The Princess And The Lord

It's been five days since she traps in the mystique realm. Lory used her time to exercise, being asleep for too long she needs to train her stiff muscles again. every day she spends her time running for two hours than swimming in the sea for another hour, after she finishes she spends her time in a hot spring to relaxed her muscles, after a few days her strength slowly return, the only problem is Girsha is still sleeping and Zhao Li Xin….well he still angry.

Lory was in her running exercise when Huo Long greets her near the cliff "Morning!" he cheerfully smiles while raised the waterskin in front of Lory.

Lory took the waterskin from Huo Long's hands " I think 'good day' is more appropriated since every day the weather remains the same" she opens the lid and gulped half water on the waterskin. She let out a long sigh then wiped the sweat on her forhead with her sleeve.

"It's been five days that but the ancestor still not awake," Huo Long said with worry.

The cursed try to take over my mind so Girsha used all his power to protect me" Lory smiles as she took a seat on the flat rock near her then she enjoys the scenery of erupted volcano on the horizon.

"So the ancestor power is to keep your sanity" Huo Long was intrigued, he never face a real demon afterall.

 "Yes, the scary thing when you let enter a demon in your body are they not just swallow your soul but it would mess with your head first, make you weak, and vulnerable….like a slice of tender meat before entering the oven" Lory roll her eyes before taking another sip from the waterskin.

"Oven?" Huo Long tilt his head.

"Overall is bad…" she brushes it off without bothering to explain further.

"Thankfully you remain sane throughout the ordeal" Huo Long comfort her.

"Well most of the time, it's getting harder after a few years….." Lory stifle is there a period of times where her memory becomes hazy it's should be the last year before she died, her memory is like a missing puzzle where she remembers one thing then forget the next, it was a dark period of her life where she refused to remember.

Huo Long sees the bitterness in her eyes so he doesn't probe further. He finally shifts the subject "Well, you do have a strong mind, it's already a week but you haven't make a fuss yet, normal women would be furious when if they unfairly trap in here" he chuckles lightly but he does genuinely praised her patience.

"That because I can't put all the blame on him, from the moment we met Li Xin always suppress his ego and get along with all my willfulness, he gives me complete trust and willing to compromise with my bad decision, so I think this time it's should be my turn….But I will not lie that this annoyed me" Lory prop her chin with her hand on her knee.

"Thankfully you are understanding because you know you freak him out don't you" he raised his eyebrows.

"Yeah, I know" she weakly said.

Huo Long sigh in relief, he worries Lory will be furious when she knew she had been trapped by Zhao Li Xin, he worries this would create a cracked in their relationship but unexpectedly, Lory didn't blame Zhao Li Xin, although she does feel annoyed when she realized Zhao Li Xin blocked her exit but instead made a fuss over it she used the time to exercised and regain her strength.

Huo long praised Lory calmness and her clear minds, Huo long always thought no one can't match Zhao Li Xin's resilience and perseverance only know he realized Zhao Li Xin match found his real opponent.

"I'm going to swim then!" she hit her knees before she abruptly stands.

"Okay, I prepare…the food then" he wants to say lunch but as Lory said the weather remains the same so breakfast, lunch or dinner didn't make any difference.

Lory waves her hand aimlessly then she climbs down to the cliff, yes that's right, she climbs down to exercised her grip. Huo Long smile dryly, the boy caged her so she will be safe and sound and this happening….Huo Long shakes his head before he left to the small hut that he recently builds especially for Lory since the only thing she couldn't stand is stay inside the golden pagoda.

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Meanwhile, Zhao Li Xin spends his time to search for another piece of crimson lightning map whereabout, unlike before he used all his manpower to search the map, Bei Li Yan didn't dare to slack he used every mean to fulfill Zhao Li Xin request even the other king palace who never interfere with the other King job decide to help.

It's been a while since they saw Zhao Li Xin was so driven, the last time is when he searches for Lory whereabout and now it turns out is also something to do with Lory again. For the King palace, this is expected since the only thing that can drive their Lord mad is his wife.

From Bei Li Yan investigation the owner of the sword is called the Storm King, no one know his real name but Zhao Li Xin does, from Huwang Shen Zi he knew the King's name is Lei Yu, the record said that before the storm king disappeared he hid his sword somewhere then divided the map into five pieces then handing it to five close subordinated, of course after thousands of years the map was handed from generation to generation, Bei Li Yan have to investigate the whole family tree of the five subordinated, then he make a bet that this map should be handed to the first son, however, this is not a definite method.

Bei Li Yan has to calculate the family circumstances or accident where the map perhaps loss or given to someone outside the family, in short, is an impossible job for Bei Li Yan even with the help of other King's, so he can only order his subordinated to search anything that related with Storm king, Crimson Lightning sword and old treasure map, then he prays to the God to grant him some luck.

Today at the underground palace the four kings and Zhao Li Xin is having a meeting, on the giant square table Zhao Li Xin is si on the end of the table, his expression is gloomy as usual but less tensed than before but somehow he still looks restless however it's hard to discern for someone who is not close to him. 

Other than the four king palace the other people who are allowed to presence is Mong Ki and Mong Yi as someone who served Zhao Li Xin for the longest time their position is not lower than the King palace, it was because they refused to leaved Zhao Li Xin side their position remains as a shadow guard but still no one dares to disrespect them.

Mong Ki and Mong Yi stay unguard on Zhao Li Xin left and right while listening to the meeting without making any comment unless they were asked to. Mong Ki and Mong Yi realize they are not good with scheming and diplomacy so they never interfere even though they are allowed to.

"Milord there's an updated about your family, turns out the Qin family have a daughter name Qin Mu Yi she is the second legitimated daughter of the Qin family, then she married with Man from the Sangguan family, his name is Sangguan Jin Sheng, the story said Qin Mu Yi is left when she was found out pregnant with other men, her husband Sangguan JinSheng wanted to kill her but she somehow escapes, when Sangguan JinSheng loses Qin Mu Yi he vents his anger by killing the whole Qin family" Bei Li Yan then took a sip of wine after fiving a long explanation.

As expected Zhao Li Xin's face remains straight while listening about his parent's story with as f it's got nothing to do with him. Is hard for Zhao Li Xin to related the story with him as for him he parents are the only stranger who has blood relation with him. Zhao Li Xin seems uninterested she leans her back on his chair with a bored expression.

"Sangguan family from Gui Hong Continent?" Jin Hao slightly frowns.

"Yes, that one" Bei Li Yan giver affirmative nod.

"I heard about them, they are strong….unlike our enemy before, they are really strong" Jin Hao warn them but he didn't look worried at all.

"How strong they are, perhaps stronger than me?" Jiang Jin Wei suddenly got excited, he is a battle maniac nothing can excite him more than a stronger opponent, and ever since he reach the sovereign level he had no match anymore other than the other King palace but sadly Jin Hao is lazy and a shut-in he rather stays indoor playing with medicine, Wu San Bo didn't like to fight if he doesn't have to, he rather make money than fight, and Bei Li Yan….he rather teased him than fight seriously with Jiang Jin Wei so their interaction becomes more like a game of tag than a real fight.