Towards Eternity
Ch 497's. Liu Ning's Request
Weng Lou, who was in Biantai's room, was busy working out his plan with Ye Lao and Qian Yu, when then a man who was a former slave, knocked on the door of the room slowly.
Weng Lou's eyes moved, and saw the figure of a woman and a man who were none other than Li Min and the woman who was summoned as the Princess by Li Min.
It was seen that Weng Lou was not surprised by the arrival of the two of them, having sensed the air of their existence before they even entered the building he was in at the moment.
"Excuse me sir" the two said while bowing respectfully to Weng Lou.
Weng Lou only glanced at them for a moment, before then turning his attention to the Book of Immortality, and conversing with Ye Lao and Qian Yu in his mind.
"Tell me what you want by coming to me" said Weng Lou without giving his attention to the two of them.
Li Min and the woman who came with him stared at each other. The woman nodded at Li Min, then walked forward towards Weng Lou while still slightly bowing her body.
As he was walking, his eyes caught the lifeless body figure of Biantai lying on the ground. He took a cold breath, then threw it away slowly.
Biantai's death seemed very uneasy and was filled with torture. This made the fear that was in his heart start to turn into a slight sense of admiration for Weng Lou.
He had long held a grudge against Biantai because of the treatment he gave him whenever he came to see him. Looking at Biantai who was dead and receiving heavy torment from Weng Lou earlier, made his resentment start to lift and his heart slightly felt relief.
"Before, let me introduce myself first. My name is Liu Ning, the daughter of the previous emperor," he said but it did not seem to attract the attention of Weng Lou at all.
Liu Ning herself had already guessed this, seeing from the sheer magnitude of the power that Weng Lou possessed, it was impossible for her to take any interest in this Fanrong Empire.
"I have a request for you, Sir. If you want to accept it, then I'll give you a gift of a hundred thousand gold coins"
"Do you have it now?"
Weng Lou cut Liu Ning and asked him. Liu Ning was silent as soon as she heard Weng Lou's question. His hands were clenched, and he bit his lower lip. It was obvious that he did not have those hundred thousand gold coins at the moment.
"Then don't ask anything from me. Freeing you from those soldiers has earned me the right to receive gifts from you, but now you want to ask me to do something even without giving me any reward for setting you free. Don't joke, get out of here, I have a lot of work to do."
Weng Lou chased Liu Ning away with a gesture of his hand that was like expelling a bully beast.
Liu Ning remained silent for a while, her clenched hands began to bleed, and she turned to leave the room after paying her respects to Weng Lou.
Meanwhile, Li Min who came along with him still remained in the room, and stared at Weng Lou with a complicated gaze.
Tap...
He suddenly knelt on the ground, then banged his head on the floor violently.
Liu Ning who had just walked out of the room was shocked at Li Min's actions, and hurriedly pulled her back to her feet.
"Li Min's?! What the hell are you doing?! Let's get out of here. We have absolutely no right to ask him for anything, we owe him!"
"No, Princess! We can't back off now. This is our only chance to recapture the empire from the hands of Shengshi Huangdi, who rose to become emperor after a coup against the previous emperor, your own father, Liu Wang," li Min said in a serious voice.
He then turned his head and looked at the figure of Weng Lou who had not turned his head even after telling him about the way Shengshi Huangdi could rise to become emperor and about the previous emperor who was Liu Ning's father.
"Master, we may not have as much money as the Princess said before, but if you finish doing our request, then we can pay you directly! Please, consider Mister!"
After an explanation from Li Min, Weng Lou sighed. Their presence greatly disrupted his conversation with Ye Lao and Qian Yu at the moment, thus making him unable to continue any further.
"Haa...You think I'm stupid? That hundred thousand gold coins you mean must be in the emperor's palace right? Even without having to accept your request, I can single-handedly go and take it if I want. But you want to take advantage of me who has helped you, isn't that the same as being ungrateful?
Is that how your father, the previous emperor taught you, Princess Liu Ning? His power was overthrown by his opponent. With such a teaching, it was indeed worthy of him to be replaced by a new emperor."
Weng Lou spoke as he looked at Liu Ning's figure and snorted softly. Hearing the words from Weng Lou, made Liu Ning become angry because she had been vilifying her father whom she had respected so much all along.
But even so, he remained silent in place and gritted his teeth. Her eyes looked teary, ready to cry at any moment.
Li Min who was beside him did not accept the words from Weng Lou. He was the personal bodyguard of the previous emperor who had now been assigned to guard the Princess. Hearing Weng Lou say something unkind about her Master, Li Min got up and rushed towards Weng Lou with her clenched hands.
"Stop it, Li Min!!" yelled Liu Ning from his place.
Li Min's footsteps came to a halt, and he looked at Liu Ning whose tears were already rushing.
"Stop that's enough, let's go." he said, trying his hardest not to sob as he pulled Li Min's left hand.
Li Min's mouth opened, no words came out from within his mouth looking at the Princess, Liu Ning. He could only hold back his emotions, then go out of the room with him.
Weng Lou shook his head to see the two who had left, he did not know what kind of attitude they had to respond to. By age and status, it was Weng Lou who had to respect both, but this world only respected those who were strong, and Weng Lou had followed that law a long time ago.
"Are you sure you don't want to help them?" ask Ye Lao.
"No, it must be troublesome. It is better that I do all my plans quickly, so as to be able to use the power of my bloodline before Zhi Juan reconnects with the Book of Immortality," Weng Lou quickly replied.
His main focus right now was to quickly gather a large amount of killing aura, so that he could scrape the seal of creation belonging to Zhi Juan, so that he could use the power of his bloodline.
Even so, there were those that Weng Lou, Ye Lao, and Qian Yu were unaware of at the moment. That is, the seal on Weng Lou's heart has actually started to suffer damage since he was thrown into this island.