After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

……

As for Xu Ze, he had already led Mu Qinghe, pushed open the vermilion door that had been sealed for many years, and walked inside.

Outside the door stood a group of people completely petrified, as well as the young lady of the Hu family whose worldview had been utterly shattered.

He couldn't be bothered with those trivial matters, and finally his ears were at peace.

The house is a hidden paradise.

The front yard is spacious, with meticulously maintained flowerbeds on both sides. Although no one has taken care of them for many years, the flowers and plants are still blooming brilliantly with tenacious vitality.

"Brother, this place is so big!" She ran back, tilting her little face up, her eyes sparkling.

Xu Ze ruffled her hair: "Do you like it?"

"I like it!" Mu Qinghe nodded vigorously.

He led Mu Qinghe to the main courtyard of the inner residence.

This place has the most tranquil environment. There is an old locust tree in the courtyard with lush branches and leaves, and stone tables and benches under the tree.

As soon as the two arrived at a nice bedroom, the little girl Mu Qinghe suddenly felt that her legs were dangling in the air.

"Yay!"

It turned out that Xu Ze had picked her up tightly.

"I've missed you dearly since we parted ways in the Northern Continent."

How much do you want to?

Mu Qinghe instinctively wrapped her arms around his neck, her face instantly turning red.

You'll find out soon enough.

As he spoke, he suddenly reached out and gently tickled her waist.

"what--"

Mu Qinghe exclaimed in surprise, then giggled and squirmed in his arms.

"It itches so much!"

Xu Ze tickled her a few more times until she was laughing so hard she couldn't breathe, then gently placed her on the bed.

Mu Qinghe, exhausted from laughing, lay down on the couch, her chest rising and falling slightly.

She looked at Xu Ze sitting by the bed, her eyes filled with affection.

Xu Ze reached out and gently tucked the slightly messy strands of hair from her forehead behind her ear.

"Qinghe, you've lost weight," he said softly.

Mu Qinghe's nose tingled, and her eyes reddened again: "There's nothing to eat in the palace..."

"Whatever you want to eat in the future, your brother will buy it for you," Xu Ze said gently.

"Really?" Mu Qinghe's eyes lit up. "Then I want to eat those sugar figurines from Beizhou!"

"it is good."

"And steamed buns from the steamed bun shop!"

"it is good."

"besides……"

She said a lot, and Xu Ze agreed to everything.

As she spoke, Mu Qinghe's voice gradually lowered, and her eyelids began to droop.

She had been living in fear and trembling in the palace these days, and had hardly had a good night's sleep.

Now that I'm with Xu Ze by my side, I feel relaxed and sleepiness washes over me like a tide.

……

It continued until the early morning of the following day.

After finishing the important business.

Xu Ze then took out his own fragment of the Heavenly Book.

"Alright, Qinghe, now you can tell me what the great opportunity you promised me is, right?"

Mu Qinghe could only barely open his eyes, looking at the golden pages of the book in front of him.

It took her a long time for her brain, which had completely shut down, to restart.

He recalled what he had said back then.

"This..."

"Brother, are you sure you want to know?"

The little girl blinked her big, watery eyes, her face full of sincerity.

Chapter 141 Entering the Tiger's Den

"This is a very big secret."

Mu Qinghe rested her chin on her hand, staring intently at the golden fragment of the celestial book on the table.

The patterns on the pages seemed to come alive, slowly flowing and sometimes gathering, sometimes dispersing, reflecting a hazy glow in the morning light.

"Stop keeping me in suspense, just tell me already."

Xu Ze sat in the chair opposite her and pinched her cheek:

"You wouldn't tell me back then, but now that I'm in Zhongzhou, what else is there to hide from me?"

“It wasn’t that I was unwilling to tell you,” Mu Qinghe said, a sly glint in her eyes, “it was because I was afraid of scaring you if I told you.”

She gently pushed the page closer and whispered, "Now I can tell you everything. This page of heavenly scripture... I saw it in my mother's palace."

Xu Ze's expression hardened: "The Empress Dowager's palace?"

"Yes." Mu Qinghe nodded. "About three years ago, I secretly sneaked into my mother's palace to play."

“I was young then and didn’t know the rules. On my mother’s dressing table, I saw a sandalwood box. The box wasn’t locked, so I opened it out of curiosity.”

She paused, a look of reminiscence flashing in her eyes: "There were nine pages like these inside, eight of them were complete, only one was missing a corner. I thought they were shiny and pretty, so I reached out to touch them..."

"and then?"

“Then,” Mu Qinghe bit her lip, “I don’t know what happened, but the page with the missing corner suddenly turned into a golden light and entered my hand.”

She raised her right hand, palm up: "I went in from here. I was terrified at the time, but after that golden light went in, I didn't feel anything at all, not a pain or an itch."

"Then, I quickly closed the box and sneaked out."

After listening...

Xu Ze's mouth gaped slightly, feeling quite surprised:

"So, you have a fragment of the 'Heavenly Book' inside you?"

“I think so.” Mu Qinghe tilted her head. “But I’ve never felt it inside my body. If I hadn’t seen this page of the heavenly book again, I would have forgotten about it.”

Previously, when I was in Beiju Luzhou.

The little girl was very excited when she saw this page of mysterious text.

However, this page of celestial scripture did not resonate with her body in any strange way.

Xu Ze pondered for a moment, then asked:

"What about the rest of the heavenly book? Didn't you just say there were nine pages in total?"

I only have one page right now, and even if my cultivation level increases in the future, I probably won't be able to see any content.

“Yes! The rest of the Heavenly Books…” Mu Qinghe’s expression became somewhat complicated, “They should all be inside Mother’s body now.”

"What?" Shock flashed in Xu Ze's eyes.

It was the woman I had seen in my dream.

Mu Qinghe paused for a moment, then continued, "What the Empress Dowager possesses within her is the true form of the Heavenly Book, while what I possess is merely a fragment of one of its pages."

"I heard that the Empress Dowager used this celestial book to seal something, but I don't know exactly what it is."

Xu Ze remained silent for a long time, his fingertips unconsciously tapping the table.

A few birds chirped outside the window, and the shadow of the old locust tree in the yard moved slowly in the morning light.

He didn't reply, but instead turned his gaze back to the tattered pages of the celestial book on the table.

"seal?"

The two of them studied the pages of the book for a long time.

Xu Ze tried to probe it with his divine sense, but as soon as he made contact, he was bounced back by a gentle yet resilient force.

The silver patterns on the pages gleamed slightly, as if mocking his overestimation of his abilities.

"Only those with a cultivation level of at least the Refinement stage can probe the inside of this fragment with their divine sense and see its true contents."

Xu Ze withdrew his divine sense, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Neither of us has the cultivation level of the Void Refinement stage."

Mu Qinghe rested her chin on her hand, her little face full of distress: "What should I do then..."

“It seems,” Xu Ze said slowly, “that I still need to go to the palace to unravel this secret.”

"Then I can help you!"

A hint of joy flashed in Mu Qinghe's eyes, but it quickly turned into concern. "But you must be careful. The Empress Dowager's palace is heavily guarded, and she herself is the strongest person in this Central Immortal Continent."

"Since the Heavenly Book is inside her, she must be able to sense the presence of the Heavenly Book fragment. If you bring this page of the Heavenly Book close to her, she will definitely notice..."

What Xu Ze didn't know was...

Empress Dowager Mu Yan's deliberate arrangement for Mu Qinghe to merge with that fragment of the 'Heavenly Book' was a carefully orchestrated scheme.

The fragment sealed within was a wisp of "strange fire" from ancient times.

This flame is extremely yang and intense; ordinary cultivators would be burned upon contact with it, and only those with special constitutions could withstand it.