Light Cultivation
Eps. 257 — Threats Coming
Jian Chen did not explain any further while Ziyun and Meily also did not question what he was doing, Jian Chen focused more on eating when Meily and Ziyun's cooking was ripe.
The three had dinner together with seafood-themed dishes, Ziyun and Meily had indeed deliberately cooked it because of knowing Jian Chen liked sea cuisine.
The two girls were extremely happy when Jian Chen liked his cooking even praised him.
After eating Jian Chen chose to stand guard and allowed Meily and Ziyun to rest inside the carriage.
Jian Chen sat down and leaned his body on the tree trunk, he would try to practice the Heavenly Dragon Scales technique further.
The night was getting late, there was an owl who spoke not far from him practicing. Jian Chen wanted to quickly master the Heavenly Dragon Scales technique as quickly as possible because he thought that technique was very useful for his fighting style.
Jian Chen concentrated heavily on the technique until it was too late to notice Ziyun coming out of his carriage and already beside him.
"Not slept?" Jian Chen finished his training after seeing Ziyun.
"I can't sleep Brother Jian, maybe the atmosphere of the night sky can make me sleepy." Ziyun smiled before then sitting beside Jian Chen.
Jian Chen did not reject him, he shifted his body slightly so that Ziyun could comfortably sit beside him.
"Your body is very warm, Brother Jian, I like it..." Ziyun placed her head on Jian Chen's shoulder, her face flushed red.
"The moon is beautiful, isn't it?" Jian Chen stared up at the sky.
Ziyun looked in the same direction before smiling and nodding softly. He actually enjoyed being with Jian Chen more, by being close by his side, his heart was beating faster and he was comfortable with the feeling.
Ziyun then recalled about Meily's different attitude these few days and asked Jian Chen. The young man coughed softly, it was difficult to answer him but Ziyun immediately understood there was something going on between Meily and Jian Chen that he did not know.
"It's okay, Brother Jian, I'm happy if the relationship between the two of you is very happy. I hope you can protect Mei'er, she has great feelings for you, including me..."
"I will take care of you with all my life, nothing can make you two like this..."
Ziyun was very pleased with the words, she closed her eyes and enjoyed being with Jian Chen more every second.
Unknowingly Ziyun slowly fell asleep on Jian Chen's shoulder, the young man stroked his girl's hair slowly to make her fall asleep.
Jian Chen yawned shortly afterwards, after making sure there were no ferocious beasts or the existence of someone around him he leaned his head on the tree trunk then closed his eyes.
At least he woke up when the sunlight washed his face gently. The first thing he found was Meily who was making a meal for their breakfast.
Jian Chen also found Ziyun still asleep on his shoulder, it seemed that Meily had indeed deliberately not awakened the two.
Ziyun woke up when the scent of Meily's cooking was ripe, the girl's face flushed slightly red as she realized she had accidentally fallen asleep on Jian Chen's shoulder.
After breakfast, the three began to proceed to the Imperial Capital, at least with the carriage they could get up to about three to four daily.
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In the Fire Dragon Province, the Wuming Clan was one of the twenty largest clans in the Empire, their strength was quite famous let alone the matter of their eye techniques being quite popular.
Lately Wuming Sha had heard news from his subordinates about a high-level heirloom of a girl.
The blue heirloom is enough to make Wuming Sha surprised after seeing it directly, because unlike the eyes of others, he can see the power behind the heirloom.
The heirloom in question was the sword heirloom of Ye Ziyun, the group they had been chasing Ziyun and Meily for several days to the border of the province.
At first Wuming Sha offered Ziyun well to buy it at the price she wanted but the girl refused it anyway and reasoned that the sword was a precious treasure that could not be bought.
Wuming Sha who was already round to have the heirloom sword finally told his subordinates to forcibly snatch from Ziyun by trapping them out of the academy.
Unexpectedly, Ziyun and Meily were able to escape the siege of her subordinates and run away from the city.
Wuming Sha could not catch up to the two of them because he had to take care of the Wuming clan within the city, thus having some Wuming clan swordsmen for the pursuit mission until he could get the heirloom of the girl.
A few weeks after the chase there was still no news from his subordinates until finally he had to send another swordsman.
The swordsman's envoy was not long gone, as he returned the swordsman's envoy informed him that the warriors pursuing Ziyun and Meily had been killed.
"What did you say?!" Wuming Sha hit the arm of his chair firmly, not believing the report.
"Right Chairman, when I followed the trail of the swordsman who was on the pursuit mission I found them dead near an inn with a hollow forehead..."
"How come? I sent out dozens of warriors and all of them were at the peak of the Earth Realm, how could the two girls kill him!"
Wuming Sha knew full well the power of Ziyun and Meily who were in the realm of the Life Realm, they should not be able to kill their subordinates at once.
"Chairman, I'm not sure about that either, but it looks like they've gotten a favor from someone who could kill our swordsman."
Wuming Sha clenched his hands hard, he also guessed so but refused to accept it.
Wuming Sha knew of the great risk of going after Ziyun and Meily who were the geniuses of the Imperial academy's students, if this report was known to the government then the Wuming clan could be in trouble.
Therefore Wuming Sha was always anxious when Ziyun was still unaccounted for, what he feared was that the girl had already reported this incident to the Academy.
The envoy then explained again that he had obtained a clue from the innkeeper who was nearby killed by the Wuming clan master.
Some say that Ziyun and Meily are moving to the east of where the Capital is, although not yet convinced but he makes sure that Ziyun seems to be returning to the academy.
Wuming Sha's face smiled at the last news.
"Then we'll intercept them, summon two Elders to handle this mission. We can't fail to get that heirloom a second time..."
Of course Wuming Sha realized that seizing Ziyun's heirloom was not enough, he seemed to have to kidnap the two girls before telling the others.
Wuming Sha then explained to the two Elders who had just reached the Sky Realm and ordered him if the situation did not allow them to kidnap Ziyun and Meily then they could kill them both.