CHAPTER 588: CHAPTER 276: DRAGON SEEKING AND INCENSE LIGHTING_2

"What can I change by going there?"

Zhou Xuan was surprised, surprised that his status in his sister’s mind was so high. In the battle of high incense, she actually thought he could be of help.

With his mere four incense’s level of cultivation, just by not adding to the mess or causing trouble, he’d already be considered fortunate.

"You’re far more powerful than you think."

Zhou Lingyi chuckled lightly and said, "Once you get to Yunluo Mountain, you’ll understand."

After saying this, Zhou Lingyi left her words lingering amidst her silvery laughter.

...

Preparations for breaking through the Forbidden Lands were complete, and gathering people had reached its final stages.

"We must inform the Tree in the end."

Given they’re heading into the Tattoo Forbidden Land, how could they exclude the Peach Blossom Ancestor Tree?

During the calamity in Mingjiang, because of Peng Sheng’s emergence, the Peach Blossom Ancestor Tree gained devout faith, which gave it surplus strength to emerge from the Forbidden Land within the Great Mother Star Pit back to the surface.

But its strength was still weak, unable to stay above ground for long, and it has now retreated back into the Great Mother Star Pit.

Zhou Xuan took out the Wash Away Injustice Talisman.

He had three remaining chances to return to the palace. Crossing off one of them, his surroundings abruptly shifted.

A flash of Bai Guang illuminated his surroundings. When the Bai Guang subsided, Zhou Xuan found himself back within the Great Mother Star Pit.

This pit was strikingly similar to a human’s Mother Palace. The sky and earth were both purple, resembling pulsating flesh.

The ground had elasticity, capable of sprouting meat buds, while the sky seemed to breathe—expanding and contracting—with tender capillaries faintly appearing and disappearing.

Zhou Xuan was already very familiar with this environment. He strode toward the Peach Blossom Ancestor Tree to deliver the good news about the impending entry into the Tattoo Forbidden Land.

"Tree... You’ll soon be able to leave this godforsaken place."

The Great Mother Star Pit seemed to take offense at Zhou Xuan’s description—where he stepped, a hollow formed, tripping him with a sudden stumble.

"Ouch! Star Pit, you actually understand what I’m saying?"

Zhou Xuan had visited this place many times, but it was his first time discovering that the Great Mother Star Pit was itself an intelligent being.

"Today is a good day, so I won’t fuss with you. I’m here to find the Tree to move it out today."

Zhou Xuan stomped on the ground to vent his frustration, then continued heading toward the Peach Blossom Ancestor Tree.

...

Inside Zhou Xuan’s Secret Realm, Miss Qiang had been playing Monopoly with three human brains, while the others surrounded them as spectators, watching the game with great interest.

Suddenly, Miss Qiang sensed something particularly familiar.

She quickly rose from the Black Water, extending her consciousness outside of Zhou Xuan’s Secret Realm... Zhou Xuan hadn’t placed any restrictions on her, allowing her to freely enter and exit the Secret Realm.

When Miss Qiang’s consciousness emerged from Zhou Xuan’s body and surveyed the surroundings, an immediate urge to cry overcame her.

"Engineer, you are the Engineer, and I am the Blood Girl."

Miss Qiang continuously called out in the Great Mother Star Pit, but after several cries, she realized she was using Jing Country’s language.

During her time with Zhou Xuan, Miss Qiang had always communicated in Jing Country’s language, and habit had made it second nature.

Realizing this, she quickly adjusted and used the language of the Blood Flesh Divine Dynasty to call out to the Great Mother Star Pit again.

She called and called, tears streaming down her face—encountering a kindred spirit in a foreign land always carried immense sorrow.

At this moment, the Great Mother Star Pit began responding in words, the tone and form exactly matching Miss Qiang’s.

"Miss Qiang, is the Great Mother Star Pit also one of your Blood Flesh Divine Dynasty people? Judging by your words, it seems to be an Engineer?"

Zhou Xuan had heard Miss Qiang talk before about the Blood Flesh Divine Dynasty, where the highest authority was called the "Main Brain."

Beneath the Main Brain were Engineers. According to Miss Qiang, Engineers were the most intelligent consciousnesses within the Blood Flesh Divine Dynasty.

"The timelines seem to match as well."

Zhou Xuan pondered again. Miss Qiang had arrived in Jing Country before the twenty-four God-level figures ascended to the Heavenly Dome.

The Great Mother Star Pit also came from beyond the stars, its arrival predating those twenty-four God-level figures’ ascension.

"It is indeed one of our Blood Flesh Divine Dynasty Engineers, without a doubt."

Miss Qiang seemed to sense the Engineer’s consciousness in a specific location. She leapt out of Zhou Xuan’s body, transforming into the shape of a little girl, and frantically ran across the violet ground.

Her destination was where the Peach Blossom Ancestor Tree was located.

When she reached the Puduan beside the Ancestor Tree, she knelt and reached out to touch the Puduan.

"This is the Engineer?" Zhou Xuan was somewhat astonished. The Puduan had always been where he sat to comprehend the tattoo map.

Who would’ve guessed that he had been sitting on a person all along?

"The Puduan isn’t her; she’s beneath the Puduan." Miss Qiang tapped the Puduan lightly and spoke with a trace of sorrow, "Engineer, how are you now? Can you show yourself to me?"

As soon as her words fell, a sigh came from within the Puduan. Clearly, even after being trapped for over two thousand years, the Engineer couldn’t fulfill Miss Qiang’s simple request.

But what the Engineer couldn’t do, the Peach Blossom Ancestor Tree could.

It extended countless branches, piercing the ground around the Puduan. Then, with a sharp motion, the branches, like innumerable hands, dug out a massive mound of flesh.

The flesh resembled crimson gel, and within the flesh gel was the Engineer’s consciousness. She was dressed in thin clothing, her figure graceful, though her eyes remained closed.

She and the flesh gel together resembled a piece of amber.