167: Chapter 157 167: Chapter 157 “Wake them up, and we’ll know if they recognize me once they see me, right?”
Ye Tian said simply and directly when he saw the Earl and others’ suspicion.
“Oh, I trust you.”
The Earl recited a curse, and the net of colored light was dispersed.
Under the glow of the Illuminating Mirror, a transparent Jade Gourd containing two women became visible.
Ye Tian gestured, and the invisible magical treasure flew towards them.
He slapped the treasure, and with a surge of Spiritual Power, it opened, and the magical treasure began to shrink.
The two women from the magical treasure fell onto a pile of leaves in the forest.
After storing the magical treasure in his hand, Ye Tian cast another stream of Spiritual Power onto the two women on the ground, waking them.
“Hmm”
Long Feifeng and the palace maid began to stir, and then they opened their eyes wide to the sky and the lush branches above, squinting as the sunlight filtered through the leaves.
“Where are we?” Long Feifeng muttered softly.
“Princess, how did we end up in the forest?”
The palace maid got up from the ground in a panic, turned to survey their surroundings, and saw some people they had been following earlier.
Then she saw an unfamiliar woman, and also a familiar figure.
She cried out in surprise, “Young General Ye Tian!”
Long Feifeng, hearing the palace maid’s shout, looked in the direction she was looking.
She too called out in surprise, “General Ye Tian, so I wasn’t dreaming just now, I really saw you?”
“Pfft,” Yan Weiwei couldn’t help but laugh out loud at this moment.
Ye Tian shook his head, feeling quite speechless.
“What are you laughing at, you common girl?
Believe it or not, I can have you killed?”
Seeing a common girl laugh at her, Long Feifeng, the prideful princess, became very angry as she got up from the ground, covered with many leaves.
The palace maid calmed down, brushed the leaves off herself, and helped the Princess do the same.
“So you’re the Princess!
But why are you laughing at a Taoist?
Mistaking him for Ye Tian, even the noble Princess can be blind sometimes, how amusing.”
Yan Weiwei wasn’t afraid at all.
This was the Cultivation World, and even if she was a Princess, she couldn’t just kill someone without good reason; she was powerless.
“Nonsense, when did I ever mistake a Taoist for Ye Tian?
You despicable woman, I must kill you.
Young General Ye, punish this woman for me.”
Long Feifeng threw caution to the wind, not caring that they were outdoors, and not worrying about her image.
“Tsk tsk…” The Earl and the Viscount finally believed Ye Tian’s words about knowing these two women.
So this was the Princess of Ancient Xia Country.
“Princess, my junior sister is right, don’t be angry.
Let me show you a video,” Ye Tian said.
Ye Tian released a stream of Spiritual Power, and the Illuminating Mirror projected an image.
Long Feifeng entered the forest with the palace maid, both hugging a Taoist, mistaking him for Ye Tian, and acting like love-struck fools.
“Delete that, delete that,” Long Feifeng stomped her feet, embarrassed that such an awkward moment had been seen by Ye Tian, and she wished she could crawl into a hole.
“Hehe,” the Earl and the Viscounts started laughing at the scene, not caring about their status as commoners.
“You…
Young General Ye, you can’t let them go.
The joke I’ve caused can’t be known by others, and it mustn’t spread.
Kill them all; they are spies from a foreign country anyway.”
In a frenzy, Long Feifeng conjured a wave of Spiritual Power, aiming to kill the Earl and the others.
The Earl and the Viscount, recognizing the danger, ducked behind Ye Tian for shelter.
Ye Tian waved his sleeve, dissolving the Spiritual Power.
“You, a woman of noble birth as a Princess, how dare you kill the innocent?
What evidence do you have to claim we are spies from a Foreign Country?”
The Earl angrily questioned Long Feifeng.
“You are people from a Foreign Country.
Aren’t you the very individuals that General Ye Tian was sent to capture?
General, won’t you quickly apprehend them?”
“Nonsense, we have lived in the Stockade for over a thousand years, never leaving to cause trouble.
Yet, unexpectedly, people from the Ancient Xia Country come to our Stockade to bring harm, trying to exterminate our clan.
We came out in pursuit of our enemy, which is the Taoist who escaped.”
Being accused by the Princess, although the Earl was a commoner here, their Blood Clan also hailed from nobility, so how could they be slandered without cause?
“You all are the ones General Ye Tian was set to capture.
Now that the Taoist has escaped, you have nothing to say for yourselves, and no one to prove you are good people.”
Having been laughed at by these people earlier, how could Long Feifeng easily let them off now?
“Princess, that Taoist won’t escape, and also, I never said they were the ones I was sent to capture.”
Ye Tian was a bit troubled by Long Feifeng sneaking out, acting arrogantly and capriciously.
“Did you hear that?
Even your General said we are not the bad guys.
General, quickly catch that Taoist and let this noble Princess see who the real villain is.”
The Earl’s words made Ye Tian nod.
“Princess, we truly have no evidence yet to suggest that these individuals are villains.
If the Princess does have evidence, please feel free to present it.”
“I am the Princess.
If I want to kill a few people, who would dare to say anything?”
“Princess, as long as I, this General, am here, you cannot kill innocents and cause trouble in my presence.”
“Hmph, today, for the sake of General’s face, I will let you off.
But if you speak of this matter, I’ll chase you to the ends of the earth to capture and kill you.”
Seeing Ye Tian speak this way, Long Feifeng also did not dare to act rashly.
This place wasn’t Kingdom Castle, and Ye Tian still had her gratitude, so in the presence of her beloved, she had to behave like a docile woman.
“Tsch, we might not afford to provoke the Princess, but can’t we still avoid her?” the Viscounts murmured quietly.
Ye Tian released a burst of Spiritual Power, and his Heaven-Earth Net came back, bringing up from the ground a Magical Treasure within it.
“General Ye, what is this?
Didn’t you say you had captured that person?
Where did they go?”
Long Feifeng stared at Ye Tian’s move, glaring at the Magical Treasure, convinced that the fortune-teller who embarrassed her today must have played a trick.
“That person has dug into the Magical Treasure.”
Ye Tian retracted the Heaven-Earth Net in front of him, and the crowd looked at the gray Magical Treasure, having no idea what kind of Magical Treasure it was.
Ye Tian hit the Magical Treasure with a burst of Spiritual Power, but he couldn’t extract the person from within.
The Magical Treasure was extremely hard, and he didn’t know the situation inside it.
“Where is the person?” Even using the Illuminating Mirror, Ye Tian couldn’t reveal the person inside, which left him feeling quite perplexed.
“General, the thief hasn’t run away, has he?”
“They can’t run away.
I’ll study this thing a bit.
That person won’t be able to escape.”
Ye Tian stored the Heaven-Earth Net and Magical Treasure together inside the Storage Bag.
“General, this enemy of ours must be captured and killed.
We cannot let them continue to harm the people of our Stockade.”
The Earl and the Viscounts were not content to let this person go so easily; they wanted to kill him with their own hands.
“Rest assured, he will not escape the law’s punishment.
I suspect he is a culprit behind an epidemic, and I am seeking evidence.”
Ye Tian consoled the Earl and the others, as it was clear from what these young men said, this person had committed many wicked deeds.