Chapter 19 Loving one person is too tiring, you can love ten.
Mu Jianjian: Oh wow.
The gossip has backfired on me.
"My name is Rong Yuqi," Rong Yuqi said after the telepathic transmission ended.
Before the two sisters could even utter a word of small talk, the paper lanterns that had been slowly floating overhead began to spin rapidly, accompanied by an aged voice that announced, "Groups of five, each randomly selected to enter a designated area to complete a specific task."
The paper lanterns floated down in front of each person, corresponding to five lanterns in total.
The original book describes that the five paper lanterns correspond to five attributes, and the female protagonist Sang Wanyue enters the "Golden Realm", which is a test of identifying gold mines and jade.
Mu Jianjian stared at the paper lantern that was gradually slowing down, hoping to draw it. After all, she was the woman who held the answer to the game!
Then Mu Jianjian watched as the "Golden Realm" settled in front of Sang Wanyue, while the "Water Realm" was in front of her, and Rong Yuqi and the two sisters were respectively in the Wood, Fire, and Earth Realms.
Mu Jianjian: ...
She knew it couldn't be that simple.
The moment the five people touched the paper lantern with their fingertips, the small flame burning inside the lantern instantly turned into a mark on each person's hand.
Mu Jianjian felt an itch on the back of her hand, and the next second, she found herself on an outdoor island.
The sound of the waves crashing against the shore, accompanied by the wind, reached the ears of every cultivator who landed on the island.
Mu Jianjian stared intently, the lush trees contrasting beautifully with the azure sky. She stood on the beach, and more and more cultivators appeared, until finally the same old man's voice echoed from before.
"The task for this realm is to find clues and obtain the Flying Goose Grass before sunset. There are over two hundred participants. Good luck to everyone."
Seeing the surrounding cultivators instantly become restless and busy, some forming cliques and others flying into the forest in the center of the island to investigate, Mu Jianjian was curious about the source of the old man's voice behind this secret realm.
The original book only vaguely mentioned that it was "an opportunity laid out by an ancient great being", but she still felt that something was not right.
Mu Jianjian realized that many things in the original book were not accurate because Linghu Zhuoyu's personality did not match the original character.
Suspicion began to creep into her mind, and when Mu Jianjian was about to search for the Flying Goose Grass, she discovered that she was the only one left on the entire beach with another woman in red.
A woman in red sat on a high cliff, fishing with a rod in her hand. As the wind blew and the waves crashed, her line swayed in the water.
Just as she was about to leave, Mu Jianjian stopped and couldn't help but walk up to the woman and look up, saying, "The old man just said that there are more than two hundred participants, which means that there is a limit to the number of Flying Goose Grass. Besides, you can't catch fish at all when the wind is strong."
The woman raised an eyebrow and laughed heartily, but didn't put down her rod. "Then why don't you go find someone else? Why are you here trying to persuade me?"
Mu Jianjian lightly jumped onto the cliff and landed next to the woman, humming softly, "I'm willing."
"Are you still happy with this?" The woman lifted her red veil, revealing her right side covered in knife scars. The scars were dense and varied in depth, and in some places, the bone was even visible, making it extremely terrifying.
Mu Jianjian was puzzled, "I'm happy to have nothing to do with your appearance."
The woman in red showed no disgust or sympathy for the girl in front of her. Instead, she spoke softly about other things, “I once had to cross a river, but the river was bottomless. The bridge my family built for me was broken, and the boat my lover gave me was wrecked.”
Mu Jianjian sat down next to the woman. The deep sea in front of her stretched out to the horizon, and she could even smell the saltiness of the seawater. "I can teach you to swim."
Seemingly surprised by the answer, the woman chuckled softly, as if making a sound from her throat, "Later, I became that river."
My family opposes me, my lover betrays me, but if I fail to achieve my goal, I become the goal; if I cannot reach the peak, I become the peak!
Mu Jianjian's heart skipped a beat. The woman's veil fluttered, revealing her left cheek, which was stunningly beautiful, a beauty that could topple kingdoms, half a demon and half a celestial being!
Her right cheek was ripped apart by someone who was still alive!
Seeing the girl standing there blankly, the woman in red shook her fishing rod and said, "Why aren't you going to find the Flying Goose Grass? What are you nagging me about?"
“This place is the ‘Water Realm.’ Many people are misled by the herbs and think it’s in the forest, but the Flying Goose Grass is actually underwater,” Mu Jianjian said, looking at the deep blue sea. “The Ancestor said we need to find clues first, but the island is full of rocks and forests. The only strange thing is that you’re fishing here.”
A clue can also be a person.
"Hahahahaha," the woman in red laughed, causing the fishing rod to tremble and ripple on the sea. "I ask you, if I fall in love with someone to the point of disregarding life, myself, and everything else, what should I do?"
"Love is a necessity of life, but romantic love is not." Mu Jianjian recalled the words she had heard in her past life.
"What if I absolutely must love?"
“Loving one person is too tiring. You can love ten, a hundred, or a thousand.” Mu Jianjian answered earnestly.
The woman in red clapped her hands with a laugh, "You're quite amusing. Alright, see this fishhook? Follow it, and you'll get what you want."
As soon as she finished speaking, the woman swung her fishing rod, and the hook snapped in two with a "clang, clang, clang," floating on the sea, glowing with golden light.
Mu Jianjian's eyes lit up, and she happily bowed gracefully to the woman in red, saying, "Thank you." Then she followed the golden hook and leaped into the sea.
The woman in red watched the girl disappear into the sea, feeling a sense of pleasure.
If one day you can stand before me, I will bestow upon you an immense fortune!
At the same time, a female voice said in her ear, "Red Locust Celestial Venerable, this is against the rules."
The Celestial Venerable Red Locust pointed a finger into the air, his voice disdainful, "I am the rule."
If Mu Jianjian were still alive, she would have discovered that the strongest person on the entire continent was only at the Nascent Soul stage, while this woman had already surpassed that by two realms and reached the Void Realm!
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Mu Jianjian held her breath and dived into the water. With her inner energy as a foundation, she was not worried about running out of oxygen. The deep sea was dark, and only the palm-sized hook was constantly bobbing and sinking.
After a long time, after floating past the giant palace built on the seabed, the golden hook landed in the courtyard behind the palace. Mu Jianjian tried hard to open her eyes and saw a small clump of black spiritual grass swaying with the dark current below.
Is this the Flying Goose Grass?
After Mu Jianjian landed, she watched as the golden hook suddenly grew larger and cleaved, and a spiritual herb floated into her hand. At this moment, the teardrop-shaped mark on the back of her hand, which was imprinted with paper lantern, also gained color.
Mu Jianjian: ?
Holding the herb, she looked around blankly. Was it over? Was it that simple?
The next second, the palace wall to her left rumbled. Mu Jianjian instinctively dodged backward and saw a group of women, about ten in number, standing behind the ruined wall, looking disheveled and holding their own weapons.
The two people looked at each other. The one on the other side saw that the girl opposite him was dressed neatly and cleanly, and could even be described as calm and composed. Countless question marks flashed through his mind.
Seeing that the other group had exhausted their true energy and their clothes were covered in blood, Mu Jianjian realized that they were on the right track, while she was nothing.
Exploiting bugs? Using cheats? Riding on someone else's coattails?
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