The Romance Of The Thousand Loves
CH. 54. DENAS

The Phoenician kingdom that became a famous painting city was also a law-ordered city. Many high-level cultivators wandering around this city could not do as casually as in other cities. Even in this city it is forbidden to carry out oppression against the weaker. If there is a fight in the city of painting, it will be held in the tower of the city of Phoenicia.

The Tower of the Phoenician City became the most important icon in the Phoenician Kingdom and served as a watchdog and order of law in the Phoenician city. All the rules came from the city tower and for those who broke the rules, would face off against the three elders of the city tower who were in the Saint Expert realm.

Hanzho, elder Yan and elder Lan were heading towards the city tower to report their presence as Trade Caravan envoys and also to inquire about the recent strange events.

"Stop!!" Two of the tower guards stopped Hanzho and his friends.

"Please address your identity." The guards were friendly.

Hanzho issued an identification token belonging to the Trade Caravan. The two men checked carefully and smiled kindly.

"Please enter sir." The two men allowed Hanzho and the others to enter the tower when they learned that the token Hanzho had brought was genuine.

The token was a special token deliberately created to introduce the face as well as the cultivation level of its owner. The person who fakes the token or carries a token that does not belong to him, will immediately be known. Once the token is activated, it will be directly connected to the large token of the Trade Caravan that is in the center. So that the authenticity or fake token is very easy to know. And it looks like the tower guards are quite professional in their duties.

Hanzho and his comrades entered the tower. There are ten floors. The first floor is for the public. The second floor was for Elite realm cultivators down. The third floor was for Master realm cultivators to Grand Masters. The fourth floor is for the realm of Experts. The fifth floor was for the Legend realm. The sixth floor was for Saint realm. The seventh floor was the floor where high-level weapons items were sold. The seventh floor is the most crowded floor visited by everyone including the public.

The eighth floor was for the Saint Expert realm downwards. The ninth floor was a special place for special guests and Holy Ancestor realm cultivators. While the tenth floor was where the three elders who became the Master of the City Tower were.

Since Hanzho was already in the Ancestor realm and included a special guest of the city tower, he had access to the ninth floor. The ninth floor was completely deserted unlike the other eight floors.

Hanzho, Elder Yan, elder Lan and Della were seated in the guest seats already reserved. For the other members to be downstairs according to their respective cultivation levels.

Soon a few servants came and brought the dish and served it on the guest table.

"Silahlan enjoyed by you gentlemen. The tower master will be down soon." Said a female servant and retreated followed by the other servants.

Della precedes taking dishes on the table. He took a piece of fresh fruit.

"Hemm delights feel cold in the throat and feels smooth." Della said after biting the fruit she picked.

"That's a honey watermelon. The fresh and delicious taste makes anyone can't stand." Say one voice that sounds old. A very friendly and pleasant sound to hear.

Hanzho and the others turned their heads to the origin of the voice and saw the three old men were walking down the stairs quietly. The three old men were actually at Saint Expert realm that might not be long ago about to ascend to the Holy Ancestor realm.

"Greetings tower master." Hanzho got up and saluted followed by elder Lan, elder Yan and Della who hurriedly placed the half-bite fruit on the table.

"There's no need to be formal so Mr. Hanzho. My name is Reno, my two friends are Faris and Faisal." Reno's reply allowed Hanzho and the others to sit down.

"Master already knows my name?" Hanzho asked in shock as he had yet to introduce his real name. As for the name he used when joining the Trade Caravan was a pseudonym so no one knew his real name except elder Yan and elder Lan. However this old man in front of him knew his true identity and it made him wary of fearing the three of them were from the enemy side

"Not to be afraid, Mr. Hanzho. There are some old men in the Gama Empire who told me about your arrival. So this old man knew clearly who Lord Hanzho was and of course Princess Della's master." Reno said casually while saluting Della who had sat down like a princess; Elegant and polite.

Hanzho nodded in reverence. "I'm sorry for this junior being overly cautious and being disrespectful towards the seniors." Hanzho apologized.

"There's no need to apologize, Mr. Hanzho. As the one who got the mission of carrying Miss Della, it should have been that way." Reno then gestured to the other two elders.

The two elders immediately understood the elder Reno's signal. The two of them stood up then quickly the two made a hand seal and then touched the floor. From the two pairs of hands appeared a pair of arais that enveloped the entire ninth floor where they were talking.

"Mr Hanzho doesn't need to worry. Two pairs of these arai are a kind of aqueous and confounding. You've certainly heard the saying 'walls and wind can speak' and to prevent it all, these two elders put up two aarays to be careful." Said elder Reno who understood Hanzho's confusion.

"Thank you for the understanding of the elders." Hanzho said happily.

"Oh yeah I just heard there is Mr. Hanzho and the Princess lali who are these two ladies?" Asked the curious reno elder.

"Oh, I almost forgot. This white veiled one was named elder Lan and the black veiled one was named elder Yan. They are the ones I deliberately brought here to ask the elders something. They were alone who had helped us ease our journey so that none of the difficulties mattered." Answer Hanzho politely.

"Genesis, what kind of incident did these two ladies want to ask?" Ask Reno.

Hanzho also told about their arrival to this tower and asked for help if there was a strange or shocking incident in this city."

The three elders were trying to recall some of the strange events that had happened in this city.

"Oh yes there is one quite disturbing event." Elder Faisal said excitedly as he recalled the strange incident.

"What's that incident?" Hanzho asked curiously.

"Heemm about six months ago there was a scene that had heated up and brought the problem to this tower. At that time elder Reno and elder Faris were not in the city of Phoenicia. So they don't know about the horrendous event.

This incident began when a young girl with a beautiful face entered this city. Even the woman who got the prettiest girl in this city could not compare to one hand from that girl. It was as if the entire city was brightly enthused the moment the girl entered this city. The girl's face was really pretty that caused some people to not stand the beauty of the girl. Some of the men tried to approach the girl but unfortunately the girl was not a careless girl. The people who tried to tease the girl lost their arms with just a single strike. This has devastated the city. The commotion grew more and more bustling as the person who approached the girl cooperated and attacked the girl together.

Dozens of shameless people attacked the little girl alone. Even though the girl was alone, she was undaunted and was able to fight against a balanced dozens of men and was even able to hump half of them even though some people there were whose cultivation level was much higher than that of the girl.

But over time the girl became tired of facing dozens of people who kept coming against her. It was then that I who accidentally passed through the place saw the thing that happened immediately brought the girl to this tower and buried the rest of the people who attacked the little girl.

I came under fire for killing dozens of shameless people, but there were more to sit on my attitude.

After a few days' rest in this tower, the girl left after saying thank you and giving a gift a bag of high-tier jade gems.

The girl besides her beautiful looks, her high cultivation, her nature and manners were very classy. I guess that girl is from a big Imperial family but I don't know why that girl could be in this small town." Elder Faisal said at length. He seemed to be very interested in his story.

Elder Yan and elder Lan looked surprised to hear the story. The traits that the girls had in the Faisal elder's story were somewhat similar to the traits with their princesses.

"Did the girl have a flower mark on her forehead?" Asked elder Yan politely.

"Yes there is a sign of three lotus flowers on the girl's forehead. At first I thought it was a tattoo that was deliberately made. But when I asked the girl said that it was her birthmark. Honestly speaking the three lotus flowers on the girl's forehead were truly beautiful. Very compatible with the beauty of the girl. Then I thought that the sign would be a danger to him if left unchecked and not hidden properly. I asked the girl if she could hide the marks but she couldn't. Then I taught the young girl how to hide her birthmark because I happened to have it. I taught the little girl once and amazingly she was instantly able to understand and practice it in one look. I could understand this simple technique in a week.

The little girl was very happy. He said the biggest problem the girl faced was the three-leaf mark on her forehead. But now he can hide the sign with his new learned technique. Out of gratitude the girl gave this Five Elements Blue Jade." Elder Faisal replied while taking out an extremely beautiful blue-colored jade.

Elder Reno, elder Faris and Hanzho were wide-eyed at that palm-sized jade. Of course they knew the price of the jade. The Five Elements Blue Jade was a Legendary item in the world and belonged to the highest heirloom. There were only a few who had the Five Elements Blue Jade in this world and others stored in the most dangerous places in the world that even a person in the Half God realm would not dare to enter that place single-handedly.

Now before their eyes was a Legendary item like that, of course they were shocked to see it.

"Elder Faisal, you are really lucky to be able to help that girl and get a Legendary gift like this. Truly a priceless treasure." The muttered elder Reno was amazed. Although he was envious of it, yet there was no greed in his eyes possessing the jade. So too with Elder Faris. Maybe because of their age and experience that makes them stay wise in stepping.

"This jade really belongs to the master Princess Goddess. The Princess has many such things." Murmured elder Lan.

The three elders and Hanzho were speechless.

"Wait a minute, the lady called him Princess? You mean that little girl has a relationship with you?" Asked elder Faisal suspiciously.

Elder Lan nodded. "Of course we have a relationship with the Princess. The princess was the sole heir to the throne of the Heavenly God Empire. And we assigned the Emperor to find the princess and bring her back to the Empire to perform the ceremony of maturity. The princess left a few months ago. And the signs that elder Faisal mentioned were the same as the characteristics of the Princess. What's more that blue jade." Elder Lan replied then took out one Blue Jade Five Elements.

Elder Faisal nodded in satisfaction with this veiled woman in front of him.

"But unfortunately after successfully hiding the three lotus leaves mark on her forehead, the little girl bailed away without telling her where she was going. Even the old me forgot to sow it. I thought by asking the little girl to tell me where she was going." Elder Faisal said feeling guilty.

"You're innocent elder Faisal. Of course we are very grateful for helping our princess from hiding her identity. The Heavenly God Imperium will remember this merit of yours. And as a thank you from both of us, I hope you don't reject this little gift." Said the elder who took over the conversation.

Elder Yan took out a box the size of an adult human head and handed it to elder Faisal.

"In the box was the same Five Elements Blue Jade that belonged to the princess. The elder could hand it out to elder Reno and elder Faris as our gratitude as well for being so well welcomed." Said elder Yan.

Elder Faisal received the box with trembling hands. He could feel an incredible energy from inside the box. Even just by inhaling the energy that came out just like that, a Master realm cultivator could increase his cultivation.

Elder Faisal opened the box and counted fifteen Blue Jade Five Elements within.

"remarkable. Legendary items like this could exist here in large numbers, if the world knew this of course world war would be inevitable and would not stop until it got it." Hanzho muttered in amazement and horror if the world really knew about this.

Elder Faris shared directly the Blue Jade Five Elements to the other two elders who received with trembling hands and a sense of disbelief.

"Finally..... Eventually the ideal of becoming a Holy Ancestor realm cultivator would be soon... Will soon be..excuse..." Elder Reno haru muttered in disbelief.

"Finally.... All thanks to the young girl that Elder Faisal helped back then." The murmuring of elder Faris trembled. He could not imagine if elder Faisal had not helped the little girl, perhaps they would never have obtained a treasure like this.

Everyone nodded in agreement with the words of elder Faris.

"That's how the world works. Good will always have good. The elder Faisal who saved the Princess Goddess lord and taught her a simple technique that was possible in the eyes of elder Faisal was not very valuable but would be very valuable in the eyes of the princess. The cycle of kindness will always be with good people." Said elder Yan then smiled behind his veil.

Everyone in the room nodded. They continued the conversation then Hanzho and his group agreed to continue their journey.

Now on the ninth floor there were only three elders who were holding the Five Elements Blue Jade.

"You know where the Heavenly God Imperium that lady said?" Asked elder Reno a little curiously.

"Hmmm... At first I thought it was really an Empire. But I again thought that there is no great empire in this world that has such a name. Then I thought again like it was a mysterious hidden sect in this world." Answer elder Faisal.

"Acupoons think the same. Seeing the wealth they possessed was impossible for an Empire to possess. Moreover, the cultivation of that young girl who he said was extremely terrifying was even capable of killing cultivators with a higher realm than him." Elder Faris spoke.

"Hemm is right about that. But why did the two women say Empire and not sect only." Reply to elder Reno.

"Perhaps because they belong to an ancient sect and have countless descendants they ended up changing into an Empire in order to maintain the purity of their descendants." Reply to elder Faisal who seemed more experience than the other elders.

"Whatever it may not be a disaster in this world. If the people from the hidden sect had already started to make a move, there might be a huge change." Murmured elder Faris.

"Eh any of you know the cultivation level of those two women?" Ask elder Reno. Elder Faisal and elder Faris could only shake weakly.

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"Fourth sister today is your birthday, right?" Tang Xiao asked as the two people were sitting leaning against the wall of the ground. The two of them were watching the members of the Azure Dragon Sect mining the mineral stone contained within the entrance of the mysterious building under the sand.

Their group accidentally found a door leading under the sand while several other groups were being chased after a level nine Mythical Beast. The groups ran past Tang Xiao's group regardless of them. However as soon as the three Mythical Beasts approached Tang Xiao's group, the Mythical Beasts ran in fear and immediately hid and dredged the sand sand beneath them.

It was at that moment that Tang Xiao and Denas' group discovered a mysterious passageway that was quite strange. Tang Xiao thoughtlessly jumped straight down and entered the passageway. After killing some of the Mythical Beasts guarding the passageway, he told Denas and the others to descend into the passageway as it was already safe.

After walking through the passageway they finally found the entrance and opened the door without difficulty. As soon as the door was opened, a chunk of precious mineral stone adorned their view. But it was not that easy, that chunk of mineral was guarded by a group of Mythical Beast Undead who attacked anyone who took the chunk of mineral. With the help of Tang Xiao and Denas, they were able to defeat that Undead despite some being injured.

"Yes brother. Second brother would give you a gift?" Answer Denas.

"What does second sister want?" Tang Xiao replied asking a question.

"I just want to spend the rest of my life with the people I love." Answer Denas flat.

"It's simple? There's no other request that your brother might be able to give you a gift?" Ask Tang Xiao again.

"I want to see the stars up close together with the people I love." Answer Denas flat.

"Is fourth sister missing that guy?"

Denas. "I don't miss him. I just want her to understand my feelings one day and accept me for who I am."

"Wouldn't that girl be so lucky to get love from the fourth sister."

Denas nodded again. "That girl was lucky but she didn't get love from me."

"Then does the girl love or be loved by others?"

Denas nodded again. "The girl loves only one person and never loves another. It's just that the girl's loved ones don't or don't understand her yet."

Tang Xiao paused for a moment to understand Denas' slightly complicated speech.

"You feel sorry for the girl you love for loving someone else and not being able to love you?"

Denas. "No. I feel that the girl is loyal. So faithful that his love blinds the love of others. I'm just afraid that the girl can't get the love of the one she loves."

"Do you feel sorry for the girl or do you feel sorry for yourself?"

"both. The love of both is equally great to the person he loves without being known by the person he loves."

"During this fourth sister never told the girl her feelings?"

Denas. "Not at all. I love in silence and can only admire it from afar. When I first saw her, I fell in love with her. And follow him wherever he is."

"Then the girl you love has she ever told her feelings to the person she likes?"

"The girl has the same fate as me. The person who loved the girl did not know that there was a girl who loved her even though she was always with him. The girl could only silently harbor her feelings every time she was with the person she loved." Denas breathed and then got up. His eyes have been glazed since.

Tang Xiao got up and followed Denas. Although Tang Xiao did not really understand Denas' intentions, it was like he could feel the pain his fourth sister was feeling. It was as if their souls were connected and became one soul body.

Tang Xiao and Denas approached the Azure Dragon Sect members who were almost done from their work.

Before long the ground trembled and something from the distant passageway in front of them sounded a terrifying roar. A strong wind blew shaking the passageway and blew away several members of the Azure Dragon Sect.

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