Outside Sifang City lies the Rift Valley Sand River.
In the early morning, the Rift Valley Sand River, with most Fierce Beasts still asleep, lacks so ferocity and gains so tranquility that seems detached from worldly conflicts.
Before reaching Sifang City for the first ti, Hong Mingyue was stunned to witness the river-like sand river, murmuring at night and raging in the day. She felt everything here was like a miracle.
When she learned that all of this was transford by an Array, she increasingly saw the power of the Sifang City Lord as unfathomable.
The Sifang City Lord had a deep relationship with her master, Luo Sansheng. He appeared just as a kind old man.
But every ti Hong Mingyue t him, she felt uneasy.
That seemingly friendly elder had a pair of wise eyes that penetrated the human soul.
Hong Mingyue even suspected that he had seen through her possession of the Evil Skill, but he had not ntioned it to her master. Even so, she was always on tenterhooks, fearing that one day, the Sifang City Lord would reveal everything.
This put Hong Mingyue in a dilemma.
On one hand, she wanted to leave Sifang City quickly; on the other, she wanted to stay longer in Sifang City, giving her more chances to encounter Zitang Su.
With such a mindset, Hong Mingyue took a deep breath, trying to calm her chaotic emotions.
She walked slowly along the sand river, aimless about her destination.
It wasn’t until a person appeared near the sandy riverbank ahead that Hong Mingyue stopped.
She had heard the rules of the World’s First Refining competition from her master before.
That person seed to be a contestant stranded in the sand river.
He was a solitary middle-aged man with no trace of any Four-direction Boat around him.
His breath was very weak, with dried blood traces on his mouth and chest. His face was badly bruised and swollen due to the scouring sands, looking very ugly.
Hong Mingyue turned to leave. She was not the kind-hearted who would help others irrespective of the situation, especially since those stranded and drowning in the sand river were definitely losers.
She, Hong Mingyue, despised associating herself with losers.
But before she could step away, her ankle was suddenly grabbed.
The man, who shouldn’t have been far from death, suddenly opened his eyes. With his scarred hands, he grabbed Hong Mingyue’s ankle. His voice, raspy as if filled with sand grains, was very unpleasant.
"Save ."
Hong Mingyue’s gaze turned fierce, raising her hand, ready to sever the dirty hand that resembled a chicken claw grasping her ankle.
But just then, the man spoke again.
"I am Chen Hongru from Beiqing. If you save my life, I can give you many things, Elixir Pills, Spiritual Artifacts, just save ."
Indeed, this man stranded on the deserted sand riverbank was Chen Hongru, who had fallen off the cliff.
His Vermilion Snow Cauldron was destroyed by Ye Lingyue with the Black Cauldron Breath, and his physical body also suffered unprecedented damage due to the Solid Rank.
Moreover, having fallen into the sand river, Chen Hongru’s internal organs, including ribs, were broken in many places. If not for his years of cultivation, remarkable willpower, and the protection of a Spiritual Artifact on his body, he would have already died at the bottom of the sand river, becoming one of the countless corpses.
It was his fate not to die just yet, as he encountered Hong Mingyue at this mont.
Chen Hongru believed that as long as he revealed his identity, anyone who had been on the mainland would definitely have heard of his na and his status as Fang Venerate, which was still very useful. Apart from the Three Sects, even people from the Nine Sects would not dare to underestimate him.
But the prerequisite was that Chen Hongru still had the Solid Rank cauldron.
Without the Solid Rank cauldron, Chen Hongru was essentially crippled, unable to refine good Elixir Pills and Spiritual Artifacts anymore. Of course, the cunning Chen Hongru would absolutely not reveal this while he was seriously injured.
As Chen Hongru had expected, upon hearing his identity, the person rescued him.
To avoid drawing attention, Hong Mingyue did not take Chen Hongru to the City Lord’s Mansion, but searched the vicinity and killed a pair of thorny tigers living upstream, using their cave as a temporary shelter for Chen Hongru.
Chen Hongru also had so Elixir Pills with him, and after Hong Mingyue fed him so, he regained so strength.
Only after his consciousness beca clear did Chen Hongru get a good look at his savior.
Upon seeing Hong Mingyue, Chen Hongru was initially startled, never expecting his rescuer to be such a young and beautiful woman.
Judging from her clothing, she was a mber of one of the Nine Sects, Three-Life Valley.
Not only that, the girl who appeared no more than fifteen years old also looked sowhat familiar.
"You! What is your relationship with Ye Lingyue!" Chen Hongru quickly realized that Hong Mingyue bore so resemblance to Ye Lingyue, who had defeated him earlier.
Ye Lingyue and Hong Mingyue were actually sisters, and though their temperants were vastly different, there was a slight resemblance in their brows and eyes.
"Ye Lingyue?" Upon hearing Ye Lingyue’s na, a storm of fury began brewing in Hong Mingyue’s beautiful eyes, ready to erupt at any mont.
Hong Mingyue lunged forward, seizing Chen Hongru by the neck.
"Have you seen that bitch Ye Lingyue? Where is she?"
Hearing Hong Mingyue’s tone, Chen Hongru breathed a sigh of relief.
It was clear that this stunningly beautiful girl did not have a good relationship with Ye Lingyue.
It seed that her hatred for Ye Lingyue was no less than his.
"Miss, please calm down. It appears that Ye Lingyue is our common enemy," Chen Hongru realized he could not directly confront Ye Lingyue anymore after losing the Vermilion Snow Cauldron.
Ye Lingyue had cost him the position of Dan Palace Master and the loss of the Vermilion Snow Cauldron, filling Chen Hongru with deep hatred for her.
Now alone, he was not capable of defeating Ye Lingyue, so it would be better to ally with this beautiful girl from Three-Life Valley, perhaps with her help, they could kill Ye Lingyue together.
"Enemy? You are mistaken, she is my sister." Hong Mingyue also noticed the scheming look in Chen Hongru’s eyes.
Ha~ This old fellow Chen Hongru, thinking of using her to deal with Ye Lingyue?
Hong Mingyue watched him intently, sneering internally.
"You are her younger sister, then how could you... You are Hong Mingyue of Daxia Hong Mansion, aren’t you supposed to hate Ye Lingyue to the bone?"
Chen Hongru had investigated Ye Lingyue’s background and knew she was born a noble but was abandoned by the Daxia Nobles’ Marquis Mansion since childhood. Ye Lingyue’s first act upon growing up was to return to Xia Capital and root out her father Hong Fang and Hong Residence.
It was said that apart from Hong Mingyue, a disciple of Three-Life Valley, not one was spared from Hong Residence.
"I am Hong Mingyue, and indeed I despise Ye Lingyue deeply, but there’s one thing you got wrong, I don’t wish to join forces with anyone to kill Ye Lingyue because she can only be killed by my own hands," Hong Mingyue flashed a smile, her pretty face leaning close to Chen Hongru, her eyes shimring with a seductive allure.
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