Chapter 266 – Those Who Will Not Walk into the Dark Night (1/2)
Chapter 266 - Those Who Will Not Walk into the Dark Night
Teng Xiaoming and Liu Wan'er stood at the edge of the plain, staring at that sun which hung suspended over the distant horizon. Liu Wan'er said, ”I heard that the sun that hangs over this plain never sets, which is why it's called the Plains of the Unsetting Sun… I just don't understand that if no one has ever been able to come out of the plain alive, then who was the one to see that the sun never sets?”
Teng Xiaoming heartily laughed, but he did not reply. He knew that she was not really asking for his opinion, but rather that she was somewhat unhappy.
”To actually let that wolf cub carry that person inside the plain……even if they do die inside, what do we do? Are we going to have to wait? How can we confirm that they died?”
Liu Wan'er glanced at Teng Xiaoming. She thought to herself that with the husband's tyrannical cultivation, if they were outside the Garden of Zhou, what need would there be to chase them for such a long time? They could not even catch a poisoned wolf youth. Of course, if they were outside the garden, then Chen Changsheng and the rest would have been dead a long time ago. In order to enter the Garden of Zhou, they truly had to pay a disastrous price.
Teng Xiaoming knew what his wife was thinking. He gently caressed her hair and consolingly said, ”I am willing to do this.”
Who could have known that on this mission to infiltrate the Garden of Zhou, the demon general couple with such a vicious reputation had personally requested to be sent? It was because… they had grown tired of the endless war with the humans and wanted to leave the army, to return to their old countryside. However, they knew very well that the Demon Lord would never accede to their request. In all of the demon realm, only the Military Advisor could help them fulfill their desire.
So they had sought out the Military Advisor, who had asked them to enter the Garden of Zhou to take care of this matter. For this reason, they had forcefully suppressed their cultivation, losing at least two hundred years’ worth of life. However, if they could finish this task, then return to the countryside hand in hand, then it was just like Teng Xiaoming had said: they were willing.
They were demon generals at the middle level of Star Condensation. Even if they had forced their cultivation down to Ethereal Opening, they still possessed a battle prowess that far surpassed that of Ethereal Opening cultivators. For a person who had once climbed a mountain to slowly ramble amongst the hills once more, he could naturally walk as he pleased. Logically, amongst all the human cultivators within the Garden of Zhou, besides Xu Yourong, they could leisurely kill whoever they pleased.
However, they had not anticipated that Lady Nanke's two maids, in competing with each other for merit, would bring about so many troublesome affairs. They had even less anticipated that the human youth called Chen Changsheng would carry so many precious magical artifacts on his person. Even the strength and will that Zhexiu had expressed had surpassed their prediction, such that he was able to successfully escape into the Plains of the Unsetting Sun.
Although entering that plain was assuredly a path that led to death, it was not them that had done the killing in the end.
This was the edge of the plain, so although that red sun seemed to never set, it was actually still setting very slowly. As time passed, two-thirds of it had passed below that seemingly endless plain, and the sky grew dark. Liu Wan'er said, ”Wait a while before seeing the situation. Let's eat first.”
Teng Xiaoming gave an obedient grunt, then put down his heavy carrying pole. Taking out firewood and bricks, he began to make a fire. Liu Wan'er removed this year's new rice from the carrying pole, as well as spring water taken from Jadespring Mountain. Then she began to rinse the rice. Only when the water began to flow out of the pot did she remember that, back at the lakeshore, Chen Changsheng had pierced a hole through this big pot.
Liu Wan'er was at a loss for words. That gentle and amiable face finally revealed a strand of irritation.”Chen Changsheng, that little fool, doesn't he know that damaging a pot and destroying a kitchen is this continent's most contemptible crime?”
Teng Xiaoming heartily laughed, then said, ”We were going to kill him! How could he consider such things?”
Liu Wan'er groaned like a young girl, then said with displeasure, ”I'll remember this enmity, and if those two maids can't kill him, I won't be letting him off easy.”
Teng Xiaoming consoled her, ”When we go back home, we won't need to fight with humans anymore. We can sell off the broken pot for scrap and get a little money, so it's not that bad.”
Saying these words, he took another pot from the basket and took the rice from her hands. Then he began to rinse the rice and prepare to cook it.
”What do you want to eat tonight?” Liu Wan'er asked.
Teng Xiaoming looked at the plain, hearing the cries that came from within. He hesitantly proposed, ”Inside there are quite a few monsters. I could go inside and grab two? If I don't go too far, it shouldn't be a problem.”
”To risk your life for a meal……we're not birds, nor are we humans,” Liu Wan'er said in a bad mood. Then she walked over to the basket and flipped through its contents for a while. Finally finding what she had been looking for, she brought it out and said, ”Before we left, I brought along the left maid's left hand. We can cook it in the pot, then eat it with some of the hot sauce that was gifted to me?”
Previously at the lake shore, in the name of fairness, she had severed the hand of that dignified woman.
That hand was now being held in hers, its stump still traced with blood.
Teng Xiaoming took the severed hand and used the spring water to wash it clean. Opening up the pot, he added a steaming tray, then also added a plate on top. With this done, he placed the hand inside.
”That pair of maids are too close to souls. The spiritual Qi in this hand is somewhat excessive—I'm afraid it won't digest very well.” He thought it over, then said, ”It's better to not use hot sauce. In a while I'll pair it with some apricots.”
At home, he would always be the one to make the meal. Liu Wan'er was not very good at this, so she naturally had no opinion.
The water had not come to boil yet. They did not know whether those two youths in the plain were still alive or not.
Liu Wan'er and Teng Xiaoming sat shoulder-to-shoulder on a stone at the edge of the plain, watching as the sun set ever so slowly.
”We haven't done this for a long time.”