A fair maiden with red hair stood by the river bank as she tirelessly breathed out. She examined her wounds on her right arm and spilled water on it to clean it.
With a bottle bamboo, she filled it with water and began to drink it.
Gulp, gulp, gulp.
Gah~
She wiped her mouth and from the corner of her eye, the smallest detail caught her eye.
Flowing down the river–what she thought was a log–was a naked man floating down face up with his junk fully visible.
As he floated down, her head turned at the same pace. Both of their eyes made contact for a brief second. She was unable to remove her gaze as the figure slowly vanished to the distance.
She looked at the bamboo water bottle and inwardly felt like throwing up.
Ugh. Ugh!
Down the river, Yan Ji felt a little bad for the lady who he just passed by.
...Maybe I should get out and just run?
But this way of transportation was so much better.
He sighed to himself.
3 days have passed. He didn't even feel hungry or thirsty just by using his Spiritual Energy to sustain himself. Yan Ji's was sure that by floating down, he would enter a ocean.
There, he would find a new life by the beach.
Surely there are fishing villages that would accept him in.
The only thing that scared him was that there could be dragons in the ocean for all he knows. They might just decide to eat him out of nowhere.
He also got a rough idea of his own strength while floating.
Strong, but pretty weak.
Perfect cannon fodder.
The most interesting thing was that he could expand his spiritual energy so that he could tell if there was a monster approaching. He hid from monsters that made his senses ring, and beat up any that were weak.
Thankfully, it seemed that this place was still in the domain of whatever sect Yan Ji was in so that meant that it wasn't completely filled with monsters and demons wanting to rip you apart.
The more he thought about it, the more stupid he felt.
Why did he jump into the water!?
The fuck was he thinking?
But by then, he had already gotten used to life as a log.
Just then, he felt a force try to get him out of the water.
Not sensing any danger from it, he simply let it take him out.
The red hair lady that he saw before...
She was staring at him in disbelief. Right now, rather than anger she was asking herself this:
Is this Yan Ji!?
That's right. Like a typical novel this girl was once a fiance of Yan Ji, Mo Yue.
However, she was actually a empress in the future who had been regressed back when she was a young girl!
Shock, Zinger, wabam!
Anyways.
Mo Yue looked in disbelief as she saw the nonchalant look on his face.
"You...what are you doing?"
Right now, she was just in complete confusion. She had scanned his body and found that there was nothing wrong with it. No poison, no blocked meridians, hell he was even healthy!
This meant that he was simply floating down?
But...Why?
"Who are you?" He asked calmly while covering his groin area. Although she was beautiful, he had grown desensitized from the modern world of internet celebrities.
"You don't remember who I am!?"
They had actually met the first time she had regressed. At that time, she was putting up with him, waiting for the moment to strike.
But now he had served himself to her.
Just hearing this sentence caused Yan Ji to shake a little.
fuck.
The meaning behind those words meant that they know him. Which meant that he was a dick to them. Therefore, he was there enemy.
He blinked a few times as he looked at her face.
Too beautiful....She can't be a npc...
The result of the thoughts were that she was strong and had a feud with him.
"I'm sorry, but who are you?" Knowing all of this information, he kept his mouth shut as tight as as a pickled jar lid.
Like a amnesiac he stuttered to himself, "W-who am I?"
She looked at him with shocked eyes.
"You don't remember who you were?"
A sudden urge arose in her heart.
It was the urge to kill!
Yan Ji still had on a emotionless face.
"When I woke up, I was floating down the river all naked." He looked down, "Could I get a cloth before we keep talking?"
"Y-yeah, here."
Mo Yue handed him a cloth to shield her eyes from his body.
"Thank you."
She felt disgust to past self.
I was in love with this bastard, ugh!
As he was putting it over his body, Mo Yue was also thinking to herself on what to do.
Should I...kill him?
However, she knew that right now it wouldn't matter.
The person she hated, detest, abhored. Was the Yan Ji who treated her like trash! Not this naked bufoon.
If she killed him now, she might develop a new heart demon that would heavily impact her later cultivation.
It just wasn't worth it.
However, Mo Yue was curious though. Did losing your memories make you a better person?
The Yan Ji was completely different from the past. He used to be so arrogant that even saying thank you was out of the question.
This made things awkward for her.
Yan Long also needs to clear his inner demon at this time. If I kill him, I might be harming Yan Long.
That's right. In the future, she was one of Yan Long's 10 wives that were at the epitome of power!
"So you don't really remember anything?"
"Like I said, when I woke up, I was already floating down."
"Okay..."
She continued as she pointed upstream where he had came from.
"If you keep going that direction, you can get back to your sect–Tear Valley."
Right now, Mo Yue wanted to observe him some more, but right now was a crucial time.
"..."
Yan Ji who had just escaped from there simply nodded his head.
"Thank you."
He clasped his hands and bowed without any emotion or arrogance. Then he walked in the complete opposite direction of where she had pointed.
Mo Yue blinked in confusion.
What just happened?
To clarify, she had never ever seen Yan Ji bow to anyone before. Then he also went in the complete opposite direction she pointed.
This confused her to point of simply being petrified.
Did he lose his sense of direction as well?
She looked at where she wanted to go, while also looking back at Yan Ji. Her eyes moved back and forth.
The twilight dew is more important!
Disregarding her thoughts, she would get the treasure and then find him. If he went with her, he might steal it for his own, after all, she doesn't know whether this was a trick or not. Who's to say. that he isn't just acting?
Yan Ming walked silently without daring to look back.
She's gone now right? should I turn? No wait for another 50 seconds.
He couldn't be careless. He learned that when he was overtaken by adrenaline and jumped into a river.
By the way, I wonder how Yan Long is doing?
He looked to the setting sun as it was turning to night.
Meanwhile in the Tear Valley sect, Yan Long stood with his great sword in the middle of the arena.
All the disciples look to each other while yawning. "Why is senior brother not here? Didn't the elder already go ask someone to fetch him?"
Another replied, "I heard that someone saw him leave 3 days! That was the last time anyones seen him!"
"N-no way, did he run?"
"Pshh! This is the arrogant Yan Ji were talking about! You think he would run away!?"
"hmm your right. Ah! Could it be!"
"What?"
"He–"
Several opinions were floating about.
-Went to a brothel and partied for 3 days and 3 nights.
-Went to fight a monster
-Die to a monster
-And several more.
Yan Ji's master–Qiu Han, could hear ever voice that rung out. His expression darkened.
"Where is he?"
He questioned the girl (from ch 1).
"Y-young master h-he isn't anywhere to be seen!"
"Hmph! To not even tell me! Just where does he put my face!"
Qiu Han wasn't mad that Yan Ji wasn't here for the duel, but rather the fact that he did so without his knowledge.
While on the stage, Yan Long was also getting very irritated.
Yan Ji!
[Calm down Yan Long. This is exactly what he wants.]
Really now? He isn't even here!
[Keep your calm. The moment you lose your patience and calm is the moment he strikes!]
Yan Ji walked back in female clothing along the path way.
As Mo Yue only had female clothes, well what he received can only be female clothes.
It might be better to just be naked.