Feng Ningyan lifted her quilt and got off the bed. She opened the curtain and took a look, the window beside the soft couch was open, but on the soft couch, there was not even a shadow of Shen Lingjue!
"This bastard, he was hooked away by that zither music again. He even said that there was only one person who thought of Princess Hua-Yang." I would like to see who played that zither, and dared to dig the corner of my aunt's wall. "
She pulled a cloak around her and jumped out the window.
In the distance was a black figure that disappeared in a flash. It was hard to spot in the dark night.
"Crap, I lost them …" Feng Ningyan could not help but worry, but at this time, his heart suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he remembered Lan Zhu's words.
"Oh right, Wanfu Pavilion!"
Although she wasn't very familiar with the roads, she still knew the location of the Golden Light Cave. She only wanted to take a shortcut through the rooftops, rock formations, corridors, and treetops.
After a while, she arrived at the vicinity of the Golden Light Cave. On the east side of the cave was a three-story building that was built against the mountain with a majestic aura.
At this point, the sound of the zither became clearer and clearer. Although it was still floating around him, but since the sound was loud, he was sure that the source of the sound was nearby.
She carefully observed the guards in her surroundings. When she wasn't far away from Wanfu Pavilion, she suddenly saw Shen Lingjue make a small movement by the door of Wanfu Pavilion's courtyard wall with extreme caution. Then, the door rumbled open, and he slipped in.
Eh? Could it be that this door also had a mechanism?
Then, the door suddenly closed, leaving no gap at all.
At this moment, the zither music stopped …
At that moment, there were suddenly more guards, who were tightly guarding the walls of the Wanfu Pavilion.
Feng Ningyan laughed coldly: "If we steal it, we will need to put in so much effort to gather so many guards. We truly deserve to be called the princes of the Great Yue State."
Just as Shen Lingjue entered, the zither music stopped.
returned to the Linlang Pavilion feeling dejected, he decided to lock up the bedroom door and windows. He instructed the maid who was on night duty, "If His Highness comes back, tell him that it would be inconvenient for him to sleep tonight. Let him sleep in the study."
Although she had already said these words, she still couldn't sleep. It wasn't until Shen Lingjue's footsteps came from downstairs that she perked up her ears and listened to the servant finish relaying what she had said.
Shen Lingjue stood outside the door, looked at the tightly shut door, and knew in her heart that Feng Ningyan had probably discovered that he had gone out.
He smiled through the door and said, "Wangfei is unwell, so you have to take good care of her. I'll come see her tomorrow morning." Then he really went downstairs to the study.
Feng Ningyan did not sleep for the entire night.
The next day, she heard Shen Lingjue getting up and leaving Linlang Pavilion. She immediately got up and ordered Lv Ruo to bring a set of servant girl's clothes to change.
"Princess, where are you going in this outfit?" Lv Ruo sensed that something was amiss with Feng Ningyan.
Feng Ningyan instructed her: "You're not allowed to tell me. I'll go to the back mountain to pick flowers.
Lv Ruo nodded worriedly: "Do you want this servant to accompany you?"
Feng Ningyan took out the sword in her belt and tied it around her waist: "No need, no need. After I leave, you will stand guard at the door and say that I have caught a cold and fell asleep.
She hurried out the door.
After taking many detours, and with no one recognizing her, they finally arrived at the base of the Wanfu Pavilion's wall.
During the day, there weren't as many guards here as at night. After Feng Ningyan avoided the group of guards, she directly climbed up the back wall and climbed inside.
When she flipped over the wall, she was startled. There was no potted plants in the courtyard, only white marble tiles, smooth and white, without a speck of dust.
There was nothing else to hide from the tall figures of the eighteen arhats that surrounded the walls.
No matter how he looked at it, this place didn't seem to be a place suitable for hiding a girl's beauty...
She hesitated, thinking, could it be that Shen Lingjue is not here to cheat? If he wasn't here to meet this beauty, why would I be here?
Forget it, since I'm already here, I might as well go in and take a look. I shouldn't be so curious about his disappearance.
When she saw no one in the courtyard, she came out from behind the arhat.
At that moment, she stepped on the white jade floor tile to the left of the Arhat. She felt her feet suddenly sink down, and the base of the statue immediately began to emit the crisp sound of a machine turning.
"There's a mechanism!" Feng Ningyan did not expect that this mere Scripture Pavilion would have such a mechanism. She hurriedly jumped up and flipped forward.
She could only rely on her intuition to avoid it. However, she didn't expect that the mechanism she triggered wasn't some common type of mechanism, such as an arrow or hidden weapon. Instead, she turned on the main switch of all the mechanisms in the courtyard.
Just as she was about to flip through the air and touch the ground with her toes, a change suddenly occurred on those smooth and flat white jade tiles.
Some rose, some fell. The entire courtyard was like a barricade of countless squares. Every tile could be a mechanism.
"Damn it..." Feng Ningyan scolded, her feet lightly tapped on a protruding floor tile, and with a few backflips, she jumped onto the head of a Arhat.
This time, no traps were triggered, but the floor tiles rose and fell continuously, making them look like turbulent sea surface from a hurricane, making it impossible for them to descend.
She finally understood that the small act Shen Lingjue did outside Wanfu Pavilion's gate last night must have been done to shut down the mechanisms within the courtyard.
She really regretted that she had been so reckless as to jump over the wall and enter.
She knew how powerful the mechanism was. Since she didn't have any way to break it, it was still better for her to use the thirty-six methods of escape.
Just as he was about to flip over the Arhat's head, he felt the Arhat's shoulders suddenly move, revealing a small gap. Two eagle claws peeked out, bringing a black iron wire with them as they coiled around Feng Ningyan's ankles.
At the same time, with a "Crack" sound, the other Arhats all turned at an angle towards Feng Ningyan.
Their eyes were originally carved in the air, but as they rotated, their eyeballs turned into pitch-black arrow holes as they shot out glittering arrows!
Feng Ningyan had never seen such an indefensible mechanism. She quickly unsheathed her sword and leaned backwards, hiding behind the statue of the Arhat with both of her feet hanging upside down.
With a whistling sound, arrows rained from the sky and flew out of the wall where she had been standing a moment ago.
She swung her sword, cutting the black wire that bound her feet, and jumped onto a piece of untouched tile by the wall.
Just then, Hu heard a burst of applause from the Wanfu Pavilion, a beautiful voice sounded out directly into Feng Ningyan's ears.
"Good, good, good. The wangfei is indeed nimble and vigorous. This little girl admires you for being able to avoid the mechanisms that can pierce the heart with ten thousand arrows!"
Feng Ningyan's eyes flashed, and asked loudly: "Who are you!"
"Me?" The other laughed lightly, "I am the guardian of this Wanfu Pavilion. There are many traps here, so it's best for wangfei to leave. "
Just then, Feng Ningyan saw a yellow flag hanging at the entrance of the Wanfu Pavilion.