Chapter 158 Encounter (1/2)
It had been a month since the group started their journey.
Based on Aiqing's words, they should've arrived in the Soaring Blaze Phoenix Empire together with the group.
Nevertheless...
A rural village almost at the border between the Azure Imperial Kingdom and the Vermillion Sonata Kingdom.
”Oh, this one should be good too, give me a hundred stacks, and these ones too, and this one!”
Aiqing continuously roams the streets as she picked a stall one after another, ordering a bunch of different kinds of sweets.
Huotian and the rest look at Aiqing as she continued to search for so many sweets unstoppably.
Huotian looks at her martial niece and couldn't help but ask Shenyu: ”How many villages had we passed by now?”
”From the start till now... We've already visited a hundred and two villages, thirty-two cities, and two barracks...” Shenyu spoke, as she looks at Aiqing who's filling up the spaces in her five pieces of storage rings.
All of them looks at Aiqing full of amazement, even at their prime with eating sweets, they couldn't have reached even a quarter of Aiqing's fill, even if all of them are combined.
Aiqing then looks at Shenyu, the dark aura wrapping Shenyu had already decreased tremendously, from before; 'I can handle at least this much...'
Aiqing had already taken enough time, and any more will attract disaster towards their group.
Aiqing then looks at Shi Lue Yu: ”Uncle, please protect lady Shenyu, she's your top priority already?”
Shi Lue Yu chuckles: ”Of course, but my responsibility is to protect all of you, I shall protect all of you equally.”
”Haaa...” Aiqing sighs; ”Uncle, I want you to protect them, not me, I can handle my own, don't worry, but please emphasize on taking care of Princess Shenyu, got it, uncle?”
Shi Lue Yu already knows Aiqing's attitude and just chose to pretend to give up: ”Sure, I will do my best.”
Aiqing sighs; ”As a cultivator, you don't need to worry about me, after all, my father had already thought me a lot of things within the fire path, and you could consider me unrivaled in this whole continent!”
Hearing this, everyone laughs, but Vielka, on the other hand, had her ears twitched, she herself is a proud expert of the fire path. Hearing someone say that she's unrivaled, it really pierced the pride she holds in it.
Aiqing felt the displeasure in Vielka's eyes as she looks at the latter and smirks arrogantly, she then turned her head and spoke: ”Let's go! Being a deadweight would sour my reputation after all. Hihihi.”
The others didn't notice Aiqing's words and only thought that she just wants to kid around, but to Vielka, these words assaulted her the most; ”Tsk.”
She could only make a noise due to the seal that her own grandma placed on her, preventing her from unleashing any type of strength.
The five of them then rode Aiqing's flaming chariot and continued their journey.
After a while, exactly between the borders of the Vermillion Sonata Kingdom, the Azure Imperial Kingdom, and the Soaring Blaze Phoenix Empire, Aiqing stops the flaming chariot.
Aiqing slowly approaches Shenyu and grabs her arm: ”Stay still for a second.”
After Aiqing spoke, the black aura has a part of it as it detached from Shenyu and slowly attached itself to Aiqing moving inside her body until it travels towards her eyes.
Aiqing's red fiery eyes turned dark, Aiqing immediately looks from her left and saw a huge dome of black aura just a thousand kilometers away, Aiqing smirks: ”So it is an ambush.”
Aiqing then continued, and when she's a few hundred meters away, she halts again, the dark mass of aura had condensed into a massive hill-sized one, causing Aiqing to feel a little afraid.
”Little Qing'er, why had we been stopping here and there?” They wanted to keep quiet due to Aiqing's eccentric behavior, but they felt a little bewildered at Aiqing's patterns.
Aiqing smiled: ”Well if I wasn't cautious, we would've already died.”
”Huh?” All of them looked at Aiqing with shock, they could've died?
Shi Lue Yu then spoke: ”We could've died? I'm here, I can definitely protect you all.”