Chapter 22 I'm going to dye this thing black!
She felt a blur before her eyes, as if she had been turned over, and landed in an old-fashioned room.
This is what the interior of the main hall looked like before entering the corridor.
The beams are made of sandalwood from the cloud-topped hills, the jade pillars are carved with gold patterns, and incense burners are filled with smoke. On the sandalwood table next to it are the Four Treasures of the Study: brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, and a daisy is placed in a porcelain vase.
The familiar voice of the old man rang out again from above, explaining the rules word by word.
In the original book, the female protagonist had her right eye gouged out during this level.
This place is called the Golden Palace, the final barrier to the middle level of the secret realm. It has thousands of different rooms, each with six doors leading to different places.
Rooms may have attributes, weather conditions, and even the direction of gravity may differ.
If Mu Jianjian remembered correctly, the Great Dao was previously divided into "male on the left and female on the right." Female cultivators belonged to the five elements of "metal, wood, water, fire, and earth," while male cultivators belonged to the five senses of "form, sound, color, taste, and touch."
Based on the evaluation of the previous level, each monk will have different colored ribbons generated from the marks on the back of their hands and tied to their left arm.
Those ranked 100th or lower will not receive a ribbon; those ranked 11th to 100th will receive a blue ribbon; those ranked 2nd to 9th will receive a red ribbon; and the first place will receive a gold ribbon.
Each room in the Fanjin Hall contains a certain number of black silk ribbons. Each cultivator can pass the test by possessing six black ribbons, two blue ribbons, four red ribbons, and all gold ribbons.
The ribbons can be stolen. In other words, the better you perform in the previous level, the higher your chances of passing the level, but the greater the danger you also face.
"...Now that the rules have been explained, I wish you all good luck." The old man's voice slowly faded into the air.
Mu Jianjian sat on the desk in the room with her legs crossed. She thought of the woman who had given her a cheat code and felt a surge of gratitude. She knew that she had defeated Tao Xian, who had killed many monsters along the way, and that Tao Xian had exhausted most of her true energy.
Mu Jianjian was pleasantly surprised to feel a slight itch in her left hand and shared it with the system.
"I didn't expect to have a ribbon too, which means I'm in the top 100!"
Amidst the system's praise, Mu Jianjian immediately noticed something was amiss—
The ribbons that grow from my own imprint are golden.
Mu Jianjian: ?
"System, can you help me see if this is gold? I think I'm colorblind." Mu Jianjian asked, sticking her neck out and looking at the ribbon wrapped around her left hand.
[That's right, it's golden silk! Host, you're amazing! You're number one!]
Mu Jianjian: ? ? ?
Why is she number one? This doesn't make sense! Could it be because—
Mu Jianjian's gaze lingered on the gold hook that she couldn't pull out of her finger, and she felt like crying.
You should know that in the original book, the female protagonist was targeted by the demonic cultivators because she won first place and obtained the golden silk!
The Golden Silk Award is a guaranteed admission spot, but it's also a hot potato!
As the song "Da me da me" played on repeat in her mind, she glanced at the writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone beside her in a desolate mood.
A bold plan arose in Mu Jianjian's mind.
"I'm going to dye this thing black!"
system:?
The next second it saw its host start to use a brush to dip into ink and start drawing on the golden ribbon, even blowing on it.
[Host... what are you doing?]
"I'm going to blow the ink dry, blow it dry, blow it dry—" Mu Jianjian cheered herself up. In no time, the gold silk had been transformed into black silk under her "transformation".
Just as she was immersed in her "masterpiece", the sound of the door opening suddenly rang out, and the appearance of a man and a woman instantly alerted Mu Jianjian.
"Senior brother, she has black silk in her hand!" the woman exclaimed, her eyes shining as she looked at the black silk, as if it had already become her possession.
One is at the Foundation Establishment stage and the other at the Qi Condensation stage; the man's cultivation level is very high, Mu Jianjian quickly judged in her mind.
The door behind her creaked open, and Mu Jianjian smiled and waved to the brother and sister who rushed towards her, "See you again sometime."
The woman's figure was blocked by the door, and when the two opened the wooden door again, it was a completely different room.
"The rooms here... are constantly changing? How are we going to find the black silk, how are we going to catch up with the person!" the woman gritted her teeth.
The short, shrewd-eyed man grinned maliciously, "I just sprinkled the Ten-Step Incense on her; she won't go far."
——
Mu Jianjian is communicating with the system about the original plot of the book.
The thousands of rooms in the Golden Palace are constantly changing and moving, but the fixed room in the center remains stationary, and it is also one of the easiest ways to obtain black silk.
It was there that Sang Wanyue, who was wearing gold silk in the book, met a female cultivator.
As Mu Jianjian recalled the setting, just as she opened the east door of the room and stepped out, gravity pulled her upwards!
Anti-gravity room!
The room, though adjacent to each other, felt suffocating for a moment. Noisy sounds came from inside. Mu Jianjian frowned and, while falling, focused her energy to look at the other wooden doors in the room.
Is anyone in the room?
Mu Jianjian didn't want to get involved at all, until a male voice, tinged with condescension, reached her ears—
“Chi Wenqing, if you obediently hand over the red silk, we will give Xuan Shuang Sect some face and allow you to have a complete corpse.”
"You're just a piece of trash at the third level of Qi Condensation, yet you managed to get to this level and obtain the Red Silk. You're quite lucky."
"The remnants of Yingzhou, who are they trying to impress with their haughty airs?"
...
Chi Wenqing?
Mu Jianjian's body, which had been leaping eastward, suddenly curved, and she looked down intently.
Five men dressed in different clothes surrounded a man in white, acting arrogantly.
The man in white still had a smirk on his face, and his figure in the corner looked lonely and helpless.
Damn it! How dare they bully her senior brother?
An unnamed fire ignited in her heart, and Mu Jianjian waved her hand to summon the Nine Heavens Ribbon. The long red ribbon quickly touched the ground with a "bang," separating the five people who looked surprised.
After dodging the red ribbon's attack, the group looked up and saw a girl descending from the sky, her skirt fluttering, a black ribbon tied to her right hand, and her eyes flashing with a fierce light that seemed capable of tearing them to shreds.
Five people: ?
“Fellow Daoist, let’s talk this out,” a Qi Condensation man said, unable to lift his head under the oppressive aura, sweat beading on his forehead. “We don’t know each other, do we?”
Mu Jianjian landed and stood in front of Chi Wenqing, putting away the Nine Heavens Silk. "Don't you recognize me? Don't you recognize me now?"
Chi Wenqing looked thoughtfully at the familiar back in front of him, the blue-black flame hidden in his palm behind his back quietly dissipating.
The five people looked displeased, and they could all hear the nitpicking tone in Mu Jianjian's voice.
Those of us at the Foundation Establishment stage were no match for this, and who knew where this old lady had come from...
As one person saw that something was wrong, he was about to touch the doorknob when a red ribbon snapped his hand back with a "smack".
"Bullying the weak and outnumbering them, shameless!" Mu Jianjian glared angrily, and the red ribbon in her hand made the group instantly obedient.
Five people: ...
Who is bullying whom here?
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