Chapter Sixty-Nine: Wedding Deception!
Although Huasang didn’t know how Luxianbei had managed to turn into a beautiful girl in the blink of an eye, it was absurd to harbor ulterior motives and use such a bizarre ability to impersonate someone else’s wife.
“…”
Why would she do this?
Could it be that she wasn’t actually impersonating anyone, but was truly involved with Qing Ji’s great-grandson…
Certain indescribable images flashed through Huasang’s mind, causing her to shudder instantly, her body jolting.
No, no, the more I think about it, the stranger it gets!
Huasang calmed her mind and looked at Qing Ji, diverting her attention in this manner to prevent her thoughts from continuing to spiral in the wrong direction.
Beside her, Qing Ji was walking back and forth with his hands behind his back, muttering to himself and sighing heavily.
“Ah—! The daughter-in-law has at least learned five or six methods from me; her strength should be quite impressive, so how could she encounter an accident?”
“Right now, although, uh… there are more than one, we need to clarify whether the person is dead or alive; leaving it in a state of uncertainty isn’t a solution.”
As he spoke, Qing Ji looked up at the sky thoughtfully, glancing at the crescent moon shrouded in dark red mist, as if covered with a layer of frosted glass, and he exhaled heavily.
“Even though that impostor can only use the Ling Tai Purification as a sharp broken sword, the key issue is if something happens to a person, that would be terrible… it’s killing me with worry.”
Hearing this, Huasang suddenly paused and stepped forward to ask, “Wait a moment, senior, you just said that Jujuzi can only use the Ling Tai Purification as an ordinary weapon?”
“Wrong!” Qing Ji halted, glancing back at Huasang, correcting her, “It’s not an ordinary weapon; it’s a weapon of exceptional sharpness!”
Huasang, “….” The point you care about is somewhat strange.
After a pause, Qing Ji turned to Huasang and explained, “Due to certain special reasons, only my descendants or their partners can wield the Ling Tai Purification.”
“Of course, other people can use it, but they can only use it; those holding the Ling Tai Purification cannot unleash its extraordinary powers.”
After saying this, Qing Ji seemed to remember something and furrowed his brow slightly, turning away and sinking into thought.
He suddenly realized he couldn’t recall the reason why the Ling Tai Purification was restricted to members of the Lu family or their spouses.
He vaguely remembered that this restriction came after the Ling Tai Purification was reforged, but the specific details were a blank.
Could it be that my feeling of loss every time I “d*e” and awaken again is due to forgetting this matter? Qing Ji pondered.
He had a faint feeling that the details about reforging the Ling Tai Purification were very important to him and seemed related to Xiao Yanzhi.
“Mm?”
Huasang tilted her head and swiftly recalled the known information in her mind.
In the next moment, a sudden clarity washed over her, as if a current had surged through her mind, causing her eyes to tremble.
Uh, it seems I’ve discovered something incredible?
It was already hard to trace back when that ruler started being stored in Dachunyang Palace.
In the past, countless disciples had used that ruler to temper their minds, but it had never been reported that anyone had taken it out of Dachunyang Palace.
According to the elders, the reason predecessors couldn’t take the ruler away was that they had not received the ruler’s acknowledgment.
Just like in the legend of the Sword in the Stone, those who had not received acknowledgment could not pull out the sword.
However, at this moment, after listening to Qing Ji’s explanation, Huasang suddenly realized that her ability to carry the ruler with her might not just be due to having gained the acknowledgment of the remnant soul within the ruler.
A partner of the descendants… Would just an engagement count? If so, could it be that I could carry the ruler out of Dachunyang Palace because of my fiancé whom I’ve never met?
As for its extraordinary aspects…
Carrying the ruler indeed made it easier to dispel distractions and focus, and it also made it easier to resist the negative emotional influences caused by the Night侵蚀 within, I wonder if that counts as something extraordinary.
After pondering for a while, Huasang felt she understood what Luxianbei had done.
Luxianbei probably really had set an engagement with Qing Ji’s great-grandson under the identity of “Miss Wang” in order to gain control over the Ling Tai Purification.
Uh, if that’s the case, does that mean my fiancé has been snatched away by a guy?
Although I had no intention of fulfilling the engagement, thinking like this still feels somewhat strange…
Tsk, did I inadvertently become part of the gossip?
Thinking of this, Huasang felt a surge of anger, her impression of Luxianbei deteriorating further.
Of course, this anger was not because Luxianbei had some indescribable relationship with her fiancé; she didn’t care about that. She felt anger because of Luxianbei’s bottomless actions.
Living without a bottom line, what’s the difference from a beast? Deceiving a hundred-year-old person is already outrageous, not to mention marriage fraud?
She can do such shameless things, and who knows how many deceptive schemes she’s pulled off with that strange ability behind the scenes!
I must expose her and not let senior Qing Ji be kept in the dark by this person!
Huasang made up her mind and immediately looked at Qing Ji, seriously saying, “Senior Qing Ji, there’s something I think I need to tell you.”
Qing Ji, who was busy recalling the details of reforging the Ling Tai Purification, heard Huasang’s voice and pulled his thoughts back, “Hmm? What’s the matter? Go ahead and say it.”
Huasang pursed her lips, “I want to say that after listening to your words, I realized that Wang Buliu is Jujuzi.”
“Oh? You say that…” Qing Ji furrowed his brow slightly, then his eyes brightened as he nodded, “I think I understand.”
The daughter-in-law must have fabricated an identity to retrieve the ruler and disguised herself to get close to the Dachunyang Palace disciples, right?
“Tsk tsk, even pretending to be Zhang Hainan’s senior sister? She really thought of everything!”
“Senior, that’s not the main point.” Huasang continued, “The key point is that Wang Buliu’s real name is Lu Xibei, and he should normally be male; I suspect she might be committing marriage fraud!”
“Uh, even so, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s fraud…” Qing Ji began, but suddenly, a buzzing sound filled his head, and he snapped back to reality, wide-eyed, staring at Huasang in shock, asking, “Wait? What did you say her real name was?”
“Her real name is… #@*%!”
Qing Ji, “???”
Huasang heard the sound coming from her mouth, which transformed into a series of garbled noises, like the static from a damaged audio file.
She was stunned for a moment, opened her mouth to repeat what she just said, but at that moment, she suddenly felt dizzy.
Her body twisted violently.
Like thick fog being blown away by the wind, Huasang’s figure gradually distorted, blurred, and faded, disappearing from the rooftop in the blink of an eye.
“…” Qing Ji gazed at the spot where Huasang had vanished, furrowing his brow as his expression turned cold.
She had just said that Wang Buliu’s real name was Lu Xibei, right?
I have always felt something was off… If it weren’t for this so-called great-granddaughter-in-law revealing it to me, I might still be kept in the dark.
This little rascal actually dared to deceive me? Just wait until I deal with you!
Qing Ji thought, and a terrifying spirit energy fluctuation suddenly erupted from his body, accompanied by a loud “boom,” as fissures appeared on the rooftop.
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At Chenyi Inn, Room 306.
“Hu—!”
Huasang awakened, opening her eyes to gaze at the ceiling, letting out a long breath.
Why did I suddenly wake up?
It felt as if some force had forcibly severed her connection with the ruler.
Thinking about it, Huasang picked up the ruler and examined it closely.
The ruler looked the same as before, dark, with no scale, shining with a metallic luster, as if forged from black iron.
It seemed there was no problem? Is it because the resonance between the ruler and the broken sword has weakened over time?
It should be like that, right? After all, I shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
However, something still felt a bit off.
Huasang thought about it and examined the ruler again, gradually furrowing her brow.
The ruler was still the same ruler, showing no signs of unusualness, yet she felt inexplicably unfamiliar with it.
“Is it an illusion? Forget it, I’ll communicate with the ruler again later to confirm.”
Talking to herself, Huasang flipped over, lying face down, sprawling on the bed, and soon the room was filled with the sound of her even breathing.
She was already very tired today.
After the sudden severance of connection with the ruler and awakening, she felt dizzy, with her temples throbbing, a sense of muscle soreness spreading throughout her body.
So, as soon as she closed her eyes, she couldn’t hold on any longer and quickly fell into a deep sleep.
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On the other side, in the back yard of Chenyi Inn.
Wang Elder hurried back to his residence, holding the swapped ruler.
Upon entering the house, he locked the door and cast a spell to shield against detection, quickly approaching the bed, where he retrieved the badge from under his pillow and infused it with spirit energy.
Accompanied by a slight tremor of the badge, a featureless voice rang in Wang Elder’s ear.
“Oh? Have you succeeded already? As expected of Wang Elder, your efficiency and reliability are unmatched!”
“First, let’s not discuss trivial matters.” Wang Elder said in a deep voice, “What should we do next? Will this really not cause any problems?”
He had carefully inspected before swapping the rulers, and indeed, both rulers looked the same with no differences.
But that was just on the surface!
All disciples of Dachunyang Palace knew that the ruler contained the remnant soul of former sages; even if that person could perfectly replicate the ruler, they probably couldn’t replicate the remnant soul, and after a while, problems might arise.
“Is Elder Wang worried about exposure affecting your standing in the sect?” The voice from the badge coldly pierced through Wang Elder’s thoughts, “Haha, don’t worry, that ruler is in Huasang’s hands; if something goes wrong, as long as she doesn’t say anything, how would anyone else know?”
“But what if she…”
“There is no ‘what if!'” The voice in the badge interrupted, “That ruler is a gift from that great person; as long as Huasang attempts to use the ruler, she will feel the grace, and if she’s lucky, she may even see the marvelous sleep of that great person!”
“…”
Wang Elder recalled the scene when he first communicated with the whisk, and his gaze sharpened significantly, calming his anxious heart.
Yes, as long as she feels that great person’s grace, Huasang will surely become immersed in it, unable to extricate herself.
By then, even if she detects the anomaly of the ruler she possesses, she won’t let out a word!
