Chapter 69

After Jiuli returned to the God Realm, she confessed her crimes. The Heavenly Emperor was furious and was imprisoned in the Temple of Divine Law.

At the same time, another piece of news came out. Before Zhongli Ye went to heaven to ask for help, the man in white robe broke free from the restraints of Linglongqi and ran away.

The God Guizang, who was in charge of the punishment, was also angered by the Heavenly Emperor.

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The divine world, a lonely place.

“How come so many things happened in just two or three days?”

Gui Zang's face was filled with sorrow, and his eyes, which usually held a smile and laughter, were now somewhat less bright. He kept adding more tea, which kept getting colder. He kept adding more tea...

Qingxuan lowered his eyes, pursed his thin lips, and said in a voice without any fluctuation: "Things in the world are unpredictable."

The man had slender fingers and was carefully carving a mulberry branch that looked like a hairpin.

Gui Zang: "The first rays of sunlight illuminate the ancient mulberry tree, which wards off evil and repels evil. You're using it to make a hairpin? Isn't that a waste of material?"

"Why not?"

Qingxuan raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes were indifferent, and he said concisely, "You came to Lonely Land today to complain?"

Gui Zang uttered a cry of "Oh!" and drank the tea in his cup. "The man in white robes has escaped. The Heavenly Lord is furious and ordered me to find him within three days. Where can I find him?"

Qingxuan: "Jiuli, do you have any clues about the man in white robe?"

"No,"

Gui Zang propped his chin on his palm, his face full of worry and sadness, "This man is really confused. His fall was the destiny of the ancient gods, and he tried to stop it with human power, hoping to change it... Now he has been deified. If it weren't for the protection of the God of Purification and you, he would have been deified long ago, his divine bones extracted, and banished to the lower realms to reincarnate.

Now he's imprisoned in Linglongqi, unable to see anyone, and he seems to have lost his soul... Then again, when Jinhuang passed away, wasn't that person also a lost soul...

Is Sister Yanzhu okay?"

Qingxuan's eyebrows twitched slightly, but his hands kept moving. He concentrated on touching the hairpin that was beginning to take shape, and then he replied, "I haven't recovered yet."

The man's eyelids were half closed. Is it true that the destiny cannot be changed?

Gui Zang sighed softly, "Indeed, Sister Yanzhu's close friends in the God Realm can be counted on one hand, and that's Jin Huang. Now... who knows where she's wiping her tears."

"Creaky——" the sound of the door opening.

"Gui Zang Divine Venerable, why are you here?"

Yanzhu sat down casually and poured herself a cup of tea. The warm fragrance flowed into her stomach and she felt instantly refreshed. Only then did she notice that Qingxuan was carving something on his palm beside her.

"What are you saying? With such a big thing happening, why can't I come?"

Gui Zang complained, "You didn't even take me with you. If the Demon King hadn't come to ask for me, I wouldn't have known that you had gone through so much in the human and demon worlds."

Yan Zhu refilled Gui Zang's tea. "This happened so suddenly. I wonder if the man in white robes has been caught?"

Gui Zang shook his head.

The white-robed man was always an invisible threat outside. Yan Zhu pondered for a moment and said, "If you need any help, just let us know."

Gui Zang's eyes lit up as he finished speaking. "I've been waiting for Sister Yanzhu to say this. The Heavenly Lord only gave me three days. I'm relying on you!"

The corner of Yanzhu's mouth twitched: "Any other clues?"

You can't just cross the river blindly, relying on feeling your way around and looking for someone else.

Gui Zang frowned, thought about it carefully, and then shook his head.

Seeing that they couldn't get any clues from the Divine Law Temple, Yan Zhu said helplessly, "Okay, we'll try our best."

Gui Zang glanced at the sky, then stood up and said goodbye.

"What are you fiddling with?" Yanzhu looked at Qingxuan curiously.

"secret."

The man was neither hurried nor slow. He glanced at the woman with a distracted look and raised his eyebrows, then lowered his head to continue carving. The veins on the back of his hands stood out with his movements, and were particularly eye-catching in the sunlight.

"What do you think about the white-robed man escaping?"

Yan Zhu withdrew her gaze from the man's hand and thought for a moment: "What can I say? It must have been the work of the traitor."

As long as the traitor in the divine world is not eliminated, it will be useless for them to capture the white-robed man a thousand times.

"Who do you think the traitor is?" Qingxuan asked again.

Yan Zhu frowned and shook her head. Then, thinking about the person in front of her who could predict the future, she suspected that he knew the inside story: "You know?"

Qingxuan kept moving his hands, just glanced at Yanzhu without saying anything.

"Could it be someone I know?" Yan Zhu stared at the man's eyebrows and asked again.

"I don't know either, let's wait and see."

Qingxuan put down the carving knife in his hand, and a hairpin was lying in his palm.

Yan Zhu was moved. Seeing the man put an inconspicuous translucent stone in the recess of the hairpin, she felt it was very appropriate.

But this stone looks familiar.

Wujiu transmitted the message: Master, this is the prophecy stone.

Yan Zhu was surprised. Just as she was about to ask the man why he didn't hide the prophecy stone, she saw Qing Xuan added a little bit of spiritual power to color it. The whole hairpin seemed to be coated with a layer of sandalwood color, mixed with a little bit of the luster of the newborn sunlight. It was light yet textured, simple yet unique, and very eye-catching.

She looked at the man handing her the hairpin with even greater surprise. This was a prophecy stone. How could she just wear it on her head and walk around in public?

In this moment of daze, Qingxuan looked at Yanzhu and smiled softly: "It seems that you want me to help you put it on? It's not impossible."

"Huh? No."

Before Yanzhu could react, Qingxuan raised his arm slightly, and his long sleeves brushed across her shoulders, accompanied by a shrouded shadow and the familiar fragrance of cold plum blossoms.

It was intense and powerful, filling her senses.

At the man's signal, she summoned Wujiu and looked up. The sandalwood hairpin was elegant and exquisite, and the hairpin body was smooth and graceful like water ripples. The most eye-catching thing was the translucent prophecy stone, which was as crystal clear as jade in the sunlight and was no longer an ordinary gray stone.

The woman's almond-shaped eyes are moist and rippling, and her oval face is even more bright.

"No, this is too conspicuous and will be discovered."

Yanzhu raised her hand to remove the hairpin, but was unexpectedly held down by Qingxuan's large hand. "Except for you and me, no one in the world can tell the true form of the Prophecy Stone. Wear it."

Seeing that the man was persistent, Yanzhu stopped caring about the hairpin.

"Okay, I'll keep it for you for now, but is there anything I should be aware of? There are usually many restrictions on the maintenance of natural treasures."

Qingxuan thought of something funny, raised his eyebrow slightly, and smiled: "Just absorb the light of the sun and the moon, there is nothing else, just treat it as an ordinary hairpin, anyway, it won't break now."

"Okay." Yan Zhu nodded seriously.

"There's a three-fresh fish soup in the kitchen. I'll serve it to you." Qingxuan stood up and walked towards the kitchen.

Yan Zhu was puzzled: "Why didn't I smell it?"

"I used magic to block it."

Yan Zhu: “…”

She suspected that Qingxuan's magic was intended to prevent Guizang from drinking the fish soup.

Yanzhu looked at the man not far away, lifting the lid of the pot to serve soup. Her thoughts couldn't help but drift back to the past, when she hadn't yet started fasting, and she had handed all three meals a day to him...

The scene seems to be from yesterday.

Until later she drove the man away. This was the first time the man returned to his lonely place, and they both tacitly agreed not to mention what happened before.

Turn the page quietly.

After Qingxuan took his seat, he handed Yanzhu the fish soup and casually said, "Although the Dark Abyss's fortune-stealing formation has been broken, the white-robed man used Jiuli to activate the formation, probably not just for Jinhuang."

Yan Zhu nodded: "We haven't found the bottle of fortune in the prophecy stone picture yet... It seems we have to go to the human world."

"There's no time to lose," Yan Zhu put down the bowl, "let's go now."

So as to prevent the capital of the human world from suffering an unexpected disaster.

Unexpectedly, at the Divine Gate, Hong Le called out to them, "The Lord of Heaven has summoned you two."

Yanzhu looked at Hongle not far away, feeling a little uncomfortable. She turned around and looked at Qingxuan beside her. She seemed very calm and at ease, without any embarrassment of facing someone else's face as before.

Qingxuan noticed the woman's slightly widened almond-shaped eyes, lowered his head slightly, and lowered his voice, "What's the matter? After all, you won't mistake me for someone else."

Judging from his deep and mellow voice, the man was in a good mood.

Yan Zhu wanted to refute, but when she thought about how she had been in a low mood since leaving Fangcun Mountain and how she felt a little happier now, she stopped talking.

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Divine Realm, Nine-Layered Temple, Terrace.

Haotian stood with his hands behind his back, facing Qingxuan and the others, and said straight to the point: "What are your opinions on the Fortune-Seizing Formation?"

Qing Xuan: "The Fortune-Seizing Formation is just a means. This person's real purpose must be related to changing his destiny against all odds."

Yan Zhu complained in her heart: It’s the same as not saying anything. Isn’t this obvious?

Suddenly, she met Haotian's gaze, which was intimidating without anger, and heard the person above her say, "What does the God of Purification think?"

Yan Zhu pondered for a moment and then expressed his thoughts: "According to the prophecy stone... the final image, our most urgent task right now is to find the bottle, smash it, and prevent the conspiracy behind the scenes from developing further."

"What the Purifying God said makes sense."

Haotian clapped his hands, and his icy expression softened. "Then as soon as possible."

Qingxuan: "I wonder if Tianjun has seen Wuwang Shenzun recently?"

"Wuwang? He came here once not long ago because of something about his second disciple Bai Mo, but I haven't seen him since... What happened?"

"I have some suspicions, but I have no clear evidence. Give me more time to prove it." Qingxuan bowed.

After saying this, Haotian suddenly remembered something and turned around: "I'm sorry about the incident at Fangcun Mountain..."

Haotian calls himself "I" instead of "this Lord".

Qing Xuan: "The situation is serious. Now the Black Crow Clan is safe, Fang Cun Mountain is still there, and the prophecy stone is safe... The Black Crow Clan disaster in the prophecy stone has been changed. This is a blessing in disguise.

As for my parents, they dedicated their lives to the inheritance of the Black Crow Clan.

I am proud of them. This is also the mission of every Black Crow, and we have no regrets."

Haotian said solemnly, "I'm sorry to have wronged you. To keep the people behind the scenes believing the prophecy stone is destroyed, I can only punish you by having you sweep the library and do odd jobs."

Yanzhu was shocked when she heard this. It turned out that there was another plan behind Qingxuan's punishment.

After the incident at Fangcun Mountain, she had heard rumors in the God Realm that Tianjun and Qingxuan had fallen out. It turned out that it was just a lie to deceive the people behind the scenes and put on a show for others to see.

The woman suddenly felt speechless. On the one hand, she felt that Qingxuan trusted Haotian too much and was completely open-minded. On the other hand, she felt that some people could become friends because of similar interests or because of similar mindsets.

Qingxuan and Tianjun are the latter. Both of them love to "act" and get involved in the game themselves.

Qingxuan shook his head and replied to Haotian: "Your Majesty, please be careful these days, or the people around you."

Hong Le, who was standing by, smiled awkwardly upon hearing this: "Lord Qingxuan cannot kill me with one blow."

"Of course, Lord Hongle is one of us." Qingxuan said with a smile.

Haotian's gaze slid from Qingxuan to Yanzhu, and finally landed on the hairpin in the woman's black hair. After a while, he warned: "When you two go to the human world, be careful.

With Jin Huang's passing, Jiuli has been devastated, and the God Realm cannot afford any more losses."