Mu Lin asked inquiringly, "Don't you blame me for standing by and watching? If I had taken action to control her, when you came, maybe she wouldn't have died."
"Do you really want me to be angry with you? She has already decided to die, it's just a matter of one day sooner or later." Zijian tried to smile, but found that he couldn't laugh at all.
He never knew what a mother who wanted to die was thinking. Even though he resented her for giving birth to him, never treating him well, and now abandoning him, she was still his blood relative and they depended on each other for life. How could he not be sad
The more transparent and frank he was, the more Mu Lin couldn't bear it. She sighed, "I'd rather you vent your anger on me." At least that way he would feel better.
Zijian said slowly: "You did the right thing. This was her own choice. Even if I were here, I couldn't change it."
This mother and son have the same twisted temperament. Mrs. Lu has studied divination and foresight all her life, but she has not changed her own character, let alone her son.
Mu Lin wanted to comfort him a little more, "Zijian..."
He interrupted her, his eyes were so fragile, and he whispered: "Lin'er, you are the only one I have."
Pluto, who rules over billions of lives, has no close friends and lost all his blood relatives today. He became almost alone overnight.
Fortunately, he still has a wife.
Mu Lin walked up to him, hugged him, and comforted him softly: "I will always regard you as my family."
Even though she could not accept Zijian as her husband and give him love, she promised to always regard Zijian as a relative.
Zijian's tense body slowly relaxed, and he hugged her back tightly, with such force that he seemed to knead her into his bones and blood. At this moment, in his heart, he was hugging the whole world.
If this moment is eternity, this life will not be in vain.
In this case, he would not ask anything. Even if she was like the Immortal Emperor and had evidence of his life experience, he had other ways to deal with it.
After a long time, Mu Lin felt her legs were stiff, so she let go of him and held his hand instead. Zi Jian also obediently let her hold his hand.
"How should we deal with Mrs. Lu's funeral?"
Zijian looked at the gray and black cave, and with a wave of his sleeve, the immortal power flowed, and the ashes gathered together and flew into the jade box.
"After some time... I will send her back to the Demon Realm and bury her with Lu Qin." Even if both of them died, Zijian was unwilling to call them father and mother. The old nightmare, the knot in his heart is hard to untie.
"Well, this must be her wish."
Luther loved Luqin all his life. Although they were unable to live in harmony with each other during his lifetime, they were able to sleep in the same grave after his death, which was a kind of perfection.
"Um."
"Speaking of which, you and I are distant relatives."
"I have known for a long time that you and I have the same great-great-grandfather. My great-grandfather is your great-grandfather's half-brother, and you are the daughter of the grandson of my great-grandfather's brother."
Mu Lin felt like he was going to get dizzy, so he thought it over again, "Then you are the son of the grandson of my great-grandfather's brother. I should call you my cousin."
Strictly speaking, Zijian is not a direct descendant, but since all the direct descendants died in the battle between immortals and Hades, only he can take over the throne of Hades.
"Wrong, it's my cousin. I checked your date of birth and it happens that he was born three years earlier than you."
"You know that marriage is forbidden for people with the same surname, but you still marry your cousin. This is incest..."
Mu Lin paused. What she said was not appropriate. Although Zijian's parents were not siblings by blood, they were siblings by law, which could be considered incest. She didn't know if her words would bring back Zijian's sad memories.
Fortunately, Zijian didn't react and looked at her calmly: "After developing to the fifth generation, our blood relationship has become thin, not to mention that Lu Qin has been expelled from the family, so it's okay."
He said this calmly, which showed that Lu Qin's matter had no impact on him, so Mu Lin felt relieved.
"Okay, cousin." She tilted her head and smiled.
After her interruption, Zijian's bad mood improved a little and he touched her head.
"You and I are the couple whose names are engraved on the Three Lives Stone. We are the couple recognized by heaven. There is no need to worry."
Mu Lin thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you go back and rest for a while? I'll help you take charge."
"No need for that. The Yin officials are replaced every few hundred years, and the judges and ministers have also been replaced several times. You are not familiar with them now, so it is difficult for you to lead them."
"Then I will go back to the palace first."
"Go ahead. I'll come see you when I'm done." Zijian said and left.
Even when faced with such a tragic event as the death of his biological mother, he did not forget his responsibilities. Mu Lin increasingly felt that he would be a qualified Pluto.
In the next three months, Zijian never mentioned Madam Lu, but he always wore black clothes to mourn and did not try to consummate his marriage with Mulin. As his daughter-in-law, Mulin also wore black clothes to mourn. There was not much to do in the inner palace, so she focused on cultivation. She secretly searched everywhere in the inner palace, but still could not find any trace of the Queyin Pearl.
Because Zijian became suspicious of Hei Wuchang, she didn't dare to contact him easily. She could only suppress her restlessness and take things slowly.
After Mu Lin's breakthrough on the night of her wedding, she felt that the aura that filled the underworld was mixed with a trace of impurities. This became even clearer after she returned from the Daimo Mountains. She tried to test Zijian, but his reaction was normal, as if this was the evolution of the underworld itself, and there was nothing special about it.
Mu Lin's attitude towards Zi Jian has gradually softened during this period, and since Mu Lin is good at handling affairs, Zi Jian begins to let her handle some matters outside the palace, such as setting up formations to repair damaged areas in a certain level of hell, and judging cases of evil spirits that the ten judges could not agree on... Mu Lin handled them all properly.
Finally, one night when Zijian went to hell, Mu Lin sneaked into Zijian's study. There was a strong ban outside the study, so in order to avoid alerting the enemy, Mu Lin usually did not go in when passing by, but only deduced the magic circle secretly. It was not until today that he was completely sure to crack it that he came here to explore day and night.
The entire Pluto Palace was flawless, and she desperately needed to find some clues and make some breakthroughs. Otherwise, she would be stuck in the inner palace all day long, day after day. When she thought of her master still waiting for her in Yingzhou, she could hardly suppress her irritability.
The study was located in the side hall of the Pluto Palace, where no one was guarding it. Mu Lin stretched out his left hand and made a sword gesture, quickly and accurately attacking the center of the formation. A slight explosion sounded, and Mu Lin looked around cautiously, pushed the door open and entered unimpeded, imitating Zijian's wood spirit power to restart the formation, and there was no flaw from the outside.
It looked like a normal male study room, antique, simple and generous. Mu Lin first simply searched through the books and materials on the desk and bookshelf, but did not find anything special. Then he began to search around for the mechanism array to see if there were any secret boxes or secret rooms hidden.
And then... nothing.
Mu Lin was not discouraged. She thought it was still early, so she simply sat down and drew the astrological array. The star tracks she had painstakingly calculated back then were now easy to draw on paper. After the star tracks took shape under her pen, Mu Lin casually threw a Hu brush from Zijian into the drawing.
The brush disappeared, and the ink that had not yet dried emitted a green luster, slowly seeping through the paper and floating into the air. Mu Lin stood up and looked up, and his mind automatically began to deduce and calculate.
Astrology was too energy-consuming. She only wanted to guess where Zijian hid his treasures, and had no intention of spying on the fate of a Hades. After all, Hades was inextricably linked to the underworld, and the causal variables involved were too great. She might be able to get the result by forcing the guess, but the backlash she would suffer would be beyond her imagination.
The secrets of heaven are not so easy to pry into.
"Underground, destroy..." Mu Lin couldn't see that the magic pattern under her left eye was getting denser. She slowly uttered these four words, and a mouthful of light golden blood suddenly spit out of her mouth.
The ink instantly shattered into dark green ashes, the luster was extinguished, and it fell dimly without a trace.
Mu Lin held onto the table, put his other hand on his chest, and gasped violently.
She had not expected to encounter such a strong backlash, and she felt a sense of foreboding in her heart.
Mu Lin suffered a severe backlash and was troubled by a feeling of uneasiness at the moment. He had no time to take care of his body. Instead, he immediately grabbed a lot of the surrounding water spirit power and injected it into the ground. The light blue liquid covered the vast ground, emitting a faint light that penetrated every pore.
Mu Lin closed his eyes and concentrated, carefully sensing everything covered by the water spirit, and soon opened his eyes.
The power of the water spirit dissipated again between heaven and earth, leaving no trace. Mu Lin squatted down, lifted the heavy carpet, and found a hole about the size of a mung bean on the white marble floor. It looked very inconspicuous, no wonder she couldn't find it.
Mu Lin gathered the wood spirit power from his body and turned it into liquid, slowly injecting it into the small hole. The small hole was not deep, and it was soon filled and overflowed, but there was no reaction. Mu Lin thought about it, and then drew out the wood spirit power inside, manipulated it to turn into a slender wooden stick, and looked carefully at the end. There were fine patterns and teeth marks. Mu Lin no longer hesitated and inserted the small wooden stick as a fake key into the small hole. With a slight rotation, the ground immediately shook slightly. This was clearly a mechanism!
There was no small hole in front of Mu Lin. It was clearly the opening of a square underground dark room, which was only large enough for an adult man to enter. It exuded a faint chill. Mu Lin felt the familiar dark elements that filled the Daimo Mountains. She stood up and walked down the steps. She was thin and had a small frame, so the space was spacious enough for her.
The dark room should be under a series of long and narrow stone steps. Mu Lin went down the steps swiftly without trying to use his spiritual power to illuminate the way ahead. At the same time, he was careful not to make any sound. He was extremely cautious.
The long staircase was very strange, spiraling downwards, and unexpectedly long, as if it had no end. Mu Lin couldn't help but think of the Fuyao Mountain in Penglai.
This shouldn't be the case...
How could a normal secret room be so deep
In a space filled with dark elements, the visible path ahead is extremely limited. In addition, the structure of the spiral staircase blocks the view everywhere, and Mu Lin's uneasiness gradually deepens.