Jiaochu

Chapter 314 Impermanence Dispersion

When only two people were left, Murong Ze pulled up his sleeves and exposed his wrist, which had a blue mark on it. After letting Ye Lingxi take a look, he put down his sleeves to cover his wrists.

"That's...?" Seeing the strange-colored mark, Ye Lingxi couldn't help but speak.

Murong Ze said: "Princess, do you still remember the blue willow tree I mentioned?"

Ye Lingxi thought about it for a moment and nodded.

"When I was seven years old, someone told me that there was a blue willow tree growing deep in the ice field. As long as I found it, any wish could come true. I believed it and ran to the ice field to find it alone. As a result, I fell into an ice cave and died. I was rescued on this occasion. Although I was saved, my legs were disabled and I have never been able to stand up again." Murong Ze finished the experience in an unusually calm tone.

The atmosphere was silent for a few seconds, and the coolness in the air seemed to increase a bit.

Ye Lingxi looked at the knees covered by the blanket with a silent expression.

"Princess must be wondering, what does what I said have to do with the sea monster." Murong Ze said the last sentence meaningfully, "But I saw it when I was dying." He glanced at his wrist covered by his sleeves , "Perhaps it was a hallucination before I died, but on the seventh day after I was saved, this mark appeared on my wrist. Later I found out in an ancient book that this mark was the sea monster. Curse, the cursed people will not live to be thirty years old."

"Curse?" Ye Lingxi didn't believe it. If it was a curse, why would he save people?

"I didn't believe it at first, but then the mark gradually became deeper, and my health became worse and worse. If I blew a little bit of cold wind, I would feel bitingly cold all over my body, as if I was being pricked by countless needles." Murong Ze smiled bitterly, "It makes people die after being tortured. If it's not a curse, then it's nothing."

"Is there a way to crack it?" Ye Lingxi asked.

Murong Ze suddenly smiled playfully, "Princess, are you not afraid that I lied to you? Did I make up the sea monster, the shark blue seal, and the curse?"

"The story that Brother Murong made up is quite interesting, so I'll just listen to it as a story without having to spend money or suffer any losses." Ye Lingxi said.

Murong Ze said: "Then the princess promised to help me keep the secret?"

Ye Lingxi: "..." Since it's a secret, don't tell it. If you tell it, you have to keep it secret. I really have nothing to say. "Don't worry, I have a very strict mouth."

"I wonder if the princess can do me another favor?"

Murong Ze smiled, and Ye Ling wondered if this was to use "beautiful and charming", but she did not accept this trick, "Tell me first, if you kill someone, set fire to your home, and rob your home, I can't help you, so blame me." There is no point in laughing." Murong Ze said, "I heard that there is a treasure passed down from the previous dynasty called Fire Lingzhi, which may be able to restrain this shark blue seal."

"You want this princess to help you steal things?" Ye Lingxi said.

Murong Ze smiled again and said, "The princess misunderstood. I will steal the things myself, but where they are, I have to rely on the princess's help."

Ye Lingxi thought about it for a while and said, "I can help you ask, but you also have to do me a favor."

"Princess, please speak." Murong Ze said.

Ye Lingxi said: "Let's talk about it then." In the next two days, Ye Lingxi first went to the Taiyuan Hospital to ask Bai Hu about the fire Ganoderma lucidum. She thought it would be stored in the medicinal material warehouse, but there was no record of it in the medicinal material booklet. .

Bai Hu said he was going to ask Imperial Physician Han, and Ye Lingxi went with him.

Imperial Physician Han knew the origin of the Fire Ganoderma.

Fire Ganoderma is as bright as flames and grows on cliffs thousands of feet high. Unless those who pick them have extremely light skills, they cannot climb up. However, despite the heavy reward, many people still risk their lives to collect this extremely dangerous natural treasure. In the previous dynasty, there was a person who collected the Fire Ganoderma. This person was Bai Jie, the Marquis of Jinyi. However, he had a talented man like Feng Wang who could control hundreds of birds, so it was not difficult to collect the Fire Ganoderma. Later, Bai Jie brought the Fire Ganoderma to him. This fire lingzhi was dedicated to King Xia.

However, King Xia likes to make elixirs, so this fire Ganoderma lucidum may have been thrown into the furnace to refine elixirs.

When Ye Lingxi told Murong Ze that the Fire Lingzhi might have been made into an elixir by King Xia and eaten in his stomach, he sighed and said, "It seems that this is my fate."

Seeing that the other party was resigned to his fate, Ye Lingxi said, "There is not only one Fire Ganoderma growing in the world. If this one is gone, just find another one."

"This Fire Ganoderma is rare, and it grows on cliffs thousands of feet high. It's so easy to find another one." Murong Ze sighed softly, as if accepting his fate, "Thank you for your trouble, Princess."

Ye Lingxi stared at the resigned face without blinking.

The air is a little quiet.

After a few seconds, Murong Ze said: "While I still have breath, princess, please take a few more glances, so as not to forget in the future."

"Tell me, where do you want me to go to help you find something?" Ye Lingxi said.

"Princess—" Murong Ze was interrupted before she could say anything else. Ye Lingxi said firmly, "You must have clues, but with your status, it's hard to find them directly." At this point, she said He took two casual steps and said, "If this princess guessed correctly, you must have found out the whereabouts of this Fire Ganoderma long ago."

"The princess is indeed as smart as ice and snow. She can't hide anything from the princess." Murong Ze praised, then changed the subject, "Princess, do you think the fire lingzhi offered by the Marquis of Jin Yi back then was real or fake?"

Ye Lingxi thought for a while, this Fire Ganoderma is indeed very precious, but there is no need to get a fake Ganoderma to fool you. If the secret is exposed, wouldn't it be like shooting yourself in the foot and asking for trouble? If you don't want to offer it, Just keep it secretly for yourself. After thinking about it, she said, "Ganoderma lucidum is naturally real. If it is fake, the crime of deceiving the emperor will be beheaded."

"That's right." Murong Ze said, "Back then, King Xia was obsessed with alchemy and wanted to make an elixir for immortality. However, to make this elixir, you need a very strong and powerful medicine, which is the fire Ganoderma. The princess guessed that this elixir was finally refined. Is it done?"

Ye Lingxi said: "If it is perfected, then King Xia will become a god. How can he set fire to the palace and act like a madman?"

Murong Ze raised his lips and said: "The elixir was indeed made back then, but it was not an elixir of immortality, but a poison that could kill people."

"How do you know?" Ye Lingxi asked.

Murong Ze said: "Didn't the princess just say that King Xia set fire to the palace before his death? He was like a madman. There is a poison in this world called Wuchang Powder, which will make people go crazy and die after taking it. Jin Yihou has four men under his command. Big head catcher, Black and White Wuchang, bull-headed and horse-faced, Black and White Wuchang is good at using poison. This Wuchang Powder is one of the methods used to torture prisoners. After the death of Jin Yihou, his men were surrounded and suppressed by the court. Those who died died and those who escaped escaped. The four major Only Black and White Wuchang survived the arrest. When the royal capital was breached, the two of them might have taken advantage of the chaos to sneak into the city, and then sneaked into the palace to exchange for King Xia's elixir."

(End of this chapter)