Chapter 174 He in the Mist

Minyue Kingdom.

The miasma is thick, and there are many blood-sucking insects in the dense swamps. The mountains, forests and swamps have not been developed, so they breed smoke-like and fog-like gases.

The royal family of the Minyue Kingdom used Zuo as their surname. More than a decade ago, the Minyue Kingdom changed its ruler. A man who had been away from the Baiyue land for more than a decade suddenly returned and quickly seized the military and political power of the Minyue Kingdom with a thunderous momentum, becoming the new king of the Minyue Kingdom. Afterwards, he worked even harder to make the Minyue Kingdom more prosperous.

To this day, although the Minyue Kingdom has not yet unified the Hundred Yue tribes and rebuilt the Yue Kingdom, it has become the leader of the Hundred Yue.

This person's name is Tianze!
tread!tread!tread!
On this day, Yan Lingji, a close confidant of Tianze, the king of Minyue, left the capital alone, strolling in the water with her snow-white and slender jade feet. With every step she took, not even a grain of mud stained her white jade feet. As she looked around, Yan Lingji, wearing a dark red rose dress, had a smile on her face and her eyes were as white as water.

Even the foggy miasma surrounding her seemed to be overwhelmed by this woman, recognized as the most beautiful woman among the Baiyue people, and they all stepped back three feet.

Finally, Yan Lingji came to a place full of water and thick miasma, where you couldn't see your hand in front of you. A sampan was prepared here, and when Yan Lingji stepped on the sampan, the oars were moved, carrying the peerless beauty on it, and went far away.

About half an hour later, the sampan operated by Yan Lingji herself brought her to her destination, a small island several meters long and wide, formed by mud and sand in the water.

In the thick miasma, there were already two blurry figures, whose genders were difficult to distinguish, waiting on the island.

"You are here."

When Yan Lingji abandoned the boat and landed on the island, she opened her mouth with these words even though she was clearly a latecomer.

"Yan Lingji, I haven't seen you for many years. I hope you are well." As soon as Yan Lingji finished speaking, one of them spoke. His tone was gentle and pleasant, as clear and melodious as the chirping of a lark.

Another person also spoke up. Although his tone was weak and frail, it was mixed with undisguised jealousy. "Yan Lingji, after all these years, your beauty has not diminished. No wonder he once said that you are the woman he wants most in his life!"

Although the two figures are blurry and difficult to identify, the voice alone is enough to prove that they are both women!
"I can't help it," Yan Lingji smiled softly with her hands covering her mouth in the face of the jealous words from her two old acquaintances. It was a very simple action, but it was full of charm. "God has endowed me with natural beauty!" Fang boasted proudly. Yan Lingji, who was surrounded by the thick miasma, had a hint of resentment in her eyes. "Even though 'he' said that, he hid from me for more than ten years and never came to 'eat' me!"

"Ugh!"

The two people who were invited, when they heard Yan Lingji say this, were also aroused with the resentment that had been deposited in their hearts for more than ten years, and they sighed together.

"That year, 'he' disappeared in front of me very abruptly. During that process, I didn't notice anything wrong. This can only prove that 'he' must have something very urgent to do!"

The three women, who were all wanderers in this world, complained for a moment, and then one of them suddenly said.

Upon hearing this, Yan Lingji's resentment faded a little, and she said, "That being said, he wouldn't leave so quickly that we still don't even know him..."

Yan Lingji stopped talking abruptly in the middle of her words, but the other two understood what she wanted to say.

"By the way, I heard that you betrayed 'him'?" After a long silence, Yan Lingji raised her beautiful eyes. In the deepest part of her gentle eyes, there was an undisguised murderous intent. However, she still had the warmest smile on her face as she said to the two women she had found.

"Wrong!" The weak and frail woman waved a finger to correct Yan Lingji's point of view, "Yan Lingji, we didn't betray him, but we found clues to his whereabouts!"

"What is it? Where is 'him'?" Yan Lingji was instantly moved when she heard this, and asked impatiently. As she spoke, her upper body leaned forward, as if she wanted to pounce on the two women in front of her and force them to tell her where 'him' was. The woman who spoke first, with a gentle and pleasant tone, said, "It's just a suspicion, not even a clue!"

"Then, you still want..." Yan Lingji's ecstatic mood was extinguished by the ice water, and she was so angry that she laughed.

"Although it's very slim, this is the only valuable thing we have found in all these years!" said another woman bitterly.

"The only valuable thing? Unfortunately, I can't leave Baiyue, otherwise I would be the same as you."

Yan Lingji understood the feelings of the two women in front of her towards him. As they said, although the hope was slim, they had not found any clues in all these years. This was indeed the only valuable thing. In an instant, Yan Lingji, who was also a wanderer in the world, wanted to go to the Central Plains immediately.

While digesting the information revealed by the two women, the doubts lingering in Yan Lingji's heart dissipated.

………………

On the way to Xianyang.

Facing Xiaoyaozi who was blocking his way, Tianxuan pulled the Crescent Moon Blade one foot out of the scabbard, with murderous intent filling his lungs, ready to turn hostile and attack.

"Junior Brother Tianxuan, please be patient."

Facing the murderous aura of Tianxuan, Xiaoyaozi, whose cultivation was much higher than Tianxuan's, did not make a move. A helpless look appeared on his withered face, and he pressed his palm downwards.

"If I wanted to do something, I wouldn't have come here empty-handed."

As he spoke, Xiaoyaozi took the initiative to make way and no longer blocked Tianxuan.

"See you later."

Tianxuan shook the reins in his hand, and the spiritual Huoyun stepped on the horse's hoof and headed towards the road. When passing by Xiaoyaozi, Tianxuan left these words. At this moment, the look in Tianxuan's eyes when he looked at Xiaoyaozi was no longer warm and affectionate, but only cold.

"Ugh!"

Unlike Tianxuan who kept people at a distance, Xiaoyaozi looked at Tianxuan with a look of deep sorrow, like a kind elder looking at his younger generation who had gone astray. Hearing Tianxuan's words, he sighed deeply, with endless regret in his heart.

have to! have to! have to!
Tianxuan had no intention or time to appreciate Xiaoyaozi's pity for him. He passed by Xiaoyaozi, stepped onto the road, and shook the reins fiercely. Huoyun, whose entire body was red without even a single stray hair of a different color, carried his master on his back and ran away into the distance.

Huoyun had enough energy and galloped at an incredible speed. In a few breaths, he disappeared in front of Xiaoyaozi, and the road was covered with dust, blocking Xiaoyaozi's sight.

"Junior Brother Tianxuan, the next time we meet, we will be enemies." Xiaoyaozi sighed, with his hands behind his back, staring at the blurry spot that was about to disappear from his sight.

(End of this chapter)