The Princess And The Lord

Somewhere outside Yun Dao city, in a damp forest one black figures run in high speed, the figures jump between the three branches and occasionally scrutinize around him to make sure no one is following him. the rain last night is quite heavy and today also a cloudy day so the forest is exceptionally dark even during the day.

The figure moves swiftly, his move is nimble and sharp just like an arrow released by the bow. A moment later the dark figures land on the ground right in front of a giant mouth cave, once again he looks behind his shoulder, when he saw no shadow follow behind him then he takes a step inside the cave.

Unbeknown to him after he enters the cave two figures came from behind the tree trunks.

"You sure he is Lao Min Na subordinate brother Li?" Yang Xi Ying whisper next to him.

Li Mo Zhen nods his head "Yes, I will not forget the people that lure me to the cursed sword, he is the same person who deliberately talks at the diner to caught my attention, who knew he is one of the moon tower member" Li mo Zhen words fill with malice, he remembers how suffered he is under the cursed and he almost hurt everyone who dear to him if not because of Lory he is certain that he would die miserably.

"I thought Long Ming already destroy the moon tower sect?" Yang Xi Ying heard the news that the white dragon palace make them out of business and ruined their reputation then The gold Lion Palace carries the annihilation, ever since then all business and sect that involved with Lao Min Na none of them end up well, if only they know that Lao Min Na is bumping head with Zhao Li Xin no one would dare to lend ahead after they realize that they were against Hei Shen sect, one by one retracted their support from Lao Min Na and that's why she was forced to transmigrated to Gui Hong continent.

"Long Ming does destroy the whole sect but the root is still there and many of them still willingly follow Lao Min Na," said Li Mo Zhen.

Yang Xi Ying hated Lao Min Na to the core, because of that woman she almost loses her man, she shameless enough to try to subdue the Jiu Yun sect then she tries to kill Lory multiple times and even dare to covet Lory husband, in Yang Xi Ying eyes, Lao Min Na is an arrogant, shameless and disgusting vixen, she wants nothing else but to rip that pretty face she proud so much. What beautiful face, hasn't she saw Lory's real face yet? that is what you call enchanting!

"I bet she used her pretty face to lure men to follow her, what a vixen!" she scoffed angrily.

"Don't be angry, compare to you Lao Min Na is nothing" he teased.

"Shut up!" she pretends to be mad but her cheeks tinted with red.

they supposed to be on a date today according to Lory advice to strengthen the husband and wife relationship and just have fun before Yang Xi Ying got pregnant, during the date-time they suddenly bump with one of Lao Min Na subordinated since it was a rare occurrence so they decide to change their lunch date into stalking date, so here they are.

"Should we get in?" Yang Xi Ying raised her brows.

"En, you stay behind me okay!" he warns his beautiful wife.

"Okay!" her eyes glinted with trust then she nods her head obediently.

'So cute!'

Li Mo Zhen shakes his head 'wait, it's not the right time yet'

Suddenly a loud shriek came from inside the cave, Li Mo Zhen pull Yang Xi Ying behind his back in reflex than from inside the cave the man with dark uniform who just enter the cave before run frantically but suddenly he trips and falls to the ground then something drags him inside the cave, the man screams in frenzy his hand claw desperately but something pulls him back to the cave, the man has no chance no matter how much he struggles, his claw hands leaving a scratch mark on the ground as he screams helplessly and soon the scream swallow by the darkness.

"What…what is happening?" she squeezes Li Mo Zhen's robes.

"I don't know, I feel great force inside the cave, we should leave!" he says in hurry.

Suddenly something leaps from inside the cave and blocks their way, Li Mo Zhen raised his hand in front of Yang Xi Ying to protect her and at the same time unsheathed his swords. 

In front of them roar a giant beast in a face of a flat lion and muscular body like a dog, this beast is called the Nian beast or earth Lion. The Nian beast roar as it bares its fangs, the beast's front leg hitting the ground vigorously. 

Yang Xi Ying eyes widen, she had seen the Nian beast once during the attack at the Lu clan but the Nian beast in front of her is much bigger than the normal Nian beast, the muscles on the body also thicker and larger but one thing that stood out the most is the beast fur is not long and somewhat reddish but it looks like the fur was burned, the fur was black and only cover a few parts of the beast skin while the red wrinkle skin was exposed even the beast mane is frizzy like someone burn it with fire.

The beast didn't look normal!

Yang Xi Ying takes out her sword from her spatial ring then she calmed her erratic breathing "Brother Li…"

"Used ice and wind talisman, that is its weakness" Li Mo Zhen remind her,

The Nian beast jump directly to them, both of them leap to the air, Yang Xi Ying throw an ice talisman when the talisman touches the beast skin the ice cover some part of the beast body, Li Mo Zhen then hit the beast with his sword, however, the beast is barely hurt on contrary the beast becomes more excited it let out an ear-shattering roar.

The beast pounce towards Li Mo Zhen while swinging its claws, he dodges to the side then the beast hit him with its long tails, thankfully he swift enough to cut the beast's tail, blood spurt from the tail. Li Mo Zhen thought it would fright the beast a little but who knew the beast open its wide jaw as it tries to rip his head.

Yang Xi Ying saw the dire situation she throw dozens of knives to the beast's head, and it thrust the beast's head like a thorn. The beast stagger to the side but still it refused to stop and launch another attack in madness. Yang Xi Ying and Li Mo Zhen looked at each other with foreboding expression. Something very wrong with the beast.

Out of nowhere yang Xi Ying is blown with fire spit from the beast mouth, thankfully she wear a fire protective amulet out of habit since she stays with Long Ming coincidently it was given by Lory just in case Zhao Li Xin went ballistic again, the amulet is made by Zhao Li Xin himself because only him who knows how strong immortal flame could be so if the amulet could stand against the immortal flame then any other fire will be rendered into nothing.

But Li Mo Zhen didn't know this, he saw Yang Xi Ying's face is engulfed with the beast flame and his heart sank into the abyss "Xi YING!" Li Mo Zhen shouted frantically.

She rolls on the ground to hinder another attack from the beast, saw she still moving the beast lift its front leg prepare to crush her small body under its giant paws, Li Mo Zhen will not let his wife get hurt, using all his qi he rush toward the beast like a bullet, using his sword art he changes his qi into dozens of sword then the swords thrust the beast make it like a giant porcupine.

The beast pierces to the ground and yet relentlessly still tries to get up, furious Li Mo Zhen aims his sword to the beast head and cut the beast head cleanly. The head rolls on the ground, the beast's body still twitching. He doesn't care he run towards Yang Xi Ying in hurry.

Meanwhile, Yang Xi Ying leans on the tree trunks with one of her arms cover the other.

"Xi Ying, are you okay, are you hurt?" he checks her face and body with a panic expression.

"I'm fine – I'm fine, don't worry, I think I just sprained my hand" she calmed him down.

"Really, are you sure, the Nian fire is very strong" Li Mo Zhen persistently check for any burn marks on her body.

"Is it stronger than immortal flame?" she saw a red bracelet in her hand "Lory give me just in case Long Ming unleashed his power without regards again, it made by Long Ming himself so we know this is not a simple fire protective amulet" she grinned.

Li Mo Zhen sigh in relieved "We owed them again, aren't we?" he smiles helplessly.

"I guess we are?" she chuckles lightly.

Li Mo Zhen patted hear head dotingly, inwardly he thankful for Lory and Zhao Li Xin. Once he calmed down he examined the beast corpse in front of him.

"Do you ever seen a Nian beast like this?" Yang Xi Ying looks at the beast in fright.

"No, never…" he shook his head.

"Wait, what is that…?" she pointing her finger at the beast's head.

A black creature like worm poke from inside the beast ear, it wiggles its way out, the creature like a worm but cover with dark smoke something inauspicious about the creature make them take a step back then all of the sudden the worm jump toward Yang Xi Ying like a dark bolt of lightning, it was so fast she can't even manage to scream.

Just an inch the creature touches her skin a white bright light from her chest shined, the creature shriek as the light burns the creature into black smoke.

The light disappeared as fast as it appeared leaving Yang Xi Ying and Li Mo Zhen freeze with their mouth hanging loose.

'What the hell is that?!'