Mu Lin looked at the shriveled petals, which looked as sad as dried blood. Although there was no sun in the underworld, there were ever-changing winds, so these flowers were dried in the shade and their fragrance was already very faint.
Mu Lin said from behind her: "You forgot to mix a few celery seeds into the red spider lily. The red spider lily becomes brittle and breaks easily."
Qian Xi was shocked and immediately took a few steps back, looking at Mu Lin warily: "Who are you? What is your purpose in breaking into a private house?"
Mu Lin looked at her calmly: "Sister Qianxi, don't you recognize me? I am Lin'er..."
"Lin'er? Who?" Qian Xi was stunned and became even more alert: "Even if you know my name, don't mislead me. I don't know you... Wait, I remember, you are the little ghost who came to the underworld yesterday! You sneaked in, I will capture you and send you to the Yama Palace for sentencing!"
Qianxi looks gentle and lovely, but people who are familiar with her know that she has a hot temper.
Qian Xi was about to take action when Mu Lin suddenly smiled at her: "You can't beat me."
She acted too calm and composed, Qianxi became wary instead. She hesitated for a moment and did not make a move. Then she saw Mu Lin sitting down casually and said leisurely, "Meng Qianxi, you picked the red spider lily privately, which is a serious crime in the underworld."
How could a great Meng Po be threatened by a ghost with unknown origin? Qian Xi got angry and stared at her with a sneer: "That is not as serious as the crime of a ghost with unknown origin like you trespassing into the underworld! If you surrender obediently, I will save some effort. Otherwise, I will throw you into the eighteenth level of hell and let you suffer so much that you would rather die than live!"
After that, Qian Xi started to act. A cold light flashed in Qian Xi's hand, and a thin sword came straight to meet Mu Lin. Mu Lin dodged while continuing to speak: "Qian Xi, have you forgotten the first Hades Yun Yan?"
"Shut up! The late King of Hell has passed away long ago, how dare you mention his name directly, how outrageous!" Qian Xi's attack became more fierce, but Mu Lin still dodged with ease.
She didn't want to confront Qian Xi head-on.
"Qian Xi, have you forgotten that he died because you betrayed him, but you don't dare to listen to me mention it?"
When did she betray Hades? It was inexplicable!
Qian Xi raised her eyebrows, and she actually stuck her sword on the table, crossed her arms and looked at her: "Anyway, I can't beat you, I want to hear you say a flower!"
Mu Lin sighed and sat on the table: "Don't you remember Mu Lin, the daughter of the previous Hades?"
"Princess Mu Lin died a long time ago. Are you trying to tell me that you are her? How dare you pretend to be the princess of our underworld? I won't believe you!"
"Died young?" Mu Lin looked strange.
"Everyone in the underworld knows that when His Majesty the King of Hell passed away ten thousand years ago, the princess died of grief... If you dare to mention the royal family of our underworld again, even if I can't beat you, I will fight you to the death!"
Mu Lin: “…”
How come she didn't know that this was how she died
Qianxi obviously didn't listen to her, so Mu Lin didn't waste any more words. The two immortals clashed with their short blades. Qianxi underestimated Mu Lin's strength and was captured in a few moves. Mu Lin tied Qianxi to a chair and stuffed a handkerchief into her mouth.
"Can you listen to me now?"
Qian Xi stared at Mu Lin.
"Whether you believe it or not, I am Mu Lin, the princess of the Hades who was captured in the great war between the immortals and the underworld ten thousand years ago. Qian Xi, have you forgotten that the Queen of the Underworld gave me to you when she left, and it was you who sent me back to the Palace of the King of Hell. You have made all my clothes since I was a child, and my favorite is the scarlet pearl gauze skirt. One time I fell and it was torn, so I pestered you to make a new one. The cuffs of the new skirt are longer, and you said that I grow fast, so I can wear it longer this way. I wore it for less than two days before the immortal soldiers invaded the underworld..."
Qian Xi listened to her words with more and more shock in her eyes. For a moment, she even forgot to struggle and listened to her talk about many past events in a daze. She watched the princess grow up, and it was impossible for an outsider to tell all the little details of her life!
When Mu Lin took out a white mandala, Qianxi's tears suddenly fell and her expression became indescribably sad.
Mu Lin took the handkerchief out of her mouth, untied the rope for her, and sighed: "Sister Qianxi, please believe me."
Qian Xi choked up and held her hand: "Are you...really the princess? You're still alive...so good...so good..."
"Sister, just call me Rin'er like before."
"Okay, I... I actually forgot about you... Lin'er, I'm sorry... I don't remember any battle between the immortals and the underworld. It seems that a great disaster happened in the underworld... I lost consciousness. After waking up, they told me that His Majesty the King of Hell made a sacrifice to protect the underworld, and you died in the Jedi... I don't believe it... But the underworld lanterns of His Majesty and the Princess in the Snow Burial Palace... The White Dove Palace opened a mausoleum for His Majesty and you, and I have been guarding your cenotaph for so many years..."
"It's okay, I'm back." Mu Lin hugged Qian Xi, smelled the familiar scent of the red spider lily on her body, sighed and patted her back.
When Qianxi's emotions finally calmed down, Mu Lin asked, "Sister Qianxi, do you remember what the great disaster was?"
Qian Xi pondered for a moment, and just when he was about to remember something, he suddenly hugged his head, his body shaking like a sieve, his expression twisted in pain.
"My head hurts! Ahhh! Whenever I think about what happened back then, my head hurts terribly!"
Mu Lin quickly comforted her: "Don't think about it, let's not think about it, it's okay, it's okay, Sister Qianxi... relax... don't think about it..."
Qianxi's chest rose and fell violently, and it took a long time for him to calm down. His pale face was full of apology: "I'm sorry, Lin'er, I really can't remember... Every time I think about these things, I get a splitting headache..."
Mu Lin was not that disappointed: "It doesn't matter, I will figure it out sooner or later. Sister Qianxi, tell me about the changes in the underworld over the past ten thousand years."
"Okay." Qian Xi agreed immediately, but he didn't know where to start, and his face was a little confused. "When I woke up, Lord Hei told me that His Majesty and you had both passed away... I didn't believe it, so I rushed into the Snow Burial Palace with several other ghost fairies, but I saw that His Majesty's dark lamp was dim..."
Lord Hei is the respectful name given by ghosts to Black Impermanence Fan Wushe. As the lost master of the underworld, it is not surprising for Mu Lin that he takes on the responsibility.
The Snow Burial Palace enshrines the Hades Lanterns of the Hades clan. The Lanterns are similar to the oil lamps in the human world, but the fuel is a wisp of soul from the Hades immortal. When the lamp goes out, the soul is lost.
"Where is my ghost lamp?" She is still alive and well, so it is impossible that her ghost lamp has also gone out, right
Qian Xi hesitated and said, "When we arrived at the Snow Burial Palace, your Dark Lamp had already been... shattered into dust."
Mu Lin smiled bitterly and said, "Maybe the hellish power in my body exploded and affected the dark lamp..."
The Dark Lantern was extremely far away from the battlefield. Mu Lin himself did not believe this guess, but Qianxi did not suspect it. She did not even know the main battlefield, which showed that she had no impression of the battle between the Immortals and the Dark World.
"I didn't expect that we ghosts would be unconscious for five hundred years. The dysfunction of the underworld caused chaos in the human world, but fortunately the evil ghosts in hell did not escape. Then, under the leadership of Lord Hei, the underworld officials were busy all the time and finally restored order. Not long after, the fairy world appointed a new underworld king named Zijian. The underworld was in a period of disrepair and the new king gradually demonstrated his governance ability, and the spirits gradually accepted him."
"Appointed by the Immortal Realm?" The Underworld has always been independent of the Immortal Realm, and the relationship between the two is equal. What qualifications does the Immortal Realm have to appoint a Pluto
Qian Xi sighed and explained the reason: "The new Hades has a part of Hades blood in his body. He lit his own Hades lamp, so Lord Hei chose to submit to him."
After his father passed away, Fan Wushe had supreme prestige, and it was not surprising that all the spirits in the underworld followed him to submit to the new king. Mu Lin had some doubts that Fan Wushe's submission might not be that simple. She knew very well that Fan Wushe was her father's confidant, the kind of person who would risk his life for him.
After all, it’s hard to tell what he’s really thinking... I wonder if he understands the hint on the table
"Tell me more about the changes in the underworld..."
In the next hour, Mu Lin had a certain understanding of the current situation of the underworld and the new underworld prince Zijian. The structure of the underworld has not changed much compared to before, and some monitoring posts from the fairy world have been added. Zijian is not a person who does everything himself. Although he arranges things in an orderly manner, he stays in the underworld palace all year round and rarely shows up. Qianxi has only seen him a few times. He is a young male immortal with a refined and handsome appearance, and his cultivation level is unknown.
Mu Lin will meet him sooner or later.
Qian Xi hesitated and said, "What you have experienced over the years..." Qian Xi couldn't help but feel distressed when he thought about how much suffering the little princess, who was held in the palm of the hand of the entire underworld, had endured outside.
"People from the fairy world took me away and imprisoned me in the Yintian Tower for ten thousand years..." Mu Lin recounted the incident briefly, subconsciously concealing the identity of her master, saying only that he was a reclusive fairy.
After explaining everything, Mu Lin was about to leave. Qian Xi held her hand and said sincerely: "If there is anything I can do, please tell me. Just use a psylocke to pass messages to me like you did when we were kids... You must be careful."
"Don't worry, sister. I won't act rashly."
Qianxi found some gray and black robes from the suitcase and gave them to Mu Lin to help her disguise herself in the underworld.
"Mr. Hei is now the confidant of Hades, and Mr. Bai is gone. I'm afraid it's hard to say what his attitude is towards the lineage of the former Hades... If you want to take back power, now is not the time..."
Qian Xi's words were euphemistic. With Mu Lin's current strength, it would be difficult for him to compete with Zi Jian and the fairyland behind him. Moreover, the previous Hades had been dead for so long, it was hard to say how many people were loyal to his daughter.
Mu Lin naturally understood this truth. She felt warm at the sight of Qian Xi who was worried, and chuckled, "My purpose of this trip is not to seize power, so don't worry, sister."
Finally, Mu Lin left the small bamboo house under Qian Xi's eyes. She hesitated for a while whether to go to Xie's house or crawl through the dog hole to enter Fan's house. Climbing through the dog hole twice a day was also a great challenge for her, so she decided to go back to Xie's house first to digest the news.
As her only safe place in the underworld, Xie's house had not changed much since she left. Mu Lin sighed and walked back and forth in the east wing with his hands behind his back.