Chapter 65 - Hesitation
It was deep into the night when Bai Rouyun appeared in the room again. Li Moyun could smell a bewitching herbal scent from her body, and he could also see that she had changed her clothes. What had she been doing in the Primal Chaos Dimension?
Bai Rouyun stretched her body lazily. She was now at the Acquired Realm, Earth Tier, Advanced Layer.
Although she could not be considered a genius when compared to the expert from the Eternal Shadow Palace, when put into a group of cultivators from the Richu Empire, she was already above average.
Bai Rouyun looked at Li Moyun, who was waiting for her and c.o.c.ked her head to the side. She scurried next to him and sat down on the bed, waiting for him to say what he had to say.
"My father wants me to enter the battlefield," he said with a sigh. "If I want to maintain my position as a prince of the Richu Empire, then I will have to join the army, but I will be unable to bring you with me."
Bai Rouyun"s eyes flickered slightly. She did not know why, but a sense of loss appeared in her heart. Even so, she knew that the ident.i.ty as a prince was important for him, so even though she did not want him to leave, she was not going to be selfish.
Seeing the dejection and hesitation in Bai Rouyun"s eyes, Li Moyun felt as if a blanket had been put around his heart; he felt fuzzy and warm inside.
Although he knew that Bai Rouyun did not dislike him, he was not sure about what she felt about him either.
Now he could be sure that she felt some sort of affection towards him; otherwise, why would she be so reluctant for him to leave?
Bai Rouyun quickly got her emotions under control. She nodded her head and said, "You got to go then. Although the Richu Empire is nothing in the eyes of the Eternal Shadow Palace, it is still your mask to the world outside."
Li Moyun nodded his head. Although he hated being threatened as he was right now by his father, now was not the time to strike back.
He had to be patient, and only when he no longer needed this other ident.i.ty could he return the grievances he had been put through.
"If I am to leave, you have to promise me that you take Little Chu with you everywhere you go. I understand that you want freedom, but I am afraid that someone will take the opportunity to act against you."
Bai Rouyun looked at Li Moyun. She was wondering if there was a way for her to decline Little Chu"s constant surveillance, but after seeing the apparent worry in Li Moyun"s eyes, she just sighed.
"Okay, I can bring Little Chu, but he is only allowed to act if I am about to lose my life," Bai Rouyun said sternly. "Even if I am getting a beating, he is not allowed to save me, only if my life is hanging by a thread can he step in and stop them."
Li Moyun"s heart ached when he heard Bai Rouyun"s words. He could not accept the fact that she would be beaten, nor could he approve of Mo Chu just standing by the side and watching it happen, but when he saw the determination in Bai Rouyun"s eyes, he knew that she would never let him follow her, should he not agree.
Bai Rouyun was not your ordinary person. She was not content with being a canary in a cage, a flower in a greenhouse. She wanted to make herself stronger; she wanted to become a person who could take her revenge against the people who went against her.
Although it pained him, Li Moyun was aware of how difficult of a challenge it was to climb up the ladder of cultivation in this world. If he genuinely sheltered her and everything about her, then she would not become a strong cultivator who could fight by his side in the future.
"Okay, but make sure to beat others up; don"t let them beat you up."
Bai Rouyun could feel the worry in Li Moyun"s eyes, and she smiled sweetly. "No one who is around my own strength can hold a candle to me. I have an impressive amount of techniques I learned in my past life; they will be able to make me invincible amongst others at my own strength, I might even be able to jump tiers, and fight someone a layer above me."
Looking at Bai Rouyun"s proud expression, Li Moyun softened and smiled, before reaching out his hand and rubbing her head.
"Okay, Little Chu will follow you around, but only save you in a life-threatening situation. You will rely on yourself at any other moment."
Bai Rouyun obediently nodded her head, and Li Moyun smiled dotingly at her before he sighed and got ready to leave. Since he had decided to enter the battlefield and go to war, he was going to end it as soon as possible. He wanted to return to Bai Rouyun"s side as quickly as possible.
Bai Rouyun was sad that Li Moyun was going to leave, but after thinking for some time, she also saw a potential gain in this situation. She could go on a trip to a neighboring country and auction a Marrow-Cleansing Pill!
She knew that she could not sell it here in Richu Empire, but who was to say that she could not do so in, for instance, the Xiyang Empire? Or maybe in the east, in the Xiaolong Empire.
The Xiaolong Empire was the biggest empire in the entire continent. It was not small at all, and it could dominate the world if it wanted, but they had never made any move to take over the entire continent, they never began a war, and all they did was to stay within their own borders.