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“Du Xiao Li?” Fairy Shui Qing had a rather deep impression of Du Xiao Li. That dance during the feast… Du Xiao Li’s figure had slowly engraved into the hearts of the audience with each beat of the drum. “Didn’t she grow up in the mountains and fields? How can she be so multi-talented? If it is her, I don’t know if it’s possible. Go invite her over—no. It will be better if we pay her a visit personally.”
“Fairy, Miss Du isn’t in the city currently,” Feng Li Shang said to stop her.
“I heard that she’s the one managing the school’s big competition. Why is she not in the city?”
“An hour ago, she left the city with Northern Qi’s prince. They were carrying bundles on their back. It seemed like they’re going somewhere far away,” Feng Li Shang answered. “I’ve already sent people out to follow them.”
“Since this is the case, let’s just go find her ourselves.” Once Fairy Shui Qing finished talking, she left with the women behind her, as well as Feng Li Shang. Mounted on horses, they went chasing toward the north.
Currently, Du Xiao Li and Beiling Yi Cheng were rushing along their journey, completely unaware that her departure from the city this time had garnered the attention of so many people.
Beiling Yi Cheng’s martial arts skills were pretty good, so the two people had not rested even for a moment during the whole afternoon. When they arrived during the evening at a small town in the north, they casually found an inn to rest for the night. Then they continued on their journey early in the morning the next day.
The north certainly had a much flatter terrain than the south. Additionally, the distance to their destination wasn’t actually very far away, so they could now already see an outline of Mount Yin from afar.
As it was presently already October, it was somewhat frigid in the north. The mountains making up Mount Yin’s mountain range were taller than the average mountain, so their peaks were now largely covered in brilliantly white snow.
When they reached below the mountains, Du Xiao Li and Beiling Yi Cheng left their horses with a family of farmers situated there. The two people were unfamiliar with the terrain, so they planned to have the family’s male head be their guide and take them into the mountains to search for the herb. As such, they gave the family some silver as a recompense.
However, when the family found out that Du Xiao Li and Beiling Yi Cheng were doing this in order to save someone, these farmers became very passionate to help them and were unwilling to accept the silver. It was only due to Beiling Yi Cheng’s insistence and Du Xiao Li’s persuasion that the farmers finally accepted the recompense. Following that, the female head of the family served up a lunch filled with local specialties for the two people. After eating lunch, Du Xiao Li and Beiling Yi Cheng left as a party of three with the guide and entered the mountains.
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Ch. 088.5 – Searching for Medicine in the North (5)
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The male head of the farmer family was named Ba Lang Da. He was an extremely cheerful and carefree person. As he walked, he introduced the local sights to the other two people, and they very quickly arrived at the foot of the mountains.
Du Xiao Li saw the vast mountain range and said to Beiling Yi Cheng, “Brother, you’re familiar with the Luo Di Hua’s growth habits. Why don’t you tell Brother Ba Lang what they are so that he can take us straight to those sorts of areas? The earlier we find it, the earlier we’ll return.”
“You want to find Luo Di Hua?” Ba Lang Da asked.
“Yes. Does Brother Ba Lang know of this kind of herb?” Du Xiao Li queried.
“Initially, I didn’t know about it. How would we who live here know about herbs and what not? But there was someone who came looking for this herb previously and had me be their guide. That’s why I know about it. I know where you can find the Luo Di Hua. If that’s what you’re looking for, I can take you straight there,” Ba Lang Da said simple-mindedly while rubbing the back of his head.
“Is what you’re talking about a kind of plant that’s got palm-shaped leaves, grows low to the ground, and has a pale yellow flower?” Beiling Yi Cheng asked.
“I don’t know about the flower. I didn’t see any flowers when I went there the last time, but the leaves sound more or less like what you said,” Ba Lang Da stated.
“That should be it. Take us over there then,” Beiling Yi Cheng said.
“Okay, let’s walk on this side.” Once Ba Lang Da finished speaking, he walked over to a different mountain top.
Du Xiao Li and Beiling Yi Cheng had to hurry to catch up to him.
Ba Lang Da was very familiar with this area and led them through a turn on the left, a mountain climb on the right, and a valley situated in some unknown location. On the shady side of the mountains, they finally found the Luo Di Hua.
Presently, it wasn’t the Luo Di Hua’s blooming period. However, the antidote did not require the flower, fortunately. Using the small trowel she had brought, Du Xiao Li carefully loosened the soil around the Luo Di Hua.
Earlier, they’d spent almost an hour to reach this place. If they were to walk back, they wouldn’t be able to return in time to make the antidote. So Beiling Yi Cheng took Ba Lang Da with him, and the three of them used qing gong [1] to fly back.
All the way until they reached the farmer’s home, Ba Lang Da still hadn’t recovered his spirits. This was his first time accompanying someone as they used qing gong to fly, and the docile farmer had gotten a fright.
Upon reaching the farmer’s home, Du Xiao Li made her way into a room and used the simplistic tools to pound the herb over and over until an antidote was produced.
When Du Xiao Li emerged, she found that Beiling Yi Cheng had been waiting outside the whole time. He saw her open the room door, and she in turn gave him a nod. It was only then that he finally became at ease.
As it was now too late to travel, they stayed the night at Ba Lang Da’s home and set out on their journey on the second day at the first glimmer of light. If they spurred the horses to run at full speed, they might be able to return to Feng Huang before the city gates closed.
On their way back, they passed through the town they stopped at previously and randomly picked a place to have lunch. After that, they hurriedly continued on with their journey.
Du Xiao Li and Beiling Yi Cheng had been spending these past two days or so traveling hastily only to travel even more hastily. So they were both somewhat tired from the journey.
“Miss Du, let’s rest for a while.” It was ultimately Beiling Yi Cheng who couldn’t bear it anymore and said this to Du Xiao Li as they were passing through a grove by a riverbank.
If it were any other girl, she would definitely be so tired out from a day’s worth of horseriding that she’d be flopping over by now, let alone from the way they’d been traveling. However, Du Xiao Li had to travel continuously as well as make an antidote, yet she hadn’t even said a single word about being tired! This girl who was more or less the same age as Beiling Yi Cheng’s younger sister had un unswerving determination that even many men did not have. Those who encountered her would definitely find themselves impressed with her from the bottom of their hearts.
Nevertheless, Du Xiao Li was indeed somewhat tired. Seeing that it was getting late, she nodded in agreement.
So the two people dismounted and tied the horses to a tree by the riverbank. Then they went to the stream and washed their faces with the water.
Unpolluted water was truly great! Du Xiao Li looked at the water that was so clear even the bottom of the river could be seen and sighed inwardly countless times.
Her current self would still occasionally think of her previous life, even though she clearly didn’t have anyone she was attached to.
After wiping her face, Du Xiao Li said to Beiling Yi Chen’s reflection in the water, “7th Prince, Princess Yu is truly very blessed to have a brother like you. I can tell that Princess Yu grew up in a very warm and loving environment, which is why she has such a pure disposition.”
Thinking of Beiling Yu, Beiling Yi Cheng’s face broke into a smile. He said, “My younger sister and I were born from the same mother. Before my mother passed away, I promised her I would protect my younger sister well and let her grow up happily. I am her pillar of support, and she is my reason to live.”
“If your mother were to see you two now, she would surely feel very gratified,” Du Xiao Li said.
In which country were the internal struggles of the royal family not cruel? Yet he had blocked off all the danger from Beiling Yu and given her an untainted environment to grow up in.
The only concern was if it was actually a good thing for a princess to have such a disposition.
Nevertheless, at least she had a beautiful childhood.
After resting for a while, Du Xiao Li stood up and said, “Let’s keep going.”
“All right.”
The two people got on their horses and continued rushing onward. However, before they even left the grove, they felt a grim atmosphere.
“Ang——”
Just as they were about to reach the edge of the forest, Du Xiao Li’s horse suddenly fell into a hole, where it instantly met a violent death on shiny sword blades lined at the bottom of the hole. Right before that happened, Du Xiao Li quickly jumped off and landed on a rock by the side.
Simultaneously, over ten arrows shot toward Beiling Yi Cheng and his horse from the forest on his left and right. Drawing his sword, Beiling Yi Cheng struck down the arrows that headed toward him. However, the horse got hit by an arrow and went forth in a frenzied charge. When he saw that Du Xiao Li had left her horse, he decided to just abandon his horse as well and flew over, landing before her.
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Ch. 089.1 – She’s One of Moon Water Paradise’s People?! (1)
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Soon after, another two batches of arrows rained down, and the two people struggled to avoid them.
Du Xiao Li glanced at the ground that was covered in arrows, and a grave expression spread across her face. It seemed that the opposing party had come prepared and specifically waited for the two of them here!
“You’re not hurt, are you?” Beiling Yi Cheng asked.
“No.”
A group of black-clothed people emerged from amidst the forest, perhaps because they had run out of arrows. With machetes or long double-edged swords in hand, these people charged toward the two of them wordlessly. It was unknown if they were targeting Du Xiao Li or Beiling Yi Cheng.
However, Du Xiao Li managed to figure out very quickly that these people were charging toward her. This was because the number of people besieging her was clearly greater than those surrounding Beiling Yi Cheng. Just the two of them were going up against 40 to 50 people. Moreover, these 40 to 50 people had pretty good martial art skills. This placed great pressure on Du Xiao Li and Beiling Yi Cheng.
Fortunately, Beiling Yi Cheng’s martial art skills were also pretty good, so he could help Du Xiao Li quite a lot. If he were someone who lacked the strength to even truss a chicken [1], then the two of them would likely die here today.
Beiling Yi Cheng snatched away a sword from one of the black-clothed people and seized the opportunity to pierce the person who was sneaking up to attack him from behind. Turning his hand over, he pulled out the sword and immediately left that person to die. Then right after extracting the sword, Beiling Yi Cheng lunged it straight through its owner’s heart.
“Pu——” Blood sprayed out in the wake of the sword, dying red the fallen leaves which covered the ground.
Meanwhile, Du Xiao Li threw some poison powder at the people before her. It was normally Xia Yuan and Ying Ge who carried the poison powder, so Du Xiao Li didn’t have much of it with her. Right now, this small amount of poison powder could only stop the enemies for a while, allowing her to kill her way to Beiling Yi Cheng’s side.
“Let’s go back to back.” Beiling Yi Cheng had already been feeling it was quite difficult to deal with the surrounding enemies. However, now with Du Xiao Li, the two people could protect each other’s back [2] and focus on the enemies before them.
This was Du Xiao Li’s first time killing people in such a manner ever since coming to this dynasty. The wave upon wave of assassins advancing dauntlessly allowed her to set free the evil tendencies she’d kept hidden for so many years, just like that time when the cruel training session turned this once innocent and naive young girl into Asura.
Sensing the killing intent being unleashed behind him, Beiling Yi Cheng turned his head apprehensively and saw Du Xiao Li swiftly eliminating the enemies before her. It was as if those people weren’t humans but prey waiting to be slaughtered!
Such an intense killing intent… Just what kind of experiences would one have to go through in order to develop that?!
Du Xiao Li—a 14-year-old girl and one of Feng Ming’s most senior officials—got rid of the person before her. Then with her left hand, she snatched away the sword in her opponent’s hand and threw it behind her, coincidentally piercing someone who was behind Beiling Yi Cheng. She cast a glance at Beiling Yi Cheng and then continued facing her enemies.
Regardless, Beiling Yi Cheng knew that now wasn’t the time for him to be astonished. Although the two of them had already dealt with a large portion of the enemies, they were getting increasingly fatigued!
“Wu——”
Beiling Yi Cheng’s left arm was pierced by a sword. When Du Xiao Li heard that sound, she turned to look and hurriedly pivoted her body to support him, landing a kick on the perpetrator.
With no time to speak, Du Xiao Li and the opposing party entered a hard battle. Meanwhile, Beiling Yi Cheng forcefully propped himself up to continue fighting. As the number of corpses on the ground continued to increase, the strength of the two people gradually decreased.
Having lost too much blood, Beiling Yi Cheng was already at his limits. If he were to continue on without getting his wound bound, his life might be in danger. Seeing that there was still half the initial number of enemies before her, Du Xiao Li regretted for the first time that she had been too hasty during her departure. She hadn’t brought a musical instrument with her, so even if she wanted to use Sound Arts now, she couldn’t do so!
Yet right at this moment, the melodious notes of a flute rang out. It was an exceptionally strange occurrence in this forest which had been dyed red with blood.
“Pu——Pu——Pu——”
The three people nearest to Du Xiao Li were struck by a force and killed instantly.
This unforeseen event caused all the black-clothed attackers to stop in their tracks, which in turn gave Du Xiao Li and Beiling Yi Cheng the chance to take a breather. Everyone’s gaze followed the sound of the flute to its source and saw a group of white-clothed people fly over. Each person carried a musical instrument, and the person playing the flute was currently the one who was situated in the most central position inside the group.
With astonishment filling their eyes, the black-clothed people said something for the first time: “Moon Water Paradise!”
Inwardly, Du Xiao Li was also greatly astonished. Although the new group of people had covered up their faces, Du Xiao Li was still able to recognize two of them—Fairy Shui Qing, whom she had seen during the Mid-
Autumn Festival banquet, and Feng Li Shang, the vocal music teacher!
Fairy Shui Qing played the flute as she flew over. As she landed on the rock Du Xiao Li had stood on previously, Fairy Shui Qing lowered the flute in her hand.
“Fairy, we and Moon Water Paradise have both always minded our own business. I hope you can please make things easy for us,” one of the black-clothed people said.
Meanwhile, Fairy Shui Qing glanced at Du Xiao Li. Upon seeing that the latter was fine, Fairy Shui Qing then opened her mouth to say: “In the past, we never had much interaction with the Hitman Pavilion. However, today, this person is someone we want to protect. I wonder if the Hitman Pavilion can make things easy for us?”
“Don’t think that we’ll be afraid of you just because you’re from Moon Water Paradise! We’re definitely going to kill this person today! Otherwise, what reputation will our Hitman Pavilion have left in Jiang Hu?!” The black-clothed person said with great conviction while brandishing the blade in his hand.
However, he didn’t actually feel so sure about being able to do it. In order to ensure that they could take Du Xiao Li’s life, they had sent almost 50 of their members over here. Initially, they even thought they were making a big fuss over a minor issue, but who knew that Du Xiao Li would actually have such powerful martial arts skills? Moreover, the martial arts skills of the man beside her were also quite good. As such, the Hitman Pavilion lost many of their members before they were finally close to ending Du Xiao Li. Yet this was when some members of Water Moon Paradise suddenly arrived!
Everyone knew that Moon Water Paradise was a sect that used Sound Arts as their martial art. There were several great fairies in the sect, and all of them had impressive Sound Arts. With one glance, it was obvious from Fairy Shui Qing’s style of dress that she was one of them. Moreover, everyone had a glimpse of her prowess when they saw her instantly dispose of three people just a moment ago.