Chapter 86
Translator: Raven
Editor: Aeonsiac
The guards outside the residence yawned tiredly, but most of them stuck to their responsibilities and patrolled around.
Feng Ming and the male lead walked out of the inner courtyard and happened across a bunch of guards.
Feng Ming startled, backing up into the nearest empty room with the male lead.
“Who’s there?!” The guard at the front was quite strong, immediately shouting out at the presence of an intruder.
Feng Ming panicked a bit.
Bai Yang hid on a rooftop and took off a tile, throwing it far away. It was a small movement, like someone was running through the courtyard.
“Over there!” The guards immediately ran towards the sound.
Feng Ming and the male lead were hiding inside the room, seeing the guards rushing in the other direction, they took the opportunity to run out.
Under Bai Yang’s secret protection, the two left the Lord’s residence safely.
Feng Ming prepared a horse carriage in the alley behind the residence. The carriage was gorgeously coloured, with embroidered flowers and clouds, as well as silk strips hanging from the four corners. Anyone could tell that it was a carriage for women. In the martial arts world, people usually flew on their swords or used teleportation to show off their skills, instead of carriages like ordinary people. Both ordinary people and cultivators mingled in Phoenix City, so using a carriage was a great way to hide.
Bai Yang continued after them secretly.
“There’s a set of clothes inside, hurry and change.” Miss Feng Ming urged while helping the male lead into the carriage.
The male lead got on the carriage and saw the clothes, saying in shock: “Female clothes?”
Bai Yang heard his shock and laughed silently. In the Phoenix City part of the novel, Miss Feng Ming indeed dressed the male lead up as a woman to slip out of the city.
“It’s a special circ.u.mstance, can big brother Zhou just put up with it?” Miss Feng Ming’s voice was gentle.
The male lead wasn’t very willing, seeing as he was about to pretend to be a woman in front of the woman he liked, but with the situation at hand, he still grit his teeth and changed.
After that, Miss Feng Ming drove the carriage out of the city.
The sun was alright up, and because of the enchanted barrier keeping everyone inside for three days, they were all eager to get out.
The carriage arrived at the gates of the city. She had probably found out who would be guarding each gate beforehand, so she headed towards the east gate without hesitation.
At the east gate, the two young cultivator guards were arguing with the people.
There was already a line beginning to form.
“What’s up with this Phoenix City of yours? Keeping all of us in here with just a simple order, and now you’re delaying matters like this, saying we have to be inspected before leaving, this is too overbearing!” After being locked in for 3 days, many people were very angry. But they didn’t dare show it to the City Lord, so they could only vent out their anger towards the guards.
“That’s right, that’s right! Just let us out already!” A group of ordinary people surrounded the gate and shouted.
The young guards were probably inexperienced, not knowing what to do in a situation like this. They hurriedly yelled: “Everyone calm down, calm down! Line up and go one by one!”
“Why can’t you hurry up! I’m never coming back to this d.a.m.ned place again!” Some of the more aggressive-mannered people said.
Feng Ming saw the situation up ahead, immediately stopping to the side, about to look for someone to be the coachman.
Driving the carriage herself with her ident.i.ty would be sure to arouse suspicion, and she didn’t dare use the coachmen of the City Lord’s residence, afraid to leave tracks behind. So she wanted to find someone by the gate to drive.
But she overlooked something. It was still very early, and there wasn’t many people around, it would be very difficult to find a coachman.
After asking a couple people to find that none of them knew how to drive a carriage, Feng Meng became very worried. At that moment, Bai Yang, after changing his appearance, walked to her side, “Miss, I heard you’re looking for a coachman?”
“Yes, yes, yes, all I’m asking is to take us out of the city.” Feng Ming pointed to the carriage, “This carriage, as long as we’re out of the city, I’ll pay you handsomely.”
“Miss seems to be in a hurry, I’m willing to help, but as for the price……” Bai Yang purposely put on a greedy expression, rubbing together two of his finger tips.
As the City Lord’s daughter, Feng Ming didn’t care about the money, immediately saying: “I’ll give you a top grade spirit stone if we leave immediately.”
“Alrighty, don’t worry, as long as I’m driving, I’ll be sure to take you out of the city safely.” Bai Yang smiled, gesturing towards the carriage.
Feng Ming didn’t understand the meaning of his words, she only felt happiness in finding a coachman, jumping out of the seat and climbing inside to sit with the male lead.
Bai Yang jumped on, drew up the reins and relied on his memory to drive towards the outside of the city
It was getting brighter, and Feng Ming probably saw that the line was too long, so she opened the curtains and said to Bai Yang: “We don’t need to line up, you can just go past.”
Bai Yang said: “Alright Miss.”
He drove the carriage directly past the line to the gate.
The two young guards were already agitated enough from dealing with the people, and seeing the carriage making its way through, they said in annoyance: “Go back and line up!”
Feng Ming poked her head out of the carriage, “Even I need to line up?”
The expression on the guards’ faces immediately changed after seeing Feng Ming, “Young Lady!”
“My friend and I are going out to play, you guys can let us through now.” Feng Ming was still quite calm.
Hearing Feng Ming’s words, the two guards looked at each other, probably thinking: With all that’s happened in Phoenix City recently, the young lady is still in the mood to go out and play?
One of them summoned up the courage to ask: “Young Lady, the Lord has ordered that everyone leaving the city has to be searched. May you allow us to check?”
Feng Ming raised an eyebrow: “Even my carriage has to be searched?”
Although the guards were trembling in fear, they still stood firm, “Young Lady, this is our job.”
Seeing that she couldn’t talk her way out of it, Feng Ming said: “Alright, make it quick!”
One of the guards searched Bai Yang, and the other searched inside the carriage.
Bai Yang’s cultivation level was far beyond theirs, they couldn’t find anything wrong with him no matter how hard they tried.
The other guard entered the carriage, only taking a look to see the girl inside averting her eyes in embarra.s.sment.
“My friend is just an ordinary girl, don’t scare her.” Feng Ming said.
The guard only saw half of a pretty face, he was about to look closer, when the girl suddenly cried out, “You indecent man!”
Then moving to hide behind Feng Ming.
Hearing that, Feng Ming’s expression froze, and Bai Yang almost fell off his seat.
Steadying his mind, Bai Yang deeply admired the male lead Zhou Ying’s acting skills, to make a sound like that wasn’t easy.
Feng Ming reacted fast, immediately reprimanding him: “What are you looking at! Hurry and get out!”
The two guards were inexperienced and trembling in fear, a.s.suming the male lead was a girl just by the clothes and hurriedly stepped out the carriage, apologizing profusely: “Young Lady, please forgive our actions!”
They motioned for the gate to open, letting Feng Ming and company out.
Bai Yang drove the carriage as they b.u.mped out the gate, Feng Ming and the male lead were covered in cold sweat.
After a little distance, Feng Ming called: “Sir, stop the carriage.”
Bai Yang stopped, “Young Lady?”
“Alright, you can go now.” Feng Ming got out and handed Bai Yang a spirit stone. “You can’t tell anyone what happened today.”
She handed Bai Yang another spirit stone.
Bai Yang said: “Rest a.s.sured.”
He planned to take the spirit stones and leave, but out of the corner of his eye he saw a group of people on horses chasing over from the city gates, and the leader was Lou Jianfeng!
With just that little trick, Feng Ming may be able to fool others, but there’s no way she would be able to fool Lou Jianfeng.
Lou Jianfeng’s insight was strong, on the level of Bai Yang’s. In addition, he had a group of competent masters under his command, it would be a miracle if the male lead could escape!
What should I do?
If he used his magic power to take the male lead away, Lou Jianfeng would know from the air and he’d be exposed; if he didn’t save the male lead, Lou Jianfeng would find and kill him, is he supposed to tear into him then?
No, now’s not the time.
Bai Yang turned to Feng Ming: “Young Lady, you gave me so many spirit stones, let me take you a bit further.”
Before Feng Ming could react, he held her and jumped onto the driver’s seat and started towards the other direction.
Feng Ming blanked for a moment before reacting, gritting her teeth: “What are you doing?”
Bai Yang set her down on the other seat, saying calmly: “Apologies for my rudeness.”
Feng Ming was both shocked and angry, about to go off before the male lead, still in female clothes, poked his head out, “Feng Ming, let him take us.”
His words surprised both Feng Ming and Bai Yang, Feng Ming was wondering why the male lead would say that, while Bai Yang was wondering if he’d slipped up somewhere.
No way?
It can’t be that he really saw my face that day I healed him?
No, even if he did see my face that day, I’m still using illusionary magic to change my appearance. The male lead shouldn’t recognize me, unless he can see through the magic.
Although Xie Zetian’s illusionary magic was quite bad, with the male lead’s current level, he still shouldn’t be able to see through it?
Bai Yang wasn’t too sure, and the situation at hand didn’t allow him to think about it more carefully, Lou Jianfeng already used teleportation to make his way closer.
Bai Yang used his spirituality to drive, and the carriage moved at lightning speed, Feng Ming finally reacted to the situation completely, “You, what kind of person are you exactly?”
“A country b.u.mpkin.” Bai Yang couldn’t help but tease after seeing her shocked expression, it really was fun to pretend like this!
He was very happy as he teased, not noticing how the Mermaid’s Pearl on his neck was glowing faintly. Somewhere far away, there was a pair of eyes watching him closely.
He drove the carriage into the nearby forest before stopping and saying: “Leave as quick as you can.”
He vanished into thin air as he spoke.
In the original novel, the male lead b.u.mped into Phoenix City’s Lord outside of the city, they fought, and the male lead was forced to level up into the Mahayana Stage to escape. There was no mention of Lou Jianfeng’s appearance anywhere. Now with Lou Jianfeng suddenly showing up and giving chase, it was a new variable in the male lead’s safety. So Bai Yang had to divert Lou Jianfeng’s attention, or else the male lead would be dead for sure with two big experts attacking him from both sides.
Bai Yang didn’t dare take risks, seeing as it concerned his own life.
He also wanted the male lead to leave safely and not b.u.mp into the City Lord, but on one hand, he didn’t know where they b.u.mped into each other exactly, the details were fuzzy in the novel. On the other hand, he had to distract Lou Jianfeng and couldn’t deal with that many things.
When Lou Jianfeng heard that Feng Ming left the city, he began suspecting and gave chase. With his cultivation level, he could easily tell that it was Feng Ming and the male lead.