CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

186 The Chamber

Drap Drap Drap!

The sound of galloping horses quickly headed towards the resting place of the Crown Prince and Commander Liu’s troop entourage, later the troops increased with soldiers from General Po who joined the group, LuoXiang did not stop, they would continue their journey even though the sky was dark.

“Report Your Majesty! The road ahead is a bit steep and rocky, we can use another road that is on the right, I have checked the path and the distance is more or less the same ” exclaimed the young guard who got off his horse and knelt in front of the Crown Prince’s horse, he was a scout guard who always checked the path around them.

LuoXiang looked in front of them, the road was getting darker, BeiYau and his men as well as Commander Liu started to light torches to help light the way, the trained troops were used to the rough terrain, the rocky and steep roads were not a hindrance, but these people too were getting tired, lest they lose their strength before arriving at Stone Mountain, where the Lost palace is located.

LuoXiang pulled the reins of his horse to his right.

“We’re going right, let’s go Bei”

BeiYau nodded he raised his hand high and shouted.

“Let’s move!” he exclaimed.

Before long the small road that was almost never traveled by people shook, the cavalry troop with battle armor from YueYang was ready with all its full strength, the reinforcement from the palace sent by the Emperor would arrive tomorrow morning, LuoXiang didn’t expect a war to break out, but this may be what they had to deal with because of a large number of members of the Black Water Clan gathered there, LuoXiang did not expect that the clan had grown so large, and later it was discovered that the Blackwater Clan which means the Clan of the black water where the YueYang army used to punish many WahYe soldiers to bathe in the black puddle and wiped out half of them, the descendants of those soldiers who now formed and joined the clan.

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“Hiaa! Hiaa!!”

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BaiYing held his breath, seeing the person YueWang had been waiting for finally appeared in front of him, inside the cave where they finally found a round chamber with many carvings and small statues, four pillars in each corner and cobblestone in the middle, some kind of chamber where the mechanism to open the Lost Palace was, because of all the foreign carvings and paintings, with many emblems of countries that BaiYing had never seen before, a huge Kilin with the head of a dragon, that’s the symbol of WahYe? It was somewhat similar to the YueYang’s flag, a dragon with the body of a buffalo.

General Po approached BaiYing who opened his eyes wide to see him, the old man smiled widely, the face and smile that BaiYing liked very much, who slowly lowered his body to his knees in front of BaiYing.

“Greetings Young Prince, forgive me for being late” BaiYing stuttered, how could the familiar figure of the old man kneel in front of him now, calling him Young Prince? his hands trembled slightly as he lowered his body to help the burly old man stand.

“Grandpa, what did grandpa say? H-how, grandpa got here?”

General Po slowly stood up, smiling as he raised his hand to caress BaiYing’s cheek who was still looking at him in confusion.

“XiaoYing, grandfather, is General Song’s Son, and, as one of the pillars of WahYe’s country, it is grandfather’s duty to always be loyal and protect XiaoYing at all costs.”

BaiYing was at a loss for words, so this man had been keeping quiet about what was going on around him? About how his mother died, also how his family, BaiYing couldn’t accept this fact, his chest hurt, thinking about the closest person he thought could be another refuge, before the Crown Prince, turned out to be the one who deceived him, BaiYing let go of his grip, he couldn’t believe it, really all very surprising, how can all be like this.

General Po was about to follow BaiYing who was walking away from him, but ShinYa held the young man’s body.

“Your Highness”

YueWang approached.

“General Po, don’t waste your time, quickly activate your Eastern Eagle mechanism”

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The wind was blowing violently, spinning in a spherical space in which only YueWang, General Po, ShinYa, DuGu Ye, and FengHan, while BaiYing and YueWang were in the center of the chamber, as all the sturdy pillars were brought to life with the lifeblood and body energy of his successors, ShinYa doing what his parents taught him to liven up the aura of each pillar of support, colorful aura emanating from each successor’s body and covering the towering pillar, ShinYa with Yellow-colored aura, a symbol of wisdom, FengHan brown aura, a symbol of land and nature, DuGu is green the symbol of Endurance, and PoYang is red, the symbol of Strength.

The chamber spun and slowly cracks sounded on every floor, YueWang held the lever in the middle on the stone table, the lever with the shape of a dragon’s mouth where he have to put his hand deep inside to be able to turn it, suddenly an earthquake occurred, the cave room shook very strongly, the walls cracked, and the ceiling began to crumble, the floor continued to fall so that everyone had to hold on tightly to keep from falling, and the strong wind that blew the chamber could not be seen clearly.

The earthquake was felt out of the cave, even the entire plains of Rock Mount and the cloud forest, where the Crown Prince’s entourage just passed it when the sky was still a bit dark, it was near dawn and the sun just glow in the eastern horizon, the ground shaking made the troops led by the Crown Prince and BeiYau stopped.

“Earthquake!” shouted the soldiers behind, LuoXiang who was still sitting on his horse glanced at BeiYau, is this what they think? Such a big earthquake, have they started to find the Lost palace? This is very dangerous.

Heeee heeee!

The sound of panicked horses made it impossible for the group to continue their run, and the road seemed to split, they had to take cover immediately.

“BeiYau, order everyone to be careful!” LuoXiang exclaimed, BeiYau nodded.

“Ready Your Majesty, quickly take cover!” he cried, looking at Commander Liu and the army leader of General Po, the ground shook even more violently, almost knocking down LuoXiang who was sitting on his horse, this was a very strong earthquake, and who knows how large the Wahye palace, that they managed to raise after so many years of grounding,

“krekk krekk krekk!!

The sound of trees cracking and the road splitting, everyone looked for shelter as much as possible.

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