Chapter 29: Twenty-Nine Cuts "Driving too fast, I'm afraid we'll fall off..."
Luo Mingshu and Xie Changming each took a map of the spoils and sat down in the small pavilion above the white jade fishpond to look at it.
Despite the twists and turns, Luo Mingshu still remembered their initial goal: to find the Minglie Pill, which was used to poison the emperor. In the initial setting of this exploration scenario, the Chaos Emperor had committed countless evil deeds, causing widespread suffering among the people. Their goal was to kill the emperor, seize the throne, create a new beginning, and incidentally marry the most beautiful empress in the world, thus reaching the pinnacle of life.
"The Bright Blaze Pill should be in the treasure vault," Luo Mingshu said excitedly, flipping through the map.
"Hmm." Xie Changming didn't even look at the map, but simply looked at her and responded with a soft "hmm." The information that the Minglie Pill was in the Yingtian Palace's treasury had already been recorded in several books in the library.
"Once we get the Bright Flame Pill, we'll stuff it into his mouth," Luo Mingshu began to plan.
"Mm," Xie Changming replied, looking at her.
"Then the Empress will be ours." Luo Mingshu rubbed her hands together, looking forward to it. She was mainly looking forward to the jade bracelet on the Empress's wrist.
"Hmm." Xie Changming's voice showed almost no change in emotion.
Luo Mingshu turned the map upside down in her hand and looked at him with a puzzled expression: "Gao Fei, you're being a bit perfunctory."
Xie Changming denied it: "No."
"Do I have a map on my face?" Luo Mingshu remembered that he was a genuine foreigner, so she reminded him.
"No." Xie Changming's gaze did not waver, his peach blossom eyes sparkling with a beautiful light.
Luo Mingshu couldn't help but be drawn to his gaze. Xie Changming was handsome, especially when his eyes were fixed on her, it was easy for her to be captivated. He seemed to have that kind of attraction.
"Then...then why are you looking at me?" Luo Mingshu stammered, then abruptly lowered her head to avoid Xie Changming's gaze.
She held the map up to block his view, telling herself that she had to understand his unique taste in external things. Once they left the Misty Star Sea, she would take him to see other beautiful fish-tailed demons, so he wouldn't be like this.
"Still haven't seen the world, anonymous cultivator," Luo Mingshu thought to herself.
Xie Changming looked at the map booklet in her hand, his tone still calm: "You're holding the book upside down."
Luo Mingshu quickly flipped the map over, the pages rustling as her fingers trembled slightly with panic.
To be honest, Luo Mingshu had never been stared at so closely before, because most people didn't dare to look her in the eye. The cultivators who did look at her usually did so with a kind gaze—like Liu Hongying or Feng Du.
She had never seen Xie Changming look at her like that before, and his beautiful eyes seemed to have some kind of magic, drawing her to look at him.
Why can't we just let her go, since she's greedy and lustful? What kind of skill is it to seduce someone with your looks?!
Luo Mingshu's inner thoughts were incredibly rich. Of course, this was the first time she had ever had such a colorful inner world. In the past, she would usually speak her mind directly and not keep it to herself.
However, just as she was frantically thinking, "Does he know I'm good-looking and that's why he's deliberately looking at me with this face? That despicable anonymous cultivator is so cunning," Xie Changming, who was sitting opposite her, spoke up.
“I don’t know,” he said to Luo Mingshu, answering her first question.
Luo Mingshu seemed to have been punched, frozen in place. Her fingers paused on the map page, trembling slightly. Well, she, who could never keep a secret, had accidentally spoken her inner monologue.
Feeling a little embarrassed, she quickly flipped through the pages of the book in her hand, and even took out Manman, who had been used as a tool mouse not long ago, again, pretending to play with Manman to distract herself.
But Manman was, after all, a Moon Mole with a talent for treasure hunting. So, the only reliable one in this small pavilion, he haphazardly flipped through the map in Luo Mingshu's hand and pointed out the location of the treasure vault.
When Luo Mingshu saw that Manman had found the treasure vault for her, she quickly praised him, "Manman is amazing!"
She tried to ease the awkwardness in this way, but Xie Changming immediately pushed the atlas in his hand towards her.
Before anyone knew it, Xie Changming had already marked the location of the treasure vault and even planned out various routes to get there.
Luo Mingshu: "?" You found it but didn't say anything, and you're just sitting here watching me?
"Let's go," Luo Mingshu said to him after a light cough.
Before she opened her mouth to speak, she received many confessions of love from young male cultivators in the Yuling Sect. Of course, once she opened her mouth to speak, they all ran away. If the anonymous cultivator knew that she was the famous argumentative person on the Spirit Network, he would probably pack his bags and run away immediately.
But she didn't dislike the anonymous monk's gaze, so she mischievously didn't reveal her identity.
"Wait a minute," Xie Changming said, lowering his eyes.
He took out a food box from the side: "Feed the fish first."
Luo Mingshu thought that he never forgot his persona. Was this the persistence of the number one sea king of Yingtian Palace?
She picked up a ball of fish food, crushed it with her hand, and threw it into the white jade fishpond. The beautiful little purple fish in the pond crowded around to beg for food.
Luo Mingshu felt that these little fish lacked backbone, eagerly rushing to eat whenever there was a little food, and the fish food didn't even look very appetizing.
As a result, the anonymous monk's deep and pleasant voice rang in her ear: "The fish here are much easier to raise."
Luo Mingshu was surprised. So he really was a fish farmer. No, how could a cultivator with such strength go to raise fish?
Before she could speak, Xie Changming continued quietly, "The ones we used to raise were picky eaters."
Luo Mingshu wondered if this person was participating in a wealth-building program, and why they were exchanging breeding experiences.
She nodded and offered a few words of comfort: "It's normal for little fish to be picky about food. If you try to buy them something even better, they won't be picky anymore."
Luo Mingshu's words made sense, but after hearing them, Xie Changming recalled the soul cry of the protector Wen Yu: "Your Excellency, our Demon Realm is very poor!"
Xie Changming immediately turned around, summoned water to wash his hands, and took Luo Mingshu's hand: "Let's go."
He wanted to make money and finish exploring the Misty Star Sea as soon as possible.
Luo Mingshu was led forward a couple of steps by him. She looked at their hands touching. His palms were warm, and holding her hand felt surprisingly nice.
She followed him, muttering a protest as she walked: "Why are you touching my hand? Gao Fei, this will arouse suspicion."
"The rumors about our discord are rampant on the palace website, so let's clarify this for now." Xie Changming's mind was quick when he was looking for a reason.
Of course, as he walked forward holding Luo Mingshu's hand, he was thinking about a long time ago when there was a little fish with a long tail—let's call her a fish for now—who was even more proactive than she is now and always liked to use her tail to hook his hand.
She's been taking advantage of him for so long, and now she won't let him bring her back?
Luo Mingshu was led by him all the way to the outside of the Imperial Garden. She saw that the treasure vault was located at the easternmost part of Yingtian Palace. Thinking that it was still a distance away, she thought it would be more convenient to drive the tortoise there.
So she summoned the turtle, sat on it, and warmly invited the anonymous cultivator to sit in the back seat.
"I'll give you a ride." Luo Mingshu simply wanted to speed.
Xie Changming didn't hesitate and jumped into the back seat of Luo Mingshu's car—a scene that was spotted by other teams secretly observing outside the Imperial Garden.
"Consort Gao and Consort Mei are having an affair. I'll post it on the palace website tonight." Guard Bao pulled out a small notebook and began writing down some obscene content. Pianozl
“It’s her… the one who caused all the trouble at Fengsha Ferry… I remember she also had a junior sister who was just as awful.” Shui Qingnian said through gritted teeth, squatting in the grass on the other side. Lu Yaoyao, who was squatting not far from her, couldn’t help but shudder when she heard this.
Judging from the striking resemblance between the cool imperial physician and Shui Qingsi, it's clear she's the eldest princess of the demon realm. But why does Shui Qingnian also know what they did at Fengsha Ferry? Shouldn't Shui Qingsi be the one more angry? Could it be... that the cool imperial physician is the mastermind behind those three demon cultivators in the black carriage?
Lu Yaoyao pondered to herself, while Shui Qingnian, who was bound to her, saw Luo Mingshu and the others leave and quickly summoned her flying mount to call her to follow.
Shui Qingnian's mount is a metal bird with a wide wingspan and a rather handsome appearance.
"Come up." Shui Qingnian had already decided to follow Luo Mingshu and Xie Changming to find out where the treasure vault was.
Lu Yaoyao reluctantly jumped onto the back seat of the metal bird. She looked down and saw the bandage wrapped around Shui Qingnian's arm. She then brought up the very thing she didn't want to say: "Imperial Physician, I'm so sorry. Last night, I really tripped over you because the lighting in the library was bad."
In fact, Shui Qingnian's other injuries had already healed, since Xie Changming's attack was protected by her silver silk armor. However, the scratch from Lu Yaoyao's fingernails, although not very damaging, was extremely humiliating.
Shui Qingnian was so angry she almost threw Lu Yaoyao off the metal bird: "Ah Fei, don't let me run into you outside the Misty Starry Sky!"
She decided that as soon as she went out, she would search the entire Spirit Network for Nascent Soul stage female cultivators whose names contained the character "吖". She, the eldest princess of the Demon Realm, had never suffered such humiliation.
Lu Yaoyao had already secretly made up her mind that as soon as she left the Misty Star Sea, she would change the name of her spiritual network to prevent the Cool Doctor from coming to beat her up through the network.
Thus, the two, harboring ulterior motives, followed Luo Mingshu and Xie Changming.
Meanwhile, Guard Bao jumped onto the back seat of Consort Neng's car. Consort Neng's travel vehicle was somewhat similar to Luo Mingshu's tortoise, only not as cool, but its performance was still quite good. In addition, Consort Neng's driving skills were not bad, so they were the first to catch up.
“They’ve followed us,” Xie Changming said to Luo Mingshu.
"What? They're so despicable that they wanted to follow us?" Luo Mingshu was shocked.
Xie Changming had already begun casting attack spells with one hand behind him, but the Misty Star Sea had a limit on the amount of spells he could cast, so he couldn't replicate the scene at Wind and Sand Crossing and defeat the people behind him one by one.
"Wait until I shake them off." Luo Mingshu increased the horsepower of the tortoise, and the two-wheeled travel magic weapon rushed forward, accelerating again, leaving a blur of motion as it swept past the palace wall.
Xie Changming decided not to intervene, because Luo Mingshu seemed to prefer having someone chasing after her.
So, following the turtle's momentum as it rushed forward, he put his arm around Luo Mingshu's waist.
Luo Mingshu was shocked: "What are you doing?"
"We were driving too fast, I was afraid we'd fall off." Xie Changming said matter-of-factly.
Luo Mingshu thought that even though she was driving so fast at Fengshadu, she hadn't seen his clothes flutter even a little. But she assumed that her disguise hadn't fallen off, so she didn't protest anymore. Xie Changming was better than Lu Yaoyao back then. That day at Fengshadu, Lu Yaoyao was so scared that she almost put her arms and legs on her.
Of course, their search for the treasure trove would not be so smooth. On the road ahead, palace walls blocked the way on both sides, creating a narrow passage. In the passage, there were palace maids and guards coming and going. Scattered among these people were many small key-shaped points of light.
It seems that a key is needed to open the treasure vault. On her way to the vault, Luo Mingshu needs to avoid the palace servants and collect as many key points as possible to synthesize the vault key.
This... the Misty Star Sea is just too torturous.
But Luo Mingshu clearly enjoyed the challenge. She instantly became excited: "Gao Fei, you can always trust my driving skills. Just wait and see, I'll show you right now."
Xie Changming swallowed back his words, "I can smash open the treasure vault's restrictions with one punch," and simply tightened his grip on Luo Mingshu's waist, waiting for her to perform.
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