Stop pretending, the fake heiress is actually a master of metaphysics.

Shen Nian didn't even bother to roll her eyes and simply walked away.

"Hey, don't go! I remember now!"

"You know what your aura is now."

Shen Nian paused in her steps.

A token of unusual material was thrown down from the door and window. Shen Nian picked it up, weighed it in her hand, and asked, "What is this?"

"My underground palace token contains something that has the same aura as yours."

"The aura of the Heavenly Dao... I can't be wrong, it's all so repulsive."

The aura of the Heavenly Dao... that can only be the Heavenly Secret Brush and the Wordless Heavenly Book.

Why did you help me?

The dragon opened its eerie golden vertical pupils and emitted a low hiss.

"Because I have a gut feeling,"

"You'll be the one who can shatter—"

The dragon's voice disappeared after the second half of the sentence.

It was as if something had choked it; it stared intently at Shen Nian, its massive body collapsing inch by inch.

What exactly is it trying to say?

Shen Nian frowned, and just as she took a step forward, the scenery around her suddenly changed, and the world spun around her. The next moment, she and Song Daiqing appeared once again in front of the courtyard gate.

However, this time, no matter how Shen Nian pushed the door, it did not budge.

"...Let's go, the Mountain and Sea Prison is closed."

Song Daiqing looked back at the small courtyard behind her every few steps, but finally left with a heavy heart.

After leaving the Mountain and Sea Prison, the ancient painting still hung quietly, but the token at Shen Nian's waist had disappeared.

She took one last look at the painting, then left with Song Daiqing.

Song Daiqing's eyes were filled with eager anticipation: "How much longer... will it be before I can see Yingwei again?"

"One year."

Those serving time in the Shanhai Prison are only allowed one visitation opportunity per year.

The light in Song Daiqing's eyes dimmed for a moment: "Can't you really make an exception? Can't we meet once every six months? I'm afraid Yingwei will go crazy inside."

Shen Nian: "You can say that to that ancient painting and see if it agrees to let you in to see Shen Yingwei."

"Alright, I've introduced you to the person. Let's part ways here."

Song Daiqing wanted to say something more, but Shen Nian had already vanished from her sight.

Shen Nian wasn't worried about her going out and talking nonsense.

Those who visit the Mountain and Sea Prison are also placed under a forbidden curse, and cannot tell anyone anything about the Mountain and Sea Prison.

Shen Nian returned to Tiannan Mountain. It was just past five o'clock, but Gu Yuncheng was nowhere to be seen in the Tiannan Mountain courtyard.

She frowned, opened her phone, and saw two missed calls.

One belongs to Lin Xiyue, and the other to Gu Yuncheng.

She dialed Gu Yuncheng's number, and Gu Yuncheng's excited voice immediately came through.

"Master, I've learned how to summon lightning!"

Shen Nian: ...

"What happened? Were you at the Tang Palace banquet?"

"Uh... that's a long story."

"Then let's make it short."

"To put it simply, after we left, the zombie mutated again, bewitched its son to break the seal, and then bit both of its sons to death."

"Hu Die probably couldn't get through to you on the phone, so she called me instead."

"...And then you went there all by yourself?"

Shen Nian lowered her voice.

In short, the scene was roughly that the Xuanmen Guild members were fighting a desperate battle with the zombies in the courtyard. Just when they were about to be overwhelmed, Gu Yuncheng, carrying a sword, jumped down from the wall and attracted all the firepower by himself. Just as he was about to be overwhelmed by the zombies, he suddenly seemed to have mastered the method of summoning lightning and chopped the three zombies into charred remains.

Gu Yuncheng: "I'm amazing, aren't I, Master!"

Praise him! Praise him!

Shen Nian said coldly, "What if you haven't learned how to summon lightning? Are you prepared to feed zombies along with the people from the Xuanmen Guild?"

When Hu Die called her, she should have been in the Mountain and Sea Prison, where there was no signal, and any electronic product was just a piece of scrap metal.

"Young Master Gu is quite helpful, isn't he? Should we award you a hero's prize?"

Gu Yuncheng shut his mouth, no longer daring to recount his heroic deeds.

"So... I should go back and kneel on the washboard now?"

Shen Nian: ...

She sighed helplessly, "No need, you go with them to find that flying zombie."

"Now that you've learned how to attract lightning, practice it properly. Contact me again if you need anything."

"Alright! Master, I promise I won't embarrass you!"

After hanging up the phone, Shen Nian got up and went into her yard.

She placed the token she had obtained from the black dragon on the stone table and began to deduce the location of the underground palace.

The black dragon didn't have time to tell her the location of the underground palace. There are thousands of waterways in China. If the river or lake where the underground palace is located is not predicted in advance, it may take two hundred years to find the underground palace.

It was still early morning, and the moon and stars should have been dim and silent. However, as if summoned by something, countless rays of starlight suddenly fell and entered the astrolabe, forming a vast grid of latitude and longitude with the starlight.

The token emitted a faint blue light, floated into the air, approached the starlight-woven warp and weft, and remained stationary in a certain spot.

Shen Nian gazed intently and saw a stretch of murky yellow sand flowing into the deep blue sea. The yellow sand and blue seawater mingled, creating a magnificent scene.

That is……

The mouth of the Yellow River.

The black dragon's lair...is it in the sea?

Great rivers and streams are indeed prone to giving rise to strange beasts.

If that dragon hadn't been burdened with so many lives, it might have truly been able to transcend its tribulations and become a dragon, and from then on...

Shen Nian raised her hand and dispersed the star net in front of her, then put the token away.

They started calculating the location of the flying zombie again.

She didn't really expect Gu Yuncheng to actually find the flying zombie by following the group from the Metaphysics Guild.

But oddly enough...

The divination indicates that this flying zombie... seems to have always been by Gu Yuncheng's side and has never left.

Shen Nian frowned and calculated again, but the result remained unchanged.

Why are the flying zombies following them?

Could it be that killing the boss's family wasn't enough, and they're also planning to target a group of sorcerers?

That's a bit too much of an appetite for him.

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the other side.

Gu Yuncheng, along with members of the Xuanmen Guild, was sending three charred corpses into the incinerator.

Only after the three corpses had completely turned to ashes did the group breathe a sigh of relief.

"It's finally over..."

Lin Xiyue raised her hand and patted Gu Yuncheng's shoulder: "Thanks to you today. As expected of Master Shen's disciple, you can already summon heavenly lightning at such a young age."

Gu Yuncheng chuckled twice: "So what do we do next?"

This group of people hadn't slept all night; only the field staff of the Xuanmen Guild had such energy.

Lin Xiyue pointed to the locations of two cemeteries on the navigation app; they were the two largest cemeteries closest to them. "Let's start looking from these two places."