Emperor Qiankun

Chapter 363 Mysterious Jade Pendant

"Okay, okay, calm down."

The old man in black robes smiled and raised his bowl.

"But it's a deal, we'll fight another three hundred rounds once you've recovered!"

The old man in the gray robe echoed:

"Old Mo, just take it easy. I don't want to lose a friend in my old age..."

"Pah, you old geezer, don't you dare curse me!"

Mo Shang laughed loudly as he clinked bowls together, spilling wine onto the table, which seemed to ignite an invisible flame.

"I'll definitely win your precious wine gourd back then!"

"Haha, I'm not afraid of you! Once you've recovered, we must have a proper battle again!"

"..."

Dusk is getting darker.

The laughter of the three startled all the crows in the tree.

Under the eaves in the distance, Mo Hua leaned against the door frame, gazing at the hunched yet upright figure in the courtyard, and finally sighed silently.

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At this moment.

Looking at the three figures in the courtyard raising their glasses and drinking merrily, Li Qingyuan felt an even greater bitterness in her throat.

The aroma of the wine transformed into invisible threads, binding his mind and spirit to pieces, yet he couldn't even let a single drop touch his lips and tongue.

Being able to see but not drink is an unbearable feeling.

He shook his head with a wry smile, and finally dragged his leaden legs into the house, the copper bells on the eaves emitting a few mournful sounds behind him.

Inside, a chill permeated the air.

Mo Hua lay on her side on the ice jade couch, her long, dark blue hair cascading down like a waterfall, her two snow-white legs dangling gently over the edge of the couch, the silver bells adorning her toes tinkling with each movement.

She would occasionally turn her head to look out the window, the worry in her beautiful eyes almost solidifying, adding a touch of warmth to the chilly room.

Li Qingyuan had no time to appreciate the beautiful scenery.

He's having a bit of a headache right now—mainly because he can't communicate with the people in this world!

This is absolutely fucking awful...

He wondered if he needed some special method to transcend time and space and completely integrate into this world.

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His fingertips unconsciously stroked the jade pendant at his waist again.

This mysterious jade pendant did not belong to Li Qingyuan; it appeared on him after he entered this world.

Li Qingyuan didn't know its purpose, but he guessed that Xue Jing had left it on purpose, so he would still caress it from time to time.

Suddenly.

Suddenly inspired, he tentatively reached out towards the ice jade couch.

Then, the cold mist suddenly surged!

His palm seemed to pierce through a mirror or the moon's reflection, sinking straight into Mo Hua's waist by three inches.

Even more strangely, his soul power flowed away from his fingertips like sand through an hourglass, and even the aura around him dimmed.

Li Qingyuan abruptly pulled her hand back, then staggered back several steps.

A censer beside him emitted wisps of smoke.

He then suddenly realized that his clothes were soaked with cold sweat!

"It's clipping again?!"

"call--"

Li Qingyuan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to herself that she couldn't try things out recklessly.

He could clearly feel himself getting tired, and he was afraid that if he continued, he would be annihilated!

"wrong......"

Li Qingyuan leaned against the ice wall, panting. He suddenly remembered that when he touched the two white-browed old men earlier, although it was as if he had touched nothing, his soul power was not damaged at all.

No backlash was suffered...

His fingertips moved unconsciously in the air as he murmured to himself:

"Could it be the separation between the living and the dead? Or... is this woman under some kind of restriction?"

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A soft sound suddenly came from the cold jade couch.

Mo Hua had sat up at some point, her long black hair revealing half of her smooth, alabaster neck.

She frowned and looked out the window, and at her waist, there was also a jade pendant!

Furthermore, the pattern on that jade pendant was exactly the same as the one on Li Qingyuan's waist!

Li Qingyuan's pupils suddenly contracted!

In an instant, his thoughts surged.

If this place was indeed created by Xue Jing using his great supernatural powers, then a woman as beautiful and talented as Mo Hua must have had countless connections with him.

He suddenly remembered that Xue Jing was going to marry Princess Zhaohuang, so...

If Mo Hua is truly an old friend of Xue Jing, she will definitely go to "visit" him this time, and then I will be able to...

"It's a bet!"

Thinking of this, Li Qingyuan bit the tip of her tongue, and the fishy-sweet taste spread in her mouth.

Immediately afterwards, soul power flowed into the jade pendant, and then surged into the eyes, condensing into two clusters of ghostly blue flames in the void.

At this moment.

Mo Hua seemed to sense something and suddenly turned her head to look, but she couldn't see anything.

She shook her head in confusion, thinking that perhaps her thoughts were scattered...

However, Li Qingyuan was delighted; it really worked!

He had just poured his soul power into the jade pendant and used it to make a move, which clearly attracted Mo Hua's attention!

This discovery is undoubtedly a significant step forward.

This gave him hope that he could communicate with the world.

So he began to examine the jade pendant carefully, occasionally infusing it with his soul power or directly transferring blood into it...

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Mo Hua, sitting on the ice jade couch, ultimately did not notice anything amiss.

She sighed softly, pulled her clothes closer, and the silver bells on her toes jingled lightly as she stood up, leaving behind a cool fragrance.

Li Qingyuan watched her retreating figure as she pushed open the door, her soul flickering like a candle in the wind, yet she still managed to follow gracefully.

Because he felt that by following Mo Hua, he could also meet Xue Jing and thus uncover the secret of the Lantern King!

The copper bells on the eaves suddenly started moving even without wind.

Mo Hua gazed at the scene in the courtyard, but said nothing more and left directly.

Li Qingyuan glanced one last time at the three people still drinking and toasting in the courtyard, a smile that looked more like a grimace tugging at the corners of her mouth.

He didn't know where this desperate pursuit would lead, but he knew he had no way out—

If the secret of the King of Lamps cannot be uncovered, this lonely soul from another world will eventually vanish into nothingness in the long river of time!

Simply because he didn't know what Xue Jing was planning to do, or whether it would affect him...

There are too many unknowns in this world, and even he was on edge.

He knew very well that, as an outsider, everything he saw was what Xue Jing wanted him to see.

What is true and what is false, what is false and what is true, remains to be seen.

But at the moment.

There was clearly no time to think further; Mo Hua had already gone far away, and he needed to hurry and catch up to see if he could see Xue Jing!

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