# 1692
Chapter 1692: Chaos at the Jade Pool
The moment these words were spoken, the entire carriage fell into dead silence.
Chloe：||ﾟДﾟ!
Lin Qiye：∑O_O；？？
"No!!"
"No!!!"
The two spoke in unison.
Their intense reactions startled Jialan, and Chloe immediately spoke up:
"Don't misunderstand! We're just partners! I was just helping him with some things!"
"That's right, you're overthinking it, Jialan."
"Oh... I see?" Jialan nodded blankly, "Sorry, I was being presumptuous..."
"It's fine..." Lin Qiye breathed a sigh of relief, pointing to the seat beside him, "Come sit over here."
"No need, I'll just sit here."
"..."
A faint tic appeared at the corner of Lin Qiye's mouth.
Seeing that Jialan had no intention of changing seats, Lin Qiye didn't push the matter... After all, regardless of what the future held, they were only strangers meeting for the first time now. Since she was willing to sit in the corner, he couldn't exactly force her to sit by his side.
Chloe looked at Yan Zhong, who had been squeezed into the corner by her, then glanced at the empty space beside her. She was caught in a strange predicament—sitting back down didn't feel right, but not sitting back down felt equally awkward... She found herself in an inexplicable stalemate.
The atmosphere inside the carriage suddenly grew quiet.
In the end, it was Jialan who broke the awkward silence.
"By the way, where are you heading?"
"The same as you, to the Jade Pool."
"Jade Pool?"
Upon hearing these two words, Jialan first froze, then shook her head firmly:
"You can't go there, at least not for the next two days."
"Why?"
Jialan hesitated, as if weighing her words. After a moment, she still said:
"The Jade Pool is in complete chaos right now... If you go there, you'll only add to Her Ladyship's troubles. You might even lose your lives."
Lin Qiye and the others exchanged glances.
"Chaos?"
"A smoke has enveloped the entire Kunlun Ruins. From the guests above to the heavenly soldiers and servants below, everyone in the Jade Pool has been confused. The Queen Mother of the West is no exception... I barely escaped from there."
As expected,
the true Kusuen body had long set its sights on the gods of Great Xia.
Upon hearing this, Lin Qiye knew his guess had been correct. He asked urgently:
"When did this happen?"
"Six days ago."
"So the entire Jade Pool has fallen? How did you manage to escape?" Yan Zhong asked curiously.
Jialan was silent for a moment before saying: "When the Queen Mother of the West first discovered something was amiss, only me and another servant, Jiang Zhu, were attending to Her Ladyship. So in the entire Jade Pool, only the three of us could be completely trusted...
After that, Her Ladyship seemed to have foreseen something. She directly took me and Jiang Zhu into the alchemy chamber, entrusting the Immortal Elixir Pot and the Eternal Elixir Pot to each of us respectively. She told us to protect them with our lives. If anyone tried to seize them by force, we were to destroy them rather than let them fall into others' hands, and we must not secretly consume them. Because even if these two elixirs were swallowed, they would not disappear. As long as the person was cremated to ash, they could still be extracted."
After that, she used a secret technique to transport us directly out of the Jade Pool, and we agreed to return in ten days. She said that within ten days, she would definitely resolve everything.
After leaving the Jade Pool, to spread the risk, Jiang Zhu and I split up. She went to the kingdom of Magadha on the other side, while I entered the Great Han Dynasty.
Over these six days, I hid under an assumed name in various places... But every two days, a group of monsters would find me, and each time there were more of them. The first time there were only a few dozen, but by the second time there were over a hundred.
My strength was depleted, and I was severely injured. I barely escaped from the second attack. Later, my strength gave out and I collapsed in the snow. When I woke up, I had already been brought to Qingshan County..."
Upon hearing this, Lin Qiye more or less understood the sequence of events.
After the Queen Mother of the West discovered the Jade Pool was under attack, her first reaction was to send the Immortal Elixir and the Eternal Elixir to the mortal realm. This alone was enough to demonstrate how important these two items were. As for the confusion that followed in the Jade Pool—except for Jialan, Jiang Zhu, and the Queen Mother of the West, no one else should know that these two pots of elixirs were no longer in the Jade Pool.
The current situation was: Lin Qiye had already fed Jialan the Eternal Elixir. It would be impossible to return it as promised... When they returned to the Jade Pool, would the Queen Mother of the West really burn Jialan to extract the Eternal Elixir from her body?
If that happened, for both personal and karmic reasons, Lin Qiye would never allow such a thing to occur.
"This sounds like serious trouble..." Yan Zhong looked at Lin Qiye thoughtfully. "Do you have any把握?"
"Yes." Lin Qiye said calmly. "My ability can distinguish between real and fake. As long as we intervene, we can solve many difficulties."
"You're still going to the Jade Pool?" Seeing that her words hadn't discouraged them, Jialan anxiously said, "You can't! After all, you're merely human. When the smoke enveloped Kunlun Ruins, there were still several Chief Gods staying at the Jade Pool as guests, not to mention the Queen Mother of the West... You'd be walking to your deaths!
You should follow the Queen Mother of the West's instructions and wait four more days before entering."
"Rest assured, Miss Jialan." Chloe smiled. "We have experience dealing with that thing, and... we're also quite strong."
"Though, we still have at least two days of travel before we reach Kunlun Mountain. By the time we arrive, maybe everything will be over?" Hu Jia asked.
Lin Qiye frowned and fell into deep thought.
The Queen Mother of the West's ten-day deadline should be the maximum time needed to pacify the Jade Pool. If they wanted to help, they had to reach the Jade Pool as soon as possible.
His gaze passed through the lifted curtain and fell upon the carriage ahead.
Sensing Lin Qiye's gaze, Chloe and the others suddenly shuddered. They试探性地问道:
"You wouldn't..."
"There's no other way." Lin Qiye comforted them. "Everyone bear with it. We'll be there soon."
The others' faces instantly turned ashen. Only Jialan sat茫然 in the corner, not understanding what was happening.
Lin Qiye called for the carriage to stop. He boarded Huo Qubing's carriage and said something, then they directly unhooked the freshly replaced horses from the front of the carriages, leaving only the two carriages standing alone and forlorn on the wilderness.
"What are you doing?" When Yan Zhong saw the horses he had just bought being set free like this, he asked in confusion.
Lin Qiye patted him on the shoulder and said meaningfully:
"We're afraid the horses won't make it... Flying at high altitude in this temperature, they would freeze to death before reaching Kunlun Mountain. Rather than that, it's better to just set them free."
"...They'll freeze to death, but what about us?"
Lin Qiye smiled without answering.
BOOM—!!
Under the power of the Sovereign Emperor, the two carriages shot up from the ground at an astonishing speed. Accompanied by bursts of mournful wailing cries, they vanished beyond the clouds at the horizon.