Jian Nan said that it would take a week for Bi Qing and then to start the invasion. While for me on the seafloor, a day crawls by like a year, however, Ao Yun did not carry out any bad behavior. Although there was a lot of flirting and teasing in his words, there were very few hands-on tricks. This phenomenon made me feel happy and surprised.
When he's free, he always likes to stay in the room and look at me. If I turn in his direction, he will avert his eyes and look back at the book in his hands.
I think that Ao Yun may be in conflict, but countless trials and loud noisy requests, he just stays on the side observing as if trying to sound out, requests for him to send me back to the city are met with him playing it down or tough and firm methods of refusal that left no room whatsoever for a chance to negotiate.
What the hell is he waiting for? What the hell are you thinking? As time went by, I was feeling more and more uneasy. So I couldn't help but ask him if he was really looking for a way to erase my memories and let me start from a blank slate?
He smiled and replied, "That's right."
I am sure if this statement is true or false, this damn liar.
On the fifth day, Jian Nan came again. This time, he did not have the same luck as last time, when he arrived at the Sorror of parting palace he was escorted by imperial guards. I heard the noise outside and rushed out to see him, the guards were escorting him to be imprisoned. I stopped them and grabbed Jian Nan's arm and asked, "What are you doing?"
Now Ao Yun's guards do not dare to be rude to me. One of the crabs, who seemed to have a higher rank, stepped forward and bowed and then politely pushed my hands away, "This little thief wanted to sneak into Parting Sorrow palace, this commander gave the order to arrest him and deliver him to the Third Prince."
"You're in charge here? What are you called?" I pretended to be calmly talking to the crap but was sneaking glances at Jian Nan. He was bound with rope and his mouth was gagged. He was continuously 'wuwu'-ing and his line of sight was on a certain cluster of corals. Therefore, in my mind understood clearly.
"This humble one is Heng Tianxing." The crab was very polite, "Only in-charge for security, the rest of the matters are handled by Miss Hua Rong. If Mistress Miao Miao has anything you need, we can find her."
"I know this person, can you let him go?" I beseeched.
Unfortunately, I have no authority, I am Ao Yun's prisoner with no power to order them at all. So Heng Tianxing very politely stopped me and to prevent me from making a fuss and told the guards to take Jian Nan away.
I looked at Heng Tianxing's thick armor and long sword on his waist. I was very angry and stamped my feet and walked to the side. Then I sneakily went to the side of the precious coral trees in the Parting Sorrow palace and started pulling them out for fun, which made the maids feel distressed and come forward and tried to dissuade me several times. I craftily gave her fierce glare and scolded, "Xuanqing palace antique vases and precious medicinal herbs, which of them could I not destroy for fun? What is Parting Sorrow Palace regarded as? Don't tell me that Ao Yun can't bear for me to smash things when I'm unhappy?"
"This servant wouldn't dare to..." The maids couldn't stop my destructive actions, were very distressed and turned around, they couldn't bear to watch this beautiful scenery get destroyed.
When they all weren't looking, I quietly lowered my body and picked up a small cloth bag with a familiar smell from the corals and revealed a small smile. In a flash, restored my original angry expression and went to my room.
I quickly went to the bathroom, opened the cloth bag. In there were ten sharp silver shattering claws. It had a bloody aura with a cat's smell attached to it, it made me feel a sense of familiarity in my heart. This is the weapon that I cultivated in my body throughout my life, it could not be burned at my death and so it was buried by Yin Zi.
I used one of the claws to cut my finger and sprinkled the blood on it. After a long silence, the silver of the shattering claw began to dim and darkened, and then turned into a dark red. I picked it up and could feel the power hidden inside, but this weapon had no fingertip, it was like a long hook without a handle, I picked it up and scrutinized it for a long time and didn't know how to take it back.
Suddenly, the shattering claw in my hand moved and then seemed to become snake-like, and went into the tip of my finger from where my nail was, my whole finger was in so much pain that I almost screamed.
After about a quarter of an hour later, the pain disappeared and the claw was integrated into my bones and could be freely popped out from the nail. The sharpness was not different from my previous life, and the power attached to the claws spread through my whole body and it seemed I would be able to break through the heavens.
I did not hesitate after I understood how to use it, I bore the pain and put the remaining shattering claws in the palm of my hands. They pierced my fingers and extended inside them until I was in so much pain and was cold sweating and was rolling about on the ground feeling like I was dying waiting for it to be over.
Finally, the pain was slowly dissipating and the ten shattering claws were now properly back in my body. Perhaps because they were honed and cultivated in my body that they fit so well that it felt like I had regained 80% of my strength from the past. When Xiang Qing used those magical weapons in the past to bring forth his power he must have also felt this episode of intense pain.
I popped them out and tried them out for a while, my heart was full of pride. I didn't expect to hear Hua Rong's loud voice from outside, "Mistress Miao Miao, did something happen to you? I just heard some movement in the bathroom."
I looked back at the water pipe that I had bent when I was struggling with the pain and I quickly pushed it back to its original state and suppressed the demonic aura around my body and went out and said to Hua Rong, "The water pipe is broken, find someone to fix it."
Hua Rong looked puzzled and quickly went out to find someone to repair it. I went in the direction Jian Nan was taken away in and prepared to save him.
Jian Nan was locked in the utility room in the left corner of the Parting Sorrow palace. He is a frog demon with great combative power but because of his docile face, the guards didn't seem too on guard with him.
I came over and used my cat's skills to nimbly and quietly get past the guards and then silently drilled open the back window and went in.
Jian Nan was still bound tightly with his mouth gagged, he looked a little delighted to see me, when his mouth was ungagged, he stopped me from cutting up the chains and whispered, "Just cut a hole in the chain but don't save me, so they can still keep me."
I didn't understand what he meant, "Did your brain become foolish? Want a beating?"
"That's not it..." There were a few black lines on Jian Nan's forehead, "I was deliberately arrested with a wiretap and a tracker, so the others can secretly listen in and find out where they will take me. Lolo said that it will 80% be the seafloor prison, then I can find out Xiao Cha's location inside, afterall gathering information is my forte."
"What if you are not taken to the seafloor prison?"
"Mistress Miao Miao...You cannot not be concerned about me..."
I choked on Jian Nan's words and was speechless, but what he said was right. Ao Yun would not leave any prisoners here in the Parting sorrow palace, this is a forbidden area and he will not violate it. The Dragon King's palace is also not his domain, so he cannot just imprison people here as he wishes, so the chance of being sent to the sea prison is the highest.
Therefore I cut the link in one of his chains so he could just release himself later. Jian Nan looked at me and asked gently, "Is your strength restored?"
"En, thank you."
"I didn't want to..." Jian Nan stuttered for a long time and then said, "In the future, Master Bi Qing will fight me because of this matter, you must protect me by all means at that time..."
"Don't worry..." I nodded hard and then whispered, "Thank you."
MiraiSaesang's Notes: We are nearing the end and the story will be completed this week, the remaining chapter will all be released, the moment all the translations are done!! 🤗