Eternal Faith

Ch.3 - I will wait for the ghost groom

Hua Cheng leans forward, "I will make sure nobody can hurt you anymore."

Hua Cheng waves his sleeves and loads of butterflies fly out from his vambraces. Hua Cheng finds the image of woods, few military people, two not-so-unknown faces and a red sillehoute of his long longing beloved. Hua Cheng smiles warmly, only reserved for his highness.  Other times he smiles,  it's only mocking or insulting and mostly fake smirk.

Hua Cheng disperses his butterflies. He takes out the dice and tosses it upward.

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Meanwhile with Xie Lian

"How many-" struggling, "are- there?" Xie Lian asks while struggling with a Binu.

"About- 100- or- more-" Nan Feng replied.

"I- hate- these- Disgusting!" Fu Yao said, being disgusted.

Binus are corpses of human,  but not so human. They howl like animals but not animals. They are not something to fear about so much. But. The problem is what came with their arrival. Actually, Binus arrive where there are dangerous demons or monsters. Binus wear their struggling people out by their endless number. They are filled with smelly fluids. They are disgusting to the extreme. So cultivators or others would rather face a fierce or malice ranked ghosts or monsters rather than these Binus.

'10 of them is a handful, never mind 100 or so... ' Xie Lian thought.

"Did Ling Wen's palace say something about these wolves or binus?" Nan Feng said amongst cutting down the corpses.

"Nope. It wasn't written in the scroll." Xie Lian replied, also trying to choke the binu.

Fu Yao was on the verge of cursing. "What's the use of Ling Wen if things aren't mentioned in their scrolls?!" said Fu Yao while cutting the binus.

"..." Xie Lian felt bad for those poor officials who worked till they got dark circles under their eyes.

Xie Lian ordered Ruoye calmly,  "Go and strangle the corpses to death."

Ruoye obliged happily and went out, wrapped itself around the binu which was trying to subdue Xie Lian and dragged that binu out.  In a flash Ruoye strangled and cut down the throats of those 50 or so binus.

"Huh?! I thought you couldn't weild spiritual weapons?" Nan Feng said, dumbfounded.

Xie Lian replied from within the sedan calmly still,  "Exceptionals happen."

There was a bang on the door of the sedan. "What the fuck?! Tell me what that white thing was! " demanded Nan Feng. Looked like Nan Feng was banging on the door on the sedan. But Xie Lian's power was no joke either. He kept his hand on the door of the sedan to keep it from being broken down. If Nan Feng punched again and Xie Lian defended against that, then the sedan would break for sure with the dual force.

Thus Xie Lian instructed, "Listen to me Nan Feng, Fu Yao. Take the military officers down the mountain to safety. "

Nan Feng wanted to argue on the matter of Ruoye again. But Fu Yao cut in, "What about you then? "

Xie Lian replied, "I will wait for the ghost groom."

Nan Feng seemed like he wanted to disagree but Fu Yao again said, "Okay. We shall meet again after we take these officers down the mountain."

Xie Lian hummed in agreement and thought, 'Mu Qing's junior official is almost like his general, so is Feng Xin's...'

Nan Feng and Fu Yao left with the military officers, leaving Xie Lian waiting for the ghost groom in the sedan chair.

Suddenly, a light wind blew past. Ruffling the red sedan curtain and Xie Lian's red drape which was hidibg his face. Xie Lian looked up to stare at the red curtain in front. Then a hand came from under the curtain.

The hand was slender. The fingers Were well defined. It was as white as jade and a red string was tied in a affinity knot on the third finger. It was an extremely beautiful hand. The man in question  was extremely patient too. He was JUST waiting for Xie Lian to take his hand, not urging to take nor taking own's away.

Xie Lian stared down at the hand and was pondering over whether to take his hand or not. But before he could decide, he himself subconsciously reached out and held that beautiful hand softly. There were silver vambraces fastened around that owner of beautiful hand's arms. Those vambraces were of ancient times, engraved with maple leaves, butterflies and other things. That mysterious man seemed to smile when Xie Lian accepted his hand. Xie Lian stood up and proceeded to walk out of the sedan chair.

'Is he the ghost groom?' thought Xie Lian. 'Whatever. I need to be on Guard anyway.'

Thus he thought of making a feint and plan wise, he tripped while getting out of the chair. But that man caught him quickly, to prevent him from falling over. That's when Xie Lian felt those cold vambraces around his arms. That man's hand was also very cold. Too cold for life.

Xie Lian then composed himself and kept on walking side by side with that man. Xie Lian was deliberately walking very slowly, trying to figure out all the details of that man.

From under his veil, Xie Lian could see that the youth was dressed in all red. He could say that it Was a youth because of his bearings. He was also wearing black Leather boots with silver chains wrapped around. Those would clink and clank with every step those long slender legs took,extremely pleasing to the ears. That youth was also very confident in his steps, like he has seen it all and nothing could stop him, and if anything wanted to stop him, he would downright murder Them.

Xie Lian was extremely curious as to how that youth looked like. He very much wanted to remove his veil, gaze at that mysterious youth's face and worry about everything else later. But he kept himself from doing that, waiting for the youth's actions.

The youth did nothing but walk with Xie Lian as though taking a stroll in the woods, not in the lair of a damned wrath.

Ruoye was circling around Xie Lian's wrist, waiting to attack at a forceful speed. The youth's steps Were light and nonchalant. There was a group of wolves who were growling hungrily. But as soon as they got closer, they whimpered  and ran away. Xie Lian got confused and couldn't help but glance at that youth beside him. But his line of sight was limited and could only see the chin, jaw and those lips curling upwards in an amused smile.

Hua Cheng thought, 'I finally found you, your highness... I finally found you. '