122 A chat with Tian Zheng. (1/2)
A few subdued whispers erupted amongst the gathered people when they saw Li Yang and Tian Zheng facing each other, all of them eager to see just what would happen next. Fang Ying was supposed to be the wife of Tian Zheng but had been stolen away by Li Yang, would Tian Zheng take something like this lying down?
While everyone was eager to see how the situation unfolded, Tian Zheng swiped his interspatial ring and took out a table and three chairs. He placed the table in front of him, one chair on his side and two chairs on Li Yang's side. He sat down on his chair and took out a porcelain kettle filled with fragrant tea from his interspatial ring, placing the kettle as well as three cups on the table, beckoning towards the two empty chairs.
”Please take a seat, standing while chatting is rather tiresome.”
Li Yang raised an eyebrow in slight surprise, sweeping the table and the tea with a quick glance before sitting down on one of the chairs, Fang Ying taking the seat at his side. Tian Zheng poured some tea into the three cups, sliding two of them closer to Li Yang and Fang Ying.
”There's no need to worry, I haven't put any poison in t...”
Li Yang raised the cup before Tian Zheng got to finish his sentence and took a sip of the steaming tea, which had the faint taste of apples and cinnamon. Li Yang placed the cup down after taking the first sip, a revigorating stream of energy coursing through his body after the tea entered his stomach.
”I wasn't worried about you putting any poison in them.”
If there was one thing in this world that Li Yang didn't fear, it was poison. His law of destruction automatically ate up any poison that entered his body. And even if there somehow managed to exist a poison that his law of destruction would not eat, sitting at his side was Fang Ying, the greatest poison user Li Yang had ever known. Tian Zheng wasn't fazed by Li Yang's swift and confident actions, leisurely sipping the tea in his cup while talking with a faint smile.
”I guess I should be grateful for your trust then. Don't worry, I won't bore you by beating around the bush, let us get directly to the matter at hand. First, I want to thank you, secondly, I was curious if you were able to sense anything specific about the Demonic beast or the treasure it is guarding. Since both are located in a volcano, they should be more closely aligned to the law of fire.”
Contrary to what all the people around them expected, Tian Zheng was engaging in a polite yet casual conversation with Li Yang, it was far more boring than what any of them had expected. Li Yang took another sip of the tea, his gaze drifting between Tian Zheng and the volcano.
”Thank me, huh? Seeing as you are asking for my opinion, I guess that the people from the Tian clan have already given you a detailed report?”
Tian Zheng was likely trying to thank him for saving the people from the Tian clan on the island where the Devil's Grasp Vine resided. Had he not carved a path through it so that they could escape, they would likely all have died there. Tian Zheng didn't deny Li Yang's guess, nodding his head.
”Indeed. I truly regret not being present to see the grand scene that they described, it must have been spectacular. It was most definitely grander than the scene you caused in the Cloud Wilderness back then. Then again, had you pulled out something like that, none of our people would have been able to leave the wilderness alive, I should probably thank you for showing mercy back then.”
Tian Zheng wasn't a fool, it was easy to connect the dots. Back when the clans sent people to the Cloud Wilderness to investigate the strange occurrence, several people were killed while the rest were forced to flee the Cloud Wilderness. Due to the attacker's golden flames, they thought he might be the Golden Dragon Prince, they just couldn't figure out how he was able to use golden lightning and a strange ice element.
Now that Tian Zheng had received a report stating that Li Yang was able to use those three exact elements, even using golden fire and lightning, it wasn't hard for him to figure out that Li Yang was, in fact, the one that had pushed the clans out of the Cloud Wilderness back then. Li Yang wasn't too bothered about Tian Zheng finding out about his actions back then, it was fine as long as he didn't learn about the Liang tribe. He gave a casual shrug of his shoulders, his gaze once more landing on the volcano.
”I didn't show them any mercy, they simply hadn't done anything that would warrant me killing them. And to answer your earlier question, no, I cannot sense anything specific about the Demonic beast or the treasure that was born. The best I can sense is that the treasure should be made up of at least six different elements, and the beast guarding it should have reached the Primordial Rune realm in strength, probably around the middle or the late stage.”