Jiang Chen said, "Empress, it's understandable that you didn't notice Nangong Shouxin's flaws."

"Because the person who gave Nangong Shouxin all of this is not in this world, but in her mind."

"Nangong Shouxin's soul is also a Huangquan stowaway."

"Ever since the Emperor met Nangong Shouxin, he fell hopelessly in love with her."

"Later, Nangong Shouxin somehow regained her original memories. This is very similar to Moon Shadow Thief of the Eight Great Thieves."

"After she regained her senses, she began to plot against the Emperor."

Nangong Yunmeng's face paled slightly as she said as calmly as possible, "Continue."

"Yes!" Jiang Chen said, "Nangong Shouxin left not because of any love-hate entanglement. But because she poisoned the Emperor with a deadly poison."

"When the poison took effect on the Emperor, she had no choice but to flee for her life."

"The Empress's disappearance was nothing but a ruse."

"This explanation was just to save the Emperor's face!"

"So, before his death, the Emperor arranged the Two Palaces and Eight Guards, all to prepare for the coming great catastrophe of the Art Dao."

Hearing this, Hei Ye Xiao suddenly looked up at Jiang Chen. Obviously, he didn't know that the Emperor's arrangements back then were because he was about to die from poisoning.

"Nonsense!" Nangong Yunmeng said excitedly, "The Emperor was surrounded by experts. Pang Gu Fang, Wu Yongsi, and others were erudite and talented. If the Emperor showed any signs of poisoning, they would have noticed it. How could the Emperor be so easily poisoned?"

Jiang Chen said, "Every word I speak is the truth!"

"Back then, when your father, Nangong Zhen, discovered the Yin Yang Inn, he encountered a special type of Gu insect. That was the work of the Samsara Holy Lord."

"At the time, although Nangong Zhen killed the Gu insect, it left a trace of deadly poison in his body. This poison has always been in his body and will also be passed on to his descendants."

"The Empress and Nangong Shouxin are twin sisters. If the person who was infected with the Gu poison back then wasn't Nangong Shouxin, it would have been you, the Empress."

"This type of Gu poison will only take effect when the two of you are intimate."

"Even Pang Gu Fang and Wu Yongsi wouldn't be able to detect this Gu poison."

"Moreover, whether these two people are secret agents of the Samsara Holy Lord is still up for debate."

Jiang Chen paused and said, "After the Emperor realized he was poisoned, although he suppressed the poison with his own powerful cultivation, he had to pay the price of his soul scattering."

Jiang Chen took a deep breath and said, "The Emperor once said: The Samsara Holy Lord is the one who understands him the most."

"If someone is poisoned by the Samsara Holy Lord, they should immediately dissolve their physical body and rush to reincarnate in order to preserve their soul. But if they forcibly suppress the poison, the result will be complete annihilation. Not only will they not be able to preserve their physical body, but even their soul will dissipate, never to be reborn."

"The Samsara Holy Lord knows that as an Emperor, one must be responsible. Therefore, he was certain that the Emperor would choose to stay and arrange the Three Palaces and Eight Guards."

"Otherwise, none of us in the Three Palaces and Eight Guards would submit to each other, and we would definitely fall apart, even kill each other."

"The Emperor willingly sacrificed himself to preserve the spark of the Art Dao."

Nangong Yunmeng's tears finally flowed down. "They were all lying to me!"

"When my sister first came back, she told me that she no longer loved the Emperor and asked me to take good care of him."

"When the Emperor sent his body over, he gave me a letter, saying that he was going to find my sister and asked me to take care of his physical body."

"They were all lying to me!"

"Why did they lie to me!"

Jiang Chen bowed his head and said, "I don't know about the false Empress."

"However, the Emperor ordered that before the great catastrophe arrives, the truth must not be told to anyone except me and Bu Ting. Otherwise, the Emperor's previous arrangements will be in vain. So..."

"So, I have failed the Empress."

Nangong Yunmeng shook her head and said, "You haven't failed me. I'm just too stupid and too easily deceived!"

"Each of you has a reason to deceive me, but you all want me to understand your difficulties."

"Why should I understand so many people's difficulties, haha..."

Nangong Yunmeng laughed bitterly for a long time before saying, "Tell me everything you know!"

"I don't believe that the Emperor sent his corpse here just to give me something to remember. That's not his style of doing things."

"He must have left something on his corpse."

When Nangong Yunmeng said this, she seemed to have suddenly thought of something and asked expectantly, "Tell me, can the Emperor come back?"

Jiang Chen hesitated for a moment and said, "The Emperor can come back, but not through reincarnation."

"The Emperor sealed his will in his corpse. As long as someone accepts the baptism of the Emperor's will, he will become the new Emperor."

"I mean, that person's will, habits, and behavior will be infinitely close to the Emperor's, but that's just a subtle influence. Because his soul and body are not the Emperor's. It's just that his thoughts and behaviors have been forcibly changed."

Nangong Yunmeng shook her head and said, "In that case, he won't be him anymore."

Nangong Yunmeng suddenly said, "Besides finding someone to inherit the Emperor's will, the Emperor must have had other purposes, right?"