Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

116. The Temple of the Immortal

Translator: Flying Lines

“I am willing to die for His Highness the Crown Prince!”

The soldiers shouted this phrase three times in a row. Their thunderous roar resounded through the skies. Every shout was louder than the last. When the last word of the sentence trailed off, everyone could feel their blood pumping through their veins. Their chests were full of lofty sentiments, and it was hard to settle down for a long time.

Ju Liandao, infected with the soldiers’ passion, gave a hearty shout, and with a wave of his hand, gave a quick order, “Listen to me, soldiers. Reorganize the granary and be ready to listen to the crown prince’s orders at any time to overthrow Lan Buhui!”

After speaking, Ju Liandao stepped off the platform. He faced Su Jie and knelt before him, “I am willing to die for His Highness the Crown Prince!”

The sounds of amour rubbing together and clashing rang through the air. The soldiers also knelt onto the ground.

Su Jie stood on the platform. His speckless white robe made it seem like he was an immortal descending onto the earth. The golden strokes on his face were graceful as if emitting a faint golden glow in the light of the setting sun.

The soldiers stared passionately and swore collectively with ringing shouts, “I am willing to die for His Highness the Crown Prince!”

At this moment, Zhou Zaiyue suddenly felt tears well up in his eyes.

‘Your Majesty, your descendant has finally returned to Yanling. All the loyal citizens of State Yanling will do their best to remove obstacles that block the way for the crown prince and help him ascend to the position of the emperor…’

This was the loyalty and faith that came from the heart…

The soldiers didn’t even need Su Jie to say or do anything. All they cared about was that their long-awaited dream of uniting Yanling was about to become true. As long as this young man, who was the descendent of the royal family, led them, every citizen of Yanling would definitely be ecstatic and overjoyed!

At this point, countless soldiers watched the youth dressed in white on the platform, firmness in their eyes and perseverance in their face.

At this moment, a powerful sense of belonging towards State Yanling bloomed into existence inside Su Jie’s heart. He was standing on top of Yanling soil, watching more than thousands of soldiers subjecting themselves to him and swearing their loyalty.

Su Jie’s expression was solemn and respectful. He shouted at the many soldiers in front of him, “Soldiers, you are the pride of Yanling!”

The youth’s voice was clear, bright, and pleasant to listen to. Add in the fact he practiced martial arts, this one shout was extremely loud, causing the hot-blooded soldiers to become even more excited. Originally, they didn’t know Su Jie well and only knew that he was the crown prince. Now that the far-away soldiers heard Su Jie’s voice, many people understood that the crown prince knew martial arts. For some time, their gazes towards Su Jie became even more eager.

When everyone was silently looking at Su Jie, hurried sounds of hooves clopping against the ground suddenly rang out. A wild, spirited horse rushed inside. It probably wasn’t expecting there to be so many people inside the granary area. The man on the horse tugged strongly at the reins so much that he was almost thrown to the ground by the horse rearing up. However, this person didn’t have a trace of savageness. His actions revealed a crazy elegance. He jumped off the horse and ran along the sides where there were no people to somewhere closer to Su Jie. When he picked an empty piece of ground to kneel on, he said loudly, “Vice-general Gongsun Yi greets His Highness the Crown Prince!”

Gongsun Yi knelt on one knee, and a smile tugged at the corners of his lips. He raised his head slightly and looked straight at Su Jie.

Perhaps it was because there was an extra golden flower under Su Jie’s right eye, a flicker of surprise flashed through Gongsun Yi’s eyes. Then, there was a stunned look on his face. Last time he saw Su Jie, Su Jie was wearing a red robe as vivid as fire, and now the youth’s white robe was elegant and noble, causing Gongsun Yi to almost not recognize him.

Seeing Gongsun Yi, Su Jie nodded with a faint smile. Then, he moved his gaze away from the man.

Su Jie’s eyes swept over the area, his expression solemn and firm.

“Su Jie definitely will not betray everyone’s hopes!”

*

After the sun set, Su Jie used the disguise technique and headed towards the city near the borders – City Linji.

City Linji was known as the frontier city closest to the miracle. It was said that the immortal made his fortune there, thus there would always be people who wanted to see the immortal’s relics. However, Su Jie only went because he wanted to experience Yanling’s folk custom.

Gongsun Yi followed behind Su Jie. When they heard that Su Jie wanted to go out, Ju Liandao and Zhou Zaiyue were a little against it. However, seeing that Su Jie was very good at the disguise technique and that Su Jie’s reason was to experience State Yanling’s folk custom, they gave Gongsun Yi the responsibility to protect Su Jie on his journey to City Linji.

“What is this place?” Su Jie stopped suddenly and asked when they passed a building that was built like a temple.

“This is the temple of the immortal.” Gongsun Yi first bowed respectfully to the temple before answering.

“The immortal’s temple?”

“Yes, the temple of the immortal is dedicated to the immortal, who is also Your Highness’s ancestor. Every city has a temple to worship the immortal. However, the temples are only open during the day. It closes once the sun sets.” When he mentioned this place, Gongsun Yi’s expression turned solemn, and he answered seriously.