Quick Travel: Dream Hunt

At this time, System Lao Liu anxiously reminded:

"Host, I can vaguely feel that the expulsion power of the Heavenly Dao is slowly approaching. The time for us to leave is getting closer and closer. After dealing with the villain group, we will probably be forced to leave."

Ting He nodded and looked up, saying:

"It's okay. I'm ready. Once the fairy takes care of the six of them, we can leave."

Lao Liu hesitated for a while and said:

"But, are you really not going to go and see your emperor's father? Logically, Cui Jinrong can use Jinniang's face on himself, so it must be related to the imperial teacher. Moreover, the six of them have such a close relationship, maybe your emperor will be involved as well."

Ting He nodded in agreement this time and said:

"You're right. I should go see the original owner's father and ask him why he's not with Jinniang but with Cui Jinrong, who looks like Jinniang."

System Lao Liu nodded and said:

"Why don't you just use teleportation to take a look? Anyway, I think it doesn't matter whether you ask or not. The result won't change at all..."

Before she could finish her words, Ting He had teleported to the palace. With the invisibility talisman in her hand, anyone who could see her was already suffering in the ruins. Now she came directly to the emperor's office, looking for him.

Soon, many palace servants were seen busily coming in and out outside a towering palace. Ting He stopped as if she sensed something, and stepped in. She saw a group of people kneeling on the ground, whispering something to each other.

She couldn't see what was going on inside, but looking at the crowded palace, she had a feeling for no reason that something might have happened to the emperor. Could it be related to Cui Jinrong's disappearance?

As he walked forward, he indeed saw a middle-aged man lying motionless through the golden gauze curtain. Amid the murmurs of the crowd, Tinghe confirmed that the middle-aged man was the current emperor.

At this moment, His Majesty has been vomiting blood and unconscious for a long time. All the concubines are crying and begging the imperial physician to cure His Majesty quickly.

Ting He took out the talisman, which plunged the entire palace into a quiet atmosphere of sleep. She then leisurely approached the Emperor and asked System Lao Liu to scan his body.

After a while, System Lao Liu finally spoke:

"The losses are severe inside, and nothing can be seen from the outside, but there are indeed poisonous insects at work. I think it must be related to those evil people."

Ting He also nodded and agreed:

"Cui Jinrong is a disciple of the Imperial Master, and she has not directly participated in the Loulan treasure robbery. I guess the Imperial Master asked the Saintess of Southern Frontier for the poisonous insect and gave Cui Jinrong the skin of Jinniang, which allowed her to successfully enter the palace and gain the favor of His Majesty the Emperor. Although I don't know why she is still a small noble after entering the palace for many years, I can't ignore their calculations against the current emperor."

After listening to He's words, he already had a plan in mind. He did not ask Lao Liu to take out the magic water again. Instead, he took out the mother and child Gu of the soul contract, made the mother Gu smaller, cut the emperor's wrist, let the mother Gu go in and eat the Gu worm directly, and then come out.

After a while, the mother Gu came out, full and swaying, and burped slightly, and transmitted the message through the soul contract:

"Master, I have eaten the puppet Gu in this man's body. He is now full. I have also cleared out the small Gu worms that spawned from his body. There is no problem now. I will go back after I have eaten my fill. Hiccup~"

Before he could finish his words, the mother Gu nimbly crawled back to Ting He's palm, and in the blink of an eye it had returned directly to the system space prepared by Lao Liu and disappeared.

After learning that the puppet Gu was in the emperor's body and was finally eliminated, Ting He also breathed a sigh of relief. Adhering to the belief that this was the original owner's father, she finally woke the emperor up and asked:

"Do you still remember Jinniang?"

In a trance, he seemed to hear someone calling his name. The Emperor opened his eyes in confusion and looked at the blank space in front of him, and replied doubtfully:

"Jinniang, my Jin'er, the love of my life, how can I forget her so easily?"

Listening to the emperor's murmurs, Ting He sneered and asked:

"Really? If you loved her, why did you abandon her after she got pregnant? You didn't care about anything and even took Cui Jinrong, the accomplice who killed Jinniang, into the palace as a noble lady. Don't you really know how Jinniang died? Cui Jinrong entered the palace under Jinniang's guise, and you actually continued to favor her. You are really a heartless person."

"What? Pfft...Jinniang is dead?"

After hearing these words, His Majesty the Emperor spat out a mouthful of blood and asked in disbelief.

Ting He did not take off the invisibility charm, but sighed in the invisible state and said everything:

"Jinniang was killed by them. They skinned her and pulled out her tendons. They cut her flesh and drank her blood. Not even a complete corpse was left. Cui Jinrong also used her skin on her own face with a secret method. From then on, she appeared beside you in the appearance of Jinniang. She also put a puppet Gu on you. Did you really not notice it?"

After saying this, the Emperor's face darkened rapidly, and he spat out blood again. He shook his head and said word by word:

"Impossible, impossible. When I went out of the palace incognito, I met Jinniang. Her simple, lively, kind and cheerful personality deeply attracted me. I fell in love with her at first sight and even thought of marrying her as my concubine. Who knew that when I was in love with her, I learned that she was pregnant. I hurried back to the palace to take care of everything and confessed my affair with her to my mother. Although my mother did not agree, I have decided to risk the world's disapproval and issue an imperial decree to announce to the world that I will take Jinniang as my concubine and enter the palace immediately..."

At this point, his eyes were confused for a moment, as if he remembered something, and continued:

"But my imperial decree did not bring Jinniang joy or her entry into the palace. The voices of my mother and the courtiers and concubines forced me to worry and I could no longer leave the palace to do these things. I had no choice but to send people to secretly protect Jinniang, fearing that my mother or the courtiers would take action against her. But not long after, the secret guards reported that Jinniang had escaped their protection and had an affair with a man outside Shengjing. After a careful investigation, I learned that the child was not mine but someone else's. I could not accept it for a while, so I held the imperial decree tightly in my hand, and finally put it aside and did not let it appear again."

Whenever the news about Jinniang was mentioned again, the emperor would still reveal an expression of entanglement, helplessness and nostalgia. He fell into his own world, weaving a dream of all the beautiful things that had happened.

Ting He listened indifferently to the middle-aged man in front of her telling her everything with a smile on his face, and there was not even the slightest ripple in her heart.