What's more, there was a spirit beast with control of four elements by his side, a fire qilin!
Just like that.
The man disappeared and even the four elements spirit beast, the fire qilin, received no small measure of injury and ended up being kept within Spirit Forest.
Countless numbers of people wanted to tame it, so much so that they even attempted to use spirit beast contracts to restrict it. Yet again and again, they were always devoured instead.
When the fire qilin appeared again, talented people from the four great clans were panic-stricken, because reportedly, the person who was chosen by the fire qilin could very possibly become the generation's king!
Humans were like that. When they met with a matter that affected them, they'd always react by doing what benefited them the most, to the extent that they would even ruthlessly kill, sparing no one!
Third Prince didn't even cultivate demonic powers, yet they already treated him in this way.
If others knew that she possessed a devil's emissary, she wondered how they would deal with her.
That's why in the past, Wei Wei had never ordered Yuan Ming. It's precisely in order to avoid being discovered.
Currently, she only hoped that her movements just now were too quick. It's good if Third Prince didn't sense anything.
Thinking up to this point, Wei Wei turned towards the young man's direction and looked over. She only saw that his expression seemed somewhat off, and seemed as if...he couldn't see anything.
"Why is it like this?" Wei Wei creased her long, shapely eyebrows. Strength Scattering Poison didn't have the effect of making people go blind, right?
Baili Jia Jue's voice was faint. "The poison from ten years ago reappeared."
"Are you talking about that big fire within the imperial palace?" Wei Wei's eyes narrowed. People from the four great clans truly were awfully vicious and merciless. "Give me your hand."
Baili Jia Jue paused a little before he brought his left hand over.
With a tug, Wei Wei tore off his sleeve into tiny fragments. She was aware of that poison's deadliness, yet she didn't imagine that it'd penetrate so quickly!
There's no more time. The skin around the wound had already slowly darkened.
She had to think of a way immediately!
If she had some tools on hand, she could still do a 'small operation' on his behalf. She'd previously had to disguise herself as so many identities. Those small surgical operations weren't difficult for her at all.
However, right now, not only did they not have any tools, those black clothed people still hadn't left. In not much more than a moment's time, they'd find them.
However, this kind of poison could not be delayed. If they continued to delay treatment, Third Prince could very possibly become disabled!
Wei Wei already had a taste of what it's like to be a useless person within War Dragon Empire. Almost everyday, the body she inhabited was a reminder to her that it was actually because of not having martial qi that she suffered humiliation.
Baili Jia Jue already lost his martial qi once before because of that big fire.
That's even more so for someone who was like Baili Jia Jue, a perfectionist elevated on high.
No matter what, if it wasn't because of her, that arrow definitely would've been avoided by him.
Wei Wei raised her eyes. That pair of long and narrow beautiful eyes of his had already lost their usual apathetic ice-coldness. There wasn't any light reflected in them whatsoever. The skin under his hand was scalding, unlike how it was formerly.
Wei Wei was startled by the scalding temperature that radiated from his body.
Moreover, that temperature was astonishingly high. "You're running a fever. When did this started happening?" She wanted to know if it was his own body causing the change, or if it had something to do with the Strength Scattering Poison.
Baili Jia Jue complicatedly looked at the her who was only about a foot away from him. The two of them were extremely close in proximity. In order to avoid the black clothed people, her whole body simply rested within his embrace and was more obedient than at any other time.
However...
"A fever?" Baili Jia Jue was cold and indifferent no matter in what kind of situation. "I'm running a fever?"
Having heard what was said, Wei Wei practically was almost speechless. Could it be that he didn't even know when he started running a fever?"
"How about this, I'll ask in a different way. At what time did you start to feel a headache?" Wei Wei watched as the young man used his slender fingers to press upon his long eyebrows. As his long sleeves rolled up, he straightened out his own train of thought.
Baili Jia Jue's face looked at her blankly.
Wei Wei's mouth twitched twice. "It couldn't be that you didn't even know when your head started aching, right?"
"I know." A certain highness quite absent-mindedly spoke two words to her.
Wei Wei sighed a very, very long sigh. Finally. It could be said that they could still communicate.
"That day that you fled from me." Even a certain highness' manner of speaking didn't change. Contained within the gracefulness there was an ice-coldness of someone who claimed a high position.
Wei Wei:...
What kind of situation were they in the middle of, yet Third Prince was still in the mood to stress her out!
Was he trying to increase her guilty feelings, or what? !
No.
Third Prince shouldn't be a person with that kind of personality.
Wei Wei readjusted her feelings. "So what you're saying is that you've already run a fever for three days and two nights." How could there be a person like that in the world. What everyone said was spot on. Third Prince wasn't a person, but a god!
"I'm not sure." Baili Jia Jue's face inclined. His emotionless expression was thoroughly indifferent no matter what wounds resided in his blood.
That was it!
It seemed that the situation still wasn't that terrible. At least, the Strength Scattering Poison still hadn't penetrated that deeply.
Wei Wei's gaze turned and fell on Baili Jia Jue's hand. Without thinking more on it, she instead resolutely inhaled one breath, after which she quickly stooped over...
Chapter 134 - Domineering Third Prince
Baili Jia Jue's fingers paused and his cold thin lips convulsed slightly as he watched the thin lips forming a hickey on his arm as Wei Wei s.u.c.k.e.d in poison for his sake. Suddenly, the light in his eyes focused and he directly pushed her to the side, using force to restrain her wrist, his voice was apathetic. "Don't you know what kind of poison this is and yet you just randomly suck it in."
"Strength Scattering Poison, ptui, pth!" Wei Wei spit out a mouthful of the black blood she'd just s.u.c.k.e.d in, then she carelessly and casually faced his gaze. "It's merely a little bit of martial qi. If it came to that, I'll be fine once I cultivate again. Hey, I say, Highness, as a blind person, couldn't you be more obedient."
His eyes could no longer see yet he could still be so fierce. Sure enough, he's truly not human.
Wei Wei breathed a long sigh and prepared to resume s.u.c.k.i.n.g out the poisonous blood on his behalf at the next opportunity!
But Baili Jia Jue directly used his left hand to press against her head. "This Highness is thinking that you don't want your life."
"Yes yes yes, wait until you have the strength then punish me with nine familial extermination*, all right?"
(* translator's note: the nine familial extermination was the most extreme form of punishment reserved for the most unforgivable crimes against the crown or country. Nine groups of the offender's family were executed along with the offender – parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, siblings and spouses, uncles/aunts and spouses, cousins, criminal's spouse/s, criminal's spouse/s' parents.)
While Wei Wei bent over, she also spoke ambiguously. "It's best that all of those people from the Helian family are executed." That'd also save her from wasting
her own strength.
Baili Jia Jue's eyes seemed as if they flashed a little as he watched this hare-brained little head before his eyes. Within the depths of his pupils, a faint trace of gentleness seemed to have appeared. This woman was ordinarily vicious and merciless, yet when she's well-behaved, she instead appeared quite pleasing to the eye.
"All right. That's more or less acceptable." Wei Wei s.u.c.k.e.d in several mouthfuls in a row and spit the dark blood upon the ground, then turned to looking at the wound. "However, this is still merely a temporary measure. We need to find a place as quickly as possible to help you get rid of the rest of the poison completely."
After she finished speaking, she again spit out two mouthfuls of poison in succession. The surface of her lips felt somewhat numb, and she could feel that some of her qi flowed into nothingness. However, that could still be counted as a very good outcome. Just as she'd said, once she cultivated again, she'd be fine.
Contrary to what one might expect, Yuan Ming evilly laughed. "Girl, you are truly generous to this Third Prince. Could it be that you've fallen for him?"
Wei Wei 'heh-heh'd twice and replied within her consciousness. "Haven't you always said that I have feelings for you, so up until now, have I?"
"Or perhaps it's because you feel that this senior don't place you in my eyes that you've decided to show off your chosen alternate, this Third Prince, in front of me."
The degree of Yuan Ming's narcissism was absolutely directly proportional to his age.
Wei Wei's eyebrows rose. "You can sober up now. Even someone with bad eyes knows that you're actually the one who's the alternate."
Even if Third Prince was an evildoer, he still was a perfect evildoer. Everyone else really couldn't compare.
Wei Wei's gaze again fell on the side of Baili Jia Jue's face. She wondered what in the world this evildoer's appearance was really like.
Everyone said that the big fire destroyed Third Prince's looks.
That's why Third Prince had to wear a silver mask at all times. Except for a select few, no one else had seen his real appearance.
In the past, Wei Wei had even believed this rumor.
However, at present, Wei Wei really felt that based on this evildoer's style, his face could very well not have been destroyed.
All of this was very possibly smoke and mirrors that this man had deliberately released.
It's been said that curiosity killed the cat. The more Wei Wei looked at that man almost within her reach, the more her heart itched.
Due to the fact that their positions were particularly close together, the tip of her nose was completely filled with the man's fragrant scent of sandalwood faintly lingering all around, seemingly as if he could shade a person within a section of a very small world. No matter how much the outside was in turmoil or chaos, or utterly dangerous, even the smallest vestige of it wouldn't appear on his body.
On the contrary, it would even allow a person to possess a kind of indifference that comes from holding the world in the palm of their hands.
The light in Wei Wei's eyes moved. Even though she knew the circ.u.mstances wasn't very good, she still wanted to take advantage of the current opportunity that allowed her to approach Third Prince and see what in the world he looked like!
Thinking this way, Wei Wei cautiously raised her hand and was just about to quickly lift open that silver mask, when the man's hand easily grabbed her wrist. In a very deep voice, he spoke. "Not behaving again?"
"We've been trapped here. I just wanted to find something to do." Wei Wei pretended to be regretful as she replied. "I'm thinking of how I'm still so young, yet have already been surrounded to be killed. I'm at death's door, so before entering, I just wanted to know the appearance of the person by my side."
Having heard her utterly emotional tone of voice, Baili Jia Jue's thin lips slowly curved upwards. Don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, but his breath, bit by bit, blew on top of her left ear. His response contained another deep meaning. "You're definitely not merely thinking of looking at my appearance, right?"
"A person like me doesn't care much about good or bad looks." Upon analysis, it's still her curiosity that's causing mischief. Wei Wei shrugged her shoulders and eagerly continued to push forward.
Baili Jia Jue laughed deeply, bewitchingly coldly and indifferently, yet possessing subtleties that Wei Wei didn't understand.
After that, he said. "The person taking off my mask will have to be by my side for a lifetime. Are you sure you want to take it off?"
Once she heard these words, Wei Wei immediately pulled her hand back.
Treating him like she couldn't shun him fast enough.
Sigh, and he'd even just thought that she was well-behaved.
It seemed that everything was but a misunderstanding. The kind of prey such as a fox would forever be awfully crafty and sly. He still should not loosen any of his guard when facing her.
Thinking of this, Baili Jia Jue lifted up his numb hand and pressed it on his own forehead.
After seeing his actions, the hand Wei Wei withdrew again stretched forward. However, it didn't go to lift his silver mask. Instead, she used the back of her hand to press on top of his forehead.
Her hand was very cool. Placed on top of his scalding forehead, it made Baili Jia Jue, who felt uncomfortable, slightly relax his eyebrows.
But Wei Wei paused when she was burned by that temperature. The fever hadn't abated. Furthermore, the temperature had continued to rise. Even if Third Prince was not human, he still needed to receive treatment as soon as possible!
"I..." Wei Wei had just opened her mouth when she heard a burst of footsteps from a not distant place. Those people had found them!
Wei Wei's breathing became slightly sluggish. Before the arrow arrived, her fingers had already rapidly extended and an umbrella appeared where there was none. Her long legs swept over as three or four black clothed people simultaneously arrived on the ground.
"Go!" Wei Wei wanted to pull Baili Jia Jue along.
But she saw his thay slim and graceful body stood there calmly and unhurriedly while his fingers brushed away the dust that wasn't there on his body. His voice was as emotionless as before. "That's not necessary."
"Huh?" Wei Wei's eyebrows jumped.
Baili Jia Jue's pair of eyes looked normal as he grabbed her and pulled her back, but within the tone of his voice there was an evilness that had never been there before. "We now number more than them."
The sound of the man's words had just dropped.
When Wei Wei saw that not so far away, countless numbers of warhorses surged forward and approached from the distance. All of those people were attired in the black uniform of a cavalry soldier, a black face shield on their faces, their hands holding a curved single-edged sword. They seemed like a black wind that engulfed everything. Wherever they passed, a field of blood would be left behind.
However, the man just stood amidst that field reeking of blood, his eyes not even blinking, without attracting a single speck of dust. His cleanness and ice-cold aloofness was forever like a god's.
However, Wei Wei knew that he had never been any compassionate nor forgiving god, but instead, a devil!
Chapter 135 - Two People Getting Along
"It's the Shadow Guards!"
"How did they appear here? !"
"Didn't they say that the Third Prince didn't bring a single person? !"
The black clothed people looked at each other in dismay. They clearly were caught unprepared by the sudden turn of events. One after another, they looked towards the cavalry that flanked them from both sides. The swords they held in their hands were also dropped immediately afterwards as they wanted to seize the opportunity to escape!
However, how could Baili Jia Jue allow this kind of thing to happen.
He stood where the wind blew, watching this scene from the high ground, calmly and unhurriedly taking a white handkerchief to wipe away the bloodstain on Wei Wei's fingers. His thin lips
opened slightly.
"Kill!"
It was merely one word, yet Wei Wei could feel an unprecedented pressure burst forth.
As the dense mass of cavalry swept past, the contentious sounds of horses, people, and their martial qi erupted.
Now this was the Ghost Palace of the legends, killing three thousand crows without leaving a trace.
Wei Wei also almost suspected whether Third Prince actually had been deliberate, deliberately waited until all of the black clothed people revealed themselves before he mobilized the cavalry to come for a wide sweeping kill!
As she was thinking of this, Wei Wei felt her shoulder become heavy. The man who was originally standing suddenly leaned on her shoulder.
Wei Wei's pair of hands moved to prop him up. She also didn't care about the shadows who were leading the cavalry nor their incessant hand-to-hand combat, as she only thought about first taking Third Prince and leaving this place.
Baili Jia Jue used all of his willpower to summon the last vestiges of his strength and spoke in an extremely cold voice. "Tell them to leave one live prisoner for me. Kill the rest of them without mercy!"
"Ok." Having heard the man's slightly cold voice, Wei Wei's long, shapely eyebrows rose as she sighed once more. A certain highness' stamina was too abnormal.
At this moment, the fire qilin also came over. Due to the fact that its master's weakness would rebound on the spirit beast's body ten times over, the fire qilin's condition didn't look very good at all either.
However, this didn't affect its ability to tear into those black clothed people who attempted to approach Wei Wei's group. They were all basically crushed to death by one of its claws.
However, it didn't continue fighting for very long. In its mind, only its master's safety was most important!
"Master, how are you doing?"
A spirit beast with such a big head suddenly opened its mouth and roared.
Wei Wei only felt that the originally bumpy road trembled even more. She directly glanced in its direction. "Lower your body and bend down."
"Huh?" The fire qilin had never obeyed anyone's command like this aside from its master's. It stared blankly for a bit.
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