The princess was born on an auspicious day, It is said that a month before her birth a mighty thunderstorm emerged and continued to rain till she was born, Upon birth the thunderstorm vanished and rainbows replaced it and the world became a beautiful paradise for a short period of time.
She was born to a powerful family, her mother died when she was born and because of that, her father spoiled her rotten. In her life, she had 2 people close to her, her father and her teacher. her father was the Saint Heart city lord, a powerful and influential Immortal cultivator.
Her teacher, on the other hand, was a very reclusive and mysterious person. He taught her about cultivation and destiny, about the way the world worked and how to survive in it. He was also known to be a powerful seer capable of seeing the future.
She had just one flaw, She was born with a crippled spiritual root and could not cultivate. The only reason she could live so comfortably was because of her father.
Her teacher had one day shown up and accepted her, who was a cripple, his reason being Fate. Deep in her heart, she resented the world for making her useless, all she wanted was to be a good daughter and student so that she could make her father and teacher proud.
Recently he had ordered her to do something that greatly puzzled her."Qing Shan, Today If you stand guard outside the gates of the city. you will meet a fated person."
She couldn't care less about a fated person but she had to listen to her teacher out of respect. She was bored and couldn't wait to go back and give her teacher a piece of her mind, then she laid eyes on him.
She had never seen someone so unique in her life, He was the most handsome man she had seen, He had an elegant temperament and he had a thin veil on his face that thinly concealed his face. When his black eyes looked at her curiously, She felt her heart skip a bit.
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Xuan li approached the commotion and asked a man standing near him, "What is this commotion about?"
The man didn't look at him as if what was in front of him was much more important. "How can you not know! Princess Qing Shan has come out of the city, This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see her in person."
Xuan li got curious, he pushed through the crowd and saw a beautiful girl in a carriage wearing luxurious clothing. The girl looked at him and he looked back, She was very beautiful but he didn't feel anything. The problem was when he looked away the gaze of the girl didn't leave him, this caused him to get cautious, he imagined the worst. 'Holy ****, They are on to me.'
He instantly jumped back into the crowd and tried to escape using the commotion. he heard the girl shout "Guards apprehend that white-robed man."
He was scared out of his mind, He knew that the factions in the Dragon Horn city were powerful but he had not expected them to be this terrifying. 'They figured me out in days. They didn't even have any clue about who I was and how I stole the stuff and I didn't leave witnesses alive. Don't tell me they have people like sherlock holmes here especially to investigate crime, I am so screwed.'
the guards instantly chased after him, He used Qi to amplify his speed and jumped inside the city ignoring the city guards shouting behind him. The interior of the statue was hollow and all types of structures were built into it similar to a 3-dimensional Labyrinth which filled all of the statue's interior but he didn't have the time to appreciate it.
He ran, street after street, all the while the guards were chasing him. He noticed that he had encountered no mortals along the way, Every person he had encountered had Qi which meant this was a city of Immortal Cultivators. "Thankfully the guards are in the Mortal transformation stage, They can't catch me."
He swallowed his words the moment he saw guards chasing after him with breakneck speeds, He knew he couldn't escape, Guards at Heavenly Transformation had joined the fray. 'Just who was that girl to have guards like this. The guards don't fly which means there is some sort of restriction in the city so the flight escape talismans I got from the treasury are useless. I can go for that..'
He stopped running and turned around towards the guards, he noticed the girl in the carriage behind them, He looked with cold eyes and shouted: "Why are you chasing me ?", 'I have to make sure that they know what I think they do then use that talisman.'
The girl answered instead of the guards "Come with me, I need your help with something." He felt no animosity in her voice, It was filled with curiosity instead. He weighed the pros and cons and nodded his head.
The girl Smiled and gestured to the carriage, "Come sit, Don't worry I don't have bad intentions." He slowly approached and entered the carriage and sat beside her, Surprisingly she didn't mind, He could smell her Fragrance from the closeness. He didn't let his guard down, He looked at everything with caution, to him all of this seemed like it might have been a ruse to get his wealth.
"To the palace" She ordered.
As the carriage moved, He finally had the chance to look at the city and felt astonished. 'Whoever designed this was a great artist.'
Most buildings were made out of white and green stones, some were even carved out of massive boulders of beautiful stones. The streets were all made out of some sort of smooth and sturdy white rock, The carriage didn't bump at all when they moved.
He saw many cultivators and more than half had a higher cultivation than him, all Immortal cultivators with high cultivation were beautiful and handsome in their own way.
Eventually, they reached the Palace, It was a palace made entirely out of green jade. Xuan li couldn't help but mutter "Holy S***, So rich."
He fantasized about himself having a palace like that and a small amount of desire filled his heart. ' one day, I will get a palace like this.'
Qing Shan ignored his muttering and felt a bit happy seeing his amazement, the guards, on the other hand, looked at him coldly.