Chapter 66: Chapter 60: Late Emperor’s Decree

The second year of the Xuanlong Dynasty.

On the first day of the second month, spring was warm, flowers bloomed, and the ice and snow melted away.

The abandoned residence in the bamboo forest was gone.

In its place stood a crude wooden cabin, with a simple yard enclosed by a bamboo fence. A young man in his early twenties, dressed in a Profound Black Robe, was chopping wood.

"Ngh..."

Inside the cabin, Cyan Sparrow let out a groan.

She was awake.

Her memory was still stuck on the Tower Ship.

She had no idea...

...that three months had already passed.

"I’m... still alive?" She sat up, her eyes immediately landing on the figure in the Profound Black Robe working in the yard.

"Senior, is that you?"

Her eyes were filled with excitement.

’That powerful Second Grade cultivator had saved her after all.’

Soon,

her hopes were dashed.

"You’re awake."

"Much later than I expected."

Su Chen looked up, revealing his face.

It wasn’t the Second Grade Cultivating Eunuch from the Tower Ship. Cyan Sparrow studied the young man. He had a delicate face and appeared to be in his early twenties. And while he also wore a Profound Black Robe, his looks were a far cry from the stunning beauty of that Second Grade senior.

Besides, his aura was completely unremarkable.

"You were the one who saved me?"

Cyan Sparrow was just about to express her gratitude.

"My name is Xu Ge. I pulled you from the lower reaches of the Nujiang River half a month ago. It took ten Thousand-Year-Old Ginseng Roots to save you."

"As compensation, you’ll be responsible for the chores—chopping wood, fetching water. You can only leave after a year, if you still want to."

Hearing this, Cyan Sparrow’s face darkened.

’Thousand-year-old Ginseng?’

Even a mere singer like her had heard of it.

It was a legendary Supreme Treasure, something that could cause a storm of blood and that even a First-Grade Minor Grandmaster would fight to the death for!

’Who is he trying to kid?’

Cyan Sparrow refused to believe that this destitute-looking fellow, who had to chop his own firewood, could possess a Thousand-year-old Ginseng King.

Even if he did, he would never use it on her.

She was just a lowly singer.

The waves of the Nujiang River were treacherous, and she hadn’t expected to survive. But she had, and now she truly owed this man her life.

"Fine."

"But keeping me around might bring you trouble."

Cyan Sparrow agreed.

Subconsciously, she thought of the Marquis of Jiangling.

He was an extremely powerful figure on the Jinjiang River, someone who could shake the heavens. If his anger were to fall upon this Little Black-robed Eunuch, there wouldn’t even be a corpse left to bury.

"It doesn’t matter."

"It’s only for a year, anyway."

At his words, Cyan Sparrow couldn’t help but ask with a glimmer of hope,

"Master Xu, are you a Powerhouse?"

"Huh?"

"Why do you ask?"

Su Chen’s eyes widened. He subconsciously recalled the Battle of Liang’s Destruction, the Immortal Treasure hovering ten thousand meters in the sky, and that terrifying Immortal Whale that had frozen the world...

Before such beings, a First Grade was no more than an ant, and even a Grandmaster would struggle to survive.

’What kind of Powerhouse could he be considered?’

"No."

"I’m just an ordinary Eunuch."

Su Chen, the Peak of the world, shook his head from the bottom of his heart.

Before the Immortal Whale,

wasn’t he just an ordinary Eunuch?

"Do you do cultivation?"

"I do."

"But only a little."

Su Chen made a gesture indicating a tiny amount.

"Are you even Fifth Grade? Sigh, never mind... I suppose not. Otherwise, you wouldn’t still be a Black-robed Eunuch, and you wouldn’t have ended up in such a sorry state. You were probably kicked out of the palace..."

Looking at the drafty straw hut and the crude bamboo fence, Cyan Sparrow was thoroughly disappointed.

She sighed.

It was messy, but compared to being pampered like a canary in a cage, she preferred this destitute, down-and-out freedom.

She got to work.

Chopping wood, fetching water.

As for cooking, that was Su Chen’s job.

「Nearing noon.」

"This is food?"

"Were you really a Black-robed Eunuch in the palace? If you cooked like this, wouldn’t a noble have had you beaten to death with a rod...?"

Cyan Sparrow’s body was trembling.

In the pot,

wild weeds were stewing, and a silver fish was still swimming around.

The fish soup was so "fresh."

"It seems there’s a bit of a problem."

"The fire isn’t hot enough."

"In the palace, other Eunuchs always served me. Aside from the Dragon Sons and Grandsons, no Eunuch ever dared to bully me..."

’Looks like there wasn’t enough firewood after all.’

’The fish in this Cultivation World are just too heat-resistant. I can’t even cook it through.’

"Get out."

"I’m taking over the kitchen. Don’t come back in."

Cyan Sparrow pushed Su Chen out.

"The medicine is ready. Remember to drink it."

Su Chen brought over a bowl of medicinal soup.

There was nothing in it.

It was just plain water boiled with Ginseng Whiskers.

Thousand-Year-Old Ginseng Roots.

The kind that, if a Fifth Grade drank it,

they could immediately break through to Fourth Grade.

"I’m not drinking it."

Cyan Sparrow refused.

"Fine, don’t drink it!"

As he said that,

Su Chen moved to pour it out.

GULP. GULP.

The sound of someone swallowing hard could be heard.

’Turtle wants to drink!’

’Hurry up and let Turtle drink it!’

’It’s me, Turtle!’

’Why didn’t you take Turtle with you when you ran away?’

’Turtle has suffered!’

’I was so sad on the way here, I could usually eat three Demon Fiends, but I could only manage two.’

Tears streamed down the little turtle’s face.

Su Chen felt something move by his foot. He looked down and was startled to see a little turtle, covered in mud and dust as if it had traveled a great distance, tugging at his clothes.

"..."

The air fell silent.

At that moment,

Su Chen finally remembered what he had forgotten.

’It seemed that back in the pharmacy, he’d been raising a little turtle—an Upper-Rank Great Demon, the Double-faced Profound Turtle?’

"Drink up, drink up."

"I knew you could follow me on your own."

"You were just a little slow."

"Kept me waiting for so long."

Su Chen played the victim, and his words made the little turtle lower its head in shame.

’So that’s how it is.’

’It was all Turtle’s fault.’

GULP! GULP!

The little turtle gulped down the medicinal soup, swallowing the fibrous roots of the Thousand-year-old Ginseng King along with it, a look of satisfaction on its face.

This was way tastier than a First-Grade Demon Fiend.

’If I eat a little more,’

’I might be able to beat that big guy lurking in the great river.’

...

「Night.」

Rain fell.

A slight chill was in the air.

Cyan Sparrow was making a bed on the floor, shivering from the cold, while Su Chen was fast asleep on the bed, snoring away.

She couldn’t resist.

She crept closer to Su Chen.

From the corner,

the little turtle’s ferocious eyes watched the sneaky woman with ill intent.

’Perhaps,’

’he *is* the Second Grade cultivation expert from the Tower Ship.’

’He must be wearing a human-skin mask...’

Cyan Sparrow drew near and carefully felt around Su Chen’s ears and jaw, trying to find traces of a mask.

Nothing.

This was really his face.

Cyan Sparrow grew even more disappointed.

Just then,

Su Chen woke up.

Or rather, he had never been asleep.

And so,

Cyan Sparrow let out a startled shriek as her eyes met a pair of cold, clear ones.

"What are you doing climbing into my bed, woman?"

"Men and women should not touch indiscriminately."

"Don’t you know that?"

With that,

Su Chen kicked her off the bed.

"Xu Ge, you!"

Cyan Sparrow was fuming.

She, a peerless beauty of the Human World, an elegant and refined woman, had climbed into a man’s bed only to be kicked right out. What kind of man was he?

’Oh, right. He’s a Eunuch. Never mind, then.’

Su Chen paid her no mind.

His gaze hardened.

He grabbed a straw cloak and headed outside. Even the pouring rain couldn’t drown out the sounds of fighting that were drawing ever closer.

"Get him!"

"Princess of Qii, he has the Testament!"

"Take it back!"

"We have to get it back! Otherwise, if Your Majesty blames us, our entire nine generations will be exterminated!"

Furious roars echoed through the night.

Even from the bamboo forest ten li away, the shouts reached Su Chen’s ears clearly.

’His Majesty, the New Emperor... is that the Crown Prince who ascended the throne?’

’A Testament?’

’It seems that even though he’s on the throne, his foundation isn’t stable. Otherwise, a single Testament wouldn’t be enough to shake his position.’

Su Chen didn’t want to get involved.

However,

trouble came looking for him.

The pursuit was getting closer. Clearly, the Princess of Qii was fleeing in his direction.

"Senior living in seclusion up ahead, please, honor our agreement and save us!"

"Princess Le of Qii! I will be eternally grateful."

the Princess of Qii shouted from the bamboo forest.

However,

Su Chen didn’t know her at all.

This was a classic case of diverting disaster onto someone else.

"Kill them!"

"Leave no one alive!"

The pursuers were getting desperate.

A cold light flashed in Su Chen’s eyes.

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