Both Lu Yun and Hua Fengwen identified the newcomer at the same time.
âWhat? Youâre Hong??â Lu Yun gaped at the person in front of him. It was a little girl about eight years old and dressed in a red skirt. She was perched on the bow of the Immortal Region Glory after walking down from the sky.
Heâd met her before, in the fourth realm!
Qing Yu had said that the little girl in a red skirt was an extremely powerful treasure. Sheâd created a flower to safeguard beings thatâd died in a war in the third realm.
To think that sheâd be Hong!
âDonât call me that! I hate that name,â the little girl pouted. âAlso, you should hurry up and leave. If the city wakes up, you wonât be able to get out.â She flapped her hands to shoo them away.
âIf the city wakes up?â Lu Yun felt caught on the back foot.
âThis city is alive!â She pointed at the clock at the end of the river. âDo you see that? Thatâs the heart of the city! The closer you get to it, the more likely that youâll startle it awake.â
âSo that black qilin who wants a carrot lied to us? Thereâs no ruler here at all?â the little fox asked, askance. It hadnât told them that the city was alive and had wanted them to go see the ruler!
âThat old donkey?â The little girl curled her lip. âIt thinks Iâm the ruler of the city. Itâs gone a bit wrong in the head, so just ignore it.â\n
âHow do we get out?â Lu Yun asked.
âFollow me!â She waved a hand and created a passage filled with stars.
âIs she really Hong?â Hua Fengwen gaped at Lu Yun. He hadnât thought that Lu Yun would be this close to the legendary personage.
âThatâs what I want to ask youâis she really Hong?â Lu Yun rolled his eyes at the genius.
Hua Fengwen answered haltingly, âI once sensed Hongâs power when I received my title, but didnât lay eyes on the great one. Her power ripples are the same as Hongâs, so she should be Hong.â
âThen what kind of existence is Hong?â Lu Yun continued.
âWhen you become a titledâai.â Hua Fengwen was about to echo what the Redbud King had once said, that Lu Yun would know once he became a king. But taking a look at the little girl in a red skirt paving the way for them, the genius smiled wryly. âHong should be the strongest of the realm, the ruler of the Hongmeng.â
âYouâre wrong!â She whirled around and refuted seriously, âIâm not the strongest in the realm nor its ruler!
âThe third realm is vast, so vast beyond your imagination that what you so-called kings see is just a grain of sand in the Hongmeng!â
It was like a bolt of lightning had struck Hua Fengwen; he stared dumbly at the little girl.
âAll that we see⊠is just a grain of sand in the Hongmeng?â He found this hard to accept. When he entered kinghood at sixth step king a hundred thousand years ago, heâd done with great pride and assurance. Heâd felt that he overlooked the entire realm and when his battle strength reached ninth step king, he would easily break through the Hongmeng barrier and set foot into the fourth realm!\nBut Hong had denounced all titled kings just now!
âHua FengwenâŠâ Lu Yun patted his shoulder.
âNear mind me, I want to think about this.â Hua Fengwen walked to a corner of the ship and hunkered down in it without a word.
âAhem, younger sister, those words are a bit hurtful,â Lu Yun said to the girl in a red skirt.
âYounger sisterâŠâ The Meteorite and Skyfall Kings fidgeted awkwardly. Though they were Lu Yunâs men, they were even more aware of Hongâs terrifying capabilities.
Hua Fengwen raised his head to Lu Yun. âI just want some space.â
âIs that so?â The little girl didnât think there was anything wrong with what Lu Yun had called her. Sheâd witnessed his ferocity in the fourth realm and how heâd tamed the frightening bridge. âIf he canât handle even this level of setback, how is he to break the barrier around the Hongmeng and enter the fourth realm?
ââŠalright, weâre here!â She suddenly stopped. The end of the passage was outside of the ancient cityâMultitude Region.
Everyone heaved a collective sigh of relief when the Immortal Region Glory piloted out of the ancient city. It felt like theyâd escaped from certain death.
Though they hadnât run into actual danger in the city, the oppressive atmosphere had wrapped around them and levied a heavy weight on their hearts.
âThis is where I leave you. If you run into any cities like this in the future, you should keep your distance. Those inside may have been good people when alive, but theyâre certainly not that anymore in death.â It was startling to hear âgood peopleâ from the little girl.\nVisit wuxiaworld.eu for extra chapters.
âThereâs no such thing as good people in this world,â mumbled the little fox.
âThatâs not true!â the little girl responded seriously. âIâm one! âŠthough Iâm not a person,â she added when another thought occurred to her.
She vanished with a turn, taking the passage of stars with her.
âYou shouldnât have saved him.â A stunningly beautiful female face materialized over the river of time in the ancient city. âThe Hongmeng is a prison and there should be no order of time here. He shouldâve become one of the fish in this river.â
A big fish sparkling with purple radiance leapt up from the river and kicked up a spray of silver light with its tail. The fish in the river were all transformed from dead Hongmeng beingsâkilled for their possession of the order of time.
âIâm saving him?â The little girl plopped down cross-legged and harrumphed back, âIâm saving you! Though youâre nothing good after dying, we were comrades once and I canât just sit by and do nothing for you.â
The breathtaking face closely considered the little girl.
âYouâre already dead, so youâre blind. You canât see the truth of the matter, but Iâm alive, so I can!â The little girl glared back. âYouâll thank me one day.â
âI have become the laws of this prison and can never go back,â the face sighed gently and slowly faded away. âI hope your actions today were right.â
âWeâre finally here, Multitude City!â Lu Yun stood at the front of the ship and eagerly regarded a never-ending city.
âThis is right. This is Multitude City, the city of a myriad happenings!â Awe flashed through the Skyfall Kingâs eyes when he took it all in.
âIt looks the same as the lost ancient city,â grumbled the little fox. âBut the walls and gates are much smaller, and there are way more people.â
âGive me some space.â Hua Fengwen remained hunched in a corner.
Dude, Hua Fengwen just turned into emo kid.
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