Chapter 924 - 9: Don’t Call Me Miss, Call Me Sister (Third Update)

Chapter 924: Chapter 9: Don’t Call Me Miss, Call Me Sister (Third Update)

Mu Qingge stood outside the Little Heavenly Domain, holding in her hand the Token that Zhuang Shan had given her back then. The Token had already been activated. That meant that from this moment on, she had half a year to search for Huan Yue Domain.

And then—

"First I need to find a way to become one of the top ten disciples before the hall of Huan Yue Domain. With that identity, it’ll be much more convenient to act in the future." Mu Qingge said to herself in her heart.

Putting the Token away, Mu Qingge took out the Qiankun Bag that Feng Xing had given her.

To go to Huan Yue Domain, the first thing she needed to know was where exactly Huan Yue Domain lay within East Divine Land.

Sending her Divine Sense into it, Mu Qingge easily opened the Qiankun Bag and took out the map of East Divine Land. As for the Divine Jade and Elixirs inside, she did not even spare them a glance.

Because she really looked down on the three pieces of Low Grade Divine Jade in the bag. The Divine Jade she had brought out from the Primordial Venerable Tomb was of a quality countless times better than these, and there was plenty of it. As for the Elixirs, she herself was a Holy Level Alchemist—how could she possibly care about some Huan Yue Domain Elixirs?

She had just examined it: that Elixir was nothing more than a Treasure Level Elixir.

Mu Qingge unfolded the map of East Divine Land and immediately saw the place marked as Huan Yue Domain on the map. It wasn’t that her eyesight was especially sharp, but that the location labeled Huan Yue Domain on the map was encircled in red; it would have been hard not to notice it. After finding Huan Yue Domain, Mu Qingge looked for her own current position.

When she found the three characters "Little Heavenly Domain" on the map, the distance between the two made her involuntarily widen her eyes and suck in a breath of cold air.

There were actually several hundred thousand li between these two places!

"No wonder! No wonder Huan Yue Domain gave half a year. Leaving aside whether any accidents might happen over the course of this hundreds of thousands of li journey—even if everything went smoothly and I walked day and night without rest, it would still take half a year to reach Huan Yue Domain. This trial really isn’t as simple as it sounds!"

Mu Qingge sighed inwardly, then quietly put the map away. With her photographic memory, she had already etched the contents of the entire map into her mind.

"Since time is tight, then I’d better get moving." Mu Qingge murmured softly, quickly advancing forward.

According to the markings on the map, the place she needed to go to now was a Mortal town called "Tianya Residence." So‑called Mortals were, as Zhuang Shan had mentioned, those born without Divine Status. They were likewise born on the Divine Land; even without Divine Status and unable to Cultivate, their lifespans were still longer than those of people from the Lower Realm—any one of them could easily live a thousand years. And among the Mortal population, they did not fall into despair; instead, they themselves developed a kind of cultivation method called Body Technique.

This "Body Technique," as the name implied, was a method of tempering the body to gain strength far surpassing that of ordinary Mortals, though the gap compared to a Divine was still considerable.

It sounded somewhat similar to the Demon Clan’s Body Refining Technique, but in essence it was different.

The Demon Clan’s Body Refining Technique tempered tendons, bones, skin, blood, and flesh, turning one’s body into the toughest Weapon. The Mortals on the Divine Land who practiced Body Technique, however, focused more on tempering reaction, speed, and strength.

By Mu Qingge’s understanding, this Body Technique was very similar to the martial arts world in the memories of her previous life.

The reason to go to Tianya Residence was that it was a place to resupply, the first stop to truly get to know East Divine Land, and also a place that every person who ascended into East Divine Land must pass through. Within Tianya Residence there was a place called Tianya Haijiao Pavilion; Mu Qingge needed to go there to register her name, proving that she had already entered East Divine Land and now counted as a person of East Divine Land.

The distance between the Little Heavenly Domain and Tianya Residence was roughly a thousand li.

If she used Little Cai as transport, she could arrive in an instant. However, as a newcomer, Mu Qingge did not want to draw too much attention. So she chose to go under her own power.

Once at Fifth Layer of Spirit Void Realm and above, one could fly through the air.

At this moment Mu Qingge’s feet were lightly treading on nothing, continuously Instant Teleporting through the sky, appearing a full li away with each jump. To reach Tianya Residence, she only needed a thousand such steps.

...

Three hours later, Mu Qingge landed outside Tianya Residence.

"So this is Tianya Residence?" Mu Qingge lifted her head to look at the enormous signboard, slightly taken aback. This was somewhat different from the Mortal town she had imagined!

In her original imagination, since Tianya Residence was a Mortal town, it should be much like those cities of Linchuan, or the cities in the Middle Ancient Realm.

Like Luodu... like Luoxing City...

With towering, magnificent walls, wide city gates, troops standing guard, and streams of people flowing in and out.

Yet what appeared before her eyes, aside from a huge and casually hung plaque, was only a single hole. The opening was not large, barely enough for one person to enter or exit.

Unwilling to accept it, Mu Qingge looked around again, confirming once more that she had not taken the wrong road.

This really was Tianya Residence.

She did not know why, but after she came out of the Ascension Well, she suddenly understood the script of the Divine Clan, which had delighted her. While she was in seclusion in the Little Heavenly Domain, she had taken out the Divine Clan characters she had discovered earlier in the small world, only to find that she still could not read them. Mengmeng had told her that although those were indeed Divine Clan characters, they were far more ancient than the current Divine Clan script, so it was normal that she could not understand them.

Mu Qingge immediately understood.

It was just like how she had been literate in her previous life, yet could not read pictographs or oracle‑bone inscriptions—it was the same principle.

After repeatedly confirming that this was indeed Tianya Residence, Mu Qingge took a deep breath and slipped into the hole. She seemed to walk a short distance inside the tunnel, and when she emerged from it, her vision suddenly opened up. The sun was bright, and the noisy clamor of a marketplace reached her ears.

Mu Qingge stood where she was, blinking at the scene that unfolded before her.

She had not expected that crawling out of that hole would lead into a town that did not feel unfamiliar at all. People were coming and going here in great numbers; it was very lively. The various vendors were shouting out their goods, doing their best to hawk them. Restaurants, teahouses, medical halls, clothing shops, smithies, rouge and powder shops... all manner of necessities for daily life were available.

Moreover, the smiles on people’s faces were all very genuine, coming from the depths of their hearts, as if they were wholly satisfied with the life they had here.

Mu Qingge noticed that most of the people moving about here were Mortals; there was not the slightest ripple of Divine Power on their bodies. And when they looked at her, they were not particularly shocked...

Wrong! It would be more accurate to say that they were more stunned by her beauty than surprised.

What amazed them more was Mu Qingge’s appearance, not her identity as a Divine.

Clearly, they had long since grown used to this environment where Divines and Mortals lived side by side, and they also knew that there were Divines who ascended from the Little Heavenly Domain.

"Hey, newcomer." Suddenly, a not‑so‑courteous shout sounded by Mu Qingge’s ear.

Mu Qingge followed the sound and easily saw, beside the mouth of the tunnel, a head poking out from a small hut built on a towering tree.

That head...

Uh, gotta say, the way that head poked out was a bit comical.

His head was very shiny, with very little hair. Yet there just had to be a tiny tuft drooping down from the crown, sticking to the space between his brows. Broad forehead, pointed chin, bulging eyes, flat nose bridge—sticking his head out from the round window of the treehouse, he inexplicably looked extremely similar to some kind of "turtle-like" creature.

"Pfft."

Mu Qingge couldn’t hold it in and burst out laughing.

The man, completely unaware, rubbed his bald head and asked, "What are you laughing at?" He gave Mu Qingge a once-over and asked, "Are you a Mortal, or a Divine who ascended from the Lower Realm?"

His words made Mu Qingge rein in her amusement. She carefully studied him and found no fluctuation of Divine Power from his body—he was just a Mortal.

"I just came from the Little Heaven Domain," Mu Qingge replied.

That answer was already perfectly clear.

The man nodded knowingly. He drew his head back in, and Mu Qingge heard him rummaging around inside the treehouse for a while. Then his head popped back out, and he directly tossed something toward Mu Qingge.

Mu Qingge raised her hand to catch it and found that it was another Token.

Only, the words written on this Token were "Pass Permit."

"Take this Pass Permit and go up ahead to find Tianya Sea-Corner Pavilion for registration. Use the Pass Permit to exchange for your identity certificate," the man said to Mu Qingge.

Mu Qingge inclined her head. "Many thanks."

Holding that Pass Permit whose material she couldn’t identify, Mu Qingge walked deeper into Tianya Residence. Gradually, she realized this Mortal town seemed to have been built in a hollow surrounded by mountain ridges.

That cave entrance was the only way in and out.

Only...

Out of professional habit, Mu Qingge couldn’t help thinking to herself: "Leaving only one entrance and exit does make defense easier, but what if something goes wrong inside? That one entrance, which is the lifeline for escape, might also become an accomplice to the killers."

She shook her head and chuckled softly. All of a sudden, she felt that the warlike genes that had gone dormant in her body after that big fight with the Divine Hall seemed to be showing signs of waking up.

And, she had fought the Divine Hall for half a year—who knew whether the Divine Land knew about it?

Mu Qingge narrowed her eyes slightly and quickly dismissed the thought. If she had been locked onto by some force in the Divine Land, Si Mo wouldn’t keep it from her.

"Could it be that those two guys never got the chance to report everything to the Divine Land?" Mu Qingge speculated inwardly.

She didn’t know that her guess was already infinitely close to the truth.

Back then, when Zibo and Yugong discovered that the Power of Faith had gone wrong, they rushed to the Divine Hall at once. Only after they arrived did they learn about her from the Divine Venerable.

And the Heaven-Burning Furnace was the only Pill Furnace that could refine a Supreme Pill King. Zibo and Yugong wanted to claim it for themselves, so they never reported this news up. Most importantly, when the forces on the West Divine Land noticed something was off, they already knew Zibo and Yugong had gone down, so they didn’t send anyone else.

Perhaps the forces on the West Divine Land thought it was nothing more than a trivial matter, never imagining that their negligence and oversight would lead to the complete destruction of the Divine Hall, the passage down being sealed, and everything related to Mu Qingge failing to be passed up.

Of course, it’s not impossible that some other person who ascended from the Middle Ancient Realm had mentioned this matter. It’s just that, for now, none of this was within Mu Qingge’s scope of concern.

At this moment, she was standing in front of Tianya Sea-Corner Pavilion... um... in line...

Yes, that’s right. In line!

Mu Qingge looked at the long, winding line stretching out ahead of her, and by rough estimate there were still more than twenty people in front of her. She couldn’t help but twitch the corner of her mouth.

She inwardly griped, "So many people have ascended recently?" The Middle Ancient Realm wasn’t the only passage by which one could ascend to the Divine Demon Continent.

Like the branches of a tree, the Divine Demon Continent was the branch, and there were many sub-branches on it, with many leaves on those sub-branches.

The leaves were equivalent to the Linchuan Realm, and the sub-branches were equivalent to the Middle Ancient Realm.

Tianya Sea-Corner Pavilion was very easy to find. After all, Tianya Residence wasn’t big, and the pavilion was particularly conspicuous...

Mu Qingge stood at the end of the line, not disturbing anyone, maintaining a low profile.

However—

"Oh~! Where did this handsome little gentleman come from? You’ve practically dazzled big sis’s eyes! Big sis’s little heart is just thumping and thumping away."

The affected, saccharine tone made Mu Qingge’s skin crawl.

She turned her gaze toward the speaker and saw a peacock dressed in gaudy finery pouncing toward her. Calling her a peacock was mainly because her getup was so similar, but she had nothing to do with the Demon Clan—she was a Mortal who hadn’t cultivated Divine Status.

"You mean me?" Mu Qingge, suppressing the nauseating scent of powder, pointed at herself.

Her exchange with this ageless "peacock" immediately drew the attention of several people in front of her; they all turned their eyes over.

When they saw her, they were stunned for a moment, but once they saw the "peacock," their eyes turned contemptuous. They withdrew their gaze and continued lining up.

Mu Qingge noted these people’s expressions—not because she was particularly observant, but because they were utterly unrestrained. The "peacock" naturally sensed it too, but she didn’t care in the least.

She curled her fingers delicately, waving a handkerchief in front of Mu Qingge’s nose. The pungent powder scent nearly made Mu Qingge choke. "Oh my, who else would I be calling if not you! Look around—besides you, who here could possibly deserve the word handsome in big sis’s eyes?"

Mu Qingge’s mouth twitched as she asked, "Miss, what do you need from me?"

"Don’t call me Miss, call me big sis!" The "peacock" corrected her, dissatisfied.