The Emperor God Wife Is Naughty
9. Lotus Pagoda

Xie Ran stood in front of the open door. The night was still quiet under the bright moon. The moonlight shone towards the room making a purple stream visible lining the entire room.

Xie Ran's face was still flat. He watched the barrier carefully. His hand grabbed the purple magic that was blocking the door. In an instant, a sense of sting spread in his hand when he touched the purple light as if touching electricity. Xie Ran immediately pulled his hand back.

The fox lady actually locked him up. From the start Tang Zhi had come, he had already felt a bad premonition. Fortunately, every time before going to bed, he used to take heart-weakening pills so that he would sleep like a dead person.

His breathing would be slow like his heartbeat. His vitality was also faint so one would think that he had died. It was meant to deter someone who wanted to check his strength since there were already some who were suspicious. But who would have thought that person was Tang Zhi.

Tang Zhi was certainly not stupid. He had examined Xie Ran further and had some conjectures. It was fortunate that Tang Zhi did not find magic in her meridians. He always suppressed the magic in the body so that no one knew of his abilities.

Since Tang Zhi was already suspicious of him let alone finding the pendant that he said belonged to the Ancestor of the Xie Clan, Xie Ran could not go against the words and behave as an obedient stupid child. She also said that she trusted Tang Zhi, naturally it was just a prank.

Now, Xie Ran must find a way to get back the locket. He couldn't let the pendant fall into Tang Zhi's hands. It was Wen Xi's trust in him and also the deal with the Ice Mountain. All of his precious items were there as well as magic books that he had not fully trained in.

Right at that moment, a red figure came from the air right flying before him. It could not go inside, it could only fly outside with its small body. At the same time, another little Dragon appeared with a dull and ugly condition, not acting as cute as before.

"The Great Lord is at the very top pagoda. We can't do anything." Long Huo and Long Yun were restless. They could not enter the pagoda without using their original Dragon bodies. Entering it alone could not let alone take it, it was impossible!

"Pagoda security is very tight. We can't break through if we can't destroy it. The rotten woman seemed to have already realized the Great Lord's power and sealed it again." Long Yun was furious. If he were allowed to kill that woman, he would kill her now! Or even destroy this place now!

"The Lotus Pagoda Sure. There's a lot of treasure in there, it can't be destroyed." Xie Ran had another thought.

"What treasure? Only fragile things with weak magic. It was nothing compared to the Great Lord. The Great Lord must be tormented being kept in a mountain of lowly things." Long Yun felt sliced. The person being talked about is not that sad.

"Without worth?" Xie Ran imagined how rich the Dragon race was.

"There are many such treasures in the Sky Realm. It was made into an everyday item!" Long Yun looked even more furious compared to Long Huo. 

Long Huo could only shut up. Although in the Lava Continent had many treasures, he was currently only a poor Dragon who was poorer than a human. He was not as arrogant as Long Yun who had wealth surpassing him in the Sky Realm. The Sky Realm is very rich!

But right now they did not want to talk about more treasures. They must get the Great Lord back. Saving the Great Lord from the Magical Grandmother is more important!

However, Xie Ran could not get out unnoticed. If he left now, he would be caught by Tang Zhi and would be increasingly suspected.

Seeing that Xie Ran was just silent somehow, the two Dragons could only put on a sullen face. Why would their usually excited Master be looking lethargic! Just a lowly magic like this, could it hurt two Dragons? They can destroy it!

"Don't think of destroying it!" Xie Ran already knew what the two little Dragons were going to do. With their strength, it was like it was as easy as breaking a thin glass. Once that happened, he would be caught by Tang Zhi and executed prematurely.

"Master, what should we do? We cannot go inside and must not break the barrier. How can Master come out and save the Great Lord?" Long Yun looked frustrated. It seemed that his opinion towards the Great Lord was quite good after getting a tragic blow.

"Don't rush. Isn't it just a small barrier?" Xie Ran's gaze contained a sneaky glint. 

So, what if the barrier is so strong? What if it has an alarm? Xie Ran had something more useful than that.

His training was not just about training enchantment magic and shadow steps. In the past year, he had made great progress in strengthening mental strength. Of course, it was thanks to the guidance of a certain Great Master who bullied him for the past year.

Xie Ran took the black robe he had hidden behind the bed. Using it covered the body and walked to the door.

"Master, is the master going to break through forcibly? Master's body will be injured!" Long Huo and Long Yun were both anxious. His Master's fragile body would be torn apart due to this barrier.

Xie Ran snorted and his face remained flat. "I'm not that stupid." 

He palpated the purple barrier while his palm let out a red radiance so that the barrier did not hurt his hand. Then, his hand clenched as if grasping a liquid-like barrier in his hand.

"I must thank the Iceberg for helping to understand what manipulation is in depth. I can manipulate any magic into mine without the magic owner knowing. It will be easily controlled by me indirectly. Just think of this barrier as a protector," Xie Ran explained calmly. "But .. I can't leave this place all of a sudden. My mission will be complicated. Anything can happen there so it is impossible to finish it in one night. Tomorrow morning someone's gonna check on me, I can't go."

"Then, what to do?" Long Huo asked. He did not understand Xie Ran's complicated and complex way of thinking. Sometimes the girl becomes soft and innocent, sometimes silly and wild, sometimes cunning and evil. No one can understand it well and no one knows which is real and which is fake.

Xie Ran pulled his hand back after finishing the manipulation on the barrier. He had manipulated magic runes and doubled the possession. It's similar to a hacker.

"Soul separator." Xie Ran became serious in an instant.

Those two words precisely made the two Dragons startled. Soul separators are the most dangerous and forbidden techniques of man. If one's soul dies or is injured, the original body will be affected and cannot be reincarnated or restored.

It's like cloning. Can be seen and injured with a combat power lower than the original body. The effect if the soul is injured is worse than in the original condition. That's too risky! Where did this girl learn the forbidden science?

"Not to worry. I've been considering it ever since Tang Zhi took my pendant." Merely, Xie Ran was still shocked by the fact that the Pendant belonged to the Ancestor of the Xie Clan and was passed down to the Clan Leader.

He wasn't surprised if he was the Sah Clan Leader, but he was surprised because the Xie— Clan Ancestor might— knew of the existence of the mysterious man and might just be the perpetrator of the seal. There are too many mysteries in this world.

The two Dragons disagreed, but Xie Ran insisted that the two Dragons could only resign. If they were to oppose Xie Ran constantly, it would also not make Xie Ran stop. It will get even more stubborn and do it secretly. If Xie Ran had already established something, he would have to do or get it without any agitation.

Xie Ran understood the anxiety of the two Dragons, but he had no other choice. The man was more important and had not been bound by promises. He could not break his words because it would make his heart hurt and feel endless uneasiness. It had been his principle since childhood to hold a greeting or he could never calm down for a lifetime as if he had been cursed.

"If anything happens, don't do anything. You can come in to help my real body. But you can't show yourself anything that's going on." Xie Ran warned and forced the two Dragons to promise. 

Dragons are the same, keeping promises. If they have promised, it will be fulfilled or they never live a quiet life as haunted by nightmares even though he had to break due to emergencies either voluntarily or unintentionally breaking.

That moral principle has been deeply embedded in the Dragon race. Different from humans. That is why, Dragons are the most loyal race among the other races. They are stubborn, but not selfish. The selfish dragons are the cursed Dragons and are not considered to be the Dragon race.

"I'm leaving" said Xie Ran.

The two Dragons felt as if Xie Ran was going to be gone for a very long time. They were unwilling, but could only remain silent and bow deeply. They had sworn to be loyal and obey every word of Xie Ran. They can't break it no matter what. 

But when it came to Xie Ran's life, they also had no other choice but to obey if they didn't want to be hit by nightmares. Some Dragons will let themselves go into a nightmare to save their masters like Dragons that die in battle. Long Huo and Long Yun were no exception.

Xie Ran had already steadied his heart directly closing his eyes. Letting his soul escape from the original body and come out through the barrier together. His figure disappeared in the darkness not allowing the two Dragons to see his separated soul. While the original body has an empty view and is silent in a pale state. Two Dragons went straight in and helped her into the bed to sleep.

Xie Ran moved like a shadow. Even though his strength was suppressed, it was no problem for him. He could still move quickly and pass through each building without a sound. Only his shadow alone was visible and resisted the wind until it finally arrived in front of the lotus Pagoda.

From the front, the pressure is felt. There were two guards on guard tightly, but Xie Ran could easily pass through two guards in one blink of an eye under their noses when the change of guard was made.

Xie Ran walked inside silently after using manipulation to open the door locked by magic. No trace, no one noticed. In a soul state, his existence was not felt unless that person had a minimal strong perception like Tang Zhi.

Xie Ran traced the base of the pagoda. There are a lot of rare items at the bottom. The basic section is devoted to rare and expensive household items such as water ripple vases of which there are only two in the world. Such an item did not interest Xie Ran.

The pendant where the mysterious man was located was on the ninth floor.

This Lotus Pagoda was so famous and became the strongest force of the Xie Clan that no one dared to offend even the Emperor himself.

If the Xie Clan had already used the artifacts or sacred tools of the Lotus Pagoda, it would have easily destroyed thousands of troops greeting one attack.

That was why, only fools dared to offend even though many of them did not like the Xie Clan especially after the past three years.

Only Xie Ran was the only one who had other intentions of destroying the dignified Xie Clan as well as his own home.

Xie Ran scanned carefully. Just when it touched the stairs where it had to go upstairs, an arrow shot rapidly towards it.

The pagoda had detected the presence of a stranger without the magic stone of the lotus pagoda and carried out a proper sneak attack. Xie Ran leaped backwards as soon as a few arrows shot towards him like shadows.

An ordinary person would instantly die after an arrow shot out so quickly. However, Xie Ran who was used to dodging bullets as small as a bean seed, arrows were nothing.

Xie Ran could not walk any further if he did not want to be hit by an attack. The arrow came out of the small holes in each corner of the room. It kept coming out so that Xie Ran could not stop its movement, even just to climb up the stairs. Security is too tight!

"Damn!" Xie Ran cursed this place many times.

The arrows always targeted him without destroying the items so that only the sound of arrows falling. Xie Ran parried a few then jumped towards the stairs and used the dart that shot off as a footstool until it jumped further.

He hung on the second floor divider and jumped in elastic. At that moment, the tip of his robe was hit by an arrow to a hole, yet Xie Ran did not think about it. He should be on the ninth floor soon! How far is that!

Xie Ran sighed. "This cursed place, really frustrates me," he murmured onward.

The higher he stepped, the more obstacles and pressure grew stronger. Without the magic stone, he could not proceed smoothly and continued to experience interference.

The magic on the second floor frustrated him. The attack this time was a needle-sharp thread that worked like a safety laser. It was active in an instant blocking its journey and moving quickly.

Xie Ran could not think much, he instantly avoided every thread that was heading towards him. It reminded him of the safety laser he had once avoided while breaking into a mansion.

He avoided it carefully. Ignoring the tip of his robe and the layer of his shoes that split and crept on top.

When the needle appeared above right in front of his face, Xie Ran descended down and stomped on the items before the protective magic hurt him. It's so hard. He dodged the threads every step of the way quickly and avoided the protective magic of each item he stepped on and then recalculated the gaps of the threads. 

The longer the gap gets thinner and fits perfectly with Xie Ran's body. Xie Ran's long, tied hair was cut into a waist when dodging straight horizontally. He seemed to enter a small hole between the threads before finally reaching the middle of the stairs.

The steps are getting faster when the stairs. The thread was still attacking him quickly. Some threads crossed right in front of him. The gap is very small and it will be easy to chop it into pieces.

Xie Ran grew more serious and immediately slid between the threads. The thread was exactly two inches from his body as well as his face. Even the robe he was wearing had been torn all without any residue leaving shabby clothes that were also exposed to the thread on the bottom.

He straightened his body so straight and managed to slide all the way to the third floor.

His skirt became short as a knee. Fortunately he was wearing pants as a form of anticipation as he was training every day.

This third floor had many rare potion ingredients. Xie Ran can count it. Unfortunately he was not good at making potions. He's just good at making weapons.

Therefore, he put aside this potion because it was useless in his hands. Maybe he'll steal it one day for auction and get the money after revenge. The stuff downstairs is the same.

When he stepped up, he was again detected. Xie Ran was already on guard until finally a vines appeared to tie his legs off the floor so that Xie Ran could not move.

The vines are attacking him more and more. Xie Ran whose legs were wrapped so that he could not move, took out a dagger and cut off some of the plants that attacked him.

The plant had such crippling properties that Xie Ran really could not step up. He had no chance of cutting the plants on his legs that were progressively creeping upwards due to the other side's attack.

Xie Ran continued to dodge and cut off the plants that attacked him. He lowered his head quickly when he saw a plant suddenly appear from above his head and took the opportunity to cut the plant's ties from his feet. 

He fell down right then and the plant on top pulled his body up. Xie Ran cut him off quickly then twisted avoiding some of the plants that attacked him.

The end of the plant has a pointed shape and can pierce anyone. Xie Ran dodged it with a dagger and cut it off quickly.

His feet quickly recovered from the temporary paralysis, he jumped up the stairs through the plant shelves while dodging any attacks of the plants. It's not a problem compared to before.

When he reached the fourth floor, his feet were attracted by the vines and slumped downstairs. His body hit the stairs and the plant slammed him against the wall until the sound of bones rang out.

Then his body was pulled back towards the stairs before Xie Ran finally cut the plants wrapped around him from both directions.

Xie Ran managed to stand on the stairs and wiped the blood in his mouth. The clash was too violent making his back numb!

Seeing the plants that wanted to gather formed a larger attack, Xie Ran quickly rolled dodging and used the hanging plants then swung freely to reach the fourth floor. There are five floors. Difficulty is outrageous!

Xie Ran was not given a breath at all. He had just set foot, already faced with the deafening sound waves.

The wave came from one of the famous demon plants that can break the eardrum. He covered his ears while walking. Yet a wind suddenly appeared hitting him so hard like a quail.

Xie Ran lost focus due to the shrill sound so his body crashed and fell from the height of the fourth floor easily.

Xie Ran could not avoid it anymore. His body floated just like it had become a loose feather and fell down. The vines again came out giving him a stab from the taper end of the plant on Xie Ran's shoulder and pressed him down. 

At the height of the second floor, a thread appeared before him slashing Xie Ran's arm until it bled as if revenge on him.

Xie Ran's clothes were in tatters filled with blood that seeped out and fell to the ground floor with a loud noise. The wooden floor was not damaged, but Xie Ran's body was damaged.

A few arrows were sticking to his side. Xie Ran had dodged and could no longer move. His body is too sick. His strength was suppressed because it was in soul form and he was severely injured.

Xie Ran was getting tired. His upward gaze saw a circular staircase shaded in two. Blood came out of his mouth before finally closing his limp eyes.

"Master!" The two Dragons in the room saw Xie Ran's original body change into a panic.

They were shocked but did not know what to do. They paced between going out or not while it was early morning.

"Master, I hope Master is fine ...."