Path Of The Lilies

Ye Jiao flicked a glance to Qin Zheng. "You just know me for a few days, so you wouldn"t know a lot of things."

"Such as your revenge?"

"…Did you search for me?"

Qin Zheng smiled. "It"s not hard to know considering your name and your infamy in Chen Kingdom."

Ye Jiao eyed the man before her with furrowed brows. "How do you even know my name in the first place? I don"t recall ever telling you my real name before."

"There"s not many children who get the evaluation of trash in these days. Some of them might be truly trash but the others would be genius, so I pay attention to them. In Chen Kingdom alone, "Ye Jiao" is the only one that matches your description."

"I see."

"Anything else you want to ask?"

"Noth- ah wait, how long are you planning to follow me like this? Don"t you have your own business to do?" Ye Jiao asked. For someone at Qin Zheng"s caliber to come here, it just meant that he had some business to do in the Four Kingdoms. After all, there would be no way he wanted to come here if there was nothing he wanted to do.

Qin Zheng nodded. "Right, I should get going now. But you seem to hate my presence so much."

"Thanks to you, my ability to detect sneak attacks increase."

"How rude, you"re the one who launched the sneak attack at me. I would prefer if you didn"t use that dagger, though."

Ye Jiao rolled her eyes. She stopped in a wide area and took out the meat from her storage bracelet. "I"m going to cook. Do you want some?"

"Depends on what you"re going to do with that meat."

"Just grilling and some seasoning."

"Alright, I want a lot then."

"Got it."

It didn"t take long for Ye Jiao to grill the meat on her hand. She had gotten used to cook in the wilderness because there was nothing else to eat. The only thing she could possibly eat would be fruits, herbs, and also meat. Unfortunately, her knowledge over the edible herbs were lacking.

What she knew would be the poisonous ones thanks to Lu Wan"s teaching. Whenever he had the chance, he would impart his knowledge over the herbs to her. Since she was not too interested in concocting poison, the one Lu Wan talked to her would be herb identification and their uses. 

"Here you go," Ye Jiao handed over half of the meat she cooked for Qin Zheng before starting to eat. The two of them ate in silence until they had finished all of them. From their small built, one wouldn"t expect them to be able to eat so much.

Qin Zheng stood up and took out a fruit from his storage bracelet. "This is for you."

"That"s…?"

"It"s Natural Essence Energy Fruit. I can see that you already eat the one with lesser effect. This one has much a better effect."

Ye Jiao looked at the beautiful fruit speechlessly. It was imbued in blue and green color that seemed to sparkle under the ray of light. Just from afar, one would be able to tell that it must be a very precious fruit that one wouldn"t be able to get easily.

"Why did you turn generous all of sudden? I"m pretty sure that the Qin Zheng I know is very stingy."

Qin Zheng"s face darkened. He had the feeling that this girl always a.s.sociated him with the worst possible words she could think of. After short, now it"s stingy? What else would she term him in the future?

"I never properly give you my thanks. Also, I can"t stand seeing how weak you are."

"…"

If it was possible, Ye Jiao wished to smack this boy so hard that he cried. His words always made her feel annoyed if not angry.

Qin Zheng smiled when he saw that he had successfully made Ye Jiao annoyed. "Thanks to you, I get the valuable experience of controlling Eon Energy inside someone else"s body. This is for that."

"You already help me by raising his rank. There"s no need to give me anything more than that."

"I only helped him, but you personally hadn"t gotten anything," Qin Zheng could see that Ye Jiao was still hesitant. "I"m not going to put you into debt or anything. But if you"re still in doubt, I"ll just pick another item."

"Other items?" Ye Jiao had seen that this man had a lot of precious items that she herself didn"t know the use for.

Qin Zheng nodded his head. "Yeah, I have some precious pill that can allow you to have a much better body to train martial arts, then I have a secret manual…"

As Qin Zheng listed out some things, Ye Jiao felt her world has been overturned. Every single item that he had would be enough to make anyone feel jealous and greedy. No one would pa.s.s the chance of obtaining those items.

"If you have a secret manual, why are you searching for the one in Bao Fu Organization?"

"It"s a completely different secret manual. The one I have is to increase one"s strength," Qin Zheng explained.

Now Ye Jiao got the picture of how this young man could be so strong despite only being in rank 3. His ability to defeat Eon Energy Master rank 4 would be attributed to the fact that he had monstrous strength.

Qin Zheng noticed the look in Ye Jiao"s eyes. "Don"t look at me as if I"m a monster. It"s not like I already train it to full mastery. It"s not that easy to become strong physically, you know?"

"I see."

"So, is there anything that you want?"

Ye Jiao knew that he would not stop until she picked something. "Why do you wish for me to take something from you?"

"I don"t want to be in your debt."

"What if I want you to be in my debt forever?"

"I"ll find a way to repay it without putting myself in disadvantage," Qin Zheng shrugged. "Don"t you think it"s going to be easy for me to do that?"

Even though Ye Jiao didn"t want to admit it, she knew that it was the truth. For this young man to make her in his debt, it would be easy. First of all, he was still stronger than her. Secondly, he came from a large or powerful family that would make it easy if he wanted to reach other things. Thirdly, he was so mysterious that she barely knew anything about him except for the fact that he didn"t come from the Four Kingdoms.

"Fine, I"ll take the fruit."

"Here," Qin Zheng placed the fruit on Ye Jiao"s hand.

"Thank you."

"I"ll be going now. Take care of yourself."

Ye Jiao nodded. "Let"s not meet again."

"Are you already tired of me?

"Don"t speak as if you have been trying to get on my good side," Ye Jiao rolled her eyes. "Besides, with your status, we might not even meet again."

"You"re sharp," Qin Zheng brushed the dust on his clothes. He gazed to the distance. "Normally, it would be impossible to meet with each other anymore. But who knows what will happen in the future?"

"Just don"t intentionally seek for me."

"I can say the same to you."

"Alright, good bye."

Ye Jiao turned around and dashed into the forest after bidding her farewell. She wanted to head into Bao Fu Organization to absorb the fruit"s properties quickly.

As she left, Qin Zheng also departed to Cao Kingdom.

The two of them didn"t know at this time that they would surely meet again in the future. At that time, it would no longer be a short meeting like this, but rather a long one as they have a completely different status.

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