An hour later.

Yue Li stood in front of Feng's bed, staring nervously at the unconscious Di Ji. It wasn't until she saw her slowly opening her eyes that she secretly breathed a sigh of relief and tried her best to pull up the corner of her mouth and pull out a smile.

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"Emperor Ji is awake! Hurry... hurry up and ask for the imperial doctor." For a while, the palace maids and eunuchs came in and out of the Bixiao Palace, and everyone was running around in a hurry, making it very lively.

As soon as Di Ji opened her eyes, she started crying like a tearful person.

Yue Li couldn't help but be moved by it, her eyes gradually got wet, and she sat down on the edge of the couch, raising her hand to wipe the tears on her face: "I just returned to my soul, it's not appropriate to think about it. Please be patient, Emperor Ji, you are not everything. From now on,

Yue Li will never leave you and will protect you."

Hearing this, Di Ji suddenly sat up and threw herself into Yue Li's arms, crying even louder.

After Chuying learned the news, she quickly walked into the dormitory. When she looked up, she saw Di Ji crying loudly in Yue Li's arms, and she couldn't help being stunned.

She wasn't very familiar with Di Ji, but she had met her once when Di Ji was still a baby. I just heard that Di Ji was very strong and never shed tears easily in front of strangers. Now she was facing Yue, whom she didn't know very well.

Li, she actually cried in someone's arms? This was something she couldn't even imagine.

The next day.

Just after the Yin hour, candles were lit in all the palaces.

Yue Li looked at Di Ji with red eyes and allowed the palace maid to put on layers of mourning clothes for her. She gritted her teeth and did not shed tears. She felt so mixed at how strong and fragile she looked.

In front of the makeup mirror, Emperor Ji closed her eyes and fell asleep. After the palace maid finished dressing up and left, she opened her bloodshot eyes and saw Yue Li standing ten steps away through the makeup mirror. She felt a little at ease in her heart. She opened her mouth.

Called: "Yueli."

"Yes, Di Ji."

Di Ji looked sad, but her eyes were extremely bright: "People in the world often say that death is like a lamp going out, but they don't know that there are still one or two residual souls after death. But like my mother, and like your tribe, there are still a few ghosts after death.

When all gods are destroyed, there will really be no trace left."

Yue Li was stunned, and lowered her eyes slightly to look at her feet, hiding her emotions. In desperation last night, she had allowed Di Ji to see her memories, but she didn't want her to see so many of them.

Seeing her silence, Di Ji stood up, turned around, and said faintly: "Yueli, how about making a deal with this palace?"

Yue Li raised her eyes with a complicated expression: She knew too much! The hands behind her back slowly clenched into fists. But she still had to deal with it calmly: "If the Emperor Ji gives you orders, Yue Li will not dare to disobey her."

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"I want to know, how can I survive? If you can tell me the answer, I will keep your secrets forever. If you don't speak out during your lifetime, you will be buried with your coffin."

This time, Di Ji, who has always been proud of herself, calls herself me for the first time.

Yue Li's eyes sparkled and she thought a lot.

Not long after, I heard a familiar sound of footsteps coming from behind. Chuying, dressed in plain clothes, knelt down outside the bedroom door and called softly: "Empress, it's getting late."

Di Ji turned her head and glanced out the window with a complicated expression. A gust of north wind blew snow all over the sky, bringing a chill to her face. She knew clearly that the person lying there had nothing left, but she still had to rush there.

It was useless work, and I couldn't help but feel a little depressed. As expected, funeral ceremonies are all done for the living to see!

Thinking of this, she lifted her heavy steps and passed by Yue Li.

It is a great funeral ceremony, and the whole country mourns together.

After Di Ji led everyone to pay homage, she stood alone at the highest point of the altar and looked down, waiting quietly for the master of ceremonies to recite the memorial ceremony aloud, and then someone else read the memorial inscription written by the Queen Mother herself.

This station lasted for half a day, and she suddenly felt dizzy, and her body was a little overwhelmed. The ten-year-old Di Ji's feet gradually became weak, and her body swayed a few times.

At the right time, Yue Li stepped forward, gave Di Ji a hand, stabilized her swaying figure, and looked sideways at the Queen Mother not far away.

She was dressed in black and stood out the most among the crowd.

"How long will it take..."

Yue Li came back to her senses and saw that Di Ji's aura was a little disordered. He knew that she had just come back to life last night. It was reasonable that she couldn't hold on with so much energy and effort. So she turned to the serving maid and whispered: "Go and move it."

Chair."

Di Ji shook her head: "It's not etiquette." Then she gritted her teeth secretly, stood up straight and avoided the support of the hands behind her.

Yue Li retreated silently and whispered: "After reciting the sacrificial inscription, you have to wait for the priest to summon the soul before the hearse can be dispatched. However, this soul summoning is the most troublesome. All the eighteen palaces in Dongliu have to be moved down. There are at least two

Three hours."

Di Ji's face darkened, she raised her eyes and looked under the altar, seeing everyone covered in snow from the top of their hats to their shoulders. After a moment of hesitation, she suddenly said: "That's enough!"

At the command, the priest's voice of reading the sacrificial text stopped abruptly, and he turned to look at the altar.

Yue Li raised her head: What is she going to do?

At this moment, she quickly noticed that there were people around the altar, many, many people. It seemed that those people were just hiding in the dark, waiting for something.

Thinking of this, Yue Li's face suddenly tightened.

After the late emperor entered the imperial mausoleum, Dongliu would soon elect a new emperor to ascend the throne. Could it be that the princess couldn't wait for even a day and actually planned to take advantage of this to eradicate the situation?

Yue Li clenched her hands into fists in her sleeves. Emperor Ji's life and death depended on her thoughts.

Suddenly, Di Ji took two steps forward and ordered again: "The late Emperor had a dream last night that she would have perfect merits in her life and that after today she would ascend to the Tao and become an immortal. Can you explain it clearly in this memorial letter of yours?"

"Emperor Ji, don't be so presumptuous!"

Hearing the sound, Yue Li subconsciously looked in the direction of the Queen Mother. Seeing that she was about to have an attack, she suddenly had an idea in her mind. She turned her head and whispered behind her, "Prepare a set of red clothes."

"What?..." The little palace maid was stunned.

The Emperor Ji was not afraid and said again: "Daughter of the Grand Princess, the first important thing for the late Emperor to become an immortal is to consider the people's livelihood. It is so cold and freezing, and the ministers have stood in the snow for more than two hours. If you are tired from this,

The late Emperor was unable to attain enlightenment, can you afford it?"

Yue Li frowned and lowered her voice again: "Go and find me a set of red clothes!"

Only then did the little palace maid react, turned and left.

"Perfect merits? Become an immortal? Be considerate of people's livelihood? These are just the emperor's words. You said that the late emperor ascended to become an immortal. I wonder if the late emperor mentioned it. How will the fate of our country in Dongliu be like within a hundred years?"

Hearing this, Emperor Ji looked sullen and trembling with anger. She could not answer.

Chu Ying moved her lotus steps lightly, stood out from the crowd, knelt down and bowed to the altar, and said quietly: "Daughter of the Supreme Princess, as the saying goes: Heaven's secrets must not be leaked. I think that when the immortal emperor comes to ask for a dream, there are many people who will cut off the world of mortals and cut off the earthly world.

I mean, it’s true that Emperor Ji was not informed of the fate of the country in Dongliu.”

For a moment, everyone nodded in agreement.

Seeing that the direction of the wind had changed, the Queen Mother couldn't help shouting: "That's ridiculous! Since ancient times, emperors and generals have offered sacrifices to heaven to pray for blessings. What are they praying for? Why don't they pray for prosperity for the country?"

Not long after.

The little palace maid who left and returned ran back panting with a vermilion lacquered wooden tray: "Girl, you want the red dress."

Yue Li turned her head and couldn't help but be stunned.

"You are in a hurry. I only found the one worn by the dancer in the nearby hall..." Before she could finish her words, Yue Li and the red dress in the tray disappeared from sight.

There were swords and swords on the altar and endless arguments.

It happened to be a great help to Yue Li. She slipped out from the altar quietly, found a nearby room, changed into the red dress, pulled off the complicated embroidery and decoration on the dress, and looked at it several times.

, then reluctantly nodded and sighed: "I hope those people's attention will not be on these clothes."

On the altar, the voice of the Queen Mother could be heard faintly scolding the Emperor Ji in public.

After all, Di Ji was young, and when someone scolded her as an elder, she still couldn't speak. Even though she was shaking with anger, she just bit her lower lip, holding back the tears in her eyes, and remained silent.

Looking at Chu Ying again, because she spoke against the Queen Mother, she was punished to kneel in front of the late emperor's coffin and knelt until her head was bleeding.

After a while, the altar fell completely silent, and the Queen Mother established her majesty, so she waved her hand, skipping the ritual reading of the cumbersome sacrificial text, and directly asked the priest to summon the soul, and the ceremony continued.

Eleven scholars, each wearing a bird-shaped silk crown and yellow and black clothes, surrounded the late emperor's coffin and shouted: "Gao, the emperor is back!"

Yue Li, dressed in black clothes and red gauze, stood in front of the coffin, raised her hand and shook the magic bell on the back of her hand.

"jingle……"

The crisp sound of bells resounded through the palace.

In the distance, Jiang Feng and Ling Feng stood under the palace gate, frowning as they watched the red skirts flying with the ringing of the bell, with thoughtful expressions on their faces.

He knew that it was clearly not a dance, but the way she moved her hands and feet was somewhat different from ordinary spiritual summoning rituals. It was something he had never heard of or seen before. Could it be that this was also some kind of magic?

"Young Master, do you think Miss Yueli's dance is a bit strange?"

Jiang Feng remained silent, looking at her dressed in red, as bright as blood, with her face covered with red gauze, leaving only a pair of smart eyes, just like the night she first met her, she suddenly broke into his own world. Although she was not stunningly beautiful, she was particularly stunning.

Not long after, Yue Li waved her sleeves, bowed far to the north, and slowly lowered her head.

At this point, the eleven warlocks filed out of the coffin and walked towards the palace in the distance.

When Yue Li stood up, a bright light flashed across the sky. The light was so conspicuous in the daytime.

Immediately someone shouted: "Look, can you see a vision coming from the sky during the day?"

Above the altar, Di Ji recognized the man in mysterious clothes and red clothes as Yue Li through the phantom bells and the sound of the bells. The moment their eyes met, they both understood each other's intentions.

At this moment, the Queen Mother seemed to suddenly remember something, and raised her eyes to look at the altar: "Di Ji, where is the untouchable you summoned into the palace?"

Yue Li frowned, murderous intent suddenly appeared in her eyes, she raised her hand and took off the scarlet veil covering her face, and said coldly: "I am a mere mortal, how dare you call me an 'untouchable'? Princess, you are not asking,

Dongliu’s national destiny for a century?”

When the Queen Mother saw her, she was startled for a moment. She looked at her from head to toe, and then she coldly snorted and shouted, "Come here! Drag this untouchable down and kill her with a stick!"

In an instant, some imperial guards rushed out and surrounded the coffin of Emperor Ji and the late emperor.

Seeing this, Emperor Ji suddenly took a step forward, glared at everyone and said sternly: "How outrageous! I am here, and the Queen Mother actually overstepped her authority and commanded the imperial army to commit crimes? Yue Li! I order you to stay on the spot.

Kill!"

For a time, the situation was like fire and water.

Hearing the sound, Chuying suddenly stopped kowtowing and looked behind her with a look on her face.

"Untouchable? The Queen Mother has forgotten." As she spoke, she lowered her head and counted her fingers. She couldn't help but smile with a sarcastic look on her face, and said loudly: "Three generations counting from your father's generation are still common people with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky.

Man, if you are not reincarnated and born well, who are you more noble than?"

When Ling Feng saw this, his hand holding the sword suddenly tightened, and he said urgently: "Young Master, I am afraid that Di Ji and Miss Yue Li are in danger, do we need to take action?"

Jiang Feng's face looked a little cold: "Don't worry, Chu Ying is here."

The Queen Mother was so angry that she didn't care that there were envoys from other countries under the altar. Her eyes seemed to be able to spit out fire: "Jiang Guards, kill the Ai family!"

Yue Li jumped into the air, threw out a piece of red silk from her sleeve, wrapped it around Di Ji's waist twice, and then dragged her away to fly away, trying to lure the forbidden troops away from the crowd to avoid injury.

innocent.

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