The Princess And The Lord

The Empyrean Green Forest was in complete chaos, the fight between Huwang Shen Zi and the giants also the battle between the palaces of the four kings, and the cursed phoenix destroyed half of the forest. The impact of their battle spread throughout the forest and even throughout the city, yet no one cared because they were already busy fighting themselves.

Especially for Li Mo Zhen and the others, it was getting harder and harder to find Yang Xi Ying now, moreover, they couldn't help but be dragged into the battle of territory between Hybrid Beasts and ordinary Beasts.

"What's the situation?" Ming Yue Yin wiped the sweat off her forehead as she and Yuan Shao had just killed a hybrid lizard with bat wings.

Meanwhile, on the other hand, Li Mo Zhen and his subordinates had also finished killing another Beast but it was an ordinary beast it seems they were involved in another territorial dispute.

We're done here" Li Mo Zhen said as he sheathed his sword.

"Looks like the battles out there are much fiercer." Yuan Shao looked up at the sky, his brows furrowed at his handsome and dashing face.

"We can only trust them" Ming Yue Yin sighed heavily "Yuan Shao how is Ming Yue Yin trace did you see anything?"

Yuan Shao then looked down at the half-foot cover with dirt and dry leaves, because of the previous fight Ming Yue Yin's traces were almost erased to the point that it was difficult to recognize Yuan Shao.

"He's headed this way," Yuan Shao led the way and the others followed behind him.

Li Mo Zhen's normally calm and gentle face turned tense and the longer he was unable to find Yang Xi Ying, the more ugly his face became, although he tried to keep his mind clear but after a while fear started to eat away inside him if only Yang Xi Ying didn't pregnant maybe he could feel a little calmer but Yang Xi Ying's current state made him very depressed, for the first time Li Mo Zhen hoped that Yang Xi Ying was not pregnant.

If he had to choose between his unborn baby or his wife, he would choose his wife cause for him there would be another child but there was only one Yang Xi Ying in this world.

"Oh, my God what is that?" The shout of one of Li Mo Zhen's men startled Li Mo Zhen.

Dread crawled up his spine when he see the amount of blood on the ground, Li Mo Zhen almost fell on his knee when he heard Yuan Shao shout.

"It's not human blood!"

"Then what is it?" Ming Yue Yin rises her voice in panic.

"Look over there!" Yua Shao strides toward a beast corpse that was cut in two.

"Is a beast.." Ming Yue Yin patted her chest in relief.

Li Mo Zhen's face gradually calmed down, as long as he didn't find Yang Xi Ying's body he still had hope.

"Master, look at this!" Li Mo Zhen's men hastily handed over the half-burned talisman, "This is the talisman belonging to the word saint sect!"

Li Mo Zhen took the half-broken paper talisman from his underling then inspected it carefully and his subordinate was right that the talisman did indeed have the Sword Saint sect's marker.

"Sword Saint Sect members aren't that bad, at least they wouldn't dare to openly hurt Yang Xi Ying if they knew she was the madam of Jiu Yun Sect, they would know that you would look for her" Yuan Shao's words made sense so Li Mo Zhen felt more at ease, at least not the Heaven Gate sect or any of his cronies.

"Yuan Shao found her quickly, this beast's blood is still fresh so Yang Xi Ying can't be far away!" Ming Yue Yin's face was beaming with excitement.

Yuan Shao didn't waste any more time he rushed to find more traces of Yang Xi Ying but his excited face was suddenly replaced with stress that Li Mo Zhen and Yang Xi Ying could clearly see.

When they shift their eyes to where Yuan Shao looked they saw the traces left by Yang Xi Ying they also saw the footprints of a very large beast and it was the same imprint as the animal they had seen before, it turned out that what they were worried about came true, the beast was following Yang Xi Ying or maybe someone who is with her, either way, this is not a good thing.

"Come on, quickly!" Li Mo Zhen used all his strength and his body shot out faster than the arrows behind him Ming Yue Yin, Yuan Shao, and his men followed.

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Lory stared at the shabby murals on the cave wall, although there wasn't much to see but he could still make sense of some of them.

It was a painting of a man riding a dragon while raising his sword at monsters and monsters and below him, thousands of people were cheering.

"Emperor Lei Yu" Zhao Li Xin cast his glacial eyes at the man in the painting.

Lory ran her hand over the painting and muttered, "This is the Crimson Lightning Sword..."

"En looks like they painted the story of how emperor Lei Yu eradicated Beasts and monsters to save mankind" Zhao Li Xin looked at the painting with deep interest.

"And look, those beasts don't look like ordinary beasts...they look like hybrid beasts some even look like some of the beasts in my old world...what does this mean?" she turned her purplish eyes on Zhao Li Xin many questions filled her beautiful eyes but he had no answers.

Zhao Li Xin and Lory's hands were wrapped around each other as he squeeze her hands gently his eyes fixed on hers, "No matter what it is, we will face it together so let's stick to that plan" a soft-warm smile bloomed on his flawless handsome face.

Lory nodded her head softly, "Yes, Let's just stick to that...to the very end"

"To the very end," he repeated.

Their eyes locked, they knew this day would come, they had talked about it many times, there was no turning back nor they wanted to as the feeling grew, it had taken root deep within them, there was no way to uproot the feeling without killing them, therefore they could only walk onward, without looking back.

Guilt flashed across Lory's eyes, it was her who dragged him down this arduous path, sometimes she wondered if her presence helped Zhao Li Xin or led him to a much worse fate.

Lory's stretched her hand to his face, "Xin I..."

Zhao Li Xin's gentle gaze suddenly changed.

[Lory, watch out!] Girsha shouted urgently.

Lory was stunned as Zhao Li Xin pulled her into his arms and leaped into the air, that's when he heard something swirl past her.

not long after another object swirled came towards them and Zhao Li Xin bounce between the wall cave while carrying Lory in his arms still his movement was swift and light while evading the attack.

Still, he got annoyed he step down on the ground while releasing his Qi, it was like a shockwave it throw off whatever things that attack them.

Lory then saw something like a boomerang thrown by Zhao Li Xin's energy into a boulder. Lory swept the area around them while summoning a bow from her spatial ring she draw the arrow waiting for the enemy to show 'he' or 'her' face.

Immediately from behind the rock appeared a man smirking evilly he then pulled a boomerang from the wall that turn out was not a boomerang at all but it was a pair of moon blades, later on, the man's eyes burned as he looked at Zhao Li Xin.

"Am I interrupting your lovey-dovey time?" he gives sardonic smile.

"You are..." Zhao Li Xin answered bluntly.

Sanguan Wu Hao snorted loudly then his eyes turned to Lory, "Is this your new woman?" he flick his eyes from her feet to her eyes in a second then he sneer "She looks strange but I guessed she better than the maid you married before"

"Who are you?" Lory return the question she didn't care at all about what he said.

His arrows still followed wherever the man moved, Lory didn't let her guard down as she could feel dark mana emanating from the man. It didn't take a genius to guess that the man was a lesser Demon.

A slow-twisted smile spread on the man's face, "Don't you know me Zhao Li Xin?" he opened his arms as he strode towards them at a calm pace "Look at me.." he said to Zhao Li Xin "Though I might look a bit different but don't you think I look familiar?"

Zhao Li Xin narrowed his eyes, it might not be visible from the outside but Zhao Li Xin really tried to remember who it was but his efforts were in vain, Zhao Li Xin had so many enemies and he never bothered to remember any of them since they were insignificant in his eyes, after all, there was always Mong Ki and Mong Yi who always reminded him so why bother.

Too lazy to entertain his enemy any further Zhao Li Xin shrugged nonchalantly, "Nothing comes to mind...are you, Wei, Lu, or Zhao perhaps?" he begin to guess randomly.

<strong>"I'AM SANGUAN WU HAO!"</strong> he was enraged and his whole eyes turn completely black.

Lory widen her eyes in surprise, even though she never met Sanguan Wu Hao but she knew his name during investigating the Sanguan family.

At the same time, Zhao Li Xin held his breath abruptly for a second he become quiet his brows knitted together as if something flashed to his mind, Sanguan Wu Hao grinned expectantly  alas, Zhao Li Xin shook his head then slowly look at Sanguan Wu Hao blankly "Are you Sanguan Wu Ci brother or his cousin?"

Both Lory and Girsha facepalm.