The Empress's No.1 Lackey-Chapter 1258 - 670: The Password to Open the Main Gate
The East Sea journey, a great success...
In the old building, upon hearing these words, Xu Zhenguan subconsciously loosened her grasp on the jade hand in her sleeve!
Her face clearly revealed a look of relief. Although she had already suspected:
If the action wasn’t going smoothly, Zhao Douan wouldn’t have had the mind to flirt with her...
"Where is the key? You didn’t bring back another female maid to me again, did you?"
After taking a breath, Xu Zhenguan turned to gaze at him with eyes full of depth.
Zhao Douan shuddered briefly and waved his hand with a bitter smile:
"How could that be, how could that be... Besides, Tuoba Weizhi wasn’t taken in by me voluntarily; it’s truly the Grand Ancestor Emperor’s lavish invitation... Ahem."
Sensing the Empress’s increasingly unfriendly eyes, he stopped joking around and said with a cheerful smile:
"The key to the East Sea is actually the Dragon Essence."
The Empress was noticeably taken aback, curiosity piqued. She took a deep breath, adopting a ready-to-listen attitude: "Tell me."
It was the classic moment of storytelling for the Empress.
Zhao Douan didn’t speak immediately, but pointed to two meditation cushions on the ground:
"Shall we sit down and talk?"
Xu Zhenguan said with a stern face, "No, I’m tired of sitting."
Zhao Douan nodded, dragging a cushion over with self-assured nonchalance to sit cross-legged:
"I’ve been busy all day, exhausted. I need to sit for a while. So, here’s what happened."
Sitting on the ground, he looked up at the Empress.
Ah, the view from here is great.
"..." Xu Zhenguan felt uncomfortable all over, thinking the posture was weird, and said angrily:
"Where are your eyes looking?"
Zhao Douan looked up blankly, "Huh?"
Xu Zhenguan walked a few steps, slightly annoyed, eventually sitting opposite him.
Zhao Douan smiled and then slowly began: "This starts from when we appeared on the sea..."
Then, he recounted the group’s encounter with "Anger Moon," the Sea God’s blockade, how he finished off Elder Qingmu, and reached Red Coral Island.
"Then, our group arrived at Silent Sea, ready to explore, when Heavenly Master Zhang sensed Wu Xiankui’s presence."
"What? Who did you say?" Xu Zhenguan interrupted, momentarily stunned.
Her face changed rapidly, leaning slightly forward:
"Wait, you were at the East Sea... and fought Wu Xiankui?"
Earlier, she thought Zhao Douan and Zhang Yan Yi were fighting the Sea God, thus using the Dragon Essence.
Zhao Douan nodded:
"Yes, but that was later."
Then, he detailed how the group split into two routes, how he led people into Silent Sea but unexpectedly entered a mysterious island and encountered a thousand-year-old shipwreck from Qi Country.
The Empress was visibly surprised by this, but with the previous experiences of La Garden, she quickly accepted it.
Afterward, Zhao Douan briefly mentioned the meeting with Li Wushang Dao, sharing the scene he saw in a "dream" where he met Xu.
"So you’re saying, the ’Divine’ crafted by the Grand Ancestor Emperor wasn’t initially dragon-shaped but transformed into Dragon Essence at the East Sea?" The Empress was astonished.
This secret was also unknown to her.
Zhao Douan nodded:
"It seems that back then, Grand Ancestor Emperor was exploring how to pave the path of ’Martial God’ and absorbed quite a part of Qi Country’s legacy."
Xu Zhenguan nodded thoughtfully:
"No wonder, since the Grand Ancestor Emperor, none of the Royal Family’s top experts, even those like me in the Heavenly Human Realm, could cultivate a ’Martial Soul’ similar to Dragon Essence. Initially, it was thought to be due to Grand Ancestor Emperor’s unparalleled talent, that couldn’t be reached by successors, but turns out there were hidden secrets."
She took a deep breath, staring at Zhao Douan, full of expectation:
"Continue, what happened next?"
Zhao Douan made a sound of acknowledgment and said:
"After that, I woke up, and upon awakening, I found myself stepping into the Half-step Heavenly Realm. Then I saw the indigenous cultivators from the Thousand Islands also landing, surrounding us, so I struck and killed them all."
Hmm... Hmm?!
The Empress was initially listening attentively, her ears perked up suddenly, surprised:
"You’re Half-step Heavenly now?"
She didn’t seem to care at all about the dead group of natives...
Moreover, as it was a puppet body, she couldn’t sense any change in Zhao Douan’s cultivation.
Zhao Douan smiled and nodded, reaching out to grasp the Empress’s small hand and guided it to his abdomen:
"If you don’t believe, Your Majesty can feel it..."
"..." Xu Zhenguan looked at him with amusement and annoyance:
"Do you need me to cooperate with you? Anyway, this is just a puppet body; you can play even without cultivation."
Zhao Douan shivered with fear, awkwardly releasing his hand, as he had no interest in big dolls!
"Continue," Xu Zhenguan sneered, her eyes conveying a hint of ’aren’t you the capable one, why are you scared now?’
Zhao Douan sighed, looking somewhat helpless:
"The rest is not that interesting. I realized the completed Dragon Essence was actually the key, then escaped from Silent Sea, just in time to see that Wu Xiankui trying to run away. I wouldn’t let him go, so I chased him down, taking advantage of the Dragon Essence’s remaining spirit, I blew him up."
The building fell into a quiet, dead silence.
The flames on the surrounding candlesticks quietly burned.
The night was peaceful, with small insects flying around the red lanterns hanging below the eaves outside.
Xu Zhenguan’s white and stunningly beautiful face was blank, her eyes filled with intense bewilderment.
After a while, she breathed a bit heavily and asked for confirmation:
"You said... Wu Xiankui got... blown up... by you?"
Zhao Douan naturally nodded:
"Yes. I must say, this person was indeed difficult to kill. Ultimately, I had a stroke of genius, recalling that different cultivation paths have varying transportation paths for Qi Mechanisms, so simply put the Dragon Essence into his Qi Sea."
