The Happy Farmer Wanderer-Chapter 689: A Vengeful Woman_1

"I have a small question," Li Qing asked. "Are we still inside the same Underground Palace I entered before?"

Zi Ling looked at Li Qing with a smile in her eyes, "What do you think?"

"How the hell would I know? If I could tell where I was, would I have been played by you like a monkey in that stone chamber?" Li Qing cursed as soon as he opened his mouth.

Zi Ling’s lips curled lightly, smiling gently and reservedly.

Seeing her expression, Li Qing suddenly froze, wait, did my cursing shock you?

It was quite creepy to see a seductive woman suddenly showing such a delicate and gentle smile.

"You don’t need to be nervous. I just find it amusing that after a thousand years, I finally see the daylight and meet someone as interesting as you," Zi Ling said with a nostalgic look and a faint smile. "This place, of course, is not that Underground Palace."

"This Underground Palace is buried deep underground, precisely to avoid being disturbed. The place you were in before is the Weapon Pavilion, which is probably the most dangerous part of the entire Underground Palace. Almost all the defense forces are concentrated there."

"The Weapon Pavilion has three deep levels, filled with countless soldier mechanisms. Just below is where you just were, concealed by the Nine Heavens Milky Way Water and guarded by several illusionary mazes, before reaching this place. And the path I just took you on, that was a shortcut."

"The real journey to get here would probably be even more complicated than the eighty-one difficulties."

Li Qing’s scalp tingled instantly upon hearing this. With such a setup, how the hell were they supposed to break through? Dying here wouldn’t be unjust.

"King Qi must be the champion of hiding his mistresses. Certainly, no one dares to get involved with you guys," Li Qing shook his head and said.

Zi Ling laughed heartily at his words, nearly in tears.

"Indeed, so you see, how miserable we women are. Dressed in silks and satins every day, yet we are like birds in a cage, corpses in coffins," Zi Ling said mockingly about herself. "Still, despite his secretive hiding, on my very first day seeing the daylight, I was defiled by you."

"First day, first day, how interesting. Also, am I fun?"

Li Qing looked at Zi Ling, and after a long pause, he said, "I have a feeling... never mind, it’s quite fun."

Zi Ling tilted her head and looked at Li Qing, then suddenly said earnestly, "Since that’s what you think, I must fulfill your wish to mess with a thousand-year-old corpse. Otherwise, you two won’t be getting out of here. I absolutely must give you my true first day, first day experience."

Li Qing’s face instantly darkened, damn it, I shouldn’t have run my mouth.

"Let’s hurry up and find your body instead of wasting time here," Li Qing said with a look of melancholy.

He wondered how Hong Fang Zhenren and Shisan Zhenren were doing.

He and Zi Ling truly had bad luck to the bone.

Why on earth did they have to run into this damned old witch!

"Let’s go. After a thousand years, I don’t even know if I can still feel the pleasure I did just now," Zi Ling murmured. "After this is done, I’ll take you to King Qi’s tomb. I want you to ride me on his coffin, to shame him by pressing down on his head."

Li Qing: ...

She must hold quite a grudge!

"Esteemed... predecessor, you can’t backtrack on your word and change the terms at the last minute, can you?" Li Qing finally couldn’t help but say.

"Did I?" Zi Ling countered, "I said before, if you retrieve my body, I will return it to you. However, I never said I would just let you go. And without my help, you can’t get out of the Underground Palace."

"Now, this is my condition for letting you out, whether you do it or not is up to you. If you want to stay here with me forever, I can also agree to let you do it elsewhere. That doesn’t matter to me."

Li Qing looked at Zi Ling, bewildered, feeling a sudden urge to strangle this woman.

The hell with it, setting new terms at the last minute, is that it?

"I would like to ask, esteemed predecessor, whether there will be any other conditions after the deed is done?" Li Qing asked through gritted teeth.

"For now, let’s talk about the present issues; the future can be discussed later," Zi Ling said with an air of nonchalance, lightly brushing her hand as if to easily dismiss the topic.

But her attitude already said a lot about the matter.

Either she was still nursing a grudge or she hadn’t figured out what to do yet. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

But there would definitely be other troubles when the time came.

However, at this point, Li Qing no longer had any control over the situation; he could only continue to follow the pace set by this old vixen.

That was what made him feel powerless.

"Senior, not to speak out of turn... but indulging in that sort of thing on top of a dead person’s coffin is hardly graceful," Li Qing said darkly.

Zi Ling offered a shallow smile, revealing her teeth. "But I find it graceful. And when the time comes, I’ll even play the flute for you."

"King Qi kept me imprisoned for sixteen years; he tried numerous times to have me suck on that tiny grinding stick, but I never consented. He harbored this resentment against me continually and even went so far as to strike me, and at times, wanted to kill me."

"I wonder if his Yin Soul has left this place. If it’s still here, I will make sure it gets a good look at the enthralling way I play the flute and how I seek pleasure and satisfaction."

Li Qing’s lips twitched slightly.

This woman’s memory of her grudges was truly terrifying.

After all these years, she still harbored such deep resentment.

Frightening!

Li Qing had absolutely no desire to engage in this topic, so he said nothing at all.

To do such a thing on top of someone else’s coffin... positively inhumane.

He would just have to see how things unfolded; perhaps this woman’s physical body couldn’t be retrieved at all.

"Come, let me show you around King Qi’s Beauty Garden," Zi Ling said, her eyes bearing a soft, gentle smile as she took Li Qing’s hand.

Li Qing dodged slightly but, after locking eyes with Zi Ling momentarily, he gave up resisting.

Whatever, it was just holding hands. He could play along with her.

Stepping through those grand gates, Li Qing truly appreciated how extravagant the ancient nobility had been.

The intricately carved opulence overwhelmed his eyes.

Zi Ling seemed to feel as if she were back in her own home, leisurely strolling with Li Qing and explaining each of the buildings’ functions along the way, while also reminiscing about the past.

Despite feeling extremely frustrated, Li Qing gained a genuine lesson in ancient architecture.

Though it was all knowledge, Li Qing didn’t know if he would ever have the opportunity to use it.

They crossed the vast gardens, and Zi Ling led Li Qing to the cliffs behind the Beauty Garden.

Opposite the cliffs... stood more cliffs, towering over a thousand feet high, their tops obscured from view.

Upon them bloomed a riot of flowers, a sight too beautiful to describe.

Between these two cliff faces, a mist hung as if tangible, cloaking the area in an almost ethereal veil.

Looking at the scene before him, Li Qing’s mind struggled to comprehend.

This place was supposed to be hundreds, if not thousands, of meters underground—how could there possibly be flowers blooming?