Signing-In: The Lazy Moon Goddess
Chapter 793: Conflict
While the Moon Goddess is lost in some unknown forest, the rest have landed quite close to where people live. Those who were tied up with red strings didn’t get separated and the rest of the group had indeed scattered but only Yue Xuexia was lost in the forest while the rest of them had easily bumped into one another on the way. Well, except for the young couple, Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue who seem to have fallen in some snow covered area. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
No one knows if it’s intentional but only the young ones had gotten separated. While Tang Yuyi and Tang Huangyu had easily met up with Tang Yuan and his children. At some small village, Tang Yuan and his two children bump into the old couple, Tang Yuyi and Tan Huangyu. Though it was the first time Tan Huangyu arrived in this world, he is unexpectedly calm as he is with his wife. His wife was originally from this world so there is actually no need for him to worry about getting lost like the moon goddess.
Actually, Yue Xuexia can just use teleportation to arrive at the nearest area in the memories she got from her Uncle Lei Yuye but that also exposed her identity. It was already well known that the Moon Goddess is the only female cultivator capable of using a rare element of space. Moreover, if she teleports, she would miss a lot of things on the way. If she missed any special places for signs in her system might cry.
Tang Yuyi upon landing on some kind of road with her husband, the two looked around in case of danger. However, they are lucky that the place they had land is quite safer as it was the main road. They bumped into a man riding a cart pulled by a cow home. To intentionally hide their identities, the group of Yue Xuexia had chosen to wear ordinary looking ancient robes, yet in the eyes of ordinary people they are still cultivators that can lord over them. When they stop the driver of the cart, the uncle on it seems to be frightened and extremely vigilant.
"Don’t be afraid brother. We were actually lost and didn’t know where we were. Can you bring us to a place with people? We actually got separated from our children," Tan Huangyu said.
Tang Yuyi smiled and said, "We’ve just arrived in this world so you know... We know nothing much of this place. We can pay you with gold for information if you want!"
The middle aged man on the cart was delighted when he heard about gold but was still vigilant as most cultivators looked down on ordinary people like himself. He kept observing the eyes of the old couple and was surprised to see them smiling at them and there were no hints of disdain in their eyes.
"Alright. Get on. I will bring you to our village and tell you everything I know on the way," The middle aged uncle said.
Maybe despite looking young the age of Tang Yuyi and Tan Huangyu is similar to the uncle that they had gotten along the way. It was only when they reached the entrance of the small village that they spotted Tang Yuan with his two children.
Tang Yuyi calls, "A’Yuan!!"
"Mom! Dad!" Tang Yuan was told to call this old couple as Mom and Dad. After all, Tang Yuyi is his foster mother and as her husband, Tan Huangyu would technically become his foster dad.
"Are these your children? You cultivators really aged backwards. Since you found them then I am going ahead!"
"Thank you, brother!" Tan Huangyu said as he gave him the gold he promised and watched him leave, seemingly planning on going home.
Tang Yuyi asked, "Have you seen the mistress and the others?"
"Brother and Saozi went inside to find an inn. As for Bing’er and Ren’er as well as the Mistress, we haven’t met them yet," said Tang Yuan.
Tang Yuyi thought for a while and said, "Let’s think of what to do next later. For now, find a place to rest or we can just camp if the inn in this place is unsatisfactory."
"Don’t worry about the children. They should be alright," Tan Huangyu said. "Moreover, Xiao Ren is with Bing’er and there is nothing for us to worry about the Mistress, she is a lot stronger than any of us."
"I know. But I am still worried especially since Bing’er and Ren’er were children with phoenix bloodline despite being humans, they would be considered someone impure by a pureblood phoenix and might get killed on the spot. Thankfully, this is the outskirts and there shouldn’t be any phoenix race in this area," said Tang Yuyi.
While they entered the small village to take a rest as the sun was about to set, the situation of Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue wasn’t actually that optimistic. They had actually fallen in some area near a ruin and bumped into some nobles from the Inner Haven. Some of these cultivators were from the Vermillion Divine Race who are considered lesser phoenix races. Due to their lacking bloodline their strength can only be compared to those of the mixedblood of the phoenix race.
When Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue fell before the eyes of these young vermillion cultivators they were immediately targeted especially upon sensing the phoenix blood in their veins. Though the couple already knew that mixed blood phoenixes were discriminated against in this world, they never expected it to be this worst where they would be killed on the spot. What made it worse, because they are descendants of the divine race their cultivation was in the Mahayama Realm with the strongest at Early God king realm.They should be thankful that the only Godking realm cultivator didn’t seem to care about their presence and bloodline. They weren’t attacked by him. However, he didn’t save them as well. As for the reason why he spared him only he would know why.
At this moment, Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue were covered in wounds while running for their lives. Most wounds were in Xue Renxue as he had been taking hits for his dao companion.
"Bing’er, leave me. You can escape if you are on your own," said Xue Renxue.
Tan Bingyu said, "Shut up! Wait for the sun to set. Once the sun descends, they will pay with their lives!"
The cultivators who were chasing after the two of them seemed to be playing. They were attacking them without killing like how a cat will play with the mouse before it goes for a kill. Their laughter and mocking words lingers in the area.
"Hahaha~ have you seen where those mixed blood run too?!"
"Tsk! It’s not like they can escape from here!"
"I’m getting bored. Should we kill them already?"
"True~ the ruins are about to open. Let’s not waste anymore time and just kill those two."
Tan Bingyu who had been watching the sun nearing to fall under the horizon, she and Xue Renxue decided to stop running. She helped Xue Renxue lean on a huge rock and fed him some healing pills which were distributed by the Moon Goddess to her group.
"A’Ren, meditate and focus on healing your wounds. Once the sun is gone and the moon is out, activate the blessing the Mistress had given us," whispered Tan Bingyu as she brought out her weapons intending to buy some more time before the sun completely disappeared.
Xue Renxue knew that as long as the moon was out, with the blessing of the goddess they would be able to fight back. He trusted his wife with his life and focused on healing. The faster he heals the more he can support his wife better. It didn’t take long for the people who were chasing them to come out. There are actually four people. Two female cultivators from the Vermillion Divine Race, one male cultivator from the Qilin race and one male cultivator from the Lesser Phoenix race.
One of the Vermillion female cultivators spoke, "What is this? Are you no longer trying to run away?"
"Jiejie~, do you think an impure bloodline like this can outrun us pure ones?" The other female vermillion cultivator said while sneering at Tan Bingyu. "Her face is annoying. Let’s disfigure her!"
These two women were actually jealous of Tan Bingyu’s beauty. It is well known that the Ice Phoenix divine race possessed a cold beauty that made the purest snow pale in comparison to their beauty. Even for a pure bloodline like Tan Bingyu, her beauty was enhanced. However, this is not only because of her bloodline but due to the self made beauty products of the Moon Goddess that she had shared with her as her big sister.
"Heh~ Is it my fault that I am much more beautiful than you two? Don’t blame me for that! Blame our parents for giving birth to you with that face!" Tan Bingyu retorted.
The ladies of the Vermillion divine race were enraged as they noticed the men around them laughing at them due to the words of the damn woman in front!
"Bitch! I’m going to kill you!!!"