Chapter 1974: Miraculous Medicine

At the same time, in another part of Tianqin Palace, under the moonlight, the sea of ​​clouds was slowly rising and falling. Above the sea of ​​clouds, a towering building could be vaguely seen, which looked even more majestic than the "Tianyao Palace" of Empress Tianyao. A few minutes later, this was where Empress Tianyao's eldest disciple Ao Ye was.

This palace with double eaves is extremely luxurious and is also gilded with jade. Compared with Tianyao Palace, it is of course not as fragrant and colorful as Tianyao Palace, with flowers blooming everywhere. However, it is a bit more solemn, especially This year, it was even more tightly guarded, and ordinary disciples could not easily get close to it.

At this time, in an airtight room inside the palace, two girls were seen kneeling in front of the screen, and there was a person sitting in front of the case. The person's face was gloomy, which was far different from the appearance in the day. It was Ao Ye, and the two girls kneeling in front of him turned out to be his junior sisters, Yan'er and Shuang'er.

Look at the two girls kneeling on the ground, their bodies trembling slightly, as if they are about to fall down if the wind blows. Tears are rolling in their eyes, but they dare not cry out. The person in front of them is extremely scared.

"Master...Master, we, we know we were wrong..."

The two girls' voices were extremely delicate. It was indeed as Empress Tianyao said. These two people were not her apprentices, Mei'er and Shuang'er. The real Mei'er, Shuang'er, might have suffered something unexpected. ♦

As for who are the two people kneeling on the ground? Of course they were two other people. Ao Ye used the magic of illusion to permanently transform the two of them into the appearance of two junior sisters. At the same time, he trained them to imitate the voices and smiles of the two junior sisters. Over the past year, it can be said that the fake ones were confused with the real ones. , no matter how sharp the eyes are, it is difficult to see the clues.

Unexpectedly, when Empress Tianyao came back today, she still saw the problem. Ao Ye was puzzled. Which link was the problem? But he was not sure whether the master had really discovered that there was something wrong with the two junior sisters. However, he could not help but become suspicious when he saw the master acting strangely today.

"Master...Master, I'm sorry..."

At this time, the two girls were kneeling on the ground and kept admitting their mistakes, with tears in their eyes, which made people feel heartbroken. But Ao Ye seemed to have a heart of stone, and let the two girls kneel on the cold and hard ground for most of the night. At this time, he There was no intention of letting the two of them get up.

"snort……"

He snorted coldly, and his eyes became even colder and terrifying. He thought for a while, the problem might be with the man who was with the master. This man always gave him an uncomfortable feeling, especially It was those eyes that always held great hostility, as if they could pierce through him at a glance, and he wanted to dig out those eyes.

"Master... we were wrong... next time, next time we must act more like..."

The two girls knelt on the ground and begged, their little bodies shaking even more violently. It was obvious that they were very scared at this time.

If you untie their clothes, you can see that there are large and small whip marks on their backs, chests, and abdomens. It is obvious that these were all beaten by Ao Ye. On weekdays, as long as they do something wrong, , a whipping is inevitable at night.

But Ao Ye is not stupid, and will not hit their arms, legs, cheeks, necks and other conspicuous places with the whip. Otherwise, when the master comes back, sees the scars and asks, how will he answer?

"Master, we were wrong..."

The two girls were pitiful. They were planted with the "Soul-eating Gu" by Ao Ye, and they were determined not to resist. They were not the only ones. Most of the people in Tianqin Palace had been planted with this extremely vicious "Soul-eating Gu" by Ao Ye. "Soul-eating Gu", no one dared to resist him, otherwise life would be worse than death. As for where this "soul-eating Gu" came from, that would have to be told from another story.

At this time, the two girls knelt and moved towards Ao Ye, one of them hugged one of his legs, and begged, but there was no mercy in Ao Ye's eyes, and he kicked them away coldly. He said, "I'll give you one more chance to monitor Master and that person. If there's anything wrong..."

The two girls were so frightened that they kept begging for mercy, "Master, we will definitely get things done this time..."

"Hmph, it's best...if you don't want to taste the feeling of 'thousands of poisons eating your heart' again."

When the two girls heard the words "Ten Thousand Poisons Eat Their Hearts", they were so frightened that their entire faces turned pale. They lay on the ground, not daring to move or beg for mercy.

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In the early morning of the next day, the sun shone through the clouds, covering the entire Tianyao Palace with a layer of faint purple smoke. The empress was in a state of mind that night and could not sleep peacefully. Fortunately, Xiao Chen was by her side, waiting for her. When she woke up with a start, he "coaxed" her to sleep again.

When the sunshine outside shone in through the window grilles, Empress Tianyao finally woke up leisurely. Seeing him sitting in front of the bed all night without closing her eyes, she was quite embarrassed to watch him fall asleep like this: "Aren't you... sleepy?" "

"not sleepy."

Xiao Chen looked at her and said softly, he was no longer a human being. Even though he was a little tired after traveling all these days, as soon as he smelled the fragrance of the flowers in the palace and bathed in the fairy air, his tiredness was gone. It's just that the empress suffered a series of accidents, was exhausted mentally and physically, and was seriously injured, so she was inevitably exhausted.

"Help me up..."

"Um."

At the moment, Xiao Chen slowly helped her get up and slept all night. Although her hair was a little messy, it still looked so beautiful, more beautiful than flowers and more flawless than the moon.

Empress Tianyao felt a little embarrassed when she saw him looking at her so intently, "Why are you looking at me like this?"

"Because my sister is pretty..." Xiao Chen said this in order to make her feel happy and not think about those sad and depressing things for the time being.

"You are the only one with a poor mouth."

Empress Tianyao stretched out her hand and pinched his face again. Thinking back to these years, except for Hong'er and her disciples, no man dared to be so naughty in front of her. When she thought that Hong'er and her disciples were no longer there, a feeling of sadness and sorrow could not help but envelope her heart again.

Seeing that she was gradually thinking about sad things again, Xiao Chen quickly changed the subject and asked, "Sister, do you feel better today?"

Empress Tianyao stretched out her hand and gently covered her chest and abdomen. From the outside, no injuries could be seen, but how could the internal injuries be healed so easily? The "Infinite Blood Hand" of Blood Hand Tathagata and the "Thirteen Styles of Demon Extreme" of Demon Extreme Emperor, if it were not for her profound Taoism and the protection of "Innate Qi", she would have suffered an accident.

"It's okay for now... Help me go outside."

At that moment, Xiao Chen helped her go outside, to the small attic, in front of the dressing mirror. The empress in the mirror looked more approachable. You have to know that the former Empress Tianyao, the empress of Fangshen, always looked stern and cold. Who could get so close to her? Who could see her so delicate and beautiful at this moment?

"Comb my hair for me..."

Empress Tianyao took out the scented comb from the box. This comb was her favorite. She was afraid of losing it, so when she left before, she carefully put it in the box and didn't take it with her.

Xiao Chen took the comb from her hand and felt that the comb was very handy. He looked at her in the mirror and gently combed her hair. When he was in Wuyutian before, he had combed Weiyang's hair like this before, so his technique was not unfamiliar. Seeing that he was so skilled, the empress only smiled faintly at the corner of her mouth and didn't say much.

"Who combed my sister's hair before?"

"Pin'er, sometimes, when Pin'er didn't come, it was Shuang'er."

"So that's it..."

Xiao Chen looked in the mirror, and the smile on the empress's face gradually became a little sad, so he immediately stopped the topic and said, "In the future, I will always comb my sister's hair like this..."

Hearing this, the Tianyao empress was stunned for a moment, looked at him in the mirror, and smiled again, "Don't keep saying these words to make me happy. If you leave in the future, won't I be sad every time I think of these words in the future?"

Xiao Chen really wanted to resolve the depression in her heart, which would be conducive to the recovery of her injuries. Otherwise, if she was depressed in her chest, her qi and blood would stagnate, not only would she not be able to recover from her injuries, but she would make them worse. If Ao Ye saw the clues at that time, I'm afraid the two of them would be in danger immediately.

The reason why Ao Ye didn't dare to act rashly now was that he couldn't figure out the empress's true strength, so he didn't dare to act rashly. Once he knew that the empress was so injured, he would be unable to compete with him. What would happen then?

"The comb is on you. You will comb my hair from now on." Empress Tianyao took the box from the dressing table and gave it to him.

"Okay."

Xiao Chen put the scented comb into the box and put it into his sleeve with great care. Seeing that the empress was in a much better mood, he felt relieved.

Then the empress took out the jade ornaments from the small drawer and put them on her hair gently. Finally, she took a piece of rouge and put it on her lips, which made her look much better.

"Sister is so beautiful."

Looking at Empress Tianyao in the mirror, Xiao Chen praised her from the bottom of his heart. He used to be careless and didn't understand why women had to put on makeup every day. Wouldn't it be better if they just practiced? It turns out that makeup looks so good.

No wonder people always say "A man dies for his confidant, and a woman dresses up for the one who pleases her." If you go to see someone you like, you will naturally put on beautiful makeup.

"You. "

Empress Tianyao turned her head and looked at him. Xiao Chen's words this morning did relieve a lot of her depression. If those immortals and gods came to praise her beauty, she would have rejected them as if they were lechers and disdained to listen. But now, listening to Xiao Chen's simple words, it seemed to be sweet to her heart. Thinking of yesterday on the jade chariot, in front of so many people, this "brother" kissed her, which was really... bold.

"I will help my sister go outside."

Now Xiao Chen is calling "sister" more and more smoothly. If he suddenly changes to "empress", it will be awkward.

When the two went outside, they saw the fallen petals outside the palace, the sky was full of purple clouds, and the fairy car jade chariot was flying on the clouds, sprinkling petals from above, flying in this fairyland.

"I didn't feel it yesterday evening, but I found that my sister is so beautiful this morning. "

Xiao Chen looked at the beautiful and charming purple jade fairyland in front of him, thinking that there might be such a fairyland only in the Ninth Heaven. Even his Wuyu Heaven, which was full of fairy spirit, was a little eclipsed by it.

Empress Tianyao turned around, looked at him and said, "Then you won't leave, stay and practice with your sister... When you enter the realm of Tao, you will also enjoy a long life. "

Xiao Chen saw that she seemed to be joking in the first sentence, but said the second sentence very seriously. He was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile, "Okay. "

"You are so talkative. "

The Empress Tianyao gently scratched his nose, and then walked hand in hand with him down the white jade steps. The two of them were like a couple of gods in this fairyland.

Next, of course, the main focus was on recovering the Empress's injuries. This purple jade fairyland was full of fairy spirit, and the colorful Yaochi pools and the fairy jade liquid inside were transformed by the fairy spirit. Whether it was practicing in the pool or healing injuries, it was a superior choice. In the past, at dusk, the Empress also bathed in the pool every day. With such fairy spirit nourishing her, her skin was as white as ice, which was certainly not comparable to that of ordinary fairies.

But now she had to be careful. Ao Ye must have sent someone to monitor her outside. Although they couldn't see what was going on inside, the flow of spiritual energy and the movement of immortal energy could be seen clearly from outside. If she wasn't careful, she would be exposed for healing inside.

So next, Empress Tianyao had to think of a way to conceal the truth. Yesterday she said she wanted to "dual practice" with Xiao Chen in Ziyu Fairyland, but it couldn't be true, right?

Of course it couldn't be. The Empress's cultivation method, the dual cultivation she said, might not necessarily be the same as those of the cultivators in the mortal world.

In the lower world, men and women must practice dual cultivation, and must pay attention to the harmony of yin and yang, and must not have any distracting thoughts. In other words, they must be united in mind and spirit, so that there is no barrier between the two people, and the true qi flows into each other's body. Such practice is of great benefit to both of them, and their cultivation can be improved by a thousand miles a day. Of course, the dual cultivation of practitioners is not the lovemaking of ordinary men and women in the mortal world. They must be united in mind and spirit. If they have evil thoughts, not only will their cultivation fail, but they will also devour themselves.

There are very few people who can do this, so in the cultivation of the righteous way, the dual cultivation immortal couple is unique, and there is only this pair of people in their lifetime. If one of them dies, the other will often never practice dual cultivation with others for the rest of his life, and will never mess around like those people in the mortal world, and be licentious and excessive.

As for the magic dual cultivation, some are similar to the immortal sect, but some also use each other as a cauldron, and there is more than one cauldron. In some magic sects, the female disciples of the entire sect are actually cauldrons, and in some magic palaces, the male disciples of the entire palace may also be the palace master's concubines.

Of course, these are far-fetched. The current priority is to make the Tianyao Empress recover from her injuries. They can only use "dual cultivation" as a cover to heal her.

This dual cultivation method is not the kind of cultivation method that requires the harmony of yin and yang between men and women. It is a dual cultivation method unique to the Empress. Even two women can practice together. When practicing, they only need to put their palms against each other to make the true energy flow into each other's body.

That day, without delay, Xiao Chen and her came under a cherry tree. The sky was full of light red cherry blossoms falling into the pool. There was a layer of light smoke and mist floating on the water. Before entering, Xiao Chen had already felt the abundant fairy spirit there. If he practiced there, he would surely make great progress.

But now, Xiao Chen was not here to practice. Although the fairy spirit here was rich and would surely enable him to break through another level of cultivation, there was no need to fight for this moment. A breakthrough in cultivation was a matter of sooner or later. Now he had to consider how to make the empress recover from her injuries as soon as possible. When the empress's injuries were healed, then let alone breaking through one or two levels of cultivation, even if he broke through several more levels, it would not be difficult to reach the peak of Taiqing.

In this way, until the evening, the two sat in the Yaochi, sitting cross-legged facing each other, with their palms pressed together, absorbing the immortal energy into their bodies. Xiao Chen then used this immortal energy along the other's meridians to slowly repair her damaged heart meridians. However, he did not expect that she was injured so seriously. The infinite blood hand of the Blood Hand Tathagata was really powerful. If he was hit like this, I am afraid that even with the body of Dugu Tianxia, ​​his heart meridians would be broken on the spot.

In the next few days, the two practiced like this every day. It seemed that they were "dual cultivation", but in fact they were quietly healing the empress, so as not to let the two people outside find out.

In the past few days, with Xiao Chen's consciousness, it was not difficult to find that the "Pin'er" and "Shuang'er" outside had been peeping at them. In order to make the two people "unable to figure out the truth", he also deliberately made some mandarin ducks playing in the water with the empress, which embarrassed the two people outside and made them blush.

"How? But what did you find out?"

In the cold building, Ao Ye's face was full of frost. Two girls knelt at his knees. One of them said timidly, "Reply... Report to the master. My sister and I have been spying outside every day these days. We saw purple smoke rising in the palace. The empress and that person, they, they are indeed just practicing dual cultivation..."

"Hmm?"

Ao Ye still had doubts on his face. Master was pure and innocent for thousands of years. How could he suddenly choose a fairy partner to practice dual cultivation? After a long time, he asked again, "Did you two let them find out?"

Another girl trembled and said, "Reply, reply to the master... My sister and I hid it well and didn't let the empress find out."

"Keep guarding, come back and tell me if there is anything unusual!"

Ao Ye's face was frost, and there were two cold murderous intentions hidden in his eyes. It was impossible. Master came back from the boundless realm and met Blood Hand Tathagata and Demon Great Emperor, two notoriously ruthless people in the Ninth Heaven. How could he be intact? There must be something wrong. With just the two maids "Pin and Shuang", I'm afraid they can't find out anything. Most likely he has to go there in person, but he doesn't want to alert the enemy at this time... Could it be that he has to go out to find that person again?

"Master, please don't blame me for being cruel. Without the innate Qi, how can I enter the realm of immortality? As the saying goes, 'If a man doesn't work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth'..."

...

Ten days later, the empress's complexion was much better. She was able to absorb the immortal Qi into her body and repair the damaged heart meridians, but she still needed Xiao Chen to help her with "double cultivation". The injuries on her body were not enough to rely on the immortal Qi of the Purple Jade Fairyland. She also needed a lot of "immortal mushrooms and spiritual medicines" outside. Otherwise, even if the injuries improved slightly, it would be difficult to fully recover her cultivation.

But how to get these immortal mushrooms and spiritual medicines? Now it has become a problem. It's impossible for Xiao Chen to go out and get these medicines? These are healing medicines, Ao Ye knew it at a glance, so wouldn't that mean she was telling the other party that she was seriously injured and asked him to attack?

"Don't worry, sister, I'll sneak out at night."

After thinking for a long time, Xiao Chen could only think of sneaking out at night to find medicine. What other methods could he use? No one outside was trustworthy. The Empress's other disciples were nowhere to be found. Moreover, even if they were found, they were not sure whether they could be trusted.

The entire Tianqin Palace was in danger. Inside and outside, it had been controlled by the traitor Ao Ye. He and the Empress were too weak to confront him head-on. They could only take the risk and let Xiao Chen go out to get medicine.

Or, there was another way, but this way was undoubtedly extremely dangerous for Empress Tianyao. It was Xiao Chen who left Zixian Xuanpu and went to the outside world to ask the "immortals" for help. It would be Ziji Xianweng's birthday soon. At that time, all kinds of immortals, many immortal kings and emperors would rush to Zixian Island. Naturally, there would be many old friends of the Empress. If these people could be invited, would they still be afraid that they could not deal with Ao Ye? Even if this person had already cultivated to the Dao realm, so what? As a dignified empress, among her old friends, are there no immortals and gods of the Dao realm?

However, this way, the empress will be left alone in Tianyao Palace. Once Ao Ye sees through the mystery, she will be in danger. This is too dangerous, so Xiao Chen finally decided to go outside Tianyao Palace to find immortal herbs. Even if something goes wrong, he can just use Dugu Tianxia's divine body and Tianyao Qin to take the empress out of Tianqin Palace. This shouldn't be a problem, right?

Tonight, Xiao Chen sneaked out of Tianyao Palace at night. Although there were two people guarding outside at all times, with his cultivation and spiritual awareness, it was easy to avoid the two girls.

As for the topography of the Tianqin Palace and the locations of the various fairylands, Empress Tianyao had naturally told him long ago. As for the medicines needed, some were hidden in the "Medicine House" palace, and some grew in the fairyland. The spiritual medicines in the palace were often guarded by array spirits, but this was not difficult. The Empress had told him how to crack it, and with his skills, he would not be discovered.

As for the spiritual medicines growing in various fairylands, he had to slowly search for them one by one. This was the case for the next few days. During the day, he and Empress Tianyao "dual practice" to heal her wounds, and at night, he sneaked out alone to secretly find these spiritual medicines.

This night, he had to find a kind of elixir called "Thousand-year-old Purple Jade Tan", which was the last spiritual medicine he needed, but when he came to this "Purple Tan Fairyland", he searched for a long time, and found a lot of ordinary Udumbara flowers, but he couldn't find the "Three Thousand Years of Purple Jade Tan" from the thousands of Udumbara flowers.

For several nights in a row, he couldn't find the thousand-year-old purple jade lily. If this continued, he was worried about alarming Ao Ye. This night, when he came to the Purple Lotus Fairyland again, just as he had searched fruitlessly the previous nights, a squirrel suddenly jumped out of the flowers, "squeaking" non-stop, which scared him.

When he saw that it was a squirrel under the moonlight, he ignored it and continued to look for the thousand-year-old purple jade lily. Unexpectedly, this little squirrel kept following him, sometimes "squeaking" non-stop, and sometimes standing up and gesturing at him, looking quite spiritual.

Xiao Chen stood up and thought that the little animals in the Purple Fairy Garden were also so spiritual. Could it be that this little squirrel knew where the thousand-year-old purple jade lily was?

"Squeak, squeak, squeak..."

The squirrel kept calling him, pointed to the front, and then ran there. After running a few feet away, it turned around and kept gesturing at him.

Xiao Chen saw that the squirrel wanted him to follow, but how could this little squirrel know what he was looking for? Could it be that Ao Ye sent it? Could it be that this traitor who betrayed his teacher and destroyed his ancestors really did everything he could, even using the squirrel?

Thinking that this should not be the case, he tried to follow it. After walking for about an hour, he came to a fairy forest. He saw a ray of purple light suddenly appear under the tree full of Udumbara flowers. When he got closer, he saw that it was indeed the thousand-year-old purple jade euphorbia he was looking for. He couldn't help but feel happy. As long as he brought this three-thousand-year-old purple jade euphorbia back, the empress's injury could finally be cured. Tonight was the last night, so he must not make any mistakes again.

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Note that the original meaning of "If a man does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth" is not what Ao Ye said. "Wei" is pronounced twice, which should mean "cultivation, cultivation". The original meaning of the whole sentence is roughly that if a man does not cultivate himself, heaven and earth will not tolerate him.

In addition, some friends are concerned about where Qianyu Nishang and Xiao Meng'er are. Of course, they will be appearing soon.