world, because when a child is born, he refuses to write his biological father's name on his head, and if he accidentally admits it wrong, but Women are different, whether it is their own child, who is the father of the child, women all know well - since you said that I was forced to you, why didn't you say it back then, why did you give birth to me? After the dignified emperor, even if the family is ruined and the country is ruined, is it possible that he will still be reduced to a tool to give birth to a child?"
Empress Chen choked slightly.
"Because you stole that child in the first place." Sheng Lingyuan laughed, "I also have a story here, Queen Mother, would you like to listen to it?"
With black mist on his fingertips, he brushed Empress Dowager Chen's skin nonchalantly, without hurting her, but Empress Chen trembled involuntarily as if being swept by a poisonous snake's letter.
"Back then, there was an earthquake in the demon city, and the aura was exhausted. A large number of demon clans were forced to flee. The demon king was moved to annex the human race. He had a younger sister, a half-brother, who had always been favored because of the noble mother clan. The princess is also ambitious, and very self-righteous, ignorant of the importance. Bewitched by the demon king, she supported him on the throne, and then infiltrated the human race herself. In addition to her sensuality, she also played with the nobles of the human race in her hands and successfully provoked the flames of war , forcing the Divine Bird Clan to cast Chiyuanhuo."
"She's so proud of herself that she feels she's unparalleled."
"But this stupid woman didn't expect that the demon king hated her because she lived under her shadow since she was a child. The demon king is also more greedy than she imagined. What he wants is not only the world, but also the treasures sealed under Chiyuan. The power of gods and demons. For this, he actually took the opportunity to exterminate the entire clan of Shenniao... that is, the princess's mother clan. Only then did the princess realize that it was a joke that she was planning a fight."
"So she offered herself as a sacrifice, and with half of the Suzaku blood on her body, she wrote down the forbidden technique of the Suzaku clan, the Great Gloomy Sacrifice, and introduced the hatred and anger of the extermination of the god bird into the statue of Suzaku of the human race. The statue that thousands of people have worshiped There was a spirit in the first place, and it fell into a demon, born to extinguish the fire of Chiyuan. It's a pity that something went wrong in the Great Dark Sacrifice."
"The human race and the monster race do not intermarry with each other. Even if they marry, it is extremely difficult to have children, so the princess did not expect that she would have a burden in her stomach. I don't know what to think. Maybe there is no other fetus to conceive. She is shameless and insists on keeping it. On her. Because of this encumbrance, she almost failed in the Great Gloomy Sacrifice that she worked so hard for, and only got a remnant product with no face, no strength, and no light."
"Why is there such a burden? It's as if I came here to restrain her, to fight against her. All the fates in the world are harmed by her. Her cultivation base is completely crippled and her face is completely changed. I wish I could cut it out and eat it raw." Sheng Lingyuan smiled strangely, "But it's not easy for a big demon to have an heir. For the continuation of the race, the mother's mother's nature is to protect the child. She is hard to go against her nature, and she couldn't do it after trying a few times. Why don't you... just arrange a good 'errand' for it, so quietly Released that prophecy... that prophecy that became the life-saving straw of the human race, and when he was dying, he deliberately left his dying self to you, the exiled queen mother."
"The queen mother was pregnant with the posthumous child of the father, but unfortunately she was too old. When the bad news happened, the child was accidentally lost. So after you heard the prophecy, you immediately came up with a clever plan - use a secret technique' Transferring flowers and trees, cutting the banshee's child, transferring the congenitally deficient fetus to himself, and then turning around and "presenting" the stolen child after it was born... Those eighty-one fools are grateful to you Being righteous and selfless, I wish I could lose my mind, so I went to my death generously, turning a trash who is neither human nor demon into...the sharpest sword of your Sheng family."
Empress Dowager Chen trembled.
"But queen mother, do you still remember the expression on her face when I gave birth to the banshee? Did she smile?" Sheng Lingyuan said in her ear almost inaudibly, "Because you were fooled. And , don’t you think about it, what a coincidence that your child didn’t happen at that time?”
Empress Dowager Chen let out a lifelong scream that did not resemble a human voice, and King Ning's coffin had already been burned into coke.
"Tsk, you fools who think you can pinch and count." Sheng Lingyuan flicked his sleeves and stood up, "Come on, the Queen Mother has lost her eldest son. She has been mourned and destroyed, and she looks crazy. I look at it, It's really hard in my heart. Please go down quickly, and let someone take care of her, and don't let other people disturb her."
In this dark world, who can not be crazy
"Stop, stop! You... um..." The guard stepped forward and covered Queen Mother Chen's mouth.
Sheng Lingyuan said word by word: "Don't worry, Queen Mother, I will definitely look for a famous doctor and find a good medicine, and I will give you peace as soon as possible."
Empress Dowager Chen suddenly became quiet and understood what he meant.
"It's just that the country has just been settled, and there are many things. I'm afraid it will take some time. Please allow me, Queen Mother, and give me more patience."
The melee is over, but the kills aren't over yet.
When he is strong enough, when he can cover the sky with one hand—
After Sheng Lingyuan finished speaking, he bowed to her, turned around and walked outside the ice hall: "Didn't you tell that kid to stop crying? Why didn't you stop?"
Outside the palace is the blue sky and white sun, the sky is clear, the willow buds are fresh green, but the snow in Duling Palace still seems to have never melted.
Xuan Ji shook violently, her hands trembled, and a porcelain bowl containing leftovers slipped and fell to pieces.
Yong'an's heater was full of heat, but it couldn't steam the cold sweat on his body.
Sheng Lingyuan heard the commotion, came over to take a look, saw the dried leftovers and broken porcelain all over the place, shook his head and said, "You're so clumsy, how did you survive?"
As he spoke, he snapped his fingers at a potted flower on the balcony. The flower was left by the landlord. It didn't look good, and the landlord didn't bother to move it. Because it hadn't been watered for two weeks, it was already wilted, and after being touched by Sheng Lingyuan, it seemed to be rejuvenated. Visible to the naked eye, it twirled quickly and grew long vines.
After tidying up, those leaves seemed to have overdrawn their lives, quickly dehydrated and withered, and turned into a handful in a blink of an eye, dead to death.
Sheng Lingyuan didn't even look at the flower, but looked into the refrigerator curiously, and asked him, "Why do you have to do these trivial things by yourself?"
Xuan Ji stared at him intently, unable to figure out how he came through step by step with five poisons added to his body more than 20 years after Qizheng.
"It's too expensive to hire someone," he said casually, absent-mindedly. "Besides, it's not so easy to hire the right one, and it's not enough to cause trouble if you bring in an unreliable one..."
Sheng Lingyuan was amused by him, and said in his heart that this little monster pretended to be a good person, and even imitated the details in place.
"Isn't your monster clan the most concerned about level suppression? For a big monster like you, what's so difficult about using low-level spiritual creatures?"
Xuan Ji was silent.
Sheng Lingyuan: "Oh, it's not even lost, is it?"
"Your Majesty," Xuan Ji said, "the way is bright, and all living beings... all living beings have a place to live. Isn't this what you have been asking for in your life? Don't say such things to test me again."
Sheng Lingyuan had just poured an earful of "Historical Theory", and his head hurt from hearing it. He rubbed his temples and asked, "What do I want in my life? What kind of fallacies are you talking about?"
Then don't say it in front of him, because he doesn't care, it doesn't mean he isn't embarrassed to hear these speculations.
"The Wuren tribe didn't leave any records. All those who were forced to mention Aluojin and his forces were vaguely mentioned in the official historical materials as the "civilian armed forces" who surrendered, and the only Gaoshan people left were Qingping Sili There are some vague records and folklore, as well as the demon clan... The demon clan and half-demons who surrendered back then all disappeared, and some were included in the Qingping Division, and even the Qingping Division was later forgotten." Xuan Ji said, " I've always found it very strange that you didn't even cover up the murder of your mother and teacher, let posterity say it, and didn't even bother to pack a morally plausible story for these things, why are these historical facts unspeakable instead?"
Sheng Lingyuan was stunned, and the false warmth disappeared from his face.
"Your Majesty," Xuan Ji felt that his heart and lungs were convulsed, and it hurt to breathe, so he lowered his voice, "A Luojin said, the Chiyuan fire will burn again, and the witch people will be able to come back. According to his logic, Is it true that in order to extinguish the Chiyuanhuo, these humanoid races with heaven-defying abilities... the monster races must all be exterminated?"
Aluojin ran away from the battlefield in Dongchuan in a fit of anger, so there may not be room for redemption. Since he is still willing to be angry with the emperor, he must have feelings in his heart.
At that time, the battle was not over. According to common sense, shouldn't we first unite all the forces that can be united? Even if you want to kill the donkey, you are a little too anxious.
Why did Danli not give the emperor any room to redeem, and did so absolutely
Because exterminating the witch-human race was originally one of his goals.
"But the blood of the witch-human race is not extinct, right?" Xuan Ji said, "King Weiyu said that the blood of the mountain people is endless, and humans and demons are immortal, so by analogy, since Aluojin can be awakened by the Yin Yin Festival, it means that the witch-human race is not extinct. The blood of the human race has not been cut off, is it? You... hid them all in the crowd."
Three thousand years later, the blood of various races has merged, leaving only some puzzling special abilities. No one knows who their ancestors are anymore. Every special ability has three aunts, six wives and two uncles, and no one feels that they are "non-human".
"But Chiyuan Fire is still extinguished, what price did you pay?"