209 Crown, Airships
After the dramatic exchange between Yang Lujia and Cai Hong, they already set off toward the Second Region. Moreover, Cai Hong also conveyed to him that Lan Mingyue had also flown in the region’s direction. That could only mean that she was not originally from the Third Region.
With that in mind, Yang Lujia was baffled. Since Cai Hong described her face as someone who was worried about something, he knew that things were not looking good for her. He could only hope for this friend of his to persevere and overcome her tribulation. If it was really not possible for her to take action, he would probably help her.
“Was it for vengeance? Did something happen?” Yang Lujia remembered about her father cheating on her mother. She viewed her father as the most respectable person in her life as a kid. However, that respectable person completely changed the way she once viewed him.
It left a dent in her heart that she could not afford to straighten back.
Yang Lujia waved his hand and released Metallie from his disciple’s world. However, as soon as this robot appeared, he could not help but twitch his mouth. There was actually a dog who slept atop her shoulders. However, Metallie completely disregarded this slightly grown-up dog.
“Hmm?” Brownie noticed that the environment had changed and opened his eyes, immediately raising his guard. “Are we being attacked?!”
“Brownie, little pup, calm down,” Yang Lujia immediately stopped this puppy whose voice would greatly discourage the listener’s first impression of him, which was a cute little puppy, who did not know anything of the world yet.
Seeing that it was only Yang Lujia and the others that were there, Brownie calmed down and retracted his peak Saint Emperor aura. Compared to him, however, Metallie was pretty much calmer.
PHEW.
Brownie acted as though there was sweat trickling down his fur.
Meanwhile, while he was doing so, he was almost terror-stricken when he noticed a fervent gaze on him. It was from Yin Hang, who was clasping his hands while looking at this little puppy.
“What the fuck? That kid’s also here again?”
“Little Prince Dog!” Yin Hang shouted and ran in Brownie’s direction.
Brownie immediately flew away from Metallie’s shoulders and ran away from Yin Hang. If he could only hurt him, he would have already done so. However, he was more than aware of why Yang Lujia was willing to take Yin Hang with him. This kid was basically just an empty treasure trove. He was an ideal person to bring when they would go out to search for treasures!
Therefore, he dared not make a move against him.
Moreover, Yang Lujia was looking at them amusingly. Brownie could only swallow this humiliation and kept running around the plain.
Even Cai Hong could not help but feel amused with Brownie and Yin Hang at the moment. Honestly, he really did not like the kid at first. However, seeing the kid making it hard for Brownie to get too close to Yang Lujia, he was inwardly happy.
That dog was lecherous and filled with dirty thoughts. He could not allow that dog to sully His Highness’ image.
Brownie, on the other hand, felt like cold water poured into him. He felt like he was betrayed behind his back. Nevertheless, he just continued running and continued cursing under his breath because he truly did not want Yin Hang to catch him. That kid even dared to play with his thing before and asked whether it was the same thing as his.
Fuck! What a fucking weirdo!
Yang Lujia, on the other hand, could not hold it in and laughed it off heartily. Cai Hong was surprised by Yang Lujia’s action and he was more than welcome to witness His Highness’ laughter.
That was the most outstanding accomplish he would have if he could His Highness laugh.
It was true, though. Rarely did Yang Lujia laugh. That was natural because, despite his young body age, his soul was already the same as that of an old man. Although compared to this world, an extremely old person on Earth would not even amount to a true old expert in this world.
Five days after, they finally arrived at their destination and Yin Hang had long been asleep—tired of endlessly chasing after Brownie. Brownie even asked Yang Lujia to keep that kid inside his second disciple’s world.
However, he was forthrightly rejected by Yang Lujia. Yang Lujia could not leave such a poor kid who had experienced slavery in a world where there were no people left anymore. After all, he released all of them since then.
“Alright,” Brownie replied. Although he was displeased, he still felt some pity for the kid. The kid had suffered for several years. It would not hurt to play with him for a while. It was only then Brownie realized that he had been too harsh with the kid.
“If you want him to stop chasing you, teach him something instead. That kid is someone who likes to learn something. You should have several in your arsenal to teach that kid, Brownie. Do not deprive him of the happiness he never felt before. Perhaps, you could even become a father to that kid. You know how important of a treasure that little kid’s body is, right?”
Brownie trembled and found Yang Lujia’s proposal feasible. Therefore, when the brat would wake up, he would immediately go near him and teach him how to properly do things.
Seeing the silence of Brownie, Yang Lujia understood that they had already reached a compromise.
“Good,” he muttered and stared at the array formation surrounding the entire Second Region. “It looks like things aren’t as simple as it looks. Who could have thought that such a terrifying formation had been left here? Moreover, it was not even something a peak expert of this realm could manually and willfully control.”
Moreover, there was more to it than it looked on the surface. Yang Lujia had a hunch. There was also the aura of the void lingering around the formation. It was faint but he could still feel it in his blood. Even Brownie could not feel this. This went to show just how noble Yang Lujia’s bloodline was in the void.
Brownie also looked through the array formation, but he could not sense anything. To him, the place was nothing extraordinary. It looked like a normal city—it was just that it was big enough to just be called a city. Despite that, he contemplated what Yang Lujia said.
Since then, even after he reached the peak Saint Emperor Realm, he could not measure the overall prowess of Yang Lujia in terms of combat and cultivation realm. Yang Lujia might be lacking the former, but Brownie was certain that Yang Lujia could make it up to his cultivation realm.
He even thought that only at his peak condition could he truly fight Yang Lujia—that was what he thought. But Yang Lujia’s background terrified him even more. Even though the Devouring Void Dog Tribe had quite a reputation in the void, his tribe was like an ant to the family Yang Lujia belonged to.
“Oh?” Yang Lujia’s brows suddenly perked up and looked in another direction. “I seem to have grasped something in the array formation. It feels like in that direction, there might be something that could help pass through the array formation without any hitch.”
Cai Hong immediately intervened when he saw Yang Lujia pointed in that direction. “Your Highness, that direction leads us to the void—”
“I know.”
Cai Hong quickly understood what Yang Lujia implied with his reply. It seemed like His Highness already saw through everything and he needed not to interfere anymore.
***
Meanwhile, within the Sacred Region, there was already a flood of airships flying around the region. It seemed like they were there for war, but it was actually not for that reason. They were in the Sacred Region because all of their higher-ups had been sent to the Holy Light Palace for recovery.
Moreover, their airships had a human emperor’s crown engraved on them. In fact, every airship that gathered within the Sacred Region had that crown. It was truly a sight to behold. That crown, however, to everyone in the four regions is a terrifying emblem belonging to terrifying power. However, that power actually incurred heavy losses and went inside their Sacred Region to ask for help in recovery.
Without even thinking twice, the Sacred Region’s sole ruler welcomed them with wide hands and smiles under the order from the Holy Light Palace.
“What happened, Your Highness? What happened that you ended up in such a state?” an old man with a white beard respectfully addressed, bowing his head down slightly at a young man who did not seem to be older than Yin Hang.
“Void beasts…” The young man’s eyes revealed killing intent like no other. Even the old man was quite frightened when he saw the young man’s gaze that could probably incur a hurricane. “They’re actually attacking at such a time like this…”