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The Meditation Xue Mingrui had taught him was a basic technique of the Pure Yuan Palm. The Pure Yuan Palm was divided into two parts, one was a Pure Yuan Art and the other was a palm art. The inner strength of the Pure Yuan Palm was a very pure kind of Zhen Qi, and it needed the help of the Sky and Earth aura to cultivate, so it could be fused with other Zhen Qi, because it was a pure and initial type of inner strength.

Xue Mingrui had to first let him get used to this kind of meditation before he could focus more on cultivating the Pure Yuan Art and achieve twice the results with half the effort. He had originally thought that it would take a week or even half a month to find this kind of proud attitude from Helian. He hadn't expected that it would only take two and a half days before Helian could enter a meditative state. This result made Xue Mingrui very happy. Since time was saved here, he could spend even more time cultivating Pure Yuan techniques. Only by reaching the top twelve layers of a cultivation technique would he be able to display his palm techniques to their fullest potential.

For the time being, he didn't know whether Helian Lu was practicing the Pure Yuan Palm with Divine Doctor Xue Mingrui or not. That Murong Xiu had only received the news six hours after Helian's escape, knowing that Helian Xuanyin had actually escaped from his heavily guarded Sky Prison. Of course, Murong Xiu knew that Helian couldn't possibly rely on his own strength to escape. Someone must have rescued him. Thus, when he found out about the news, he dispatched Tang Ao and the rest of his elite troops to chase after him.

Tang Ao and the others chased him quite fast, but they were still a step short. When they reached the top of the mountain, they saw Lady Fang and Helian fight, and then they saw Helian falling off the cliff.

Thus, they had no choice but to report back to Murong Xiu and tell him that Helian had fallen off a cliff.

When Murong Xiu heard this news, he also felt that it was pretty good. However, compared to his plan, this Helian died a little earlier. So he wrote a letter, telling his men to give it to the Violet Garden as soon as possible to inform her of the situation. Based on his imagination, Zi Yuan should be happy and sad to see Helian Lie die. Then, he would comfort her again, play chess with her, and play Feng Lingxue's "great adventure". After that, he would naturally be able to obtain Zi Yuan.

When the Violet Garden received the secret message from Murong Xiu, she was somewhat astonished. She opened it and saw that Helian had already reached a narrow escape. She did not feel uncomfortable, nor did she have any other feelings. She even felt somewhat numb in her heart.

For so many days, there had been no news of Helian. Even Feng Lingxue had not been able to get news of Helian. Actually, Zi Yuan had already prepared for the worst of Helian's life and death. She had mentally prepared herself for this, so when she saw the grievous news that Murong Xiu had given her, she didn't actually feel that it was grievous news. She only felt that she knew of it, but didn't feel any sadness, grief, or anger. It was that faint feeling: My husband, really, had just disappeared.

Actually, Zi Yuan did not know that this feeling was the greatest sorrow. What she thought was a deep sorrow that could not be cried out, a grief that she did not feel!

Zi Yuan replied with a letter to Murong Xiu. In his letter, he ridiculed Murong as a vile character who didn't know how to be a man at all. He might as well just be an eunuch. Right now, she really hated Murong. She hated him very, very much. She even felt disgusted by the fact that she went to Western Paradise to save Murong. Although she hadn't fallen for or in love with Murong before, she didn't have such strong feelings of disgust towards him. Ever since that night, when she heard the sounds of intense love between her man and another man, she had started to hate Murong Xiu even more every day than the day before.

When Murong Xiu received the letter, he had initially been in a very good mood. He felt that it was a good thing that the Violet Garden was willing to give him an answer. When he opened it, he saw that it was actually a curse. The more he looked at Murong Xiu, the angrier he got. He remembered that Helian said that Zi Yuan was a man who liked him. Murong Xiu clearly felt that he was a man, but why did Zi Yuan feel that he wasn't? Which part of him wasn't a man?

Just as he was lost in his own thoughts, his subordinates came to remind him that it was time to check on the young master again. Thus, Mu Rong Xiu changed his clothes and went to the palace to see the young master controlled by the poison.

The young master's condition was getting worse. Every day, he would wake up more and more, living in a muddled and drifting state.

As soon as Murong Xiu entered the room, he covered his nose. Although there were people who cleaned this room regularly, the room was still filled with an unpleasant smell.

Mu Rong Xiu was pushed to the ground by someone out of the blue. He felt the chrysanthemums behind him tighten, as though a hot stick was pointing at him.

Mu Rong Xiu was enraged. He reached out a hand to grab the neck of the man behind him, then used a hundred percent of his strength to grab him and throw him out.

The person he threw was like a kite with a broken string. He floated in the air and then landed on the ground, lifeless.

Only now did Murong Xiu realize that the one he'd thrown out was his young master. He hurriedly tried to feel out the young master's breathing and pulse, but it was all gone. This teenager who was already worn out from the poison did not have any martial arts, so how could he withstand the full strength of his Thirteen Series of the Heavenly Arts? This crazy child that thought he was using drugs was suddenly thrown to death by Murong Xiu just like that.

On the other hand, Murong Xiu was calm as he called in some more people. He told them that the king had suddenly died and that the few court people that came with him were the court people that didn't take care of the king, so he killed them all on the spot. No one else dared to question this, so it was naturally Murong Xiu who said what he said.

After the king of the West Li died, he sent an envoy to the North Vietnam to sign a border truce.

Zi Yuan felt that during the previous expansion campaign, the North Vietnamese already occupied half of the western region. At this moment, internal affairs of the North Vietnamese were also unstable, so it wasn't bad to stop the war. Thus, the two sides quickly signed an official truce.

In the end, only one or two small countries and Dongping replied that they had come back to attend the king's funeral.

Even though Zi Yuan had received the secret report from Murong Xiu and knew that Helian fell into an unknown situation without any heartache, she quickly realized that this news was not good for the internal affairs of the Northern Yue clan. If everyone knew that Helian fell off a cliff, there would be trouble.

Feng Lingxue, who had yet to leave the Northern Yue Palace, really wanted to resolve Zi Yuan's worries. Thus, he directly asked the Violet Garden what the solution was for the matter regarding Helian.

Ziyuan shook his head, indicating that he really didn't know how to prevent the trouble behind this.

"Actually, I feel like you still have an ace up your sleeve to prevent the regime from falling over." Feng Lingxue looked at the Violet Garden with a beaming smile.

Zi Yuan did not understand, but following Feng Lingxue's shifted target, he saw that it was her adorable pair of children. She was suddenly enlightened: that's right! In the future, he had seen many classic scenes from ancient costume TV dramas, so why hadn't he thought of it all of a sudden! According to the current situation, he should be the sole heir to the Black Wing Palace, and it would soon be his son's first birthday. If he could come up with some kind of secret decree on his birthday, and falsely pass down the orders of the Black Wing Family to make his son the Crown Prince, wouldn't he have nothing to worry about? The matter of crippling the crown prince was not as simple as it seemed to be in the State of Northern Yue.

However, Zi Yuan was a bit worried. Firstly, she wasn't very good at writing calligraphy, and secondly, Helian had a private letter with him. Many of the secret orders he wrote would be covered with this private letter.

At this time, in the Northern Yue State, she no longer had anyone to discuss with. She really wanted to discuss what to do with Feng Lingxue, but Feng Lingxue was after all a member of the Eastern Plains, and she might become an enemy in the future.

She decided to think of a way to solve this problem. She thought of her little disciple. Even though she couldn't write, it was fine if her disciple could write!

Shuangshuang always brings a lot of surprises to Zi Yuan. After the two of them communicated with each other, Zi Yuan discovered that not only did Shuangshuang know how to write calligraphy, she also knew how to copy the words of others. When she wrote it at such a young age, it was truly vivid. This skill was too great!

Immediately, Qu Shuangshuang copied Helian's notes and wrote a secret decree for Helian Xuan Qi to be the crown prince. As for that insignia, when Zi Yuan was at a loss of what to do, she flipped to the one that Helian Wang had previously received as his empress. She discovered that it did not have the insignia of Gai Helian on it, but rather a seal engraved with the names of Helian and Zi Yuan — — This insignia was in Zi's hands! This way, things would be much easier. Even if the officials in the court questioned her, she would still have words to answer.

The day soon arrived at the anniversary of the twins, Helian and Ziyuan.

On this day, at the little prince and little princess' annual celebration, the Violet Garden took out the prepared secret decree.

"Esteemed guests, this is a good opportunity for this empress to announce something important to everyone."

Everyone looked curiously at the yellow scroll in her hands, wondering what it was.

Violet Garden intentionally handed this decree to the Minister of Rites' assistant minister. This Minister of Rites was an old official promoted by Helian. He could be considered a very trustworthy person in Helian.

The Minister of Rites opened the decree and read it out loud in front of all the officials participating in the young princess' celebration. After reading the secret decree, the entire audience burst into an uproar. Although the date of the secret decree was the day when the little prince and princess were just born a year ago, why did Violet Garden only take it out now? Someone raised this doubt.

"Helian didn't give me the secret decree directly, so I haven't known about these things," Zi Yuan replied unhurriedly. "These days, I was sorting out some of my old belongings, and I accidentally found this in a box that contained a lot of my and Helian's memories. I think that if I were to say it out loud in the morning, everyone would think it was strange. It would be better for me to share this joyous news with everyone on my child's birthday."

With that said, many people now felt that it made sense.

Subsequently, the Minister of Rites and Assistant Minister for Rites gave the secret decree to the senior officials for review. As expected, a sharp-eyed senior official mentioned that he did not see Helian Lie's private letter.

Zi Yuan had already prepared his reply. "I think there's a secret seal on it."

"..." "That's the secret letter the king and empress have in common …"

"The secret letter that the two of us have in common can't even be considered the king's secret letter?" Zi Yuan asked. This rhetorical question stunned everyone. They couldn't say no, nor could they say yes out of their own minds, so they all fell silent for a long time.