The Moon Palace Undercover Room 2

Chang'e's voice was barely audible: "Mmm."

"What was the process of the crime?" Xie Guijin asked eagerly.

"I...I don't know either," Chang'e said matter-of-factly, clearly not expecting Xie Guijin to continue asking. "In any case, Hou Yi made the judgment, so it must be true. Why should I ask any more questions?"

Xie Guijin asked urgently, "Have you heard of anyone else being punished for this? Who was the buyer?"

“I have never heard of it,” Chang’e said with a mysteriously happy smile. “But Hou Yi once mentioned to me that the buyer is very powerful and cannot be punished. We can only let it go. He told me not to ask any further questions or mention it to other creatures, so as not to bring trouble upon myself.”

Chang'e's reaction made Xie Guijin even more anxious.

Now that she has arrived in the Immortal Realm, she must complete the main quest of selling houses within seven days. Moreover, Xue Linchuan has not yet woken up, so she cannot be passively trapped here and punished.

First, she needs to regain her human form, or be able to speak human language. She can't just speak rabbit language, which no one but Chang'e can understand. Chang'e is clearly not the sixth princess of the demon realm. Judging from this situation, she is obviously unreliable.

"Given your relationship with Hou Yi, shouldn't he avoid suspicion?" Not knowing the details of the case, Xie Guijin had no choice but to start with the procedures.

Upon hearing this, Chang'e paused in her pounding of medicine, her expression darkening. She said sadly, "We were separated tens of thousands of years ago, and now that he has become an immortal, we can no longer be considered husband and wife."

"So, Hou Yi has only just ascended to heaven?" Xie Guijin asked.

“Yes,” Chang’e replied with a tone that was trying hard to suppress but could not hide her pride, “Three days ago, as soon as he ascended, he became the Xuanheng Lang of the Xuanlu Tianshu Palace, in charge of investigating cases with reports.”

"So he lived in the mortal realm for tens of thousands of years, and the first thing he did after becoming an immortal was to punish the Jade Rabbit?"

“It was the Jade Rabbit who made a mistake first, and that’s why Hou Yi punished it,” Chang’e immediately corrected, continuing to pound medicine. “Moreover, he already showed leniency by letting the Jade Rabbit reflect on its mistakes behind closed doors.”

Xie Guijin said softly, "I once heard a saying, I wonder if the fairy has heard it?"

"What did you say?" Chang'e's slender fingers stroked the stone pestle, somewhat uneasy.

Xie Guijin declared firmly, "When immortals are moved by love, the six realms are thrown into turmoil."

With a "thud," Chang'e let go of the pestle, and it smashed into the mortar.

Xie Guijin warned her word by word, "Fairy, your earthly ties are severed. Do not continue to entangle yourself with him. It will not be good for either of you."

"I...I know," Chang'e said, her eyes filled with tears, looking utterly pitiful.

Xie Guijin sighed inwardly, jumped off the shelf, hopped to the stone mortar, picked up the pestle and began pounding the medicine, and said to the absent-minded Chang'e, "Let me do it, fairy, you go and rest."

"Oh, okay," Chang'e said, and went out as if in a dream.

Watching Chang'e's retreating figure, Xie Guijin asked, "System, what's going on? Why haven't I received the Jade Rabbit's memories?"

"Host, you finally remembered, oh, no." The system stammered, "Well, I, I don't know what went wrong during the teleportation that caused you to be transported into the body of the Jade Rabbit."

"So what? Get to the point," Xie Guijin said impatiently.

"It's a bit different from other immortals. Its normal form is a rabbit, and a rabbit that works all year round, so it doesn't have many valuable memories. Now it has been punished and lost its magic power, and you have mistakenly transmigrated into its body. In short, a combination of factors has caused the memory transfer between the host and the original owner to fail."

Xie Guijin wanted to lose her temper, but it wasn't the right time. She suppressed her anger and said, "Give me a map from Guanghan Palace to Lieshan Divine Realm."

"Host, you have no magic power, how do you plan to get there?" the system exclaimed.

Xie Guijin said sternly, "Stop talking nonsense and give it to me now. How many times has your work mistake caused me trouble? How many times has this happened? You still have the nerve to talk back."

The system was hesitant and dared not speak, but tried its best to send a map to Xie Guijin.

Xie Guijin carefully examined the stone pestle several times until she knew it by heart. She put it down, tiptoed to the doorway, and tilted her head to listen for any sounds.

There was complete silence outside. Xie Guijin took a deep breath, pushed the door open a crack, and darted out.

After jumping a few steps, Xie Guijin would stop, find cover, and listen intently to Chang'e's movements. He repeated this process many times until he finally made his way out of the Moon Palace.

The system exclaimed in amazement, "Host, you're amazing! You've memorized the route in such a short time. Are you going to jump all the way to the Lieshan Divine Realm like this?"

Xie Guijin remained silent. She didn't want to tell the system that she only remembered the route out of Guanghan Palace and to the edge of the moon. As for the route from the moon to Lieshan Divine Realm, she only looked at where the starting point was and didn't look at the rest at all.

Since Xie Guijin didn't intend to take the normal route, how long would it take for a rabbit that had lost its magic power to hop over there?

Therefore, Xie Guijin thought that since the moon could be seen in the Lieshan Divine Realm, if she could find the corresponding anchor point on the moon, would that mean that if she jumped from the anchor point, she could eventually land in the Lieshan Divine Realm?

The starting point should be where the marker is located. Xie Guijin only intends to go there, and then take a leap. Although she has no magic power now, she is still a celestial rabbit, so she probably won't die from the fall, right? As long as she has a breath left, with the medical skills and compassion of the Shennong Emperor, he will definitely save her and cast a spell to make her speak.

With such high hopes, Xie Guijin finally arrived near what she considered to be her destination.

"Great! Just two more jumps and I'll be done!" Xie Guijin estimated the distance and jumped up, filled with excitement and the joy of success.

But instead of falling to the ground, she was grabbed by a hand, and the owner of that hand lifted her up to his face, asking in surprise, "How did you get out? Weren't you being punished?"

Xie Guijin, dangling in mid-air, bared her teeth at the face in front of her and squeaked, "Squeak squeak squeak (Who are you? Put me down!)"

The fairy couldn't understand, so she held the struggling Xie Guijin in her arms and took her back to the Moon Palace.

Chang'e was secretly grieving in her bedchamber.

Without knocking, the fairy pushed open the door and entered as if she knew the way. When she reached Chang'e's side, she called out a few times, "Chang'e."

Chang'e only then heard the noise and came to her senses, exclaiming happily, "Hou Yi, what brings you here?"

"If I hadn't come, you rabbit would have escaped. If it happened again, I would have had to lock it up in the Confession Pavilion," Hou Yi said, tossing Xie Guijin in his palm.

Chang'e quickly distanced herself, saying, "She is not my rabbit; she is a visitor from another world."

Xie Guijin didn't even have time to stop Chang'e. Chang'e, like a broken record, told Hou Yi everything that the Sixth Princess had told her.

Xie Guijin was so angry she wanted to bite him, but before she could retaliate, she suddenly felt a tightness in the skin at the back of her head.

It turned out that Hou Yi had grabbed Xie Guijin by the back of the neck and lifted her up.

Hou Yi looked at the rabbit in his hand and said, "There is such evil magic. I will capture her and interrogate her properly. It seems that the Jade Rabbit's mistake may not have been her own intention, but rather something she did."

“But the Sixth Princess said that she only entered the Jade Rabbit’s body at midnight today,” Chang’e said hesitantly.

"Alas," Hou Yi waved his hand and said, "How can we easily believe the words of the witch from the Demon Realm? Watch as I capture her and bring her to justice."

Xie Guijin: "Squeak squeak squeak, apoo-squeak," spewing profanities.

Hou Yi found it amusing and, in a teasing tone, asked Chang'e, "What did she say?"

Chang'e translated truthfully: "He said that even Shennong, Erlang Shen, and Fengdu Emperor could not do it, but you were able to do it. That's truly remarkable."

Xie Guijin: "......"

"No, what he said is true, but the meaning is completely different," Xie Guijin thought to herself, and she struggled even harder.

Hou Yi, caught off guard, nearly flung the Jade Rabbit away, but quickly grabbed it back.

It looked down at Xie Guijin, who was still struggling, and then looked up at Chang'e. It thought to itself, "After tens of thousands of years, things have changed. Chang'e has even learned to be sarcastic and unsettling."

But when you look up, you see that Chang'e is speaking while making the gesture of Xi Shi holding her heart, and she looks proud, which doesn't seem fake.

Chang'e genuinely felt that her husband was better than any other man in the world.

"Is what it says true? Shennong, Erlang Shen, and Fengdu all knew she came from another world, yet they didn't arrest her and punish her?" Hou Yi exclaimed.

"I don't know either," Chang'e said thoughtfully, looking at Hou Yi with affection. "However, the Hundred Flower Fairy did buy a house in the Ghost Realm from the Crossing Ghost Messenger a few days ago, so the timing makes sense."

"Whoosh whoosh, thud! thud!" Xie Guijin continued to spew profanities.

Hou Yi loosened his grip on Xie Guijin's hand slightly and asked, "What did she say again?"

“She said,” Chang’e hesitated for a moment, but under Xie Guijin’s increasingly intense shouts and Hou Yi’s repeated questioning, “you can use a deadly move on her. She has the spirit of the Mingjia protecting her, which can prove the truth.”

The protection of the spirit of the pod does not actually corroborate Xie Guijin's statement, but the fact that Xie Guijin possesses the spirit of the pod must mean that the pod was placed there with the permission of the Shennong Emperor. Moreover, the pod is an auspicious herb and would not protect a visitor from another world who needs to be punished without reason.

Thinking of this, Hou Yi changed his mind and said understandingly, "If that's the case, it must be the will of Heaven. It's not good to capture her and go against the will of Heaven, and we can't let her be punished in place of the Jade Rabbit."

Chang'e seemed not to have heard Hou Yi's change of heart at all, and just stared at Hou Yi and said, "You are right, that's exactly how it should be."

The system felt goosebumps rise on its intangible body and said with disdain, "Chang'e is so strange. She was quite normal when facing the Sixth Princess, and even a bit tough for the safety of the Jade Rabbit. How did she become like this now? It's so disjointed."

“That’s normal, all love-struck people are like that.” Xie Guijin rolled her eyes as Hou Yi gently placed her in Chang’e’s arms.

While Chang'e and Hou Yi were still gazing at each other tenderly, Xie Guijin asked, "What is my specific mission this time? Why hasn't it been sent yet?"

"Because of my operational error, in order to compensate the host, the mainframe has approved that you only need to complete the house-selling task within seven days, without specifying which house to sell."

“I see,” Xie Guijin said, shifting to a more comfortable position. “Then let’s sell the Moon Palace. I think Chang’e has been living a lonely and desolate life in the Moon Palace for tens of thousands of years. She’s so lonely that she takes Hou Yi as her spiritual support.”