Chapter 197 Changes in the Heavenly Palace
No sooner had he finished speaking than a wolf howl, tinged with the stench of blood, filled the tent. Several enormous snow wolves bared their sharp teeth and surrounded Renshen.
Ren Shen calmly glanced at the bamboo sword at his chest, then raised his eyes to sweep over the wolf fangs bared in front of him, and sneered, "That's all?"
Shu Bu frowned, and the bamboo sword suddenly shattered, turning into several thin bamboo needles that pierced Ren Shen's chest!
Ren Shen sneered, looked at Shu Bu, his gray eyes suddenly widened, and the bamboo needle that had been inserted was slowly pushed out!
Shu Bu frowned and increased his Qi, but he couldn't control the bamboo needles no matter what he did. The tough bamboo needles slowly bent and deformed, and finally, with a "snap," they all broke!
Seeing this, Shu Bu leaned back slightly and looked at the man in front of him with a hint of surprise. He had black hair and a jade-like face, with cold eyebrows and a pair of seemingly affectionate but actually lifeless peach blossom eyes. Below his straight nose were two grayish-white lips. He looked like a dead person without any life, yet he was also infuriating because he was not quite dead!
"Hmm—humph—humph—"
Perhaps it was the sound of the bamboo needle breaking that was too loud, or perhaps it was the tense atmosphere inside the tent that made Xuanmiao, who was still fast asleep in Su Yuyao's arms, shake her big head and start whimpering and crying again.
"Want! Want!" Xuanmiao didn't fully open her eyes, but instead, as if in a nightmare, she stretched out her chubby little hands and grabbed at something in the air. Grabbing at empty air again and again made Xuanmiao increasingly anxious. "Ah—! Want—!"
Su Yuyao quickly grasped Xuanmiao's chubby little hand that was raised in the air, tucked it into her clothes, placed it on her round chest, and gently patted Xuanmiao's chubby bottom, swaying her body slightly to soothe Xuanmiao's flustered emotions.
"Hmm—humph—ah—!" Xuanmiao pinched Su Yuyao's chest, seemingly dissatisfied, pulled her little hand out and stretched it into the air again, grabbing wildly while crying loudly.
Su Yuyao held Xuanmiao's small hand tenderly, thought for a moment, and said, "Bai'er, go and pick up that stinky dried fish!"
"Yes!" Bai Er glanced nervously at her feet. "Huh? Miss! The dried fish is gone!"
"How could it be gone? Wasn't it just in the soup pot?" Su Yuyao hugged Xuanmiao with a mix of guilt and heartache, and said somewhat impatiently.
"It was indeed in the soup pot just now, but... I threw it out..." Bai Er muttered as she squatted down, searching.
Ruixue lowered her head and sniffed, then suddenly raised her eyelids and glared at Renshen. Her silver eyes shot out terrifying icy shards, like ice suddenly shattering.
Ren Shen, despite facing a group of baring, extremely unfriendly snow wolves, maintained his somber and deathly demeanor. However, upon hearing the mysterious crying, he frowned slightly, inadvertently revealing a hint of worry. But this fleeting change in emotion caused a slight tremor in his heavy and steady aura.
This slight tremor could no longer escape Su Yuyao's perception! An unnamed anger gradually rushed towards Su Yuyao's Heavenly Gate, and the world before her eyes began to flash and change between colors and red, finally settling on the fiery red Qi world.
She slowly raised her eyelids and glanced at Renshen. In the surging aura of killing intent, a brown vortex of energy was stirring restlessly, like a flower bud plotting to bloom!
"Bai Er, stop looking for now." Su Yuyao handed over Xuanmiao from her arms and said in a gloomy tone, "Take Miao'er out."
"Ah? Yes, Miss!" Bai Er didn't understand Su Yuyao's thoughts, but judging from Su Yuyao's red eyes, it was safer to hide outside!
She didn't dare delay, so she tore off a piece of animal skin, wrapped it around the incessantly crying Xuanmiao, and rushed out of the tent.
The biting wind scratched Xuanmiao's damp face, and the cold, stinging sensation gradually brought Xuanmiao back to his senses.
"Huh?" Xuanmiao stared at Bai'er with puzzled eyes, her chubby little hands unconsciously clenching and unclenching, but still finding nothing. Somewhat bewildered, she put her hands in her mouth, as if trying to comfort herself, yet feeling something was missing…
"Ah! Ah!" Xuanmiao finally remembered what was missing. She pointed to Su Yuyao's tent with her short, stubby finger, "Go! Go!"
"Miao'er, do you want dried fish?" Bai'er gently wiped Xuanmiao's face with a soft handkerchief and said with a smile, "Miao'er, be good. Your mother is talking inside. After she finishes talking, Auntie will take you in to find some!"
"Ah..." Xuanmiao twirled his fingers, staring at the tent with his big, round eyes, muttering, "Dry...so hot..."
"Miao'er isn't full, is she?" Bai Er chuckled and bounced Xuan Miao's chubby body, saying, "Come on! Auntie will grill some meat for Miao'er!"
"Ah! Again! Again!" Xuanmiao's attention shifted from the tent to the distant campfire and the sizzling venison on it. Her eyes widened, and she raised her little arm, shouting in a serious tone, "Elbow! Again!"
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"Renshen, I really underestimated you!" Su Yuyao slowly stood up, straightening her clothes as she spoke coldly, "You actually ignored my warning and secretly infiltrated the wolf clan. Did you think I wouldn't be able to find your true form, or did you think I would let you go? Or... did you never even consider that I would discover you?"
“Miss Yao’er,” Ren Shen replied, bowing his head, “I cannot disobey the orders of Mother Yi, so…”
"So? So?" Su Yuyao slowly drew her crescent blade, gripped it in reverse, and leisurely walked to Ren Shen. She pressed the sharp blade against the center of the brown vortex and asked coldly, "So, you can ignore my warnings, trespass into the wolf clan's territory, and sneak into the wolf clan leader's tent? Tell me! What exactly are you planning?!"
In Xunyin Valley, Ren Shen witnessed the murderous aura of Su Yuyao when her eyes turned red, and he knew that he was in danger!
He lowered his eyelids to look at the blade pressing against his dantian and replied respectfully, "I only wish to protect you and Miss Xuanmiao; I have no other intentions."
A flash of fire appeared in her red eyes. Su Yuyao recalled the terrifying moment just now, her heart trembled slightly, but her Qi field remained unchanged.
“Renshen,” Su Yuyao said softly, her red eyes sparkling, “It’s true that you saved Miao’er, and I, Su Yuyao, thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
She twisted her wrist, pointing the blade at the center of the swirling energy, and stared at Ren Shen with a wicked glint in her eyes, saying leisurely, "But, one thing at a time. You kept your promise to protect Miao'er, and I should keep mine..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the silver blade tip suddenly trembled, and a stream of golden energy flowed from the tip towards the brown vortex, then gradually flowed into Ren Shen's dantian...
"Ugh!" Ren Shen felt a sharp pain in his dantian! He quickly held his breath, regulated the qi channels in his body, and circulated the qi back to the sea of qi, trying to trap Su Yuyao's qi ball in his dantian.
Su Yuyao probed with her Qi, sneered, and with a flick of her red eyes, a Qi wind suddenly arose. Her colorful robe lifted the animal skin cloak and swayed slightly. Her braided hairpin, adorned with animal bones, floated in the air like several ghostly snakes flicking their tongues at Ren Shen.
Seeing Su Yuyao about to explode, Ren Shen frowned and accelerated the gathering of his Qi. "Miss Yao'er, please don't be impulsive..."
Su Yuyao's red eyes hardened, and she abruptly withdrew the Qi ball curled up in the Ren Shen Qi Sea, instantly transforming it into countless thin, spider-web-like streams of Qi that pierced the outermost illusory image of the vortex like steel needles...
*Poof!* Countless spider silk threads pierced through Ren Shen's skin and flesh!
*Pfft!* A mouthful of blood splattered onto Su Yuyao's face!
What?! Ren Shen's eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at the alluring face on her chest, feeling the pain of several steel needles piercing and intertwining within his flesh. It wasn't...breaking through his dantian? It was piercing...his very body? Heh...what a...Su Yuyao...
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"Again! Again! So angry!" Xuanmiao sat cross-legged in Bai'er's lap, drooling, her little mouth agape, watching Bai'er chew fragrant minced meat for her. "Ah! So angry!"
Bai Er lowered her head and, smiling, fed the meat paste in her mouth to Xuan Miao.
Pfft! Whoosh!
A gust of wind, carrying the fresh smell of blood, sprayed across the vast snow-covered slope.
Bai Er quickly shielded Xuan Miao in his arms and looked back at Su Yu Yao's tent, where he saw that a large patch of blood had seeped into one side of the tent.
The wolf pack, which had been resting on the snow slope, slowly gathered together, protecting Bai Er and Xuan Miao in the middle.
Xuanmiao sniffed, smacking his lips with the minced meat as he turned to look in the direction from which the fishy smell was coming.
"Miao'er! Do you still want some meat?" Bai Er quickly tried to distract Xuan Miao with roasted meat.
"Ah! Ugh!" Xuanmiao was already used to the smell of blood. Although the stench of blood was a little different this time, the temptation of roasted meat was still much greater than that of roasted meat!
"Again! Again! Annoying!" Xuanmiao reached for the roasted venison and shouted with a laugh, "Wonderful! Annoying again!"
...
The tent reeked of blood!
The snow wolves that had been baring their teeth were now sitting obediently to the side. Only Ruixue remained in a hunting posture, guarding Su Yuyao from behind. Shubu released a bamboo sword again, holding it in his hand to protect Su Yuyao.
Ren Shen hung his head, his black robe at the chest soaked in blood, gleaming with a dark sheen. The robe on his back was gone, replaced by a blurry mass of flesh and blood. Within this pinkish-red flesh and blood, wisps of light could be clearly seen moving through it.
His eyes were half-closed, and he weakly curled the corners of his mouth. He had been careless; he hadn't expected... her to be so ruthless...
Su Yuyao slowly retracted her crescent blade, but did not retract the spiderweb-like Qi flow.
"Renshin, I told you, if you dare to step into the wolf clan's territory, I will chop your true form into mincemeat!"
Ren Shen slowly raised his head, looking at the red eyes under the blood-red light. He grinned, his lips stained with blood, and said hoarsely, "Miss Yao'er, I am acting on the orders of Mother Yi..."
"So what?" Su Yuyao tilted her head and said coldly, "This is a snow mountain, my territory, and I call the shots!"
The moment the words left his mouth, the light writhing within the flesh suddenly tightened! The squeezed-out minced meat dripped onto the ground like a muddy stream.
"Ugh!" Ren Shen endured the pain, frowned, and suddenly released the Qi field within his dantian. The powerful Qi flow immediately pushed Su Yuyao's spider silk Qi flow out, and countless steel needles rushed towards Su Yuyao's face!
Su Yuyao frowned, her red eyes widening in shock, and layers of steel needles instantly fixed in front of her!
Ruixue could no longer contain her anger towards Renshen. When she saw Renshen shoot out steel needles to pierce Su Yuyao, she was even more furious and bared her teeth as she was about to pounce on him.
Having fought Ren Shen before, Shu Bu knew that Rui Xue would only be beaten if she rushed forward. He quickly used his bamboo sword to block the aggressive Rui Xue and whispered to her, "Rui Xue, calm down. The commander will make a plan!"
Su Yuyao narrowed her red eyes and sneered, but a trace of panic crept into her heart. Although her red eyes could see the Qi field, that was all she could see. She hadn't expected the Qi field of Ren Shen to be so thick, obscuring everything! What should she do...?
Taking advantage of Su Yuyao's momentary daze, Ren Shen quickly replenished his body with Qi, barely managing to control his injuries.
Pfft!
A very faint and brief sound!
So faint that Ruixue began to doubt whether she had heard correctly, and so brief that the snow wolves in the tent didn't even have time to figure out the source of the sound!
"Heh..." Su Yuyao sneered, and said in a gloomy tone, "You, Ren Shen, didn't you say you were ordered to protect me and Xuan Miao? Why... did you try to assassinate me?!"
Ren Shen looked at Su Yuyao in surprise, only to see Su Yuyao staring at him with a sinister smile and red eyes.
“Miss Yao’er, I did not… Eh! You?!” Ren Shen was about to explain when he saw the steel needle he had flicked away converging into a silver arrow in front of Su Yuyao’s chest. The arrowhead was already deeply embedded in her flesh, and dark red blood was slowly soaking through Su Yuyao’s front!
Ren Shen stared wide-eyed in disbelief, “Miss Yao’er! You?! You’re trying to frame me…”
*Pfft!* Blood gushed out!
Now, the snow wolves smelled the scent of Su Yuyao's blood, bared their fangs, and aimed at Renshen in an attack posture. Even the usually calm and cautious Rat Bu disregarded the vast difference in strength and raised his bamboo sword, pointing it at Renshen once again.
Ren Shen stared speechlessly at Su Yuyao, who was willing to harm herself to frame him. "Miss Yao'er, why..."
"Renshen, why did you try to assassinate me?" Su Yuyao interrupted, asking smugly.
"You know perfectly well that I did not..."
"Are you going to protect us, mother and daughter, or do you want to follow the wishes of the Goddess Yi and let the mother keep the child?" Su Yuyao interrupted Ren Shen again.
Ren Shen, seeing that Su Yuyao was being somewhat unreasonable, patiently explained, "Empress Yi did not..."
Thud! The silver arrow pierced even deeper!
"Eh? Eh! Miss Yao'er! Please let me finish speaking..." Ren Shen pleaded helplessly, bowing his head.
*Thud!* The silver arrow gave Ren Shen no chance to catch his breath, piercing Su Yuyao's chest.
Seeing this, Ren Shen hurriedly reached out to grab the silver arrow, but unexpectedly, the silver arrow suddenly disappeared! Instead, Ren Shen's hand landed squarely on Su Yuyao's soft chest.
Su Yuyao's red vision suddenly transformed into a dark green thicket! She saw the bushes swaying, a ray of sunlight shining into her eyes, and after the light, she saw Ruixue's anxious face; she saw Xuanmiao sucking hard on her breast with tears in her eyes, while she was being pressed tightly against Xuanmiao's firm... breast; she saw dark brown breasts pressing against her eyes; she saw Xuanmiao squeezing out milk and spraying it onto her...
Su Yuyao gradually clenched her fists and slowly withdrew her red eyes. She looked at her chest; although the blood had soaked through her clothes, it had stopped. She slowly raised her eyelids and watched as her blood-stained, grayish-white fingers nervously wiped the bloodstains on her black robe. She looked up again and saw that Ren Shen's lifeless face had actually flushed slightly.
“Renshin,” Su Yuyao stepped forward, staring into Renshin’s eyes, and asked through gritted teeth, “You, are you that stinky dried fish?!”
"Gurgle..." Before Renshen could answer, Ruixue let out an angry growl.
Hearing Ruixue's roar, Su Yuyao became even more certain of her guess!
“Miss Yao’er, I…” Ren Shen replied, bowing his head, but his gaze inadvertently fell on Su Yuyao’s chest, reminding him of the past few days…
Snap!
Before he could even think of it, Su Yuyao's slap landed squarely on Ren Shen's face.
"Yes?" Su Yuyao asked through gritted teeth, "No?"
Ren Shen smacked his lips, swallowed the freshly swallowed blood, sighed softly, and responded very carefully in a low voice, "Mmm..."
Snap!
Su Yuyao slapped him again.
The rosy complexion on Ren Shen's dead face quickly solidified into two chubby palm prints.
Su Yuyao stared wide-eyed, gritting her teeth, and asked, word by word, "Renshin, you assassinated me, how can I let you live?!"
Ren Shen couldn't defend himself. He knew that Su Yuyao had saved his face. If he were to recount his experiences over the past few days, not only Xuan Feng, but even the Mother Goddess Yi would not spare his life.
Should we really tell the truth?
“Miss Yao’er, I accept the punishment!” Ren Shen replied, bowing his head. “However, Lord Xuanfeng has important matters to attend to, and Lady Yi is worried about your and Miss Miao’er’s safety, which is why she has assigned me to protect you personally. I hope you will give me another chance…”
As he spoke, Renshen raised his eyelids and glanced at the furious snow wolf inside the tent.
Su Yuyao's eyes flashed, and she turned her head and said, "Shubu, Ruixue, you two go out first."
“This… is it! Commander!” Shubu was slightly doubtful, but he trusted Su Yuyao’s decision, so he grabbed the indignant Ruixue and led the other snow wolves out of the tent.
"Tell me, what exactly happened?" Su Yuyao asked, staring intently into Ren Shen's eyes.
Ren Shen sighed softly, glanced at the tent's roll-up door, and whispered, "Something has changed in the Heavenly Palace."
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