Chapter 38 Undercurrent
The little emperor was very angry.

The imperial guards searched for the assassin, and on the second day, they found the bodies of several imperial guardsmen who had died tragically in a corner of the palace. Next to them was a young eunuch named Ji Yun who was also dead.

He even didn't bother to pretend to be there.

How arrogant this is!
"Bastard!"

"You really don't take me seriously."

"check!"

"You must catch the assassin for me. This is my imperial palace, not an assassin's lair. Are you all good-for-nothings for killing the military guards?"

The little emperor's angry roar echoed in the imperial study.

This day.

The little emperor walked into the secret room under the imperial study.

Here, a mysterious man in white robe is meditating on a white jade ice bed.

"Master Chu!"

"Let's start the plan."

"I need masters! A huge number of masters! First-class masters, and second-class masters! If I'm not strong enough, I'll be infiltrated by rebels like a sieve. The palace with assassins flying all over the place is not safe at all. If I don't have strong enough men, I'll die at the hands of the palace assassins sooner or later."

"If I die early, wouldn't your plan be in vain?"

The young emperor was ambitious.

……

None of this has anything to do with Su Chen.

In the pharmacy.

Su Chen wiped the blood off his hands and was checking the pulse of a weak woman. Although he was keeping vigil, he would not delay if someone came to see a doctor.

The palace lacks everything except poor people. If we can save as many as possible, we will save them.

"Brother Xu, are you hurt anywhere?"

The 17-year-old palace maid standing behind the frail woman wearing a veil, with a very curvaceous figure, spoke softly and asked Su Chen with a worried tone, and the concern in her eyes was real.

"nothing."

"Just killed some pigs and dogs."

The pulse was taken for a long time.

Su Chen looked deeply at the weak woman and was silent for a while.

"Cough cough..."

"Doctor Xu...what is my illness...you can tell me if you want..."

The frail woman's violent coughing made her already weak face even paler, without a trace of blood.

She was not a palace maid, but a concubine in the cold palace.

The concubine of Emperor Tianwu. In the 23rd year of Tianwu's reign, her father's family was implicated in the assassination of the eldest prince, and her entire family was executed, and she was also banished to the cold palace.

now.

The tenth year of Jianwu.

It has been almost twelve years now.

"Brother Xu, what is Empress Luo Fei's illness? Please tell me. It's driving me crazy. Is it an incurable disease?"

Linglong was so anxious that she almost cried.

"Doctor Xu, Leng Gong, I can't be out for too long. If I can't diagnose the problem, why not get some herbs to relieve the cold..."

"I heard that the imperial guards robbed your savings. You need money to bury Old Chen. This golden hairpin of mine is worth three to five hundred taels of silver..."

As she spoke, Luo Yu took off the golden hairpin on her head and handed it to Su Chen.

"My lady, you are... pregnant..."

Su Chen said in silence.

next moment.

The golden hairpin fell to the ground.

Luo Yu was so angry that his face turned red. He pointed at Su Chen's face and was about to curse him.

"I am innocent, Xu Ge, how dare you humiliate me like this? I have been in the cold palace for twelve years, and you actually insulted me by saying that I had an affair in the cold palace, you..."

"Linglong, let's go!"

Say it.

She took the palace maid Linglong, took the golden hairpin away, and left angrily.

In this regard.

Su Chen remained even more silent.

Concubine Luo did not have an affair. Su Chen could see clearly that the fetus in Concubine Luo's belly had a faint light of longevity, but in essence it was exactly the same as Emperor Jianwu, or Emperor Taizu of Liang...

"With such a demonic method, it seems that Emperor Jianwu, who failed to "pass on the throne" and was sealed in the coffin, has started to think of other ways."

"The position of the little emperor may be in suspense again..."

three days later.

After Su Chen finished the wake, he nailed the coffin shut, put on the prepared pass, and left the palace to bury Old Chen.

"Another relative is buried..."

"Ugh……"

A faint sigh.

Su Chen drove the carriage, pulling the coffin unimpeded. Soon, under the arrangement of the funeral home, he witnessed with his own eyes the burial of Chen Ge's coffin, the sealing of the tomb, and the erection of a tombstone.

From then on, he was the only one left in the pharmacy.

late at night.

Su Chen came back and was about to go to bed.

The door of the pharmacy was knocked open anxiously, and Linglong's anxious but deliberately suppressed voice, which she dared not to speak loudly, was heard outside the door.

"Brother Xu, open the door quickly."

The door opened.

Linglong pulled Su Chen and ran to the cold palace.

"So fast?"

Su Chen had some guesses.

Soon, he was taken to the cold palace. The eunuchs on duty in the cold palace were running around anxiously. His name was Gao Yao. He had received great favors from Luo Fei's father's family. Even though Luo Fei's family was destroyed and lost power, he was still loyal.

"Quick! Master Xu, come and take a look."

on the bed.

Luo Fei's stomach swelled and she groaned in pain, not daring to shout out loud.

I can vaguely see it.

The baby in the belly can't wait to come out.

The kind that rips the belly!
My belly got so big in just one day?
It is truly a demonic method.

"excuse me."

Su Chen took out a dagger and started the caesarean section.

of course.

Performing a caesarean section without any experience is completely disregarding human life, but fortunately he has the immortality qi, so even if he pierces the wrong place, it can heal quickly...

Soon.

Luo Fei fainted from the pain.

The baby, covered in blood, was delivered in swaddling clothes.

In this regard.

The weak Luo Fei had an expression of disbelief on her face.

In the cold palace, Gao Yao and Linglong looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

She actually gave birth to a child.

"There are demons in the world, and they all have cultivation methods. It's not surprising that they can't conceive and give birth to children."

"perhaps."

"It's possible that this is a gift from the gods through dreams."

Su Chen left.

A few more days passed.

During this period, Su Chen worked normally in the pharmacy, treating palace maids and eunuchs. When he was free, he finally found an opportunity to check the incomplete scroll of the Heaven-Devouring Demon Art he got from Mu Xuan, as well as the deadly secret technique.

"The Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art is the method Zhang Gui practices. In just three to five years, he has gone from a normal third-grade to a second-grade, and then to the top first-grade in the world..."

"Burning my life span is really overbearing. No wonder my immortality energy can't make up for the lost life span..."

Su Chen put down the remaining scroll of magic skills and rubbed his eyebrows.

no doubt.

This, like the "Six-foot-tall Golden Body Technique", is also a master's skill that is extinct in the world. Only this method can be so horrifying.

Don't know either.

What happened to Zhang Gui during the years he was missing, and where did he get this Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art?

"And this secret technique of taking lives, it seems to be practiced in conjunction with the Heaven Devouring Magic Art, borrowing the lifespan of others to help them practice, complementing each other. Where did this come from?"

Su Chen put away his remaining skills and secret techniques.

He had a vague feeling.

The fact that Mu Xuan had these two things in his hands might have something to do with the little emperor. After all, this teenage emperor successfully resisted the "succession" of a great master demon.

He must have some unknown support or a master in his hands.

even.

Su Chen was suspicious.

It is possible that each of the eunuchs in the palace has a copy of this fragment of magic skills and the secret technique of killing people.

During this period, Su Chen paid careful attention and inquired about the matter in the pharmacy.

as predicted.

After the death of Li Xi and Mu Xuan, the number of old eunuchs dying of old age did not decrease. Instead, it increased dramatically. There were even several cases of young eunuchs dying suddenly of old age.

The lower-level eunuchs and palace maids were all in a panic.

There are also rumors that.

There are demons that can suck people's life force and sneak into the palace. These things were all done by the demons.

In this regard.

The high-ranking officials in the imperial palace, no matter whether it was the chief steward, the chiefs of the three guards, or the little emperor, were all as blind and deaf as to neither listen nor see, and neither care nor do anything.

The last day of December in the tenth year of Jianwu.

It snowed again that night.

the next day.

Su Chen opened the door of the pharmacy and was about to clear the fallen snow in front of the door when the corpse of a young eunuch with white hair and dried up flesh fell into the room.

he died!
Su Chen is quite familiar, he is Leo.

She is only fifteen or sixteen years old, but has been sick many times in the past three years. Up to now, she still owes Su Chen more than thirty taels of silver for medicine.

Before his death, Little Leo was still knocking on the door. There was still a happy look on his face and one hand was tucked into his arms, where there was a heavy purse.

Su Chen took a look and saw that it was exactly thirty taels, which was the money owed for his medicine.

Little Leo is here to pay back the money.

But, he was dead.

Su Chen stood there for a long time and was silent for a long time. He watched with his own eyes as a team of imperial guards threw Little Li's body onto a carriage and took it away without saying a word, like throwing away garbage.

"Where should we take the body?"

Su Chen asked.

"Where can it be pulled? It's naturally a mass grave. Little eunuch, I advise you not to run around at night. Otherwise, you will be like him. You will encounter a demon that has not been captured yet and your lifespan will be sucked away, turning you into a mummy."

Watching Little Li being dragged away and the more than thirty taels of silver being snatched away by the imperial guards, Su Chen was silent for a while.

Is it really a demon?

"That's all."

"There are too many injustices in this world. Just be patient and it will pass."

Su Chen persuaded himself in this way, and silently cleaned up the pharmacy which did not need to be cleaned up.

(End of this chapter)