491: Chapter 491 The New Wife Arrives! She is the Number One Rich and Beautiful Woman in the Southern Immortal Realm!

At the same time.

What Su Chen didn't know was that at the very moment he closed the diary.

Two streaks of light, invisible to the naked eye, quietly escaped from the ancient patterns on the animal-skin cover.

They silently pierced through the Formation barriers of the private room.

Pierced through the roof of the Yingxian Restaurant.

And even pierced through the city-protecting grand Formation above Peng City.

One shot toward the east of the Tiannan Immortal Domain, while the other streaked toward the southeast.

...

Tiannan Immortal Domain, Eastern Cangzhou.

Above the sea of clouds, a cluster of pavilions floated, more vast than the entire Central State Continent of the Lower Realm.

Golden bridges crossed the sky, Immortal Beasts circled above, and ten-thousand-foot waterfalls cascaded from the horizon into the sea of clouds, splashing up fine droplets of Law-infused light.

Every inch of the architecture was forged from the Immortal Domain's top-tier divine materials, with Immortal Qi so dense it condensed into a thin layer of spiritual frost on the upturned eaves.

This was the headquarters of the Tiannan Immortal Domain's largest commercial Empire—the Lingbao Trading Firm.

At the highest point of the headquarters, inside a pavilion built entirely of Nine Heavens Profound Jade.

Xie Jinghong, the young mistress of the Lingbao Trading Firm, was lazily slumped on a soft couch covered in Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox fur.

She wore a gold-and-silver flowing sand pleated immortal dress, and the seven-colored immortal gold bells hanging from her wrists and ankles made no sound as she swung them out of boredom.

Because she found even the act of swinging them tedious.

"Xiao Bai, why do you think there's nothing fun in this world?"

She poked the napping Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox beside her with a finger as slender as a scallion.

The Spirit Fox opened its eyes, gave her a look of disdain, rolled over, and turned its tail toward her.

"Heh, even you're finding me annoying."

Xie Jinghong muttered, preparing to continue lying like a corpse and comprehending the "Dao of Slacking Off."

The pavilion door was pushed open silently.

Her personal maid, Qing Luan, walked in with soft steps and a restrained aura.

"Eldest Young Miss."

Qing Luan bowed slightly, her voice respectful and restrained.

"There is news about that Nine Heavens Divine Son you asked me to watch."

Xie Jinghong's movements froze.

Her clever, cunning fox-like eyes, which seemed capable of speaking, finally showed a flicker of emotion the moment she heard the words "Nine Heavens Divine Son."

Like a pebble dropped into a pool of stagnant water.

She sat up from the couch with a kip-up, and the bells on her ankles finally let out a crisp "ding-dong" that echoed through the empty pavilion.

The Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox was so startled its fur stood on end, and with a yelp, it scurried under the table.

"Speak!"

"Where is he?"

Qing Luan's tone held a hint of strangeness: "According to reports from our informants in the west, Young Master Su Chen and his group... have successfully arrived in the Tiannan Immortal Domain."

"Their destination is—West Qingyou Continent, Peng City."

"Peng City?"

Xie Jinghong repeated the name.

She was stunned at first.

Then, a string of uncontrollable laughter rolled out of her throat.

"Pfft... Haha, hahahaha!"

"West Qingyou Continent? Peng City?!"

"That backwater where even Medium Grade Immortal Stones are considered hard currency?!"

She laughed so hard she trembled, leaning back and forth, one hand supporting her on the couch and the other clutching her stomach, the bells ringing in a joyful melody.

"Did those old fogies at the Nine Heavens Immortal Court burn their brains while performing Alchemy?"

"To throw their own direct descendant's precious darling into such a dump?"

"If I remember correctly, the City Lord of that place is only a Golden Immortal!"

The more she spoke, the more absurd it seemed, and crystal tears of laughter formed at the corners of her eyes.

Qing Luan stood to the side, her lips also twitching upward.

"Eldest Young Miss, should we... send someone to make contact?"

Xie Jinghong waved her hand, finally managing to stop laughing.

She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand; while the mirth in her fox eyes hadn't fully faded, a sharp glint unique to merchants already shone deep within them.

"No rush."

"Let's observe first."

"A Divine Son of the Nine Heavens Immortal Court is still a Divine Son, even if he's exiled to a latrine."

"We haven't figured out what's standing behind him yet. Making a move rashly would be too stupid."

She lay back on the couch, crossed her legs, and rhythmically drew circles in the air with her toes.

She would play this game of chess slowly.

"Yes."

Qing Luan bowed in acknowledgment and was about to leave.

Just then—a sudden change occurred!

There was no warning.

No Spiritual Pressure, no Law fluctuations, not even a speck of dust in the pavilion moved.

But Xie Jinghong's body instinctively froze.

Her toe movements stopped.

All sound within the pavilion, including her heartbeat, seemed to be gripped by an invisible giant hand at that moment.

Her clever fox eyes suddenly froze.

Because an animal-skin booklet was emerging out of thin air in the Void Realm three feet in front of her.

It wasn't teleported; rather, like a drop of ink falling into clear water, it slowly took shape from nothingness.

The booklet looked extremely ordinary, with rough hide and worn corners; if thrown onto any street stall, no one would give it a second glance.

Yet the way it appeared was a blatant violation of the rules of this top-tier Forbidden Ground!

Beside her, Qing Luan was completely dumbfounded.

She had been by the Eldest Young Miss's side for hundreds of years; what earth-shattering scenes had she not witnessed?

But this scene was completely beyond her scope of understanding.

This secret room was personally inscribed by a Treasure-Immortal Rank Formation Great Master, with six layers of seals stacked; theoretically, even a wisp of a Jade Immortal's Divine Thought couldn't penetrate it—and that was the highest cultivation level in the Immortal Domain!

How could a ragged booklet just "grow" out so brazenly?

"What... is this thing?"

Xie Jinghong stared at the floating booklet. For the first time, the laziness and shrewdness faded from her fox eyes, replaced only by pure, intense curiosity.

She reached out a finger and poked it tentatively.

It felt warm to the touch, carrying an indescribable ancient aura.

It was neither a Magic Treasure nor a Divine Ability.

It existed there so tangibly, as if it were naturally meant to be there.

Xie Jinghong smiled.

This time it wasn't a sneer, but the genuine excitement of having found a massive source of "fun."

She reached out two slender fingers and lightly pinched the booklet.

Then, right in front of her petrified maid, Qing Luan.

She gently flipped open the first page.