Chapter 41: The Hunt
All night, Xiao Fan and Shangguan Lanruo didn't sleep, and they had a lot to say to each other.
Xiao Fan didn't want to sleep, and he was reluctant to sleep. He didn't want to close his eyes so that he could have more time to see Shangguan Lanruo. As soon as the morning dawned, Xiao Fan was going to escort the two princesses who were hunting, which was equivalent to leaving for a day, and he couldn't see Shangguan Lanru during this day, so he cherished this night very much.
"Sister-in-law, why haven't you cultivated?"
In the early morning, Xiao Fan inadvertently found that Shangguan Lanruo's body did not have a trace of true qi, but unlike ordinary people, there was a strange force dormant in her body, but it was not true qi.
"This is not my body, and besides, my little sister is just a wisp of divine soul attached to this body, how can I have true qi cultivation. ”
Shangguan Lanruo said with a smile. Xiao Fan was worried, and said, "When I am not there in the future, you are not allowed to leave the General's Mansion." Sister Qingya is back, you have to stay with her at all times. ”
"Is Xiao Fan worried about my safety?" Shangguan Lanruo touched Xiao Fan's face and said with a smile: "Although my sister doesn't have true qi cultivation now and can't take the initiative to attack anyone, no one in this Yanhuang Continent can hurt me, and the sword qi in my body is enough to resist the attack of anyone in this continent." ”
"Really?" Xiao Fan's eyes lit up, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "That's good, so I don't have to worry." Otherwise, if the little aunt and sister have a good one, Xiaofan will never forgive herself for the rest of her life. ”
"Okay, don't worry about me. Get up, aren't you going to protect the two princesses?"
Shangguan Lanruo said, pulled Xiao Fan up from the bed, and dressed him. Then he took off the silver armor on the hanger in the room and carefully dressed it for Xiao Fan.
"Sister-in-law, does Xiaofan look good in armor?"
Xiao Fan stretched out his arms, turned around, and said with a smile.
"Good looking. Shangguan Lanruo nodded, stretched out his hand to hug Xiao Fan's waist, put his face against the cold armor on his chest, and said softly: "My Xiaofan looks good in anything." ”
"General, the princess has sent someone to urge, let the general pass as soon as possible. ”
At this time, the voice of Wang Yi, the chief of the guard, came from outside.
"Zhilu said, you tell the person who came, I will be there soon. ”
Xiao Fan responded, then kissed Shangguan Lanruo on the lips, and walked out of the coffin with his helmet.
After leaving the General's Mansion, Xiao Fan walked all the way to the palace, but met two princesses and four palace guards at the gate of the palace.
At first, Xiao Fan didn't know Princess Qingyu and Princess Yuhua, but when the princess's guards stopped Xiao Fan, Xiao Fan knew that Princess Lu Dao was already waiting for him at the gate of the palace.
"Princess, let's set off now!"
Xiao Fan said to the sedan chair, he knew that the two princesses were in the sedan chair.
At this time, a slender hand stretched out and lifted the sedan curtain, and then a noble and beautiful woman wearing a light blue silk palace dress walked out, about twenty years old.
"You are Xiao Fan, the chief disciple of the Tianxuan Sect, the general of the Third Rank Imperial Yan?"
Princess Qingyu walked out of the sedan chair and looked at Xiao Fan with a bit of curiosity.
"Exactly. ”
Xiao Fan nodded.
"It's really a talent. ”
Princess Qingyu praised, with a faint smile on her face, and said to Princess Yuhua in the sedan chair: "Yu'er, you haven't come out yet?"
"Oh, it's not fun to sit in a sedan chair, it's better to ride a horse. ”
A crisp and slightly mischievous voice in the sedan chair responded, and then a woman who looked exactly like Princess Qingyu walked out.
Xiao Fan was slightly stunned, he didn't expect that the two princesses were twin sisters, except for the different clothes, the rest of the places were really difficult to distinguish.
"Guard, lead our horses!"
Princess Yuhua shouted to the guards after getting out of the sedan chair. Immediately, one of the guards brought two tall black horses.
After Princess Yuhua got on the horse, she rode her horse and walked in front of Xiao Fan, looked at Xiao Fan condescendingly and said, "You are Xiao Fan?"
"Exactly. ”
Xiao Fan nodded.
"I heard that you are very good at what you do, and this princess would like to see it. There has always been a white-flowered tiger in the Qingfeng Mountain Range, and it is said that people at the peak of the day after tomorrow can only flee for their lives when they meet him. Although the place where we are going to hunt is not within its range of activities, if you encounter it, you have to capture it alive, and this father mainly keeps it in captivity, so it is interesting. Princess Yuhua said.
Xiao Fan glanced at her, and was not disgusted by her condescension. Because he can feel that this Yuhua princess is not bad-minded, but just a little naughty and willful, which is very different from Zhao Zishan.
Several guards couldn't help but shudder when they heard this, capturing the white-flowered tiger alive? That is a fourth-order demon beast, which is equivalent to the existence of the human innate realm. There were many people who thought they had the means to hunt for it, but instead of killing the white-flowered tiger, they lost their lives.
"Yu'er, don't talk nonsense, that kind of ferocious demon beast, you actually want to keep it in captivity, I really don't know what you're thinking in your head!"
Princess Sunny and Rainy said softly.
"It doesn't matter, since the second princess has this idea, if she is lucky enough to meet the white-flowered tiger, I will capture it alive. ”
Xiao Fan said, his tone was calm, as simple as catching a cat, which surprised the two princesses and the four guards.
"Leng, don't talk big, if you put my sister and me in danger, beware of the royal brother asking for your head. ”
Princess Yuhua said coldly.
Xiao Fan didn't respond, nor did he have any expression, looking a little cold.
"Alright, don't talk about it, it's getting late, it's time for us to go. ”
Princess Qingyu turned over on her horse, and at this time, a guard pulled a war horse in front of Xiao Fan.
Xiao Fan nodded, mounted his war horse and walked towards the outside of the city with the princess and the guards.
Qingfeng Mountain Range, hundreds of miles away from the imperial capital. However, the foot strength of the war horse under the crotch is very good, and the speed is not slow, and it came to the foot of the Qingfeng Mountain Range after more than an hour.
The mountain range stretches for hundreds of miles, and is bordered on three sides by an even larger mountain range, which is connected for thousands of miles.
"Do you see that area?" Princess Qingyu raised her hand and pointed in a certain direction of the Qingfeng Mountain Range, and then said, "The area we hunted today is there, and the range is about a hundred miles. ”
"Know, princess!"
The four guards replied, riding horses and holding long knives, guarding the four directions.
"Let's go, go to that area!"
Princess Qingyu rode away, and the second princess followed. Xiao Fan rode his horse and followed. Because Zhilu Dao has a fourth-order demon beast tiger here, he is extra careful. For Xiao Fan, the fourth-order demon beast was nothing, but once he accidentally injured the two princesses, then there was no hope for the emperor to ask for soldiers and horses.
The four guards followed, mainly to gather prey for the two princesses.
The war horse galloped in the forest, and after traveling for dozens of miles, it finally arrived at that area. Xiao Fan saw that there were still some dilapidated fences around this area, and only then did he realize that this was a place for royal hunting before, but it was abandoned later.
When the eldest princess and the second princess arrived, they slowed down, took the bow and arrows from the guards, and walked slowly forward with the horse's belly in their hands.
The front was overgrown with weeds, and a gust of wind blew, and the weeds fell to the side, and the eyes of the eldest princess and the second princess appeared with joy, and at the same time raised their bows and put arrows.
In the midst of the weeds, a horned antelope is looking around, vigilantly watching its surroundings. When its head turned to Xiao Fan's direction, two sharp sounds, breaking the air, sounded almost simultaneously.
"Whoa, whoa!"
The eldest princess and the second princess released their bowstrings at the same time, and two arrows pierced the sky, and the moment the horned antelope turned its head, two pops pierced its neck. The horned antelope fell to the ground, and died of exhaustion after a few kicks on all fours.
"Hehe, sister, it was my arrow that hit it first, don't you rob me!"
Princess Yuhua was elated and a little excited, and hurriedly urged the guards to pick up the prey.
A guard rode his horse into the overgrown weeds, and the war horse under his crotch suddenly neighed. Xiao Fan's ears moved, and his eyes stared at a place in the grass.
"Be careful!"
Xiao Fan reminded loudly, at this time, the guard was riding on a horse and was bending down to pick up the horned antelope, and when he heard Xiao Fan's voice, his heart was suddenly startled, and at the same time, the roar shook the four fields, and a spotted leopard jumped out of the grass suddenly.
"Herod!"
The war horse was frightened, its front hooves were raised very high, and the guard reacted quickly, his legs were a little on the stirrups, and he quickly flew back upside down, and the spotted leopard pounced into the air.
"Sister, you see there is a leopard!"
Princess Yuhua smiled with a smile on her face, bent her bow and arrow, and aimed at the spotted leopard and shot it directly with an arrow.
"Roar!"
The spotted leopard roared angrily and rushed towards it with a very fast speed, and on the way, it dodged an arrow from the rain flower princess in a flash.
"Whew!"
At that moment, another arrow burst through the air, and with a pop it pierced the leopard's leg, causing it to stumble.
"Poof!"
Princess Yuhua made up another arrow and shot through the head of the spotted leopard. Xiao Fan was a little surprised, he didn't expect that the two princesses were martial cultivators, otherwise how could they break through the defense of the second-level demon beast like the spotted leopard and pierce it.
"Ha, today's harvest is not small, this leopard's skin can be used as a mat, it must be comfortable. ”
Princess Yuhua's eyes were about to smile, and Princess Qingyu also looked happy.
"Let's go, I'm afraid there is no prey in the vicinity for miles, and those few leopard roars should scare the prey away. ”
The two princesses rode their horses deeper, and the guards and Xiao Fan followed closely. As he walked, Xiao Fan's eyes became vigilant, and he vaguely seemed to feel a dangerous aura.
"Princess, something doesn't seem right here!"
Xiao Fan reminded, stopped moving, and looked around, full of woods and weeds swaying in the wind.
"What's wrong? What is the chief disciple of Tianxuan Sect, it turns out that he is so timid!"
Princess Yuhua said, deliberately squeezing, but in fact, she was very surprised. Naturally, Zhao Zishan was ambushed nearby, but dozens of feet away, Xiao Fan could actually feel it.