Imperial Treasure

Chapter 1456: Chapter 849: Beauty Jade (Part 2)

But they failed to notice that Shen Ci never touched that Beauty Jade again.

Originally still a bit handsy, Gong Jiu and Flower Demon quietly hid their hands back into their sleeves...

This Miss Jiang wasn’t an ordinary person; she was someone from the same small circle as Sui Yi. She usually didn’t waste words.

Yet Jiang Chenyu herself walked up to the Beauty Jade, reached out to caress it... her eyes tinged with a bit of sorrow.

Su Zimu came over to the side and used her phone to take a picture of the Beauty Jade...

But then she suddenly froze for a moment as she looked at the image on the screen.

"Do you believe it?" Jiang Chenyu suddenly asked her.

"Mm, thanks for the warning," Su Zimu said calmly.

If she hadn’t said anything... the consequences might have been very serious.

But what exactly is it she wants to do?

Su Zimu felt a faint unease.

Jiang Chenyu paused, then gave a light laugh. "Everyone around her are people of Exquisite Heart... clearly worried I’ll do something bad, yet still sincerely grateful to me..."

Su Zimu didn’t say much to that, only softly said, "This woman is very pitiful."

"Pitiful?" Jiang Chenyu opened the palm of her other hand; the peach blossom that had fallen into her hand earlier had already turned into peach blossom mush.

"It’s just that the one she loves doesn’t love her back, that’s all. What’s so pitiful about that... Do you know who wrote this Sacrificial Text?"

Jiang Chenyu pointed at those ancient characters on the white jade.

"I didn’t know before, but now... I more or less know," Su Zimu said as she looked at the photo on her phone.

Gong Jiu and the others didn’t practice calligraphy, but she did. The vibe of this brush technique was very familiar to her.

It was Sui Yi.

That really was a discovery that made her worry even more.

Jiang Chenyu said nothing, just stared at that Beauty Jade, lost in her own thoughts.

And at this moment...

"There’s even a little river and a bridge here?"

Flower Demon had long since run out of patience for this kind of clueless investigation. Walking ahead, she suddenly saw a little bridge spanning the river, and with a few afterimages flashed straight to the bridgehead.

The bridge was actually quite large, because the river itself had a span of ten meters. The bridge arched over it; some people had already stepped onto the bridgehead. From that height, they could take in a wide view of the Peach Blossom Source...

After finishing the photos in his hand, Gong Jiu tapped his foot and leaped onto the highest point of the bridge pier. "Eh, this river is so pretty. What kind of water plants are those down there?"

Strands of graceful, slender waterweed drifted with the current, dotted with little white flowers. With the water so clear you could see the bottom, it was unbelievably beautiful—like top-grade emerald-green jade with drifting snow inside... And it went on for a long stretch, hundreds of meters on both sides all the same. If not for so many people having their attention on those so-called Spirit Coffins up ahead, they would probably have come back long ago to admire the view...

Nie Wanqing was already admiring it. Standing on the bridge, she looked down and saw those softly glowing, gently waving jade-green water plants, and couldn’t help but smile.

"It really is beautiful..."

Her words suddenly carried a hint of hesitation, and then her expression changed slightly. "That’s..."

As her face changed, Ye Zixu heard her and was just about to rush over...

Whoosh!

Suddenly, a sharp black shadow shot out from under the water. It burst up from below, carrying a terrifyingly powerful Inner Strength, whipping up waves as it went. It was very long, a deep emerald green, like a thick Green Snake lunging out from beneath the water toward the bridge...

Too strong, too fast!

At that moment, the three Family Heads including Mo Du, as well as Yi Dao and the rest, all looked toward the bridgehead...

The thing leaping up was too fierce, making Zhong Buli, who was right in front of it, have his pupils shrink sharply... Qi Xun under the bridge turned pale with horror, and shot forward, tackling her down...

So that "Green Snake" streaked right over their heads and lunged toward Nie Wanqing, who was just about to come up to help...

That surging Inner Strength wasn’t restrained at all, as if completely berserk.

It carried absolute killing intent...

The Inner Strength smashed toward them, and even before facing it head-on, it was almost enough to crush everyone on the bridge to death.

SSS peak!

And at its most berserk state...

In that instant.

Those daring enough to rush over as streaks of light only saw a flash of white weaving out from the Peach Forest, moving so fast it whipped up a flurry of falling petals....

Zhong Buli, knocked to the ground, didn’t have time to see the lingering relief on her fiancé’s face before she saw that "Green Snake" twisting overhead—and right beside its head, there was suddenly a person.

Her clothes were white as snow, her belt fluttering, peach blossoms spinning around her...

That one hand just tugged and yanked at the "Green Snake’s neck"...

Rip!

The thick "Green Snake" had a layer of "skin" torn off in an instant. The Inner Strength dissipated the moment she pulled, then her fingers came together, as if forming a milky-white, Inner-Strength-condensed giant hand. She grabbed the snake’s head and neck and gave it a fling; that domineering, killing-intent-drenched "Green Snake" was tossed like a little bug straight onto the riverbank beneath the bridge, where it slammed into the ground and gouged out a pit that filled with a lot of water and water plants.

Green Snake?

After molting, it’s just a human!

But did anyone care about him right now?

No!

Did anyone care that there was suddenly a Mr. Tao beside this "Green Snake"?

No!

By rights, even though Mr. Tao’s looks weren’t stunning, his bearing and presence were such that even a talent like Ye Zixu couldn’t outshine him, yet the moment this woman appeared, he was completely... insta-reduced to slag!

Didn’t even get to be a background prop!

Directly turned into thin air!

As that person in white robes stepped onto the stone pier, holding a large bunch of water plants in her hand, she gazed thoughtfully at them, while everyone else just stared at her in a daze.

Not only did familiar faces like Gong Jiu and the rest stare dumbfounded, even a hundred-plus meters away, Chu Muzhe and Yue Beiqing, who had been inspecting those Spirit Coffins, turned their heads and froze for a moment.

The Master of Sui Tang Square was a beauty—this was something everyone in every circle had to acknowledge.

But few had ever seen her in ancient-style clothing, and even fewer had seen her in white robes.

If a gentleman in snow-white garments could be described as jade-like, then she, in snow-white robes with tassels swaying, was like an unfurled Peerless landscape painting: dashing mountains and rivers, flourishing flowers and brocade-like splendor—all poured into that single body of white, that hint of lip color, that one glance, vivid and complete.

Ah~~ so the Peach Blossom Source really is just a background?