Chapter 263 Everything has a price

The girl happily took out a purse from her bosom. It was heavy with money, which was her income from storytelling for a year.

A windfall.

The girl is a puppeteer who practices the puppet magic passed down from her family. When she walks on the street, she is usually followed by a puppet. In order to make a living as a monk, she also works as a storyteller and performs puppet shows in teahouses.

It is very good at imitating people's expressions and can even make dozens of voices of men, women, young and old.

Today she was performing on the street and saw groups of pedestrians flocking to the north of the city, saying that there was something exciting to watch. She wanted to follow them and go to a more crowded place to do business.

Suddenly, Ye Xiaoman called her and said she wanted to do a deal with her.

She agreed immediately. She only needed to pretend to be another person and say a few lines, and she would get 5,000 spirit coins. No one would refuse that.

The girl took off her clothes and destroyed the veil as Ye Xiaoman said, leaving no trace.

After she did all this, because of the confidentiality agreement she signed with Ye Xiaoman, all memories of the mission commission disappeared from her mind.

I just remember that I made a good deal.

The girl skipped and disappeared into the crowd.

At the stall, Ye Xiaoman waited until the woman in white disappeared. Sensing that the contract was completed, she sat back at the table.

In a good mood.

Sikong Qing and Xiao Chujing had a blind spot in their thinking. They thought that with her weak cultivation level, it was impossible for her to run so fast.

They didn't know that she had obtained peerless martial arts from Jiaying and Ji Wenyi, and they were even less aware that her strength had secretly increased a lot. It only took her half the usual time to run from the north to the south of the city.

There is more than enough time to plan things out calmly.

Not only the girl in white, but even the stall owner took her money to help make false certificates.

Help set the table into the look she had been waiting for for a long time.

Plus her superb acting skills.

Sister Man is in trouble?

Impossible things.

Ye Xiaoman's heart was slightly excited.

In her arms, she held the marrow-cleansing grass given to her by Ji Wenyi.

In order to avoid suspicion from Sikong Qing and Xiao Chujing, she had not taken it yet.

Ji Wenyi had just given his woman the marrow cleansing grass, and Ye Xiaoman's spiritual roots changed from two-day spiritual roots to three-day spiritual roots. It was hard to explain no matter how you looked at it.

Ye Xiaoman decided to take it step by step. After escaping from the divine realm, she would stage a play to make it seem like she had obtained a great opportunity and make the matter of her obtaining the marrow cleansing grass appear flawless.

She has been Aquaman for two lifetimes and has basically never made any mistakes, all thanks to her caution.

That’s settled.

Xiao Chujing and Sikong Qing drank mung bean soup and asked about Ye Xiaoman's experience of joining the resistance organization.

Ye Xiaoman made up an experience for them.

"...This is what I should do. As the saying goes, I worry about the world before I worry about myself, and I enjoy the world after I enjoy myself."

The two men were moved, and her beautiful personality was further consolidated in their hearts.

Ye Xiaoman finished pretending and didn't dare to go deeper into this topic. She smoothly changed the subject.

"Let's leave the divine realm in the next few days."

Xiao Chujing supported his head with one hand, a smile on his face, and looked at her with bright eyes, as if she was the only treasure in the world. "The imperial capital has not yet been fully opened. The monks need to apply for a pass before they can leave the city."

He and Sikong Qing escaped by using special means.

"Oh?" Ye Xiaoman asked, "How many more days do we have to wait?"

Sikong Qing was dissatisfied with Ye Xiaoman for always looking at Xiao Chujing. He pinched her chin and turned her face towards him. "Probably three days."

"Yes," Ye Xiaoman nodded. "I've caused some trouble in the Divine Realm. The authorities should be looking for me. I won't join the organization anymore. I'll stay with you guys for the next few days. You guys should find a way to help me hide my whereabouts."

Xiao Chujing agreed immediately, "It's not difficult."

Ye Xiaoman's heart sank.

Whenever she got into debt, she would feel extremely safe when she saw Xiao Chujing.

Ji Wenyi's plan to retrieve Ye Xiaoman was interrupted by the emperor's uncle, and he was forcibly taken back to a mysterious forbidden area in the imperial capital.

The entrance to the forbidden area is an extremely mysterious mountain.

Unless they are strong men from the Ji family, no outsider is qualified to know about the existence of this place.

The imperial capital is vast. Half of the land is used as the capital, and the other half is the private property of the Ji family. There are various secret caves and there are also some undeveloped wild lands where monsters and beasts are rampant.

The area is so vast that even the four seasons have distinct differences.

Ji Wenyi crossed from the land of late summer to the snowy area.

The ancestors of the Ji family practiced in seclusion in this small world.

Ji Wenyi stepped into the fairy palace, but it was empty.

Only the fluctuations in the air conveyed the ancestors' joy at the rare arrival of new blood.

The joy of the gods was very dull. Considering Ji Wenyi's recent actions, the happiness of the ancestors quickly disappeared.

Instead, there were only tense commands.

Countless voices came from the void, some male and some female, some old and some young, as if countless people were repeating the same words at the same time, and the ancestors were giving orders.

The huge gap in blood ties and cultivation level made Ji Wenyi unable to move. He could not object and could only listen.

"The Emperor is listening."

"We have reached a consensus with all the major families."

Ji Wenyi's act of parricide challenged the morality and order of the divine realm.

The ancestors were reluctant to take action in the early days, so Ji Wenyi had to fight against Prince Teng, the aristocratic families, and theocracy.

Ji Wenyi won and they were very satisfied.

But as Ji Weiming openly launched an uprising, countless noble families turned their bets on Prince Rui, intending to take advantage of the internal fighting within the Ji family to cause both sides to suffer losses so that they could reap the benefits.

The ancestors had to intervene.

In the past, the forces of all parties were relatively restrained, and only the forces of low- and middle-level cultivators were dispatched. Even if there were losses, the divine realm would not be seriously damaged.

If the situation continues to deteriorate, the main forces of the aristocratic families will come out in full force, and in order to cope with it, the Ji family will have to use their trump cards. In the end, even the ancestors of each family may be mobilized.

Once the high-level powerful beings start fighting, they will move mountains and seas, turn the world upside down, pluck stars and swallow the sun, and the cities in the divine realm may collapse in half. By then, more than billions of civilians will die.

The demons are ready to make a move, and the various realms will take advantage of the weakness of the Divine Realm to divide up its territory - the Divine Realm's vast territory was ultimately gained by conquering other realms.

The old man prefers quietness to movement, doesn’t like to see big changes, and wants to reconcile the conflicts before the divine realm falls into irretrievable destruction.

"You, ascend the throne as emperor."

"You must not indiscriminately kill the descendants of the noble families you have detained. Kill half of them, and detain the other half in the imperial capital as hostages."

"Prince Teng's mother and son, and Qi, are at your disposal."

"King Rui is imprisoned within his fiefdom for life, and his army is disbanded on the spot."

"The God Sacrifice Ceremony is a regular festival in our Divine Realm. It must not be postponed any further and must be held as soon as possible...Declare to all circles that you have control of the situation. Our Divine Realm is stable and secure, and their covetous intentions have been extinguished."

Ji Wenyi said: "From what I hear, everything is beneficial to me. I have no way to refuse."

According to the Ji family's tradition, everything has a price, and Ji Wenyi did not look happy.