12 Do Age Really Matters?

"Contact Zhen Chang to not forget about the materials needed for the Young Lady. Also, Shin Mei that brat... Yingying- huh?"

"I told you to not call me 'Yingying'!" Hong Ruoying retrieved her whip in which Elodiaren transferred after it entered his space bag. The transferring of items inside the space bag is only limited to people with a complete control towards the said object.

Upon the retrieval of her whip, she immediately transformed it into a sword. The whip produced clicking sounds, it contracted at a fast rate as it solidifies the stance of the previous form. She attacked Elodiaren in the form of Gu Feng with her newly transformed Fire Blade.

Gu Feng just sighed and caught the Fire Blade with his hands. He also thought that catching it with his two fingers will take a lot of time. Since Fire Blade is the strongest transformation of her whip, for now.

Hong Ruoying scoffed. She immediately turned it back into a whip and lashed it to Gu Feng. Unfortunately, Gu Feng caught it again. He snapped it and threw it into his space bag. This time, he didn't transfer it.

"You!" Hong Ruoying huffed and puffed towards the despicable man he had ever met. 'Even His Majesty is not this despicable!'

"I already told you, didn't I? If you want to have good analytical skills, you have to get rid of that fiery attitude of yours, I say. Well then, how's the Young Lady?" When it comes to the Young Lady, his complexion is a lot more soft and as he calls 'Young Lady', his words are completely sweet in passion.

Hong Ruoying frowned by his tone but she still answered. "She left and went to another location inside the forest."

Gu Feng smiled before nodding. Hong Ruoying puts her hands in her waist and finally asked about his attitude towards Chang Xiuying. "Why do you have a huge sense of familiarity towards the Young Lady? This is not the only time that I have sense it."

"It's a long story."

"If you don't want to say it, just don't."

"I never said that I don't want to say it."

"Oh, okay. Continue then."

Gu Feng cleared his throat and looked at the distant horizon of the Central Marsh. His eyes depicted his longing and melancholy. "Did you know that the Young Lady is older than me?"

"Ha? That's impossible. I know that she's currently 3 but her previous one is 16 years old. Elodiaren, you're already 624 years old!"

Elodiaren smirked at her. "Ruoying, you are too naive and ignorant. You have to research everything before working as the Young Lady's maid."

"Fine! I am naive and ignorant! So what about being the oldest? It's still impossible! Both of you have 600 years of gap! Crazy! Crazy Lukessia!"

"I say, you are truly ignorant. Almost all of the elders knew this and some of the later generations. You were conversing and chatting with them every day but you never knew this big information?"

"You're a King! I am just a secretary! Can they really disclose such information to me?!"

"Ruoying, our kingdoms have always been in an alliance because of our respective rulers. Once you obtain a spot in the palace, you can always ask anything about the Imperial Family."

Hong Ruoying fell in silence. It's true, they have been in an alliance for almost 1,000 years. They would really be in an unbreakable alliance since it's a marriage between rulers.

Gu Feng continued. "Moreover, you're not a nobody. Despite being a secretary, why are you here accompanying this King in taking care of the Young Lady? Clearly, you have what it takes to protect the Young Lady and this King in case the pursuers have found our whereabouts. Though one is already stationed here in the Central Marsh, that one still does not know and is only an amateur. I would be really surprised if the one they sent is an expert. This place has always been the lowest percentage that the Young Lady will revive into on 0.1%. Too naive! Really too naive! Do they take us for a fool?! We already have the backing of the controller! It's no longer an impossibility to revive the Young Lady here!"

"Never mind!" Hong Ruoying bellowed as she is no longer curious. 'It's impossible to reason out with a Lukessia after all!' She thought.

"What? Is your curiosity so easily distinguished? I say, you really don't want to know it anymore?"

"You're purposely dragging things longer. It seemed that you don't want to tell me at all! Suit yourself, get lost! Hmph!"

"You don't want to know anymore? What a pity. Such a wasted opportunity, I say!"

"Shut up! It must be something trivial! If it comes out of your mouth, it will be just nonsense!" Hong Ruoying turned around to leave. But Gu Feng's (Elodiaren) words made her stop in her tracks.

"The Young Lady is the love of my life." Gu Feng's words repeatedly rang inside her heart. She turned to look at him with her shaking hands, gulping several times to swallow the words that she wanted to ask.

"I say, she's my fiancée. We have known each other for a very long time, no, it's long, long ago. She's already existing before I was born. She taught me many things as a child, and also the reason why I am one of the Great Kings of the Fallen. She's my ultramarine, my everything. She's my life, my world would crumble if I am not the one beside her for eternity."

Gu Feng slowly look into Hong Ruoying's shaky pupils, his eyes were full of melancholy as he said, "I have already waited for hundreds of years. To be exact, 608 years for her. Hoping that her life would be better than that day."

"Why are you telling me this?" Hong Ruoying panted as her heart beats rapidly.

"Why are you asking me if you are the one who wanted me to tell you this, I say?"

"I didn't force you to!"

"But you said it was nonsense. Everything about the Young Lady is important yet you viewed it as 'nonsense', I say."

Hong Ruoying pursed her lips. "Alright. I apologize."

"If apologies always work for a big matter, would we really need justice?"

Hong Ruoying clicked her tongue. Although she doesn't have any space to disrespect the Young Lady, she felt to disgrace her further and would quit for being the maid.

"I also knew why you entered my jurisdiction, Ruoying." Gu Feng looked at her with a solemn expression and turned apologetically.

When Hong Ruoying saw it, she gritted her teeth as fury escaped from her mouth. "Oh? I didn't know that you are that resourceful. Even my personal feelings are known, I wasn't even spared much privacy."

"Resourceful? You're wrong, I say. It's all about observation. It's easy to read an open book like you."

Hong Ruoying didn't respond and just sighed while rolling her eyes in irritation. Gu Feng turned away and jumped behind the house. He landed smoothly before leaving to follow Yan Ruo. Hong Ruoying just watched his receding figure before she transformed into a teenage girl with a calm demeanor which is completely opposite of her self.

After altering her appearance, she also started to walk around the village to monitor.

...

At the edge of the forest, near the Divine Lighting Barrier.

Chang Xiuying stared blankly at the contorting image of a wall. She's thinking of what to do to just go out by herself. Considering her age, she is just too young! No matter how strong, people would not let a child go out of their way alone.

Well, the place where she is residing now is an exception. Ever since coming here, she became much stronger that she is unrivaled. A 3-year-old possessing the strength that is meant for people that pushed themselves to their limits would attract many strange forces. Such a young child is already at the apex of the first phase of strength is the rarest as a golden grain.

5 years old is the official start of the Cleansing Rituals for the body of a child. Whereas, the start of cultivating their strength. Reaching Iron-level would take up 7 months to 1 year as an average. The Life Energy of children is like a cup, filling it up seemed easy but absorbing the surrounding energy is hard. However, there are three methods that can gain Life Energy: the fastest is to kill beasts and it's stable. Killing one beast would gain a vast amount of Energy depending on how strong is the beast compared to the hunter. This is much more like gaining Exp to level-up. You can also gain one of the skills of the killed beast, but the probability of this is as low as 0.5%.

The second one is transferring energy on a daily basis, it is not that stable if the energy is not under control; thirdly, that is to sense the surrounding energy and absorb it. The third one requires talent for sensing, it is also the slowest one of the three but it is also the most stable of them all.

Chang Xiuying suddenly heard a disturbance behind her. She turned to look just to see the rabbit she tested her speed on the very first day she arrived here.

She approached the rabbit with a warm smile, " What are you doing here? You should go back to your mother." She carried the rabbit in her arms to personally send it into its home. However, the next thing she knew is that she is carrying a little body of a girl that is 3- 4 years old. Wait, is that really a girl?

Her eyes grew wide as she stared strangely to the child in her arms. Surprisingly, despite the age, she is taller than her. The child stared back with sparkles in her eyes as she wrapped her arms around Chang Xiuying's neck.