Chapter 169 If you're going to fight, hurry up, I'm in a rush.
Mu Jianjian walked in the moonlight, touched her round belly, and let out a burp.
She felt a little regretful for eating too much at the banquet, but if she could choose again...
She will still eat just as much.
Mu Jianjian originally intended to go to her senior brother to ask him about what had happened, but suddenly felt that the palace was eerily quiet.
She suddenly slowed her pace, raising her alertness to the highest level.
Although the cultivators from the smaller sects who attended the palace banquet had long since left the palace, leaving only the four sects who came to participate, the environment was clearly too quiet.
Mu Jianjian walked for a while and found that nothing unusual had happened. She took a deep breath to shake off the strange feeling in her heart and walked towards the palace of Chi Wenqing in her memory. She did not notice that a pale hand was reaching out from the shadows of the palace wall.
"Junior Sister Mu."
The palace was empty and silent until Qu You's voice pulled Mu Jianjian out of the eerie stillness.
"Qu You—" Mu Jianjian looked at the man walking towards her, her expression unreadable, "Isn't Senior Brother here?"
“He has gone to attend to something. If Junior Sister Mu needs to find him, please wait here.” Qu You walked in front of the young lady, her expression unchanged.
Logically, Mu Jianjian shouldn't have any doubts, but she stared intently into the man's eyes and remained silent for a while before finally speaking, "Since Senior Brother isn't here, I'll head back first."
After saying that, he pretended to leave.
They went back?
Qu You frowned. "Junior Sister Mu, you can wait here. There's no need—"
"He's not going to use you to stall me again, is he?" Mu Jianjian knew he would try to stop her, so she quickly turned her head, pointed at him with her index finger, and said slowly and deliberately, "Qu You, tell me honestly, what happened with your senior brother?"
Seeing the anger in the girl's expression, Qu You sighed, knowing her personality.
They address the young prince so affectionately as "Senior Brother," yet they never refer to him by his full name...
"No--"
"Don't lie! Ugh, I'm so angry!" Mu Jianjian wanted to swear as soon as she heard the denial. "Can't good friends be honest with each other? Do you think you're doing this for my own good?"
Qu You finally relented, "Junior Sister Mu, do you know why people from the Upper Realm come to attend the banquet and get involved here?"
Mu Jianjian met the other's eyes without backing down, "Spreading 'Manluo' among cultivators from all over the continent... But I sent people to investigate, and this situation is extremely rare. Besides... Senior Brother?"
After arriving at the Kyoto Demon Palace with Sang Wanyue, she thoroughly investigated all the major transaction records between the various factions. Although she only discovered a few cases, she did not yet have enough time to follow the clues and find the people behind them.
Besides that... there's my senior brother, right?
Mu Jianjian recalled that back in the Xuan Tian Secret Realm, her senior brother seemed to have known the Wood Spirit Clan for a long time.
In the original book, which doesn't describe the "Yingzhou Grand Banquet" in much detail, it is only mentioned at the end that the main villain, Chi Wenqing, became more ruthless after fighting with someone on the third day of the banquet.
“He sent me to protect you.” Qu You didn’t mince words. “The Grand Feast of the World was a trap. They thought it would benefit everyone, but in reality, everyone was prey to be killed in the palace.”
He recalled the other person's expression when he told them all about his plans for the upper realm.
The young prince's smile never faded; he seemed to know everything and could even easily point out their weaknesses.
Qu Youyuan had initially doubted whether the young prince could escape the repeated pursuit of him from the upper realm, but it wasn't until that moment that he realized that not only were those people from the upper realm wrong, but he was wrong as well.
That person was born to sit in a high position and look down on others; he never thought about running away.
"The Upper Realm has made its move? Tonight?" Mu Jianjian unconsciously clenched her fists.
"They originally planned it for the third day of the grand banquet, but it seems they knew the news had leaked and changed the time to midnight tonight." Qu You sighed inwardly at his junior sister's quick thinking and uttered two words. He thought the other side would be anxious, but he didn't expect her to be so calm, without the slightest anxiety before the great battle.
"How many people are there in the Upper Realm? How are they distributed? What is their cultivation level?"
If it's midnight, she can still make it if she rushes.
Qu You gazed into the girl's resolute and bright eyes, and for a moment, she saw the shadow of another person. "Six people have reached the Core Formation stage. Three of them will go deal with the young lord. The remaining three..."
No wonder her beautiful master took her as his disciple.
"Go and deal with us, is that it?" Mu Jianjian continued his words, though it was a rhetorical question, her tone was certain, and her eyes were filled with sorrow.
Qu You thought the other person was scared, "Junior Sister Mu, you can stay here."
The young prince was worried about her getting hurt, so he specially used a talisman technique on her, and she didn't need to worry about that.
"No, I won't stay here. I'm going back. You go help him." Mu Jianjian glanced at Qu You one last time, suppressed her unease, and turned to leave.
Her senior brother had only been in Yingzhou for a few days. Although she believed he had plans, she was concerned about the three people in the Upper Realm, and also about Nangong Yining. If he was thinking about her safety, what would happen to himself?
"Junior Sister Mu, have you thought about the consequences of going out?" Qu You asked, looking at the girl as she turned away with an inscrutable expression.
"Qu You, doesn't your symbolic act of blocking me here mean anything?" Mu Jianjian retorted, without stopping her steps.
Qu You finally showed his first smile of the night. He laughed a few times and left a message for the departing girl.
"Those from the upper realm will be suppressed by the laws of Heaven when they come to the lower realm. I wish Junior Sister Mu good luck."
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【Host……】
In the silent demon palace, only the girl walked through it, the system in her mind trembling and making a sound, seemingly frightened by the coldness on the other's face.
"System, if I complete this mission, you should at least add half a progress bar and give me dozens of consecutive draws, right?" Mu Jianjian joked, but the system still sensed her feelings.
Sadness and unease, yet there were things that had to be done.
[What is the host sad about? Is it because Chi Wenqing is... from the Upper Realm?]
“He has no obligation to inform other forces about the movements of the Upper Realm, so I don’t blame him,” Mu Jianjian said, glancing at the palaces where eerie flames were rising. “And although the people of the Upper Realm are strong, they are not invincible.”
【That--】
"I'm just wondering, in the original book, the great battle three days later did not affect the major sects that came to the banquet. Was it really that they were not affected, or was it just a superficial phenomenon?"
It's terrifying to think about.
Mu Jianjian leaped across the palace wall, not daring to slow down or stop, until a shadow rushed towards her from the shadows. Caught off guard, she blocked with her right hand, but was still cut open.
She looked up at the indistinct figure flickering in the shadows of the palace wall, and gripped the morning and evening hairpin tightly in her hand. "Mirror Maiden, if you're going to fight, hurry up, I'm in a rush."
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