Chapter 2249: May You Be Without Worry

The Southern Domain has many mountains, clouds, and miasma.

Even further south of Xuan Country, within a mountain range, there is a dangerous peak named "Tian Jue".

One look at its name and you know its danger, as the saying goes, "The southern sky reaches its absolute here."

The highest achievement of Mohist architecture, a giant city that has been continuously refined and evolved over countless years, is suspended here at the end of spring.

It will be stationed from March 28th to April 5th.

It appears like a shrine atop a mountain, an immortal platform on the roof of the world.

The moment it descended, Tian Jue Peak was no longer dangerous.

Accompanying the spread of the giant city was the establishment of a mechanical kingdom in the Southern Domain overnight.

Bridges are built on mountain tops, and horses run on clouds.

Wooden kites fly in the sky, and iron dragons carry passengers.

Cableways crisscross the high air, possessing a kind of orderly beauty.

From the foot of the mountain to the peak tens of thousands of zhang high, one can reach it through the "Flying Cloud Cabin" embedded within the mountain body. A single trip can be completed in three breaths.

Mechanical sedan chairs hanging outside the mountain body, moving at extreme speed, can also steadily deliver goods to the high heavens.

There is also the massive "Toad Palace Platform," a perfect fusion of mechanism and array, capable of directly transferring an entire block of space, sending everything on the Toad Palace Platform to its intended destination.

Different methods have different prices.

The previous Mohists would never have charged fees in such a place, nor would they have been so meticulous.

The current Mohists have clear price tags, and their services have indeed undergone cross-era development.

Xie Rui Xuan was quite stingy in this regard and chose to hang outside and brave the wind.

The long caravan was divided into ten teams, entering the huge mechanical sedan chairs one after another.

Zhu Wei Wo, wearing a veiled hat, sat inside the carriage. Through the carriage window, he looked at the scenery falling rapidly outside the sedan chair. His heart, which had been heavy for a long time, unexpectedly floated lightly upwards.

He had long heard the name of the giant city, long known of the giant city, and only today had he arrived at the giant city!

How many times had he entered meditation for divine travel, telling himself he needed to focus on cultivation, but with one daze, he would envision the giant city. He had already imagined countless times how he would come here.

He had already made preparations for a long wait.

But these eight years were still a bit too long.

Especially since this timing was fundamentally incorrect.

Not to mention reaching the first step of Cave True, even attaining Derive Dao, it would be impossible to do anything in the giant city.

But he still came.

He was by no means foolish, but he really missed it.

"Welcome to the Giant City!" A cast-iron sparrow painted with colorful patterns welcomed them outside the opened sedan chair, emitting a pleasant sound.

The caravan members successively exited the sedan chairs, curiously sizing up this legendary city, feeling that everything they saw was surprising and couldn't help but whisper.

"Where in this life is there freedom, today I see joy!" A mechanical monkey wearing a red official uniform stood on the welcoming platform and bowed gracefully: "Heaven's work begins, wishing you no worries, gentlemen!"

Its appearance, even the monkey fur, was remarkably realistic, except for wearing clothes, there was no difference from a regular monkey. Only its monkey tail, quite like a metal hinge, hung halfway down and swayed with a fixed rhythm.

The Mohists are certainly not lacking in means to make mechanisms completely realistic; it was clear that the mechanical beasts here deliberately retained their mechanical texture.

Being within this city, one cannot see the full view of the city. But at least in this area, the style seen is all like this, with exposed steel bones pulling the veins of this city.

There were puppets welcoming guests, and lamp trees like a river of stars. All sorts of fantastic colors adorned the steel.

After the mechanical monkey bowed, it snapped its fingers on the high platform.

Without any major actions, the real scene before them suddenly seemed to be torn away like a curtain.

Whoosh—

Noisy human voices instantly rushed to their faces.

It was impossible to distinguish whether it was a spatial change or an illusionary change. Even Zhu Wei Wo didn't catch the trajectory of the extraordinary power.

The entire caravan from Cloud Country then surged into a noisy city.

This was a "city within a city" inside the Giant City, but it wasn't narrow; instead, it was grand and magnificent. The space here was concretely extended, making it feel like being in Tianjing or Linzi.

One could see merchants from various countries shuttling in the square. All kinds of display platforms and goods of all shapes interwove into a dazzling market.

The Mohists, after several hundred years, reopened the Thousand Mechanisms Meeting, and it was indeed extraordinarily lively.

"Follow me, follow me!" The cast-iron sparrow flew ahead, leading the way.

Zhu Wei Wo sent a message to Xie Rui Xuan, then left the caravan alone and seamlessly blended into the crowd.

From the overturn of Not Redeem City until now, his understanding of Huang Jin Mo's recent situation came solely from the Mohists' descriptions.

He didn't know where in the Giant City Huang Jin Mo was imprisoned, or how Huang Jin Mo was living. The Giant City was always isolated from the world, and only core Mohist disciples could come and go. He had no crucial information.

He hadn't been idle these past few years and had also collected some materials related to the Giant City, but any slightly concrete information was from over three hundred years ago. In the nearly three hundred years, the Giant City had rarely been open to the outside world, and the occasional traces it showed were just glimpses, leaving people unable to see clearly.

Within the city within a city in front of him, Huang Jin Mo shouldn't be there.

This was clearly a new city specially built by Qian Jin Hua for business, welcoming guests from all directions. There was no reason to place the Mohists' prison in such a place for the world to watch.

How could he find out the location of the real prison?

Zhu Wei Wo shouldn't know the answer.

But he took out a map, seemed to look at it for a while, then casually chose a direction and walked forward.

He was no stranger to gathering intelligence, but he wasn't doing any specific work. He didn't follow the crowd, nor did he have a special target, but as he walked, it was just like reaching the mountain front by cart, seeing a wall that was slightly different.

He walked straight past, then crossed an illusion, and saw a gloomy alley.

Within this lively market city where the Thousand Mechanisms Meeting was ongoing, this alley was so out of place.

Zhu Wei Wo didn't hesitate and leaped into it.

This alley had many hidden mechanical lines, which of course he avoided one by one.

Walking to the end of the gloomy alley, he saw an entrance to an underground palace. Standing before the entrance were two puppet guards made of steel, their black pearl eyes scattering dim, cold light.

The strength of these guards was by no means weak; if he had to describe it, it was "just right."

Zhu Wei Wo wasn't too surprised. He casually pinched out a wisp of spear light, pinning down the two puppets. Then he swaggered into the underground palace—

Without too many twists and turns, passing through corridors and curtains, he went straight ahead. In the center of the underground palace throne, indeed sat a woman in black.

She was an eternal existence, an unparalleled ancient divine arrival realm. Therefore, the six thousand li stele limit divine arrival set up by Jiang Wang was difficult to challenge, a special state of divine arrival.

Her appearance was no different from eight years ago, still that indifferent posture. Her narrow phoenix eyes were like ice.

In the next moment, the glacier melted, and she saw Zhu Wei Wo.

There were no shackles on her body, no fetters on her feet, and no other restraints, but she sat there without moving, only giving Zhu Wei Wo enthusiastic eyes.

Zhu Wei Wo also didn't walk forward.

The two people just silently looked at each other for a while.

Just looking at each other was already very enough. But after all, this was not a place for visiting.

"You are so unkempt now?" Huang Jin Mo opened her mouth and said.

Zhu Wei Wo said: "Lazy to bother."

He was actually telling himself that he had no face; he had failed to save his loved one, and that shame would be forever engraved on his face. But he didn't say these things.

Huang Jin Mo breathed a sigh of relief, wanted to say something, but stopped. Finally, she said: "Have you thought about how you can come to save me? How you can save me?"

She became serious and criticized: "You care, therefore you are confused."

Coming to the Giant City to save someone was of course not such a simple matter.

Everything Zhu Wei Wo encountered along the way was clearly arranged. Even the play of fate sending someone to Star Moon Plain to inform him about Zhuang Country's affairs, his departure from Zhuang Country and then just happening to encounter a caravan participating in the Thousand Mechanisms Meeting, and still just happening to belong to the relatively friendly Cloud Country...

Zhu Wei Wo of course knew that such coincidences were not simple.

He now had absolutely no ability to save someone from the Giant City; how could he not know?

He looked at Huang Jin Mo: "I just wanted to come and see you."

Huang Jin Mo looked at him and couldn't help but laugh: "You saw."

Zhu Wei Wo never took a single step forward. He walked into the underground palace, but just stood there, like a stubborn nail, only saying: "You have suffered grievance."

"You see I am not well here now," Huang Jin Mo said.

"What did they do?" Zhu Wei Wo asked, trying not to show expression on his face.

Huang Jin Mo was silent for a while, finally saying: "Didn't do anything, I am just not happy."

Zhu Wei Wo heard clearly. He said: "Not being happy is the biggest reason."

He turned and walked towards the outside: "Wait for me here. Until the end of my life, I will find a way to make you happy and take you away."

"My life is very long," Huang Jin Mo said behind him: "My meaning is— I can always wait."

Zhu Wei Wo did not turn back to look again. This person couldn't say overly enthusiastic words. He only emphasized: "Wait for me."

Then he left.

Huang Jin Mo quietly sat on the throne. Of course, she could move freely; now she had objective freedom, but she absolutely would not leave.

She was not invited to come here; she couldn't just leave like this.

That turning corridor corner once again became a farewell.

She couldn't see Zhu Wei Wo.

For a person like Zhu Wei Wo, you know the weight of his promise.

He will certainly strive to come over.

If eight years aren't enough, then eighty years; if five hundred years aren't enough, then one thousand years. Until the last moment of his life, he will certainly walk towards you.

This dim underground palace had been cold for a very long time.

At first, it was a prison, the Giant City's most strictly guarded prison.

She was tried and punished here.

They asked her why she killed Mo Jing Yu, and what method she used to kill Mo Jing Yu— these questions, of course, yielded no results, and finally all came down to punishment.

The throne she now sat on was originally a punishment platform.

Later, Zhuang Gao Xian died, the Mohists investigated the "truth," and the contemporary Giant, Qian Jin Hua, personally came to eliminate the "misunderstanding."

She said nothing, unwilling to take a single step.

Later, this place was transformed into an underground palace, fences became courtyard pillars, and the punishment platform could also be decorated into a throne. The Mohists' ability to create things was indeed unparalleled.

But no matter how this place changed, Huang Jin Mo did not move a single step.

Whether it was a punishment platform or a throne. As long as she remained fixed here, it would forever describe that the cultivators of the Giant City imprisoned her as a prisoner.

Zhu Wei Wo had been gone for a long time. In the depths of the underground palace, a faint sigh echoed: "Huang girl, why bother? Just leave like this, roam mountains and play in the water with your loved one, what's not good? Now you both hold onto hatred, he also carries hatred. Two people who could have been happy cannot be happy. You know he will never be able to cross over, and you seem to never plan to walk out."

Huang Jin Mo did not speak.

She had hidden deep underground for many years. She was very unfamiliar with worldly affairs and didn't understand the connections between people very well. Although she later built Not Redeem City and saw all kinds of people, the people inside Not Redeem City were not many who were normal.

But on the contrary, she was even less able to understand those people who were considered "normal."

Those people would always say what was better, what was more advantageous. But they didn't say what was right.

She was originally not afraid of loneliness. She had lived alone in places where she couldn't see daylight for a long time, sinking into sleep alone. She was even less afraid now.

The voice in the depths of the underground palace spoke again: "Zhuang Gao Xian deceived so many people, who can guarantee they will never be deceived? This matter was originally a wicked scheme with ulterior motives. Now that the original culprit is dead, and the past is difficult to retrieve, shouldn't we all let go a little?"

Huang Jin Mo was like a statue, fixed on the throne.

That voice spoke again: "The Giant City's mistake, the Giant City is willing to bear. Just name any conditions you have, and the Giant City will satisfy them if it can. If the Giant City cannot satisfy them, I will personally find a way to satisfy them."

"Why don't you represent the Mohists?" Huang Jin Mo opened her mouth and said.

The voice in the depths of the underground palace was silent for a while, then laughed self-mockingly: "I don't qualify."

"You are very qualified, Master Qian," Huang Jin Mo said: "You took me to do research. Through each so-called punishment, you plundered my flesh, blood, and marrow— do you really think that after they left my body, I had no feeling of existence? This spirit of research at all costs is exactly the spirit of the Mohists."

The spirit of the Mohists involved sacrifice, but it was sacrificing oneself, not others. This was a huge irony!

The "Master Qian" in the depths of the underground palace was naturally the contemporary Mohist Giant, Qian Jin Hua.

The Thousand Mechanisms Meeting was of course not specially held for Zhu Wei Wo, but leading Zhu Wei Wo to the Giant City during this period was indeed the Mohists' arrangement. Very obviously, it failed again.

Because of the death of their true transmission disciple, Mo Jing Yu, the Mohists, in a situation with conclusive evidence, captured Huang Jin Mo back for questioning and trial. Each trial also conformed to the internal rules of the Giant City and had corresponding records— this was originally a matter that shouldn't have had too much dispute. The Giant City at least did not pick out too many superficial problems.

Since there were no superficial problems to pick out, the matter could be let go.

But Huang Jin Mo's stubbornness was beyond imagination.

From Lu Mao Guan to Qian Jin Hua, all the Mohists' attempts to resolve the hatred failed.

"Huang girl indeed misunderstands the Giant City too deeply!" Only such a voice echoed within the underground palace, and then there were no more words, as if blown away by the gloomy wind.

Then there was a rumbling sound, and the entire underground palace began to rise. Everything inside the underground palace also underwent changes, with mechanisms shifting and carvings floating. All sorts of arrangements became more magnificent. Soon, this cold, dim palace transformed into a grand building. The hall was high and the door wide, with a vertical plaque in the center bearing the words— "Sin Monarch Hall."

It would stand within the city within a city, open for the world to see during this Thousand Mechanisms Meeting.

It was the Mohists' apology and sincerity to Huang Jin Mo.

It was the "reason" the Mohists could speak in the future.

Huang Jin Mo was silent and did not speak.

The contemporary Mohist Giant could properly arrange everything, leaving people with nothing to say. He could even pave the way ahead, so that one day when the situation was beyond retrieve, in those situations where they needed to sit down and talk, they could speak with good reason.

Huang Jin Mo could not argue, nor did she know how to prepare "reason." She was unwilling to think about these things.

She was thinking about Zhu Wei Wo.

She was also missing that person who would absolutely not speak reason with Qian Jin Hua and the others.

Truly sorry to everyone, there have been no extra updates this month so far.

This volume is not particularly long, and it will end after the last major plot, but this major plot is relatively complex and difficult to write.

Please give me a little time to adjust my state. There will certainly be extra updates at the end of the month.

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