"Ye An... good evening."
Mu Qingxue's face was calm, she leaned forward slightly, and her tone was a little soft.
But she's not very skilled.
Just saying these four words made me stutter and my tone drifted.
Ye An thought for a while and said, "It's weird."
"Forget it, I have something to do right now. See you tomorrow."
Mu Qingxue: "..."
The rejection was as sharp as ever, leaving her with no room to speak.
But luckily, she still had an excuse this time.
"Are you going to find Tantai?"
As she spoke, she slightly raised the tea in her hand and said, "I heard from Yue'er that she originally planned to ask you to come with her."
"I just happened to make some tea, let's go over and eat together."
Ye An was stunned for a moment.
It turned out that Yue'er had planned to find him, but he spoke first.
"Then let's go there together."
Ye An stepped forward to take the tea and said at the same time, "I'll serve it."
"Um… "
Mu Qingxue nodded lightly.
The Zhongzhou Temple is magnificent and vast, with countless long corridors circling inside it, spiral staircases carrying people up and down, and the walls are magnificent.
It's late at night and the moonlight is bright outside the window.
In the corridor, footsteps echoed.
Ye An had some illusions. He felt as if he had returned to the tower in the ancient country of Tranquility Sea.
Maybe it was because Mu Qingxue was by his side that he had this illusion.
"By the way, what did Yue'er say to you?"
Ye An asked: "Did she say anything about Saint Tantai?"
Mu Qingxue said: "Let me comfort Tantai and see if I can get some news from her."
"what news?"
"For example, the deal between her and Ji Huang."
Mu Qingxue paused for a moment and said, "However, Tantai is a little strange."
Ye An was slightly confused, "Strange?"
Mu Qingxue sighed: "We'll find out soon."
Finally arrived at the door of the room where Tantai lived.
Gently push the door open.
The interior decoration is elegant and simple.
I saw the Tantai Saint sitting quietly in front of the mirror, staring at herself in the mirror.
We haven't seen her for only one day, and her expression is somewhat different from that of the day.
Mu Qingxue sighed: "She seems to have forgotten something, and... she doesn't feel well either."
Ye An put down the tea and immediately stepped forward gently.
"Your Highness Tantai?" he said tentatively.
The Tantai Saint's eyes trembled slightly, and there were bloodshot eyes in her pupils.
She turned slightly, her face was pale, and she just opened her mouth as if to speak.
Suddenly he was in a daze.
Immediately, his eyes fell on Mu Qingxue.
She closed her mouth and said nothing more, but the bloodshot eyes became more obvious.
Ye An was stunned for a moment and looked at Mu Qingxue for a moment.
The latter sighed heavily and rubbed his head.
"Okay, okay, I'm going to go back to sleep first, and then I'll leave the two of you alone."
Mu Qingxue said and was about to leave.
Before leaving, I didn't forget to bring a snack or two before closing the door.
She didn't leave, but still stopped in the long corridor in front of the door.
In fact.
She was quite looking forward to a vigorous fight between the Holy Son and the Tantai Saint.
Disappointingly, no.
inside the house.
The two of them treated each other with serious expressions.
Tantai still looked at himself in the mirror, gently raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows.
After a moment, she said: "Apart from Your Majesty, I... only trust you, Ye An."
"Please convey to Your Majesty that I... like her. I will never lie or have any rebellious intentions."
Ye An: "..."
He thought for a moment and then said bluntly: "What happened?"
Tantai's eyes dimmed and he sighed heavily, "I forgot."
"Ji Huang came to me. He promised the Tantai Sword as a reward and asked me to help him complete something."
Ye An asked: "What's the matter?"
Saint Tantai responded: "He said that there will be a rebellion in the Ji family by then."
"He hopes that I will cooperate inside and outside, and take advantage of the chaos to kill you and... His Majesty's maid."
Ye An frowned and said, "So, you agreed and accepted the Tantai Sword as reward?"
The Tantai Sword is extremely suitable for assassination, and its high-grade heavenly grade determines that it can even penetrate the body of the empress easily.
According to rumors, only gods can create high-grade heaven-level weapons; ordinary monks who spend their entire lives making only low-grade heaven-level weapons.
but…
He suddenly felt that Ji Huang's move was purely unnecessary.
There is absolutely no reason and no necessary behavior.
Just relying on the huge evil force lurking in secret, they were able to kill the empress by surprise.
Why bother to make another deal with Tantai and expose the flaw
Saint Tantai hesitated for a long time, then shook her head and said: "I have hesitated. But... I didn't want to hurt His Majesty's heart, so I refused."
"But at that moment, I realized that someone had been watching me."
Ye An knew that the person she saw was Yue'er.
But he still asked: "Who is that person?"
Tantai said: "I forgot."
"I planned to go up and look for her, but I lost her."
This is definitely Yue'er.
Although she is just a little maid, her level is surprisingly high. She is also the most trusted person around Qi Xi. She will even help Qi Xi review some useless garbage memorials in her spare time.
It's really lucky that Tantai didn't find him.
But Tantai had clearly brought Yue'er's portrait before and wanted to report the matter to Qi Xi, but now he said he had forgotten it.
Ye An couldn't help but ask: "What happened next?"
Tan Tai's face showed pain, he lowered his head slightly and rubbed his eyebrows with his hands.
"Originally, I planned to pretend to accept Ji Huang's conditions and report to His Majesty."
"After losing track of that person, I decided to look for Ji Huang again..."
"But he found out that he had found another person to complete the deal."
Ye An frowned slightly and said warily: "Who?"
Although I can't completely believe her, I can always have a reference.
Tantai shook his head and said, "I forgot... I can't remember."
Riddlers like this are really annoying.
Ye An thought for a while and said, "Is it Yue'er?"
"Yue'er?" Tantai was slightly startled, his eyes trembling.
Immediately, her headache became more and more severe, and she rubbed her brows more vigorously.
Ye An noticed her movements, leaned down slightly and said, "What's the matter, you have a headache?"
Tantai nodded slightly and hummed: "Well..."
"Let me take a look."
Ye An leaned forward slightly and stared at Tantai's eyebrows.
Wait for Tantai to put down his hand.
He gently pushed aside the other person's black hair bangs.
Suddenly, he was stunned.
In the center of Tantai Saint's eyebrows.
There was a hazy totem mark.
That totem is not a sun totem mark similar to that of Qi Xi.
The mark imprinted on Tantai's eyebrows is a circle, with a white sun and a waning moon painted on the top of the circle; and below, there are stars, the Big Dipper, mountains and rivers.
Ye An had seen such a mark before.
But at the moment when he was thinking.
However, he saw wisps of gray mist evaporating, and the marks imprinted on Tantai's eyebrows disappeared in an instant.
What followed was Tantai's painful gasps.
"Uh-huh... Haa!"
Tantai bit her red lips tightly, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on her back.
The pain, as if being pierced by a sharp knife, lingered in her mind.
"This is-"
Ye An thought about it without any scruples, and his consciousness sank directly into Tantai's consciousness.
Immediately afterwards.
It was the gray fog and evil energy that surged toward him like a tidal wave.
"Evil...?"
There was such a majestic evil energy in Tantai's consciousness and body.
But before that, he had never noticed it, not even the current empress Qi Xi.