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Chapter 4129: 4.1729 Irony
"Prince Rui, Prince Rui, Prince Li, my two Imperial Uncles, please save your grand-nephew! Li'er cannot die, I cannot live without my son!" Empress Liu cried until her face was ruined, looking somewhat pale and pitiful.
Prince Rui and Prince Li glanced at her, sighing. "Shenzhou is very far from here. We did hear that the Empress of Shenzhou awakened after taking a Soul Revival Pill made by the Crown Princess."
"But this... after all, it wasn't seen with our own eyes. It's hearsay, and we don't know how much of it is true or false," Prince Rui said very calmly. "It cannot be taken as absolute truth."
"Prince Chen has it! Prince Chen has it!"
Prince Rui's eyes darkened. "Empress! Please watch your words! Prince Chen is no longer Prince Chen; this is the current Crown Prince, the heir personally acknowledged by His Majesty."
"Does Your Majesty intend to oppose the departed Emperor? Refusing to acknowledge His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's status?"
"This Consort has no such intention," the Empress said with a cold face.
However, her previous attitude towards Duan Yue had been very strained, and at this moment, she couldn't bring herself to directly ask Duan Yue for a Soul Revival Pill.
She could only place her hopes on Prince Rui and Prince Li.
The two princes, however, found Empress Liu's emotional intelligence somewhat speechless.
"You constantly oppose His Royal Highness the Crown Prince; your relationship is like fire and water."
"Given this situation, how dare you open your mouth and ask for such a precious elixir?"
"A Soul Revival Pill?"
Who didn't know how important that divine medicine was to cultivators?
The dead could be resurrected, and their past cultivation would not only be unaffected but might even significantly improve through fortunate coincidences.
Such an important elixir, do you think, given your relationship with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, that he would give it to you?
Prince Rui frowned and glanced at the Empress, simply pretending not to see her hopeful gaze.
"Amusing. You can't bring yourself to ask the Crown Prince directly, so you expect me to put my old face on the line? Is that appropriate?"
Prince Li also remained silent.
Seeing this, the Empress completely slumped to the ground, embracing the cold body of the deposed Crown Prince Rong Li, weeping. "Two Imperial Uncles, several Princes, is there no one who can help us, an orphaned mother and son?"
"My Li'er is dead!" The Empress sobbed, her voice becoming extremely choked. "Now that there's a way to save my Li'er, why not try it?"
"Could it be true, as I suspected, that Li'er was killed by you?" Empress Liu shrieked, pointing in Duan Yue's direction, her sunken eyes revealing a look of hatred.
Duan Yue looked at her expressionlessly, involuntarily letting out a slight click of his tongue.
"With such talentless acting, why bother continuing the performance?"
It wasn't quite a provocation, nor was it a tragic melodrama; it just felt particularly incongruous.
"I do not possess the item the Empress speaks of."
Did he not?
Of course, he did.
Within the ring Qiao Qiao had given him, there was a black-patterned, top-grade Soul Revival Pill of excellent quality.
This divine medicine was naturally kept safely by him.
Would he use it on this dead ghost, Rong Li?
Not to mention Rong Li had already vanished into thin air, even if he had a corpse, would he be worthy?
Heh, what's more, this drowned corpse in front of them was merely a condemned prisoner, not Rong Li at all, just disguised to look like him.
She couldn't even recognize her own son.
A cold, mocking smile appeared on Duan Yue's lips. After wailing for so long, yet unable to even discern who was in her arms, how could one not find it profoundly ironic?