Chapter 16: The Secret Realm Descends
"Grandpa Guo, Miss Six is not dead." Kang Sheng stood on the lower seat and bowed back to the Duke of Qin.
"What! Not dead? ”
Qin Guogong was a little shocked. Today, his mood has been in a state of ups and downs, and he can't come back to his senses for half a day.
"It's good if you're not dead, it's good if you're not dead." Although he said this, Qin Guogong waved his sleeves but he didn't care much.
He continued to write the reward order, and now Qin Guogong had no time to continue to care about her affairs. Seeing this, Kang Sheng retreated from the study.
Dongchen Kingdom has been very lively recently. Dongting Village, not far from the capital, descended a secret realm at some point. This is something that has not happened in Dongchen Kingdom in the past few hundred years.
The entrance to the secret realm happened to be in a cave, and the bottom of the cave was constantly emitting a faint golden light.
Curious villagers went in to check it out, but they all disappeared for some reason. At first, this matter was only passed on by word of mouth among the villagers of Dongting Village.
However, due to the large number of missing villagers, the yamen sent officials to investigate, but they didn't want to even go missing.
This incident finally alarmed the capital, and for a while the government and the opposition were hotly discussed.
After many ministers' inquiries and discussions, it was finally determined that the missing people in Dongting Village should have entered the secret realm.
This was originally an extremely secret thing, but I don't know who spread it. It was even spread so mysteriously that for a time there was an elixir of life in the secret territory and spread in the streets and alleys.
Because of this rumor, there are more people who are not afraid of death who secretly go in to find medicine, and they have not yet come out. Many people say they died in the Secret Realm.
What's more, even the second son of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion, the Eighth Prince and others brought several teams of guards to ask for medicine.
After Xuanping Hou got the news, he was so angry that he fainted in the study on the spot, and even the Queen Mother was sick.
For a time, Dongchen Kingdom recruited capable people and immortal cultivators to go to the secret realm to save people, and the rewards alone were countless.
Qin Guogong was just watching the excitement.
But he didn't want to stand in front of him with trembling just now......
Qin Guogong glanced at him and recognized him as a slave in the Xuanzhu Courtyard. Seeing the minion shouting and screaming as the sky fell, he frowned and felt a little unseemly.
"If you have something, just talk about it, what do you shout?" Qin Guogong glanced at him coldly.
Zhou Fu's face was terrified, his eyes revealed fear, and he looked completely distracted, "Grandpa Guo, it's the Seventh Young Master...... Yesterday I secretly went to the secret realm. ”
Qin Guogong was so shocked by this news that his beard trembled, and he was so angry that he didn't hold the tea set in his hand. There was a click, and the pieces of porcelain shattered and splashed.
"What?" He roared at Zhou Fu.
Zhou Fu saw that Qin Guogong was angry, and he knelt on the ground in fear for a while.
He didn't dare to hide it, and explained everything.
"This morning, when the slaves and maids of Xuanzhu Courtyard waited for the Seventh Young Master to get up early, they found that there was no one in the room. There was only a note on the table that said to go to the secret realm. ”
Zhou Fu handed the note to Qin Guogong, and then continued to kneel, not daring to look at him.
After reading the note, Qin Guogong was so angry that he almost attacked his heart. In an instant, his body suddenly lost strength, and the whole person collapsed on the chair.
Sure enough, just looking at the excitement will be retributed.
He pointed to Zhou Fu, who was kneeling on the ground, a little weakly, "If you can't take good care of your master, all the slaves in Xuanzhu Courtyard will receive twenty boards each, and they will be punished for three months." ”
After Zhou Fu listened, his face turned blue instantly.
Immediately after, Qin Guogong waved his hand and dispersed all the subordinates in the house, "You all go down." ”
Qin Guogong sat on the chair for a long time.
Dongchen Kingdom is now thin in aura, and people do not advocate cultivating immortals.
But a thousand years ago, this was not the case.
Once the ancestor of the Qin family also had an immortal cultivator, and he also left a magic weapon for the Qin family. But when it came to his generation, no one knew what it was for.
He turned a celadon vase on the low table in his study, and there was the sound of heavy objects mopping the floor behind the bookshelf, which was the secret room in his study.
Not long after Qin Guogong entered the secret room, he came out with a jade pendant with a simple appearance and a dull color.
Although Dongchen Kingdom has recruited many capable people now, if there are no valuable rewards, no one will really go in to rescue them.
For the sake of his son's safety, Qin Guogong could only take out that magic weapon.
In the Lanpu Courtyard, Qin Manjing was cultivating cross-legged.
Since there was no aura in the outside world, Qin Manjing had already lost count of how many times she had consolidated her cultivation.
What she didn't know yet, however, was that this kind of operation would be of great benefit to her future cultivation.
Suddenly, she heard a soft knock on the courtyard door outside the house, and "knock knock knock...... only a few rings before stopping.
Almost no one who came to her knocked on the door so softly, and Qin Manjing was suddenly a little curious about who it was.
After pausing her cultivation, she walked to the gate of the courtyard, removed the wooden stick against the door, and gently opened the door to a corner.
Before she could see who it was, the man shouted softly, "Miss Six, I'm Changji." ”
Qin Manjing was a little surprised when she saw that it was him, she didn't expect Changji to come at all.
Changji didn't notice that Qin Manjing's expression was a little strange, but said to himself through the door panel: "The things that Miss Six arranged for the villain to do before, the villain has done it well. ”
After finishing speaking, he glanced at Qin Manjing several times through the corner of the open courtyard door, and unconsciously smirked, "I heard that Miss Sixth is dead, but it frightened the villain." ”
He touched his head embarrassedly, "Now that I look at it, Miss Six is not good." ”
Only then did Qin Manjing understand Changji's intention. It turned out that he was worried that she was dead, and no one would give him the antidote.
In fact, it is normal for Changji to have such concerns. In fact, when he first took Bigu Dan, he didn't feel the slightest bit hungry for several days, and he was so scared that he ate more than usual.
His body was so abnormal, he believed in the power of the poison, and he was even more afraid that he would be sucked into something after three months.
Seeing this, Qin Manjing was a little apologetic, and she took the initiative to reassure: "If something happens to me, I will hide the antidote in this hospital." ”
Originally, Qin Manjing wanted to tell him directly that everything was fake, but she didn't dare to bet on whether Changji would tell Qin Guogong about it after he found out. So she still has to buy herself more time.
However, what he didn't expect was that Changji's eyes turned red when he heard her say this. He looked at Qin Manjing gratefully, "Thank you, Miss Six, Miss Six, you are such a good person." ”
[Changji's favorability +8, now the favorability is 26.]
“……”
After sending Changji away, Qin Manjing was still a little confused. She suddenly felt that Changji was a ...... Seems a bit silly.
She stood by the door and pursed her lips unnaturally, leaving all these strange thoughts behind.
Suddenly, the voice of the system sounded in Qin Manjing's mind.
[Ask the host to complete the daily quest - enter the secret realm.] Earn daily rewards for completing missions. 】
"Secret Realm?" Qin Manjing looked puzzled.
[Secret realms are usually some unknown alien spaces, often where danger and opportunity coexist. 】
[Recently, a secret realm was born in Dongchen Kingdom. In order to be able to improve your cultivation and enhance your strength, please enter the secret realm to experience. 】
"Then how do I leave the Qin State Mansion?"
Qin Manjing is also very interested in the secret realm, but it is not easy for her to get out when she is trapped in the Qin family.
[Host, daily tasks require you to use your wits to complete.] Similarly, there is a lightning strike penalty for failing a mission. 】
Before this, Qin Manjing changed the cotton clothes rewarded by the system with needles and threads and made a dark gray cloak with a large hood. The needle and thread were kindly gifted by the system.
The cloak was large enough to completely envelop her figure, and the hood was firmly obscuring her face.
There was still some fabric left, and Qin Manjing made another mask. You can also cover her face under the hood, just in case.
It just so happened that her body was much stronger after she introduced qi into her body, and she couldn't use her cotton clothes, so she simply used it to make a cloak to prepare for her to leave the Qin State Mansion in the future.
After those people left in a hurry, they forgot to lock the Arashipu Temple. So at the moment, it is easy for her to leave this small courtyard. But it was a little difficult to leave the Qin State Mansion.
Qin Manjing put on a mask, put on a dark gray cloak, and wrapped her whole body tightly.
In order to create a scene where she has been staying in the small courtyard, she also deliberately locked the courtyard door before leaving.
There are many guards stationed at the gate of the Qin State Mansion, although Qin Manjing does not need to be afraid of mortals as an immortal cultivator now, she doesn't really want to attract the attention of others.
Avoiding the patrolling courtyards and walking slaves, Qin Manjing quietly circled the walls of the entire Qin State Mansion. Now her ears are much better, and it is relatively easy to avoid the eyes of mortals.
Although the walls were so high that they were not easy to climb without a foothold, she eventually found a suitable place.
There is a tree growing near the wall of the small door.
Ordinary people may not be able to use this tree to get out of the Qin State Mansion, but Qin Manjing is no longer an ordinary person now.
She clearly sensed that her physical strength and stamina were much better than they were in mortal times.
Taking advantage of the gap between the departures of the slaves on duty by the small door, Qin Manjing took the opportunity to climb to the highest point of the tree trunk with agility.
But before Qin Manjing could move, a dazzling grandmother quietly came in the direction of the small door. At this time, the trunk of the tree did not have any leaves to cover it, and if it was discovered, Qin Manjing's move would inevitably cause turmoil in the Guogong Mansion.
The situation was urgent, Qin Manjing rushed to the wall in a hurry, and successfully climbed the wall of the Qin State Mansion with both hands. She braced her arms as hard as she could, and her legs climbed up with the strength of her legs.
Qin Manjing leaned over against the tiles, breathing smoothly, trying not to attract attention.
At this time, the grandmother hurriedly ran to the small door while no one was there and opened the lock on the door.
She looked left and right for a while, and like a thief, she took out something she didn't know what was in her arms, handed it to the person outside the door, and then locked the door again.
After that, the grandmother looked around for a while, and when she saw that no one saw her, she hurriedly ran away. It wasn't until the slave on duty returned that everything was quiet.
It was now approaching evening, and horse-drawn carriages passed by from time to time.
Qin Manjing deliberately waited until there was no one before jumping off the wall, and at the same time controlled her body to roll forward and land.
"System, where is the secret realm?" She flashed silently into the shadows.
Qin Manjing really didn't expect that she would be able to leave the Qin State Mansion so easily.
At this moment, the cage of the giant beast that had trapped her for seven years was behind her.
Now, she has a feeling of complete freedom.
And this feeling was brought to her by the power, Qin Manjing clenched her fist hard.
[Host, the secret realm is in the west, you need to go out of the city first. 】