32 Princess Bai Xue

Xia Tian suffered a serious injury while teleporting due to void cracks but successfully teleported to a unknown place at the foot of a mountain with Shen Xue and Niu Ming, the place they are teleported to looks like a broken altar in the shadow of a large mountain and there is no presence of any living beings except for the noise made by the insects, the sky is painted with a slight red indicating the sun is about to set and all birds are flying in the sky returning to their nests.

Xia Tian became unconscious just after teleporting out with Shen Xue. Shen Xue is tightly clutched in his bosom, she is not able to move any muscle in her body due to bone-chilling powder, Niu Ming is also still unconscious due to the previous wounds, all three of them laid on the green grass without any protection, if a wild magical beast comes here, they all will definitely die without doubt but as their luck is good, no magical beast came to disturb them.

When the sky is about to be covered by the blanket of darkness Shen Xue is able to free herself from the effects of bone-chilling powder. After getting her freedom, she quickly freed herself from the bosom of Xia Tian and dodged to the side and while doing that she felt the sensation of some liquid on the ground when she kept her hand on the ground for balance.

Shen Xue is shocked to find out that the ground below her is wet with the blood leaking from Xia Tian back, she quickly checked the condition of Xia Tian and horrified to find out that there is an inch deep and foot-long wound on Xia Tian back injuring him very badly. She quickly Checked the pulse of Xia Tian and it is also fading at a fast rate.

Shen Xue did not waste any more time, she carried Xia Tian on her shoulder and grasped the color of Niu Ming in other hand and darted towards to the nearest visible cave in the mountain. The cave is uninhabited making it unnecessary to fight for the cave with some magical beast. She gently placed Xia Tian laying on his face in the cave. Using her profound qi she quickly woke up Niu Ming from his unconscious state and ordered him to bring some firewood from the surroundings. Niu Ming seeing the situation of Xia Tian imagined what had happened after he went unconscious and without asking any question he went outside to bring some dry wood.

After Niu Ming left the cave, Shen Xue, gently removed the shirt of Xia Tian exposing his bare injured back, Shen Xue bit her lips and tears started to form in her eyes as she thought Xia Tian injured this badly in order to protect her.

She placed her hands gently on the injured back of Xia Tian. Gradually the appearance of Shen Xue began to change her black hair become snow white, her pitch black eyes became light blue in color, her yellow tiger tail changed to white, the valiant aura of Shen Xue is replaced with a majestic aura. After she changed to another form Shen Xue activated her bloodlines and burned two drops of blood essence in order to heal the wounds of Xia Tian but to her surprise, she used almost ten drops of blood her blood essence to completely cure the wound of Xia Tian leaving only five drops of blood essence in her body.

At first Shen Xue thought, two drops of blood essence from her divine bloodlines are enough for completely healing the wound of Xia Tian, but it only healed one fifth of his wound and left without any choice she burned ten drops of her blood essence to completely heal him, sweat drops began to form on the forehead of Shen Xue due to exhaustion from burning her blood essence. After thirty minutes of treating Xia Tian back completely healed without leaving any scars of injury, Shen Xue breathed a sigh of relief and removed her hands from Xia Tian back.

Niu Ming who went outside, after gathering some dry wooden sticks returned to the cave, previously when he woke up he is in a dazed mood and forget to ask how is the condition of Xia Tian who is lying there with his back badly injured, he just followed the orders of Shen Xue and came out to pick some dry sticks to lit the fire. So, he hurriedly returned to the cave to know the situation of Xia Tian.

Shen Xue heard the falling of wooden sticks on her back, she turned around and surprised to find Niu Ming staring at her with utter disbelief and fear, She signaled him to keep silent and motioned him to enter the cave. Niu Ming fearfully gathered all the fallen wooden sticks and hesitatingly entered the cave.

He is fearful because he knows the person with snow-white hair and light blue eyes, who is in the cave, she is the top beauty and the only princess of the divine tiger kingdom, Bai Xue and is the only one capable of confronting the dragon princess in terms of beauty in all of the southern wilderness, almost all the people of divine tiger kingdom have seen her during her coming age ceremony which is celebrated very grandly four years back when she turned sixteen and are almost dumbstruck due to her otherworldly beauty.

After placing the wooden sticks at the side, Niu Ming stutteringly asked Shen Xue, "Are you… you… Shen Xue?" Shen Xue nodded her head coldly without any expression. After some time, Niu Ming gathered his courage and asked, "Are you princess Bai Xue of the Divine tiger kingdom?" Shen Xue again nodded her head again in the same manner. Niu Ming doesn't know what to say and stuttered "this… this… why…"

Shen Xue sighed seeing Niu Ming stuttering and gradually reverted to her previous form and sternly replied him, "I came outside in this form to experience the outside world, it is a secret and only some important people in the royal palace knows about it, I hope you will keep this secret for me and don't inform anybody."

Niu Ming relaxed after seeing the Shen Xue form that he knows and nodded his head saying, "I won't say to anybody and will keep it a secret." And pointed at Xia Tian saying, "What happened to him and how is his condition?"

"he saved us from the red wolf bandits and got injured in the process, his condition is stable now and will wake up in a day."

"Did he save us? But his strength is of only second level of origin realm!"

"it is a long story but you only need to know that he is capable of fighting the seventh level of spirit realm cultivator on equal grounds."

Shen only knows Xia Tian is at the third level of Spirit realm from the mouth of Xia Tian, she did not see him fighting until the last fight and is surprised that he can actually fight with a ninth level of Spirit realm cultivator with his strength at the third level of Spirit realm. She decided to ask Xia Tian about that sternly without leaving any leeway to Xia Tian this time, She wanted to know all his secrets.

After this incident she is ready to accept the love of Xia Tian if he proposes, still she is not sure that she is in love with Xia Tian or not but she started to have some subtle feelings towards Xia Tian after he risked his life in order to save her, she thought about the fiancée that his father chose for her and decided to talk with his grandfather and father about that, she is sure that they will come with some other means to cancel that engagement.

The cave is large enough to set up three tents, by the tent materials in their space rings Niu Ming set up all the three tents, Xia Tian is placed in one tent and other two are occupied by Shen Xue and Niu Ming.

Shen Xue not able to sleep in her tent, she came to the tent of Xia Tian and by leaning to the wall of the tent she closed her eyes to sleep.