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As she fell, Murong Xuewei vaguely heard screams. She tried to grab onto something, but only grasped at empty air. Everything was pitch black before she realized she had landed on solid ground.

"Cough cough..." Murong Xuewei struggled to her feet. The surroundings were dark, with only a few slivers of light filtering through the cracks in the ceiling. She instinctively called out, "Gu Ye!" But only an empty echo answered her.

Murong Xuewei gave a bitter smile. The fall had left her somewhat dazed, and she had instinctively called out to him again. She touched the jade pendant in her bosom; it was the one Gu Ye had given her before he left. "It can protect you when I'm not by your side," he had said.

By the dim light, Murong Xuewei looked around and found herself in a vast underground space. Ancient murals were carved on the walls, telling a long-ago story. She approached for a closer look and recognized that the murals depicted a group of people dressed in priestly attire, holding ritual implements, seemingly performing some kind of ritual.

"How ironic..." Xiao Wan Ning's voice suddenly came from the darkness, "What are you looking at all alone here? Thinking about your Gu Ye?"

A faint light appeared, and Xiao Wanning stood not far away, holding a bronze mirror. Lan'er lay on the ground beside her, seemingly injured in the fall. Jiang Lingyun stood protectively beside Xiao Wanning.

Murong Xuewei gripped the jade pendant tightly, yet a strange sense of peace settled within her. Even without Gu Ye by her side, she would fight for herself. In this life, she was no longer the Murong Xuewei who could be easily manipulated.

"Don't you find this ironic?" Xiao Wan Ning sneered. "You're just a merchant's daughter, yet you possess a jade pendant from a previous dynasty."

“You’re wrong,” Murong Xuewei said calmly. “This power has never belonged to anyone.” After saying this, she was stunned for a moment, as her words were exactly the same as what Gu Ye had said in her memory.

“Then let’s see,” Xiao Wan Ning said, holding up the bronze mirror. “Which is more powerful, your jade pendant or my bronze mirror?”

The bronze mirror emitted a blinding light, and a powerful force swept over. Murong Xuewei immediately raised her jade pendant to defend herself, and the two forces collided in mid-air, producing a deafening roar.

Just then, a familiar voice came from above: "Master! I've found the mechanism!"

Murong Xuewei looked up and saw Liuli standing on the broken wall above her, holding a rope in her hand. And at her feet was an ancient mechanical device.

Seeing Liuli's figure, Murong Xuewei felt a warmth in her heart. Even without Gu Ye by her side, she was not fighting alone.

“Xiao Wanning,” Murong Xuewei said coldly, “do you know why this place was chosen to suppress evil spirits?”

Xiao Wanning frowned: "What do you mean?"

"Because this place is..."

"Because this place is inherently a place where yin energy gathers," Murong Xuewei sneered, "that's why the previous dynasty built the Prayer Palace here to suppress the evil energy underground."

Xiao Wanning's expression changed: "What do you mean?"

"You think the power of the Blessing Palace is used to summon the dead?" Murong Xuewei stepped forward. "You're wrong. Every brick and every mechanism here is designed to seal away evil energy. And you are breaking that seal."

"Nonsense!" Xiao Wan Ning raised the bronze mirror. "I control the token of the Blessing Palace; this power should belong to me!"

Just then, a strange noise suddenly came from the depths of the underground palace. The murals on the walls began to emit a faint light, and the patterns depicting sacrificial scenes seemed to come alive.

"Something's not right..." Jiang Lingyun's expression changed drastically. "Master, what's happening here..."

Before the words were even finished, the ground suddenly began to tremble violently. Streams of black energy seeped from the cracks in the ground, even more concentrated and malevolent than the ghosts summoned earlier.

"You're insane!" Murong Xuewei glared at Xiao Wanning. "You think the bronze mirror is for summoning the dead? It's a key, a key to unlock the seal!"

Xiao Wan Ning also sensed something was wrong and tried to put away the bronze mirror, but found that the power was completely out of control. Black energy began to swirl around her, gradually forming a vortex.

"Liuli!" Murong Xuewei shouted upwards, "Quickly activate the mechanism!"

Liuli pulled the rope hard, and the sound of a mechanism turning rang out. Suddenly, a beam of golden light shone down from the top of the underground palace, hitting the jade pendant in Murong Xuewei's hand.

"It's useless!" Xiao Wan Ning laughed wildly. "Since I can't control this power, then let it destroy this place! Destroy everyone!"

She slammed the bronze mirror to the ground.

"boom!"

With a deafening roar, countless streams of black energy surged from the shattered bronze mirror, swirling towards Xiao Wan Ning. Jiang Ling Yun tried to rush to her aid, but was blasted away by a powerful force.

"Ah!" Xiao Wan Ning let out a scream as she was swallowed up by the black mist.

Just then, the jade pendant in Murong Xuewei's hand suddenly emitted a dazzling light, echoing the golden light shining down from above. Golden runes appeared in the underground palace, forming a huge magic array.

"This is..." Murong Xuewei looked at the jade pendant, suddenly realizing something, "So that's how it is..."

Golden light intertwined with runes, and the jade pendant in Murong Xuewei's hand suddenly felt warm. In a daze, images flashed before her eyes:

In her final moments in her past life, she lay in a pool of blood, clutching a shard of jade in her hand. It was a jade pendant she had carried since childhood, said to be a keepsake left to her by her mother. In her dying moments, her blood stained the shard of jade.

The scene shifts, and she sees a woman dressed in priestly attire performing some kind of ceremony in the prayer palace. The woman's appearance bears a striking resemblance to hers, and she is holding a complete jade pendant for peace.

"This is the truth..." Murong Xuewei murmured, "So, the reason I was able to be reborn is because..."

Before she could finish speaking, a sharp pain shot through her chest. Memories flooded her mind like a tidal wave: her ancestor was the last priest of the Qifu Palace, who, to protect the young Gu Ye during the fall of the previous dynasty, used his own blood to refine this jade pendant, sealing the power it contained.

And she, Murong Xuewei, was actually the bloodline of that priest. In her previous life, when she was dying, her blood accidentally broke part of the seal on the jade pendant, and the power of the jade pendant allowed her to be reborn.

“No wonder…” Murong Xuewei looked at the magic array before her, “No wonder Gu Ye gave me the jade pendant…”

Xiao Wan Ning's scream interrupted her thoughts. The black mist had completely enveloped Xiao Wan Ning, but strangely, it seemed to be afraid of something, constantly trying to move away from the shattered bronze mirror in her hand.

"Murong Xuewei!" Xiao Wanning struggled within the black mist, "Do you think you've won? Do you know the secrets of this Blessing Palace? Do you know why you...?"

Before she could finish speaking, a golden light suddenly shot out from the shattered bronze mirror, clashing with the black mist. To Murong Xuewei's surprise, the golden light was exactly the same as the light emanating from the jade pendant in her hand.

“I see,” Murong Xuewei said, looking at Xiao Wanning, “The bronze mirror is also a sealing artifact, and you’ve been searching for your other half.”

"Hahaha..." Xiao Wan Ning suddenly burst into laughter, "That's right, I've been searching for so many years, all for this moment when both magical artifacts are together. I just never imagined that the owner of the jade pendant would be you..."

Her laughter abruptly stopped as more dark energy surged from the ground, enveloping her completely.

"Master!" Liuli's voice came from above, "The magic array is almost complete!"

Murong Xuewei looked at everything before her, and made up her mind. She raised the jade pendant and began to chant a spell that she had never learned before but was extremely familiar with.

Those are ancient spells passed down in the priestly bloodline.