I Became the Devil Queen's Heart Demon-Chapter 995 - 370: Stacking Up High? The Empress’s Suspicion! Paper Flying Girl: Danger!

Chen Mo asked in confusion, "Which day is Commander Ye referring to?"

Seeing that he really couldn't recall, Ye Zi'e breathed a sigh of relief but still felt an inexplicable sense of loss, shaking her head, "It's nothing... Actually, I'm here out of curiosity. How did Mr. Chen know what happened inside the county government last night, when we were clearly hundreds of miles apart?"

"So that's what Commander Ye meant."

Chen Mo retrieved a piece of talisman paper from the Heavenly Profound Ring, with a jade-like luster glowing in his palm.

The talisman paper folded itself into a palm-sized paperman, then he bit his fingertip, dotting a drop of fresh blood on the paper's forehead. Under Ye Zi'e's astonished gaze, the paperman actually "came alive"!

It sat up, stretched lazily, and leaped off his palm, joyfully running around on the bed.

"This is..."

"Paper Puppet Technique, a foundational magic technique in the path of magic cultivators."

Chen Mo explained, "Generally, it requires divided attention to control, but as long as a wandering soul is attached to it, and essence blood nurtures it, it can possess some intelligence, serving as a means for surveillance and remote communication."

Watching the lively little paperman, Ye Zi'e's throat moved, "So, you're not only dual cultivating in martial arts but also a master of magic techniques?"

"I've learned a lot of things, involving various fields such as martial arts, Taoism, magic, sorcery, formations, alchemy, and divination," Chen Mo nodded.

"..."

Ye Zi'e was momentarily speechless.

She always thought she had considerable talent, having touched the threshold of a grandmaster by the age of thirty, but in front of this guy, she seemed like a complete fool...

How can there be such a vast difference between people?

"Wait a minute..."

Ye Zi'e caught onto some key information, "Mr. Chen also knows divination? Can you divine something for me?"

"Of course," Chen Mo nodded, "What aspect does Commander Ye want to divine?"

After spending some time interacting, his impression of Ye Zi'e had somewhat changed.

And since he had comprehended the "True Solution to Observing the World," he hadn't divined for anyone else yet, so doing this was like practice while idle.

Ye Zi'e looked at him expectantly, "Mr. Chen, can you help me see when I might break through to the grandmaster level?"

This was the most important thing on her mind.

Only by stepping into the Heavenly Human Realm would she be acknowledged by the Empress, no longer just a dispensable minor figure.

"How can such things be divined?" Chen Mo said with amusement, "Your dedication to cultivation, the opportunities you will encounter, these are all uncertain factors... If future achievements could be seen just through divination, wouldn't all the grandmasters in the world have already been recruited by the court?"

"Makes sense..." Ye Zi'e responded awkwardly.

"However,"

Chen Mo continued, "Commander Ye is only a step away from being a grandmaster, what's missing is just an opportunity. I can help you perceive your true heart, find your deepest desire, which might become a breakthrough point for unity."

"Thank you for your trouble, Mr. Chen," Ye Zi'e said gratefully.

"Try to open your defenses, don't resist."

The two sat facing each other, Chen Mo forming a magic gesture with his hands, murmuring, "Observe the heart with no form, clarity shining bright, when thoughts arise, awareness follows, when awareness arises, illumination follows..."

As the spell was chanted, his eyes became deep like whirlpools, with pupils gradually glowing with a silvery starlight.

Ye Zi'e gazed into those eyes, momentarily dazed, only realizing just then that she had unknowingly entered a special space.

"Where is this?"

All around was pitch black and deathly silent, like unformed chaotic void.

The only object was a floating mirror in front of her.

Intricately engraved with cloud patterns around it, its surface resembled silver plating, obscuring appearance, reflecting only a blurred silhouette.

Ye Zi'e cautiously reached out to touch it, ripples formed in layers, like water waves spreading outward, and the scene reflected on it gradually became clear, but it was not her face, rather everything she had experienced in the past.

...

...

The Ye Family were wealthy merchants in Qing Province, and as the eldest daughter, she displayed remarkable martial arts talent from a young age.

Without any guidance, she sensed Qi at the age of five, could lift the stone lion at the gate by seven, and went up the mountain alone at ten, returning after hunting a Blood Shadow Leopard.

As the sun set, a cute little girl, with chubby cheeks, dragged a few hundred pounds of alien beast, stumbling back into town, astonishing all the citizens along the way.

The incident quickly escalated, causing a sensation across Qing Province!

Many martial heroes actively came to recruit her as a disciple, including renowned sects, but her parents believed that within Jianghu, one had little autonomy, even top sects could not escape purges, only joining the government as officials was the right path.

For this, they spared no expense, pulling strings to send her to Tiandu City, joining the Iron Decree Mansion.

The Iron Decree Mansion, a subordinate of the Sky Scale Guard, seemingly focused on forging weapons primarily, actually recruited clean-background children, secretly training and supplying talents to various government departments.

In Qing Province, the Ye Family was reputable, but in the Capital City, they were insignificant.

Ye Zi'e was alone, without support, facing relentless bullying, coupled with extremely harsh training, gradually distorting her character.

Her family became her only mental support.

She trained harder, solely to one day return home.

Finally, in the coming-of-age assessment, Ye Zi'e crushed her competition to become first among her peers, joining the Sky Scale Guard's Earth Department, and was promoted to Squad Leader the next month.

Just when she thought she could finally reunite with her family, she received a sudden tragic news—