Chapter 390 - A Dragon Can’t Repress a Snake (1/2)
Translator: StarReader
Editor: Elitecoder
“Shuang’er!” Yongning cried.
The others looked on as well, stunned to see the empire’s Holy Maiden coming out in the people’s defense.
Then they turned eager.
After the High Priest’s death, the Holy Maiden had become the apple of the empire’s eye. They’d go as far as charging into the Quanrong delegation if it meant defending her.
Something the Quanrong were not privy to, evident by Zha Lahan’s mockery, “Missie, are you out for a quick death? Hasn’t your emperor taught you how to receive guests? You’ll now butt into another’s problems, even Quanrong’s delegation?”
“If you call yourselves guests, just act like one. I’ve never seen a guest as outrageous as you!” Yun Shuang stood tall and bold.
Zha Lahan glared then cackled, “What a charmer you are. As for falling in with the customs here, it will depend on the host. I’m going to take those two for my mount as a snack. What’s the host going to do about it?”
Zha Lahan shouted and the beast roared in its pounce on the old man and child.
“No!”
Yun Shuang shot a palm at the beast’s skull. Zha Lahan merely snickered and released his aura.
Bang!
Yun Shuang rebounded as if hitting a wall.
“Ha-ha-ha, a Profound Heaven girl dares to interfere? I wonder what gave you the gall?” Zha Lahan cackled.
Yun Shuang’s heart was beating frantically. Watching the old man and child becoming the spiritual beast’s dinner about to be engulfed by those fangs, she teared up.
[Have mercy on my people, for they are suffering so…]
The old man and child closed their eyes, knowing their end was inescapable, waiting for the jaws of death to close on them.
The Quanrong woman shouted, “Zha Lahan, stop this instant!”
Too little, too late. Zha Lahan turned a deaf ear to her orders, having gone drunk on power.
The people sighed with a shake of their heads.
This was the fate that awaited any common man’s stumble upon the Quanrong delegation. With it being a matter concerning the future relations between the two nations, how many people would dare to step in to solve this mess?
Holy Maiden was one, albeit weak…
Under everyone’s gazes, the fangs inched closer and closer on their meal. The aura had the old man and child unable to even breathe.
Pff!
With a groan, the savage aura withdrew and the spiritual beast halted mid-charge with its maw open. Only the stench kept coming.
Zha Lahan was shocked.
And the audience was shocked, regaining their hope, “Who was it?”
The old man and child were still waiting for death, but the beast was running late, making them crack open their eyes to watch the stunning spectacle.
The savage beast’s huge body was stopped by a red hand. What stood before them was a youth with white hair.
They knew who he was. Everyone did after the fiasco outside the Imperial Palace.
The savage no one in Tianyu messed with, Zhuo Fan, had arrived…
“How is that possible?!”
The calm Quanrong now cried out. Zha Lahan’s eyes flashed with a thirst for battle.
[Tianyu has someone capable of holding back a 5th-level spiritual beast with one hand?]
The agitated lads on the second floor rested easy now, sitting back to enjoy the show with one leg over the other.
Once Zhuo Fan stepped up, everything became a foregone conclusion.
And all thanks to Zhuo Fan’s harsh, cruel and heavy-handed lessons.
Xie Tianshang was grumbling, “What a hypocrite. He says he washes his hands of this matter yet here he is jumping right in.”
“Ha-ha-ha, isn’t it great though? He’s the only one who dares to butt in such an affair. Brother Xie, don’t mind it.” Long Xingyun laughed.
The others bobbed their heads in total agreement.
It begged the question though, would the dragon come out on top, or the snake?(StarReader: a Chinese saying meaning that one was above the law. The snake I mean.)