Chapter 742 - 284: How Many Men Have You Had? (Part 2)
Adonis, who was not tall, quickened his pace to keep up with Ying Chenzhou. "Hey, what did you feel when you met Xu Xingguang?"
Ying Chenzhou walked to the car and unlocked it.
He opened the car door, and before getting in, he turned back and looked sharply at Adonis, saying enigmatically, "She gives me the feeling of the Black Sea."
"Bottomless, making one... fearful."
Indeed, fear.
Although he acted calm and composed in front of Xu Xingguang last night, the truth is, the moment he turned and saw Xu Xingguang, he felt a chilling fear in his heart.
Because he didn’t know when the other person appeared behind him.
If she wanted to launch a sneak attack, he wouldn’t even have the chance to turn around and fight back.
"Adonis, do not underestimate her." After leaving this advice, Ying Chenzhou got into the car. The vehicle then lifted into the air with the push of airwaves, flying along the invisible high-altitude track.
Adonis watched the car’s outline flashing overhead, feeling a sense of dread.
Ying Chenzhou’s combat power ranked within the top three among the superpower users in the East Ocean Alliance; otherwise, he wouldn’t qualify to maintain his position as Security Gate Chief.
If even he felt fear, then what kind of strength did this Xu Xingguang possess?
He could find little information about Xu Xingguang, only knowing that she came from the mortal world, where she’s a well-known doctor and the Lady Captain of the Huo Family.
With a notable aptitude in medicine, she passed the Hundred Medicines Conference selection of the mortal world and was taken to the Ying Family of the Central Yu Alliance to study medicine.
As for anything deeper, it couldn’t be uncovered.
The data they found did not mention Xu Xingguang being a superpower user with such fearsome strength that even Ying Chenzhou feared her.
So the couple — the husband succeeded in killing Yan Wusheng, reorganizing Bai Ze Island, while the wife is a formidable and unfathomable powerhouse?
No, when did the mortal world become so strong?
Over the years, the Star Sky Monitoring Bureau has been closely observing the mortal world, confirming that it has neither the birth of superpower users nor ancient martial artists.
Or could it be that one of Xu Xingguang’s ancestors was a criminal banished from the Divine Martial Realm to the mortal world?
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The protagonist Xu Xingguang, discussed by members of the East Ocean Alliance Government, was on her way to Yangon Modern City, accompanied by Cruz, in an off-road vehicle.
It was three o’clock in the afternoon when their vehicle entered Yangon Modern City.
Yangon Modern City is the only capital city in the Kenda Mountain Range, where Green Blood Clan children over 12 years old are sent to study.
In the hearts of the Green Blood People, Yangon Modern City is the holy city for studying and the residence of wizards.
"The City Lord of this city, who is also the Clan Leader of the Yangon Tribe, is named Lu Ya," Cruz said as she drove to the Clan Leader Mansion, introducing Lu Ya to Xu Xingguang.
The sunlight was somewhat dazzling, reflecting glaring light off the metal eye patch on her right eye.
Xu Xingguang reached out to pull down the visor in the driver’s seat to block the light.
Cruz chuckled, asking, "Did the sunlight bother you?" She tapped the metal eye patch and explained to Xu Xingguang, "This eye injury happened during a military exercise among the Three Great Alliances. But the person who harmed me has long died by my arrow."
The Green Blood People of the Extreme North Tribe excel in archery, and Cruz’s bow and quiver were within reach in the back.
Xu Xingguang commented, "Quite distinctive."
Cruz, without any anxiety about her appearance, had some freckles on her sun-kissed face, making her appear untamed and not to be trifled with. She proudly said, "It’s a medal of my honor. All the men I’ve been with love to kiss this medal."
The word "all" was quite interesting.
Xu Xingguang curiously asked, "How old are you?"
Cruz said, "I’m 36 years old." Their tribe has no superpower users, and the average life span is around 120 years, so she is still in her prime.
"Planning to get married?" Xu Xingguang asked casually.
Cruz replied, "No such plans for now." She said, "A man qualified to be my husband must be a strong person I can gaze upward to."
Cruz engaged with men only to experience pleasure and address physical needs.
If she were to consider marriage seriously, her spouse would have to be a remarkable man.
Xu Xingguang nodded, respecting Cruz’s attitude toward relationships.
"What about you?" Cruz asked Xu Xingguang, "How many men have you had?"
"..."
Xu Xingguang had lived several lifetimes, pursued by countless men and women, but in truth, she had only been intimate with Huo Wen’an.
Seeing Xu Xingguang’s silence, Cruz knowingly nodded, "Just one."
Xu Xingguang said, "Better to have none than settle for less."
Cruz laughed heartily, giving Xu Xingguang’s shoulder a strong pat. She said, "You have to try a few more men to find out who’s the best."
Xu Xingguang nodded, "Makes sense."
Cruz’s proposal was indeed reasonable, but she had a sentimentality issue and had no interest in trying it.
"We’re here." Cruz parked the car in front of a fortress-like building made of granite.
A fortress is a defensive architecture, and it was Xu Xingguang’s first time seeing someone design a residence in the style of a fortress.
The inside of the fortress was spacious, with grey and black floor tiles, and the interior was decorated in a refugee style, also commonly known as the Syrian ruin style.
Many photos hung on the walls, each with a historical feel, and directly opposite the entrance, a human skull was suspended on the wall. The skull was quite aged, showing multiple repair marks on its surface.
How deep must the hatred be?
Seeing Xu Xingguang staring at the skull, observing it, Cruz told her, "That’s the skull of the first Alliance Hierarch of the Eastern Alliance." She uttered a historically famous name: "Ilya."
Ilya, ruler of a strong country during the Ancient O Continent Era, was an ignominious person despite his solemn appearance.
He publicly humiliated Lin Piaopiao at international conferences, calling her a mad dog ’pushed’ out by the Divine Hidden Crane to bite people everywhere.
That word ’pushed’ was a verb.
The incident caused international controversy, and the people of Xia Country were furious, cursing Ilya as an old dog.
Lin Piaopiao was then fighting against the Ancient O Continent Countries army on the international battlefield. She heard about this incident but didn’t rage; instead, she sneaked alone into Ilya’s troops’ camp that night and blew up their granary.
The Divine Hidden Crane didn’t spare Ilya either.
Not long after, during a meeting where he gave a speech, he deliberately staged a scene where his computer was hacked, ’accidentally’ leaking an embarrassing photo of Ilya’s bald head stored on the computer.
After that meeting, Ilya gained the international nickname of ’Bald King.’
Looking at the dusty skull on the wall, Xu Xingguang’s mind recalled the secretly taken photo of the bald head, and she suddenly laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" Cruz was curious.
"Thought of something amusing." Xu Xingguang, tiptoeing, reached out and knocked on Ilya’s skull, silently cursing: Bald donkey.
Just then, a man in a butler’s uniform approached with a young girl carrying tea. He placed his right hand on his chest and bowed respectfully to Cruz: "Lady Cruz, good afternoon."
He also bowed to Xu Xingguang: "Miss Xu, good afternoon."
Cruz replied lightly and didn’t react further.
Xu Xingguang had done her homework long ago, knowing that only the Clan Leader and Wizard in the Green Blood People Tribe could accept the bowing ritual from the clan members, and she, an outsider, wasn’t qualified to receive such a courtesy.
Thinking of this, she also bowed in return to the butler, "Good afternoon, sir."
The butler sensed Xu Xingguang’s respect for his character, and warmth surged in his eyes. Before Cruz could ask, the butler proactively explained, "The Clan Leader knows you’ll be coming in the afternoon and has already gone to invite the Wizard."
"Lady Cruz, Miss Xu, we’ve prepared tea, please sit and have a cup, and rest for a while."
"Alright."
Before they had finished the cup of tea, the Clan Leader of the Yangguang Tribe returned.
He was an elderly man named Lu Ya, wearing a black leather trench coat. Though older, his posture was tall and strong, and the sun had tanned his brown skin reddish.
Yangon Modern City has high altitudes, short sunshine duration, but strong ultraviolet rays; every city resident Xu Xingguang saw along the way had this skin color.
"Cruz, Miss Xu!" Lu Ya was a straightforward person, going directly to the topic upon meeting: "The Wizard agreed to meet Miss Xu after hearing she helped the Extreme North Tribe drive away the criminals."
Hearing this, Cruz was delighted, "Miss Xu, we’ll take you to meet the Wizard now."
"Thanks."
On the way to Yangon Modern City, Xu Xingguang had heard from Cruz a lot about the Wizard. She learned that the Wizard was a male, wore a wizard mask, and was both a witch doctor and a prophet.
The first wizard’s teacher was actually a human superpower user with the ability to foresee the future, named Granny Feng.
Coincidentally, this Granny Feng was the very prophet that the Divine Hidden Crane visited in the past.
The Wizard resided in the Wizard Hall at the peak of the highest mountain on the west side of Yangguang City, with cliffs on three sides, only one road leading to the summit. The three hiked and reached the Wizard Hall; Cruz and Lu Ya only greeted the Wizard outside the door.
Once the person inside invited Xu Xingguang in, they pushed the door open and stood outside guarding the entrance.
Xu Xingguang entered the Wizard Hall and found it was extraordinarily spacious and bright inside, with only a white prayer cushion placed in the large hall.
A man dressed in grey was kneeling backward on the prayer cushion.
Xu Xingguang walked to the man’s side, not looking at him but first glancing at what lay before him.
A beam of light entered the Wizard Hall from the rooftop, converging one meter in front of the Wizard, where a glass fragment floated in the beam.
The fragment emitted a gentle glow in the sunlight.
Upon seeing the glass fragment, the Reincarnation Mirror Necklace, long fused with Xu Xingguang’s heart, surprisingly responded with warmth.
"You finally came." The Wizard lifted his head, revealing a pair of grey, hollow blind eyes, ’gazing’ at Xu Xingguang. He said, "Our master told us to wait, and here we are, waiting for two thousand years."