Ch 538: Can You Hear Me?

Jiang Nanyu, who was arranging the Formation, jumped in surprise. Reflexively, she raised her foot toward the severed head that had rolled to her feet. Only after she saw clearly what it was did she first look around, wondering if someone’s head had fallen off somewhere.

“Shu girl, it’s a Puppet, a Puppet… ah, damn thing, don’t touch the Box!”

The Demon-Slaying Sword’s voice was exceptionally clear in the night sky.

Jiang Nanyu’s expression tightened, but she only took a step before retracting it.

The most important thing right now is setting up the Formation. The Formation is already more than halfway done, and certainly can’t be abandoned halfway.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Jiang Nanyu made a decisive decision: “Venerable Ancestor, you hold it!”

“Ai, ai, I can’t hold it alone!”

Jiang Nanyu sped up the process of setting up the Formation, but these severed heads were not inanimate objects; they weren’t that Quiet. They were occasionally aggressive, which increased the difficulty for Jiang Nanyu.

Seeing that these things were disobedient, Jiang Nanyu didn’t hold back. She took her Magical Artifact and slammed it hard against their heads.

Anyway, they couldn’t be smashed.

“Behave yourselves, or I’ll stuff shit in your mouths!”

At first, some severed heads didn’t believe her, opening their mouths to try and bite Jiang Nanyu. Jiang Nanyu tore off a piece of cloth, wrapped it around the mud on the ground mixed with various Foul Entities, and then unceremoniously stuffed it into their mouths.

Stuffing them until they rolled their eyes.

The pained expressions of those who wanted to vomit but couldn’t made the other severed heads grimace.

Jiang Nanyu, wielding her “biological weapon,” stuffed the mouths of the most unruly and restless severed heads, finally achieving a deterrent effect.

The Demon-Slaying Sword vaguely felt it was getting strained. It continuously called for Jiang Nanyu’s help, but she only kept placing the severed heads. Finally, only one step remained.

“Master, just one last one—”

Jiang Nanyu shouted at the top of her lungs.

Her voice carried through the night sky.

The next instant, a dark shadow came from afar. Jiang Nanyu quickly spotted the appearing shadow, quickly grabbed its hair, and then pressed it heavily onto the Formation Eye!

BOOM!!!

A blinding white light instantly swept across the entire forest.

Jiang Nanyu was instantly brought into a white, empty void. The blinding white light almost took away all her vision, and she lost all sound in her ears, leaving only endless silence. Even the sound of her heart beating was inaudible.

After an unknown amount of time, after Jiang Nanyu adapted to the blinding white light, she tried to slowly open her eyes—

Countless objects floated before her. They were quietly suspended in mid-air. There were no severed heads, no Box, no Demon-Slaying Sword, and no Puppets…

Jiang Nanyu opened her mouth, discovering that her throat was constricted by something, and she couldn’t speak. Her whole body seemed to be bound by some unknown force, and the only thing she could move was her eyes.

She tried to mobilize her Spiritual Energy, but no matter how hard she tried, it was useless. She could only watch helplessly as she floated in the air, slowly drifting in the same direction as those things.

Here, it seemed impossible to feel the passage of time, nor could she prove whether she was still alive. She couldn’t hear her heartbeat or her breathing. She was just like an object…

Jiang Nanyu even had the illusion that she wasn’t a person, but an object without Life Force.

If it were an ordinary person, their mentality would collapse after encountering such an eerie situation. But Jiang Nanyu was different. Her Dao Heart was exceptionally steady. Even though it was her first time encountering this, after discovering she couldn’t struggle, she simply gave up and went with the flow.

Anyway, things would work out, and if she were to die, the ones most worried would be those concerned about the Karmic Flame Lotus’s power.

Bored and unable to sleep, Jiang Nanyu began to recite: the Three Character Classic, and the Three Hundred Tang Poems, to pass the time. Then, she began to replay the Qiaolian Divine Numbers in her mind…

“Wake up, wake up.”

Jiang Nanyu vaguely heard a faint sound.

The drowsy Jiang Nanyu immediately perked up and immediately rolled her eyes to identify the source of the sound.

After searching countless times, she finally located the source of the sound—

A Feather.

“Can you hear me?”

It was clearly just an ordinary Feather, but she inexplicably heard the sound it made.

Jiang Nanyu wanted to speak, but she couldn’t open her mouth. Her tongue was stiff, so she could only blink to show that she could hear.

“Great, after all this time, finally a Spiritual Artifact I can talk to,” the Feather said to itself. “But, you can already transform into a human form, that’s amazing! You must be an ancient Magical Artifact. Oh well, it’s a pity that you were also sucked into this Accursed Place. I don’t know if I’ll ever have a chance to get out…”

Although the Feather didn’t receive a response from Jiang Nanyu, it at least had someone to confide in, and someone who could understand it. It couldn’t help but blurt out everything it had kept bottled up for so many years, chattering away incessantly.

Until, the Feather mentioned the three words, “Sima Yi”.

“Ah, I miss the days when I was with my Owner playing the qin on the city walls to scare that big oaf Sima Yi. You probably haven’t heard of it. Sima Yi was such a fool. My Owner opened the city gates wide, and the city was clearly empty, but he brought countless troops and didn’t dare to come in…”

Jiang Nanyu “…”

Good.

Now it was confirmed that this Feather was a part of the Feather Fan that had been left behind.

However, no one told it that its mouth was so loose.