The Ice Lotus of the Heart’s Blood had burst into bloom, and the remaining steps could only be completed by himself. Seeing that, Ronghua pulled Murong Zhe out of the body and threw him to the center of the lotus. Perhaps it should recognize him as its master in this way!

“I’ve done all I can. Do the rest by yourself!”

Murong Zhe gnashed his teeth, “Rong—hua! If Mo hates me, I’ll blame that on you!”

Ronghua held an indifferent attitude towards that.

Weilian looked at her, “Why don’t you go to let the lotus recognize you as its master? Won’t that be a better way?”

“No, not at all!” Ronghua’s smile faded, and she denied flatly. Weilian was not surprised. He had not seen her treating anything else as serious as this one for a long time.

She did not speak much, but at least what she told were true. As regards her instructions for Lingxi, she could be considered as a good teacher.

Then Ronghua smiled again and put away her weapon. She asked while knowing the answer, “Why don’t you ask me the reason?”

He did not reply immediately and just stared at that Ice Lotus of the Heart’s Blood. Finally, he answered, “It isn’t necessary to ask. Does it have anything to do with me? Besides, you always do not need a reason for what you want to do.”

Ronghua chuckled, “Well, you know a lot about me. Then do Your Highness know what I plan to do next?”

“No!”

“Don’t you guess? It will be quite fun!”

Weilian looked at her, and his minds were suddenly in chaos. It seemed that someone had said the same sentence to him a long, long time ago. Although she said without any intention, it was like a finger that plucked his silent heartstring. He cooled down himself, turned to look at her again, and changed the topic ponderously, “You used to escape or elude from me when you met me in the past. How do you become so brave now?”

Ronghua sneered at his question, “You do know me well. I ran just because you wanted to kill me. Do you still want to kill me now?”

She was just joking, but the words were pleasing.

“I just prevented you from forgetting it at that time, and what you want to do now has nothing to do with me. However, I have to remind you that I won’t interfere with your business as long as you do not delay mine.”

His words made Ronghua’s heart suddenly beat strangely for a second. It seemed that the voice buried deep in her mind phonated again.

She forced herself to calm down and managed a smile, “You never forget your own matter. Could you return my fan then?”

Actually, she felt anxious chronically when she saw the King of Death just now. Without her fan, she had no odds of winning against him based on her current condition. She might even be quelled before she took any actions. If this happened, the imperial clan of Zither might be ruined once he was upset. She did not have the ability to protect so many people now, so she could only pray that he would remember their appointment and would not attack.

His eyes were dark and gloomy when he looked at her. She had foreseen the result that he would be unwilling to return the fan to her. Besides, she heard that his wife Lingran also used a dark fan before her death. Although Lingran’s fan was not the same as hers, they were not quite different. Moreover, the return of the ribs of the fan helped her confirmed that Weilian thought she must have a relation with Lingran’s death.

As expected, he answered with queries, “Is the fan yours? Or it means that you can do nothing without it?”

Ronghua lowered her head and jeered. Then the icicle stretched out from her hand, and the point of it lay at his neck, “Really? I can do nothing without the fan?”

The Ice Lotus of the Heart’s Blood still revolved, and the whole imperial clan of Zither became a world of snow and ice within a breath, all the evidence of living creatures disappeared.

However, that was not enough.

“Are you sure you gonna do this?”

His voice was soft, but the content was full of threats. Ronghua would not look for trouble for this.

Ronghua took back the icicle and lay it in her hand. She pricked her palm with it, and glittering and translucent mazarine blood bled out and dropped to the ground. Weilian stood behind her. It was rare to see excitement and surprise in his impassive eyes, and even his hand moved unconsciously.

Looking at the blood fell in drops, glaring, he seemed to see someone quite familiar, even a ghost of a smile flitted over his lips but disappeared soon.

The beads of sweat trickled down her hair. Ronghua always looked poised, but now, she looked weak and hard to persist.

Changing one’s real identity was already a very dangerous method, not to speak of the blood and the incomplete Ice Lotus of the Heart’s Blood she used. She was gambling and using her life as the wager.

“Does it deserve that?” It was just a small and average place, which could be found a lot in the Realm of Demons, while she risked her life for it. Was this necessary?

“Of course, it does. Once a person had the obsessiveness and the reason to persist, it is worthy of doing everything for it.”

Weilian smiled, “You’re so stubborn.”

Being aware of his smile, Ronghua could not help responding to him with a smile as well, “Weilian, what do you think is the consequence for me if I failed today?”

He knew that she was threatening him. If she failed, he would be one of them who had to suffer the results.

“You know that I hate being threatened.”

There was an aura of killing in his eyes, but Ronghua was accustomed to it, “Oh, really?”

Perhaps only she dared to treat him in such a way now.

Weilian was unpleasant when he found that she was indifferent about his matters as she cared so much about others. He stretched out his hand, and strong spiritual power was transferred into Murong Zhe’s body. Murong Zhe finally had enough strength and made a few mudras with hands to stabilize the Ice Lotus of the Heart’s Blood without delay. A huge formation was completed.

However, Murong Zhe was very annoyed with Ronghua, since he almost died here owing to her. He was about to blame her while he saw no one when he turned to look around.

Weilian tore the crack of space and dragged Ronghua to a place that she did not know.

In the crack of space, Weilian hugged her tightly and never loosened his arms.

Ronghua was nervous because she did not know why Weilian did this and where they were going!

Weilian span and hid in a stack of straw when they landed to the ground. Ronghua fell on him heavily.

Fortunately, Ronghua was good at keeping calm and seldom screamed for emergencies, so she made no sounds when all these happened.

The sound of footsteps came from the other side of the wall. Ronghua guessed that they fell at a place that there was someone else. Nevertheless, according to his ability, it should be easy for him to find an uninhabited place to interrogate her and do something else. The reality was inverse, and it was the first time that she experienced this. How flustered had he been that made them arrive at such a place?

However, owing to his fall, Ronghua was still trapped in his arms and could not move at all. They both fell and lay on the soft straw stack. The posture was kind of compulsive and made her feel embarrassed since they were stuck together so tightly.

The sounds of something being moved came from the yard. Did they sit down?

It was a surprise!

Ronghua stared at Weilian with this posture, using her eyes to hint him to leave now. She could not tolerate this pose anymore.

However, Weilian ignored her hint and held still, without any intention to go.

In case they would be heard by the people outside, she leaned to his ear and asked with a low volume, “How long do you want to stay here? Let’s go.”

Her warm breath breezed near his ear that made it itch, but Weilian enjoyed this condition. He could smell the scent of flowers from her body by hugging her. He had not smelled this for a long time, so he did not want to let her go.

Ronghua was speechless, “What the hell do you want? Can we say it explicitly? You won’t give me my fan. Fine, I don’t ask for it, but could you loosen your arms now?”

Her words might work, and his arms moved a little. She thought he was to let her go, so she prepared to stand up. However, she failed to do more when she just raised a little bit.

Ronghua, “....”

No matter how she tried, she could not get rid of him, so she stared at Weilian with complaints. From her angle, she could directly look into his eyes, which was like a pool in the abyss. People might drown in it without care. The water in the pool was calm, but it waved when she looked into it.

Was he delighted?

“Ronghua, could you listen to a story?”

He also lowered his voice. Ronghua was stunned. She did not expect that he would only say this after that long time.

However, she did not want to refuse him, “Yes.”

After that, he put on a smile that Ronghua had never seen, “There was a little snake who was born in a brutal and unscrupulous age. He had a brother, but their parents died after their birth. At that time, the only way to survive was killing. Only endless killing and devouring could make them alive.”

A little snake? Was he talking about himself? Indeed, the Realm of Demons at that time was under chaos and violence. Keeping alive was good enough for them.

“Then, the elder brother realized that they could not survive at this place, so he made a sad decision to send his younger brother away. Whereas, without a partner, he soon became the target of others. On his deathbed, a god came and saved him.”

A God? Lingran? No, she was not a god. Ronghua had no memory about her, and she doubted her lost memories had a relation with Lingran.

“She taught him how to cultivate and survive. She gave him warmth and hope at the darkest time of his life.”

Ronghua could figure out what he was talking about now.

She asked, “After that?”

She could not help being curious about the untold part. Weilian stopped, looked at the clouds floating in the sky, and muted.

“She died, right?”

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been looking for her for so many years.

However, her words might be priming to him. Weilian denied, “No, she didn’t! It’s impossible!”

Ronghua was not a fool. She could hear the fury in his words.

Weilian suddenly strengthened the force of his hands and grasped her arms fiercely. She felt pain but said nothing.

She forced herself to look at him, “Why do you want to trade with me if she’s not dead?”

Trade?

He reduced his power, “She’s gone! I can’t find her!”

She knew the feeling of losing an important person you loved all of a sudden. You searched the whole world for her, but you still could not find her. At last, someone told you that she was dead, and you were unwilling to believe. You spontaneously neglected that possibility and refused to believe.

“Then, do you find her?”

He looked at her and was absent-minded for a moment, “If yes, why do I look for you?”

That was right. They would not be that hard if he had already found her!

Someone screamed, “Who... who are you? Why are you in my home!”

Ronghua turned her head with difficulty. Being in such pose, were they caught for adultery?

“We... we will leave at once!”

She wanted to rise to her feet, but Weilian grabbed her so tightly, “Leave your hand off!”

“What happened?” The man heard the woman’s screams, so he came in a hurry to figure it out.

“What’s wrong? Who… who are you? Why are you here?”

He had a hacking knife in his hand, but he dared not come forward because he noticed that they were not ordinary people according to their dressing. Ronghua kept apologizing with smile and struggling.

“Weilian, loosen your hands now!”

However, Weilian refused.

“Why… why are you here?”

Ronghua turned to the strangers, “Sorry. We fell from the sky carelessly. We will leave at once!”

Fell from the sky? The man and the woman both looked up, and their faces changed immediately. They couldn’t bear the consequence of provoking them if they were cultivators.

The man shivered and said, “Never… never mind. You can continue. We won’t disturb you.”

After that, he held his wife’s hand and led her to leave, for fear that they would beat them. The ordinaries could not confront the cultivators at all.