CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

261 Cold Stone Valley

Calm and beautiful, that is the Cold Stone valley, some rabbits and squirrels can be seen playing around the plum tree not far in front of the hut. Looks like it may be getting late, the sky outside looks a little dark and starting to lose its light.

BaiYing walked around the cave, searching every corner and wall that his eyes could see for possible hidden exits. Like his experience, opening the rock mountain in YinHua and most recently yesterday when he accidentally hit one of the rocks and made the wall move. Also in the meditation room where he pressed the rock with his knee and opened the mechanism leading to this valley, maybe he could open the door again, but, he thought, it was useless to look for it when the room itself had no way out.

His eyes glanced at one of the holes a bit high in the wall, the hole was quite large and about his body size, but he couldn’t see into it, could there be a way out there? But, according to Elder Yi, he said he had searched all over the place and still couldn’t find a way out. For forty years he lived here and could not find a way out, then what going to happen to him?

BaiYing took a deep breath, should he stay here too? What about the Crown Prince? He must be so worried about him, why he was so stupid, why not just sit still and do nothing, he only hurt himself or others every time he moves, it’s always like that.

Finally, exhausted, the young man climbed onto a rather large rock above a small river and sat on it, swaying his feet while looking at the view that covered the entire valley of the cave Cold Stone, the area of ??the valley was more or less the same as the palace of the Crown Prince’s Palace, maybe a little smaller, about half of it BaiYing thought, at least it seemed to him, he never really know how big the Palace is, even after almost a year staying there, and according to Elder Yi there were still many hidden places around this valley.

He sat at quite a strategic place, BaiYing thought, at least he got a pleasant enough place to enjoy the scenery there.

When he looked down, his eyes widen, he had never seen such beautiful fish swimming in the water, they were white, sparkling with a pair of golden eyes. Out of curiosity and wanting to take a closer look, the young man came down from the boulder and squatted by the river.

There were many small fish of white, silver, and gold, they were no bigger than the palm of their hand and its body so thin, with shining wings and scales.

“Wow, you are so beautiful, can I take you back to the palace to fill my pool, do you want it?” BaiYing stretched his hand out into the water, letting the fishes approach him, swimming around in his palm.

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“So pretty”.

“Don’t touch them!” but a loud voice startled the fish, causing BaiYing to withdraw his hand suddenly when he felt one of the startled fish bite him.

“Ah!”

Instantly the clear water was dripping with blood.

Elder Yi approached quickly and grabbed BaiYing’s palm which had just been bitten and its bleeding.

“Brat, I told you not to go carelessly, oh no this fish is very poisonous.”

When Elder Yi was very worried that the blood on BaiYing’s palm would stop dripping, his eyes widened as the wound healed quickly, and it was as if nothing had happened to the young man who was now looking at him intently with a pair of big round eyes, blinking several times still confused by Elder Yi’s reaction which he thought was exaggerated.

“Eh Master Yi, umm my hand please”

Elder Yi let go of his grip, he still frown in deep thought, was he’s wrong? But he remembered that the same fish can kill his pet goat in just one bite, they are very poisonous, even a small bite can make people faint and eventually die of suffocation.

“Eh, don’t you feel anything? Headache or chest tightness?”

BaiYing shook his head.

“No, just a little sore just now.”

Elder Yi was still looking at BaiYing, he should have known that the child in front of him was not ordinary, with the dragon pearl he possessed which so powerful enough to give all physical and inner strength unmatched, let alone against the bite of a poisonous creature? It’s a very small thing for him.

And this is very interesting, he thought, still not averting his eyes from seeing BaiYing and make the young man go awry.

“Eh is it something strange Elder?”

“Of course it is, how can anyone recover from a bite so quickly, this kid.” He flicks BaiYing’s forehead in exasperation.

The young man groaned.

“Ow its hurt, Elder”

Elder Yi took a deep breath, he finally sat beside BaiYing while looking at the surroundings, the valley he had lived in for decades, he still don’t believe it he had already stayed there for more than forty yeast, time passed so fast without he knew it, he looked to all directions where he spent almost half of his age there.

“Heh, it’s such a beautiful place.”

BaiYing who was still touching his forehead turned his head, seeing the face of a man who looked serious now, he has just known him, maybe for two days, but the person in front of him didn’t look like a stranger, he was very friendly, not an ordinary person, BaiYing even thought this person in front of him might be the incarnation of the very famous Great Master of the Medicine Valley, which according to the Physician Ou’s story of that his teacher was a man who could not stay still and was always looking for all new knowledge. But, is that possible? He’s probably very old now.

“Em, Elder, what, caused Elder to enter this cave? I mean, how did you get here in the first place?”

Elder Yi thought, he looked far ahead, then took a deep breath.

“Um, it’s a long story, if you want to hear my story it might take a few days or a few nights.”

BaiYing pursed his lips.

“Really, then don’t tell, Ying’er doesn’t want to stay here any longer, we’ll find a way out soon, right?”

Elder Yi narrowed his eyes, seeing BaiYing’s adorable frowning face.

“This brat, so you want to listen or not?”

“Ying would you like it but don’t take it too long, just make it short”

“How can that be, it all has the plot”

“Okay just start it out, Elder Yi is really like to waste the time, you said tomorrow before dawn we have to find a way out, according to Elder Yi, Ying’s feet is already strong enough to walk a long way, so we have to start immediately, Ying doesn’t want to be confined at here any longer”

Elder Yi let out a long breath.

“Heh this kid, so what do you want exactly?”

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Ting ting ting!

The sound of sharp weapons hitting the cave stone, the impact even caused sparks in the dark. The Crown Prince with YoTang and ShinYa had already entered the cave, following the map given by Physician Ou to the center of the deepest cave, which means if they could find the end they would find BaiYing.

But the journey was not as easy as they thought. Several, even countless small bats flew at them, hurting ShinYa’s hand which reflexively protected his head, it made it a bit difficult for him to cast the spell because of his sore hand.

The little bats made a loud, shrill sound resembling the voice of a woman screaming loudly, they were so aggressive in attacking with the aim of injuring and even killing, according to YoTang if he’s not mistaken these little creatures are mutated creatures that eat anything, including human flesh.

YoTang found a small path leading to another room, which according to their map would find a large room where the ancestral tomb of the Medicine valley was located, without thinking too long, the big man shifted his body and entered the narrow path.

“Your Majesty, this way!” he exclaimed.

LuoXiang who was so determined to protect himself from the bat attacks glanced at ShinYa.

“Master Shin”

ShinYa nodded, he followed right behind the Crown Prince running towards where YoTang was standing at that time.

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“Elder wait for Ying’er!”

BaiYing exclaimed seeing Elder Yi who was already walking far ahead, while BaiYing still had trouble walking in the dark, even though he was holding a torch in his hand he still had trouble seeing the path, not with a man who seemed to be very familiar with the terrain there, of course., he’s been there for forty years.

“Brat, move quickly, if we are late the road will be blocked by the tide and impassable.”

Elder Yi exclaimed stopping his path and waiting for the youth to run towards him.

BaiYing ran carefully.

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