106 Lets cause some chaos. (1/2)
Space a few tens of kilometers away from Xiong Xieren and Tian Zheng's group warped slightly, Li Yang and Fang Ying appearing there. Fang Ying didn't say anything, simply giving Langshen another nod and having him teleport the three of them further away, getting as far away from the others as possible. The three did this a few times, mostly because there was a limit to how far Langshen could teleport, especially when he had to teleport three people at once.
After teleporting seven times in quick succession, Langshen was forced to throw in the towel, unable to call forth any more power. He was a Divine beast, but just like Jinwu and Shenlong, he was still little more than a child, there was a limit to how much power he could call forth. They were now standing on a vast plain filled with rolling hills covered in blue grass that seemed as soft as the clouds above them.
Tian Zheng and Xiong Xieren were several hundred kilometers behind them, but Li Yang and Fang Ying still felt it was better to play it safe before they took their time chatting. Fang Ying removed the top layer of the earth around them and used one of her more acidic potions to corrode the remaining earth and form a cave. The three of them dropped into the cave, Li Yang covering the walls and top of the cave in a thin layer of ice to keep it stable, covering the top layer of ice with the earth they had put aside, creating an underground cavern. Li Yang created a few orbs of fire and had them float in the air, serving as lamps that illuminated the cave.
Langshen laid down on the ground with his tongue hanging out of his mouth, clearly exhausted, but he still kept an eye on Li Yang, curiously and vigilantly examining him. Li Yang and Fang Ying also sat down, facing each other and taking a few seconds to simply look over their partner, relishing in their reunion. The first one to break the silence was Fang Ying, her lips curling into a sweet smile as she stretched out her arm and placed her hand on Li Yang's head.
”You've gotten shorter. You used to be about half a head taller than me, but now I'm an entire head taller than you.”
Fang Ying pat him on the head with great vigor, like a big sister comforting her younger sister. The corner of Li Yang's mouth twitched slightly as he clicked his tongue and rolled his eyes, not making an effort to push away her hand.
”I was born in a poor tribe, what do you expect? I only got to start cultivating again three years ago, there's a limit to how much that can make up for the years of malnourishment. Just you wait for me to finish growing, I'll shoot right past you again.”
Fang Ying simply giggled at Li Yang and his attempts to preserve his face, completely ignoring him and continuing to pat his head and ruffle his hair, clearly very happy with the fact that she was taller than him for once. Li Yang simply rolled his eyes again, his gaze landing on the silvery-gray Langshen.
”So that's the Void Wolf I heard about in the past, eh, Miss Wolf Queen?”
Right after Li Yang left his tribe, he hitched a ride with a caravan and met an old man named Xun Zhi, who ended up telling Li Yang about someone known as the Wolf Queen, a girl who had tamed a young Void Wolf and been adopted by the Tian clan. At this point, he would have to be an idiot to not realize that this Wolf Queen was, in fact, his Fang Ying.
Fang Ying's arm suddenly halted, her mouth twitching slightly when she heard the name Li Yang used. She had never been one for titles, especially ones that were as grand as Wolf Queen, it was almost as bad as the title she had been forced to bear in her past life. She quickly took a breath, her lips curling into a smirk as she took back her arm and softly stroked Langshen's head.
”Yup, his name's Langshen, he's been with me for years now. What's the matter, are you jealous that I got lucky? If you ask him reeeaal nicely, he might just agree to let you pet him once or twice.”
It was incredibly rare to tame a Divine beast, forming the same blood bond like the one she had with Langshen was even rarer, it was enough to drive almost all cultivators mad with jealousy. But sadly for her, Li Yang was not like most cultivators. He raised his head high, his lips forming into a smirk of their own.
”jealous, why would I be? Not only is my own bloodline better than his, but I also have something of my own.”
Li Yang's current bloodline was a fusion of his human bloodline and Jinwu and Shenlong's Divine beast bloodlines. The bloodline was a bit diluted since it contained his human blood, but it was still a tiny bit stronger than a normal Divine beast bloodline. Li Yang stretched out his arms, two golden lights flashing out from his abdomen as Jinwu and Shenlong appeared on his hands. They were still in their comatose state, Jinwu covering himself with his wings and Shenlong automatically coiling around Li Yang's hand.
They were comatose and didn't release any of their energy, but Fang Ying and Langshen could still easily tell just how strong their bloodlines were. It was easy to tell what sort of Divine beast Shenlong was, but Fang Ying found herself unable to tell just what sort of Divine beast Jinwu was. His golden eyes were closed since he was in a comatose state, meaning that she could only see his black feathers and the blue tips of his wings, and she knew of no bird-type Divine beast with traits like that.
”Who are these two? Tell me everything.”
Ignoring the fact that both of them were comatose, the fact that they were residing within Li Yang's dantian meant that they had an incredibly close bond. She didn't tell him, but this fact actually made her very happy. In their past life, Li Yang had never made any other friends after he became friends with Zhao Feng and the others, it simply didn't seem like he had any interest in making any more friends. She was afraid that it would be the same in this life, so knowing that he had gotten this close to someone else, even if they were Divine beasts, made her very happy. Li Yang returned the two sleeping Divine beasts to his dantian, a light smile appearing on his face as he reminisced.
”It's a long story, so you better prepare yourself.”
Li Yang had known Jinwu for three years and Shenlong for two, and even though this couldn't be considered long, they had done a lot of things together. Li Yang started from the beginning, telling Fang Ying about the tribe he had been born, about the two people of the Liang tribe that he considered friends, Liang Xinyi and Liang Zhou, how he met Jinwu and ended up regaining his memories.
He told her every little detail of his life so far, every little thing that he had done and seen. Fang Ying couldn't help but let out a burst of laughter when she heard about how Li Yang had traveled through the hidden realm that Zhao Feng and the others had left behind, and then she let out a long breath when she heard about how he killed Jing Yimu. After Li Yang finished telling her everything, Fang Ying let out another deep breath.
”So Xue'er is buried there? I want to go visit her once we leave this place, will you accompany me?”