Chapter 143 - 42: Encountering the Purple Eyes Again_2

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Chapter 143: Chapter 42: Encountering the Purple Eyes Again_2The Feise Empress Dowager, who is also the birth mother of Duke Fa Xiao Yi, is thirty-eight this year. At the age of fourteen, she was presented as a tribute from a foreign, alien race to the late Emperor. Due to her beauty, she was the most favored in the harem during the late Emperor’s reign. Unmatched at the time, she was solely cherished for five years. If not for the Empress Dowager conceiving the Dragon Seed early on, her status would have been long gone. When the concubines of the late Emperor thought she would be sent to the Cold Palace upon his death, she was soon honored as the Consort due to her virtues and good reputation after Emperor Fa Xiaoyun’s ascension to the throne. The rest of the late Emperor’s concubines have either been sent away or scattered, and besides the Empress Dowager, only the Consort holds the most secure position in the palace now. It is rumored throughout the palace that the Monarch had coveted the Consort’s beauty since his youth. There are even rumors that it was the inability to endure the secret affection between his mother and brother that enraged Prince Xiao Yi, driving him to leave the Imperial Palace. Such palace secrets, a palace maid would never dare to tell Yue Jinghua when awake. Only under the influence of Yue Jinghua’s "Devil’s Eye," did she spill everything. After listening, Yue Jinghua snapped her fingers, and like a wooden figure, the palace maid sat upright to the side. Yue Jinghua then commanded her to draw a map of the palace layout. It took about the time of a cup of tea for the palace maid to sketch an approximation. What most caught Yue Jinghua’s attention was that among nearly a hundred palaces and pavilions within the Little Shang Palace, there was only one place the palace maid couldn’t depict. "The Feise Empress Dowager’s Youlian Palace is usually off-limits to outsiders," the palace maid answered absentmindedly, as if in a trance. Again, the Feise Empress Dowager. At this moment, although it is daytime, most of the palace guards are gathered around Jinghua Garden because of the palace banquet, and no one pays much attention to Yue Jinghua’s whereabouts. Recalling the Feise Empress Dowager’s face, young as an eighteen-year-old girl, Yue Jinghua frowned. It seems necessary to explore the Youlian Palace. The Youlian Palace is located on the southeast side of the Little Shang Palace, a Water Pavilion style palace built alongside an artificial lake. It is said to have been personally built by the late Emperor for the Feise Empress Dowager, and it also signifies her status and identity within the palace. The perimeter of the Water Pavilion is planted with a large amount of red lotus. Perhaps due to the nurturing of the flower mud, even in this transitional period between summer and autumn, the exterior of the Water Pavilion is densely covered with buds of red lotus, not yet withered. With the Feise Empress Dowager away at the feast, the palace is bound to be empty. Yue Jinghua, who always prioritizes caution in her actions, still chose to use the "Pu Yin" technique to conceal herself as she approached the Youlian Palace for safety. Sёarᴄh the NôᴠelFirё.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. The Youlian Palace is quite empty. Just like what the palace maid mentioned earlier, the Feise Empress Dowager prefers solitude, and there were no palace guards or maids to be seen guarding the palace. After searching the main hall, there was nothing unusual. Following that, Yue Jinghua entered a side hall located next to the Consort’s sleeping quarters. Ordinary women usually favor elegant trinkets, such as jade screens, musical instruments, calligraphy and paintings, but none of these were found in the Feise Empress Dowager’s side hall. The side hall was filled with jade sculptures. At this moment, Yue Jinghua stopped in front of a beautifully carved white lion sculpture that was half the size of a person. This was a luminous white jade sculpture that emitted a faint nocturnal glow. It looked like a complete white lion skeleton. Similar beast bone sculptures, in Consort Qin Ya’s palace, there were nearly a hundred of various sizes, from large to small, featuring all sorts of Dark Beasts in abundance. "This beast bone is somewhat unusual," Qing Pu stepped forward. "Give a heads up before you appear, scaring someone to death; we’re acting like thieves here," Yue Jinghua glared at Qing Pu, "What’s so unusual about it?" "These stone carvings, there’s something off about them," Qing Pu had not finished speaking when both he and Yue Jinghua turned to look out the window at the same time. Youlian Hall was built near the water, and outside the window bloomed perfectly opened Fei Ye Honglian. Qing Pu’s gaze landed on the center of the Water Pavilion, where, unlike the others, there grew a yet-to-bloom Purple Lotus. It was the time when summer gave way to autumn, and occasionally a cool breeze would pass over the Water Pavilion, bringing a light and elegant scent of flowers. The Feise Empress Dowager loved to admire the lotus colors in the pond by the window. Before she left, the window was still open. Just now, someone had jumped in from the window outside. Clearly, Yue Jinghua wasn’t the only one who intended to take the opportunity of today’s banquet to explore Youlian Palace. The intruder was not a palace maid or eunuch, but a man dressed as a stable boy, with ordinary looks, the kind that wouldn’t attract a second glance in a crowd; but his eyes were purple, a violet color so memorable it was hard to forget after even just one glance. Outside, the pond surface was still like a mirror, and occasional breezes failed to stir up any ripples. It was unknown how he had gotten in, but upon landing, he was like a graceful panther, silent and without sound. This servant had intruded into Youlian Palace, obviously also seeking something. Like Yue Jinghua, after searching the inner hall and not finding what he wanted, he did not immediately leave but stopped in front of an eagle-shaped stone sculpture just like Yue Jinghua did, motionless, as if deep in thought. As time ticked by second by second, Yue Jinghua’s palms began to sweat; her "Pu Yin" could only last the duration of an incense stick, and if this person didn’t leave soon, how would she manage to escape. Finally, the servant moved. He traced his hand over the stone sculpture, and a flash of golden light passed by, as the wing of the eagle-shaped stone sculpture fell off. The servant’s gaze grew cold as he pinched the wing, causing the bone to crack open. "!!" Yue Jinghua and Qing Pu looked at each other in surprise. All three present recognized at the same time that these sculptures were not carved from jade but were made from bone, true beast bones. The marrow patterns within the bones were clearly visible. All the stone sculptures in this palace were made from the bones of Dark Beasts. An entire side hall, with nearly a hundred statues, all sorts of Dark Beast Stone Sculptures, were actually all made from bones. A chill slithered up like a cold little snake from Yue Jinghua’s feet, almost on instinct, she headed towards the doorway, with alarm bells ringing in he

Chapter 143 - 42: Encountering the Purple Eyes Again_2

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