The girl traveled through another world and forced the prince to take the imperial examination

The two brothers had no time to change clothes when they hurriedly fled into the mountains, so Jiuyou had always been dressed as a girl. He and Yuan Zhi had been misunderstood for three years.

Why did Mu Qingcheng feel so regretful?

Ming Yuan: "Yuan Zhi practiced medicine while traveling, and her reputation grew. She attracted the attention of some shameless people. I will never let anyone get close to her. I will pinch off as many peach blossoms as she has. Until that year, they went to the capital and met Shao Jun..."

Yun Qing asked anxiously, "How did they know each other?"

Ming Yuan: "It was just a fleeting glimpse! She was standing on the Jinshui Bridge, admiring the scenery, and Shao Jun was standing at the bow of the boat. Just that one glance made him chase her relentlessly like an ant clinging to a piece of meat!"

Mu Qingcheng was touched by what she heard: "Yun Qing, I remember now. In the tomb below the Cloud Peak, there is a scene like this in one of the twenty-four paintings. That painting depicts the scene of their meeting, right?"

Yun Qing couldn't see it at the time, and felt a little regretful. He asked Ming Yuan again: "So, you attacked him?"

Ming Yuan raised his chin defiantly, "Yes! We had a fight, and he lost to me. I used the Frost-Slashing and Snow-Breaking Sword Qi Technique, which I had only mastered to the third level at the time."

Yun Qing admitted that Zhan Shuang Po Xue was very powerful. If a prodigy like his father was defeated, he would probably be pursued relentlessly!

"Then how did he steal your sword technique?"

Ming Yuan's eyes revealed a look of nostalgia: "He is the only person in this world I can call my friend. In the first twenty years or so before I met him, no one else was worthy of using these two words."

Ming Yuan reminisced about the past: "We would fight every three days, then go out for drinks and discuss martial arts with each other. He offered many suggestions on my Frost-Slashing Snow Technique, and we revised it together. So... the Triple Sword Manual wasn't stolen by him. The hateful thing is, in order to see Yuan Zhi, he actually told them my whereabouts!"

Later, it became the four of us drinking together...

Those days passed quickly and happily. Until... he suddenly disappeared!"

Sudden disappearance? Yun Qing was very nervous and unconsciously held Mu Qingcheng's hand. He had a bad feeling.

"Why? Why did he disappear?"

Ming Yuan was silent for a long time before he spoke: "I've said before that Emperor Yong'an is a complete hypocrite. To achieve immortality, he's willing to pay any price... including exchanging his own son for his own..."

Yun Qing stood up suddenly and asked Ming Yuan in an incredulous tone, "He...he traded my father...with the Holy Land?"

Mingyuan remained silent, his silence was a wordless response.

Yun Qing felt as if a bolt of lightning struck his head. His legs, unable to withstand the blow, collapsed.

He fell down weakly, and Mu Qingcheng quickly supported him to prevent him from falling.

Yun Qing knelt on the ground and roared in anger: "My father was such a brilliant man, with unparalleled talent. If he ascended the throne, the Great Qi Kingdom would surely be peaceful and prosperous, and would never be as decadent and decadent as it is now.

He actually wanted to use my father as a sacrifice in exchange for a ridiculous immortality!"

Yun Qing's body began to tremble, and he felt his world was collapsing. He couldn't accept this fact, and the pain and despair in his heart made him unable to breathe.

Mu Qingcheng was also angry, but she was more worried about Yun Qing. She held Yun Qing's hand tightly and felt his trembling body: "Yun Qing, you have to calm down. Nothing will happen to him. If something happens to him, where will you be?"

It’s not that Yun Qing didn’t think of this, but he was too angry!

Ming Yuan nodded approvingly, "Yes! Without your father, the three of us would have continued living in peace. But he showed up anyway. How could anyone not be moved by such a stunning and charming man? The four of us have been together for so long, your mother's heart has long been seduced by him. But what I'm most worried about is Jiuyou, my poor little brother."

"Shao Jun suddenly disappeared, and it was Yuan Zhi who discovered it first!"

The two of them listened silently to Ming Yuan's story:

"Shao Jun is really attentive to Yuan Zhi. Yuan Zhi loves to eat the thousand-layer pastry from Huijizhai in the capital. Shao Jun buys her one every day. Sometimes he delivers it himself, and sometimes he sends a secret guard to deliver it. Every time he delivers the thousand-layer pastry, it must be the first batch of pastry from Huijizhai. This is done every day, without interruption!"

"Huijizhai's Thousand Layer Pastry?" Yun Qing's heart moved. He remembered that Mobei had also mentioned Huijizhai's Thousand Layer Pastry. There must be some connection between them.

“I heard that the owner of Huijizhai was once a royal chef in the palace, and their thousand-layer pastry is really good.

But that day, the person who delivered the thousand-layer pastry didn't show up. Yuan Zhi found that all the secret guards around Shao Jun had disappeared without a trace, and she immediately realized that something might have happened to Shao Jun.

After much inquiry, the three of us finally learned that Emperor Yong'an had ordered Shaojun to inspect Jiangnan, with a return date of one year. When Shaojun returned to Beijing one year later, Emperor Yong'an would abdicate the throne to him.

Even if he really was going to inspect Jiangnan, he couldn't have failed to say goodbye to Yuan Zhi. The day he left the capital, we all went to see him. He rode out of the city in a three-horse carriage, and the people accompanying him were all strangers; we didn't recognize any of them.

So we concluded that something had really happened to him. Yuan Zhi believed Shao Jun must still be in the palace, so the three of us decided to sneak in and get some information. Jiuyou and Yuan Zhi disguised themselves as palace maids, while I, with my kung fu prowess, searched in the dark.

Soon, we discovered Emperor Yong'an's secret—in order to achieve immortality, he wanted to sacrifice his most outstanding son in exchange for a chance at rebirth!"

"Rebirth?" Mu Qingcheng caught the word and continued to ask: "Did you hear it correctly? It's really rebirth, not immortality?"

Ming Yuan was puzzled: "Is there any difference?"

Mu Qingcheng insisted on her opinion: "Of course it's different!"

Ming Yuan confirmed, "I ran into people from the Holy Land in the palace. Emperor Yong'an was hosting a banquet for the Holy Land envoys in the palace. I killed one of them and then eavesdropped among the envoys. They mentioned the altar and rebirth!"

"Nuannuan, is there any difference between rebirth and immortality?" Yun Qing was also confused.

Mu Qingcheng thought of some rebirth novels she had read. Of course, she couldn't mention novels when explaining to them: "Rebirth and immortality are of course different. Everyone knows that immortality means that someone lives for a very long time. People who can't die are called immortals.

Rebirth is different. It's when someone gives up their body and their soul enters another person's body to continue living. This is called rebirth. The prerequisite is that the body they enter must be the body of their original deceased self.

Yun Qing and Ming Yuan both gasped. Ming Yuan whispered thoughtfully, "No wonder, no wonder... so that's how it is!"

"Well? What did you remember?"

Mingyuan: "I mixed in with the Holy Land envoys and entered a remote palace. I lurked there for a long time before I discovered an underground palace.

That underground palace not only had a dungeon, but also a huge altar. In the middle of the altar was a stone that I recognized at a glance.

When I was still in the Holy Land, I once received a mission to hunt down the descendants of the Nanyue royal family. After slaughtering them, I snatched a stone from them! It was the stone placed in the middle of the altar.

"What kind of stone is this? We have to kill so many people to get it."

Mingyuan took a deep breath and slowly uttered three words: "Exchange soul stones!"

Soul Stone Exchange! As the name suggests, no explanation needed! The three of them were silent, their hearts filled with mixed emotions!