Sorry, master, my junior sister has surrendered to the enemy!

Chapter 233: The Eve of the Conference (3)

Helian Chongguang's eyes at this moment seemed as if he wanted to skin Chu Yu alive.

"Who is this person?" Chu Yu curled the corners of his mouth, as if he was not the person involved. Instead, he looked like he was watching a show, passing Helian Chongguang's figure and looking at Yue An behind him.

Yue An could no longer maintain her composure. The corners of her eyes twitched slightly and her eyelids twitched wildly. She looked at the emperor's face again and seemed unable to speak. She remained silent for a long time.

"It looks like an assassin, Princess. There is such a dangerous person in your shadow. I think my actions are to protect you. I wonder how your Wuyang royal family will deal with the assassin?"

Chu Yu's faint voice was like a spell, striking people's hearts.

How could the Seventh Prince not understand after seeing this? The Fourth Sister hid her secret so well that she deceived everyone. She just targeted Xiaojiu. It turned out that the Fourth Sister had been waiting here for a long time.

His cheeks were furrowed with anger, and he laughed in anger, answering the question for Yue An:

"Assassinating a member of the royal family, killing all nine generations of the family, grinding their bones to dust, scattering their souls, and never being able to be reborn."

The two monks behind the emperor immediately took action, and their staffs and diamond rings made clinking sounds.

This sound clearly foreshadowed something. Everyone felt an extremely strong sense of oppression, which made their hearts tighten.

"He is indeed the person I recruited." Yue An was forced to close his eyes and say as if he accepted his fate.

Originally, she wanted to maintain her image in front of the emperor and the two old monsters. It was an image that she had painstakingly built up over many years, an image of a royal member who used her extra savings to save the world, was not in a hurry to recruit masters to show herself, worked hard to improve herself, and did not fight or compete.

From the moment this woman asked for the ring, her image began to collapse step by step in front of the emperor!

But for Helian Chongguang's life, she had to tell the truth.

Yue An glanced at the emperor cautiously, but the emperor just looked at everything indifferently. The monk behind him did not move.

Yue An breathed a sigh of relief, and the next thing to do was to make sure Helian Chongguang's identity was not exposed.

Because he is a member of the Yuequanqi royal family, it is an absolute taboo to let other members of the royal family interfere in the matter of choosing a successor to their country, which will directly make him lose the qualification to compete for the succession.

"Since we are in the same industry, why are you hiding now that you are here?" Chu Yu put away his sword and said nonchalantly, but Helian Chongguang froze with the knife in both hands, still staring at him.

Chu Yu pretended not to hear anything. He was used to being stared at by such murderous eyes.

She turned around and left gracefully, squatted down and picked up the little wolf, and the person behind her did not attack her.

Yue An pulled Helian Chongguang and motioned him to stand behind her. She twitched the corner of her mouth and looked up at the emperor to explain:

"His name is Ah Chong. He is a casual cultivator that I met by chance. He is a wanderer in the martial arts world and does not know the rules of the palace. I was afraid that it would be abrupt for him to attend the banquet for the first time, so I wanted him to learn more and then explain and apologize to His Majesty in two days. I didn't expect that I was inconsiderate and caused such a misunderstanding."

She racked her brains, and since Helian's appearance was full of alien features, she had to make up this excuse in desperation, saying that he was a casual cultivator she met by chance.

Helian only needed to pretend to be an unruly savage.

The Emperor did not react, and neither did the Empress or Concubine Li.

Sweat broke out on Yue An's forehead. She was already feeling thankful. It seemed that the ability to recruit experts this time was within the range of His Majesty's standards for measuring the crown prince. His not reacting was already the best outcome.

Before Chu Yu sat down, Yue An suddenly asked her, "Miss, would you like to tell me your name?"

"My surname is Chu, and my given name is Yu. I'm not a wanderer in the world, but I'm just a boring person." Chu Yu still had a smile on his face.

"Okay, Miss Chu Yu, after this incident, this princess will never forget it." When Yue An said this, one could hear that she was gritting her teeth, and she was just short of saying "Just wait for me, I will remember you."

Chu Yu looked very carefree as she sat down, took out a top-grade spirit stone and started feeding it to the wolf. She had already put away the blinding white sword.

This top-grade spirit stone is worth more than any jewels or ornaments, yet Chu Yu wasted it so much.

At this time, no one dared to look down on Chu Yu. How could someone who could use top-grade spirit stones to feed his spirit pets be someone to be trifled with?

Not to mention her sword that flashed like a meteor. That sword was definitely not something an ordinary cultivator could possess.

This woman named Chu Yu brought so many surprises to people that no one thought it was so shocking that her wolves used spirit stones as food.

Helian stood behind Yue An, knowing that he had become the target of public criticism.

The man and woman wearing half-face masks behind the Seventh Prince were unabashedly exploring his realm. The Seventh Prince was also looking at him. The moment Helian was about to meet the Seventh Prince's gaze, he lowered his eyes.

Yue Ci was about to explode with anger.

The fourth sister and the little nine brought him all kinds of "surprises" today.

I'm just an honest guy! Is that how you play it?

An invisible restraint was formed between Helian and the man and woman. These Spirit Emperors seemed to have a crush on each other. They even wanted to drag Chu Yu into this deadlock, but Chu Yu just leisurely fed the wolves and declined.

I am just a small spiritual king, why should I form a triangular opposition relationship with you?

"How did I do? Was it ostentatious enough?" Chu Yu whispered to Yue Ling.

Yue Ling nodded quickly, with an irrepressible smile on her face: "Yuyu, I guess no one has ever seen you so arrogant and domineering. I've seen enough of you. You did it perfectly."

"However, we should be more restrained from now on. Fourth sister has already attracted all the attention of Seventh brother, so there is no need to show off."

Chu Yu nodded. This time she really didn't care about anyone. No matter who gave her a killing look, she just sat there quietly.

The eunuch on the stage began to talk about the precautions for the medicine-hunting conference:

"This medicine-hunting conference is different from the past. We need to enter the lotus secret realm of Zhaolan Temple..."

Everyone listened attentively.

"And then...that's it." The eunuch put away the book in his hand.

"Huh?" Everyone was shocked. What was this?

Chu Yu listened carefully. The Lotus Secret Realm sounds nice, but it is actually a small world made up of illusions.

One flower one world, one leaf one bodhi.

Because it was also an illusion, she had heard the elders mention it when she was an inner disciple of Tianchen Immortal Sect in her previous life.

"Don't you know what's inside the Lotus Secret Realm and what we're going to do?"

The third prince asked.

"Your Highness, please be patient and allow me to explain everything to you."

"Everyone in the Lotus Secret Realm is an illusion, but the danger is not."

"The Lotus Secret Realm undergoes a reincarnation every seven days. Those who can survive until the seventh reincarnation without asking for help from outsiders will be considered successful."

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.

"Why does it sound scary?"

"I remember that the Lotus Secret Realm was a place for people to gain enlightenment and Zen, right?"

"Why did it become a lotus hell?"

"No, it sounds like the requirement is to survive for seven days? Can it still be called a medicine-hunting conference?"

The eunuch smiled and said slowly, "Your Highnesses, please be patient. Since this is a medicine-hunting meeting, we will not deviate from the topic."

"This time, I'm going to ask all of you to find some rare medicinal herbs and refine a pill. The first person to refine the pill can come out of the secret realm directly without having to stay for seven days."

"It doesn't matter if you can't find all the herbs. If you find a few of them at random, you can leave a few days earlier. For example, if you find three of them, you can leave three days earlier, and so on."

Some people were surprised: "So we still need to make elixirs?"

"Is there an alchemist here?"

"It seems like they keep talking about leaving early. Why does it feel so scary?"

"Although the people in the secret realm are illusions, the masters of Zhaolan Temple have thoughtfully set up an alchemist for everyone, so it doesn't matter if you don't know how to make alchemy. You just need to enter the secret realm and find the alchemist." The eunuch answered everyone's questions carefully.

"What kind of elixir do you want to make?"

"This...I'm sorry I don't know."

"what?"

"The masters said that in order to avoid mistakes during the preparation phase, the elixir that needs to be refined will be revealed on the day of the conference."

This time no one asked any more questions and everyone started discussing the issue in private.

"Well, now that we've finished talking, the dinner is almost over." The emperor interrupted, stood up, and walked away.

"You will go down and prepare well in the next three days. After three days, I and the masters will come to the scene to see your performance in the secret realm."

The emperor left with the empress and concubines.

After everyone stood up and saw the emperor off, they began to have their own plans.

Chu Yu only felt that the information given at this conference was very vague, but this was understandable. They only revealed some information and did not tell the whole picture, which gave people some psychological preparation and could effectively prevent others from cheating during the preparation stage.

But based on what has been revealed so far, her most intuitive feeling is - danger.

The more difficult and dangerous it is, the more important this conference becomes.