Chapter 356: Transforming Pa.s.sive into Active (1/2)

Before opening the door, a guard rushed to announce them, and then opened the door of the hall.

There are many light lantern-trees planted in the main hall of the city. The light inside is much better than that outside in rainy and hazy weather. There are fire basins around the hall to dehumidify the cold air. As soon as you enter the hall, the cold and cloudy atmosphere is removed.

Two stone chairs were placed on the front stone steps of the hall, covered with thick hides, on which King and Queen sat.

There are also two more solemn wooden chairs on the left and lower sides of the stone chair, The High Priest Lan-Yin on the left and Tucheng-Earth City Queen Cui Yu on the right, all of her attendants standing behind her.

The Great Princess Lamo-Na and Princess Lamo-Er, along with two other young people, stood on the left of the stone chair. Several n.o.ble-looking men stood on the right. The two guards stood against the wall with bone knives in hand.

The atmosphere in the hall was a bit heavy. Before Yuan Zhan and others did not come in, they seemed to be discussing something.

When the door rang, everyone turned to look at it.

”Why are you all wet?What about your attendant? Why won't he take you to change clothes?” Yincheng-Sound City King is about forty years old. When he is still in his prime years, he saw his son at first sight while he could not rebuke or disregard, but he was anxious enough to stand up, and immediately he asked someone to take him to change clothes.

The eldest prince did not make any mischief, and obediently followed an attendant to leave.

King sat down again, and Queen remained motionless.

The people below had different expressions, some smiled, some sighed, and some looked down at the ground beneath their feet.

Yincheng-Sound City King coughed embarra.s.singly and said with a serious expression, ”You heard the long story of the High Priest...”

”Well, your eldest son is getting crazier and crazier, not to mention that he is cursed and unable to speak, even if he is not cursed, how can such a person be the future lord of Yincheng-Sound City!” Queen Cui Yu and Yincheng-Sound City King spoke at the same time, her sharp voice completely concealed the King's words.

King shut up and let her finish.

Yincheng-Sound City Queen, who had seen her son, she said nothing before, now she said in a lazy and pleasant voice, ”Your Majesty Cui Yu, Yincheng-Sound City was once a subsidiary city of Tucheng-Earth City, but I don't know how long that was many years ago. Maybe five or six hundred years? Yincheng-Sound City and Tucheng-Earth City were listed as one of the Nine Great Cities more than 500 years ago. More than 400 years ago, a generation of kings of yours came to our Yincheng-Sound City to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new king. During the banquet, your city made false statements. After that, Yincheng-Sound City and Tucheng-Earth City almost broke off relations. Now it's not easy for us to resume a little contact. Your Majesty already seems to disdain a.s.sociating with us, Yincheng-Sound City?”

Cui Yu's face suddenly changed, and it seemed only then that it was not Tucheng-Earth City but Yincheng-Sound City that came to mind. But she is not really ignorant to have no brain to not hear the deep rebuke in that carefully worded simple paragraph. She heard Yincheng-Sound City Queen say that she was not eager to explain, but caught the big prince's mistakes and omissions. ”So you Yincheng-Sound City Prince can easily invade my Tucheng-Earth City's Queen?I do not think I disdain to be with you, but now you see my Tucheng-Earth City suffering, and are waiting to see our city being ridiculed, and even want to... ”

”Your Majesty Queen!” The short warrior behind pulled her and forbade her to go on. As Queen, she really has something to think about, not to say everything that comes to her mind.

Cui Yu shut up indignantly and looked very wronged, but finally she couldn't help choking a sentence: ”Anyway, your eldest prince disrespected me, you must give me an account!” My Tucheng-Earth City is not such bully!”

She saw the eldest prince and thought that the other party was cursed by the Curse-Witch Zhou Wu. She took the initiative to speak to him with the same victim's shared feeling that he should be angry with her enemies, but she was ignored by the other party. She jeered whether the other party has become mute and deaf at the same time, and the other party has thrown more than a dozen skunks p.o.o.ps at her!

The strong and short warrior and the n.o.bles behind Queen Cui Yu sighed in their hearts. Queen's words, though vented her anger, they put Tucheng-Earth City in the position of the weak, plain and disdainful.

As Yincheng-Sound City Queen heard it, she said lightly, ”Since the founding of the tribe, no matter who made mistakes, my Yincheng-Sound City's lord line will be punished just like other people. Queen Cui Yu is my Yincheng-Sound City distinguished guest, no matter what unsuitable things you do, my son offends you, and naturally will be punished by Yincheng-Sound City law. So I ordered him to stand in the rain during such a cold spring period until another distinguished guest allowed him to leave.”

“What do you mean by doing something unsuitable?” Queen Cui Yu was so angry that she grabbed the armrest of the wooden chair and cracked one of her nails.

”Well, it turned out that you were punishing him. The child was not in good health and fell ill as soon as he got wet. You had better let him get wet. In that case, you might as well give him a beating.” King was so distressed that he turned to Queen Cui Yu and said, ”Now the child has been punished, but I don't know how long it will take to recover, Her Majesty Cui Yu. Are you satisfied?”

Queen Cui Yu is trembling with rage. What kind of punishment is this? And no one knows whether Queen made Lamo-Ling go to the rain or not. Maybe she just saw her son get caught in the rain and decided to say that there was such a punishment. But people, who are also King and Queen, have spoken to her. If she continues to pester, she will be seen as unreasonable. That's probably why the wicked Yincheng-Sound City refuses to send warriors to help Tucheng-Earth City.

The four princes and princesses, including Lamo-Na, could not speak to anyone after hearing the above conversation. One of them was particularly indignant.

Yincheng-Sound City King turned his face again and apologized to Yuan Zhan, who had been neglected for so long. ”Waiting a long time. I heard you are from The Longevity Maple Tribe?”Do I know your tribal name?

Yuan Zhan is proud but not arrogant. See Yincheng-Sound City King's friendly look. He holds his right fist to his heart and gives a warrior's salute. ”My name is Yuan Zhan, the Chief of Jiu Yuan Tribe, and our Priest Mo DRen with me.”

”The Jiu Yuan!” Queen Cui Yu stood up. The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu was only saying that it is revenge for the disciples when he was making a mess of Tucheng-Earth City, but after so long time, enough Tucheng-Earth City got to find out from the Black Earth to what people are together before, and where those people come from.

The Jiu Yuan, Yuan Zhan, Mo DRen, these are names that appear repeatedly in the report, and Queen Cui Yu also remembers them firmly.

”So you're not dead yet! Come on! Take them!” Queen Cui Yu is intent on catching the culprit, even if it is Yincheng-Sound City's lord hall.

The strong and short warriors hesitated for a moment. The Yincheng-Sound City people would never allow them to start here.

Sure enough, just after Queen shouted, Yincheng-Sound City King had changed his kindness and shouted, ”Who dares to hurt my distinguished Yincheng-Sound City guest?”

”Ah!” The two guards lined up beside the wall came forward synchronously, and the bone knives were all out of the sheaths.

Yuan Zhan's expression hasn't changed. Just now, he and Yan Mo have discussed that Yincheng-Sound City's situation is so strange that they can't hide their ident.i.ties completely. But when there is a gap between Tucheng-Earth City and Yincheng-Sound City, they can report their real ident.i.ties and maybe mare an escape for themselves.

Escape? After he walked into the Half-Beast man room, they had no chance to escape. The Half-Beast man will not let them go, nor will Yincheng-Sound City. When Lan-Yin removed the slave mark left by Zhi Mu on his forehead, he also left a spiritual imprint on him.

Just to keep Lan-Yin from noticing that they already knew about his imprint Yan Mo and Wu Guo had locked in that spiritual force and dared not destroy it.

Although this spiritual imprint is weak enough to do anything to Yuan Zhan, Lan-Yin will know it immediately if they leave the temple and Yincheng-Sound City.

The great prince's words just now contain a lot of information. Regardless of what he said, he is afraid Yuan Zhan can force him to go even if he doesn't agree to ”solve” the Half-Beast man, Lan-Yin. After all, he only has 8th rank. Yan Mo is still like that. He really has to bow his head under the low eaves.

How can Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo endure and be willing to be manipulated and used? Since they can't move forward or backward, they simply take the initiative to reveal their ident.i.ty and replace the pa.s.sive status of a chess player with one of the active players' status.

The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu and Jiu Feng can make Tucheng-Earth City go to Wucheng-City of Witches and Yincheng-Sound City to help. Isn't Yincheng-Sound City afraid of crossing him?

On the contrary, if Yincheng-Sound City had always thought that they were just people of a small tribe and had no backing behind them, Yuan Zhan, even though he was the leader of the Longevity Maple Tribe bloodline, they would not have let Yincheng-Sound City protect him, perhaps they would have sacrificed them as much as they could if he wanted to take advantage of them. But if they have a backing of the Curse-Witch Zhou Wu + the Human-face Kunpeng Clan + the Longevity Maple Tribe, the weight will be totally different, and Yincheng-Sound City should at least consider the consequences of killing them before starting to do it.

Yuan Zhan's lips were slightly provocative, with a sneer and a provocative expression. ”Our Mo DRen and I were attacked by Tucheng-Earth City High Priest and others before, our soul was damaged and we almost forgot our ident.i.ty. But now I remember a lot. Queen Cui Yu, your Tucheng-Earth City are greedy and venomous. Seeing that I am the blood of the G.o.d of the earth, and the blood of the G.o.d is strong in me, you hit me on the head and murdered the most kind and soft-hearted priest of the Jiu Yuan. Do you know that Mo DRen is the disciple of the Curse-Witch Zhou Wu? As you know, our Mo DRen is cared for by our ancestors and was given the Human-face Kunpeng Clan as his guardian G.o.d birds. All those who hurt him will be punished by his ancestors. Tucheng-Earth City, you bully me so much, as the Jiu Yuan Chief and The Priest, and G.o.d will punish me if I don't destroy you!”