Chapter 160 She's such a silly girl
“Actually, I’m afraid of holding others back,” Mu Jianjian said, turning to another topic as she channeled her inner energy into the talisman in her hand. “I did think that my senior brother trapped me here because he felt I was holding him back, but that thought only lasted for a moment.”
Both the Chi Wenqing described in the original book and the senior brother that Mu Jianjian actually met told her that he was not that kind of person.
Mu Jianjian was afraid that her senior brother was doing this because something uncontrollable would happen during the banquet.
That's why she needs to go out, for herself and for the people she cares about.
"Just you wait and see how a genius can apply his knowledge to other situations in the field of talismanic arts."
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Instead of listening to Qu You's advice to cultivate the Pupil Transformation Technique, Mu Jianjian spent the entire night studying talisman techniques. With the system's certification, she began using analogy, elimination, and other methods to try and find the core of the talisman array in the palace.
By this time, the news had already spread among the various sects and factions in the Demon Palace that Jin Fuzhen, the nun of the Golden Crow Temple, had her head shaved by two burly men in one night. Even though the Golden Crow Temple tried to cover up the news by saying that thieves had entered the palace, the news could not be contained and even showed signs of spreading outside the palace.
While the various factions kept their intentions hidden, everyone knew the truth, making it an "open secret."
The only psychological comfort that could be given to Jin Fuzhen at this moment was that it seemed that the annoying Miss Mu Jianjian of the Xuan Shuang Sect had really been dealt with by Qu You.
Hearing the news from the Xuan Shuang Sect that Sang Wanyue was anxiously searching for someone, Jin Fuzhen was smug and vowed to find the two people who had shaved her head in the night and grind them to dust. Little did she know that the culprits were in the deep palace thinking about regaining their freedom.
Mu Jianjian spent the whole night finding the core of the formation just as dawn was breaking.
"Are you sure?" the system asked, posing a crucial question.
"Please don't doubt your genius host. She might just be the next rising star in the world of talisman arts. Thank you." Mu Jianjian's lips twitched as she tried to mix her true energy into the array's core, beginning the first step.
Although she didn't know any talisman techniques, she had at least seen Linghu Zhuoyu use talisman arrays many times!
Even if you haven't eaten pork, haven't you at least seen a pig run?
Mu Jianjian glanced at a spot where blue light shone through the transparent wall, and her divine sense, probing into the formation, finally touched a barrier that seemed to be a crucial location where the entire formation was situated.
"See that! This is the benefit of having received nine years of compulsory education!" Mu Jianjian gave herself a thumbs up in her heart, and started bragging to the system in her mind, "Once I destroy this array's core with my true energy, the array will collapse on its own, okay!"
Then she and Yueyue will appear at the grand banquet that night wearing matching outfits, dazzling their senior brother!
Mu Jianjian gritted her teeth, thinking that victory was just around the corner. Just as she was about to pour all her true energy into it, she discovered that the thing engraved deep in her consciousness began to heat up.
It felt like countless ants crawling on a hot pan, tormenting her mental imprint time and time again!
"ah?"
Mu Jianjian was confused, but she quickly used her divine sense to pick up the token she had tossed aside in a corner of her spatial storage.
This is the plaque that was passed down to Cai Hua after Ye Xuanzhi made her the "Garden Master" after her death, proving her identity!
"What the hell?"
The burning sensation in her mind tormented her relentlessly, as if she were suffocating every moment. The instant Mu Jianjian raised her trembling hand to inject her divine sense into the token, she heard a man's low murmur in her mind.
"Get to the Azure Sky Palace of the Demon Palace within one breath, or you will explode and die."
Who else could command and instruct the "Five Monsters"?
Demon Lord of Yingzhou!
Mu Jianjian nearly fainted; she was just a hair's breadth away from breaking through the array and regaining her freedom!
But at this critical juncture, the Demon Lord unexpectedly arrived.
Is it just looking for her, or are the other "Five Eccentrics of Yingzhou" also going?
After quickly putting on the human skin mask, Mu Jianjian took out a black cloak from her space and wrapped it around herself. The burning sensation in her mind almost made her stop thinking. The next second, she poured her true energy into the token.
At the silent palace entrance, the transparent talisman wall still flickered with blue light, but the girl who had been sitting cross-legged on the thick plush carpet had vanished, as if she had never been there at all.
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Still shaken, Mu Jianjian touched her head to make sure she was still conscious.
She's clearly a newcomer!
The Demon Lord Nangong Yining didn't explain how he transferred the person over; he just threw out a sentence and that was it, without considering the feelings of the newly appointed Garden Master at all!
If it weren't for her quick wit, Mu Jianjian really thought she would have become an idiot due to the mental strain.
After calming down, Mu Jianjian put her token back into her spatial storage and began to look around.
In fact, it was no different from the description of the demon Nangong Yining Palace in the original book.
The entire hall was dark and undecorated. From the door she landed on, stone doors appeared every five or six meters to the left and right. The number of these doors corresponded to the "five" in the "Five Oddities".
Directly opposite these five stone gates is a seat carved from black stone, high above.
However, no one appeared in the seat at this time, and only her figure was beside the five stone gates.
Mu Jianjian: ...
She accidentally infiltrated the enemy's ranks for a meeting, and she was the first one to arrive!
It felt just like when I was a working-class person attending a meeting in my past life.
Before Mu Jianjian could finish her internal monologue, an old woman leaning on a cane suddenly appeared at the stone door to her left.
The old woman's hair was gray and casually tied up with a wooden hairpin. She wore a tattered cloth robe and was short and stooped. The cane she was leaning on with her left hand seemed to be just an ordinary piece of wood, and you could even see some small insects crawling on it.
“The girl smells quite young,” the old woman turned to look at the person whose face was obscured by a black cloak, and slowly opened her toothless mouth, “It’s not that dead thing Cai Chu, hehehe.”
Strange laughter echoed in the dark hall.
Mu Jianjian stared at the old woman's wrinkled face, where patches were being sewn. Upon closer inspection, she could even see the stitches. Her eyes were cloudy and devoid of any life force, making her look terrifying.
She recalled in her mind how the author had only briefly mentioned the "Five Oddities of Yingzhou" in the original book.
No one knows how old the old woman Wang Guqiu is. It seems that she has been alive since everyone can remember. Although her cultivation has reached the peak of the Core Formation stage, she refuses to use her cultivation to restore her appearance and always looks old and frail. She even sews cloth all over her body.
After the old woman finished laughing, another person appeared at the leftmost stone gate. The young man was dressed in a red and white brocade robe and wore a familiar veiled hat, with a cool and aloof demeanor.
Jade!
Mu Jianjian's eyes sparkled as she desperately tried to signal to the other person that she was there, but she found that Linghu Zhuoyu did not turn around.
She then realized that she had not told the other party that she had become the new head of Jingxu Garden.
Mu Jianjian: ...
Winter melon, watermelon, cantaloupe—she's such a silly girl.
Because Linghu Zhuoyu's stone door was on the far left, Mu Jianjian tragically discovered that she couldn't use it for telepathic communication.
The old woman didn't care that the other person ignored her; instead, she turned her attention to another man who had appeared.
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