Chapter 171 - Heading for the Tranquil Empire (1/2)

Wang Ling and Bai Xue traveled from the Eastern Seas to the Tranquil Empire. The entire journey took a month even with Bai Xue's speed.

On the way, Wang Ling regained his strength a week after he collapsed. He changed position with Bai Xue and let her assimilate the blood of the Serpentine Turquoise.

Only a day took for Bai Xue to assimilate the bloodline of the Serpentine Turquoise. After she assimilated it, she had a short recollection of the past.

It was the time when she hatched from an egg, it was weird, and it was a memory she did not want to remember. Her motivation to survive the forest she awoke on was one of the driving forces that kept her going for all those years.

She held no happiness when she was still weak and frail. She had to use her wits to get around, she needed to use it else she would die at the hands of the beast that littered the place.

In a realm where even what seemed to be an ordinary worm might have the ability to cultivate was terrifying for her.

[So much had changed since I lost my place cultivation.] she was currently inside Wang Ling's clothes and as she stared at him, she smiled and got out of his robes.

”Did you finish assimilating with it?” Wang Ling asked.

Bai Xue stretched and nodded her head, she jumped and enlarged her body. She did not transform into a dragon or a phoenix, just her regular but larger form.

Bai Xue was at her base form and she accelerated at a rate that Wang Ling didn't know she could reach. Bai Xue's speed had increased from assimilating the Serpentine Turquoise that was known for its speed.

While they flew in the air, Bai Xue's mind was in the clouds. She was thinking of different things that she would rarely think of.

[How long is my stay in this realm will last? Will I be able to stay with Wang Ling for a long time? Or at some point will I have to be alone in the darkness, fearing for my life again?]

Right now, she was probably over hundreds of years old, but when she descended from Heaven Realm, she was merely a couple of hundred years old.

In the Heaven Realm, Bai Xue was considered as one of the weakest being mostly because her cultivation speed was slow. In the Heaven Realm, for a being to reach Celestial Phase only after 50 years meant that she or he was mediocre.

She was a hundred years old when she reached Celestial Phase. Her cultivation speed was slow because of her harsh circ.u.mstances.

She lived a life that had a direction that will lead to death. Her living for a hundred years old was something she was not expecting. For someone as weak as she managing to crawl her way to the top was something she achieved through efforts alone.

But in those times, she had deceived a lot of people and being and spent her time shunned by almost everyone else. But for someone who only had the mind to live, it was not that harsh.

But after being trapped for hundreds of thousands of years inside a ball of blood. Only her hate for that Dragon kept her going.

Her original goal as soon as she heads out was to journey the lands and steal anything she could get her hands on. Train and survive then ascend to Heaven Realm and take her revenge.

But who would have thought she would be a part of Wang Ling's journey?

Thinking this through, Bai Xue smirked and a thought appeared in her head. She shook her head at the thought of the strange idea…

[That will never happen.] She then accelerated to the Tranquil Empire. Her expression was less desirable as a saddened expression appeared.

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The human and fox pair found their way into the Tranquil Empire. As they entered the city, Wang Ling did not face much attention, his face was unknown to them after all.

They were in the capital city of the empire and in the middle of this city was the palace. He didn't wait for anything and head deep into the city.

Wang Ling reached the gates that led to the palace and as he was about to enter, he was stopped by a guard.