Origin System, I have a barren mountain

Mei Shi gripped the hairpin and lantern tightly in her hand, a bad premonition rising in her heart.

For some reason, most of the spiritual energy she had just channeled dissipated.

Unless, the spiritual power she infused into the girl suffers a major mishap, causing her spiritual power to dissipate.

Just as Mei Shi was about to get up and show the hairpin and lantern to her master, she saw her second junior sister.

The second junior sister was standing behind her without her noticing, and she was startled when she saw her.

Mei Shi almost dropped the hairpin and lantern she was holding; she carefully picked them up.

I couldn't help but turn around and look at my second junior sister. I wondered what she meant by appearing so quietly without saying a word?

The second junior sister, who had been expressionless, showed a barely perceptible smile when she saw her, though the smile looked somewhat forced.

"Senior Sister, I've been here for ages. Why are you looking at such an ordinary hairpin lantern so intently?"

A hint of suspicion flashed across Mei Shi's eyes. The way she had been staring at the hairpin and lantern just now had clearly caught the attention of her second junior sister.

"It's nothing, I was just thinking about something."

Mei Shi said.

I thought that if I said that, my second junior sister would understand.

The second junior sister reached out and prepared to take the hairpin and lantern from her hand.

This subconscious action made Mei Shi's face turn ugly.

This second junior sister is quite strange; she rarely interacts with the other party.

Originally, she and her second junior sister had become disciples of the same master on the same day. As the eldest sister, she had received many good things from the master. However, due to the master's attitude, the second junior sister did not interact with her much when they first met.

"Second Junior Sister, these are my things." Mei Shi's attitude immediately turned cold.

The second junior sister seemed oblivious to her senior sister's attitude and reached out to snatch it without a care.

"Senior Sister, look how stingy you are! I was just looking at it, just curious about what this hairpin lantern looked like. Besides, it's just an ordinary item. Senior Sister, you can't bear to refuse to give it to me, can you?"

The second junior sister's attitude, coupled with her subordinates' continued insistence on obtaining the hairpin and lantern, directly aroused Mei Shi's suspicion.

Mei Shi knew that the hairpin lantern was specially made of special materials for her son.

Although her son was not born to her by chance, how could she, as a mother, not care about him?

This item was very special to her, but it should be insignificant to her second junior sister.

"Second Junior Sister, I told you, I'm not giving this to you."

However, even though Mei Shi said such harsh words and showed her attitude on her face, the second junior sister still seemed not to understand and directly used her spiritual power.

The spiritual energy struck the hairpin lantern very weakly, as if it were all accidental. Such spiritual energy would not cause any harm to Mei Shi at all.

However, she clearly sensed that the other party's intention was not to harm her, but rather to take away her hairpin and lantern.

The hairpin lantern had a very faint crack, which made Mei Shi's face suddenly turn very ugly.

She hadn't expected the hairpin lantern to be so fragile, and even though she had just returned the slight spiritual energy, she hadn't anticipated that the slight spiritual energy would fall on the hairpin lantern and cause it such damage.

"Cheng Yunmo, are you alright?!"

Suddenly, Cheng Yunmo, her fragile soul, coughed up a mouthful of blood. She looked at the blood on the ground with disbelief and then looked around.

She thought she had just heard someone call her name, and then she felt as if she had been hit hard.

Cheng Yunmo subconsciously looked down at her own condition and found that her original wounds had disappeared. Now she seemed to have returned to her original state. The damage she had suffered before her death could be seen around her soul.

How could this be?

A bad premonition welled up in Cheng Yunmo's heart. When Lord He Bai gave her the chance to live, he said that she was originally supposed to become the terrifying red-clothed woman, but for some reason she didn't. That's why she was able to become the way she is now, which can be considered as a chance to survive and no longer having the good luck of being within the monster's range.

She now seems to be making a comeback, is she Liang Yu's mother Wu Hua, or Liang Yu's father?

Cheng Yunmo felt an overwhelming sadness at the thought of these two people.

When Lord Liu arrived, he saw Cheng Yunmo vomiting blood; her condition was extremely bad.

Later, it transformed directly into the shape of the jade pendant that the Imperial Preceptor had given him, and fell directly into his hands without him even having time to say a word.

When Lord Liu saw this scene, he was extremely horrified, because no matter how big the matter was, Lord Cheng always maintained her human form, but now she actually needed a jade pendant to house her soul, which meant that she had suffered extremely serious injuries.

"Lord Cheng, what's wrong with you?"

Lord Liu looked around, hoping to get help from others, but no one could see Lord Cheng.

Cheng Yunmo never expected that when she encountered her most difficult time, it would be Lord Liu who saved her.

"Lord Liu, I don't know what's wrong with me."

Lord Liu instinctively wanted to ask if things had turned out this way because of the Emperor, but he knew that saying it would have no effect and might even make Lord Cheng more upset.

"I heard you want to go to the next town?"

After thinking it over, Lord Liu decided that if Lord Cheng wanted to go to the neighboring town, he would go with him this time.

Cheng Yunmo was somewhat surprised by the jade pendant; she hadn't expected Lord Liu to bring up the matter of going to the neighboring town.

When the two of them reached the neighboring town, they saw almost no one on the road.

The surroundings were so quiet it was as if no one was there. When Lord Liu saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

It took about half an hour of walking before I saw a person. The person was eating a bowl of instant noodles with their head down, and there was a bottle of cola next to them.

Lord Liu wanted to go up and say hello, but he watched as the man suddenly seemed to lose everything, collapsed to the ground, and turned into a skeleton.

This really startled Lord Liu, who subconsciously took a few steps back and almost fell to the ground.

"How...how could it have turned out like this?"

Cheng Yunmo was also shocked when she saw this scene, because when she came earlier, the situation was not this serious, and there was no mention of people turning into skeletons all of a sudden, such a terrifying sight.

"It seems that someone is still using grain in Xu Kingdom."

Cheng Yunmo thought for a long time and guessed that there was only one possibility.

Lord Liu was somewhat skeptical and looked at the scene with suspicion.