NOVPUBChapter 651: Chapter 649: Curse Talisman
Chapter 651: Chapter 649: Curse Talisman
Sally used the System Map to search the entire Royal Mansion three feet deep, but still couldn’t find the Skull Lock.
[Xiaomei, it looks like it can’t be found.]Picking any key to follow it to find the lock… Only Xiaomei could pull off something like that; Sally would have thrown it away long ago.
[Sigh!]Xiaomei sighed, yet she didn’t give up hope, [Host, why don’t you reconsider? Maybe there is some clue we haven’t spotted?]
Sally found a stone to sit on, yawned, and recalled the entire incident.
Finally, she jumped up and told Xiaomei, [The well!]
Then she rushed to the well where the girl had once thrown the Skull Key.
Different from a thousand years ago, this well was now filled with sand and silt.
Sally split the well open with an Earth Split Talisman.
Dozens of meters down, she saw a golden coffin.
[Golden coffin. Is it a royal relative’s? Xiaomei, bring it up.]
[Okay, Host.]
Seeing she was delayed, and the local ghosts had already retreated, Rong Ruo teleported over to find Sally.
“Oh? You like tomb raiding too?” Rong Ruo sized up the golden coffin.
Sally shook her head, “Not really. Only under special circumstances when there’s something I need inside the tomb. However, Xiaoqi likes tomb raiding; she probably learned it from Little Shiyi.”
“Hmm, those tombs in the Luoya Continent have all been scavenged by her.”
“Uh… That’s a bit excessive, digging up one’s own ancestral grave.” Sally was speechless, planning to give that girl a serious talk later.
Rong Ruo replied, “No worries, digging up one’s family grave for treasures won’t bring curses.”
Sally couldn’t help but chuckle, “Just keep spoiling her then.”
Her attention returned to the golden coffin, “Look at this, interesting isn’t it?”
Rong Ruo replied, “It must belong to the royal nobility, ordinary deceased ones would be in red, black, white, or yellow, not reaching gold.”
“I think so too, open it,” Sally said with a smile.
Rong Ruo nodded, “Okay.”
A long chain weapon appeared in his hand, wrapping around the coffin, and with a low shout, “Break!”
The entire golden coffin split into pieces, revealing what was inside—it was a chest.
On the chest was a lock, precisely the Skull Lock that Sally had been searching for!
Sally didn’t rush to open it but asked Xiaomei to trace who had locked the Skull Lock and what was inside the chest.
The surrounding environment changed again swiftly.
A blood-red heart was placed by a girl inside the chest, finally, a black talisman was attached on the inner top of the chest.
Rong Ruo told Sally, “That’s a Curse Talisman, cursing the owner of this heart to be loveless through all her lives. As for the Skull Lock, given its material, it should be Millennium Cold Iron, a Saint Rank refining material.”
“Wow~” Sally looked at Rong Ruo with admiration, “You know so much! More than Xiaomei!”
Xiaomei: […]
Rong Ruo replied somewhat bashfully, “Not really, Zong Silu knows much more; I’m just scratching the surface.”
Sally waved her hand, “Don’t be modest, you should teach all these to your daughter later.”
Rong Ruo agreed, “Yes, this Millennium Cold Iron, besides being extremely sturdy, can also enhance seals. This lock has fresh blood streaks on it; that’s a Blood Curse. That means, apart from the key, only the blood of the owner’s covenant can open it with living blood.”
As he said that, the girl who locked the chest suddenly committed suicide by slashing her own throat! However, after her death, she simply turned into a wisp of dead air, leaving no remains behind.
“Good, we can only use the key now.” Sally took out the Skull Key from System Space.
Rong Ruo looked at the key, his expression becoming serious, “This female ghost cursed the owner of the heart. If it’s opened, the curse will also be undone.”
[Xiaomei, do you say we open it?]Sally asked Xiaomei, since she had strongly insisted on finding it, it was natural to ask her.
Xiaomei replied listlessly, [Seems like there’s no need to open it anymore.]
[Don’t you want to know whose heart this is?]
[No!]
[…]
Sally nodded towards Rong Ruo, “Open it and let’s see, I’m quite interested in that talisman.”
“What’s so interesting about this curse talisman to you, Yanyan?” Rong Ruo took the key and helped Sally unlock the skull lock.
“Didn’t I take Xiaoqi and the others to the Ancestral Dragon Tomb this time? The Ancestral Dragon’s Heart Seal is somewhat similar to this, I want to study it.” Sally couldn’t explain it clearly; anyway, the talisman felt somewhat special to her.
Blood red in color, the skull lock oozed a stream of fresh blood, but upon hitting the ground, it turned into a wisp of dead energy and dissipated.
The heart initially alive inside the box, turned into a piece of withered dry skin upon touching the dead energy.
Unsatisfied with this result, Xiaomei decided not to waste more energy data tracking the origin of the heart.
Sally seemed to notice something and looked back.
A faint, blurry white shadow stood right behind her, holding a book and maintaining the appearance he had before death.
“Are you… the human from the secret room?” Sally studied his silhouette; he looked very much like that handsome man.
The man spoke, “Thank you, take that treasure map from the edge of the world as a form of payment.”
“Who are you?” Sally asked.
“I originally was Cheng Yangfu, the Human Royal Heir of the Yunxi Continent, but somehow ended up in the Void Realm and became the adopted son of the Southeast Ghost King. The Northwest Ghost King kidnapped me to the Northwest Royal Mansion and put me under house arrest here.”
“You’re saying that girl is the Northwest Ghost King?” 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝒑𝙪𝒃.𝒄𝒐𝙢
“Yes.”
Sally glanced at Rong Ruo, “Appearances can be deceiving, huh?”
“Yes, like You Hao and the others, their actual ages…” Rong Ruo said with a smile.
Sally paused for a moment, “Then appearances are still better!”
“Are you free now?” Rong Ruo asked Cheng Yangfu.
Cheng Yangfu bowed respectfully to Rong Ruo, “Thank you, Your Majesty.”
“Oh?” Rong Ruo was surprised.
Cheng Yangfu explained, “Your Majesty carries the merit of a sovereign, surely a supreme emperor.”
Sally was slightly baffled, “You can see that?”
Cheng Yangfu nodded, “Yes. Neither of you carries the aura of death, and even Your Majesty has the aura of a deity, must be an enlightened sage.”
“I have it too.” Sally said, releasing a thread of divine power.
Cheng Yangfu, utterly astounded, bowed deeply, “Cheng Yangfu is blind, my regards to the Goddess.”
“Haha~ no, no need for such formalities. What are your plans moving forward?”
“The past life is over. I plan to go to the Transmigration Sea to be reborn and become human again, and perhaps I’ll join the Taoist Sect to cultivate, and become someone like Your Majesty and the Goddess.”
“Then we wish Your Highness success in all your desires and a smooth path forward,” Sally said with a smile.
“Your Majesty and the Goddess bless me.” Cheng Yangfu bowed once more then gradually disappeared.
Rong Ruo did not stop Cheng Yangfu from leaving; a white soul is a good and sinless soul.
Sally put away the black talisman stuck on the box, [Xiaomei? Where to next?]
Xiaomei replied: [The treasure map from the edge of the world.]
[I knew you were going to say that.] Sally handed the map to Rong Ruo, “Interested in going treasure hunting at the edge of the world?”
Rong Ruo accepted the map, “As long as Yanyan wishes to go.”
“Yeah. What do you think made the Northwest Ghost King kill herself?” Sally picked up the skull lock which still had the key in it, contemplating, “Just to keep this box unopened?”
Rong Ruo replied, “Since she was the Northwest Ghost King, destroying a key would have been too simple, but instead, she threw the key into a well, allowing it to drift, perhaps she indeed wanted someone to open this box.”
Sally suddenly thought of something and looked at Rong Ruo’s hand, “Let me see if there’s anything unclean on this lock.”
Rong Ruo allowed her to examine it, his expression apologetic, “Yanyan, I’m sorry.”
Sally looked up, meeting his gaze, “Why the sudden apology?”
