The Su family found that Su Qin was in a good mood and hummed a little song they couldn't appreciate if they had anything to do.

Su's mother asked her several times openly and secretly, but she didn't ask any questions.

Zhou Zhou, who knows everything, uses the excuse to devote himself to practicing and strive to build a foundation as soon as possible, hide in the Lingyao Valley, and avoid Su Qin's dark food.

Su Qin was in a good mood and didn't make things difficult for him, so she let him go.

Here she was struggling with food that made people feel distorted every day at home. Cheng Yanan had already rectified the entire army and headed straight to the capital.

The Daye Dynasty had been shaking for a long time, and the emperor was just surviving. Hearing that nearly 300,000 soldiers of the Su family were attacking, hundreds of officials in the court rushed to escape with their families. But they couldn't even go out of the capital because the emperor had ordered the closing of several gates of the capital. Now the capital has become an isolated city, no one can come in, and no one can go out.

The people in the capital were even more desperate. They were all ordinary people. They were not worried that the rebel army would kill them when they attacked. On the contrary, they were even more worried that they would not survive the attack of the army.

Because the city gates are closed, they will soon face the situation of food being cut off. The wealthy families don’t have to worry about it for a while, but the ordinary people, except for some people who have prescient people who have prepared food in advance, most of the people have very limited food.

The palace was also in chaos, and many concubines were so scared that they were out of their minds and cried heartbroken.

They were either voluntarily or sent to the palace by their family to serve the emperor. They did enjoy wealth and glory a few years ago, but now the Su family army is about to attack the capital. If they don’t leave, will they still have a chance to survive after the troops attack the palace?

But no one dared to go to the emperor to ask them to let them go out of the palace, nor did he dare to ask the emperor to take them to escape quickly.

Because someone had tried it before, all the palace concubines who tried it were executed by the emperor.

Under such circumstances, many palace concubines began to think of other ways.

The emperor was unreliable, so they found a way to bribe the guards, hoping to escape with the help of the guards.

The concubines in the harem were thinking of a way to escape, but the emperor stayed in his bedroom all day long and rarely came out, so he did not allow idle people to approach the bedroom. The name of the bedroom also had the original Qiankun Hall, which was changed to the current Changsheng Hall.

In the Changsheng Hall, the sun shines brightly outside, but the sun in winter is not very warm, which makes people tremble. However, the hall is dim and stuffy and hot, and an unpleasant medicine floats in the air, which is fishy and smelly, making people almost sick.

The overlapping curtains in the hall blocked people's sight. Some strange sounds came faintly, like the screams of evil ghosts in hell, making people's scalp numb.

At this time, the emperor was sitting on his dragon throne, and placed an alchemy furnace of more than one person in front of him. Several Taoist priests were lying around the stove to make seats. The flames at the bottom of the stove were strong. The fishy smell and temperature in the hall all came from this alchemy furnace.

The emperor closed his eyes and kept flipping his lips, as if he was reciting some formula.

Half an hour later, the Taoists stood up and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the casting of the spells is completed today. Wait until midnight, I will continue to cast spells and refine pills."

The emperor nodded, stood up tremblingly, and said hoarsely: "Thank you, I have worked hard, come here, I'll show you the seats for you."

The eunuchs brought a soft stool for the emperor to sit down, and one of the Taoists handed over a small porcelain bottle to the emperor.

The emperor took the porcelain bottle and put it under his nose and sniffed it. He smiled with his loose face, "When my fairy pill is refined and I will return to my prime, I will definitely give a reward to several Taoist priests."

The Taoist priests said in unison: "I will help the emperor refine the elixir as soon as possible and return to his prime."

The emperor laughed with satisfaction, "Okay, OK!

The Taoist priest in the lead said, "Your Majesty, it will take ten days to refine this immortal pill, but I heard that the Wu thief has led his troops to attack the capital and will arrive at the city soon. I think that if the emperor can take the immortal pill and return to his prime, and lead his troops to fight in person, he will definitely scare the Wu thief to flee in panic!"

The emperor rolled his turbid eyes, "The Taoist priest is right! That's what I plan! The old thief named Wu has relied on his military achievements over the years and has not taken me seriously at all. This time I will let him see what the true dragon emperor is! Is there a way to let the immortal pill be released earlier?"

The Taoist priest shook the dust and said inexplicably: "The immortal elixir is originally a fairy family. It is already against the will of heaven for me to refine elixirs for the emperor. If I go against the will of heaven, my cultivation will probably be greatly affected."

When the emperor heard this, he said anxiously: "I would like to ask the Taoist priest to help me. When I take the elixir and defeat the rebels, I will definitely not treat the Taoist priests unfairly."

The Taoists looked embarrassed: "Your Majesty, this...is not that I am unwilling to take risks, but the consequences are too serious."

The emperor thought for a while and said, "Otherwise, I would give some external things and top-quality medicinal materials to several Taoist priests first?"

After the Taoist pretended to be embarrassed for a while, he agreed reluctantly, "Your Majesty, if you release the elixir in advance, you will lose the medicinal properties of the elixir. Therefore, in order to avoid the effect of the elixir, I must increase the dosage of the elixir."

The emperor said without thinking: "Add it, just say what you need, as much as you need."

The Taoist priest said: "The blood of the boys and girls."

So the emperor recruited guards and asked them to get their blood.

The guards received the order and walked behind the emperor's bedroom.

After a while, screams came from behind, which made people discolored.

However, the Taoists were chatting and laughing with the emperor amid the screams.

After a while, the guards came back with a few big bowls filled with blood.

The Taoist priest in the lead glanced at the big bowls and shook his head: "These amounts are far from enough, and we need to take them again."

The emperor didn't even raise his eyes, "Then go and get it."

The guard replied: "There is no way to take it anymore. If you take it down, someone may die."

The emperor said without thinking: "What does it matter if a few children die? It is their blessing to be able to sacrifice their lives for me."

The guards couldn't bear it, but they didn't dare to say anything more, so they had to clench their fists and walk towards the back of the hall again.

The Taoist priests looked at each other and said, "Wait. Your Majesty, alchemy is a technique that goes against the will of heaven. If you cause death again, it may damage the emperor's blessing. According to my opinion, it is more appropriate to go to the people to find boys and girls to go to the palace to get blood."

When the emperor heard that the death had an effect on him, he immediately asked the guards to come back, "Go outside the palace to find someone. Tomorrow morning, I will see fresh blood in my heart entering the furnace!"

The guards breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and left the Palace of Eternal Life, and were ordered to go out of the palace to find boys and girls.


Chapter completed!