After hearing Ren Baqian's words, the empress nodded her head and said, "Alright, I will get someone to send the herbs to you tomorrow morning. After you are done with your training, come and find me. I will bring you to the palace treasury to get some things. "
Ren Baqian felt a little awkward when he heard this. Using the empress's wealth to buy things on Earth, he suddenly felt that he was living off a woman.
Unfortunately, it would take a long time before he could get his income from Earth. He had to spend a lot of time and energy to make all kinds of things to earn money. Otherwise, he was afraid that he would really be living off a woman.
However, when he thought about the martial arts and herbs provided by the empress, it seemed that he was destined to live off a woman.
"What are you thinking about?" the empress asked when she saw that he was silent.
"I just feel that I am living off a woman," Ren Baqian said awkwardly. Then, facing the empress's probing gaze, he explained the meaning of living off a woman.
"Why, don't you want to eat?" The empress's beautiful eyes wandered and her voice carried a trace of a different meaning.
Ren Baqian's heart trembled when he saw this.
"Just treat it as buying it for me," the empress continued.
"I know." Ren Baqian nodded his head. The empress was always so cold. When she occasionally looked at him with a gentle and charming gaze, it was as if a fairy had turned into an ordinary person. It was exceptionally captivating.
After accompanying the empress for a while, Ren Baqian got up and left. Qing Yuan and Hong Luan saw him coming out from outside and entered Yangxin Palace Hall.
After Ren Baqian left, the empress reverted to her original appearance.
She just felt that the palace was exceptionally cold.
…
Early the next morning, five or six people came in carrying bundles of paper bags and placed them in another room in Pingle Park. Soon after, they began to fetch water to start a fire and made a large tub of medicinal water.
"Storyteller Ren, you need to cultivate in this medicinal bath to absorb the medicinal power," a woman around thirty years old said to Ren Baqian.
Ren Baqian nodded his head. He had already understood all these from [Ruyi Visualization].
Everyone first added the medicinal herbs into the tub and then boiled the water. The water immediately turned into a strange dark green color. After the water temperature dropped, they continued to use a small fire to maintain the temperature. Ren Baqian stared at the strange dark green liquid for a long time before putting on his shorts and stepping into it.
"It's so hot." Ren Baqian sucked in a breath of cold air. The temperature was at least 40 degrees Celsius. Stepping in like this caused his entire body to turn red, and he felt as if he was being cooked.
The crackling of the firewood under the barrel made him feel like he was stewing a pot of soup.
However, he quickly cleared away the distracting thoughts in his mind and started to visualize the Visualization of Water.
After a while, Ren Baqian opened his eyes helplessly and said to the people around him, "I'll have to trouble the few of you to go outside the courtyard. I'm not used to all of you standing here. I'm afraid of strangers! You can come in later. "
After they left, he closed his eyes and started to visualize again. Even though there was still the sound of burning firewood, it didn't affect him much.
It was still filled with a faint mist, and he couldn't see far into the distance. Only the lake and a few trees seemed to exist.
Ren Baqian walked into the lake. When he started to swim forward, he started to realize that something was wrong. The surrounding water started to form waves. Even though it wasn't big, it was more exhausting than the stagnant water he used to swim in. Moreover, there were traces of dark green things in the water that looked like aquatic plants that wrapped around his body. It was as if he was carrying a heavy object on his back and swam even slower.
It took him a longer time to swim to the center of the lake. Then, he tried his best to dive down. This time, he woke up from exhaustion before he could reach his previous position.
Ren Baqian shook his head. He was still mentally exhausted and his body was swollen in pain. When he looked down at the medicinal bath below him, the color had become much lighter.
It seemed like the medicinal efficacy had been absorbed into his body.
The medicinal efficacy of this medicinal bath would take at least a week to be digested and gradually change his body.
Ren Baqian returned to his bed to rest for a while before looking for the empress. However, the empress hadn't come down from the court session yet, so he waited outside Yangxin Palace Hall.
After a long time, Ren Baqian heard voices from afar and knew that the empress had returned.
"All of you can leave. Xin Zhe, you don't have to follow me." The empress waved her hand at the people behind her. After everyone left, she said to Ren Baqian, "Follow me."
The inner treasury of the palace was located in a rather secretive place in the palace. It was completely made of stone and didn't have any windows.
After the thick metal door was opened, the imperial bodyguard passed the torch to the both of them and left.
Ren Baqian held the torch and followed the empress. Under the empress's guidance, they lit up the braziers in the inner treasury. At this moment, the inner treasury was lit up. This place was smaller than what Ren Baqian had imagined. It was divided into two levels. On one level, there were many shelves with swords, weapons, and armors. On the surrounding walls, there were boxes of gold, silver, jewelry, and the like. These were all gifts from the empress during her birthday celebration.
Most of them were gold and silver. Only a few small boxes contained jewelry.
On the second level, there were many cubicles and shelves. There were a lot fewer items. Ren Baqian walked around the inner treasury. They were all rare and precious treasures. Their value was indeed very high. Many of them couldn't be found on Earth. Such rare items might be able to be sold for a good price on Earth, but it was too difficult to sell them.
He was just an ordinary person and didn't have the means to sell these items.
"Your Majesty, let's go back to the first level. Even though the items here are very valuable, it's difficult to sell them, "Ren Baqian told the empress honestly.
"Alright."
On the first level, Ren Baqian finally chose a few pieces of jade pendants, jade talismans, rubies, and emeralds before stopping.
"Take a few more. I keep these items with me," the empress said to Ren Baqian.
"I'll take these first. It's inconvenient to carry too many with me. This time around, I want to test how many days I can stay here. It's very likely that I'll be sent back suddenly. Therefore, I can carry these items with me at all times, "Ren Baqian said.
…
In the palace of the capital of Great Xia, a dignified looking old man sat on a chair. Six people were kneeling before him.
"Who is it? How dare they assassinate the prince. "The old man was the current emperor of Great Xia. At this moment, his face was filled with uncontrollable anger.
The prince of Great Xia was assassinated? How many years had it been since this had happened? They were simply audacious to the extreme and treated the royal family of Great Xia as nothing.
"Your Majesty, the Seventh Prince arrived at Kaiping five days ago. He stayed for a night before setting off. Three days ago, he was assassinated in Wolong Valley. Among the Seventh Prince's entourage, there were ninety-five people at the intermediate level of the Human Realm, five people at the advanced level of the Human Realm, one person at the intermediate level of the Earth Realm, and two consecrated people at the Earth Embryo Realm. None of them survived. In addition, a caravan that was returning from Dayao was also assassinated. None of them survived. Presumably, it was because they saw the murderer.
To be able to kill all of the Seventh Prince's entourage, this kind of strength wasn't something an ordinary person could achieve.
Even though the scene had been cleaned up, there were still some traces left behind.
According to the investigators at the scene, it was suspected to be the aboriginals.
However, I don't have any clearer evidence to prove it. I also didn't find any reason for Qi Zixiao or Hong Wu to attack the Seventh Prince.
"I want them to pay the price!"
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