# 1057
Chapter 1058: Jade Pool Reminiscence
Su Zhe stood frozen in place.
Realizing his hand slamming the table had been somewhat excessive, Ke Changlin cleared his throat and unconsciously brushed his palm across the desktop before continuing:
"Sorry, I got a bit worked up… It's just that I've been having nightmares these past two days, dreams about something crawling out from the mist, so I've become a bit sensitive about that kind of thing…
Anyway, I should go take over the shift. You two eat the pancake while it's still hot—it'll get cold soon."
Ke Changlin rose from his seat, waved at the Su siblings, pulled his military coat tighter around himself, and walked toward the bitterly cold doorway.
Snowflakes drifted through the gaps in the soft plastic curtain. Su Zhe stared at the pancake on the table, falling silent.
"What's wrong with you?"
Su Yuan noticed Su Zhe's dazed state and asked.
"Oh, nothing." Su Zhe snapped back to reality, shook his head, reached for the pancake on the table, and stuffed a large bite into his mouth.
"How does it taste?"
"Very fragrant." Su Zhe chewed the pancake in his mouth, then fell silent as if remembering something.
"It's just slightly inferior to the ones Mom used to make."
…
Lin Qiye's figure slowly descended onto the mountaintop.
Upon seeing Lin Qiye return, the bored Nezha's eyes immediately lit up. He rushed over to Lin Qiye and asked eagerly:
"I just saw the Queen Mother personally intervene—what happened?"
Beside him, Yang Jian also opened his eyes and looked toward Lin Qiye.
Lin Qiye smiled helplessly and recounted everything he had witnessed.
"The Immortal Pill of Immortality was stolen?" Nezha's brow furrowed slightly.
"What exactly is this Immortal Pill of Immortality?" Lin Qiye asked.
"The Immortal Pill of Immortality is an elixir refined by Lingbao Tianzun several thousand years ago." Yang Jian's voice drifted over from the side. "It's said that Lingbao Tianzun refined this pill to survive a great heavenly tribulation. However, after the pill was completed, heavenly lightning struck and split it in two."
"Right, I heard about it from my master too." Nezha nodded repeatedly, continuing,
"In the legends, when Lingbao Tianzun saw the pill split by the heavenly lightning, his expression changed dramatically, because the very purpose of refining this pill was to survive the great heavenly tribulation. The heavenly lightning destroying the pill meant the tribulation was extremely dangerous and could not be overcome through external means.
After that, Lingbao Tianzun entered seclusion for a thousand years, seeking a method to survive the tribulation."
Hearing this, Lin Qiye's brow furrowed even more.
A heavenly tribulation that even the three Great Xia Tianzuns could not handle?
What on earth was that?
"What happened later? Did he find a way?"
"…I don't know." Yang Jian shook his head slightly,
"After Lingbao Tianzun entered seclusion, he vanished without a trace. Even we have never seen him… All we know is that afterward, Yuanshi Tianzun collected the Immortal Pill of Immortality that had been split in two and stored it in the Jade Pool within Kunlun Ruins."
Lin Qiye nodded thoughtfully. "Do either of you know who took the Immortal Pill?"
Upon hearing this, both Yang Jian and Nezha froze simultaneously.
"The Immortal Pill was taken?" Nezha spoke in astonishment. "When did this happen?"
Seeing their reactions, Lin Qiye's frown deepened.
The Immortal Pill had been taken over two thousand years ago—this was told to him directly by the Queen Mother of the West. Yet neither Yang Jian nor Nezha knew?
In other words, the loss of the Immortal Pill was a secret within Kunlun Ruins?
That made sense. At the time, in the pill hall, the yellow-robed maid had told him to go steal it, saying "don't let her take the Immortal Pill of Immortality," not "don't let her take the Immortal Pill."
If the yellow-robed maid had known the Immortal Pill was gone, she would have definitely told Lin Qiye to go steal the Immortal Pill—after all, that would explain why she didn't want Si Xiaonan to get there first to take the Immortal Pill. Stealing an empty jar held no meaning for the Jade Pool.
Even the Pearl Soul who served by the Queen Mother's side didn't know the truth about the Immortal Pill's disappearance?
"Approximately two thousand years ago." Lin Qiye沉思片刻，紧接着问道，"那段时间，Jade Pool有出现什么变故吗？"
"Two thousand years ago… At that time, I hadn't even become a deity yet." Nezha scratched his head and turned to look at Yang Jian. "Yang Jian, do you know?"
Yang Jian's eyes narrowed slightly as he contemplated, then spoke:
"Two thousand years ago, the Queen Mother of the West, for reasons unknown, personally carried out a bloodbath at the Jade Pool. Every single heavenly soldier, divine guard, attendant, and celestial bird at the Jade Pool was killed—none survived. The blood soaked into the soil of the Peach Garden, dyeing the entire Jade Pool crimson.
This incident even alarmed the two Tianzuns. They sealed the Jade Pool with Taoist magic for three days and three nights before the matter finally settled.
However, the reason why the Queen Mother carried out that massacre at the Jade Pool remains unknown. Perhaps only she and the two Tianzuns are aware."
The Queen Mother of the West personally intervened and carried out a bloodbath at the Jade Pool?
What was the connection between this incident and the disappearance of the Immortal Pill? And what did it have to do with Jialan's appearance…?
Lin Qiye felt everything before him growing increasingly shrouded in mystery.
"By the way, why haven't we disappeared after all these days?" Nezha seemed to have just remembered something, looking at his own hands in confusion. "Isn't this temporal shadow lasting a bit too long?"
Lin Qiye snapped back to reality and shook his head, saying: "Perhaps the Queen Mother was simply bored and…"
He stopped mid-sentence, freezing in place.
Wait.
The Peach Banquet had already ended. Besides Yang Jian and Nezha, there shouldn't be any other Great Xia deities at the Jade Pool. Why would the Queen Mother of the West choose this time to amuse herself?
Moreover, Loki had just launched a sneak attack on the Jade Pool—how could she possibly be bored?
"I don't know either." Lin Qiye sighed. His mind was in chaos right now, with all sorts of information interweaving, leaving him with no clue whatsoever. "It's about time. I need to leave Kunlun Ruins and return to the real world…"
Only a few hours remained until the final day of the seven-day assessment. He had to get back before the new soldiers finished.
Lin Qiye turned his head, his complex gaze resting on Yang Jian before him.
"Mn." Yang Jian nodded slightly. "Go ahead… See you in the future."
Lin Qiye seemed to want to say more, but in the end, he simply spoke four words: "See you in the future."
"Me too." Nezha waved at him too, smiling. "See you in the future. Once you become a deity, let's have a proper fight!"
Lin Qiye smiled, turned around, and flew toward the exit of Kunlun Ruins.
The moment his right foot took a step, the Kunlun Ruins beneath his feet began to shake violently!