The Desert Giant accepted the saint level spirit core from Qingfeng Li’s hands with its eyes filled with excitement. It bowed to Qingfeng Li again in gratitude.
Hurriedly, the Desert Giant found a spot to sit down, put the saint spirit core into its mouth and devoured it. After, it began practicing the “Desert Spirit Chant” of the Desert Giant race, hoping to refine this spirit nucleus.
However, in the next moment, a force from the saint level spirit core deflected the Desert Giant’s cultivation techniques.
The Desert Giant stood up with its face full of confusion and said to Qingfeng Li, “Master, there is a seal on this saint level spirit core. I can’t refine it at all.”
Qingfeng Li smiled calmly and replied, “That is alright. Your strength is relatively low right now. As it gets enhanced and improved, you can surely break the seal on the saint level spirit core in time.
“Think about it, if the saint level spirit core could be so easily refined, the Desert General would have done it long ago, and I would have had no chance of defeating it.”
Desert Giant nodded as a shred of pity crossed its eyes. It had hoped to achieve breakthrough from the Spirit Emperor Realm to the Saint through refining this saint level spirit core. Now that it was not an easy task to accomplish, it could only settle on waiting for more appropriate opportunities to come by in the future.
Even though the Desert Giant had not refined the saint level spirit core, it had devoured it into its body. Therefore, its physique had become incredibly strong, and so did its physical strength. With its power enhancing immensely, the Desert Giant was well-compensated.
Qingfeng Li turned to the Third Princess and greeted, “It’s been a long time. What brought you here from Earth?”
Third Princess’ eyes flickered with a hint of complexity as she remained silent. She had not uttered a word because she was overwhelmed by all the secrets she was still trying to make sense of – such as, her unexpected awakening of the memories of her previous life, and her being brought to the Crimson Fire Continent by a mysterious woman.
The mysterious woman said that the Third Princess would leave here for even more high-tier worlds when she achieved the Spirit Emperor Realm.
The Third Princess found all that had happened to her to be beyond logic and reason. Hence, she did not know how to explain herself, as she worried she would weird Qingfeng Li out if she told him that she was the reincarnation of an immortal goddess.
Qingfeng Li could easily see Third Princess’ worries. He understood her hesitation in revealing her identity because he had many secrets of his own as well. He would not tell people about his Golden Flames, Chaos Millstone, and the identities of his parents, either.
Qingfeng Li smiled casually as he said, “Third Princess, everyone has secrets of their own. I am just like you. So, you have no reasons to worry, we are good friends regardless.”
When she heard that Qingfeng Li referred to them as “good friends”, the Third Princess’ expression closed up. For unknown reasons, she felt a tinge of discomfort in her heart.
On Earth, she had slept with Qingfeng Li and was his woman. Yet, she was now being treated as a friend by him.
Third Princess smiled coolly as she finally opened her mouth, “Thank you for saving me. I have to go now, I need to go find monarch soul fruit.”
“Little Yaoyao, wait. We are on our way to look for monarch soul fruit as well. Let’s search together; this way, we can help one another out if we run into danger.”
Not giving Third Princess any chance to reject his proposition, Qingfeng Li grabbed her hand at once and started marching forward.
Third Princess had soft and silky, tofu-like hands.
In the beginning, the Third Princess was a little resistant. She felt bashful that Qingfeng Li was holding her hand in front of everyone.
Despite her strenuous efforts of withdrawing her hand, she was unable to do it. Qingfeng Li’s hand was like a pincer, tightly gripping onto hers. Finally, she gave up.
A blush of crimson and shyness had appeared on Third Princess’s face as her heart began beating uncontrollably. The disappointment she felt a moment ago had vanished and had been replaced by a tinge of joy. For some reason, she really enjoyed being held by Qingfeng Li; maybe that was what she secretly wished for.
The Second Prince and all the soldiers around them were in disbelief as awe appeared on their faces. They knew very well how proud the Third Princess was and the fact that she had never taken a liking to any man.
Many of the royalties, talented youths of the country of Lingyun, and even crown princes of other countries had proposed to the Third Princess. Without exception, they were all turned down immediately.
Yet, the beautiful, elegant and mysterious Third Princess now had her hand in Qingfeng Li’s. More importantly, she did not resist his action, having accepted it quietly.
The Second Prince sighed as he secretly praised Qingfeng Li for his powerful strength and his unexpectedly skillful courting techniques.
The dozen black hood soldiers behind the Second Prince also looked at Qingfeng Li in admiration; their eyes were twinkling with little gold stars.
Wagging its tail, Black Puppy murmured to itself, “How shameless… How shameless is he to do that in front of me?”
Qingfeng Li ever so casually reached out his right leg and sent Black Puppy flying meters away. Black Puppy was terrified and quickly crouched its head, too afraid to utter another word.
Sky-Devouring Snake let out a burst of roaring laughter, mocking Black Puppy’s overconfident behavior.
As both of them had met Mengyao Xu on Earth, they certainly recognized the Third Princess to be Mengyao Xu. Only when in front of their closely acquainted could they joke so recklessly.
On the other hand, disappointment crossed the eyes of Li Yang who was standing aside. She thought that she could eventually be with Qingfeng Li and was disappointed that he never took her seriously. Paying her no regard, he was now hand-in-hand with the Third Princess.
Nonetheless, whether it was appearance, strengths, or background, Li Yang knew that she could not compare to Third Princess – they were never on the same level to begin with.
With the Desert Giant’s guidance and the map of the Crimson Fire Desert in Qingfeng Li’s hand, the crowd advanced at a rapid speed and had arrived in the heart of the Crimson Fire Desert in no time.
The heart of the Crimson Fire Desert was a colossal desert cliff. It was unmistakably a desert cliff because there were three alps formed out of the desert ahead of where the group was.
The three alps were all giving off golden rays of shine and were completely made up of gigantic stones; the stones further formed into pieces of rocks that were eave-bounding, adamantine, sharp, golden and glittering.
In the middle of the three rocky desert alps, there was a cliff; and in the upper corner of the cliff, there was a small golden tree.
The small tree was no taller than two meters, like the height of an ordinary human being. But its entirety was of a gold color. There were golden seal scriptures glittering all over it, so dazzling that one could not look right at it. Close to the treetop hung a glossily golden fruit of the size of a fist.
Flows of golden light wandered about the surface of the fruit, and a fascinating gloss was emitted by it. From the fruit, a burst of powerful soul energy surged over the world.
The sight of the golden fruit brought a shade of joy across Qingfeng Li’s eyes. The Second Prince had shown him pictures of it, so he had recognized instantly that – this was it, they had found the monarch soul fruit.
Not only Qingfeng Li, the Second Prince, Third Princess, Black Puppy, Sky-Devouring Snake and all the others were ecstatic. After all, the goal of their trip was to find the monarch soul fruit.