The Fairy: From the Traveling Merchant

Chapter 766 Nine Nether Yin Yuan Fruit

Female cultivator...

For some reason, Zhao Chen inexplicably thought of the real owner of this blessed land, the "Shengxuan" True Lord who pretended to be "Xuannv".

This is actually not surprising. After all, among those who have the motive to rescue the "King of Liang" from eight thousand years ago, this person is the most likely suspect.

As his thoughts turned, Zhao Chen continued, "You just said that King Liang had three purposes for unlocking the seal of the 'Enlightened Beast'... What was the third purpose?"

When asked, Guan Si Niang sighed and said, "He is looking for his mother, who is now nominally the Empress Dowager."

"Empress Dowager?" Zhao Chen frowned. He only knew that the previous emperor did not abdicate voluntarily after being promoted to "Dongxuan", but died of illness. However, he knew nothing about the mother of the current emperor and King Liang.

“The Queen Mother disappeared shortly after the current emperor ascended the throne. Prince Liang was still young at the time, and the disappearance of his doting mother was a huge blow to him.

“Prince Liang wants to become emperor, in part because he wants to find out the whereabouts of his mother.

"However, he excitedly told me a few months ago that he had received news about his mother, but he needed at least the power of 'Dongxuan' to find her." Guan Si Niang told her what she knew.

Zhao Chen touched his chin, then looked down at Wang Qingling in his arms and asked, "Qingling, do you know anything about the Queen Mother?"

Wang Qingling shook her head slightly, indicating that she knew nothing about her so-called "mother-in-law" and had never even seen her... But after a little thought, she suggested, "The current queen may know something. You can ask her tomorrow night."

Guan Si Niang was stunned when she heard this, and thought: Not only is the Imperial Concubine having an affair with Zhao Chen, but even the Empress... ?
Coupled with the coveted Concubine Ning, she couldn't help but feel a little pity for His Majesty.

Zhao Chen nodded thoughtfully, and after a brief consideration, he asked again, "Besides you, what other treasures did King Liang obtain from the previous two secret realms?

"Well, except for the body of 'Prince of Liang'."

Guan Si Niang knew that Zhao Chen would ask this question, and answered without hesitation: "Besides me, there is also a 'Fuxi Qin', a 'Tianhe Goddess Picture', and three 'Nine Nether Yin Yuan Fruits'.

"Among them, the 'Fuxi Qin' is named after the legendary emperor 'Fuxi', but it is only a replica made more than 8,000 years ago. It doesn't have much power left, but the material is quite good...

"This zither was given by King Liang to Zen Master Tianming of Daxiangyun Temple not long ago.

“Although the ‘Heavenly River Goddess’ is a painting, it is not painted on paper or a wall, but on the shell of a ‘large snail’.

"This 'snail' is huge, like a small house...

"I only knew of its existence before, but never saw it. It was not until I was subdued by you, sir, that I remembered that it was the center that controlled me.

"As for whether it has other functions, I don't know."

She paused here, obviously still unable to accept her own “not-human” nature.

In other words, the so-called "Picture of the Goddess of the Milky Way" is your "control center"?
Well... a beautiful puppet controlled by a "big snail"... I remember that the "Goddess of the Milky Way" is also called "The White Water Girl", and she is the source of stories like "The Snail Girl".

Could it be that the "puppet figure" in your series is the so-called "Snail Girl"? What is this? A housekeeping type intelligent robot?

As Zhao Chen's thoughts drifted further and further away, Guan Si Niang also "adjusted" her "emotions" and continued:
“As for the ‘Nine Nether Yin Yuan Fruit’, it is a spiritual fruit that grows in the Yin World. It is said that after eating it, one can instantly gain a high-grade magical power with the attributes of the ‘Yin World’.

"This fruit can seize the good fortune of heaven and earth and break the laws of Xuantian. Even if a cultivator with middle-grade magical powers takes it, he can rebuild his foundation and achieve the highest level of achievement."

Is there such a heaven-defying thing? Zhao Chen was a little surprised. Since he traveled through time, this was the first time he heard of a treasure that could greatly change one's foundation after being promoted to a magical power.

Even after Ming Xueling obtained the complete "Senluo Wanxiang" magical power, he could only simply comprehend the laws and true meanings contained therein and increase his own accumulation... Want to improve the quality of the magical power? I'm afraid it will be possible only after achieving the second level of "Dongxuan".

If this thing were to leak out, it would probably be snatched up by cultivators with middle-grade and low-grade magical powers. Even cultivators with high-grade magical powers might be tempted - who wouldn't want to have one more high-grade magical power?

However, the Imperial Concubine leaning on Zhao Chen's arms sneered and said, "Anything that takes shortcuts will come at a high price! This kind of spiritual fruit may seem wonderful, but the side effects may be hard to accept, right?

"It's just better than being directly contaminated by evil spirits."

On the surface, her words were belittling the "Nine Nether Yin Yuan Fruit", but in fact, she was reminding Zhao Chen not to become addicted to this kind of thing.

Guan Si Niang agreed with Wang Qingling's words and nodded, saying, "Your Highness is right. It's OK for this 'Nine Nether Yin Yuan Fruit' to be used by cultivators with magical powers or those who have given birth to divine consciousness and are only one step away from achieving magical powers... If it is taken by cultivators with ordinary mana, the Gangsha realm, or lower levels of true qi or orifice refining, they will immediately turn into mindless ghosts!

“Even if a cultivator with magical powers successfully uses it to change his foundation, Xuantian will not be pleased and will bring down a great calamity. Ordinary methods of avoiding the calamity are ineffective and can only be offset by great merit. Otherwise, one can only force their way through.

"In addition, unless you are practicing the 'Yin Shi' related techniques, or your foundation is strong enough, it is best not to take this fruit for cultivators with top-grade magical powers, otherwise it will lead to a conflict in your foundation, which will not be worth the loss.

"Also, after taking the 'Nine Nether Yin Yuan Fruit', if one cannot achieve 'Dong Xuan' within 20 years, then that person will no longer be able to adapt to the human world and can only go to the 'Netherworld'."

She seemed to be quite familiar with this spiritual fruit and pointed out the side effects one by one.

After Zhao Chen pondered for a while, he asked, "You know so much, but has anyone eaten this spiritual fruit?"

"In order to test the effect, King Liang asked his housekeeper to eat one pill. Now it has successfully changed his foundation and become a top-grade supernatural power." Guan Si Niang nodded slightly.

"Butler...but Fu Shen?" Zhao Chen asked in a somewhat strange tone.

"That's right!" Guan Si Niang looked at Zhao Chen in surprise. After all, Butler Fu was not eye-catching in Prince Liang's Mansion, but this prince who had only been in the capital for two days actually knew him.

Zhao Chen didn’t know it at first, but he had just sent an undercover agent named “Danqing Jian” back.

According to his most recent report, Steward Fu seems to have some unclear relationship with the concubine Yan of the King of Liang...

Zhao Chen did not dwell on the housekeeper's topic and asked, "How much do you know about the concubine Yan of the King of Liang?"

(This time I was sick and it took me a lot of time. I spent the whole holiday recuperating ⊙﹏⊙ I am finally getting better... In addition, I will resume updating from today and will try my best to make up for what I missed)
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