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Qu Ling's attention was immediately attracted over, and he completely forgot that he was still angry, he threw away the book in his hands and quickly ran to Xiao Jingyue's side and stuck his head into the book in his hands.

"Soul Sealing Parasite?" Qu Ling snatched the book over and continued to read the description of the Gu Worm.

This Gu came from the grave that was filled with dense Yin Qi. It was born from the most evil and yin energy. It had no fixed form and looked like a liquid.

The moment a person was infected with this Gu, they would bleed from their seven orifices and die. It was no different from being poisoned.

If a person was dead, the poison would enter from the mouth and the injury would leave the wound. Only then would the effect of revival of the dead be achieved.

The Gu Worm that is revived by the parasite will awaken once a month, causing its body to be hot and cold at first, and then to go into hibernation. During this period of time, it will fake its death, but at most six hours later, it will wake up.

The scholar intellectual who wrote this book believed that humans had souls, and that the soul would leave the body after death. Since this Gu was able to save a person, it must be because it had retrieved the soul from the hands of the Yin Qi and locked it back into the body to bring back life, so it named it the "Soul Sealing Parasite."

There was only this much information on the Soul Locking Gu, and no mention was made of whether or not the Gu Worm was prone to undergo a Gu transformation or what would happen after it.

After reading this short and incomplete introduction, Qu Ling suddenly had a feeling that his world had been refreshed.

Her expression was extremely complicated as she said, "Xiao Jingyue, I didn't expect you to be a dead man."

Xiao Jingyue, "..."

He suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled her into his embrace. "Feel it."

Qu Ling was about to go berserk, but hearing that he was stunned: "Feel what?"

"Feel this general's temperature."

"…"

Normal people would have normal body temperature. There were no abnormal people like Huo Xinyi, but Xiao Jingyue did.

She was silent for a moment before gently pushing him away. "No need, thank you."

She had already experienced how frightening his body temperature was.

"The symptoms of Huo Xinyi's Gu which appeared before him, is exactly the same as what was written in this book."

She carefully looked at him, "After Huo Xinyi died from the poison, he recovered by consuming this Gu. If the Gu in your body is also this same, then you are …"

She wanted to ask, was it because he consumed the Gu after consuming the poison, or because he applied the Gu after receiving heavy injuries.

However, at this time, she suddenly recalled that if the Gu was only of this sort of effect, the person who had placed the Gu in his body would not be trying to harm him. Instead, it would be trying to save him.

Xiao Jingyue had obviously thought of this as well. With a gloomy face, his eyes drooped down as though he was thinking about something.

Even if he had money, he might not even be able to obtain this Gu. Qu Ling did not know how the two dead Miao Men sold two of them to Huo Xinyi, but she knew that for Xiao Jingyue to use the parasite to extend his life while he was at the brink of death, his relationship with Xiao Jingyue was definitely not simple.

Qu Ling looked at him again, and tried to probe: Do you have any relatives to raise Gu?

Xiao Jingyue said calmly: "No."

Qu Ling sympathized with him for two seconds and comforted him, "There are thousands and thousands of different Gu in the world. You've finished flipping through the rest of the books? "

"No need." Xiao Jingyue tore off that page and folded it neatly before placing it in his sleeve. He called for First Xiao Er Xiao and ordered them to keep the books in the case.

Qu Ling silently watched from the side without saying a word.

The two of them had lunch together. Xiao Jingyue remembered the Emperor's instructions and then led Qu Ling to the palace.

It just so happened that the emperor was in the empress's palace playing with the three-and-a-half year old Little Prince, after the two of them entered the palace, they went straight to the empress's palace.

After entering the palace, Qu Ling and Xiao Jingyue kneeled down and saluted.

The empress put down the Little Prince, waved at Qu Ling, and said gently, "Ah Ling, come over here."

She obediently walked in front of the empress and whispered, "Your majesty, aunt the empress."

The Emperor nodded and looked at the slim and graceful woman in front of him. He seemed to recall something, and his turbid gaze became a bit absent-minded.

After a long time, the emperor suddenly sighed, "Back then when I made the decision to give you a marriage with Jing Yue, you were still a baby doll with a silly smile. I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, more than ten years had passed.

Qu Ling was intimate with his aunt, but not with the emperor. He was even a little afraid of him.

Actually, she still resented this emperor uncle of hers. If not for him, she wouldn't have married this perverted bastard Xiao Jingyue.

It was unknown what the emperor was thinking about, but his expression was not as cheerful as when Qu Ling and the others had first arrived. After he bestowed the things he had prepared a long time ago to Qu Ling and Xiao Jingyue, he stood up and left without saying a word.

"Respectfully sending off your majesty!"

The empress watched as the emperor's silhouette disappeared into the distance. A dark glint flashed through her eyes, which were well concealed by her downcast gaze.

The person who wielded the authority of life and death had finally left. Qu Ling secretly heaved a sigh of relief, his entire body relaxed a lot as he bent down to pick up Little Prince.

Little Prince pushed her face away with a look of disdain, and shouted with a soft voice: "Who asked you to hug me!"

Qu Ling asked: "Why don't you let me hug you?"

Little Prince snorted: "If you still haven't come to see me after so long, I don't want you anymore."

He remembered this cousin Qu Ling, and remembered that Qu Ling had not come to see him for a long time.

After Qu Ling heard this, he was immediately amused, "Last time you said the same thing, but in the end you still followed me up and shouted for me to give you a hug."

The Little Prince became angry from the embarrassment and furiously slapped Qu Ling's face.

The empress looked at the bickering, one big and the other small, with a gentle smile on her face.

Xiao Jingyue stood quietly at the side. From start to finish, his gaze did not move from Qu Ling's body even slightly.

When Qu Ling and Little Prince had had enough of each other, the empress let her walk up to her and held her hand tenderly, "Ah Ling, how have you been these days?"

Qu Ling knew what to say to reassure the elders who were concerned about him. He glanced at Xiao Jingyue, and said with a guilty conscience, "The general treats me pretty well."

The smile on her face dimmed a little, becoming less sincere, and with an additional trace of the aloof and majestic mother that was the world, "Thinking carefully, it has been many years since I last saw the Southern Guarding Prince, is he doing well?"

Xiao Jingyue cupped his hands and replied: "Father is very well. "Thank you for the empress's concern."

The Empress gave a bland grunt of acknowledgement, and continued, "Ah Ling is naturally lively and lively, if you have offended me in any way, I hope that General Xiao will take more responsibility for my sake."

After Qu Ling heard this, he raised his head and looked at the empress.

Xiao Jingyue lowered his eyes, and said in a low voice: "This subject's wife, this subject will naturally treat it wholeheartedly."

The Queen nodded slightly and didn't say anything else. Her gaze once again returned to Qu Ling and Little Prince.

The two stayed at the empress's side for around an hour before leaving.

The Little Prince was unwilling to see Qu Ling leave, so he pouted as he got angry.

Just as Qu Ling was about to go and coax her, the Empress gently shook her head. "Ah Ling, go back."

After leaving the empress's palace, the two of them walked on the palace path side by side. Taking advantage of when no one was around, Qu Ling asked Xiao Jingyue quietly, "Do you think that aunt empress is looking at us strangely?"

Xiao Jingyue remembered the look the Queen had when she looked at him before he left, and her gaze darkened.

At this moment, a group of people slowly walked over.

Xiao Jingyue pulled Qu Ling to the side, and said in a low voice: "It's Esteemed Guard from the Eastern Palace."

She knew that it was the crown prince's guard of honor. She unconsciously thought of some past events, and a strange expression appeared on her face.