Chapter 789 - Time to part

Translator: Aran

Ye Qingyu was first startled, but after another look, he finally calmed down again.

The figures who came were all Saint level experts, in addition to the Saint experts of the Black Demon Race there was someone who he recognized from before——the guardian Saint expert of the Celestial Phoenix Maiden.

“Your Highness, are you all right?”

“We pay our respects to Your Highness.”

The three demon Saint experts came right away to stand next to the Little Princess, bowing respectfully and paying their respects, a nervous expression on their face.

They were the experts of the Black Demon Abyss martial hall, the representatives of the true top powers of the Black Demon Race. They rarely showed themselves in public and almost always stayed in the martial hall to train. They would not come out if it were not a major event. But this time the Little Princess of the Black Demon Race was involved so the three of them all rushed over here.

“I'm all right.” The Little Princess shook her head.

The guardian Saint expert of the Celestial Phoenix Maiden also immediately came to her side, examining her from head to toe before he was finally able to breathe out a long sigh of relief, and a hint of joy lit up his face, because he saw that the Celestial Phoenix Maiden had already completed Nirvana. The most important thing had finally been completed.

“Uncle Feng.” The Celestial Phoenix Maiden greeted the guardian Saint, her voice was not as cold as before and instead there was a hint of gratitude.

“I'm glad you're out, I'm glad you're out, I thought you girl, you...” The guardian Saint Feng Silong was somewhat emotional that he even addressed her as ‘girl’.

He had watched the Celestial Phoenix Maiden grow up. Although they were not related by blood, their relationship was as close as father and daughter. Three days ago, when the Saintess of the Jade Pearl Sect splashed the dirty water onto Ye Qingyu and said that the Celestial Phoenix Maiden had died, Feng Silong really blamed himself so much that he hated the fact that he was unable to immediately massacre the entire Heaven Wasteland Domain. But then the more he thought about it the more that he felt it wasn't right. As he was on his way back, he heard the news that there were people that had come out of the 18th district of the Black Demon Abyss. Anxiously, he rushed back but he ran into an unknown guardian Saint who stopped him and the great battle had delayed him by one day.

The heavens took pity on him. He finally saw the Celestial Phoenix Maiden alive and well in front of him.

“What happened before?” The guardian Saint glanced around and sensed that something didn't feel right.

The Celestial Phoenix Maiden had not answered, when Ye Qingyu came over with a smile on his face and gave a cupped fist salute, “Elder, we meet again, I ask elder to grant me Black Demon Herb, I have not disappointed and completed the mission of bringing the Celestial Phoenix Maiden back safely. We have completed our deal, right?”

Feng Silong was startled.

It was only now that he realized that the white-robed handsome youngster before him was the beggar-like young man in rags from three days before. The changes in aura between the two were too great that if Ye Qingyu had not spoken he really would not have recognized him.

“Indeed heroes come from among the youth.” Feng Silong nodded.

As for the bald fatty Sheng Yan, he naturally recognized him; however Feng Silong could not recognize the jade-like young man in green standing next to him, who was strangely handsome and with a very strange aura. Just as he was about to ask, the Celestial Phoenix Maiden tugged at his sleeve and shook her head.

Feng Silong was surprised for a moment, then looked deep in thought and did not say anything else.

The great battle that happened on Fierce Beast Peak was from the beginning covered up by [Iron Heart Blood Saint] Yang Tianwu's silver formation, which later was completely destroyed by [Quasi-emperor Xiaofei] using his supreme divine ability and did not leave behind the slightest trace or aura. As a result, even with his level of cultivation, Feng Silong could not tell what exactly had happened here.

The three experts of the Black Demon Abyss martial hall felt the same as Feng Silong. Although they were puzzled, they kept silent and didn't say anything else after receiving a signal from the Little Princess.

For a moment, there was a very bizarre silence on Fierce Beast Peak.

For so many days, this was the moment that the number of people on Fierce Beast Peak was the least.

The wind soughed.

Black Demon qi scattered.

After the many days of chaos, Fierce Beast Peak, which as though it had been swept by an apocalypse, and was finally returned to silence.

However, the passage of time never stops and the world continues to change.

When would the next demon tide come, and when the time comes how many experts would be tempted and eventually have their lives and cultivation transformed here?

But everything was still unknown.

But it will eventually come.

Ye Qingyu gazed at the surroundings of Fierce Beast Peak that was shrouded in blood mist and clouds of Black Demon qi, as a sorrowful feeling came to his heart.

After lowering his head in silence for a moment, he turned around, sweeping his gaze across the people on the mountain summit and the heaven's pridelings who he had been through life and death with in the 18th district and who he had trusted and depended on.

Ye Qingyu felt very lucky. His greatest harvest from the 18th district was not obtaining countless divine treasures, medicine and opportunity, but to get to know these trustworthy friends.

Now, it was time to part.

Time was pressing and Ye Qingyu knew that he must quickly return to the Heaven Wasteland diplomatic corps. More than one third of the one month of assessment period had passed and he also did not know how Xing'er and the others were now.

At the thought of this, Ye Qingyu felt an arrow was shot at his heart.

“Everybody, I still have important matters to deal with and must leave. The green mountain does not change and the blue water will flow forever, if you see me as a friend, then we will see each other again.” Ye Qingyu smiled and was ready to leave.

The Little Princess nodded slightly upon hearing this.

She looked at the few people at the summit, her eyes were no longer cold and there was instead a gentle brilliance. Finally, she shifted her eyes back to Ye Qingyu. The corner of her eyes twitched, as if she wanted to make an expression, but she turned around the next moment.

Demonic clouds rose into the air, and the Black Demon qi around them was faintly dissipating.

All of a sudden, the little figure in a black combat robe turned her head around, looked at Ye Qingyu, smiled and said in a firm tone of voice, “Ye Qingyu, I will remember you, I will help you clear your name and charges. I know, you are a good person, more importantly... we're friends.”

“Thank you.” Ye Qingyu nodded, the corners of his mouth curled in a smile.

The surging demonic clouds turned into a wave and the Little Princess and the others eventually disappeared into the Black Demon qi in the sky.

After the aura of the Black Demon Race experts had completely disappeared, the Phoenix Race's guardian Saint let out a sigh of relief, then suddenly thought of something and looked at the Celestial Phoenix Maiden, whispering, “Your highness, we should also go.”

The present Black Demon Abyss was not peaceful at all. The people who had come out of the 18th district had all encountered interception, whether it was the Young Lord of the Sinful Pit or the Saintess of the Jade Pearl Sect. There were Saint level experts hiding in the dark in order to seize the treasures that they had gathered from the 18th district. The situation back then was very tragic, and the experts who had hidden themselves in the darkness were all old monsters and cunning demons with terrifying strength. If the Saintess of the Jade Pearl Sect and the others did not have some secret treasures and weapons on them, then perhaps these heaven’s pridelings really would have died here.

Feng Silong was worried that there would be some cunning people with evil intentions still hiding in the dark to ambush the Celestial Phoenix Maiden, so the tone of his voice and the expression on his face also grew serious.

But the Celestial Phoenix Maiden seemed to have not heard his voice at all, and was still standing there blankly with an absent look in her eyes.

“Cough... Your Highness...” The guardian Saint raised his voice and spoke again, “Let's go back, too.”

“Oh...” Her eyelashes fluttered as she snapped out of her daze.

The guardian Saint felt helpless. Her Highness had always had this habit of being lost in thought, which did not seem to have improved as a result of her attaining nirvana.

“Yes, let's go...” The Celestial Phoenix Maiden turned her eyes in the direction of Ye Qingyu, and with a hint of imperceptible gentle expression in her eyes, she said, “Why don't you come with us... once we get out of Black Demon Abyss and get to a safe place we can part there.”

“That's right.” Feng Silong nodded. Ye Qingyu was also one of the people from the 18th district, which meant that he was also one of the targets of the people secretly hiding in the dark. This youngster was talented and was worth helping.

Who knew that Ye Qingyu gently shook his head, saying, “There is no need. I have other things to do. I understand your intention, thank you very much.”

The Celestial Phoenix Maiden nodded. If it were not for Ye Qingyu, all of the people would have perished in the 18th district during this trip. He had too many cards on him that even she could not see through him, especially that giant cauldron... his safety should not be a problem.

Seeing that Ye Qingyu had insisted, Feng Silong no longer said anything else.

“Thank you elder for helping out.” The Celestial Phoenix Maiden was slightly hesitant, but still had to express her thanks to [Quasi-emperor Xiaofei]. If Li Xiaofei had not helped out there was most likely nobody who could have suppressed that [Iron Heart Blood Saint] Yang Tianwu.

[Quasi-emperor Xiaofei] turned to look at the Celestial Phoenix Maiden, nodding slightly.

Feng Silong felt that although this person did not exude the slightest ripple of strength, there was a breathtaking power in those calm eyes, which made him feel a great pressure. What was most astonishing to him was the fact that he felt that this person's face was somewhat familiar, as though he had seen him before, but he did not think too much, and eventually also gave a cupped fist salute and was ready to leave.

“We will see each other again, right?” As they were leaving, the Celestial Phoenix Maiden suddenly halted her footsteps and turned around to look at Ye Qingyu.

Ye Qingyu was startled for a moment.

𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

This was the first time that the Celestial Phoenix Maiden had taken the initiative to speak to him with such a tone.

The memories of the past three days with the Celestial Phoenix Maiden flooded into Ye Qingyu's mind. When he first met her, she was quiet, always in a daze, and cold. But later on when they were picking herbs she exuded a hint of innocence, as well as that drop of precious Phoenix blood, and the trials and tribulations that they shared as they were trying to escape.

Unconsciously, Ye Qingyu had a strange feeling towards this female heaven’s prideling.

“Of course, we are friends, when the matters we need to do have been dealt with we can meet again at any time,” he replied with a smile.

Under the strange and mysterious mask, the eyes of the Celestial Phoenix Maiden suddenly bloomed out a bright and stunning lustre, as she gently nodded in response.

The two people who were looking at each other did not notice that Feng Silong's eyes were filled with shock upon the sight of this scene.