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Chapter 1667: Chapter 17: Arrangements
After leaving the mysterious Royal Third Garden, it didn’t take long for Tai Yinzi and Nero to reach the outskirts of the Place of the Voidfall.
In fact, it was like retracing their steps, and Tai Yinzi even encountered Eric, who was still squatting nearby selling maps.
“Hey, you actually made it out unscathed?” Eric seemed quite surprised, scrutinizing Tai Yinzi from head to toe.
“Can’t I make it out?” Tai Yinzi looked at him with some annoyance.
“Did you manage to get the Bloodline Fruit?” Eric suddenly asked.
Tai Yinzi, keeping his guard up, shook his head and said, “No, I didn’t get anything. But it’s truly dangerous inside, with my current ability, it’s quite difficult to protect myself, so I thought better of it.”
Eric said nothing more, just curiously sizing up the white-haired girl behind Tai Yinzi… Intuitively, this white-haired girl seemed to be of the same kind as Tai Yinzi.
Nero was also watching Eric, but unlike Tai Yinzi’s caution, she directly and boldly stepped forward, “Tai Yinzi uncle, is this child your friend?”
“He’s just the merchant who sells me the map of traps for the Place of the Voidfall.” Tai Yinzi shook his head, “We’ve only met once.”
“Doing business makes you friends, right?” Eric didn’t mind Nero calling him a child, jovially patting Tai Yinzi’s shoulder, “Sir, if you visit next time, feel free to buy the latest map from me again, I’ll give you a discount.”
Tai Yinzi initially intended to refuse, but considering Eric’s help in getting the map after going through the backdoor, he thought these are potential connections for the future… and so, Tai Yinzi chatted amiably with Eric.
“By the way, in the short term, you’d better not come to the Place of the Voidfall again.” Eric suddenly said.
“Why is that?”
Eric replied, “The Place of the Voidfall undergoes internal collapse and contraction periodically, during which the internal pressure is strong enough to crush everything. Then, once the collapse is over, the landscape inside completely changes, requiring a new map to be redrawn.”
“Oh? There’s such a thing?”
Tai Yinzi paused… wondering if the door to the original Royal Third Garden would be crushed under such a collapse.
“However, the reopening of the Place of the Voidfall also signifies the appearance of many good things.” Eric smiled, “Every time the collapse ends, many powerful beings are attracted… This is a small gadget I’ve made. It allows communication even in narrow gaps. When the collapse ends, I’ll contact you through it. If you’re interested, you can come to explore.”
“How does this work?” Tai Yinzi was pleasantly surprised to receive the small gadget Eric offered.
Eric patted his chest, “No worries, we’re friends after all! Besides, you were introduced by Master Musashi, I must take good care of you! Back then, if it weren’t for Master Musashi, I almost couldn’t make it out of the Place of the Voidfall.”
──But because of Master Musashi, I died once in the Place of the Voidfall.
Tai Yinzi was considering this deeply.
It seems Master Musashi indeed has quite a few enemies in the Place of the Voidfall, such as that robust guy, and Tamamo-no-Mae, but he also has friends, like Eric here.
Thinking this way, Master Musashi didn’t deliberately set him up when he gave the token… There are indeed people who can help here, just need to find them myself.
…
After bidding farewell to Eric, Tai Yinzi intended to return to the Palace of Eternal Night as quickly as possible with Nero.
On the way, Nero suddenly placed her hands on him, giggling, “Tai Yinzi uncle, it’s been a tough journey, let me massage your shoulders.”
“No!” Tai Yinzi dodged away as if he’d seen a ghost, “I really can’t accept your service. Miss Nero, please spare me, I’d be immensely grateful.”
“People would be really sad.” Nero pouted slightly, squeezing out two drops of tears.
Tai Yinzi flicked his sleeve, black mist formed into clouds, directly moving ahead.
Nero shrugged her shoulders, then suddenly opened her palm, revealing a small green bean… tossing it, and eating it.
This was what Eric had secretly placed on Tai Yinzi’s clothes earlier.
“Tai Yinzi uncle, don’t run so fast, tell me about the Palace of Eternal Night! I want a guide!”
“This poor Taoist doesn’t have one!”
“How do you muddle through then?”
“Don’t ask. When in doubt – maid!”
Thus, with laughter and teasing along the way, the Palace of Eternal Night had already appeared in front of them.
…
Tai Yinzi repeatedly warned Nero not to talk nonsense and to stay close behind him. This time, his infiltration into the Transcender Organization carried the master’s mission, highly important, absolutely no room for error… etc.
“Uncle, there’s an uncle dressed as a samurai coming over!”
“That’s Master Musashi.”
Tai Yinzi looked over and saw Master Musashi gripping a shark-like Void Primordial Demon, riding it over.
The gatekeeper of the Palace of Eternal Night soon arrived in front of Tai Yinzi, somewhat surprised and said, “You truly returned… Did you really obtain the Bloodline Fruit?”
Tai Yinzi took out the Bloodline Fruit he had prepared long ago and offered it, “Master Musashi, the Bloodline Fruit you wanted is here. Thanks to you, I managed to return safely this time.”
“Oh, it really is.” Master Musashi nodded, yet he didn’t immediately take the fruit, instead gazing at the white-haired girl next to Tai Yinzi, puzzled, “Hmm, who might this be?”
Tai Yinzi promptly replied, “Master Musashi, this is a younger member of my household. Though she arrived earlier in this Dimensional Void, it was unexpected to meet her in the Place of the Voidfall. I boldly hope to have her join the organization along with me. I humbly request you to permit this.”
Speaking, he took out another fruit—this time, the King of Bloodline Fruits.
“Oh? This is indeed a good thing.” Master Musashi wasn’t interested in ordinary Bloodline Fruits, but he couldn’t ignore this King. He looked at Tai Yinzi in surprise, “It seems you indeed encountered some fortune in the Place of the Voidfall… good luck indeed.”
“Master Musashi, about my niece then?”
Master Musashi indifferently said, “For now, both of you follow me to settle in the Palace of Eternal Night. We’ll discuss joining the organization later.”
“Help—!”
Master Musashi was startled at this moment, and Tai Yinzi’s face instantly turned dark.
At this moment, Miss Nero cried out in terror: “Help—Save me! This old man kidnapped me!”
“What nonsense are you talking about!” Tai Yinzi’s voice was stern, but he was simultaneously filled with fear.
Nero’s face turned pale, and she suddenly fell to the ground. “Don’t believe this old fool! He’s trying to infiltrate your organization with ill intentions! He is here as an undercover agent, plotting something!”
If his jaw could hit the floor, it would have by now… Tai Yinzi’s mouth opened, almost at the point of tying his tongue in a knot, as his pupils contracted.
This madwoman, does she even know what she’s doing!!
“You’re talking nonsense!!”
In a moment of urgency, seeing Tai Yinzi was about to lash out, Master Musashi suddenly waved his hand, and a massive pressure immediately pinned Tai Yinzi to the ground, unable to move.
“Master Musashi, don’t listen to this ghost girl! She’s slandering me!”
“Let her speak,” Master Musashi said indifferently, and with a gaze fixed on Nero, he calmly said: “Little girl, do you know that if you lie, I won’t let you off easily?”
Nero nodded timidly, “I… I understand. But, but he really kidnapped me and stole my fruit. On the way, he forced me to obey him, or else he would torture me. I… I’m scared!”
Master Musashi asked, “Yet you dared to seek help from me, not afraid that I might be in cahoots with him?”
Nero blinked her eyes, and with innocent sincerity said: “Because Uncle, you’re really handsome! Unlike him, who looks especially… evil when he smiles. Besides, I like men who have beards on their faces; it’s so sexy!”
Master Musashi inexplicably rubbed his stubbled chin and chuckled: “That’s a fresh reason. So tell us, how did he kidnap you? And why did he want to kidnap you?”
Nero said: “I have no idea. I was living at home when suddenly this old man barged in, saying he wanted the Bloodline Fruit… At first, I gave him a few but he still wasn’t satisfied and insisted on taking all of my Little Red!”
“Little what… Little Red?”
Nero nodded: “Little Red! He mentioned something about the Bloodline Mother Tree! I don’t know what a mother tree is, I just know Little Red… Little Red has been with me since I was growing up, it’s like family to me! Every day I carefully took care of it, and its fruits are like my children, I couldn’t even bear to eat them myself, but this old man wanted to take them all away! I didn’t agree, so he scolded me, hit me, and even set fire…”
“You’re damned spouting nonsense, I, I…”
Tai Yinzi was practically exploding with anger.
But just then, a faintly binding force took away his ability to speak — the Black soul envoy agreement, reversed by Nero, had taken effect!
At present, he must yield to Nero!
At first, Master Musashi listened with a playful mindset, but when Nero mentioned the Bloodline Mother Tree, he couldn’t help but take note — as for the Bloodline Fruit King that Tai Yinzi presented, it seemed to corroborate the mother’s tree existence indirectly.
The Bloodline Fruit King, with a guaranteed resonance rate with one’s world success, is a treasure for completing powerful life’s legendary unity… even he, who follows a different path of evolution, finds it greatly effective.
“Elaborate more.” Master Musashi instructed.
Then the story unfolded of the Royal Garden, the ancient grand stone gate, opened by the Amethyst Key… The girl had been in the garden since birth, a happy water girl, until one day a villain descended, robbing her painstakingly nurtured fruits and forcibly threatening to seize her homeland.
After a long time, Master Musashi finally sighed.
“The giant stone gate of the Place of the Voidfall, I know of it,” he said slowly. “Back then, one of our Thrones researched it, but it never could be opened. Even with the Place of the Voidfall’s internal collapse, it never broke, only relocated to another place. To think behind this gate lies a mysterious garden…”
This garden seems, apart from its precious mother tree, to contain many wondrous creatures and plants, likely an extraordinary biological treasure.
Yet he didn’t fully trust the white-haired girl’s words — nor did Tai Yinzi, who wouldn’t have sent Tai Yinzi to the Place of the Voidfall initially, if he had believed.
“This matter is now known to me,” Master Musashi said, looking at the Amethyst Key given by Nero. “I’ll investigate the truth of it. But until then, I need the two of you to temporarily accept custody by the Palace of Eternal Night.”
What could Tai Yinzi say? He only wore a pitch-black look, as Nero’s antics completely disrupted his plans, leaving him unable to process a coherent strategy from the chaos, but judging from Musashi’s words, he hadn’t fully trusted it either.
Yet even if this was all handled safely, his future infiltration missions would indeed be fraught with difficulty… a bleak path ahead.
Then, Master Musashi simply waved his hand, directly grabbing Nero and Tai Yinzi and locking them within a prison in the Palace of Eternal Night.
As for Master Musashi, after accomplishing these tasks, he left with the Amethyst Key.
…
In the prison cell, Tai Yinzi glared at Nero, and with a voice full of hatred, he said: “You’re mad! Do you even understand what you’re doing!”
“I sure do!” Nero blinked and said: “I just betrayed you, Uncle Tai Yinzi!”
“You dare to speak…” Tai Yinzi leapt up, “You’re dead! You’re dead! I will report everything you’ve done to the Lord! You just wait!”
“From now on, you can’t speak, Uncle Tai Yinzi.” Nero said with a cheerful smile.
“What do you want to do…” His mouth was immediately sealed, leaving him only able to stare with wide eyes.
Nero suddenly pulled down the clothing from her shoulders, then squeezed her throat and loudly cried: “Help—Help—!”
Instead, Tai Yinzi calmed down.
This girl seems to have a screw loose; within this Transcender Organization, every individual is a formidable entity. If not possessed of extraordinary minds and demon-like wisdom, how could one carve out a living under the ruthless Heavenly Dao?
Hm, this sort of basic trick, who would believe it?
“You despicable old man, daring to harass a decent woman in broad daylight! If heaven spares you, I, Lord Longyang, will not! Fear not, young lady, I am here to save you!”
Yet a man appeared, wearing a flamboyant red robe, wielding a Treasured Sword, his exquisite eyes filled with a charming allure, approaching slowly.
Tai Yinzi was stunned.
The phrase ‘broad daylight’ felt warmly familiar, but… how in the world did someone believe Nero’s rough trickery?
This must be a joke? It can’t be serious, right?
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