The Fairy: From the Traveling Merchant

Chapter 943 The Otherworldly Labyrinth

When the strong winds blew up Xiongshan Port, a tiny crack appeared in the spring water of Nanshan Hot Spring Hotel.

The gap was very small and extremely well hidden. If the priest of the Kagura clan hadn't been watching the spring closely and not missing any subtle changes, he might have missed the opportunity brought by the "divine wind".

"Go in!" the middle-aged man-looking priest excitedly commanded upon seeing this.

The red-haired child immediately grabbed the other person and transformed into flames, throwing them into the crevice in the spring.

As for whether the priestess, who was exhausted and bleeding from all seven orifices due to the backlash, would be caught by the authorities? For the priest, as long as the fire god could be revived, it was just a necessary sacrifice.

However, after the two figures completely disappeared, the witch, who was already barely breathing, suddenly sat up. She wiped the bloodstains from her face, and her appearance changed drastically in an instant, revealing the face of Miss Zhuge, who had appeared in both the Sima Family Grotto in Liangzhou and the capital.

"Is this the last thing that person asked me to do? Tsk, I wonder what's so special about Zhao Chen that makes that person go to so much trouble..."

After muttering something, Miss Zhuge looked towards the direction of Xiongshan Port City and chuckled, "However, it seems that he wasn't the only one who 'arranged' Zhao Chen. Moreover, compared to the other methods that were as subtle as a gazelle hanging its horns, that one seemed to be lacking. He was too 'craftsman-like' and left too many traces... For example, me."

Whether she was talking to herself or someone else, she finished rambling on and then leaped onto a cloud, drifting away and disappearing from the Xiongshan area.

This long-legged girl wasn't worried that the two members of the Kagura clan would realize something after they came out and discovered she was missing. After all, in her eyes, those two were doomed!
As she expected, the "blessed land" inside the volcano was created by Danfei, a former "ascended" being. Without her permission, anyone entering would immediately trigger the cleanup mechanism of the blessed land.

The reason why the "Maple Plain True Man" of the Wang family was unharmed more than a thousand years ago was because she was carrying out a mission for other powerful beings. This is also why she never told her family about the entrance and exit of the hot spring until her death.

Therefore, the moment the priest of Kagutsuchi, the fire god, entered the blessed land with the "child" he had raised as a sacrifice, they were attacked by the "volcano" that Kagutsuchi himself had transformed into.

Before turning to ashes, the middle-aged priest's eyes were filled with disbelief, unable to understand why the god he worshipped would kill him...

The red-haired "child," the "sacrifice" born out of wedlock, had its power stripped away and transformed into a fruit that fell into the hands of Empress Danfi, who was soaking in a spring.

"It seems that even after the true spirit of 'Kagutsuchi' was removed, its body still retained its instincts, or rather, its backup plan. It even contacted one of its original 'priests' and had him retrieve a drop of Kagutsuchi's true spirit blood to cultivate this 'spirit bead'."

"If I weren't here, you might actually have been able to revive using the body of this 'spirit bead'... What a pity!"

The Empress sighed slightly, then immersed the fruit called "Spirit Pearl" into the spring water, and then smiled, "Now this thing can only benefit Zhao Chen. It should be able to improve his physical and mental strength by one level."

"As for the spirit of the remnants of the earth within... ha, what waves can a mere pseudo-fire god of Yingzhou Island make in front of the 'essence of the Great Sun'?"

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In the instant he was swept into the whirlwind, Zhao Chen had already taken out the "Gate of Audrey" staff, a magical artifact he had obtained from the witch, and borrowed the pseudo "Dongxuan" level to construct a barrier strong enough to withstand the full force of the "Dharma Form" attack.

Even so, he was unable to escape the raging wind and could only watch helplessly as he was pulled into a spatial rift.

A familiar sense of time and space shift washed over him, and the next moment, he found himself in a room about ten meters square. Apart from the four doors on the four walls, there was nothing else around him, except for an unconscious girl at his feet...

Strangely enough, the room, despite having no light source, was as bright as day, allowing Zhao Chen to easily recognize the battered girl.

“‘Red Feather Lord’ Su Xuanbing!” However, unlike her imposing appearance when they met the day before, Su Xuanbing was now completely without armor, her inner lining was also severely damaged, and her body and face were covered in bloodstains—though not her own.

As a martial arts practitioner, Su Xuanbing must have been "pure and spotless" and "her body as clear as glass." The fact that she allowed the enemy's blood to stain her body like this, unless it was intentional, only shows that she was seriously injured and had fallen from her cultivation level.

Looking at the weak-breathing Su Xuanbing, Zhao Chen stroked his chin and couldn't help but think to himself, "Could it be that I have some kind of constitution that attracts 'injured and distressed heroines'?"

Sister Hongxia fell right before my eyes, the little black cat came to me for shelter after being injured, Hongyue, Wan'er, and even Xiuling only met me when they were at their wits' end, not to mention the Empress...

Actually, it was similar for both the Imperial Concubine and the Empress; they were able to temporarily escape the contamination and stabilize their injuries thanks to me.

Is this another Su Xuanbing?

Can't they come up with a different routine? Who "arranged" this?
Despite his complaints, Zhao Chen still had to try to save Su Xuanbing, since Su Xuanbing's predicament was most likely due to his and Danfei's fault.

If they hadn't taken away the "contaminated" girl, Captain Su wouldn't have come to Xiongshan Port.

After carefully checking the surroundings and confirming that there was no immediate danger, Zhao Chen scanned Su Xuanbing's body with his divine sense and activated his "Vision Eye" to "investigate".

After a moment, he roughly understood Su Xuanbing's condition and knew that her biggest problem was that trace of "destructive intent" at an extremely high level in her body. As long as that thing was dealt with, with her powerful physical body as a martial artist, she would be able to heal herself sooner or later, even without medical treatment.

"But clearing away that 'intention' requires her cooperation... In any case, let's wake her up first."

With that in mind, Zhao Chen took out a bottle of Sima family's "Sweet Dew Spring," poured half of it on the spot where Su Xuanbing had been punched, and forced the other half down her throat.

Although this bottle of spring water was leftover from his last injury, it still retained about 70-80% of its effectiveness, enough to stabilize Su Xuanbing's injuries.

Sure enough, in less than the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, Su Xuanbing opened her eyes.

She remembered being swept away by the storm, so after a brief glance at her surroundings, she focused her attention on Zhao Chen, who was wearing a mask, and quickly asked:
How long have we been in this room?

Although Zhao Chen was surprised that the other party would ask this first, he still answered truthfully, "About half a cup of tea's time."

Su Xuanbing breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, then struggled to her feet and bowed to Zhao Chen, saying, "Thank you for saving me, but I can only stay in this room for a quarter of an hour. Beyond that, there will be great danger."

"This setting is a bit outdated..." Zhao Chen thought to himself, then asked curiously, "Do you know what kind of scene this 'mysterious realm' is?"

In his mind, the alternate dimension he entered at night was most likely a special "mysterious realm" that appeared in the city for some unknown reason.

Moreover, its intensity was extremely high. Even Zhao Chen, using his pseudo-"Dongxuan" level, was unable to escape it. It was far superior to the "Ghost Domain" that could be forcibly created by those supernatural powers in the Great Xia wilderness.

"No, this is not the 'Ghost Realm'... but the 'Taixiao Secret Realm'!"
It is also called the 'other-dimensional labyrinth'.

(End of this chapter)