Chapter 417 - Halfway Mortal Cleansing (2/2)

”Hmm… that's… not a bad idea. It just might work,” Ma Rong thought. She then turned towards the princess and asked, ”Your highness, did Senior Lai ever try to make pills that made her sweat?”

”Um, I'm pretty sure he did try to make them, but I don't think he ever succeeded in making ones that could open up her skin big enough or make her sweat enough to force the black filth out of her body.”

”That's fine. My disciple's pill here can do that. I just need to improve it,” Ma Rong said.

”Improve it?” the princess asked. ”Can't you just feed that pill to her?”

”I'm afraid not, your highness. This is a common pill; we will need a True pill to be able to heal her to a level similar to what this pill will do to anybody below the True realms.”

”Fear not, however. Since we have this recipe, it shouldn't be very hard to recreate this pill. Please send this recipe to Senior Lai as well so that he could help us as well,” Ma Rong said.

”Yes, we shall do that,” Fu Wen said as he took the recipe with some sense of joy. While he didn't get a cure for her mother's problem, he got hope.

”Thank you, Sect Leader Ma,” he said.

”It's my pleasure to be of assistance, City Lord Fu,” Ma Rong said.

”Thank you to you too, junior brother,” Fu Wen said to Alex.

”Oh, you're welcome, senior,” Alex said.

”If there is nothing else to do, we shall take our leave,” Ma Rong said.

”Yes, let me show you the way,” Fu Wen said as he went to the door and unlocked it.

”How's your formation training going on?” the princess asked from the side as she moved towards Alex.

”I… haven't had the time to continue with it, your highness,” Alex replied.

”Oh, that's a shame. You seemed to be quite good at making formations too,” the princess said. ”Also, you don't have to call me that. Just call me Sister Wuying.”

”That's…” Alex hesitated. Calling a princess his sister would imply that he was of Royal blood too, and that would be disastrous if someone found out.

”Haha, if you can't, then just call me princess. No need for the Your highness,” the princess said.

Alex smiled and said, ”I will do that then, princess.”

”Good, let's go now,” she said and walked towards the door.

Alex instinctively shot an eye towards the guard who was still looking elsewhere. The princess saw this and chuckled.

”Don't blame her for how she acted during the journey. She was under orders to be strict towards anyone that came close to me and was to keep me and Aunt under constant supervision.”

”Also, she was ordered to act high and mighty so that people would not notice the lowly servant by her side as she would hog all the attention. It sort of worked,” the princes said with a smile.

”I see,” Alex said.

”Well, she was also quite annoyed when I told her that you noticed her that one time in the capital. She really prides herself on her ability to stay out of sight with her speed. So when you saw her that time, she was really angry.”

”That was also the reason I let you get in the same carriage as me. You did something that was close to impossible,” Wuying said.

”Oh,” Alex said. 'That… that accident was what made her notice me? I can't even do that again even if I wanted to.'

”I wanted to know more about you during the tournament, but I never found you. Especially since I didn't know your name at the time, it was impossible to find you,” the princess said.

”Plus, you changed your face for the final result, so there was no way for me to find you. If you hadn't, maybe my father would have been interested in you too,” the princess said with a smile.

”The Emperor?” Alex asked in shock. 'I was that close to meeting the emperor. I don't know if that is a good idea though,' he thought.

The princess said goodbye and didn't leave the corridor. She promptly returned back to the room and would stay in that corner of the manor, away from the prying eyes of the servants.

Fu Wen brought the two of them all the way outside to see them off.

”Thank you again, Sect Leader Ma, junior brother,” Fu Wen. ”At least one of the problems on us is going to go away very soon,” he said.

”One problem?” Ma Rong asked with confusion.

”Oh, it's nothing. It's just that Uncle has gone somewhere without notifying anyone and hasn't returned in over a  month, so people back home are worried,” Fu Wen said.

”I see. If it's the High prince then who would dare do anything to him,” Ma Rong said. ”Anyway, We will leave now, City Lord Fu. Farewell.”

With that, both Alex and Ma Rong flew back towards the Hong Wu Sect.