Chapter 238 Respect
Standing at the edge of a dense thicket where no one could see the trees, Mu Jianjian hesitated, her voice slightly hesitant, "I didn't expect the garden to look so familiar."
Clumps of thorns formed a narrow opening, just big enough for one person to pass through, while colorful butterflies fluttered their wings, adding a bright touch to this green patch.
She slowly touched the small thorns on the bramble with her fingertips, but was stopped by Nian Qing beside her.
“The thorns here are easy to scratch and get covered in poisonous dust,” Nian Qing said softly, releasing his grip on the girl’s wrist. “Has Miss Mu been here before?”
Mu Jianjian obediently withdrew her hand, examined everything around her, nodded, then shook her head and said, "It looks familiar, but I don't remember it looking like this."
This place looks a lot like the grove of trees in the Mysterious Heaven Realm where the Wood Spirit Clan leads to the Divine Tree. However, the branches in the Mysterious Heaven Realm are withered and thin, unlike the lush and green appearance before us now.
Behind the two, Mu Binyi watched as the man restrained himself and let go of the girl's hand, and muttered to himself.
He thought that, given his master's personality, he would control the other person and hold them in his arms without stopping for a moment, but he didn't expect this...
Restrained and polite?
"Miss Mu, may I wait here?" Nian Qing stepped into the thorns and turned to look at the girl.
“Okay,” Mu Jianjian nodded. Although she really wanted to go and fight for the ownership of the Broken Brocade Scroll, she knew that she didn’t have the strength yet. Rather than sticking to the other party, it was better to leave early and not hold them back. “Go for it!”
Nian Qing's smile deepened. He glanced at Mu Binyi behind the girl before turning and leaving.
It took Mu Jianjian a while to realize that the person behind her wasn't going with her. "Aren't you going with him?"
"I know I don't have the ability, so I won't cause any trouble." Mu Binyi said with a forced smile.
That's definitely not the reason!
Naturally, it was because His Highness wanted him to stay and protect this delicate woman!
"Oh." Mu Jianjian watched as fewer and fewer cultivators remained in the thorny area of the garden, until only the two of them were left. She turned to Mu Binyi and said seriously, "You should stay with him. There's no one else here. Besides, since you've given up on competing for the Broken Brocade Scroll, no one will bother me."
It was actually discovered.
"I—" Mu Binyi's smile froze. He was about to refuse when the girl beside him continued.
“Although Nian Qing said you two are not familiar with each other, I know that was a joke. The two of you must have faced many dangers on your journey to the Immortal Palace. Since you decided to take the Broken Brocade Scroll from the beginning, one more person means one more strength.”
Mu Jianjian frowned slightly.
When the people from the Demon Palace arrived, she didn't believe that the people from the Immortal Palace would remain indifferent except for a pre-arrival inspection, especially since Nian Qing was injured!
Mu Binyi took a deep breath, and his eyes, which had been filled with less contempt, now held more respect as he looked at the girl. "Then, Miss Mu, please take care of yourself. I'll go help Fellow Daoist Que... Nian now."
"Hmm." Mu Jianjian watched with a solemn expression as the man in blue robes disappeared into the thorns. She took out her hand from behind her back and saw a pair of pale purple butterflies fluttering on it.
"Little butterfly, where do you want to take me?" she asked softly, gently touching the butterfly's antennae with the tip of her other finger.
As if it could understand human speech, the little butterfly spread its wings and flew leisurely to another path in the thorns ahead. Mu Jianjian immediately lifted her leg and followed.
From the moment she first stepped into this place, she had a vague feeling that "I've finally arrived here," and she always felt like she wanted to go in and find something.
This wasn't the first time she'd felt this way; she'd felt the same way before with the Wood Spirit Clan in the Mysterious Heaven Realm.
Mu Jianjian found it hard not to think that this was the place where the Wood Spirit Clan's divine tree was ten thousand years ago, and at that time, the Wood Spirit Clan had not yet been cursed, and everything here was full of its original vitality.
——
Celestial Palace.
A man dressed in a gilded black robe sat casually on a recliner carved from immortal jade, his chin resting on his hand, watching the women's singing and dancing below. Wisps of purple smoke outlined the women's curvaceous figures, captivating all who saw them.
Countless pills were scattered on the jade table beside him. Upon closer inspection, each one was a top-grade treasure, yet they were placed aside like weeds for people to eat and trample on, making the man's handsome face appear even more ethereal and exquisite, like a banished immortal.
"Your Highness, the competition has reached its final stage. More than fifty disciples from the Immortal Palace families have made it. What do you think—"
Suddenly, a man dressed in gray ran into the main hall, knelt down beside the man, and whispered something.
"I didn't go, so what are you talking to me about?" Bai Ji sneered, then abruptly overturned the plate of high-grade pills beside him, smashing them all over the gray-robed man. "Are you mocking my inability to make the Broken Brocade Scroll recognize its master?"
"Clang, clang—"
The gray-clad man's forehead was instantly broken and bleeding, but he did not move, lowering his head even further. "This subordinate did not mean that."
It was His Highness who instructed him to inform him after the competition reached the final stage, yet now he's blaming him...
Bai Ji looked at the gray-robed man who dared not resist, then looked up at the woman still dancing in the main hall and said, "Come here."
The woman in pink had a delicate and fair face. When she heard the man call her name, her cheeks flushed red, a color that surpassed even her clothes. She immediately went to his side.
"Have you taken a shower?" Bai Ji asked with a wicked smile.
"I...I washed it..." The woman in pink stammered excitedly.
Is that what she meant?
"Then why is there still dust on your feet? You've dirtied the floor of the palace too?" Bai Ji watched as the woman's face turned from shy to pale, and then let out a teasing laugh.
Having seemingly finished laughing, he said slowly, "Take her down to the greenhouse to wash. She doesn't need to come out until she's washed five hundred times."
The woman's heart sank to the bottom. She immediately knelt down and begged for forgiveness, "Your Highness, this servant didn't mean it. This servant just thought the scent of pollen could please Your Highness..."
She knew that Prince Bai Ji liked cleanliness, but she didn't expect him to be this strict!
Washing her five hundred times in the greenhouse is a disguised way of killing her!
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