Fighting is broken, but the heroine script.

Chapter 1241 The Ancient Heavenly Palace?

"Go ask him yourself...?"

Xiao Se had clearly never considered such a thing.

"Ah, I was just saying it casually. If you don't like it, then just pretend I didn't say anything."

Seeing Xiao Se's somewhat strange expression, Lin Jing couldn't help but feel a little guilty, after all, their family's situation was obviously quite different from hers.

She is the only little princess in her own family, so it's no wonder that everyone dotes on her. Fortunately, she hasn't been spoiled to the point of going astray, but expecting her to be understanding is a bit of a stretch.

Lin Jing certainly didn't want him to overhear something nonsensical from her casual remark, otherwise, if he misunderstood something, it would be a real mess.

"It's alright, thank you for your encouragement."

"Hmm... If we don't mention cultivation, you're not such an annoying person. You're just all talk anyway."

"In that case, we should probably get on with our preparations. The celebration is about to begin, so please excuse us for not keeping you company any longer."

Hai Bodong and Ya Fei also need to get into position as soon as possible, which Xiao Se naturally understands.

Lin Jing then returned to Ling Qingzhu's side.

"I wandered around and found the place quite interesting, but it was a bit small."

Lin Jing leaned against her mother and recounted her somewhat novel sights and sounds in the vicinity, like beans spilling from a bamboo tube.

"As a world of the original lower plane, it is indeed a bit small and crowded for people above the Supreme Realm."

Ling Qingzhu also saw Xiao Se bow slightly to her, and couldn't help but nod slightly in response. At the same time, she couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you going to talk to them? Although the celebration has started, Emperor Yan and Empress Xuan are not stubborn people, and they won't interfere much after the celebration starts."

"Him? Forget about it..."

Lin Jing immediately shook her head vigorously, like a rattle-drum.

"……What's wrong?"

Ling Qingzhu subconsciously thought they had quarreled, but after carefully observing their reactions, it didn't seem like that was the case.

"Nothing's wrong, Mother, please don't overthink it."

Lin Jing vaguely sensed that her mother was becoming more talkative with strangers, and couldn't help but mutter to herself.

"What nonsense am I thinking? Do you mean you like her?"

Ling Qingzhu paused, then, in Lin Jing's suddenly widened eyes, uttered the strange guess that she had already anticipated.

"No, no! Mother, please stop playing matchmaker!"

Knowing she might bring it up again, Lin Jing answered without hesitation.

Seeing her daughter's reaction, Ling Qingzhu smiled slightly, not in a hurry to push her.

"It's alright. After all, your father and I don't plan to interfere too much in this regard. If it really comes to that, of course it's a good thing. You two should handle your relationship well."

While that's true, Ling Qingzhu's thoughts were clearly not as simple as Lin Jing's.

Lin Jing paused, her cheeks flushing slightly: "I already said no..."

"Someone like him probably has countless girls who are attracted to him even within the Endless Fire Domain, right?"

"Who knows? Back in the Tianxuan Continent, there were quite a few girls who were very fond of your father, including your aunts who often came to visit."

"Um……"

Lin Jing nodded silently. This was already a secret, not exactly a secret, for someone like her who was a junior member of the family.

Someone of her background, if she went out more, would also have a bunch of tagalongs following her around. Under Lin Jing's gaze, Xiao Se came to the head seat and sat down in the position second only to his parents. There were also many faces around him that were not so familiar to him, but they were his father and mother's blood relatives, and now the backbone of the eight clans.

"……correct."

Ling Qingzhu's murmur brought Lin Jing's attention back.

"What's wrong, Mother?"

"—It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered it."

Ling Qingzhu explained, "Do you remember the Shang Continent we visited a while ago?"

"...Of course I remember. If it weren't for my mother and uncles and aunts pleading for me, I would definitely have been grounded by my father."

Lin Jing's expression suddenly turned somewhat dejected. Even if such a painful lesson hadn't actually happened, she couldn't completely pretend it hadn't occurred.

"Silly girl."

Ling Qingzhu smiled and patted Lin Jing's head, saying softly, "Do you think your father really wants to punish you? He's just trying to scare you. From childhood to adulthood, every time he said he was going to teach you a lesson, we would persuade him to go back. He's probably gotten used to it over the years."

"...However, I don't think I'd want to test my father's bottom line."

Lin Jing shook her head; she was still somewhat afraid of her father's temper.

"Alright, alright, I didn't bring this up to tell you this. It's about something else. As one of the top teleportation nodes in the western part of the Great Thousand World, the Shang Continent is also connected to the Tianluo Continent, one of the ten super continents of the Great Thousand World."

"Tianluo Continent... Is there anything there?"

Having vaguely guessed what was going on, Lin Jing couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, although that place is no longer a land without a Heavenly Sovereign, in ancient times there was a very powerful force called the Heavenly Palace. Now we call it the Ancient Heavenly Palace."

"That ancient heavenly palace was built by a Saint-level powerhouse named Heavenly Emperor in ancient times."

"They were destroyed in the great catastrophe tens of thousands of years ago, during the attack of the evil race."

"Didn't you want to try it? Then you can go and give it a shot."

"...Is it okay? Is it really okay?"

Lin Jing was clearly very interested in this.

"Of course you can. This is what your father told me to tell you. Did you think he would believe your excuse about training? Fool, do you really think your father is that easy to fool?"

Ling Qingzhu poked her daughter's forehead.

"I didn't mean to..."

Lin Jing covered her forehead and blinked her eyes with a pitiful expression.

…………

The celebration itself didn't have many formalities; after a simple formality, it was time for the Dou Qi Continent to drink and enjoy the celebration to their heart's content.

Xiao Se was surrounded by a lively crowd.

After all, Emperor Yan and Empress Xuan were not people that anyone could talk to. The matriarchs around them were the heads of their respective clans. Although it was a celebration for the entire Dou Qi Continent, it was more like a simple family banquet for them.

Correspondingly, as the son of the emperor and empress, Xiao Se was surrounded by a crowd who raised their cups to drink with him.

Xiao Se did not refuse, after all, as the offspring of his father and mother, this situation was inevitable.

(End of this chapter)