THE DEMONIC KING CHASES HIS WIFE: THE REBELLIOUS GOOD-FOR-NOTHING MISS [1]

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Chapter 61 – To tell you a secret (2)

Su Luo’s pair of eyes were like water, but her speech held icy-coldness. It seemed as if she could see through everything. As she gazed at the sky outside of the window, she smiled faintly. “I don’t know, but I do know that I like myself the most.”

“Girl, I also like you the most too.” Nangong Liuyun’s phoenix-like eyes narrowed slightly. His eyes resembled clear ocean water on their surface, but a half smile seemed filled with half truths like the murky depths below.

“Then wouldn’t you be suffering a huge loss?” Su Luo’s words secretly held a double meaning.

“This king never invests in a losing business.” Nangong Liuyun’s smiled like a sly fox that had been cultivating for a millennium. Phoenix eyes narrowed again, and his entire person give off an indolent impression. “Don’t believe me? Hmm… How about we make a bet then?

“Not betting!” It certainly would be another case of the winner is king and the loser warms the bed. Su Luo was not going to play the fool again.

Just then, a fit of noisy quarrelling could be heard coming from the first floor lobby.

Numerous soldiers had encircled the entire restaurant and formed a densely packed, impenetrable formation such that not even a fly could escape.

After the senior provincial official Zhao found out the news about his son’s death, his entire body almost collapsed. He secured a pike to his back, then straddling the back of a horse, he sped over to the restaurant at a whirlwind’s speed.

Just when Liu Weiming and his companions were discussing when they should take their leave, the troops Official Zhao brought just happen to conveniently arrive to detain them at the door.

Both sides were at a standoff, as neither was willing to yield.

Liu Ruohua carried the weight of young master Zhao’s murder such that even her death could not wipe out the crimes.* Official Zhao’s heart was already set on getting revenge for his son!

He obstinately clung to one course of action; today he must fetch Liu Ruohua’s head which sat on top of her neck… Even the fact that her father was the Prime Minister could not change Official Zhao’s original intentions.

But how could Liu Weiming and his companions agree to this? Each and everyone of them was from one of the large and influential families of the imperial court. The elders’ governmental positions of everyone of their families, when presented, were all higher than Official Zhao’s.

Thus, both sides started to battle it out.

Official Zhao could not be compared to his useless, spineless-coward of a son. He was after all a formidable fifth ranked martial artist. Just one masterful feint from his lance would be very difficult for even a few people to withstand.

In the end, because of this domineering strength, Liu Ruohua’s party finished having suffered a crushing defeat.

Official Zhao’s long pike rested on top of Liu Ruohua’s shoulder, as its sharp tip murderously glittered like frost and snow.

Official Zhao’s grim appearance was similar to a demon’s that had come from Hell. His face was covered with a dense aura of death as he ominously said, “ kill yourself or be killed, pick one.”

At this time, Liu Ruohua’s blood from her severed wrist had already stopped flowing. Her face was ashen-white like a piece of white paper, and she could barely even stand upright. However, she was not even a bit panicked. Coldly smiling, she said, “you, but an insignificant official, dare to threaten this young lady? Believe it or not, in no time at all, this young lady will have you in shackles and thrown in jail!”

Official Zhao’s expression remained somber, and his whole persons was ice-cold and violently ruthless. “Will you kill yourself or do you want to be killed?”

His expression was terribly frightening. It could even be compared to a devil that had fought its way out of a blood-soaked arena of purgatory, frigidly cold without a trace of emotions.

Official Zhao had spent his whole life obsessed with practice and cultivation, thus he had neglected to discipline his son, leading to this tragic event. Consequently he blamed himself. Still to shield his pride from own shortcomings, he absolutely would not let the murderer of his son escape.

Even if she was a woman, even if she was the Prime Minister’s daughter!

Liu Ruohua saw the merciless killing intent on Official Zhao’s face, and a trace of fear flared from her heart. But she calmly remained unyielding and maintained a cold expression “You want to kill me? Have you asked his highness Prince Jin, yet?”

His highness Prince Jin? Suddenly a thread of shocked terror appeared on Official Zhao’s face, who had been caught up in the frenzied circumstances.

His highness Prince Jin was absolutely a stunning existence in the hearts of martial artist.

Since the beginning of the continent’s history, his innate skill was counted as number two. At less than twenty years of age, he had already advanced to the sixth rank. Rumor has it that he was already at the peak of the six rank, and not far from entering the threshold of the seventh rank.

Such a genius who wouldn’t worship? Moreover, who would dared to be his enemy?

“His highness Prince Jin?” Official Zhao frowned, repeating the last sentence. Was it because his useless son committed an offense against his highness Prince Jin, that had provoked his death?

*death could not wipe out the crimes – dreadful crimes that rankled even after the perpetrator is dead.

Chapter 62 – To tell you a secret (3)

“Exactly, his highness Prince Jin!” for the time being Liu Ruohua could not worry much more about this lie anymore, she spoke calmly, “We and Prince Jin were both going to the Sunset Mountain Range. He is currently upstairs. If you don’t believe me, you can go and check yourself!”

It seemed there were times when even Liu Ruohua could use her brains.

If you examined each individual word she had said, you would find that everyone of them had been true. But if put together it would create nothing short of a suspicious misunderstanding by implying that his highness Prince Jin and her group were travelling together as part of the same party.

Liu Ruohua only wanted to take advantage of Prince Jin’s *tiger skin*, so Official Zhao would have no other option than to relinquish his enmity and let her go.

This could only work, because she understood clearly what his highness Prince Jin’s status was in the hearts and minds of martial artist.

Sure enough, Official Zhao’s expression appeared to loosen a tiny bit.

Liu Ruohua’s gaze darted towards the tightly closed window, and doors on the second floor. She persisted in her deception, “if you were to kill me, his highness Prince Jin would never let you get away with it! You don’t get it?!? My father and his majesty the emperor already have a secret mutual understanding. Before too long I will be Prince Jin’s imperial concubine. Hump…you dare to kill me!??”

Once these words were spoken, everyone was in an uproar.

There was a multitude of people standing in a circle watching. Each and everyone of them started to frown. They certainly did not wish for his highness Prince Jin to take such a brain-dead, bossy , handicapped with a severed-hand woman as wife.

Official Zhao’s wrinkled brows became even more tight. The pike resting upon Liu Ruohao’s neck was trembling slightly.

Su Luo was lazily reclining on the chair. A pair of clear and bright eyes were fixed on Nangong Liuyun. The tip of her eyebrows rose slightly in a provoking manner.

She somewhat tauntingly said, “yo, your highness Prince Jin. It’s your highness’s turn to be the hero and rescue the beauty now. Why isn’t your highness quickly rushing down to save your future princess? If you don’t go now the beauty’s head will surely only be able to reside away from her body.”

But Nangong Liuyun only pulled Su Luo into his embrace, as the corner of his mouth lifted into a devious arc. A blazing hot breath puffed near her ears. “What is wrong? Are you feeling jealous because of this king?”

“I, Su Luo eat sweets, eat salt, but never do I*drink vinegar*.” Su Luo’s expression was like a smile but not a smile. Her meaningful glance was just as it had been before; matchless beautiful and indifferent. “Could it be your highness Prince Jin really won’t go?”

“Go, how could this king not go?” Nangong Liuyun tugged Su Luo up from her seat. “If this king did not go now, the future princess of this king will get angry.”

Su Luo was walking by Nangong Liuyun’s side but could not see his expression. At this moment Nangong Liuyun’s thin lips were narrowed in a cold, demonic manner. A pair of beautiful eyes that were both compellingly pretty and flirtatious. seemed to release an intense and harsh killing intent

Two people, one on the left and another on the right, leisurely took the staircase down.

The entrance to the staircase was originally crowded full of people. But at this time the people automatically made a path for them.

Nangong Liuyun acted as if they were alone, all the while guiding Su Luo along. Step by step treading on the wooden staircase, his bearing was relaxed and carefree. The crowd was watching on either side, but in the eyes of Nangong Liuyun and Su Luo, they were nothing but single heads of Chinese cabbages.

“Your highness Prince Jin!” Liu Ruohua saw Prince Jin coming down, and a complex expression darted across her eyes. It was not just a look of being pleasantly surprise. It was also filled with expectancy, apprehension, and every flavor of uneasy emotions. But her final expression was very firm.

It was because she did not lie, and her father definitely had said this exact sentence before, that she was betrothed to his highness Prince Jin. Furthermore his majesty the Emperor seemed to have given his consent by nodding.

Official Zhao watched as his highness Prince Jin step by step walked down.

Although he had never seen him with his own eyes, but he was definitely certain. The outstanding youth in front of his eyes, was absolutely the legendary rumored Prince Jin.

Presently his highness Prince Jin was just like a dragon that had hidden away inside the abyss. His usually hid away so deep there was not a chance of him being seen. But once he showed himself, he certainly would startle the heavens and move the earth!

Official Zhao frown tightened even more. He must avenge the death of his only son, but also does not want to offend his highness Prince Jin.

“Is his highness Prince Jin here to urge peace?” Official Zhao’s expression was cold. His gaze, like electricity, was unwaveringly fixed on Nangong Liuyun.

“This king has no other meaning.” Nangong Liuyun smilingly said. “However, open your eyes wide and look clearly. The person here is this king’s future princess, so develop your brain and don’t believe what anyone says. You didn’t even know that you had just been swindled.”

*tiger skin – reputation

*drink vinegar – the Chinese characters apart literally say eat vinegar, together the characters represent being jealous. Basically Su Luo is playing words game with Nangong Liuyun, saying she never gets jealous.

Chapter 63 – To tell you a secret (4)

Once Nangong Liuyun had spoken those words, everyone once again was in an uproar.

This was especially true for Official Zhao’s appearance, as it seemed to have loosened.

However his sentences was indeed really unerring. All of a sudden it was as if it had pushed Liu Ruohua into the abyss of Hell.

“Your highness Prince Jin!” Liu Ruohua was so anxious that her tears flowed like a river, “Your highness you can’t do this, please your highness can’t… I beseech your highness to save Ruohua, I beseech your highness….”

Only Prince Jin could save her now, but it was quite obvious that his highness Prince Jin had never ever shown any benevolence. Infact, it was because of this that he was widely known as being ice-cold and cruel.

Nangong Liuyun’s pair of eyes seemed to be embedded with a thin layer of frost. His lightly colored lips evoked a disingenuous, demonic smile. His tone was soft and gentle yet carried a strong air of harsh killing intent. “In the future, you shouldn’t run your mouth so as to confuse other people with your lies. Otherwise this king’s future princess will be very unhappy…then the consequences will really be quite severe.”

Su Luo rolled her eyes toward the sky. This man! Would it kill him for once if he did not try to take advantage off her?

Liu Ruohua nevertheless at once apparently understood something critical. She abruptly kneeled down and vigorously kowtowed in front of Su Luo. “The honorable fourth Miss Su, Su Luo.Before, it was me whose actions were inexcusable to you. I now kowtow to you and I implore you to please save me. I beg you.”

She was a daughter from the Prime Minister’s stately residence, a person who had always been in the heart of thousands- no tens of thousands of peoples. How could she have ever been subjected to such insults? This was indeed a tiger fallen out of the grasslands and being taken for a fool by a dog. Once she returns to the imperial capital, at that time she will never let these people get away with this humiliation! Liu Ruohua secretly held these grudges deeply within her heart.

But, what kind of person was Su Luo? While others had been studying in elementary school, she had already killed people with her own hand.

And what was the most important part that a person learned after having trained to be an assassin? It was, of course, their state of mind.

Su Luo’s face was now calm and elegant. Her eyes contained clear spring water that spread in ripples. She was dressed in a graceful snow-white gown that accentuate her simple elegance, like that of an immortal.

She only had a very apologetic smile, then without saying a word, she was pulled away by Nangong Liuyun.

“Wait!” Liu Ruohua, seeing that Su Luo was about to leave, her expression suddenly became stiff, and a trace of panic passed through her heart. She immediately yelled loudly towards what she could see of Su Luo’s back.

Su Luo stopped her footsteps but did not turn her head.

From the back, her shoulders seem to be curved by a knife. Her waist naturally well balanced, flesh shone like polished amberstone and her aura was like a serene orchid. Her whole persons was refined and gorgeous just like an immortal fairy that was above the common populace.

“ I can tell you a secret, so you have to let me live!” Liu Ruohua’s tone suddenly became lofty and arrogant, once again.

“No need,” Su Luo faintly smiled, then, once again, she slowly strode away.

“W-wait! It’s related to your personal background!’ Liu Ruohua coldly smiled. “Don’t tell me you are not interested in knowing your own background? Do you really think that the Su general is really your true, biological father? Do you really feel that the Su family really are your roots? Let me tell you the truth, because it’s not!”

Su Luo’s beautiful eyes were completely neutral and pure. Her pink lips hooked into a minute sneer.

In her previous life and this life, the thing that she loathe the most was being blackmailed.

“Thank you for bringing this to my attention. However even if you die, the people of the Su family are not dead. I will naturally go and ask them.” Su Luo’s facial expression remained motionless, but a trace of suspicion blazed through her heart.

“Bah! In this world, outside of me, nobody will tell you! The Su family, the people in the Su family simply do not know!” Liu Ruohua’s expression was full of confidence and certainty.

Su Luo frowned slightly. She recalled the original owner of her body’s bitter experience in Su Manor. That was basically an inhuman way to live. Su Wan had also been given birth by a concubine, and her talent was also very poor; but her treatment compared to Su Luo’s were completely opposite.

Could it be, that there had been some other reason in the universe that was related to her background?

Nangong Liuyun, step by step, walked toward Liu Ruohua. His star like eyes overflowed with treacherous cunningness and grim radiance, so frigidly cold that the area around them reached subzero temperatures..

“Okay,” his alluring red lips curved up into a cold expression full of demonic insincerity, ice-cold and heartless. “Now you can say it.”

Nobody knew what Liu Ruohua whispered close to Nangong Liuyun’s ears, because Nangong Liuyun’s expression from start to finish was indifferent and ice-cold. Only Su Luo caught a spark of shock within his eyes that quickly died.

Chapter 64 – Sunset Mountain Range (1)

The Sunset Mountain Range was extremely vast, with mountains that extend forever into the distance. Ancient trees reaching high into the sky, and all kinds of rare birds, animals and exotic beasts; that, at any given time, were being born or dying.

The mountain ranges covered an area the size of a province. Close to the deepest part of the mountains near its center, there were also countless varieties of precious and rare medicinal herbs.

All magical beast were aware of their territories. The more powerful a magical beast was, the closer their lair and territory would be to the center of the mountain ranges. Thus, very few people could get close to the center. Because this went on for tens of thousands of years, it allowed the numerous rare and precious medicinal herbs to accumulate.

Nangong Liuyun was guiding Su Luo into the forest through a winding path on the east side.

“How much longer will it take before we get to see an Armored Back Dragon?” Several fine locks of hair on Su Luo’s forehead were curved slightly, emphasizing a pair of large, vividly fresh eyes that were as sparkling and translucent as jade. They gave off an indescribable feeling that was both touching and full of life.

Two days had already passed since they arrived in the mountains. But in these two days the only magical beasts that they encountered were weak ones. If it hadn’t been rabbit types then it had been deer types. This means they were still circling around the outer periphery of the forest.

“The Armored Back Dragon is near the center of the forest. It will take another three or four days to get there.” Nangong Liuyun lovinging rubbed her head. His pair of beautiful eyes hid a touch of tenderness. Then he was asking, “What’s wrong? Are you tired now?”

He was dressed in a large, white embroidered robe. The Chinese-styled robe was simple and elegant imprinted with patterns of obscure crescent moons. That tempting flowing robe set off his body as an invitation to the pearls among the womanly flowers. He was enticingly charming to all things living.

Being so close to him, Su Luo could smell the light fragrance of the jasper flower on his body. A kind of gentle flavor that held the summer heat. It was an extremely nice scent.

“It’s not that,” Su Luo somewhat regretfully pointed to the medicinal herbs around them. “Look, hundred year-old Lingzhi mushrooms and hundred year-old Ginseng are everywhere, but we can’t take any of them along. It’s such a waste. If only my space was opened, then I could definitely take all of these precious medicinal herbs.”

“The effectiveness of these herbs is just too low.“ Nangong Liuyun shooked his head, with a disdainful expression and then said. “Wait until we enter the center of the forest, then you will understand. At that time, this king guarantees that you can collect to your heart’s content.”

“Oh, by the way, the group of people that have been constantly following behind us: It won’t be a problem, right?” Su Luo’s beautiful eyes roamed around and the corner of her mouth lifted into a decidedly cold arc. It resembled a dazzling fireworks that had faded into something faintly discernible, and then to nothingness.

Two days ago, after Nangong Liuyun saved Liu Ruohua. In response, that small group followed tightly behind them as they entered into the Sunset Mountain Range.

However, they followed neither near nor far behind. They also did not come forth to greet them*.

Su Luo’s eyes flashed with a trace of suspicion.

She still had no idea what Nangong Liuyun was thinking. Why would he unexpectedly acquiescence to having them following behind? Even though, they did left a distance of about one hundred meters in between them.

But according to Nangong Liuyun’s previous disposition, shouldn’t he have already, with a bored expression, driven those people away?

“Even though they are waste of lives, they also may have their uses. Therefore it’s best to make the most use out of them while we can, so as not to randomly squander such an opportunity for exploitation.” This was Nangong Liuyun’s response.

This response only served to make Su Luo even more confused.

He enjoyed the view of this girl’s beautiful eyes wandering around like rushing water in front of his eyes. After much thought, her expression remained ever perplexed. Nangong Liuyun felt that this expression was really cute.

Nangong Liuyun gave a mysterious smile, as he touched her head fawningly, “You’ll find out very soon.”

His tone of voice was gentle,indolent, and quite nice to hear.

In the forest, ancient trees reached high into the sky, surrounded by verdant and lush vegetation. The area of this ancient, primordial forest was a sight to behold.

From far away, you could hear the deafening sounds of magical beasts roaring through the tress.

The cause of Su Luo’s befuddlement, was that Nangong Liuyun did not walk in a straight line toward the center of the forest. Rather he kept strolling around in twisty circles, as if he was looking for something.

“Are you afraid?” Nangong Liuyun’s pair of eyes shone like the sunlight, reflecting off a bright luster as clean as the clearest pond. It was as if some glorious stones had gathered together all the brilliance while simultaneously carrying a hint of gentleness and warmth.

Even though Su Luo had an astonishing amount of talent, at this moment, she was nothing more than an ordinary person that had zero spiritual strength. In the midst of this primordial forest, where magical beasts run amuck, who knew what things one could encounter.

*them* – refers to Su Luo’s group

Chapter 65 – Sunset Mountain Range (2)

Su Luo’s gaze was clear and dainty, as she gave a superficial smile. “What is there to fear? Don’t tell me that you think I don’t have even the slightest capacity to protect myself?”

Right now she did not really have any spiritual strength, but her previous life had provided her with more than ten years of hellish training. Moreover her career as an assassin wasn’t just some useless walk in the park either.

The kind of blood-thirsty instinct to slaughter had perfected a single-minded, fearless, and tenacious heart

Suddenly, a meaningful smile that was not quite a smile surfaced from the depth of Nangong Liuyun’s eyes. He was currently hand in hand with Su Luo, when he suddenly pulled her behind his back and stopped in his tracks, not moving.

His beautiful lily-white hands were holding Su Luo’s hands. His gaze was languid and devilishly charming, yet it seemed to continuously hold a look of a ruthless tyrant.

All of a sudden, his mouth elicited a sinister smile and he unhurriedly let loose but two words. “It’s coming.”

What was coming?

Su Luo’s heart was full of curiosity. From his tall, straight, and well-favored back, she peaked out, following his gaze and looked toward the front.

From a distance about more than one hundred meters away, she saw an enormous coiled python.

The python was no less than ten meters long; its lower body was coiled into a crude crater. The scales that covered its body was a gorgeous rainbow color. Its bloody mouth gaped wide open, like a sacrificial bowl; and its split tongue was the size of an averaged-sized snake, which gave off a vengeful and malevolent impression!

“Wild Serpent, fourth ranked magical beast with a very strong attack power and highly poisonous.” Nangong Liuyun’s dark red lips softly informed, giving Su Luo the detailed explanation.

If it were any other, he naturally would not have said a word.

“Hiss….hisssss——.” The large python’s mouth hissed its snake-like tongue, then its mouth let loose a dense green fog.

At this time, a spotted deer, momentarily passing through without checking, became contaminated by the miasma. Not long after it had come in contact with the poison, the entire body of the spotted deer started to seize.

It was as if its body was covered in some kind of corrosive, for even the naked eye could watch the rapid rate of decay as it slowly claimed the deer. By the time it finally collapsed, there was only a white skeleton left.

On the ground the dense green ink like substance was similar to a carbonated juice, continuously releasing small air bubbles. The air still had a strong stench of rot.

From start to finish, the spotted deer’s decay -which started from being robustly alive to being a corroded puddle of melted flesh and bare bones-, took no more than ten minutes.

“Such a toxic poison,” Su Luo suddenly had a feeling of absolute horror.

This poison was absolutely more terrifying than the most concentrated sulfuric acid. Despite this, the snake venom could indeed be great stuff for wiping out any trace of corpses. This function was why people would often journey far from home to obtain it.

Su Luo asked herself honestly, in the event that she came across such a large python. If she wanted to beat it. It would nearly be impossible.

Of course, if she fought with the thought of mutual destruction, it’s not like she wouldn’t have the ability to battle against it.

In a brief moment, this giant python had given her a vivid lesson.

The existence of the Wild Serpent taught her, that once she entered Sunset Mountain Range, she must think of how to proceed carefully by adapting to the matters at hand. If she want to walk out safely and intact. In the forest she must take care with each and every step with constant vigilance.

Nangong Liuyun’s pair of deep eyes were like a night-black pearl in the middle of the deep sea, shimmering with luminous radiance. He smilingly said. “Girl. Neglect the fundamentals and concentrate on the details. The most useful part of this Wild Serpent is not really its poison.”

“Could it be its central monster core?” Isn’t it said that a snake’s inner core can solve the riddle of hundreds of poisons?

Nangong Liuyun’s dark red lips curved up into a mysterious smile. His eyes were overflowing with brilliant lights and vibrant colors. “Very soon you will know.”

The person who loved to keep people on tenterhooks the most was him. Su Luo somewhat frustratedly pouted her red lips.

Before, what Liu Ruohua told him regarding her background, he had unexpectedly kept it a tightly held secret. He wouldn’t even reveal even half a sentence to her.

At this moment, the Wild Serpent had already discovered their presence.

Its mouth, splitting out a snake-like tongue, slithered and crawled toward them, with fangs bared giving off a sinister appearance.

However, what astounded Su Luo the most, it had unexpectedly….unexpectedly completely ignored her and Nangong Liuyun. It directly passed them and moved towards their rear.

This in turn made Su Luo, who had been looking forward to Nangong Liuyun battling it out with the Wild Serpent, somewhat disappointed….

Chapter 66 – Sunset Mountain Range (3)

That was the place where Liu Ruohua’s team was standing.

But why?

Could it be that the Wild Serpent knew that Liu Ruohua had a very black heart? But when discussing black hearts, whose could be more sinister than Nangong Liuyun’s?

Nangong Liuyun’s eyes were as clear, bright and dazzling as cut diamonds. Their appearance was extremely good at hypnotizing people’s wills with an unusually violent, ruthless, and tyrannical power. He patted Su Luo’s head, and a sly nefarious smile smile started to form from the depth of his eyes. “Obediently watch the play. It will be absolutely marvelous, and this king guarantees that

Satisfied? Really? Then I must watch carefully. Su Luo crossed both of her arms over her chest. Calmly and at ease, she leaned on one side of Nangong Liuyun’s body with a pondering smile in her eyes.

When Liu Ruohua and her team saw the Wild Serpent, an expression of wild ecstasy flashed across their eyes!

The reason they had come to Sunset Mountain Range had been to collect items, and one of their tasks was the acquisition of a Wild Serpent’s monster core core.

Consequently, before they had entered Sunset Mountain Range, they spent a large sum of money to buy some Crimson Hearted Flower. Nothing was better than the Crimson Hearted Flowers to attract Wild Serpents.

What they don’t know was that this was the reason why Nangong Liuyun had allowed them to continuously followed him.

Because Nangong Liuyun knew that if only relying on his own luck, he may not have good enough luck to bump into a Wild Serpent. But since Liu Ruohua’s group brought with them the Crimson Hearted Flowers, the chances that they would encounter one were near definite.

Wild Serpent’s inner core could neutralize hundreds of poisons, especially the miasma in the air around the forest. Therefore Nangong Liuyun must prepare this item for Su Luo.

Liu Ruohua’s team had a total of six people: two women and four men. Their cultivations levels was around the second to third ranks.

The six of them together attacked the Wild Serpent.

In a matter of moments, water arrows, fireballs, wind blades…countless attacks were concentrated on the Wild Serpent’s body.

The Wild Serpent spit out its venom, and a dense, dark-green fog saturated the air in all directions. These bursts of loathsome noxious gas spread towards them.

Its speed wasn’t really that fast, but its face appeared to emit a malevolent smile, giving off a calm and composed serpent’s hiss.

Both sides’ strength were seemingly comparable . Thus, they fought each other for a long time without success. No one side could prevail over the other, so for the moment, it was extremely difficult to determine the victors and the defeated.

Suddenly under the sunlight, the flowery crown of top of the Wild Serpent started to shine and flicker. The multi-colored rays of light it seemed to flash, were as bright as the moon and would bring anyone an absolutely horrifying feeling of alarm and panic.

“Not good,” loudly shouted Liu Weiming with an ashen face. “This Wild Serpent is about to have a breakthrough. Everyone, quickly increase your efforts to kill it. We can’t wait until it have advanced to the fifth rank, otherwise the only road left for us is death!”

The Wild Serpent was very vengeful, so if you attacked it and didn’t kill it, it would always give chase after you until it had finally killed you.

When comparing the strength of a fifth ranked versus a fourth ranked Wild Serpent, the difference was like heaven and earth, a distance that was just too huge.

A fourth ranked Wild Serpent they could still fight. However, once the fifth rank was reached, they would only be tyrannized.

But, his discovery was a step too late.

The entire body of the Wild Serpent was shrouded by golden rays of light, and the dark-green fog continued to fill the air in all directions. Once again, a loathsome stench of poison floated around the forest in disarray.

In an instant, the flowery crown on its head seemed to transform into a jade horn.

The jade horn was exceptionally dazzling, and, under the sunlight, it glistened so much that it lit up its surroundings. It existed as a continuous flow of brilliance like an infinite number of lightning strikes .

“Heavens! This Wild Serpent actually knows lightning magic!” Liu Weiming face became pale. He felt like he was about to go mad.

The lightning system’s attack and firepower was the strongest among all the elements, and it was also very rare. Also among magical beasts the cultivation of the lightning element was even more rare. Who would have known? One of their tasked items would be a freak of nature of such an extent!

“Hiss….Hisssssss——.” The jade horn on the Wild Serpent’s head flashed with brilliant rays of light with traces of thunder and lightning.

Liu Weiming shouted loudly, “Retreat! Quickly retreat!”

However, it was already too late.

They could only watch as the jade horn on the head of the Wild Serpent’s strong firepower, pointed at its target and instantly struck home.

Chapter 67 – Sunset Mountain Range (4)

At the locations where the jade horn pointed to, brilliant, snake-shaped seeds would shoot towards there with astonishing quick speed.

At this time, its jade horn was like machine gun. Bing..bing..bing…sprayed the bullets. Sparks flew and dragon-snakes danced in the air; the battlefield situation was extremely fierce.

Liu Weiming was the first one to be hit and could only see him momentarily stunned. His entire body was as rigid as steel, his hair was charred black and standing straight up. He was truly a very sorry figure at the moment. .

The second person to be hit was none other than Liu Ruohua. Because she had been wounded before, the marks of blood on her body were still not dried yet. Thus the Wild Serpent’s attention was even more attracted to her.

Very quickly this team was being taken advantage of by the Wild Serpent.

The Wild Serpent was not in a hurry to kill off this team. It laughed malevolently, as its remote and icy-cold expression locked on to them. Its eyes was so eerie that they penetrated into the depth’s of their souls.

A pair of icy eyes glared at this team making everyone of them absolutely horrified. They were shivering in terror, and their hearts were extremely panicked.

“Team…Team leader. Quickly think of an idea!”

“Team leader, Save us!”

At this moment, almost all of them were urging Liu Weiming to act. After all, he had spoken with his highness Prince Jin. It was for this reason that he was viewed the most suitable to speak on their behalf.

Liu Weiming was still very anxious; seeing the two people watching the play not far away, a complexed expression flashed across his eyes.

He knew, with his highness Prince Jin’s cold and detached personality, he probably would watch them all get swallowed up by the Wild Serpent. Afterwards, he might even turn around confidently and with ease walk away.

Compassion, sympathy, benevolence…these virtues would not appear on his body.

At this time, the Wild Serpent was splitting out scarlet snake bombs , Liu Weiming’s neck went back and forth. Finally, Liu Weiming’s feet weakened at the knees, and he anxiously shouted, “Your highness Prince Jin, save us! I beg your highness please! If your highness don’t take action now, we will definitely die!”

Nangong Liuyun languishly reclined against an ancient tree. His phoenix eyes narrowed and the corner of his mouth lifted into a resplendent demonic smile. His bright blood-red lips shone like they were scattered throughout with glossy and shimmering gems. However, it remained silent not saying a word.

Seeing that his highness hadn’t the slightest thought of taking action, Liu Weiming and his companions were becoming very anxious.

There was only one life, so once they were dead, there was nothing. Each and everyone of them was an arrogant, spoiled child of the heavens. How could they just die in such a helpless manner?

One after another, each and everyone of them shouted for help towards Nangong Liuyun.

“Ahhhhhh——!!!” Suddenly a desperate cry bursted out from among the crowd.

As it turned out it was from a youngster among the team. His entire right leg had been swallowed by the Wild Serpent in one bite.

Immediately his leftover half of leg’s blood rushed forth like spring water. It was so painful that he was rolling around on the ground.

Furthermore, the tooth of a Wild Serpent contained highly toxic poison, it possessed violently strong corrosive properties.

One could only see the youngster rolling around on the ground grabbing his right leg, as fresh blood was covered in countless tiny poisonous bubbles that burst forth. It seemed as though it was spreading from the bottom up.

His entire body was in pain from the corrosion; it ought to be more painful than lingering at death’s door from receiving a thousands cut or at least not far behind.

As this youngster rolled around on the ground, he let loose another terrifying screaming. Finally he just couldn’t stand it, he pulled out a dagger and thrust it straight into his own heart.

Watching the youngster who had immediately become a white skeleton after his last breath. Then recalling how just moments ago he had been so vividly alive among them, Liu Weiming and company momentarily had a sense of sympathy for their like-minded comrades in distress.

Even though it concluded this way, Nangong Liuyun deep, dark eyes were just like the quiet ocean under the white clouds, tranquil and unfathomable.

It was as if the death of the youngster was not even a bit gruesome to him.

Only until this moment, did Liu Weiming and company truly understood how cold-blooded and heartless his highness Prince Jin really was.

In the beginning they fancied the notion that they were lucky to be following behind his highness Prince Jin. Even more, they earnestly hoped that at the time, when they came across danger then they can obtain his helping hand.

Naive, they were truly too naive.

Chapter 68 – Sunset Mountain Range (5)

With expectations that those two cold-blooded people might have actually had a merciful heart, Liu Weiming and company were truly navie.

Nangong Liuyun’s naturally diabolical face, flashed with waves of beautiful amethyst like luster on a lake. His expression was like the deep blue ocean under white clouds; they were so profoundly mysterious, that nobody could guess what he was thinking about in his heart.

However, Su Luo, who was of a similar type to him, realized his intentions, and her beautiful eyes vividly began to analyze the situation in full. A trace of interest flashed from their depths.

“Name a price. Everyone should be able to say how many silvers each of their lives is worth.” Su Luo had an indifferent expression.

Nangong Liuyun evoked an expression that was like a smile yet not a smile. His handsome countenance was pretty yet threatening.

Sure enough, the person who had understood him the most was his Luo girl.

“Uhhh….” Liu Weiming would never have thought that the reason his highness did not lend a hand was because he was waiting for them to offer him money. This was too….

“If you want to live then quickly give me a quote, otherwise, who knows which of you next will be eaten alive by the Wild Serpent.” Su Luo’s beautiful eyes narrowed and an unspeakable cunning evil smile appeared in its depth.

At the same time her heart was being filled with secret curses and unspoken criticism.

Nangon Liuyun you are too much. He obviously was targeting the jade horn on the Wild Serpent’s head. No matter what they did, he would have killed the Wild Serpent. But still he insisted on letting these people spend money on purchasing their lives.

What’s even more, this Wild Serpent had only come out because Liu Weiming and company drew it out. Nangong Liuyun was really *grabbing feathers from a flying goose*, calculated to the end.

Sure enough, he had said he never invested in losing businesses; at least this point was indeed true.

“Under my name I have five stores, I can offer you all of it——”

“I will use two Manors with large gardens to exchange——”

“I, I have one thousand taels——” Liu Ruohua saw the Wild Serpent kept rotating around her, trembling with fear she shrieked loudly.

“So in the end your life is only worth one thousand taels? it’s so very cheap.” Su Luo with both hands encircled around her chest, with a smiling expression that was not quite a smile, the words coming out of her mouth had a double meaning.

“One, one ten thousand tael! ahh——my foot——” Liu Ruohua was so scared that she started to cry loudly.

It was unknown if Nangong Liuyun was satisfied with the ten thousand tael, or if it was because he felt that leaving Liu Ruohua alive had a little more use. In short, just when the Wild Serpent was about to bit off Liu Ruohua’s thigh….

He acted.

You could only see that Nangong Liuyun’s entire body started to shine with golden rays of light. After that, it rapidly spread to the center of his palm. Finally it followed along his fingers and shot outwards.

Like the golden tip of a double-edged sword.

“swoosh——”The sound rung, the golden tip ruthlessly pierced toward the Wild Serpent’s heart.

It passed right through the heart, leaving a cup sized wound on its heart.

Beforehand, Liu Weiming and company had released their strongest magical powers together. All types of fireballs, water arrows, wind-blades techniques had smashed toward the serpent but could not break through the Wild Serpent’s defense; nor, could it get through the creature’s scales to cause even a trace of injury to its skin.

Yet Nangong Liuyun could so easily dispatch it with merely a shot of golden double-edged sword tip.

Like a knife cutting through tofu, it pierced straight through the very center of the Wild Serpent’s heart, and left through its back.

The Wild Serpent let out a loud painful howl, and then its enormous serpentine body segment by segment tumbled heavily to the ground. It produced a huge noise that lasted for a long while, as it kicked up a giant cloud of dust from the ground.

When it fell to the ground, it eyes refused to close, and even in death, it seemed to still be holding grudges within its expression.

The serpent head appear to be malevolent and terrifying.

One- one move?

But he just used only one move?

And it was just a slight wave of his sleeves?

Liu Weiming, Liu Ruohua, and the rest of their company had opened their eyes wide. Staring firmly at Nangong Liuyun, their mouth opened in an ‘O’ shape and could not say a word.

They all knew that Nangong Liuyun was very powerful, but they couldn’t have imagined he would be so strong to such an extent.

Together, with the six of their strengths combined, they couldn’t even wound the Wild Serpent, yet Nangong Liuyun with just a wave of his hand was able to kill the Wild Serpent.

*grabbing feathers from a flying goose* – a Chinese idiom meaning to seize any opportunity.

Chapter 69 – Sunset Mountain Range (6)

Everyone was watching Nanong Liuyun with eyes full of worship and adoration. Especially Liu Ruohua and another girl Li Wan, whose eyes, in addition to being filled to the brim with vigor, also emitted infatuated obsessiveness from their expressions when looking at Nangong Liuyun.

“Cut it off.” Nangong Liuyun’s appearance was picturesque, and his eyes were like a cold heavenly body; its depth appeared to let loose icy rays of indifference. His nonchalant voice commanded.

The crisis had been removed, so everybody let loose sighs of relief.

Liu Weiming wiped off a handful of perspiration from his forehead. Cheerfully and diligently, he ran up to carefully cut off the jade horn, and differentially presented it to Nangong Liuyun with both of his hands. Somewhat indecisively he once again hesitated as he said. ”Your highness, do you want this jade horn?”

With regards to such a high level expert like his highness Prince Jin, this jade horn won’t be considered very useful right?

Nangong Liuyun lifted an eyebrow and shot him a quick glance.

A pair of icy eyes, whose depth was able to mesmerize people, slowly made their intentions clear. Suddenly his scarlet, blood-red lips lifted into a devilishly alluring sneer.

Liu Weiming’s lungs felt as if they had been blocked by a boulder. An oppressive feeling, to the point where he couldn’t breath.

He cowered, trembling from head to toe and covering his chest in fear. He was unable to speak a single word.

Nangong Liuyun threw him a faint, sideway glance and handed the jade horn to Su Luo. His eyebrows gently rose, carrying an limitless indulgent spoiling manner. His smile was full of tender feelings. “It looks quite nice, take it and play with it as you wish.”

“Don’t want it.” Su Luo’s pair of clear and bright eyes unenthusiastically looked at him. She nevertheless quite bluntly refused. “Without effort the rewards is undeserved.”

Don’t want it! Liu Weiming and his group of people were practically weeping blood from their heart!

Was this young lady’s brain scared stupid? This was the Wild Serpent’s jade horn. Its JADE HORN!

Numerous people, in an attempt to obtain it, had risked their lives and died trying; but she had actually said that she didn’t want it!

In this case, it was even more true that constantly comparing oneself to others will only make one angry.

How could his highness Prince Jin unexpectedly and biasedly treat her so well? Liu Ruohua bit her lower lips, nearly chewing the gums of her mouth to pieces. She was so envious that she nearly went insane.

Nangong Liuyun still had the indulgent spoiling smile that filled his eyes. He gently rubbing her head. “If you don’t want it then just throw it away. It’s not as if it’s some valuable stuff.”

Throw…. throw it away?!?!

In a split second, almost all of their eyes were concentrated on the jade horn lying on top of Su Luo’s white slender palm. Their eyes clearly were expectantly waiting for her to throw it away without delay.

Su Luo saw their eager expressions turn expectant to the point where they began to salivate. Her heart secretly felt that it was laughable, but her mouth only said. “Since this being the case…then well…. I’ll first help you take care of it. Whenever you think of it then I’ll return it to you.”

Nangong Liuyun was noncommittal.

But once the words were spoken, Liu Weiming’s type of people’s disappointment was one that you could imagine.

Nangong Liuyun’s body showed a cold, indifferent intention. His expression was alienating and unsympathetic, coldly looking in disgust at Liu Weiming. “Inner core.” .

Liu Weiming’s expression was as usual, however his heart was secretly whining about his bitter luck.

With his highness Prince Jin’s type of strength, how could he still cared about the inner monster core of the Wild Serpent? He originally thought to take advantage of the confusion to remove the inner core, because this was one of their tasked item.

But since his highness Prince Jin mentioned it by name, how could he dare to even covet it silently?

He dug out the inner core and after washing it cleanly, he placed it into a box made of white jade. Only then did Liu Weiming differentially presented it to Nangong Liuyun.

Liu Weiming got up his nerves, took courage and weakly asked. “Your highness, this inner core….Does your highness want to sell it?

However, what made them envious was Nangong Liuyun again directly handed the small jade box to Su Luo.

Keeping silent nevertheless provided the best answer.

“But….but that is our tasked item, and also the Wild Serpent was drawn out by us!” Liu Ruohua felt aggrieved and argued noisily in a loud voice.

She felt it was really unfair. Su Luo did not even lift a finger. Instead she just stood there and watched the show. In the end all the spoils of war just ran into her arms. How could you asked her to swallow down such indignation.

Chapter 70 – Sunset Mountain Range (7)

“Not fair?” Nangong Liuyun’s red lips raised slightly into a nefariously charming smile. His pair of star-shaped eyes contained an intense killing intent, as he stared at her scornfully with icey cold eyes. “Fair? What kind of thing is that?”

He doted on little Luo Luo because she will be a part of his family. Who needed others to make thoughtless remarks? Was it because these people were tired of living?

Liu Weiming threw at Liu Ruohua a harsh glare and said in a stern voice. “What nonsense are you saying? If it weren’t for his highness Prince Jin lending a hand, we would have already been completely wiped out. You still think that you can take the spoils of war for free?”

Su Luo secretly pondered: This Liu Weiming was actually not so foolish. He was able to *judge the hour and size up the situation*. Also his words left some leeway.

If he didn’t think of taking it for free, then was he going to use some means to exchange for it?

Su Luo was shaking the inner core inside the jade box, with a smile yet not a smiling expression that contained some self-evident meaning.

Liu Weiming with a cajoling smile, asked. “ Miss Su, this inner core is something that we have a reason to acquire and must insist on obtaining it. I don’t know if you would be willing to be parted from it?”

However, before even waiting for Su Luo to reply, Nangong Liuyun directly seized the jade box. Then he picked up the sparkling and translucent inner core that could shone through flesh or bones and placed it into his mouth.

“Huh….” At that moment, everybody was unable to make sense of what they were seeing and also, what was the intent behind his highness Prince Jin’s act.

However in the next moment, Nangong Liuyun’s unyieldingly powerful palm took hold of the back of Su Luo’s head. His other hand was wrapped around her slender waist. A dense and heavy shadow started to loom ever closer to Su Luo.

“Oh——”

In the next instant Su Luo was being kissed, the type that was like an electric shock that rendered her limp and numbed her limbs when it swept through her entire body.

The kiss had came too suddenly, it also seemed to have been timed perfectly.

The surrounding area had become silent with only the gentle sound of the wind. Only the roars of dragons and whistles of the tigers sounded from afar, could be heard.

Liu Ruohua had almost chewed her lips to a pulp.

Li Wan’s meaningful glare was about to bore a hole through Su Luo.

With His highness Prince Jin…How could this be possible!

His highness Prince Jin was a matchless noble existence, he was liken to the gods of heaven in their nine pagoda palace. How could Su Luo this slut, be worthy of him!?

Everyone had their eyes opened wide in disbelief.

Yet at this moment, Nangong Liuyun was kissing Su Luo with reverence and was dragging it on lingeringly, unruffled by their sentiment.

Thus the inner core of the Wild Serpent was delivered directly into Su Luo’s mouth.

Su Luo was choking on it and she started to cough, in a panic she pushed Nangong Liuyun away.

Nangong Liuyun did not try to prevent her from doing it, he only heart-warmingly and tenderly watched the slightly panicked Su Luo.

His mouth had hooked into a smugg and toying with someone for amusement kind of smiling expression.

His star shaped eyes, below his sword like eyebrows held a devilish enchanting charm and seemed to be covered with a layer of haze. It was hard to make out, but it was still glistening and dazzling in a way that brightens up a room.

Su Luo very fiercely glared at Nangong Liuyun, but those eyes gave off a beautiful mist: making people who see them founding it to be clever, and to give them a special feeling.

Nangong Liuyun’s wicked hands stroked toward the side of his own lips, wishing to use his fingers to continue caressing her abdomen.

Su Luo had lifted her skirt and heavily stepped on his foot.

Nangong Liuyun was loudly begging for mercy. His face brimming with a resplendent and careless smile. His bright and clear laughter was echoing around.

Su Luo heard his laugh and was even more humiliated into anger.

“Luo girl, this time you are mistaken about this king’s action.” Nangong Liuyun immediately lifted up his hands in surrender, showing off his obedience and said. “The Wild Serpent’s inner core’s poisonous nature is extremely fierce, only by using this method will you be prevented from being harmed by it.”

It seemed somewhat reasonable, Su Luo’s beautiful eyes was moving around. She menacingly arched her eyebrows. “This time I’ll let you go! Next time I’ll pay more attention and take note of it!”

Between the two of them, they seemed to be at *swords drawn and bows bent*. However in another’s eyes it seemed as if they were having a flirtatious exchange, this scene was extremely ambiguous.

Liu Weiming with an extremely disappointed look gazed at Su Luo.

The inner core was already swallowed by her, it could never be taken back.

In fact, how could he have known, that Nangong Liuyun since the beginning had calculated and planned for getting his hand on the Wild Serpent’s inner core. Otherwise with regards to his personality why would he have let those people follow behind him?

So till the end, no matter what, this inner core would eventually be delivered into Su Luo’s mouth.

Just at this time, from the distant horizon, waves of melodious heavenly music could be heard.

*judge the hour and size up the situation* – figuratively meaning: to take stock of the situation.

*swords drawn and bows bent* – figuratively meaning state of mutual hostility or at daggers drawn

Chapter 71 – A pair of Jade Annulus (1)

Around a dozen or so maidens with lily-white hands like the long and delicate lotus roots were holding baskets full of blooming flowers. They were divided into two rows and were quickly treading towards them in the air.

A rush of wind, like the clear sound of moving water, brushed by. Swathes of captivating red cherry blossoms, floated down like a snowfall being carried by a breeze. Fluttering about and sprinkling behind sparkling and translucent snow-like petals. This scene was exceptionally beautiful and aesthetically pleasing.

Everyone of them was clothed in a white silken dress, with straight and proper postures. Although their individual features were by no means considered beautiful: each and everyone of them was slender, simple, and neat. Too elegant and exquisite to be from this earth; their entire bodies seemed not to have been touched even a little by the vulgarness of the mortal world. They seemed like immortal beings flying by in a realm high above the common populace.

Their ten fingers were slender, their waists were slim, and their footsteps were lithe and lively like an approaching wave of ageless fairies. They also looked like elfin spirits who just started to dance so beautifully that they could mesmerize one to the point of not being able to turn away.

In their midst, there was a flowery litter so refined and lavish that it would stifle people into silence. It was carried by four maidens in a nimble and lively manner.

In almost no time, this flowery litter gently landed. It steadily and securely halted in front of Nangong Liuyun.

Such a grand show gave off an imposing loftiness that was the mark of high status. Who knew which divine place was the person in the flowery litter from? Su Luo’s heart was secretly curious.

She lifted her eyebrows and looked at Nangong Liuyun. She saw the corner of his mouth at this moment started to raise slightly. Inside that smile contained a gorgeous resplendent brilliance, as if the corner of his eyes and the tip of his eyebrows were both carrying a smiling expression.

Su Luo could say with certainty that this person was Nangong Liuyun’s old acquaintance. Moreover he was very happy to see this person.

Su Luo’s eyes faintly narrowed, but her face remained calm and collected. As time passed in her heart, she became even more interested in the person in the flowery litter.

The flowery litter halted and was lowered. A slender, fair hand lifted itself to part the hanging curtain of green jade beads that surrounded the litter.

From the interior, a fairy-like girl in the prime of her youth unhurriedly strolled out.

One could only see her body, clothed in white that was as pure and holy as snow. Her dress stood against the wind with the skirt flying naturally like a winter snow fairy that drifted above the mundane world of man. Also there were splendid lights that radiated from her; its brilliance could blind someone.

Her long hair dangled down to her ankles. The fine black hair danced carelessly along with the breeze, similar to an immortal fairy on the verge of leaving with the wind. She rode the wind evanescently, like a dying firework slowly fading into nothingness..

Her eyelashes were just like butterfly wings, sweeping up and down while painted in a thick and rich black color. Her eyes resemble misty water droplets and maintained an unmatched grace and peacefulness. Her neck was delicate and graceful, her skin like crystalized amber with ice colored flesh and bones formed from jade.

This was a woman at the pinnacle of feminine beauty, as if she was a beautiful spirit emerging from an orchid hidden away in an empty valley. It was as if thousands of living things collected their best features and integrated into her entire body: in an attempt to shame the people in front of her, into feeling the helpless nature of their inferiority.

Currently, she stood filling the surrounding with her presence. Her lips were like a puckered red cinnabar, with a simple and neat complexion that displayed such a rare beauty. As she silently watched Nangong Liuyun, she seemed to be holding in a thread of light laughter.

Her eyes seemed to be apathetic and alienating, but they were also covered in a layer of watery mist. Behind the watery mist was an expression full of tender-hearted feelings.

Nangong Liuyun’s always chilly and cruel icy eyes appeared to have become like a thin seam that cracked open. His beautiful eyes were pitch-black as ink and serene. With its hidden depth that held his source of demonic charm, his smile widened with an overflowing exuberance.

He treated her very familiarly and also seemed to hold her very close and dear; completely different from the approach he used on Su Luo.

“Why did you come?” Nangong Liuyun’s snowy eyes appeared to show a slight concern.

“Didn’t you also come?” Her smile was very pretty. Her butterfly wing like eyelashes gently blinked, sweeping up and down. Her beautiful eyes were hazy like watery mist, I could still see the pity.

The two of them laughed and spoke quietly as if in their own world and other people were just superfluous.

Liu Ruohua stood by Su Luo’s side, now the sneer on her face was very much oblivious. She attempted to cruelly taunt Su Luo. “You really think that his highness Prince Jin will like you? Did you not examine whether you match up to him.”

Su Luo’s dark black eyes under the sunlight illuminated a clear reflection of cold, gorgeous color and luster. She threw a quick glance at her with a smile that was not a smiling expression. “The result of meddling in other people’s business wouldn’t be very wonderful.”

While speaking, her line of sight landed on Liu Ruohua’s right hand that was cut off at the wrist and wrapped up in gauze.

The depth of Liu Ruohua’s eyes was full of a vicious hatred. But soon, she gave a cold and dark laugh. “Don’t you see? The two of them are a true match, made by Heaven and arranged on Earth (1). You…are merely the mud under the soles of his feet! Not even worthy to lift his highness Prince Jin’s shoes!”

1) made by Heaven and arranged by Earth- Chinese idiom meaning: ideal and perfect match made in heaven or made for one another.

Chapter 72 – A pair of Jade Annulus (2)

“Really?” Su Luo lazily smiled.

When had the words, “I like the god-like, noble Prince Jin described by them,” ever come out of her mouth?!?

Boring commoners were always so laughable. Despite the notion that you don’t care about something, others seem to stubbornly insisted that you do. What’s more, at the same time, they tried to deride you for not caring.

“Open your eyes and look closely. That person is the Jade Lake Palace’s young princess. People call her Jade Lake’s fairy. Regardless of whether its innate talent, accomplishments in martial arts, or even family background, none of it is something you a good-for-nothing can compare. You still don’t get it right? In everyone’s eyes those two were made for one another like a pair of Jade Annulus. There won’t exist a even more suited pair then them.”

Liu Ruohua’s eyes were filled to the brim with maliciousness and a mocking disdain that seemed to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (1). If she couldn’t be with him, then Su Luo, this lump of mud, even more shouldn’t think about it!

“Really?” Su Luo’s expression was indifferent, apparently unconcerned.

She nonchalantly seized up the the immortal fairy not far from her. This was the most suitable companion in the legendary rumor?

They stood facing each other, and it seemed like a painter’s masterpiece of being in love and inseparable in the human world inked on a picture scroll.

Nangong Liuyun’s phoenix eyes were narrowed, his features were picturesque with red alluring lips. A head of fine, jet-black hair poured down in torrents. A faint, flirtatiously fiendish charm exuded from his entire persons, which was currently giving off a very languid air.

Clothed in a dark, mysterious robe traced with hidden patterns of bright embroidery. The hem of his brocade robe was lifted gently by gusts of wind. It was elegantly and gracefully dancing in the breeze like a brightly-colored butterfly.

The Jade Lake fairy’s features were fine and slender like sculpted gems. Her lips were a frosty cherry color and emitted a bright, glossy sheen. Her neck was delicate and graceful. Her skin was like ice that glowed with the luster of gems. Dressed in an snow-white, inviting skirt she gave the appearance of a simple and elegant immortal with a manner that was exceedingly untouched and above the common people.

One individual was handsome and outstandingly talented. The other individual was devastatingly beautiful capable of causing the downfall of a city or state. One was devilish charming and the other rose from the perfection of nature.

Although Liu Ruohua was annoying, but her words were not false. Nangong Liuyun and the Jade Lake fairy were indeed the perfect match like a pair of Jade Annulus made by Heaven and arranged by Earth (2).

Su Luo folded both her arms and narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly. Just in this way, she unconcernedly stood in her original place for a long time, motionless while quietly watching them.

Currently, it seemed as if suddenly Nangong Liuyun just thought of something. He glanced back and beckoned to Su Luo.

However, Su Luo only raised her dainty, slender eyebrows, returning his look with a smile that was not a smile.

What was the meaning of this? Does he think that merely by summoning her with just a wave, that she would just go to him? Was she, Su Luo, in his eyes just so contemptible?

That Jade Lake’s holy maiden laughingly looked over. Her shapely eyebrows resembled crescent moons. The black painted eyebrows against the backdrop of her white powdered face, gave off a gem like luster of someone inseparably in love.

Her shoulder seem to be carved like a sculpture with a naturally balanced waist. Her flesh was glowing like crystalized amber and had a serene presence like that of a secluded orchid. A pair of limpidly bright and intelligent eyes watched Su Luo.

It was so beautiful that it was practically earth-shaking and made people suffocate. It made people feel inferior such that they were unable to bear it, thus lowering their head in terror.

The corner of Su Luo’s mouth rose slightly in welcome and betrayed not a bit of weakness in any regard. A pair of beautiful pure and deep eyes was so clear as to be moving, as if it can see through everything.

Considering her imposing manner, why would Su Luo who walk out from the middle of foul wind and bloody rain (3) for more than ten years be afraid of her?

The two of them silently looked eye to eye.

For a while, the surrounding area was quiet, and the spectacle seemed to hold a little awkwardness.

However just at this time, an unforeseen event was suddenly born!

Suddenly from the depths of the mountain range came an extremely sharp burst of chirping. As this sound pierced through the sky, it resembled gold grinding on stone. To hear it made people’s eardrum sting with extreme pain. A buzzing sound echoed through the area. Their heartbeats throbbed violently with the blood vessels bursting open so energetically that it caused people to almost faint.

At this moment, everyone was shocked. Everyone all looked toward the direction where the sound came from.

In the distance a mysterious force seemed to circulate. The earth and sky radiated with brilliance. All of a sudden a flaming red-colored lightning streaked across the horizon, and the flash quickly passed.

Afterwards, vast stretches of flame soared like a raging blaze emitting resplendent light. It was as if it desired to envelope chunks of the entire sky and burn them fiercely.

“Phoenix! Fire Phoenix!” Nobody knew who pointed to the horizon at the brutal image that quickly flashed by, while excitedly shrieking loudly.

“Dragon! There is also a divine dragon!” Again someone else immediately followed with a excited shout.

1) took joy in calamity and delight in disaster – Chinese idiom for to rejoice in other people’s misfortune / Schadenfreude.

2) made by Heaven and arranged by Earth – Chinese idiom for of an ideal/perfect match made in heaven or to be made for one another.

3) foul wind and bloody rain – Chinese idiom for reign of terror or carnage.

Chapter 73 – A pair of Jade Annulus (3)

Both the Phoenix and Dragon race had almost all but disappeared on this continent. Who would have thought that their silhouettes would actually simultaneously appear today?

The so-called dragon that Su Luo had to kill was only an Armored Back Dragon. That kind of dragon and this divine dragon of legend were fundamentally two different concepts.

The appearance of the Phoenix and Divine Dragon excited everyone greatly, but their current situation was extremely unfavorable.

This was because the bloody battle being carried out by the two divine beasts was causing trouble for the magical beasts in the Sunset Mountain Range below them.

At this moment, almost all the magical beasts were wildly dashing outwards in order to avoid any troublesome accidental encounter and attempting to keep away from the two divine beasts locked in battle.

Currently, there were countless number of magical beasts violently charged towards them at full speed like the tide. It was aggressive and impossible to block.

“This situation isn’t good.” Nangong Liuyun’s tempting purple eyes held a dense coldness.

“Indeed, a wave of magical beasts is coming.” Jade Lake’s holy maiden answered indifferently.

“A wave of magical beasts!” The expressions on each and every other person’s had changed greatly, and their eyes were filled with terror.

Even though they had never experienced a magical beast stampede, they had already been warned by their teachers about how terrifying it was.

Whenever a magical beast wave appeared, martial artists at the scene would almost always barely escape, but at the same time, this fortuitous encounter was an occurrence that happened once in a century.

Because whenever a magical beast wave happened, a peerless treasure would always inevitably appear.

It was extremely possible that what those two almost-extinct divine beasts were fighting over, was a heavenly treasure.

“At the center of the forest…” The Jade Lake’s holy maiden’s beautiful eyes were indifferent as she suddenly turned her head. She wished to continue talking, but then stopped. She tilted her head as her beautiful eyes exchanged meaningful looks with Nangong Liuyun.

Nangong Liuyun’s charming eyes looked at Su Luo, and the bright radiance in the depths of his eyes dimmed for a split second.

Every time a magical beast wave occurred, although it was dangerous, it was still a rare, hard to come by opportunity.

If it was in the past, he would naturally go onwards and explore. However, the one next to him was Su Luo who had no spiritual power. He could guarantee his own safety if he had to withdraw, but he could not say that she would certainly come out unscathed.

Su Luo had on a completely carefree expression. With her clear eyes that could vividly see everything, she casually glanced at him. “You can go, don’t worry about me.”

After saying that, a trace of loneliness suddenly flashed through her heart.

Even though Liu Ruohua was hateful, what she had said was right. With her current strength, she didn’t even have the qualification to stand by his side.

He and the Jade Lake’s holy maiden were the ones in their own world. Their strengths were appropriately equivalent and their identities were compatible. And she, seemed to be an disregarded tiny insignificant existence that could only look up towards them from an extremely low point of view in their presence.

This kind of feeling was extremely unpleasant.

A trace of sympathy flashed through Nangong Liuyun’s clear and intelligent eyes. He rubbed her little head. “How can I not care about you. What nonsense.”

After finished speaking, he turned his head and smiled towards the Jade Lake’s holy maiden. “Be careful. No matter what, a mere treasure is not as important as your life.”

He said it in a warm and gentle tone of voice, completely unlike the ice-cold cruel way he uses with others.

“Thank you for the warning.” Jade Lake’s holy maiden’s pure eyes were touching and her faint laugh was like a cool breeze gently passing by; without any startling ripples or extremely varying emotions.

As light as water, her gaze gently landed on Su Luo’s face, yet a terrifying piercing cold feeling suddenly went down Su Luo’s back?

Is this woman…really as she’s portrayed herself: like lifeless water? Without sorrow or joy, and free from mortal vulgarity?

A hint of suspicion flashed through the depths of Su Luo’s heart as her heart sensed a sort of bad premonition.

Su Luo did not dare to say that her sixth sense was infallible, but it had never been wrong for all these years.

Chapter 74 – To subdue a foolish, adorable, pampered spirit (1)

Countless magical beasts rushed toward them in a violent surge with an imposing manner and a scathing murderous killing intent!

Two feet simply could not hope to outrun four-legged magical beasts; and even if they managed to outrun it also doesn’t necessarily mean they would come out unscathed.

The depths of Nangong Liuyun’s eyes contained a thick chill. He picked up Su Luo and whirled his body around, flying towards the nearby small wooden house on top of a tree.

Liu Ruohua and her companions imitated Nangong Liuyun one after another. Everyone of them used both their hands and feet together to quickly climb up the millennium old ancient trees. They tightly hugged the tree branches, hopping that they could escape this wave of magical beasts.

Jade Lake’s fairy turned her body around and looked toward Nangong Liuyun with a detached expression. She saw his silhouette carrying Su Luo in his arms. Her elegant and vibrantly beautiful eyes seem to be covered in a layer of watery mist, nobody understood the meaning hidden in the depth of her eyes that were as pitch-black as ink.

Her face lacked expression, and her red lips slightly opened into an arc, evoking a trace of an impassive smile. Her jade arms clenched at her thin, misty green, full-length, muslin gown that swept the floor as if it was leaving behind a trail of running water. Immediately, the light muslin danced in the breeze like fireworks that become faintly discernible before fading into nothingness.

The Jade Lake’s fairy whirled and immediately flew away in a graceful and naturally relaxed manner.

Around a dozen maidservants by her side were shrouded in icy-cold expressions as they coldly launched their gazes at Su Luo. Soon after, they too, followed her and flew away.

Su Luo’s thin eyebrows hesitantly knitted. Her intuition told her that this Jade Lake’s fairy smile was somewhat… mysterious?

Sure enough, just when she had flown a short distance away, numerous vultures suddenly surrounded them in a circle.

The vulture king seem to be fixated on the Jade Lake’s fairy, and each maneuver was filled with malicious ruthlessness.

The vulture king was a seventh ranked magical beast. It was also a flying type magical beast; compared to similarly ranked land type magical beast, it was even more difficult to handle.

At this time, Jade Lake’s fairy’s circumstances appeared to be extremely dangerous.

The vulture king was in hot pursuit of the Jade Lake’s fairy, as it followed tightly behind her. It seemed that the Jade Lake’s fairy was about to lose her life under the sharp claws of the vulture king——

Nangong Liuyun’s star shaped eyes held a complicated light, and his expression fluctuated between brightness and darkness, while being profoundly mysterious.

Suddenly, he hugged Su Luo to him, and left a passionate kiss on her bright and clean jade like forehead. His serious expression condensed into an austere stare directed toward Su Luo. “Be good. Just stay here and wait for me. Don’t go anywhere else.”

Before the words completely left his mouth, and without waiting for Su Luo’s reply, his body had already elevated to midair. Fast as lightning, he rushed toward the place where the Jade Lake’s fairy was.

“Nangong Liuyun you keep on saying that you like me, but when all’s said and done, in your heart she is still more important.”

The corner of Su Luo’s mouth rose into a faint and bitter laugh such that even she did not realize. A poignant and acerbic meaning was mixed within her bitter laughter.

Now Su Luo finally understood why the Jade Lake’s fairy was smiling before with such a hidden meaning.

This woman, her appearance and martial arts, were both viewed as at the top. In addition, her sophisticated shrewdness and scheming was also very deep. And on top of that her extraordinary family background… Gods were truly generous in their treatment of her, providing her with a gifted advantage.

As expected, this kind of talented person was really Nangong Liuyun’s perfect match. How could she, Su Luo, the unfavored, good-for-nothing, common woman from a Great General’s Manor be considered as something?

Su Luo coldly smiled, set aside all her negative mood and started to size up the small tree house.

The small tree house was very clean, roughly about ten square meters of space. Inside the tree house, besides the woven mat spread on the floor there was nothing else.

Su Luo motionlessly and quietly sat in the small tree house.

Perhaps it was because of the loneliness of a person being isolated in the way she was, but Su Luo’s thoughts had a strong feeling of disappointment.

In her previous life, she had been a renown assassin, who was the cause of the sentencing and the obliteration of numerous people. The vast majority of the people were just a mark to her.

But ever since having arrived in this world, she frequently felt as though she was being thwarted by the gods.

Here she was, only a member of the ordinary people. She could rely on her previous incarnation’s skills to defeat a first ranked Su Wan. However, if she were to genuinely battle it out with the second ranked Su Xi, she may not necessarily be able to win.

Chapter 75 – To subdue a foolish, adorable, pampered spirit (2)

Let alone daring to challenge someone as strong as the Jade Lake’s fairy.

Yes, the Jade Lake’s fairy continuously smiled at her, with an ordinary expression which lacked emotions. But from within her smile, Su Luo could clearly read her state of mind; and it showed a kind of——disdain.

She had exuded an air of contempt. As if to say, just by a slight move of her finger; she could squish Su Luo like a bug.

This type of impression made Su Luo feel extremely out of sorts.

Within her heart a raging fighting spirit had been ignited!

She, Su Luo was not a good-for-nothing; on the contrary, she was a super gifted genius with an affiliation for three elemental systems. If she was only given a chance, her future accomplishments would not be any bit inferior to others!

Su Luo made a fist!

This time, she must find dragon’s blood in order to open up her space element. This way, her wood and fire dual systems wouldn’t be firmly suppressed, giving her the opportunity to start cultivating.

Otherwise, no matter how great her innate talent, it would still be useless.

The person she was right now could be considered the richest individual under the heavens. There were mountains of gold and silver within her grasp, but, up until now, she couldn’t find the keys to open the door. She could only gaze at the ocean and lament her inadequacy (1) from outside the door.

Time passed slowly, bit by bit.

However, Nangong Liuyun hadn’t returned yet.

She was not sure what had happened, because all of the magical beasts had run away. For at this time, the surroundings were very still and quiet. The stillness was strangely eerie, like the calm before the storm.

Suddenly, the storm winds began to rise.

The powerful gale whistled and screamed with blasts that made the entire earth tremble. The small tree house swayed and tottered in the wind’s midst.

Su Luo leaned forward and looked out the window.

Laid before her was the scene, of a tornado as black as ink, moving rapidly while roaring towards her exact location

It was similar to a giant creature that extended its bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl (2), with thunderous snarls, while baring its fangs and brandishing its claws (3). It was as if both heaven and earth allowed it to do whatever it pleases. Nobody could possibly prevent it.

The tornado came hurtling past.

The small wooden house teetered on the verge of collapse.

In order to not be blown away flying, Su Luo tightly clutched a pillar.

Suddenly, Su Luo became aware that under her foot she sensed bouts of earth quaking and the mountains shaking (4). She looked out the tiny window and couldn’t help be somewhat flabbergasted.

She discovered that her entire person, oh, it should be more accurate to say the entire small tree house had actually been lifted from the ground.

Very quickly, the small tree house broke away from the thousand year old ancient tree trunk. It was uprooted and the tornado swept it up into midair

However it could be deemed fortunate that the small tree house hasn’t collapsed and fallen apart, rather it still stood firmly.

But still, Su Luo’s complexion had turned somewhat pale.

She visually estimated that her current distance from the ground was roughly about a hundred meters. If she was to fall from such a height, she would become nothing but torn body and crushed bones (5) not even crumbs would remain.

She have yet to cultivate flying techniques. If she fell down, then there was only one word…death.

Su Luo aggravatedly scratched her head.

That damned Nangong Liuyun! He only knew how to be concerned about the Jade Lake’s fairy, while leaving her as he pleased in a random spot at the original place.

And also that damned tornado! Why sweep up the small wooden house where she was? Obviously there were still other small tree houses over there….

Like this, she could also be chosen? In the end what kind of luck was this? Su Luo was hit by a moment of extreme speechlessness….

The surrounding gale of the tornado rages on; however in the eyes of the tornado the breeze was still, and waves were quiet (6). At present, Su Luo sat in the faintly fluttering small tree house, just as if she was sitting in a hot air balloon.

Now if someone was to see this, they would certainly be stupefied such that their chin would drop to the ground.

Because the people of this world had never seen a house flying in the sky….Could this be considered the first time since the beginning of history?

Just when Su Luo had became all too nervous, suddenly, a tiny spherical body was thrown into the small wooden house. It tumbled to the floor and rolled about until it finally stopped by Su Luo’s feet.

This spherical object….

Su Luo meticulously looked it up and down. In her heart a trace of misgivings flashed through, it looked like a type of egg, moreover it was a very large egg.

Could it be that even flying in the sky, she could still pick up an egg?

Was it possible for the mother bird to be flying and laying an egg at the same time?

At that moment, three black lines appeared on Su Luo’s forehead.

1) gaze at the ocean and lament her inadequacy – idiom: to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task)

2) bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl – idiom: ferocious mouth of beast of prey; greedy exploiter; rapacious aggressor.

3) baring its fangs and brandishing its claws – idiom: to make threatening gestures.

4) earth quaking and the mountains shaking – could also mean: tremendous battle

5) torn body and crushed bones – figuratively meaning to die horribly; to sacrifice one’s life

6) breeze was still, and waves were quite – idiom: tranquil environment; all is quiet; a dead calm (at sea)

Chapter 76 – To subdue a foolish, adorable, pampered spirit (3)

She pulled back her train of thought that was indulging in flights of fancy (1). Su Luo’s attention was, without exception, completely concentrated upon the egg.

This egg was no less than the size of a soccer ball. The outer shell was white and glossy with colored rays of light like the luster of gems shining through. Occasionally a stream of light would also streak across the top.

It gave off a dense and mysterious air.

Suddenly, rustling noises could be heard from inside the egg, as if the small creature within was trying to break out of its shell and enter the world.

Su Luo was immediately struck dumb.

Impossible, right? How could this egg, against all expectations, just happen to hatch out of the blue like this in the sky?

However, as if in response to her amazement, the top of the egg promptly split open and a thin crack appeared on the surface. Afterwards, the crack become wider and wider until crisp bump, bump, bump noises could be heard.

Su Luo held her breath in rapt attention and her eyes opened wide while watching the spectacle before her

She saw, from the fragmented pieces of eggshell on the topmost part of the egg, a tiny head covered with some shattered pieces of eggshells, slowly but surely make its way out. It naively, adorably and unsteadily, rotated its tiny head.

What kind of creature is this? Su Luo had never seen one like it before.

But this little thing looked too adorable.

A round puffy little head, simple and strong, that was absolutely adorable. Both of its eyes were closed tightly like a newborn, the corner of its mouth was dribbling out a lot of tiny little bubbles.

It seemed somewhat dejected because, apart from its head, the rest of its body was still in the eggshell.

She could only see its eyes were still closed. It had a rosy red moist little mouth which was very small, but its nibbling speed was very fast.

The little thing looked like it was nibbling on a large piece of round bread. It first nibbled away at the eggshell near its mouth, then slowly extended to the surrounding area.

It finally finished eating the entire eggshell, then used its nose to sniff around as if looking for something else.

Throughout the entire process, its eyes remain closed, giving it a charmingly innocent impression.

Su Luo’s heart became curious. What is this little thing that just broke through its eggshell looking for?

In the midst of her curious musings, the little thing took some shaky steps with its thin, delicate legs; and swayed drunkenly about, tottered to the side of Su Luo’s feet. It extended two small paws and grabbed the lower corner of Su Luo’s clothing. Its small body trembled and quivered while climbing into her lap….

The whole time, Su Luo’s body was completely stiff. She stared at this little guy with an extremely dumbfounded expression.

At the moment, this little guy’s plump and chubby little body was already laying on its back in her lap. Its little belly moved up and down with every breath, eyes still closed as it started to make tiny snoring noises.

Its pair of paws still firmly clasped a piece of Su Luo’s clothing. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t pry its paws open.

This… this little guy was a little too unselfconscious. Wasn’t approaching her out of its own accord already acting a little too familiar?

Does it think that she is its mother?

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh. Three strips of black lines appeared on Su Luo’s forehead. Drip, drip drip. Her cold sweat poured down.

Her eyes were fixed on this little guy that trustingly came of its own accord. She meticulously and carefully looked at it up and down.

Speaking of which, what kind of species is this little guy?

Say, is it a dog? It looks a little like it could be, but it didn’t have fur.

Say, is it a baby dragon? However, it was born to look like a plump ball with a foolish, blank expression that was too adorable. Entirely unlike the image of a divine dragon that would bare fangs and brandish claws (2) with a terrible and fierce malevolence.

The most important thing is this: that egg just now, how did it roll to here in the first place? Was it caused by man or was it the Will of Heaven?

Also, her small wooden house, how did it remain intact when it was in the middle of a roaring tornado? This was simply too unbelievable.

In the midst of Su Luo’s contemplation, the small wooden house suddenly began to tremble. She was shaken until the sky spun and the earth went around (3). Her head was woozy and her vision was spinning, making her dizzy. Finally, she felt the entire small wooden house fall straight down.

“Oh damn it!?” Su Luo secretly cursed in her heart as she firmly held on to the small wooden house.

Next to her ear, the wind whistled loudly.

Right now the situation was even more terrifying than being in a falling elevator!

It was through great difficulty that she, Su Luo, had once again been reborn. How could she fall and die again, in this era?

1) indulging in flights of fancy – Chinese idiom: to let one’s imagination run wild; to have a bee in one’s bonnet; unrealistic utopian fantasy

2) bare fangs and brandish claws – Chinese idiom: to make threatening gestures

3) sky spins and the earth goes around – Chinese idiom: giddy with one’s head spinning, figuratively meaning huge changes in the world.

Chapter 77 – To subdue a foolish, adorable, pampered spirit (4)

When the small wooden house fell down, it fortunately by chance, smashed down onto the branches of another thousand year old ancient tree.

Lush branches continuously resisted the downward pressure of the fall. During the descent, although the small wooden house was thrown about until it shattered into tiny pieces, Su Luo, a step ahead, had already rolled out of it hugging the little guy tightly.

Su Luo’s movements were very nimble. She tucked the defenseless little guy next to her bosom; used both hands to grab a tree branch; and light as a feather, floated past. Her movements were graceful, lithe and agile.

Because of her ability to quickly dodge, when the shattered pieces of wood from the little wooden house fell down, it was unable to cause her the slightest bit of harm.

However, this did not mean she was safe yet. Quite the opposite, there were other dangers that awaited her.

Currently, not far from Su Luo’s location, there was an extremely bitter battle taking place.

One was a creature that looked very similar to the little guy; the divine dragon that Liu Ruohua and company previously shouted about.

As for the other one, it could only be the phoenix bird, burning from head to foot in a raging inferno of flames.

The two were fighting against each other to the point where it seemed that both sides would suffer from this winless situation.

Dragon? Suddenly a thought flashed through Su Luo’s mind.

Her brain suddenly light up, she ruefully hit herself in the head.

She had suffered untold hardships (1) to arrive at the Sunset Mountain Range, eliminated countless difficulties, and all for what? It was, of course, for dragon blood!

Since the one that was just fighting was a dragon, then ….. Su Luo’s gaze landed on the charmingly naive little guy who was comfortably asleep in her arms.

This guy should also be a dragon right? That’s right. There could be no mistake. This was definitely a dragon! From before… that soccer ball sized egg was absolutely a dragon egg.

While she can’t get the divine dragon’s blood, but this little divine dragon…..was currently in her hands!

hey, hey!

The corner of Su Luo’s mouth brought forth a sinister smile. This was indeed a perversion of “searching everywhere, far and wide,” given how easy it was to find.

She realized that her luck was so good that it could only be described as defying Heaven’s Will. She never expected that a dragon’s egg would just coincidentally be dropped in front of her. Moreover it also spontaneously hatched. And what’s more, it even reflexively volunteered to climb into her lap.

Su Luo started to smile with pride.

Her slender finger poked the little divine dragon in her arms. The corner of the little dragon’s mouth began to froth and bubble as it, sleepily wheezes and snored in a sound sleep. It was completely unaware that it was being marked by someone.

If the mother dragon knew about Su Luo’s thoughts, it really would want to vomit blood.

Just when her little dragon, that she had nurtured with great difficulty, was about to hatch, she ran into a phoenix that was seeking revenge. She could do nothing, and had no other choice than to randomly select a tiny place to store her little dragon egg.

But how could she have known, that the random small wooden house she had selected was actually harboring such a person. Furthermore, by sheer chance, what the person needed most was dragon’s blood?

If the mother dragon knew of this, it very likely would become insane with anger. What was this called? This was practically called voluntarily delivering her child to the door of a tyrant and begging for it to be oppressed.

Su Luo took out a dagger from within her boots, which glittered like frost and snow, radiating deathly cold rays of light.

However, right when Su Luo was pondering where she ought to start cutting, the little divine dragon unexpectedly woke up.

It opened its misty, watery little eyes; and its little paws started to rub the blurred drowsiness out of them. Its little face was filled with confusion.

This stupidly cute expression, seemed to be able to enthrall any person with its adorable, bewitching sense of cuteness.

Naturally when she saw it, even Su Luo’s iron-hard heart also softened.

Suddenly, the adorable little dragon opened its round eyes wide and instantly fixed its gaze onto Su Luo.

Su Luo also silently gazed back at it.

When it saw Su Luo, the little divine dragon seemed to become very excited. Its little mouth opened, issuing forth a sweet-sounding dragon cry.

“Weng——”

The dragon cry rang out next to Su Luo’s ear, jolting her forehead with extreme pain and giving her a splitting headache.

But also because of the sound of this dragon cry, her plans had been ruined.

1) suffered untold hardships – Chinese idiom: trials and tribulations; with difficulty; after some effort.

Chapter 78 – To subdue a foolish, adorable, pampered spirit (5)

The mother dragon and the fire phoenix’s fight was at the peak of ferocity for the battle, but it still found the time to turn its head. Only to see its treasured little baby was actually laying in the arms of a person from the insignificant human race. Moreover, that human was even wielding a dagger and making motions towards the baby with it!

Oh, my god!

The mother dragon let out a ear-piercing sound that resonated loud and clear. The sound volume blasted straight through the clouds into the sky.

The mother dragon thought that it would be best to immediately release a dragon’s breath to burn Su Luo to a crisp, until there would almost be nothing left. When the transformation to ashes was complete, the residual would float away light as a feather.

However, Su Luo’s good luck rested on the dragon hostage she held in her hands as this placed her in an advantageous position. Therefore, none of the mother dragon’s long range attacks could be used.

The mother dragon was afraid that while wounding the rat, it would hit the fragile jade vase.

So, it refrained from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking vases (1).

Suddenly, Su Luo saw the enormously large body of a divine dragon leaped in her direction. Such an awe-inspiring, dignified, powerful dragon jolted her heart and caused it to throb violently.

A startled expression passed through her eyes. It was too late to think clearly. She hugged the adorable little dragon close, turned around, and just ran.

This was definitely an unconscious action.

Run, run, run——

Su Luo knew that if the mother dragon was to catch up to her, any hope of getting dragon’s blood would be dashed.

Not only that, her life would cease to exist beneath the flying claws of the violently raging mother dragon.

The divine dragon’s bursts of dragon roar, shocked Su Luo, making her blood rush forth. The power of the dragon roar was deafening, like a magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (2) surging forward.

While the divine dragon was chasing after Su Luo to kill her, the fire phoenix behind was also chasing after the divine dragon. It was also because of the fire phoenix’s interference that Su Luo had a slight chance to escape.

It appeared like a blazing path that pierced the vast sky. Ten thousand thunder claps started to echo across the sky, its power to destroy also contained an endless murderous intent.

Su Luo while running also took the time to look back. She only saw the dragon’s malevolently cruel and vengeful expression. The light of bloodlust shining out from the dragon’s eyes. The soccer ball sized scales glittered like snow and frost as if each piece contained an inexhaustible strength.

“Damn it!” cursed Su Luo. Her expression changed slightly when she saw the distance between the divine dragon and herself shrinking.

The divine dragon had long ago become enraged. If she was captured by it then her end would absolutely be quite tragic.

Su Luo accelerated her pace. Her footsteps seemed to give birth to the wind. With powerful jumps, she rushed forward without looking back.

Su Luo’s heart was very agitated.

With her current speed, she was sure that halfway down the road, the dragon will overtake her.

How can she escape from it?

The divine dragon chased her until she had to go up to Heaven or down to Hades (3) fleeing and still couldn’t escape.

In the meanwhile, the little guy in her arms was also restless. It apparently felt that they were playing a game. It stretched out its round, plump head and joined with its mother dragon in issuing dragon roars up here, down there (4).

Su Luo was frustrated to death. She half threatened and half menacingly patted its head. “Do not call out!”

The adorable little dragon did not seem to understand the meaning of Su Luo’s words. Its round, circular eyes were full of confusion. However, after seeing Su Luo’s cruel and sinister expression, it weakly withdrew its neck and silently contracted its little head back into Su Luo’s arm.

However, after a short while, the little dragon reverted to its old ways. The little head once again came out to explore.

“You’re not allowed to yell, go back!” Su Lu said while tapping its head. The little dragon once again did what it was told and very obediently pulled back into Su Luo’s arms.

As a result, every time the little dragon would spring out, Su Luo would flick it back in.

It would come out to explore and then once again be bounced back in.

Due to this back and forth, the adorable little dragon was under the impression that Su Luo was playing a game with it. Ha, ha, ha, it laughingly chortled while playing along happily.

Later on, Su Luo was too lazy to poke the little dragon so it became upset. The little dragon started to wail awooo awoo loudly. An expression of being wronged appeared on its little face, its eyes were gleaming with tears.

The three black lines on Su Luo’s forehead once again appeared.

All she wanted was a little dragon’s blood. It should have been easy, right? In front she had an adorable little dragon stirring up trouble, behind she had a large divine dragon pursuing closely and unwilling to let go…

The divine dragon’s speed was like lightning. Wherever it goes all the grass and trees would fall to both sides, as if to open a path.

1) refrained from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking vases – idiom: to not act against an evil so as to prevent harm to innocents.

2) magnificent army with thousands of men and horses – idiom: impressive display of manpower; all the King’s horses and all the King’s men.

3) go up to Heaven or down to Hades – idiom: whichever way, I don’t care; to decide to go ahead without foreboding.

4) up here, down there – idiom: to rise and fall in succession; no sooner one subsides, the next arises; repeating continuously; occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)

Chapter 79 ­- To subdue a foolish, adorable, pampered spirit (6)

The rumbling echoes of tumbling rocks seemed to grow, and the trees that were blocking the path were immediately transformed into ashes by Dragon’s Breath.

After a long chase it was still unable to catch up. The divine dragon was so infuriated, that both its eyes were red with anger. However it was still afraid of injuring the little divine dragon, so it won’t dare to fire off a Dragon’s Breath.

The large divine dragon’s eyes continued to burn with flames of fury. The huge dragon tail resembled a chain of thickly linked iron swinging dangerously around. In one spot it had swept, it snapped all the forest trees within ten meters of its body.

Flying leaves swirled in the air as a giant cloud of dust rose.

Although Su Luo was not swept up by the dragon tail, she was hit by flying fragments of wood.

A piece of broken wood ruthlessly knocked against her back. When it did, Su Luo felt as if her back was about to split wide open. She felt as if a huge boulder had been pressing down on her chest, so heavily that made it nearly impossible for her to breath.

She felt that the qi and blood in her entire body rolled over in waves. A sweet coppery taste materialized in her throat. Unable to keep it in, she sprayed out a stream of blood.

“Phoo——” The soles of Su Luo’s feet swayed, almost unable to stand.

Just at this time, a sense of an impending crisis rushed through her mind.

This was caused by the divine dragon behind her, who was unexpectedly preparing to unleash Dragon’s Breath. An awe-inspiring radiance streaked by, and the brilliant rays were like sharp swords launched toward Su Luo.

Su Luo’s complexion had immediately undergone a major change.

She spared no effort (1) in rushing towards the tilting thorns, her speed was so quick that only an incomplete shadow was left behind.

That slash of intense radiance was like the tip of a double-edged sword, that directly turned the trees within a hundred meters ahead of it into ashes. Even the ground was completely split open leaving a terrifying large fissure in the earth. The soil and mud were also turned into fine dust.

Su Luo dangerously avoided this killing move. Yet an icy chill emerged from her heart, and her forehead was instantly covered in cold sweat.

She was almost at the end of her rope and was barely hanging in by a thread.

But fortunately, at this time the fire phoenix had already caught up with the divine dragon.

Consequently, these two divine beasts’ blood feud resumed. This provided Su Luo with a little opportunity that she could take advantage of.

If the divine dragon did not fear of trouble in the rear (2), Su Luo knew she simply would not have been its opponent. Very likely she would have already been slashed to death by the divine dragon’s claws without being able to run for more than several hundred meters.

However in the recent past Su Luo seemed to be cared for by the goddess of fortune.

Against all expectations, on the back heels of this divine dragon, the fire phoenix followed up and continued its battle with the dragon. Moreover, this fire phoenix had narrow-mindlessly (3) taken advantage of its difficulties. As a result the divine dragon had no other alternative than to face Su Luo with hateful regret while gnashing its teeth (4).

Whenever the divine dragon was about to kill off Su Luo, the fire phoenix that had been following close behind would come out and cause a disturbance. This kind of situation repeated itself again and again, enraging the divine dragon until it nearly spat out blood.

But now, even Su Luo also had a kind of urge to spit out blood.

It’s over!

When Su Luo saw the barren cliffs and the precipitous rock faces ahead, she immediately wanted to start to cry but lacked the tears to begin.

At this time, all three directions moving forward were blocked by an overhanging cliff and behind her the mother dragon pursued feverishly, unwilling to let go. Now she basically had nowhere to escape!

What to do? Could it be that her hands were practically tied and set to be captured?

Out of the question! Even if she was to return the adorable little dragon now, the divine dragon will absolutely not let her get away.

At present she still had not arrived at the dead-end road, so surely there was still another chance to save herself.

Sure enough, heaven never barred one’s way (5).

Su Luo’s sharp eyes saw a perfectly straight dark green creeper vine hanging down the cliff.

Su Luo gave it a few tugs and found that this rope-like creeper vine was apparently frequently used by people before her. She need not worry about the firmness aspect of the vine.

It seems as if the Heavens really don’t want me to die!

Su Luo’s heart immediately rejoiced.

She tucked the adorable little dragon into her bosom, afterwards she used her hands to nimbly grab the creeper vine. She used both her hands and feet to rapidly climb up the tall overhanging cliff. It took her less than a quarter of the hour to reach the top.

On top of the cliff was a flat plane covered by a meadow. A gentle breeze passed by and rustled a tidy area of the field into a rising and falling motion, like a jade green wave that rippled. This sight gave her the sensation of an untroubled heart, pleased spirit (6).

Standing on top of the precipice and gazing into the distance. Su Luo could clearly see the feverish fight between the divine dragon and the fire phoenix not far way.

It was as if they had claimed an area of heaven and earth for themselves. Fiery ocean patches spread endlessly, with soaring flames boiling over like lava.

1) spared no effort – idiom: to do one’s utmost

2) fears of trouble in the rear – idiom: family worries (obstructing freedom of action); worries about the future consequences; often in negative expressions, meaning “no worries about anything”

3) narrow-mindlessly – idiom: petty; ungenerous

4) gnashing its teeth – idiom: displaying extreme anger; fuming with rage between gritted teeth

5) heaven never barred one’s way – idiom: don’t despair and you will find a way through; never give up hope; never say die.

6) untroubled heart, pleased spirit – idiom: carefree and relaxed.

Chapter 80 – To subdue a foolish, adorable, pampered spirit (7)

Good, very good, extremely good!

If she didn’t take advantage of this fortunate timing, she wouldn’t get another chance.

Su Luo’s heart rejoiced. Using one hand, she brought out the adorable little dragon from within her embrace while the other hand searched within her bosom for the jade box that she had prepared.

The Celestial Spirit water she stole from Su Manor and the Spatial Grass she received from Nangong Liuyun were both stored in the jade box.

The jade box had the ability to keep things fresh that resembled refrigeration. Even if the Spatial Grass was stored for a few decades, when it’s taken out later, it would be as tender and fresh as if it had just been picked.

However, at this moment, a look of astonishment flashed through Su Luo’s eyes!

Where was the jade box? Where was her jade box? Su Luo’s face immediately become puzzled and unconvinced.

She remembered very clearly that when she was alone in the small wooden house before, she had personally taken out the jade box to check. How could it have disappeared?

Did she lose it when she fell down the ancient tree?

Not possible. She clearly remembered the jade box was in her arms when she tucked the adorable little dragon in there, too. How could it have suddenly disappeared between that time and now?

Could it be that she had dropped it on top of the overhanging cliff? Su Luo looked down and began to search everywhere from left to right and in all directions. Ultimately, she ended up laying on the ground and rummaging through the soil, but she still could not find a trace of the jade box.

This could truly be called…having picked up a sesame seed while losing a watermelon!

Su Luo just wanted to cry but lacked the tears.

Undoubtedly the dragon’s blood is right in front of her, but the Spatial grass and the Celestial Spirit water had actually disappeared. What could be worse?

While Su Luo was in the midst of dismay and going around in circles, the adorable little dragon from the beginning had been looking up at Su Luo with a pair of eyes which contained a bewildered and foolishly stupid expression. Its thin and delicate little paws grabbed onto Su Luo’s trouser leg and a pair of small, short legs followed Su Luo in continuously circling around. Furthermore, it seemed as if it was chewing something in its mouth.

A flash of insight appeared in Su Luo’s mind; she suddenly remembered the scene of the adorable little dragon eating the eggshells from before…..

She couldn’t be that unlucky right?

A kind of ominous premonition emerged from within Su Luo’s heart. She picked up the adorable little dragon and with slender fingers pried open its tiny dragon mouth.

Following a close examination, three lines of bursting veins formed on Su Luo’s forehead. For a split second she even had the desire to strangle the adorable little dragon.

What did she see? She actually found pieces of the jade box in the adorable little dragon’s mouth that had yet to be swallowed.

She absolutely could not have mistaken that bright green characteristic of the jade.

This little thing! It…it actually ate the small jade box!

Su Luo had a strong urge to flip the little dragon on its stomach in her lap and spank its butt.

After a while of being mad at herself, Su Luo unhappily fixed her gaze on the adorable little dragon, as if attempting to kill it with her meaningful glare.

However, the adorable little dragon seemed to be completely unaware of her glare. Instead, its head weaved to and fro, its sleepy eyes were drowsy from dozing off, the corner of its mouth was even splitting out tiny blue bubbles…

Su Luo was so infuriated that with a swish, she took out her personal dagger. She threateningly gestured everywhere along the small body of the adorable little dragon with the dagger and very fiercely said. “Celestial Spirit water and the Spatial grass were swallowed but it shouldn’t have been digested yet, right?”

The adorable little dragon opened its misty eyes. Its face had a sluggish look of having just woken up. She only saw its little mouth move closer and then afterwards ——

A crisp chomp sound rang out.

Su Luo was once again dumbfounded.

She rigidly fixed her eyes on the dagger handle used for self-protection and once again had a feeling of being driven irascibly mad!

Damn it! Nangong Liuyun had said this dagger was made from top grade iron and also bragged about how exceptionally sharp it was. Unexpectedly…unexpectedly it had become lunch for this little guy who in one bite chewed it apart.

The adorable little dragon was munching away as if eating something very delicious like a cookie, with crisp crunching noises that gave off a sweet and flavorful impression.

Su Luo was about to hit her forehead again.

She felt that if she was to continue to stay together with the adorable little dragon, either she will be driven mad by this silly little dragon, or she will cut this silly little dragon into pieces. These were the only two possible roads she could take.