LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN TIGRESS 297 The Intruder

Xing was taken back to the Western seashore by Fei Lian in his tiger form flying and she saw everything around them was frozen until the spell around them was broken by Fei Lian.

"Gods can manipulate time by will?" she asked him surprised. She always thought that time cannot be manipulated by all gods .

"A little. But it takes a lot of toll in our energy ", he replied to that girl in his back who was blissful and not really caring much about anything. He has taken a big risk making the two lovers in their trial to meet each other. If it is outed, he might even be shunned from the heavens. That's why he made it seem like she had never left the west by manipulating time.

"Thank you, Fei Lian for today. You know... I consider you my God-Grandfather! ", Xing said hugging Fei Lan's neck and he froze for a moment but soon regained his composure.

God-Grandfather seems like a great position in her heart!

"Get it...?", she chuckled and Fei Lian knew she is going to bring all his excitement down, "You are a god and you are really old... You are more than six hundred years old, right? You could be a great great great great great great great grandfather... ", she continued her ramble that made Fei Lian sigh.

This child!

"Little one, don't tell anyone about today! ", he thought that he commanded her but it was heard as a gentle reminder by Xing because his voice was that mellow with his happiness after hearing her say, hugging him, "But I love you. You are always there when I'm down although you cause troubles too!".

This child cannot say a compliment being snarky! Fei Lian rolled his eyes but still he could not hide the smile in his lips.

"Okay!", she agreed as she understood why Fei Lian wanted to keep it a secret and he descended down after she fixed her mask back. Fei Lian made his original form of white dragon visible to those who were looking up. He will make sure everyone knows who she is...

Someone the Great General of the Heavens protects!

The entire army of the Wind Kingdom and the couple in the small ship Xing spared previously who is now alighting from the boat, saw the masked warrior descending down seated on the god of wind himself.

The loud cheering of the Wind army intensified as she reached the ground where the Emperor was watching and as she reached the ground Fei Lian made a swirling motion around her with the sand rising around her making her look like she was standing in the center of a whirlwind.

The sand settled and Xing emerged from it as Fei Lian ascended back to the sky making a sublime and venerated scene with the god rising to the heavens swirling around their Empress who is their Divine Ruler.

While everyone is seeing the majestic view in front of them with reverence, Xing was feeling thankful for the mask she was wearing.

Wouldn't it be too embarrassing if I emerge out with sand in my eyes, unable to open them?

But she looked around to see the soldiers around her admiring her and Fei Lian's try to prop her up , awakened the egotist in Xing and she summoned the Divine Sword as she emerged out of the whirlwind.

She lifted the sword to the Sky as all the soldiers in front of her were kneeling and cheering. Among the soldiers there were speculations that whether the sword the Empress holds is the original Shensheng LeiDian, the Divine Sword of the Tianshi Emperor.

As if answering to them, the Sword raised by Xing summoned lightning from the sky and it ended up in the sword and the one holding the sword stood before them unaffected proving to them that sword is the Divine Sword and it has accepted their Empress as it's master.

The soldiers all started to chant and salute her. Their Empress stood as a one man army and defeated an entire navy and protected the nation. Of course they will be excited. Xing walked towards the Emperor and stood by his side.

" Brothers in arms!", Xing addressed the soldiers which is wrong in everyway for an Empress to address the soldiers and that made the entire place silent. Someone murmured, "This is how the Tianshi Emperor addressed his soldiers!"

"We won!", Xing raised her sword and the soldiers all shouted in glee when she waved her hands for them to calm down,

"Under the rule of our illustrious, mighty and auspicious Tongtian Emperor, we... As brothers fought together to prove our enemies, we, the Wind Empire is undefeatable! Together we stood, shoulder to shoulder and protected our borders... As we will stand together in the future if any of our enemies dare to even think of taking a single step inside our borders... And we will win then too! Long live the Wind Empire ! Long live Emperor Tongtian! "

Her voice echoed through the vast space where all the soldiers were kneeling and they all chanted with her,

" Long live the Wind Empire! Long live Emperor Tongtian!"

The shouts of the soldiers reached the sky. With the chants being leered to a different direction, Xing felt relieved.

True, she is the divine ruler and it is acceptable if they respect her. But no single person should be above the empire. Everyone should feel included in sharing the victory of their nation.

Xing respected these soldiers because most of them are not as well trained as her but they follow orders, gather their courage and stand in front of weapons and fight for the nation. They should be commended.

Of course there is another reason. If they all just depend in her all the time thinking their Empress is enough to defend the nation, she will never be free from her duties and will be stuck in the palace for all her life. She needs to leave soon. The only way is to unite the soldiers together and giving them the courage and show them the glory and honour of protecting the nation and the happiness they could attain through it.

Also she didn't want to put herself above the Emperor as he is the actual ruler of the land. After she leaves, people should be respecting him. If she respects him in front of them they will respect the Emperor too.

If the Divine ruler is respecting the Emperor, how much more should others respect him, right? They should worship him!

With the soldiers asked to disperse, the Emperor who was in deep contemplation seeing the happenings around him, noticed the reddish mark on her neck,

"Mingxia! How did you get this?", he asked panicked. But then he saw the pleased look in her face and realised only his brother could get this close to her.

Just when and how did she meet him? And how far did they go?

"Did you cheat on me?", he asked looking at her peeved, making Xing roll her eyes. Guess the gods are at it again!

For some reason, she didn't feel anything looking at the Emperor. No guilt, no fear or no sadness...

Is it because I'm feeling confident, now that I'm entirely Chenglei's, now that we have consummated our relationship? Even Xing was surprised by the lack of reaction in her heart.

Xing patted his shoulder and leaned to his ears, " You still haven't learnt, huh? Guess I'll have to use my phoenix seal again to bring Young Miss Liang to the inner palace. I heard she has specifically ordered a special type of whip recently. You know for... ", she winked at him and smiled evily seeing his face getting pale.

Good! He snapped out of his hypnosis from the gods! Now be on your way, little Emperor!

Xing hummed a song as she walked with a skip towards the tent Seiren and Maya were. She wanted to know what happened with Jubin.

But only then she realised how she had destroyed the entire fleet of the Arsalan Navy and it was Maya's father's legacy.

Great! I'm going to lose my friend just in days!

Xing chided herself for not holding her temper with the Navy. She could have scared them by destroying only a little amount of ships and asked them to surrender.

That way our Empire would have gotten some ships. Maya wouldn't hate me too if I just defended our borders and not annihilated an entire fleet!

Xing chided herself and took a deep breath to compose herself and decided to meet her anyways.

As she was about to enter the tent she heard the loud shout of Maya, "Why did you kill him? He cannot die easily.... Why... ? ", she broke down to tears as Seiren dropped the bloodied dagger to the floor and held her.
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Xing saw Seiren's hand trembling with blood dripping from his fingers and she saw Jubin there with his throat slit. It looked mangled and Xing knew Seiren should have used a lot of strength to kill him since he is untrained. His body looked like it was chewed by a wild dog and Xing could see Maya covered in blood.

Was Maya torturing Jubin and Seiren stopped her by killing Jubin?

With Xing's ability to take a perfect gamble, she could bet her everything that this would be Seiren's first kill.

"You don't have to do this anymore Maya! He is dead! He is dead.... The one you wanted revenge on is dead... Let go... Let go of your hatred... Cry all you want... ", Seiren patted her.

So, I am right! Seiren who had previously refused to arm himself for his own defense had killed a man now for the sake of a woman...

Xing didn't want to disturb them and went back... Or tried to go back to her tent but got lost. She felt like someone was following her but she could not confirm it.

She reached the Emperor's tent and he was there eating lunch and he asked her to join him and she joined him as she was hungry too.

"Do you think it would have been more beneficial if I had made the Arsalan navy surrender than destroy them all?", she asked the problem that was irritating her to the Emperor.

"What are you saying?", he said elegantly placing the bowl and chopsticks in the table as always with his impeccable table manners and wiped his mouth with a napkin given to him by a servant.

"This showed the power of our kingdom! Now no one would dare to attack us and we won't be needing the navy anytime soon", he said with confidence.

"But...", Xing paused as her thoughts went deep.

Didn't it only showed my power? So the enemies will fear as long as I am here, right? What happens after I leave the palace? Should I stand in front of the army each time some enemy attacks? I don't want that...I want to become a boring lady of Chenglie's household doing boring stuff like accounting and choosing the colour of drapes and the gifts to be sent for new year to other families... I want to laze around in bed, eat sweets and take naps to pass time.... I want to chose the clothes Chenglei wears and drink evening tea leisurely with him and in nights, I want to....

*Cough*

She swallowed through the wrong pipe remembering the hot session of love making they shared that day.

The Emperor shook his head seeing her with her head in the clouds.

Xing went to her tent wanting to take a nap as she felt extremely tired but before that she wanted to take a bath.

So inside the spacious tent a bathtub was brought and was surrounded by wooden screens and warm water of the perfect temperature was prepared with flower petals scattered on it for the Empress to take a bath with the help of Bai Li and other maids..

After asking Bai Li to guard the door, Xing removed her clothes one by one as it revealed the marks in her body especially around her neck and back... The marks left by Chenglei that contrasted her pale skin. She then undid the braids and got in the water and she was relieved as she soaked in the warm water.

She cleaned herself properly and as she was soaking a bit more, she went to a half-sleep state as the warm water was so comforting to her.

But then she realised someone entering the tent and she used her senses to realise the one who entered is not Bai Li and Bai Li was nowhere to be found near her tent.

Xing who was bare naked, cursed Bai Li for disappearing at the most crucial times. She could sense that person who entered the tent realised that she is behind the wooden screens and is walking towards her.

Just who is he?

Chapter end

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