Chapter 113 Zhu Jing encountered someone who was so shameless about living off a woman...
Yun Tianjiao followed the two immortals until they changed the subject and began discussing how to attract more worshippers more quickly, at which point she gradually parted ways with them.
"Zhiwei, do you think that Lord Kenian... is really dead?" Yun Tianjiao, with his cat ears drooping, walked silently toward the Lin Shen Temple, looking somewhat dejected.
"Does Your Highness want me to tell the truth?"
"nature."
"Shen Qiongzhi was able to break through the Tower of Sorrow on her own. There has never been a ghost spirit as powerful as her in the Three Realms before. With her strength, she was also unable to sense the divine essence of the God of Remembrance. She is probably in grave danger."
Yun Tianjiao was already mentally prepared for this, but she didn't say it in front of Shen Qiongzhi. She felt very suffocated. Whether it was Shen Hengzhen in this life or the God of Kenian in the past, they were undoubtedly very important friends to her.
Overwhelmed with grief and anger at the loss of her close friend, all she wanted was to find out the truth as soon as possible and seek justice for Ke Nian.
"When Ke Nian left the Ghost Realm, his divine essence appeared stable, so it's impossible that he simply died from exhaustion of divine power. If he was murdered, who do you think is most likely the culprit?"
"Does Your Highness suspect Qingyuan?" Zhiwei could always guess her thoughts immediately.
Yun Tianjiao said, "Qingyuan was promoted to God Venerable by Lin Shen before, but he has never been able to win over the people, especially since he is in charge of wind and rain, which overlaps greatly with the duties of the God of Agriculture. Based on my understanding of Qingyuan, he should be very dissatisfied with this situation. He disappeared for a long time for some reason, and coincidentally, he returned as soon as Kenian died, and even took over Kenian's position as the God of Studies."
“It seems that Qingyuan is indeed very suspicious.”
Yun Tianjiao sensed the hidden meaning in Zhiwei's words, "What, you don't agree?"
"It's not that I disagree, it's just that I feel that people who are too suspicious are like those who have laid out the answer to the riddle, as if they are being deliberately led to doubt."
"But besides Qingyuan, I can't think of anyone else. If it was Lin Shen who did it, what benefit could he possibly gain from it?"
At this moment, Yun Tianjiao had arrived outside the barrier of the Lin Shen Divine Palace. She summoned an object that floated in front of her, which was the blessing note written in blood by Zhu Jing that Shen Qiongzhi had left for her.
She added a tracking spell to the blessing letter, and a faint red aura emerged from it, like a thin red veil, leading all the way to the deep temple.
"Zhu Jing is indeed inside the temple of Lin Shen!" Yun Tianjiao's spirits lifted. "But how can we get in? Once we enter the barrier, we will be detected by Lin Shen's divine sense. I think even your divine power cannot completely hide the two of us."
"Don't rush, Your Highness, please take a look."
Following Zhiwei's instructions, Yun Tianjiao looked up at the sky above the Lin Shen Palace and saw a wisp of black smoke rising amidst the radiant celestial palace!
"What is that? It looks like demonic energy."
The wisp of black mist vanished in an instant, disappearing without a trace, as if they had only been hallucinating.
“When the black aura appeared just now, this barrier became extremely unstable. I suspect that Lin Shen is currently experiencing a health problem.” Zhiwei suggested, “Your Highness, why don’t we wait and see if there is an opportunity to take advantage of the situation?”
So the two of them waited outside the barrier of the Deep Temple for a few days and actually discovered a pattern.
Surprisingly, at a fixed time every day, black demonic energy would appear inside the Lin Shen Palace. At this time, the barrier would become weak, but it would only last for a quarter of an hour before everything returned to normal.
In other words, as long as they enter the temple within this fifteen-minute window, they are very likely to avoid being discovered by Lin Shen.
When the demonic energy reappeared, Yun Tianjiao no longer hesitated. His cat ears perked up, his cat eyes widened, and he nimbly stepped into the barrier and ran away.
She needed to find Zhu Jing's location as quickly as possible, following the flow of blood energy.
Cats are naturally agile and nimble. With the cultivation of the Ghost King's inner core and the divine power of Zhiwei, Yun Tianjiao was so fast that she was almost a shadow. Even if the fairy maids and servants in the Lin Shen Palace noticed something, by the time they turned around to look, she had already disappeared from the spot and darted more than a hundred meters away.
As a Celestial Venerable, the temple in the depths of the abyss was vast, with layers of palaces as deep as the sea, seemingly without end. Yun Tianjiao passed through palace gates and climbed over walls. The closer he got to the center of the temple, the thicker and more solid the blood-red ribbons connecting the blessing slips became.
Finally, they arrived at the gate of the central palace. There were no more celestial attendants or fairies to be seen. The towering hall seemed to be a forbidden area, with every brick and tile exuding an aura that kept strangers away.
Yun Tianjiao stopped, looked up at the majestic main gate of the palace, but did not rush to go in.
"Zhiwei, have you noticed that there seems to be a very dense spiritual energy here?"
"I've noticed that the palace is surrounded by a barrier spell to isolate spiritual energy, but it still can't stop the spiritual energy from leaking out."
Yun Tianjiao found it unbelievable, "Since the Heavenly Pillar broke, there has been no spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Otherwise, the gods would not have been so frustrated as to try to please their worshippers in order to maintain their divine essence through the power of incense."
But why would this natural spiritual energy, severed for hundreds of years, appear in a temple deep within the mountains?
The situation was urgent, leaving her no time to think. Yun Tianjiao could only try to find a way into the palace, her questions lingering in her mind. Instead of going directly through the palace gate, she climbed up the wall to the roof, pried open a loose jade tile with her claws, and carefully crawled through the hole.
She had been a cat in the Ghost Realm for a year, and was quite adept at this kind of mischief. Just as they had predicted, once inside the palace, the spiritual energy was dozens of times more abundant than outside. Zhiwei's divine essence, which had been stuck at the Immortal Lord level for a long time, broke through to the Immortal Venerable level in this short period of time.
This is the power of the natural spiritual energy of heaven and earth; without relying on any external force, one's cultivation can progress by leaps and bounds.
"Now I finally understand why those gods hated you so much back then," Zhiwei sighed.
Yun Tianjiao was silent for a moment, then said, "I understand now."
She was truly brave back then, severing the Heavenly Pillar in one fell swoop and cutting off the escape route of all the gods. But as the self who embodied desire, she seemed unable to foresee that in the years without the Heavenly Pillar, the Three Realms would not become the way she wanted them to be.
The pillar of heaven can be severed, but the greed and indifference of the gods cannot be severed. In the end, they only changed their methods to torment the mortal beings who are as insignificant as ants.
The entire palace was empty, with towering statues of gods standing in the depths everywhere. Yun Tianjiao was extremely grateful that she was now a cat; her four paws could perfectly conceal the sound of her footsteps. She climbed down the beams and pillars, guided by Zhu Jing's blood energy, and arrived at one of the towering statues of gods.
To an outsider, the statue appeared perfectly normal. However, to Yun Tianjiao, hundreds of threads of blood energy floated around it, resembling giant blood-red anemones. One end of the threads converged on Zhu Jing's handwritten blessing, while the other end went to the back of the statue.
"This is it! There should be a secret room behind this statue."
Just then, footsteps suddenly came from inside the temple. Yun Tianjiao's cat ears twitched, and he quickly hid in the shadow of a nearby statue, holding his breath. Zhiwei also set up a barrier to try to erase the traces of the two of them.
The newcomer was Lin Shen. His face was extremely pale, and he was emanating a dark aura that seemed to be rising into the sky. He stumbled and staggered as he walked, as if he was struggling to support himself.
He walked straight to the statue, opened the mechanism, and didn't notice Yun Tianjiao and Zhiwei.
The handsome and majestic statue of the Celestial Venerable moved slowly forward, while a hidden door rose from the jade wall behind him.
They went through the secret door, and before it could be completely closed, Yun Tianjiao, disguised as a black cat, slipped inside silently.
A dark staircase led straight underground, where the spiritual energy was so abundant that even Yun Tianjiao, a ghost, could sense it. She dared not get too close, so she could only stay far behind Lin Shen.
Finally, the stone steps came to an end, where a dark underground hall was set up with a confinement array. The dense array runes glowed with spiritual light, flashing and illuminating the surroundings. In the center of the array, the person bound by chains to a stone pillar was none other than Immortal Lord Zhu Jing.
Yun Tianjiao was utterly shocked the moment she saw Zhu Jing. Her gaze traveled from Zhu Jing's long, flowing hair to her shapely chest, and she almost blurted out—
Immortal Lord Zhujing is actually a woman!
The source of spiritual energy that filled the entire space, a source that even a palace could not contain, was none other than Zhu Jing's body!
Lin Shen practically tumbled and crawled to Zhu Jing's side, as if a dying person had found a life-saving antidote. He wrapped his arms around her thin shoulders, leaned down and brought his lips close to hers, and began to draw spiritual energy from Zhu Jing's body like a demon sucking the yang energy of a human.
Zhu Jing, who had been keeping her eyes closed, opened them slightly. She seemed very weak, and her dark, beautiful eyes were devoid of any light. When she saw Lin Shen, she did not show any surprise. Clearly, this was not the first or second time that he had absorbed her spiritual energy like this.
"Miss Shen... how are you?" Her lips moved slightly, and the question she asked was related to Shen Qiongzhi.
"Don't worry, as long as you cooperate obediently, she will be fine. I will take good care of her." Lin Shen replied perfunctorily, still greedily absorbing Zhu Jing's spiritual energy. As he absorbed the spiritual energy, the demonic energy on his body was gradually suppressed, and his complexion visibly improved.
Zhu Jing closed his eyes again, seemingly relieved by Lin Shen's promise, and was able to fall into a deep sleep again.
"Zhiwei, he should be discovering us soon." Yun Tianjiao could sense a powerful divine sense force slowly spreading out from Lin Shen as the center.
“It’s too late to escape,” Zhiwei said in a deep voice.
"Then there's no need to run, let's do it now!"
As soon as they finished speaking, the two of them appeared almost simultaneously and launched an attack on Lin Shen.
Lin Shen had just absorbed spiritual energy and was meditating to recover when he was suddenly attacked. However, he seemed to have been prepared, as he suddenly opened his eyes and quickly set up a protective barrier around himself, blocking the attacks from the two people.
"I thought it was some little mouse that had followed us in. It turns out to be Her Highness the Eldest Princess and the Heavenly God Zhiwei. Oh, no, I should address you as His Majesty the Ghost King."
Since Immortal Zhu Jing is a woman, it couldn't have been her who violated Shen Qiongzhi.
Yun Tianjiao stared coldly at Lin Shen and asked, "You were the one who killed Shen Qiongzhi, weren't you? Why did you do that?"
Lin Shen laughed, completely unconcerned, and said, "Why bother about the life or death of a mortal? But I'm also grateful to her, otherwise how would I have discovered such a treasure?"
As he spoke, he glanced at Zhu Jing beside him, his gaze as if he were appraising an object, which annoyed Yun Tianjiao.
She summoned her vajra and struck Lin Shen's face.
Lin Shen flicked his sleeve to deflect the vajra, narrowed his eyes slightly, and stared at Yun Tianjiao's face. "You sacrificed your life to appease the demon's anger, and now you wield this vajra. Who exactly are you?"
He looked at Yun Tianjiao, his expression momentarily dazed, as if recalling something. He couldn't help but reach out and touch Yun Tianjiao's face. "Yu Meng... is that you? But why don't I recognize you?"
Several talismans flew through the air. Lin Shen was caught off guard and his outstretched hand was cut, drawing a few drops of blood. His eyes narrowed, and he quickly regained his composure, looking at Zhiwei with a hint of exasperation.
"Your Majesty the Ghost King, if I'm not mistaken, you gave her your Ghost Core to save her, didn't you? In the past, perhaps you still had the strength to fight me, but now... hehe..." Lin Shen's contempt and mockery were all contained in that last cold laugh.
Zhiwei smiled as well. He took a few steps and hid behind Yun Tianjiao, saying to Lin Shen, "This humble god is indeed no match for the Heavenly Venerable. But Her Highness the Princess can. She will protect me."
Lin Shen was silent for a moment, never expecting this person to put on such a disgusting act of bullying others. Looking at Yun Tianjiao, who was as cold as ice towards him, he felt a strange sense of resentment.
He clearly had no connection with this princess of Yunchi Kingdom, so why was he so concerned?
"This is truly strange. It's the first time I've encountered someone who lives off a woman so brazenly. Now that you're here, don't leave."
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