Chapter 244: Good Omen
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
‘How did her hair turn white overnight? This is too suicidal.”
Wei Jiaoniang shook her head disapprovingly and stuffed another rose preserve into her mouth.
The sweet, sour, and fragrant smell made her squint in satisfaction. She sent the plate of rose preserves in Gu Yanfei’s direction.
The music from below became incomparably mournful, making one’s heart tighten. On the stage, the actor playing Miss Li sat in front of the mirror with a head full of white hair and tears.
The snow-like silver threads shone with a crystalline luster in the lights of the stage and were shocking.
If one didn’t look at the front and only looked at her back, she looked like a 70-year-old woman.
Wei Jiaoniang’s heart skipped a beat, and she said excitedly, “Yanfei, have you heard of a strange thing in the capital these few days?”
Her eyes lit up. “A while ago, the Murong family reported that their Old Madam had passed away. The Murong family is my grandfather’s old subordinate. My grandfather asked my eldest brother to go over.”
“1n the end, my brother came back and said that everyone in the Murong family had suddenly aged!”
Wei Jiaoniang deliberately lowered her voice and dragged out the last word, trying to create a terrifying effect.
Unexpectedly, Gu Yanfei’s expression didn’t change, and she didn’t even flinch. She only picked up a rose preserve and put it in her mouth. Her lips pursed in satisfaction, and her big eyes curled into a pair of crescent moons.
Wei Jiaoniang thought that Gu Yanfei probably didn’t understand, so she continued, “The people of the Murong family have really aged. It’s not the kind that happened because they’re overly sad about the passing of their Old Madam. They’ve aged by more than 30 years!”
‘Murong Hao is in his 40s, but now, his hair is all white, and the wrinkles on
his face are enough to kill mosquitoes... Also, he lost a few teeth.”
‘He’s so old that he can barely walk, and he was carried out by the servants!” ‘My Big Brother almost thought that their deceased Old Master had come back to life!”
Wei Jiaoniang exaggerated a few words. As she spoke, even she felt a little shocked and thirsty.
She picked up a cup of warm flower tea and gulped it down. Tasting the sweet and mellow taste in her mouth, she smiled again. Not only were the Tianyin Pavilion actors good at acting, but the tea was also not bad.
Gu Yanfei only treated it as a story and listened with relish. She clapped her hands in cooperation.
Clap! Clap!
Coincidentally, the second scene on the stage ended. Applause sounded like thunder and waves, completely drowning Gu Yanfei’s applause.
Wei Jiaoniang stuffed another candied fruit into her mouth and muttered to herself, “How did this person become so old in just a few days? It’s as if his essence energy has been sucked away by a vixen.”
‘Yanfei, don’t you think this is strange?!”
Gu Yanfei nodded enthusiastically, but she knew what was going on.
The Murong family knew that it was an evil technique, but they still insisted on defying the heavens. It was unfilial and unrighteous, so they would naturally experience a backlash.
All of this was just karma.
Moreover, “backlash” wasn’t as simple as cutting off a piece of flesh and returning it. It would only be 10 times or even 100 times more.
This was just the beginning.
Next, the Murong family would begin to decline. The lintel would collapse, and they would lose their power. Unless...
A stream of light flashed across Gu Yanfei’s eyes.
Wei Jiaoniang pursed her lips and sighed with slight mockery. “First, the Murong family’s hair turned white overnight, and today, there’s a phenomenon in the sky.
‘Do you think our capital has bad feng shui?”
Hearing her raise her voice on the words “bad feng shui”, Gu Yanfei was amused. She laughed, her laughter crisp and joyful.
She was too interesting!
When Gu Yanfei laughed, Wei Jiaoniang was immediately excited. Her eyes lit up as she instructed Xi Que to go out and guard the outside. She pulled Gu
Yanfeo’s wrist and whispered into her ear, “Yanfei, you can tell too, right?” She smiled and sounded very certain.
‘How can there be so many ‘true dragons’ in this world?” Gu Yanfei’s lazy eyes flashed with a cold light that was as clear as a mirror.
‘Kang Wang?” Wei Jiaoniang asked with a questioning tone and a determined expression.
‘Most likely.” Gu Yanfei smiled and nodded.
Wei Jiaoniang tilted her face, as if asking Gu Yanfei or muttering to herself, ‘How did he do it?”
For once, she really didn’t have a clue. It wasn’t quite like the tricks on the street.
’11t should be a smokescreen.” Gu Yanfei played with the teacup in her hand extremely casually. The tip of her index finger gently rubbed the patterns on the teacup twice.
If she were in the Bright Spirit Realm, she would know at least a dozen ways to achieve a similar effect.
The most powerful true dragon Illusion not only looked no different from a true dragon at first glance, but it also had dragon might and dragon breath. It could be used as an offensive talisman called the “Dragon Elephant Talisman”.
In this small world with almost no spiritual energy, it was definitely impossible to draw the “Dragon Elephant Talisman”. Even in the Bright Spirit
Realm, one had to at least have her Eldest Senior Sister’s cultivation to draw it.
As for the true dragon illusion formed by the other “Dragon Shadow Talisman”, it was just an illusion, like a soap bubble!
However, this soap bubble broke with a poke. It couldn’t deceive anyone.
When she had just been picked up by her master, he had used this “Dragon Shadow Talisman” to coax her.
However, dragons were dragons after all. This “Dragon Shadow Talisman”
couldn’t be drawn casually. At the very least, it had to be mixed with some substances containing spiritual energy in the cinnabar as a medium for drawing talismans.
Even if she wanted to draw it for fun, she couldn’t possibly let her wear off this hairpin, right?
Gu Yanfei sighed regretfully and subconsciously raised her hand to touch the plum blossom hairpin in her bun.
That wouldn’t do!
She quite liked this hairpin.
The plum blossom hairpin released wisps of spiritual energy that lingered on her fingertips.
Her lips curled happily as she gently stroked the lustrous hairpin again, as if to reassure it. ‘Don’t worry.’
Wei Jiaoniang thought about the illusion for a while and suddenly leaned towards Gu Yanfei. She lowered her voice even more. ‘Yanfei, where’s Emperor Taizu?”
Before Emperor Taizu’s uprising, there was an auspicious sign of a black dragon descending.
Everyone knew that back then, Emperor Taizu had sighed. Since the black dragon had come to choose a wise master, he should naturally accept the heavens and become a benevolent teacher to save the world..