Lord Sovereign

"Your master and I are old friends. We have known each other for more than twenty years." Shopkeeper Xu smiled and said, "Why are you in a hurry? Did the Old Man Hao tell you when to go back when you came down the mountain?"

"No, I only made the decision to go back immediately after the delivery." Fei Hong replied. At this moment, he had completely believed in shopkeeper Xu's honesty and decided to tell him the truth.

Well, how about that? Shopkeeper Xu thought inwardly. His friend, Old Man Hao, had meant for him to kill the boy. He could guess his friend was planning on using the boy's body as a refining vessel. Shopkeeper Xu nodded secretly, and touched the long sword with his right hand.

"Shopkeeper Xu, I'm here to deliver the purple tea."

At this moment, the woman's voice suddenly sounded outside the door. Shopkeeper Xu's expression was stagnant upon hearing it, but managed to respond. "Come in."

The woman pushed the door in, put the tea on the table, and said to shopkeeper Xu. "Shopkeeper, someone is waiting outside. She wants to make a trade for the ten-year Yellow Demon grass."

"Ten years old Yellow Demon grass?!" The shopkeeper Xu replied, startled. "What kind of a person would want to exchange for such a spirit grass? Ok, what price did the person offered for the grass?"

The woman smiled bitterly and said: "Well, It's a young woman who appeared to come from a poor family. She said she was treating her sick grandfather but needs the demon grass to complete the treatment. She didn't have much money to buy the plant. She just said that she need to change anything for the spirit plant."

"Leavet! Nothing to do for her!" The shopkeeper Xu sneered and waved his hand.

"But, I can't drive away... the girl is kneeling outside the door now."

"Huh?" The shopkeeper exclaimed in mild anger. After a few seconds, he turned to Fei Hong. "This is my nephew. She doesn't want to leave without me attending to the girl outside. So, I have to go now. Wait for me here, I'll come back after seeing her off." Afterwards, shopkeeper Xu took the woman out to the lobby.

After sitting alone at the table, drinking two cups of tea, Fei Hong felt bored. He got up and went out to the entrance to the lobby. Casually, he looked inside through the window on the door.

At this moment, shopkeeper Xu was sitting on a wooden chair with his back facing Fei Hong. In front of shopkeeper Xu, a girl in white can be vaguely seen kneeling on the ground, begging for something from shopkeeper Xu.

Fei Hong put his ear to the crack on the door and heard the words of the conversation going on inside.

"I'm begging you, just exchange Yellow Demon grass for me. It can save my Grandpa's life. As long as you exchange it for me, you can say anything you want me to do!"

"Haha, anything?" Shopkeeper Xu asked. He seemed to be interested in the exchange now. Seeing the girl nodded, he smiled and said, "Okay, I don't have a wife. So, can you be my wife then?"

Fei Hong began to feel that the girl's voice sound very familiar. But the more he thought of, the more he shook his head. This was the first time that he came to Angong Town, how could there be someone he knew here? Maybe he was simply tired and hallucinating.

Nonetheless, Fei Hong believed that this shopkeeper didn't seem to be a virtuous person in his dealings with people. At this time, he wanted to trade a Yellow Demon grass for a girl to be his wife? Obviously, he was taking too much advantage of the girl's situation.

The girl hurriedly shook her head when she heard the proposition. "No. Except for this that you asked, anything else is fine by me."

"Nonsense!" The shopkeeper Xu immediately became angry: "You said you can do whatever I ask you to do, but now you're regretting it again. Are you joking with me?! Ah?!"

In a swift motion, shopkeeper Xu stretched out his foot and kicked the girl. She flew backward, her face appearing in front of Fei Hong, causing his heart to bang up to his throat!

"Li Ling!" Fei Hong screamed after seeing the girl's face. He didn't even think much about it. He pulled the door open and stepped into the lobby. He strode to the girl's side to the surprise of everyone, and helped the girl up: "Li Ling, what's wrong with grandpa?!"

This girl who was looking for the Yellow Demon grass for life-saving, turned out to be Fei Li Ling, Fei Hong's cousin! The girl living at the outskirt of the village with her father who had been busy fighting the dark demons, leaving the girl alone at home. It turned out that soon after Fei Hong left home, his recovered parents had rejoined the Eternal Defense group to fight the dark demons, leaving his grandfather at home. His grandfather was visiting Fei Li Ling when he fell ill.

After treatment, the physician told Fei Li Ling that to save his grandfather, he needed ten year old Yellow Demon grass. But Fei Li Ling had checked all the medicine shops in Wuzhi, and found no trace of the spirit grass. Although ten years old Yellow Demon grass was not a rare medicinal plant, it was still a very unique medicinal material.

Later, Fei Li Ling accidentally heard that there was a ten-year Yellow Demon grass in this shop here in Angong Town, which was about to be auctioned. Then she hurried over to the town, wanting to get her hands on the Yellow Demon grass, but she didn't expect that shopkeeper Xu would actually make such proposal.

Seeing Li Ling sobbing softly while explaining the reason, Fei Hong's heart boiled to the point of explosion. Holding her, Fei Hong turned around, and said to shopkeeper Xu. "Shopkeeper Xu, she is my sister. Because my master and you are old friends, can't you just accommodate us this time?"

In order to make Fei Hong feel at ease at his new sect, Fei Li Ling did not go to find him when their grandfather fell sick. At this difficult moment, she couldn't believe she was looking at her cousin. Somehow, they had come together at this most unlikely place.. Her inner grievance and anxiety erupted in an instant, and she held Fei Hong tightly in her arms, sobbing quietly.