Volume 9, Chapter 594 – So the Source of the Yin Miasma Was Her (Part 1)

Only then did Mu Ruoyi notice two passersby, so she asked curiously: “And these two are…?”

“You must be Mu Ruoyi, Holy Maiden of Shuiyu Valley, yes? I am Jiang Feng, crown prince of the former dynasty.”

Jiang Feng introduced himself with a measure of courtesy.

“Crown prince of the former dynasty? Of the Great Qi Kingdom?”

Mu Ruoyi asked in disbelief.

“That’s right.”

Jiang Feng confirmed.

“How is that possible? Everyone in the world knows that when the Lin clan led the rebel army into the former imperial palace, they didn’t spare a single member of the royal family.”

Mu Ruoyi immediately raised her objection.

“You believe everything they say? That was purely to steady the troops. In truth, the last survivor of the former royal house wasn’t killed until just over thirty years ago.”

Jiang Feng shook his head.

“If so, where did this lively ‘former crown prince’ of yours come from?”

A playful smile appeared on Mu Ruoyi’s face.

“Lively? Heh. It’s not only the living who can be lively in this world!”

Jiang Feng pulled his lips back slightly, revealing four sharp zombie canine teeth.

“A zombie!”

Mu Ruoyi’s face drained; by reflex she leapt backward, setting off another surge of heaving waves across her chest.

“What are you panicking for? With me here, do you think I’d let anything happen to you?”

Qi Huang shook her head, a little helpless.

“Uh… sorry… pure reflex.”

Mu Ruoyi froze for a moment, then explained awkwardly.

“His Highness the Crown Prince has a request. Hear him out.”

Qi Huang offered a brief introduction.

“Is he your friend? If so, as long as it’s within my ability, I’ll do my best to help.”

Mu Ruoyi patted her chest in assurance.

“Something like that.”

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Qi Huang couldn’t be bothered to waste words.

Hearing this, a satisfied smile crossed Jiang Feng’s wickedly handsome face, and only then did he state his aim to Mu Ruoyi.

“Shuiyu Valley’s Wooden Exquisite Art can indeed attune to plants, but over thirty years ago…”

An awkward look crossed Mu Ruoyi’s delicate face.

“Is there a problem?”

Jiang Feng asked despite already knowing.

“Wooden Exquisite isn’t omnipotent. I’m only at early Incarnation Realm. At most I can view events from a few years back; to see thirty years ago I’d need to reach Divine Realm at the very least.”

Mu Ruoyi explained.

“Is that so? Then how long do you estimate before you reach Divine Realm?”

Jiang Feng pressed.

“Heh…”

Mu Ruoyi gave a self-mocking smile. “If I’m lucky, two or three hundred years. If not, I might not reach it in this lifetime.”

“Two or three hundred years? Far too long. I don’t have that kind of patience. Is there any shortcut?”

Jiang Feng asked, clinging to a sliver of hope.

Mu Ruoyi thought for a moment, then said, “A shortcut? There is one. My own talent is average, but Hongling’s is exceptional. She definitely won’t take that long to reach Divine Realm.”

“What does that have to do with me?”

Cheng Hongling knitted her willow brows.

“Because you’ve cultivated Water Exquisite. Water Exquisite and Wooden Exquisite complement each other. As long as you reach Divine Realm, I can borrow your blood to see what happened over thirty years ago.”

Mu Ruoyi explained in detail.

“Really?”

Jiang Feng was overjoyed, then turned to Cheng Hongling. “Then how long will my Crown Princess need to reach Divine Realm?”

“Crown Princess?”

Mu Ruoyi’s expression shifted at that. Everyone has a possessive streak; even with the protective artifact gone, she wasn’t about to concede so easily.

“That’s just his one-sided wishful thinking.”

Qi Huang explained offhandedly.

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At that, Mu Ruoyi’s expression eased somewhat, though the hostility in her eyes was still obvious.

“Me?”

Cheng Hongling didn’t answer; she looked to her avatar.

“At most seven or eight years.”

Qi Huang lied. Although she was confident she could get her main body to Divine Realm within half a year, she knew that the longer she stretched it, the more it favored her. Better to let the zombie crown prince help parry the source of the yin miasma first. Once she ascended, what would there be to fear?

“Seven or eight years? Truly?”

Jiang Feng was ecstatic.

“Why would I lie to you? If I can’t manage it by then, you’re free to rouse that fiend and have it help you break out of Pingshan Mass Burial Ground.”

Qi Huang smiled with confidence.

“Excellent!”

Jiang Feng let out a long breath. “Then let’s make a deal. For these seven or eight years, I will do everything I can to prevent the source of the yin miasma from erupting. After you reach Divine Realm, you will cooperate with Saintess Mu to help me uncover the clues to my descendants.”

“Deal, it’s settled!”

That was exactly what Qi Huang wanted.

With the bargain struck, Jiang Feng was about to take his leave when something occurred to him: “Since we’re partners now, I’ll give my beloved Crown Princess a free tip: it was a group of cultivators who awakened me in the first place. Looks like someone wants to cause trouble for you.”

“What? Cultivators awakened you?”

Qi Huang’s beautiful eyes widened in astonishment.

“Who awakened you?”

Murderous intent condensed tangibly in Cheng Hongling’s eyes; it sent a chill through the air.

“People of the Huxiao Sect.”

Jiang Feng answered without hesitation.

“How can you be sure?”

Qi Huang asked, forcing down her rage.

“I’ve been awake for two years at least, and the Huxiao Sect struts about so high-profile in Yongning Prefecture, how could I not know? The one leading that day was Elder Zhou.”

Jiang Feng explained. Since his mind was always on reclaiming the realm and claiming recompense, of course he had studied the lay of the land in Yongning.

“So it really was them.”

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Qi Huang trembled with fury. For a sect of immortals to stoop to such bottomless deeds, Huxiao Sect was monstrously inhumane.

Satisfied, Jiang Feng then departed. For him, as long as he established the situation of his descendants, he could act with a free hand.

“Sister Qi Huang, do we really have to help him?”

Mu Ruoyi was less than pleased; she had already begun to see the zombie crown prince as a romantic rival.

“Sister Ruoyi, you heard it just now, the source of yin qi at Pingshan Mass Burial Ground constantly threatens the safety of Huangtian County. If we don’t let him buffer it, once it erupts, never mind Honghua Sect, the entire Western Radiance Dynasty will have no one who can stop it. The whole dynasty would face annihilation.”

Qi Huang explained gravely.

“Fine. For your sake and Hongling’s, and for the people under heaven, I’ll do my utmost to help.”

Mu Ruoyi took a deep breath.

“Now that’s the breadth a Holy Maiden should have.”

Appreciation showed on Qi Huang’s face.

Not long after, Qi Huang and Cheng Hongling returned home.

“So, how should we deal with Huxiao Sect?”

Qi Huang sought the opinion of her main body.

“To make trouble for me, they actually pulled a stunt with no bottom line, nearly bringing annihilation upon Huangtian County. They deserve a thousand cuts. Pity I don’t have the ability.”

Cheng Hongling said, still unable to vent her anger.

“Don’t worry, leave it to me. Anyone who took part in this won’t live.”

Qi Huang sneered coldly.

“When do you plan to make your move?”

Cheng Hongling asked curiously.

“In a while. At least let’s first see how that kid Jiang Feng performs. Weren’t those fiends having him help awaken the source of the yin miasma? It wouldn’t do for me to step out the front door and have the source explode right after.”

Qi Huang replied.

“Mm!”

Cheng Hongling nodded in agreement.

“Once I’m sure he’s cooperating in good faith, I need to head out to take care of something. I’ll tidy up those Huxiao Sect people along the way.”

Qi Huang laid out her plan.

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“What is it?”

Like a young wife, Cheng Hongling kept asking tirelessly.

“Here’s the thing: all my Divine Sense growth has relied on ghost tomatoes. For the past two years I’ve had Golden Fortune Auction House help me collect them, but they’re far too rare in the wild. If I want to maintain a fast cultivation pace, I have to depend on large-scale cultivation. So I deliberately leaked this to Elder Zuo, because I knew he wouldn’t pass up a chance to get rich. And with him planting, ordinary people won’t be harmed.”

Qi Huang began to explain in detail.

“So? Has he started planting?”

Cheng Hongling asked, curious.

“Yes. The moment I got back from Huarong Sect last time, I checked the imperial capital. He’s planted five to six thousand plants already, and the scale keeps expanding. He must be sourcing them from across the cultivation continent. With those ghost tomatoes, plus my own plantings, my Divine Sense will definitely reach the second layer of Heavenly Tribulation Realm by the sixth day of the sixth month next year.”

Qi Huang said.

“Isn’t that great? This way we can handle Huarong Sect.”

A trace of delight showed on Cheng Hongling’s face.

“But the problem is that merely dealing with Huarong Sect doesn’t solve the root issue! My ultimate goal is to uproot the Lü clan’s Immortal Stelee, and now there’s another: protecting Huangtian County from the fiends at Pingshan Mass Burial Ground. So his few thousand ghost tomatoes are far from enough.”

Qi Huang shook her head.

“So what do you plan to do?”

Cheng Hongling pressed.

“I’m planning to leak this ‘get-rich opportunity’ to the Immortal Alliance’s branch halls across the continent and have them all grow for me. Once my Divine Sense reaches late-stage Heavenly Tribulation Realm, I can leave the cultivation continent and search for ghost tomatoes on the planets scattered across the cosmos.”

Qi Huang voiced her grand objective.

“You’re leaving the cultivation continent?”

Cheng Hongling looked shocked.

“Yeah. Only by gathering more resources can I become strong enough!”

Qi Huang clenched her slender fists.

On the third day after Jiang Feng returned to the Crown Prince’s Mausoleum, that Wang Jun came knocking, naturally to have him help awaken the source of the yin miasma.