Yu Zhenxin actually thought, "It's over, I'm exposed."
Qi Yu looked at Feng Siqian and cleared her throat, "Um..."
Feng Siqian narrowed her eyes and stared at her.
"Uh," Qi Yu tried to struggle on the verge of being exposed.
Feng Siqian and Feng Mingqi moved closer, while Yue Zhiyin stood by with an amused expression.
Qi Nian covered her face.
Sui You and Chi Ming stood not far away, while Qi Yan and Ming Lou surrounded Qi Yu.
Qi Yu felt that the situation was not good and hesitantly said, "Actually, um... Ah, look, what's in the sky!"
She suddenly pointed.
Everyone instinctively turned their heads.
Qi Yu turned and ran.
Feng Siqian's first reaction was that she had been tricked. When she turned back and found Qi Yu gone, she was furious, roaring with flailing arms:
"Qi Yu! You tricked me, you are clearly the楼主 of Mingcang Tower, you are clearly, you are all the same person. You promised me you'd manage the accounts, and you promised to help me, damn it, it was all you!"
Qi Nian quickly reached out to stop Feng Siqian, "Calm down, calm down, Qi Yu is gone."
"Calm down my ass, I can't calm down!" Feng Siqian roared, "Don't stop me, I'm going to beat her!"
Qi Nian, "But you can't beat her."
Feng Siqian, "Even if I can't beat her, I have to punch her!"
Compared to Feng Siqian's anger, Feng Mingqi was more rational.
He recalled Qi Yu's attire as the楼主 of Mingcang Tower and suddenly felt that if he used her style of dress as a breakthrough point...
Then Qi Yu probably had many more identities yet to be uncovered.
At the same time.
Qi Yu, who had successfully escaped using low-quality tactics, felt she was safe after fleeing a little further away and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She thought that since she was exposed, she might as well change back to her female attire. So, she went to the sacred pool of the Qilin tribe, changed back to her female form, and unpinned her hair, tidying her silver locks.
Her hair length was determined by her magic power. Now that her magic power had reached the tenth heaven, her silver-white hair was longer than her ankles, and it could be coiled twice on the ground.
Humming a tune, she tied her long hair up and coiled it at the back of her head, letting half of it fall on her chest.
Not far away, a line of female immortal attendants from the Qilin tribe walked over, lining up to fetch water and wash the fruits and vegetables in their hands.
They were all small immortals cultivated from mortal flowers and plants, with ordinary aptitude, unable to ascend to the ninth heaven, so they could only work as maids in the Qilin tribe.
However, compared to life in the ninth heaven where a slight mistake could lead to banishment to the mortal world, life in the Qilin tribe was relatively stable.
At the very least, they didn't have to serve any heavenly consorts or the heavenly emperor. The most common tasks they did every day were trimming the hooves of newly born young qilins, pruning immortal herbs, and tending to fruit trees.
Seeing them come to fetch water, Qi Yu worried about getting in their way and deliberately moved aside.
However, when she stood up, she accidentally dropped her hairpin into the sacred pool.
"Ah!" Qi Yu looked at the ripples on the water surface and sighed deeply. She was contemplating that the pool was too deep and she might have to discard it and get a new one.
Turning around, she saw a petite, black-haired, and very well-behaved young girl jump into the pool and retrieve her hairpin.
The water in the sacred pool was deep. After retrieving the hairpin, the girl was soaked.
But she still held the hairpin in both hands and handed it to Qi Yu, "My lady, here you go."
Qi Yu was stunned for a moment and looked back at the girl handing her the hairpin.
The girl looked very well-behaved, with round, almond-shaped eyes. Her features were not exceptionally exquisite, but when combined, they gave a pleasant and comfortable impression.
"Thank you," Qi Yu took the hairpin and watched the girl jump out of the pool, "What is your name?"
"This humble immortal is called Can Xue," the girl looked up at Qi Yu, "Does my lady require anything else?"
"Nothing," Qi Yu shook her head.
Can Xue bowed and left.
After walking a distance, Can Xue looked back in the direction of Qi Yu, then walked expressionlessly into a dense forest and gently played a melody on a flute.
Soon, the sound of grass being brushed came from not far away. Can Xue turned and saw Ling Ruo walking over from nearby.
"You, are you from the thirteenth heaven?" Ling Ruo looked at Can Xue in disarray.
When she was in the heavenly palace, she had heard the previous heavenly emperor say that if someone from the thirteenth heaven sought her, they would play this melody.
"This humble immortal is indeed from the thirteenth heaven," Can Xue looked at Ling Ruo and handed her a sachet, "This is from the master of the thirteenth heaven, who asked me to give it to you. Take it to bathe, and it will give you a completely new face."
As she said this, Can Xue's appearance gradually changed, from the original young girl to the appearance of the young man who had been beside the Blood Demon煞.
Ling Ruo held the sachet, looking astonished, "So you're not a woman, you're a man!?"
"This humble immortal was transformed from the master's hair, neither a spirit nor a monster, neither evil nor a ghost, merely a tool driven by a contract," Can Xue's voice was indifferent, "Therefore, whether in male or female form is only for convenience. In essence, there is no distinction between male and female."
Ling Ruo held the sachet and, hearing him mention his master several times, couldn't help but ask, "The master of the thirteenth heaven should be the Lord of the Heavenly Dao, right? Is your master the Lord of the Heavenly Dao? If so, why doesn't he directly restore my identity and instead do this?"
How difficult could it be for the Lord of the Heavenly Dao to directly restore her divine status?
Why did she have to change her appearance and act sneakily?
Moreover, what she was experiencing now was not even written in the original story.
"Of course," Can Xue looked at Ling Ruo and smiled, then in his heart added, "No."
The true Lord of the Heavenly Dao had already been possessed and controlled by his master, the Blood Demon煞.
However, Ling Ruo did not need to know this.
Ling Ruo nodded and felt reassured, "Then, has the thirteenth heaven said anything about my future whereabouts..."
She tightly clutched the sachet.
She was extremely resentful.
That damned Qi Yu... How dare she steal her protagonist's life!
"Regarding this, the master has not said," Can Xue finished, then as if remembering something, added, "But the master asked me to tell you that the Qilin Holy Lord has two newly born Qilin eggs. If you smear the contents of the sachet on the eggs, the master will consider your whereabouts."
Hearing that she had something to do, Ling Ruo's heart finally settled, but she immediately couldn't help but ask, "What do the Qilin Holy Lord's two Qilin eggs look like?"
Although not many new lives were born in the Qilin tribe each year, there were at least dozens.
And every Qilin egg looked exactly the same.
How could she distinguish them?
"I don't know," Can Xue replied truthfully, "The master did not tell me."
Ling Ruo was exasperated and was about to leave when they suddenly heard footsteps.
Can Xue turned around and saw that the person arriving was the Qi Yu she had just seen. He immediately kicked Ling Ruo down the slope and then used magic to transform back into the appearance of a female immortal attendant, walking up to Qi Yu and bowing, asking:
"Why are you here, my lady? Are you lost?"
Qi Yu nodded truthfully.
Originally, she just wanted to avoid the tragic fate of being chased for an explanation by Feng Siqian and the others after her cover was blown, so she came here to wander around. She didn't expect to get lost as she walked.
She had intended to fly directly into the sky to find her way.
She never expected that this forest seemed to be under some kind of forbidden spell, preventing flight or遁地. The usable magic was limited, and even telepathic communication was impossible. Most of it could only be done on foot.
Damn it.
However, it was fortunate that she met someone, and she was an immortal attendant of the Qilin tribe. It seemed she could get out.
Qi Yu thought with anticipation.
Can Xue did not disappoint her and nodded, "Then this humble immortal will lead you out."
Qi Yu hummed in response.
After the time it took for three incense sticks to burn.
Qi Yu looked at the same big tree that had appeared nine times already and finally couldn't help but ask the Can Xue in front of her:
"Can Xue, you don't actually know the way either, do you?"