After I was resurrected from the dead, I turned from an old man to a peerless beauty

Zhang Qiong was very surprised to find that after Hong Mudan said that, when Gong Ningzi turned around to talk to him again, the expression on her face was deliberately relaxed a lot.

But even so, his fear of Gong Ningzi has not disappeared.

In Gong Ningzi's eyes, Zhang Qiong saw a light that made him uncomfortable.

Zhang Qiong once saw the world's number one swordsmith, Chi Yi, making swords. Unlike ordinary smelters, Chi Yi has a special sword casting furnace, which is said to be the sky fire that fell from the sky.

The flame was different from any flame Zhang Qiong had ever seen.

The light is dim, with a special and magnificent light blue color.

Even if it is very close, there will be no billowing heat waves gushing out—because all the light and heat are squeezed and shrunk into a small mass of sky fire.The light in Gong Ningzi's eyes now made Zhang Qiong think of that clump of sky fire inexplicably.I still remember that the famous sword of Master Chiyi has not been cast yet, but the person has been thrown into the furnace lit by the sky fire by the moody Emperor Yun.It was only for a moment, Zhang Qiong, who was still a child at that time, saw the man as tall as an iron tower instantly burned into a handful of light ashes by the dark flame.

Would the light in Gong Ningzi's eyes also burn him into ashes?

Such an inexplicable question quickly flashed through Zhang Qiong's mind.

"At dawn, people will come from the palace."

At this moment, Gong Ningzi suddenly said quietly.

Zhang Qiong nodded: "I know."

"Emperor Yun will meet you. If you follow his wishes, after tomorrow, you may never be able to leave the imperial city again in this lifetime."

"It's because..." Zhang Qiong frowned, remembering the arrogant words that Eunuch Wang said before he died, "Is it because he has found the so-called way of immortality?"

Zhang Qiong believed that it was not an illusion of her own. Just hearing the words of immortality, Gong Ningzi showed a very obvious look of disgust.

For a person like him who was so deep-minded and almost demon-like, such an expression of emotion was extremely rare.

"Heh, is it immortality or crooked ways..." Gong Ningzi said coldly.

Without waiting for Zhang Qiong to answer, he seemed to talk about another matter that seemed to be irrelevant to what the two had talked about before: "These days, it is said that there has been a severe epidemic in the imperial city. , In the past few days, countless people died, and the palace was so empty that it was necessary to choose another palace servant to enter the palace."

Zhang Qiong's eyelids twitched slightly.

"It's the twelfth lunar month of winter, and the epidemic is hard to come by. How could it be..." Halfway through the words, his heart suddenly suddenly said, "Wait, you mean that there are countless dead people in the palace, and the 'longevity' that my father obtained 'related?"

In fact, Gong Ningzi's answer was not needed, Zhang Qiong already had the answer in her heart the moment she spoke.

The answer is definitely yes...

In the early years, Emperor Yun still had some wisdom, but in recent years he has become more and more insane.Zhang Qiong was born and grew up in the palace, his life and death were hanging by a thread, and he knew this father very well.

As long as he could achieve the so-called longevity he dreamed of, let alone the lives of the palace people, even if everyone in the world were to die, His Majesty Yun Huang would not even blink his eyes.

What's more, in that man's palace wall, there is also a frightening Penglai Sanren...

Under that person's bewitching, no matter what Yunhuang did, he would not be surprised.

However, when Zhang Qiong thought that Emperor Yun had finally come to this point, it was inevitable that there would still be a emptiness and confusion in Zhang Qiong's heart that even surprised him.

"My father...what did he do?"

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Qiong couldn't help asking.

Zhang Qiong quickly thought of the key point. The crazy emperor might have done something appalling. If it was just a dead person in the palace, given Gong Ningzi's current situation, he would not try to sneak in with Zhang Qiong. in the palace.

"I do not know."

Unexpectedly, Gong Ningzi gave such an answer very calmly.

That's right, it was because he didn't know what Emperor Yun had done that he wanted to enter the palace to find out.

"The spies and even the 'little bird' nailed by Chizheng's government in the palace suddenly fell silent a few days ago, and no news came out. After the contact with the palace was cut off, the new spies sent in also went into the sea. No return."

Gong Ningzi said in a calm tone.

"Are there...no return?"

Zhang Qiong's brows were almost knotted.

Since Gong Ningzi said that those people "have gone and never returned", it means more than just a simple matter of no news.I'm afraid those people couldn't even send out their bodies in the end.

"This, this doesn't make sense..."

Chizheng Mansion has been inserted into Emperor Yun's empire like a poisoned dagger for so many years, and the various eyeliners planted in the palace have spied on no less than a thousand people - this number is only known to Zhang Qiong.

Those who Zhang Qiong didn't know, or those who were just a little bit biased towards Gong Ningzi, probably there would be more.

Under Gong Ningzi's arrangements for so many years, even if those people died, they should be able to send some useful news.

"There is no news and no corpses, this is too strange. There is no place in the palace to imprison so many people, and it is impossible for the emperor to kill so many people directly... No, even if they are killed, those corpses must be dealt with. ...No, this is too wrong..."

Zhang Qiong couldn't help muttering to himself.

Killing is never an easy job.

To kill thousands of people and still keep the news from leaking out, and to dispose of so many people's corpses quietly is even more like a fantasy job.But Gong Ningzi is by no means a person who will speak nonsense easily...

Zhang Qiong in this room was puzzled, but Gong Ningzi in that room had a vague and terrible guess in his heart.

Back then, the Valley of Worry...

He also secretly disposed of the lives and corpses of so many innocent people for so many years without attracting anyone's attention.

You know, unlike the imperial city where the palace is strictly forbidden and the courtyard walls are deep, no matter how powerful the Wangyou Valley was back then, it was nothing more than a sect in the Jianghu.The stronger it is, the more attractive it is. Countless pairs of eyes have been staring at Wangyou Valley for many years, but in the end they didn't see anything.

If it hadn't been for Xiaoyaozi's own chaos and civil strife in the valley, I am afraid that Wangyou Valley will still be the number one school in the martial arts today.

After becoming the head of the Chizheng Mansion, Gong Ningzi has reviewed the scrolls about the chaos of Wangyou Valley and Xiaoyaozi countless times, and those scrolls without exception mentioned the most secret and darkest place in Wangyou Valley. that secret.

Elixir of life.

Xiaoyaozi used humans as Gu, and made a whole mountain into a Gu altar.Over the past few decades, people in the surrounding area have died prematurely in their families, and the number of missing people is unknown. There are many villages that have simply disappeared without a trace...

What's even more frightening is that in the fourth year after Emperor Yun's ascension to the throne, his rule was unstable. Civil disturbances broke out in Tonglin and Tongyuan in the north of Yufeng. According to records, tens of thousands of refugees may have crossed Yufeng to avoid war Attempt to flee south...

However, there has been no news of those refugees since then.

The documents sent by the officials stated that the refugees were buried by an avalanche when they passed Yufeng, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is just a lie.

That's not hundreds of people, not thousands of people, but tens of thousands of people...

Even if there is an avalanche, it is impossible for all these people to die in the mountains.Taking a step back, even if there was such a terrible snowstorm that buried tens of thousands of refugees, by the beginning of spring next year, someone should be able to find the remains of those people.

However, no.

No one knows what happened to those people afterwards, no one has seen their traces again, and no one has ever found their bodies.

Those people all disappeared...

or……

Even a cold-blooded person like Gong Ningzi, after seeing those scrolls for the first time that year, couldn't help but tremble and feel chills all over his body because of the speculation in his mind.

Everyone knows that after Xiaoyaozi's incident was defeated, the government united with the top ten sects in Jianghu to clean up the back mountain of Wangyou Valley.

At that time, thousands of bones and countless stumps were cleaned up. The extremely cruel scene caused a lot of turmoil in the Jianghu, and several people were so frightened that they lost their minds and committed suicide after returning.

But who would have thought that the wreckage that had been cleaned up in Wangyou Valley was just the tip of the iceberg.

Once... there were tens of thousands of people who were obliterated in obscurity in the hell on earth set by Xiaoyaozi, and no one has known about it until now.

Gong Ningzi sighed suddenly, he turned his head and looked out the window, the pitch-black night had gradually faded, and a corner of the sky was unknowingly covered with a thin layer of gray.Standing shadowy among the dead trees and branches in the corner of the yard, occasionally a few weak jackdaws wailed.

It was almost daylight.

A few quarters of an hour later, Hong Mudan yawned and dragged a wooden box through the secret passage, walking towards Gong Ningzi.

"Here, try it and see if it works. Eunuch Wang's clothes are also prepared for you, remember to try them on later."

While talking, she put the wooden box by Gong Ningzi's hand.

Opening the wooden box, I saw a face with ruddy complexion and well-defined features neatly placed inside. If you take a closer look, whoever it is if it's not the eunuch Wang!This is why Hong Mudan spent so much effort to remove Eunuch Wang's face.

It should also be said that capable people and strange men came out in large numbers in Chizheng's mansion, but within a few hours of effort, the face of the eunuch Wang was made into such a vivid human skin mask.It looked so lifelike, there were still drooping eyelashes around the hollow eyes, and the smooth and soft skin could almost feel the body temperature from when the person was alive.

When Zhang Qiong saw the human skin mask, her color changed slightly, and she felt somewhat disgusted in her heart.

But Gong Ningzi, a person who always put on airs in Zhang Qiong's heart, didn't show any hesitation when he used this human skin mask.Looking at the mirror on the lid of the box, he lightly put the soft human skin mask that still had moisture and oil on his face.

Red Peony bowed down, and pulled out a flat drawer from the bottom of the box.There are neatly placed greases and powders in various colors of red, yellow, blue and gray, plus several small brushes with different pen shapes.

"Nuo, come and see how I do it. Don't blame me for not teaching you the skill of poisoning."

Sensing Zhang Qiong's gaze, Hong Mudan said indifferently.

Then Zhang Qiong watched helplessly as her master held Gong Ningzi's chin with one hand, and with several brushes between his other fingers, brushing the human skin mask with grease and powder, Very dazzling.

It took only a moment, and Zhang Qiong could see that the human skin mask covering Gong Ningzi's face seemed...as if alive.

"call……"

Zhang Qiong couldn't help but her heart skipped a beat. Although she knew for a long time that the skill of covering the face with the skin of the Zhengfu people is rare in the world, but the shock brought by hearing and seeing it with her own eyes is really different.

The human skin mask "grows" on Gong Ningzi's face bit by bit, the handsome features are covered by mediocre fat, the blade-like eyes are hidden under the drooping triangular eyelids, with a bit of meanness Mean thin lips become thick...

When Gong Ningzi changed into the clothes of the eunuch Wang and came before Zhang Qiong, the young Crown Prince could not help but feel a burst of inexplicable surprise and trembling.

Obviously not long ago, he saw this person killed with his own eyes, but at this moment, standing in front of Zhang Qiong was such a living eunuch Wang.

Even the sinister and cunning eyes are exactly the same.

"His Royal Highness?"

The man suddenly bowed, and the sound he made was exactly the same as that of the dead man.

Knowing that the person in front of her was Gong Ningzi in disguise, and her voice must have used some kind of special skills to make it look so similar, Zhang Qiong still suddenly felt nauseated.

Maybe it was because his complexion was too ugly which pleased Gong Ningzi, who suddenly sneered.

At this moment, the eunuch Wang who seemed to have come back from the dead suddenly disappeared, and standing in front of Zhang Qiong was still the cold and indifferent Gong Ningzi.

Before Zhang Qiong could calm down, Gong Ningzi had already passed him, went back to the table and sat down, and carefully held his own reflection in the mirror on the table.

"Hmm... Should I say it's your Red Peony?"

After a while, Gong Ningzi suddenly sighed and said inexplicably.

Hong Mudan came forward to help Gong Ningzi straighten the corner of her coat, and couldn't help smiling when she heard this sentence.

"That's natural. My elder sister Mudan's craftsmanship, no one dares to say that she is the second in this Chizheng Mansion. Don't say that you have the mask of the barrow on your face. Give me a little time, even if it is the first!" If you show your true self, I can also paint you as him."

Gong Ningzi nodded, his eyes fell on the ugly face in the mirror, but his eyes wandered for a moment.

He had clearly seen that the red peony used the brush like a god before, but it was just a little color grease and powder, so he easily covered the unnatural lines on the mask smoothly and delicately, and the images on his face that had appeared due to the years appeared in his mind. of fine wrinkles.

"When this matter is over, I still need you to teach me this skill."

Gong Ningzi then bowed his head and said to Hong Mudan.

Red Peony: "..."