Chapter 552: Chapter 451: Queen Mother of the West

"Go to Kunlun Mountain, prepare Immortal Spring Water for the Queen Mother to bathe?" Gongyang Jin repeated.

Taibai Jinxing smiled and nodded, "Yes, that’s the message the Queen Mother asked me to pass on to you two."

"This task originally required all seven of the Seven Immortal Maidens to complete. However, because the other four maidens have been confined due to your two’s revelations, the task of preparing the Immortal Spring Water naturally falls to you."

"However," Taibai Jinxing changed his tone, "the timing of the Queen Mother’s bath cannot be delayed, or else she is likely to be furious."

"So, even though there are only two of you, you must complete the task the Queen Mother assigned on time. Remember, remember."

Although Taibai Jinxing’s face was smiling as he gave his last admonition, what he said was slightly disheartening.

"Wait a minute, weren’t there supposed to be seven of us? Two of us here, four who are confined, what about the other one?"

Taibai Jinxing smiled faintly: "The youngest of the Seven Immortal Maidens, the Queen Mother has arranged other duties for her."

He handed Gongyang Jin a map that marked the water source and the bathing location: "Now, you can set off."

Taibai Jinxing turned and left, his figure quickly disappearing into the sky amidst swirling clouds.

Leaving Gongyang Jin and Nuannuan to look at each other.

"Let’s move," Gongyang Jin said immediately, looking at the marked location on the map.

After speaking, she started walking, and Nuannuan nodded and followed behind.

However, after a while, Nuannuan suddenly stopped in her tracks. She lifted her head, looking at Gongyang Jin with a face full of confusion. "Where are we going?"

"..."

After confirming with Nuannuan and realizing that she indeed had no memory of the time after entering the Kunlun Twin Fruit World,

Gongyang Jin realized that Nuannuan had lost her memory.

A contracted spirit of the Kunlun Mirror, who could trace back the River of Time and had the best memory, was suffering from amnesia.

This was an unbelievable occurrence.

Gongyang Jin naturally linked this abnormal phenomenon to the Kunlun Twin Fruit World.

"Memories before entering the Fruit World are intact, only those after start disappearing." She pondered, "Memory, which was once Nuannuan’s pride, has now become her Achilles’ heel. It’s an irony."

Reversal, twins, Kunlun Mirror, mirrors... these words echoed in her mind.

"Does the Kunlun Twin Fruit World reverse a person’s most notable traits?"

Once a leader of an alliance, Gongyang Jin, leveraging her past wisdom, quickly grasped the truth through this information.

Thinking this, Gongyang Jin lifted her head again, looking at the still bewildered Nuannuan, "There’s no time to explain, just follow me!"

...

The Immortal Spring Water is at the peak of Kunlun Mountain.

Here, a natural spring has been developed, nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, filled with abundant spiritual power.

Beside the Immortal Spring Water, there was a rhombic crystal that was activated when they arrived.

Gongyang Jin, after several attempts, understood the effects and usage of the rhombic crystal. She glanced at the map provided by Taibai Jinxing.

"From the peak where the spring is, to the cold pool in the valley where the Queen Mother bathes, there’s an entire mountain between them." She muttered to herself, "We only have Tier One Peak cultivation, unable to fly or teleport."

Gongyang Jin realized that the Queen Mother’s intentions went far beyond merely completing the task.

Otherwise, simply lifting the seal on their talent ability would suffice, wouldn’t it?

This world is far more complex than it appears.

"Let’s go to the cold pool in the valley." Gongyang Jin said to Nuannuan and, each carrying two buckets of Immortal Spring Water, they headed to the cold pool.

By the time they reached the destination, Gongyang Jin was dumbfounded.

This place, in the Kunlun Mountain Range, nestled among the surrounding peaks, was like a mysterious depression in the earth.

And in this valley was a massive cold pool, its existence seemingly a masterpiece of nature. Yet, the water in the cold pool had long dried up, leaving behind an expanse of mud and rubble.

Originally, Gongyang Jin wondered why, for no apparent reason, they had to pour Immortal Spring Water into the cold pool to bathe. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Now she understood.

However, to fill such a huge dried-up cold pool, how much Immortal Spring Water would it take?

"The task requires completion by midnight, meaning we have twelve hours left."

Twelve hours to transport Immortal Spring Water from the peak of Kunlun Mountain to fill the vast cold pool, an almost impossible task.

Not to mention, with only the two of them instead of seven, the workload had multiplied.

This is an impossible task!

Faced with such a hopeless situation, Gongyang Jin furrowed her brow, her mind racing.

If they carried water with buckets, even ten days or half a month wouldn’t suffice. Besides that, is there another way to accomplish it?

She thought of building a plank road and using pipes to channel the Immortal Spring Water into the cold pool.

As the spring eye of the Immortal Spring Water was at the mountain peak, the terrain seemed feasible for such a plan.

Gongyang Jin glanced down at Xuanyuan Sword in her hand and sighed.

She never envisioned a day when she, a dignified sword cultivator, would use the Ancient Divine Weapon Xuanyuan Sword for such arduous manual labor as building a walkway.

"I can help." At that moment, Nuannuan also stepped forward, "Flowing Light and Shadow Talent has the ability to manipulate the flow of time."

"The rhombic crystal can restore spiritual power. We can complete the plank road construction in the Crystal Area, then use the sword to open a path to let the Immortal Spring Water flow into the cold pool."

Once the plan was set, they immediately sprang into action.

Nuannuan utilized her talent to slow down the flow of time,

while Gongyang Jin used local materials with Xuanyuan Sword to create the materials needed for the plank road.

Once all preparations were complete, under the enhancement of the Flowing Light and Shadow Talent, they began channeling the Immortal Spring Water from the spring eye at Kunlun Mountain peak into the dried-up deep pool.

Thankfully, with the Kunlun Mirror, the time Gongyang Jin spent boring through the mountain was greatly reduced.

Despite this, time was still approaching midnight.

Under the enhancement of the Flowing Light and Shadow Talent, they finally completed the task on time.

The water level in the cold pool began to rise.

Back in the rhombic crystal area to recover spiritual power and strength, both Nuannuan and Gongyang Jin breathed a sigh of relief.

At this point, the time was just right, a moment past midnight.

Rumble, rumble!

The entire Kunlun Mountain Range suddenly trembled violently.

It was as if some gigantic existence was moving.

Then, Gongyang Jin and Nuannuan witnessed, under the faint moonlight, a shadow outline as tall as the peaks appeared.

Step by step, step by step, it moved toward the deep pool in the valley.

Could it be, the Queen Mother?!