"Are you human or a ghost?" Zu An swallowed hard and couldn't help but ask.
"What do you think?" Mi Li looked at him with a half-smile.
After the initial bone-chilling cold, Zuan gradually felt the amazing elasticity in her hands. After squeezing a few times, his gaze suddenly fell on her chest: "I'll only know if it is or not by trying it."
However, he eventually crumbled under the murderous glare in the other party's eyes. As he withdrew his hand, Zuan replied sullenly, "Who told me to ask you and you wouldn't tell me?"
He grabbed her finger, smeared it with blood, and pressed it onto the contract.
Mi Li was about to say something when she suddenly trembled, her gaze falling on the bloodstains on his body, a thoughtful expression on her face.
Zuan, however, didn't notice. Instead, he breathed a sigh of relief, put the contract in his pocket, and looked up at the sky: "Just take that sword down, right?"
“That’s right. Be careful when you pick it up, don’t drop it accidentally. I don’t want to get poked to death at the last step,” Mi Li replied.
Zuan asked, somewhat puzzled, "Since this sword can kill you, why didn't Ying Zheng just kill you directly back then, instead of going through all this trouble of sealing you away?"
Mi Li snorted coldly: "You have too many questions. If you waste any more time, your wife will probably be dead beyond dead."
Thinking of Chu Chuyan, Zu An's heart skipped a beat. Sure enough, he dared not waste any more time. He leaped into the air, grabbed the iron chain with one hand, and slowly reached for the hilt of the Tai'a sword with the other.
As his hand touched the hilt of the sword, he suddenly shuddered, a moment of confusion flashed before his eyes, and when he came to his senses, he found himself no longer in the underground palace, but in a magnificent palace.
He couldn't describe the magnificence of the palace before him; in that instant, he only felt his own insignificance.
"You've arrived~" Just then, a majestic and distant voice rang out.
He looked up and saw a large dragon throne at the head of the hall, where a man in a black robe sat. His back was straight, and his posture was different from that of ordinary people, as if he were about to devour someone, while at the same time he had a kind of ambition to swallow the world.
Zuan was full of admiration, thinking to himself that with such a temperament, he could exude sophistication just by sitting there. He thought that if he could learn even half of what Zuan could, no, just a little bit, he would be the coolest guy on the street.
"Who are you?" Zu An squinted, his eyes narrowed. The other person's face was shrouded in mist and he couldn't make out anything. But then he suddenly noticed a five-clawed golden dragon embroidered in gold thread on the other person's black robe, and a thought struck him. "Are you Qin Shi Huang?"
“Who I am is not important,” the man in the dragon robe did not answer, “the important thing is that you have come.”
Zu An swallowed hard, thinking to himself, "What kind of veiled meaning are you trying to convey to me?"
Oh no, he must know that I was the one who planned to save his empress. Wait, I think I just flirted with Mi Li. Did he see that? I'm doomed.
The man in the dragon robe slowly stood up. Zu An was so frightened that he hurriedly took several steps back. Unfortunately, this palace was unusually large. He looked around but couldn't find any exit.
"You don't need to be afraid, I won't kill you." As if seeing through his predicament, the man in the dragon robe said, "Being able to break the seals of Heaven, Earth and Man proves that you are exceptionally intelligent and blessed, so you are worthy of this mission."
Zu An swallowed hard and hurriedly said, "Well... this junior is not very talented and can hardly live up to your expectations. Why don't you find someone else?"
The other party spoke of it so solemnly, so the mission must be extremely difficult, perhaps even a matter of life and death. He dared not take any more risks.
“Yes,” the man in the dragon robe said slowly.
Zu An was taken aback, not expecting him to be so easy to talk to. He hurriedly said, "In that case, this junior will take his leave." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.
Just then, a clear dragon's roar rang out, and the man in the dragon robe drew his sword from his waist. In that instant, a large cloud of swirling mist surged up in front of Zu An, within which one could vaguely see thousands of troops silently watching him.
With a wave of my sword, I dispel the floating clouds, and all the feudal lords come from the west!
For some reason, this line of poetry popped into Zu'an's head.
At this moment, the cold and majestic voice of the man in the dragon robe rang out: "No one in the world can refuse me. There is only one outcome for those who refuse: death!"
Zuan hurriedly said, "I was just joking with you. Please tell me what kind of task you want, senior. I will not hesitate to complete the task, even if it means going through fire and water."
Suddenly, a dark object flew over. He instinctively caught it and realized that he was holding a sword. When he looked up, he saw that the man in the dragon robe was empty-handed; it was the very sword he had just been holding.
Upon closer inspection, the sword was none other than the Tai'a sword from before!
"Take Tai'a, find Xiquanqiu, and then you'll know what to do," the man in the dragon robe said slowly.
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