Chapter 28: Flame Mountain Cocoon Man (1)
When Li Yuanying came out of the palace, she put on the ribbon that Qilang gave her. After her golden pupils grew out, she could see the outside world clearly from a strange perspective while wearing the ribbon.
This perspective seems like a God's perspective, which is somewhat different from the previous feeling.
Before Li Yuanying and Zhang Qingchen had walked far, a man in luxurious clothes followed them, accompanied by a servant.
Li Yuanying took a closer look and saw that the person coming was none other than His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
"Prince?"
"Miss Li, just call me Master Fu."
Li Yuanying really didn't want to pay any attention to this man. He had a smile on his face, but he looked really wretched. This was not the first time Li Yuanying had met him. After removing the mask worm from the prince's body a few years ago, he was determined to marry her.
"Okay, Master Fu, aren't you not allowed to leave the palace?" Li Yuanying remembered that she had only set up a barrier at the palace.
"It's okay. As long as I get back to the palace before sunset, those bugs won't be able to find me." The prince shook the sachet in his hand. "This is the sachet that Imperial Master Fu Yu gave me. It can dispel evil spirits."
Li Yuanying smiled, but she did not respond to the prince's words. If she was asked to create a barrier larger than the imperial palace, she was capable of doing so. However, she felt it was not worth it for someone like the prince.
Although Li Yuanying lived far away in Yaoshui Town, she had heard of the emperor's absurdities. He now had eighteen concubines, one of whom was a courtesan from Lanfang Pavilion. Because of this, the emperor had been bedridden for half a month, and the ministers were furious, but to no avail.
Later, he brought this woman into the palace to be a maid, living without any status, and became a source of worry for everyone.
Queen Jiang's attitude towards the Crown Prince was somewhat subtle. The Crown Prince was raised under Queen Jiang's name, and they shared a common interest, but after all, they were not his biological children. Therefore, Queen Jiang turned a blind eye to some things. If she was too strict, it would hurt the relationship between mother and son.
Li Yuanying knew that the prince wanted to take her into his possession to fill the vacancy in his harem where there was no concubine like her.
"Master Fu, Wanwan and I have official business to attend to, so it's inconvenient for you to follow us. Please..." Zhang Qingchen didn't know what the prince was up to.
"Commander Zhang, I misunderstood. I...ah, no, I just wanted to go to Lanfang Pavilion. I thought it would be safer to follow you two. The inn you two are staying in is in Pingkangfang, right? You must be passing by Lanfang Pavilion."
Zhang Qingchen felt that what the prince said was right, so he stopped talking.
Li Yuanying and Zhang Qingchen didn't want to bother with the prince, but they had no choice but to send him to Lanfang Pavilion.
Dancing peach blossoms adorn the courtyard, and the song is lingering among the willows, filled with sorrow.
The lascivious music is disturbing, all in vain and without true feelings.
Li Yuanying arrived at the foot of Lanfang Pavilion and watched the prince go in. Then she happened to meet a handsome young man in blue clothes coming out. The man had an extremely handsome face, standing out among the crowd, and it was impossible to take your eyes off him.
Therefore, Li Yuanying immediately noticed the young man.
It turned out to be Qilang. How could he come out of Lanfang Pavilion?
When Qilang saw Li Yuanying, he was also stunned for a moment. He frowned, looked at Zhang Qingchen, and then looked at Li Yuanying.
"Sir! Wait for me!"
Li Yuanying heard Bingyi's voice.
"Li Yuanying!" Bing Yi yelled, "Humph, none of you are good people."
"What? Your master went to a brothel while I was away and that's a good thing?" Li Yuanying was a little angry.
"Our young master has been so worried about you. And you? A scheming bitch! You gouged out his eyes just to save your senior brother's life! And you pretended it was for our young master, deceiving his feelings. How shameless!"
When Li Yuanying heard this, she became even angrier.
Where did she hear these words? With her intelligence, she definitely couldn't guess why she did this. Although it wasn't entirely for Qilang, it wasn't just to save her brother as she said.
"Bingyi, you're wrong to say that. Wanwan never intended to deceive your young master's feelings. Even though she gouged out his eyes for other reasons, it was also to save you. The two things don't conflict at all."
After saying this, Zhang Qingchen subconsciously stood between Li Yuanying and Bingyi.
"Haha, stop being a nice guy here."
"Stop talking." Qilang said coldly, "Let's go."
Seeing that his master was unwilling to help him, Qilang originally wanted to steal the night pearl, but unexpectedly, his master told him that the reason why Li Yuanying gouged out her eyes was just to get the golden pupil of Shengle Fairy, and the reason why Zhang Qingchen cut off her right arm was just to grow a fairy arm. All this was for the extremely low cold lotus on Yanshan Mountain.
Therefore, from beginning to end, whether it was Li Yuanying or Zhang Qingchen, their actions had nothing to do with him and Bingyi.
However, he had risked his life to enter the Shengle Fantasy World in order to save her.
He actually felt pity for such a person and wanted to save her, forgetting his original mission.
Qilang looked at Zhang Qingchen and smiled coldly.
Senior brother?
It seems like they are childhood sweethearts, and their behavior and actions are the same.
"Qillang, where are you and Bingyi going?" Zhang Qingchen asked.
"Where we go is none of your business. You can do whatever you want with your dear junior sister, just don't bother with our young master." Bingyi rolled his eyes at Zhang Qingchen.
"We are going to Yanshan immediately. If you don't want to go with us, then stay in Chang'an and wait for us to come back."
When Li Yuanying heard the words "If you don't go with us", she paused. If Qilang really didn't go with her, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to survive more than three days. This was not acceptable.
Thinking of this, Li Yuanying was angry and annoyed. He went to the brothel to have fun, and he didn't know which woman's slander he listened to. Now he was angry with her for no reason, but she had something to ask of him. It was really cowardly.
Since her mother's death, Li Yuanying has lived in the Li family mansion. She has suffered a lot of grievances and acted out a lot of dramas, being hypocritical and saying one thing and thinking another. She has always acted well, but this time, she feels a little different from usual.
She actually had a temper and didn't want to coax Qilang.
"Let's go, senior brother." She gently pulled Zhang Qingchen's sleeve, and then walked away.
She has been fighting the cold for more than a year or two. Even without Qilang, she has a way to keep herself going for seven days.
Since Li Yuanying and Zhang Qingchen were going to Yanshan in the afternoon, she immediately went to the pharmacy to get some strong prescriptions. This prescription could relieve her cold symptoms, but the side effect was that it would cause severe pain that ordinary people could not bear.
At this point, she couldn't care less about these details. The most urgent task was to retrieve the extremely low-level cold lotus.
In addition to preparing the medicine, Li Yuanying also went to the post station to send a letter to her family. After everything was arranged, she and Zhang Qingchen embarked on a journey to Yanshan.
Yanshan is two days' journey from Chang'an. By the time they arrived at Yanshan, it was already the third day, and it had also been three days since Li Yuanying left Qilang.
When we arrived at Yanshan, it was noon. The sun was scorching overhead, the land was cracked, and no grass grew.
Zhang Qingchen was sweating profusely, but Li Yuanying's face was pale and seemed a little cold.
"Wanwan, are you okay?" Zhang Qingchen asked.
"It's okay." Li Yuanying began to feel her body movements slowing down. If it weren't for the extremely hot Yanshan, her condition would be much worse.
Although her illness became more serious, her lost magical powers seemed to be gradually recovering.
This was not the first time she had discovered this. In fact, whenever Qilang gave her energy, she would feel her magic power gradually dissipating.
Perhaps, she can only choose between staying alive and gaining magical power.
She took out the alchemy talisman, then placed the herbs on top of it, concentrated her energy and mind, used her magic power, and a white light flashed. The originally scattered herbs turned into three pills.
Li Yuanying put the pills away for future use.
"Wanwan, is your cold...better?" Zhang Qingchen asked.
"It's okay." Li Yuanying was unwilling to reveal more details. She knew in her heart that her time was up and she could only wait for death.
But before she died, she still had some unresolved issues.
"Wanwan, you can't take this medicine for a long time. It's harmful to your body and has no benefits."
"Brother, let's talk about the situation in Yanshan. This time, our mission is to obtain the Polar Cold Lotus. I think you know better than me how difficult it is to obtain it."
Yes, the Polar Cold Lotus grows on the Flame Mountain, where the air temperature reaches over 50 degrees Celsius and the ground temperature reaches over 70 degrees Celsius. Flames rage all around, and monsters are reborn.
The monsters on Yanshan Mountain are all puppets, and they are plant puppets, which means that most of them are monsters transformed from plants, not animals or humans.
This kind of monster has a characteristic, which is that it is extremely concealed.
For example, it is possible that a spore is a monster. If a person inhales the spore into the lungs, the monster will start to cause trouble from inside the human body, which is similar to the masked worm that the prince encountered before.
Seeing that Li Yuanying didn't want to talk about this, Zhang Qingchen stopped talking. He took out a mask from his bag and handed it to Li Yuanying.
This white mask that is as thin as paper is called a thin mask.
When monster hunters are on missions outside and encounter plant puppets, they will wear this layer of gauze to prevent the plant puppets from invading their bodies.
The two men put on their masks and walked to the foot of Yanshan Mountain, where they saw a child sitting at the entrance of the village.
He was pale and thin, with no teeth. He was stroking the sand, and no one knew what he was playing with.
"Who are you?" the child asked when he saw Li Yuanying.
"Hello, we are wandering doctors, and we travel all over the world. We happened to pass by Yanshan and wondered if we could stay with us for a night." Zhang Qingchen said.
The child's belly was huge, his eyes were bulging, and his eyeballs were rolling around. "Doctor? Then can you check on my mother?"
Zhang Qingchen and Li Yuanying looked at each other.
"No problem. Our purpose is to save the world. Could you lead the way so we can meet your mother?" Zhang Qingchen said.
"Great, great, please follow me!" the child shouted happily.
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