Chapter 113: Past!
On an unpaved rough road, massive merchant carriages, pulled by huge spirit beasts could be seen traveling.
These spirit beasts, with four hooves and massive bodies twice the size of an elephant, were known as White Speed Bulls.
They had white skin and long black horns with sharp tips capable of piercing a hole in even mountains, but that wasn’t what they were famous for.
They were known for their unstoppable charge and strength, which made them suitable for pulling heavy carriages like this without any effort.
They weren’t slow like regular bulls; instead, they could charge at high speeds in short bursts. Being a spirit beast, it absorbed nature’s energy, providing it with immense stamina, and allowing it to pull carriages for weeks at a time.
Since they were cheaper than flying spirit beasts, most carriages in the empire used these creatures to transport products and treasures at a low cost, helping to save money and increase profits.
Right now, these carriages were going from the QingLong Tribes’ north Prefecture to the Xue Mo Tribes’ South Prefecture for trade in the tribes under the control of the Xue Mo tribe.
Xue Mo Tribe was one of the four demonic tribes in the Northern region of the Primordial Dragon Empire known as the Verdant sky Plains.
In Verdant Sky Plains, There were a total of eight prominent tribes, four demonic and four righteous ones.
QingLong Tribe was one of the righteous tribes.
Every tribe was further divided into five prefectures, namely center Prefecture, north, south, east and west Prefecture.
The capital mainly shared the borders with the righteous tribes, therefore, anyone who was traveling from the capital must pass from the righteous tribe to enter a demonic tribes’ area.
Even though the empire was under the rule of the emperor, he had given enough liberty to all the regions to solve the conflicts and disputes among themselves unless something significant happened for him to intervene.
Due to this reason, the demonic tribes could easily flourish in the empire, even being of the same size as the righteous ones. And even if the emperor was to interfere, he wouldn’t take action against the demonic tribes just because they were known as demonic.
They had to commit a crime for the emperor to take action against them.
On the middle carriage among the seven, traveling to the Xue Mo Tribe, a devilishly handsome man with long black raven hair and red crystal eyes could be spotted, sitting comfortably alongside a terrifyingly gorgeous woman with patriarchal purple hair and red eyes.
Almost all the woman in the carriage had their eyes stuck on this handsome man as they gave inviting hints to him, however, that man didn’t spare them a look and continued his conversation with the woman alongside him.
“Feng Xue, on this journey to the Xue Mo Tribe, you and me are alone and I am confident that I can make you believe in my love for you” The man said with sincere eyes.
“Hmph! I’m only here because of my father and the insect that you’ve fed me. If I was not compelled to be with you, do you think I would even look at you after what you did to me and the other sect leaders? You are a murderer who murdered innocent disciples for your amusement and you talk about love?” Feng Xue said with a hateful look in her eyes, spitting amber from her tongue.
A restless and hurt expression appeared on the man’s face as he kept his argument: “But you haven’t even heard my reason, You don’t even know why I did that. At least listen to my reasons before judging me. I want you to know me before you judge me or my love for you!”
Feng Xue’s expression melted a little, finding the man’s argument logical as she said in a less hateful tone: “Alright, go ahead and tell me. I’d also like to know the reason that would make killing innocents justifiable. We have enough time anyway on this journey that you’ve planned”
Ashen nodded before recounting the past and speaking: “First, you’ll need to understand my character, my nature, and my past experience to understand why I did what I did…”
“For that, I have a perfect story from the mortal world that would help you understand my past since it is similar!”
“On a distant planet from here, where there was no concept of cultivation and only wealth ruled, a boy named Ashen Velinor lived, hiding his real identity!”
“This boy was born in the richest family in his world, however, no one knew of his family since they were secretive. His family had control over that world’s economy along with some other families. You could say that his family ruled over this world from the dark.”
Ashen began to recount his past life to Feng Xue as some other boy’s life story –
“Ashen, do you really love me?”
Ashen’s girlfriend, Xinovia Elinor, asked with a pout.
She had Blue short hair with matching eyes, adorned in a flowery white dress. She was gorgeous according to earth standards with an innocent charm to her. She was tall with a petite build that accentuated her innocent beauty.
Ashen’s age right now was only 21 and this was his first girlfriend. He was not good at talking to girls and only wanted a serious relationship.
When he had first laid eyes on Xinovia, he felt a connection with her. Even though he hadn’t talked to her at that moment, weirdly his heartbeat began to rise. The Ashen who had never approached a girl before, for the first time went for a conversation.
He then began to strike up conversations with her on different occasions.
Sometimes waiting for her at the college gate, just to pretend it was a coincidence and talk with her for a few moments. He would go outside her class just to catch a glance of her.
He didn’t know what was happening. He had never felt like this before towards any girl. It was like someone had possessed him.
He knew that Xinovia was the right girl for him and he proposed to her after he thought Xinovia had began to like him back.
It took him more than a week to gather up the courage to finally propose to her, fearing rejection and losing Xinovia in the process.
Xinovia was surprised at first, however, after asking for a day’s time to answer, she said yes and their relationship began.
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(A/N – Thanks for reading. ^..^)
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