CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

465 The Current Situation

Bai Ying smiled, his white and a pair of milk teeth appearing shyly adorning his pink lips. The Crown Prince lifted Bai Ying’s small chin and kissed the young man beneath him gently.

“chup chup”

“It’s going to be very cold tonight my dear, how if we sleep by hugging each other’s all night, don’t let go”

Bai Ying laughed amusedly, the Crown Prince’s deep voice tickled his ears, he even put his earlobe in his mouth, chewing it.

“Hehehe Your Majesty, how can we sleep if we cuddle all night?”

“Of course, we can my dear, emm” Luo Xiang saw Bai Ying’s gentle face for so long, staring deep into his very beautiful and clear as the ocean, pair of eyes.

“Then, how if we just stare at each other all night? Or are we, undressed and snuggled under the blanket together?”

Bai Ying shoved the Crown Prince’s chest, thoughts only getting naughty.

“Your Majesty, how can that be, stop it, Your Majesty is getting weirder”

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Luo Xiang is satisfied with teasing his concubine, making Bai Ying’s face which was already red from the hot water in the tub even redder.

“Hehehe my Ying Ying is embarrassed”

The voices of the two were heard outside the room where several maids were standing ready to serve with towels and dry clothes.

“Let’s get out, Your Majesty, let’s finish our bath now, my feet and hands are already wrinkled from soaking too long”

“But I haven’t, how about brother rubbing your back, but wait, my concubine’s back is already smooth and so clean, then, let me smell it, uhm it smells so good”

Bai Ying tried to let go of Luo Xiang’s hand that had been playing on his waist.

“Your Highness”

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A cold wind blew far from the snow mountain to the valley of the city of Ku Chang. The blizzard had stopped, but the cold wind made the city look dead without a single citizen out on the street.

Bai Ying and the Crown Prince slept close together, as Luo Xiang had said earlier that he would sleep hugging his Ying Ying all night without letting go. He hugged the young man’s tiny body even tighter when he felt that their thick blanket wasn’t even enough to cover them from the cold.

“Emh my Ying Ying”

While Bai Ying was already sleeping very soundly, very comfortable and warm in the Crown Prince’s big arms and thick body, who protect him from the cold.

That night, in the great Hei Wu river, a very deep river with a calm surface with almost no ripples, but who dares to approach it? The great Hei Wu River was famous for its deep currents that made anyone who fell in the water would disappear into the current and his body was found far away at the end of a tributary in a small village at the foot of the White Mushroom mountain.

Bai Ying walked barefoot, following a large riverside path overgrown with short, slightly damp grass. He was alone there, but the banks of the Hei Wu river that he saw were now all green, there wasn’t any snow covering like the other area under the White Mushroom mountains.

There was a loud rumbling sound, Bai Ying stopped his steps near the bank of the big river waiting for the loud sound from the river to approach him.

“Servant, Black Tortoise, pay may fully respect to the King of Realm” deep and loud voice even echoed in all corners of the banks of the great river in the black forest under the white mushroom mountain. Bai Ying widened his eyes wide, waiting for something to emerge from within the thundering water in front of him as the ripples in the water are getting louder.

A giant creature, with black and shiny on its head, and hard and scaly skin all over its body emerged from the water closer to the shore where Bai Ying was standing.

It was so large that Bai Ying had to look up to see it, its feet were twice as tall as Bai Ying’s body, his back was taller than the tallest tree around them, and his head was so high that Bai Ying could only see the bottom of his chin.

“You, uh Hei Wu?” Bai Ying asked.

The giant turtle-shaped creature is indeed none other than a black turtle who is none other than the guardian of the northern winds, the owner of the water element and the guardian of winter. That creature was huge and its shell was definitely very strong, Bai Ying thought how to beat it?

Hei Wu nodded.

“That’s right, Your Majesty the King of Realm, servant Hei Wu, guardian of the north, welcoming Your Majesty to may great river”

Bai Ying did not move in his place. He could feel how great Hei Wu’s strength was just from the pressure of his spirit alone.

“What happened old man? How can you be shackled by the power of the black snake? You have very powerful and strong spirit energy, it is not easy to beat you, let alone lock you up? And, this, what does it mean by coming to see me? Are you asking for help from us? From what I heard, Hei Wu has been affected by the black snake and has a black aura just like that snake, and that also means, we may have to immobilize you at all costs.”

Hei Wu moved his body, it was so big that the whole place rumbled even though he only moved a little.

“Please forgive this Servant, Your Majesty the King of Nature, for not being able to take care of myself, this, is my remaining consciousness, my body has been confined by a black snake since the fracture opened, since the snake woke up from its slumber, even when I did not know what had happened, The snake has already wrapped around its body and taken almost all of my strength, I am helpless, it is only right that even if I will die at the hands of Your Majesty the King of Realm.”

Bai Ying swallowed his saliva, he was tired of looking up at the turtle as he spoke.

“Since the fracture? So, you mean, ever since Palace Wah Ye was revived, you too have been awakened?” he asked.

Hei Wu nodded.

“That’s right Your Majesty, the physical body of the Black Serpent, was previously imprisoned in a sacred cave deep in the black forest, in a cave covered in rock and earth and almost no life exists there, its body shackled by chains of fire-forged by god, but such a terrible fracture broke the chain and caused the black snake to be released from its shackles.”

Bai Ying’s eyes widened, Xin Hua’s fracture broke the chain of fire? That’s how great the effect is caused by it.

“Fire chain?”

Hei Wu nodded.

“Yes, Your Majesty, the power of the Wah Ye revival made all the underground forces rise with it, including myself and the Black Snake, I was still trying to surface when the power of the black snake suddenly pulled me into a whirlpool and wrapped around my body. Its strength is immense, incomparable, no matter how hard I fight it is almost impossible to defeat it”

“So all this happened because I resurrected the lost palace? But, how can it all come at the same time? The black serpent is a powerful creature that fell from the sky, and it is said that because of its greed it was cursed by the heaven to live in darkness, while its spirit can wander from time to time to search for the essence of life to survive, then, Queen Bo Yan is its physical body right?”

Hei Wu nodded.

“That’s right Your Majesty, Queen Bo Yan is a black snake that has transformed itself into a human, it can transform itself after taking all of my power”

Bai Ying widened his eyes.

“Queen Bo Yan has so much strength that she can beat you, do we still have a chance?”

“That’s true, even so, the black snake’s power is actually not perfect, over time its human vessel will decay and rot, because it is not its original body, in order to maintain it the black snake must take the essence and bodily fluids of young men, and every once in a while she would lock herself in a cave and shedding, that’s when the black snake’s strength was weakest.”

“Shedding?”

Hei Wu nodded.

“That’s right Your Majesty, once a month when the darkest moon, a black snake will enter the underground chamber right in the middle of Xue Hua palace, locking itself up all day to gather its energy.”

Bai Ying’s eyes widened.

“When the darkest moon, that means a few days from now?” Bai Ying asked.

Hei Wu nodded back.

“That’s right, Your Majesty.”

The giant creature moved its body back, a moment of black smoke covered its enormous body, swirling around it like a windstorm that engulfed its massive body within, leaving only a black ball floating in the air.

“Old man, you?” Bai Ying stretched out his hand under the black sphere which got smaller and smaller until it was no bigger than a tiny floating pearl, it was the remaining spiritual essence of the Black Tortoise.

“I can’t help much, my physical body is in the Black Snake’s confinement which I can’t tell myself where, Your Majesty, please help me to break free from the snake’s shackles, only Your Majesty can do it”

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