Chapter 888: Reward

Chapter 888: Reward

The women of the village stared at Li Huowang until he finished his meal.

Li Huowang used the bamboo leaf like a spoon to eat the rice.

As he ate, Li Huowang secretly used telepathy to converse with Li Sui. Suisui, what do you think?

Nothing much. They are just the regular people of Tianchen Kingdom. I doubt they would know much about this place.

After finishing his meal, Li Huowang wiped his mouth and returned the bamboo to the woman before him. “Thank you for the meal. If it’s possible, may I stay a night here? Of course, I will pay for it.”

Li Huowang reached into his sleeves and took out several broken pieces of silver. “It’s alright. You’re just staying for a night, so there's no need to pay us.”

The woman seemed surprisingly excited as she led Li Huowang to a hut.

Is everyone in the Tianchen Kingdom so kind?

It was hard to imagine the Tianchen Kingdom betraying the Heavenly Mater and stripping away her Heavenly Dao if they were all so kind.

“Miss, it’s quite remote here.”

Li Huowang looked around at the surrounding short huts and realized they were either built from wood or bamboo.

“It is remote, but that’s fine. Our food is ours, and no one will come and take it from us.”

“Yours? Don’t you need to submit the food as tax to the palace?”

Li Huowang started to shift the conversation towards the direction he wanted.

“Palace? What is that place?”

Li Huowang learned there was no palace or royal family in the Tianchen Kingdom, which meant there were no emperors. In that case, the golden dragon being the Dragon Vein was even more believable now.

Looking at the woman's confused face, Li Huowang quickly answered, “Oh, it’s nothing. It's just a normal thing where I'm from.”

Li Huowang looked at the woman’s back as they continued to walk. “Miss, when I was walking here, I saw someone wearing the robes of an Opera actor and walking on stilts. I saw that person running past the roofs.”

The woman turned back in surprise. “What? What did you see?”

Li Huowang looked at her Ten Emotions and Eight Sufferings to see if anything was out of the ordinary.

“What are you talking about? Don’t lie to me. There are no such beings in this world.”

“You stay here tonight. I hope you don’t mind how old it is.”

Seeing that the woman was climbing up the wooden ladder, Li Huowang quickly followed her and prepared himself to knock her unconscious.

However, when he reached the top, he was stunned by what he saw—the woman had taken off her top.

She gestured and pulled Li Huowang inside. “Here, lie down.”

Li Huowang quickly shook off his arm and realized why there wasn’t a single man in the village during the day and why they welcomed him. He had to pay a price!

“What’s wrong? Do you think I’m too old? Let me call for my daughter, then.”

“No need.”

Li Huowang wiped his hand on the woman’s face, and she froze.

“Father, am I interfering? Don’t worry, I won’t tell mother.”

Li Huowang frowned. “You still have the energy to joke? Don’t forget what we came here for.”

He never thought the culture of the Tianchen Kingdom would be so bizarre.

“Father, it’s not healthy to suppress yourself like this every day. You should smile and laugh when you can. You will snap one day if you continue this.”

“Alright, that’s enough. You don’t have to teach me about it. Let’s go.”

“Father, are you really not moved by her offer? She doesn’t look ugly.”

Li Huowang felt his skin crawling. He never thought his own daughter would say something like that.

He previously thought Li Sui was very inexperienced, but the current Li Sui was too bright!

“Stop saying nonsense before I throw you back into the Qi Kingdom.”

Li Sui stopped talking when she saw Li Huowang reaching for the spine sword.

Snapping branches could be heard as Li Huowang continued to walk into the dark forest.

By the time the hourglass flipped again, Li Huowang reached an opening. A county appeared in front of him.