“Find the World-Destroying Demon Emperor?” Po Luo Sha asked, “Using what to find the World-Destroying Demon Emperor?”
“Demon’s Tear.” Fu Ling Xi said.
A tremor passed through Po Luo Sha’s eyes as he said, “You found the Demon’s Tear? A Shi Luo’s portion?”
“Yes.” Fu Ling Xi said.
Po Luo Sha said, “Huai Bing Yi and Ji Xiu Ning’s faction dispatched over ten thousand people to search, yet they could not find A Shi Luo’s portion of the Demon’s Tear. Why were you able to find it?”
Fu Ling Xi said, “Because none of them understood A Shi Luo well enough. They all thought of him as extremely complicated, believing he would definitely hide something as important as the Demon’s Tear in the most mysterious, most complicated place. However, A Shi Luo was a person who followed his whims. Although he was extremely intelligent, he was too lazy to use his brain. No matter what matter it was, he would do it on a sudden impulse, and almost never made any meticulous plans. When I was undercover by his side, almost all the meticulous plans were made by me.”
Po Luo Sha nodded, saying, “Continue.”
Fu Ling Xi said, “Moreover, A Shi Luo was a person filled with destructive tendencies. No matter what matter it was, as long as he wanted to do it, he would definitely do it, paying any price to do it. And subconsciously, he would hope for his own failure. So before his death, although he was wholeheartedly determined to become a Hell Knight, that was also a desire for self-destruction. At that time, he did not truly believe in the World-Destroying Demon Emperor. It was only before his death that he firmed up his dark faith.”
Po Luo Sha responded with a sound, saying, “Continue.”
Fu Ling Xi said, “So through these personality traits, I judged that he would not hide the Demon’s Tear in an extremely complicated, extremely secret place. Of course, he would not simply throw it at home for anyone to see either. Originally, according to his personality, he would have hidden the Demon’s Tear inside a woman’s body. But unfortunately, it would still be expelled, so this plan was ruled out. Then I thought of something. A Shi Luo had a dry well complex.”
“Dry well complex?” Po Luo Sha asked in confusion.
“Yes, dry well complex.” Fu Ling Xi said, “Perhaps related to his experiences in Demon Continent. Although he was as wealthy as a nation, many times he liked to live at the bottom of a well, sleeping in rotten mud, as if enjoying that confined, deep feeling, that feeling of impending suffocation. Not only that, there was once when he was jealous of his sister’s husband, the priest Yan Ping. So he poisoned Yan Ping’s hometown, causing everyone within several dozen li to contract plague and die violently. At that time, the places where he poisoned were mostly in wells.”
Po Luo Sha said, “So you judged that A Shi Luo would hide the Demon’s Tear in a dry well?”
“Yes.” Fu Ling Xi said, “On the journey of several thousand li from Luan Yang City back to Rou Ran City, he travelled day and night without rest or sleep. Even when occasionally drowsy, he would not stay at an inn, but find a dry well to casually catch a wink. Given his whimsical personality, he would probably conveniently hide the Demon’s Tear in some dry well too. So while the Light faction was racking their brains to search for complicated, secret places, I sent people from Luan Yang City, following A Shi Luo’s route, searching every dry well along the way.”
Po Luo Sha said, “You did not use Dragon God Holy Temple people.”
“No.” Fu Ling Xi said, “I was worried about being discovered by Light faction people.”
Po Luo Sha said, “It is the Nothingness faction. They are not light, merely stupid.”
Light faction, Heretical Orthodox faction, these were the names given by Ji Xiu Ning’s side, positioning themselves as righteous and defining their opponents as evil.
And within the Heretical Orthodox faction, they called the Light faction the Nothingness faction, defining themselves as the Ruling faction.
However, among many members of the Heretical Orthodox faction, they felt that Heretical Orthodox sounded more imposing. Over time, they followed the Light faction people in using that name.
As the faction’s leader, Po Luo Sha did not wish for this. Why from the very beginning define the other side as righteous and one’s own side as evil?
“Yes!” Fu Ling Xi said, “I was worried about being discovered by Nothingness faction people, so I mobilised people from the Fu clan of Worship Fire City to search. They did not know what I was looking for, merely searching for a mysterious object. Finally, over twenty days ago, in a dry well in an impoverished village one thousand three hundred and fifty-two li from Rou Ran City, they found this tube of Demon’s Tear. At that time, Zhi Li had just been defeated and had not yet assassinated the Furious Wave King.”
Rewinding time to over twenty days ago!
At that time, Fang Qing Zhuo and Zhi Ning, mother and daughter, were both imprisoned in a secret chamber beneath a high tower of the Yan Du Holy Temple.
The grand eunuch Gao Yin went to request an audience with Fu Ling Xi, asking her to rescue the baby (Suo Lun’s biological son). Fu Ling Xi agreed at that time.
Because Zhi Li had suffered a great defeat and Suo Lun was rising strongly, and Fu Ling Xi’s search for the Demon’s Tear had yielded no results, to avoid Suo Lun’s retaliation, Fu Ling Xi planned to rescue the baby and ease relations with Suo Lun.
So, Fu Ling Xi went to the underground secret chamber to meet with Zhi Ning, and took the baby away.
However, just as she was carrying the baby and about to walk out of the secret chamber, a person entered and whispered a sentence in her ear.
Fu Ling Xi turned back, returned the baby to Zhi Ning, and said she was powerless, unable to rescue the baby.
When she heard this sentence, Fu Ling Xi’s body was trembling, incomparably excited, incomparably thrilled.
Because what that person said was: The thing you wanted has been found in a dry well. It is a tube of blue water droplets.
This was the Demon’s Tear!
Fu Ling Xi had found the Demon’s Tear before everyone else. With the Demon’s Tear, she could find the World-Destroying Demon Emperor.
She, Fu Ling Xi, had established a heaven-shaking merit. At this time, what did she have to fear? What did Suo Lun amount to?
So, Fu Ling Xi chose to return the baby to Zhi Ning, completely falling out with Suo Lun, completely drawing a clear line.
Po Luo Sha said, “You found the Demon’s Tear. Why did you not hand it over at that time?”
Fu Ling Xi said, “Because I wanted to hand it to you personally, yet there was never an opportunity.”
No, Fu Ling Xi was lying.
The Demon’s Tear was the greatest bargaining chip. Of course Fu Ling Xi wanted to maximise the benefits!
Just like a person playing cards, having caught the bomb of kings, along with other good cards, he would certainly not merely want to win, but want to explode several more times, multiplying the base score several times over.
Then, Zhi Li assassinated the king and forcibly ascended the throne. Fang Qing Zhuo exposed the secret that Zhi Li carried devil’s blood in his body. Instantly, the world was shaken.
Ji Xiu Ning, representing the Light faction, immediately seized this opportunity to raise a monstrous case, attempting to thoroughly defeat the Heretical Orthodox faction.
Fu Ling Xi instantly seized a heaven-shaking opportunity. She would wait until the Heretical Orthodox faction was at its most desperate, most dangerous moment before appearing. At that time, relying on her alone to turn the tide, she would save the entire faction.
What kind of heaven-shaking merit was this? It could completely maximise the benefits.
What she had not expected was that Zhi Li’s testimony actually included her name, Fu Ling Xi. She had actually been arrested and brought to the Yanjing Holy Temple.
Moreover, in the entire affair, her father, Marquis Fu E, had participated quite a bit and knew quite a lot. It was not only about the Demon’s Tear, but also secrets regarding the World-Destroying Demon Emperor.
Moreover, Suo Lun had already found Fu Qi.
Her father Fu E doted on this grandson the most. If Suo Lun used Fu Qi as a threat, Fu E would likely compromise and confess.
So, before Fu Ling Xi was arrested, she asked Fang Qing Di and Ji Meng Bai to act, killing her father Fu E to silence him.
Of course, she did not say why she wanted to kill Fu E, but said that killing him might save the entire faction.
And after being captured and brought to the Yanjing Holy Temple, she first suffered a round of torture. Then, Heretical Orthodox faction people, in order to silence Fu Ling Xi lest she recklessly implicate others, actually directly used private punishment to burn Fu Ling Xi to death.
As a result, they unexpectedly discovered that Fu Ling Xi was someone who could not be burned to death by flames.
Of course, this point had nothing to do with Fu Ling Xi’s Demon’s Tear, nor with her plans.
This involved another secret of the Dragon God Holy Temple.
At this time, Fu Ling Xi was even more certain that she bore another important mission, except she herself did not know it.
And a very crucial point was that her original appearance was not like this, but almost exactly the same as her daughter Suo Ning Bing.
However, after Suo Ning Bing grew up, she was forcibly given plastic surgery by the Dragon God Holy Temple, her face replaced.
As if in this entire world, a face like Suo Ning Bing’s was only allowed to have one person.
“Where is the Demon’s Tear?” Po Luo Sha asked.
Fu Ling Xi said, “Inside my body. I will take it out for you right now.”
Then, Fu Ling Xi began to secretly exert force, squeezing the Demon’s Tear inside her body out from the back door.
Even Po Luo Sha was startled at this time. She actually hid the Demon’s Tear in such a place?
“Here.” Fu Ling Xi said.
Po Luo Sha was startled, not reaching out his hand.
Fu Ling Xi said, “Rest assured, there is not a trace of filth inside my body.”
Po Luo Sha said, “Hurry up and put away the Demon’s Tear. Do not hand it to anyone besides me!”
Then, his image suddenly vanished into smoke.
The surrounding sky illusion also completely disappeared without a trace, reverting to the gloomy ghost prison!
So everything just now had been an illusion. The Heretical Orthodox faction leader Po Luo Sha had merely used spiritual power to communicate with Fu Ling Xi, not truly coming here.
Instantly, Fu Ling Xi’s heart was shaken with awe.
This Po Luo Sha was probably thousands of li away from her, yet could use spiritual power to communicate with her. This was powerful to a heaven-defying degree.
Was every Sky Priest this powerful?
Then one day, would she also possess such ability?
Just at this moment…
“Boom…”
The wall of the ghost prison suddenly exploded with a violent blast, a huge crack appearing.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh…”
Then, several dozen people flew in.
That’s right, they flew in!
This completely overturned Fu Ling Xi’s imagination. People in this world could actually fly?
How was this possible?
How could people in this world possibly fly?
In the instant the wall exploded, Fu Ling Xi used her fastest speed to stuff the Demon’s Tear back inside her body.
These several dozen people flew to Fu Ling Xi’s side and began to circle around her.
Fu Ling Xi saw clearly that these people were quite different from humans. Their noses were very pointed, their ears very long, and they only had two toes.
Some people had tails on their backs, while some did not.
“Fu Ling Xi?” the leader of the flyers asked.
“Yes.” Fu Ling Xi trembled as she said.
“Come with us.” the leader of the flyers said.
Then, they directly untied all of Fu Ling Xi’s bindings and restraints, carrying her as they flew out.
Fu Ling Xi was greatly alarmed. Who were these people? Where were they taking her?
Moreover, she was still waiting for the Sky Priest Po Luo Sha’s arrival.
“Who are you? Where are you taking me?” Fu Ling Xi asked.
“Dragon God Holy Temple, Demon Star Pavilion!” the leader of the flyers said.
Fu Ling Xi felt that the secret of her identity was about to be revealed, and her secret mission was also about to be revealed.
…
Tianshui City Lord’s Mansion!
“First bow to heaven and earth!”
“Second bow to the high hall!”
“Husband and wife bow to each other!”
“Sent to the bridal chamber!”
Amidst incomparably joyous atmosphere, amidst countless people’s gazes of blessing.
Suo Lun and Princess Zhi Yan, Yan Nai Er completed the true wedding.
The most excited of all was undoubtedly Yan Nai Er!
She had finally achieved her heart’s desire, finally married the man she loved most, finally put on the wedding dress, becoming a bride.
At this time, she somewhat regretted it. Why had she given herself to Suo Lun so early? Otherwise, saving it for tonight’s bridal chamber candle night would have been perfect.
During the bowing ceremony, she could not hold back her tears of joy, her entire delicate body trembling.
Boundless, endless happiness surrounded her.
And the other happiest, most joyful person was Suo Ning Bing.
Her younger brother Suo Lun had finally married.
At this time, she was extremely conflicted. On one side, she regarded Suo Lun as the true Suo Lun, as family and younger brother.
On the other side, she regarded Suo Lun as Lan Ling, the man she loved most, yet also seemingly the closest younger brother.
So, was this man a lover, or a younger brother?
She completely could not distinguish, and she also did not want to distinguish.
When love reached the deepest point, it was fundamentally impossible to distinguish clearly whether this was romantic love or familial love.
Countless guests came to offer Suo Ning Bing toasts, because she was considered the so-called only elder, although she was merely an elder sister.
Suo Ning Bing, who almost never touched a drop of alcohol, now refused no one. In a short while, she had drunk over a dozen cups.
Her beautiful face was imprinted with a magnificent flush of red, appearing especially charming and alluring.
“Alright, our young lady cannot drink anymore.” Ye Jing Yu hurriedly helped Suo Ning Bing back to her room.
As for Ye Jing Feng, she could not be counted on. She was completely a child, currently at a table with A Shi Yuan Ba, Qin Qin, and Yan Xue Er, having the time of her life.
Back in her room, Suo Ning Bing did not notice that Ye Jing Yu was stripping her clothes.
“What, what are you doing?” Suo Ning Bing said shyly and weakly.
Ye Jing Yu merely smiled, quickly stripping Suo Ning Bing until she was left with only her undergarments and small underpants.
Then, she put new clothes on her.
A big red wedding skirt, phoenix crown and rosy clouds cape, actually dressing her up as a bride.
Not only that, but red happiness characters were also pasted in the room.
Red candles were lit too!
Finally, a red bridal veil was placed over Suo Ning Bing’s head, and Ye Jing Yu whispered in her ear, “Bride, you just wait here obediently for the groom to come. Oh right, our groom’s name is Lan Ling!”
Instantly, Suo Ning Bing’s heart beat like thunder. She wanted to say it was improper, but could not get the words out at all.
She felt unable to breathe, felt waves of dizziness.
Incomparable happiness, incomparable joy, incomparable unease.
Was, was this really okay?
Like this, in incomparable trepidation, incomparable excitement, wearing the bride’s attire, she sat here waiting.
Very quickly, the door opened.
“Who.” Suo Ning Bing trembled as she said.
“Me, Lan Ling.” Suo Lun said.
Suo Ning Bing said, “You, what have you come for?”
Suo Lun said, “To spend the bridal chamber candle night with my bride Suo Ning Bing!”