Hu Yihui did not want to waste words with her, cutting straight to the point: "The Great Prajna Six-Jia Divine Book is the treasure that guards the Qixian State, and it records the secret methods for ascending to immortality. Why are you trying to repair it? Aren't you afraid that Father will find out and fly into a furious rage, and when his punishment comes down, all your hard work over these many years will go to waste?"
The smile on Hu Qingling's face vanished. She extended the index finger of her right hand, nonchalantly toying with the long, sharply filed nail on it. The nail was painted with bright red nail polish, shimmering with a faint, trembling light, and she said leisurely: "As everyone knows, there are six realms in this world: gods, demons, immortals, ghosts, the netherworld, and mortals. Heaven and earth are divided into thirty-six tiers, yet the divine realm occupies twenty-seven of them. Its vastness is boundless, and those without divine registry must undergo great trials and extreme perils if they wish to go to the divine realm."
As she spoke, Hu Qingling wriggled her slender waist and slowly lay back on a rosewood-carved phoenix armchair.
Chapter 24