Chapter 171 Isn't it cold?
The palace was silent. Gong Yuanjin's eyes were deep, and his gaze was fixed on the girl who was breathing softly. Just as he was about to speak, the girl shouted first.
“I know what you want to ask. Why I ended up in your room like this is not important. What is important is that this grand banquet was a trap set by the Upper Realm. The people from the Upper Realm will begin their operation at midnight,” Mu Jianjian said clearly. “We don’t have much time left.”
Gong Yuanjin frowned slightly, momentarily unable to discern the other party's intentions and purpose.
He had always thought that a young lady like Mu Jianjian was a delicate girl who was pampered by the leader of the sect. Even the way she acted at the palace banquet tonight seemed innocent yet cunning. However, he did not expect that she would remain calm and tell him the news that surprised him as usual, even though her wound had not yet healed.
"Leaving aside whether your words are true or false, what is the reason for the 'curse' that Miss Mu just mentioned?" The embroidered cranes on Gong Yuanjin's brocade robe were lifelike, adding to his ethereal air.
Although the "Upper Realm" was merely a legend in the minds of cultivators on the mainland, the seven powers were somewhat aware of the anomaly and recognized the existence of another realm outside the mainland, so it was not surprising that the other party mentioned the "Upper Realm".
What puzzled Gong Yuanjin was... how did Mu Jianjian know about the curse on their clan?
It should be noted that only direct descendants of the Gong family knew about this matter.
"The person who cast the curse on your Gong family has no connection with the other six powers," Mu Jianjian said again, making a startling statement. "They have been one family from the Upper Realm from beginning to end."
Gong Yuanjin's gaze towards the girl was different this time, wary and cautious. "Which family in the Upper Realm?"
"That's all I know," Mu Jianjian said, shrugging. "Besides, this isn't important right now. What's important is that we have a common enemy."
Gong Yuanjin is not considered a main character, so the original author did not give him a separate storyline. Mu Jianjian only knows this much... as well as Gong Yuanjin's tragic death due to the curse.
How can I trust you?
Her clothes were covered in mud from the fight, and if you looked closely you could see the girl's badly injured right arm and damaged legs. How could someone like this appear and say the origin of the person who cast the curse?
“I don’t need your trust,” Mu Jianjian said, straightening her breath with her inner energy. She stood up again and looked at Gong Yuanjin with clear eyes, without any impurities. “I’m just telling you this so that we don’t have infighting among our own people when outsiders are eyeing us covetously.”
She looked down and saw that the gruesome wound on her right arm had reopened. Impatiently, she tore the bandages open and wrapped them tighter. After saying this, she was about to leave. "Actually, after investigating for so long, you must have discovered something, right?"
A cold wind blew into the quiet palace from outside the window, inexplicably extinguishing the fire burning on the table. Gong Yuanjin was completely enveloped in the shadow cast by the window, watching the girl walk towards the moonlight outside the door.
He finally spoke, "What do you need me to do?"
"Pass these messages on to the Xuan Shuang Sect and the Holy Lotus Pavilion." Mu Jianjian's eyes were serious, flashing with something like a shooting star, but disappearing in an instant.
"So where are you planning to go?" Why should he be the one to arrange it? Even though a strange impulse compelled Gong Yuanjin to trust the girl before him, he remained puzzled. "Besides, the Golden Crow Shrine..."
"I'm going to the Golden Crow Temple," Mu Jianjian interrupted him.
"So you knew all along that I would agree?" Gong Yuanjin asked, taking a deep breath, seeing that the other party had already made up his mind.
"Yes, that's right." Mu Jianjian readily admitted it, then turned and left decisively, leaving Gong Yuanjin with only her back view.
Many years later, Gong Yuanjin could still recall that night.
The girl, whom they had only met once at a palace banquet, unsuspectingly pointed out the source of the curse that had plagued their family for ten thousand years. After bringing them news from the upper realm, she chose to face everything alone.
——
After swallowing a few pills, Mu Jianjian acted as if nothing had happened and quickly headed to her residence at the Golden Crow Temple, ready to make a big splash.
"Don't you know what 'capture the king first' means? I've read the Thirty-Six Stratagems since I was a child..." She glanced at the still brightly lit palace of the Golden Crow Temple. Once you've been there, you'll get used to it. After putting on the human skin mask, she quietly slipped inside.
[But the saying "to catch the thief, first catch the king" is clearly from an ancient poem, isn't it?] The system was speechless. Didn't she know about the big data in its brain?
"At such a critical moment, you're still arguing with me about where the saying 'capture the king first' comes from? Do you think it's even worth it now?" Mu Jianjian's voice was full of disbelief.
System: She forgot herself and then panicked! Unbelievable!
Mu Jianjian quietly stepped onto the roof and looked up at the moon, trying to use its position to calculate the time, but ultimately failed.
I wish there was a Xiaotiancai smartwatch.
In the end, we can only roughly estimate the time based on the time the banquet ended.
Mu Jianjian put on her mask of pain.
"Operation Night 003".
Having already scouted out Jin Fuzhen's palace before, Mu Jianjian knew its approximate location, but upon entering, she discovered a barrier-like structure inside.
She was about to reach out and touch it when she suddenly stopped, a bad feeling rising in her heart.
To avoid alerting the enemy, Mu Jianjian activated her pupil-changing technique, using the illusory butterflies that appeared in her pupils to determine the flow of true energy around the barrier. Sure enough, she discovered something amiss.
"Mu Jianjian, there's no need to waste your energy."
A familiar female voice sounded from behind. As Mu Jianjian turned around, she saw Jin Fuzhen with an undisguised smile on her pale face.
She seemed to have just come out of the palace; her skirt was delicate and flowing, and the breath she exhaled as she opened and closed her lips created a white mist in the air.
Satisfied with the girl's surprised look, Kim Bok-jin walked to the stone bench in the courtyard and sat down. "I was thinking about how to get revenge on you, but I didn't expect you to deliver yourself to my doorstep."
When Mu Jianjian realized that her identity had been exposed, she reached out and tore off the human skin mask, revealing her true face. She could clearly see the hatred that flashed in the other person's eyes.
"Jinwu Ji Nu, are you not pretending this time? I thought you really enjoyed acting." Her voice was calm, but not a single word reached Jin Fuzhen's ears.
"Mu Jianjian, let me tell you, from the moment you stepped into this courtyard, you were already dead!" Jin Fuzhen was furious after being exposed, and she slammed her hand on the stone table with a "thud".
"Oh," Mu Jianjian said dismissively, "Aren't you really cold?"
"What?" Kim Bok-jin was stunned and didn't react.
"Tell me, aren't you cold without hair and a hat on your head?" Mu Jianjian's expression was as if she were concerned for a close friend. "If you gave me tens of thousands of high-grade spirit stones, I wouldn't recommend making you a hat. You want a sun hat, a baseball cap, a cowboy hat—"
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