EFB Chapter 2410 Full of Flaws
Chapter 2410 Full of Flaws
Chapter 2410 Full of Flaws
Ling Jinbao asked curiously, "Jade Capital City is a famously forbidden region. Why did you come here? Do you have a grudge against the Earth Mother?"
Bao Chihai waved his hand: "No, no, I just wanted to come in to get something, and I got caught by accident."
Do all thieves in the world refer to "stealing" as "taking," even if they become immortals? "What exactly did you want to steal before?"
“It was just a battle of egos.” Bao Chihai said wistfully, “Back then, Yujing City was already quite famous, and people outside said it was a ghost town and a forbidden zone. Bao Chishan made a bet with someone that he could steal the Wind Dew Golden Lotus from here and then get away unscathed.”
Ling Jinbao interjected, "Then his death was truly a waste."
"Who says otherwise? I objected from the start, but Bao Chishan insisted on coming. Sigh, for the past two thousand years, I've wanted to slap him dozens of times every day!" As a spirit possessing his brother, Bao Chihai couldn't control the situation. "Actually, besides this Wind and Dew Golden Lotus, Bao Chishan really wanted a Soul-Calling Grass. It's the most important ingredient for making Soul-Strengthening Powder. His favorite offspring was born with a weak soul and wouldn't live past seven. Only the Soul-Strengthening Powder could prolong his life. We searched every spiritual mountain in the world, but couldn't find a suitable one. After much searching, we heard that there was a 500-year-old Soul-Calling Grass in Jade Capital City, with just the right potency. Bao Chishan wanted to get one, but—"
He sighed: "He's dead. I escaped, but I couldn't escape Yujing City, so I settled down here in the dark."
"You are an unregistered resident." Without the Earth Mother's permission, you moved into Jade Capital City without authorization. What else could this be but an unregistered resident?
Ling Jinbao was skeptical of him: "Even if you are a Yin God, how can you still exist after two thousand years without touching flesh and blood?"
“This place is very special, it’s actually sandwiched between the real and the unreal.” Bao Chihai tapped the stone block. “Even the Earth Mother didn’t expect that we were one person with two souls. When she saw that Bao Chishan was dead, she ordered her men to dispose of him. I wanted to take the opportunity to slip out of the city, but I was very weak and afraid that I would be unable to get out of the city before my soul was scattered. When I passed by here, a soul-binding bottle attracted me, so I rushed in to rest.”
“The Earth Mother has devoured too many ruins and ancient cities. This Jade Capital City is full of strange and wonderful things, probably even it cannot record them all.” He continued, “As a result, I fell asleep for an unknown amount of time, probably several hundred years. When I woke up again, the Jade Capital City had changed, the monsters had changed, and their numbers were huge, and there were even some human slaves.”
"When I wanted to leave, I found myself bound to this damned broken bottle, unable to go far," Bao Chihai sighed. "That's when I realized this thing wasn't a Soul-Gathering Bottle, but a Dream-Gathering Bottle!"
"A dream?" Ling Jinbao looked at the crack. "You mean I'm dreaming?"
“This crack is the boundary between dreams and reality,” Bao Chihai pointed to the crack in the wall. “But the dream hasn’t started yet; you are still in reality.”
He sighed again: "I've transformed from a Yin spirit into a nightmare, which is why I'm bound to Jade Capital City!"
"The Earth Mother is unaware of your existence?"
“Maybe they know, maybe they don’t.” Bao Chihai shrugged. “I don’t think they care. This is a ghost town; there’s plenty of chaos here.”
Ghost towns are haunted and haunted by nightmares, shouldn't that be commonplace?
"Now that I've finished talking about myself, let's talk about you." Bao Chihai blew a breath, and a small oil lamp next to Ling Jinbao lit up. "What do you intend to take from Yujing City? The Golden Lotus of Wind and Dew, or the life of the Earth Mother?"
"I want both."
Bao Chihai pointed outside: "That giant lizard we just passed wasn't the most terrifying pursuer. The Earth Mother has a black crocodile under her command. In its previous life, it was a giant crocodile. The Earth Mother filled its remains with her own rock ash, creating its first loyal pet. This thing only obeys the Earth Mother and is adept at hiding. It usually sleeps in its secret realm at the bottom of the pool, rarely venturing out even once every few years. My brother and I were eaten by it. By the way, I heard from the passing monsters that Mount Ling has come to attack?"
"It's very lively outside the city."
"Mother Earth has faced numerous battles in the past, and always emerged victorious." Bao Chihai waved his hands repeatedly. "If you're not absolutely certain of success, take my advice: before Mother Earth discovers you, hurry and escape the city. Otherwise, once she's dealt with matters outside the city, you won't be able to escape even if you want to—"
He paused, then pointed to himself: "We are a cautionary tale."
"Is it true that you got close to the white house in the underground city back then, and that's when you failed?"
“No, no.” Bao Chihai lifted his foot and lightly stomped the ground twice. “We searched several secret realms, and even turned over the so-called ‘treasure trove’ in Yujing City, but we still couldn’t find the Wind and Dew Golden Lotus. As a result, we accidentally entered another secret realm and our whereabouts were exposed.”
"Like you, we also collected a lot of clues and did a lot of homework beforehand, but we had no idea that Duzhishan was hiding a secret place."
Ling Jinbao was silent for a moment, then suddenly said:
"You keep saying 'you all.' How do you know how many of us came in?"
“Four. Three disguised as Cyclops, and one as a giant spider.” Bao Chihai smiled. “You passed through here before, and I couldn’t help but take a few more glances. As I said before, Cyclops generally don’t enter this area unless they are ordered to do so, so you were quite conspicuous as soon as you came in. Although Yujing City is chaotic, there is actually order in secret.”
Ling Jinbao remained silent. As outsiders, how could they possibly know the ins and outs of the city?
"You entered the Changfeng Valley camp, and only you came out. It's obvious that everyone else went to Duzhi Mountain behind it. Tsk tsk, isn't this like a flea jumping on a bald head—obvious?"
“There are countless eyes watching from the shadows here, and they all noticed something was wrong. You think your plan is flawless, but it's full of loopholes. Otherwise, why would that giant lizard come to catch you? There must have been a monster tipping you off.”
Ling Jinbao's heart skipped a beat: "You also went to the Changfeng Valley camp back then and met Liu Yisheng, right?"
Liu Yisheng also mentioned that he had spoken with the infiltrator surnamed Bao.
“I met him, and we talked for a long time. Then I tried to sneak into Duzhishan—just like you guys.” Bao Chihai smiled bitterly. “We also figured that Fenglu Jinlian was in Duzhishan.”
"What happened?"
“Duzhi Mountain is a secret realm, the most important secret realm in Yujing City!” Bao Chihai said, word by word. “The Earth Mother planted the Wind and Dew Golden Lotus in Duzhi Mountain, and this secret realm is a story from Shangguan Biao’s youth!”
"His childhood?" Ling Jinbao was taken aback. "You know that Shangguan Biao is..."
“Of course I know, he controlled Mother Earth,” Bao Chihai said. “Liu Yisheng also told us about the past of Changfeng Valley. We were very surprised to see Shangguan Biao in the secret realm, but he didn’t recognize us at all.”
(End of this chapter)