On a forest outside the s.h.i.+zi Empire, with the help of the moonlight, one can see that a man wearing white robe laced with gold, his waist tied a with red jade amulet is standing on top of a coffin tree. The cold night wind makes his long hair and white robe sway with it.The usual playfulness on man"s face is gone and if Gao Lan Mei sees him at that moment, she will wonder if he is the same happy go lucky Fa Li that her uncle likes a lot.
He immediately raises all his senses when he notices the scent of opium poppy in the air, using his energy to check the entire area but was not able to find anyone else in the forest aside from him.
After a while, an angelic voice said, behind him, "This is a nice view." The smell of the opium poppy is still strongly lingering in the air especially coming from the woman.
Fa Li froze and turned around, to look at the alluring lady behind him, he smiled charmingly, but his eyes do not show any warmth, "Sung Zhi Ruo..." uttering softly like a man that has not seen his lover for a long time.
He left Gao Shen and the rest earlier as he received a message that Sung Zhi Ruo is on the way to the Mortal Domain.
The woman is very beautiful, with her angelic face, she can be labeled as probably one of the most beautiful in the Immortal Domain.
The most woman her age would act shyly and demure but Sung Zhi Ruo cannot be compared to others.
Wearing purple sleeveless robes, with the front of it hanging low making it very easy for anyone to take a peak on the valley of her breast, any man can be allured like a prey to a spider"s web. The woman being a spider, luring and then gobbling everything until none is left.
She also heavily smokes opium poppy due to her sickness. Her smoking pipe is always between her lips when not a lot of people is around and only removes it for a short period of time if she needed to pretend to be like the rest.
So what kind of sickness will need someone to regularly take a drug that is normally making a mortal die quickly?
It"s madness. All the evil things that she does that is always being covered by her clan is because of her sin of madness and the only way for her to be as normal as the rest is to keep on smoking opium poppy.
If others are afraid of the curse madness, Sung Zhi Rou will probably welcome it like the best gift of her life if ever someone is too angry enough to act on revenge.
Just being close to the woman, Fa Li knows he is playing a dangerous game, but he knows its necessary.
Asking, "Did you travel so far just to visit me alone?" he uttered softly, wanting to know very badly if she is alone. He almost cringed to the fake warmth laced from his voice.
"She is not alone." another man has spoken, voice harsh lace with mock. Like saying that Fa Li is stupid to not know about this.
This is one of Fa Li"s problem, it is very hard to detect the presence of any member of the Sung clan.
Fa Li is not sure when did the man arrived, "Elder Gu, how have you been?" He cupped his fist and made a slight bow of respect.
Elder Gu"s is a lean man, taller than Fa Li, both of his hands are at his back while holding a wooden cane.
The cane is heavily designed by colorful runes and on both ends black crystals glimmers when enough light hits it.