I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 172: Emperor’s Lady Mulberry_1

Chapter 172: Chapter 172: Emperor’s Lady Mulberry_1

Yun Chu, it was Yun Chu again!

You never expected to hear this name from Fan Yi’s lips!

Yet Fan Yi had still not awakened, her eyes closed, murmuring incomprehensible fragments.

"Ouch, it’s so hot!"

When Yin Guihua reached out to touch Fan Yi’s forehead, she suddenly cried out in alarm.

You hastily placed your hand on her pulse, and with everyone watching, your frown deepened.

"How is it?"

Wu Qiyi asked.

You pulled back your hand, glanced at your tense-faced companions, and said solemnly, "Fan Yi’s physical condition is very strange. I have only just started to dabble in medicine, so my understanding isn’t deep, and I can’t diagnose her accurately. What I can confirm is that her body can’t hold on much longer, and we need to find the root cause as soon as possible."

"No, it can’t be, Little Yi will be okay!" Fan Dongqing stood by, hands flailing helplessly, pacing back and forth incessantly.

Yin Guihua then held Fan Yi and began to cry, "Little Yi, Little Yi you must hang in there, once you pull through, you’ll live a life of wealth and honor!"

You seemed to catch something in Yin Guihua’s words and asked, "Guihua, do you know something? Tell us everything you know!"

Yin Guihua blinked her tear-filled eyes and said to you, "I remember when Fan Yi was six, she had a serious illness, very similar to now, perhaps more severe. But I don’t know how she recovered. However, I remember Brother Dongqing once saying that once Fan Yi lived past her eighteenth birthday, she would have a very prosperous future."

You all immediately turned to look at Fan Dongqing, and Yin Guihua’s words also triggered Fan Dongqing’s memories, "Little Yi did indeed fall seriously ill when she was six. At that time, a Taoist happened to pass through our village. After examining Fan Yi, he gave her a Water Talisman to drink and then went alone to Divine Maiden Peak to the east. The next day, when he returned, he brought back a mulberry leaf. Following the Taoist’s instructions, we boiled the mulberry leaf in dew and gave the liquid to Little Yi to drink, and she gradually got better. Before the Taoist left, he mentioned that Little Yi would face a great calamity on her eighteenth birthday, but if she safely got through it, she would lead a life of wealth and prosperity."

Despite finding the story rather far-fetched, you still asked, "Did the Taoist say how to break the calamity?"

Fan Dongqing shook his head, his expression growing more pained, "It was the same back then, she was fine one moment, and the next she was unconscious, uttering words we couldn’t understand."

At that moment, Xi Yu took out a satellite phone from her briefcase, and recorded the fragmented speech spoken by Fan Yi.

She said to everyone, "Let’s see if we can decode it first."

Speaking, Xi Yu sent the recording to someone, and in about ten minutes they responded, the voice belonging to a young girl, "Xi Yu Sister, where did you record this audio from?"

"Is there a problem?"

"A big problem! I’ve spent over ten minutes comparing the recording to every language of modern civilizations worldwide, and found no similarities, meaning this language could very likely be extraterrestrial."

"It has nothing to do with aliens; help me decode it again."

Xi Yu turned on the speakerphone, allowing everyone to listen, which made the situation even more unusual.

After considering, you asked Fan Dongqing, "You said the Taoist went to Divine Maiden Peak. Where is that peak?"

Fan Dongqing glanced around before looking up and pursing his lips towards the towering peak on the opposite side to the right, "It’s over there."

Just as Yang Kai was about to extend his finger to point at the Divine Maiden Peak, Fan Dongqing hurriedly ran in front of him, using his body to block Kai’s finger, and said sternly, "Don’t ever point with your finger! You absolutely can’t show any disrespect towards the Divine Maiden Peak, or you’ll suffer retribution."

Seeing Fan Dongqing so solemn, Yang Kai instead laughed, "Brother Dongqing, you used to be a soldier. How come you’re superstitious about this?"

Yin Guihua added, "Around here, the only taboo is the Divine Maiden Peak. No one can disrespect the Divine Maiden Peak, or they really will face retribution. This is no joke."

After all, as a member of the supernatural detective society, Yang Kai gradually adopted a new understanding of the supernatural. Seeing how serious Fan Dongqing and Yin Guihua were, he quickly lowered his hand.

At that moment, you slowly stood up and closed your eyes in the direction of the Divine Maiden Peak. When you opened your eyelids, the Sen Luo Eye was revealed once again!

The Divine Maiden Peak was about a thousand meters away from you, and your vision suddenly brought it closer.

You suddenly discovered that the vegetation on the Divine Maiden Peak seemed different from the mountainside next to it. The greenery here was more lush, and most of it consisted of towering trees.

Even more incredulous was that, at the top of Divine Maiden Peak, you spotted a mulberry tree that stood reaching the sky!

As soon as you saw the mulberry tree, you couldn’t help but exclaim, "Emperor’s Lady Mulberry!?"

"Little Yunyun, what do you see? What is the Emperor’s Lady Mulberry?" Xiao Feng came up to ask beside you.

Wei Shuxian pushed up his glasses and explained to the confused crowd, "Emperor’s Lady Mulberry is a legendary sacred tree. It is said that the Flame Emperor’s daughter took up residence on the Emperor’s Lady Mulberry and eventually burned to become an immortal."

Wei Shuxian took out a high-powered telescope from his backpack, and as he looked towards the top of Divine Maiden Peak, he smiled and said, "Old Shu, how could there possibly be an Emperor’s Lady Mulberry in this world? That’s probably just a bigger-than-average mulberry tree."

Through the Sen Luo Eye, you could see clearly that the Emperor’s Lady Mulberry was crystal clear, with each mulberry leaf lush and green like jade, and its branches bore mulberries radiating with seven-colored light.

Of course, what Wei Shuxian saw was just one of the Emperor’s Lady Mulberry’s superficial guises. To survive, any creature in nature would camouflage itself.

Once the burning aura within your eyes subsided, you turned to look at the unconscious Fan Yi and said to the people around you, "I’ve decided to make a trip to Divine Maiden Peak."

Xiao Feng stood on a rock, looking in the direction of Divine Maiden Peak, and sighed, "This journey won’t be easy, that mountain path looks quite treacherous."

You turned your head and swept your gaze over everyone, saying, "This matter started because of me; it’s best if I go alone. You guys stay here."

"Bullshit!" Xiao Feng immediately cursed.

"What are you talking about? Aren’t we brothers anymore?" Wei Shuxian and Yang Kai gave you a shove.

The rest of the group stood up simultaneously, their gazes burning as they looked at you.

Yin Guihua suddenly interjected, "I’ll stay behind, I have to take care of Little Yi."

You looked at Fan Yi and shook your head, "No, Fan Yi must come with us, too."