Chapter 10

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Seven thousand years ago, the ancestor of the Kongsang people, Emperor Xing Zun, expelled the Ice Clan people and destroyed the Sea Kingdom, unified Yunwang and established the Piling Dynasty, then set up his own mausoleum and Queen Bai Wei’s mausoleum in the Kings Valley of Jiuyi Mountain; also set up a temple at the same time. Since then, all the emperors and empresses of Kongsang have been buried there. Every three years, the Emperor will lead the six royal families to the Jiuyi temple for a grand sacrificial ceremony.

Generally speaking, most of the people who were sent to the Jiuyi Temple to become priests were the children of the fallen nobles of the six clans, because they could not inherit the title and could not get any family property. The only way out was to enter the Jiuyi Temple to practice, to climb the ranks over the years in the hope they will get a priesthood. Maybe they still had a chance to get ahead after that.

She didn’t know which of the six Clans her Shifu came from, but since he was sent to Jiuyi, he certainly would not come from any of the powerful families. Moreover, in the final analysis, the priests of Jiuyi Temple are only responsible for offering sacrifices to the ancestors and guarding the dead, so how could they interfere with the major decisions of the Royal Family?

However, Shi Ying didn’t answer her question. He suddenly coughed a few times, took out a towel from his sleeve and wiped the corners of his mouth. The white silk was immediately tinged with a pale crimson stain.

“Master… Master!” Zhu Yan was taken aback and stammered: “Are you injured?”

“It’s just a little bit of internal injury, no big deal.” Shi Ying put away the towel and said lightly.

She stared at him in a daze, and muttered incredulously: “You…you will also get hurt too?”

“Do you think I’m immortal?” he gazed at her coldly. “Is it so easy to defeat ten thousand people with one person?”

She dared not answer for a moment, then after a long time she asked: “Just now, what was that move called?… Why didn’t you teach me?”

“It has no name.” Shi Ying said faintly, “it was created by me temporarily.”

Zhu Yan choked again and muttered, “That’s a great move! Will you teach me?”

“No.” Shi Ying didn’t even look at the disciple. “You are too poorly qualified to learn this trick right now. If you insist on learning it, you will get injured because will backfire.”

“Oh, well…” Zhu Yan bowed her head and sighed dejectedly.

Yes, at that time, Master picked up the arrow empty-handed, then ten thousand arrows shot by the army were destroyed; he made it seem easy, and it looked majestic. In fact, she also knew that this extremely powerful technique was also accompanied by a great backlash. I am afraid that only one move would cost more than half of true year of life. But growing up, she had never seen the Master injured except in the Nightmare Forest, and gradually felt that the man had an unbreakable body.

Shi Ying finished the letter attentively, picked up the paper and dried it in the wind. Zhu Yan leaned over to see what he had written, but he picked up the letter in time. She thought it was a little strange, but she dared not inquire about it. Master’s temper has always been stern and cold, and most of the times her little curiosity and jumping character will only lead to a bucket of cold water.

Shi Ying folded the letter into a paper crane, blew gently over it, and the paper crane came alive, spread its wings and flew out of the golden tent.

This kind of paper crane skill of passing letters is an introduction to building the foundation into the magic. She can also do it, but hers won’t look as beautiful as his, is not so easy to be folded; those cranes of hers are either lame or with crippled wings, flying askew and can’t make it through ten miles.

Watching the paper crane disappearing into the winter storm, Shi Ying remained silent for a moment, then suddenly asked: “By the way, what kind of husband do you want to marry?”

Zhu Yan didn’t expect that kind of question to come from her Master so suddenly, and couldn’t help but froze for a moment: “Huh?”

“Let’s talk about it.” Shi Ying looked at the stormy snow outside the tent, with no expression on his face, and said lightly: “I will let the Red King pick it up next time, lest you toss it back and forth again.”

“Oh, I like…” She wanted to blurt out that she liked a beautiful and gentle Shark like Yuan, but when the words came to her mouth, she suddenly shut up. Yes, Master has always been strict and rigid. If he comes to know that she is infatuated with a Shark slave, wouldn’t he scold her to death? And her father has repeatedly told her not to mention this domestic scandal, or he will break her legs.

“I… I think…” reasoning about this, she suddenly ate her words obediently and tried to change the argument, starting to flatter him: “It’s great to be with you, Shifu!”

Shi Ying moved his eyebrows and looked over sharply. She was taken aback, and quickly shrank her neck; was this flattering too obvious?

“Don’t talk nonsense!” Shi Ying said coldly. “Priest officials cannot marry wives.”

“I know, I know.” She hurriedly made amends, turned her heart across and brazenly said: “I mean, having seen Master as the most beautiful dragon in the world, even though there are thousands of other beautiful men, how many of them can still get into my eyes? So, I was delayed!”

This flattering almost made her throw up, but Shi Ying’s face was sure enough to slow down for a while.

“You can’t use such a standard to ask your father,” after a moment, she heard Master sigh, “otherwise you may never get married for the rest of your life.”

What? Do you want to flatter yourself like this? And take it for granted! Zhu Yan vomited a mouthful of blood, only to swallow this sentence. However, she heard him say: “You are the only daughter of the Red King. Why are you so uneasy with your father? Why is he so unforgiving, like my younger brother?”

Brother? Zhu Yan couldn’t help being a little surprised. This Master, who has been practicing in the temple since he was a child and has been a loner, still has a younger brother? Isn’t he a lone star of the Gods who popped out off a stone without a father and a mother?

“Do you have a younger brother?” Zhu Yan couldn’t help being curious and blurted out, “What does he do?”

Shi Ying didn’t answer her question, but just glanced at her. The look immediately made her feel chills running down her spine and she could just swallow the following words. She was afraid of touching Master’s reversed scales*, and quickly changed topic: “Then… So, you knew about the concubine’s plot for a long time when you came to the Western Wilderness?”

“Mm-hmm.” he replied faintly.

“Is it foreseen through the water mirror, or through divination?” she was a little curious, and pestered him for a reply, “How do you look at this?”

Shi Ying answered with only two words: “Look at the breath.”

“Oh… Is it because it was necessary to gather a large number of creatures to perform witchcraft, they hide so many urns here, and their grievances was so high that you could feel there was something wrong here?” She tried her best to understand what the Master meant, but she was still puzzled: “But how did you know that I was going to run away from the marriage? I only decided on this matter halfway through the road, and only told Yu Fei and Yun Man, even my mother didn’t know, how did you find out in advance? Can this be breathing?”

“No.” He paused, and replied coldly, “It was a pure coincidence.”

“…” She choked all of a sudden.

It turns out that he didn’t come here to help her out? I’m afraid he hasn’t even thought about her in the past five years. Remembering that her mother, the Imperial Concubine had even advised her to flee to Jiuyi Mountain to join this man, she could not help but feeling a burst of anger, her head suddenly drooped and her eyes dimmed.

Shi Ying looked at her sad expression, and finally said a few more words: “I recently took a trip down the mountain to track a matter about the shark people.”

“Oh, I see.” She nodded – it must be something extraordinary that could make Master decide to go down the mountain as an exception. However, since he was not willing to make it clear, naturally she could not enquire further. After thinking for a while, Zhu Yan asked: “But, why are you alone?”

Shi Ying patiently answered her question: “Before gathering any evidence, it is not good to alarm the Imperial Capital without authorization, so I could only come alone to inquire about the situation. I’ve been hiding here for half a month, but I could not find a clue. Fortunately, you ran away from your marriage last night, and something happened all of a sudden, forcing them to show their flaws in a mess.”

Zhu Yan was stunned: “You… didn’t you say that you came only by the order of the Imperial Capital? You also said that the army is going to arrive soon…”

Shi Ying replied coldly: “If I didn’t say that back then, how could I’ve been able to suppress their army?”

“That was too dangerous!” She couldn’t help but yelled, feeling cold behind her back. “If Ke Erke would have rebelled at that time, with so many troops, we… Weren’t we both going to be shot into hedgehogs?”

“Guessing people’s hearts is more difficult than magic. I know what kind of person Ke Erke is.” He said indifferently, “You don’t have confidence in yourself, but why you don’t have confidence in me?”

She shut up immediately, not daring to say any more words.

“I have to go too after the things here are handled.” Shi Ying stood up and said, “I just wrote a letter and told your father about the situation. I believe he will send someone to pick you up soon.”

“What? You… You sold me out?!” She did not expect that he has written this in the letter just now, she was so angry that she suddenly stammered. “I clearly said I wouldn’t go back, but you asked my father to come and get me? I can’t believe you betrayed me!”

Shi Ying frowned: “Your father is in charge of the Western Wilderness, and the burden is great, so don’t make trouble.”

“I won’t go back anyway!” Zhu Yan stomped her feet, crying, “Not even dead!”

Before she finished her words, she lifted the curtain of the golden tent and rushed out. Yes! Even if she didn’t succeed in escaping the marriage, she would never go back to the palace of the Heavenly Wind City again! She would be locked up in a golden cage again when she returned, and she would be married for the second time, the third time, until her father would feel satisfied! Now that she managed to come out, how can he think she will go back?

However, just a few steps out, her body suddenly tightened, and something pulled her ankle. Zhu Yan instinctively wanted to pull off the Jade Bone to resist, but suddenly a white vine grew under her feet, binding her firmly, and dragging her back to the tent with a “brush”, threw her heavily on the sheepskin blanket in the tent, making her unable to move.

Shi Ying’s voice became stern: “Don’t be ignorant!”

She was dragged back horizontally, her face covered with snow and dirt, she was in a mess. Embarrassed, she was about to explode, struggling to free herself, but the more she struggled, the tighter the rope was binding her. She could not help but shout: “Damn you! How dare you bind me? Even my parents won’t dare to bind me! You cold-blooded dead face, let me out, or I…”

However, halfway through the speech, she suddenly stopped.

“If you dare to scream again, you’ll get hurt.” Shi Ying looked down at her coldly. A ruler-like thing appeared in his hand, it was a jade slip. At that moment, Zhu Yan gasped in fright, and suddenly her voice vanished. This jade bamboo slip is the ever-changing weapon in Master’s hands, sometimes turning into an umbrella and sometimes into a sword. But when it was into its original shape, it was her childhood nightmare. Because, it often means that she is going to get slapped. During her four years in Jiuyi Mountain, she was beaten almost every other day because of her stubbornness. She could not recite the secret magic, or drew the wrong seals, she would go out to play forgiving to have to practice, then practiced incorrectly and become possessed… All sorts of big mistakes or small mistakes, as long as they were caught by him, he would slap her hands lightly and spank her butts. Every time she was in pain, she cried for her father and mother to take her home; however, the Wind City was thousands of miles away, which really made her cry be ineffective.

After many years, now she sees this jade slip again, her back was still tight.

“You! How dare you hit me? I’m not an eight-year-old anymore!” She exclaimed angrily, “I’m eighteen years old now! My husband just died! I am the princess of the Red Clan! If you hit me, I… I will just…”

He frowned and asked; “Just what?”

*Reversed scales – The most intimate scales of a Dragon; implies touching someone’s bottom line.

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