Chapter 353 Leaving the Day Palace

A roar woke them up.

Cheng Wuchou stared at her face in a daze and said in a hoarse voice: "Anu? Are you Anu?"

Tao Zi sat there in a daze, muttering, "In my memory, my family all called me Anu."

He wiped the tears from her face, held her in his arms, patted her back gently, and said, "It's okay, Anu, don't cry. Brother found you."

She blinked slowly, suddenly pushed Cheng Wuchou away, stumbled towards the Taoist priest, and slapped him on the face: "Wake up!"

Cheng Wuchou hurried over and held her hand: "Anu, what's wrong?"

Tao Zi's mind was in a mess, but one thing was crystal clear: "There's something wrong with my memory. What if all this is fake? Let's try the compass again, and again."

He hugged her and stroked her hair to calm her down: "Okay, okay, try again. I'm sorry, Anu, it's my fault that I'm late. I'm too late."

Cheng Wuchou waited for Tao Zi to recover, then immediately pinched the Taoist's nose to wake him up.

"Master? Master, please let go!" The Taoist priest slowly woke up and looked at the scene in front of him, stunned. "Master, what's wrong with your clothes?"

"Never mind all that. Where's the compass? Let's try again."

The Taoist priest took out the compass in a daze. Tao Zi put her hand on it and the needle shook slightly. She calmed down.

Cheng Wuchou also dripped blood in, and the pointer pointed at Tao Zi again.

She took a deep breath and stared at the pointer, constantly changing its position, and the pointer kept turning with her.

Tao Zi put her hand down. Cheng Wuchou seemed to be talking again, but she could not hear anything. She took a step back and said, "I want to be alone. Let me be quiet first."

She huddled in a corner, and no one knew what she was thinking. Cheng Wuchou watched her from afar, also in silence.

The Taoist priest said cautiously, "Sir, how about you put on my clothes first?"

He did not answer and let the Taoist priest take off his outer robe and put it on him.

The Taoist priest continued, "This time, the needle moved on its own without the use of the yellow talisman. This shows that we are getting closer and closer to the Beast King."

Cheng Wuchou hummed and said something completely irrelevant: "Master, if I had discovered it earlier and gone to Minglan Sect to look for her earlier, then perhaps none of this would have happened and she wouldn't have gone through so much that she shouldn't have experienced. Master, she was destined to live a happy, peaceful, wealthy and worry-free life."

His sister had been so sweet and adorable when she was little, but now she was forced into the path of physical cultivation, suffering the pain of the poison, being manipulated, and having basins of dirty water poured on her head. It was ridiculous that he had thought those news were a joke before, but now it seemed that he was the joke...

"Sir, this is all fate."

He closed his eyes and said coldly, "Fate? It's clearly a joke. It's the heavens playing tricks on us."

The Taoist remained silent.

Cheng Wuchou added, "When you return, please pay attention to the Minglan Sect. I will make them pay for what they did to my sister."

"Yes, I will tell the gentleman."

After about a quarter of an hour, Tao Zi finally stood up.

She seemed to have regained her composure and said, "Cheng Zhenjun, please leave this place first. The longer the night, the more trouble you will have."

Hearing her name, he was startled and asked, "Anu?"

Tao Zi smiled and said, "Let's leave here first."

Cheng Wuchou stopped talking, and the three of them began to look for a way out. The Taoist priest naturally turned his attention to the book.

She was walking around, apparently looking for a way out.

The Taoist priest put on gloves and wanted to read the book, but just as he turned a page, there was a loud bang and a passage appeared.

Tao Zi walked over there without saying a word. Cheng Wuchou was so anxious that he immediately rushed over and held her hand: "It may not be safe over there, don't rush over. Taoist priest, go and explore the way."

The Taoist nodded in agreement and looked down at the two big words on a page of the book: Get out.

He didn't dare to turn over again. He took out an iron rod and slowly probed towards the passage. The moment the iron rod pressed down, a fine needle shot out. He immediately turned and dodged it. He carefully examined the passage again and finally whispered, "According to the information left in the ancient book, this should be a five-element formation. Every step you take must be the same as mine."

Cheng Wuchou looked at Tao Zi beside him worriedly. She seemed to be standing there calmly, but she didn't notice his gaze.

"Anu, follow my steps."

He took a step, looked back, and Tao Zi followed quietly.

When they reached the exit, to everyone's surprise, they arrived directly at the main gate of the Dayu Palace.

The Taoist priest was surprised and said, "I thought it would be connected to the prison where the Beast King is."

No one answered him.

They opened the door and walked out.

A Mahayana cultivator was standing not far away, waiting anxiously. When he saw them come out, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Young Master, you're out. Fortunately, nothing serious happened."

Cheng Wuchou and the others walked over, and the Taoist priest asked, "What's going on? Why did the Dayu Palace mechanism suddenly start moving?"

He explained, "Not long after the young master and young lady entered, a group of demonic beasts suddenly arrived and rammed the Day Palace crazily, causing it to activate its mechanisms."

The Taoist retorted, "That's unlikely, isn't it? This place has no spiritual energy, even monsters would find it extremely disgusting."

"I find it strange, but I can't find the reason."

Tao Zi suddenly said at this time: "It's not the Heavenly Dao, it's the Tianzun of Minglan Sect."

The Mahayana cultivator was stunned and didn't understand why she said that.

Cheng Wuchou touched her hair and remained silent.

The Taoist gave the monk a look and said, "Let's go back first."

"OK."

They rushed back.

The journey back was very smooth, except that Tao Zi stayed in the cabin and refused to come out, and Cheng Wuchou was guarding the door.

After the Mahayana cultivator understood the situation, he whispered to the Taoist priest squatting beside him, "I don't understand the ways of the world as well as you do. Tell me, what happened to the girl? Isn't it something worth celebrating that she has found her brother?"

The Taoist waved his hand, motioning him to squat, and then said, "Young lady, your life is miserable. First, you thought your parents and brothers were all dead, then you were stabbed in the back by your master, fellow apprentices, and sisters. After finally surviving, you discovered that your memory was distorted. No one could endure all these things."

The monk became anxious and said, "Don't talk about this. Isn't the most important thing that we found our brother?"

"People, after going through so much bad, suddenly encounter something good. They either burst into tears of joy or become suspicious of everything. The girl is now in the latter situation." The Taoist sighed and said, "I'll tell you something you can understand. The girl doesn't believe such a good thing will happen to her. She suspects this is another plot. After all, she's been living in calculations for the past hundred years, no, the past two hundred years."