A/N : So here's today's chapter folks. Enjoy.
Things are going to get interesting from here. So don't miss out.
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Your Allfather Author-PrimorDious. Peace Out ✌️.
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The blonde haired young man regained his composure immediately as he said, "Thank you for your help. I have been being pursued by the beast for quite sometime. My name is Xue Qinghe. I'm the crown prince of Heaven Dou Empire. Can I know what is your name?"
Hearing the name of the person Tang Ming was surprised. His eyes immediately became cold and indifferent. If he knew his identity he might have not revealed himself.
'*Sigh* whatever. I've already saved her. No reason to regret.'
While living in the forest for last two months, Tang Ming had undone all the illusion he had over his body as he didn't think that he would meet anyone so deep in Star Dou forest.
The Battle Saint Ape territory was quite close to inner reaches of the Star Dou, so there usually resides a lot of strong spirit beast that are generally more than tens of thousands of years.
Tang Ming looked at 'him' with a surprised gaze as he said :
"Oh, it's nice to meet you. I'm called Ling Yun. So would you care to tell me what does crown prince of Heaven Dou Empire is doing so deep in the forest all alone?"
Xue Qinghe at this time was carefully looking at Tang Ming. 'He seemed to be around the same age as me. And he can even easily frighten a spirit beast of more than 50,000 year old with just a stomp. He is extremely strong, I need to be very careful around him.'
"I was here to hunt for my spirit rings with my two protectors but we got separated. I'm very grateful to brother Yun for saving me." Xue Qinghe said with a slight smile.
"You look quite wounded. You should rest and recover for some time. Come with me, no spirit beast would dare come even a hundred metres around here." Tang Ming doesn't know what to feel right now.
He can easily kill her right now and solve the future problems for Tang San but remembering the tragic end she and her mother met in the end, doesn't quite sit right with him.
Xue Qinghe only hesitated for a moment but nodded his head after some time. 'He' was quite injured right now and even his spirit power has been fully exhausted.
"Brother Yun, would you mind telling me what are you doing in the forest and why did that spirit beast just now ran away as soon as it saw you." Xue Qinghe asked while they were walking.
Looking at Xue Qinghe curious expression, Tang Ming indifferently said:
"I too was here for my spirit ring."
"Might I ask what spirit rank have you reached?" Xue Qinghe asked cautiously with a low tone.
Tang Ming looked at 'him' and can't help but sigh after seeing her acting. If he didn't knew from before he might have truly believed her to be Xue Qinghe.
Tang Ming didn't answer her question and just kept walking.
Seeing that Tang Ming wasn't going to even answer her Xue Qinghe didn't continue to persist but a cold glint flashed in her eyes as she looked at the back of Tang Ming.
Tang Ming led her to the small stream and sat down beneath a tree. Xue Qinghe too sat down under another tree and started recovering her spirit power.
Tang Ming at this time was having an inner conflict as whether to let this woman go or whether should he kill her.
He knew that the other party was talking so proactively because he didn't know about her real identity. Because as much as he knew about Qian Renxue from the novel, she was an extremely proud and indifferent figure and won't even give you a glance if she didn't know you.
He has to say that she was doing her job real good. Imitating a person is easy but imitating the other person's nature and behaviour so proficiently is extremely difficult. As it can even be seen from the Heaven Dou Emperor, Xue Ye, who as a father also didn't manage to find a single flaw in her imitation.
Suddenly an idea sprouted in his mind as he immediately implemented it.
At this time Xue Qinghe has just recovered her spirit power fully and opened her eyes as she let out a deep breath.
She turned her head and looked at Tang Ming, whose silvery-goldish eyes were staring right back at her with an evil grin. She suddenly had a very bad premonition as an uncomfortable feeling swelled in her heart.
"Tell me, why are you acting like a boy when you are clearly a girl, crown prince or should I say your holiness?"
Her eyes immediately widened as she looked at Tang Ming with shock apparent in her eyes. But it immediately turned cold as a sharp glint flashed in her eyes.
"How did you found me?" She asked with a chilling gaze. Her identity is her one of the most deepest secret and whoever found out will have to die.
Buts she wanted to find out, how did the other party noticed.
Tang Ming chuckled as he heard her.
"You're using illusion in front of me. That's like a toddler acting as an adult in front of a wisened old man."
Tang Ming didn't say anything as he just waved his palm in front of his face causing it to instantly change into the same as of her.
He then again waved it and his face changed from of Xue Qinghe to Ning Fengzhi. He again waved and it changed from Ning Fengzhi to Sword Douluo.
Qian Renxue all this time looked at him with an extremely cold expression but in her heart she was extremely startled. How can someone so proficient in illusion won't be known in the Douluo continent. But the next face he changed made her vigilance immediately skyrocket.
Because he changes his face from Sword Douluo to her original one. Yes, now Tang Ming changed his face into Qian Renxue which made her icy look to be crumbled apart as her eyes widened.
"Who are you?" Qian Renxue as she immediately got in position to attack. She launched herself toward Tang Ming as a sword formed from light appeared in her right hand.
"Me? I'm Inevitable!" Tang Ming chuckled as he snapped his finger.
Suddenly an extremely deep pressure descended upon the area as the gravity suddenly dramatically increased. Qian Renxue who was just a few metre away from reaching Tang Ming was immediately squashed into ground in a kneeling position.
By now Tang Ming can easily control gravity to upto thirty time in a range of fifty metre. And Qian Renxue just now was not even twenty metres away from him.
He has increased the gravity from zero to ten times suddenly causing her to be pressed into the ground.
He stood up and walked toward her.
Qian Renxue at this time was trying to adjust herself to the increased gravity with the help of spirit power but hearing the footsteps she immediately raised her head to look at Tang Ming slowly approaching her.
For her ten times gravity was not that hard to handle as she can easily adjust to it with the help of spirit power.
"What do you want?" Qian Renxue expression was extremely cold as she asked while gritting her teeth. She has now somewhat adjusted to the gravity but was still pretending to be struggling.
Tang Ming seeing this raised his eyebrows as he can feel her tensed muscles relaxing a little. He can feel anything and everything in his sensing range.
Qian Renxue was waiting for him to just get close enough to launch a surprise attack. Tang Ming had already noticed this but he too pretended that he didn't know if this development.
He slowly walked toward her and after a few moments got in the range of Qian Renxue. She didn't waste any moment and immediately launched a strike with her sword aiming at his neck.
The strike was so sudden and fast that not even an early Titled Douluo might be able to react but for him it was incredibly slow. His [Godspeed] with [Hyperactive] let his perception of time slow down to almost still.
He simply raised his hand and used a pinky figure to stopp the sword. His physical strength now has become so unprecedented that he might just fuçk up a spirit sage with nothing but physical prowess.
Qian Renxue looked stunned seeing her attack blocked and that too with just using a pinky finger. She looked at Tang Ming and can't help but blurt out :
"Who are you..?"
"I told you, I'm Inevitable." Tang Ming only smirked in response as he used the same hand he was using to block the sword, to snap.
'BoOMM..!
This time he immediately increased the gravity from to ten times to thirty times, making the surround area to cave in and form a crater of tens of metres around him.
This time Qian Renxue was flattened into the ground, she doesn't even have strength to lift her head up.
Tang Ming walked slowly walked over toward her and kneeled in front of her.
"You should'nt have tried to attack. You know I'm your saviour. I was just curious so I asked." Tang Ming said as he lessened the gravity to atleast let her be able to sit. He lifted her and put her beside a tree making her body lean on it. While all this time she kept glaring at him with an extremely chilling expression.
"You know what's the main problem of your Spirit Hall is? It's your bone deep arrogance and feelings of superiority." Tang Ming said as he too sat some distance away from her and looked at her with contempt.
"Just because you're the biggest organization doesn't mean you're the strongest. In this aspect I only admire the current supreme pontiff as she knows better than to show empty arrogance."
"I don't have any enemities with you, hell I saved you yet you still tried to attack and kill me just because I figured out your identity. How much arrogant and self-conceited a person should be to do this." Tang Ming looked at her with an extremely cold gaze. Hearing this Qian Renxue gaze became a little complicated as she knew what he was saying was true. But still her identity was of an extreme importance and no one should be allowed to know about it.
Tang Ming used to have a slight pity toward her because of her tragic backstory but it vanished after seeing her behaviour.
"Hmph, if it's not for some personal reason, I would have killed you right now. Now I'm going to ask some questions and you will answer it." Tang Ming too is very, very arrogant but he had tried to maintain his arrogance as much as he can. If it had been the him from six months ago, he might have just outright killed her.
"Tell me, what are you doing in Star Dou forest?" Tang Ming asked.
But Qian Renxue didn't say anything and just kept glaring at him. Noone, no one had humiliated her like this.
"What? What are you glaring at me for. You thinking of calling your Grandpa to take revenge for you. *Chuckle*" Tang Ming chuckled as he looked at her.
"I asked something! DON'T TEST MY PATIENCE, WOMAN!!" Tang Ming thundered. He was an extremely patient man but only to those who he considers family or friends.
Qian Renxue was startled as she immediately became frightened as this is the first time in her life that someone has dared to talk to her in this manner. But she too was stubborn and just kept glaring at him.
"Kill me but I still won't say anything." A little tear can be seen forming at the corner of her eyes but she kept her chilling cold expression as she kept glaring at him.
"....!" Seeing this Tang Ming became speechless. Now this made him feel like he was the bad guy here. He didn't know why but whenever he sees a woman cry in front of him, it just didn't feel right to him.
"*Sigh* Look, don't start crying. I'll let you go. I hope this experience taught you a lesson. Never underestimate anyone." Tang Ming was not really expecting anything out of her, it was just a spur of a moment thought.
'Sigh, I really can't understand woman.' Tang Ming thought to himself as he removed the gravity.
Qian Renxue was surprised seeing this as she had already thought she was going to die today. Well, it's not her fault as anyone else would also be frightened after seeing Tang Ming enraged.
"Go, you can go now." Tang Ming said with a defeated expression as he continued to mutter in a low voice, " Woman, why did they know how to cry. Sigh, it looks like my heart is still not tempered enough."
He sat beneath a tree and started chugging down the wine as he lamented how his heart is not stable enough. He had been practicing meditation all this time so as not to lose in front of emotions but he still failed. This was a very deep setback for him.
Qian Renxue looked at him with complicated emotions in her eyes. Even though he had muttered in low voice, how can a spirit master whose senses had already been greatly enhanced can't hear it.
She looked at Tang Ming who right now was shaking his head while gulping down wine. She can't believe that this is the same man who just a few minutes ago looked a enraged Titan but now looked like a heart broken lover.
A small smile formed at her mouth after seeing him like this.
Tang Ming also noticed her gaze and looked at her with a raised eyebrow as he said with an indifferent and cold expression, "What are you doing? Why haven't you left till now? Go or I'll kill you to make my heart stable."
The small smile formed at the corner of her mouth was immediately replaced with an icy cold expression as she glared at him.
"I'll have my revenge, juts wait you bastard." Six Wings suddenly appeared from her back as she flew upward and vanished from his sight.
"Heh, not bad for the first meeting. I'll wait and see if you change or not from your original counterpart. I'll be disappointed if you didn't change." Tang Ming whispered while a small smile appeared on his face as he once again started chugging down the Monkey Sage Wine.
What he didn't knew was that this encounter with him left an unforgettable and indescribable impression of him upon Qian Renxue.
"Sigh, I should meditate more..."
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