Baili Jia Jue seemed as if he'd used up all of his patience as his long and shapely eyes slowly narrowed. His long, dark black hair followed his movements and violently bloomed, seemingly as if he was summoning something migrating within the world's shadows.
Finally, the winds stopped and the clouds bubbled up.
Behind him was a cloud that seemed as if it's dyed in blood.
All of the shadows stopped their movements. At once, even Eunuch Sun opened his mouth in shock as he extended his hand to cover his c.h.e.s.t.
That, what was that!
"Fire Qilin!"
Don't know who it was that yelled out.
The entire academy was riled up!
Especially those students who dreamed of spirit beasts day and night, one after another, their pair of eyes opened wide. Their eyes didn't blink as they fixated on a scene that was like a god had descended upon the mortal world.
It's been said that the fire on a fire qilin's body could annihilate all of the devil spawns in hell.
Among demons and monsters, not one dared to approach it.
Its fires burning by the River of Forgetfulness in hell wouldn't stop burning even through three lifetimes and three incarnations.
This was an ancient spirit beast's might, no one could block it!
Only...
Everyone knew that it simply wasn't that easy to see a fire qilin.
It was the world's most difficult to tame spirit beast.
There had never been anyone who had the ability to make it genuinely submit itself.
Even the previous Third Prince, when it wanted to abandon him, it'd abandon him, without any hesitation.
It was mysteriously aloof and cold, only occasionally appearing within Spirit Forest and had never come to the academy.
Could it be! It's because of the beast tide?
It must be that!
Even though the previous Third Prince used to contract a fire qilin, having a contract previously didn't mean anything.
Especially when the fire qilin first appeared, its first attack was still against Third Prince.
If the fire qilin was dispatched by him, it wouldn't have used this kind of attitude to appear in the air right now. Instead, it should be standing by Third Prince's side.
Seeing the flames suddenly igniting under their feet, the students felt more and more that this matter had already exceeded their own imagination.
Only Eunuch Sun's eyelids jumped a couple of times, and meaningfully turned towards his master and looked over.
The man leisurely turned his black jade ornamental thumb ring. His thin lips moved slightly, just like a king who walked out from the middle of a blaze.
Eunuch Sun's heart 'ba thumped' a bit.
His, His Highness, he...
When he gave his command again, Baili Jia Jue didn't forget to turn his head around and glance at Eunuch Sun.
It was that glance that made Eunuch Sun thoroughly become quiet and choked all of the secrets down his throat. His emotions were so stirred up that they were actually difficult to suppress!
There's no mistaken it.
His Highness was commanding the fire qilin!
But because he didn't want others to perceive that, when the fire qilin appeared just now, it first attacked its master!
As a matter of fact, the fire qilin also felt awfully crushed as it flew back and forth in the sky while randomly shooting flames. From the moment that it received the summons, one could well imagine how excited it already was.
However!
It's master unexpectedly first asked it to shoot flames at him?
This precisely was simply directly testing the spirit beast's devotion!
It originally was going to resist being forced, but when it actually repeatedly failed to resist its master's ice-cold glare, it could only shoot out a token of its power, scaring these people.
Looking at those tiny people running here and there right now and shouting back and forth, it only thought about how boring it was to be blowing bubbles.
What in the world did its master want by summoning it out here?
Stay and play?
That's highly unlikely.
Its master's thoughts had never been that simple. The fire qilin rather bitterly took a glance at Baili Jia Jue.
Baili Jia Jue just seemed as if he didn't even recognize it as he calmly and unhurriedly avoided the flames near him. After that, he arrived to stand behind the imperial guards with an 'I am awfully weak so come and escort me' kind of appearance.
As the fire qilin looked on, the corners of its mouth fiercely twitched a bit before it heard a command coming into its stream of consciousness, without the slightest bit of undulation. There was only a levelness that caused a person to summit. "Have all of those winged beasts return, immediately!"
After the fire qilin heard that domineering ice-cold voice, it again looked at Baili Jia Jue's figure standing at a corner and sighed a very very long breath. That truly was too much of a change, his pretense really was too excessive.
"If you're too slow, I'll break your wing."
As before, the tone of his voice was devoid of any temperature, yet the fire qilin's entire body stiffened.
Listen listen, listen listen, now this was its true master, jeez.
You stupid people, that prince before your eyes that needed your protection was just a fake, ah, a fake!
Not daring to curse its master more than that, the fire qilin quickly got up, faced west, and flew over.
A majestic ancient spirit animal like itself, when did it ever appear without a commanding presence, as elevated and cold as a god.
After all, to be a king, it should have a king's demeanor!
But look at it now. Surprisingly, it was merely the same as an eagle catching little chicks, having to scare those winged beasts to return one by one.
However, it was already used to it.
Compared to master forcing him to eat only vegetables, and formerly not allowing him to complain about it, this kind of life was already very satisfying...yeah right, as if!
"The boss! I finally see the boss from the legends!"
After those winged beasts saw the fire qilin, their pair of wings flew even faster, so much so that it was clear how excited they were.
If one were to make a comparison, then it was like seeing a live idol.
"Boss, how did you appear here?"
The fire qilin honestly didn't want to say I came out because I wanted to scare you guys, these kinds of silly words, so it could only profoundly 'mm'd a sound.
The winged beasts became even more excited. "Boss, boss, can I shake hands with you?"
Wei Wei simply almost couldn't stand listening anymore. What kind of thing was all of this, argh! Even meeting a celebrity didn't need to be so ridiculous, ok? !
Even if the fire qilin looked comparatively handsome, it was still a beast. There was no happy conclusion for love between two beasts. Could you guys be more rational for me, eh, hey!
What made Wei Wei feel gratified was that the winged beast that grabbed her was relatively reliable.
Wei Wei looked up and was just about to say a few words of praise to that little winged beast.
When she saw it also becoming red. Its two starstruck eyes were shooting red hearts as it dazedly looked at the fire qilin. "I also want to go over there."
Helian Wei Wei: ...
Chapter 103 - Won’t Let You Off
"Boss, that's the boss, hooray!" The little winged beast sounded more and more like a young girl, so much so that it even lowered its head to ask Helian Wei Wei. "Don't you feel that the boss looks very handsome? That soaring horn, those sparkling scales, and also that beautiful red fur. Everyone said that when he transforms into a human, he's even more handsome, you know."
'Bleh'. Wei Wei 'bleh'd a couple of times and smiled apologetically. "Sorry, I really don't get your sense of beauty."
"It doesn't matter. There's nothing great about a human's way
of looking at things." The little winged beast shrugged its shoulders and bluntly stopped its movements.
Wei Wei 'hehe' chuckled a couple of times and helplessly said. "Should I thank you?"
"No need. I also can understand." The winged beast's eyes shined, and in a flash, it made a U-turn.
"Hey hey hey, you can't fly back." Wei Wei's arms were still in the winged beast's grasp. She was caught somewhat unprepared by the abrupt change in their situation.
F*ck sh*t sh*t sh*t!
What the hell was that fire qilin or whatever doing coming out here!
Was it really a good thing for it to sell its s.e.x appeal in this way!
"Girl, in a little while, we will have flown back there." Yuan Ming was greatly amused as he curved his thin lips. "If I were you, right now, I'd carefully consider how I'll face that Third Prince's wrath."
Wei Wei didn't say anything, only her eyes radiated more and more anxiousness, while reflecting on her current situation.
To her left was a precipice. To the right side was White Academy.
Based on the way the winged beast was flying right now, it was as Yuan Ming had said. Not more than a minute from now, she could already be directly surrounded by Third Prince's imperial bodyguards.
The distance was getting closer and closer, so close that she could already see the back of that guy's pure and cold lonely figure.
That won't do, she must hurry and make a decision!
Wei Wei surveyed the trees which formed a forest at the summit and suddenly exerted force on her left hand as her body rapidly rotated. In a flash, she escaped from the boy servant's coat and from high in the sky, rapidly descended downward!
She could even hear Yuan Ming's egotistical low roar by her ear. "Girl, you're crazy! A mortal will die falling down like that!"
"If I'm not crazy, I wouldn't be a devil (nothing ventured, nothing gained)." While Wei Wei responded to Yuan Ming's statement, she still didn't forget to throw out the armament she carried on her body. Piece by piece it layered and fastened upon the cliff's rock wall allowing her to feel less of the force of the descent.
The white cat was also dizzy. If it weren't for the fact that its powers currently hadn't recovered, it could have immediately turned bigger and already carried Wei Wei to a stop.
The crucial point was that it was still stuck in its own predicament. Let alone carrying Wei Wei to a stop, right now, it had a problem even protecting itself!
The wind was too strong, it could only tenaciously grab Wei Wei's shoulder and didn't dare to loosen its paw at all.
Between the armament and the rock wall screech, screech, screech, sparks were set off.
The white cat fiercely absorbed qi, and basically didn't dare to breathe out.
Besides being able to sense her own left hand getting numb and her right hand getting sore, all of the cells in Wei Wei's entire body were subconsciously figuring out how to stop this kind of torment!
Screech!
As the last screech sounded, Wei Wei increased her entire body's qi. The nearby atmosphere started changing and formed the shape of a whirlwind, supporting and dragging her entire body upwards a bit!
After that, Wei Wei made use of a portion of the wind force and beautifully and gracefully flipped sideways in the air, then beautifully halted, avoiding that broken tree directly in her path!
"Close call." Even though he was an emissary of the devil, Yuan Ming also couldn't help forming some cold sweat due to Wei Wei's bold moves just now.
Wei Wei, though, only shook off the numbness in her hand as her thin lips slightly arched. "Beautiful escape."
"I'm afraid there's one more obstacle." The white cat looked at the huge silhouette appearing before its eyes. Within its amber colored eyes flashed a trace of pure cold light.
Wei Wei could also detect the danger as she turned her head around and faced that huge figure's eyes, her eyelids blinked. "Demonic beast?"
"As long as it's not a fire qilin then it's fine." The white cat proudly jumped, jumping onto Wei Wei's shoulders. "Go, eliminate it!"
Wei Wei 'heh heh'd twice, this...just who was the human and who was the beast!
However, that demonic beast simply would not give her the opportunity to look down on it.
Hungry to an extreme extent, it already went berserk. After smelling meat, it could only think of eating a nice meal!
But what it didn't know was that Wei Wei was also going berserk. This was the first time she'd been pressed on by someone so urgently. She needed to vent!
Swish!
Wei Wei immediately made use of the wind power to launch from her original position, like a sharp knife suspended in the air which straightaway grabbed at the area of the demonic beast's throat.
That spirit beast casted a glance at her, as if it was mocking her for overestimating her own abilities, and was going to open its big red blood basin of a mouth to swallow her entire body into its stomach!
That demonic beast was the kind that preyed on the weak and feared the strong. Seeing that her left hand was inconvenienced, it immediately faced her left hand and bit in that direction. Its attack was concentrated on Wei Wei's left hand.
Seeing that it was going to pounce over, Wei Wei clenched her teeth as she caused her qi to surge and harmonize. Her two fingers simultaneously approached the top of its neck and used qi to shoot out white photoelectricity, absolutely not soft and disorganized like before, and instead resembled a swift and fierce knife blade, containing a cold light which completely poured into that spirit beast's throat.
That spirit beast first paused, then was in violent pain as if it was dragged back and forth by winds from all sides. The move took merely a moment, before it was torn by those winds to lose all of its strength
howling and whimpering ——— the spirit beast raised its head for a long, last loud cry at maximum volume, prolonging the turn of events. Its body shook all over as if in much pain then eventually seemed to be pressed from all sides, its huge body loudly fell to the ground, crushing countless shrubs. Dust flew upwards while the moonlight poured down in torrents. Between the empty sky and vacant land there only remained one human and one cat, and the back of their incomparably elegant figures...
At the other side, all of the winged beasts halted within the Superior Compound's courtyard, cute and obedient, as if they'd been tamed by someone, indolently extending their own paws.
Basically, those young lords and young ladies who were snatched away all returned safely. Just as they landed, they dr.a.p.ed on a cloak. All of them were reduced to a shadow of their former self and cut a sorry figure.
However, it's just that Wei Wei was not among these people!
Eunuch Sun was a bit afraid of looking at His Highness' countenance, only swallowing saliva as he looked at a little servant boy's coat hanging from the claws of a winged beast.
It didn't take much thinking to know who had recently worn it.
The rain had already stopped. The black clouds had scattered completely.
Baili Jia Jue calmly stood there. His long sleeves floated in the air. Thousands of strands of black ink hair against his silver mask outlined an acutely cold light. A long time passed before he spoke. "She's still alive. I'll find and bring her back."
After he stopped speaking, he apathetically turned around as heaven's violent qi welled up in his entire body and overflowed while his white clothes and ink black hair collided and flew towards the sky, similar to a silhouette of the devil.
Pitter patter, the raindrops fell down, making people couldn't help but look and look again.
The fire qilin hidden within the Dark Illusionary Space opened its mouth to speak in a very deep voice. "Master, she's the female phoenix."
"So what?" The tip of Baili Jia Jue's tongue slowly slid over the wound on his own thin lips as vicious demonically cold currents accidentally were completely revealed. "No matter what, each and everyone who provoked me, no matter who, will not be lightly let off by me."
The fire qilin had never seen its master reveal this kind of expression before.
Several hundreds, no, for even over a thousand years already.
Master had consistently treated everything as a game in the human world.
It's not that he hadn't shown interest in other things before, but those kinds of interest were too weak, too short lived. The kind of big fuss like the one that occurred this time simply happened too infrequently, too infrequently...
Chapter 104 - His Highness Wants a Live Capture
"Pass on the command." Not taking notice of the fire qilin's opinion, Baili Jia Jue dropped his eyes and bit by bit, grasped the coat in his hand tightly. "All imperial guards are to stop the search and remove the check point at the base of the mountain."
Shadow stared blankly, having some difficulty believing as he asked, "Withdraw them all?" Just now, His Highness even seemed like he swore not to give up until he caught Miss Helian, how did he just become soft-hearted all of a sudden?
Within the next second, Shadow discovered that he was wrong, because His Highness simply didn't become soft hearted. On the contrary, he changed to an even more ruthless method. "Assign a shadow to every area outside of the city wall and pull up the fishing net. Setting off arrows are prohibited. I want to capture her alive."
His voice was very low, yet resolutely and absolutely did not tolerate skepticism.
Even though Shadow was excessively concerned about His Highness acting this way. Weren't they making too big of a move, it would arouse the four great clans' attention. However, he understood that His Highness had always conducted his affairs without evading whatever four great clans.
"Watch the city gates closely. If there were elderly, pregnant women, or anyone else whose movements were inconvenienced wanting to leave the city walls, you need to inspect them carefully. In addition, send people to trail Hei Ze." Baili Jia Jue once more slowly raised his thin lips. He spoke so slowly that it made the ears of those people who were listening go totally numb. "As long as someone approaches him, catch them for me."
He didn't know why, but when Shadow heard these words, he intuitively started praying for that girl.
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