eurekapd Chapter 578 All around is darkness, but he is the only glimmer of light.
Chapter 578 All around is darkness, but he is the only glimmer of light.
A group of children emerged from the innermost palace, each looking at Jiang Liqian, who was locked in a cage, with strange expressions. Jiang Liqian felt bewildered and uncomfortable under their gazes.
Just as I was about to clear my throat and ask if they could open the cage, otherwise I would have to dismantle it by force, a maid dressed in a floral gauze dress with butterflies walked up to the golden cage and stared at her curiously for a long time.
"Did the Third Prince bring you back?"
Your Highness?
That fierce-looking guy from just now?
Jiang Liqian gave an awkward laugh, her lips twitching slightly, and asked, "Can you let me out?"
The maid shook her head: "This is the golden cage that the elders use to control His Highness. We don't have the ability to open it."
A golden cage used for discipline?
"..."
"Then how did it end up in His Highness's hands?"
The maid said proudly, "Our prince is quite capable, otherwise why would the elders have to use such a treasure to capture him?"
"..." Jiang Liqian decided not to ask such stupid questions anymore.
She gestured for her maid to step back.
The maid was puzzled, but she still stepped back.
The next second, a piercing metallic cutting sound was heard, the door of the golden cage was opened, and Jiang Liqian sheathed her sword and walked out.
The young servants who were secretly watching her from a distance all covered their mouths, staring wide-eyed in astonishment, unable to believe that she had come out so easily.
This is a treasure that the elders have been keeping for a long time!
Jiang Liqian pointed to the golden cage behind her and said to the maid, "If we repair it, it can still be used."
The maid stood frozen in place, staring at the collapsed golden cage door, too shocked to speak for a moment.
Jiang Liqian thought she wouldn't say anything, and walked straight past her, but unexpectedly her right arm tightened as she excitedly grabbed her hand.
Jiang Liqian was full of questions.
"Miss...Miss!" she exclaimed excitedly, her eyes sparkling with admiration. "You truly are amazing, as expected of a female His Highness personally captured! I love you so much!!!"
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She knew that the demon race valued martial prowess. If human cultivators respected strength above all else, then the beasts, who were prey to the weak, were even more so.
But beasts also have a strict hierarchy. Just a moment ago they were incredibly proud of their princess, but the next second they were worshipping her. The speed at which they "changed their minds"... well, should she say that the other party is indeed a flirtatious butterfly with a pure heart?
Jiang Liqian originally wanted to leave immediately, but she suddenly thought that this was the palace of the Ten Thousand Demon Valley, and she could not wander around. Since her junior brother was here, she might as well ask this maid. Maybe she could take her directly to her junior brother?
She thought this to herself, but also felt it was too absurd. She thought that as long as the other party could tell her where her junior brother was, she would go find him herself. However, she never expected that the maid would actually volunteer to take her there. She even raised her eyebrows and chin at the page boys and servants over there with great pride, as if to say - See, the amazing sister chose me, you have no chance.
Jiang Liqian felt a little guilty, as if she were deceiving an innocent child.
"This is it, young lady." The maid's eyes sparkled as she pointed to a small cubicle in the dark prison and said to Jiang Liqian, "He trespassed into the forbidden area of the Ten Thousand Demon Valley and was arrested by the elders! But he's quite formidable; it took all seventy-two elders working together to capture him!"
"He kept crying and calling out 'Senior Sister' and stuff. When we asked him who he was, he just wanted to escape. But our secret prison is heavily guarded, and if he wants to... Oh, girl, girl, please don't..."
With a clang, the sturdy prison door snapped in two by Jiang Liqian's sword.
Jiang Liqian, her face cold and anxious, strode inside.
The light in the dark cell was so dim that it was almost impossible to see one's own hand in front of one's face. The Spirit-Suppressing Pearl beside him sensed the other Spirit Pearl and spontaneously emitted a faint blue light, illuminating this area.
Jiang Liqian spotted Xu Youan slumped against the wall at a glance.
In a panic, she rushed forward, cupped his face in her hands, and cried out, "Ayou, Ayou, wake up! Senior sister is here! Senior sister is here!"
Xu Youan opened his eyes in a daze, his eyes reddening, and buried his head in her arms.
He called out softly, "Senior sister, senior sister..."
"Am I dreaming?"
Jiang Liqian hugged him tightly and shook her head in response: "It's not a dream, it's the real me. Touch me, I'm warm, it's the real me!"
Following her words, Xu Youan touched her face with his long, slender, cool fingers. Feeling the warmth of his fingertips, he suddenly smiled and tears fell.
"It's true, senior sister, you're real, and so am I."
"It's so good, so good..."
Seeing his weak state, Jiang Liqian felt a pang of heartache. She tried to help him up, but failed several times. This made her both anxious and angry. She couldn't help but turn around and glare at the maids who were still standing dumbfounded at the door: "What did you do to him? Why does he have no strength at all?"
The maid waved her hands frantically, "It wasn't us, it was him who made trouble and insisted on escaping. There's poisonous miasma outside the sacred area, and he inhaled a lot of it. Naturally, he'll be weak for ten days or half a month and won't be able to use his spiritual power. He'll be weaker than a cripple—but we've already given him an antidote pill, and he'll be fine soon!"
Hearing that Xu Youan had taken the antidote, Jiang Liqian's expression softened. She calmed herself down, apologized to the maid, and explained her momentary lapse in composure. Still worried about whether the antidote would work, she took out a top-grade antidote and fed it to her junior brother.
Xu Youan initially refused, knowing how rare top-grade antidote pills were. Even if his senior sister had more, it wouldn't exceed three. However, his senior sister insisted, as if she wouldn't let go of his hand until he took the pills, so he had no choice but to compromise.
"Come on my back, I'll carry you out." Jiang Liqian squatted down in front of him.
Xu Youan's eyes flickered, as if she had some lingering feelings, but also seemed to be filled with sadness: "Senior sister, I should have carried you on my back."
Jiang Liqian, not knowing what his expression was, simply smiled and lightly scolded him: "What do you mean by 'should' or 'shouldn't'? You are my junior brother, and I am your senior sister. Shouldn't we share weal and woe? Besides, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been dragged into this vortex. In the end, it was I who dragged you down."
How could that be? It was his senior sister who dragged him down.
Without her senior sister, Xu Youan would not exist in this world.
He lowered his raven-feather-like eyelashes and carefully placed his head on her shoulder. Jiang Liqian felt the weight on her back and suddenly had a strange sense of familiarity, as if she had once carried someone like this on her back, walking under the vast moonlight.
Everything was dark except for him, who was a glimmer of light.
Could it be Gu Chengxue?
But she doesn't remember this happening.