Chapter 179 Disappearance
Chi Wenqing, who was originally being led by the nose by the Demon Lord Nangong Yining, actually had a hidden trump card and unfathomable strength. Fortunately, we didn't antagonize him before. If the Holy Lotus Pavilion can continue to cooperate with Yingzhou...
Just as Ye Wuluo was about to speak, a male voice came from outside the hall.
"Young Master, the matter in the west is also finished." Qu You stepped into the ruins and said to Chi Wenqing.
"Why are you here?" Chi Wenqing's gaze turned cold. "Where is Jianjian?"
Ye Wulu raised his eyes.
Qu You was taken aback, "She... I saw that the Western Division was short-handed, so I went to the Western Division first..."
Sensing the atmosphere growing increasingly tense, he quickly explained, "The Gong family has also gone there, and there's also Cultivator Sang. One of the three has already stopped breathing, leaving only two. They should be able to—"
Chi Wenqing's heart sank. He spoke each word as if to Qu You, and also to himself, "The plan has changed. There are not just three people going there, but four."
"Clang—"
Ye Wuluo dropped the fan in his hand to the ground.
——
Sunlight broke through the darkness and cast a ray of dawn on the ground. Mu Jianjian was quite satisfied with the current limited ending of the main plot.
After the initial excitement subsided, pain and exhaustion finally overwhelmed her, taking hold of her nerves and causing them to scream.
The aftereffects of overuse of the pupil-changing technique soon appeared: blindness in her right eye and double vision in her left eye. Mu Jianjian tapped her head and vaguely saw the faces of the people running towards her suddenly turn terrified.
ah?
What?
Mu Jianjian tried hard to see the lip movements Sang Wanyue was making to her, but her mind was buzzing. She turned to look at Ye Xuanzhi, who seemed to be making some kind of hand gesture to her very quickly.
"Don't play 'Pictionary' with me now, it's really tiring," Mu Jianjian said helplessly, propping her head up with her hand. "I prefer playing 'Who's the Spy' to celebrating with 'Pictionary'."
It wasn't until she saw the hand reaching towards her neck from the right that Mu Jianjian came back to her senses, and the rope that had loosened in her heart tightened again.
At the same time, she finally heard what Sang Wanyue and the others were saying—
"Run!"
The time, less than a second, seemed unusually slow when Mu Jianjian turned her head. She looked up and saw a strange man standing behind her. The black cloak blocked out the light, making it impossible to see any of his features.
"Click"
A black stripe appeared from the man's black cloak, pulling the girl's figure into it, and she vanished instantly before the eyes of countless people.
"Bang--"
Sang Wanyue missed her target and crashed to the ground. She hurriedly brushed aside the hair that was hanging in front of her, but the place where the girl had just been was now empty.
It was as if she had never existed.
She clenched her open right hand, her lips were bitten and bleeding, but Sang Wanyue was completely unaware.
It was so close...
She was so close to catching Jianjian and saving her!
The others were also startled by the sudden change, and no one realized that there was anyone else present!
Ye Xuanzhi immediately cut his wrist, intending to use his mystical arts to tell his fortune. However, after he had exhausted his secret techniques, what appeared before him was a large expanse of black mist that had been artificially blocked!
Can't figure it out...
He cursed under his breath, a sense of powerlessness welling up from the bottom of his heart.
——
It was nearly dawn.
Linghu Zhuoyu, with the small flower wrapped around her neck, looked at the half-dead man in the corner and curiously glanced around.
"Hiss hiss~"
“They won’t come,” Linghu Zhuoyu said, putting the secret jade slip he had taken from the man into his spatial bag. “Only I am here.”
He had long been aware of the old woman's intentions: to kill the other "Five Monsters" and then plunder their life force. However, she seemed hesitant to confront him.
This also meant that Linghu Zhuoyu could enjoy some peace and quiet.
By the time this jade slip is brought back, the turmoil in the palace will probably be over.
Linghu Zhuoyu put his veil back on and slowly walked into the hall. He coldly looked at the broken walls and bloodstains around him and suddenly sensed a familiar smell.
He paused, a strange thought rising in his mind.
"Hiss hiss hiss~" Little Flower stretched out her head and peeked out, wondering why her master was flustered and quickened her pace.
Linghu Zhuoyu was particularly sensitive to the surrounding smells. After passing through layers of palace walls, he finally landed on the ground and looked at the scene in front of him, feeling somewhat at a loss.
Three corpses were found scattered along the corridor between the small palace rooms.
The Mirror-Folding Woman, the River-Walking Monster, and the Old Woman.
"Hiss hiss hiss~" Little Flower wondered.
What's wrong?
Doesn't this mean that the newly arrived master of Jingxu Garden killed the other three and won?
“The taste of the sacred lake water,” Linghu Zhuoyu clenched his hands at his sides and murmured, repeating, “This place has the taste of the sacred lake water.”
In other words, my sister used to be here.
Besides, he knew his sister's personality; she would never drink the water from the sacred lake unless she was in dire straits.
He recalled how, after the three of them crossed the Black Sea, his sister told him that she wanted to go and take a look at Jingxu Garden.
Linghu Zhuoyu had never hated his own slowness so much.
My sister... she's the new head of Jingxu Garden...
What has he done?
"I heard the fighting inside the palace was terrifying. There are so many corpses inside, and every few steps you can see the severed limbs of cultivators," two women in palace robes said as they walked by, looking at the horrific scene on the street.
"Hey, hey, stop talking nonsense, let's hurry up and go to the Imperial Household Department to get our work—" another woman's voice urged.
"Where is Miss Xuan Shuang?" Linghu Zhuoyu raised his hand, his black veil fluttering in the wind, as ethereal as his voice. "Any news of Miss Mu?"
The two women gasped in unison. Something was wrong with them. When they tried to leave, they found themselves unable to move!
"If you're not going to tell me, then don't leave," Linghu Zhuoyu said calmly. "If two people are missing from the palace, I believe no one will notice."
“I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you!” A woman turned around, lowered her head, and immediately began to tell the whole story. “Miss Mu…she has disappeared! Everyone in the palace is looking for her, but…they’ve found nothing.”
Missing?
How did she disappear?
"I heard... he was captured by a cultivator," the woman said in a low voice, "I don't know the specifics, but the entire palace was blown up..."
Linghu Zhuoyu paid no attention to what the woman said afterward. His eyes were filled with confusion, and he ignored the two women as they left.
If he had the same personality as his sister and hadn't chosen to stand by and watch, but instead had exposed the old woman's intentions, wouldn't his sister have been spared from this trouble?
——
Mu Jianjian had no idea that her disappearance had plunged the entire Demon Palace into a gloomy and oppressive atmosphere.
When she woke up, she looked around at the dark wooden house and could vaguely see the lush greenery coming through the window.
Where is this?
They've probably left the Demon Palace. Are they still in Kyoto?
"system?"
[Host, I'm here!] The system gave Mu Jianjian a strong response. [Host, I was so worried about you! You were unconscious for so long, I was so worried!]
"Around when? How are Yueyue and my senior brother in the palace?" This was what Mu Jianjian was most concerned about.
[It's been about a day... I don't know, but your physical condition isn't very good.]
Mu Jianjian then noticed her own condition; the red spots all over her body caused by the burning of true energy had not faded, making her look extremely terrifying.
"It's alright, I'll use my inner energy to regulate myself..." She was about to circulate her inner energy when she raised her hand, but there was no reaction at all!
Her inner energy... disappeared?
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