Chapter 4

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The shark’s life span is ten times that of the human beings, enough to transform her from a child to a maiden ready to be married, but for the shark’s long life of thousands of years, ten years is just a flicker of fingers. This shark woman has experienced ups and downs, accompanied the old King through the last ten years of her life, but still maintained the appearance she had seen for the first time.

However, the beauty that even time could not take away, has now been destroyed by the hands of man!

She stared at the mother and son in a daze, mother in the urn, the chained child covered in rags at her feet. After a long time, she murmured: “Oh, my God! According to the bequest of the old King, weren’t you buried together with him three years ago? How can you be here?”

Yu Ji opened her tongueless mouth and shook her head desperately in an attempt to mutter some words, tears streaming down, drop by drop falling to the ground, glowing softly in the dimly lit of the woodshed.

Zhu Yan couldn’t help but stared in a daze.

Legend has it that the sharks born into the blue sea, when crying, their tears fall into pearl beads and weaving water as silk. But since she was a child, she had only seen one shark in Yuan, and he wouldn’t cry even once to satisfy her curiosity, so she naturally didn’t know if it was true or not. Looking at the tears that had fallen from the corners of her eyes into pearls, she remained speechless for a moment.

“I see… Princess Suda must have done it!” She frowned and said angrily, “it was that damned poisonous woman who made up the will to make you like this after the death of the old King! Isn’t it?”

Yu Ji could not speak, but wept silently.

The Imperial Concubine of the King of the Huotu Clan is famous out there, and even Zhu Yan, who is the only daughter of the Red King and married under the power of the Son of Heaven was a little perturbed. How could the shark female slave who could only be a pet for a while, save herself from trouble?

Zhu Yan sighed and looked at the little boy on one side.

“Is this your child? I’ve never heard of the old king adding an heir after he was fifty… Oh, is he the one you brought with you?” Suddenly Zhu Yan seemed to understand something, pulled the child, plucked his tousled hair, and wanted to look behind his ear. However, the child struggled desperately and took a bite on the back of her hand.

“Hey!” She was caught off guard, and stroked her backhand in anger, “Little bastard!”

The child tottered to the ground with iron shackles. Yu Ji in the human urn yelled eagerly.

“Sure enough, he is a little shark.” Zhu Yan held the child’s head, pulled his hair away, and saw the two thin lines behind the child’s helix, like two small crescent moons. Gill, a unique symbol of the shark people from the depths of the sea. Is this child really the kid that Yu Ji brought with her?

“Who is his father?” Zhu Yan was a little curious, “Is he also a shark?”

Yu Ji did not speak, her expression was somewhat strange. She just looked at her stubbornly, her eyes showing the light of supplication.

“Are you asking me to take him away?” Zhu Yan looked at the poor woman who had been turned into a human urn, then looked at the child, and her heart moved slightly. After the death of the old King, the Ministry of Huotu Clan had long been controlled by the Princess, and the mother and son were so abused that they had to beg for death and could not survive, so they would hastily turn to her as an outsider to ask for help.

Yuji nodded eagerly and looked at the ground again, with tears in her eyes. The tears of the shark woman turned into pearls drop by drop.

“Hey, what’s your name?” She sighed and asked the child she had pressed to the ground, “how old is he? Are you sixty? How long can you follow me?”

The shark child stared at her coldly, snorted contemptuously, and remained silent. That kind of bitter hostility and hatred caused Zhu Yan, who had just developed a bit of sympathy, to frown.

“I don’t know,” she muttered. “I can’t even protect myself now, so I won’t bother to save you!”

However, at this very moment there was an uproar outside, as if countless people were startled and running from their drunken dreams; every camp was alarmed, and a voice screamed for help in the distant wind and snow.

“Somebody… Come on! There are sand demons!”

“The princess has been dragged away by the sand demon! Help! Help –”

It was Yu Fei’s voice, sharp and frightened, like a steel wire thrown into the sky, suddenly penetrating through the wind and snow, piercing the iron night of the Western Wilderness, and made Zhu Yan instantly stand up.

It seems that the girl was frightened by the sand demons. She shouted so sternly; she didn’t seem to be pretending at all. She clearly told her that the giants had received their own orders and would not attack anyone else in the tent except that fake Zhu Yan, but she was still afraid of them!

Zhu Yan was so anxious that she could no longer take care of the things here. She was a stranger in Susa Haru after all, and she was weak enough on her own. It would be nice for her to be able to save herself and get out smoothly in this chaos. How could she control the sudden emergence of a mother and son? She gently pinched the back of the child’s neck, and the jade bone instantly touched the center of his eyebrow, injecting a little light like a firefly. Yu Ji next to them opened her mouth desperately and yelled, but her tongueless mouth couldn’t make a sound. She shook her head violently and almost knocked the wine jar down again.

“Don’t be afraid, I won’t kill your son.” Zhu Yan sighed and threw the collapsed child back to the ground. “The child saw something he shouldn’t have seen. I have to use magic to erase his memory tonight. As for you… Anyway, you can’t say anything, you can’t snitch, forget it.”

While talking, she drew out a short knife and cut off the iron shackles on the child’s feet with a “woosh” sound. She looked up at Yu Ji in the urn, and shook her head again: “Forget it, this wine urn with you, it’s better to keep it, it’s all grown into your flesh. If I smash it, I guess you won’t be able to survive.”

She clapped her hands and stood up. “Well, then you can figure it out on your own from here. I have to go and take care about my business!”

She threw the dagger to the child casually and turned to walk out. Everyone was heading towards the golden tent, and this side was even more empty and ignored. In the wind and snow, she heard the scream of Yu Fei and the roar of the sand demons. The watchman’s voice rang from inside to outside and awakened the warriors of Huotu. Once the great shamans of the clan will come out, all the sand demons will be wiped out in no time.

It doesn’t matter. As long as she has half an hour, she can leave smoothly.

On the eve of her wedding, Princess Zhu Yan was attacked by the sand demons. She suffered a disaster and her body was torn apart. After the news reached the Imperial Capital, no one would force her to get married again in this life. How nice.

Zhu Yan got out of the wood shed anxiously and hurried to leave. However, when she went to check, the night-shine jade lion horse prepared outside was gone, and even all the horses in the stable were not at their places. The hoof prints on the snow were scattered in all directions.

What? She couldn’t help being taken aback; her face changed color. Who did it? Those horses were clearly put to sleep by her with a spell! How could they run away?

The wind and snow were still roaring, and she heard the screams of the sand demons in the distance as they fell at one end. It seems that the people of Huotu department have taken control of the situation and will soon kill all of them in the golden tent. Anxious, she raised her hands and made a seal on her chest, instantly disappearing in the snow.

Can’t wait, even if there is no horse, she has to leave at once!

The snow was so thick that it almost reached her knees. She hid herself and stumbled out, trying to fly up into the air and go away quickly. However, the snowstorm was too big, she had to fight against the wind, which made her twisted and unable to fly. She was like a stupid bird, struggling to take off several times, but was blown back in embarrassment, and finally fell back on the snow. She could only trek deep and shallow, leaving Susa Haru behind her as soon as possible.

However, as she was walking, she suddenly bumped into a person.

“Hey, don’t you have eyes?” Zhu Yan was hit and fell in the snow. She was so angry that she blurted out a curse.

However, as soon as the words came out, she quickly covered her mouth in panic; yes, she was now in a state of invisibility. How can she be seen by others? Didn’t she just exposed herself?

“I used the skill of invisibility, but still blame others for not having eyes?” A voice replied coldly, as if the wind sent ice floes, “How come you still look like a headless bird when you’ve grown so big?”

“……” When she heard that voice, she suddenly shivered.

What? Is it… is that him?

On a snowy desert night, a young man with an umbrella came out of the darkness and stood in front of her. A white robe was flying in front of her eyes, the familiar cloud pattern was embroidered on the corner of the robe. The rustle of snow fell over the umbrella painted with white roses. Under the umbrella were a pair of indifferent eyes, looking down at her sitting on the ground in embarrassment, frowning slightly.

“Ma… Master?” She stammered at the man, unable to believe her eyes for a moment.

The man who suddenly appeared in the desert on this snowy night was in his mid-twenties, with long hair tied up with a jade crown and a clear tip beauty on his forehead. His eyebrows are clear and his eyes are cold and limpid, just like an immortal floating from the snow.

This man is Shi Ying, the great Priest of Jiuyi Temple!

How could the distant Master suddenly appear here? I’m not dreaming, am I? Zhu Yan looked at him in a daze until the man reached out his hand and pulled her up from the snow.

His hands are warm and strong, definitely not an illusion.

“Master… Master?” She couldn’t help but stammered again, at a loss.

Shi Ying ignored her, but turned his head to listen to the roar of the giant beasts coming from the wind in the distance. There was a faint sound of blessing in the snow, then suddenly a light cut through the night, booming!

“The great wizard of Huotu Clan is really powerful. In just a quarter of an hour, all the sand demons you summoned have been wiped out.”

Shi Ying said faintly: “Let’s go and have a look at the hustle and bustle.”

“Huh?” She was startled and took a step back.

With this cultivation base of her, it’s nothing more than hiding from the guards. If she uses the invisibility skill in front of the great wizard, I’m afraid he may be able to see through it in an instant.

“What are you afraid of?” He leaned over the umbrella and covered the top of her head. “I’m here, with you” he said lightly.

The fierce wind and snow stopped immediately, and the breath under the umbrella was warm and peaceful, like the fog of the valley in the early morning of September. She longed for that warmth, but looked at her master in fear, shrunk her shoulders, and muttered, “Still, wouldn’t be better to take advantage of the chaos and leave?”

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