Celestial Moon Palace Undercover Room 3
"Alright, you decide. So what do we do now?" The system glanced at Chang'e sitting down and tentatively leaned against Hou Yi standing up. Hou Yi didn't refuse and said optimistically, "Hou Yi should be able to lift the Jade Rabbit's magic restrictions and punishments. If that's the case, with your ability to sell houses, host, you can complete the task in no time."
Xie Guijin didn't see it that way, but trying it wouldn't break the law. She screamed twice to attract Chang'e and Hou Yi's attention, and then asked to have the punishment lifted and the Jade Rabbit's magic restored.
Hou Yi hesitated, "That won't do. This matter is too bizarre. If word gets out, I'm afraid no immortal will believe it, and it will be difficult to convince the public, unless..."
"Unless what? Just say it!" Xie Guijin snapped impatiently.
Now, Hou Yi didn't need Chang'e to translate, and he guessed what Xie Guijin was saying. He squatted down and stared at Xie Guijin, saying, "Unless I go with you to the Lieshan Divine Realm to verify what you said, I will report to the Xuanlu Tianshu Palace and obtain its approval."
“No problem,” Xie Guijin nodded repeatedly, feeling that Hou Yi’s request was not excessive and was quite reasonable.
Seeing this, Hou Yi said to Chang'e, "Wait for us to return in the Moon Palace. I will take it to Shennong, so that even if other immortals see it, they will only think that I am enforcing the law and will not implicate you."
"You're so kind. I'll wait for you to come back." Chang'e smiled, showing a deep reluctance to part.
Xie Guijin endured the toothache and let Hou Yi lift her off Chang'e's lap.
A fairy and a rabbit arrived at the Lieshan Divine Realm to seek an audience with the Shennong Emperor.
The divine attendant at the entrance seemed to have known about this beforehand, and upon seeing them arrive, he led them to see the Great Emperor Shennong.
As always, Emperor Shennong was extremely kind and compassionate. After Hou Yi bowed and explained the situation, he immediately vouched for Xie Guijin.
Hou Yi thanked Emperor Shennong and took Xie Guijin directly back to the Xuanlu Tianshu Palace to request an audience with the Palace Master, only to be told that the Palace Master was out and his whereabouts were unknown.
"Please wait for the Palace Master to return, Miss Xie," Hou Yi said apologetically to Xie Guijin, "so that the seal can be broken and the punishment can be temporarily waived."
Xie Guijin showed no anxiety this time. She made two "cooing" sounds to indicate her understanding. After all, as a fellow employee, she had experienced waiting for the boss to make a decision many times.
We are all fellow sufferers, let's understand each other forever.
Hou Yi's attitude lessened Xie Guijin's previous suspicions about him.
After waiting for a long time, the Palace Master did not return. Instead, Chang'e came first, saying that the sixth princess of the Demon Realm had sent a message that Chu Shuyue had woken up.
Xie Guijin, who was drowsy and slumped on the ground, suddenly perked up. He scrambled to his feet, jumped onto Chang'e's shoulder, and made a series of urgent squeaking noises into Chang'e's ear.
Chang'e said with difficulty, "But you haven't been released from your punishment yet, so I'm afraid you can't go to the Demon Realm."
Hearing this from the side, Hou Yi said, "Never mind, we don't know when the Palace Master will return. Why don't we go to the Demon Realm first?"
After saying this, Hou Yi said to the celestial messengers in the hall, "If the hall master returns, inform me."
Then, the three of them went to the Demon Realm together.
On the way, Chang'e asked somewhat apprehensively, "Will this work? Will it implicate you?"
Hou Yi smiled and reassured them, "No, they are a couple in love. I naturally sympathize with them and will help if I can. It's just a small favor."
Upon hearing the deeper meaning in those words, Chang'e smiled shyly and lowered her head, her ears turning slightly red.
Xie Guijin remained perched on Chang'e's shoulder, unable to resist whispering a warning in her ear: "Wake up! You're not human anymore, you've become immortals. Don't forget that immortals falling in love is a violation of heavenly rules. Do you want him to be taken to the Execution Platform with you right after becoming an immortal, his immortal bones stripped away, his soul returning to the heavens?"
Upon hearing this, Chang'e felt a chill run down her spine and began to tremble.
Seeing this, Hou Yi sighed almost imperceptibly, reached out and hugged Chang'e in his arms, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, it's alright."
Chang'e gradually calmed down and reached out to wrap her arms around Hou Yi's waist.
"Tsk tsk tsk," Xie Guijin jumped off Chang'e's shoulder, turned her face away from the two immortals who were being lovey-dovey, and said to the system in a tone of disappointment, "It's hopeless."
The system chuckled: "Host, in your world there's a saying, 'Respect the fate of others and let go of the urge to help others.' You still have a lot to practice."
Xie Guijin took a deep breath, and then another deep breath. The little body of the jade rabbit that her soul had transmigrated into rose and fell, which was quite cute.
After finally arriving in the Demon Realm, Chu Shuyue indeed woke up, and the Sixth Princess had a very strange expression.
Xie Guijin became suspicious upon seeing this, but her actions did not diminish at all. She abandoned Hou Yi and Chang'e and jumped to Chu Shuyue's bedside in a few steps.
Lying on the bed, Chu Shuyue opened his eyes, reached out and touched Xie Guijin who was nestled next to his face, and said gently, "Where did this little rabbit come from? It's so soft."
Xie Guijin froze abruptly, looked up but couldn't see any trace of Xue Linchuan, screamed and backed away, falling off the edge of the bed.
The sixth princess, who was unable to stop it from happening in time, rushed forward to catch Xie Guijin.
Holding Xie Guijin in both hands, it said apologetically, "When he woke up, he was Chu Shuyue. After repeated research with the Demon Doctor, we believe that Xue Linchuan's soul left his body after his death. Chu Shuyue's suppressed soul re-occupied the body, which is why he appeared to have come back to life."
“We have already searched the Demon Realm, but there is no trace of Xue Linchuan. We don’t know where he is now,” the Sixth Princess added.
Upon hearing this, Xie Guijin's rabbit head tilted to the side, and its body swayed precariously.
The Sixth Princess and Xie Guijin witnessed firsthand how Xie Guijin initially misunderstood Xue Linchuan as a perverted stalker, and how she cleared up the misunderstanding before Xue Linchuan's death. They could understand Xie Guijin's feelings at that moment.
It shook Xie Guijin and urged, "You have to cheer up."
Distracted, Xie Guijin steadied himself and said to Chang'e, "I want to go to the Ghost Realm."
“The Ghost Realm is special; immortals from the Celestial Realm are not allowed to enter it without official business.” Chang’e, watching the scene just now and putting herself in the shoes of the immortals, said with red eyes and a choked voice.
Upon hearing this, the Sixth Princess immediately said, "I have a residence in the Ghost Realm, so we can go to the outer perimeter of the Ghost Realm first."
“In that case, let’s go together,” Hou Yi said.
Chang'e always listened to Hou Yi, so she stopped objecting and followed him to the River of Oblivion in the Ghost Realm.
It was midnight, and the ghost guards watching over the house had just changed shifts.
Liu Gong took the initiative to use his guest privileges to request an audience with Beidou Jun through the ghost messenger.
The process of meeting Beidoujun went smoothly. It obeyed the instructions and, seeing Xie Guijin staring at it expectantly, immediately agreed to help.
It led a group of immortals and demons to the Judge's Hall to find Cui Jue and ask him to find the whereabouts of Xue Linchuan's soul.
Cui Jue closed his eyes and cast a spell, causing the ghostly documents in the hall to flip through rapidly without any wind.
Xie Guijin remained motionless, involuntarily holding her breath and waiting.
A moment later, Cui Jue opened his eyes and shook his head, saying, "His soul is not in the ghost realm."
With a thud, Xie Guijin fell straight down.
With quick reflexes, Beidou Jun scooped up the rabbit Xie Guijin, held her by the back of her neck with one hand, turned her face up, and pinched the slit in the center of her upper lip with the other. Seeing that she did not react, he then stimulated the suliao slit at the tip of her nose and the tip of her ear, forcibly waking Xie Guijin up and restoring her breathing.
"Don't worry," Beidou Jun said quickly when he saw that Xie Guijin had regained her senses. "There are many ghosts who have passed through the gates of hell. Perhaps it's not Xue Linchuan's turn yet."
Upon hearing this, Xie Guijin's eyes lit up, and she immediately jumped down and ran away in a flash.
Her explosive power was astonishing; none of those present managed to stop her.
When they arrived at the Gates of Hell, they saw a snow-white rabbit swaying and running backward in the queue to enter the Gates of Hell.
Beidou sighed and said, "Let her be. She won't be satisfied until she finds it herself."
However, as time went by, Xie Guijin was unable to find Xue Linchuan.
Both Beidou Jun and the Sixth Princess frowned slightly, their faces displeased. They were busy with official duties and did not want to abandon Xie Guijin, so they ordered their subordinates to send over the documents for review.
As the day passed, Xie Guijin was finally close to reaching the end of the ghost procession.
Chang'e was already sobbing uncontrollably, and she collapsed softly towards Hou Yi.
This time, Hou Yi did not choose to hug it and comfort it gently. Instead, he took a step to the side and, keeping a distance that Chang'e could not reach, said politely, "Fairy, don't be sad. That is not the real Jade Rabbit."
Chang'e was somewhat confused about what her crying had to do with the real and fake Jade Rabbit. She didn't believe Hou Yi didn't know why she was crying. But she understood that Hou Yi's unusual behavior was because other beings were present, and Hou Yi was avoiding suspicion.
"Hou Yi is avoiding suspicion because he loves me," Chang'e comforted herself, her tearful eyes tracing the figure of the rabbit as it darted about. She saw that the rabbit had already run to the end of the group, and Xie Guijin had clearly not found Xue Linchuan.
Chang'e thought Xie Guijin would faint again and was prepared to rush to her aid, but Xie Guijin not only did not fall down, but quickly jumped back and barked at her a few times.
Chang'e, the only one who understood rabbit language, nodded to Xie Guijin and then said to Beidou Jun, "Miss Xie asked me to pass on a message: Xue Linchuan is nowhere to be found, either inside or outside the Ghost Realm. Is it possible that because he was a visitor from another world, his soul did not enter the Ghost Realm after his death?"
Beidou Jun calculated with his fingers inside his sleeve, and after a moment said, "That's possible. My magic power is limited. I can only calculate that his soul is still in the Six Realms, but I can't tell you exactly where it is."
“Why don’t you go to the places you’ve been before? There are many beings in the Six Realms who are reluctant to leave the Ghost Realm because they are attached to their past lives. Xue Linchuan is different from other beings; no ghost messenger will take him back to the Ghost Realm.” Beidou Jun squatted down and said to Xie Guijin.
Upon hearing this, Xie Guijin stood up and bowed to Beidou Jun with her two front rabbit paws to express her gratitude.
Then he said to Chang'e, "Fairy, I need to go to the mortal realm. Can you help me?"
Chang'e was completely infected and immediately picked up Xie Guijin, saying, "I'll take you there."
Hou Yi immediately offered to accompany her as an enforcer of the law, so as to avoid any misunderstanding that Chang'e had absconded with the Jade Rabbit and caused further complications.
The two immortals and the rabbit bid farewell to the Big Dipper Lord and the Sixth Princess, and went to the human world.
This was the third day since Xie Guijin had transmigrated into the Jade Rabbit. The Empress was reviewing memorials when they arrived. After hearing Chang'e explain their purpose, she immediately bowed to Xie Guijin and said, "No strange phenomena have occurred in the capital, and Ji Ming has not contacted me. I will send someone to investigate immediately, and if there is any news, I will inform you as soon as possible."
Xie Guijin didn't waste any words. After thanking the Empress, she arrived at the Demon Palace in the Demon Realm.
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