Secret Hideouts

The Queen frowned thinking, Wind God magic plant is a magic plant that is rumored to be the revival plant. The plant itself has no stems or roots, only grows floating in an airtight glass bottle, and will die when exposed to outside air.

The Queen got it from a clan in the southern part of the Ramps country area, where it came originally. The plant is indeed famous for its great treatment of all diseases but the effect it gets is that people who drink it will lose all their internal energy and become ordinary people without supernatural powers. Because of that, no one wants such a drug so the selling value of the plant is not so high.

"Heh, do it Lao, give that person the Wind God plant and free Elder Iron, I want that old man to be out before the child turns seventeen. I don't understand why such a weak child is so hard to beat, even assassins from the Black Flower party can't take him, how many lives does that child have? His existence will only threaten the palace."

Old man Rong glanced at Lao and asked him and others to leave the Queen's room. He was going to have an important talk with the Queen.

After all the men and servants were out of the room.

The Queen glanced at her advisor.

"Old man, my subordinates all know that I hated the child since he was born, what secret can I hide?"

Old man Rong stroked his beard.

"Your Majesty, the current state of the kingdom is in a fragile state. The Emperor's health is steadily declining and the Crown Prince is also having problems with his health. If Her Majesty continues to target the child, fearing that officials will distance themselves from you. Rumors are growing among the officials regarding the whereabouts of the little prince as the real Heir, who is still alive and some are still trying to find out. After all, he is the last descendant of the late Emperor.."

"I know that" The Queen interrupted her advisor's words.

The beautiful woman sat leaning her shoulders against the big chair.

"They are just stupid people who think they are smart, and I don't care. Even if the Crown Prince can't lead this country I won't let that kid in at all, he should have died at birth but I don't know which god gave him a chance"

#Queen poisoned the pregnant empress with Black Fairy poison and was dying with a seven-month-old fetus in her stomach. In this condition, the healer took out the baby who was barely breathing at birth, and had to accept the attack from the killers who had injured his small body. Whoever thought, after the heavy blow, the baby was still alive. The Queen found this out after the Palace magic shaman told the truth about the kid's whereabouts a few months ago.

Advisor Rong lowered his head.

"My advice, how about bringing the kid alive into the palace and announcing his presence to everyone, after all, the child has already deposited the Black Fairy's poison which has no antidote. Taking him away from the Lotus Valley automatically cuts off the opportunity to seek treatment. It doesn't take much effort, Little Prince might not be able to last long"

The Queen thought again, what her advisor said made sense too.

"Hem, you are right old man, but bringing the child alive is also not an easy matter. On his side how many warriors have always supported him? Our chosen Iron Elder, the old man has promised to help us if we succeed in breaking his shackles. We will wait to hear from Lao.

Advisor Rong lowered his head in salute.

"Your Majesty is indeed wise"

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Return to Lotus Valley.

The morning air was very fresh, the cold air flowed low to the valley from the highest mountain nearby. The lovely Lotus Valley is known to be very dense, wet, and mossy. That is why the valley becomes the perfect place for any kind of plants to grow, even the very mystical ones. All around the martial arts world, to the high officials, almost everybody knows how great the valley is.

Some people, wanderers from the outside world, and the healers try hard to look for medicinal plants in the farthest valley. The Moon Lotus Clan never prohibits any visitors from coming. But sometimes, some irresponsible person always take advantage and take the plants as much as they want even if it means destroying the habitat. This is why, the Clan with the city officials makes some rules to obey, and any violation will be punished firmly.

The sun had just risen behind the trees when Er Yuen had brought his basket back to look for medicines in the forest. He walked quickly from the hut avoiding Mei Lan and Brother Ning who had lately been sticking him everywhere, making his movements limited.

Er Yuen opened his arms wide. Finally, he was able to escape without the two. It felt so good to be away from people who were so worried about him that makes him uncomfortable.

Er Yuen glanced up in front of him was a large tree with branches that were quite high from the ground. He had already picked some apples and forest guavas earlier, maybe he needed to rest for a while to continue his way later.

It wasn't long before the agile Er Yuen had climbed the tree trunk and sat comfortably on it. A large and wide branch of a tree that was older than Er Yuen. He remembered because since he was little the tree had grown tall, this was one of his favorite places to hide when he ran away from his teacher.

"No teacher! It doesn't taste good, it is so bitter!"

Elder Oei chased him out of the hut.

"Bad boy, if you want to get well, you have to drink this, who knows if it will work, come here!"

Little Er Yuen often ran away from the hut because his teacher always experimented on him.

He would hide in a tree until the next day and return to the hut, so every time his teacher forced him to try a new medicine he would run there. Er Yuen lowered his body and fell on a tree trunk with two hands supporting his head. Looked up at the blue sky with clouds drifting in the wind. Some birds flying from the trees circled in the sky for a while and headed back towards the trees.

Maybe he will close his eyes for a moment, he feels very tired. He might get a nap before continuing with his walk. But, why does he feel someone is watching him? It feels weird.

Sure enough, Er Yuen almost lost his balance and fell seeing someone who was already sitting on the upper tree branch looking at him.

"Hey brother!"

Dai Yang quickly got down and held Er Yuen, holding his waist to prevent the young man from falling.

"Yen Yen be careful"

Er Yuen stared at Dai Yang's face that was so close to him, but quickly realized, Er Yuen pushed Dai Yang's body that was clinging to him.

"Brother please don't get too close" 

Dai Yang smiled, he sat beside Er Yuen who also got up and sat down, looking at him with strange eyes.

"Brother, what are you doing here?" Er Yuen asked.

Dai Yang furrowed his brows, glancing at the surroundings.

"Well, the scenery here is so beautiful, I thought I would stop and sit on a tree while daydreaming, uh, I didn't know Yen Yen was here too, what a coincidence, earlier I woke up and couldn't find you. You've been running away, didn't you?"

Yuen sees the man with his eyes bigger.

"No, I'm not, eh, I'm just, going out, you the one who sleeps soundly," said the boy rounded his mouth, so adorable, thought Dai Yang.

Er Yuen pursed his lips, the secret place, apparently not that secret, even Brother Yang also knew this place, where else should he go?

Dai Yang noticed the somewhat disappointed Er Yuen from the look on his face.

"Em, Yen Yen, don't tell anyone, okay, this is my secret hideout," he whispered so close to Er Yuen's ear.

Er Yuen turned his head, how could it be the same?

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