Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 287 - 135: The Great Demon Forbidden Land where gods and Buddha shy away! The scent of The Great Revered One! (A large - of 10,000 words seeking subscriptions)_4
"Ah? Oh!" Yun Jiuqing was a bit slow to react, she just instinctively nodded.
It wasn’t until she saw Fan Wu and His Highness the Prince of Nanjun’s retreating figures growing distant.
That she suddenly shuddered.
Suddenly coming to her senses.
"Daoist Priest Fan just left with His Highness the Prince of Nanjun like that?" Yun Jiuqing took a deep breath, for some reason, she thought of her own father’s admonition—stay away from that Nanjun County Prince!
Yun Jiuqing still remembered the solemn expression on her father’s face when he uttered those words.
Not good!
Hiss!
Could there be some eerie circumstances surrounding His Highness the Prince of Nanjun? To the extent that her father, who serves as the Lord of Nanjun Prefecture Government, showed such gravity and apprehension?
Yun Jiuqing felt that she needed to tell her father about this.
She had a vague premonition.
This was a major event!
Therefore.
After briefly bidding farewell to her three unlucky childhood playmates, she ran towards the direction of the government office without stopping, her hurried appearance indicating some emergency.
This left her three childhood friends exchanging puzzled looks.
Confusion was evident on all their faces.
"Where is Jiuqing off to?" Yu Renlong asked in utter confusion, "She seems to be in quite a hurry, doesn’t she?"
Xu Che shook his head: "I’m not really sure."
Lin Yue stroked his chin: "Could it possibly have something to do with the appearance of the Nanjun County Prince? I’ve heard some rumors about him before, though I don’t know if they’re true."
"You’ve heard them too?" Yu Renlong said with surprise, "I thought those rumors hadn’t spread that widely."
"What rumors? I don’t know what you’re talking about?" Xu Che said with a blank face.
Lin Yue lowered his voice: "It’s said that the Nanjun County Prince hasn’t returned to the Imperial City for decades because... he killed his own elder brother! That’s the case of the Imperial Grandson’s death from decades ago; he might be the fratricidal culprit!"
...
"What? Father... you... you’re saying, that Nanjun County Prince, he killed the Imperial Grandson decades ago? So... so, the Crown Prince’s eldest son? Those implausible rumors, are... are actually true?!"
Prefecture Government Office.
Yun Jiuqing was utterly dumbfounded; she never suspected that the disheveled Nanjun County Prince.
Would be a fratricide!
"But... but that was the Imperial Grandson! He is the younger brother of that Imperial Grandson! As a younger brother, why would he seek to harm his elder brother? Could it be a plot to seize power and ascend the throne? To kill the elder brother and hence become the Imperial Grandson himself?"
"But... that’s not right either!" Yun Jiuqing felt her brain wasn’t functioning well, her thoughts in total chaos: "The Nanjun County Prince has more than just the Imperial Grandson as his elder brother, right?"
"Even if he killed that Imperial Grandson decades ago, it wouldn’t be his turn to be the next Imperial Grandson, right?"
Yun Shouji furrowed his brows and replied: "As for this matter, I do not know too much either. It’s a family affair of His Majesty, with many details not made public."
"All I know is that the Nanjun County Prince is the one responsible for the sensational death of the Imperial Grandson decades ago. The evidence at the time was incontrovertible, and His Majesty was furiously wrathful."
"But..."
Yun Shouji paused, then continued: "Logically speaking, committing such a taboo, even if he is the son of the current Crown Prince, would merit beheading."
"However, His Majesty did not impose such a severe punishment, and neither did the Crown Prince. In the end, the Nanjun County Prince was escorted to Nanjun and confined within the Great Demon Forbidden Land."
"And His Majesty decreed that the Nanjun County Prince must meditate and reflect within the Great Demon Forbidden Land for thirty years before he can return to the Imperial City."
Yun Jiuqing was taken aback: "What is the Great Demon Forbidden Land?"
She had never heard of such a thing.
Yun Shouji responded: "This is not something you, a little brat, should be concerned with... The Nanjun County Prince has already spent thirty years in the Great Demon Forbidden Land. However, over those thirty years, what exactly happened is still unknown."
"After coming out, His Highness the Prince of Nanjun seemed like a completely different person, and his cultivation and Taoist practice had greatly diminished. Moreover, he spoke all sorts of incoherent ramblings and committed many outlandish acts."
"For example... During an incense worship assembly at Hanling Temple, he urinated in front of the Buddha statue, in full view of many worshippers."
"At that moment... the abbot of Hanling Temple was so angry that his beard trembled, but due to the special status of the County Prince, the abbot didn’t quite know what to do."
Yun Jiuqing listened, wide-eyed and slack-jawed.
This... indeed wasn’t ordinary misbehavior; could this not incur divine punishment?
"And that’s not all," Yun Shouji said with a wry smile: "Not only did he urinate in front of the Buddha, but he even urinated in front of San Qing. You must know of the Taoist Temple here in the Prefecture named the Immortal’s Observatory, right?"
Yun Jiuqing nodded; of course, she knew it, being the most renowned Taoist temple within the Prefecture Government.
"The master of the Immortal’s Observatory is very different from the abbot of Hanling Temple; he has a fiery temper. He once chased the Nanjun County Prince around half of the city with his horsetail whisk."
"If it weren’t for me and the Thousand Household Leader of the Qiantian Divine holding back both men, I reckon they would not stop until one of them was dead."
Saying this.
Yun Shouji fell silent for a moment before he added, "You said that the Nanjun County Prince mentioned having something good to show Fan Wu, and Fan Wu went with him. I think... the place where His Highness said the good thing was located... might just be the Great Demon Forbidden Land!!"
