RUMILIE'S WRATH

"And you," Zhu Su turned to Wang Yue and the others. "I've investigated everything about you, and I have been informed that you are also talented people. How about this? I won't punish you, on the contrary, if you want to help my project, I will remit you. Okay?"

The Bai Lian Jiao glared in disbelief. Zhu Su added. "Yes, I know that you are members of the forbidden Bai Lian Jiao. But I also accept Deng Linping as a Team of Wellbeing member. Liu Ku used to be Fangshi for Xie Wang, the maker of deadly poison. Shao Rong, Du Qinfeng, Zhong Xia, and Chen Suibo are also the members of the cults feared by society. So are De Ta and Yun. I have indeed sworn, as long as they are talented, and have a noble heart to help the people, regardless of their status, I'll still recruit them. So? Will you accept my offer?"

It was apparently Zhu Su had planned! He truly did not like to execute people, especially if that person was talented and had a good tendency to help him. Hua Di Wei You - he really wanted to turn all enemies into friends. Because according to him, that was the best Sun Tzu's War Strategy! Best of the best, win perfectly!

Wang Yue's mind was screwd up. On the one hand, he still held a grudge against the Ming regime, which arbitrarily sealed Bai Lian Jiao's teachings and severely punished his members. The whip that hit him previously also still choked his chest with hatred. He bit his lip, looked around. Full-armed soldiers surrounded them in large numbers, and their bodies, which were badly injured as a result of the torture, were still not healed. Again, he bit his lip, and now looked closely at Zhu Su, trying to analyze him. He had often heard of that Fan Wang's actions. He had to admit that Zhu Su was the type of good leader to follow, nothing wrong could be used as an excuse to fight against him. Besides, De Ta and Yun were able to change, from opposing him, to becoming his followers.

Wang Yue let out a harsh breath. He turned to his juniors. "How about you?"

"We... follow all choices First Brother take," Lin Chan answered. The other Bai Lian Jiao members nodded.

Wang Yue turned his back to Zhu Su. He had made up his mind. "Alright, Your Highness, we accept your offer."

Yu Mu Li La was immediately agitated. It was all beyond her expectation. She was blinking anxiously. She knew, she was the only one whose fate was still in limbo.

But she had no other choice.

"Y... Your Highness! I... I... I also ask for your approval to... be your follower!"

Zhu Su smiled. "Yes, Miss. I approve of all of you. I gladly accept all of you as new members of my team!"

All of them knelt down. Expressing their sincerity to become Zhu Su's follower. "Thank you for your generosity, Your Highness! Your kindness is immeasurable! Long live Your Highness!"

Although it was the most diminutive and most isolated part of the palace, the energy it generated was as powerful as Aura of Dragon in the Palace Hall. The wind howled. Carrying the fierce energy soar high into the sky. Zhu Su looked up, smiling.

May Heaven hear all of my prayers and wishes.

***

Huan Shikang slammed his stationery box hard onto the ground. The noise of the slammed box, accompanied by the scattering of stationeries on the ground, immediately made the room clamorous.

"Not only your trick fails." He hissed. "Your initial expectation is, that Zhou Wang sentences Hu Wang Fei to death and then goes insane and ruins his own city cruelly and foolishly. But now! Not only Zhou Wang reconciles with Hu Wang Fei. But even worse, Yun, Yu Mu Li La, and De Ta betray us! What is your responsibility, Rumilie?! What?!?"

The enraged Huan Shikang walked quickly to Rumilie. Then shook his body wrathfully. "You sacrifice Yun, and those two kids run away from us! What can we do now, huh?!"

Rumilie grabbed both of Huan Shikang's hands, and pulled it away forcefully.

"Final battle," He mumbled.

"What do you say?! I can't hear you!"

"We will step into the final battle!" Rumilie shouted, so loud. He turned mad, Huan Shikang somehow got scared of his sudden anger instead. "If we fight in a deadly area, then we must fight until one of us die! If we are doomed to die, then I am not willing to die alone. Zhou Wang and all his cronies must accompany us to Hell!"

***

The hilltop of Mount Taihang presented the charm of heaven in this world. Full of mystery, it was beautiful and enchanting, but on the other hand, it felt faraway and majestic. A deep river at the bottom of the ravine flowed gently along the steep, split the hills. By standing on the hill, it was as if we had become Divine Spirit who had drifted away from worldliness, and only observed the realm below without any attachment.

It was what Wu Qi was doing there.

The azure sky stretched out over his head, he was like dust under the vastness of the ether. Yet if he observed the world below, it was the world that appeared small and insignificant as the dust for him. Wu Qi did not know which position he was standing at right now. As a sacred hermit, or as a grain of dust?

All he knew, he just intended to stand here at this moment, and kept himself away from all complexities of worldly problems.

"There again, you come here, Wu Qi."

Wu Qi's heart skipped a beat. He turned around. "Xue Mei?!"

Xue Mei smiled. Her beautiful, slightly curly hair fluttered in the wind. "Mount Taihang is perfectly beautiful. Its unique charm is different from other mounts. If you are already on it, you will forget that you've been sitting for hours."

Wu Qi smiled back with a faint smile, but he said nothing.

"Mount Taihang is also great for helping people forget their problems. Anyone who is worried and depressed often comes here to calm his mind," Xue Mei emphasized the last sentence, "Including you."

Wu Qi laughed, but his laughter sounded strange. "Ah, what problem do I have? I'm very happy, really. Not only His Highness spares my life, he even bestows me a position in military and is willing to give me an important task. How come I worry about a nonsense thing?"

"You worry about yourself since you can't forget Lady Hu."