Chapter 63

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“Sumo!” She snapped out from her shock and immediately rushed over, picking the child up in her arms. She cradled Sumo for a moment and looked at him again and again to be sure he was ok. The child was still alive, his breath was much steadier and he looked no different than before. She was amazed, delighted and puzzled, not realizing that this ancient jade of Yuan could actually have the miraculous effect of healing.

“What now?” Zhu Yan turned back to look for Doctor Shen Tu, but she was struck to see that the old man was bowing down on the ground and was gathering up something piece by piece – this doctor, to her surprise, was picking up the remains of that torn mass of flesh and blood again!

“Hey, what are you doing?” She was stunned, “That’s…”

“I’ll take it back and study it,” Doctor Shen Tu wrapped the bloody mass of flesh in a rag and grinned, “This kind of freak is an extremely rare occurrence, it’s so rare that you can see one in a hundred years.”

“…” Zhu Yan could no longer understand this strange doctor and only felt uncomfortable, so she said, “Well, now that the barrier over there has been removed and no one is stopping you, take Sumo back to the Red King’s Palace first! Let Grandma Sheng take good care of this child.”

“What?” Doctor Shen Tu stared at her for a moment, “Aren’t you coming back?”

“I’m not going back.” With her free hand, she pulled up the Nine-Ringed Golden-Backed Machete from the ground and said, “I’m going to find Yuan! You take the little brat and go back first.”

“Your Ladyship, it is better for you not to go.” Doctor Shen Tu was silent for a moment and said, “On the way out, Lord Zhi Yuan told me that you should take Sumo and retreat to a safe place to wait for him, and when the war subsides, he will surely come to find you.”

“Really?” She was struck dumb, “Is that what he told you?”

“Of course.” Doctor Shen Tu rolled his eyes, “Is it possible for me to lie to you?”

“Liar!” Zhu Yan pondered for just a moment before suddenly raising her eyes and glaring at the old man, “How would Yuan know about Sumo? He’s never seen the boy before!”

Doctor Shen Tu remained speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say.

“Don’t waste your breath, I’m not leaving Yuan behind.” She raised her head, looked at the sea of fire not far away and handed the Sumo in her arms to the doctor, “You can’t help much anyway, so take the boy back to the Palace for me!”

The badly wounded child in the arms of the Grand Physician was as thin as a cat. Doctor Shen Tu held Sumo with a very grave look on his face, as if he was holding some treasure of great value. He looked at the Princess of the Red Clan and suddenly asked, “Do you like Lord Zhi that much?”

Zhu Yan blanked out for a moment, but confessed openly, “Yes!”

“Why?” Doctor Shen Tu narrowed his eyes and looked at the beautiful young Princess, “Because Lord Zhi is handsome?”

“It is not only just that. Yuan is very gentle and kind… he has always been good to me, better than even Father and Master.”

She tilted her head for a moment, unable to gather her thoughts, and said, “I’ve loved him since I was a kid anyway!”

“But Lord Zhi Yuan doesn’t necessarily love you just as much.” The doctor actually made an exception and asked her rhetorically, “Why else would you always go to find him, but he never comes to you?”

“…” Zhu Yan shuddered and surprisingly was unable to retort, in that moment she only felt shivers of pain. Zhu Yan stood in the middle of the ruins, slowly releasing the fingers that were pinching the child’s cheek, the smile on her face disappeared, and the light in her eyes quickly dimmed to a vague tear.

Silence reigned for a moment, and Doctor Shen Tu sighed in relief, thinking that he could take her out of the battlefield with him, but Zhu Yan suddenly gave him a blank stare: ”You fellow, where did you get that much talk? Quickly, take this little one out of here! If anything goes wrong, I will not spare you when I come back!”

As she spoke, she picked up her sword from the ground, put it on her back with a swift move, and turned around to run towards the conflagration. After a few steps, she stopped again and smiled back at Doctor Shen Tu, “Hey, of course he doesn’t love me, I already knew that!”

The nineteen-year-old noble girl of Kongsang, carrying a Nine-Ringed Golden-Backed Machete taller than herself, stood in the blazing battlefield, her long crimson hair flying like a banner, smiling in return, with the tears in her eyes still fresh – as bright, as fiery and fearless as the flames burning on that moment.

“But what does it matter if he likes me or not? I love him, and that is enough!” She exclaimed in the midst of the battle, and with a click of her toes, she swept out of the ruins like a whistling arrow into the flames of war, never looking back, “I am going to save him now, and no one can stop me!”

Doctor Shen Tu stood in the ruins, holding in his arms the little patient who had just come back from the dead, and stared in awe at the back of her figure, not uttering a word for a while.

“Alas, this girl!” For a long time, the old man sighed and muttered with a shake of his head, “I told Lord Zhi Yuan that I figured there was no way to stop her…”

“Sister… sister…” the child in his arms, still trembling from the excruciating pain, kept mumbling incoherent words in his stupor, “Don’t kill me! Sister… sister!”

“How dare you to call her sister?” Stunned, Doctor Shen Tu lowered his head, looked at the child in his arms, and murmured, “Calling a Kongsang person sister would greatly disappoint the elders, wouldn’t it?”

He cradled the child in his arms and looked at him as if examining him for a while, his expression gradually becoming a bit more elusive: “Come, come with me to the elders… they have waited a long, long time for your arrival.”

He picked up Sumo and limped his way back. However, it was not in the direction of the Red King’s Palace that he was heading!

Zhu Yan carried her large blade on the back as she hurried through the flames of the battle. Using her invisibility spell, she jumped up and down the battlefield, dodging artillery and archery as she darted from the periphery straight into the heart of the front line. She ran fast because she was in a hurry, and after a quarter of an hour, the village of the Dragon Slayers was in front of her. A blazing fire engulfed the entire village, every house, every courtyard, was burning like hell in disguise.

Outside the village, on the other hand, there was a packed army.

In that moment, Zhu Yan finally knew why there were no reinforcements from the Imperial Capital throughout the journey over – all the Primus troops were currently surrounding outside the Dragon Slaying Village, forming an iron-like siege! Under the personal command of General Qing Gang, one team was responsible for cutting off the way out on land, another team was responsible for cutting off the water network access, and there was also a special team responsible for firing the artillery, with strict and well-organized commands.

Zhu Yan’s heart sank. As far as the eye could see, the entire Dragon Slaying Village had been razed to the ground, and in the ruins, there was only blazing fire, not a single living soul in sight at all – where were those Restoration Army warriors? Where was Yuan? Where were they all now?

She was in a hurry to pass through, when suddenly out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of something coming in her direction and hastily ducked out of the way.

What came was a group of Kongsang warriors pulling a wagon through the battlefield.

Looking at the combat armor, they seemed to be soldiers from the Yecheng Governor’s Office, not the Primus Army. On that one cart, there were actually corpses piled on top of each other! She couldn’t help but be slightly stunned: the battle was not yet over, and these people had come to clean up the battlefield and collect the bodies for burial? But a closer look at the hair color of the bodies on the cart showed that they were all sharks – what was going on?

She was in a state of confusion when she heard someone shout, “There’s another one here! Wait a minute!”

The Kongsang lieutenant leading the group on foot commanded his subordinates to use a long pole with a hook to pull a corpse out of the rubble and throw it forcefully towards the carriage – the shark warrior had obviously fought to the last breath, with his weapon still clutched in his hand. Yecheng’s soldiers threw the corpse onto the cart, and suddenly the body moved and let out a groan; surprisingly, it was seriously wounded but not dead.

Someone in the wagon called out, “It won’t stack up! Don’t throw it on!”

“Then chop off its head!” The lieutenant shouted from below, waving his spear, “The shark’s eyes can be cut out and made into condensed blue beads, which can be sold for a lot of money at the Western Market! We can’t throw any of them away!”

“All right.” The companion on the wagon muttered, held the dying shark down, swiped his long knife from his waist with one hand, and chopped his head down with a single slash.

However, only a clanging sound could be heard as the wrist shook and the knife suddenly broke in half!

What was going on? Before the warrior on the wagon could regain his senses, he perceived a darkness in front of his eyes, a strong force came from the side, and with a pain in his ribs, he got kicked off the wagon.

“Who?!” The lieutenant was taken aback and shouted sternly, drawing his sword.

The battlefield, however, was nothing but fiery wreckage, and no one could be seen there.

“Damn it.” He looked around and couldn’t help but mutter, picking up the fallen soldier and carefully stepping forward with his sword, attempting to grab the dying shark warrior and decapitate him all over again – however, the moment he made his move, an angry shout burst into his ears, “Stop!”

It was the voice of a woman, so close to the ear.

Who the hell was that?! The Lieutenant of Yecheng raised his head and his sword instantly slashed towards the sound! However, although he drew his sword very quickly, his blade fell short. As he stumbled forward, a heavy blow landed on his throat, sending him flying backwards, blinding him and causing him to lose consciousness.

“My Lord!” The other soldiers exclaimed as they swarmed forward. Before the first ones could get close, however, a succession of heavy blows fell from the air and everyone was sent flying, sprawled out on the ground.

On the battleground of blood and fire, there was not a single person alive in the empty space, only a wagonload full of corpses, and a dying shark.

“The hell with it!” Those Yecheng soldiers looked at each other, then let out a shriek and groaned as they rose from the ground, not caring about the carriage anymore, and pulled their feet up and dispersed in a huff.

As the group escaped, someone in the void sighed.

Zhu Yan used her invisibility spell to quickly settle herself up. She crouched down on the battlefield and helped the dying shark up from the ground. Raking away the bloodstained and wretched long hair from his face, she could see that he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, with a gender-neutral beauty on his clean face, probably still a teenager who had not yet differentiated his gender. That face, it seemed like she had seen it somewhere else before?

She was slightly puzzled for a second, pondered for a moment, and then suddenly remembered – yes! Wasn’t the shark in front of her the captain of the group of Restoration Army that had sneaked up on her on the docks of Yecheng a few months ago? At that time, if she hadn’t been lucky, she would have been drowned by them directly in the depths of the sea.

However, although she remembered the old grudge, Zhu Yan did not have any desire for revenge. After probing his nose and finding that he was still alive, she lifted her hand and pressed it against the other man’s heart, protecting his heart vessels, and softly chanted a spell.

The shark’s feeble breath gradually became stronger and he struggled to open his eyes to look around. He woke up and took a dazed look at the war zone, wondering why the Yecheng soldiers had suddenly scattered, but he could not see the invisible Zhu Yan. After catching his breath for a moment, he found that his body could appear to be slightly capable of moving, so he braced himself against the ground with his sword and staggered to his feet.

He’s going to find his companions, isn’t he? If I follow him, I’ll find out where Yuan is!

Zhu Yan stood up in silence and followed the teenage shark, walking along behind him.

The young shark warrior stumbled his way through the blood and fire towards the south-west corner of the battlefield, falling and rising several times, not daring to pause for a moment, his eyes full of anxiety and anger, the corners of his mouth tightly pursed with the determination of a man who is ready to die.

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