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Dongguan is in chaos...

When Nalan Hongyu left Beili State and returned to Dongguan State, he found that all the brothers who had tried every means to get his position as crown prince had disappeared.

If it was his father who helped him deal with these brothers, that was absolutely impossible. His father was still thinking of passing the throne to whoever of them persisted to the end, so something must have gone wrong.

As long as these people don't die, they will never give up the position of crown prince. Judging from this, everything is weird.

Moreover, his journey back to the palace was too smooth. When he left, he was assassinated many times by those brothers. It was impossible for them to be so quiet when he came back. Either something happened to them, or something happened to Dongguan State.

As soon as he returned to his Prince's Mansion, he quickly wrote a letter and asked someone to go to Nanyue State to deliver the message.

The secret guard looked at his pale master respectfully and said, "Master, according to the information we received, those princes have not come out since they entered the palace."

Nalan Hongyu looked gloomy as he folded the letter and handed it to the secret guard: "Go, give one letter to the Crown Prince of Nanyue and the other to His Majesty Nanyue. Be quick!"

"Yes!" The secret guard seemed to have noticed something, responded, and disappeared into the study.

He was exhausted from the journey, so he quickly ordered people to prepare water so that he could take a bath. However, when he was halfway through his bath, he heard that someone sent by the Emperor of Dongguan was coming.

When he came out after changing into a condom, the eunuch in charge said respectfully but urged him: "Your Highness, please hurry up!"

Nalan Hongyu always felt that things were not that simple, and was just about to instruct his subordinates on something.

The eunuch in charge saw this and said coldly, "Your Highness, please come to the palace immediately! If you anger His Majesty, Your Highness will not be able to bear the responsibility."

Then he instructed the people behind him: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is weak and sick, everyone help him back to the palace."

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of guards came forward, carried Nalan Hongyu and walked out, without giving him a chance to react.

In the Dongguan Imperial Palace, in a secret room that looked like a pharmacy, an old Taoist priest with white hair stood next to the Emperor of Dongguan.

"Master, with the help of the prince, can you make the elixir?" The Emperor of Dongguan was very respectful to the old Taoist priest, and his words were cautious.

When the old Taoist heard the words of the Emperor of Dongguan, his tone was cold: "Your Majesty, don't you believe me? If I say yes, then yes."

"Yes, yes, Master, what you said is absolutely right!"

The old Taoist priest snorted coldly: "Didn't your majesty say that the prince would return today? Why hasn't he entered the palace yet?"

"It's almost there, Master, please be patient. I have already sent someone to catch him." The Emperor of Dongguan said in a flattering tone.

He was extremely angry in his heart, and when the elixir was ready, he was the first to kill the Taoist priest.

At this moment, the eunuch in charge brought Nalan Hongyu in.

"Your Majesty, Master, the Crown Prince has arrived." The eunuch in charge said with his head lowered.

When the old Taoist saw this, he was very excited and said, "Hurry up, tie him up and put him on the rack over there."

The eunuch in charge and the guards seemed to be used to it. They pulled Nalan Hongyu over and tied him to the rack.

What was there for Nalan Hongyu not to understand? His father wanted to use his blood to make pills again.

From childhood to adulthood, once a month, he would either volunteer to donate his blood, or his father would personally send someone to invite him to donate blood.

If it weren't for this, he wouldn't be such a sickly person.

Now, he has become accustomed to this scene.

Sure enough, the old Taoist ordered his men to strip off his clothes, cut a knife on the arteries on both sides of his arms, and started to bleed him.

Nalan Hongyu quietly felt the blood flowing away, and his originally sickly face became paler as paper.

He thought this was the same as usual, but he found that his father and the old Taoist priest had no intention of stopping until he fainted.

Suddenly, the old Taoist stopped what he was doing and ordered someone to bandage Nalan Hongyu.

The emperor looked at the old Taoist priest with excitement: "Master, is that enough?"

The old Taoist priest looked very unhappy: "This amount of blood is far from enough. Even if we drain your son dry, it is still not enough. Let's take care of him for two days and come back after he recovers some blood."

The Emperor of Dongguan felt a little annoyed after hearing this. His son had been away for three months, so why hadn't he recovered yet?

He has been a waste since childhood, and he is still the same waste when he grows up!

Afterwards, Nalan Hongyu was thrown into a secret room. When he woke up again, he was shocked by the scene in front of him. There were six shelves in the secret room.

Tied to the six racks were six brothers whose blood had been drained out and turned into mummies.

At this moment, there was nothing that Nalan Hongyu didn't understand. In order to obtain the so-called elixir of immortality, his father drained all the blood of his sons and used the blood to make the elixir.

The blood he had supplied since he was a child was not enough, and during the three months that he was away, he was unable to provide blood, so he took these people for surgery.

He thought his father was just obsessed with refining the elixir of immortality, but he would not gamble with the country of Dongguan.

He never thought that his father wanted to kill him too. Today, it was clear that he wanted to drain his blood, but he didn't know why he let him go.

As he was thinking, he felt dizzy and passed out again.

five days later

Xie Yunqi held the letter in his hand until his knuckles turned white. Something had happened to his good friend.

He had to go and rescue her, thinking this, he hurried into the palace without even having time to change his clothes.

Inside the palace, Emperor Mingde was lost in thought while holding the letter in his hand. Should he save her or not?

I don’t know whether what the Prince of Dongguan said in the letter is true.

At this moment, the door of the study was suddenly pushed open and Xie Yunqi walked in hurriedly.

Emperor Mingde frowned in displeasure. He, the crown prince, had always been steady and prudent. Why did he act so recklessly today without even informing anyone?

Before he could finish his words of reprimand, he saw Xie Yunqi kneeling on the ground, "Father, the Crown Prince of Dongguan is in trouble, and I want to go and save him."

He was afraid that Emperor Mingde would ask again, so he told the whole story: "We were in trouble on our way to Beiqi. The Crown Prince of Dongguan not only saved us, but also saved my younger sister. I promised him that if he needed me, he could just ask. I have to repay this favor, and I hope that your Majesty will grant me the favor."

Emperor Mingde: ………He hasn’t even said anything yet and his son is already getting anxious.

"I can allow you to go, but I have only one condition, which is to take over the Kingdom of Dongguan. If you can do it, then go. If you can't, then forget it." After saying this, Emperor Mingde calmly drank a sip of tea.

He suddenly wanted to annex the four countries so that his Yue'er would not have to suffer outside and could always stay with him.

Ever since Xie Chuyue went to Beiqi Kingdom, Emperor Mingde has been missing his little daughter madly and wishes he could go to Beili Kingdom to accompany his precious daughter.