Chapter 348: Fighting for Affection 6

Not yet.

Four hours before Chu Wanning's birthday.

Taxian-Jun steadily landed on the beams of the study on the lonely moonlit night, and could not help shouting cheers for himself in his heart. Time was so tight that only he could move freely between heaven and earth. After all, Divine Swords could not be so fast, making it difficult to travel around the world in a short time. But luckily, he was different. He had the ability to do space teleportation.

Taxian-Jun was too proud of himself.

"All over the sky, rain and clouds, we need to capture the level of human beings, Jiang Yechen from Gu Yue Ye Sect in order to exchange." Ricecake Tyrant's words were still floating in his ears.

And he was very vigilant and serious at that time and asked, "What is the level for Jiang Xi?"

"There are four demons." "'Ricecake Contain Heavenly Way', on the four verbose, it's not hard to catch. Four by our demon clan was labeled as the thinning of human beings."

Hard to catch?

Taxian-Jun gave a cold hum in his heart.

It depended on who got out of the horse. For him, it wasn't difficult to catch Jiang Xi's during the night.

He looked down from the girders painted with gold and vermilion. Jiang Xi was so delighted and quiet at night all alone. It was because he hated being in contact with other people, hence, there was no one else in the room. He sat by the window alone, peacefully reading his books.

Ever since the war, Jiang Xi had been badly injured and was in poor health. He was originally a man of manly stature and dignity, but nowadays he spent months on his bed, causing him to lose a lot of weight. Even though he was thin before, and currently he was still very thin, however, his appearance now was so pale that he was somewhat lacking in authority and showed some morbid decadence and beauty.

But his beauty was no doubt still beautiful. Although Taxian-Jun's aesthetics were not faulty, he knew that Jiang Yechen was a rare beauty. But what was more? He had seen more beautiful people in his life, and had not learned how to pity the jade.

Taxian-Jun, who didn't know in what way to pity the man, looked at Jiang Yechen for a while before finally discovering a perfect angle. He quickly took out the box that was in his arms, and clicked it open.——

"Go ahead inside, you will have everything that comes in your mind!"

He threw it down like a rainbow, causing the melon seeds to hit the back of Jiang Xi's head.

In his expectation, the moment the box touched Jiang Xi's head, Jiang Xi would be sending out a white light. Then, the "whip" will be absorbed by the box quickly making a "bang" sound as the lid closes swiftly. The box would then vibrate and Jiang Xi would struggle, but Taxian-Jun was confident that it would end calmly.

Now all he needed was to capture Jiang Xi's level for a good exchangement just like he practiced within his imagination, so that he could gain the clouds.

Unfortunately, when the wooden box was just about to touch Jiang Xi, the room door of the seemingly sick Jiang Xi suddenly disappeared and was swept away. Instead of the broad blue and gold clothes that stood in front of Taxian-Jun, a door that flowed with silk and satin instantly flashed into the middle of the study.

Perfect evasion!

Things that fell to the ground went into the box. Jiang Xi stared at them before raising his head to look at Taxian-Jun gloomily. "What are you doing?" he said.

Before the word "man" was spoken, Taxian-Jun walked down from the beams and waved his palm. He summoned a scarlet willow vine of spiritual power and swept straight towards Jiangxi.

Jiang Xi's face changed and his sleeves swept back to avoid the second attack.

Taxian-Jun sneered and said, "Okay, one or two but three. However, I can still see you are able to run away during the third time?"

The so-called "twelve but three" was actually the first recovery of Jiang Xi's serious illness, who was bullied by the late Emperor. Jiang Xi had dealt with him in his previous life, and he did have a lot of tricks under his sleeves. Finally, he was subdued to violence. But now, Jiang Xi was caught off guard. He was breathing harshly, and he was still very weak.

Under such circumstances, it was impossible to avoid the third attack of Taxian-Jun.

When the scarlet vine struck again, Jiang Xi tried to flicker away. However, there was a sudden sweetness in his throat, which just flashed so fast that his sickness surged up making him choke.

Even one mistake could cause a master to lose.

Jiang Xi was instantly locked by that willow vine causing him to lose his center of gravity as he suddenly fell to the ground.

He gasped for air before raising his apricot eyes. He stared at the person fiercely, but when he saw the face of Taxian-Jun, he was shocked: "...It was you?

"Don't worry, this venerable one won't kill— "

Before he had finished speaking, he heard Jiang Xi angrily say, "Who sent you to humiliate me?"

"How did this venerable one humiliate you?" Taxian-Jun asked curiously.

Jiang Xi couldn't break the rope and turned blue with anger. "Did Xue Meng send you here?"

Taxian-Jun was even more surprised: "What is the relationship with Xue Meng? What festivals do you have with him? Why would he humiliate you?"

Jiang Xi bit his thin lips and muted himself. A few slightly strands of disheveled hair hung over his icy pale face. A pair of apricot eyes stared at Taxian-Jun in the dark light at the corner of the study.

"...Hold on, wait a minute." Taxian-Jun frowned and seemed to find that things were not that simple. "Why did this venerable one suddenly feel that your eyes are a little familiar, ah? It seems that there's somebody who looks similar to you..."

Jiang Xi was stiff. He immediately looked away, closing his eyes and stopped talking.

Taxian-Jun habitually stretched out his hand to turn his face back again, but before his fingertips touched Jiang Xi's chin, he suddenly thought that it wasn't appropriate. This action was somewhat ambiguous. Although he had no other intention but to observe Jiang Yechen's eyes again, Jiang Xi would probably be furious if he wished to do that.

So he quickly shrunk his hand back and wiped his fingertips exaggeratedly on his clothes to prove his innocence.

Forget it, who cares who Jiang Xi looked like? Anyway, he was not interested in Jiang Yechen's affairs.

Now, grab it and grab it! Shove Jiang Xi in a sack so he can add color clouds in the box!

With this in mind, Taxian-Jun turned from feeling suspicion into joy. He raised his fingertips and directed Jiang Xi across the vine of spiritual power, drifting into the direction of the 'box of thoughts'.

How could Jiang Xi ever allow himself to receive such treatment? "Let me down!" he said angrily.

Taxian-Jun did not listen at all. After commanding the vine, he put his arms around Jiang Xi and laughed playfully. "When you go in, then I'll let you go. The space inside is very wide. You can be rest assured that this venerable one is not interested in you. Tomorrow, when you finish your task, this venerable one will set you free the day after that."

"You're looking for death!!!"

Jiang Xi's nose was scrunched from being so angry that he wanted to scold again, but he was already chained to the wooden box. The vine circled behind him and poked him on the back.

"You, come in."

"You...!" Jiang Xi scolded halfway before suddenly turned the whole into a ray of light, and was absorbed into the 'box of thoughts' by the instantaneous powerful evil spirit.

Taxian-Jun was so proud that he bent over and picked up the wooden box before snorting, "Revolting against this venerable one? It's not like you have to put your hands together.

Just after saying this, he suddenly heard footsteps outside of the study, Taxian-Jun wondered.

Who?

The sound became closer and stopped right in front of the door. The person behind the door tapped softly two times, and spoke in a gentle manner: "Father, the decoction is ready. You should drink medicine."

Oh... Was this Jiang Yechen's cheap son? Taxian-Jun restrained his smile, this could be a little troublesome. How could he allow Jiang Xi's son to watch that he had tied his father, and would not react to fighting with Taxian-Jun?

Although he was happy to fight once more, he had an important goal and that was to prepare gifts for Chu Wanning's birthday. If he couldn't fight, then he should take the best course.

Taxian-Jun thought that before the other party would come in, he would open a transmission array and send himself to the nearby Yangzhou Port.

On the other side, outside the study during the lonely moonlit night, Jiang Xi's adopted son knocked on the door for a long time without receiving a response. Seeing there was no reply, the son frowned for a moment, hesitated, and coughed softly. "Please forgive the disruption of the younger generation." He raised his hand and squeaked open the door.

After entering the door, he opened his gentle eyes in astonishment and called out, "My righteous father?"

He saw only an empty room with a volume of books lying in front of the window. The marking of the ink was still wet, and Jiang Xi was nowhere to be seen.

There was no time.

There were still three hours left before Chu Wanning's birthday.

Because the streets and alleys were crowded and full of people, he grabbed the roof of Yangzhou City and wanted to take a small break beside the lofty top of the Wenfeng Pagoda, so his clothes fluttered as he leaped onto its golden pink roof.

Down there, you couldn't really see the streets from a mile away. Everytime it was near the evening, pedestrians would cramp the road. However, when he stood on the top of the tower, he could see the view very clearly.

Feeling drowsy, he yawned and placed his arm behind his head as he dropped himself onto the tiles on the rooftop. He gazed calmly at the gradually burning clouds in the night sky. It was going very well, Jiang Xi had been caught and there were beautiful flowers in the box. Chu Wanning would really like them.

It was too early for him to catch a few more so-called "high level" people.

With that in mind, Taxian-Jun reached into his sleeve and found an old bark pamphlet of the landlord, with some twisted words written on the title page, "Outline of Ethnic Observation". He flipped it over and slightly squinted his eyes.

"The number of high level people is quite a lot." As he read, he stroked his chin and murmured to himself, "But the writing is too incomplete. It only shows the list of monks who were observed by the Ricecake Tyrant, but it doesn't tell what they can be exchanged to one captured."

But then he figured, that's alright. It doesn't really matter since the Ricecake Tyrant said that all these high-level people would be changed into good stuff anyway. And it would just keep these people in some kind of cage, so this type of business isn't terrible.

"Jiang Xi, Ma Yun, Xuan Ji Elder…" Looking through the names, he suddenly found himself and Chu Wanning, who were among them.

Taxian-Jun felt a little angry. He thought that these rogue officials and thieves dared to observe the Emperor and Beidou Immortal. How bold of them! But on second thought, if there weren't their names written in there, they would definitely be looked down upon.

With that in mind, Taxian-Jun became furious again.

He roughly skimmed through the list of people in the "High Level" booklet and thought, "This place is near the Peach Blossoms Villa, so it's better to grab Ma Yun first and see what can be exchanged."

As soon as he planned to do it, he flew down the pagoda immediately, intending to capture the second rare person at the Taobao Villa.

However, before he could open the space transmission array, he heard a familiar voice appear behind him: "Hey, isn't this Mo-xiong?"

Taxian-Jun was shocked. He was wearing a cloak, so it would be hard for people to recognise him. Who was such an eyesore who could tell his identity?

He turned around and saw a handsome man with long and wavy pale golden hair, eyes coloured jasper green and was standing outside the painted yellow courtyard wall of the Wenfeng Monastery. His skin was a pale ivory color, whiter than the magnolia tree that was planted outside of the courtyard wall.

The blonde man with deep facial features, lips dazzling and his hands hidden behind his back as he leaned against the temple wall, looking at Taxian-Jun with a smile.

"What a coincidence, I didn't expect to find Mo-xiong in Yangzhou."

"Mei Hanxue?"

Mei Hanxue gave him a smile and said, "Well, long time no see."

Taxian-Jun didn't like Mei Hanxue. Even though in his past life, he was stabbed by Xue Meng, he could ignore his cousin's old deeds, but would still be unhappy with Mei Hanxue.

Besides Chu Wanning, he was not very interested in other people. He didn't really understand the Mei Hanxue brothers at all. He couldn't immediately distinguish the twins even from their expressions and gestures.

As a result, he furrowed his brows and averted his gaze. When he realised that there was only one out of the two blonde brothers here, he asked, "Are you big one or small?"

"..." Mei Hanxue was very clever. Naturally, he was different from Taxian-Jun. This was because with just one word and with a few expressions, he knew that he had mistaken the personality of Mo Ran.

He was afraid that this was the personality of Emperor Taxian-Jun from the previous life, and not the humble personality of Mo-zongshi that he was familiar with.

If he knew that from the beginning, he wouldn't have said hello.

But now since he had revealed himself, Mei Hanxue had to force himself to smile, but the enthusiasm in his eyes had faded by a lot. He answered, "I haven't even asked Mo-xiong whether he is old or young. Why did Mo-xiong ask me first whether I am big or small?"

"What old? You're the old one!" said the Emperor.

Mei Hanxue shook his head and chuckled, "Why are you alone in Yangzhou? What about Chu-zongshi, is he not with you?"

This reminded Taxian-Jun of the meal he was supposed to catch.

He arrived in Yangzhou so he could catch Jiang Xi.

Jiang Xi was one of the high level people, so he could be changed into clouds.

Hey… Wait a minute. Mei Hanxue was a high level person too!

Taxian-Jun's eyes were shining. It seemed that before he went to catch Ma Yun, he could already catch another rare person first.

"..." Mei Hanxue was very good at observing a person's words and looks. When he saw Taxian-Jun's different expression, he couldn't help but to step back and vigilantly wanted to take out his weapons. However, Taxian-Jun moved faster than he could, like a black flash of illumination came close to him.

"Mo-xiong, you --!"

Before Mei Hanxue could finish, he could see Taxian-Jun opening an ugly wooden box before pressing it against his head.

"What is this?"

Taxian-Jun said, "Get in the sack!"

"Mo-xiong --!"

A golden flash appeared.

Mei Hanxue vanished.

Taxian-Jun quickly covered the box and his handsome face showed such a malicious smile. His purple and black eyes twinkled the light of ambition as he triumphantly said: "I got another one."

Two.

Where could Mo-zongshi's small wood, small shells and small flowers even compare with his high level people group? Only when he beat Mo-zongshi and won Chu Wanning's favor was the time he could be a happy ghost!

He shook the box satisfactorily, opened the transmission array and teleported to the Taobao Villa to catch the third person, Ma Yun.

.

At the same time, inside the 'box of thoughts'.

Mei Hanxue was suddenly thrown in, and he fell onto his knees unsteadily. When he got up from the ground, he coughed and shook some dust off his robe and scanned around the area with his blue eyes.

As far as he could see, there were mountains and rivers, fairylands, trees and grass that were different from the real world. There were flowers floating in the sky, lotus ponds were flowing with gold, houses were exquisite and magnificently built, and there were also a large field of flowers with the sound of tinkling elegant music.

Where was… this place?

He looked around at it suspiciously, before seeing a man lying on the ground, shackled by chains looking humiliated. The man was stained with dust and was unable to move. However, Mei Hanxue had been with numerous people and was very sensitive when it came to good looks. Even though he was baffled and was standing far away at the moment, he still knew that the man was a very beautiful person just by looking at his silhouette alone.

But why?

Who is… this beauty?