Chapter 2664 - 2663: Love and Longing
"Ah?" Li Xiaonian and Tie Ming both exclaimed.
Ling Feng deliberately put on a bitter face, then walked back and forth a few steps, and let out a heavy sigh: "Sigh—"
Li Xiaonian quickly pushed Ling Feng, surprisingly almost knocking down someone of Ling Feng’s cultivation: "Hurry and tell us, where did you learn this suspenseful teasing, it’s really making us anxious."
"I’m afraid we are facing a major disaster."
"Major disaster? What kind of major disaster? Has that monster bug beast been dealt with?"
Ling Feng nodded: "That thing has been slain by me, nothing to worry about..."
"Phew—" Li Xiaonian sighed with relief, "That’s good, at least we’ve avenged the general of the town, given an explanation to his family, and we have something to report to the citizens."
"But there’s an even greater disaster,"
"Hmm?"
"The bug beast came from a place called the Three Realms, and the owner of that place is called the Lord of the Three Realms, a being capable of creating worlds and setting supreme rules, and also somewhat related to the demon I killed earlier,"
"If that guy descends upon us here, and brings his anger, we’d all die—the people of the Xuanxu Realm would die, and the people on Earth would die, no one could resist his power."
"This, is the greatest crisis we face now."
"This..." Li Xiaonian hesitated, she wasn’t a fool, she naturally heard how powerful that Lord of the Three Realms, who could create worlds, was. Surely no one could be his opponent.
"Your Majesty, do you mean that Lord of the Three... Three Realms is coming here to kill us all?" Tie Ming swallowed and said with a trembling voice.
"Oh, not quite, a being like him probably looks down on us weak humans, he likely won’t come for a while." Ling Feng said indifferently.
Li Xiaonian glanced at Tie Ming, who had relaxed, and said with disappointment as if hating iron for not being steel: "Tie Ming, what are you afraid of, if it really comes to that, we’d all die together, no one can survive it."
Tie Ming immediately knelt on the ground: "I realize my errors, I’m just a bit terrified hearing of such a powerful being, I still have family, I don’t want them all to die.
"Get up, get up, stop kneeling at every little thing." Li Xiaonian said casually.
"Yes!"
Li Xiaonian continued: "What other crises are there, tell me, anyway, can’t be worse than that Lord of the Three Realms."
"Indeed," Ling Feng nodded, "I suspect not just one bug beast has invaded the Xuanxu Realm, this bug beast’s mission was to open a passage, maybe to let more people from the Three Realms in,"
"There must be other bug beasts with different missions, they are in the dark now, and we must uncover them all and be cautious."
"If the passage to the Three Realms really opens, we’d be facing a flood of external enemies, and the Xuanxu Realm wouldn’t be peaceful anymore."
Li Xiaonian finally put on a serious expression, thinking for a moment: "You make sense, I will order a thorough investigation of the entire Royal City and surrounding areas, to uncover all of them,"
"By the way, have you figured out why that bug beast came to the mining city?"
Ling Feng was slightly stunned: "Probably because few people come here, and plan to build a Space-time Vortex here."
Li Xiaonian nodded, turned to Tie Ming and said: "Recently, we must strengthen the defenses of the mining city, not allowing any human or object to enter, and report immediately if something suspicious occurs."
"Yes!" Tie Ming stood at attention, replying firmly.
Li Xiaonian and Ling Feng walked out of the mining city.
On the way, Ling Feng looked at Li Xiaonian’s back, and Li Xiaonian, finding it odd, also looked at her back: "What are you looking at? Is there something strange on my back?"
"No, just wondering why you’re out on your own today, didn’t bring any attendants to protect you? You are the queen!"
"Hehe, I got a bit worried about you, so I came alone, and does a queen have to make a big show when going out? I just want to go out by myself."
"Alright, alright, you’re the queen, you decide."
"Besides..." Li Xiaonian suddenly seemed shy.
"Hmm?"
"Besides, just the two of us isn’t good enough? We can enjoy the scenery by ourselves. I’m usually so busy, only when I’m with you can I relax a bit. Are you trying to chase me away?"
Seeing Li Xiaonian’s suddenly sentimental look, Ling Feng was at a loss for words, his face also flushed a bit.
Li Xiaonian noticed Ling Feng blushing and burst into laughter: "Hahaha, why is your face so red? Are you shy?"
𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
"Nonsense!" Ling Feng patted his face, said with some embarrassment, but couldn’t control his blushing cheeks.
"Hahaha, who would have thought the mighty Lord would be like this?" Li Xiaonian "mocked."
Ling Feng immediately reached out to cover Li Xiaonian’s mouth, but she deftly avoided it.
Ling Feng ended up pinching Li Xiaonian’s cheek to get back at her tease.
Unexpectedly, Li Xiaonian’s face also turned red when pinched.
Realizing something was wrong, Ling Feng froze, Li Xiaonian looked up with tender affection at him, and after staring at each other for a while, the increasingly blushing Li Xiaonian finally gave in.
Li Xiaonian walked a few steps forward, turning her head away from Ling Feng, Ling Feng also patted his cheeks, forcing himself to calm down.
After a while of silence, Li Xiaonian suddenly said: "When you have time, come to the palace to play with me, I’m so lonely by myself, they’re all too afraid to play with me because I’m the queen, I... I can only be myself with you."
"Ah?" Ling Feng marveled, "Okay, once things are settled, I’ll definitely come to find you, just the two of us then."
Li Xiaonian’s face turned red again, she tossed back a "That’s settled then, don’t forget," and turned away heading to the palace.
Watching Li Xiaonian’s departing figure, Ling Feng felt an indescribable sensation in his heart.
How could he not know Li Xiaonian’s feelings for him? But now isn’t the time for love affairs.
The most urgent matter now is how Ling Feng should confront the threat of the Lord of the Three Realms.
Direct combat is out of the question, the Lord of the Three Realms might easily annihilate everyone with just a few moves.
So he has to either relocate the Human Race before the Lord of the Three Realms arrives in the Xuanxu Realm,
or Ling Feng must quickly boost his strength up to the level where he can negotiate or challenge the Lord of the Three Realms,
But both approaches seem incredibly difficult to accomplish!
Ling Feng’s strength is almost stagnant, and he can’t even control the Chaos Sword in his hand, let alone...
Hmm?
Chaos Sword?
Ling Feng had a thought and a phantom of the Chaos Sword appeared in his hand.
If he could utilize even a fraction of the Chaos Sword’s original power, wouldn’t his strength increase dramatically?