Chapter 2346: Heart Lock Intact

It was also calculating. The favor and promise of the Nine Abysses Great Emperor could not be bought with any treasure in this world. But as long as this spy was released, the Nine Abysses would owe it a favor.

This deal was too advantageous.

But the great secret of the Heavenly Palace would also flow into the hands of the Nine Abysses.

Once Cangyan knew the location of the demon puppet experiment site, knew the storage place of the immortal's skin bag, hmm...

"You know what to do." The Demon Emperor said slowly, "Remember, we have never captured Tong Yiyi."

"Yes." Nie Xiaolou hesitated for a moment, and was seen by the Demon Emperor.

"What? Still have any problems?"

"I always feel that Tong Yiyi has not revealed all the secrets, but the heart demons have already been used."

The Demon Emperor had already agreed to the request of the Nine Abysses, so he could no longer continue to inflict severe punishment on Tong Yiyi.

"No matter how much she probes, it is still the secret of the Heavenly Palace gods. We observe with our eyes and do not move with our hands." The Demon Emperor thought it through very clearly, "If we get it, we get it; if we don't get it, Cangyan will also get it."

This was no longer a hint. Nie Xiaolou's divine will: "I understand."

He suddenly recalled something: "By the way, Tong Yiyi said that when the old master instructed Land Yongyan about the secret, there was a guard outside who had been planted with eye mites, and was temporarily discovered by the gods. Tong Yiyi thought it was us, but..."

However, it was not.

Not Cangyan, not the Demon Emperor, then which faction would it be?

Nie Xiaolou said: "Could it be Mou State?"

"Eye mites?" The Demon Emperor snorted, "Not necessarily Mou State."

It said "not necessarily," which also meant that a fourth faction might possibly exist wanting to probe the great secret of the Heavenly Palace.

"You mean?"

"Eye mites, this thing, I have seen before in another Juan Sect." The Demon Emperor said slowly, "You don't know, because at that time the master of the Qing Palace was not you."

When Nie Xiaolou returned to the guest room, Mei Wuniang was also awakened.

Hearing his reply, she let out a long breath, knowing she had finally escaped danger.

No jesting words. With the protection of the Nine Abysses Great Emperor, her little life was considered saved.

This whole day of rushing about, injured and captured, and even facing off against the Qing Palace master, her body felt somewhat weak and limp. Especially her head ached severely, as if it had been fiercely split open by an axe.

Besides her whole body being stiff, her head felt especially heavy, as if her neck could barely support it.

Although she was awake now, she felt her soul was not in her body, seeing everything as if through a gauze veil, hearing everything as if through a wall, feeling very unreal.

This was soul injury, a standard soul injury.

Before she fainted, she clearly had only suffered physical punishment, so why did she wake up with such severe soul injury?

Mei Wuniang pressed one hand on her head. Although her current reaction was slower than usual by several beats, she could still figure it out:

Just now, Nie Xiaolou had probably used a soul-searching divine ability on her.

The Qing Palace master is truly hard to deceive; even if she used all her tricks, he still did not believe her, insisting on additionally searching out something.

Mei Wuniang felt her mind was empty and hollow, as if a large chunk had been dug out. But she had great confidence:

That most important secret was still there, and had not been stolen!

Because the effect of the Stabilizing Spirit Pearl was still there, the "Heart Lock" was still there, intact.

Before infiltrating Mou State, the Nine Abysses Great Emperor had given her a Stabilizing Spirit Pearl, an immortal's relic, which she had refined in her mind. As the saying goes, those who play with fire burn themselves; the fate of spies is generally not good, but even if she encountered the enemy's soul-searching arts, this Stabilizing Spirit Pearl could preserve a bit of her consciousness.

After she was captured in the inn, whether she was sparring with the enemy or suffering torture, privately she had been urgently doing one thing:

At the cost of breaking the Stabilizing Spirit Pearl, she forcibly and completely bound the information "Hiding Place of the Yin Spirit Lord" to her primary divine consciousness, forming a firm "Heart Lock."

Thus, no matter how the enemy searched, even if they stirred up her sea of consciousness and mind's abyss into chaos, they could not hope to find this information.

As long as her consciousness still existed, it would cover up this information;

If her soul had already flown away and scattered, this information would naturally also vanish with it.

This was the one-time use of the Stabilizing Spirit Pearl's "rather be shattered as a pearl" function, Mei Wuniang chose to use her life to guard this secret.

Because she could fully understand, this secret was of great significance to the Nine Abysses Great Emperor, to Cangyan, and even to the entire human world!

Her only mission now was to safely deliver it into the hands of the Nine Abysses!

The Heart Lock was still there, she had won.

Facing this grand Qing Palace National Master, even with myriad tricks like a kaleidoscope, he could not hope to pry out the ultimate secret from her.

Mei Wuniang softly exhaled a breath, unable to hide the fatigue on her face:

"Wax pellet, did you give it to the emperor?"

Nie Xiaolou just smiled at her:

"How do you know this wax pellet must be able to save you?"

Tong Yiyi should have obtained this wax pellet long ago; at that time, the Nine Abysses Great Emperor did not know what trouble she would cause, nor did he know what shocking secret she would probe into.

So he wanted to exchange her safe return, and in his handwritten letter set forth conditions that had to be high, high enough to make any possible opponent's heart flutter.

This was not generosity in the ordinary sense.

"If he says he can, then he definitely can. I believe all his words." Mei Wuniang leaned back, naturally, "Otherwise, what would I be selling my life for him?"

"With your background and experience, how can you still trust others?" He had seen the memories Tong Yiyi hid in her mind's abyss, like being bullied, insulted, harmed—such past usually makes people hold the utmost malice toward this world, because the world has always treated her this way. Even the heart demons praise her negative energy without end.

"He is not someone else, he is the Nine Abysses Great Emperor! If there is still one person in this world who can be trusted, it is him." Mei Wuniang pressed her forehead, unable to help but hum softly, "Your emperor has already agreed to the conditions set forth by the Nine Abysses Great Emperor, right?"

Otherwise, Nie Xiaolou could not be so kind and pleasant toward her, with no killing intent.

"It seems, your weight in the Nine Abysses is indeed not light." Nie Xiaolou smiled, "Rest well tonight, and tomorrow morning I will send you away."

"The Heavenly Palace..."

She was assigned a mission to go down the mountain, but on the way she was intercepted, Aunt Zeng's corpse could not return to her hometown, and she herself also went missing.

After the Heavenly Palace discovered it, would they not be angry enough to stomp their feet?

"Then you don't need to worry about it."

Mei Wuniang also stopped asking how those Mou people were doing, as it wasn't her concern.

Seeing Nie Xiaolou stand up to leave, she immediately spoke: "Wait a moment."

Nie Xiaolou stopped his steps, but after waiting a good while, seeing she didn't speak, he had no choice but to:

"Is there anything else you need?"

Since I'm sending her back, out of respect for the Nine Abysses Great Emperor's face, Nie Xiaolou also had to be polite to her.

"Yes." Mei Wuniang would get a headache whenever she thought about things; her mind wasn't as sharp as usual, so as soon as she called out to him, she forgot her words, and only after a long time did she remember what she wanted to say.