While that’s the case, Bai Junjun couldn’t deny that the Fox’s concerns were quite justified.
Existence is reasonable, after all. The temporary calm might be due to remaining unnoticed, but once the Heavenly Dao becomes aware, it may indeed settle accounts after the autumn harvest, so it’s essential to nip potential problems in the bud.
With an expression that said "this child is teachable," Li Wenli reached out to pat Bai Junjun’s head.
For the two of them to be up in the middle of the night, not sleeping but instead starting a fire to cook porridge while discussing the topic of the cycles of the Heavenly Dao, was undeniably eerie.
Thinking about the box that Elder Monk Shan Ci had mentioned, Bai Junjun was moved by impulse and took out the dust-covered Treasure Box from her space.
The box still looked the same as before, with its strange patterns undecipherable, and without a single seam, she didn’t know how to open it.
But one thing was certain: the box had opened by itself before, absorbing the exotic stone from the Zhongshan Mountain Overlord.
Li Wenli had no solution for this object either.
However, what could be confirmed was that the box these people were looking for was the same model as the one in her hand.
She hadn’t thought that the box she had inadvertently acquired would turn out to be one of the Ancient Treasure Boxes.
But strictly speaking, "resurrection" wasn’t worth much to them; Bai Junjun’s Wood-series Ability could revive someone on the brink of death without any side effects.
Bai Junjun sighed, "I feel like I’ve got a treasure, but at the same time, it’s as if I don’t."
"Pfft." Li Wenli couldn’t help but snicker again.
Unable to figure it out, they could only stow it back into the space for the time being and wait for an opportunity to unlock its secrets later.
It was also fortunate that they had the space; otherwise, carrying such an object around the world would have likely caught the attention of those with ulterior motives long ago.
"Speaking of which, didn’t Black Six go to the Underground Palace just to find this stone and box? Since Black Six is from the Black Spider, which is part of the Itinerant World’s Forces, doesn’t that mean the Fifth Prince is behind the Itinerant World’s Forces as well?"
Li Wenli couldn’t help frowning. Black Six belonged to the Black Spider, and if the Itinerant World’s Forces were under the Fifth Prince, and this rebel force also belonged to the Fifth Prince, then indeed, the Fifth Prince was the most dangerous presence in this land.
The message he initially released about going to war with Yuwen Jun might have been intended to drive Yuwen Jun to the Southern Lands and take the opportunity to deplete his strength, right?
Once all these princes were battered and bruised, his hidden pawns could take them down in one fell swoop.
Realizing the crux of the matter, Bai Junjun’s eyes widened in dismay. The Fifth Prince’s ambitions were indeed vast. Using a butcher’s cleaver to deal with his nephews, it seemed he was determined to seize that throne.
"Could there be a possibility that he and Yuwen Jun are actually on the same side?"
Bai Junjun subconsciously shook her head, "That...shouldn’t be possible."
The Ninth Prince and the Fifth Prince had nothing in common except that they were both in the Northern Lands.
Li Wenli, seeing Bai Junjun unconsciously defend Yuwen Jun, narrowed his eyes slightly.
Such an unwavering attitude from the young lady was truly annoying.
"Who knows, that Yuwen Jun is quite shrewd."
Bai Junjun pondered carefully. In the original host’s memory, Yuwen Jun was a gentle and affectionate man with a slightly melancholic demeanor, not someone with many cunning schemes, but then again, it might be so.
There is always a cognitive dissonance between people, just as she had always thought the Fox was a bloodthirsty, cold-blooded Madman, only to find that was not the case.
Since the original host was enamored with the Ninth Prince, naturally she saw him through rose-colored glasses, which meant that her views on the Ninth Prince certainly couldn’t be reliable.
Bai Junjun was making a rational analysis and seriously considering, but Li Wenli didn’t know