Sauron said, “You discovered that scene of intimacy between my elder sister and me. Did it not disgust you?”
Princess Zhiyan said, “Do you wish to hear the truth, or a lie?”
Previously, Princess Zhiyan had always spoken very directly. She would never say things like whether you want to hear the truth or a lie. It seemed she was truly making great efforts to become an ordinary woman.
“The lie.” Sauron said.
“So disgusting I wanted to vomit.” Zhiyan said.
“The truth.” Sauron said.
“My heart swayed.” Zhiyan said.
This answer truly astonished Sauron greatly.
Zhiyan said, “At the Divine Dragon Temple, I was immersed in another world for too long. Because I cultivated not only arts and martial arts but also mental techniques, the Divine Dragon Temple had always wished to cultivate me into a saintess without desire or demand. Of course, I could not truly achieve being without desire or demand, but my desires were indeed very faint. Especially in matters of romantic feelings between men and women, they almost did not exist…”
Sauron understood this point. The Divine Dragon Temple had also always been preventing Zhiyan from succeeding to the throne as queen. So they wished to sever this possibility at the root, and thus tried every means to ensure Zhiyan herself had no desires whatsoever.
Zhiyan said, “I am not afraid to tell you that amongst the cultivation techniques the Divine Dragon Temple had me practice, there were also those that directly severed my romantic feelings towards men and women. So… I do not even have the monthly cycle that ordinary women have.”
Upon these words, Sauron was truly astonished.
The monthly cycle is a woman’s normal metabolism. A woman without a monthly cycle basically means she has no desire, and even more so cannot bear children.
“Without a monthly cycle, one cannot bear children.” Zhiyan said, “Although after I left the Divine Dragon Temple, I stopped practicing that technique, my monthly tide never came. As a result, after discovering you and Suo Ningbing in that affair, the impact upon my heart and mind was incomparable. I felt a surge within my body, and then today… my monthly cycle came, for the first time!”
“Right, right now?” Sauron said.
“Yes, right now.” Princess Zhiyan said.
Then, Princess Zhiyan turned her delicate body. Immediately, one could clearly see a trace of crimson at the centre of her skirt between her thighs. Against the snow-white close-fitting skirt, it appeared especially striking and vivid.
Sauron was completely astonished.
This outcome was entirely unexpected.
If someone else had discovered Sauron and Suo Ningbing, such as Yan Naier for instance, the impact upon the heart and mind would have been completely shattering.
She would have been completely unable to accept it. Her entire worldview would have been utterly destroyed.
But Princess Zhiyan had always been without desire or demand, her nerves almost constantly in a rather indifferent state.
And this scene happened to ignite the combustion point within her heart. Her inner capacity to endure, the threshold of her heart and mind, was far, far higher than others.
“That is why I said, I not only want to marry you, I also want to bear you children. Because only now do I have the qualification to say these words.” Zhiyan looked at Sauron word by word and said, “I am not a normal woman, and I shall use all my efforts to become a normal woman.”
Sauron was silent.
Zhiyan said, “Sauron, do you think a person first has desire, or first has affection?”
“In simple terms of romantic feelings between men and women, it is certainly desire first, then affection.” Sauron said, “No matter how beautifully one describes love with words, its starting point is the reproductive impulse, that is to say desire. Then one wraps desire with affection, turning it into love.”
Zhiyan said, “And I, through years of training with the special energy and special techniques of the Divine Dragon Temple, was turned into a transcendent, otherworldly saintess. This sounds as if it is very beautiful, but it is actually a morbid state, a deficiency.”
This was the first time Zhiyan had opened her heart to someone.
And her insights were indeed deeper than any woman Sauron had ever seen.
A saintess of the Divine Dragon Temple, that was completely at the level of an immortal maiden, admired by all, completely a synonym for nobility and holiness.
And in Princess Zhiyan’s mouth, it had become a morbid state.
“This is a spiritual castration!” Zhiyan said, “To achieve being without desire or demand, holy and otherworldly, is very simple. Just directly castrate the desire. But without desire, there is also no affection. If a person has no affection, are they still a complete person?”
Without doubt, the previous Princess Zhiyan was a person without desire and without affection.
That was why Suo Ningbing had always said that although Princess Zhiyan had no airs whatsoever, and would even enter the kitchen to help her cook, she still felt that Princess Zhiyan was high above and beyond reach.
Zhiyan said, “When I had just returned to the royal capital Zhidu, I was very afraid. Because facing the father who gave birth to me and raised me, I actually had no emotional fluctuations whatsoever. Even if I told myself a hundred times that I loved this man before me, that I loved my father, there was no emotional resonance. The last time, when Father suffered his first stroke and his life hung by a thread, my sorrow was very, very faint. I completely could not cry.”
Sauron recalled the scene of the king’s first stroke. Princess Zhiyan had indeed been very calm and had not cried.
“But this time, I cried.” Princess Zhiyan said, “I felt fear, I felt sorrow. I am gradually beginning to have emotions.”
Sauron listened with pricked ears.
Princess Zhiyan said, “Several months ago, Father asked me whether I was willing to marry you. I said I was willing! But when I said these words, there was still no ripple in the lake of my heart. Because without affection or desire, marriage is of crucial importance to other women, but to me it was no different from eating or drinking.”
This was the first time Sauron had truly faced the depths of Princess Zhiyan’s heart.
Princess Zhiyan continued, “In the great war to destroy the Suo Clan, you achieved an unprecedented great victory. The army of over a hundred thousand to destroy the Suo Clan was completely annihilated. This caused great fluctuations in my emotions. I felt joy and surprise. And when you rejected the marriage arrangement with me for Yan Naier’s sake, it caused my second emotional fluctuation. I felt indignant and jealous. And discovering the scene of intimacy between you and Suo Ningbing as siblings instantly pierced through my heart and mind. That scene was like a massive energy explosion, igniting my desire for the first time, making me for the first time like an ordinary woman.”
“So you ask me, whether discovering the scandal between you and your elder sister would make me feel disgusted?” Princess Zhiyan looked at Sauron and said, “You overestimate me, and you flatter me. My emotions have not yet evolved to that stage. As for whether I would refuse to marry you because of the scandal between you and your elder sister, you also overestimate me. Because in matters between men and women, I, this freak on the food chain of lust and affection, have no choice whatsoever. Right now I am like a traveller in a vast desert, with only you as a ladle of water before my eyes.”
Sauron said, “That metaphor is not appropriate. It should be being situated within a river. Other women can scoop water to drink at will, but you have no water to drink, because what you want is a ladle of poisoned water, and I happen to be a ladle of poisoned water.”
Zhiyan nodded and said, “Yes, your metaphor is indeed somewhat more appropriate.”
Then, Zhiyan suddenly asked, “When I saw you kissing and caressing Suo Ningbing, you were completely submerged and trembling. Was that feeling very beautiful?”
When she asked this, her gaze was filled with curiosity.
“Very beautiful, nearly like the soul leaving the body.” Sauron said.
“Then can you let me try?” Zhiyan asked.
Sauron was startled and said, “Here?”
“Is here not good?” Zhiyan asked.
Then, Zhiyan stepped forward actively and gently embraced Sauron.
Sauron immediately felt a softness and smoothness like jade and snow, with a faint, distant fragrance.
This was the most beautiful woman in the world, the woman who made men feel most unworthy. Even a pervert like Ashi Luo would instinctively shrink back upon seeing Zhiyan.
Princess Zhiyan raised her incomparably beautiful face. Her exquisite, peerless lips, faintly red, were truly like soft petals.
But when other women kissed, they closed their eyes. She, however, kept hers open.
“Closing your eyes will make your nervous tactile sense more acute.” Sauron said.
Princess Zhiyan closed her beautiful eyes, her lips trembling slightly.
Sauron gently kissed her. After merely one second, he withdrew.
“Any feeling?” Sauron asked.
“A tiny bit.” Zhiyan opened her eyes and said.
Then, she suddenly stood on tiptoe and actively pecked Sauron’s lips. Then, narrowing her eyes, she said, “Still just a tiny bit.”
Then, she turned and left, saying, “Wait a moment. I shall go and change, then we shall immediately ride the griffin and return to Tianshui City.”
…
On the way to Tianshui City.
“Sauron, how much longer can my father live?” On the griffin’s back, Princess Zhiyan asked.
“I do not know.” Sauron said, “Perhaps several months, perhaps half a year, perhaps somewhat longer.”
Zhiyan said, “That is to say, the time left for us to defeat Zhili is already very short. Perhaps half a year, perhaps a year?”
“It is very short.” Sauron said.
Zhiyan asked, “If we lose, are you willing to flee far overseas?”
Sauron thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, “I am unwilling to live in ignoble survival. I would rather die magnificently. So, once the struggle against Zhili fails, it means death. The entire Suo Clan will be annihilated.”
Zhiyan said, “So, we must quicken the pace.”
Sauron said, “We must quicken the pace. In the shortest possible time, we must support Ashi Liren in defeating Ashi Luo to obtain Rouran City, and have her stand on our side. Only then can we fundamentally reverse the present passive situation.”
Even if Rouran City, the number one great vassal territory under heaven, chose to pledge loyalty to Princess Zhiyan, the scales would still be imbalanced. Zhili’s side was still stronger by who knew how many times.
But this was the first domino. Next, Sauron would topple the second in the fastest speed, Linhai City’s Gui Qinshao.
Then, quantitative change would lead to qualitative change.
Many vassals and nobles, even if they did not pledge loyalty to Princess Zhiyan, would choose to remain neutral and watch from the sidelines. Then Sauron would topple the final and greatest card, the Tu Ling family.
By that time, even if Zhili still appeared powerful, he would be completely strong in appearance but weak in reality.
Then, the time for the true great decisive battle between the two sides would arrive, a single battle to determine victory.
The victor becomes king, the defeated dies without a burial place.
The only difference was that if Sauron’s side won, two kings would appear.
A queen, and a prince consort regent!
“By the way, I also have an illegitimate daughter. Your martial arts are high. I may need you to come with me to bring her home.” Sauron said.
Princess Zhiyan was startled, then nodded and said, “Alright.”
…
Nighttime, Tianshui City military camp!
After a day of military affairs, Naier appeared somewhat exhausted, because she had already gone several days and nights without sleep.
It was not that she had no opportunity to sleep, but that she could not sleep.
Ever since she agreed to become the king’s adopted daughter, and agreed to Princess Zhiyan marrying Sauron as his principal wife, she could not sleep.
Although she too would marry Sauron, she would merely be a concubine.
Of course, she believed her husband was also compelled by circumstances, and would certainly cherish her even more.
But reason is reason, and emotion is emotion.
She, Yan Naier, was a woman who desperately craved love. For love, she could give everything.
So she was also filled with possessiveness towards affection and her beloved, unwilling to share with any woman.
This time, for her husband’s future she had agreed to share, and she herself was merely a concubine. But her heart was completely cut by a knife, so distressed she could not sleep night after night.
But very soon, her husband had rejected the king’s decree. Her husband had actually defied the decree for her sake.
Immediately, all sorrow, all pain vanished like smoke and clouds. There was only boundless, endless sweetness and joy.
Upon receiving the news, she had immediately gone to find Sauron, wanting to kiss him, and to earnestly persuade him not to defy the decree. She was willing to marry Sauron together with the princess.
That Sauron could defy the king’s decree for her sake had already made her infinitely satisfied, infinitely happy.
In the final analysis, what she most wanted was still Sauron’s heartfelt intention.
But she heard from Elder Sister Ningbing that Sauron had left on important business.
Thus, her heart full of love and happiness had nowhere to pour out. She could only devote herself wholeheartedly to military affairs. And she still could not sleep, but now it was from excitement.
And it was certain that before pouring out her thoughts completely to her beloved, she would definitely be unable to sleep.
She was like this. Some words, some matters, she simply could not contain in her heart.
After a busy day, although exhausted, she was still filled with joy. After bathing and changing clothes, she wore conservative silk nightclothes, humming the little tune Sauron had taught her, and languidly lay on the bed reading.
Her devilish, nearly exaggerated curves appeared even more prominent when lying flat.
After reading for a while, she proudly looked at her own figure. Even Gui Qinshao could not compare. It completely made her husband unable to let go.
And just at this moment!
Suddenly, she heard the sound of someone swallowing saliva!
“Who!” Naier’s body hair suddenly stood on end.
She leapt up like lightning, then quickly drew the Blood Sea Dragon Gold Sword beside her.
“Whoosh…”
Like a ghostly shadow, Ashi Luo instantly appeared inside the room.
He completely did not conceal his drooling expression. His two eyes seemed about to fall out as he stared at Naier’s devilish curves. Then, with extreme distress, he said, “You just bathed? Heaven! Why did I not arrive two quarters of an hour earlier? Then I could have seen your body. Ah… ah… ah…”
Then, he exaggeratedly beat the ground and said furiously, “I shall pursue this matter. Yesterday, which women exactly seduced me, making me waste my energy and time in advance, causing me to miss peeping at Miss Yan Naier’s bath. I shall sell them to the brothels. Completely unforgivable!”
Then, his knees went soft and he knelt on the ground, saying, “Miss Yan Naier, you are the most, most alluring peerless beauty in the world. I earnestly beg you to join my harem, alright? I guarantee I shall not tire of playing with you for ten years, nor shall I give you to other men. This is already the highest treatment in my harem. Of course, your martial arts are very high. I earnestly beg you to give me your cultivation, alright? Who told me to practice the evil technique of harvesting yin to supplement yang?”
Naier slowly closed her beautiful eyes.
She knew how high this devil’s martial arts were.
But she absolutely would not let this demon touch even half an inch of her. Then… then she would die to preserve her purity!
She truly regretted being too conservative, unable to enjoy the marital bed with her husband.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh…”
Immediately after, several figures flashed into appearance.
These experts were all hidden within black cloaks, all bearing the emblem of the Demon Continent’s green fire.
“I originally thought the Princess Zhiyan was here, so I brought so many Demon Continent experts. Yet it turns out Zhiyan is not here instead.” Ashi Luo said, “Truly… disappointing!”
Then, Ashi Luo stripped off his upper garment and smiled wickedly, saying, “Miss Yan Naier, I beg you to let me sleep with you!”
Naier slowly raised the Blood Sea Dragon Gold Sword.
She knew that merely taking her own life was insufficient, because this devil before her would not even let her corpse go.
The only way was to dissolve her body in battle, letting her beautiful body be shattered to pieces, annihilated into smoke and ash.
“When the golden wind and jade dew meet once, it surpasses countless meetings in the human world!”
Naier murmured to herself, then fiercely injected dragon power into the Blood Sea Dragon Gold Sword, and stabbed fiercely towards the top of her head like lightning.