This torture room is located deep in the harem, and it was only used as a cold palace during the first emperor's time. At this time, a kind of vine called Acacia vine is densely wrapped, and there is only one way to enter and exit.
The vine of this acacia vine is a parasitic plant that can be described as greedy.
This vine parasitizes all plants that can be parasitic. When the surrounding plants are all drained of nutrients by it and die, this vine begins to parasitize each other.
The result of mutual parasitism is that in the end only one of the strongest vines remains, and when it finally loses a host that can parasitize, it will not take root in the soil, and eventually all of them will die.
So the final result of this kind of vine growing is to destroy all the surrounding plants that can be parasitic, and then eventually destroy itself... unless someone deliberately provides it with parasitic trees.
This cold palace is obviously someone who deliberately provided the vines with a host to parasitize, so the picture is like the gathering place of lonely ghosts and wild ghosts depicted in many story books, dead trees and vines gather together, and the living number The ten vines are full of vitality, and the purple-red skin seems to be bleeding.
When the queen stepped into this cold palace, these vines seemed to come alive, trembling like joy.
These vines pierced through the bedroom in the cold palace. The top of the bedroom was covered with dead vines and living vines, and the dead leaves below were blankets.
Unlike ordinary trees with dry leaves that turn yellow, the leaves of this vine are dark red even when dry, which seems to indicate the bloody and cruel growth process.
Shen Xuan stood above the dark red withered leaves, lowered his head, and heard the familiar footsteps, but his face did not change at all, only his pupils were dyed dark red, exuding a certain A strange and frenetic sheen.
"I don't fully believe what you said about the process of Gu Huai's death."
The queen's voice sounded, "Because I know Gu Huai well, if he doesn't have the ability to defeat Zhan Maha, he will never venture into Zushan."
The queen stayed at the door of this bedroom, her beautiful eyes looked at Shen Xuan with her head bowed without any personal emotion, waiting for his answer.
Her appearance seemed to be getting more and more perfect, but it was precisely because she was more perfect that at this moment she was not like a person in the world, but like a god and Buddha.
Shen Xuan was silent for a moment in front of her very rarely.
Then he said slowly: "What you said is indeed true. I did have something to hide, and I also took action against Gu Huai."
"Why?"
The queen glanced at him and said, "You should understand what Gu Huai means to me and to the entire Great Qin Dynasty."
Her voice was calm and without emotion, not even much surprise.
However, even though this was what Shen Xuan expected, there was still some uncontrollable chill oozing from his body.
He didn't control his body's reaction, making his body tremble slightly with real fear.
"Because I have selfishness."
He took a deep breath, still hung his head, and said, "I want to live, and I want to go back to Changling."
The queen looked up quietly.
She could see Ji Ji's eyelashes fluttering slightly.
Then she looked at the owner of the big floating prison with his head down and had lost an arm, and asked very simply: "Gu Huai is dead, why are you alive, why do you dare to go back to Changling?"
Shen Xuan was silent for a moment, then raised his head, met her gaze, and said: "In my opinion, after Gu Huai died, I might become more important in Changling... This is still my selfishness." You should understand that I don't want to spend my whole life in that dark prison."
The queen looked at him calmly and said, "It's more important? What do you want?"
Shen Xuan lowered his head and said, "Execution order."
The queen's beautiful eyelashes danced again, even more rapidly.
Her perfect face was even a little paler, with real anger and chill.
Zhong Xing Ling, this is an official position that has never existed in the Great Qin Dynasty, and it is just that person's imagination.
And after Yuan Wu ascended the throne and she officially became a queen, let alone no one dared to mention it in front of her, in the entire Changling, in the court hall, no one dared to mention that person, dared to mention the person closely related to that person. imagine.
Shen Xuan didn't raise his head, just took a deep breath, and said, "I brought back the Heavenly God Art."
The queen fell silent.
As soon as she was silent, the air in the entire hall became even colder, and all the air was forced away by a ghostly cold air from the extremely high starry sky.
Shen Xuan held his breath.
He knew that she was weighing and thinking, and all he could do was wait for the final life and death.
"Is that boy from the wine shop really dead?" The queen was silent for a moment, but asked this question after looking at him.
Shen Xuan nodded his head with difficulty, and said, "The Wuzhi Kingdom can also prove it."
The queen looked at him and said, "But you still have to prove yourself... Even if you brought back the Heavenly Continuing Art, it's just a condition you used in exchange, and I still can't fully trust you."
Shen Xuan looked up at her and said seriously: "I understand, so as long as I can prove it, I won't hate you."
The queen nodded, expressing her satisfaction.
Shen Xuan bowed to salute, and then a pure natal aura emanated from his hand, a dark red dead leaf floated up from the ground, and fell into his hand, but it gradually glowed like ruby, It became as heavy as jade, and the leaves began to be covered with many words and lines carved according to his mind.
An indescribable fanaticism appeared in the depths of the queen's indifferent eyes.
This is the continuation of the gods that that person wanted to observe, but in the end they didn't get it, and now, it finally came into her hands.
When the leaf that finally turned into a ruby jade fell into her hands, she felt the rippling breath of the mysterious lines, her body trembled slightly, and she could be sure that this classic could not be fake .
She didn't say anything more, turned and left.
"Lord Shen, I've offended you."
A practitioner in yellow robe walked out from among the vines and smiled at Shen Xuan.
He opened the box he carried with him, and opened it in front of Shen Xuan without any restraint.
Then, almost violently, he passed a bottle of liquid medicine through a hollow steel needle, and directly pierced into a blood vessel on Shen Xuan's neck.
Shen Xuan let out a quick muffled groan, and his feet hit the ground like a hammer.
"Master Shen, you taught me these methods."
"Similarly, I am here thanks to you."
"Lord Shen, you are still lucky compared to me. As long as you can make it through, as long as the words you utter are the same as what you said to the empress before, there is still a bright future waiting for you, my lord. You don't have to hate me either."
Seeing Shen Xuan's face distorted in pain, the yellow-robed practitioner laughed, his facial features were almost distorted, full of cruelty and pleasure.
In the next moment, he didn't care about Shen Xuan's feelings at all, and a powerful natal aura emanated from his body, and the huge vines hanging above suddenly surged like a giant python, and fell down, dragging Shen Xuan Tightly bound and hung up.
Dozens of steel needles continuously pierced into the depths of Shen Xuan's body, and the different medicinal powers poured in from them made Shen Xuan's body twist and even start to tear.
The yellow-robed cultivator didn't even move extra, just because of his violent twisting, Shen Xuan was already bloody and bloody, and he couldn't see the human form anymore.
This is the most secret place to extract confessions.
There are too many astonishing secrets here, so the yellow-robed practitioner who was arranged here can only die here for a lifetime, and will never be able to get out of this cold palace alive.
He is Shen Xuan's subordinate.
However, since he lives here, cannot get out of this cold palace, and will never be able to contact the outside world again, he naturally doesn't need to care about Shen Xuan anymore.
But what he didn't expect was that Shen Xuan really didn't have any hatred for him at this time.
Because in the past many years, Shen Xuan has been waiting for such an opportunity, such an opportunity to prove himself.
He spent a lot of time practicing... so that he could withstand such torture and say what he wanted to say.
Although he was suffering unimaginable pain at this time, his mind was always clear, and no one would see that there was even a trace of sarcasm on his bloody face. smile.
"What exactly do you want?"
The queen's voice seemed to still echo in this cold palace.
"Honorable queen... I have served you for so long, have you never thought about it, or never bothered to think about it, thinking that I am not worthy of thinking about what I want?"
"Why do some people know exactly what I want?"
"That's the difference between you and others."
"Just like now, you want me to prove... What you want to prove is that in your eyes, I am still just a dispensable dog, no different from those yellow-robed men."
Shen Xuan smiled sarcastically.
Volume Six: The Events of the Year