Shock! The Evil Emperor actually pampered the entire cultivation world

Chapter 408: Unwavering Loyalty Until Death

"Are you leaving?" Ling Yuanlong looked at the empty house with a strange look in his eyes.

"Now that we have done what we promised the princess, it's time to leave." Gu Yi smiled.

"You don't want any reward?" Ling Yuanlong raised his eyebrows. "You have helped me so much. I will try my best to satisfy you no matter what you want."

She paced around Gu Yixiao, and although she was smiling, there was a sense of approaching oppression.

Gu Yixiao responded calmly, "I just want what I deserve."

It's very vague and real.

Ling Yuanlong's smile deepened. His right hand slid down Gu Yixiao's forearm and took Gu Yixiao's hand.

Xingjun was a little worried that the princess would suddenly turn against him and break his hand.

"Father and Mother" are also on high alert.

But she lowered her head and just put a red blood pigeon storage ring on Gu Yixiao's green ring finger.

Gu Yixiao checked it with her spiritual sense and found that it contained the things promised to her in advance, as well as... far more rare items, spirit stones, and tokens of chambers of commerce from various places.

The spirit stones alone are enough for Gu Yixiao to squander for three hundred years.

Huge wealth.

It’s enough for her to open up a third-rate sect.

Gu Yixiao was startled.

Ling Yuanlong tilted his head to look at the surprise on her cold face and smiled happily.

"These things can earn Miss Gu a glance, so they are of some use."

Gu Yixiao glanced at her and pulled his hand back, "Thank you, Princess, for keeping your promise."

Of course, collecting corpses is not worth so much, bribes and rewards are more reasonable.

They all understood each other tacitly.

Ling Yuanlong was a little surprised, as if he didn't expect her to accept it so calmly.

"It's earned through hard work, so I won't refuse it." Gu Yixiao saw her confusion and explained.

Zhu Jiu told her that this was what she deserved for her ability to withstand pressure, take risks, and face possible troubles in the future.

This vote is earned with hard work and conscience.

"Miss Gu, what are your plans for the future?" Ling Yuanlong sat down with Gu Yixiao. She poured the wine herself and pushed the glass to Gu Yixiao.

The atmosphere became more lively.

Gu Yixiao recalled what Zhu Jiu had told her, that Ling Yuanlong might kill someone to silence him. She said, "I plan to buy a house and settle down somewhere safe with a sea view and blooming flowers in the spring."

Ling Yuanlong: “?”

"Half Moon Bay."

Ling Yuanlong immediately knew what Gu Yixiao was thinking.

She was stunned for a moment, then laughed helplessly in disbelief, "Miss Gu, you are worrying too much. You have helped me a lot. I am not the kind of person who would burn bridges after crossing them."

"Even... Never mind. I originally wanted to send a few senior cultivators to escort you, but since you are worried, let's just give up."

Ling Yuanlong smiled nonchalantly without caring.

"But I still suggest that you go back with the Jueya team. I can ask them to look after you on the way, saving you unnecessary trouble."

Not only was he talking about the Seventeenth Prince, he even blamed himself for the trouble.

He didn't even call himself "this palace" anymore, as if we were peers, very friendly and considerate.

Gu Yixiao remained silent after hearing this, feeling that he shouldn't have said those dark words just now.

Ling Yuanlong drank the wine, his cheeks slightly flushed. She moved a little closer, the aroma of wine filled her nose, and his eyes looked at him with sincere admiration.

"Maybe it's a bit presumptuous, but the first time I saw you, I knew you were very suitable for collecting corpses."

She glanced at Epiphyllum, "Father", and "Mother".

"You've taken good care of them."

Gu Yixiao's expression paused slightly. So, this person was so enthusiastic towards her at the beginning because he happened to have found someone suitable to collect the bodies?

"Anyone who is handed over to you after death should be happy, right?" Ling Yuanlong's eyes were lonely, but soon they were replaced with blessings and praises.

"Burying the corpses in the wilderness to rest in peace, what the corpse shepherd does is very meaningful."

She said it sincerely.

The praise she gave was something Gu Yixiao had never heard before.

Gu Yixiao rubbed his palm, looked into Ling Yuanlong's eyes and asked, "What's on your mind, Princess?"

She seemed to have something else to say.

Ling Yuanlong was stunned for a moment, and her smile slowly disappeared. She asked seriously: "Can you stay with me?"

Gu Yixiao was surprised.

Ling Yuanlong lowered his eyes and smiled bitterly, "The Emperor has passed away, and my Seventeenth Brother is powerful. Now that things have come to this, there is no turning back. I always feel that my future is uncertain, and one day I will die miserably, and no remains will be left."

"Behind me are all ministers who are only interested in profit. If I die, I'm afraid no one will care. They will just turn to a new master and go their separate ways."

"If this day comes, will you help me collect the body?"

It's lonely at the top. Thinking of Ling Yuanlong's past, even Gu Yixiao felt desolate and tragic.

Behind the feet of the powerful are countless bones and humiliation.

It’s just collecting a corpse. Isn’t that her job?

Gu Yixiao raised his eyes and said seriously: "If you fail, I will come back to find you and help you collect your body."

"..."

"Ah?" Xingjun was stunned and laughed so hard that he fell backwards. "Xiaoxiao, what on earth are you talking about? Hahaha."

"The princess just said a few words of modesty and self-pity, do you really think she is happy to hear that she will fail in her bid for the throne?"

"Can't you see? Ling Yuanlong wants to keep you in the Princess's Mansion to do things for her!"

Ling Yuanlong frowned slightly, looked at Gu Yixiao, was silent for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his lips.

"Forget it. Since you don't want to, I won't force you."

Gu Yixiao didn't think there was anything wrong with it, and even felt that Ling Yuanlong was a superior who was easy to talk to.

After chatting casually for a while, Zhu Jiu told Gu Yixiao, who had never touched a drop of wine, "Drink it, it's not poisonous. This wine is quite precious. It's a good thing. It will improve your cultivation."

Upon hearing this, Gu Yixiao drank three cups in a row and looked stunned.

Seeing this, Ling Yuanlong smiled and said, "Do you know Spring Flower Festival?"

She tapped the wine jug twice with one hand, "This is it."

"The main ingredient is collected from the Flower Tree in the Qiankun Temple, which blooms once every hundred years. Tens of thousands of flowers are needed to produce just one pot of wine. It is colorless and tasteless, but when the aroma of the wine goes down your throat, it's like spring blooming on your tongue, lush and green, full of vitality."

How could Gu Yixiao not know?

When I was a child, I was playful and accidentally wandered into Huachao Mountain and got lost. I was tired from playing among the flowers and fell asleep until sunset. When I woke up, I saw the particularly gentle smiles of my father and mother against the backdrop of the sapphire blue sky.

"Little lazy Xiaoxiao, why are you sleeping here? Aren't you afraid of being bitten by bugs?"

Gu Yixiao found that this long-lost memory was so clear, their warmth, the fragrance of the flowers, and the sound of the wind lingering on the flowers and on her skin.

Gu Yixiao drank a few cups without paying attention, and when he poured it again, he found that the pot was empty.

She raised her eyes and saw Ling Yuanlong's gentle eyes stained with broken stars, and her voice became soft.

"Want to go back and take a look?"

Do you want to go back to the Qiankun Temple?

Why would she go back to the place that had expelled her father and mother from the sect? To her, there was nothing there now.

"The Wuji Spirit Ancestor said: There are three thousand great ways, but they all lead to the same destination." Ling Yuanlong sighed, "But the Qiankun Holy Temple insisted on dividing people into different levels, forcing a couple who practiced diligently and found a new path into a dead end."

"They must have been unwilling to give up before they passed away. I hope you can take them back to seek justice and tell everyone that they were not wrong, and it was the Qiankun Holy Temple's outdated ideas that were wrong."

"Don't worry about not being able to do it. We are friends with a common secret, right? I can help you."

"Just like the storage ring I gave you as promised, you can trust me as much as you want."

Ling Yuanlong's powerful voice makes people inexplicably convinced.

Gu Yixiao looked dazed.

Ling Yuanlong curled his lips, said nothing more, drank the last sip of wine, and stood up to say goodbye.

Before leaving, he turned his head and told Gu Yixiao: "The twelve pots of Spring Flower Festival that I have obtained in recent years are all in your storage ring."

"It's just a small token of my appreciation. I hope Miss Gu likes it."

Ling Yuanlong's handsome and beautiful figure disappeared in Fanghua Garden, and the faint scent of ambergris was driven away by the bone fragrance.

After leaving Fanghua Garden, Ling Yuanlong's cold smile in the sunlight faded and his back bent a little.

She had a blank expression on her face and looked down at the bright light falling on her fingertips, but she also felt no warmth.

Instead it's dazzling.

She finally killed the man and broke the huge rock that was pressing on her.

But even so, every inch of land in the palace still made her walk on thin ice.

The decadent air near the Changle Palace exudes a familiar smell of decay that makes people want to vomit.

When Ling Yuanlong thought of this, a feeling of nausea rose up her throat, and she couldn't help but bend over and dry heave a few times.

I didn't spit out anything, but I couldn't help but squeeze out some tears.

She could fail many times in her life, but there were only two things she couldn't afford to fail: killing the old emperor and ascending the throne.

All threats that suppress her must be eliminated.

Ling Yuanlong's eyes were dark, and a confidant sent her a message.

"There are many people lying in ambush and surveillance around the Crown Princess's Mansion, mainly the Seventeenth Prince and people from the academy."

Ling Yuanlong was not surprised.

What else could it be for? Of course, he came here for Gu Yixiao.

Today's meeting in Changle Palace ended so hastily that anyone with a brain would suspect that Gu Yixiao was hiding something, and that it was related to her.

In order to seize the throne and get hold of something against her, the seventeenth prince naturally had to go to great lengths to pry open Gu Yixiao's mouth.

None of these matters, except for one thing.

"Is there anyone on the cliff?"

"Never discovered." It may also be that it was not discovered.

Ling Yuanlong's brows relaxed a little. It seemed that Mo Huaizun really didn't intend to interfere.

why.

Ling Yuanlong pondered for a moment, but couldn't figure out the reason, so he simply put it aside.

She instructed another thing, "Keep close watch, don't let the Seventeenth Prince have any private contact with Gu Yixiao, track Gu Yixiao's movements in three days, if she goes to Half Moon Bay or Qiankun Temple, protect her secretly, if she goes to other places..."

The voice paused, and it was extremely cold. "Find an opportunity to kill him."

At this juncture, she couldn't let someone who held the power over her wander around alone.

Even though Gu Yixiao had helped her, and even though she was actually somewhat reluctant to kill her.

However, for someone like her who is fighting for power and gain, friendship is a drug that must be thrown away.

That’s part of the price of getting to that position.

Ling Yuanlong stood up, walked through the shadow cast by the eaves, and headed towards another shadow that would last until death.

The light does not save her.