amaotonovel Chapter 1043 What method?
Chapter 1043 What method?
Jiang Fenghui was lost in her own thoughts.
Baili Shang asked, "What do you mean by fake? I really am Baili Shang. You saw me before, at Achuan's villa. He and the First Madam conspired to drug you, and then you stuck a bunch of silver needles into your legs. You couldn't walk even after being pricked several times. I took you to a cave in the valley to hide. You jumped into the cold pool to get rid of the love poison. Later, I took you back to Danji's house. After that, I went to look for people, but Aruan didn't seem to remember any of these things. She suddenly hated me to the bone. I really didn't do anything."
Jiang Fenghua was confused. "The woman who took me into her dream wasn't entirely fake. I really did go back a thousand years and saw you. You only remember what happened when we were together, but you don't remember helping her cure her love poison."
Baili Shang shook his head, "I don't remember. Why do you all say that? It was Aruan who took the initiative to marry me. I hadn't even realized that she had become the Fifth Madam."
Jiang Fenghua said, "Because that's the truth. As for my self-rescue, it's possible that you also entered that woman's illusion, and she wanted you to fall in love with Danji Aruan."
"Are you saying that everything that happened between us and the short time we spent together was all fake, that I fell in love with a fake you, but you are right in front of me!" Baili Shang said.
Xie Shang sneered, "You wouldn't be imagining some shameful things about Danji Aruan, would you?"
Baili Shang said angrily, "I didn't. I dare to admit what I did. I know who I like and who I don't like. The person I like is the woman who was with me in the cave that day. Although she looks like Aruan, nothing happened between us."
Jiang Fenghua just wants to find a solution now, and doesn't want to be trapped in the dream and experience what happened to Danji Aruan again.
"What else did you dream about? After A-Ruan entered the palace, weren't you with her? You were husband and wife at the time, so you should have been together! Why do you know the name Manjusaka? Do you know its habits? Does it really grow in dark places? Is that valley called Ghost Realm?"
When asked what else he dreamed about, Baili Shang only remembered that he wanted to save Aruan, but...
He said, "It was planted by A-Ruan. She said this flower can be used as medicine and to make poison. Let's give it a name! Let's call it Manjusaka. It can awaken the memories of the dead. Even if A-Yu dies, he can still remember her. If they both die, they will not forget what happened in their lives. They will bloom on the banks of the Santu River in the underworld, cherishing each other in life. It is also called the other shore flower."
"So she really did plant red spider lilies all over that valley in Licheng, that's the Ghost Realm." Jiang Fenghua finally understood that it was all not a coincidence. She went back a thousand years, and that valley was where Baili Shang and Danji Aruan first had their relationship. Did Aruan really love Baili Shang?
Why did Baili Shang lose that memory, but instead remember her intrusion?
She said, "A thousand years later, there is also that valley in Xichuan. It is gloomy and there are always women's voices, like Danji Aruan. Are there still red spider lilies there?"
“They’re all gone, destroyed.” Baili Shang continued, “After I escaped the royal city, I returned to Licheng. I burned all the red spider lilies with sulfur. I just wanted them to wake up. They always wanted to develop a resurrection drug, which would harm even more people. But no one could have imagined that no matter how hard they fought, they couldn’t defeat God. God would make them pay with their lives.”
Baili Shang wanted to save everyone, but unfortunately, he couldn't save them all.
Xie Shang said, "Since you have a large amount of sulfur, why don't we use the sulfur to blow up the palace as well? No matter how many of those golden toads there are, or how many pairs of wings they can grow, if we just make them disappear into thin air, then nothing will happen. We can also blow out Lady A-Li, who is hiding in the Jingyuan."
Baili Shang thought for a moment and then said, "Later, I was imprisoned by the Queen's people. Everyone in the palace seemed to have gone mad. I thought I was going to die here. In the end, it was Aruan who saved me. She told me not to go back to Licheng and to leave Yinchuan Kingdom and escape far away. I know she stayed because she was trying to save Ayu."
Baili Shang briefly recounted the events, which were largely consistent with Jiang Fengqing's predictions: Aruan had been deceived by the female ruler.
Baili Shang continued, "She said she owed A Yu her life and was unwilling to leave with me. I didn't stay, but I didn't leave directly either. I kept waiting for news from her, but I never heard from her again. At that time, all the powerful families united to destroy the female ruler. A Ruan suddenly became the female ruler, and everyone wanted to kill her."
Later, their evil deeds seemed to anger the mountain god, who bestowed disaster upon Yinchuan, causing countless deaths and injuries among the people. Even the strange guards trained by the queen perished in the disaster, and the Kingdom of Yinchuan ceased to exist.
"Are all the people dead?" Xie Shang asked again. "Didn't you say you escaped Yinchuan? You've lived for decades longer than the Kingdom of Yinchuan."
"No one expected the mountain god to suddenly become angry. Very few people escaped. I was able to escape because I was disillusioned with Yinchuan Kingdom and had long been prepared to leave. In the end, Aruan also joined them. She was obsessed with saving Ayu, but Ayu was already dead."
"You're a useless piece of trash. Besides eating, drinking, and having fun, you can even make preparations." Xie Shang was genuinely angry that he was trapped here. "Since you know everything and know that you'll be fighting tigers and wolves, yet you have no ability to fight back, no wonder you're looked down upon by the Baili family."
“Who says I didn’t? If I always had to be mindful of others’ moods, how would I have escaped Yinchuan?” He glanced at Jiang Fenghua. “I actually did come up with a plan to rescue Aruan and Ayu, but then disaster struck. Even if I had a plan, I couldn’t fight against fate. In an instant, everyone was buried.”
Xie Shang asked in a deep voice, "What method?"
“I’ve been collecting sulfur stones, which are naturally flammable and explosive. I originally intended to blow up the palace.” A ruthless glint appeared in Baili Shang’s eyes. “They blew up everyone, but I never expected the mountain god’s power to be even greater than sulfur stones.”
Xie Shang said, "Our key task now is not how to save Aruan, but how to force out Madam Ali in Jingyuan, destroy the Queen's alchemy room, and even prevent Danji from stealing the Golden Toad again, so that he can turn the people of Xichuan into monsters."
Baili Shang said, "Will this method work? How will we transport it in? And didn't you say you've entered a dream from a thousand years ago? What if all our efforts are in vain, and nothing can be changed?"
Xie Shang said, "So you need to think carefully about what else you've overlooked and what your people are capable of, and whether they're reliable."