Ruoshan looked at the sparkling red crystal in his hand which Li Ming had given him before they came to the Thundering Peaks.
The red Crystal was a charm which was connected to the magical mansion of Li Ming. As long as Ruoshan would have that Crystal with him, the spell which kept his location hidden from the entire world, would be active even though he was no more in 100 metres radius of Li Ming. The only problem was that the crystal would only work for five hours, which meant that Li Ming needed to complete whatever she was going to do within these five hours.
"It's been a decade since we have last seen each other!" Zhang Yong said with a smirk as he settled down on his seat.
A slight twitch appeared on Ruoshan's lips. He put away the red crystal and turned towards the Fourth Prince.
"And Just in these 10 years, you already forget your etiquettes as you no more think that it's important to greet your Senior brother!"
"I'm just surprised to see you. Last I heard, you were trapped in the Black Devil Circle. Looks like my information sources are not as good as I thought!" Zhang Yong said as he observed the wine glasses that Li Ming had left behind.
"So, tell me. Why does Li Ming need the White Pearl Lotus?" He asked as he poured wine in the glasses and offered one to Ruoshan.
"Well! If you already know her reason for coming here, then you are probably aware about the whole situation." The slight twitch on Ruoshan's lips was the clear indicator of his mockery.
Zhang Yong slammed the glass on the table and looked at Ruoshan with murderous glare.
"My biggest mistake was to leave her alone. Who would have known that in my absence, you will try to snatch my Ming'er away from me!"
If glares could kill then Ruoshan would have died at least hundred times by now.
Ruoshan stood up and gave Zhang Yong a hard glare. "Let me remind you, she's not only yours. When the prophecy was made it was clear that she belongs to all the five of us."
"I'm not going to fight with you over her but if you try to come between her and me, I'll make sure that you will regret it." The warning was clear in Ruoshan's tone.
A little twich appeared on Zhang Yong's lips.
"Interesting! I know that my Ming'er is irresistible but I'm seeing her true capability only now. Let's leave everything on her."
He walked closer to Ruoshan and said in a very cold tone, "If she wants something then it will be hers, but if she doesn't want it then I'll remove that thing from it's existence!"
The atmosphere inside the cave rose to such a temperature that no human could survive it.
It took a few moments before the atmosphere became normal. It was like the two immortals were not at each other's neck a few seconds ago.
Zhang Yong drank the rest of the wine from his glass and started to walk towards the entrance of the cave.
"Where are you going?" Ruoshan asked as he followed behind him.
"Since you are not going to tell me what she is up to, then I'm going to find on my own." Zhang Yong replied without looking back.
"But....forget that! Even I'm interested to know what she's going to do. She never fails to amaze me!" Ruoshan changed his mind and decided to accompany Zhang Yong rather than fighting with him.
The next second, the two silhouette disappeared from the sight.
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Li Ming felt the discomfort in the atmosphere inside the cave, but she didn't have free time to find out exactly what was going on.
The moment she came out of the room, she disappeared into her mansion. She picked up the things that she had selected last night and put on an invisible and silent spell on herself.
After making sure that no one could detect her, she again appeared at the entrance of the cave.
Li Ming searched through the minds of the guards that were stationed outside the entrance. But much to her dismay, none of them were aware about the reason for which Zhang Yong was at the Thundering Peaks.
"Huh? How ridiculous!" Li Ming scoffed at the guards. Since she was under a spell, the guards didn't hear her.
She was about to go and look for other guards to find out some information when her gaze landed on Long Jie, who was going towards the top of the peak with a few more guards.
Li Ming followed behind quietly. When they reached the top, Long Jie divided the guards into two groups and both the groups left for different directions while he himself went deep into the dark forest.
"Long Jie. Ah! Long Jie." Li Ming shook her head while exhaling a long breath.
Alvina and Terra appeared in front of Li Ming. She looked at the two pixies and said, "Follow the guards and see what are they doing here. Remember not to get caught!"
Both pixies nodded their heads and flew into the air, each after a different group of guards. Since, the pixie dust was no more available, Li Ming had transferred a little of her magical powers to the pixies so that they could continue with their daily works.
Li Ming started behind Long Jie but since she had wasted some time, the head guard was no where to be seen.
Li Ming still continued to walk ahead. Since the time gap was not too long, therefore Long Jie wouldn't have gone too far.
"Li, why you didn't send me after one of the groups back there?" Snowy asked as he was curious to know why his master didn't take the advantage of the situation and send him off to do her chores.
Li Ming rolled her eyes as she replied, "Is it that hard to understand? Of course, I am not free enough to spend my time in saving you. Because looking at your track list, you were bound to get caught or do something stupid and bring problems for me!"
"..."
Snowy looked wide eyed at his Master.
'How can she speak such rubbish about such an angel like me? She's a devil!'