The two of them quietly dropped to the back.
When they were some distance away from the crowd, a little girl of around eleven or twelve said to the slightly older girl, "Zhenzhen Jie, don't you think Xing Beiluo is a bit strange today?"
The older girl was none other than Xing Zhenzhen. She replied, "You're reading my mind, Youran. I definitely feel that she's a bit different today compared to before, but she doesn't seem out of her mind. Still, how are we supposed to explain those actions?"
"I suspect she's not the real Xing Beiluo!"
Xing Zhenzhen widened her eyes. "What?!"
"Did you forget, Zhenzhen Jie? Right at the beginning, she said she wasn't the Second Sister. I suspect what she said wasn't a lie. As for later, she must have heard Grandma say this was the General's Estate, and when she saw that our family is well off, she decided to play along and turn into a phoenix."
Xing Zhenzhen recalled Xing Beiluo's reaction at the time and said, "There's really a possibility of that. In any case, let's report this matter to Mother first and let her make the decision."
***
Meanwhile, Xing Beiluo, who had just seen everyone off, clutched her slightly throbbing head.
A head injury really does affect one's intelligence.
But no matter how slow-witted she was, Xing Beiluo finally processed the situation: this definitely wasn't Country M.
Shaking her head, Xing Beiluo called Youbai over to gather some information.
After some subtle probing, Xing Beiluo had to admit the truth:
She had transmigrated!
This wasn't Earth, but a place called the Hanhai Continent where people could cultivate spiritual energy.
She was currently in the General's Estate of the Azure Dragon Empire. The Second Miss of this General's Estate shared her exact name and was the darling of the entire estate, yet she always loved to mysteriously disappear.
Not long ago, she had slipped away without a word, and for some unknown reason, Xing Beiluo had ended up here and was mistaken for the Second Miss of the General's Estate and brought back.
Xing Beiluo rubbed her aching temples.
Sisters turning against each other, a bizarre transmigration, and being mistaken for someone else—what kind of mess was all of this?
So frustrating!
Xing Beiluo wanted to go out and clear her head, so she said to Youbai, "Youbai, let's go out of the estate and have some fun."
Youbai gave her a peculiar look. "Miss, since you got hurt this time, Old Madam took away your identity token."
"Oh, she can take it if she wants. Let's go out anyway," Xing Beiluo said casually.
Youbai looked at her in a dilemma. "If we go out without an identity token, we'll be caught and treated as slaves."
***
Xing Beiluo had originally planned to go out and clear her head, but now she was even more annoyed!
Bored out of her mind, Xing Beiluo lay on the bed, feeling deeply depressed.
The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt, and she struck the bed frame in frustration.
Right at that moment, an unexpected change occurred!
The moment her hand hit the edge of the bed, she felt a wave of intense dizziness and couldn't help clutching her head as she passed out.
When she opened her eyes again, she had arrived in an unfamiliar place.
It was a boundless grassland filled with waist-high weeds, and not far away stood a thatched cottage.
Good grief! Did it have to be this thrilling, changing locations just by taking a nap?
She took two steps forward and tentatively asked, "Is anyone here?"
A deep male voice came from behind her: "You've finally come."
This voice—it sounded so familiar...
It was him!
Xing Beiluo instantly grew alert.
This was that same male voice she had heard when she first lost consciousness!
Pricking up her ears to listen carefully, she heard a sound coming from her rear right.
Without a second thought, Xing Beiluo spun around, whipped her leg out in a horizontal sweep, all in one fluid motion!
It seemed to have kicked something soft.
"Ouch, what are you doing?! Are you trying to kill me?" A pained voice rang out.
Xing Beiluo looked down.
Uh...
She had thought it was some wretched man, but it turned out to be a Little Azure Dragon.
As a professional agent, Xing Beiluo's capacity to accept the bizarre was quite good.
After all, she could even accept transmigration, let alone seeing a talking dragon.
Xing Beiluo didn't withdraw the foot she had planted on the little dragon, merely staring at it and asking, "Where is this? Why am I here?"
With a "whoosh!", the Little Azure Dragon vanished from under Xing Beiluo's foot and reappeared beside her.
It rubbed its large belly where Xing Beiluo had kicked it. "I am the Artifact Spirit of the Nuwa Stone. This is the internal space of the Nuwa Stone. You are the master of the Nuwa Stone, so of course you can come in whenever you want."
"Wait! How did I become the master of the Nuwa Stone?"
The Little Azure Dragon gestured for her to look at her right hand.
Xing Beiluo raised her hand and only then noticed the white jade bracelet on it.
When had Aixiantian ended up on her hand?
She shook Aixiantian and asked, "This thing is the Nuwa Stone?"
The Little Azure Dragon nodded. "More or less."
Xing Beiluo asked again, "You mean this place is my territory? My Natal Space?"
"Yes."
"Then isn't this place way too desolate?"
The Little Azure Dragon rolled its eyes at her. "The condition inside Aixiantian is determined by the master's cultivation level."
The unspoken implication was that this place was desolate entirely because she was too weak.
"..."
She really wanted to kill this dragon.
The moment the Little Azure Dragon caught Xing Beiluo's gaze, it instantly knew what she was thinking.
It hurriedly said, "The space can be upgraded! As long as Master, your cultivation is sufficient, everything will exist in here. It can also expand infinitely and even evolve into an independent little world."
"Oh?"
The Little Azure Dragon hastened to explain, "Logically speaking, this space belongs exclusively to you. Without your permission, no one can enter or even detect the existence of the space. When your cultivation becomes powerful enough, this place can evolve into an independent world. By then, you will be the Creator God."
Xing Beiluo rolled her eyes. Thanks, but not interested.
Sensing her lack of interest, the Little Azure Dragon thought for a moment and added, "When your space is able to hold living creatures, you can bring everyone you want to protect into here. By then, no matter what happens, no one will be able to harm them. Even if you die, this space will still exist."
Hearing this, a sharp, dull ache stabbed through Xing Beiluo's heart.
Pain!
Heart-wrenching pain!
She thought of the people at the nursing home.
She had been picked up and raised by an old granny. Aside from The Organization, the person she cared about most was Grandma.
This was also the reason why she had been so lenient with Old Madam.
However, The Organization had used them for hxbd experiments—locking people in a sealed space and randomly releasing hundreds of poisons and venomous bugs, causing excruciating agony. Even if someone managed to endure the toxicity, the sealed space alone would cause them to suffocate to death.
Normal people could barely withstand it, let alone those lovely old ladies... none of them survived.
And they had died in such agony!
At this thought, monstrous hatred blazed in Xing Beiluo's eyes.
Hua Xi, The Organization—once I find a way back, I will make you experience firsthand what it feels like to wish you were dead!
As the Artifact Spirit bound to her in a contract, the Little Azure Dragon could also feel her emotional fluctuations and quickly comforted her:
"As long as your cultivation becomes strong enough, perhaps you can reverse heaven and earth and bring them back to life..."