Fantasy: Empress Wife, Cute Kids Cause Havoc in Jiuzhou

Chapter 278 - 276: The Second Blood Pond? Dig It Up

"Sister, it’s not breaking open, what should we do?"

Chu Chen whispered.

Chu Xin tilted her little head, lost in thought.

"If you’re not the State Governor, then who are you?"

The raspy voice rang out again inside the secret chamber, its tone brimming with intense suspicion.

The State Governor wouldn’t resort to brute force to attack the Stone Gate, so this person outside is probably not the Governor of Desolate State.

Chu Xin ignored the person inside the chamber and instead asked Chu Chen quietly, "Brother, do you feel that the aura here is somewhat familiar?"

Chu Chen sniffed carefully and said, "A sinister bloody smell, very much like the Blood Water in the Blood Pond."

"Exactly."

Chu Xin nodded her head, her large, round eyes sparkling with the light of wisdom, "Perhaps the Blood Water is the key to opening the Stone Gate."

With that thought, she wrapped the Blood Water from the pond with Divine Rune Power and injected it into the Stone Gate.

Click click!

The moment the Blood Water entered the Stone Gate, the tightly shut door began to open slowly.

"Aha, I really am a genius."

Chu Xin, overjoyed, didn’t hold back from praising herself.

"Sister is so smart."

Chu Chen didn’t hide the admiration in his eyes; in his heart, aside from Father, Sister was the smartest.

"Let’s go!"

Chu Xin, hands clasped behind her back, led Chu Chen slowly through the Stone Gate.

The chamber wasn’t large, and was filled with a crimson bloodiness and an evil aura that greatly obscured their vision, causing Chu Xin and Chu Chen to instinctively frown as they entered.

"Is it the State Governor?"

The hoarse voice hidden in the chamber sounded out again.

Chu Xin and Chu Chen followed the sound and glimpsed a pool filled with Blood Water, identical to the Blood Pond they had taken from the subterranean space of Cangzhou Prefecture.

The siblings approached and saw a Blood Robed Man sitting in the pool filled with Blood Water.

"What do you seek of me?"

Chu Xin asked calmly.

The Illusion Array they had set up was more complex and intricate than ordinary ones, using Holy Level Illusion Array Stones as the Array Base, with the two of them as the Array Eyes. Anyone who saw them would fall into the Illusion Array, whether they used their eyes or their Holy Thought to probe; they’d be ensnared all the same.

Although the Blood Robed Man had suspicions when Chu Xin banged on the gate, as soon as he saw her, he fell into the Illusion Array, seeing the appearance of the Governor of Desolate State and feeling the Governor’s presence as well.

Still, the Blood Robed Man had a question and asked, "Why did the State Governor try to smash the Stone Gate just now?"

Chu Xin glanced at him and said lightly, "There was a spy trying to break in forcefully, I’ve killed him."

"I see."

The Blood Robed Man seemed to have a sudden realization.

He had no doubts about her words; only he and the Governor of Desolate State knew how to open the Stone Gate, and the Blood Water needed to do so was only available to him and whoever possessed the Blood Pond.

The fact that this ’State Governor’ could open the Stone Gate naturally meant she was the true Governor of Desolate State beyond doubt.

Even if for some reason this person was not the Governor of Desolate State, being someone in possession of the Blood Pond, she would pose no harm to him.

"What urgent matter do you have with me?" Chu Xin asked again.

The Blood Robed Man said, "Not long ago, the master sensed the aura of a second Blood Pond in Desolate State and sent me to inquire who exposed the pond. Now that the grand scheme has not yet come to fruition, the Blood Pond must not be revealed, or it might completely ruin the master’s plans; then don’t blame the master for being ruthless."

A second Blood Pond’s aura?

Chu Xin was puzzled; could it be the very same Blood Pond she used to break through the great villain’s Fate Barrier?

The master of the Blood Robed Man is so powerful, able to sense the aura of the Blood Pond from such a distance?

"Cough cough!"

Chu Xin cleared her throat and said, "Don’t worry, I’ll tell him to be more careful in the future."

"Alright, I’ve delivered the message, I’ll take my leave now."

The Blood Robed Man nodded, and without waiting for Chu Xin’s response, he sank into the Blood Pond and disappeared.

"Hey?"

Chu Xin squatted by the Blood Pond, staring at it again and again - how could such a big person just vanish like that?

Chu Chen asked in confusion, "Sister, is that guy sleeping in there?"

Chu Xin tilted her little head and thought for a moment, then turned to Chu Chen and said, "Little brother, why don’t you go down and check?"

"Why me?"

Chu Chen glanced at the Blood Water, his eyes full of disgust.

"Because I’m afraid of getting dirty,"

Chu Xin said matter-of-factly, "Besides, I’m a girl and you’re a little man, aren’t you supposed to protect girls?"

Chu Chen blinked his big eyes and murmured softly, "Now you remember you’re a girl? You realize I’m a little man? When you were beating me up, you didn’t consider yourself a girl, nor did you treat me as a little man."

"Little brother, what did you say?"

Chu Xin raised an eyebrow and rubbed her snowy little fist, her threatening intent clear without words.

"Nothing, nothing, I’m going now,"

Chu Chen quickly waved his hands, Divine Rune Power surged within him, enveloping his whole body, and he then jumped into the Blood Pond.

The blood water had a strong stench of blood, but thankfully the Divine Rune Power isolated everything, or else he really couldn’t have stood it.

After Chu Chen entered the Blood Pond, Chu Xin started wandering around the secret chamber, realizing that other than the Blood Pond, there were no other treasures, signifying that this secret chamber was built specifically for the Blood Pond.

"Just this lousy pond; was it necessary to make it all mysterious? It would have been better to put a couple of Emperor’s Artifacts instead."

Chu Xin pursed her lips, clearly dissatisfied.

After circling around, she returned to the edge of the Blood Pond, crouched down, her snowy hands propping up her delicate chin, waiting.

"Why hasn’t little brother come out yet, he hasn’t run into danger, has he?"

After a moment, Chu Xin became worried, having never separated from her brother before, "He’s so silly, what if someone tricks him? No, I must go down and take a look."

With that thought, she couldn’t sit still any longer, Divine Rune Power wrapped around her, and she was ready to jump into the Blood Pond.

Just then, bubbles formed in the Blood Pond, and the next moment a golden light emerged; Chu Chen, wrapped in Divine Rune Power, leaped up from inside and landed next to Chu Xin.

"Eh? Sister, were you also planning to go down? I thought you were afraid of getting dirty?"

Seeing Chu Xin also enveloped in Divine Rune Power, Chu Chen asked her in surprise.

Chu Xin let her Divine Rune Power dissipate, rolled her eyes hugely, and said grumpily, "You didn’t come out for so long, I was worried you might have been tricked and taken away."

Upon hearing this, Chu Chen broke into a big grin and said, "There is nothing but blood water inside, but the space in the Blood Pond is quite large, I have no idea where that Blood Robed Man went."

Chu Xin thought for a moment and said, "Maybe he teleported away, could this Blood Pond be a treasure that allows for teleportation?"

"Perhaps."

Chu Chen nodded and said, "Who cares, let’s find the treasure first."

"Stop looking, there’s nothing here but this Blood Pond,"

Chu Xin said, pouting.

Chu Chen scratched his bun hairstyle, looked at the Blood Pond, and mumbled, "Then let’s just take the Blood Pond with us."

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Having said that, the siblings took out their Treasure Digging Shovels and began to dig.