Chapter 1

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August 2016

Cang Yue (Author)

Zhu Yan was forced to marry into Susa Haru when she was eighteen years old. In the middle of the night, when the grand feast had just ended, everyone in the King’s Golden Tent were lying on top of the table, and the golden cups were knocked all over the floor.

The envoys from the Imperial Capital could not stop the Huotu nobles from toasting. They were so drunk and even the guards outside the tent were so drunk that they kept snoring one after another.

“Is everything ready out there?”

Zhu Yan sat in another connected golden tent. Listening to the rumor of the guards persuading each other to drink more wine from the outside gradually fading, she stood up, tore off the red wedding dress embroidered with gold and jade, and hurriedly put on a neat bunt, then said: “I have to go.”

“Princess,” the maid Yu Fei sounded a little worried “Why don’t you let Yun Man accompany you?”

“It’s okay, Yun Man must keep an eye on the Great Wizard in the Huotu Tent in front. I can just go by myself.”

She opened a box brought from the Red King’s Mansion, then extracted one thing out from there: a one-foot-long jade hairpin, exquisitely cut, like a glazed tree; it was entirely white with only a bit of vermilion on the top, and a cloud of brilliance faintly flowing from it under the light.

The Master said that this hairpin was called “Jade Bone”. It came from the seabed in the Blue Sea where even the Sharks could not swim. It is one foot long and is the ancient relic of Queen Bai Wei, the most precious kind of magical artifact in the world.

Queen Bai Wei? Are you kidding, isn’t she seven thousand years old? These priests on Jiuyi Mountain always like to deceive the royal nobles of Kongsang with these gods and artifacts. However, at this moment as she held the Jade Bone, she felt she was a bit nervous.

Since Master passed on to her this magic weapon, she only used it once. Last time, it was just a little trial, only a small test, and it caused a lot of trouble. This time, it’s a real weapon. She felt uncertain. She took a deep breath, grabbed the Jade Bone with her right hand, and pierced her left hand with it, deep and clean.

With a “woosh” sound, a little red dot sprang up from her upper left hand. The blood droplets condensed on the white fingertips and grew fast as big as a coral bead. However, in the moment when it was about to fall down, as if it had been sucked up, it turned out to be going backwards along the hairpin; the Jade Bone sucked in the drop of blood, and the scarlet at the end of it flashed so bright that a flower bloomed in the blinking of an eye. She hurriedly put her hands together and recited the spell in silence. In a short celebration, the wonderful flower bloomed and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into five petals and fell on the soft brocade of the bed. At the moment of landing, another girl identical to Zhu Yan appeared on the brocade!

Yu Fei, the maid beside her, took a breath of air and almost screamed out: “Is this the magic method? It is said that in the palace the Princess Zhu Yan once learned the magic method from Jiuyi Mountain when she was a child. It turns out to be true!”

“Don’t be afraid, it’s just an empty shell smelted from my blood.” She soothed the jade quilt, raised her hand and pinched the fake Zhu Yan’s face sitting lifeless on the bed – her limbs were warm and soft, with real skin, even flesh and blood, just like a living person. However, the person who was pinched was expressionless, like a puppet. Zhu Yan picked up the Jade Bone and lit it in the middle of the fake Zhu Yan’s eyebrows, her lips moved slightly. The doll gradually bowed her head and seemed to start listening to her orders.

“This method can only last twelve hours. We must hurry up!” After Zhu Yan finished casting her spell, she carefully examined her results and turned her head towards the maid, then said: “Put her on my clothes and jewelries, you can’t miss anything from the inside to the outside, understood?”

Yu Fei looked at the wooden figure a bit scared: “Princess, are you really going to…”

“Don’t be so fussy! I’ve already discussed this with you too many times. Are you scared now? Do you really want to spend your life in this godforsaken desert?” Zhu Yan’s character was short-tempered, and suddenly grew impatient. “When all this will be over, you’ll rush out and cry for help! Do you understand?”

Yu Fei nodded timidly and clenched the strap of her coat.

“Don’t be afraid. It’s simple. It’ll work.” She grabbed the Jade Bone and put it away then collected her hair and put it up into a bun, then inserted the pin into the knot. She covered herself into a wide, warm cloak and went out. “Just listen to my signal and stick to the plan.”

It was cold outside, and the harsh wind roared onto her ears, whipping her face with snowflakes, so that she could hardly keep her eyes open. She covered her head and face with the hood and walked around the campfires of the tents carefully avoiding the drunken guards, her hands wrapped into the sleeves, to hide herself. Luckily, Yun Man managed to keep the wizard of the Huotu Clan busy, otherwise, with the old man’s magic and eyesight, she would not have been able to come and go freely like this.

She plunged straight into the wind and snow, away from the camp. She didn’t know how far she had gone but she didn’t stop until she couldn’t hear any more noise in her ears, then she halted exhausted. She shook the wind cap with her stiff fingers and found that her lips were full of broken crusts and snow and she could hardly breathe. This was the outer edge of Susa Haru, the further out was the grassland plains.

It is said that the second snow in winter has been falling for more than a month, and has accumulated two feet tall. In such a cold winter, I’m afraid the livestock grazing outside will freeze to death. How did the herdsmen survive until spring?

Here is the relatively prosperous Aymia Basin in the Western Wilderness – an oasis in the desert and the home flag of the Huotu Clan. Cows and sheep are roaming in herds, and honey milk flows in the river. However, compared with the Celestial Wind City where the Chi Clan is located, it is still just one sky and one earth, not to mention at all the prosperous Empire Jialan. No wonder that when she heard that she was going to marry into the Susa Haru, the Imperial Concubine cried for several days at her father.

“Ah-Yan is your only child. Which of the six other vassals is not fighting to send their children to the imperial capital? Why do you want my only child to go to such a desolate place and marry a barbarian?”

“Even if she marries a barbarian, it’s still better than running away with that Shark slave!” the father replied fiercely, “don’t you dare to say more about this matter! I’ve already asked for the Imperial edict from the Emperor, if she dares not to go, the Red Clan is waiting for the Heavenly army to attack!”

The mother didn’t dare to reply any more, she just hugged her tight and wept silently. Thinking about the “Shark slave” in the father’s mouth, she lost her words for a moment and forgot to reply back for the first time since she was born.

“Otherwise, you’d better run away and find your Master.”

On the eve of her wedding, her mother quietly stuffed her with a heavy brocade bag full of delicate jewelries. Every piece of jewelry was enough for ordinary people to live a lifetime. “Master Shi Ying is a great God on Jiuyi Mountain. Ahem, even for the Emperor of Jialan is also a taboo to speak about him.”

She felt moved, but replied: “Master often travels in seclusion. Who knows where he is now? Besides, Jiuyi Mountain is thousands of miles away from here. How can the distant water put out the near fire?”

“Didn’t you followed him to learn his skills for several years? Don’t you know how to fly and how to escape?” The Princess’s mother coughed: “Ahem, I’ll block your father for you, so go, run secretly!”

“That’s possible to do, but what’s the use if I just run away alone?” She muttered, “I’m leaving, but what about the Chi Clan? Isn’t the Emperor going to trouble the father?”

Seeing the Imperial Concubine’s frowning face, she paused, relaxed her tone, and in turn tried to comfort her mother: “It’s okay, I’ll just get married. What are you afraid of? At any rate, it is not a shame to marry into the Huotu Clan, the most powerful among the four Western Wilderness tribes.”

“But you don’t like that people!” The Imperial Concubine looked at her and hesitated; “That’s not who you like, that’s not…”

“You want to say Yuan, right? It’s been more than two years.” She smiled, consciously knotted her fingers on the fringe of her belt, and pretended to say nonchalantly: “It’s all right. He doesn’t like me anyway. I’m over it.” After a pause, she sighed and whispered: “In fact, what can I do? I don’t even know where he is wandering right now.”

“Alas… he’s a Shark after all.” The mother murmured: “How can the Princess of the Kongsang royal family be with the abyss people who have been slaves for generations? Although that guy is… well, he’s really beautiful.”

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