We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real? - Chapter 428: This is Really Too Embarrassing
Jiang Qingyi walked down the steps in front of the door, came to Sili’s side, and looked Sili up and down.
Sili lowered her head and bowed her neck, her hands clasped in front of her, looking extremely frightened.
“Calm down… calm down. I have the treasure Wangxin gave me on my person. The other party couldn’t possibly discern my realm.”
Being examined by this Ascension realm sword immortal, Sili’s heartbeat grew faster and faster. However, Sili still forced herself to calm down.
Before entering the palace, to be absolutely safe, Wangxin had given her a semi-immortal weapon called the “Heaven-Concealing Pearl.”
With this Heaven-Concealing Pearl, as long as she didn’t use spiritual power or cast spells, she wouldn’t be noticed by the Qin Kingdom palace’s territorial fortune.
Moreover, even if an Ascension realm cultivator stood before her, the other party couldn’t possibly perceive her realm.
Even under the concealment of this Heaven-Concealing Pearl, her Ten Thousand Flowers Peak secret disguise technique had risen a level, making the possibility of being discovered extremely low!
After Jiang Qingyi circled Sili twice, she shifted her gaze away from Sili and glanced at Xiao Mo.
“Your Majesty truly has excellent taste. This woman’s figure makes countless others feel inferior.”
Having spoken, Jiang Qingyi sat back down on the stone bench, poured herself a cup of tea, and said with displeasure in her tone, “What brings Your Majesty to my National Preceptor’s Manor today? Could it be that you have a new love and came specifically to flaunt her before me?”
“Fairy Jiang jests.” Xiao Mo smiled and shook his head. “I came today because I have a matter to request.”
“Oh?” Jiang Qingyi raised her eyes slightly. “What matter?”
“Previously, when I was in the library pavilion, I saw in a book that there are supposedly some spells in this world that can make people speak only the truth.” Xiao Mo asked directly, without any concealment from Sili beside him.
“Speak the truth?” Jiang Qingyi glanced at Sili. “What do you mean?”
“Literally. This palace maid is named Sili. When she met me yesterday, she directly stated that she was someone the Empress Dowager sent to monitor me, but she said she’s loyal to me and has absolutely no divided heart.” Xiao Mo explained.
“However, as Fairy Jiang knows, in this inner palace, I must guard against many things. So I came specifically to ask whether Fairy Jiang knows this type of spell to test whether Sili is lying or not.”
Jiang Qingyi glanced indifferently at this woman with an extremely exaggerated figure and said, “Does Your Majesty think that just because someone has a high realm, they know everything?”
“Some common spells indeed come naturally as one’s realm increases, but this truth-speaking spell is the specialty of Daoist or Yin-Yang school cultivators.”
Jiang Qingyi turned her head away.
“I am a sword cultivator. I don’t know this type of spell, nor do I deign to learn it. For any suspicious targets, I would rather kill wrongly than let go. I just kill them all with one sword. Where’s the need to be as wishy-washy as Your Majesty?”
“Very well, then I’ve intruded.” Xiao Mo couldn’t say he was disappointed. If she didn’t know it, he would just find another method.
“Wait.”
Just as Xiao Mo turned to leave, Jiang Qingyi called out behind him.
Jiang Qingyi stood up and walked to Xiao Mo’s side with ill humor, “I still have other spells that can help Your Majesty. Why is Your Majesty leaving so quickly?”
“What spell?” Xiao Mo asked curiously.
“Soul searching, naturally.” Jiang Qingyi looked at Sili and said with a cold smile, “As long as I search her soul, everything will be clear. Isn’t this better than truth-speaking?”
Hearing that her soul would be searched, Sili’s heart clenched, and she couldn’t help but take a step back.
“Are there any side effects?” Xiao Mo asked.
“Yes. At best, she’ll lose some memories. At worst, she’ll become an idiot. The degree varies from person to person.” Jiang Qingyi said indifferently.
Xiao Mo turned his head and glanced at Sili.
He saw Sili nervously clutching her sleeves, her face somewhat pale.
“Forget it.” Xiao Mo shook his head and declined Jiang Qingyi’s suggestion.
“Oh? Is Your Majesty reluctant to part with the beauty?” Jiang Qingyi crossed her arms.
“If she’s truly loyal to me, and because of my suspicion, I turn her into an idiot, I wouldn’t be at peace with myself.” Xiao Mo explained.
Hearing Xiao Mo’s explanation, Sili couldn’t help but raise her beautiful face and look at his profile, her watery eyes rippling.
“He he he, if Your Majesty is so kind, how will you seize power in the future?”
Jiang Qingyi laughed coldly and tossed a small box to him from her storage bag.
Xiao Mo opened the box. Inside was a miniature flying sword the length of an embroidery needle, with a white paper containing an incantation formula attached below the sword.
Jiang Qingyi no longer paid attention to Xiao Mo, turned and walked into the room. Her voice drifted from behind her.
“This sword is called the Heart-Piercing Sword. It’s a seventh-grade magical artifact I obtained when I passed by a certain place and casually destroyed a demonic sect. The flying sword’s function and how to use this miniature flying sword are written on the white paper. Your Majesty can read it yourself.”
As the woman’s voice fell, the door closed, and the courtyard fell silent once more.
“Thank you, Fairy Jiang.”
Xiao Mo bowed toward the room, accepted the box, and led Sili out of the National Preceptor’s Manor.
Returning to the bedchamber, Sili attended to helping Xiao Mo remove his outer garment, then poured Xiao Mo a cup of tea. Pouting her small mouth with some displeasure in her expression, she said, “This National Preceptor really is something. Just because she’s a cultivator, does that make her so great? To speak to Your Majesty with that kind of attitude!”
Xiao Mo accepted the teacup with a smile, “Miss Jiang is just like that, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted. On the surface she seems cold as death and unforgiving in her words, but actually she’s very soft-hearted. If she can truly help, she won’t refuse.”
After drinking a sip of tea, Xiao Mo opened the box and took out the flying sword and white paper.
Just as Fairy Jiang had said, this sword was a seventh-grade magical artifact. With his current realm, he could just use it.
As long as he dripped a drop of fresh blood onto this miniature flying sword, then inserted this miniature flying sword into Sili’s brow.
Then whatever he asked Sili, she would have to answer truthfully, otherwise she would suffer heart-gnawing pain.
In addition, after Sili had the long sword inserted, she must receive a strand of his sword qi every day.
If she didn’t receive sword qi for more than three days, this long sword would disrupt her meridians and she would die violently.
Of course, this magical artifact only worked on Qi Refinement realm cultivators and mortals but that was enough.
“And she said she didn’t know ‘truth-speaking’ spells.” Looking at this long sword, Xiao Mo shook his head speechlessly. However, National Preceptor Jiang hadn’t really deceived him, because she truly didn’t know it, but had given him a magical artifact as a substitute.
Putting down the flying sword, Xiao Mo handed the white paper to Sili, “Read it yourself.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Sili accepted it and read it carefully once through.
As she read, Sili’s eyes showed some nervousness.
“How is it? Are you willing?” Xiao Mo asked. “If you’re unwilling, it’s fine. After all, palace maids like you have no control over your own lives. When the time comes, I’ll send you out of the palace. I can still manage to preserve your life.”
“This servant is willing!” Sili knelt before Xiao Mo. “This servant is already single-mindedly devoted to Your Majesty, without a trace of selfish thought!”
“Good.”
Xiao Mo nodded, then pricked his fingertip with the sword point and dripped a drop of essence blood onto the small sword.
Reciting the formula, the small sword trembled continuously and floated in the air.
“Go.”
As Xiao Mo pointed with his sword tip, the miniature flying sword transformed into a stream of light and entered Sili’s brow. However, the moment this flying sword entered Sili’s brow, it was already suppressed by spiritual power and couldn’t exert any effect at all. Sili could even destroy it at any time.
“Were you sent by the Empress Dowager?” Xiao Mo asked.
“Yes, Your Majesty.” Sili answered truthfully.
Seeing Sili had no reaction, Xiao Mo continued asking, “Do you truly intend to be loyal to me and will not betray me?”
“This servant is absolutely loyal to Your Majesty. No matter what happens, I will not betray Your Majesty.” Sili said again, her eyes incomparably sincere.
Seeing Sili still had no reaction, Xiao Mo nodded with satisfaction, knowing everything she said was true.
“Tell me, for you, what do you most want right now?” Xiao Mo continued asking.
“This servant… this servant doesn’t want anything… this servant only wants to properly serve Your Majesty.”
Just as Sili’s words finished.
Sili’s brows furrowed, her pearly teeth bit her lip tightly, cold sweat appeared on her forehead, and she panted heavily in large breaths, her chest heaving violently with each breath.
“Mm…”
Sili clenched her fists tightly and collapsed to the ground, her cheeks flushing an alluring red.
“Your Majesty, this servant… Your Majesty…”
Her eyes looked at Xiao Mo in a daze. Each word she spoke seemed extremely painful.
Her round and elastic legs beneath her skirt intertwined and rubbed against each other continuously.
Seeing Sili like this, Xiao Mo couldn’t help but freeze.
Compared to the pain of sword qi disrupting meridians described on the paper.
Xiao Mo felt Sili looked more like she had been given an aphrodisiac.
If he hadn’t cultivated the Mind Calming Formula, and the Book of a Hundred Lives’s rewards hadn’t also strengthened his mental fortitude considerably.
Otherwise, with her current appearance ready to be plucked, he truly might not be able to maintain his resolve.
A full tea’s time passed before Sili’s pain seemed to gradually lessen, her eyes showing some lingering fear.
“Tell me, what do you want?” Xiao Mo asked again.
Sili tremblingly propped herself up from the ground and sat sideways on the floor, her palace dress clinging tightly to her graceful figure.
“This servant…”
Sili’s cheeks showed hesitation, her voice sounding extremely guilty.
“This servant… wants to be favored by Your Majesty…”
“Ever since this servant first saw Your Majesty, my heart has belonged to Your Majesty. This servant has never had this kind of feeling before. It’s just like love at first sight described in books. As long as this servant can be with Your Majesty, this servant is willing to do anything.”
“This servant just now deceived Your Majesty. Please punish this servant, Your Majesty. But this servant truly didn’t know how to say it out loud just now…”
“This is really… really too embarrassing…”
The more she spoke, the more the flush spread across Sili’s face, like red ink dyeing a water vat red. Her fair ears and neck were also bright red.
“…” Hearing her words, Xiao Mo was momentarily speechless.
He had thought she was hiding something but unexpectedly, what she wanted was actually him as a person!
“I pardon your offense. Rise.” Xiao Mo said to Sili.
“Thank you, Your Majesty…”
Sili stood up and timidly arranged her disheveled hem.
“Your loyalty, I now know. From today onward, you are truly my person.” Xiao Mo looked seriously into her eyes. “Rest assured, as long as I’m here, I will definitely do everything in my power to protect you and absolutely will not treat you unfairly.”
Xiao Mo poured a cup of tea and handed it to her, “However, the miniature flying sword in your body, I still need to keep it there. Once the great task is accomplished, I will remove it.”
Sili accepted the teacup with both hands, “Actually, Your Majesty doesn’t need to remove this flying sword. This servant wouldn’t mind keeping this flying sword for a lifetime.”
Xiao Mo asked, “Why?”
“Because this servant is already Your Majesty’s person and wants to stay by Your Majesty’s side for life. Whether the flying sword is there or not, what difference does it make?”
Sili smiled brilliantly.
“Moreover, as long as the flying sword is there, Your Majesty will need to frequently input sword qi into this servant’s body, and this servant will be able to see Your Majesty often.”
“…”
Looking at the pure smile of the woman before him, Xiao Mo couldn’t help but feel a trace of guilt in his heart.
She trusted and was so loyal to him, yet he still kept the flying sword to guard against her changing her heart.
How was he not being a proper person?
“Go rest well.” Xiao Mo collected his thoughts and waved his hand at her.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Sili curtsied and withdrew.
Leaving Xiao Mo’s bedchamber, Sili returned to her own room to rest.
As a personal maid, Sili’s living quarters were only separated from Xiao Mo’s bedchamber by a single wall, so she could quickly come to Xiao Mo’s side.
“My acting just now should have been acceptable.”
Recalling her every action just now, Sili felt there shouldn’t be any flaws.
“As things stand now, Master should already completely trust me.”
“And after this, I only need to consolidate this trust, and I’ll be able to increasingly enter Master’s heart.”
“Perhaps then, I’ll even be able to accomplish what I didn’t do with Master before…”
The more she thought about it, the more Sili felt her plan was feasible. However, soon Sili frowned.
In Sili’s storage bag, a magical artifact sent out a signal.
Sili took the artifact out of her storage bag.
It was a jade plate.
Marks gradually appeared on the smooth jade plate, soon forming characters one by one,
“How are things? In the Zhou Kingdom, have you found any clues about Senior Brother’s reincarnation?”
This sentence was written by Ten Thousand Dao Sect Master Yu Yunwei.
Sili extended her finger, about to respond but when Sili’s fingertip had just touched the jade plate, she paused.
Sili’s bewitching eyes shifted left and right, and finally she wrote on it, “I haven’t discovered Master yet. I’m still gathering information.”
At the same time, in a small courtyard in the western suburbs of the Zhou Kingdom’s capital.
A woman wearing ordinary hemp clothes sat on a stone bench, raising her head to look at the azure sky.
“Migu migu…”
Hundun flew to Wangxin’s shoulder, nuzzling her cheek.
“I know Sister Sili has already been in the palace for nearly a month.” Wangxin took Hundun down from her shoulder, placed it on her lap, and petted its head. “Don’t worry, Sister Sili is very capable. Nothing will happen to her.”
“However…”
Wangxin’s eyes blinked gently, showing confusion.
“Sister Sili has been in the palace for so long, why hasn’t she sent me any news yet…?”
