The Emperor of the Three Realms

chapter 202

“Rules are dead, alive and dead are alive.” Dan Fei's tone was unusual and suddenly became faint. “Rule says that men should not bully women, but aren't you still bullying me?”    

Jiang Chen smiled awkwardly and rubbed his nose, at a loss for words.    

The atmosphere was a bit strange because of the bad silence. Dan Fei was the one who broke this awkward atmosphere.    

“Jiang Chen, I'm sorry.”    

"For what?" Jiang Chen frowned. “It looks like I'm the one who should say that.”    

“I shouldn't have been intentional and I shouldn't have drawn your face.” Jiang Chen had not expected Dan Fei's tone of voice to be like this.    

“Alright, I admit that the pressure from last night's problem may be a little big and it affects me a little. It is never the right thing for a man to hit a woman.”    

In fact, Jiang Chen had not actually attacked him with that punch. It was like an adult lecturing a child and giving them a little punishment.    

“You keep talking about it.” Dan Fei reprimanded with a frown.    

“Alright, I won't continue the conversation. I just want to say..good elasticity.” Jiang Chen laughed out loud.    

“Cursed bastard!” Dan Fei cursed her anxiety, and then sighed from a distance. “Jiang Chen, you really are a little devil. I have never suffered so much in my entire life.”    

“You suffer? I thought you might want to laugh in your sleep after getting four baby spirit animals.”    

Dan Fei's emotions had indeed instantly changed when the spirit beast baby was mentioned. He smiled faintly and proudly as he lowered the bamboo basket on his back.    

The four furry and fluffy babies clearly did not know the world. They gurgled and let out all sorts of sounds, making various faces at Jiang Chen.    

“Jiang Chen, do you think they are hungry?”    

“It's okay, don't you see they're so hungry that their eyes turn green?” Jiang Chen threw some of the fruits he had obtained from the cave into the basket.    

The four babies started fighting with each other to get food, as he had expected.    

What Dan Fei did not expect was that although the four babies seemed to coexist in normal harmony, the four of them became extremely ferocious when food appeared, and all of that seems to affect the posture of risking their lives in the battle for food.    

“The world of spirit beings is indeed a world for the weak who fall prey to the strong and the strongest who survive!”    

"What do you mean?" Dan Fei didn't understand that much.    

"That's easy. Although these four spirit ape babies were born from the same mother, in the end only one survived. They had to kill and eat their kind, and in the end one of them would emerge as the final victor. You can find out from their posture in scrambling food. Perhaps, when they had grown up, they might have fought the adult giant ape who gave birth to them to death for the sake of fighting over territory. This is the rule of survival of spirit beings. Survival of the fittest in natural selection. They are born in this life cycle and no one can avoid it.”    

Jiang Chen did not speak in vain. His understanding of spirit beasts identified most of such spirit beasts. The higher their intelligence, the higher their intelligence.    

One mountain will not let two tigers live on it. That's philosophy.    

It was a low-level beast whose intelligence had yet to develop, or a spirit beast who, naturally, liked to form groups, and gathered in large groups.    

The Goldwing Sword Bird.    

Of course, it was not only limited to the Golden Winged Sword Bird alone. There were too many species of spirit beasts to count in this enormous world. The number of spirit creatures that like to gather is as much as the fur of an ox. Some were in such great numbers that it became a disaster, that the king of spirit beasts that were tens or hundreds of times stronger than them had to budge in front of them.    

Dan Fei was deep in thought as her charming eyes glanced at Jiang Chen's face. He sighed, “Jiang Chen, is there something you don't know?”    

“Is there something I don't know?” Jiang Chen chuckled as a tragic trace suddenly appeared on his face. There was something he didn't know.    

He suddenly recalled his father, the Celestial Emperor, in his past life. How's it going now? And how could he be reincarnated into this world?    

He really doesn't know this. Even if his knowledge was unparalleled and the learning from his past life crossed all planes of existence, he knew nothing when faced with this problem and he had no clue at all.    

“Nona Dan Fei, take an example, if we are in a circle right now. All we know is what's in this circle. There are many more unknown things in the world outside the circle. Only when we step out of that circle do we know that our initial knowledge is still too little.”    

Jiang Chen's round of emotional reflection did not show a contemplative atmosphere, he actually spoke from the heart.    

A ray of surprise shot out from Dan Fei's beautiful eyes. He did not think that Jiang Chen, with his cute and open personality, would suddenly voice such deep words.    

"Let's go." Jiang Chen called out to him, as Dan Fei slowly thought of Jiang Chen's words in her mind.    

"Where are we going?" Dan Fei asked.    

“Liu Can is part of the Ye Dai group. I kept thinking that his appearance was a bit strange. We should check it out and see if Ye Dai's son is up to something.”    

Dan Fei started. He actually did not want to get involved in the infighting and politics between princes. From his aloof point of view, no matter who the Crown Prince was or his king was.    

Even if Ye Dai or Ye Rong were kings, they would not dare to act so ruthlessly before him, Dan Fei.    

However, after the fight last night, Dan Fei seemed to subconsciously accept the fact that their roles had changed. He went from wielding control of power to naturally listening to Jiang Chen's orders.    

Jiang Chen's speed wasn't fast or slow because his route didn't seem to be determined by scouting or any particular thought.    

“Heh heh, just follow me!”    

Dan Fei had long gotten used to Jiang Chen not playing around with books. He could only lower his head and continue to follow.    

After two or three days, they still had no results. Dan Fei almost wanted to suspect that Jiang Chen had made a mistake somewhere? However seeing her confident appearance, Dan Fei still held back the question that almost popped out of her lips a few times.    

“Alright, looks like we're close. Sister Dan Fei, do you want to go with me or wait for me outside?”    

“Are you sure they're close?” Dan Fei was still somewhat suspicious.    

“What am I doing here if not?”    

Jiang Chen was about to say something when he suddenly grabbed Dan Fei's hand and ran into the bushes by the roadside. He said in a low voice, “Do not make a sound.”    

The two of them hid for a while behind the bushes and they saw two people quickly walking down the mountain road in front of them. One of them was the first prince Ye Dai.    

The others had arrogant expressions with faces tilted towards the sky. His body shape was mediocre and he was wearing a uniform. He was a Precious Tree Sect disciple!    

However, a sect disciple who wanted to participate in the Autumn Hunt of the Labyrinth Realm most likely also did not have a high status. At the very least, he would not be one of the best disciples in the sect.    

“This is the place.” Ye Dai stopped at the beginning of the road. “Brother Chen, let's wait.”    

The Precious Tree Sect disciple nodded and did not say anything. His gaze was like an eagle while patrolling around him, clearly in high alertness.    

However, Jiang Chen and Dan Fei had long since prepared and they could not be detected by him.    

Ye Dai's eyes sparkled after a while, “They are here.”    

It was true that a group of people quickly approached from the west side of the road. It was a small team with eight people. Third prince Ye Zheng led them.    

"Number three." Ye Dai exclaimed.    

Ye Zheng immediately walked up with a smile, “Sister, I finally met you.”    

Ye Dai patted Ye Zheng on the shoulder and said familiarly, “Number three, their position has been locked. My scouts can basically be sure that the small team of number four is in a mountain valley about fifty li to the southeast. They seem to be hunting spirit beasts.”    

“Heh heh, that boy Ye Rong has really been involved in this.” There was a hint of sarcasm in Ye Zheng's tone.    

“Number three, there's nothing wrong with the people you bring, right?” Ye Dai's gaze turned around and looked at everything.    

“Sister, do you still not believe me? Take it easy about the people I bring, they are all my confidants. As long as we solve this problem perfectly, I promise no one will be able to trace it back to us when we leave.”    

Traces of violent bloodlust came out from Ye Zheng's mouth.    

“Alright, we get rid of number four first, only number two.” There was a strong intention to kill in Ye Dai's tone of voice, as if he had not killed his own brother, but had a discussion about how to kill a chicken.    

“Kakak, we've already discussed this. If you take the throne in the future, you cannot reduce the amount of wealth you give me.”    

“Haha, number three, we've been close since childhood, am I going to molest you? We, two brothers, are the same person. When we combine our efforts together in the future and expand into new territories, is it possible that the sixteen neighboring kingdoms will unite because of us? At that time, I will definitely bestow the widest plot of land to you and make you control the borders of several kingdoms!”    

Ye Zheng chuckled, “Alright, the two of us brothers will join hands and do this!”    

“Come, meet my team first.” Ye Dai was quite familiar as he walked parallel to Ye Zheng, heading up the mountain.    

When the group of people were already far away, Dan Fei let out a light sigh, “Master did not form a wrong opinion about Ye Dai.”    

“Let me guess what my Master said? Hmm, great ambition but weak talent is sure to be part of the assessment, maybe words like pretending to be a saintly pretender but willing to do anything to achieve his goal?    

“Mm? You guessed some of it right. But most of the sons of nobles pretended to be high moral people, so the landlords would not say that. 'The great ambition but little talent, very cruel and merciless' was the lordmaster's judgment towards Ye Dai. Therefore, when Ye Dai considered himself smart and asked the question of uniting the sixteen kingdoms, this actually greatly reduced the lordmaster's impression of him.”    

Jiang Chen firmly cursed Ye Dai, “Great ambition but his talent is small, his ability is insufficient but he has ambitions that cannot be matched by his ability. This is not a good thing, it will bring disaster to the Skylaurel.” Kingdom    

Dan Fei was somewhat surprised by Jiang Chen's power of understanding, seeing that she understood him with just a hint. It makes sense. Although Jiang Chen was from the Eastern Kingdom, when it came to the bigger picture of any kingdom, most of the problems were the same.    

“Do you want to know what the landlord's view is towards Ye Rong?” Dan Fei suddenly asked with a smile.    

"Oh? Let's listen to.” Jiang Chen was indeed close to Ye Rong, so he was rather curious.    

“Lordmaster's view of Ye Rong is only like this – if he can survive for now, he will be worthy to take over the world.”    

Her praise was that high? Jiang Chen did have a good impression of Ye Rong, but he never thought that the Lordmaster would give such high praise to him. We should know that Ye Rong used to be very humble. His existence among the princes was ignored by everyone on various occasions.    

"Yes. Ye Rong possessed the proficiency of a royal son and even the breadth of a king's mind. He was not as cruel and ruthless as Ye Dai, nor was his mind as narrow as Ye Dai's mind so as to be unable to rule the world.”