Chapter 312: Freedom (1/2)

”Yes, I have encountered him a few times,” Xue Wei readily admitted. ”He was the one who sent us to Yan Dalu when he promised to send us to the Demon Phoenix Continent.”

”That's typical Lan,” Tao Wu nodded his head, ”he is a perpetually unreliable fellow that finds amusement in watching other people suffer.”

Thinking about the task at hand, having to get his hands on the Thunder Flame Crown, Xue Wei could only sadly nod his head. It was indeed asking him to suffer to ask him to get it for him.

Tao Wu and Xue Wei did not speak for some time; they just sat by one another looking at different things. Tao Wu's eyes never left the King, while Xue Wei was busy observing Luoluo playing on the deck.

The ship was quickly following after the pirate ship belonging to Tao Wu, but while everyone on the blood ship was rather happy and excited, the members on the pirate ship were anything but pleased.

Tao Wu was known as the King of the Sea of the Enchanted. He was a revered person, a person who was high above the masses. He would slaughter fleets that came after him, he could raise the seas, control the weather, he was a god in their eyes, however, now this god had been tainted.

The King was unaware that the pirates were filled with hostility towards her, that they felt that she had tainted their god. She continued to cultivate onboard the ship.

She was indeed a creature blessed by the heavens; her talents were not only in the spiritual energy category, but she also had an outstanding talent for Qi cultivation and after they had built the blood ship her progress had been upgraded by leaps and bounds since she decided to focus on it, her body growing stronger by the day.

Xue Wei had given her some martial arts techniques so that she could continue to train skills alongside her cultivation base grew stronger, and she never slacked off.

She had decided to use a whip as a weapon, and this whip was a treasure that was specially crafted back in Yan Dalu for her. It was a whip that could be enhanced with both Qi and Spiritual Energy, maximizing her attacks.

Whenever she was training, she was like a dancer, who flickered across the deck, the whip was swirling around her like a ribbon, so fast that no one dared to get close.

Watching her dance like a fairy across the deck, the eyes of Tao Wu lit up with appreciation. It was clear that there was some affection between the two, but for some reason, the King behaved as if there was nothing.

As she finished her dance, Tao Wu looked at her red face, where a thin sheen of sweat was evident.

Her breathing was hurried, and her body was trembling slightly on the verge of collapsing.

She had been training the same technique for the last two hours, spending all the Qi in her body and tired it out completely.

Seeing her tired and exhausted countenance, Tao Wu could no longer hold back, and in a flash, so fast that Xue Wei only saw an afterimage, he was by her side. He took her into his arms and carrying her to the mast where he placed her against the thick main mast and found a gourd filled with spirit wine in his storage artifact.

Everything happened so fast that the King had no time to comment, but when she was seated next to Xue Wei and Tao Wu was trying to make her drink the wine, a bashful blush appeared on her cheeks.

”Drink,” Tao Wu said gently, but the King was shaking her head, not willing to do so. She felt that it was too embarrassing being made to drink by him, she could also feel a lot of eyes on her, as if they were laughing at her and Tao Wu's relationship.

”Don't overthink,” Xue Wei suddenly said by her side, making her look at him. ”Life is precious, and as long as we live, we are moving towards the end. Why not let go and follow our dreams for once? Just give in and do what you want to do, don't think about others and their thoughts. You are no longer held back by the title of the King; you can do what you want to.”

Listening to Xue Wei, the King was suddenly enlightened. She had been used to someone watching her every move and ensuring that she never stepped upon the wrong path.

She was a national treasure because of her five eyes, she had been decided as the King from the moment she was born, and all expectations had been placed upon her head.

She dared not act on her own impulses, she dared not do what she truly wished to do, but things had changed. She was no longer the King. She had never been given a name, from the time she was born, she had just been known as the small King, and after the old King passed away, she was the King.

Even now, everyone referred to her as the King, but she understood that this was something that no longer existed in her life. She was free!

Her eyes suddenly turned red, and she bit her lower lip while trying to hold back the tears that were threatening to spill.

”I want a name,” she suddenly said, catching both Tao Wu and Xue Wei entirely by surprise. After thinking about it, they both understood her thoughts.

She wanted a new beginning in life, a fresh start to everything. Looking at her, tenderness overflowed from Tao Wu's eyes, and he reached out his hand and caressed her head. ”You should be named Jiang Yingyue. As the moonlight reflects on the river, such a beautiful name only matches a beautiful woman such as yourself.”

The King nodded her head, quickly accepting the name given to her by Tao Wu.