Chapter Seventeen: Ambushed

  On a certain unknown mountain peak, he stood quietly overlooking the mountains and rivers below, his eyes deep like the sea, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking. In these days, he had been searching everywhere for Zhi Yan's trail, thinking she wouldn't run too far, but after searching many times around Ning City, scouring the surrounding mountains and forests, even returning to Wu Wang Mountain to search every inch of land, he still hadn't found any sign of her.

  A fiery phoenix flew in swiftly and transformed into a young man, kneeling respectfully behind Zeran. "Your Majesty, the person you're looking for... we didn't find..."

  Just then, a swallow flew in from afar and landed on Ze Ran's shoulder, chirping away. Ze Ran seemed to understand what it was saying, his eyebrows relaxed, and he finally eased up a bit.

  "No need to look for them, the person has been found." He turned his head, stroked Xiaoyan's head and smiled gently at it, "Good job, go ahead, notify me immediately if there's anything."

  Human world.

  Shen Yuqing paced anxiously in the study, it had been a month and he still hadn't received any news about Zhi Yan. He had originally wanted to go find her himself, but was confined to Ning City by Shen Yao's decree and couldn't take a step out. During this month, Liu Biyu had stayed at Rong Wang Fu, accompanying him every day and speaking words of comfort to him. Shen Yuqing knew that she wasn't feeling well either, he indeed felt guilty towards her, but his heart didn't have space for her, no matter how good she was, she couldn't enter his heart.

  "Biqi, I'm sorry."

  "What?"

  Liu Biwu was pouring tea for Shen Yiqing, and she sat there with a happy and contented smile on her face.

  "You are not in my heart, I will ask for an imperial decree from the Emperor tomorrow and also arrange a marriage for you."

  The delicate tea set made a crisp collision sound as it fell to the ground, shattering into pieces like Liu Biyu's heart. "Was the prince chatting with Biyu?" She blinked her eyes, forcing herself to swallow her tears and put on a smile, "Biyu thinks this isn't interesting at all."

  "I'm serious." Shen Yuqing grabbed her wrist, forcing her to look into his eyes. But he regretted it, seeing the tears in Liu Biwu's eyes, his heart was slightly touched, originally, she could also cry. In his impression, Liu Biwu had always appeared in front of him with a perfect image, every move, every smile, was perfectly perfect, without any flaws. No matter what happened, her face always hung with a smile, which seemed stiff and rigid like a wooden puppet to him, such a woman was indeed uninteresting to him.

  "I know, the king likes Yan'er." Liu Biyu wipes away her tears and looks at Liu Biyu's stubborn smile. "What does the king think of Biyu? Is she an unimportant person or just a tool for the king to hold power? Biyu knows that she has never entered the king's eyes, but Biyu also has her own pride. I'm very unhappy with what the king said today."

  She frowned and turned away with a swish of her sleeve, leaving Shen Yuke in astonishment.

  Today's Liu Biwu is someone he has never seen before, this is the first time he sees her true emotions, sees her real self, and it turns out she is far from as strong as he imagined. Liu Biwu was right, he indeed likes Zhu Yan, likes her happy smile, likes her helpless look when being teased by Le'er, likes her heartbreaking look when crying. Zhu Yan can cry, can get angry, her emotions are almost all written on her face, although she is naive and inexperienced in the ways of the world, yet she lives more truly than Liu Biwu. This is also why he gradually lets go of his suspicions and intentions to use Zhu Yan, and starts to like her for real.

  But at this time, where was she...

  "Tianmo big brother, since you can ride a sword, why don't we just fly back quickly? Why do we have to take the mountain road, it's so tiring..." Zhiyan panted heavily as she hurried along, her footsteps quickening into a jog as she followed behind Tianmo's long strides.

  "While on a mission, if there's no urgent matter at the sect, one must travel on foot to be able to help the common people... Exorcising demons and eliminating evil is a regulation."

  "But... we've come so far, when will we arrive?"

  "We're almost there," Tian Mo stopped and pointed east, "Just three hundred miles more to go, Zhi Yan, if you really can't walk anymore, just tell me, I'll carry you."

  "We don't need to carry it anymore, can we take a break? I'm really tired."

  "Alright, but there are often monsters lurking around here, we must... be careful, it's eerie!"

  A gust of black wind struck the two, Tian Mo hastily drew out the long sword on his back to protect Zhi Yan in front of him, barely blocking this attack.

  "What kind of monster is this, it's so fierce."

  Tian Mo was speaking when a wolf howl suddenly came from the woods beside them, and immediately afterwards, a gigantic half-human half-wolf monster emerged from the direction of the sound, its eyes flashing with eerie green light. "Great, I didn't expect you to be a cultivator. Eating your flesh will definitely increase my powers greatly. I'll soon be able to fully transform into human form."

  The wolf demon laughed loudly, with a dark and terrifying glow in its eyes. Tianmo felt the powerful demonic energy of the wolf demon and didn't dare to slack off, quickly reciting an incantation as a huge protective barrier rapidly formed on the ground.

  "Underestimating one's own strength." The wolf demon leapt up, and a series of green lights rapidly struck Tianmo's barrier. Before long, Tianmo's barrier was broken through, and Tianmo himself was heavily knocked to the ground.

  "Execute Yan, quickly hide!" He wiped the blood from his mouth corner, strongly crawled up, he closed his eyes, muttered to himself, and the long sword in his hand formed countless huge sword illusions, stabbing straight at the wolf demon, but was easily broken by the wolf demon, shattering Tianmo's magic.

  No, he absolutely cannot be defeated. If he falls, Zhi Yan and Le Er will also die here. He must pull himself together. Tian Mo furrowed his brow, rapidly chanting the incantation in his mouth. In an instant, the raging flames engulfed the wolf demon, surrounding it tightly. The soaring flames illuminated the mountain wall, casting a reddish glow over everything. Tian Mo saw the wolf demon struggling painfully in the flames and finally cracked a smile on his face. He raised his long sword, and amidst the fierce blaze, he transformed into a red dot before reappearing behind the wolf demon, his sword plunged deep into its body.

  Surprisingly, the wolf demon was injured but did not fall down immediately. Instead, it went mad and transformed into a giant wolf, crazily pouncing on Tian Mo and Zhi Yan. Tian Mo had also been injured just now, how could he withstand the wolf demon's ferocious attack? He dodged too late, was knocked down by the wolf demon with one palm, and had a piece of flesh torn off his arm.

  "Stop!" Where did she get the courage from? Jing Yan rushed forward and shouted at the wolf demon, quickly shielding Tian Mo's body.

  The wolf demon shook its tail, and a green light flashed in its eyes. Zhixian was injured by the wolf demon and flew straight out, heavily hitting the hard mountain wall. Zhixian struggled to get up but spat out a mouthful of blood and slowly closed his eyes. Tianmo frowned and wanted to go forward to help Zhixian, but was pressed down by the wolf demon's paw and couldn't move. As he watched the wolf demon's bloody mouth bite down, he prepared to die here. Just then, a small peony flower flew out of the box at high speed, blooming into red light that blocked the wolf demon and Tianmo. However, the wolf demon could not pass through Le'er's red light no matter what.

  The prey that was within reach was right in front of him, and the wolf demon became more and more enraged, launching a fierce attack on the barrier set up by Le'er. Tianmo clearly felt Le'er's power growing weaker and weaker, and he knew that he had already done his best. Before long, Le'er exhausted all his strength and fell to the ground, his body stained with Tianmo's blood.

  "Le'er, good job, we've all done our best......" Tianmo gently stroked Le'er's petals and smiled slightly. "What a pity, I'll never see Master again...... Little Le'er, farewell, I don't know if I'll ever see you again in the next life, or if I'll ever see Zhiyan again."

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