Chapter 996 The Five Heroines Emerge from Seclusion [Requesting Double Monthly Tickets!]
Ouyang Rong immediately understood.
He glanced at Yu Tang Yue Nu En Ting, who was still gazing at the waterfall.
Ouyang Rong immediately turned around, continued carrying the food box, and headed towards the waterfall pool.
Behind them, Chen Jiaxin's figure remained in the woods.
Enting acted as if she hadn't seen anything, never turning back, and followed Ouyang Rong to the water prison, leaving the two large food boxes behind.
Ouyang Rong walked through the pool and entered the waterfall.
He remained outwardly calm, but his heart was filled with turmoil.
This Yue maid named Enting was often kept by Li Ruotong to accompany him to the water dungeon to deliver food. Although they, as Yue maids, could not enter the water dungeon, they often stayed there to guard it.
Chen Jiaxin had never revealed to him that Enting was actually her person.
What does this mean?
Ouyang Rong pursed his lips and moved forward expressionlessly.
It seems that Chen Jiaxin has been roughly aware of his every move in the water dungeon these past few days.
Ouyang Rong could even guess that if he were to confront Chen Jiaxin in a big way another day, she would naturally say that Enting was sent to protect him secretly.
The taciturn young man let out a long sigh, his emotions remaining largely unaffected.
Unexpected, yet perfectly logical.
The current situation is quite clear.
Enting somehow managed to get rid of another Yue woman, Yutang, who was left behind.
Chen Jiaxin took the opportunity to get closer; now everyone here was hers, so there was nothing to worry about.
Li Ruotong, who had already led her team away, probably never imagined that this would happen in the water prison after she left.
Ouyang Rong passed through the waterfall and entered the cave.
Enting followed her in. She put down the food box, didn't linger, and turned to leave the waterfall, seemingly to retrieve the other two large food boxes left behind.
Ouyang Rong had a vague idea of what Chen Jiaxin was planning to do.
And what exactly did she mean by saying "I have to do it myself" a few days ago?
He didn't expose it and waited patiently.
A short while later, Enting returned to the cave, bringing back two large food boxes.
She came back rather late; I wonder if she had run into Chen Jiaxin outside.
Two torches were stuck in the cave entrance, their light falling on the two people and providing some illumination.
Ouyang Rong stood still, his face expressionless, silently watching Enting.
The latter looked at him quietly, her expression indifferent.
The two stared at each other for a moment.
Ouyang Rong felt the atmosphere was slightly awkward.
He really wanted to say, "So you are too...", but he held back, because saying it would seem a bit silly.
At this moment, Enting remained silent, her gaze fixed on the dark space behind Ouyang Rong. Ouyang Rong understood her meaning.
It's similar to what we meant when we looked at the waterfall.
He's being gestured to.
Ouyang Rong behaved very sensibly. He turned around, first fetched an empty bucket from the cave entrance, filled it with waterfall water, then carried it, along with the food box containing Yun Xiangyi's vegetarian meal, and stepped into the cave, heading towards the water prison...
A moment later, he went down the stairs, pushed open the wooden door, and went inside.
Yun Xiangyi's back was to him, facing the inner gate, her head bowed as she flipped through Buddhist scriptures.
Ouyang Rong walked to the table, placed the food box there, and then put the water bucket in front of the firewood gate.
He returned to the table, opened the food box, and began setting out the bowls and chopsticks.
"Goddess, the crescent moon is rising tonight."
He spoke as he worked with his head down.
"Um."
Yun Xiangyi rested her chin on her hand, turned the pages of the book, and responded with a nasal sound.
Ouyang Rong glanced at the white-clad woman who was engrossed in Buddhist scriptures.
After observing for so many days, Ouyang Rong discovered that Yun Xiangyi was indeed studying Goguryeo Buddhist scriptures. Every time he came to deliver vegetarian meals, he could see that she was studying very seriously, and there were many densely written characters in the scriptures.
Occasionally, Ouyang Rong could see that Yun Xiangyi seemed to be copying Buddhist scriptures by hand, and there were many manuscripts piled up under the table.
A moment later, Yun Xiangyi, who had been looking down at her book, twitched her nose as if she had smelled the aroma of thick porridge. She looked up at Ouyang Rong, who was getting vegetarian food and pickled vegetables.
A moment later.
"Liu Aliang".
"exist."
"I will do it. Go and fetch the vegetarian meal from the prison."
Ouyang Rong was stunned for a moment, then saw Yun Xiangyi extend a slender, porcelain-white hand to take the bowl of porridge.
He then handed over the bowl, obediently got up, left the house, and, not forgetting to close the wooden door behind him, returned to the house.
Back at the cave entrance, Enting was still waiting there, with four large food boxes beside her. As usual, Ouyang Rong would have to make two trips to deliver them one by one.
Enting didn't look at him. Even as his footsteps approached, she remained facing the waterfall, motionless, and her expression was unreadable.
Ouyang Rong came up behind her, picked up two large food boxes, and prepared to go down again to deliver them to the water dungeon.
Suddenly, the Yue woman standing before the waterfall spoke:
"Liu Aliang".
"What's wrong?"
As Ouyang Rong was about to leave, he turned around and saw that Enting had already turned around and was staring straight at him.
Enting suddenly changed her tone:
"I just received a message from Yutang. Go down immediately and inform the Lady that Junior Sister Chen misused a technique during her practice tonight, causing her star orbit to become disordered and resulting in a qi deviation. Her dantian is in danger of being damaged..."
Ouyang Rong pretended to be stunned, looked at the waterfall in front of him, then hurriedly nodded, picked up two large food boxes, turned around and ran back to the water dungeon.
He approached the wooden gate, deliberately hurrying his steps, and pushed the door open to enter.
Yun Xiangyi remained quietly seated at the table, perusing Buddhist scriptures.
He hurriedly repeated Enting's words to Yun Xiangyi's retreating figure.
After speaking, Ouyang Rong, who had been bowing his head, waited for a long time without receiving a response.
He looked up slightly and paused, momentarily stunned.
However, Yun Xiangyi continued flipping through the Buddhist scriptures without pausing, as if she hadn't heard anything.
After a moment, Yun Xiangyi finally stopped turning the pages of the book, closed the Buddhist scripture, and turned her head to look at him.
Ouyang Rong immediately repeated it again.
"Liu Aliang, go up and tell the Yue woman who reported this to go back and tell her to talk to Xiaoxin..."
Yun Xiangyi seemed about to speak, but then she pursed her lips. She first touched a glass jade pendant at her waist, rubbed it between her fingers, and then looked down as if examining it.
A moment later, perhaps something was confirmed once again.
Yun Xiangyi put down the jade token and whispered to Ouyang Rong:
"Tell her to cultivate diligently, complete the tasks I have assigned, and not to cause trouble. I will go out to see her in a few days and check her merits. If there are any omissions, I will not forgive her."
Ouyang Rong: ...
Yun Xiangyi waited for a while and glanced at him, who was quiet.
Ouyang Rong immediately realized what was happening and nodded:
"I understand, Goddess, please wait a moment."
Ouyang Rong left behind two large food boxes, then left the house alone and returned upstairs.
After closing the wooden gate, his expression was somewhat strange.
But there was no surprise in his eyes, as if he had expected it all along.
Before long, he returned to the cave entrance in front of the waterfall and, with a strange expression, repeated Yun Xiangyi's words.
Even Enting, who had been expressionless, paused for a moment.
This time, it was Ouyang Rong who was staring at her.
Enting realized what was happening and frowned, saying:
"I understand... I will convey your message to the Lady. You... you can continue with your work."
Ouyang Rong nodded, picked up the last two large food boxes, and prepared to return to the water prison below.
As he was leaving, he looked back one last time.
Finally, a change in expression appeared on Enting's face.
She didn't even notice Ouyang Rong's gaze as he turned back. With a worried expression, she turned around, opened her umbrella, and walked through the waterfall curtain outside.
As the umbrellas shielded the waterfall from the spray, a glimpse of the darkness outside the falls was revealed.
Ouyang Rong spotted Chen Jiaxin standing outside the waterfall, her expression somewhat unpleasant.
It means ugly in every sense, including the literal meaning.
Her face was deathly pale, devoid of color, with a trace of bright red blood at the corner of her lips, giving her an unpleasant, injured appearance.
However, Ouyang Rong knew in his heart that this was probably done on purpose by this young lady. It was originally intended to match the words that Enting had asked him to send down to Yun Xiangyi, but who knew...
At this moment, Enting ignored Liu Aliang, who was continuing to deliver food, and walked through the waterfall with her umbrella. The waterfall's curtain of water once again blocked the view inside and out, and also blocked the view of someone inside.
Above the pool, Chen Jiaxin waited "weakly." Enting hesitated for a moment before speaking and exchanging words with her.
It seemed to be a repetition of Ouyang Rong's words in a different way.
The young woman in swordsmanship frowned. Her face, which was already pale and not looking well tonight, suddenly turned even more unpleasant, and her cheeks flushed red.
Unfortunately, someone was walking on the staircase leading to the underground water dungeon and couldn't see this scene.
Meanwhile, Chen Jiaxin and Enting, who were in an awkward silence on the pool, were unaware that someone they had overlooked was casually opening a bamboo tube as he went down the stairs.
A picture of Peach Blossom Spring rose from a hidden compartment in a bamboo tube and slowly unfolded before him.
The dull-witted young man adjusted the bronze mask on his face, then reached into the painting and groped around for a while. In a moment, he pulled out a snow-white longsword that was "on its last legs" and had concealed its sharpness.
In the darkness, a dazzling sword light shone from the snow-white longsword, illuminating the staircase in front of the young man.
He seemed like a child who had received a new toy by the roadside, such as a straight stick or twig, and was casually playing with it on his way home.
In the darkness, occasionally, a faint purple light would cover the sword, like a fluid, misty or watery, swirling around the snow-white blade.
The young man's exact expression was unclear; only from certain angles swept by the purple light could one glimpse half of his somewhat serene face...
Before long, Ouyang Rong arrived at the wooden gate of the water prison.
The sword, Zhi Shuang, had long since disappeared and been put away, and the Peach Blossom Spring painting had also been hidden back in the secret compartment of the bamboo tube.
In fact, Ouyang Rong had already restrained himself when he was about 100 meters away from the gate.
He quickened his pace slightly as he pushed open the gate and entered.
Yun Xiangyi had her back to him.
Ouyang Rong placed the last two large food boxes on the table, looking slightly out of breath, and said in a simple and honest manner:
"Your message has been delivered, Goddess. Here is the remaining vegetarian meal. I will go upstairs now."
Yun Xiangyi nodded slightly from behind:
"Um."
Ouyang Rong strode away, and the wooden gate closed again.
Yun Xiangyi glanced at the four large food boxes, lost in thought for a moment, and then shook her head slightly, as if she had remembered something.
"You're being silly."
She murmured something softly, then turned around, closed the Buddhist scripture with her slender hand, as if she were about to get up to deliver the vegetarian meal.
She stopped halfway up, and almost immediately looked down at the glass jade pendant at her waist, her eyes widening slightly.
A moment later, the white-robed Cloud Lord sat down again, his right hand tightly gripping the glass jade that was inexplicably burning hot.
Her porcelain-white face, which had always been calm and composed, even when her disciple was in danger of encountering a qi deviation during cultivation, finally showed some changes...
...
After leaving the water prison, Ouyang Rong returned to the cave entrance, deliberately slowing his pace along the way.
They walked very slowly, and by the time they reached the entrance of the Water Curtain Cave, Enting was nowhere to be seen.
He remained calm, took a specially made umbrella, and slowly opened it as he passed through the waterfall.
Upon reaching the pool, the deafening roar of the waterfall filled the air. There, Chen Jiaxin and Enting could be seen in the distance, near the edge of the woods.
Chen Jiaxin seemed to be saying something, but the latter lowered his eyes and remained silent.
The two women noticed Ouyang Rong's presence at the same time.
Chen Jiaxin seemed to be losing face; her face turned red, and she turned around, ready to leave.
Not only did he fail to succeed tonight, he also lost face in front of his subordinate.
Although Ouyang Rong kept his eyes straight ahead, as if he hadn't seen him at all.
Fortunately, Yun Xiangyi seemed to be very familiar with Chen Jiaxin's personality and knew this mischievous disciple well, so she assumed that Chen Jiaxin was just being silly because she missed her master.
On the other side, Enting glanced at Ouyang Rong, said nothing, and paid no attention to him. She lowered her head slightly and prepared to leave with Chen Jiaxin.
Just then, a strange noise came from behind them.
Chen Jiaxin and Enting both turned around immediately, their gazes sweeping over the dull-looking young man in the pool, and then staring at the waterfall behind him with some confusion.
In the next instant, under the cold moonlight, the entire waterfall was split in two.
A vertical doorway was opened in the middle.
Chen Jiaxin and Enting looked up sharply and quickly noticed something amiss.
It's that old, rusty sword stuck in the cliff face of the waterfall, rusted by the water flow!
The once-old sword blade now tilted downwards with sword energy, vertically splitting the entire waterfall in two.
Above their heads, a waterfall cascaded down, relentlessly striking the invisible sword energy, like a torrent crashing against rocks. The snow-white waterfall was shattered into countless droplets of mist, which instantly enveloped the pool and soaked the clothes of everyone under the moonlight.
Under the crescent moon, in front of the waterfall, the scene is truly magnificent.
Ouyang Rong seemed somewhat "slow" throughout, as if he was only now realizing something was wrong.
Especially Chen Jiaxin and Enting, who were staring wide-eyed at what was directly behind him, their pupils contracted:
"Master, revered master."
"Your Majesty."
Hearing the two women's involuntary shouts, Ouyang Rong turned around somewhat obliviously.
Below the waterfall cleaved by the embroidered sword on the wall, a stalactite cave entrance, washed clean by the water, was exposed to the moonlight. At that moment, a woman's figure, as white as frost, slowly emerged from the cave entrance.
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