Feng Buquan was utterly frantic. He flew along the way, passing through countless mountains, cities, and villages.
An armoured giant that stood several hundred meters tall appeared on the horizon.
The mountainous giant stood with his hand on his sword. At a closer glance, it was not a true giant, but a statue. Not only was it unbelievably tall, but it was even more impressive in that it possessed both form and spirit. Even every single grain on its skin was clearly visible. Its eyes even flickered with light.
This was the statue of the first lord of the Green province, the Mighty King of Chu. He raised his head and gazed at the boundless sea of Ink, as if he was threatening the dragon king in the depths of the sea.
Beside the statue, on the shore of the sea, stood a magnificent city. Tall and short, the rising and falling palaces formed a lofty, magnificent whole. Through the weathering of time, it was enveloped in a faint, green lustre.
Great waves surged below the city, like a colossal reef that had endured the slapping and erosion of the Ink sea for thousands of years. However, within the rising mist of the sea, it seemed rather ethereal.
Feng Buquan's heart surged. "What a familiar scene!"
What appeared before him was the greatest city of the Green province, South Hub city.
When Feng Buquan set foot in South Hub city, he could not help but feel like everything was the same, but the people had changed. He had no time to lament over it. He directly made his way to the central region of South Hub city.
Guards that resembled vajras in temples stood there, wielding weapons and clad in armour. They guarded this place, eyeing the newcomers covetously. None of them were below Foundation Establishment, and they all practised both qi and body. They were powerful. Any single one of them would be a figure that could reign supreme anywhere they went.
Feng Buquan had been a valued guest of the provincial lord's estate in the past, so he was familiar with the place. Passing through various channels, he received an audience with the Dark Queen very soon.
In a tranquil pavilion that could view the sea from afar, a woman sat quietly by the window. A crescent moon hung above the sea of clouds. Her expression was cold as she gently stroked the cat in her arms and gazed out the window. However, she did not look at the sea, nor did she look at the moon. Her gaze drifted towards who knew where.
Instead, the cat used a pair of green eyes that resembled fireflies. It studied Feng Buquan before letting out a meow and revealing an extremely human-like expression of boredom. It lowered its head and licked its paws, revealing a delicate, silver moon on its forehead.
Feng Buquan said, "Your highness, please dismiss everyone."
The Dark Queen finally turned around and looked at Feng Buquan. The cat let out a meow, and the female attendants all backed away. Afterwards, she said indifferently, "Speak!"
Feng Buquan glanced at Kitty, who immediately said, "I'm not leaving!"
Feng Buquan thought of the cat's name and sighed in his heart. He bowed deeply. I … found her. "
"What did you say?"
The Dark Queen suddenly stood up. Her voice was cold and dignified, but it trembled slightly uncontrollably.
The cat landed lightly on the ground and looked at its master with a strange look. It meowed in dissatisfaction.
Feng Buquan said, "I found her. I sensed a trace of Heaven's Will, and it belongs to her. "
"Where is she!?"
"I don't know, but she must still be alive in this world!"
The Dark Queen clenched her fists so firmly that her knuckles turned white. Her nails dug into her palm. He felt a stab of pain, and he forced himself to calm down.
"Feng Buquan! I remember you telling me in the past that she had already lost all signs of life and was definitely going to die. So many years have passed, and now you've suddenly come to tell me that she's still alive? And you still don't know where she is? "
Her voice and expression were both indifferent, without the slightest hint of sternness. However, under the illumination of the moonlight, the shadow behind her rapidly expanded, climbing up the walls and the ceiling. It was sinister and vicious, dancing about wildly and violently. It demonstrated her inner turmoil.
Feng Buquan raised his head. "Yes!"
"Explain it clearly." The Dark Queen closed her eyes and let out a long sigh.
Feng Buquan told her the entire story. A powerful daemon called "North Moon" appeared in the Clear River prefecture. He obtained the Water God Seal from somewhere and refined the water realm on a large scale. Even when the four grandmasters worked together, they were unable to find him, so the Marquis of Ruyi asked him to divine it. In the end, he sensed a trace of Heaven's Will that had been severed all these years again. That was her existence.
The Dark Queen said, "Afterwards, did you divine it again?"
"I did, but I couldn't."
"Perhaps it's just your imagination."
"My blindness, my limp, my hunchback, and my heart are all telling me that it's definitely not my imagination." Feng Buquan became excited too.
The Dark Queen also noticed that Feng Buquan's blind eye had become slightly clearer, and his hunchback had straightened out. When he walked in, his limp was not as severe as when he left either.
These injuries and disabilities were all the result of the backlash from the heavenly secrets when he fought against others in the past. Battles between practitioners of divination were sometimes even more dangerous than battles between regular cultivators. In light cases, their lifespans would be shortened, while in heavy cases, they would die on the spot. The injuries they suffered were often not as direct as being cleaved by blades or axes, but they were much more bone-deep, deeply rooted in the principles of fate.
Logically speaking, as long as a Golden Core cultivator like Feng Buquan did not die, even if his hand was chopped off or his eye was poked out, he could still regrow his severed arm and recover his eyes. However, his injuries and disabilities could not be healed through any means, as this had already become his "fate". It was like a dead knot.
In order to repay Feng Buquan for his sacrifices in the past, the Dark Queen had once mobilised the power of the provincial lord's estate and even the Umbral Yin sect, but she was unable to heal him. Yet now, he had clearly taken a turn for the better. The dead knot seemed to show signs of loosening up.
Feng Buquan said, "In the past, I could divine that she was already dead, but now, I can't even divine whether she's dead or alive."
The Dark Queen's expression finally changed. She was not completely clueless about the heavenly secrets. Clearly, something had happened to the heavenly secrets in a situation like this. She murmured to herself, "North Moon!"
"This is an extremely important clue. According to my understanding, that North Moon is deeply connected to the Soaring Dragon Elder's death. The Sword Collection palace sent Fu Qingjin to the Clear River prefecture mainly to investigate this matter."
Reaching there, Feng Buquan glanced at the cat on the table. Right now, she was the person most connected to the Soaring Dragon Elder's death. If she had not fled to the Dragon province, why would the Soaring Dragon Elder have died there for no reason?
"You said he's called North Moon! You said he's called North Moon!"
The cat suddenly called out. Just Now, when she heard Feng Buquan mention North Moon, she found it to be extremely familiar, but she also found it rather difficult to believe. When she left the Ice Sword cliff, he was still nowhere close to Daemon General, yet now, a group of Golden Core cultivators were helpless against him. The difference was just far too great.
"Yes, he has a pair of horns on his head, and the two words' North Moon 'are engraved on them," said Feng Buquan. Feng Buquan said. He had not come to report the good news to the Dark Queen recklessly. Instead, he had specially carried out a series of investigations, especially regarding the only lead they had right now, which was the Daemon General "Northmoon".
"It can't be wrong! It must be Big Blacko! It must be Big Blacko! I want to go to the Clear River prefecture! I want to go to the Clear River prefecture! "
The cat leapt up and turned into a young lady in green. She grabbed the Dark Queen's hand and shook it hard. The tail on her back had yet to completely vanish, waving about excitedly.
The Dark Queen was mildly surprised. "North Moon is the Big Blacko you mentioned?"
"What's going on with Big Blacko?" Feng Buquan had a rough understanding that both North Moon and Xuanyue were connected to the Soaring Dragon Elder's death, but he did not have a particularly clear understanding of the details.
The Dark Queen rubbed Xuanyue's head. "Yue 'er once encountered a daemon in the Boundless mountains …"
"Let me say it! Let me say it!" Xuanyue excitedly told her everything she went through in the Boundless mountains when she became acquainted with "Big Blacko". Afterwards, she smiled complacently. "He's quite willing to recognise me as his master. Meowhahaha!"
"Do you know if there's anyone by North Moon's side?"
Feng Buquan had never thought the origins of the name "North Moon" would actually come from the young lady's claws before him. The appearance of the sliver of heavenly secrets in the past was clearly to cover up the whereabouts of "North Moon", so it definitely had a close connection with it.
"It's Whitey!"
"And who's Whitey?"
"It's just a little skeleton that doesn't like to talk. Big Blacko treats it very well." Xuanyue wrinkled her nose as if she was rather displeased by this.
"Skeleton!"
Feng Buquan suddenly turned around and looked at the Dark Queen. There was nothing that was born as a skeleton. Turning into a skeleton obviously meant that it had died once before coming back to life for some reason.
The severing and existence of the sliver of heavenly secrets seemed to have been explained all of a sudden.
The Dark Queen was speechless. Her mind wavered, unable to control herself.
She had already heard Xuanyue tell this story countless times. In the beginning, she had also wondered over how the Soaring Dragon Elder had died, but towards the end, she even stopped looking into it. She just listened quietly. She did not find it tiring, but she did lose her initial interest.
However, she never thought there would actually be such a mystery hidden within. An insignificant, insignificant supporting character in the story could be an existence that played a crucial role in her life.
The pieces of the jigsaw puzzle flew over piece by piece, vaguely forming a picture.
However, there were many points of doubt. If that really was her, if she really had come back to life, why didn't she return? Why didn't she state her identity to Gu Yanying on the Ice Sword cliff?
Even if all of this was true, was a senseless skeleton still her child?
The Dark Queen let out a long sigh. She dared not hold too much hope. She said calmly, "I want to see them."
Xuanyue called out, "Let me go! Let me go!"
Feng Buquan said, "You mustn't."
The nine commanderies of the Green province were also divided up by the three great sects. The north of the Ruyi commandery had always been the territory of the Sword Collection palace, while the south Just Now was the headquarters of the Umbral Yin sect.
As a result, when Xuanyue left last time, the Dark Queen had only entrusted her to Gu Yanying. She was unable to go in person. The Demon Slayer developed like wildfire in the north, but there were no signs of activity in the south at all.
The central region where the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga resided was a buffer zone. Basically, as long as the disciples of the two sects set foot in the other's territory, they would be risking their lives.
And, in the Clear River prefecture, the war between the humans and daemons showed signs of rapidly escalating. Sending a cat daemon like Xuanyue over was no different from sending a lamb into a tiger's den. Even if she had nine lives, it would not be enough.
"Ugly freak!" Xuanyue made a face at Feng Buquan before turning to the Dark Queen. She immediately became pitiful. "Please, master!"
The Dark Queen considered it for a while before actually nodding. "Alright!"
"This …"
Just as Feng Buquan was stunned, he saw the dim light in the Dark Queen's eyes. She said, "Let's go together."
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