CHAPTER 541: CHAPTER 107: MESSENGER FROM A DIFFERENT PLANE

After contracting with the Fiery Fire Stork, the originally irritable bird immediately became tame.

All of its memories were also clearly transferred to Yue Jinghua.

Having acquired its memories, Yue Jinghua finally understood why this Fiery Fire Stork was so powerful.

Just as the Imperial Soldier had said earlier, most of the Fiery Fire Storks around Black Bear Ridge had been wiped out, and the local Fiery Fire Storks did not have such high-level Cultivation.

This Fiery Fire Stork was not a Dark Bird from the Black Bear Ridge area; it was a Messenger Bird from the Moon Plane, the so-called Holy Beast Plane.

However, during its plane traversal, it encountered a rare Plane Hurricane and suffered severe injuries, unintentionally crashing into Black Bear Ridge.

Since the environment of Black Bear Ridge was suitable for the healing of the Fiery Fire Stork, it temporarily settled there.

In order to avoid the frequent attacks of Dark Practitioners who came to Black Bear Ridge to hunt, and to retaliate against the Dark Practitioners for indiscriminately slaughtering Dark Beasts, this intelligent Fiery Fire Stork disguised itself as a Holy Rune, hiding on various forest Dark Beasts and set up small Starfire Arrays at various places in Black Bear Ridge.

If any Dark Practitioner entered, it would control the local Dark Beasts to lead the person to the trap of the Starfire Array area, burning the person alive.

A Messenger Bird from the Moon Plane? It seems what the Gold Eater Worm said was true, Yue Jinghua searched the body of the Fiery Fire Stork, and found a letter under its belly.

The letter was made of unknown beast skin, and at the heart area, there was a fire brand imprinted, shaped like a python and somewhat like a dragon.

"Color Worm, come out and see if you recognize what’s written on this?" Yue Jinghua opened the letter, but regrettably, she didn’t recognize any of the characters written on it.

The letter-carrying Fiery Fire Stork did not recognize the script either.

This script was completely different from the characters used on the Canglong Continent; it’s a form of Beast Script.

"Awooh, this is Dragon Clan script," Yue Jinghua placed the letter on the ground, letting the comically striped-body of the Gold Eater Worm crawl around on the paper. It took quite a while for it to crawl (read) through all of the letter, "The gist is something about a True Dragon*&Widow*&wants#￥secret*&...! Speed up&*awkward#￥%awakening!#￥"

The Gold Eater Worm stammered, reading out a few lines.

"What does this mean? Didn’t you say you know all the languages and scripts of Alien Races from various Planes?" Yue Jinghua was utterly confused.

"Awooh, I’m only a Divine Worm who just learned to read not long ago. There are thousands of scripts among races across different planes, I only know 20% of the Dragon Clan script; I can handle basic conversation, but as for writing..." Before it could finish speaking, the Gold Eater Worm cried out as Yue Jinghua threw it at the feet of the Fiery Fire Stork.

The latter looked at the oddly colored, incredibly fat worm on the ground, pecked at it out of curiosity, scaring the Gold Eater Worm into rolling its eyes and fainting.

"It’s a pity that Ji Chenxue has already been taken back to Wohua Imperial City by Yun Luo, and it’s not easy to find someone proficient in Dragon Clan prophecy in the meantime. If there’s a chance to meet again in the Imperial City, I’ll ask about the specific meaning of the letter." As Yue Jinghua pondered the letter sent from the Moon Plane, she thought it would not directly affect her interests, and decided to just keep the letter for the time being.

Throughout the night, dawn approached, and the Titan soared slowly toward Yue Jinghua’s location.

Yue Jinghua leapt onto the back of Black Beauty and rendezvoused with everyone aboard the Titan.

Despite some twists during the hunting expedition, the next few days’ meals had been secured, and in five days, they would be able to enter the boundaries of Wohua Imperial City.

On this return trip to the Imperial City, Yue Jinghua specifically instructed Lie Rou not to mention it to her brother Yue Minzhi, wanting to surprise him. She also knew that Yue Minzhi was still undergoing training at the Imperial Dragon Rider Reserve Camp and thought it best not to disturb him for the time being.

On the other hand, Yue Jinghua had another concern. It was said that Yue Minzhi had a deep sibling affection for "Yue Jinghua" since their childhood.

In her memory, that elder brother was intelligent and extremely cautious and meticulous, caring deeply for his sister "Yue Jinghua."

Having grown up together, he probably knew "Yue Jinghua’s" temperament even better than Lie Rou, their mother.

Now reborn as "Yue Jinghua," neither Lie Rou nor Hongling found anything amiss. However, Yue Jinghua wondered if Yue Minzhi would detect anything peculiar.

"If I really can’t fool him, then I’ll claim that I was attacked by beasts in Hundred Beast Mountain and suffered amnesia from a fever after a severe injury," Yue Jinghua concluded after much thought, adopting the cliché amnesia scenario as her best excuse.

Upon arrival in Imperial City, another concern for Yue Jinghua was about Long Jiuzun, as mentioned by Old Kuru.

Although she was not exactly a saint, she had a peculiar trait—commitment to fulfilling her promises.

If she had never intended to come to Wohua Imperial City in her life, she would never have considered Long Jiuzun’s matter, but now that she was in the city, she had to pay extra attention to it.

Moreover, she needed to devise ways to handle the investigation from the Imperial Military Department and hoped that her impersonation as Yue Chen would not be uncovered too soon.

These successive troubles tinted Yue Jinghua’s soon-to-begin life in the Imperial City with a shade of haze.

Shortly after the Titan left Black Bear Ridge, the Ji Family’s Attendant Student, who was thrown into the forest by Jin Nuo’s order, suddenly opened his eyes and scrambled up from the ground. He tore open the protective armor on his chest, which still hung a misshapen Heart Protector.

"Damn the Imperial Soldiers, and damn the Black Dragon. Don’t think I don’t recognize it—that Black Dragon belongs to the Pengbo Family’s Little Jinuo. Damn the Pengbo Family, always opposing our Ji Residence. Once I return to the Imperial City and report today’s events to the young master, none of you will escape," thinking of that youth masked by a smile revealing white teeth and the unfeeling Jin Nuo who ordered him thrown to the Dark Beasts, the Ji Family’s Attendant Student grew even more resentful.

He cursed a few times and spat on the ground, "Fortunately, this time, although I failed to catch the Forest Elephant Pig, I unexpectedly discovered the whereabouts of the extinct Fiery Fire Stork. I hope the young master can forgive my fault."

It turned out this attendant student was dearly favored by Ji Jie. Before the journey, he had received a High-Level Spiritual Artifact and a precious Teleportation Scroll as a Protective Treasure. Under the palm of Black Beauty, he had only pretended to faint.

Only after everyone from the Titan had cleaned up did he dare to make a move.

While saying this, the attendant student took out a Teleportation Scroll from his bosom, muttered under his breath with resentment, and the moment the sunrise lit up Black Bear Ridge, his figure also vanished under the sunlight.