Mountain and sea lantern

Chapter 588 Since evidence has already been left behind
The room was not only large and spacious, but also particularly luxurious.

There is a long, ice-blue table that looks very high-end, like a place for handling official business, but there is also a gorgeous chaise lounge, which looks like a place for resting.

There was also a large floor-to-ceiling mirror that reflected one's entire body, a dressing table, and a brocade robe hanging in a "大" shape on a clothes rack, embroidered with a hundred flowers in full bloom and a phoenix in flight, the embroidery was superb and had an indescribable nobility.

It's a woman's clothing. Judging from the atmosphere of this room, I don't know if it's a woman's room or not, but there's a faint, pleasant fragrance.

The beaded curtains and gauze curtains hanging at the entrance are clearly not made of ordinary materials.

A quick glance around the house reveals that there are no ordinary items; the entire place exudes an extremely high-class and noble feel, befitting a wealthy family.

That does fit Young Master Nan's family background; he's wealthy.

Is this Young Master Nan's house?

But then he felt something was wrong. How big was Young Master Nan's Wuyu Pavilion? Based on his previous experience of going in and out of the entrances of the two realms, the exit should still be quite a distance from the target location. He could tell by the speed at which the golden thread extended and the time he stayed at the exit.

Wuyu Pavilion couldn't possibly have such a large area.

Whose house is this, running around the Wuyu Pavilion?
It's entirely possible, but it's a bit of a coincidence that it happened to be in someone's room.

He used his right eye's supernatural ability to look into the distance and scanned his surroundings. He was immediately alarmed to find that there seemed to be quite a few people scattered around him.

He lost interest in observing the interior environment and tried his best to get closer to the window with the gold thread. He found that the window was closed so tightly that he could not see any outside scenery. So he gently poked a crack in the window and peeked out.

Upon closer inspection, it became clear that this window was quite unusual. When it was pushed open, there was no discomfort whatsoever, and even with a little force, it didn't make the creaking sound that other windows do.

My right eye couldn't see the real scene outside clearly, so I switched to my left eye and glanced out. I was so frightened that I pulled my head back.

He even doubted whether he was seeing things. Looking out again, he saw magnificent palaces and pavilions stretching as far as the eye could see. His room seemed to be on higher ground, and the scattered people were actually guards wearing heavenly armor.

The item was sent to the capital of Dongsheng, so it couldn't possibly be from the Heavenly Court. Could it have been shipped out from the royal court?
If that's the case, then this joke has gone way too far.

That shouldn't be the case. The royal court is far from where Young Master Nan lives. Based on previous experience, the Golden Silk of Death shouldn't be that far away, right?
Could it be that the item in Young Master Nan's possession has fallen into the hands of the royal court?
“Spring, spring…” Wu Jinliang’s voice could be faintly heard from the other end of the passage between the two worlds.

Shi Chun immediately responded in a low voice, "Don't make a sound."

I dared not raise my voice at all; how could I dare in this godforsaken place?

Wu Jinliang couldn't hear anything and was worried that something might happen, so he dodged and fired the cannon. He almost crashed into the wall, but he quickly reached out and pressed it down before he landed on his feet.

Shi Chun turned to look at him.

Wu Jinliang looked around in astonishment and asked, "Where is this?"

"Shh!" Shi Chun quickly put a finger to his lips, signaling him to be quiet.

Wu Jinliang immediately tiptoed to another window, gently poked a crack in it and peeked out. He should have kept quiet until he saw it; his expression changed drastically. He quickly turned around, squatted down against the wall, and muttered under his breath, "Spring, the scale outside... Could we have somehow ended up in the royal court's central government?"

Shi Chun gently pulled the window back shut. "Most likely."

Wu Jinliang asked in surprise and doubt, "The things that Young Master Nan had have fallen into the hands of the royal court?"

Shi Chun glanced at the entrance to the interdimensional passage, "What I'm worried about now is the one sent to Shen Moming. If Young Master Ruonan's has all fallen into other hands, can Shen Moming's one be kept?"

Wu Jinliang's expression changed drastically, and he instantly understood what he meant. Even if they retreated back to the Underworld now and tried to use the Death-Slaying Incense to communicate with Shen Moming's path, they might still be able to run back to the central government of the royal court.

The key issue now is that they've come all the way to the royal court's central command and can't get away.

He immediately took out the mother-child talisman and said, "I'll contact Shen Moming and the others to ask."

Shi Chun called out to him, "If the goods fall into the hands of the royal court, can you guarantee that they haven't been controlled by the royal court?"

Wu Jinliang was dumbfounded. "What can we do? We can't just wait around. By now, the soul should be almost back, right?"

Shi Chun pursed his lips and decisively said, "After we return to the Underworld, let's move to a different location and see."

Wu Jinliang pressed further, "What if we still manage to sneak into the royal court? Right now, at least we're in a room. But if we were to reappear in public and get caught in the act, that would be disastrous."

Shi Chun: "That's not the worst case. If you only get one item, you won't easily open the Soul-Binding Bag. If you get two items, it's hard to say whether you'll open one to take a look first."

"..." Wu Jinliang was dumbfounded again. If that were the case, it would mean that once he entered the Underworld, he might never be able to get out. He immediately complained, "I was careless, Chuntian. How could someone as shrewd as you not know to leave an escape route in Jukuzhou? If all else fails, you could have just sneaked back to Jukuzhou."

Shi Chun: "I'm talking about the worst-case scenario. It's unlikely that the other party could easily open it without control."

Wu Jinliang said, both amused and exasperated, "Is this something you can gamble on so easily?" "So let's just give it a try." Shi Chun said, throwing out a corpse brought from the underworld. Seeing that the underworld clothes on the corpse were too obvious, he quickly stripped it naked.

Wu Jinliang immediately understood the work he had been doing recently, and said with a bit of trepidation, "You want to try the 'Death Incense' here?" He stood up and lightly stomped the ground, "It's not easy to burrow underground down here. Even in the Royal Court, I don't have that kind of ability!"

Shi Chun: "Don't try to escape, it's too late. Let's just do it here. My technique can slightly control the spread of the fragrance. Once we've run away, there's nothing we can do about it spreading further."

Wu Jinliang yelled, "Spring, don't be confused! Even if it works, it's useless if the souls outside aren't restrained!"

Shi Chun: "Stop arguing, I have my own way, hurry up!"

Well, based on past experience, Wu Jinliang still believed that he wouldn't be confused at crucial moments, so he immediately took out the Deadly Incense and hooked it with his finger, directly unleashing the flames.

Shi Chun then quickly cast a spell to direct the smoke from the burning corpse towards the underworld corpse.

The golden thread he was controlling with his other hand trembled, showing signs of pulling back, which immediately made him feel uneasy, but he did not disturb Wu Jinliang...

The royal court was a magnificent complex of towering palaces and pavilions, with the residences of the Left and Right Assistant Marquises located on the connecting sides.

Inside the Right Assistant Marquis's residence, in a pavilion with its doors and windows tightly closed, an elderly man in plain clothes with white hair and beard was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back. He was the same man who had taken the letter from Young Master Nan earlier.

There were several other people beside him, including a disheveled man in black who was standing in front of a table, holding two soul-binding bags and fiddling with them in mid-air, moving them around in a way that was difficult for the onlookers to understand.

After finally stopping and tying the bag shut, the man in black bowed to the pacing old man and reported, "Your Majesty, there is indeed a soul trapped in the bag, but it was not human in life; it seems to have been a dog."

"A dog?" The old man stopped and turned around, looking somewhat surprised.

He specifically sought out someone who practiced underworld techniques to appraise it, but unexpectedly, the appraisal turned out to be a dog.

He just couldn't understand why a dog's soul needed to go through all that trouble.

He was about to ask if the other person had made a mistake, since the other person had said "seems," when his gaze suddenly sharpened and he stared directly at the knotted soul-binding bag.

Although he is not a meditator, if his cultivation level reaches a certain point, he will have a certain ability to perceive some unusual changes in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, the cultivator's expression changed, and he quickly reached out and grabbed another soul-binding bag, scooping it up into the void.

In his eyes, he saw that the soul in the bag had actually escaped from the soul-binding bag. He quickly tried to catch it, but even the other bag couldn't hold it back, and it could still escape from the bag wall. He immediately exclaimed, "Right Saint, this is bad! The soul is trying to escape, and the soul-binding bag can't control it."

The fact that the soul could escape from the soul-capturing bag convinced the old man that it was no ordinary soul. This explained why the item had been delivered so secretly. He immediately said in a deep voice, "You must capture it!"

What could the cultivator do? He could only desperately wave his soul-binding bag and chase after the pursuer, who quickly broke through the window and gave chase.

This action immediately alarmed the guards of the Right Assistant Marquis's residence, but the old man appeared out of thin air and waved his hand, immediately dismissing all the guards.

They chased and chased, and soon reached the boundary between the royal court's guards and the underworld cultivator. The cultivator dared not trespass. As soon as the old man arrived, he hurriedly reported, "Right Saint, this soul is not right. A normal soul could not have traveled this far. It would have long since disappeared into the underworld. This soul does not return to the underworld, but seems to be going somewhere else."

Without him saying anything, the old man was already convinced that it wasn't a normal soul; otherwise, why would he have bothered with all this trouble? He immediately asked, "Where did it go?"

"Over there." Mingxiu pointed to the higher ground of the royal court.

The old man immediately flashed to the royal guards, negotiated with them personally, and then turned back to call Mingxiu to continue, this time accompanied by a group of royal guards...

Meanwhile, Shi Chun, inside the house, had already seen the scene he had been waiting for: golden threads had sprouted on the corpse from the underworld, which meant that his judgment was correct and that underworld creatures could also be used to enter and exit the two worlds.

"That's enough, let's go back to the underworld." Shi Chun called out to Wu Jinliang and casually tossed a few soul-binding bags into the magnificent room.

Wu Jinliang, having stopped, glanced at it and asked, "What do you mean? Why did you throw it away?"

Shi Chun: "They can't possibly open them all right away. After we enter the underworld, let's first try to see if Shen Moming's side works. If not, we'll immediately try to contact the people here to open them."

“Ah, since a bunch of evidence has been left behind, then…” Wu Jinliang immediately turned his head, jumped to the ice-blue long table, touched it, and said repeatedly, “Good stuff, good stuff,” before putting it into his Qiankun bag.

Then he ran to the mirror and looked at himself. He twisted his body and exclaimed, "This is a magic mirror! It can see your intentions as soon as you turn your body. Look, it can reflect your side profile, and if you face it directly, you can see your back. What a wonderful thing! What a wonderful thing!"

Naturally, he put it away again.

He jumped up to the gorgeous dress and stroked it.

The golden threads he controlled trembled violently. Shi Chun turned around and looked at them angrily, "What are you dawdling for? The Soul-Capturing is here, and the person is here too. Hurry up and go."

So Wu Jinliang stopped touching and appraising things, and without thinking twice, he simply waved his hand and took everything he could carry away from the room before hurriedly following Shi Chun into the interdimensional passage.

(End of this chapter)