Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“You are a green onion in my heart. I’ll chop you up and throw you in the latrine…” The children’s singing echoed throughout the palace, day after day.
On the recliner, Li Mu recalled a distant memory of children singing.
Never would he see those little kids or play with them again.
He wondered how they were doing.
Soon the singing drifted over from the palace again, and the children all over the streets of the Imperial Capital sang along too.
The Ministers in Hanlin Academy were very frustrated by this.
“What on earth are they singing? How did our children learn a song like this?”
“Master Chen, forget it. They’re just children.”
“So what? If we don’t correct them now, what will happen when they grow up?”
The minister next to him whispered, “Master Chen, I heard that this song came from the palace.”
“Then I will tell His Majesty about this.”
“I’m afraid that His Majesty has no control over this matter. I heard that it came from Shouning Palace…”
“Shouning Palace?” Master Chen was initially confused.
Then, his expression changed drastically.
“I understand. I will not interfere with the current situation with Concubine Li,” Master Chen said.
They were all aware of Concubine Li’s situation in Shouning Palace.
After all, there were so many eunuchs and palace maids there.
Liu An treated that old eunuch with so much respect and didn’t allow any of the other eunuchs or palace maids to leave in over a year.
In addition, the sword qi in the palace had killed over 30 Perfected Persons the year before.
Everyone who was not a fool could guess who Eunuch Li really was.
There were no secrets in the palace.
Nothing could be hidden.
Although there had been no uproar, the ministers could roughly guessed what had happened.
“They’re just children having fun. It’s not a bit matter,” Master Chen said, then turned and left.
His attitude had changed all of a sudden.
All the ministers around him were shocked.
Wasn’t he just scolding them a minute ago? He changed his tune so quickly.
After some time, the prenatal qi in various parts of the South Continent started to recover and some spiritual animals began to appear in the mountains.
Ten years later, Li Mu’s cultivation level improved and he reached the pinnacle of the Virtual Realm.
In the past ten years, the Xia Family and the Mu Family had full control over the entire Honghai Sacred Ground.
The Honghai Sacred Ground was renamed to the Xia Mu Sacred Ground.
After the last child grew up and left the palace to become a government official, Li Mu began to settle down in Shouning Palace.
“It’s time to check in!”
Putting away the round plate in his hand, Li Mu got up from the recliner.
Click!
The recliner that he had been lying on for over 40 years suddenly collapsed as Li Mu got up.
“Huh?”
Li Mu frowned, a little uneasy.
“What’s wrong?”
Li Mu instantly headed to the vitality pit of Muguang Mountain.
“Sir!” Chu Qing hurriedly saluted Li Mu.
“Wow! Your cultivation level has increased again?”
“Sir! This place is full of prenatal qi and rich in resources. The cultivation technique you provided is also top-notch. Of course I will improve significantly.”
“Having resources is one thing. It’s more important to have the fundamental aptitude and understanding! Do you have any questions about cultivation?”
Chu Qing glanced at Li Mu and bowed. “Sir, I have none at the moment.”
The gentleman in front of her was so mysterious origin and had such a high cultivation level.
And he had so many resources and techniques.
He must be an important person in the South Continent.
She just didn’t know where he came from.
Was he from the Xia Family or the Mu Family?
Or was he the missing orphan from the Hong Family?
“I’m glad you’re fine!”
He glanced around the vitality pit.
In the pit, A’mu’s sword skills were improving.
He was at a critical moment of breakthrough.
The children from Sister City that he had brought there since the beginning, were all practicing hard.
No one was in any trouble.
“Could the Xia family be in trouble?”
Li Mu headed to Bailing Valley.
Concubine Jing was doing well.
With the supplement of Xia Family’s pill, Concubine Jing’s life had been prolonged.
She looked almost the same as she did 20 years ago.
He then headed to Honghai Sacred Ground.
“Tingting seems to be missing!”
“Where did Tingting go?”
Li Mu suddenly appeared in the cavern of the Xia Family’s Elder in the Sacred Ground’s Forbidden Ground.
“Ancestor! Tingting was at a plateau after reaching the half-step Perfected Person stage. She went out to practice.”
“Where did she go to practice?”
“I… I don’t know. It seems to be somewhere near the Huanhai Sacred Ground. I’m not sure where exactly.”
Whoosh!
Li Mu disappeared before the elder could finish speaking.
In the north, dozens of kilometers outside Luoyu City, a carriage slowly approached the city.
In the carriage were two men and two women.
Both the young men were dressed in gray and they had messy hair.
One of the women was wrapped in wool while the other was wearing a phoenix hairpin and a brocade dress.
“Tingting, you’ve never seen such beautiful scenery before, right?”
The woman wrapped in wool opened the curtain and looked at the scenery outside the window.
“No, I have never seen such a wide plain or been out of the valley before.”
After passing by the area managed by Xia Family and Mu Family, the road gradually became wider.
At the end of the road, there was a plain.
Tingting had never been here in her life.
Suddenly, her spirits were lifted.
“Then you must enjoy yourself this time.” The woman smiled and winked at the two young men.
The two young men nodded and whipped the horse in front of them.
The speed of the carriage started to increase.
“Okay!” Tingting nodded.
After having practiced for more than ten years, she had reached a plateau.
But the more she was unable to break through, the more anxious she became.
Every night, she would dream about how the Xia Family was attacked and how the masters had sacrificed themselves.
Spurred on by this nightmare, she continued to practice.
But she couldn’t break through from the plateau no matter how hard she tried.
Whenever her seniors encountered plateaus in their cultivation, they would leave to look for opportunities to break through.
Tingting felt that she should also leave for a while.
When she was in a restaurant in Yuehai City, she witnessed how the Zhongzhou people belittled the people from the South Continent.
The warriors in the restaurant split into two factions and fought each other.
After that, she made friends with the people who had stood up for the South Continent people.
If she hadn’t left, she wouldn’t have known that there were so many like-minded friends outside.
It wasn’t like how her seniors said it would be: there were deceitful and evil people everywhere.
If she hadn’t left, she still wouldn’t have known how beautiful the world was.
There was a long line at the gates of Luoyu City.
Every person and carriage entering the city must be led in by a dispatch.
After passing through this city, one would enter the core of the Huanhai Sacred Ground.
One must be rather powerful to be able to conduct business here, and many of these people were backed by elders of the Huanhai Sacred Ground.
The guards stepped aside as the carriage passed through the gates.
After entering the city, the carriage circled the city and entered a strange yard from the back entrance.
The three of them got out of the car and the woman wrapped with wool led Tingting to a house in the yard.
The house was built entirely of wood and it seemed to be decorated like a brothel.
“Miss Tingting, feel free to rest here. This place is full of food and facilities, and there are people who will attend to your needs all day long,” said the woman wrapped in wool.
“This place is…”
Looking around, Tingting was slightly confused.
“This is where our guests stay. This is our custom here.”
“After all, Luoyu City is a major hub, and people from different places have different customs and habits. Some guests like peace and quiet, and some of them do not want to be disturbed while practicing.”
“So, we just provide them with the space and let them settle the rest by themselves.”