Chu Nian got up and came out from behind the curtain, pulled Jiang Bai, who was sitting in a chair, and went into the inner hall.
There was indeed a person lying on the couch in the inner hall, and their appearance was exactly the same as Chu Nian's current body.
Jiang Bai saw the ailing Empress Dowager on the bed and asked, "What is this?"
Chu Nian: "The Empress Dowager is ill."
Jiang Bai: "Oh."
Chu Nian: "With you here, I feel very reassured about the young emperor and the affairs of the court."
Jiang Bai: "Oh."
Chu Nian: "So, you know what to do next?"
Jiang Bai paused for a moment, then said, "Mm."
Chu Nian: "Judging from your reluctant look, do you not want me to go out? Don't worry, I'll only be gone for a while, and I'll be back soon after I've finished my business."
Jiang Bai suddenly pointed at the person on the bed and said helplessly, "This guy, can he last for a few months to half a year?"
Chu Nian: "Yes, I can." After a pause, she added: "If it breaks before I get back, then you can make another one."
Jiang Bai stared at Chu Nian for a long time without saying a word.
Chu Nian: "If you don't know how to do it, I can teach you."
Jiang Bai paused for a moment, then said, "No need, I also know a little about paper puppet magic."
Chu Nian nodded and said, "I knew you could do it."
Jiang Bai lowered his head and secretly smiled.
Chu Nian noticed that his face had inexplicably turned red again, and even his ears were red.
Jiang Bai said, "If Your Majesty doesn't have a good mount, it might take a long time before you find Xuan Yuan Sect. I have a fine steed here; perhaps I can lend it to Your Majesty for now."
After saying that, he flicked his wide sleeves, and a small beast immediately appeared.
Upon seeing this, Chu Nian felt that the little beast looked somewhat familiar, and stared at it while blinking.
The little beast also stared at Chu Nian, blinking its eyes.
The little beast seemed to have discovered something, and its expression suddenly turned excited as it ran towards Chu Nian.
Chu Nian suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "Grand Tutor Jiang, where did you get this little donkey from?!"
Donkey? Upon hearing her words, the little beast's legs went weak, and it immediately prostrated itself on the ground: It used to be called a horse, but now it's a donkey! Each generation is worse than the last! Where is the dignity of a divine beast? So infuriating! It's always this infuriating!
The little animal started scratching the ground with its claws: as if scratching her face...
Chu Nian continued, "This donkey is really peculiar. It has white fur all over its body, a horn on its forehead, and what are those two things on its sides? They look like wings."
Jiang Bai solemnly introduced, "This beast is named Bai Ze, an ancient divine beast."
The little beast turned around and scratched Jiang Bai's trouser leg angrily: "Do you really think she doesn't recognize me as the ancient divine beast Bai Ze? She's definitely doing it on purpose, on purpose, on purpose!"
Chu Nian asked with a curious look, "An ancient divine beast? How do you have one?"
Jiang Bai: "I obtained it by chance."
Chu Nian nodded and said, "Excellent, I look forward to you having something else that will surprise me through 'chance'."
Jiang Bai lowered his head and secretly smiled.
Chu Nian wondered: Why is this child's face red again?
Late at night, Chu Nian gave Wen Wan some instructions, then casually climbed over the wall and left the palace: "I'm off to have some fun!"
Once outside the capital, Chu Nian discovered that Bai Ze was communicating with her through their souls: "Master, where are we going now? I have a map of the entire Xuanwei Continent, along with detailed addresses, branches, and basic introductions of the major Xuan Sects."
Chu Nian asked in surprise, "You, an ancient divine beast, actually know how to collect information from various mystical sects?"
Bai Ze said, "I didn't collect them. You don't know, Jiang Bai's ruins have everything."
Chu Nian was even more surprised: "He has a ruin?"
Bai Ze: "Yeah, how come you can't even sense that he has a Void now?"
Damn, she's so weak, could she not even realize that I have a soul contract with her? I should have pretended not to recognize her, maybe I could have been carefree for a while. Was it a bit too early to call her "master"?
Chu Nian pondered for a moment.
Bai Ze tentatively asked, "Little girl, where are we going now?"
Chu Nian: "You called me master just now, but now you call me little girl. What's the reason for that?"
Bai Ze: "Jiang Bai lent me to you, and I can temporarily treat you as my master. But then I thought, there can only be one master, so I'll still call you little girl!"
Chu Nian: "How could a divine beast like you recognize Jiang Bai as its master?"
Because she was riding on Bai Ze's back, she didn't see Bai Ze's eyes rolling around.
Bai Ze simply said, "Hey, it's fate!"
Chu Nian: "Besides the map of Xuanwei Continent, what else is in Jiang Bai's ruins?"
Bai Ze: "Immortal mountains and pavilions, spiritual springs and divine valleys, the Nether Sea and the Dead Lake... Sigh, this kid is amazing, he's almost turned his ruins into three thousand small worlds."
Chu Nian frowned slightly and pondered, "Three thousand minor worlds?" Could the formation of the world in this book be related to this guy?
Bai Ze said, "I was just saying that to describe how complete his ruins are. The Three Thousand Small Worlds are actually not enough. At this moment, his ruins are only a spatial concept, not a temporal one."
Chu Nian: "You took his things from the market, won't he blame you?"
Bai Ze: "How could that be? He asked me to get that map, probably because he thought you could use it, little girl!"
Chu Nian: "You can call me Nian Nian, don't call me little girl." I'm not that old as I look.
Bai Ze obediently replied, "Okay, Nian Nian."
Chu Nian: "Does your map have the address of Xuan Yuan Sect?"
Bai Ze: Yes.
Chu Nian's lips twitched slightly, and she said, "I'm talking about the Xuan Yuan Sect from the ancient times."
Bai Ze: "I know. There has only ever been one Xuan Yuan Sect on the Xuanwei Continent since ancient times."
Chu Nian sighed, "An ancient sect, I didn't expect it to still be around." Ancient times, that must have been at least several thousand years ago.
Bai Ze: "Of course, Jiang..."
He suddenly stopped mid-sentence, and Chu Nian asked in confusion, "Why did you stop talking? What were you trying to say? When you said 'Jiang,' were you trying to say what happened to Jiang Bai?"
Bai Ze: "Hmm. What I was trying to say is that Jiang Bai is quite capable; the map he got is very reliable."
Chu Nian: "Let's go straight to Xuan Yuan Sect."
Bai Ze: "Okay!"
Before dawn, Bai Ze stopped Chu Nian in front of an invisible barrier and said, "There is a barrier here."
Chu Nian: "Do I need to break the barrier to get in?"
Bai Ze: "No need, I have a token."
Chu Nian turned to look at Bai Ze, and asked in surprise, "Where did you get this token?"
Bai Ze: "I already said that Jiang Bai's ruins have everything, right?"
Chu Nian: "He has all the tokens from the ancient Xuanmen sect?"
Bai Ze blinked his big, watery eyes innocently and said, "Yeah, I'm also wondering how he can have everything."
Chu Nian: I don't believe you for a second!
Bai Ze opened his mouth and spat out a blue crystal heart, saying, "Here's the token for you."
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