Chapter 2244: The Antecedents and Aftermath

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The corpse of the Paramount Realm Supreme Saint walked out of the portal and stood beside Princess Luo Sha. The power that erupted from him was vigorous. Any living being below the level of a Supreme Saint would be scared to the point of kneeling.

“Pour me a cup of tea first,” said Luo Sha while she ran her fingers through her hair. She was calm and elegant as if she had Zhang Ruochen in her pocket.

Zhang Ruochen stared at the boiling purple pot on the low couch. He walked over and picked it up with his bare hands.

Splash

He filled the cup.

Zhang Ruochen waved his finger and the purple cup moved across the low couch and appeared in front of Luo Sha.

Luo Sha pursed her lips and said unhappily, “Is this how you are trying to please me?”

“I never thought of trying to please you,” Zhang Ruochen said.

“Then why should I tell you about Mu Lingxi? You should know that I never owe you an answer. If you are asking for help, you should act like it.” said Luo Sha.

Zhang Ruochen stared into her eyes.

Luo Sha stared back at him.

“Well then, how may I serve you, Princess?” Zhang Ruochen asked.

Luo Sha was secretly happy when she saw Zhang Ruochen was compromising, but she pretended to be angry. She said, “This tea, it’s too hot. How do you expect me to drink it?”

Zhang Ruochen picked up the teacup again, put it to his lips, and blew it gently.

Luo Sha finally showed a satisfied smile. She waved her hand and said, “Come here.”

Zhang Ruochen had been restraining himself. He hesitated for a moment and walked to Luo Sha’s side. He immediately smelled a charming fragrance. He said calmly, “Your Highness, please have some tea. I hope you can drink this cup and forget about our past grudges.”

“Forget about it? Aren’t you overthinking it? The Sundial, the hilt of the divine sword, and the Saint Ancient Tea Tree. Which one of them isn’t a rare treasure that even God would be interested in? The debt you owe me isn’t so easy to repay.”

Luo Sha raised his snow-white chin and said arrogantly, “Feed Me.”

Zhang Ruochen took a deep breath and didn’t listen to her anymore. He stood straight and said, “Are you going to tell me her news or not?”

“Serve me happily first and I’ll tell you naturally,” said Luo Sha.

“I’m not your servant,” said Zhang Ruochen.

Luo Sha shrugged and said indifferently, “If you can’t stand it, you can leave. No one here will stop you.”

Zhang Ruochen nodded and threw the teacup out. He then said, “Your Saint maidservant led me to the Arena of Life and Death and wanted to kill me. If it were in Kunlun, you would have died under my sword. I can still talk to you nicely because I think you won’t use this method against me. So, I want to hear your explanation.

“If you can tell me the news about Mu Lingxi, I won’t pursue this matter anymore. However, you’ve used this matter again and again to threaten me. If you want me to listen to you, don’t blame me for not being polite to you.”

Zhang Ruochen moved as fast as the wind and sealed Luo Sha’s sea of Qi and spiritual power.

“Zhang Ruochen, what are you doing? This is Infernal Court and also the Divine Domain of Destiny. Gods and Supreme Saints are enforcing the law. If you dare to hurt me, you’ll be severely punished.”

Luo Sha could not control the Paramount Realm Supreme Saint war coprse. She was anxious. She realized that no matter how strong the external force was, she still could not fight back against a truly powerful person.

She had to break through to the Supreme Saint Realm as soon as possible.

“Don’t worry. I won’t kill you,” said Zhang Ruochen.

Zhang Ruochen’s right hand formed a claw and grabbed Luo Sha’s shoulder. He exerted force with his fingertips and used a method to separate the tendons and bones.

“Uh… Zhang Ruochen… you… you are so cruel to me. You don’t show any mercy to the fairer sex. Even if I die in your hands, I will never speak,” said Luo Sha.

She gritted her teeth and looked sad. Tears of grievance and pain flowed from her eyes.

Zhang Ruochen could not stand the woman’s tears. He withdrew his fingers from her shoulder. In the next moment, he tapped between her eyebrows. A strong spiritual power entered her body.

Luo Sha felt a strange change in her body. Even though she was sitting on the ground, her senses became heightened.

“What did you do to me?” Luo Sha asked in annoyance.

Zhang Ruochen said, “Didn’t you say that I was too ruthless just now? I planned to use a gentle method to force you to speak. Just now, I used spiritual power to increase your body’s perception by a hundred times. Especially your senses.

Zhang Ruochen grabbed Luo Qian’s wrist as he spoke and dragged her delicate and beautiful hand in front of him.

Slap

He gently hit her palm.

An intense pain spread from Luo Sha’s palm to her entire body. Her delicate body trembled slightly. It was even more painful than the claw marks that had separated her tendons and bones.

That time, Luo Sha cried out. “Zhang Ruochen, you’ve gone too far. You dare to treat me like this? Even if you beat me to death, you won’t get an answer.”

Zhang Ruochen hit Luo Sha’s palm more than ten times.

Luo Sha gritted her teeth. Although tears were streaming down her face, she glared at him fiercely. She did not give in.

“Since you’re so tolerant, I’ll have to hit you harder,” said Zhang Ruochen.

He picked Luo Sha up and placed her slender body on his knees.

“Supreme Saint Ruochen, please have some self-respect. Let go of the Princess,” said Han Ying.

She wanted to save Luo Sha, but Zhang Ruochen used the Power of Dimensions to stop her and she could not move.

“Zhang Ruochen, you bast*rd. What are you doing? I can’t stand you.” Luo Sha lay on Zhang Ruochen’s legs. Her chest and sexy lower abdomen were pressed against his knees.

Slap

Zhang Ruochen pressed one hand on Luo Sha’s back and the other heavily hit Luo Sha’s perky buttocks.

The pain increased a hundredfold and Luo Sha cried out in pain.

“Are you going to tell me?” asked Zhang Ruochen.

“No, go ahead. Beat me to death if you can,” said Luo Sha.

Slap

Zhang Ruochen waved his hand again and hit Luo Sha.

He did not hit her hard, but Luo Sha cried and her body twitched.

Zhang Ruochen did not know how many times he hit her, but he gradually found that something was wrong with her scream. It was a painful thing, but her voice was soft and long.

He did not know how many times he hit her, but her slender waist suddenly twisted rapidly. Her soft belly rubbed against Zhang Ruochen’s knee heavily, and then her body shook violently. Her voice was trembling.

After a long time, she recovered. She buried her head and panted.

Zhang Ruochen knew what was going on. He was stunned for a moment and he could not hit her anymore.

Her senses were a hundred times heightened, and her pain was a hundred times intense. Did she just reach the peak of comfort in extreme pain?

Did she have a fetish on getting abused?’ Zhang Ruochen thought.

Luo Sha was red in the face. She was embarrassed and angry. She said in a low voice, “Let go of me. I’ll tell you everything, okay?”

Zhang Ruochen was embarrassed too. He withdrew his spiritual power and unsealed her body. He put her delicate body on the ground and said, “If you had told me earlier, you wouldn’t have suffered so much… pain.”

‘Was it even pain? Earlier, she seemed to enjoy it,’ he thought.

“Let me change my clothes first. I’ll talk to you later,” said Luo Sha.

Luo Sha was extremely shy. She did not dare to look Zhang Ruochen in the eye. She ran to the back of the screen as if she was running away. Perhaps it was because the pain had not subsided, but her walking posture was quite strange.

Zhang Ruochen felt strange. He sat alone by the low couch, poured a cup of tea, and drank it all in one gulp.

Han Ying stood aside and stared at him coldly.

No cultivator had ever dared to be so impudent and disrespectful to the princess.

If the princess had not sent a telepathic message and given the order to keep quiet, she would have reported this to the Divine Prince immediately. With the Divine Prince’s cultivation and the power of the Devala, he could get rid of Zhang Ruochen.

After a long while, Luo Sha walked out with a noble and saintly look. She was wearing a light green Holy Cambric Robe, a divine crystal crown, and seven green-feathered hairpins in her hair. She was no longer in a sorry state.

She was not much shorter than Zhang Ruochen. In terms of temperament, few human women could compare with her.

Luo Sha sat across from Zhang Ruochen and seemed to have forgotten everything. She said, “I can tell you everything about Mu Lingxi, but you have to promise me one thing first.”

“What is it?” Zhang Ruochen asked.

Luo Sha said, “I want to borrow the Sundial to cultivate for a hundred years.”

Zhang Ruochen did not dare to lend the treasure to Luo Sha after the experience of the Xue Tu ‘borrowing’ the Seamless Purgatory Tower. He was about to refuse.

Luo Sha said again, “I just want to use the power of the Sundial to cultivate for a hundred years and breakthrough to the Supreme Saint Realm as soon as possible. I can provide you with the Godstones to use the Sundial.”

“Okay, I promise you. If you want to enter the Sundial to cultivate before the Celestial-hunting Festival, you can come to Vastsea Manor and look for me at any time. I won’t lend you the Sundial, but I can open it to you,” Zhang Ruochen said.

Having achieved his goal, Luo Sha did not talk about conditions anymore after she had achieved her goal. She tapped the table lightly with her jade-like fingers.

Suddenly, Yao Li was escorted over. She knelt on the ground, kowtowing and crying, “Your Highness, it’s all my fault. I deserve to die. Please spare my family and let them live.”

Luo Sha did not even look at her. She just stared at Zhang Ruochen and said, “I found Mu Lingxi’s Bracelet of Dimension outside Kunlun’s Central Imperial City.”

“Outside the Central Imperial City?” Zhang Ruochen asked.

Luo Sha said, “The exact location should be the area dyed red by your Saint blood. In Kunlun, that area has been called the Blood Plain of Fallen Dust. All cultivators thought you had died. Of course, the news that you’re still alive may have already been sent back.”

Zhang Ruochen had been looking into Luo Sha’s eyes. He could tell that she was not lying.

Mu Lingxi must have heard the news of his death, so she rushed to the Central Imperial City.

‘What had happened? Why had the Bracelet of Dimension been left on the ground?’

‘At that time, outside the Central Imperial City was full of danger with the invasion of the Saint Realm Army of Infernal Court. Had something happened to her?’ Zhang Ruochen thought.

Luo Sha saw the worry in Zhang Ruochen’s eyes. She felt jealous. She said, “You don’t have to be so sad. I think she’s still alive.”

“Why do you say that?” Zhang Ruochen asked.

Luo Sha said, “First of all, cultivators in Infernal Court are not that stupid. If they killed her or captured her, how could they not take away the most precious Bracelet of Dimension?

“Second, I’ve checked the Bracelet of Dimension. It contains all of Mu Lingxi’s items, including clothes, accessories, and even various sacred artifacts and sacred pills.

“In other words, she has put everything she has into it. What do you think this means?”

Zhang Ruochen looked distressed, worried that Mu Lingxi would do something stupid.

With Mu Lingxi’s personality, she would do anything if she knew that Zhang Ruochen was dead. It was very likely that she would end her life if he died.

Luo Sha saw through Zhang Ruochen’s thoughts. She chuckled and said, “If she died for love, she must be extremely sad. How could she have the mood to put all her belongings into the Bracelet of Dimension?”

“What do you mean?” Zhang Ruochen asked.

Zhang Ruochen felt that he was too stupid and had lost the ability to think.

Luo Sha said, “Mu Lingxi is a disciple of Moon Goddess. If she wants to die, she won’t be able to hide it from Moon Goddess? In addition, Moon Goddess was one of the few gods who knew that you were still alive. Is it possible that the Moon Goddess told her the truth that you were still alive when she was begging for death?

“What do you think she would do if she knew that you went to Infernal Court?”

Zhang Ruochen gradually calmed down, he thought to himself, ‘If what Luo Sha predicted is true, Lingxi will come to Infernal Court. She put all the items into the Bracelet of Dimension to cut off everything from the past and leave no traces behind. I should have guessed that she was such a reckless woman.’

‘But what kind of method and identity would she use to come to the Infernal Court?’

‘It seems that I can only wait for her to find me.’ Zhang Ruochen sighed deeply and thought to himself.

Luo Sha glanced at Yao Li with a cold light in her eyes. She said, “When I picked up the Bracelet of Dimension, this b*tch happened to follow me and learned a lot of things.”

“Why did she lead me to the Arena of Life and Death?” Zhang Ruochen asked.

Luo Sha said, “Before I talk about her, I have to talk about Warlord Mara First. Warlord Mara has always been courting me, but unfortunately, he’s not my cup of tea. I don’t like him at all and have never paid attention to him. Thus, Warlord Mara bribed Yao Li and she became his spy to watch my every move.”

“She had stolen Mu Lingxi’s Bracelet of Dimension and used it to sway Warlord Mara to kill you.”

Zhang Ruochen finally understood the whole situation. As he had guessed, the person who wanted to kill him was not Luo Sha.

Luo Sha waved her hand and said faintly, “Off with her head and throw it into the River of Present.”

Pfft

Yao Li was dragged to the edge of the deck of the saintship. She did not even have the chance to beg for mercy before her head was cut off by a Saint maidservant and fell into the river.

Her Saint blood and the water of the Blood River merged.

Although killing and private fights were prohibited in the Winterpagecity, Yao Li was only Luo Sha’s maidservant. Naturally, Luo Sha could decide her fate.

Zhang Ruochen did not want to stay any longer after he found out what he wanted to know. He stood up and said, “Your Highness, sorry for offending you earlier. I’ll take my leave.”

Luo Sha thought of what had happened earlier and her face blushed. She said, “Why are you in such a hurry to leave? Can’t you accompany me for a bit longer?”

“I’m going to the River Market District to buy some important things. I don’t have time to play,” Zhang Ruochen said.

Luo Sha’s eyes lit up. “Then you have to sit down. My saintship is heading to the River Market District to attend the auction hosted by the Realm of Star Ocean. You’ll be able to buy what you want there.”

“Forget it. It’s more convenient for me to go by myself,” Zhang Ruochen said.

Luo Sha always mentioned ‘the fated one’ in front of Zhang Ruochen. Zhang Ruochen did not believe her at first, but after hearing so much from her, he started to doubt it.

The main reason was that their interactions were getting deeper and deeper. They could always bump into each other in the chaos. It was as if there was a thread of fate guiding them.

It was because Zhang Ruochen had concerns and that he did not want to get too close to Luo Sha. He was afraid that what she said would become true.

Luo Sha said, “Don’t you want to know why it was my Royal Brother who showed up on the Arena of Life and Death and not the Thousand-Koan Realm Supreme Saint of the Dhisan? Don’t you want to know which powerful enemies want to kill you at this Celestial-hunting Festival? And which powerful cultivators can be your allies? Hehe, I know all these things.”