The #1 Pretty Boy of the Immortal Path

The bell fell.

The palace man knelt down on the ground.

Lin Shu didn't kneel.He is an outsider, so he doesn't need to kneel, and Ling Fengxiao didn't ask him to kneel either.

He stood under the peach tree in the palace garden, watching Ling Fengxiao and Xiao Lingyang kneeling at the very front.

In the solemn atmosphere, time seemed to stand still.However, a sudden exclamation was heard.

More and more of the courtiers and courtiers who were kneeling on the ground raised their heads.

It was noon now, and it was originally a sunny day with the sun in the sky, but a layer of red clouds suddenly covered the western sky.

The sky is full of red clouds, like a brilliant brocade, and there is a faint sound of music in the clouds.

I don't know which maid said "ah".

In the red cloud, there was something moving vaguely, which was in the shape of a flying bird. With its movement, the red cloud all over the sky also rolled up - finally, after half a quarter of an hour, people saw clearly what it was .

A phoenix with a color of red gold.

In the sea of ​​clouds, I don't know the distance, but I just feel that the phoenix is ​​huge and elegant, walking leisurely among the red clouds.

Suddenly, a clear and long cry resounded through the sky——

No one has heard this cry, but the magical feeling runs through everyone's mind, and no one will doubt that this is the mythical beast Phoenix in ancient legends.

The next moment, the beautiful phoenix took off from the western sky with its wings slowly fluttering, and came towards this side, getting lower and lower, getting closer, and sparks like shooting stars fell from its wings, and slowly landed on the palace garden On the red wall, like an illusory light, it slowly dissipated.

A huge phantom of the phoenix slowly landed on the Chenji Hall where the empress lived, lowered her head obediently, let out another long cry, and gradually dissipated.

The crowd was in an uproar.

Amidst the uproar, the official in charge of Fushi, astrology, and calendar said: "A vision descended from the sky, and the phoenix is ​​the envoy of the heavens. This must be a metaphor!"

Some people also said: "Auspicious omen! I am lucky to have a big summer!"

There were also voices of worry: "This vision appeared at this...time, I don't know what it means."

Lin Shu didn't feel anything, just felt a little unscientific.

He looked at Ling Fengxiao, but saw Ling Fengxiao frowned, raised his sleeves and walked quickly into the hall.

But seeing his tall and straight figure, the red clothes fluttering while walking, and his extraordinary appearance, he is somewhat similar to the phantom phoenix.

Phoenix, Phoenix.

What would it have to do with Phoenix Villa?

Lin Shu didn't have time to think more about him, he only knew that Ling Fengxiao had been emotionally unstable since he suffered from grievances, and couldn't leave him.He cast a little spell, stepped on Lingbo footwork, also floated into the hall, and hid himself on the beams and pillars at the top of the hall.

I saw Ling Fengxiao walking quickly to the emperor's bed: "Mother!"

The empress sat beside the late emperor's bed, her wide skirt spread out like a cloud of clouds, and a bright red blood jade flute in her hand, it seemed that she was about to put it away.

Seeing him coming, the queen looked at him with a gentle look in her eyes, not at all the sadness that a husband should have died.

"Xiao'er."

"Mother," Ling Fengxiao's expression was somewhat serious, "What do you mean by playing the Phoenix flute and attracting visions from heaven and earth?"

The queen's fingers stroked the bright red jade flute slowly. Xiao's shape was very beautiful, with simple and simple lines, which seemed to be a relic of ancient times.

"Xiao Shao is ninety percent, and the Phoenix comes to the instrument." She slowly read a sentence from an ancient book, her voice was soft, like a spring in the mountains, and said gently: "When I was young, your grandmother gave me the Phoenix flute, saying …Playing the music of "Xiao Shao" with the phoenix flute can attract a ray of phoenix remnant soul from the heaven and the earth. After I played it just now, it was just like what my mother said. It turns out that the blood of the phoenix does have an ancient inheritance, and it is not a lie."

"I don't understand," Ling Fengxiao lowered her eyes: "The Phoenix bloodline is indeed different from ordinary people, but why does the queen mother want to verify it at this time?"

"When you came to the capital, do you still remember what your mother said?" the queen put away the jade flute and asked.

Ling Fengxiao said: "Remember."

The queen looked at Ling Fengxiao and sighed softly: "Xiao'er, come here."

Ling Fengxiao went to the queen's side.

The queen reached out to caress his cheeks and hair: "In a blink of an eye, you have grown so big."

Ling Fengxiao didn't speak.

"Although I have lived in the palace for a long time, I also know that you are the most outstanding one in the history of Phoenix Villa." The queen said politely.

Ling Fengxiao said: "Mother is absurd."

"For hundreds of years, there have been countless beautiful and outstanding daughters in the villa, buried in this palace wall." The queen's eyelashes drooped slightly, "The blood of the Phoenix is ​​a peerless cauldron. A plaything of the royal family. The queen mother was lucky enough to have a good appearance, so she was loved by your father and emperor for 30 years. And the new emperor ascended the throne, and..."

Ling Fengxiao said: "Lingyang is not a loafer, once he calms down, he can be entrusted to him."

"Every man is innocent, but he is guilty of carrying a jade. The blood of the Phoenix is ​​the beginning of the disaster. The royal family accepts the daughters of the Fenghuang family as queens, concubines, and concubines. They have always been regardless of the number. Even if Lingyang can treat Fenghuang Villa kindly, who will be killed after a hundred years?" How can you expect the new emperor?"

Ling Fengxiao looked at the queen and said: "The daughters of the Phoenix Mountain Villa are tribute to the Tian family, and the Tian family also repays the power and wealth of the mountain villa, so that the villa can accept orphans who have lost their way in the world. Standing erect in the rivers and lakes, far away from disputes. My son and minister have always thought that although the mother and the seniors of Phoenix Villa in the past, although they can't bear it, they have no complaints."

The queen said softly: "How can there be no resentment? The phoenix is ​​a mysterious bird of destiny, a descendant of an ancient god, but it has been trapped in the hands of the emperor for generations and is at the mercy of others. How can it not be resentful?"

"The ancient gods are just legends, so the queen mother doesn't have to be obsessed with it." Ling Fengxiao said lightly: "The queen mother's intention is to abolish the royal family's rule of appointing a phoenix as the queen?"

The queen nodded: "Not bad."

Ling Fengxiao said: "Xiao Lingyang is pure and kind, I will tell him immediately."

"Xiao'er." The queen's voice turned cold: "In the past 20 years, although you grew up in the villa and presented yourself as a woman, because of your skills, you have not been contaminated with femininity, and you are still a man. Don't you understand the nature of men?"

Ling Fengxiao said: "I don't know."

Lin Shu, who was observing secretly, thought to himself, this man is a black crow from beginning to end, but he has always claimed to be a white crow, so it was the same in front of his mother—it seems that self-hypnosis has been carried out too successfully.

In his opinion, no matter how much this little phoenix flaunts its whiteness, it is a lie after all. If he is as good as the sky, he will at most be a silky chicken with white fur.

The queen smiled and shook her head, with sentimentality in her eyes: "Phoenix furnace, after using it, you can prolong your life and eliminate all diseases—how many people in the world can resist it? The love in his mouth. However, people's hearts are changeable. After several years, I realized that what he wanted in his heart was nothing more than a long life and a solid throne."

Lin Shu thought, Ling Fengxiao, an heir of the royal family, has a complicated family structure. According to the empress, she has been in harmony with the late emperor for a long time, and she still feels resentful towards the late emperor in her heart.

Just as she was thinking about it, she heard Ling Fengxiao say: "Does the Queen Mother think that Xiao Lingyang will not be able to withstand the temptation?"

The queen said: "He is still young now, you can manage him well, 20 years later, when he is in power, can you still manage him? 40 years later, his lifespan is coming to an end, can he not be complacent? Even if he has spent his whole life It is good, the next generation of emperor, but it is unknown."

Ling Fengxiao was silent for a while.

From his slightly sad eyes when he was silent, Lin Shu knew that he had understood something.

He only heard his faint voice in the hall.

"Mother and queen, do you want me to be emperor after all?"

"There is a vision today, and my mother has prepared evidence of the past, Xiaoer, as long as you nod, the throne of Nanxia is in your pocket. From then on, the emperors will all be my Phoenix blood, the villa You can also get out of it."

After all, she looked at Ling Fengxiao with earnest eyes.

Ling Fengxiao's silence this time was longer than last time, until the queen asked softly, "Xiao'er?"

"Going back to my mother." Ling Fengxiao said softly: "My mother gave birth to me, my mother raised me, Phoenix Villa protected me from growing up, and gave me wealth and power. I can't repay this kindness. My son... I have admired and loved me since I was a child." Empress Mother, nothing that Empress Mother ordered is disobedient. If... this is Empress Mother's wish, I will act according to Mother's order, it's not impossible, it's just—"

When the queen heard the "just", she leaned forward slightly, looked at him softly, and asked, "Just what?"

"It's just that being an emperor has never been my wish." Ling Fengxiao slowed down her speech, and said, "My son's wish in his life is to do what should be done for the villa, mother, and father, and then Stay away from the rivers and lakes court, or be a wanderer, or become a hermit in the mountains, or travel the world, rivers, lakes, and seas, and spend the rest of your life. The power in the world is indeed precious, but the ambition of the minister is not here. In 20 years, I have never peeped at the throne , the thought of coveting the divine weapon, but also hope... the queen mother think twice."

"You are the eldest son of my court, and you are supposed to inherit the throne. Why do you peep at the throne and covet the artifact?" The queen shook her head slowly: "Xiao'er, could it be that you are used to being a courtier?"

"Xiao Lingyang is not unreasonable, Phoenix Villa already has the power to protect itself, if you take it slowly, ten years later, the villa will be free from shackles." Ling Fengxiao looked at the queen: "Does the queen mother still want her son to be the emperor? "

Lin Shu looked into Ling Fengxiao's eyes from above, and felt that his heart had been hurt.

He watched the queen's every move with cold eyes.

Peerless face, peerless elegance, but anyone with eyes will be fascinated and heartbroken.

But although he also has eyes, he cultivates the way of ruthlessness. No matter how beautiful his appearance is, he is just a skin in the world, and he treats others equally.

He was able to abandon the tenderness of the queen and only look at her actions.

He guessed right, the empress meant from the very beginning that she wanted Ling Fengxiao to be the emperor - and the royal family's blood was thin. In this way, Phoenix Villa would quietly become the Nanxia royal family, not only getting rid of the restraint of the original royal family , You can also sit on the world, for generations to come.

She kept saying that every man is innocent and he is guilty, and that men's desire for power and longevity is insatiable, but what she wants is not also the prosperity of the Phoenix lineage?

For this reason, she must let Ling Fengxiao go to the throne, even though Ling Fengxiao said that he was not willing.

He continued to look at Ling Fengxiao's eyes towards the queen, which were very soft eyes, with vague expectations and requests.

He thought, this little phoenix is ​​23 years old, and he is really just a fluffy chick.

He looked at his mother, whom he had always admired, and wanted to hear some gentle messages from her. Maybe he felt that his mother loved him enough, that he would not force him to do something he was very unwilling to do, and would not use his life's fate to do something. Be a pawn or tool for power struggle.

However, the empress just looked gentle and opened her vermilion lips lightly.

She said, "Xiao'er, you need to understand the general situation."

As if some kind of light had dimmed, he lowered his eyes slightly: "My son knows."

Blood mist vaguely appeared around him, lingering for a moment, and then trembled a few times, as if he was trying to suppress it.

Lin Shu sent a ray of frost spiritual power to his side, and circled around him a few times.

Ling Fengxiao's slightly frowned brows relaxed slightly, and the blood mist was suppressed.

The empress stepped forward, as if she wanted to caress his cheek: "Is the empress mother dazzled? What happened just now?"

The moment he was about to touch it, Ling Fengxiao took a step back, and the Queen's hand fell into the air.

"My son and minister are fine," but his voice was calm, "There is no need to worry about the mother."

"It's fine." The queen said softly.

Afterwards, she said: "This matter still needs to be fully prepared. Today, you and I will discuss it in a long-term..."

In Lin Shu's heart, a trace of irritability that had never been seen appeared indistinctly.

He wanted the queen to shut up quickly.

Your son is already very annoyed and wronged, his heartbeat is still slowly slowing down, and he will completely lose control at some point. I want to take him back immediately.

Besides, he loves his brother so much, so he may not really listen to you.

He didn't care to listen to the twists and turns of the Queen's mouth, and looked around the palace, trying to create some accident to interrupt them.

It doesn't matter if you look at it, you can see a black oblate spirit stone pasted on the wall not far away, where it can't be seen from a normal perspective.

His pupils shrank suddenly.

He recognizes this thing!

Like the photo beads, they are all small things with strange skills in the Treasure Pavilion of Shangling Academy. The photo beads can record images, and this thing is called Shunfeng ear. There are two types. It is a bug. Yes, it goes to the other ear.

Someone is monitoring this hall?

What's more...it was when the Queen and Ling Fengxiao were discussing this kind of matter.

He immediately crushed Shunfeng'er with spiritual power, and then released his divine thoughts to explore the area within a radius of one mile—the effective distance of Shunfeng'er is limited, so that person will not be far away.

Almost at the next moment, he suddenly stopped searching.

In a secluded corner of the palace wall, under the blossoming crabapple tree, stood a distraught Xiao Lingyang.

He held an almost identical oblate spirit stone in his hand. The next moment, the stone fell from his powerless right hand, and fell into the colorful tree shadows, and the ground was filled with red.