Chapter 59

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It was probably because Master came to his aid at the last moment and helped Bai Fenglin to block the attack of the Restoration Army, right? No wonder Master’s face was a bit pale when she saw him again this time. I think it was because he was injured when he was at the Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion, and didn’t get any rest in between, so he was tired from the accumulated strain.

Such a God-like person, it turns out, he can also get hurt…

She got lost in thoughts for a moment, but she heard the housekeeper saying, “Those rebels wanted to capture the enemy first and barged in to take the Lord Governor hostage, but when they failed, they tried to retreat to the Mirror Lake encampment, so the Governor ordered a blockade to search the city and locked up all the water and land routes, so the rebels couldn’t break out for a while, they had to retreat to the Dragon Slayer Village and resist! Instead, they’ve been shrinking down there for most of the time and haven’t been able to overcome it yet.”

“…” Zhu Yan was listening silently, subconsciously clenching her chopsticks tighter.

“However, this matter has alerted the Imperial Capital, and the Emperor has sent the elite of the Primus Army over today.” The steward thought she was upset, so he hurriedly reassured her, “I believe that with the arrival of the Heavenly Army, a mere few hundred rebels will soon be wiped out – by then the whole city will be unblocked, and the Princess will be able to go wherever she wants.”

Nevertheless she was listening but her heart was all the more confused… Yes, if the Restoration Army had reached the end of its rope, what about… Yuan? What happened to Yuan now? Is he… trapped there with the soldiers?

She couldn’t resist asking, “Is the Restoration Army trapped on the Dragon Slayer side?”

“Yes. There is a dense web of nets over there, one side is connected to the Blue Sea and the other to Mirror Lake, the best hiding place for the sharks, so when the Restoration Army had no way out, they took over Dragon Slaying Village as a stronghold to resist.” The steward said, “But the Lord Governor had the foresight to command that all the waterways out of Yecheng should be set up with a net made of basalt iron and a spell added to it, so the Restoration Army was unable to break through the net even though they had broken out several times and many people were killed.”

“…” Zhu Yan shuddered, and her face turned white.

This is not something that Bai Fenglin could do? I guess it’s the Master’s doing again, right? It seems that he really vowed not to stop until all the Sharks are exterminated…

With a shiver, she jumped on her feet and tried to run outside. Yes! She had to go and find Yuan! He was in a desperate situation, and she had to go in and get him out, even if it meant burning in the fire!

However, when she reached the door, she touched her hair and realized that the Jade Bone had long since been lost. Zhu Yan froze for a moment and collected herself – yes, Master had taken back the divine weapon he handed to her, and it was too risky to barge out with her bare hands at the moment, so she had to at least think of a way out.

“Princess… Princess!” The housekeeper and Grandma Sheng were taken aback and both hurriedly stepped forward to try to stop her, “Where are you going again? It’s not safe outside, in case anything happens to your precious body, the young…”

Before she could reply, she heard footsteps outside the door and her maid, Jiexiang, hurried over, her face full of panic: “Something is wrong! Mistress… Mistress…”

What’s wrong?” Grandma Sheng frowned, “What’s with all the shouting?”

Jiexiang bowed on her knees and hurriedly said, “Your servant… servant found the shark child in the Guanlan Pond in the back garden. But, but…”

“But what?” Zhu Yan was a little impatient.

“But he seems… to be dead!” Jiexiang said anxiously, “He’s not moving, half of his body is submerged in the pool, the maidservant dragged him up as hard as she could, but she couldn’t wake him up no matter how much she screamed! It was so frightening…”

“What?” Zhu Yan was stunned, forgetting about the Restoration Army for a moment, she hastened towards the back garden, “Show me quickly!”

The palace in Yecheng was much larger than the Red King’s Mansion in the Celestial Wind City, and Zhu Yan walked for a full quarter of an hour from the front hall before reaching the back garden. It was already April in the late spring, and the summer lotus was budding in the Guanlan Pond, the lush grass and trees reflecting the white jade pavilion, which was as picturesque as it was quiet.

In the pavilion by the water’s edge, there was indeed a child reclining on the ground quietly.

“Hey, little brat!” Zhu Yan took three big steps over and leaned down, picking up the unconscious child with one hand, “What’s wrong with you? Don’t play dead!”

The child did not speak; his eyes were tightly closed and his face turned pale. Although he said he was eight years old, he was extremely light, so thin as if he had no weight, and when she rocked him hard, his whole body collapsed limply, his aquamarine hair dripping droplets of water on the floor.

The volume of handwritten notes was thrown on the floor and turned to the fourth page.

Zhu Yan picked it up and only had a glance at it before her heart sank. There were traces of blood splattered on that page – the blood of the sharks was a strange pale blue, like the ocean and the sky, and could be identified at a glance.

That child was hiding here all day long, practicing the magic arts, and vomited blood when he turned to the fourth page? On the fourth page, I think it was the “Fire” spell of the Five Elements Foundation Building? Even the most obtuse beginner should not have suffered such a severe backlash from such a simple initiation skill! Why did this happen?

She couldn’t help but be shocked and angry: this little brat, who appeared to be so smart, was in fact so dumb that he couldn’t even learn such a simple spell, he was simply a broken piece of jade!

“Send for Doctor Shen Tu!” She placed the handwritten book in Sumo’s arms and instructed the housekeeper, “Be quick!”

“But…” the housekeeper was in a state of difficulty.

“But what?!” Zhu Yan’s temper was so hot today that it flared up at the slightest touch, and she couldn’t help but raise her head and glare angrily, “If you’re told to go, go quickly! Are you looking for a beating?”

The steward took another step back in fear and said with a sigh, “Of course, I would also want to bring the doctor here. But now that the Restoration Army is in turmoil outside, and the Dragon Slayer Village is a rebel stronghold, how can we find Doctor Shen Tu, who, like the other Dragon Slayers, is nowhere to be found, and we don’t even know if he is still alive?”

“Don’t worry, that old pervert is the only one who is not going to die.” Zhu Yan snorted, remembering that she had seen this man in the underground of the Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion, her heart suddenly understood, “The Restoration Army will not kill him, he and…” She was going to say that he was in cahoots with Yuan, but finally her brain turned around and held back her tongue from saying so, just thinking that at this moment, the Dragon Slaying Village was in chaos; indeed, was impossible to hire a doctor right now, she could not help but feel anxious.

She carried the child all the way back to the room and carefully placed him on the bed, turning her hand over to feel the child’s forehead, which was a little hot – shark’s blood is cold, and she wondered if the child could withstand such heat.

That’s why he jumped into the pool just now, to try to get some relief, right?

Zhu Yan’s heart was in turmoil as she used various spells to bring down the child’s body temperature. But whether it was because the body of a shark was different from that of a normal human, her spells had surprisingly little effect. As she thought about it for half an hour, her heart grew more and more anxious, and her eyes gradually sank.

By the next hour, when all methods had been exhausted, Sumo’s face grown paler and paler, his lips without the slightest hint of blood, his eyes deeply sunken, and his tiny body seemingly shrunken even further, as if he was about to die.

“No… don’t leave…” In the midst of his coma, the child suddenly murmured weakly, his fingers spasmodically clutching Zhu Yan’s lapel, ” Don’t throw me away…”

She lowered her head and looked at the skinny hand that still carried the whip mark she drew on it. She couldn’t help but feel sorrow in her heart and hugged his tiny body tighter, whispering, “It won’t… happen.”

“Don’t throw me away!” The child’s voice grew urgent, his breathing faint, and he kept struggling as if trying desperately to hold on to something, “Wait… sister. Wait for me!”

This child was so sensitive and erratic. Having hurt him in the heat of the moment, she probably had cast a shadow in his heart and wondered how long it would take to make up for that mistake in the future.

Seeing that it was already dark outside after another day of tossing and turning, Zhu Yan had not even bothered to eat yet, so Grandma Sheng said cautiously from the side, “Princess, why don’t… you have dinner first?”

Zhu Yan pondered for a moment, “You guys go down and prepare a meal first, I’ll keep watching over the child for a while.”

“Yes.” Everyone in order retreated in a line.

When she remained alone in the room, Zhu Yan stood up abruptly, walked swiftly over and pushed open the window, gazing towards the edge of Yecheng: the place where the Restoration Army was entrenched was glowing with fire, and the sound of shouting and killing was vaguely heard, apparently still engaged in a continuous struggle.

She looked at them for a while, her eyes gradually becoming determined – it appeared that, to a lesser extent, she would have to risk a trip to the Dragon Slaying Village! She was bound to go anyway, whether it was for the sake of Yuan or for the sake of Sumo.

Zhu Yan was always quick and decisive, and once she had made up her mind, she immediately started making preparations. Thinking that she needed to find a weapon since the Jade Bone was no more into her possession, she sneaked into her father’s chambers next door and opened his private stash to retrieve some powerful weapons from it.

However, the Red King was a stout man, usually able to slay bears and fight tigers with his bare hands, his weapons were either the Eight Serpent Spear or the Heavenly Halberd, and although they were all divine weapons forged by famous masters and incredibly sharp, they were all huge things that she could not handle at all.

After a clanging sound, she hauled out the most useful weapon she could find – a nine-ringed Golden-backed Machete, half a man’s height and weighing over fifty pounds, requiring her to use both hands to hold it, but being the smallest and lightest of all the weapons.

Whatever, let’s have this one! It would barely work; she can’t drag the Serpent Spear across. After thinking about it, she picked up another soft armor made of mystic silver from her father’s chest and quietly rolled over and went out the window again.

Sumo was still unconscious, his body temperature was getting higher and higher, his tiny, thin body was shivering and there was no blood on his lips at all. Zhu Yan leaned down and picked Sumo up, wrapped his tiny body in the secret silver soft armor, tied a knot with the leather buckle strap on top, and hung the unconscious child in her arms.

She stood up, looked at her profile in the bronze mirror as she walked out the door and couldn’t help but smile – with a machete in her hand, a child on her back, and herself covered in a cloak, she looked like a camel about to be crushed by a weight of straw. If she hadn’t studied magic, she wouldn’t even be able to walk, would she?

There was a sound of footsteps outside, getting closer and closer, presumably the maids returning. If she didn’t leave, it would be too late. It was a very dangerous journey, and it was uncertain whether she would come back safely – but how could she not go through it, when the people she loved were in danger?

Zhu Yan took one last glance back at the Red King’s Palace, and without further hesitation, with a click of her toes, she went out through the window and disappeared into the twilight.

It was already dark outside, and because of the curfew, there were very few people in the streets, homes were closed, soldiers were everywhere on the roads, and additional troops were deployed at every crossroads compared to the daytime.

What? It looks like an overnight attack on the Restoration Army is in prospect.

Not daring to delay, she lifted herself up, squeezed her fingers in a magic spell, and her figure instantly disappeared.

Zhu Yan was invisible, carrying Sumo on her back as she hurried through the streets, crossing paths with columns of troops. There was a silent and stern atmosphere in the air, with scattered marching orders and distant fires and the occasional loud roar of artillery, indicating that fierce fighting was indeed taking place ahead.

From time to time screams were coming from the roadside and bodies were seen falling to the ground, strewn with arrows, some from Konsang and others from the rebel army.

Zhu Yan’s eyes glanced at a magnificent brocade robe, and couldn’t help but freeze for a moment.

The style of the robe was so familiar …… she couldn’t help but take one more look at the corpse and suddenly froze! Although there were important matters at hand, Zhu Yan still stopped and pulled that person out from inside the pile of dead people with force. When she looked at it, she couldn’t help but let out an involuntary gasp.

“Xueying?” She couldn’t help but exclaim in disbelief – yes, this collapsed person on the side of the street was actually the White King’s daughter, Princess Xueying! She… How could she be here? Shouldn’t this Heavenly Maiden, the delicate daughter of the Royal Family, be in the Imperial Capital with the Crown Prince Shi Yu? How did she end up in such a state?

Zhu Yan was shocked, yet the other person was unconscious. She struggled to half-carry, half-drag Xueying to a quiet place and used a magic spell to protect her heart and veins However, just as her fingers touched her, she sensed a general peculiar power and could not help but be stunned: Strange, Xueying’s body seemed to have some kind of residual traces of being subjected to a magic spell?

And this spell was still one she was well familiar with.

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