Chapter 31 The Voice of an Illiterate
It really is the Palace of Prosperity!
The Golden Palace, as one of the inner levels of the secret realm, opens once every ten years on the mainland. The novel only mentions these aspects and its original setting.
As for what she is seeing and hearing now, it is a blind spot that was not mentioned at all in the original novel.
It's the past before entering the secret realm of the Golden Palace... She fell into the Spirit Treasure Pool and entered the memories of a maid in the past?
Or was it all just an illusion from beginning to end?
"Emperor and Empress, and which power on the continent does this side belong to?" In the novel, there are four factions, two sects, and one continent. Mu Jianjian was eager to know the whole story.
"Power? Continent?" Nuan Ya looked at her as if she were a madwoman. "The Upper Realm has been ruled by the Emperor and Empress for ten thousand years. What nonsense are you spouting?"
The Upper Realm? Ruling for ten thousand years?
Mu Jianjian's mouth opened and closed, but her throat seemed to be blocked, and she couldn't speak. A sense of inexplicable fear rose in her heart—
You think you understand the root cause of the matter, but in reality, you've only scratched the surface.
She seemed to have vaguely found a way out, a way to tear open the original book's tragic ending.
"One last question, what is the Black Cage at the bottom of the lake?" After a long silence, Mu Jianjian finally spoke up.
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With the gentle breeze and flowing water, the green lake is like a painting reflecting the sky, surrounded by pavilions and towers. A ten-mile-long path extends from a five-cornered pavilion in the center, accompanied by a gray-white arched bridge, as if one has stumbled into a fairyland.
Mu Jianjian's pink dress trailed on the ground as she was escorted by guards to the deep palace at the bottom of the lake. Even though she had no cultivation, there were magical artifacts inside that could support a thin membrane for people to breathe.
She sighed softly. There was no going back now, so she could only take it one step at a time and try to find out more about this world and the Golden Palace.
Mu Jianjian originally wanted to slip away, but her body was too weak, and most importantly, she couldn't sense other people's cultivation levels at all!
The guards captured her as easily as capturing a chicken.
Her dress was wet as she stepped onto the stone platform that extended to the bottom of the lake, and then she gradually disappeared into the lake.
No one noticed the two figures that appeared in the pavilion in the lake.
"Your Highness, look, someone's come from the bottom of the lake again. Shall we bet on whether she can survive the night?"
"You might as well gamble on whether someone will come to collect her body." The boy's voice was indifferent, accompanied by the sound of pages turning.
"The grass's been growing really fast lately, so this job isn't as sought after as before. But guess who this woman is?"
"I don't know, I won't guess."
The voice was still immersed in gossip, "I heard she was a maid that the Empress gave to His Highness, and she even fell asleep while soaking in the Lingzhen Pool! Everyone knows that His Highness cherishes the Lingzhen Pool the most, so he didn't kill her directly."
The sound of turning pages, accompanied by the soft whispers of gossip, drifted across the lake's surface, while the lakebed presented a completely different scene.
Mu Jianjian watched the guards leave, placing her in front of an underwater palace, and sighed.
No matter how much she chattered on, they wouldn't utter a single word. How could they bear not to cherish such a beautiful woman?
Depend on!
As Xiao Se's mood gradually calmed down, Mu Jianjian looked at the shrinking oxygen circle, surveyed the dark, colossal palace in front of her, and finally cautiously stepped inside.
The palace was dark, damp, and cold. Wearing cloth shoes, she felt as if she were inhaling warmth with every step she took on the stone bricks, and she couldn't help but wrap her already thin dress tighter around herself.
There were only a few torches in the huge palace. Mu Jianjian took one and used it to light the way.
This is the so-called "dark prison at the bottom of the lake." She dared not venture too far into it, for without her cultivation, she could die at any moment.
Mu Jianjian is very self-aware.
The more she walked, the more frightened she became. Mu Jianjian gasped and couldn't help but imagine all sorts of elements from horror movies. What if a ghost suddenly appeared behind her?
A "whoosh" sound suddenly rang out behind her. Mu Jianjian turned around and swept her surroundings with her torch. "Who? Who's there?"
There were no marks on the stone wall.
Ahhh! Is anyone there?!
Her inner monologue never stopped. Mu Jianjian didn't understand how she managed to persevere and not just give up.
In the blink of an eye, a green shadow suddenly attacked Mu Jianjian's front, but before she could react, a golden light appeared and cleaved the green shadow in two!
Mu Jianjian's mouth was agape the whole time; it was over before she even participated.
As she watched the golden hook, now larger and gleaming with dazzling light, emerge from her fingertip, she finally recognized the green shadow—it was none other than the Flying Goose Grass, the very beginning of the story!
Mu Jianjian was on the verge of tears. Her success and failure both stemmed from the golden hook!
She hadn't noticed before, but the golden hook had been following her all along. Mu Jianjian looked at the hook, which had flown back onto her finger and shrunk into a ring, with mixed feelings.
Are you some kind of superhuman?! You've been a professional lawnmower for a million years!
When Nuanya mentioned that the man-eating grass in the dark prison was probably the Flying Goose Grass, she was finally relieved to relax and a sense of exhaustion slowly crept into her heart.
Holding a torch, Mu Jianjian stumbled into a room filled with books. She stuck the torch into the railing on the wall and then buried herself in the books.
She was very careful and meticulous, opening each book and covering it tightly, just like how she would wrap herself in a blanket after watching a horror movie in her past life. After everything was finished, Mu Jianjian was very satisfied.
While thinking that she might go back after a nap, she also planned that she could wake up in the morning and look through the books here, maybe she could find some clues.
Mu Jianjian fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow, even fantasizing that the book would "flow" into her mind at night.
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"Your Highness, it's such a quiet morning again." Behind the white-robed youth, a short figure followed closely behind, carrying five or six books, and exclaimed in admiration.
The young man in white looked straight ahead, stepped into the room full of books, gently stepped over the piles of books, and began to select books from the bookshelf.
"Has the body been disposed of?" the boy asked, pulling out a book.
"According to what I've heard, that woman's life tablet isn't broken yet, but she's probably crippled if not dead," Little Shadow said in a light voice. "She's probably still hiding somewhere, carefully, right?"
"ha--"
As soon as Little Shadow finished speaking, a breathy sound came from inside the room.
The boy looked up.
"Who? Who? Who?" Little Shadow could barely hold her book, her small body trembling with fear.
With a "whoosh," a pink figure suddenly sat up from the pile of books, the books falling to the ground.
Mu Jianjian was groggily awakened by the noise, but she kept her original aspiration and mission in mind, and immediately grabbed an open book and pressed it against her face.
"What kind of weird characters look exactly like earthworms?"
Mu Jianjian: Making the sound of an illiterate person.
juvenile:……
Little Shadow: ...
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