Chapter 371
Our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/PazjBDkTmW
Chapter 371: The Immortal Girl
The wall from the Han Dynasty? Bai Li Pang Pang wandered around the ghostly palace and, upon hearing this, moved closer to An Qingyu, asking to see which ancient person was so idle.
An Qingyu: …
Go ahead and speak. Cao Yuan and Li Deyang also approached An Qingyu.
An Qingyu adjusted his glasses and slowly began to speak: If I’m not mistaken, this heavenly palace should be a place for storing records of strange occurrences that happen in the mortal realm, and the record I have in my hand describes an unusual event from the Han Dynasty.
During the Han Dynasty, a strange girl suddenly appeared among the people. She possessed the power to bestow the characteristic of ‘immortality’ on any object she touched, and objects endowed with this ‘immortality’ would not be affected by any external factors.
Her clothes would not suffer any damage from knives or fire, and a wooden axe she had touched could cut through gold and stone. The arrows she shot could easily pierce heavy armor…
Moreover, she herself was impervious to blades and bullets; flames could not leave burns on her skin, and corrosive substances could not leave any traces on her. Even time lost its effect on her; no matter how many years passed, her appearance would not show any signs of aging.
However, there was a flaw: she could only bestow the ‘immortality’ characteristic on one object at a time. While she granted immortality to an arrow, she would lose her own protective immortality and become as vulnerable as an ordinary person… But strangely, even after losing her protective immortality, she would still not age, as if her own time had been eternally frozen.
Due to this almost miraculous power, she was revered by the local people as a messenger of the gods, who worshipped her daily, hoping to receive her protection and achieve immortality themselves.
The emperor of the time heard of this matter and summoned her to the palace, treating her as a distinguished guest, seeking her advice on the secret to immortality. He even granted her three hundred bronze warriors, vowing to protect her safety at all costs.
Suddenly, one day, mysterious monsters surged forth from the void like a tide, attacking the strange girl with the power of ‘immortality.’ To everyone’s astonishment, these monsters possessed the ability to break the ‘immortality’ characteristic and easily injured the girl. The three hundred bronze warriors fought valiantly to protect her against the monsters, but ultimately, they were all wiped out, though the monsters also mysteriously vanished…
After hearing of this incident, the emperor believed the girl to be a harbinger of disaster, uncertain of when she might attract another monster attack, which would be detrimental to the nation. He ordered the construction of a coffin made of mysterious yin wood that could isolate all breath, sealing the girl inside, and sent the coffin to Fengdu…
After that, the emperor remained uneasy and secretly had a wall built near Fengdu, so that if those monsters ever returned to kill the girl, even if they broke out of Fengdu, they could be stopped by the wall and prevented from entering the mortal realm, thus avoiding harm to the state.
An Qingyu closed the record in his hand, and the others around him fell into deep thought.
Immortality… Li Deyang frowned slightly. Does such power really exist? And from this description, it sounds so much like…
The Forbidden Ruins. Cao Yuan continued his thought.
Yes, it feels similar to the Forbidden Ruins, but from what I know of the Forbidden Ruins sequence, there doesn’t seem to be such a Forbidden Ruins.
But… didn’t the Forbidden Ruins only appear after the Mist descended? Bai Li Pang Pang asked in confusion. This was over two thousand years ago; how could there have been Forbidden Ruins back then?
Cao Yuan nodded. The Forbidden Ruins indeed only appeared after the Mist descended; this has long been verified by the Night Watchers. Either her power was not from the Forbidden Ruins at all, or… she might be the earliest known possessor of a Forbidden Ruins in the world.
Sounds pretty impressive… Li Deyang nodded. However, it seems unrelated to us.
Bai Li Pang Pang stood up from the ground, grinning. That’s not necessarily true; isn’t she immortal? What if she’s still alive today, lying in some coffin?
Uncle Li is right; the urgent task at hand is to find a way out. Cao Yuan scanned the palace, his brow slightly furrowed. However, this grand hall is completely sealed; aside from the entrance we came in, there seems to be no other exit.
Bai Li Pang Pang pondered for a moment. How about I give it a try?
The other three turned to look at him, their expressions somewhat surprised.
I have an item that can traverse space… uh, I mean a forbidden object, but since we’re in the heavenly palace, I’m not sure if it will work. Bai Li Pang Pang shrugged.
Why didn’t you take it out earlier? Li Deyang asked, frustrated.
This thing is a consumable; once it’s used up, it’s gone. There’s only one of its kind in the world. Bai Li Pang Pang pulled a piece of chalk from his pocket, looking a bit pained.
He squatted down in a corner of the hall and drew a large circle on the wall with the chalk. As the powder connected at the ends, the wall within the circle suddenly rippled, and the circular wall vanished.
It works! Bai Li Pang Pang’s eyes lit up. Hurry over; this thing can only hold for ten seconds.
The other three, seeing this scene, showed expressions of joy and immediately rushed through the chalk circle. Once the last one, An Qingyu, stepped out, the circle connecting to the outside world disappeared.
Cao Yuan shone his flashlight around. They were no longer at the main entrance of the grand hall they had entered before, but at the back of the hall, where a winding path extended forward. At the end of the path, a magnificent red palace floated in mid-air.
This floating palace was much larger than the palace on the ground, and its outer walls and roof were all bright red. This was almost the only non-black building the four of them had seen since entering Fengdu.
The ground palace had black walls and a red door, while the floating palace before them was the opposite: red walls and a black door. That dark, gaping door stood in mid-air like an abyss.
That should be the imperial palace of the Emperor of Fengdu, right? An Qingyu also looked up at the grand palace and spoke.
It should be correct. Cao Yuan nodded.
Bai Li Pang Pang surveyed the imposing floating palace and couldn’t help but smacked his lips. Should we go take a look?
No. Cao Yuan decisively refused. We’re here to find Qi Ye, not for sightseeing.
… Fine. Bai Li Pang Pang sighed in disappointment.
At that moment, a wave of white paper figures suddenly swept across the sky. Cao Yuan and the others’ expressions changed, and they quickly pressed against the wall of the palace to hide their figures.
Fortunately, those paper figures didn’t seem to be coming for the four of them; they merely swept over the top of the palace and flew upward.
Cao Yuan peeked out, squinting at the front of the wave of paper figures, and suddenly froze in place.
At the very front of the wave of paper figures, a giant white ant was rapidly crawling on the ground, moving directly up the floating black stone slab toward the floating palace!
