Romance of the Resurrected Crown Princess and the Cold-blooded Wolf King

Duanmu Xi looked up at the endlessly high shelves and the corners of her mouth twitched. How could one reach the books placed that high? Although only the winner of the martial arts tournament could enter the library, it was highly unlikely to fly that high.

Duanmu Xi directly gave up the books placed high and only took the books within her reach. She flipped through several books and found they were all about mysterious Qi cultivation methods and spiritual magic skills. Then, she kept some interesting moves down.

She turned to another row of shelves and found the books were all about magic weapons and instrument forging. Then, she took a book–Complete Works of Magic Weapons and read the introduction of various magic weapons.

The books on the next row were about medicine refining, which Duanmu Xi was most interested in.

While Duanmu Xi was shuffling through the shelves, time fleeted unknowingly. It was getting darker and darker but it was still bright in the library.

Duanmu Xi raised her head and looked at the candlelight that was lit up unknowingly and knitted her eyebrows. It was at night now? Time flew.

Thinking of her goal of coming to the library, Duanmu Xi felt a bit helpless. She walked across all the bricks here and found nothing abnormal. Besides, she had searched across all the walls and found no mechanism.

Duanmu Xi raised her head and looked at the terrifyingly high shelves again. If the mechanism was up there, she couldn’t do anything about it. Since she couldn’t find the legendary Unicorn, she could read a few more books here. It would be a worthwhile trip then.

Duanmu Xi walked to the last row of the shelf and took a glance at the tag on it. The tag read “Miscellaneous Books”. She glanced at the books on the shelf. The books were miscellaneous indeed, including music scores, copybooks, books about five elements and eight diagrams, and formation books…

Duanmu Xi walked while looking around. All of a sudden, she glimpsed a new book at the bottom of the shelf. She bent down and saw clearly the book. Its name was Allrecipes.

There was a cookbook in the library! Upon seeing the cookbook, Duanmu Xi felt very intimate. For the sake of her grandpa, she learned cooking skills from several famous chefs so she had referred to many cookbooks. She wondered whether the cookbooks on the Hantian Continent were different from the modern ones.

Duanmu Xi drew out the book Allrecipes gently. The moment she got it, she felt the brick beneath her feet suddenly start to shake. Before she realized what was going on, she fell down.

A few minutes later, Duanmu Xi landed gently and looked around the dark surroundings. She took out the crystal ball from her arms and injected the mysterious Qi. Instantly, the crystal ball gave off the sky blue light.

With the help of the blue light, Duanmu Xi observed the surroundings. She seemed to be in a secret tunnel, which seemed to be very long. She wondered where it led to.

No sooner had Duanmu Xi taken a step forward than she stepped on a thing. In the light of the crystal ball, she recognized the cookbook Allrecipes.

Duanmu Xi picked up the book and leafed through it but she didn’t find anything strange. It was an ordinary cookbook indeed. It seemed that the mechanism was not in the book. Supposedly, her drawing out the book must have triggered some mechanism and thus, she fell here.

The designer of the mechanism in the library was quite interesting. He created the towering bookshelves to make others interested in the books up there and yet set up the mechanism at the bottom. Usually, one would be obsessed with what he couldn’t get and ignore the happiness within reach.

Apart from that, the cookbook was also very interesting. Cultivation level prevailed on Hantian Continent. Those who came here were all champions of every martial arts tournament. They must be interested in mysterious Qi and spiritual power only. Very few people would read the cookbook. No wonder even Second Master couldn’t find the Unicorn.

After putting the book into her arms, Duanmu Xi held the crystal ball and continued walking forward. After walking for 15 minutes, she finally got out of the secret tunnel and arrived at a big rock gate. It was ablaze with light on both sides of the rock gate so Duanmu Xi put away the crystal ball.

Duanmu Xi went forward and pushed the rock gate but it didn’t move at all. Then, she struck the mysterious Qi at the rock gate but it still stayed still. It seemed that the rock gate must be equipped with some mechanism.

Looking at the bare rock gate, Duanmu Xi couldn’t find any mechanism. Suddenly, she glimpsed the candlelight on both sides of the rock gate and thought of a scene in the ancient TV drama she had watched. It seemed that in the drama, some mechanism was also set up on the candlestick. Then, Duanmu Xi walked to the left candlestick and tried to twist it.

Boom! As Duanmu Xi twisted the candlestick, the thick rock gate rose slowly.

Duanmu Xi felt elated to see that. After the rock gate was opened, she walked inside. Unexpectedly, the rock gate dropped with a bang as soon as she went through it.

Duanmu Xi touched the rock gate and searched across both sides of it but she couldn’t find the mechanism to open the gate. Hence, she had no other choice but to keep walking forward. Looking at the secret chamber with the rock walls and the rock gate, Duanmu Xi had to sigh about the wisdom and grandness of the ancient people.

After taking a few turns, Duanmu Xi finally arrived at a relatively big place which was like a hall.

“Someone finally comes here…” A coquettish female voice reverberated through the whole hall.

The sudden voice astonished Duanmu Xi but she quickly came to her senses and shouted at the empty hall, “You are the legendary thunder mythical creature, Unicorn, right?”

“Haha… I didn’t expect that someone would still remember me a few centuries later.” The Unicorn slowly appeared before Duanmu Xi.

When she saw clearly the legendary Unicorn’s appearance, Duanmu Xi was dumbstruck.

What a beautiful purple Unicorn! It looked like a horse very much, except that it had a long silver helical horn on its forehead and a couple of silver wings on its back. Every feather on the wings was rather clean and pure. The silver eyes displayed a glint of enchantment, which were full of the faint, transparent and fascinating purple mingled with the elegant, pure and proud silver. The Unicorn’s charm was completely demonstrated.

All of a sudden, a very suitable name came to Duanmu Xi’s mind.

“Zimei. This is your name.”

The Unicorn was slightly dazed. What an interesting girl! “It’s a pretty name but you are not my mistress yet.” Its coquettish voice was somewhat bantering.

“You will be mine.” Duanmu Xi stared at the Unicorn with determination. She had never been so eager to get a thing like this.

The Unicorn was dazed to hear that. It liked her eyes, “Come on. Defeat me and I will be yours.” It believed she had the ability. Those who could come in here wouldn’t be ordinary people.

Defeat it? Duanmu Xi slightly knitted her eyebrows and stared at the Unicorn with her purple eyes. After struggling for a moment, she finally said, “I’m afraid that I cannot bear to hurt you.”

“Haha…” This girl was so interesting. Its coquettish laughter resounded through the whole hall.

“Mistress…” Lanze, Hongling and Lyuzhu heard their conversation in the mental space and finally couldn’t refrain from getting out of the mental space.

Seeing the three of them appear at the same time, Duanmu Xi bent down, carried Lyuzhu into her arms, and touched its green long fur. She hadn’t seen Lyuzhu for one day and felt it had grown quite much.

Looking at the three mythical creatures, Zimei exclaimed in surprise, “Water mythical creature Water Qilin, fire mythical creature Rosefinch, wood mythical creature Tianlu Beast, they are all your contracted beasts?”

“Yeah, are they qualified to become your partners?”

Hearing the intent of invitation in Duanmu Xi’s words, the Unicorn knelt on its forehoofs, “Of course, my mistress, it is my honor to be the partner of the three ancient mythical creatures.”

The Unicorn’s reply made Lanze, Hongling and Lyuzhu feel delighted at once.

“You are not bad. Just like us, you are also an ancient mythical creature. Of course you are qualified to be our partner,” Hongling said nicely.

“Mistress, please contract with me.” It had stayed here for too long so it was also desperate to leave this place.

“Okay.” Duanmu Xi got a drop of her heart’s blood and threw it into the middle of the Unicorn’s eyebrows.

The life contract was successfully made.

“You will be called Zimei from now on.” Duanmu Xi exerted her mysterious Qi and raised the two forehoofs of the Unicorn.

“Thank you, Mistress.”

“Since everything is done here, let’s go out.” Duanmu looked at the empty hall again and wondered where the exit was.

“Mistress, please wait a minute.” Then, Zimei ran to a small secret room in the hall. After a while, it held a fruit that glistened with faint purple light in its mouth and got out.

Zimei stuffed the fruit into Duanmu Xi’s hand.

“This is a thunder spiritual fruit?” Seeing the familiar fruit in her hand, Duanmu Xi asked with certainty.

“Yes, this is the fruit that I’ve guarded for several centuries. Now that it has been ripe, please take it as the first meeting gift.”

“Thank you, Zimei.” Having eaten the water spiritual fruit and the wood spiritual fruit, Duanmu Xi surely knew the magic of the thunder spiritual fruit. Hence, she didn’t refuse it and directly swallowed it.

Instantly, purple light spurted out of Duanmu Xi’s body constantly. As the purple light on Duanmu Xi’s body got darker and darker, the thunder spiritual power in her body also became richer and richer. A thunder spiritual fruit made Duanmu Xi promoted from a King to an Emperor.

Watching Duanmu Xi completed the promotion, Zimei finally said, “I’ll take you out.”

Zimei brought the others to a teleporting formation and within a few seconds, Duanmu Xi was outside.

As soon as they arrived outside, the four mythical creatures went back to Duanmu Xi’s mental space.

Duanmu Xi looked around and quickly found a familiar black rock wall.

Heaven Origin Rock Wall? She was in the room where she took the test of mental strength that day. Thinking of the weirdness about the black rock wall that day, Duanmu Xi transferred her mental strength into the Heaven Origin Rock Wall once again. As her mental strength was injected, the stars on the Heaven Origin Rock Wall illuminated one by one. In the end, ten stars on the black rock wall were all lit up. However, no matter how much more mental strength she transferred into the rock wall, it didn’t sparkle with white light anymore.

Duanmu Xi slowly withdrew her arms and slightly knitted her eyebrows. What was wrong? Why didn’t the wall suck her mental strength today? Fine. Maybe it had something to do with Zimei.

Duanmu Xi got out of the room and then headed to Nalan Xi’s yard instead of Wisteria Yard. The door was wide open. It looked like Second Master was waiting for her.

Duanmu Xi arrived at his room and knocked on the door, “Second Master.”

Hearing Duanmu Xi’s voice, Nalan Xi suddenly turned around, “Xi, you are back. How was it going? Did you see the Unicorn?” His voice was somewhat excited.

“Yeah.” Duanmu Xi nodded and summoned Zimei for Nalan Xi.

Upon seeing Zimei’s elegant and beautiful appearance, Nalan Xi was also dumbstruck. He had lived for 200 years and he had never met such a beautiful beast before!

Seeing Nalan Xi’s facial expression, Duanmu Xi curled her lips. Second Master was always smart and shrewd but now, he was stupefied like this. It was so rarely seen.

The next morning, Xuanyuan Mo didn’t come to find Duanmu Xi so she went to his room and yet found he was not in his room either.

Where was Snow? It was too late last night so she didn’t go to find Snow after coming back from her second master’s place but went back directly to her own room and slept. Now, she found it was a bit strange. Snow didn’t wait for her in her room last night. It was so abnormal. At other times, he wouldn’t get out of her room regardless.

Lost in thought, Duanmu Xi suddenly felt a weight on her waist. She lowered her head and found a pair of hands around her waist.

“Are you thinking about me?” A familiar and beautiful male voice sounded in Duanmu Xi’s ear.