Chapter 132

Chapter 132

“Your Majesty!” The Evil Lord rose to his feet and said in a low voice, “Ye Piaoling is a foreign woman. How can she be allowed to enter Your Majesty’s Bedchamber at will? Letting her remain here is unnecessary. The palace maids can help you change.”

“Are you sick or something?”

Ye Piaoling shot him a glare and scoffed. “I’m just going to keep Her Majesty company while she changes into a dress. What’s there for you to object to? Or do you want this dress too?”

The Evil Lord choked.

In the past, Nalan Muxue had never gone against the State Preceptor, but today was her only chance. She stepped down from the dais and, staking everything on this one move, took Ye Piaoling’s hand. “This is my will. Come.”

Seeing this, the Evil Lord immediately said, “I will accompany Your Majesty as well.”

Ye Piaoling frowned. “She’s a woman changing clothes. What are you following us for?”

The Evil Lord sneered. “What if you take the opportunity to assassinate her? For Your Majesty’s safety, I must follow.”

So Ye Piaoling turned to Di Xiulan and said, “Your Highness, then you have to come with me too! This Xiliu State Preceptor looks like a lecherous old creep at first glance. If he insists on following me, he might be planning to take advantage of me and touch me. I’m so scared!”

The Evil Lord: “…”

Could you pick a different excuse, damn it?!

Di Xiulan stood and said, “She is my fiancée. Naturally, I must protect her closely.”

Seeing that neither man would back down, Nalan Muxue said calmly, “Then you may both come.”

She naturally held Ye Piaoling’s hand and walked with her toward the palace hall for changing clothes.

Behind them followed the Regent King, the Evil Lord, and a host of imperial guards.

When they reached the palace hall entrance, the Evil Lord still wanted to follow them inside. Ye Piaoling turned around and slammed the door shut in his face. “The girls are changing. Wait outside!”

The Evil Lord: “…”

He did not need to think to know that Ye Piaoling was definitely going to conspire with Nalan Muxue, but under the current circumstances, he truly had no reason to enter and could only remain outside the door.

Beside him, Di Xiulan was in no hurry. He simply stood with his hands behind his back, waiting for the result.

Inside the palace hall, Nalan Muxue dismissed the attendants. Ye Piaoling immediately said, “Your Majesty, listen to me. Feng Jin has been possessed!”

Nalan Muxue nodded. “I know.”

Ye Piaoling froze. “You know?”

Nalan Muxue said, “A year ago, I was attacked and gravely wounded. I was beyond saving. At that time, a devil sought out Feng Jin and said he could save me on the condition that Feng Jin offer himself to him through Body Sacrifice… Feng Jin agreed, and that was why I survived. After I woke, I saw the letter Feng Jin had left for me, and only then did I learn what had happened.”

When she said this, her tone was very calm, as if she were telling someone else’s story.

Ye Piaoling was slightly shaken, and the weight on her heart finally eased. She had been worried that the queen would not believe her, but now it seemed Nalan Muxue had known all along!

If that was the case, this would be much easier!

Ye Piaoling said, “The one possessing Feng Jin is one of the Heavenly Evil Creatures. His name is the Evil Lord! He once plunged Dali into misery and slaughter, and now he has come to Xiliu. Di Xiulan and I came here precisely to deal with him!”

“Truly?” Joy appeared on Nalan Muxue’s face. “You are willing to oppose him?”

“Yes!” Ye Piaoling nodded. “But we are from Dali, after all. We cannot brazenly start a major conflict in the capital of Xiliu without cause, so we still need your decree!”

Nalan Muxue understood and said happily, “I can write the decree right now!”

The two of them looked at each other and smiled.

They had both been worried the other would not cooperate, only to discover that the other had the exact same goal!

The two went to the desk. Ye Piaoling helped her grind the ink, and Nalan Muxue swiftly wrote two edicts. One ordered Feng Jin, who had been possessed by the Evil Lord, to be arrested. The other was a secret edict requesting aid from the Dongli Envoy Delegation.

Ye Piaoling accepted the secret edict. With this physical evidence in hand, they no longer had any reservations!

“There is one more thing,” Nalan Muxue said. “After you defeat that Evil Lord, could you… spare his life?”

Her voice trembled slightly. “I think Feng Jin… perhaps he is still alive!”

Ye Piaoling frowned. After Body Sacrifice, the original owner’s soul was either extinguished or imprisoned.

Feng Jin had been willing to give his life for Nalan Muxue, so he must have loved her.

After the Evil Lord seized his body, he still allowed Nalan Muxue to become queen. Could that perhaps have been because Feng Jin was influencing him subconsciously?

If so, then perhaps Feng Jin’s soul was still imprisoned deep within that body, only suppressed by the Evil Lord.

“But as long as we take action against the Evil Lord, Feng Jin’s body will definitely be injured…”

Ye Piaoling said with difficulty, “I discussed this matter with His Highness before as well, and our conclusion was that only when the body dies will the Evil Lord’s soul leave it. Otherwise, he will keep clinging to it and refuse to go.”

Nalan Muxue said, “In the letter Feng Jin left me, he wrote: only a devil can defeat a devil.”