Chapter 476: White Cat Brush and Nine Palaces Mountain City

A person and a monkey enjoying the service of a petite beauty—how to describe it……

Very strange!

Heng Xian stared in surprise for a while.

Sun Bufan and Gou Dan only then realized, hastily jumping up and laughing: "You're back?"

Heng Xian pointed at the shy girl leaning to one side: "This is……"

"His concubine! What a sin!" Sun Bufan pointed at He Qiye on the pillar, looking pained, "Just sixteen, you're psychotic! So infuriating!"

He Qiye gave an embarrassed look: "Looks young, but I'm actually eighteen!"

The girl glanced this way and that: "Actually I'm nineteen, just looks young!"

"Hey sis!" Sun Bufan leaned in, gesturing for the girl to feed him another grape, "You say you're following He Qiye—what are you after?"

The girl blinked: "At first I was after He Qiye's high cultivation and power, then…"

Her face flushed red: "He Qiye treats people well, that thing is big, and he's good in bed!"

Heng Xian: "……"

Sun Bufan and Gou Dan were dumbfounded.

He Qiye on the pillar, unable to hide his pride, quietly raised three fingers: "One time per night, one night per time, skilled in twenty-six flower-spray styles, seventy-two acupressure techniques!"

"Damn! So hateful! Don't stop me!" Sun Bufan rushed to the pillar, grabbing He Qiye's throat: "You're awesome, but what does raising three fingers mean? Huh? You look down on us three? You think I won't kill you?"

He Qiye looked at him, difficulty speaking: "You… you're inferior!"

"I'm screwed!" Sun Bufan went berserk.

"Bu Fan, you're a monk, no need to compare this!" Heng Xian reminded.

"Uh…" Sun Bufan came to his senses, rubbing his bald head, "I almost forgot, Amitabha!"

"I'm different!" Heng Xian looked at He Qiye, calmly said: "My record is serving eighteen people in one night!"

He Qiye and the girl exchanged a glance: "Amazing, amazing!"

"Admit it!"

Heng Xian waved his hand, suddenly feeling extremely embarrassed, pinching his brow, coughing: "What nonsense am I saying, my train of thought is all messed up!"

He turned his hand into a sword, cut the ropes binding He Qiye, took out the brush case and handed it over.

He Qiye hastily took it, overjoyed, and bowed deeply to Heng Xian: "Thank you, senior! I'll immediately prepare identities for you two to enter the Nine Palaces Inner City!"

"Hold on!" Sun Bufan curiously pointed at the brush case, "You said earlier this white-haired brush has divine effects; I'm very curious—why not demonstrate it?"

"Exactly!" Heng Xian was also curious.

"Good!"

He Qiye treasured the box, opening it carefully, and took out the five-colored glazed brush; inside, nine tiny cats were running back and forth, lifelike.

He held the brush with his fingers, no ink, three feet above the ground, drawing; each stroke left a miraculous water trace on the ground.

Soon, a picture of a woman appeared.

He Qiye chanted a spell and shouted: "Rise!"

That portrait of a beauty gradually gained color and features, then rose up and actually turned into a real woman, who bowed slightly to the few of them and then began to dance, her posture extremely beautiful.

Sun Bufan and Gou Dan were instantly dumbstruck.

Heng Xian also froze a moment, but upon closer look at the woman, he realized this thing seemed related to painting skill; the beauty had a good figure, but her face—googly eyes, protruding lips—was hideously ugly.

After dancing for a while, the woman, like mist, vanished with a "pop".

He Qiye proudly put away the brush: "How was that?"

Sun Bufan quickly asked: "Will anyone you draw come out?"

He Qiye a bit embarrassed: "It depends on how well you draw; if you can only draw stick figures, that'd be embarrassing!"

Sun Bufan laughed heartily.

Heng Xian, meanwhile, silently consulted the Mysterious Yellow Heavenly Hexagram.

The Heavenly Hexagram displayed: "【A defective White Cat Divine Brush from the Nine Heavens True Realm hundreds of thousands of years ago; in this realm it counts as a divine object—it can not only draw beauties, it's recommended to take it!】"

Heng Xian remained silent, put away the Heavenly Hexagram, and glanced at He Qiye.

He Qiye, still unaware, proudly said: "This was passed down from my grandfather to my father, then to me; this item has been in our family for at least ten generations!"

Heng Xian, indifferent: "Hmm, let's get down to business first."

"All right!" He Qiye put away the brush case, saying: "I'm going to Nine Palaces City to handle this; you wait for me!"

Heng Xian nodded: "Go ahead."

"Mm."

Almost the instant He Qiye turned to leave, Heng Xian and Sun Bufan each silently cast a Tracking Talisman.

"'Tracking Talisman' belongs to the Dao of Talismans among the Five Gates and Eight Ways of cultivators, specialized in investigating and eavesdropping on a person's actions."

Sun Bufan drove off He Qiye's concubine, then said to Heng Xian: "If this brat betrays us, what do we do?"

"'I bet he won't!' Heng Xian took a sip of tea, 'We're just strangers to him, we pose no threat, no need to fight him to the death; if he does, killing him would expose us more easily.'"

Sure enough! After an hour, He Qiye came running back, panting, and handed two identity jade tablets to Heng Xian and Sun Bufan: "Venerable monk, your identity is Liang Chun of the Liang family in the Inner City; you've been out wandering since childhood, doing monk work!"

"Senior, your identity is Gu Xiao Yi, son of the Gu family medicinal herb shop in the Inner City; you've been out since childhood, doing trade, with no cultivation!"

"These two families have lived in Nine Palaces City for many generations, hundreds of years, so they qualify to enter the Inner City!"

Heng Xian took the jade tablet, seeing the words 'Gu Family Medicinal Herb Shop Gu Xiao Yi', noticed it wasn't newly made but rather old, and asked: "Do these two people really exist?"

He Qiye laughed: "Of course they really exist! Their family members are still around!"

Sun Bufan asked: "Where are they now?"

He Qiye replied: "They all left as children, met with accidental deaths; we have solid proof, but neither the city nor their families know, so once you two enter the Nine Palaces Inner City, you can act as you please, or return to your original homes, as you wish!"

Heng Xian and Sun Bufan exchanged a glance: "Particular!"

He Qiye gave a faint smile: "I'm a professional!"

……

Nine Palaces Mountain City, built into the mountains, viewed from below, is a vast expanse of buildings.

However, when you stand before the city gate at its base and take another look, first-time visitors are all left stunned.

Because this is no longer merely a city, but a miracle——

The entire Nine Palaces Mountain City occupies more than ten mountain peaks, with buildings from summit to valley, like a painting, dense clusters of structures curling before your eyes!

Heng Xian, Sun Bufan, and Gou Dan stood at the gate, dazed for a while, until the city guards shouted loudly: "Enter the city quickly, don't waste time, it's going to rain!"

The two of them raised their heads, only to see the sky overcast, a thunderstorm about to break!

Yet the crowd before the gate remained thick, so they had to squeeze their way in.

Halfway through squeezing in, they were suddenly driven to the sides by the city guards: "Make way quickly!"

As the words fell, a dense clatter of horse hooves came from behind; a group of people rode forth on third‑grade unicorn horse dragon beasts, galloping wildly, the leader a young woman about twenty, her long hair and cape fluttering, sword‑shaped brows and beautiful eyes, cherry lips and a straight nose, exuding an indescribably spirited heroic bearing.

(End of chapter)