Chapter 427: Transaction Completed

When did this kind of experiment start?

Is it also related to what happened with Yin Dang Hang back then?

Could there be another secret behind the existence of the Huicheng Chaos Formation Array?

"Xiao Jiu?" Tang Tang saw I suddenly fell silent and asked, "Are you still listening?"

I immediately came to my senses and said, "I'm here; I just thought of some things—I might need to talk to my aunt personally."

Tang Tang said, "My aunt is temporarily busy because a new round of seam work has begun; the seam requires a large amount of spiritual materials, and Yu Nian's sister's situation will be very dangerous. She needs to settle Yu Nian's sister first, then figure out how to send people to Wangting Mountain, so she asked me to wait for your news."

I asked again, "Did your aunt mention anything about the Copper Coin Person? Did he go to Wangting Mountain?"

"Probably not." Tang Tang said, "If there were, my aunt would have had me remind you."

My heart sank even further.

If the Copper Coin Person didn't go to Huicheng, there's an eighty to ninety percent chance he's headed straight for River City……

"Senior sister, if there's any news from my aunt or Yu Nian's sister, you must contact me immediately." I urged, "You must stay safe."

Tang Tang reassured me.

After hanging up, I lay on the bed, feeling a bit tired.

The opponent is hiding too deep, far stronger than we imagined.

We attack at points, while they cast nets everywhere.

When the east is dark, the west is bright; we always have fatigue, always oversights, places we can't reach.

For example, the Seam Monster, experiments, and Yin Dang Hang.

If any single point among them isn't connected, we will miss a crucial line.

We lose a bit here, a bit there—how can we possibly compete with them?

Fortunately, our family's manpower keeps growing; everyone is united and constantly growing, and there's always someone to help us patch up the places we and Liu Junyan hadn't thought of.

I really can't imagine what the situation Liu Junyan and I face now would be like without them.

It must be extremely difficult to move forward.

After a brief psychological adjustment, I got up again.

Liu Junyan should already be in Linghai by now; since the Copper Coin Person didn't appear in Huicheng, we must prepare for the possibility that he has already come to River City.

So I need to notify Liu Junyan as soon as possible.

Places like the Linghai Dragon Palace absolutely block communication equipment; fortunately, it's not far, so I plan to make the trip myself.

If something really happens, I can still help out.

I took out that golden copper coin, made sure it was ready—this is the weapon to handle the Copper Coin Person in a desperate situation.

As soon as I stood up, my shoes not even on, I fell back onto the bed with a loud thud.

Pain, burning!

These two sensations seeped into my body thread by thread, forcing me to roll around on the bed.

The commotion was too great; even Li Qingying was startled. She flung open my door, exclaimed 'Mom!', and rushed off to find water.

She ran to the water vat, thought better of it, then ran back to double-check.

I think at that moment, in Li Qingying's eyes, I looked utterly terrifying.

My head of white hair looked as if it had been set on fire, bright red all over.

My eyes were also blood‑red, as if they were about to spit fire.

My whole body was wrapped in fine rootlets, the rootlets seeming to be ablaze, fiery and translucent.

Strangely, despite my being 'burned' like that, the bed sheets and blankets were completely unharmed.

So Li Qingying was anxious, yet she didn't splash water on me.

The whole process lasted about four or five minutes; I was tormented to the brink of collapse, and Li Qingying called Fu Wan and the others over—all of them stood guard at my door.

But they dared not approach, for the room wasn't just hot—it also carried a power similar to Nirvana fire.

Until the rootlets all receded, my fiery state vanished; I lay on the bed as if washed by water, a blanket of white hair spread beneath me.

Li Qingying rushed over, pushed aside my sweat‑soaked hair, and called out anxiously, "Xiao Jiu, are you alright? Does your stomach hurt? Let me help you change out of your wet clothes and sheets—sleeping like this will give you a cold."

She said this while feeling my forehead with her hand; when that wasn't enough, she pressed her own forehead against mine.

Once she confirmed I wasn't hot and had returned to normal, she began to wipe me down and change my clothes.

At that moment I felt as if I had just died a little—even keeping my eyes open felt exhausting.

After Li Qingying helped me tidy up and tuck me into the blanket so I could rest, I finally felt a bit better and reached out to grab her wrist.

Li Qingying then leaned in and whispered, "What's wrong? Want some medicinal soup? I'll go heat it up."

"Li Qingying sister, please make a trip to the Linghai Dragon Clan for me."

I briefly told Li Qingying the matter I needed to remind Liu Junyan about.

She was both anxious and worried about me.

In the end, we could only have Fu Wan take care of me.

But Fu Wan was somewhat afraid to get close to me.

Although she had been reconstituted by nourishment from Merit, she was still a Soul Body and feared the power of Nirvana fire.

But she didn't leave; she sat two or three meters away, holding a black cat in her arms, her eyes never leaving me.

And so I fell asleep under the watch of a ghost and a cat.

I was exhausted from the torment, simply unable to endure any longer.

I don't know how long I slept, but in my dream the sound of turning gear wheels came again, followed by a man's voice: "Ah Wu, you've worked hard."

Just that one sentence, and he vanished completely from my dream.

I slowly opened my eyes; the tip of my nose still seemed to be tinged with a faint scent of incense.

Incense smell?

Who lit the incense?

I abruptly woke from my dream, and as I sat up, something rolled out from my bosom.

I was wearing pajamas that Li Qingying had just helped me put on; there was no way to hide anything inside the pajamas.

But that object clearly fell from inside the front of my pajamas.

It was a perfectly square…… no…… this, this isn't my Azure Paulownia Dark Seal?!

But the previous Azure Paulownia Dark Seal was dull in color, and the vein‑like patterns on it weren't particularly distinct, whereas the one in my hand now seemed as if it had been dyed with fiery red pigment, many of those vein‑like patterns turned red.

Although only part of it, the overall color became much more vivid and striking.

And that incense smell I just noticed actually emanated from the Azure Paulownia Dark Seal.

I leaned in and sniffed closely; instantly I could confirm that the source of the incense smell was those vein‑like patterns that had been 'dyed'.

No, this isn't really dyeing; it looks as if it had been long‑termly offered in incense, absorbing the incense aura.

No, it's not from being offered and soaked.

I recalled the sound of the orbital gears turning in my dream just now—couldn't that be the orbital turning sound of Yin Dang Hang?

And that man's voice…… I get it!

Yin Dang Hang inspected and accepted those two chunks of cinnabar spirit bone, completing the transaction.

And that scene just now was my due share in this transaction!

I never expected that this portion would actually be related to the Azure Paulownia Dark Seal...