"Because of this jade pendant?" Chen Ziyan looked puzzled.
He knew the origin of Wang Kaixuan's jade pendant. It was passed down from the ancient country of Jingjue and could be used to open the underground palace where Queen Jingjue was buried.
But he couldn't understand how this jade pendant could be so attractive to a man with a black face.
Logically speaking, there is no connection at all between Jingjue Guguo and Sheng Ji.
"Yes, that's the reason." Sheng Ji didn't look at Chen Ziyan, but looked at the jade pendant suspended in her palm with a complicated look, and said, "Maybe it's because of the strong aura of the snake god on it."
"Snake god's breath?!" After hearing these last four words, Chen Ziyan suddenly looked at Sheng Ji.
This answer was something he didn't expect. He had thought about whether Jingjue had had any conflicts with Sheng Ji, but he never thought that the source could be traced back to the snake god.
Naturally, he doesn't know about the Snake God. It can be said that this is one of the ancient gods that he knows very little about, and it's the kind he knows about in more detail.
To be honest, Chen Ziyan only knew about the other ancient gods, and things that were too specific were not clear.
"It seems you know something about the snake god." Sheng Ji moved her palm slightly, and the jade pendant turned into mist again, and she said pointedly.
Chen Ziyan didn't hide anything, saying: "There have been some contacts, but it's not too clear."
He was now curious about how the person in front of him was related to the snake god.
Hearing the answer given by Chen Ziyan, Sheng Ji nodded slightly, indicating that she approved the answer.
In fact, she didn't expect Chen Ziyan to understand anything. The snake god had already fallen in ancient times. Although this fall was not so complete, it was not something that the young man in front of her could come into contact with.
And according to the information Sheng Ji found out, even some of the descendants who gained the power of the snake god died over the long years. It can be said that now the snake god is just a story material that remains in some legends.
Thinking of this, she looked at the young man in front of her, and secretly sighed in her heart. The ancient longevity bloodline had revived again, and she didn't know whether it would be good or bad for the world.
But it doesn't matter to her. Anyway, her body has already entered the bronze door. Even if the longevity person is reborn, it will not have any impact on her, let alone the blood descendant of the longevity person.
Chen Ziyan didn't know what Sheng Ji was thinking. He was still focused on the previous question and was searching for all the information about the snake god in his mind to see if he could find some clues.
But it is a pity that he searched through his memory and could not find any matching situation. In his impression, the two were completely unrelated things.
If we really talk about it, the only point of connection is the Queen Mother of the West nesting in Tamutuo.
The earliest human-animal symbiosis in the West Queen Mother Kingdom used snakes, and together with the snake mother, it is enough to see that this ancient national costume has a deep connection with the snake god.
etc!
Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Chen Ziyan's mind, and he felt as if he had found the key point.
The black-faced cockroach raised by Sheng Ji is so hostile to this exquisite jade pendant with the aura of the snake god. Is it possible that it is not the snake god, but the Queen Mother of the West who has a deep connection with the snake god.
If this is taken as the starting point, then things become easier to understand.
After all, there is King Mu of Zhou between Sheng Ji and Queen Mother of the West.
Although this answer is not logically rigorous, Chen Ziyan feels that this should be the truth.
However, he didn't ask directly. Judging from the black-faced man's behavior, it was enough to know this kind of thing, and it was better not to say it out loud.
After solving the doubts in his heart, Chen Ziyan's thoughts returned to business again. He asked: "Empress, you want me to find King Mu. Do you have any clues?"
He planned to help Sheng Ji find King Zhou Mu. Firstly, he would undoubtedly have a better understanding of what Emperor Zhou had done. Secondly, he wanted to see if the plot about King Zhou Mu was still the same as what he knew.
Furthermore, there is another reason, that is, Chen Ziyan had a premonition that what he would experience in the future would probably be related to King Zhou Mu again, so he thought he knew about it in advance.
If we can really get useful information from Sheng Ji, it will also lay a good foundation for the future.
Sheng Ji thought for a moment and replied: "I don't know where the king is now, but he should be undergoing transformation in a safe and hidden place."
"Transformation?" Chen Ziyan frowned.
He remembered that whether it was the Qixing Lu Palace or the Meteor Jade of the Queen Mother of the West, there were beings undergoing transformation inside.
And even if he found the transforming being, how could he prove that it was King Zhou Mu?
"I will give you something that will remind you when you arrive in the king's area." Sheng Ji, who had been prepared, said.
"By the way, you want to eliminate all the little things I raise, right?" Then she continued to ask.
Although she was already inside the Bronze Gate at this time, she still had a way to know everything outside, so she knew Chen Ziyan and the others' purpose very well.
Logically speaking, as her outermost layer of protection, Sheng Ji should be on the side of the black-faced man.
But now the situation is a bit complicated. She cannot leave the Bronze Gate. If she wants to get King Zhou Mu back, she can only rely on human power.
This is one of the reasons why she is so polite to Chen Ziyan!
But in this case, the starting points of both parties will be contradictory.
So Sheng Ji came up with a solution, which is why she took the initiative to raise this issue.
Of course, if she didn't bring it up, Chen Ziyan wouldn't say it anyway.
In fact, Chen Ziyan is now planning to give up on this mission.
Just kidding, it's okay to say that the black-faced beast is okay. Even those giant guys outside are confident that he can destroy them if he is prepared.
But beating a dog depends on the owner. If he does it in front of Sheng Ji, he may be fine, but there is no guarantee that everyone will be fine.
From the fact that she was the only one here, Chen Ziyan could see that Sheng Ji was so arrogant that she didn't think anyone else was qualified to communicate with her.
Under such a premise, if there is a conflict due to the dark-faced men, their team may leave safely, but the public security and militiamen who are called in to help may not be safe.
Although the danger of the black-faced monster is great, things have to be prioritized. Chen Ziyan does not want to completely confront the old monster before there is a way to completely deal with it.
But what he didn't expect was that Sheng Ji would take the initiative to mention this.
Chen Ziyan's mind was running rapidly, and he quickly thought of a possibility, that is, the other party wanted to take advantage of this matter and get something from here.
Otherwise, there would be no need for her to ask like this.
So he nodded happily: "Yes, their existence is dangerous to the people around them."
There was no reason, Chen Ziyan directly told the truest reason.
He didn't think it was a good choice to lie in front of a woman who had lived for thousands of years.
"Danger?" What Chen Ziyan didn't see was that after hearing his words, the corners of Sheng Ji's mouth twitched slightly behind her veil.
Sheng Ji is very familiar with this sentence!
When she followed King Mu to patrol the world, her purpose was to find the secrets left in ancient times. In the process, they hardly found any ruins of those gods, and they would see similar words.
Danger!
This is the main reason why the ancient gods disappeared. Plant gods and some gods who lived outside reality were fine, but those beast gods who relied on reality were swept away because of these two words.
According to what she knew, the only one who survived was the snake god, but after escaping from the Central Plains, he died in the desert due to serious injuries.
But such an end is already very good. After all, it is rare for other beast gods to be left with a skeleton.
That is to say, Chen Ziyan didn't know what Sheng Ji was thinking at this time, otherwise he would be shocked beyond words.
After all, there is too much information and it is too amazing.
After a brief absence, Sheng Ji revealed her purpose: "I can let you destroy them, but you must give something in exchange."
"What does the empress need?" Chen Ziyan asked.
He had a hunch that what Sheng Ji wanted would not be simple.
"Sacrifice!" Sheng Ji slowly spit out two words.
"What sacrifice?" Chen Ziyan asked.
"I want the head of King Lu Shang!" Sheng Ji answered.
This answer shocked Chen Ziyan and looked at him in disbelief.
This means that Sheng Ji knew that it was King Lu Shang who robbed King Zhou Mu's tomb.
But after thinking for a while, Chen Ziyan nodded and agreed: "No problem."
For him, being able to use a Lu Shang King to solve the problem of a black-faced person is simply a sure profit, isn't it?
What's more, he had to go to the Qixing Lu Palace no matter what, so this was just a sideshow.
"I'm waiting for the day when you fulfill your promise." The moment Chen Ziyan agreed, Sheng Ji in front of him had disappeared, and the surrounding scene also began to dissipate.
"Master Chen, are you okay?"
Hu Bayi's voice reached his ears, and Chen Ziyan slowly opened his eyes, still a little confused.
He felt like he was having a real and absurd dream.
Subconsciously looking around, I found that I was still in the temple, and everyone else was also around.
But in the next second, when Chen Ziyan glanced at the bronze throne, his eyes were fixed there instantly.
At the end of his sight, on the bronze throne, an extra tray appeared at some point, and on top of the bronze tray was an ink-colored seal the size of a baby's fist.
Chen Ziyan did not answer Hu Bayi's words, but broke away from their support, quickly came to the bronze throne, and took the sudden appearance of the seal in his hand.
This is a seal made of ink-colored metal. The seal is engraved with cloud and thunder patterns on all sides, and there is a spider-shaped button on the top.
The spider button was lifelike, but not any spider he had ever seen.
After confirming that the spider seal was indeed real, Chen Ziyan understood that everything just happened was real.
He played with the spider seal, looked at Hu Bayi and asked: "Old Hu, how long have I been unconscious just now?"
There was no need to ask. Based on the situation when he just woke up, Chen Ziyan had already deduced that his consciousness was probably pulled into some incomprehensible space, where he met Sheng Ji and reached an agreement with her.
Hu Bayi said quickly: "It will take about a minute, Mr. Chen, why don't you take a break."
Hu Bayi didn't know what Chen Ziyan had gone through, and thought that his brief coma was due to some physical problem!
"I'm fine." Chen Ziyan shook his head gently, then held the Spider Seal in his hand tightly, looked at the people beside him and said, "You all should be prepared mentally. What I'm going to say next may be a little beyond you." imagination."
Regarding what just happened, he did not intend to hide it from these people, because Bronze Gate obviously could not continue the investigation, and he had to give an explanation.
Of course, he doesn't have to do this, but this is what he does to his subordinates, and these people around him are his partners, and the two are not the same.
Hu Bayi and the others did not speak. They all looked at Chen Ziyan quietly, waiting for his next words.
Through the sudden appearance of the seal on the bronze throne and Chen Ziyan's solemn tone, they all knew that something serious must have happened.
Chen Ziyan organized his words a little and said, "I just met Sheng Ji."
"What?" Wang Kaixuan was the first to exclaim. He now also knew about Chen Ziyan's experience in the Hades Palace, so he also knew what happened to Sheng Ji.
But Chen Ziyan said that he met Sheng Ji, which made him somewhat uncomfortable to accept.
"Fat man, don't interrupt, let Mr. Chen continue!" Hu Bayi quickly stopped Wang Kaixuan, and then continued to look at Chen Ziyan.
Chen Ziyan didn't care about Wang Kaixuan's reaction. Where did they go? What happened next would surprise them even more.
"I said I met Sheng Ji and had a conversation with her."
As expected, after hearing what Chen Ziyan said, not to mention Wang Kaixuan's surprised look, even the calmest Shirley Yang showed a suspicious expression.
She now seriously felt that Chen Ziyan's brief coma just now was probably caused by an accidental attack.
"I know you might not believe it. To be honest, I didn't believe it at first, but I have to believe this thing." Chen Ziyan opened his hand and revealed the spider seal inside.
Without this "evidence", his words might have been more tactful, but the evidence was already in front of him, so there was no need to cover it up. It was better to be direct.
"What is this?" Shirley Yang looked at the spider seal and asked in confusion.
They naturally saw this thing just now, but they didn't think too much about it. After all, it is magical to appear suddenly, but it is not impossible!
"This...should be the Ghost Seal!" Chen Ziyan hesitated for a moment before speaking out his inner answer.
That's right, Guixi!
He felt that except for the buttons, this Spider Seal was very similar to the Ghost Seal, so it should be a Ghost Seal.
