13. The Secrets of The Peach Blossom Residence (I)

She pulled out her ‘Qingliu Wanyue’ and scratched the coming men in black robes, but failed to hurt them even a bit.

Ye Lan swirled around, got out of the encirclement of these men and flew all the way to the peach blossom residence.

The men in black robes chased after her. Loads of black spiritual power was formed into a gigantic phantom python, with its irresistible force sweeping away everything in its way.

Ye Lan’s spiritual wing fluttered, rolling up thousands of snowflakes into a snow storm, rushing towards the python behind her.

The body of the python was as hard and sharp as an axe, splitting the whirlwind in half. Its phantom-big mouth tried to swallow Ye Lan alive.

With a mountain appearing in the front, Ye Lan didn’t turn but sped up instead while the python was in hot pursuit.

Just at the moment when the python was about to eat her and Ye Lan also made it to the end of her way, she suddenly halted and jumped all her way up, leaving the python knocking on the mountain. As it was too fast, the mountain collapsed later on.

Before Ye Lan could make it to the cloud, she felt something heavy on her foot—the tail of the python had now entangled her right leg.

She was dragged all the way down while the python opened its mouth straight up and wide open, waiting to eat her as a whole.

Ye Lan struggled to flutter her wing, trying to escape from the hampering of the python but failed to do so. The abyss-deep bloody mouth was now getting bigger and bigger in her pupils.

Before she knew it, she had reached the edge of the bloody mouth and the transparent tucks formed by spiritual air all stood up straight like the sharp blades of swords.

A strong fishy smell came to her nose immediately. Ye Lan held her desire to throw up and scratched with her dagger in the air. The mouth of the python was then cut in half.

The python was now howling towards the sky and let go of Ye Lan. She took the opportunity and chopped all the way down from the first cut.

Dazzling sparks from the clash of the dagger and python’s body fell from the sky like burning meteorites, which looked beautiful and gorgeous.

The python collapsed immediately.

Ye Lan stood above the corpse of the python, which had been split in half. She was floating in the air while her wing fluttered intermittently.

Ye He was so desperate as he didn’t expect his death servants would be defeated by Ye Lan!

He swung his sleeve and several streaks of spiritual light came out. Ye Lan couldn’t rival her father and was unable to run away from the lights.

Was Ye Lan gonna die here?

Out of nowhere, a figure flashed by in front of Ye Lan.

“Xiao Hei!”

Xiao Hei didn’t respond. He turned his back to Ye Lan, trying to catch his breath, “I, I said that... I will protect you.”

He turned around and smiled to Ye Lan. The blood at the corner of his mouth was striking red.

Ye Lan frowned and had a twitch in her heart, “You are hurt?”

“No big deal!”

Ye He was amazed and looked at the man who showed up suddenly. Ye He was already a level four of stage seven spiritual cultivator. It was hard to believe this man could take Ye He’s attack.

“Are you Ye Lan’s guard?” Ye He asked him harshly, “Who are you?”

An evil smile appeared on Xiao Hei’s face, “Master Ye doesn’t need to know…”

He lowered his voice and his eyes were icy cold, “People who know my identity have all but one end—death!”

“Ignorant brat! How dare you talk to me like that? ”

Xiao Hei ignored him and softened his voice to Ye Lan, “Let’s go, Master!”

Ye He was furious and said, “Go? Where to? You two can go nowhere except from hell!”

“Hum, we will see if you got what it takes.”

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Hei disappeared along with Ye Lan under everyone’ watch.

Ye He burst into anger and pounded a diamond wood in half. He clenched his fists, his face twisted out of madness, “Nobody can ever escape under my nose!”

“Listen, search around, even if you have to dig the ground three feet deep, you must find these two people!”

*

On the outskirts, in a willow forest.

Ye Lan helped Xiao Hei to sit on a rock, “Are you ok? Let me see…”

Xiao Hei didn’t say a thing but moved Ye Lan’s hand away; his face flushed unnaturally.

He hadn’t been so close to her after the day he met her. The unique body odor of Ye Lan lingered, making his face as red as having a fever.

Proud as he was, she found him very cute as he flushed at this moment.

“How come your face is burning hot? The wound get infected again? Take off your clothes now. I can use my spiritual power to heal your wound.”

Hard to believe what she just said, Xiao Hei stared at her and wondered what was in her mind.

He turned around and before he knew it, Ye Lan had ripped his clothes.

“You, you…”

He tried to cover his robust chest and backed up a few steps stubbornly; his face flushed.

Ye Lan came forward and removed his hands lightly, “What? Shut up! I won’t bite you!”

He unwillingly said, “I will do it myself.”

Ye Lan tried her best to heal his wound and reproved him, “It is sensible for me to heal you as you are the one who got hurt because of me.”

Xiao Hei remained silent like a piece of wood.

“That palm hit could easily kill you…” She looked up; her dark eyes met Xiao Hei’s, “Thank you, Xiao Hei.”

He was fascinated at her glistening eyes, which was as shiny as a dark pearl in the dim light of the night.

Xiao Hei didn’t know what to say all of a sudden and lowered his head, pretending to look at her hands fixing the wounds on his chest.

“Done!” Ye Lan got up and shook the fallen leaves on her, “Let’s go back to the peach blossom residence.”

Xiao Hei stopped her as he got up, “It’s dangerous there.”

“The thing my mother left with me is still there. I should get it out in case it falls in the hands of Ye He.”

They flew into the darkness of the night, tried to avoid the scout of Ye family and finally got back to the residence.

Ye Lan couldn’t believe what she was looking at. A sea of flames was reflected in her dark eyes. The color of her pupils was fiery red.

With the peach garden destroyed and large amount of smoke billowing out of the scorching earth, the residence had lost all its traces.

She wouldn’t believe that Ye He would burn down her peach garden and set hundreds of acres of peach trees on fire—that was her mother’s favorite peach garden!

Ye He, I will never let you get away with this! She gnashed her teeth and clenched her fists.

“Master…” Xiao Hei called out gently and then started to look at Ye Lan worriedly.

Ye Lan didn’t respond but smiled towards Xiao Hei lightly.

She went forward into the sea of fire and Xiao Hei held her wrist, “That’s dangerous.”

Ye Lan looked back, staring at Xiao Hei’s eyes without a sense of grievance on her face, “The thing my mother left with me is still in there.”

Under the protection of the spiritual shield, they walked in the fire and Ye Lan stopped near a peach tree after a long walk.

The tree was burnt. Judging from the remaining marks, this tree had already died before the fire. It was cut by its owner and its growth rings were deliberately exposed.

“Here it is.”

She remembered when her mother was building this peach garden, she buried a cloth-wrapper under the tree and especially reminded Ye Lan that she could only find it along the growth ring.

Ye Lan looked at the burning side of the trunk carefully. Although the traces of the growth ring were long gone, there was an obvious red spot at its east corner.

She followed this mark to dug the mud out, and found the cloth-wrapper within the twisted roots.

“I find it! Let’s go!”

They left the peach blossom residence with the cover of the dark night.