The princess is the only one in Xuanmen, and she is reborn to lift the lid of the prince's coff

The Crown Prince, Lu Xuan and the others glanced at the silent Eastern Palace guards and walked in with a cold and gloomy look.

Pei Fan did not follow him in, but silently followed the guards at the door and retreated out of the hall.

When the Prince and Jiang Xing and his entourage were almost out of sight, he breathed a sigh of relief and finally decided to teach his subordinates who had failed to see the situation a lesson.

But unexpectedly, a group of dark people came over from a distance, panting.

A group of old ministers in the palace were not sure whether they were afraid that the prince would run away or what, but after seeing the prince leave with Jiang Xing and others in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, they were afraid that even the only crown prince would encounter another accident, so they all made a plan and hurried to the East Palace.

"Hurry up, don't let the prince escape. He's the only one left!"

"Thank you, sir. You better be careful with your old bones and don't run away and break them apart."

"I have to go even if it means breaking up. After all, this is a matter of great importance to the country and the succession of the royal heir. Even if it means sacrificing my life, I have to help the crown prince ascend to the throne!"

"Ahem, they've entered the hall and are almost gone..."

"..."

A group of ministers followed closely behind, like a swarm of hornets, and rushed into the Wenhua Gate.

Pei Fan's subordinates and guards learned their lesson this time. They quickly began to bow and wait before the ministers arrived, fearing that they would be scolded by their superiors again.

Only when the group of old ministers had completely disappeared did Pei Fan finally throw away his cloak and burst into fierce curses.

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Inside the Wenhua Hall, General Lu and Fei Xing, who had just arrived, slammed the door panel into the gap in the ground. With a "bang", the ground trembled slightly, bricks and stones rubbed against each other, and a dark corridor gradually opened up from the ground, with dust flying and dancing.

The ministers who followed in heard the sound, exclaimed, and quickly gathered around.

This, this East Palace, really has a secret passage!

Feixing waved his hand to clear the dust in the air of the exposed secret passage, lit a torch, and planned to go down and explore the way first.

But at this moment, he was stopped by Lu Xuan.

The last time she came, she only dealt with some of the evil black energy on the surface, but the source of the evil energy in the secret passage was not dealt with.

Therefore, as soon as the secret passage was opened, wisps of evil energy emanated from it. Although it would not have any impact on young and strong people, some elderly people with weaker constitutions might accumulate some illnesses or bad energy.

She glanced at the ministers behind her and said in a deep voice, "Please step back outside the hall. There's a sinister aura in this secret passage. Please stay out of the way for now. Once we've dealt with this sinister object, you can come back in."

When the ministers heard Lu Xuan's words, they were subconsciously shocked.

There's something yin?!

Many people did not believe in ghosts and gods before, but when they thought of what the emperor, no, Niu Saner said Jiang Shaozhao had done, and combined with the corridor that really appeared here, they couldn't help but step back a little.

Being haunted by evil spirits will bring bad luck.

Therefore, after Lu Xuan said that, most of the ministers in the hall left immediately.

Especially Sun Songnian who came with them, he almost immediately left the palace gate and ran faster than anyone else.

But Xie Ruqin thought, now the prince is the only heir to the throne, and the prince is going in regardless of his own safety, and he has lived here for so many years. As an old man and a subject, he must go in and take a look, right?

Besides, the person speaking in front of me is a young eunuch.

But looking at how this person behaved in the Hall of Supreme Harmony today, as well as the attitude of the prince and the Duke of Anguo towards this young eunuch, I had some guesses. This person might not be the princess in disguise!

The prince, princess, and crown prince aren't afraid, so why should I be afraid?!

Therefore, Xie Ruqin and several other brave old ministers waited at the entrance of the secret passage, determined to go in with them.

In order to let someone witness the situation below, Lu Tong did not stop them when he saw that they insisted.

Now that Jiang Yuanfeng has been eliminated, she used her mysterious magic and no longer avoided people. She activated the talisman in her hand and chanted a spell. In an instant, a yellow talisman turned several times in the air and instantly ignited without fire.

In the eyes of the crowd, the talisman was like a flaming dart, and in the blink of an eye, it immediately flew into the depths of the corridor.

With the talisman suppressing it, the wisps of evil aura that had been leaking out disappeared in an instant.

Lu Xuan then signaled Feixing to light the torch and lead everyone downstairs.

The corridor was dark and spacious, with no sunlight visible. The group had to use several torches to fully illuminate the inside.

As Qing Yuan and Qing Dai had previously inquired, they had just taken a few steps inside when they saw a dense pile of agarwood chips in front of them.

Jiang Xing glanced at Lu Xuan, and immediately went out to call a team of people. In less than half an hour, all the wood chips inside were cleaned up.

After cleaning up the agarwood shavings, Lu Xuan heard several ministers gasping in fear before he even noticed.

"Inside, there really is a corpse inside!"

Xie Ruqin was so shocked by the scene before him that his old face trembled violently. He watched motionlessly and dared not move forward for a moment.

The body wasn't tied up, and he wasn't wearing the guard's uniform Niu San'er had mentioned, but rather the prince's dragon robe. There were also some other books and other items piled around him, and Jiang Xing recognized them immediately. They were all things he had seen his brother use when he was young!

It seems that Jiang Shaozhao and Niu Saner were still a little afraid of the late emperor, so they specially replaced the crown for his corpse.

Candles were relit in the secret passage, and the original appearance of the interior was restored based on what it was like more than ten years ago.

Lu Xuan looked around carefully.

The interior was spacious, identical to the Wenhua Hall. The floor was paved entirely with bluestone, while the walls were marble. Many of the corners had skylights, through which one could glimpse the faint greenery from above.

The decoration is exquisite and elegant, almost exactly the same as the secret passage where Jiang Yuanfeng and Niu Saner had a secret conversation earlier.

The window likely points to the flower garden behind Wenhua Hall. From the outside, it's almost impossible to see the secret passage below, and one might mistake it for a sewer entrance. However, the top window is cleverly designed, with a perfect angle, and the dripping gutter at the top prevents any water from flowing down.

I don't know who built this secret passage or whether it has existed for many years, but judging from the layout and space furnishings inside, it is not as cramped and uncomfortable as imagined. The dry ground is reflected in the light and shadow of the candlelight, and the air is fresh and flowing, and the birdsong and fragrance of flowers outside can also come in.

However, the dark black bloodstains on the ground were still extremely obvious.

No wonder Niu Saner has been able to live here for many years.

The body of the late emperor, the real Jiang Muyao, has now been surrounded by people sent by Jiang Xing.

After Lu Xuan finished looking at the situation in the secret passage, he walked towards the corpse.

The withered corpse was filled with a strong aura of evil. She thought that Jiang Muyao's soul might still be there, which was why there was such a strong aura of deep resentment and bloodthirstiness.

However, surprisingly, there was no soul, only a dried-up corpse.

After a moment of confusion, Lu Xuan quickly understood.

With Jiang Shaozhao here, the late emperor's soul cannot stay in this secret passage.

But the reason why this corpse still has so much evil spirit at this moment is that it has obviously experienced an extremely intense fight before his death, and his extremely strong survival instinct has been sealed in the memory of this corpse.

In addition, Lu Siyu also died here before, so she must have died with extremely strong hatred.

Many souls filled with immense hatred died here, and those bloody evil spirits had nowhere to go, so they all attached themselves to the corpses.

He was a real dragon, and his life was exchanged for someone else's. Jiang Shaozhao must have suffered a strong backlash at that time, so when he dealt with the soul, he must have been punished by heaven, so he was unable to deal with the evil spirit entangled in the corpse.

Therefore, there is now a situation where there is no soul in the place but there is evil spirit. Just like Jiang Shaozhao avoided and escaped in the past, the evil spirit did not deal with the aftermath and was extremely perfunctory.

Lu Xuan glanced at the wisps of black air on the corpse.

Presumably, since the person living in the East Palace was Jiang Yan, Jiang Shaozhao hoped that the evil spirit would trap the prince, so he deliberately did not deal with it anymore?

In short, everything will come to light.

The past can no longer be traced.

Lu Xuan used a talisman to gently wipe away the black energy that was constantly lingering on the corpse, and then recited the cleansing spell to break the evil obsession on the corpse.

The prince looked at the man who was originally his father, but was lying in the secret passage under him for more than ten years. Now he touched his body inch by inch, and couldn't help feeling sad.

The reason he discovered that Niu San'er was a fake was because he asked him many years ago, "Father, do you still remember the white crane kite that we made when we were little?"

Niu Saner said he remembered.

But in fact, his father never asked him to make a white crane kite. Instead, he made a goldfish kite.

For this, the mother laughed at them for a long time, saying that there were no fish flying in the sky.

But his father hugged him and said with a smile: "Yan'er, go and look at the fish pond in the garden and see if the sky is in the pond and the fish are in the sky."

He ran to see, and to his surprise, what his father said was true. In the reflection, the goldfish was indeed swimming in the sky!

In his memory, his father loved him very much and was also doting and gentle to his mother. The memories of that time were like a gorgeous dream that seemed to have come to him several lifetimes ago.

So later on, he always doubted whether this father who doted on Jiang Xu so much was really his father?

It was not until the truth was revealed bit by bit that he realized that the person who loved him was no longer alive.

Lu Xuan comforted him: "Do you know why, despite all the evil spirits in this secret passage, you've lived here for so many years without being harmed in the slightest?"