"..." Tian Jing scoffed, who would believe that!
"My great-uncle knows you're reborn, right?"
Chen Yao Shi's grip on the gun tightened. "How did you know?"
Tian Jing pushed the gun off her back with her hand, turning around. "Xiao Wei is the key. Without a valid reason, he wouldn't let you be with Xiao Wei."
"Speaking of which, we've been talking for so long, I haven't asked how Xiao Wei is doing yet?"
Looking at the slender hand on the gun, Chen Yao Shi was a little dazed. "She's doing well, has food and drink."
"Oh, then I can rest assured."
Tian Jing's hand moved slightly, and the gun was in her grasp. She gently stroked the gun's body, her tone very soft.
"I know there's a gang in the provincial capital called 'Fu Han'. The gang is very mysterious, and no one knows who the leader is."
"Most of the gang members are reckless individuals skilled in martial arts, with a few from the official circles."
"A gang like this feels a bit like the rebel armies of the late Yuan Dynasty."
"Just now, I saw the ambition on your face, and I suddenly understood. 'Fu' is the 'Fu' in Chen Guangfu's name, and it can also mean 'restore'. And 'Han' refers to the Han Dynasty."
"What Chen Youliang couldn't achieve, you, with those thousands of chests of goods in your private vault and this rabble of a gang, can establish a country for yourself?"
Even then, Chen Yao Shi didn't notice anything amiss and even praised Tian Jing.
"I've always known you were smart. Unfortunately, not only are you a girl, but you're also already married with children, and your husband is a retired soldier, not easily subdued."
"To tell you the truth, I don't plan to stay in the country. I've set my sights on a small island and want to establish an island nation."
Tian Jing nodded. "Your ambition is neither too big nor too small, just right. I support you. Let's go, we'll find the private vault."
Sensing his body moving involuntarily, Chen Yao Shi finally realized something was wrong.
"You, you weren't drugged?"
"I was."
Tian Jing answered him as she lifted the two children and placed them beside Chen Yao Shi.
"I was indeed drugged. My lower and middle dan tians are unusable. But my internal energy is stored in my upper dan tian."
Seeing the annoyance on Chen Yao Shi's face, Tian Jing smiled. "Let's go. Actually, you didn't need to be so rough. You just had to say it, and I would have taken you to see it."
She enveloped her entire body with a psychic shield, including the soles of her feet.
Another psychic shield covered the father and his two children, leaving their feet exposed.
Tian Jing led them as they rapidly climbed the mountain.
Watching himself and the two children effortlessly stepping on the ground and then easily onto rocks, Chen Yao Shi stared at Tian Jing, who was walking alongside them on the treetops, as if he had seen a ghost.
Tian Jing waved at him and grinned, which directly scared him unconscious.
Even being unconscious didn't stop their progress.
When Chen Yao Shi woke up, he found himself still walking upright and almost wet himself.
"Jing Jing, Jing Jing, we won't go anymore, the private vault is all yours."
Tian Jing shook her head. "No, I'm keeping it for you. You have to go. There's a big surprise in that private vault."
Having gone from coercer to coerced, Chen Yao Shi's psychological trauma could overshadow the spring sunlight.
Seeing the angle of the sun, Tian Jing accelerated anxiously.
As they passed the hot spring valley, she went alone to 'dig' out the golden lock and key.
When she returned, she saw Chen Yao Shi acting like a headless fly, spinning around inside the psychic shield but unable to get out.
Chen Yao Shi, with a pale face, didn't look happy even when he saw the golden lock and key shimmering in Tian Jing's hand.
"You, who are you really?"
"I am your niece, Chen Jing, the real deal."
They finally reached the formation just as the sun was directly overhead.
Tian Jing hastily sprinkled some blood and opened the formation.
Once inside the formation, Chen Yao Shi seemed to have recovered his composure.
He no longer wore a fearful expression.
Tian Jing also removed their psychic shields.
"Let's go."
Chen Yao Shi looked around. "This is it? Didn't you say there would be a mist?"
These words made Tian Jing smile. "Uncle, your information is too outdated. Let me catch you up..."
"Do you understand? When we reach the Black and White Graves, do you plan to ride it yourself? Or let these two children ride?"
"I wonder if they can remember the password?"
Chen Yao Shi rubbed his temples. "Wait, let me sort this out."
"You mean, upon entering the maze, we might have our minds and brains confused, and possibly dream for seven or eight lifetimes before we can get the password?"
"How many lifetimes did you and Li Zhengguo dream?"
Tian Jing was very sincere, not hiding anything from him. "Li Zhengguo experienced eight lifetimes of dreams, and the last two lifetimes, he dreamt with me."
"No, no," Chen Yao Shi felt his head throbbing uncomfortably.
"You mean this is your third lifetime?"
"Yes."
"You mean you were reborn from the apocalypse?"
"Yes."
"So, you have special abilities and no internal energy?"
"Yes, so it doesn't matter if my lower and middle dan tians were affected by the drug or not."
"You're telling me the truth, aren't you afraid?"
"Afraid of what? If you keep babbling, the sun will set, and we'll have to wait until tomorrow noon."
His mind filled with all sorts of bizarre information, Chen Yao Shi hesitated.
"I don't want to go in for now."
Don't want to go in? Was that possible?
Tian Jing pointed the gun at him. "Do you think you still have a choice?"
Chen Yao Shi's eyes narrowed. "You? You were waiting for me to fall into your trap? You told me all this, with no intention of letting me leave alive?"
"Clever."
"You?" Chen Yao Shi, after a moment of fear, calmed down. "Aren't you afraid Lei Lei and Shao Wen will tell the truth?"
"They won't have the chance."
These words truly frightened Chen Yao Shi. "Jing Jing, Lei Lei and Shao Wen are your half-sister and half-brother."
Tian Jing raised an eyebrow at him. "I've never acknowledged them. Besides, you brought them in, and they'll advance and retreat with you. It's perfectly normal, isn't it?"
Chen Yao Shi turned and ran towards the formation, reaching out to sprinkle a small bottle of blood.
The formation appeared, but he couldn't tear it open.
Watching Chen Yao Shi frantically move around, sprinkling bottle after bottle of blood, Tian Jing chuckled.
"Heh heh, Uncle, you need blood to enter from the outside. To exit from the inside, all you need is the golden key or the golden lock."
Chen Yao Shi froze, turned to look at Tian Jing. "Jing Jing, please let me go."
Tian Jing shook her head. "No, your ambition and your actions make it impossible for me to let you go."
"Being kind to enemies is being cruel to oneself. Let's go, don't waste time."
Wrapping a psychic shield around her hands, Tian Jing, with one hand holding the struggling Chen Yao Shi and the other pulling the two still-dazed children, passed through the forest and reached the maze.
Tian Jing chose an entrance for them that she and her husband had not taken.
In the past three years, she and her husband had entered twice more to test.
Different entrances, the same dead ends, the same opening conversation.
She blurted out phrases about villains destroying the world and bidirectional traversers.
After she and her husband continued the conversation from there, the synopsis appeared, still titled "Nine Lives of x," with similar content.
It only changed the male protagonist's synopsis to include four sons and one daughter.
Their conclusion after four entries was that when the person being entranced began to doubt, the rules of heaven and earth could not provide too much deception.
This was because the rules of heaven and earth generated confusion based on the memories in the entrant's mind.
Their four entries and four changes to her speculation about Chen Yao Shi's identity, as well as the repeated change to her husband having an extra son,
all demonstrated that the rules of heaven and earth do not create out of nothing, but only tamper, causing the entrant to become suspicious.
If their affections were not firm, they would eventually break up, divorce, or even destroy each other, thus fulfilling the destructive rule contained within the rules of this realm.
She looked forward to Chen Yao Shi's synopsis.