Crowned by the Treacherous Big Shot

Chapter 916 13

Mr. Sheng, Tuoba Ye, Si Snake, Ji Li, and Tan'er were all there.

Everyone gathered around a massive pit, staring intently at its bottom.

"Is this where the celestial anomaly of the Seven Stars in a Row descended?"

Meng Qianqian mumbled as she moved to stand beside Tan'er.

And when she saw clearly what was in the pit, she also showed the same astonished look as everyone else.

The bottom of the pit... was actually a coffin!

"What's going on?"

Meng Qianqian was full of doubt.

When Tan'er tried to go down, she was pulled back.

Opposite them, Mr. Sheng wore a grave expression, clearly unable to believe that the Seven Stars in a Row brought down a coffin.

Not just any coffin, but a thousand-year-old Cold Jade Coffin.

The coffin emitted a faint chill, mysterious and tranquil.

Everyone was speechless, as if the world had frozen.

"Achoo!"

Tan'er sneezed loudly.

Their consciousness instantly snapped back, as if waking from a dream.

"What just happened? I feel like..."

Tuoba Ye broke into a cold sweat.

Mr. Sheng said thoughtfully, "Be careful, this coffin is suspicious."

Tuoba Ye stretched out his arm, blocking Mr. Sheng.

"Is the anomaly coming from here?"

Meng Qianqian asked Ji Li.

Ji Li looked at the Compass in his hand with a deep and sorrowful expression: "I don't know, it's suddenly stopped moving again."

"Broken again?"

Chen Long frowned and asked.

Ji Li, unusually calm, showed a rare serious look: "Could this be what the Goddess was talking about..."

He spoke the last two words very softly, but everyone ahead heard them clearly.

Lu Yuan: "What did my grandmother tell you?"

Ji Li sighed, "To be honest, when the Goddess gave me the Turtle Shell, it was to calculate the Seven Stars in a Row divination."

Lu Yuan: "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

Ji Li: "The Goddess wouldn't allow it! You're not a charlatan, you wouldn't understand, some things can't be shared, or it affects fate."

Lu Yuan pondered, "Grandmother knew about the Seven Stars in a Row long ago."

"Not just that. Do you know that Miaojiang will face great turmoil, but only the Seven Stars in a Row can resolve it? I came with a mission."

Ji Li thought of the heavy responsibility secretly given by the Goddess and suddenly felt his image towering and magnificent.

Compared to Lu Yuan, the Goddess clearly favored him!

"What mission?"

Lu Yuan asked.

"The Goddess said that when the Seven Stars in a Row day comes, I will know."

"Have you realized it yet?"

Ji Li: "Not yet."

Meng Qianqian: "After all this time, you're still a half-baked one."

Ji Li: "Don't say that, I'm not."

"Aren't you going down to take a look?"

Mr. Sheng asked Meng Qianqian and Lu Yuan with a smile.

Lu Yuan smiled, "I wouldn't dare steal Mr. Sheng's thunder, you go first."

All are old foxes.

Tuoba Ye was eager to give it a try, "Mr. Sheng."

Mr. Sheng gave him a stern look, and he nodded, stepping back half a step.

Then Mr. Sheng said to Lu Yuan, "How about going together?"

Lu Yuan smiled, "No rush."

Mr. Sheng tugged at the corners of his lips.

His gaze moved past Lu Yuan and Meng Qianqian, falling on the other faces, realizing that even the seemingly boisterous little girl showed no impulse, instead waiting for them to take the fall first.

"In a moment..."

He opened his mouth.

"In a moment, the people from the Holy Temple will arrive, and our chances will be slim. It's better to take the leap now."

Lu Yuan finished his sentence for him.

Knowing he couldn't fool this group, Mr. Sheng had to brace himself and try.

"Go take a look."

"Yes."

Tuoba Ye leaped down.

In a blink of an eye, Lu Yuan and Meng Qianqian realized something and shouted in unison, "Don't touch the coffin!"

But it was too late; Tuoba Ye's hand had already pushed open the coffin lid.

A thick white smoke billowed out, and everyone hastily held their breath. However, the smoke carried moisture, falling onto their skin, and in just an instant, everyone's consciousness began to blur.

Tuoba Ye was the first to fall.

"Sister..."

Tan'er's eyes rolled back as she leaned against Meng Qianqian's shoulder.

Meng Qianqian struggled to stay conscious, but it was futile.

"This smell... so familiar..."

She held Tan'er and collapsed into Lu Yuan's arms.

Who knows how much time has passed, but everything returned to quiet.

A gray-haired man slowly walked out.

He placed his hands behind his back and glanced at the scattered people around him.

"Now that the fight is over, appear before me."

As his words fell, the High Priest clad in sacrificial robes performed Qinggong, descending from the sky to land steadily beside him.

About ten breaths later, Shan Cheng and Ayimulan also climbed to the mountaintop.

However, compared to the composure of the High Priest, the two appeared somewhat disheveled.

"As expected of the Medicine King."

The High Priest said.

The Medicine King chuckled twice, "Same to you."

Ayimulan's eyes flickered, "So he's the Medicine King?"

Shan Cheng replied, "That's right. Without the Medicine King's help today, it wouldn't have been so easy to take them down."

The Medicine King glanced at Lu Yuan, "This kid held out for a full quarter of an hour."

Shan Cheng was astonished, "That long?"

The Medicine King turned and said to Ayimulan, "Loulan Queen, a pleasure to meet you."

Ayimulan nodded, "Medicine King, a pleasure."

After a pause, she asked curiously, "But what exactly happened here? Where is the West Night Saintess?"

The Medicine King replied, "The West Night Saintess is already dead. Even if 'Seven Stars in a Row' appears, she cannot return to the world."

Ayimulan said, "So the rumors are false; there is no Saintess, nor any so-called secrets of the Saintess."

The Medicine King laughed, "The rumors are false, but the secrets of the Saintess are real, am I right, High Priest?"

Ayimulan's perpetually unchanged expression finally showed a crack, "Shan Cheng, what is going on?"

Shan Cheng sighed, "Princess Consort, please be patient, I only just learned as well..."

"There's no need to trouble my son, everything is the idea of this old man."

The High Priest's deep, slow voice was like an ancient bell, filled with a mysterious and awe-inspiring resonance.

Ayimulan calmly said, "Then please, High Priest, enlighten us."

The High Priest did not hurry to answer, instead he asked, "How much does the Princess Consort know about the West Night Saintess?"

Ayimulan replied, "Not much, but I suspect she might be somehow connected to Zhongli Yuan of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion."

The Medicine King chuckled.

Ayimulan coolly asked, "What is the Medicine King laughing at?"

The Medicine King said, "I laugh because the Princess Consort does not yet know that Zhongli Yuan is the West Night Saintess."

Ayimulan squinted.

The Medicine King, half-smiling, said, "It seems the Princess Consort senses something but doesn't dare to believe it."

Ayimulan said, "Indeed, it is hard to believe, after all..."

She left the rest unsaid.

The Medicine King knowingly said, "After all, the difference in their ages. If Zhongli Yuan were alive, she absolutely couldn't be a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl."

Ayimulan nodded slightly.

The Medicine King said, "This is the secret of the West Night Saintess. Including Zhongli Yuan's identity, the West Night Saintess has appeared only twice, and her appearance not only hasn't changed in the slightest, but she has become younger. The High Priest and I have surmised that she possesses the technique for immortality, and that magic is hidden in the forbidden area of the Holy Temple. Unfortunately, there is a stone door there no one can open. I learned by chance that only the blood of the Saintess can open this door."

I regret not keeping some of her blood then. Fortunately, she has descendants, and using her descendants' blood will do the same. I spread the news of the 'Seven Stars in a Row' to lure her descendants to Liuli Island."

Ayimulan said, "Zhongli Yuan's daughter died long ago, wait, could it be that Shang Jiu did not die? Or perhaps — she has other descendants?"

The Medicine King's meaningful gaze swept over Tan'er.

Ayimulan frowned slightly, "This little girl? It's her?"

"Not only her."

The Medicine King then looked at Meng Qianqian.

Ayimulan became more puzzled, "Yin Hu as well?"

The Medicine King said, "Has the Princess Consort ever heard of the Wushan Forbidden Technique?"

Ayimulan replied, "I have heard a bit, Gongsun Yanming forcibly altered the life chart of his daughter and Shang Jiu."

The Medicine King smiled faintly, "The Wushan Forbidden Technique is not just that. Altering the life chart is nothing. Have you heard of 'life for life'?"

"Are you saying... Zhongli Yuan, to save her eldest daughter... went so far as..."

At this point, Ayimulan suddenly couldn't continue.

One who would give her life for her daughter, one who would sacrifice her son's life for ambition.

She had long been defeated by Zhongli Yuan.

She coldly asked, "How do you know all this?"

The Medicine King said, "A forbidden technique requires a specific medicinal guide, which only my Medicine King Valley possesses."

Ayimulan said, "What was her cost—"

The Medicine King looked toward the forbidden area of the Holy Temple, "The secret of that stone door."

Ayimulan mockingly said, "So it turns out the Medicine King Valley does not exchange a life for a life."

The Medicine King candidly said, "That secret is worth a hundred lives."

With that, he brushed off his wide sleeves, "Alright, bring the Twin Flowers, now, it's time to open the Gate of Qiankun."

Ayimulan calmly said, "The Gate of Qiankun, what a fitting name."

The High Priest lifted his hand slightly, and several disciples of the Holy Temple carried Meng Qianqian and Tan'er on stretchers down the mountain path.

Ayimulan stood silently on the mountaintop for a long time without speaking.

Shan Cheng softly said, "Princess Consort."

Ayimulan said, "Your father and the Medicine King both seek the technique of immortality, but not I."

Shan Cheng seriously replied, "I know, but the secret of the Saintess is not just about immortality. Her tactics, her medical skills, her every invention, can elevate you to the Great King of the Western Regions."

"Loulan Great Witch, Sect prodigy, West Night Saintess, Zhongli Yuan is the true legend of the Western Regions."

"No, Princess Consort, she is dead, and you are alive; you have won!"

"Indeed, it is I who have won."

"My father and the Medicine King will assist the Princess Consort in reigning supreme over the world!"