The Emperor God Wife Is Naughty
55. Ann Rou (2)

On such a silent night, a white figure flashed like a shadow entering a pavilion far from the settlement.

Inside, the camouflaged pendant fused with a white mattress. There Xie Ran and Qu Xuanzi were in the room where the Azure Dragon Crystal was located. The little dragon was curled up inside the crystal that was emitting a beautiful blue radiance.

"Will he wake up?" Xie Ran wondered. He could not wait to see that legendary Dragon. The Azure Dragon was a saint beast whose level exceeded that of mythical beasts like Long Huo and Long Yun. Even the Azure Dragon became the strongest saint beast among the other saint beasts.

"Maybe this month will wake up." Qu Xuanzi replied without letting go of his sharp gaze at the Azure Dragon.

"That's great. We can easily search the Seven Demon Lords through it without having to look for their accomplices."

"He slept for hundreds of years and was unaware of the state of the outside world. He did not know the existence of the Seven Demon Kings."

"Then, what did you ask him for?" Xie Ran was astonished. If it was useless, why was Qu Xuanzi so good at picking up a small Dragon that had lost its memory?

"He'll be useful."

Xie Ran could only nod in agreement. Not knowing what Qu Xuanzi was up to, he would follow him without asking much. After all, by following Qu Xuanzi, Xie Ran could become stronger quickly.

"Since he's a saint beast, can it be accelerated using my pure energy?" Xie Ran was curious.

"The Azure Dragon is too powerful, you can't hold it until all your energy is exhausted. Very risky."

"Ah, what a pity. Does that mean I'm still not strong enough to bear the burden?" Xie Ran was back. He is not strong enough to reach qualification. Isn't that a sad reality?

Qu Xuanzi looked at him deeply. There was no cold aura, only softness. "You're strong."

Xie Ran smiled wryly. "You're not good at entertaining, don't comfort me. Even in your eyes, I am just an ant that can be removed at any time. Killing an ordinary boa can't be."

"Even your friends if combined still can't resist boa attacks. You're different." Qu Xuanzi did not want to break the very Xie Ran. The girl always felt low despite being in a high place.

"Is that really so?" Xie Ran scratched his head in disbelief. He himself thought if his friends challenged him together, he would lose especially to Pei Xi. That alone Pei Xi had never shown any real strength in the arena after a long time of no challenge.

Shortly after, Qu Xuanzi's countenance turned flat noticing someone approaching the pendant. Xie Ran did not realize it, he just silently looked around at the crystal as if it could be appreciated how much if it was sold after the Dragon came out.

"Master, there's someone outside!" Long Yun suddenly came over in a panic telling Xie Ran.

Xie Ran slightly flinched. As if he had already locked the door, how could anyone enter?

Without much more to say, he was immediately out of the pendant world. Right after his form appeared in the middle of the room, he immediately fended off the hand that wanted to touch the pendant violently.

Xie Ran immediately hid the pendant into his pocket then took out his dagger and put on a wary stance.

"Who are you?"

The white figure immediately left at high speed. Xie Ran chased after him. His body became a part of the shadow and kicked the white figure shoulder then tied it with a red lasso from the space ring.

The figure was wrapped around Lasso and was about to break away, but Xie Ran quickly closed his acupoints until he could not move. The figure stood like a statue with a panicked look behind the cover of his face.

Xie Ran looked at her intensely with narrowed eyes then looked at the pendant in his hand. "Why do you want this?"

The figure did not answer. He just silently looked at the pendant with his clear, watery round eyes.

Xie Ran increasingly felt strange about this intruder. He unfolded his face cover until he displayed a pale face with beautiful features that were inhumane. The frown on Xie Ran's forehead was getting deeper and deeper looking at him.

"Ann Rou?"

"Tell me, is there Your Majesty?"

Xie Ran increasingly felt this woman was really strange. "Who is His Majesty?"

"My lord .. if His Majesty doesn't send me to the Palace along with the White Tiger, I don't have a home."

Xie Ran felt his brain getting shorted in front of this woman. White Tiger? The palace? Mister? Her Majesty? What's wrong with this woman!

"Hey, I don't know what you mean."

"Are you the girl that the wolf said? Are you with His Majesty? Why is His Majesty in the locket?"

Ann Rou further scared Xie Ran away. It was very desirable for Xie Ran to kick this strange woman who suddenly said some strange things that she did not understand. "Don't look for unnecessary problems. There is no 'Your Majesty' you call!"

"Ak-"

"Go!" Xie Ran opened his acupoints again and removed the entangled lasso. He doesn't want to deal with crazy people. He is not a psychologist and has emotions that are not good for mentally retarded people.

"I'm very confident in my perception. Why do you keep getting in my way?" It seemed like Ann Rou was getting upset and raised her tone.

Xie Ran looked at her cynically. "Because I don't know you."

"But I know the man you're with. I don't know how he is with you, but I will tell you one thing: he can't continue to be here, in the academy. There's something more important, I have to pick her up."

Xie Ran was silent. It seemed like this woman did know Qu Xuanzi, but why should she take him away? Is Qu Xuanzi the little boy to pick up? But it could be that this woman had bad intentions and was trying to deceive him.

"I can't believe it. He'll tell me right away if he wants to go."

Ann Rou sighed. "You humans don't understand the situation. It's a matter of other races, you don't need to know anything more clearly."

"Whatever you say, I didn't give you this locket. Even if you want someone in it to go with you, I'm not holding back. But I can't give up my mother's pendant and break my promise." Xie Ran remained on his stance. The pendant is the pendant, Qu Xuanzi is Qu Xuanzi. Although Qu Xuanzi was tied to the pendant, it was not Xie Ran's business.

"I didn't ask for your locket either. I just want to pick up my master. He has his own duty and cannot continue to be here. If you hold him back, it's the same thing as destroying everything."

Xie Ran frowned. What role did Qu Xuanzi take up until something so urgent after hundreds of years of confinement?

"I've let him go a long time ago if he can. You don't need to know why." Xie Ran did not want to tell Ann Rou. It could be that Ann Rou lied about her relationship with Qu Xuanzi and became a bad person. His strength was also so strong that Xie Ran was unable to defeat him, yet Xie Ran was completely unafraid. He simply wanted no bad person to do anything bad to Qu Xuanzi after recognizing this pendant.

"Had something happened to him? A while ago I saw it was fine, how could anything happen?"

"You met him?"

"true."

"He's always with me, I can't believe."

Ann Rou hissed annoyed. "I'm really telling the truth. That night 6 demons gathered at the academy to talk about important matters. You must know about the dispute of the Demon Emperor and the Celestial Emperor. After the talk of the 6 devils, we came to His Majesty to report some matters. At first we wanted to ask His Majesty to go somewhere, but there was no time."

Xie Ran frowned. Why did the 6 demons come to the academy? They must have been accomplices to the 7 demon lords he was looking for. But why didn't Qu Xuanzi tell? One more thing, it turned out that Qu Xuanzi had more than 1 subordinate. Why did he just know?

"Where do you want him to go?"

"Of course, look for another power. You should have known about this. Moreover, His Majesty must also return to the Palace."

"Stana?" Xie Ran was getting curious.

"Of course the Palace. Your Majesty is...." Her speech came to a halt just like that when a mist appeared forming the figure of a handsome man with a cold look made Ann Rou growled.

Ann Rou immediately knelt half a foot while her head lowered as if not daring to look at Qu Xuanzi's cold face. Suddenly, he felt a chill that made him shiver.

"Ann Rou is facing His Majesty." Ann Rou held back her excitement as well as tensed up. Unexpectedly his master would come out now, he could not avenge that annoying girl for now.

Qu Xuanzi nodded briefly at Xie Ran then returned coldly to the woman who was still kneeling. He had no intention of letting her wake up because he was already upset, the woman almost revealed her identity. He came for that.

"You should have heard it before. Are you really going?" Xie Ran asked again. It didn't matter if Qu Xuanzi left, but far from his heart there was a sense of unwillingness. Perhaps it was because he was used to the handsome man's presence and his cold demeanor.

Qu Xuanzi did not immediately reply, instead looking at Ann Rou coldly before finally speaking, "Gather up an electric-type coral reef and bring it back before the tournament."

Taking coral reefs sounds easy, but electric coral reefs in the sea are very difficult to get especially in a short time. Not to mention the hydra men at sea who can attack at any time like sea executioners. That's very troublesome! This punishment is painful.

Unfortunately Ann Rou could only agree without protest. He only realized he had made a mistake and almost leaked everything in front of Xie Ran. The girl had lured him to talk so that he could not help but talk. That girl is too cunning!

"Okay, Your Honor." Ann Rou immediately left with a lethargic face without saying anything more. He looked at Xie Ran with a pleading gaze as well as accusing, but when he felt Qu Xuanzi's aura growing dangerous, he instantly disappeared as if swallowed by the earth.

Upon seeing Ann Rou's departure, Xie Ran looked back at Qu Xuanzi asking for an answer.

"If you don't want me to leave, I can stay."

Xie Ran raised one eyebrow and immediately replied, "No need. Finding your strength is far more important than mine. I'll try to get into the pagoda after the tournament, after that help you find your other powers."

Qu Xuanzi was a little disappointed that Xie Ran did not hold him back and relied on him. He knew Xie Ran was too independent and didn't need help for anything small, but at least he wanted to find a reason to stay together.

"Can you go far without a pendant?" Xie Ran hesitated. He was still not so nengenal Qu Xuanzi because the man was so secretive. Sometimes Xie Ran felt unfair considering that Qu Xuanzi knew everything about him but not the other way around.

"At least a month or until my strength runs out and needs recovery."

Xie Ran nodded in understanding. "Say if you're going. I'm sleeping first, good night."

Xie Ran directly went up to the bed and tilted his body back to Qu Xuanzi who was still standing watching him. At first he wanted to ask a lot of things, but it seemed unnecessary. If Qu Xuanzi was sincere to him, the man would immediately tell everything directly. But if it was the other way around, Xie Ran would rather not know anything in order to easily forget about it.

...ΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ...

There was no class this morning. There is only intensive group training to train cohesiveness and cooperation. Xie Ran had also carefully crafted battle strategies so that he became even busier.

This joint exercise is different from the previous exercise. They do exercises simultaneously and work together.

After basic training, they went to a special arena that was larger than the previous arena. Since this was a group fight, then the arena had to be larger due to the increasing range of attacks.

"Who do you think we're going to fight?" Yan Yao was curious. Ever since then they were standing in the middle of this desolate arena without an audience like a group of fools.

"Previous tournament groups that have passed, perhaps." Xie Ran assumed when he saw the instructor and a group of handsome men as well as one beautiful woman simultaneously riding the arena. They look more mature than Xie Ran and his friends.

"Zhu's structure, greetings." The seven disciples bowed to pay their respects then looked at the 7 beautiful humans who seemed to be their seniors.

"They are your seniors who have won tournaments before and have graduated. Today, those who will train you until the day of the tournament arrive." Instructor Zhu looked at the 7 seniors. "Their background is like yours, unusual so you have to show the right attitude as juniors." Then introduce them consecutively from the handsome man next to her. "He was Qin Zhangye, Mei Lin'er, Yuwen Yue, Ye Ming, Mu Junqin, Zhu Que, and Xiao Gang. Each of them is at an advanced professional stage."

"Advanced professional...." Liu Chang swallowed some saliva. Will he have a hard time from now on?

"Hello, senior." They greeted awkwardly except for Xie Ran who just kept quiet without saying.

"Please help, senior." Zhong Xiaorong was being friendly for the first time. How not? The man in front of him was extremely handsome plus was at the advanced professional stage before 30 years of age. His name is genius!

"No need to hesitate, in the future we will work together as seniors and juniors for the upcoming tournament." Yuwen Yue, the man with the bangs throwing as well as his long black hair being pigtailed.

"You know each other first before practice starts. I'm going to see the dean." Instructor Zhou immediately left the venue letting the group of pajik disciples stand awkwardly.

Upon seeing Instructor Zhu leave, the seven seniors sighed. Finally the fierce Instructor left after repeatedly pressing them.

"So, it would be best if you introduce yourself." Qin Zhangye, as the leader of the group they opened the conversation after seeing how awkward his junior was.

"I'm Zhong Xiaorong."

"Are you the Ninth Princess? I've heard about you a lot." Mei Lin'er, the beautiful red-haired lady smiled looking at Zhong Xiaorong.

"Yes. Just don't listen to the rumors. Rumors are just rumors." Zhong Xiaorong did not want to look bad due to rumors that she was an arrogant cultivation crazy princess. It would rub its face in front of the seniors.

"I know." Mei Lin'er chuckled. Junior is so cute.

"I'm Mei Liena. Senior Mei, our clan turned out to be the same. I was surprised to realize it."

"A good coincidence. You are my junior, in the future you can be my sister." Mei Lin'er felt the two girls were extremely cute and wanted to pinch her.

"Yan Yao, Senior Zhu, you should have known me." Yan Yao smiled at the horse. Apparently his old acquaintance was one of them.

"Of course, Young Master Yan has always been famous. Since I'm your senior, next time let me auction something at your place for a high price." Zhu Que nodded making Yan Yao's shoulders soften.

"I ... Liu Chang's. Don't know if you know me." Liu Chang smiled awkwardly.

"Dw ... You're Prime Minister Liu's son?" Mu Junqin as the Son of the Military Minister knows the Prime Minister's family. But never saw Liu Chang.

"Yes, it's just that I haven't been home for a long time."

"Has right," he muttered in understanding.

Then they glanced at the remaining 3 who had just silently watched. Or not even paying attention at all.

Looking at the other two who did not say anything, Zhou Kui took the initiative. "Zhou Kui, nice to meet you guys."

"Pei Xi's." Pei Xi introduced himself briefly, different from the others. That's because he doesn't know them all.

"I've heard of the two of you at the academy. You guys are quite famous besides Yan Yao." Zhu Que responded while chuckling.

"Then, this beautiful junior, are you Xiao Ran?" Xiao Gang watched Xie Ran who had been silent like a statue ever since.

"Yes." Yeah." Xie Ran did not have much of a reaction. Since earlier his mind was unfocused due to thinking about battle strategies while measuring their respective strengths with his perception. He was also still thinking about Qu Xuanzi.

"Our clan is the same, are you from the Xiao family branch?" Xiao Gang was curious about Xie Ran.

"No." Xie Ran replied briefly again. What else can he say? The answer is yes or no and he doesn't need to tell me about his identity. Not wrong, is it?

" I was told about you earlier by the instructor. Did something happen between you and Xie Chen?" Ye Ming who had been silent since then started to speak.

Xie Ran looked at him flatly. "What does this have to do with seniors?"

"I'm just curious." At first he thought Xie Chen would be in the tournament, but who would have thought to be defeated by an ordinary dancer like this.

Xie Ran chose not to respond anymore. To him, talking to a senior was more troublesome and would not be finished because the seniors in his eyes never wanted to lose to juniors. It was also felt by himself first, so he knew very well about senior positions towards their juniors.

Zhong Xiaorong who saw Xie Ran did not intend to explain immediately gave an explanation so that there was no misunderstanding. "Senior, Xie Chen and Xiao Ran were purely rivals. Xiao Ran only wanted to defeat his opponent in the arena, but back then Xie Chen broke the rules and prevented Xiao Ran from winning the match. That's why...."

"Ah, I understand." Ye Ming nodded in understanding of Zhong Xiaorong's words.

But he always felt this competition was more than just competition in the arena. He was Xie Chen's friend and teamed up with him during last year's tournament, that's why he asked given Xie Chen's state of affairs that had still not improved until now. He always suspected Xiao Ran of having another reason.

I don't know how many secrets he's hiding, he'll investigate. For friends....