Free Web NovelChapter 1256: Chapter 1256: I Really Didn’t Expect You Could Talk
A ruo’s face instantly turned deathly pale.
Before she could explain, Yuanqing Immortal Monarch had already reached out to push the door.
With two loud bangs, he pushed very hard.
"A ruo, why did you even lock the door?" Yuanqing Immortal Monarch spoke as he gathered energy into his palm.
From the look of it, he was about to smash the door and force his way in!
With a sharp crack, the door made of Divine Wood splintered completely.
Star Lord Yuan Qing walked in with two Heavenly Soldiers.
His eyes were gloomy and vicious as he swept his gaze around the room.
A ruo had already been frightened into falling to the ground.
And inside the room, aside from her, there was not a second person.
Star Lord Yuan Qing cast his Mana to search, but came up with nothing.
His chilling, icy gaze once again fell on A ruo.
"A ruo." Star Lord Yuan Qing crouched down with a beaming smile, but his eyes were extremely cold. "Tell me, who were you talking to just now?"
A ruo’s lips trembled slightly. "I..."
Star Lord Yuan Qing pressed her again, "Why are you so terrified? Could it be that you discovered someone who shouldn’t be here?"
A ruo lowered her lashes, her whole body shaking with fear.
"No..."
Just after she spoke, a childlike voice suddenly rang out from behind Star Lord Yuan Qing—
"Stop pestering her already. All right, I admit it, it was me suddenly speaking that scared her."
Star Lord Yuan Qing turned his head, staring in shock at the talking Golden Osmanthus.
He looked left and right. The osmanthus swayed its flowering branches. "No need to keep looking, you didn’t mishear. It really is me, Little Guihua, talking."
Star Lord Yuan Qing came back to himself and let out a cold laugh. "All the flowers and plants by Your Majesty’s side have truly received her favor; their Cultivation is so rapid they can even speak human tongue."
"I don’t just speak human tongue, I even speak it better than you. You don’t know how to talk like a decent human at all."
The little Golden Osmanthus seemed somewhat displeased with Star Lord Yuan Qing’s tone. Two of its branches bent slightly, like hands on its hips.
It lowered its blossoms toward A ruo’s direction. "You’ve all taken care of me for so long; in fact, I awakened my intelligence and could talk a long time ago."
"It’s just that I didn’t want to suddenly start talking, because I was afraid you’d move me away. Better to pretend to be an ordinary plant and drink delicious Star River Water every day."
"I didn’t expect that when I saw A ruo feeling low just now and asked what was wrong, she’d suddenly be startled out of her wits."
Having found no suspicious person, and confirming it was the little Golden Osmanthus speaking, Star Lord Yuan Qing gave a cold snort and left with his soldiers.
Before leaving, he did not forget to warn A ruo that she must not harbor anyone.
Only when Star Lord Yuan Qing’s figure had completely vanished within the immortal palace did A ruo close the door and collapse weakly to the floor.
She let out a breath and looked toward the osmanthus. "Little Guihua, thank you. Otherwise I truly wouldn’t have known what to do."
"But that you could talk—I really didn’t see that coming!"
The Golden Osmanthus spread two branches, a bit helpless.
"I didn’t want to either, but I had to cover for you. Otherwise, I could’ve kept up the act for another five hundred years."
"Anyway, hurry and check the wardrobe. Why hasn’t that black bear made a sound? Did it suffocate?"
A ruo hastily got to her feet and walked to the side of the wardrobe.
The reason Star Lord Yuan Qing’s Mana hadn’t discovered Lu Wang hiding here just now was that this wardrobe had once belonged to Jing Jia.
Later it was given to A ruo to use.
Anything related to Jing Jia seemed to carry lingering traces of Mana.
Hiding Lu Wang’s aura was not difficult.
A ruo opened the wardrobe. Inside, that little black bear was still tilting its head, pretending to be a stuffed toy.
It didn’t move at all.
