Chapter 19 Aftermath
On the rocky beach at the foot of Mount Tai, when Xiao Mo was dragged out of the underground palace by Ye Wuhen, dozens of blood marks were scratched on his back by the collapsed gravel. The two halves of the jade pendant in his arms were heating up, buzzing as they attracted each other, and finally merged into one, revealing the word "Shou Zheng" engraved on the inside - that was the ancestral motto of the Xiao family and the oath that his father fulfilled with his life.
"Su Yao..." Ye Wuhen looked at the sinking main peak of Mount Tai, his throat moved, and he didn't ask anymore. Xiao Mo silently held the blood bead into his palm. The remaining Yin Hongzhuang aura in the bead was dissipating, but the moment it touched the jade pendant, an afterimage was reflected: the woman in red leaned on the mandala flowers, playing with the blood bead with her fingertips and chuckled: "Xiao Mo, the battle for dragon veins is never the end... Remember, on the third floor of the palace's library, there are secret files left by your father."
Three days later, the Imperial Palace in Beijing.
Xiao Mo disguised himself as a member of the food delivery team, and hid around his waist the pass that Ye Wuhen had stolen from the secret guard camp. The sycamore leaves outside the library were falling. He touched the seventh blue brick on the third floor of the bookshelf, and sure enough he touched the sunken mechanism. When the parchment scroll in the secret compartment was unfolded, half a dried mandala flower fell out - exactly the same as the one found in the mother's coffin.
"It turns out that my mother is also a member of the Demon Cult..." Xiao Mo murmured to himself. The handwriting on the parchment overlapped with the strokes on his father's letter, revealing an even more shocking truth: the prince had colluded with traitors from the Demon Cult to refine blood poison in an attempt to use human sacrifice to enhance the power of the dragon vein. Xiao Changge tried his best to stop it, but was framed as a treason. And Su Yao
