Chapter 138: Khachaturian Envoy Arrives with a Marriage Proposal

  Every time Ye Chen finishes his cultivation, Hou Yu will take out a blue ancient zither and play it for Ye Chen to listen. The sound of the zither is gentle and soothing, just like her mood, without any ups and downs. Ye Chen also quite enjoys this feeling, he can see that Hou Yu seems to love music very much.

  It's been a month since then. On this day, after Ye Chen finished his cultivation, Hou Yu still hugged the guqin and played as usual, but Ye Chen's eyebrows furrowed. In the past, Hou Yu's guqin sound was calm, but today it was undulating, the sound of the guqin was like thoughts, and the sound of the guqin expressed the player's heart.

  The gentle sound of the piano used to bring a sense of calmness and serenity, but now it's undulating and fluctuating, filled with melancholy and sorrowful atmosphere.

  Ye Chen looked at Hou Yu, her blue eyes filled with melancholy and sorrow.

  "What's wrong with Hou Yu?" Ye Chen was puzzled and didn't understand why Hou Yu suddenly had such emotions. At this time, Hou Yu also looked at Ye Chen, the two of them facing each other, Hou Yu smiled slightly and said: "Ye Chen, I'll teach you how to play the piano."

  "Teach me how to play the piano?" Ye Chen was taken aback, and smiled: "Okay, your vision is very good, I believe that this famous teacher will soon produce a high-level apprentice."

  "After the rain, she smiled and said: 'Is there anyone who praises themselves like you?'"

  From that day on, Ye Chen followed Hou Yu to learn piano. As a chaotic fairy body, with the blood of the fairy in his veins and unparalleled comprehension, he quickly grasped the skills and essence, greatly astonishing Hou Yu.

  "You've actually learned so quickly, it seems that before long you'll surpass me, this master." Hou Yu smiled and said.

  Ye Chen smiled and said nothing, looking at Hou Yu, "There are some good tunes in our hometown, I remember a few of them, how about I play them for you?"

  "Really?" Hou Yu smiled after a moment, the feeling of spring breeze passing through his heart made Ye Chen's rock-hard heart turn soft.

  "Of course, I just don't know if you like it or not. In the past, I really liked it, not only were there melodies but also lyrics." Ye Chen smiled and thought about the songs he used to listen to on Earth.

  "Alright, you write it down first." Hou Yu's face turned red, and her eyes shifted away from Ye Chen's face as she said, "After I learn it, you play the piano, and I'll dance..."

  Ye Chen wrote the melody and lyrics on a piece of paper, and Hou Yu looked at it with an increasingly deepened frown between his brows. He said in a low voice, "In three more months, the remaining toxins in your body will completely disappear, and you'll leave immediately, right?"

  "It is." Ye Chen nodded helplessly, and for several months, his shadow had not left. The feelings between him and Hou Yu were like friends, but seemed to be more than just friends, and Ye Chen could also sense that Hou Yu did not want him to leave the Blue Rain Clan.

  "Your heart is not here, what's the use of keeping you, your heart is in what you call 'jianghu'." Hou Yu shook his head and sighed.

  "I... I'm sorry." Ye Chen sighed helplessly.

  "Don't say sorry, you have your own path to follow, you have your own things to do. Aren't you going to find the woman you love in Lingxiao Cave Heaven? " Yu Hou shook his head and then pulled Ye Chen along, saying: "Ye Chen, come with me, I'll take you somewhere."

  Following the rain, Ye Chen walked through a grove of trees on the east side of Tingyu Xuan. A large expanse of blue appeared before him. It was a field of blue lilacs, filled with blooming blue lilac flowers, their faint fragrance carried in the wind.

  "Are you fond of these lilacs I planted with my own hands?" Yu Yu said, looking at the large patch of blue lilacs in front of her.

  "It's beautiful." Ye Chen said softly.

  "After the rain, she turned around and looked at Ye Chen, saying: 'Right here, among the flowers, you play the zither and I'll sing and dance.' After speaking, she walked straight into the flower cluster."

  Ye Chen followed and walked over, sat down cross-legged, and placed the blue guqin squarely on his legs.

  "Clang..."

  Ye Chen plucked the strings of his zither, and a rendition of "Sword Oath by the River" sent him deeply into that state of mind.

  After the rain, she hears the sound and starts dancing, her dance is light and graceful, her clothes fluttering, her figure is incomparably beautiful, a long sword in her hand dances, blue lilac petals fall from the sky.

  Following Ye Chen's piano sound, Hou Yu's singing voice rose like a heavenly music.

  With sword in hand and wine by side, cultivate the path of truth

  Emptiness, clarity, extinction, illusion, nothingness

  The clouds are deep and it is unknown where they end

  The Hero's Name is Half a Lifetime of Pursuit

  A road of wind and rain on one's shoulders

  An arrow like a shooting star, piercing through the merchant's boat.

  Dancing in the city, condensing jade bones

  A short poem expresses feelings from the heart

  Looking back on a hundred years, still seeing the splendor as before

  Difficult to bear

  A lifetime of dreams in the Jianghu, a lifetime of mistakes with the sword.

  A long pavilion with sunset and evening fragrance, shallow grass fills the eyes

  A single string of the qin is played, but the melody is unfinished, half a sheet of paper is torn apart, and sorrow is hard to express.

  How many times have flowers bloomed without being remembered?

  A lifetime of remembering in the Jianghu of the noble sword

  How can fleeting moments be recalled with ease?

  Three thousand prosperous cities have turned into dust, you are standing at the end of it all.

  Faithful to your promise, as before

  The singing voice is sincere and heartfelt, the piano sound is lingering, the blue petals are falling on Ye Chen's head and shoulders, looking at the dancing rain after the storm, a wave of guilt in his heart.

  The music stopped, the dance ended. After the rain, she walked to Ye Chen's side with a handful of blue lilac petals, her eyes quietly gazing at him, "You like lilies, will you also like lilacs?"

  Ye Chen was speechless, and Hou Yu had once asked him what kind of woman the one he had slaughtered the Chu royal family for was. At that time, Ye Chen said she was like a lily.

  Now, Hou Yu held up the jasmine and asked him like this, but he had nothing to say.

  "Are you embarrassed?" Yu smiled and said, "Never mind, you don't have to answer, I know."

  "No, you won't understand after the rain, my path is a bloody one..." Ye Chen said.

  Hou Yu glanced at Ye Chen and then shifted her gaze to the blooming lilacs, saying: "Perhaps one day I'll also take that path."

  "How could that be?" Ye Chen was taken aback, then said: "You are the princess of the Blue Rain tribe, a holy girl, you can spend your whole life in this beautiful city, living a happy and carefree life."

  "Ye Chen, you don't understand our Blue Rain Clan." Hou Yu let out a soft sigh, her faint voice entering Ye Chen's ears, "The Holy Maiden of the Blue Rain Clan is not just a title, it has special meaning..."

  "What special meaning?" Ye Chen looked at Hou Yu's slender back and said, "Can you tell me why the Holy Maiden of the Blue Rain Clan exists?"

  Hou Yu shook his head and turned around to walk to Ye Chen's side.

  "Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. It's time to eat, let's go back." Yu Yu removed the flower petals from Ye Chen's head and shoulders, then picked up the guqin in his arms, looked at Ye Chen and said: "What, do you want to stay here and admire the flowers?"

  "Let's go." Ye Chen sighed inwardly and stood up with Hou Yu to head towards the attic of Tingyu Pavilion.

  Days passed one by one, plus that month of coma, Ye Chen had unknowingly been in Ting Yu Xuan for four months.

  These three months of cultivation, the spiritual power in his life wheel has grown greatly, and the third acupoint is almost fully divine. As for the divinization of the acupoints, Ye Chen discovered a problem, that is, the more he goes back to divinize the acupoints, the harder it becomes, requiring several times or even dozens of times more spiritual energy.

  Now Ye Chen feels that he has already reached the peak of the first life spring in the Life and Death Secret Realm, and it won't take long to break through and enter the second life spring.

  During this time, Hou Yu made Ye Chen play the piano every day, and she sang and danced. Ye Chen couldn't refuse and could only satisfy her demands. Xiao Xianfeng and Miao Miao would also appear from time to time, getting drunk on Ye Chen's piano music and watching Hou Yu's dance moves.

  On this day, Ye Chen and Hou Yu got up early, and someone came to report that Lan Yu Wang had summoned Hou Yu Gong Zhu to the palace's grand hall.

  After the rain, Hou Yu quickly left Tingyu Xuan. Ye Chen, Xiao Xianfeng and Meow came to the lake shore. Xiao Xianfeng and Meow played around while Ye Chen sat cross-legged in meditation, absorbing spiritual energy from all directions into his body.

  Hou Yu arrived at the grand hall of the imperial palace, where all the officials were standing in attendance. Upon seeing Hou Yu, all the officials knelt down to pay their respects, except for a middle-aged man wearing crimson clothes who stood alone in the center of the hall.

  The middle-aged man had a proud expression, with a hint of unruliness between his eyebrows. He glanced at Hou Yu and immediately felt a sense of astonishment, his eyes fixed in place. It was the first time he had ever seen such a heavenly woman.

  "Cough!"

  A high-ranking minister of the Blue Rain clan coughed heavily once.

  The middle-aged man immediately came back to his senses and slightly bowed towards Hou Yu, saying: "The ambassador of the Haxi tribe pays respects to the princess!"

  "You're welcome!" Yu said faintly.

  In the grand hall, Blue Rain King sat upright, his physique was very robust, with a thick black beard from his cheeks to his chin, a pair of piercing eyes that gave off an air of majesty and awe-inspiring power.

  "Hark, Ambassador of Hachette! You came to my Blue Rain Tribe seeking an audience with Princess Hou Yu. Now that the princess is present, speak your mind freely!" King Blue Rain said calmly.

  "Congratulations, Blue Rain King! Congratulations, Blue Rain King!" Haichet's messenger said repeatedly.

  The officials in the hall all furrowed their brows, but Blue Rain King remained expressionless and said, "What is there for this king to be happy about?"

  Hachette's envoy smiled faintly, glanced at Hou Yu, and then shifted his gaze back to the Blue Rain King, saying: "This envoy is here on behalf of my king to propose a marriage between our tribes. The prince of Hachette, Hamontor, has long admired Princess Hou Yu's extraordinary beauty and unparalleled virtue, and hopes that Your Majesty will grant this union!"

  As soon as these words came out, everyone in the great hall was filled with indignation.

  "Halt, envoy! The princess is the sacred maiden of our Blue Rain tribe, holy and inviolable. How dare you profane her with your reckless words!" a minister thundered.

  "What does this mean, Ha Chi tribe? Are you intentionally humiliating the Blue Rain tribe?" A general pointed at the Ha Chi envoy, his whole body exuding a fierce and murderous aura.

  "Hahaha!" Ha Chet's envoy burst out laughing and said: "I, Ha Chet King, have ordered me to come and propose a marriage alliance. It is for the two tribes to get along well and live in peace forever. Once we are married, from then on, the Ha Chet tribe will never again offend the Blue Rain tribe even slightly. This is what my king has instructed me to bring as a message to the Blue Rain King."

  "Preposterous!" Blue Rain King slammed his hand on the armrest, glaring at the Haretsu envoy. "Is your Haretsu tribe threatening me? How dare you profane the sacred Blue Rain princess! Go back and tell Haretsu King to never again harbor such intentions!"

  "King Blue Rain, you'd better think thrice! I've said it before, if you don't marry Princess Houyu off to Lord Hamontor, we'll raise our army and attack the City of Blue Rain in no time. I'm sure you're well aware of the current strength of my Hachi tribe's military might. Although the City of Blue Rain is sturdy, I reckon it won't be able to hold out for much longer!"

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