Chapter 101 A... Treasure Hunt
Regent's Palace.
As soon as the carriage stopped, Jiu jumped off impatiently and flew into the mansion like a happy little butterfly.
"Osmanthus cake! I'm back!"
Xiao Yu followed behind her, looking at her small back. The frost on her face that had not melted for thousands of years had long since melted into spring water.
He instructed the housekeeper, "Send the best osmanthus cake from the kitchen to the warm room. Also prepare some preserved fruits and hot milk that the little girl likes."
"Yes, Your Highness." The butler responded respectfully.
When Xiao Yu walked into the warm room, Ajiu was already sitting obediently on the thickly cushioned couch, swinging her legs, waiting for her snacks with great anticipation.
Xiao Yu sat down beside her, picked up the hand warmer on the table and stuffed it into her arms.
"Are you cold?"
"I'm not cold!" Ah Jiu hugged the heater, her little face flushed, and her eyes sparkling as she looked at him, "Brother Xiong Xiong, the flower on your head is really beautiful!"
She never seemed to tire of it.
Xiao Yu laughed and let her stare at the top of his head like a curious kitten.
He suddenly remembered something and asked, "Ajiu, you said before that you saw something above the head of the Minister of Revenue at the observatory?"
Ajiu thought about it and frowned.
"Hmm... there's a... a very long black line!" She struggled to describe it. "One end of the black line is connected to the Minister, and the other end... I don't know where it goes. It's so far away that I can't see it."
"Black line..." Xiao Yu's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly.
It seems that Zhou Xian is indeed just a puppet controlled by someone.
And the person at the other end of the string, holding him, was probably some big shot in the Wugut tribe.
"That black line is disgusting." Ah Jiu added, his little face full of disgust, "It has the same smell as the black mist on the head of that bad Taoist brother just now, it's stinky."
From the same source...
Xiao Yu understood.
Just as I was thinking about it, the servant came in carrying an exquisite food box.
As soon as you open it, the sweet scent of osmanthus hits you.
Ajiu's eyes suddenly lit up, and all the "threads" and "fog" were thrown away by her.
“Osmanthus cake!”
She cheered, picked up a piece, took a small bite carefully, and squinted her eyes in happiness.
"tasty!"
Looking at her satisfied little look, Xiao Yu's heart seemed to be filled with this sweet taste.
He picked up a piece and handed it to her mouth: "Eat slowly, no one will snatch it from you."
Ajiu took another big bite of his hand, his cheeks bulging like a little hamster.
She said vaguely: "Brother Xiongxiong eats too!"
Xiao Yu shook his head, the doting in his eyes almost overflowing.
"Brother Xiongxiong is not hungry, just watch Jiu eat."
The night is as deep as water.
The lights in the study of the Prince Regent's Palace were still brightly lit.
Xiao Yu sat behind a rosewood desk, playing with a cold and hard military token in his hand, his eyes slightly lowered.
"Your Majesty."
Chu Xuanyi, dressed in a moon-white Taoist robe, appeared silently in the study.
"Xuan Yi, please sit down." Xiao Yu raised his eyes and gestured to the chair opposite.
Chu Xuanyi was not polite and sat down with a flick of his sleeves. "Your Highness, are you worried about the Wugut tribe?"
"They are in the dark, and we are in the light." Xiao Yu tapped his knuckles lightly on the table. "I don't like this feeling."
"Me too." Chu Xuanyi stroked his long beard with a serious expression.
"The evil energy used by the Black Bone Tribe is cold and treacherous. Its source... may be deeper than we imagined."
"Oh?" Xiao Yu became interested.
Chu Xuanyi sighed and said slowly, "Your Highness, do you know why our Dajing chose to establish its capital here?"
"Where the dragon veins are, the royal energy gathers." This is the imperial art that the royal family must learn since childhood.
"Your Highness only knows one side of the story." Chu Xuanyi shook his head.
"This place is not only where dragon veins converge, but also... the core of a huge seal."
Xiao Yu's phoenix eyes suddenly focused and his body leaned forward slightly.
Chu Xuanyi continued, "In ancient times, this place was once the 'Netherworld Abyss,' where evil spirits gathered. At its core, a 'Netherworld Heart' was bred, constantly breeding evil spirits and wreaking havoc on the world. Our Dajing's first imperial preceptor and the ancestors of the Lin family devoted their entire lives to constructing a city-wide 'Heaven and Earth Demon Sealing Array,' based on the capital's 999 earth vein nodes. This was the only way to suppress the 'Netherworld Heart' deep underground."
"you mean……"
"The power of the Black Bone Tribe is related to the 'Heart of the Netherworld'?"
"Nine out of ten," Chu Xuanyi's expression grew increasingly grave. "The evil energy used by the Wugu Tribe originates from the same source as the Netherworld evil energy recorded in ancient texts. I suspect they've not only found this seal, but are even... already trying to break it. They poisoned you, probably to weaken your ability to protect the capital, allowing them to act in secret."
The temperature around Xiao Yu suddenly dropped several degrees.
"What a courage!"
Under his nose, someone actually tried to shake the foundation of the capital!
"What's the current situation of the seal?" Xiao Yu asked in a deep voice.
"This is exactly why I'm here." Chu Xuanyi looked troubled. "The 'Great Heaven and Earth Sealing Demon Formation' is integrated with the entire capital's earth veins. Its nodes are scattered everywhere, whether it's an ancient well, an old locust tree, or a bridge... There are nearly a thousand of them. If we were to investigate them one by one, it would be time-consuming and laborious, and it would also easily alert the enemy."
"So, you need an 'introduction'." Xiao Yu understood instantly.
"Not bad." There was a hint of approval in Chu Xuanyi's eyes.
"We need a trigger that can directly sense the 'Netherworld Evil Spirit' to point us in the right direction. And this trigger..."
The two of them looked at the warm room next door at the same time.
…
"No, Jiu, don't get up..."
On the bed in the warm room, Ajiu rolled himself up like a silkworm, rolling around in the soft quilt, refusing to come out.
Xiao Yu half-knelt beside the bed and patiently coaxed her: "Ah Jiu, be good. I'm not asking you to get up. I'm taking you to play a fun game."
"Game?" Jiu poked his furry little head out from under the quilt and looked at him sleepily. "What game?"
"A... treasure hunt game." Xiao Yu spoke nonsense seriously.
"The Imperial Master has made a huge sandbox with a lot of stinky things hidden inside. He wants our powerful Ah Jiu to find them all."
"Stinky things?" Jiu wrinkled his nose cutely. "Why are you looking for stinky things? It's not fun."
"Because those stinky things will bully the little pink flowers on my brother's head." Xiao Yu changed his words.
"What?!" Jiu suddenly sat up from the quilt, all sleepiness gone. "How dare they bully my brother's flower! Bad guys! Jiu, go beat them up!"
Xiao Yu suppressed his laughter and wrapped a thick fox fur cloak around her. "Okay, let's go beat the bad guys now."
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