Zijian held Mu Lin's hand in a soothing manner. The palms of the clasped hands felt a little hot, but fortunately they didn't sweat. Mu Lin pulled his lips slightly, maintaining a polite fake smile.
When Hades and the Queen finally stepped onto the altar, a nine-foot-tall man with a livid face came forward holding a mithril tray. The tray was covered with a square piece of red silk with a bulge in the middle.
Mu Lin felt a mysterious and cold power.
"Please verify your identity, Queen of the Underworld." The rough and cold voice made people feel uncomfortable.
Mu Lin looked at Zi Jian in confusion. She remembered clearly that there was no such item in the wedding process. Besides, how could she verify it
Zijian winked at her and said, "This is Judge Tuoba Shi. He was a general in his lifetime and is now one of the ten judges of the underworld. He is a man of integrity and honesty."
Mu Lin could tell at a glance that Tuoba Shi was at the peak of the Golden Immortal Realm. The Ten Judges were extremely important, and their sudden appearance at this time was obviously not arranged by Zijian. If they were not supporting Zijian, then they were the opposition. He was not as rough as he looked, but he was cautious and not easy to fool. He was upright and incorruptible, which meant that Tuoba Shi was reasonable. She only needed to counter his moves, and he would not make trouble after countering them.
Mu Lin nodded in understanding.
Tuoba Shi lifted the red silk, revealing a small bronze lamp. The base floated quietly on the tray, the black wick was wrapped in a translucent white flame, and the flame jumped towards Zijian, looking very lively.
It is a dark lamp. What did Tuoba Shi take out the dark lamp for
The whole place fell eerily quiet, and all the important figures present kept silent, watching the situation unfold without making a sound.
Tuoba Shi said: "Only those who are recognized by the Dark Lamp are qualified to become members of the Dark King Clan. This is the Dark Lamp lit by His Majesty the Dark King. Your Majesty the Dark Queen, please extract a trace of your soul, blend it into the flame, and light it with His Majesty."
Merge the lamp? Mu Lin was stunned for a moment before she realized. The dark lamp was, to some extent, the representative of the will of heaven and earth. If the dark lamp was willing to merge her soul, it would mean that they were recognized as husband and wife. Otherwise, it would mean that they were not recognized, proving that this marriage was unreasonable.
Zijian said leisurely, "This is an unwritten rule for the Pluto to marry his queen in ancient times, and it has long been abandoned. It is a bit inappropriate for General Tuoba to bring it up now."
"The laws established by our ancestors are still applicable today. Your Majesty the King of Hell has been recognized by the Dark Lanterns and has the support of the people. Why doesn't Your Majesty the Queen of Hell dare to try?"
Tuoba Shi firmly supports the royal bloodline and was originally unwilling to accept Zijian's becoming the king. However, when Zijian lit up the underworld lamp and won the recognition of heaven and earth, he was not convinced but had no other choice. But how could this woman of unknown origin be qualified to be the mistress of the underworld
There are many people in the underworld who don't obey Mu Lin, and Tuoba Shi is just a representative. What Mu Lin has to do is to prove to them that she has the qualifications!
The will of heaven and earth is hard to guess, and if you try, there is a 50% chance of failure. But... there is another way of saying it.
"Your Majesty and General Tuoba both have their reasons. There is room for improvement, but nothing is immutable," Mu Lin stared at Tuoba Shi and said with a faint smile, "The Queen of the Underworld should light a lamp for herself. When the lamp is lit, she will acknowledge me and I can be the Queen of the Underworld!"
This method is indeed more convincing. Tuoba Shi stroked his beard and nodded, "It's also possible."
Then he sent someone to fetch an unlit lamp and held it in front of Mu Lin.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, a stunning beauty in a bright red wedding gown formed hand seals with her bare hands, endured the pain of her soul being torn apart, extracted a wisp of pure white soul from her brow, and calmly placed it into the dim soul lamp.
The black wick was almost instantly devoured by the platinum flame, like a Tianshan snow lotus stained by sunlight, emitting a bright and sacred light, holy and captivating.
Attracted by this unexpected change, everyone looked towards the soul lamp. It was not a big deal to look at it, but they actually lost their minds in this small flame!
Tuoba Shi, as the person closest to the scene, was greatly moved when the firelight shone into his eyes. An indescribable tremor arose from the depths of his soul. He was suddenly fascinated and stared at it motionlessly, as if he didn't know what the world was.
When he finally came to, he found himself half-kneeling on the ground, tears streaming down his face. His sight was filled with a bright red, and Tuoba Shi wiped his tears, subconsciously raised his head, and stared blankly at the majestic and noble Queen of the Underworld.
The Queen looked down at him with her eyes half lowered, but gave him the illusion that her gaze was not on him at all, but on the deeper void. An elusive expression emerged on her beautiful face, which seemed to be compassionate, but also seemed to be indifferent.
Tuoba Shi was speechless for a long time, his expression full of sadness that he himself had not noticed. In fact, except for Zijian who stood still as usual, everyone on the altar behaved in the same way.
Mu Lin raised his eyes, glanced around gently, and made a pretentious gesture: "Everyone, please stand up."
Everyone seemed to wake up from a dream and stood up one by one, but their expressions were still not completely calm, so the altar was silent.
No one had ever thought that the supreme soul lamp could be lit up so easily by Mu Lin, and it was a unique platinum-colored flame... Don't judge a person by his appearance, this Queen of the Underworld is definitely not as simple as she looks!
Zijian just smiled and watched from the beginning to the end. This was the moment for his Hades to establish his authority, so he would not steal the limelight. In the eyes of everyone, all the strange things that happened were under the control of Hades.
In fact, Zijian was also very surprised, but he didn't show it on his face. It was the first time he witnessed the bloodline of the Hades family suppressing the creatures of the underworld almost instinctively. If he hadn't been highly skilled and didn't have pure bloodline of the underworld, he would have lost his composure just now.
Nothing unexpected happened afterwards, and the sacrifice to heaven and the parade went smoothly until they arrived in front of the Naihe Bridge and under the Sansheng Stone.
According to legend, after repairing the sky, the goddess of creation Nuwa began to create people with mud. For each person she created, she took a grain of sand as a plan, and finally formed a huge stone. Because this stone originated from the beginning of the world, it absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, and gradually became spiritual. It gradually developed a fantastic appearance and gave birth to two divine patterns, dividing the stone into three sections, even if it had the intention of swallowing up the three realms of heaven, earth, and man. The great goddess Nuwa finally sealed it and named it the Three Life Stone, gave it the magic power of the Three Life Secret, named its three sections as the previous life, this life, and the next life, and added a marriage line to it, which lasted from this life to the next life.
The Three Lives Stone is a magical object that stands beside the Naihe Bridge and the Wangchuan River, and is in charge of the reincarnation of marriages in three lives. When the stone stands upright, its divine power shines brightly over the world, and there is an endless stream of people kneeling down to pray for reincarnation in marriage. Married people can see the names of both husband and wife as long as they place their hands on it at the same time.
Light black turns to gray, dark gray turns to black. Looking at this inconspicuous gray-black stone, who would have thought that it is as old as the underworld and that the great war between immortals and the underworld could not harm it in the slightest.
Their hands were still clasped together, and Mu Lin looked at him, and they stared at each other. Zi Jian had no intention of letting go, and raised his other hand to place it on the Sansheng Stone, so Mu Lin had to follow suit.
As expected, golden small seal characters appeared out of thin air, which were the names of Zijian and Mulin, and were arranged in the center of the stone surface. With this as the center, many other names appeared above, below, left and right, all of which were destined to be together.
The smile in Zijian's eyes deepened, but Mu Lin's attention was not on it, because she saw a pair of special names above.
Yun Yan Ni Heng
Yunyan is the name of her father, the king, and Niheng is... Wait! Niheng
"Ten thousand years ago, the God of War passed away, and his eldest daughter Ni Heng succeeded to the throne..."
The master's words echoed in Mu Lin's ears, making her feel like she was struck by lightning.
The Queen of the Underworld... her mother... is the current God of War, Ni Heng? Could something have gone wrong?!
Mu Lin couldn't believe her eyes. Could it be that they just had the same name? Ten thousand years ago, Ni Heng wasn't even the God of War, but she was the heir to the God of War. How could she possibly marry the prince of the Hades
Mu Lin was a little out of shape, but luckily she had a good memory and nothing went wrong with the following process. When she came to her senses, she was already sitting on the bed in the bedroom, surrounded by a festive red.
At this time, Zijian was holding a banquet in the Pluto Palace. Mu Lin said to the maid beside him, "Go and invite Lady Mengpo."
The maid bowed respectfully: "Yes."
After a while, Meng Qianxi came over with a puzzled look on her face. What was the urgent matter that required him to look for her on the wedding day
"Your Highness, Queen of the Underworld, are you looking for me?"
"All of you go down." Mu Lin ordered the maids. When the maids had all left and the hall was empty, she met Meng Qianxi's puzzled eyes and whispered, "Sister Qianxi, tell me, who is my mother?"
"..." Meng Qianxi hesitated for a moment, then smiled calmly, "Lin'er, why do you suddenly ask this? Today is your big day, let's talk about something happy..."
"What's her name?" Mu Lin looked at Meng Qianxi, which made her a little scared.
Meng Qianxi sighed and immediately knelt down in front of Mu Lin: "Please forgive me, Princess. I cannot tell you according to the order of His Majesty the King of Hell."
"So you have been keeping this matter a secret and have never let me know anything about my biological mother?"
"Please don't ask anymore..."
Mu Lin interrupted her: "I already know, she is the high and mighty God of War Ni Heng, right?"
Meng Qianxi looked at her sadly: "Your Highness..."
Mu Lin was unmoved, and just muttered to himself: "By the way, Ni Heng was not the God of War at that time, but just one of the heirs of the God of War, but she married my father. Who of you would have thought that she would abandon her husband and daughter and become a taboo in the underworld? To me, she only appeared in the few words of my father when he was in a good mood, hehe..."
Mu Lin leaned over and lifted Meng Qianxi's chin, showing her majesty as a princess.
"Now that I know, you might as well tell me everything. Why did the underworld suffer a catastrophe only a hundred years after she left? What is the connection between the world-destroying true flame that burns everything and the divine world?"
Is the mastermind behind the fratricide between the immortal and the underworld the God Realm? Is it... her good mother
Isn't it just abandoning the couple and their daughter, but also murdering the husband and daughter
Mu Lin's expression gradually turned cold.