Chapter 57

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Shi Ying shuddered slightly and paused in response, but did not turn around. After a brief pause however, he simply replied without looking back, “No, I didn’t leave you behind – you gave up on me first.”

Zhu Yan was stunned for a moment, speechless.

“Anyone I want to kill, there has never been one in the Six Heavens and Eight Realms that has been able to escape.” Shi Ying turned his head to look at her coldly, his tone glacial and severe, “I think you’d better hurry up and cultivate well, and pray that you can defend him for a little longer then!”

With one word, he flicked his sleeves and left her where she was, his figure disappearing like a mist.

When the boundary he had set up around her disappeared, Zhu Yan found herself still standing in the Governor’s Residence in Yecheng, shouting at the empty courtyard with her eyes full of tears – meanwhile Fu Quan on the side was looking at her in astonishment beyond measure, obviously completely confused as to what just happened in those few moments.

In that moment, Zhu Yan only felt endless sadness, and with a weakness in her knees, she actually fell to the ground under a blooming rosebush and wept loudly.

Master… Master doesn’t want her anymore! He said that from now on the bond was broken!

She cried under the white rosebuds, unable to speak, feeling sad in a way she had never felt since she was born – Master and Yuan, the two people closest to her in the whole world apart from her parents, and yet she was forced to choose between them, simply splitting her heart in two.

“Princess… Princess? What’s wrong?” At that moment, the boundary disappeared, and Fu Quan suddenly saw her crouching on the ground and crying in pain, so he felt at a loss of what to do.

“What happened?” Suddenly, a startled question came from outside, “Isn’t this Princess Zhu Yan of the Red Clan? Why is she crying here?”

With a jolt, both of them looked up at the same time and saw the surprised Governor of Yecheng with a face full of astonishment.

Bai Fenglin should have just returned from outside, still wearing the solemn uniform of the Governor, and behind him was following closely a strong middle-aged general in black clothing armor. The two men had originally made their way in from outside with polite pleasantries, and were now standing in the cloister, looking at the weeping maiden under the flowers in astonishment, and could not help but look at each other.

“Fu Quan! What’s going on?” Bai Fenglin was the first to come back to his senses, glaring at his trusted servant next to Zhu Yan, “Did you, an inferior servant, make the Princess angry?”

Fu Quan immediately prostrated to the ground, “My Lord, it’s not my doing!”

“No… it is nothing.” When Zhu Yan caught sight of the scene, she immediately forced herself to hold back her sadness, wiped her tears and stood up, excusing the other person, “It’s indeed none of his business… don’t make things difficult for him.”

When Bai Fenglin saw her weeping under the flowers, he felt that this young girl possessed an extra layer of pitifulness in addition to her usual brightness and cheerfulness, which made him want to go up to her and take her into his arms right away but he could only hold back due to the presence of outsiders and coughed, saying: “I wonder why you have come here today? What is your unhappiness? I would be glad to do my best to help you, Your Highness.”

Zhu Yan was grieving, and did not have the heart to spend more time talking to him, just whispered, “Forget it, you can’t help me… in Heaven and Earth, no one can help me.”

As she spoke, a pain shot through her heart, and tears fell from her eyes in large drops. She turned around in a trance and headed out, not bothering with any etiquette. Seeing that she was leaving, Bai Fenglin hastened to be solicitous, “Where does the Princess want to go? I will send someone to escort you there, so that the King will not be worried.”

“I’m fine, don’t worry about me.” She murmured.

However, his mention of the Red King suddenly reminded her of what happened before – yes! Hadn’t Father met with the White King in the Imperial Capital? They, the two kings, were still planning to combine forces by marriage. She was suddenly startled and subconsciously glanced back at Bai Fenglin: Heavens… was Father actually trying to make herself marry this man?

In that instant, this matter that had caused her to sit on pins and needles rolled up again. But it was at this time that Bai Fenglin unknowingly grabbed her hand and said attentively with a soft voice, “It’s a bit chaotic and unsafe outside right now. How can I rest assured that the Princess will be safe alone…”

“Let go of my hand!” She shuddered violently and took a step back, glaring up at him and blurting out, “I’m telling you, don’t think that just because my father promised me in marriage it is all settled! Don’t dream, I won’t marry you even if I have to be killed!”

“What?” Bai Fenglin froze violently, not understanding what she was talking about.

Zhu Yan pushed his hand away, and with a stomp of her foot, she rushed out and jumped onto the horse. The stallion outside the Governor’s Residence galloped off towards the Red King’s Palace, leaving the Governor of Yecheng standing there, his mouth open and his face blank.

“Ahem.” While Fu Quan didn’t dare to utter a sound, the black-armored general next to him coughed, “I didn’t expect that, huh, the White Clan and the Red Clan are planning to join in marriage? Congratulations…”

When Bai Fenglin came back to his senses, he could not help but look embarrassed, “General Qinggang is joking, the matter has not yet been decided, even I have not yet learned about it.”

However, as he said this, his heart was also in doubt – It was only a month ago that he first met Princess Zhu Yan and his father must have just received the letter from him and had not yet written back to express his approval, so how could he have met with the Red King in the Imperial Capital so soon? This was too efficient, wasn’t it?

However, looking at that maid’s reaction just now, the matter should be true, otherwise she wouldn’t have been so angry. Heh… as a widow who was married to a previous husband, to be the wife of the governor of Yecheng is considered to have elevated her status, it is fortunate that her father knew what was good for her and agreed to the marriage so quickly.

Bai Fenglin pondered and glanced at the black-armored general next to him, his heart sinking slightly: the marriage between the two clans had actually been prematurely known by Qinggang, which was also troublesome. Over the years, there had never been any end to the open and dark battles between the Green King and his father, with one side fighting against the other and the other seeking constantly a marriage alliance. Now, hearing Qinggang’s congratulations in such a sinister manner, one could not help but worry.

“Please come inside, come inside.” He muttered in his heart, but courteously welcomed him. This Primus Army Commander from the Imperial Capital had been ordered by the Emperor to come to Yecheng to help him quell the rebellion of the Restoration Army, so he could not afford to neglect him, otherwise would the rebellion get any worse, his position as Lord of Yecheng would be in jeopardy.

As Qinggang walked inside, he said, “The rebellion of the Yecheng Restoration Army has recently intensified, and the southern part of the city has fallen, I wonder what the Governor has in mind to counter it?”

“General don’t worry…” Bai Fenglin was just about to say something when suddenly a trusted attendant hurried up, “My Lord, someone has left a letter for you.”

Bai Fenglin glanced at it and recognized it as the handwriting of the Great Priest of Jiuyi Temple. With a thud in his heart, he looked up towards the inner courtyard – the beaded curtain was deeply rolled up and the room was empty. The mysterious noble guest who had always remained behind the draped curtain had actually left?

Now that the Imperial Capital was about to be surrounded by the Iron Curtain, and General Qinggang had arrived at Yecheng, the Restoration Army has already been trapped in a quagmire, and the man behind the curtain, who was presiding over the siege of the Sharks, had left without saying goodbye? When he thought of Zhu Yan’s heartbroken appearance in the inner court a few moments ago, Bai Fenglin’s heart suddenly sank – had the two of them met? Could it be that the girl resisted marrying him so fiercely because of…

As he pondered, he opened the letter.

What was written above, was the deployment for the final siege, and the last sentence stated…

“Tomorrow at sunrise, order Qinggang to lead the Primus to besiege the village of Dragon Slayers, block all the land routes and seal all the entrances from the sea to the lake with iron nets so that no one can escape. The only route to be left open is the path to the east, so that the road from Dragon Slayer Village to Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion must remain unobstructed.”

Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion? Strange, that place had been closed down a few days ago for harboring the Restoration Army, and now it’s empty, why did the Great Priest deliberately instruct such a deployment?

Bai Fenglin’s heart doubted in secret, clutching the letter tightly in his grip.

Forget it. That cousin who is invisible to the world is a man of great power who is said to be able to know the past and the future. Since he left a letter with such an arrangement, he must have his reasons.

After re-reading the letter and familiarizing himself with the deployment therein, Bai Fenglin turned back towards General Qinggang and instructed him in accordance with the arrangements in the letter, one by one, “Regarding tomorrow’s battle, this is how I intend to arrange it…”

While the winds were changing in the Governor’s Palace in Yecheng, in the void, the Great Priest, who departed riding on his white bird, simply looked at the Jade Bone in his hand and stared at it in a daze. Did he actually take back what he thought he would entrust to her for the rest of his life?

How many years have passed, but the day he gifted her the hairpin was still vivid in his mind…

At that time, she had only just turned thirteen, but the people of the Western Wilderness were developing prematurely, and her figure and face was gradually beginning to shed their childish appearance and take on the beauty of a young girl.

After returning from the Cangwu Abyss, he realized the shortcomings of his strength and cultivated even more diligently. As a disciple, she also had to follow him day and night in his training, and was so exhausted that she complained every moment, but she was not allowed to slacken off in any way.

That morning, when she had failed to appear in the valley on time for her training, he thought the girl was being lazy again, so he took the jade slip and went looking for her, ready to give her a good scolding. However, as soon as he pushed open the door, he found her shivering and hiding in her room, crying uncontrollably and with tears all over her face.

“Master… I, I’m dying!” Her face was pale, and as soon as she saw him it was like she had found a savior; she said in a trembling voice, “I’m dying! Quickly help me!”

“…” He was shocked and immediately clasped her wrist to check her pulse with his fingers, but found nothing wrong with it, so he breathed a sigh of relief and frowned unhappily, “What’s wrong again? You’re going to get a beating for making up such a lie just to skip lectures!”

Yet she cried out again with a frightened wail, “I… I’m not lying! I… I’m really dying! There’s so much blood flowing!”

What? He could see that her fear and panic were genuine, and he was stunned for a moment: “Bleeding?”

She covered her stomach and cried uncontrollably: ” I don’t… know what happened, I got up today and found that suddenly I couldn’t stop the bleeding in my stomach! Just look… Look!”

With tears in her eyes, she held up the garment in her hand, which had a large patch of bright red on the hem.

“…” He froze, unable to speak for a moment, and could only stiffen there with immense embarrassment – for the first time, the twenty-two-year-old young priest of Jiuyi Mountain, with high spiritual power and omnipotence, experienced the feeling of being overwhelmed, and even subconsciously took a step backwards.

“What to do! I am… going to die?” Seeing that her master was speechless, and thinking even more that she was seriously ill, she flung herself over and hugged his knee, crying her heart out, ” Woohoo… Master help me!”

He subconsciously pushed her away, without words.

How was he supposed to tell her that it wasn’t a serious illness, but simply a girl coming of age and having her first period? Experiencing the menarche was an inevitable part of a child’s growing into a woman, and there was no need to be afraid – but these were things that her mother was supposed to be the one to tell her, so why was it his turn? He was obviously a young priest of the Jiuyi Temple! Why would he bother with such kind of things!

“I’m… going to die? I want to see my father and mother!” She realized that her Master was avoiding her, and couldn’t help but be both scared and shocked, her voice shaking, “Master… Master, help me! I don’t want to die!”

“…” He stood there in a state of disbelief, frozen for a long time before he managed to utter a few words to comfort her, “It’s okay. Don’t be afraid, you’re not going to die.” After some thought, seeing that she was still terrified, he added, “Don’t worry, it’s not a serious illness… Master will prepare some medicine and you will be well in less than seven days.”

“Really… is it true? In less than seven days?” Hearing this from him, she instantly whimpered as if she had taken a pill of reassurance, tearfully, “Great! I… knew Master had a way to cure me!”

He sighed, turned and went out the door, and after a few moments brought over a medicinal soup, “Here, drink this.”

She thought it was an antidote and drank it down in one gulp as if she had been given an immortal dew. Whether it was a psychological effect or not, her face instantly improved and she murmured, “It really doesn’t hurt that much anymore, ah… Master, you’re amazing! What kind of medicine is this?”

He couldn’t help but smile bitterly, “It’s just brown sugar water with some ginger slices. There’s nothing good in this valley, so these are all I could find – but you’ve been fit and healthy since you were a child, so it shouldn’t harm you.”

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