Chapter 1812 - 1413: Even the Dragon’s Den and Tiger’s Lair Must Be Braved!

Gu Changsheng really did have a bit of a headache, because she had never planned on going to any Blessing Grand Festival in the first place!

Just looking at how all the inns in the Tashi Tribe main city were packed to the brim, you could tell how unprecedentedly grand this Blessing Grand Festival was; only if she were really bored out of her mind would she go join that kind of lively crowd!

However, with what Landuoer had said already, it seemed that aside from going to participate in the Blessing Grand Festival, she truly had no other way to meet Ta You!

After all, Ta You, the spirit communicator, was her ultimate goal for this trip to the Tashi, and if she couldn’t see him, wouldn’t Gu Changsheng have come all this way for nothing?

So, she had no choice!

If she wanted to see Ta You, she had to take part in the Blessing Grand Festival; in that case, she might as well hurry and use the time while Landuoer was still in the main city to pry out some insider information!

Once this village is gone, there won’t be this shop again—Gu Changsheng was no fool!

"The Star Innate Tower is a Forbidden Land of the Tashi Tribe. Even my Father King only ascends the tower once a year, and he has to be led by an attendant sent by Ta You. Everyone who participates in the Blessing Grand Festival each year refuses to say a word about what exactly happens inside the Star Innate Tower. Our Royal Family once sent people to ask around; those who managed to walk out of the Star Innate Tower alive only remember which floor they ultimately reached, and as for the rest, they remember nothing at all!" Landuoer thought for a bit and still chose to tell the truth!

Ta You was the spirit communicator of their Tashi Tribe, and among all the tribes in the Southwestern North Mongol, even in the whole Northern Mongolian region, he was a figure held in reverence. This wasn’t the Tashi Tribe hyping him up on purpose; it was simply that Ta You himself was like that—impossible to see through, impossible to figure out, eerie as a Ghost!

When Gu Changsheng heard what Landuoer said, she immediately widened her eyes, staring at her in disbelief, and asked in shock, "What do you mean? What do you mean they don’t remember? Are you saying Ta You can erase people’s memories or something?"

Even though this sounded a bit bizarre and fantastical, Gu Changsheng just so happened to have experienced something like this once before!

In Linyuan City, when she and her own evildoer chose Demon Fall to escape from the shackles of the Nine-Layer Heavens Thunder Punishment, Little Monk Bu Jie had used a supreme secret technique, causing everyone present to lose their memories of that period of time!

Killing someone is easy, but not killing them and still making them forget a specific stretch of memory—that’s not so easy!

Gu Changsheng didn’t know what method Little Monk Bu Jie had used back then, but now, she had actually run into another person who could do such a thing!

"Yes. Although the Star Innate Tower was built by the Royal Family for Ta You, we actually don’t know what the situation inside the Star Innate Tower is like. In fact, aside from Ta You and one of his attendants, not even members of the Royal Family have been inside the Star Innate Tower!" Landuoer nodded, speaking with absolute certainty.

Hearing this, Gu Changsheng couldn’t help turning her head to look at Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue; the three of them exchanged glances.

What Landuoer said basically meant that if they wanted to meet Ta You, they would have to ascend that Star Innate Tower that Landuoer herself was extremely wary of?

Gu Changsheng had already been amazed by the height of the Star Innate Tower when she first entered the Tashi Tribe main city. Now, her brows were tightly furrowed, and she felt a bit uneasy.

That pitch-black tower was an eye-catching presence, but from the sound of it, getting up there wasn’t going to be easy!

Borjigin Nian’s old man, just what kind of person did you pick to safeguard the map of the second Cold Iron Key!

This was basically坑姐—totally screwing your big sis over!

Gu Changsheng was full of resentment!

She waved a hand at Landuoer. "Didn’t you say you’re heading to the front lines of the two armies right away? Go on then. As for going to see Ta You, we’ll think of our own way!"

It seemed that this was as far as Landuoer could help her.

Gu Changsheng liked dealing with smart people. Clearly, Landuoer was a smart one, and not the kind who liked to fool herself!

Since she’d said that besides the Blessing Grand Festival there was no other way to get on the tower, then that meant there really was no other way.

Hearing this, Landuoer nodded and was about to head out, but when she reached the doorway she stopped again, turned back, and looked at Gu Changsheng thoughtfully. "My Father King said that Ta You had someone pass down a message from the tower, saying that the person he’d been waiting for has arrived, so he doesn’t wish to be disturbed. Ta You has been confined to that tall tower for fifteen years now. I think the person he’s waiting for might be you all!"

Landuoer said this as a guess, and from what her own Father King had said, it really did seem likely that the person Ta You was waiting for was this woman and her party in front of her!

The Southern Emperor, whose prestige crowned the world, the undisputed overlord of the Central Plains—only someone with her kind of status, her kind of person, would catch Ta You’s eye, right?

Hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s brows knitted even tighter. She looked at Landuoer and said, "What do you mean? You’re saying Ta You knew I would come to see him?"

"Perhaps..." Landuoer nodded. "Ta You has been able to communicate with spirits since childhood, knowing the past and the future. It wouldn’t be surprising if he knew you were coming to see him."

"..." Gu Changsheng was a bit speechless at that.

So that Ta You is really someone like her own Little Monk Bu Jie?

She just didn’t know yet what kind of person he actually was!

"Also, he said the person he’s been waiting for is coming, so he’s preparing things to receive his guest, you all... need to be careful..." Landuoer pondered for a moment, then still spoke honestly, "Ta You is not someone easy to get along with. He’s icy cold, extremely indifferent, and also pretty damn eerie!"

Gu Changsheng’s mouth twitched as she watched Landuoer toss out that line and then turn around to leave. She really wanted to rush up, drag Landuoer back, and give her a good beating!

"Damn it, what the hell does that last sentence she threw out mean? Is she saying the ones Ta You is waiting for are us? And he’s getting the ingredients ready to ’treat’ us?" Gu Changsheng raised her hand, pointing at Landuoer’s departing back, and said helplessly.

"Miss, I think that’s exactly what she meant!" At the side, Yuan Bao nodded fawningly in agreement.

The corner of Gu Changsheng’s eye twitched. She immediately turned her head and glared at Yuan Bao. "Do I need you to think?"

Damn it, that’s obviously what it means, okay?

Like Landuoer said, if Ta You really has the ability to know the past and the future, then their group coming specifically to find him is something Ta You had probably sensed long ago!

Yet, even though he knew they were coming to see him, he actually spread word that he wouldn’t receive visitors, and even said he was preparing things to receive guests. If that’s not a threat, what is?

What’s more, Gu Changsheng even suspected that Ta You actually knew the scar on her body had been tampered with by Borjigin Nian’s father!

After all, someone like Ta You has an almost negligible chance of being plotted against!

If so, there’s only one possibility: he knows the entire truth, but is just playing dumb while fully aware!

And he doesn’t particularly want to see her!

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have said he wouldn’t receive visitors!

"If I’m not mistaken, since he doesn’t want to see us, this nine-story tower might really not be that easy to climb!" Gu Changsheng frowned. The news Landuoer brought was truly an absolute piece of bad news!

Spirit communicators, those favored by the heavens—Gu Changsheng didn’t know many, and as for those she’d actually met, all added up there was only Little Monk Bu Jie!

But just that one Little Monk Bu Jie was already enough to make Gu Changsheng look at him with new eyes!

He was basically a ferocious existence with cheats turned on. How could ordinary people possibly fight that?

Setting aside how this Ta You compares to Little Monk Bu Jie in terms of actual ability, just the fact that both are heaven-favored spirit communicators was enough to make Gu Changsheng extremely wary!

"How is it hard to climb? Isn’t it just going up the tower? If we can’t climb that Star Innate Tower, we’ll just knock it down. I refuse to believe that if the tower falls, Ta You will still not come down!" Seeing his Miss’s worried face, Yuan Bao couldn’t help but wave his big hand, speaking with heroic spirit to comfort her.

"Pa!"

The next instant, a palm landed square on Yuan Bao’s forehead.

Gu Changsheng looked at Yuan Bao with a face full of bitter disappointment and said, utterly speechless, "Are you stupid? Never mind that the Star Innate Tower is cast from copper and iron and is indestructible—just look at how tall it is. If you topple that Star Innate Tower, do you have any idea how many people it would crush to death? The Chief of Tashi and Landuoer have kept quiet about who we are because they’re playing the confusion card. That way, even if Borjigin Nian loses out in the Imperial Family turmoil, their Tashi Tribe won’t face extermination. Are you trying to force them onto our ship so they can’t get off?"

Yuan Bao rubbed his smacked head, looking dumbfounded and at a loss for words.

"Tashi Tribe is already this prosperous and powerful, dominating the Southwestern North Mongol. No matter who ends up in power, it’ll be hard to shake their position. Yuan Bao, you need to understand, we don’t have anything more we can offer them. Even if in the future Borjigin Nian becomes Empress of Northern Mongolian, Tashi Tribe will still only be what it is now; it’s impossible for them to grow even stronger. Even so, for the sake of this niece Borjigin Nian, they’re willing to hold back the army coming from the Royal City. Going that far is already benevolent and righteous enough. We have no reason to demand more from them!" As Gu Changsheng spoke, she also shook her head.

She had always disdained scheming and intrigue, all those power games. But it just so happened she saw through them all quite clearly. The prosperity and strength of the Tashi Tribe had already become something that aroused the Imperial Family’s wariness. If not for this, Borjigin Nian’s father wouldn’t have married Talan Zhu, the eldest daughter of Tashi. This was the way of marriage alliances and checks and balances!

"Miss is still the amazing one, Yuan Bao understands now!" Yuan Bao’s eyes sparkled as he looked at Gu Changsheng. He blinked his big eyes and said, "Then what should we do now? Really go participate in the Star Innate Tower climbing at the blessing festival?"

Gu Changsheng shrugged, glanced at her own evildoer, then at Shi Wujue, and said, "Other than climbing the tower, it seems we don’t have any better option! This nine-story Star Innate Tower, even if it’s a Dragon’s Den and Tiger’s Lair, we can only charge in!"

Since Ta You had already set up the board and was just waiting for them to retreat in the face of difficulties, how could she, Gu Changsheng, possibly give in to him so easily?