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Chapter 334 features "immortals".

Her words prompted everyone else to reflect on how they had felt as they walked along the path she had just walked.

“I think so too!” Yan Shu nodded to Zhu Yu. “Although I didn’t look back at myself just now, I suddenly felt a bit disoriented as I walked.”

I didn't think much of it at the time, assuming it was just from being in the sun for so long on horseback."

“I’ve been thinking about it carefully. Along the way, I noticed that there seemed to be something like an incense burner at the corner of each of those high walls.” Zhu Yu found it increasingly suspicious. “Because many large houses would place an incense burner or something in some corner, to create the feeling of smelling a faint fragrance as soon as you enter the house.”

But as I walked along, I'm quite certain that I didn't smell any fragrance at all.

That's why I suddenly thought that if those small incense burners weren't meant to make the whole fortress smell nice, or to pursue elegance, and you said that the fortress itself isn't a formation, could it be that the incense burners were burning something that has no smell, yet can make people feel dazed, create hallucinations, and make them unable to discern directions?
"I looked around after entering this courtyard, and there's no incense burner here."

"Oh?" Lu Qing hadn't noticed this beforehand. He was slightly surprised and called to the rune at the door, "Rune, go and check around. See if there's an incense burner or anything like that."

Fu Wen quickly agreed and walked away. After a while, he returned and shook his head at Lu Qing: "Master, no, not in the courtyard or in the rooms upstairs."

“This is indeed intriguing,” Lu Qing said, lowering his eyes in thought.

Yan Daoxin frowned, stroking his smooth chin: "This is indeed somewhat suspicious. Speaking of which, while it's impossible for those incense products to be colorless and odorless, if we look at it from another angle, it doesn't seem impossible..."

"What do you mean?" Zhu Yu asked quickly.

"What do you consider to be tasteless?" Yan Daoxin didn't answer directly, but instead asked in return.

Zhu Yu was taken aback, then her eyes widened in sudden realization: "Oh—!"

"Could you guys... please stop speaking in riddles?" Yan Shu protested from the side with a pained expression. "I didn't understand a single thing."

Zhu Yu turned his head and saw that apart from Lu Qing, who also understood, the others were looking at Yan Daoxin curiously, seemingly not understanding at all.

Yan Daoxin sighed and silently glanced at Lu Qing beside him.

He had previously teased Lu Qing and Zhu Yu, saying that only Zhu Yu could understand Lu Qing's unspoken intentions the fastest.

Now, looking at those who were still completely clueless, he finally understood the joy of having someone by his side who understood his meaning immediately.

“Everyone thinks they don’t have a scent, but others do. Why?” he patiently explained. “Because you are surrounded by your own scent all day long. You are in your own scent, so you can’t smell it.”

Therefore, if you want to make a fragrance undetectable to people, you only need to let its aroma blend into the surrounding atmosphere, so that people will not be able to smell it and mistakenly think it is colorless and odorless.

If this scent, blending perfectly with the surrounding atmosphere, could effectively mask the sleeping potion within, wouldn't it be completely undetectable?

Those confused and bewildered faces finally turned into expressions of sudden realization.

Yan Daoxin breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is this feasible?" Zhu Yu asked.

Yan Daoxin shrugged and spread his hands: "Who can say for sure about these things? You won't know until you try." With that, he stood up, picked up his backpack, and walked out.

"Where did he go?" Yan Shu felt that Yan Daoxin seemed to have left halfway through his sentence, and she didn't know what was going on.

Lu Qing turned to look at Yan Daoxin, who had already left the guest hall: "He's probably going upstairs to find a room to figure out if he can concoct a spice that no one can detect."

It seems he had never considered this possibility before; Chief Secretary Yu has given him a new perspective.

Zhu Yu was also surprised. She hadn't known Yan Daoxin for very long, but they had been interacting for some time. This was the first time she had seen Yan Daoxin so persistent.

The others talked for a while longer before going upstairs.

There were probably no fewer than ten rooms in the small building. All the runes and talismans were checked to make sure no one was hiding there. The others then chose their own rooms and went in to rest for a while.

Although it wasn't apparent from the outside, once inside the room, Zhu Yu was still taken aback by its luxury. She couldn't help but look around, touching and examining everything.

"This is... rosewood?" Zhu Yu reached out and patted the sturdy canopy bed, lowering his voice to marvel, "This grain, this carving... isn't using it in a fortress where flowers and plants have been cut off, presumptuous or presumptuous?"

Lu Qing also reached out and touched the silk cushion on the concubine's bed. The embroidery was exquisite and the cushion felt smooth to the touch; it was undoubtedly a top-quality item.

"Whether it constitutes usurpation or not depends not on where it is placed, but on who is using it," he said with a slight smile, answering Zhu Yu's question.

Zhu Yu nodded meaningfully.

This Fairy Castle really does seem to have "fairies" living in it.

They were initially puzzled as to why the bandits posing as Jie people didn't operate around Xianrenbao, leaving such a large piece of meat untouched.

Now that Lu Yan's men are disappearing one after another here, coupled with the manager's arrogant tone, it's clear that the situation here is far more complex than they thought.

Zhu Yu walked to the side, pushed open the small window in front of him, and looked out.

“This place is really interesting.” She beckoned Lu Qing over and pointed out the window.

Lu Qing stood behind Zhu Yu, looking directly over her head.

Outside this small window, one should be looking towards the back of this courtyard. I thought that standing on the second floor, I could see what was behind me clearly, but to my surprise, all I could see was a high wall that completely blocked my view. Apart from a large expanse of bluish-gray, I couldn't see anything at all.

"They really are on high alert, not giving anyone any chance to spy on other parts of the fortress," Zhu Yu sneered.

Lu Qing chuckled softly and gently touched the top of her head with his chin: "Remember to keep the antidote pills that Yan Daoxin gave you with you at all times. If it's as we guessed before, then we're probably going to encounter some insidious tricks again."

Zhu Yu took out the small porcelain bottle that Yan Daoxin had given him earlier from his bosom: "It's all here. We'll divide it into two portions later, and you can take one with you too."

Lu Qing initially wanted to say that she didn't need it and that she could take it, but she changed her mind and replied, "Okay."