The Fairy: From the Traveling Merchant

Chapter 1015 The Birdman's Mission

The princess's eyes were glazed over, as if she were immersed in the "beauty of the Great Dao." It wasn't until Zhao Chen withdrew his magic and canceled the effect of the "Five Emperors Paying Homage to the True Ones" great supernatural power that she gradually "woke up," but her face was still flushed, as if she were drunk.

"Sigh..." Ming Hongyue sighed with regret. The feeling of being so intimately connected with the "beauty of the Great Dao" was truly captivating.

She was certain that no female cultivator could resist the allure of the "Five Emperors Paying Homage to the True Ones"... well, at least those below the "Dongxuan" level couldn't do it; it was the instinctive yearning of all beings born from the Xuantian realm!

"The Jade Maiden pours out five incense sticks, the Holy Mother celebrates ten thousand years, the Three Realms rejoice, and we bow in reverence to the Dao Lord… This is truly not deceiving me!" Ming Hongyue thought to herself, but she finally recovered from her daze. Seeing that Zhao Chen's lips had already left hers, she deliberately asked vaguely, "Is it resolved?"

Zhao Chen had already placed the "birdman" he had forcibly "bought" into the "warehouse" of his "Great Sun Star Chariot" supernatural power. Seeing this, he smiled and replied, "It's already resolved. You don't need to be so careful with your words anymore."

Upon hearing this, Ming Hongyue visibly breathed a sigh of relief. Although she had guessed Zhao Chen's plan and trusted and cooperated with him, she was still quite uneasy when she thought that the "birdman" might be a wisp of divine thought of a powerful figure.

After all, the other party was deep within her mind; if anything went wrong, she would be the first to suffer.

"That's good... Although that 'birdman' provided a lot of help to me and Sister Feng, its existence has always been a thorn in my side." Ming Hongyue snuggled into Zhao Chen's arms and then smiled, "However, its intelligence is indeed not very high. It probably didn't notice your arrangements at all. You've prepared so many methods for nothing."

Zhao Chen glanced down at her and saw the princess intimately wrapped her arms around his neck, her fair upper body pressed against his chest. He couldn't help but pat her bottom and say:
"Remember, you must be lenient in your assessment of the enemy! Especially when dealing with something from a higher level, you must be extremely cautious, and you can never be too prepared!"

"If I didn't have a way of knowing some of its details, I would never have taken action against it now."

After spending several nights together, Ming Hongyue had lost her shyness about this level of contact. However, because Zhao Chen added some special effects to "wake her up," she was still startled and almost fell off the bed when she was hit.

"What are you doing?" Ming Hongyue rubbed her lip and pouted in dissatisfaction.

“Don’t get too cocky… We don’t have enough strength to deal with your uncle right now, so we can’t afford to show any weakness.” Zhao Chen returned the undergarment he had casually taken off to the other party, saying meaningfully, “Especially since you no longer have that ‘birdman’ protecting you.”

Upon hearing this, Ming Hongyue, who had just taken the undergarment, disregarded her embarrassment and exclaimed in surprise, "Protection? That 'birdman' protected me?"

"What is its origin? Is it truly an ancient or primordial emperor?"

By this time, Zhao Chen had gained a deeper understanding of that wisp of false divine thought through the "Star Chariot Jade Book," but unfortunately, it contained not much information, but rather a fairly complete collection of various "basic knowledge."

As he browsed through the detailed description of it in the "Starry Sky Jade Book," he replied, "Whether it is the ancient emperor 'Shaohao' is still in doubt, but it is indeed a wisp of false divine thought of a certain Dao Lord, and it didn't lie to you; this 'birdman' does not carry any power."

"Of course, if one truly carries power or divine sense, one cannot enter the territory of the Great Xia."

"The reason it used the Xuancheng incident as an opportunity to infiltrate your mind was partly to ensure you wouldn't be killed before achieving 'Dongxuan' level. "Hmm... by reading its memories, you actually encountered three assassination attempts on your way to Yingzhou, but it averted them all using some kind of supernatural power involving 'fate'."

"I was assassinated?" Ming Hongyue widened her beautiful eyes, thought carefully for a moment, and said uncertainly, "When the fleet passed through Silla, it stayed for two more days for some inexplicable reason... Could it be that 'birdman' did something to help us avoid the assassination?"

Zhao Chen nodded and said, "That's right... If you hadn't wasted those two days, your delegation's 'commander-in-chief' would have 'just happened' to encounter one of his major enemies before even reaching the shore, and then been lured away... instead of receiving the news after you arrived in Tianchuan and leaving in a hurry."

"As for the other two times, one was on your way to the capital, and the other was before you arrived in Tianjin... but due to various 'coincidences,' you and the assassin missed each other."

If there were some clues to be found in the third instance, Ming Hongyue hadn't noticed anything at all in the first two instances. Her face was grim as she said, "So, the assassin is still looking for an opportunity outside Tianchuan, but hasn't made a move because he's afraid of my maternal grandfather's family's protective formation?"

Zhao Chen shook his head again: "A single coincidence might be an accident, but after three consecutive failures, that assassin isn't stupid. He naturally guessed that you have a master with expertise in 'fate' supernatural powers protecting you, so he gave up after his last failed attempt."

This was the judgment of that "birdman." Zhao Chen felt that even if the other party's divine sense, as a Dao Lord, was a fake without any power, it was still credible.

Of course, he will definitely check it out tomorrow after the "Sky-Gazing and Earth-Measuring Divine Mirror" resumes its usage.

"Was that assassin sent by my uncle? Or was he from the 'Four Fiends Hall'?" Ming Hongyue was not at all relieved. Instead, she frowned and asked in confusion, "But that doesn't make sense... Ming Zihao and the 'Four Fiends Hall' wanted to kill me, so why would the evil god 'Di Shaohao' worshipped by the 'Four Fiends Hall' protect me?"

Zhao Chen, however, was not surprised by this and laughed:

"First, the 'Four Fiends Hall' is not a monolithic entity. Behind each of the four fiends may be an evil god at the Dao Lord level, and their interests may not be aligned."

"Secondly, the fact that they send people to hunt you down on the surface while protecting you in secret is likely to conceal their true purpose, such as the things that are bred by the pollution in your mind, to lower the vigilance of the Xuan Tian masters... After all, the things bred by the 'Dharma Power Realm' are worlds apart from the things that can only be hatched by the 'Dong Xuan Realm'."

"I'm afraid that King Qin and the evil relatives of the 'Four Fiends Hall' are kept in the dark and have no idea of ​​the truth."

"Third, you and I are just minor figures at the 'Transcendental' level, so it's normal that we can't fathom the Dao Lord's thoughts. There's no need to dwell on it."

I see… That makes sense. You can’t talk about ice with a summer insect; it’s normal not to be able to guess the mastermind’s schemes… But it’s still really frustrating! Ming Hongyue pouted and asked again, “Then what is so special about me? And what does that person want to cultivate in my spirit?”

In response to this question, Zhao Chen shrugged and said, "That 'birdman' doesn't know either... As you think, it's not very intelligent; it's just faithfully completing the 'tasks' that have been set in advance."

"This is also the main reason why I was able to get rid of it successfully—as long as it doesn't act hostilely towards you, it can't sense it."

(End of this chapter)