Chapter 670 The password to open the door
The trip to the East China Sea is a complete success...
In the old building, when Xu Zhenguan heard these words, the jade hand clenched in her sleeve subconsciously loosened!
The whole person's face also showed a look of relief. Although she had already guessed in her mind just now:
If the operation didn't go smoothly, Zhao Duan wouldn't have the energy to tease me...
"Where is the key? You are not bringing me another female servant?"
After Xu Zhenguan breathed a sigh of relief, he turned and stared at him with his eyes dim.
Zhao Duan shuddered, smiled bitterly and waved his hands:
"How could it be, how could it be... Besides, I didn't take Tuoba Weizhi in on my own initiative. It was really Emperor Taizu's kindness that I couldn't refuse... ahem."
Feeling the empress's increasingly hostile gaze, he stopped joking and said with a smile:
"The key to the East China Sea is actually the Dragon Soul."
The empress was visibly stunned, her curiosity piqued. She took a deep breath and pretended to listen attentively: "Tell me about it."
It’s time for the classic storytelling segment to the empress.
Zhao Duan didn't speak immediately, but pointed to the two cushions on the ground:
"Shall we sit down and talk?"
Xu Zhenguan said with a straight face, "No, I'm tired of sitting."
Zhao Duan nodded, pulled a cushion under his buttocks, and sat down cross-legged:
"I've been busy all day and am exhausted. I need to sit down for a while. That's all."
He was sitting on the ground, looking up at the empress.
Well, the scenery here is unique.
"..." Xu Zhenguan felt uncomfortable all over, and always felt that this posture was weird. He said angrily:
"Where are you looking?"
Zhao Duan looked up blankly: "Huh?"
Xu Zhenguan took two steps with a slightly irritated look, but finally sat down opposite him.
Zhao Duan smiled, then slowly said: "This story starts from when we appeared on the sea..."
Then, he recounted how after the group arrived, they happened to encounter the "Angry Moon", the Sea God's forbidden sea, he killed Elder Qingmu, and arrived at Hongshan Island.
"Then, I and my group arrived at the Silent Sea and prepared to explore. At this time, Zhang Tianshi sensed the aura of Wu Xiankui."
"What? Who are you talking about?" Xu Zhenguan interrupted, stunned.
Her expression changed rapidly, and she leaned forward slightly:
"Wait, you guys fought with Wu Xiankui in the East China Sea?"
Before this, she thought that Zhao Duan and Zhang Yan used the Dragon Soul when they faced the [Sea God] and fought with it.
Zhao Duan nodded:
"Yes, but that's for later."
Then he talked about how he split his army into two groups. He led his men down the Silent Sea, but accidentally entered a mysterious island and encountered a shipwreck from the Qi Kingdom a thousand years ago.
The empress was obviously surprised by this, but with her experience in Layuan as a foundation, she accepted it easily this time.
Afterwards, Zhao Duan casually mentioned his reunion with Li Wushangdao and talked about the scene in his "dream" where he saw Lao Xu.
"So, you're saying that the 'god' that Emperor Taizu cultivated wasn't in dragon form, but was transformed into a dragon spirit in the East China Sea?" The empress was shocked.
She also didn't know this secret.
Zhao Duan nodded:
"It seems that Emperor Taizu was also exploring how to move forward with the lineage of the 'God of War' and accepted a considerable portion of the Qi Kingdom's legacy."
Xu Zhen nodded, as if realizing something:
"No wonder, since Emperor Taizu, all the masters of the royal family for six hundred years, even those like me who have reached the celestial realm, have been unable to cultivate a 'martial spirit' similar to Dragon Soul. At first, I just thought it was Emperor Taizu's astonishing talent, and it would be difficult for future generations to achieve it. I didn't expect there were so many secrets."
She took a deep breath and stared at Zhao Duan, her eyes full of expectation:
"Go on, what next?"
Zhao Duan said "Oh" and said:
"After that, I woke up and found that I had entered the Half-Step Heavenly Man Realm. Then I saw the indigenous monks of the Thousand Islands also landed on the island and besieged us. I took action and killed them all."
Hmm...Hmm?!
The empress listened attentively at first, but then her ears pricked up and she said in astonishment:
"Are you halfway to becoming a celestial being?"
Well, she didn't care at all about the dead natives...
At the same time, because he was in a puppet body at this time, he did not notice the changes in Zhao Duan's cultivation.
Zhao Duan smiled and nodded, then reached out and took the Empress's hand, then touched his belly:
"If you don't believe me, Your Majesty, feel it..."
"..." Xu Zhenguan stared at him unhappily, with a half-smile:
"Do you want me to cooperate with you? It's just a puppet body. Even if you don't have any cultivation, you can still play with it."
A chill ran down Zhao Duan's spine, and he let go of her hand with a wry smile. He had no interest in the oversized doll!
"Go on." Xu Zhenguan snorted, his eyes suggesting, 'You're quite capable, aren't you? Why are you so scared?'
Zhao Duan sighed, looking helpless:
"What happened after that wasn't very interesting. I realized that the completed Dragon Soul was actually the key, so I rushed out of the Silence Sea. I happened to see Wu Xiankui trying to escape, and I wasn't willing to let him go. I chased him and, while the Dragon Soul was still alive, blew him up to death."
The building fell into silence.
Only the flames on the candlesticks around were burning quietly.
The night was quiet, and small insects were flying around the red lanterns under the eaves outside.
There was a dull look on Xu Zhenguan's fair and beautiful face, and a look of deep confusion appeared in his eyes.
After a while, she asked with a quick breath as if to confirm:
"You said... Wu Xiankui was...blown to death...by you?"
Zhao Duan nodded as a matter of course:
"Yes. I have to say, this man is indeed difficult to kill. In the end, I had an idea. I remembered that different cultivation paths have different ways of transporting Qi, so I simply stuffed the dragon soul into his Qi sea.
As a result, the two paths repelled each other, his internal strength was directly broken, and he was blown to death.
The body sank into the sea, causing the Sea God to fall back into a deep sleep, so it could be considered a good thing he did."
Xu Zhenguan sat on the mat in a daze.
Long eyelashes hold the light.
a long time.
She took a deep breath and looked at Zhao Duan with a soft and complicated look:
"You did this for me..."
Intercepting the celestial beings and fighting with them will undoubtedly involve taking huge risks.
In that situation, there was actually no need for Zhao Duan to take risks.
Zhao Duan smiled nonchalantly:
"Actually, I had a pretty good chance of winning, so I tried it. If he wasn't severely disabled, I wouldn't be able to defeat him."
The empress said nothing, but her bitten lips revealed her inner emotions.
The house is filled with a charming atmosphere.
"By the way," Zhao Duan finally broke the atmosphere. He reached into his arms, took out the silver scroll, and shook it.
A strange, pale, radiant grass fell to the floor.
"Dragon God Grass?!" the empress exclaimed.
Zhao Duan smiled:
"Yes, it happened to be ripe when I went there, so I brought it back. I was planning to go to the Tianshi Mansion tomorrow to borrow a crane and send it to the front line. It should be of some help to His Majesty's injuries."
More than just help?
Although the empress seemed to be in a good position, she was seriously injured in the battle with Wu Xiankui that day.
With this magical object, she can recover quickly.
Xu Zhenguan was silent, and she suddenly smiled bitterly:
"I owe you more and more, and I will never be able to repay you in this lifetime."
Zhao Duan blinked: "Then why don't you pledge your love to me, and I will take the loss."
Xu Zhenguan was at a loss for words, snorted, and curled his lips:
"Hasn't it already been promised?"
Well, it has been agreed in essence, but there is still a formal ceremony missing.
Last time, the two of them had discussed that they would hold a formal wedding after the Eight Kings Rebellion was over, but they didn't expect that one crisis would come after another.
The current situation is getting further and further away from this goal. Unless the threat of Xuan Yin is completely resolved, otherwise... the two of them will not be able to finish their "life"...
"Now we have both keys, and all we need is the last password." Zhao Duan said excitedly.
The Empress also perked up and nodded, "That's right. Then... let's start?"
"good."
The two of them already had a tacit understanding. They closed their eyes at the same time and began to meditate.
Then, two souls broke free from their bodies and entered the stone wall beside them.
…
…
In "The World".
The familiar feeling of falling came over him again. Zhao Duan opened his eyes and saw the familiar office and the blue screensaver of his computer.
I took out my phone and turned on the screen. It was just past midnight.
Without hesitation, he stood up, washed his face, and ran along the cold corridor in his leather shoes.
After a while, he left the courtyard and arrived at the place agreed with the empress, which was:
Taiqing Palace.
As expected, when Zhao Duan arrived, he saw Xu Zhenguan, dressed as an urban beauty, standing at the gate of Taiqing Palace, which was closed.
"I'll go get the card pin..."
Zhao Duan didn't hesitate and went to the convenience store to buy a SIM card pin. He took out the empress's SIM card and inserted it into his own phone.
Then I tried again and dialed the number inside...
“Beep, beep, beep—”
In the alley outside Taiqing Palace, Zhao Duan and the empress stared nervously at the glowing screen of their mobile phones, waiting for the other party to answer the call.
In fact, neither of them was particularly confident about where the final code to open the door was.
It's just based on speculation, but I think the probability of it being hidden in the human world is the highest.
But it's just speculation after all. What if it's not true?
Where should I look for it?
I just hope it won't be another long quest...
The half-withered banyan tree in the Tianshi Mansion told them that time was running out.
Just when no one answered the call and their hearts were sinking, suddenly, the call was connected.
A woman's voice came from the quiet speaker:
"Come in, the door is not locked."
The two were stunned.
Immediately, they subconsciously turned their heads and looked behind them.
In the deep alley, the street lights on both sides cast patches of light, and the lock on the wooden door of Taiqing Palace, which was originally tightly closed, had disappeared, and the door creaked open a gap.
The two looked at each other and saw each other's surprise.
The door is open!
"Let's go." The empress was a man of her own ideas. She took the lead, pulled Xiao Zhao and pushed open the door of Taiqing Palace.
She had been here several times and was very familiar with the place. After turning around a few times, she came to a yard where there was a big tree covered with wooden tablets with various wishes and hung with red ropes.
In the quaint courtyard, only the main hall was lit.
At this moment, a slightly plump female temple priest wearing a Taoist robe was standing in front of the statue, carefully inserting three yellow incense sticks into the incense burner.
Wisps of green smoke rise.
The female temple priest turned around and looked at the man and woman who had barged in with a kind smile:
"Ms. Xu, and...Mr. Zhang?"
Zhao Duan arrived for the first time, but he was very familiar with the place and said with a smile:
"Zhang is fine, Zhao is fine, it's just a name."
The female temple keeper nodded, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes deepened a little.
Xu Zhenguan was not interested in playing dumb with her. He walked straight to the female temple priest, holding his phone in his hand, and said:
"Do you know us?"
The female temple priest nodded, then shook her head calmly:
"I guess so. After all, I have met Miss Xu many times. However, I am not sure about your identities."
She really did remember...
The empress was shocked.
Every time she entered in the past, the whole world would restart, and only she and Zhao Duan would never forget.
However, this temple keeper, whom she had met many times in this world, obviously remembered every time they met in the past.
Guide... this word emerged in the empress's mind.
GM... Zhao Duan thought of the administrator in the game...
The female temple keeper smiled and said:
"There's no need to be surprised, and there's no need to ask me too many questions. I really don't know what you want to know. I'm here simply because of the will left by the last lord of Taiqing Palace, my master, before he passed away."
Zhao Duan raised his eyebrows:
"The previous temple keeper? But his surname was Xu?"
The female temple priest nodded:
"Yes. Before he left, he told me that if he ever called me again from his cell phone number, I should tell him my address.
And when one day the statue of the deity in the temple shines brightly, the door will be opened and the visitor will be given another object he left behind."
It was only then that the two noticed that the surface of the statue enshrined in the main hall was shimmering with a golden glow, but it was obscured by the light of the lamplight and the flames, so it was not very clear.
They looked at each other, and Xu Zhenguan stepped forward and asked:
"What did he... leave behind?"
The female temple keeper did not answer, but slowly walked into the courtyard, brought a wooden ladder over, and leaned it against the big tree in the courtyard.
Then she slowly climbed up to the treetops and reached out to take down a piece of cloth tied to a branch.
The tree was hung with prayer ribbons left by pilgrims, but this red ribbon looked particularly old.
"This is it." The female temple keeper handed it over and said:
"Strangely enough, this ribbon has been hanging for so many years, yet it has never become blurred or broken."
The empress took it with both hands and spread it flat in her palms. Zhao Duan also came over, took a closer look, and his eyes lit up!
On this ribbon, there is a "code" composed of strange symbols.
"These symbols are similar to those on the golden gate." Zhao Duan said in a low voice.
The empress's breathing also became rapid. She had thought that it would be relatively easy to obtain the final password, but she didn't expect it to be so easy.
Yes...
Being able to enter this world means that you have already overcome many difficulties.
There is really no need to set up more levels.
"When did the previous... temple keeper die? Where was he... buried?"
Xu Zhenguan raised his head, clenched the cloth belt, and asked seriously.
The female temple keeper shook her head and said:
"I don't remember. There's no grave. It's just that a long, long time ago, Master went to heaven."
The female temple priest pointed to the sky.
"In the sky?"
Zhao Duan's heart moved, and he realized that the "death" mentioned by the female temple keeper should be Old Xu's departure from the world in the painting that year.
(End of this chapter)
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