âStarving people shall fill the land and your family will die out? T-thisâ¦â
Ming Zuotangâs lips quivered, and large beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. âHow is this possible?â
âChen Hao is already dead, and the Ming Family has confirmed that this is the step to change our fortunes. H-How could our family die out?â Ming Zuotang could not believe it. He slammed the piece of paper onto the table.
He didnât know why, but he was no longer in a good mood like he was before. All that remained was a hint of uneasiness deep within his heart.
âGo and ask Ming Jiaqing how things are at their end! Why havenât they returned?â Ming Zuotang demanded.
Right then, a cloud of green poisonous fog appeared in their range of sight.
The young son of the Ming Family who was about to make a call collapsed onto the floor, foaming at the mouth.
âWhat happened?â The crowd was shocked.
After that, more and more people started to collapse.
Ming Zuotang was terrified. âT-this is the Thousand Years Poisonous Fog!â
After he said that, the Ming Familyâs eyes widened as they saw a can explode within the Ming Family hall.
Chen Hao appeared in the courtyard.
The Ming family were screaming for their lives.
At night.
In the Yang Familyâs mansion, at the courtyard Chen Hao was in, Gu Yuxiao awoke slowly.
She slowly opened her eyes and saw Chen Hao sitting at the side of the room, drinking tea.
His body looked slim, but it gave off a sense of safety.
âYou saved me again?â
âIf it wasnât me, who else could it be?â Chen Hao smiled bitterly.
âI donât want to owe you anything. Not even one little thing!â
Gu Yuxiao sat up in her bed. Her fair face seemed to redden every time she saw Chen Hao.
âTell me, what do you want me to do? I, Gu Yuxiao, will do it, even if I die trying. From then onward, we will not owe each other anything!â Gu Yuxiao said.
Master Ghostâs words had stuck themselves deeply in Gu Yuxiaoâs mind. She would love this person, but this person would not love her back.
Gu Yuxiao was an arrogant person. She would not allow something like this to happen.
However, she couldnât bring herself to kill Chen Hao either.
Actually, when Chen Hao kissed her, she had felt a strange sort of feeling arise in her heart.
âReally? What if I ask you to be my wife?â Chen Hao asked playfully.
â*sshole! Who wants to be your wife?â Gu Yuxiao said angrily. Her eyes seemed to well up with tears.
âIâm kidding. I already have a wife, so even if you wanted to marry me, I wouldnât take you as my wife.
However, I have saved your life twice in total now. Iâm giving you a chance to return one of the favors right now. I have something to ask you, and you need to tell me!â Chen Hao said, putting his teacup down.
Gu Yuxiao took a deep breath. âWhat is it?â
âYour current journey to find the Sea Palace is a task that your great-grandmother gave you. In your dream just now, you mentioned two people. One was your maternal great-grandmother, and the other was your paternal great-grandmother. I want to know, what was the task they asked you to do? I know for sure that you are not going there to rob the graves!â Chen Hao asked.
This was extremely suspicious. Unless they were like the Ming Family, otherwise, why would they send someone to investigate the Sea Palace?
When Gu Yuxiao heard this, she felt rather conflicted. She seemed to be considering whether or not she could speak up about this.
âIt actually doesnât matter if you tell me or not. I can be honest with you. Iâm going to look for the Sea Palace too. To be precise, Iâm going to the Sea Palace to look for a dead person!â Chen Hao said.
Gu Yuxiao looked at Chen Hao.
She had always been someone who kept her promises. Chen Hao was also looking for the Sea Palace, so there was no need to hide it from him anymore.
âI-Iâm also going to look for a corpse. I need to bring it back to my ancestral home, which is the wish of my great-grandmothers! This corpse⦠has a really big connection with a really important secret! Plus, I think this corpse is not someone from our family!â Gu Yuxiao said.
âAs for what secret it is, thereâs no use in asking me, because I donât know what that secret is either.
Thatâs all I know!â
âAncestral home? Where is your ancestral home?â Chen Hao asked.
As expected, it wasnât far off from what he had deduced.
Apart from himself, there was another group of people who also knew about the matter of the god and the girl who descended from the heavens.
He wanted to find the white-shirted girl in order to bury her together with the god, as well as find out exactly what went on between her and that god.
As for Gu Yuxiao, why did she want to bring her back to her ancestral home?
However, Gu Yuxiao didnât look like she was lying to him.
If he had the chance, he wouldnât mind going over to visit this ancestral home.
âIâm sorry. I cannot spread the location of my ancestral home!â Gu Yuxiao said.
âAlright. You donât have to tell me, and I wonât force you. However, I hope the two of us can reach our goals. My fleet will reach by tonight. There have been tsunamis happening recently, and Iâm afraid that you wonât be able to reach the Sea Palace on your own. If you want, I can bring you along with me!â
Chen Hao said.
Gu Yuxiao didnât say anything, which meant that she had agreed.
Could it be that what Master Ghost said was true? There were some forms of fate which she just couldnât escape from.
Would she really fall in love with this person?
She was struggling inwardly.
The next day.
The Chen Familyâs large fleet had arrived, and after Chen Hao got on, they set off.
âYoung Master Chen, the waves are too big, and a tsunami is about to happen again. Do we keep going?â the Chen Familyâs bodyguard came up and asked.
Chen Hao looked at the map. There was still a long way to go in order to reach the Sea Palace.
After a few hundred years, the location of the Sea Palace might have moved, and Chen Hao didnât dare to delay it much longer.
âWe will keep going. Before the sun sets today, we must reach Mo Island. We have to review our plan going forward there,â Chen Hao ordered.
This fleet had been specially tested, thanks to the Chen Family paying a large sum of money for it.
The whole reason for this was for them to be able to withstand the harsh weather at sea.
âYes!â the bodyguards replied.
When he looked at the large, unending sea, Chen Hao couldnât help but think about Su Tongxin again from his position on the deck.
Su Tongxin, where are you? If you arenât dead, what are you doing now?
Chen Haoâs hands gripped the railing tightly, feeling rather conflicted.
Because now, all of his problems were pointing toward one direction, which was the League of the Sun.
Su Tongxin and his uncle Chen Pinganâs mysterious disappearance, the god descending to earth and the heavenly soldiersâ bodies falling from the skyâall of these incidents bore the trails of the League of the Sun.
What kind of an organization was this?
They had been around for over ten thousand years, yet no one had managed to lift its mysterious veil.
Also, what was up with that god who looked just like Chen Hao? Could there be an actual unknown world way up in the heavens?
These things were causing Chen Haoâs brain to nearly explode.
However, Chen Hao was feeling positive. After settling the matter of the white-shirted girl, he believed that he would be able to find Su Tongxin!
Chen Hao was deep in thought.
However, Chen Haoâs anxious eyes and side profile were all observed by Gu Yuxiao.
She had stood by the side and watched Chen Hao for a long time. Who knew that a powerful man like him still had a soft spot and the ability to feel sad?
Gu Yuxiao felt as if she had seen his other side.
âI need to change my bandages, but you gave me two types of medicine. I donât know which one I should use,â Gu Yuxiao said softly.
Only then did Chen Hao gather his thoughts and walk into the cabin.
However, a bodyguard standing on the deck of the ship was currently staring at the bottom of the ocean confusedly.
That was because he thought he had just caught sight of a giant creature, one of impossible girth, slowly passing by under the sea.
He rubbed his eyes, and once again, nothing was there.
Could it be that he was mistaken?