Chapter 1196: Chapter 450: Chen Mo’s Beauty Trap! Acting Real with the Female Demon?! (Part 2)

"Oh?" An Mengni tilted her head and said, "And who might you be?"

"Let me introduce you. This is Daoist Qingxuan, the chief of Tianshu Pavilion. She is my cousin, An Mengni, whom I’ve mentioned before." Yu Hongyin stepped forward, worried that An Mengni might say something inappropriate, and reminded, "Daoist Qingxuan is also Mr. Chen’s partner."

"So it is Daoist Qingxuan. I’ve long admired your reputation." An Mengni cupped her hands in respect.

Ling Ningzhi nodded slightly in return.

"By the way, when I went to seek reinforcements and returned, you had vanished. What happened in between?" Yu Hongyin inquired.

"It’s a long story. Chen Mo temporarily drove off Wanqi Kai, but he was greatly exhausted and feared that he might return, so we decided to leave first and found a mountain cave to sleep for the night," An Mengni explained.

Ling Ningzhi’s eyebrows arched as she bluntly asked, "The two of you slept together?"

Yu Hongyin chuckled nervously, "No way, of course, we slept separately..."

Before the words were finished, An Mengni nodded, "That’s right, we slept together."

Yu Hongyin: "..."

An Mengni confessed, "Due to Chen Mo’s extreme mental fatigue, he fell into a deep sleep. To help him recover quickly, I had to use a secret technique to massage him all over, to mobilize his qi-blood..."

"Ahem!"

Noticing Ling Ningzhi’s displeased expression, Yu Hongyin hurriedly interrupted, "Alright, no need for such detail."

Then, glancing at Sikong Zuiyue shrouded in black mist beside them, she changed the subject, "And this... lady, where did she come from?"

An Mengni replied, "She is a master from the Sikong family. We happened to encounter her fighting with Monk Huineng while searching for Immortal Materials. Chen Mo assisted, defeated Huineng, and then signed a contract with her to form an alliance..."

Sign a contract?

Ling Ningzhi’s eyelids twitched.

Only a First Grade Golden Contract can bind a Heavenly Master, extremely rare, even the Tianshu Pavilion doesn’t have any in stock.

These two just met, and they consumed such a precious item, just for a temporary alliance in this Secret Realm?

Her intuition told her this is definitely not that simple!

"It’s only been two days apart, and there are already two more ladies by his side... No, we must include that Female Demon now..."

Ling Ningzhi bit her lip delicately, her eyes full of grievance, "This playboy!"

...

...

Chen Mo followed the Female Demon into the underground.

The flowing sand parted to the sides on its own, and the view gradually darkened.

At first, he was a bit nervous, unsure of the other’s intentions, but after about three breaths, the scene opened up before him.

"This is..."

Witnessing the shocking sight, he couldn’t help but be stunned.

Beneath layers of sand stood a hidden, luxurious palace!

The main body of the palace was built from a certain kind of jade, exuding a cold, luminous sheen, with the dome inlaid with Luminous Pearls to dispel the underground gloom.

The flying eaves and ornate beams were connected by corridors between the main and side halls, and even a withered tree was planted in the courtyard!

Yet everything was enormously large, almost ten times regular size, and an invisible shield held back the yellow sand, leaving no trace of dust.

Strangely enough, even in this subterranean depth, air still flowed, and a slight breeze could be felt, indicating it was achieved through some kind of array.

"Come in..."

With a wave of her hand, the Female Demon opened the shield and led Chen Mo inside.

Chen Mo’s throat moved slightly as he asked, "Do you usually live here?"

The Female Demon glanced at him, saying, "I prefer to sleep in the sand, but I thought you might like this, so I prepared it specially..."

"..."

Chen Mo’s mouth twitched.

Oh no, could it be that this is going to turn into a real situation instead of just play-acting?

In the face of such an unparalleled masterpiece, he felt his feelings turning purple...

The Female Demon proceeded through the palace, passed through the corridors, and entered the sleeping chamber.

The furniture in the bedroom was all oversized as well, with a sheer curtain hanging over the bed, embroidered with mountains and rivers.

The Female Demon lifted the curtain, slowly sat down, and placed him on the bedding.

Chen Mo leaned against the headboard, cautiously asking, "What are we doing next?"

The Female Demon gazed at him, a ripple in her Divine Soul, "Helping you to remember..."

With that, a gleam flashed in her eyes, and a surge of information flooded into his Sea of Consciousness, where countless memory fragments surfaced before him.

Chen Mo only then realized that the Female Demon actually had a name, Fei Qingyi, given to her by an ancestor of the Sikong family.

The Female Demon was originally the essence of heaven and earth, living in this desert since her birth, until more than thirteen hundred years ago when a World Gate suddenly appeared out of thin air.

She accidentally stepped in and was transported to the Jiuzhou Continent.

To her, it was a completely unfamiliar world.

The Female Demon had no malice, but due to her own nature, the ground would crack and turn into desert wherever she went, causing the people to suffer, and she was regarded as a Demon Creature, hunted by a coalition of the court and sects.

Outnumbered and overpowered, the Female Demon was severely wounded by a group of strong individuals.

However, at that time, the World Gate had already closed, leaving her nowhere to go, forcing her to hide her body within the Xuanhuang Pearl, bury herself underground, and enter a deep sleep.

She slept for a century, and as the Earth Veins shifted, the Xuanhuang Pearl surfaced to the ground and was found by Sikong Che, who was just a Transcendent Cultivator at the time. Seeing the yellow sand swirling inside and appearing very mysterious, he treated it as a treasure and carried it with him all day.

The Female Demon awakened and secretly observed the outside world through the Xuanhuang Pearl.

For the first time, she felt the mundane aura of life that was entirely novel to someone who had always been alone, and she decided to stay.

Another sixty years passed, Sikong Che had become a First Grade Grandmaster, but he was completely unaware of the Female Demon’s existence.

Until once, in a bid for fortune, he was besieged by several strong individuals and was on the brink of death. At the critical moment, the Female Demon saved him, which led to the discovery that a woman was hidden inside the Pearl.

Upon learning her identity, Sikong Che did not reveal it but treated her as a friend, spending days chatting with her to relieve her boredom, and promised to send her home once the World Gate opened again.

The Female Demon, grateful at heart, bestowed upon him the Mystic Fire Treasure Mirror.

Being of Innate Fire Vein, Sikong Che was highly compatible with this treasure, his power rapidly ascending, soon proving the Great Dao and stepping into the Realm of Transcendence.

And he kept his promise, sending the Female Demon back to the Burial Sand Sea once the World Gate opened.

The scene ended abruptly here.

"So that’s how it went?" Chen Mo realized.

No wonder the Female Demon mistook him for Sikong Che, because while one’s appearance can change, the Root Bone does not.

Mastering the Great Sun True Flame and capable of controlling the Mystic Fire Treasure Mirror, there’s no second such person in the world, except encountering him, a "system cheater"...

"What happened next?" Chen Mo inquired, "What happened afterwards? Why did you sleep for nearly a thousand years?"

A trace of fear flashed in the Female Demon’s eyes, and her Divine Soul transmitted after a long while, "The Black Dragon established the Bridge of Heaven and Earth, connecting two realms... That war, many died... I died too, but I came back to life..."

War?

Chen Mo furrowed his brows.

Indeed, the memory in Dragon Blood was real.

Jiuzhou’s Emperor Realm experts joined forces just to slaughter that Black Dragon?

In the end, both sides were severely wounded, Pei Fengmian, Sikong Che... and other Human Race Great Powers all fell here?

"Since you already died, how did you come back to life?" Chen Mo asked, puzzled.

The Female Demon stuttered out, "Yin and Yang reversed, Laws inverted, life and death twisted, the dead resurrected... This world, it is essentially an array..."

?!

Upon hearing this, Chen Mo was startled, his hair stood on end!

No wonder he always felt something was amiss!

From the azure ocean upon entering the Secret Realm, to the Creation Ancient Tree in the vast forest, then the volcano containing Earth Fire Essence, and now the desert where he stands...

The environment is even more diverse than Jiuzhou, as if meticulously arranged by someone.

In truth, it indeed is!

"Water, wood, fire, earth..."

"Is this Secret Realm actually an array?!"

"Or has someone refined this heaven and earth into an array?"

"What are we then? Alchemy Pills? Or firewood materials?"

At this moment, Chen Mo suddenly thought of a question—

Since the Female Demon could rise from the dead, doesn’t it imply Basha could too?

And could all other vanished Fierce Beasts be resurrected?

If they leave the Secret Realm and enter Jiuzhou, who knows what disaster they would cause!

"How long will this phenomenon of reversed yin and yang last?" Chen Mo asked.

"I don’t know..." the Female Demon shook her head, "The dragon only told me this much."

Chen Mo’s eyes flickered, he pressed further, "Whom do you mean by ’dragon’?"

"A dragon is a dragon, who else could it be?" The Female Demon didn’t quite understand the question but recalled something and said, "But just like me, it has a Human Race name... I remember it’s called..."

"Zhu Jiuyou?"