"Uncle Jin, don't worry. Although I doubt Ming Xing now, he is ultimately my father's man. No matter whether he is loyal to my father, me, or my second brother, he is essentially a member of the royal family. I will not let such a meritorious official down!"
Shui Ningye looked at Jin Yi and said.
Jin Yi nodded and said, "I'm glad you think so. No matter who he belongs to, he is still a member of the royal family. You can fight for power in the future, but I hope you can always keep this promise."
"Uncle Jin, don't worry. Ning Ye will learn from you!"
Shui Ningye bent down and bowed to Jin Yi.
Jin Yi dodged hurriedly, quickly helped Shui Ningye up, and said with a wry smile: "Your Highness, what are you doing? You are Your Highness, your status is higher than mine, how can you do this to me?"
Shui Ningye stood up, waved his hand, and said nonchalantly: "Uncle Jin is the elder. Outside, we are just uncle and nephew, not superior or inferior. You don't need to care too much about these complicated etiquette!"
Shui Ningye was extremely humble, and it was this humility that made Jin Yi feel that his choice was correct.
"Okay, Uncle Jin, let's not talk about these things for now. Let's talk about the next plan first. In your opinion, what should we do next?" Shui Ningye looked at Jin Yi and asked.
"The next priority is to wake the princess up quickly, otherwise who knows what will happen. I don't know what Yuangu is up to and he is reluctant to take action." Jin Yi said with a frown.
"Hmm? What does Uncle Jin mean by this? Could it be that Mr. Yuan is deliberately delaying time? This is impossible. It has been more than half a year. What is he still delaying? What's the benefit for him?" Shui Ningye asked in shock.
"I didn't say he was stalling. I just felt that six months had passed and everything needed to be prepared, yet this guy still wasn't taking action. I simply found it a little strange, Your Highness. Don't overthink it."
"How about...Uncle Jin go and test him?"
"No! Absolutely not!"
Jin Yi directly rejected Shui Ningye's suggestion.
"Why?" Shui Ningye asked curiously as he saw Jin Yi reject his idea so decisively.
"That Yuangu's strength is not inferior to mine, it's only higher than mine. What do you think I can use to test him?" Jin Yi asked lightly.
"Wha...what? There's such a thing?"
"A fourth-grade alchemist is at least a Spirit Master. When I first met him, I already tried to test him, and I was defeated miserably. In just one move, I was already at a disadvantage. So what else do you want me to say? Testing him? That would only bring humiliation upon yourself."
"Hiss... Uncle Jin has already tried it, why... have I never heard of it?" Shui Ningye asked in shock.
"What's there to say? Do I have to publicize such a shameful thing myself?"
"Ahem... I didn't expect Mr. Yuan to be so powerful. I just don't know what his alchemy skills are like, and how he plans to wake Yaoyao up. I hope he didn't lie to me. Otherwise, no matter how powerful he is, I will make him lose a piece of flesh!"
A hint of coldness flashed in Shui Ningye's eyes. For more than half a year, all his hopes had been placed on Gu Yuan, who was disguised as Yuan Gu. If Shui Yaoyao was not awakened by then, one could imagine how furious Shui Ningye would become.
"Don't worry, Your Highness. There shouldn't be any problems. Besides, there's no point in saying this now. We have to wait and see the final outcome. You know that alchemists have very strange tempers. If we provoke Mr. Yuan because of this, we will really lose more than we gain."
"Yes, what Uncle Jin said makes sense. Don't worry, I'm just saying that. As a fourth-grade alchemist, I only want to make friends with him instead of offending him. I just hope that Mr. Yuan can do what he should do and wake up Yaoyao. Then I will try my best to win him over and see if he can be used by me." Shui Ningye said.
"It's too early to talk about this now. Let's focus on the present. When Mr. Yuan comes back, we can ask him when we can start."
Shui Ningye nodded, "Yeah!"
…
Inside the secret room of the Abyss Pawnshop, low panting sounds continued to echo in this not-so-large space.
“Huff, huff, huff—”
The sound of rapid breathing came from the mouth of the bloody coffin that fell to the ground.
At this time, Xue Guan was slumped on the ground, soaked in cold sweat, and there was a pool of blood on the ground.
Xue Guan only felt that his throat was very sore, as if there was a fire burning inside his body. All his internal organs were burned by the fire, emitting waves of burning sensation.
“Hehe…”
A vague laugh came from the blood coffin's throat, followed by a slightly painful cough.
After a few coughs, blood foam flowed directly out of the blood coffin's mouth. If the blood coffin did not look in good spirits at this moment, I am afraid that anyone who came would think that the blood coffin was a dying person.
"Haha, you couldn't beat me after all."
The blood coffin, which was slumped on the ground, slowly stood up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, cleaned himself up, put on a dry black robe, and then walked out of the secret room.
"Master Blood Coffin, you've come out of confinement!"
As soon as the blood coffin came out, Mu San went to meet him.
"Yes! I'm out of confinement." The blood coffin nodded and said.
"I don't know about your injuries, sir..."
Mu San scratched his head and asked awkwardly.
He didn't know whether these were the questions he should ask, but he was a little worried about the injuries of the blood coffin.
"Oh, it's okay now. Don't worry, Eagle should be coming out soon." The blood coffin said lightly.
"Oh, Lord Ying is almost well. That's good, that's good. Brother Gu has come out once before, but at that time the two masters were in seclusion and had not come out, so Brother Gu went back to continue practicing. He asked me to wake him up after the two masters came out." Mu San said.
"Okay!"
"Then I'll call Brother Gu out now. Lord Ying should be coming out of confinement soon anyway."
The bloody coffin nodded, "Okay."
"Okay!"
After a while, Gu Yuan also walked out behind Mu San.
"Blood Coffin, you finally came out?"
Seeing the blood coffin in a black robe standing there, Gu Yuan went up to greet him.
"Yes, there was an accident when we came back last time. Both Eagle and I were seriously injured, so we went into seclusion immediately after we came back this time, and haven't come out until now." The blood coffin said in a low voice.
"What on earth happened? Both of you Spirit Kings were seriously injured?"
"Yes, I'm still scared about this. Wait for Eagle. I'll talk to you about this once he comes out!"
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