His Highness the Crown Prince Always Wants to Marry Me

Chapter 196: Two Prodigals

Yu Qing Qian three walked down the steps, and candles also lit in the grooves on the walls on both sides.

After walking for about an hour, the group reached the end of the steps. In front of them was a stone door.

Feng Chen searched for a while with his mechanism compass and found the mechanism for opening the door in a claw of a stone sculpture. With a light twist, the stone door suddenly opened.

After the stone door opened, as soon as the three of them walked in, eight black leopards suddenly jumped out from ahead, casting covetous eyes on them.

Yu Qing Qian found that these eight leopards had no aura of life, furrowed her brows, and said: “Could these be the inscription beasts refined by Plant Inscription Masters?”

Plant Inscription Masters could not only carve inscriptions, but also refine powerful lifeless inscription beasts for combat. When encountering inscription beasts of the same level, it was generally difficult to defeat them if they couldn’t find their weak points.

“Mm, this is an inscription beast.” Feng Chen said.

[ROAR!!] The eight leopards roared and rushed towards the three.

As soon as the eight leopards moved, Yu Qing Qian captured the aura of the opponents. They were all Spirit General-level inscription beasts—she couldn’t intervene again.

Feng Chen’s cold eyes were extremely calm. Silver-white armour wrapped around his tall body, and there was a silver longsword in his hand, “Four each.”

After saying this to Chi Mo Ran, he rushed forward first. Wherever the silver sword passed, a leopard was slashed and flew out.

Chi Mo Ran didn’t waste time either. He took out a gorgeous, purely purple staff in his hand. In the centre of the staff was a round crystal ball, which reflected a tenacious purple flower vine.

“Die.” Chi Mo Ran waved his staff and countless rays of purple light flew out, passing through the bodies of the four black leopards.

The four black leopards were instantly turned into pieces after being cut by the thin purple lights.

Yu Qing Qian noticed that the power of Chi Mo Ran’s staff could easily chop four black leopards at Spirit General level into pieces and knew that his cultivation base had already reached the level of Spirit Marshal.

No wonder Chi Mo Ran was known as the number one genius among the younger generation of the Seven Great Clans. He had entered the level of Spirit Marshal at only the age of eighteen. His future was truly immeasurable.

Yu Qing Qian had to feel emotional about Chi Mo Ran’s wilfulness. He had previously bet his own cultivation and future to return her blood essence. He was probably prepared to cultivate and recover silently after returning.

If the superiors of the Chi Clan knew about Chi Mo Ran’s thoughts and actions, she wondered if he’d be captured and imprisoned to reflect on his mistakes.

Chi Mo Ran’s cultivation base was one large level higher than Feng Chen’s, but Feng Chen was very fierce in fighting and quickly cut four black panthers into several pieces too.

“Crown Prince Chen’s combat power is indeed very strong.” Chi Mo Ran smiled faintly, with a hint of appreciation in his eyes.

Although he was one level higher than Feng Chen, but his talent and potential were still inferior to Feng Chen.

If Feng Chen’s body hadn’t been eroded and suppressed by poison since he was a child, he probably would’ve already entered the cultivation base of Spirit Marshal. No wonder the old men from the Holy Academy and the Central Continent’s Royal Academy almost even fought over Feng Chen.

Feng Chen put away his sword and said with a faint smile: “Young Lord Chi is too humble.”

Seeing the two being so polite, Yu Qing Qian thought for a moment, then said: “Sounds so awkward saying Crown prince Chen this, Young Lord Chi that, how about you just call each other’s name.”

“Sure!” The two of them nodded in unison.

Yu Qing Qian looked at the debris on the ground and had to hold her forehead. They truly were two prodigals—‘not knowing how expensive firewood and rice were because they didn’t manage the house¹’.

Instead of directly finding the weak points of the inscription beasts and attacking them, they insisted on cutting them into pieces. She originally wanted to take these inscription beasts back to research them.

Yu Qing Qian looked away from the fragments of the inscription beasts, looked around the room, and saw a fist-sized stone with an orchid-blue colour on the innermost wooden table.

“Is that a Jie Stone?”

¹a proverb that basically means one does not know the difficulties of something if they haven’t experienced it for themselves. In this case, YQQ is saying they’ve been raised in wealthy families (at least, on the surface, better than hers) so they don’t consider these inscription beasts precious, but she does.