Next, a jade token appeared in Princess Consort Le’s hand.
Then she gave a light leap, rising about a meter and a half off the ground.
The hand holding the Jade Pendant pressed down on an inconspicuous raised spot.
In the blink of an eye, the Jade Pendant vanished.
As she landed, Princess Consort Le’s right hand formed a palm, and she slapped the stone wall with seven light and three heavy strikes.
After doing all this, she stood motionless on the spot, eyes fixed on the stone wall.
If an outsider saw this, they’d probably think Princess Consort Le was crazy.
Even Lin Xi actually didn’t quite know what to say.
The method of entering this Secret Realm was indeed a bit out of the ordinary.
Of course, its safety was really incredibly high.
Who would think to press a Jade Pendant onto a raised stone?
And who would strike the stone wall with seven light and three heavy blows, and even hit in a specific pattern?
Not to mention, who can jump that high?
After the two of them waited about a minute, the stone wall that had just been hard as iron began to emit a faint halo, like the color of dusk.
"We’re going in!" Princess Consort Le glanced at Lin Xi, then stepped straight through.
The next moment, she disappeared from where she’d been.
Lin Xi took a look, then stepped in as well.
The feeling was basically the same as the last two times he entered a Secret Realm.
His vision blurred, and he saw Princess Consort Le standing beside him just like outside, as if she had never moved.
But the place where the two of them stood had completely changed.
Outside just now, it had been stone wall and forest.
Now they were inside the main hall of a house.
Not far away in the hall, four women dressed similarly to Princess Consort Le were standing there, looking at the two with respectful expressions.
Only, their faces instantly changed, turning into a wary look.
One of the women, who was holding a Jade Pendant, exclaimed in shock, "Why is it you?"
If Lin Xi wasn’t mistaken, that Jade Pendant was exactly the one Princess Consort Le had pressed in her hand just now.
It seemed this was one of the passes.
And judging from the change in these four’s expressions before and after,
he could roughly judge that the Jade Pendant in Princess Consort Le’s hand should have belonged to Le Tian.
These few thought Le Tian had come back.
They just never expected that the ones returning were Princess Consort Le and him.
A metallic "zheng" rang out.
Four metallic sounds echoed through the entire building.
"Didn’t expect them to actually use melee weapons." Lin Xi watched the four draw the longswords at their waists and couldn’t help muttering in his heart.
At his side, Princess Consort Le looked at the four sword-drawing women, a trace of anger flashing across her face as she snorted coldly, "Red Moon, why couldn’t it be me?"
"And with the way you’re acting now, are you planning to make a move on me?"
Red Moon, the woman who had just been holding the Jade Pendant, signaled the three beside her with her eyes, clearly not intending to back down.
On the contrary, they tightened into a ring, forming a circle of encirclement, looking like they would strike the moment Princess Consort Le made the slightest move.
Only after they formed the encirclement did she answer, "How do you have Le Tian’s Jade Pendant?"
"Where is Le Tian?"
As for what Princess Consort Le had just asked, she did not answer directly.
Seeing the four like this, Princess Consort Le’s expression grew even uglier.
"Le Tian is already dead!" she said.
The moment those words left her mouth, the atmosphere in the hall became even more oppressive.
Murderous intent burst out openly from Red Moon’s eyes. "You actually killed Elder Le Tian. Do you have any idea what a huge crime that is, you sinner who was expelled from the sect!"
Princess Consort Le almost laughed from anger. "Sinner?"
"You’re calling me a sinner?"
"Red Moon, after a few years of not seeing me, you’ve grown quite some guts."
"And another thing, Le Tian wanted to kill me—why couldn’t I kill him?"
At this time her gaze shifted toward the door, a hint of gravity appearing on her face.