He Lan Tianxia

After unleashing the first hidden attack, Black Tyrant regretted her sneak attack on Murong Junlan. She thought her Softening Powder would at least stop them from recovering their strength for a day and a night, but unexpectedly, the man had completely recovered his strength in just one night. This was the first time in her life she had miscalculated. For a moment, she even wondered if the medicine had been mixed up or switched. Now, she couldn't afford to think about these things anymore. She only had her last and only magic weapon. Once this magic weapon was used, half of her cave would be destroyed, which was something she didn't want to see.

"Slap." Black Overlord was struck on the left shoulder. Ignoring the pain, she used her right hand to forcefully entangle Murong Junlan's thin rope with her sword. At the same time, she unleashed two streaks of black mist from her left hand, shooting towards Jiang He and Luo Xie. She shouted loudly to A Zi, "Run!"

"Overlord?" Azi glanced quickly at Black Overlord, her face filled with worry and anxiety.

"Quick!" The words had barely left her lips when ten dark mines appeared in Black Tyrant's hand. She spun them around rapidly, then hurled them downwards. A series of deafening booms echoed, thick smoke billowing out. Murong Junlan quickly pulled the woman away from Jiang He, and the group leaped backwards simultaneously. Black Tyrant and Azi seized the opportunity to escape through the smoke. At that moment, a figure suddenly flashed from behind, chasing after Black Tyrant…

"A white-haired woman?" Murong Junlan frowned.

"Your Highness, shall we give chase?" Jiang He patted the dust off his clothes and waited for Murong Junlan's instructions.

"Forget it." Murong Junlan didn't plan to chase after them, because he wasn't familiar with the situation here, and a fierce battle wouldn't do them any good. He knew that the one who had just chased after them was the white-haired woman, and he didn't want to get involved in her pursuit. The carriage was destroyed, and they needed to find the two Red Hare horses and that fine steed. They didn't know if the horses had been injured after that earth-shaking noise.

Murong Junlan and the others found a water source to wash up. Looking back at the Black Tyrant's Cave, although its imposing presence remained, it was now somewhat dilapidated. Murong Junlan felt a pang of regret. They had come to demand the Black Tyrant Flower, and before they could even explain their purpose, they had already fought several battles. Furthermore, they had initially thought the Black Tyrant Flower was a flower, but now it turned out to be a person, a flower demon. This left him feeling helpless; he couldn't very well capture a flower demon and take it back to Ling Yi to cook and eat.

“Lingyi, I didn’t expect Black Tyrant Flower to be a person.” Murong Junlan said with a half-smile.

"Your Highness, I only learned this time that there might be some kind of nutrient sap in the flower." Lingyi tried hard to imagine the essence of a flower.

"Hmm, it seems... only milk can be eaten." The woman blinked, trying hard to recall the Black Overlord's voice and smile.

Upon hearing this, even Murong Junlan couldn't help but chuckle. Luo Xie, still not quite finished, said, "How could you even think of that? I say, Lingyi, why don't you just marry Black Tyrant Flower? Although she's a bit cold-tempered, she's quite good-looking, and you won't feel wronged." As soon as Luo Xie finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter.

Lingyi glared at Luo Xie, then flicked its tail and smacked Luo Xie's buttocks with a "smack".

"Hey, you dare spank me!" Luo Xie shouted as he chased after Ling Yi, "I'm doing this for your future, and you don't even appreciate my kindness." The two of them then ran away.

"Jiang He, go and see where the Red Hare is." Murong Junlan glanced at Jiang He.

"Yes, sir, I'll go right away." Jiang He turned and went to find a horse.

"Finally, we have our own space." Murong Junlan chose a patch of grass to sit down with the woman, took out two wild apples from his sleeve, washed them in a nearby mountain spring, and handed one of the larger ones to the woman, who looked delighted.

"Your Highness, when did you pick this? I didn't know." The woman took the apple and took a bite; it was incredibly sweet.

"There are many things you don't know." Murong Junlan stroked the woman's soft, long hair, his eyes filled with tenderness.

"Your Highness, you have to count me in when you fight in the future, otherwise, I'll have a hard time keeping up with you." The woman complained half-heartedly while eating an apple.

"Isn't it good to have me protecting you?" Murong Junlan handed his apple to the woman. "Here, have a bite and see which one tastes better." The woman opened her mouth, took a bite, and nodded, saying they were both delicious. Murong Junlan took a bite of his apple, stood up, and took the woman's hand, saying, "I found a beautiful view while washing the apples. Let's go take a look."

"Then how will they find us?" The woman looked around but didn't see Luo Xie or the others.

"If they still don't go find food to serve us, then I've brought them out for nothing." After saying that, Murong Junlan took the woman's hand and walked towards the mountain spring pool in front of them.

The spring water is crystal clear, and the mist is rising, creating a scene that is both ethereal and dreamlike—a truly beautiful place on earth.

"Let's go take a bath. This spring water is quite nice." Murong Junlan looked at the clear and tranquil mountain spring water and suddenly uttered a sentence that even surprised himself.

"Take a bath?" The woman reached out and touched Murong Junlan's forehead, looking at him blankly. "Your Highness, do you have a fever?"

"What do you mean?" Murong Junlan asked, puzzled.

"Is something wrong with your head?" The woman didn't immediately realize that Murong Junlan didn't understand modern language.

"..." Murong Junlan was stunned for a moment, then a sly smile appeared on his lips. If he said that she was crazy, humph. Murong Junlan suddenly wrapped his arms around the woman's waist, picked her up, and with a "plop," the two of them jumped into the spring pool.

The spring water was so cool and refreshing. It has to be said that the area around Yan Kingdom and Wubei Kingdom is truly a beautiful place. Over there are snow-capped mountains, while here it is the scorching summer.

"Your Highness." The woman finally swam to the surface with great difficulty. Fortunately, she was a good swimmer. She breathed a long sigh of relief and complained in a bad tone, "Your Highness, this is the Black Tyrant's cave. We are still fighting with the Black Tyrant. What if Jiang He and the others come looking for us later?"

"Don't worry, I've set up a barrier; no one outside can see." With that, Murong Junlan kissed the woman as if no one else was around. The woman desperately tried to hide in the water, but she was no match for Murong Junlan's speed. Lost in his boundless tenderness, she momentarily forgot the danger they were in…

Deep inside the Black Tyrant's cave, the Black Tyrant was leisurely swirling a cup of thousand-year-old ginseng tea, his eyes fixed as if trying to count how many tea leaves were floating inside. Ah Zi entered from outside the cave, her clothes dusty, her hair disheveled, looking rather disheveled.

"Your Majesty, Azi has been defeated and is willing to accept punishment," Azi reported, kneeling down. In fact, Black Overlord never showed his face from beginning to end. The only one who fought Murong Junlan was Azi. Azi used her clone technique, one of her disguised herself as Black Overlord and the other as herself.

“They were too strong.” Black Tyrant shifted his gaze from the cup to Ah Zi’s face and said slowly, “What about the others?”

"Reporting to the Overlord, two of them seemed to be looking for food with that snake, and a man and a woman went to the Guqin Terrace," Azi reported truthfully.

"What are you doing at the Guqin Terrace? Why didn't you stop us?" Black Tyrant asked sternly.

"Judging from the noise, it sounds like they're going to take a bath." Azi's face flushed red as she spoke.

"What do you mean by 'listening to the noise'?" Black Tyrant frowned, looking displeased.

“They set up a restriction that Azi can’t break.” Azi looked troubled.

"Treading on my sacred ground, you deserve to die!" Black Tyrant gritted her teeth, veins bulging on her forehead. Daring to bathe in the sacred cave was simply courting death. What angered her even more was that she wouldn't even drink a drop more than necessary from that pool of holy water, yet these two, these two ungrateful bastards, were actually bathing in it. With a "crack," Black Tyrant threw the teacup in her hand to the ground, shattering it into pieces.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. I'll go and chase them away right away." Azi was so frightened that her legs trembled a few times. She had followed the Overlord for so long, and this time the Overlord's anger was no small matter.

Black Overlord was clearly blinded by rage. She took the Linglong Overlord Sword from the cave wall and walked straight towards the cave entrance with a flick of her black cloak. Azi and the other flower fairies quickly followed.

At the edge of the Guqin Terrace Pool, Black Overlord waved his hands, then waved them again. Hmm? Why can't the restriction be broken? Listening closely, the Guqin Pool was completely silent.

Black Tyrant led the Flower Demon to bow repeatedly to the spring. After bowing, they tried to break the restriction, but still couldn't. In this sacred place, Black Tyrant was at a loss.

Meanwhile, Murong Junlan and the woman were enjoying a pleasant swim in the Guqin Terrace when Murong Junlan suddenly turned his head and heard the Black Overlord's footsteps. He quickly went ashore, took out two sets of clothes from his bundle, changed himself, and urged the woman to change as well. They then sat on a rock by the pool, waiting for the Black Overlord to arrive. To his surprise, the Black Overlord couldn't break the barrier and couldn't get in. The two of them sat there feeling bored, especially the woman, who was watching the Black Overlord from afar. The Black Overlord couldn't see her, which he found amusing. On a whim, he picked up a small stone and threw it into the water. Murong Junlan was shocked and tried to stop him, but it was too late; the stone sank into the water with a thud.

ding dong ding dong...

A melody of zither music rippled from the spring pool at Guqin Terrace, as melodious and continuous as the tinkling of jade pendants.

Black Tyrant and his gang were studying how to break the restriction when they suddenly heard the sound of a zither. Thinking that a god had descended, they all knelt down on the ground and dared not raise their heads.

The woman was about to burst into laughter when Murong Junlan quickly covered her mouth. My goodness, even if I wanted to laugh, I couldn't; I had to hold it in. After watching Black Tyrant kowtow nine times and bow three times, the woman's gaze was drawn to another scene in the pool. She saw that where the rock had fallen, a whirlpool was slowly expanding, growing larger and larger, followed by a jet of water surging upwards, transforming from a small round basin into a large one.

"How beautiful!" The woman stood there in surprise, her eyes shining with wonder.

At this moment, a faint wisp of green mist suddenly seeped from the center of the large circular water basin. It was so faint that it was almost invisible unless one looked closely. Murong Junlan was shocked when he saw it. He quickly picked up the woman and jumped away. Just as he jumped away, the large circular water basin exploded with a "whoosh," and a powerful column of water shot straight into the sky. The scattered water droplets, however, were like sharp knives slicing down in all directions.

Black Tyrant and his gang dodged and weaved, and those who were slow to move were injured in their hands and feet, bleeding profusely.

"It must be the ancestral god of Guqin Terrace who is enraged." Black Tyrant's face was filled with terror. She had heard that the ancestral god of Guqin Terrace had exploded half of the valley in anger because of an invasion by an enemy. This time, it must be those two men and women swimming in Guqin Terrace that angered the ancestral god. Black Tyrant looked at Guqin Terrace and said coldly, "Azi, prepare to break the rocks."

"Yes, Overlord." Azi accepted the order and left. Azi knew that Black Overlord intended to use a stone-throwing battle to force the two people inside to leave. A short while later, Azi pushed several carts of stones over. Black Overlord ordered the flower fairies to retreat a short distance, and then commanded them to prepare for the stone-throwing battle.

Black Tyrant sat cross-legged, his hands circulating his inner energy. Instantly, sand and stones flew everywhere. Black Tyrant paused in mid-air, and the row of stones suspended in the air became like a suspended wall, motionless. Suddenly, Black Tyrant's hands spun rapidly, shoving them towards the Ancient Qin Pool. The stones in the air, accompanied by a whirlwind, cleaved through the pool's sides. Murong Junlan was startled and reached out to grab the woman to avoid it, but then he saw another large circular water basin suddenly erupt from the Ancient Qin Pool. This water basin was completely different from the previous one; before there was only one, but now it was layered upon layered, and the scattered sprays were clearly more dazzling and filled with more ferocity. A few cuts and bleeds from these sprays would be a minor matter; if one were to hit the central column of water, it would definitely be a one-way cut in half.

Black Tyrant was terrified at the sight. Forgetting everyone else, she grabbed Ah Zi and fled. The other flower fairies scattered in panic. Suddenly, the music became chaotic and urgent, rising and falling, accompanied by the sound of water jets, creating a powerful and surging symphony. One's consciousness would involuntarily surge, and the heart would feel as if it were about to burst out of its chest, causing extreme discomfort. Murong Junlan, with his profound skill, felt his resistance was strong and could not be significantly affected. The woman beside him, with her shallow skill, felt her heart about to leap out of her chest. Murong Junlan quickly pulled a scarf from his bundle, wrapped it around the woman's ears, and leaped several feet away with her in his arms.

The jet of water sprayed more and more violently, and with the stirring music, the booming sound could be heard from miles away, like the shouts of a thousand troops, like the galloping of ten thousand horses, or even like countless white dragons shaking their silver whiskers, running wildly, roaring, spewing clouds and mist, rushing towards the boundless sky...

Suddenly, the sky was blocked out, and the world was in a state of primordial chaos. A wisp of cloud from the west drifted in and crashed straight down into the Guqin Pool. With a loud "boom", water splashed everywhere at the Guqin Platform. A monster that was neither a Kun nor a dragon shot out of the pool and pounced on Murong Junlan and his companion with its blood-red maw open.

The monster moved like lightning, arriving in the blink of an eye. Murong Junlan didn't even have time to pull out his rope. He could only protect the woman from being hurt by the monster. Little did he expect that the monster's blood-red maw would open and close, swallowing the two of them whole.

The restrictions on the guqin platform were removed, and the surroundings returned to normal at a visible speed. The gloom in the sky disappeared, the sun shone brightly, and in the depths of the shady forest, the ancient stones were quiet and the streams murmured.

Black Tyrant watched the changes from afar, her brows furrowed. She dared not order Azi to investigate, and she herself did not want to take any risks. She stood motionless for the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, oblivious to the fact that she had even grabbed a wooden stick beside her and crushed it to pieces. Azi stood with her hands at her sides, silently awaiting orders.

"Azi, send someone to follow those people, but it's best not to alert them." Black Tyrant slowly uttered a few words, then turned and walked into the cave.