kingnovel Chapter 842 My Sweetheart, Did You Miss Me?
Chapter 842 My Sweetheart, Did You Miss Me?
Xu Ning's face darkened immediately upon hearing this.
"What do you mean by taking the blame? Whose fault is it that I should take the blame for? What is this auspicious coin even for?"
The True Lord of Flowing Water and Die Mountain kept his beak tightly shut, tapped his wine cup, and seemed to mean that he would not say anything if no wine was poured for him.
Xu Ning resisted the urge to pour Him a gourdful of wine and filled the cup to the brim. "Can we talk now?"
"Do you remember the last time you and a bunch of little brats fell into the Abyss of Layered Rocks?"
Xu Ning was surprised that True Lord Li Shui Die Shan suddenly brought this up.
"Actually, before you went there, Xiao had already informed the Emperor in advance in order to investigate the whereabouts of Fushe, and temporarily relinquished his responsibility of protecting Liyue to enter it."
Xu Ning nodded, "That's right, we did encounter Xiao inside, and he helped us a lot."
Li Shui Die Shan Zhen Jun slowly sipped the wine in his cup, "But what you didn't see was that the Emperor stood on the high mountain outside the Layered Rock Abyss, and only turned to leave after Xiao came out safely."
What you said makes me feel incredibly safe!
It's a pity I didn't know that at the time, otherwise I would have called for the Emperor to descend long ago.
"So even if we fail in the end, it doesn't matter, after all, His Majesty the Emperor will intervene..."
At this point, Xu Ning paused, then suddenly looked down at the ordinary-looking imperial coin in his hand.
The sudden popularity this year of exchanging auspicious coins, and Walnut's determination to sacrifice herself...
"Could it be that the little girl has already prepared the auspicious money for us as a final memento?"
"So the normal procedure is that Hu Tao thinks she will sacrifice herself and will give me auspicious money. I will naturally return this imperial coin to her. In this way, the Emperor will have left a mark on her. So if an uncontrollable situation arises, the Emperor can also protect His beloved child from harm..."
Li Shui Die Shan tapped his empty wine glass and said with a smile, "But you and your little lover arranged so many people here, leaving that girl completely at a loss, and she didn't even send auspicious gifts... What if, and I mean what if, she accidentally makes a mistake, and His Majesty the Emperor senses something is wrong and is about to intervene, but suddenly, he appears right beside you..."
"Ugh, then why are you even drinking it?!"
Xu Ning reached out and flipped the table between the three of them over, startling Qi Qi, who was sitting next to him and nodding off, awake.
"You two go to the Gate of Death right now and act as my gatekeepers, or I'll have Ningguang and Yelan record the time, number of times, and what you two did when you came to Liyue Harbor in your avatars, and make a report to send to Lord Liuyun Jiefeng... You must have told her a lot of lies in order to get out and have fun, right?"
The True Lord of Flowing Water and Die Mountain was truly enraged this time.
While cursing Xu Ning for being shameless, he obediently went to guard the gate with the sighing True Lord of Moon-Cut Sun.
Meanwhile, Hu Tao was already preparing to light the fire.
"Profound secret fire verses, homa worldly truths, hooking and subduing, pacifying disasters and increasing benefits."
As the secret incantation resounded, the homa staff in Hu Tao's hand, jokingly called the "fire stick," blazed like a torch.
After the homa staff set the altar ablaze, a blazing red light shot straight into the sky.
The other seven sects almost simultaneously saw the sliver of red light emanating from the enormous shadow of Wuwang Slope, and then simultaneously placed the torches they had prepared on the altar.
At that moment, if anyone were still traveling through the ley lines, they would have seen that within Liyue's ley lines, vibrant fire element filled almost every corner, and fiery torrents rapidly swept along the borders of Liyue.
Even at countless ley line nodes on the border, fire butterflies fluttered out and converged towards the center of Liyue, burning away all the death energy along their path as they traveled.
Although many people are unaware of what happened, those who have recently been afflicted by a sudden illness have inexplicably felt a warmth sweep through their hearts, and then suddenly felt invigorated and all their ailments disappeared.
Although the entire Liyue was illuminated by countless fire butterflies, an even deeper darkness descended upon Wuwang Slope in an instant.
The deathly aura, accumulated over countless years, descended heavily like dark clouds.
The two True Lords guarding the Gate of Death had already revealed their true forms, using their immortal magic to try their best to eliminate the surging death energy.
"This will only go on forever; it's time to stop..."
Hu Tao sighed inwardly, realizing that she wouldn't be able to give away the auspicious money she had in her arms.
With a "clang," Hu Tao planted the homa staff into the ground and formed a mudra with his hands.
"Immeasurable lifespan, impermanent end, rebirth through various karmas, this is... umm?"
Just as Hu Tao was about to utter the last two words of the incantation, a pair of hands suddenly covered her mouth from behind.
"Ha, it feels like you always ambush me. I've wanted to do this for a long time."
Xu Ning's voice was full of laughter as he said, "I can handle things like the Hidden Sect."
Hu Tao struggled for a moment, wanting to argue with Xu Ning about the consequences of the Hidden Sect.
Xu Ning smiled and gave a reason that she simply couldn't refuse.
“There was a better candidate, that guy wouldn’t even have been hidden in the ley lines, but he’s probably having a blast in Nata right now. But it’s okay, it’ll be the same if I do it. After all these years, the ley lines in Liyue haven’t left even a trace of me. I’ll come out the same way I went in, so don’t worry.”
"You stay outside and take care of Qiqi for me. Let her absorb a little more death energy to balance the yin and yang in her body. I'm going to see an old friend and will be back in a bit."
Xu Ning shoved Qi Qi, whom he was holding, into Hu Tao's arms, then stepped back and leaned against the cracked gap of deathly energy, uttering the two words that Hu Tao hadn't said at the end.
"Body Seal!"
Using his body as a seal, he sealed the gate deep within the earth's veins, in a place untouched by anyone, re-establishing a new boundary, forever imprisoning the death energy within that boundary, never to release even a trace of it again.
This is the effect that the secret techniques of the Hall of Rebirth aim to achieve.
At this moment, Xu Ning's figure had already slowly disappeared into the void along with the Gate of Death, vanishing in an instant.
With the eight formations connected, the disappearance of the Death Gate was immediately sensed by the other seven gates.
Lan Yan, who was standing at the entrance of Liyue Harbor, took out a small vine doll from his pocket. Judging from its appearance and attire, it looked exactly like Hu Tao.
"Strange, there was no large amount of death energy impacting them, and even Hall Master Hu's aura wasn't particularly disordered. What did they do at Wuwang Slope?"
As soon as Xu Ning's body entered the Gate of Death, he heard two extremely similar voices rang out almost simultaneously.
"My sweet baby/granddaughter, do you miss Daddy/Grandpa?"