A Time-Traveling Mishap: I Became an Ancient Nobleman

Chapter 156 shouldn't have any major problems.

The emperor was alarmed upon hearing this, "What's going on? How can it not be taken down?"

He tried to reach out and grab Zhou Hanzhang's hand, wanting to remove it from the star bead, but he found that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't do it.

"what happened?"

"I don't know either, I just can't get it off."

Just as Zhou Hanzhang was starting to panic, her hand suddenly came down again.

She picked up her hand and looked at it again and again, but found nothing amiss.

Then he looked at the star bead again and again, but still couldn't find anything wrong.

The emperor also half-squatted down and looked at the star bead. He had been in contact with the star bead for longer than Zhou Hanzhang, so he could see even the slightest change.

He noticed something different inside the star bead, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it; it was just a feeling.

After observing the star bead, he looked up at Zhou Hanzhang and asked, "What did you feel when you couldn't take it off just now?"

Zhou Hanzhang then carefully recalled what had just happened. She had been so startled by the scene that her attention was entirely focused on how to get her hand out, and she hadn't noticed anything else amiss.

Only after the emperor's reminder did she remember that when her hand was forcibly stuck, she did feel a very slight electric current.

At the time, she thought it was because she was too nervous, but it seems that's not the case.

But how should she describe this electric sensation to the emperor?

"My attention was focused on my hands just now, and I didn't pay much attention to the sensations in my body. But for a moment, it felt like something surged into my body, like a very thin river flowing through it, and the places it passed through felt a little numb."

Upon hearing this, the emperor immediately tensed up, "And now, do you feel anything wrong with your body?"

"Not now. I'm not sure if the feeling I had just experienced was due to the Star Beads or just a misperception caused by my own nervousness."

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Hanzhang said, "How about I try putting my hand on it again?"

"No. We don't know if it will harm your health yet. Don't put your hand down rashly. Although these star beads are our national treasures, we can't rule out the possibility of any effects that we don't know about. Let's wait until tomorrow to talk about it."

The emperor cares deeply for the Great Zhou Dynasty, but he cannot sacrifice the once-in-five-hundred-years daughter of the Great Zhou Dynasty for some unknown reason.

They have already wasted too much energy trying to keep this girl, and she has suffered a lot because of it. She is the hope of our Great Zhou Dynasty, and we cannot afford to have any problems with her.

In the emperor's heart, Zhou Hanzhang's safety was absolutely more important than Xingzhu's.

Zhou Hanzhang followed the emperor back along the path.

As we passed through the path, the shimmering white light pierced through the star beads again, but the light seemed to be slightly different.

"Uncle, have you noticed that these lights seem different from what we saw when we first arrived?"

The emperor had actually noticed it long ago; his feeling earlier was correct, and there had indeed been some changes, though he didn't know whether these changes were good or bad.

This was the second time he had come into such close contact with the Star Beads, but since childhood he had often accompanied the late emperor to hear the Imperial Preceptor talk about many things related to the Star Beads, but he had never heard of such a bizarre scene as today.

He had no clue what to do about it, so he could only go out and discuss it with his unreliable younger brother first.

"There have indeed been changes, but I'm not sure of the specific reasons yet. Let me go out and discuss it with your father first."

Zhou Hanzhang was also afraid that he might have been exposed to some kind of radiation, and that he might die soon after arriving in this ancient world.

The two uncles and nephews quickly returned to the main hall, where Zhou Huaide was already waiting for them at the back door.

Seeing them come out, he quickly went up to them and asked, "How are you? Nothing happened, right?"

He could see from a distance that the uncle and nephew both looked unwell, but a quick glance revealed no injuries. However, he couldn't rest easy until he was sure.

"Let's go inside first and talk about it," the emperor said to him.

Zhou Huaide panicked immediately. According to his elder brother's usual personality, if nothing was wrong, he would have already told him that everything was fine, and he would not have said something like "Let's go in first and talk about it later".

"No... nothing really happened, right?"

The emperor ignored him and led Zhou Hanzhang directly into the main hall.

In the main hall, He Shi was still standing in the corner like an invisible man, while Gu Qingfeng paced back and forth anxiously.

The emperor had other matters to discuss with Zhou Hanzhang and the other man, so he instructed them, "You two wait outside; we have something to talk about."

Although both were anxious, the emperor had spoken, so they dared not say anything more and could only say "yes" before walking out the door.

Gu Qingfeng simply found a spot where he could see the main hall and kept a close eye on the three people inside.

Although I couldn't hear what they were saying, just seeing them made me feel a little more at ease.

Only after the emperor had seen them all walk away did he call Zhou Huaide and Zhou Hanzhang to sit down.

"Something inexplicable happened at Xingzhu just now."

Seeing that they had all sat down, the emperor spoke.

Zhou Huaide was visibly nervous. "What unbelievable thing?"

"Zhang'er just went with me to the Star Pearl. Do you know what happened afterward?"

"My dear brother, at a time like this, please stop playing games with me." Zhou Huaide was extremely anxious.

"Do you remember when I took you into the Holy Land before? We put our hands on the planet, and then all the white dots around us flew into the planet. Then the planet became clear again, and we took our hands off, right?"

"Yeah, and then what?"

"That's where the problem lies. I took my hand off first, and Zhang'er was about to put her hand down as well, but her hand was suddenly stuck to the planet and she couldn't get it off no matter what she did."

At this point, Zhou Huaide quickly walked to Zhou Hanzhang's side, took her hand and looked at it from left to right.

Zhou Hanzhang was very uncomfortable with her father holding her hand like this, so she pulled her hand back. "Father, I'm fine. The planet wasn't absorbed for long, just a little while, and we got it down smoothly afterward."

Seeing that she didn't mention how she felt, the emperor thought for a moment and then said to Zhou Huaide, "During this time, Zhang'er said that she felt a strange, water-like substance flowing into her body from the planet, causing numbness in her body."

At the same time, when we came out, the white spots surrounding us had changed slightly. They looked different from when we first went in; they seemed to have grown a bit, and their color appeared brighter and whiter than before.

"No, something got inside your body?"