After leaving the Millennium Treasure Pavilion, Di Tianming went back, straight to the Cloud Inn. He ordered Xiao Jing to bring him something to eat for lunch in an hour and headed up stairs to his room.
He put down the two weapons on the bed and removed the wrap cloth which was hiding their appearance. The katana was 120 cm long and three fingers wide, it had a purple square handle along with a black scabbard with purple strips.
The saber was 150 cm long and four fingers wide. It had a red round handle with black scabbard with red strips.
He sat down on the table by the side of the window and took out the two Martial Arts Manuals he had bought from his bosom.
The names of the two Martial Arts were the 'Raging Tiger Sword Art' and the 'Wood Cleaving Saber Art'.
Di Tianming decided to go with the Raging Tiger Sword Art. The whole purpose for buying this sword art was the word 'Tiger'. He speculated that this sword art would be extremely compatible with him because of the Evil-eyes Azure Tiger Bloodline coursing through his veins, making it easy to master.
He opened the book and started reading it.
Time passed second by second and minute by minute. An hour passed and the lunch had arrived. He decided to take a short break and eat, after which, he again went back to memorizing the Sword Art.
Soon, the entire afternoon passed and the sun drowning into the horizon looked beautiful.
Finally, Di Tianming closed the book and took a deep breathe. He had finally memorized everything about the Sword Art.
[Ding! Low-grade Mortal Rank Sword Art has been added. To upgrade the Martial Arts further, please go the Status Window.]
A notification appeared in front of his eyes as soon as he finished memorising the Sword Art.
However, he wasn't surprised or shocked to see this notification. He only chuckled and muttered lightly, "As expected."
But before he could do anything further, a woman appeared in front of him suddenly.
...
While Di Tianming was one his way to the Cloud Inn, Su Lanyue was on her way to meet her Master who had summoned her the first thing in the morning.
Within a room amongst the several, on the top floor of the Rainbow Orchid Tower, a beautiful woman in her late 30s could be seen looking into the distance from her window while sipping her tea.
The women had white hair and silver eyes along with an extremely pale, smooth skin. She wore a green robe with cranes embroidered all over and had a symbol sewed on the back which meant, 'Serene'.
The door of her room opened and a beautiful woman walked in. She had balck hair and golden eyes and wore a white robe with silver embroidery.
"Greetings, Master!", Su Lanyue cupped her hand and bowed deeply towards the woman in front of her.
"Sit down.", Zhang Mei said without turning head.
Su Lanyue walked to the table and sat down while her Master continued sipping tea. The room descended into complete silence. However, she waited patiently for her master to finish her tea.
Eighty-Five blinks of an eye worth of time had passed.
Zhang Mei put down her cup and slowly turned her head to finally look at her disciple.
"Why did you run away?", she asked softly, her eyes indifferent and cold.
"I-I just wanted to get some fresh air.", Su Lanyue said nervously, her voice stuttering. She had always been afraid of her master due to how strict, cold and indifferent she was.
"Lies!"
"I-I don't want to marry the Crown Prince." she said meekly, almost quiet.
"What?", her master asked coldly.
"I don't want to marry the Crown Prince.", this time she shouted. However, realizing what she had just done she quicked sealed her mouth with both her hand.
"Don't want to or because you have a little lover in the outside world?", Zhang Mei sneered.
Hearing her Master mention her 'little lover', Su Lanyue blushed slightly upon the thought of her and Di Tianming's steaming hot night. However, she soon realized her inappropriate thoughts were running wild and immediately pressed the breaks.
However, these subtle changes didn't go unnoticed by Zhang Mei. killing intent flashed across her eyes.
She continued, "Don't you know that the Crown Prince is a monstrous talent and has a awakened a Divine Grade Martial Soul? Why are you rejecting such a person? He is going to be Emperor of the Great Yu Dynasty and if you seize the moment now, you will be the Empress. Numerous Divine Essence Realm Cultivator will be at your beck and call."
Upon mentioning the Crown Prince, strangely, Zhang Mei's voice contained excitement, though subtle enough to go unnoticed but her eyes betrayed her cold and indifferent expression.
"But I don't want to marry him! He is way too narrow minded for a person and is extremely arrogant and conceited.", Su Lanyue immediately refuted her master.
"Being arrogant and conceited is natural for a person of royal. Sigh...You girl, you have been blinded by your emotions. May be I should just finish off your little lover, only then will you be able to see what's beneficial for you."
Zhang Mei was prepared to continue persuading her disciple but the look in her eyes told Zhang Mei that it was all pointless. She won't marry the Crown Prince. Hence, she shifted her focus on threatening her.
"No! You wouldn't lay a finger on him, Master!", she shouted in panic after her Master mentioned her thoughts of killing Di Tianming.
"Then, marry Crown Prince Huang."
"No! I won't."
"Fine! Then I will go ahead and kill him!"
"No! Please don't, Master. I beg you to spare him.", at this point her heart had started to tremble and her eyes welled up.
"Then, will you comply?", Zhang Mei asked, her expression still indifferent.
"I-I will think about it.", she said with a crying face.
Zhang Mei nodded and waved her hand, indicating for Su Lanyue to leave.
As soon as she left Zhang Mei's figure faded away from the room.
...
Unknown to Di Tianming, a black-hooded figure had arrived in his room, hiding in the shadows and observing him in secret. He was here to assassinate him. However, just when was about to make his move and person appeared in the room.
The assassin was alarmed seeing the person's appearance and quickly left.
Di Tianming, unaware of the looming danger surrounding him was shocked to see a woman appear in his room. He couldn't sense here arrival, that means she was stronger than him. Jumping towards his bed, he wanted to grab his weapons and also make some distance between them.
"Enemy!", he thought.
However, his body froze in mid air while a ice blue Spirit qi slowly enveloped his body.
The woman slowly waved her fingers and Di Tianming started floating towards her.
He finally got a proper look of the woman in front of him.
"Beautiful! However, why did she appear here? I don't think I know her. Maybe she was charmed by my handsome face. Heh, am I going to have another sugar mommy today?"
He couldn't have analysed the situation more perfectly.
The woman had white hair and silver eyes with pale white skin. She looked like a fairy descended into the Mortal World.
Zhang Mei, too, was quite surprised to see Di Tianming's handsome face and muscular body. However, her expression still remained indifferent.
"At least my disciple knows how to choose!"
She finally understood why her disciple didn't want to marry the Crown Prince. This young man in front of her was no less handsome than the Prince but this also made it difficult for her to convince her disciple, knowing how much stubborn she was.
Zhang Mei stretched out her hand and quickly grabbed him by his neck and started choking him.
Di Tianming feeling the cold hand tightening its grip started to gasp for air.
"F*ck! She wants to kill me! Help, someone come help! F*ck! A-Am I going to die here?"
Very soon, he started to gag while Zhang Mei tightened her grip even more. He was slowly slipping into eternal slumber.
However, before that could have happened, she loosened her grip, causing Di Tianming to fall on the floor.
Thud!
"HAH! HAH!"
He started to greedily and desperately breath the air while he massaged his neck which was hurting due to Zhang Mei's strong grip with the marks of her fingers still visible. His whole body was trembling.
He gasped for air and with his swollen yes he turned his head with difficulty to gaze upon the culprit. This time, their was fear in his eyes.
However, before he could even lift his head, Zhang Mei released a burst of aura followed by an unprecedented qi pressure targeting Di Tianming. His entire body felt as if it was under a mountain, crushing down on him.
Blood started to flow out his seven orifices, greatly injuring him. He felt a terrifying killing intent locking onto him, deceiving him into an illusion.
Di Tianming fell into a dark void where he felt a pair of silver eyes staring at him coldly. The moment he looked into those eyes, he fell into yet another illusion, making him forcefully witness all kinds of cruelty and slaughter the world could ever imagine.
"AHHH!!!"
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