Chapter 45: Can't Take It Down
Zhang Qingchen and the prince carried torches that were very bright. The light illuminated Zhang Qingchen, who looked very weak, with a sullen face.
"Senior Brother, are you okay?" Li Yuanying was a little surprised.
"Wanwan, I'm sorry to have worried you. It was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who saved me."
Li Yuanying frowned. The prince? He's not a good person...
The prince smiled and walked towards Li Yuanying: "Miss Li, how are you?"
It's really haunting.
"Prince, why were you able to leave the palace?" Li Yuanying asked.
The prince raised his eyebrows: "Why? Miss Li doesn't welcome me?"
"No. Your Highness the Crown Prince, may you be blessed with good health." Li Yuanying knew that she had been impolite and quickly paid her respects to His Highness the Crown Prince.
It's weird. Originally, the prince should not be able to leave the palace. Did someone kill the mask worm's mother?
"No need to be so formal, no need to be so formal." Seeing that Li Yuanying was so obedient, the prince immediately softened his attitude.
"Are you here alone?" Li Yuanying was a little curious as to why the prince's guards were not present.
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yuanying saw three people standing not far away. They were all fully armed, wearing armor and carrying swords.
"Look, it's really annoying to have the Guards following me." The prince pursed his lips.
Fortunately, if the prince had sneaked out alone, if something happened, she would be held responsible too much.
"Actually, I came to you because I have official business." The prince changed the subject and became serious.
Then, the prince's eyes fell on Qilang.
Qilang looked at the cynical prince warily, cursing him as an idiot in his heart, but his face remained expressionless.
"Ever since you left Chang'an, a plague of infant spirits has broken out, and the people are suffering," the prince said as he walked towards Qilang. "After a thorough investigation, we discovered that the infant spirits originated from the inn you stayed at, and then became increasingly serious. To be more precise, it originated from the room you stayed in."
"So, Your Highness the Crown Prince suspects that we are the cause of those infant spirits?" Li Yuanying said.
The prince immediately waved his hand. "Hey, how could you possibly suspect Miss Li? After all, the entire Yuanming Realm is the work of the Li family. I'm just suspicious of this new young man. I heard your father captured him from Mount Buzhou. Do you know his origins?"
Li Yuanying understood that this time they were targeting Qilang.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince is very discerning. Qilang is not a person of unknown origin. All the documents are here." Li Yuanying replied immediately.
"Miss Li, don't worry, I'm just doing my routine work. I want to take this young man back to assist in the investigation." The prince narrowed his eyes and said with a forced smile.
Bingyi wanted to stop them, but she didn't expect Li Yuanying to speak first: "No. You can't take him away."
The prince's face turned ugly.
"You have no evidence whatsoever, and you want to take him away just because we stayed at that inn. Is that..."
Before Li Yuanying finished speaking, a hand was placed on her shoulder.
Li Yuanying turned around and saw that it was Qilang.
His face was calm: "Don't be afraid, I will go with him."
"Qilang!" Li Yuanying grabbed Qilang's hand, "No, I can't let them take you away."
Qilang smiled, and there seemed to be a hint of pride in his expression: "Can't bear to leave your husband?"
He was originally still angry with Li Yuanying, but now seeing her so anxious, he felt happy. At least the two idiots' angry yet forbearing look made him feel happy.
Qi Lang grabbed Li Yuanying's hand with his backhand, intertwining their fingers like glue. "My poor wife, I'm going to have to make you stay alone in the empty room again. Don't be afraid. After I cooperate with the investigation, I will definitely come back to be with you as soon as possible."
Li Yuanying blushed upon hearing this. How could he say such a thing in front of so many people? Wasn't he inexplicably angry at first? Why was he saying such ambiguous words now?
It's really unpredictable.
The prince looked at the three guards, and they came over and pulled Qilang away.
"What are you doing? Aren't you cooperating with the investigation?" Li Yuanying was really angry now.
Qilang pretended to be innocent and pitiful. He rubbed his shoulders and looked at Li Yuanying aggrievedly, meaning that they had just pulled me and hurt me.
"How do you treat the son-in-law of the Li family? For Mr. Li's sake, you should be polite to him." The prince was angry but couldn't vent his anger, so he could only speak in such a sarcastic tone.
The three guards let Qilang go in disappointment.
"Commander Zhang, after you get the Polar Cold Lotus, come with us." The prince ordered.
"yes."
Zhang Qingchen looked at Li Yuanying and motioned her to go together to get the Polar Cold Lotus.
Li Yuanying took Shiwu by the hand and walked her to Bingyi: "Bingyi, take good care of her. You two go first and meet up in Chang'an."
After saying that, Li Yuanying looked in the direction of Qilang, and then looked at Bingyi.
"I can't let them take the young master away." Bingyi said in a low voice.
"So, you have to go back to Chang'an first. Don't you still have a master?" Li Yuanying reminded.
Bingyi suddenly understood and nodded. Li Yuanying borrowed the torch from Zhang Qingchen and handed it to Bingyi, asking her to take Shiwu away first.
The prince now only cares about Qilang. If he can get rid of this man, he can be with Li Yuanying, whom he has been thinking about all the time.
Therefore, he did not want to find out who the woman in red and the little girl were.
Zhang Qingchen just wanted to get fewer people involved in this incident, so he also hoped that Bingyi and Shiwu would leave as soon as possible.
Li Yuanying now has no choice but to obtain the Polar Cold Lotus first, and then make a long-term plan after returning to Chang'an.
However, when Zhang Qingchen just stepped on the ice produced by the polar cold lotus, his shoes were quickly frozen to it. Fortunately, Zhang Qingchen reacted in time and pulled his legs back.
The ice continued to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its range became larger and larger.
"Commander Zhang, you can't pick the polar cold lotus if you don't have Qinggong skills, right?" Qilang's voice came with a hint of provocation.
The corners of the prince's mouth also curled up.
Zhang Qingchen is feeling aggrieved now, but he can't say it out loud. He doesn't know what method the prince used. He has woken up now, but the toxins in his body seem to have not been cleared out.
His physical strength and martial arts ability are indeed not as good as before he was poisoned. Now the entire ice block has expanded larger than before. If he fails to succeed in one fell swoop, he may really be frozen on the ice surface and unable to return.
"How about letting me come?"
"You come? Can your hand touch that flower?" Li Yuanying said angrily. She felt that Qilang was just like a child and not mature at all.
“Just…”
Qi Lang was about to speak when Li Yuanying glared at him: "A mere Polar Cold Lotus, is that right?"
"You!" Qilang was rebuked and felt very angry. He simply shut up and wanted to see how capable this stupid senior brother was.
"Qilang, use the fireworks to melt the ice. Then, Senior Brother, take advantage of the time it takes to quickly remove the Polar Frost Lotus. Finally, I will use the Golden Eye of All Wishes to prevent the fire on Flame Mountain."
"I don't want it!"
"I don't want it!"
The two people said this almost at the same time, which really shocked and angered Li Yuanying.
"Wanwan, he is against me in every way. How can I trust him? He might stop trying to thaw me just when I am halfway there. Wouldn't that be courting death?" Zhang Qingchen said.
"Look, you, my senior brother, not only make malicious assumptions about others, but you are also afraid of death. How can you be a leader? It's really funny."
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Li Yuanying shouted, "Shut up!"
Although Li Yuanying was usually aloof and occasionally quirky, she kept a calm expression most of the time, seemingly maintaining a stable mood. Neither Zhang Qingchen nor Qilang had expected her to lose her temper so violently.
The two of them quickly fell silent, not daring to move.
"It's already this late, and you two are still arguing, right?" Li Yuanying felt a surge of depression in her chest, and she began to cough violently.
She stopped only after spitting out a mouthful of black blood.
The three of them were shocked and gathered around with concern, but were pushed away by Li Yuanying.
"If you have time to pretend to care about me, why don't you just actively cooperate and get the job done?" Li Yuanying breathed a sigh of relief. "I don't have much time left. Please don't waste my time anymore, okay?"
Zhang Qingchen and Qilang were both slightly stunned. They stopped arguing and each of them had their own thoughts, with a worried look on their faces.
"Alright, I believe you both understand what I just said. I don't have the energy to open the Golden Eye of Wishes again. You two better cooperate and succeed in one go. If you fail, I have nothing to say. You guys should take care of yourself!"
After Li Yuanying finished her temper, the two of them seemed to get serious.
"We are ready, Commander Zhang."
"good."
Qilang raised a ball of fire in his hand and then cast it on the ice surface. Sure enough, the ice produced by the polar cold lotus melted, but it also merged at a faster speed.
Qilang increased his magic power to prevent the ice from continuing to merge: "Quick!"
Zhang Qingchen no longer hesitated. He rushed into the fireworks, and Qilang continued to burn forward. Zhang Qingchen ran forward. Every time he passed a place, the ice behind him would refreeze. As Zhang Qingchen ran farther and farther, Qilang needed more and more magic power.
He had originally used half of his cultivation to save Li Yuanying. Now, when he was burning the ice of the Polar Cold Lotus, he seemed to be struggling and sweat broke out on his forehead.
Finally arriving at the Polar Cold Lotus, Zhang Qingchen immediately wanted to pick up the flower with his right hand, but when he exerted force, he found that the flower did not move at all.
"Are you okay?" Qilang felt a deficiency in his body and he was running out of magic power.
"I can't take it off!" Zhang Qingchen continued to try hard, but there was nothing he could do.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Yuanying grabbed Qilang's hand. His hand was not as hot as before, but a little cold.
The blue fireworks began to turn orange-red, and the area of melting ice became smaller and smaller, but Zhang Qingchen was unable to take down the Polar Cold Lotus.
"Can you do it or not?" The veins on Qilang's forehead bulged.
"This thing doesn't move at all!" Zhang Qingchen gritted his teeth and finally squeezed out these words from between his teeth.
"Trash!" Qilang shouted.
As Qilang's fireworks turned from blue to red, and then from red to yellow, the ice at Zhang Qingchen's feet began to gather towards him, and soon was approaching the edge of his shoes.
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