All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Shen Lingxi tied the rope around his waist directly around one of the black rocks, and then floated towards the water.

Because Liu Meiren and the others had just found the location of the black stone with their lanterns, Shen Lingxi's boat was not far from the black stone.

As soon as she emerged from the water, she saw that Chu Yan had already led someone and rowed close to her direction.

"I'm here." She waved to Chu Yan.

Shen Lingxi had just been focused on destroying the formation at the bottom of the lake. Even if she jumped into the cold lake water, she didn't feel how cold it was.

But now she found a solution. When she surfaced and was blown by the cold wind of the winter night, she felt as if the cold lake water had penetrated into the seams of her bones.

She shuddered, stretched out her hand to hold the edge of the boat, and was about to get on the boat——

A warm hand grabbed her arm directly, lifted her onto the boat, and held her in his arms.

The large cloak wrapped her tightly.

The crisp scent of soap locust lingered on the tip of his nose, and warm heat flowed into his limbs instantly, making Shen Lingxi sigh in comfort.

She put her hands around the man's strong waist, and did not forget to arrange: "Your Highness, please find a few people with good water skills, go down along this rope, and find a way to move the stone tied in the water, then This formation can be broken."

With the warmth and warmth in his arms, Chu Yan's anxiety, which he had felt since just now, finally came to fruition.

"You don't think I'm holding you back now." Chu Yan said in a quiet tone.

Having said that, there was no delay in arranging people to do things.

At his instruction, some of the inner guards who came with him rowed to the center of the lake and cast nets to stop those pigeons that were not afraid of death and continued to "throw themselves into the lake".

The other part jumped directly into the lake, followed the hemp rope tied by Shen Lingxi, and dived to the bottom of the lake to move the stones.

Liu Meiren covered her lips and smiled softly and got into the bottom of the lake again to watch the internal guards at work.

On the contrary, Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi hugged each other in a cloak in the cold wind, and felt relaxed for a while.

Shen Lingxi knew that the words she had asked the young eunuch to relay earlier were too "stimulating" for Chu Yan, so she reached out and smoothed his hair on his back soothingly, "It was an emergency, and I just said so many words in front of so many people. There is no way to explain it clearly. If the delay continues, the concubine will probably lose her soul. Look, how tacit understanding is there between us working together like this? This is called 'a husband and wife are of the same mind, and their power breaks through metal'."

A good "husband and wife are of the same mind, and their strength can break through metal".

"I don't know when you became so sharp-tongued." Chu Yan sneered.

Having said that, the hand around her waist tightened again and again, and the palm of his hand continuously supplied her with internal energy to help her ward off the cold.

Shen Lingxi's ears felt hot, and even she couldn't believe it. Her ability to coax people was self-taught and she could do it with her mouth.

While the two were talking, the black stone below began to be moved by the inner guards, and the small boat connected to it began to sway on the lake.

On the other side, a big net was spread out on the lake. The pigeons that had "thrown themselves into the lake" were thrown into the net, struggling like crazy and screaming "coo coo coo coo".

In this dark night, it is as weird as you want.

About half a cup of tea passed, and the boat connected to the rope suddenly shook violently several times.

Immediately afterwards, the cries of the pigeons in the center of the lake stopped abruptly.

"The formation is broken..." Shen Lingxi turned her head to look in the direction of the center of the lake and murmured.

Liu Meiren and the others also floated up from the bottom of the lake, holding wind lanterns, and flew towards the center of the lake.

At this moment, Shen Lingxi could see with his naked eyes a white soul rising slowly from the center of the lake.

Liu Meiren and Liu Meiren were holding wind lanterns and approached with surprise on their faces.

However, the moment the wind lantern in their hands illuminated the soul——

The two dead souls and Shen Lingxi both opened their eyes in shock.

The dead soul floating out from the center of the lake was indeed the concubine trapped in the formation just now, but at this moment, her originally pure white soul was covered with extremely fine black threads.

Those threads were like water, meandering around her body.

"Help...save me..." The concubine looked at Shen Lingxi with a face full of pain and begged her, "help me...it hurts too much, it hurts...my soul...is going to be sucked dry." ” She was talking about those “black lines.”

Liu Meiren was the closest and could see it most clearly. She hurriedly said to Shen Lingxi: "These things are sucking souls. They are getting bigger. Xiaowu's soul is disappearing. Is there any way you can help her?"

So far, Shen Lingxi has only seen a magic circle where the soul disappears once. It was the magic circle where Yun Xi's corpse served as the eye of the magic circle when he was in the abandoned imperial mausoleum of Emperor Li.

Ice crystals, pigeons, soul-sucking magic circles...

Shen Lingxi's pupils suddenly tightened.

It’s Mingyang Jade!

These abnormalities must be related to Mingyang Jade!

"Quick, row the boat to the center of the lake." Shen Lingxi looked at Chu Yan and urged.

Chu Yan saw the anxious look on her face and knew that the matter was urgent.

He stared at her, hugged her, and flew towards the boat closest to them.

After so many ups and downs, in just a few breaths of time, the two of them had arrived on the boat closest to the center of the lake.

The inner guards were a little dumbfounded——

His Highness, the Crown Prince, has always been a secretive person. Everyone only knows that he is good at arranging troops and conducting torture and interrogation, but they do not know that his martial arts is so powerful.

"Row the boat and go to the center of the lake." Chu Yan ordered the inner guard on the boat who was catching pigeons with a fishing net.

The inner guard finally realized what he was doing and hurriedly rowed the boat towards the center of the lake.

Shen Lingxi winked at Liu Meiren.

Liu Meiren immediately understood and moved aside.

Just when the boat they were riding in sailed within ten feet of the soul of the concubine——

There was a "whoosh" sound, and the concubine's soul flew straight away like a white ball.

At the same time, the black silk threads wrapped around her body were dusted like dust, and fell into the lake in all directions under the light of the wind lantern in Liu Meiren's hand!

When Shen Lingxi saw this, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Ever since she accidentally discovered that the Mingyin Jade could exorcise the souls of the dead at the Yunjiang Town Duke's Mansion last time, she had always felt that the evil aura on Chu Yan's body had the same effect as the Mingyin Jade.

Ming Yin jade and Ming Yang jade complement each other.

Shen Lingxi would never carry something as valuable and troublesome as the Mingyin Jade with him.

In desperation, he tried using Chu Yan's evil spirit, but unexpectedly it actually worked.

She has not forgotten that Sheng Kun's dead soul did not dare to come within ten feet of Chu Yan.

Come to think of it, even Sheng Kun, who has "great magical powers", is not immune.

"Let's go take a look at her." Liu Meiren told Shen Lingxi, and then she and the concubine floated in the direction where the dead soul's bullet flew just now.

At the same time, the inner guards who had originally spread fishing nets around them also rowed boats and gathered in the direction of Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...look at those pigeons!"

Opposite the boat where Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi were riding, a guard who had just rowed over suddenly pointed at the pigeons in the middle of the fishing net and said in horror, "They... they were still alive and kicking just now, how come they were so alive in just this moment?" All dead?!”

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone only heard "plop, plop, plop..." The sound of falling into the water continued to sound around them.

Shen Lingxi raised her eyes and looked into the night sky, only to see countless pigeons falling from the mid-air like rain!

At the same time, what no one discovered was——

In the distance, the small boat on which Shen Lingxi first rode,
Dense black lines snaked from the water along the side of the ship, into the cabin, and into the pile of clothes she took off before entering the water...