Chapter 2130: 25.20 Lone Black Star - Checking through worlds (11)
The Crown Prince, Ye Qinya, even though he no longer believes that there is something in this world capable of healing him, he couldnât let the feeling of his uncleâs husband be wasted. Even though he didnât have any expectations that his adopted cousinâs healing aura would be able to cure him, he still sat beside the bed where Ye Caoyun is sleeping. He closed his eyes and opened his eyes in his Spiritual domain.
Inside his spiritual domain is a fractured world. A ruined site with black raging sea and numerous almost endless lightning rain. Not even a piece of land exists for his quantum beast to rest. Thatâs why he can only let the little one merge with his body and not let him return to such a broken world where there is nothing but darkness and destruction.
With a silent loneliness within the depths of his eyes, the crown prince looks around this world with cold indifference. Just as he was about to leave, a sudden scent of leaves assaulted his nose. It was faint yet real. When he opened his eyes, he saw a small flash of gold passing beside him. He turned his head almost following this thing and flew towards it. It was only when Ye Qingya had grabbed it that he realized that it was a small seed. A real seed that isnât supposed to exist in his spiritual domain.
Suddenly he noticed that the raging and rumbling sounds he used to hear are now silent and a cool soft breeze spreads in his surroundings. Before he could react a few more golden leaves shadow flew carried by the wind. He looked for the source of the golden leaves in his hand and saw a small island like land in his spiritual domain. In there he saw a silhouette of a human with long hair but he couldnât fully see his face, glancing at his direction before running away.
The Crown Prince was stunned at first, but this silhouette is the only thing in his spiritual domain that gives his world light and he couldnât help but chase after it. Then when he reached the center of the small island the glowing figure and once again the feeling of desolation appeared in his heart. Just as he finished sighing and about to leave the domain he felt something touch his hand. He couldnât see it but he can definitely feel a touch.
{Donât be sad. Plant me. Only then I can stay with you.}
He felt something controlling his hand to touch the ground. Only then did Ye Qinya realize what was happening. Ignoring the dirt in his hand, the crown prince kept digging and planted the golden seed on the land.
{Thirsty. Water me~.}
The voice once again speaks without hesitation Ye Qinya cuts his wrist and waters the seed with his blood. All of the sudden the whole island suddenly glowed a scene akin to rebirth unfold before Ye Qinyaâs eyes. That small golden seed he had sown, its roots had spread throughout his whole spiritual domain with its tree roots putting all broken land in the domain piece by piece. The root held on the lands and merged it. With the land appearing within the domain, regardless of the raging black sea or the dark clouds in the area, it was indefinitely suppressed.
{I help you piece up your land with my roots. Sleepy. So sleepy. Find my master. He can help me grow bigger and he can help remove the pollution. Iâm going to sleep now. Goodnight!}
The voice once again rang however, this time it was a farewell.
"Wait!"
However, there isnât any more response no matter how much he called out.
Ye Qinya stares at the slightly glowing little sprout then to the changes of his spiritual domain only to be left stunned.
Though the domain didnât look beautiful with just tree root piercing it to be forcibly merged, however for Ye Qinya to see a land in his spiritual domain is already a miracle. He looked around to find the seed he planted only to see a small sprout with two golden leaves swaying lazily. The Crown Prince carefully looked at the sprout and even tried to find a way to protect it. Such a fragile looking sprout, Ye Qinya knew this little one was the one who helped him piece together his world to create this land and know how precious it is in his spiritual domain.
Thinking that he canât always enter his spiritual domain, he had summoned his quantum beast. A flood dragon that hasnât attained divinity, looking so much like a golden scaled snake If not for the crown on its head. It was injured in all places and the bleeding continues.
"Jinlong, wake up. I found you a nest. However, there is something you must do to keep it existing,"
said Ye Qinya to the badly wounded golden flood dragon.
This flood dragon slowly opened its eyes and one can see how much pain it was suffering from. However, for some reason in this place, he can feel his wounds truly healing albeit slowly. It fully opened its eyes and saw its master. However, something else had caught its attention. The golden leaf sprouts on the ground. He can feel a great attraction coming from it. It instinctively coiled around it however not too tightly just placing some walls as an action of protection.
Ye Qinya upon seeing his quantum beastâs reaction, he knew that his beast was attracted to the small sprout.
"Jinlong, protect it. He is our savior. He is slowly healing our wounds. I need to wake up first."
Once the crown prince said that, he had slowly opened his eyes in reality only to notice that he had somehow got wrapped by familiar looking tree roots. These roots had pulled him over to lie on the bed without him knowing, only to be surprised to see the sleeping face of Ye Caoyun who is slightly frowning. For some reason seeing the face of Caoyun in front of him, he couldnât help but recall that golden silhouette of the man who had glanced at him that one time.
Ye Qinya tried to move only to realize that he was still wrapped in roots. When he moved he fell off the bed only to see a few pairs of eyes falling on him. The Crown Prince meets the eyes of the four elders in the clinic who seem to have run to this place because of some emergency only to find this scene of the crown prince captured by some root-like things unable to move and was wrapped up like a burrito.
"Imperial Father, Imperial Mother, Imperial Uncle, Imperial Uncle-in-law, what are you doing here?"
The crown prince asked, looking at them innocently. They had noticed that for some reason, the eyes of the crown prince are more lively today than his usual languid eyes.
No one answered and looked at the roots tying the crown prince which seemed to be coming from the tree mark that appeared on Ye Caoyunâs forehead. They realized that this is Ye Caoyunâs quantum beast, a plant type and a wood elemental.
Duke Ye Jie pulled a small dagger and said,
"Wait let me free you. Explain later."
"No! Donât, Imperial Uncle! Donât hurt it!"
The crown prince said to the duke and used his free hand to lightly pat the roots while saying,
"Little one, let me go for a bit. I will not run away."
Everyone was shocked when they saw the roots wrapped around the Crown Prince uncoils carefully and slowly retracted until it disappeared in Ye Caoyunâs body. Now they finally believe that the tree roots just now were indeed a quantum beast and are most likely a rare plant type beast who excels in healing.
Once freed, the crown prince did as he promised and sat beside the bed looking at Ye Caoyun only to notice the baby leopard who had somehow returned beside the bed of Ye Caoyun staring at him. Unlike the usual irritable inhuman expression on the baby leopard from before, this one had clarity in its eyes. As if staring at an adultâs eyes.
Realizing this, the eyes of the crown prince turned cold and grabbed the baby leopard by its neck which suddenly started speaking human language.
"Let go you damn brat! This is unfair. This is an unpaired guide. I want to try it with him as well. He healed me!"
The baby leopard shouted.
The more the leopard speaks, the darker Ye Qinyaâs face is,
"
So noisy. Do you want to wake him up? Shut up or I will stew you!
"
The crown prince mercilessly threw the baby leopard away. The big cat flipped its body and landed lightly on the ground and started hissing at the crown prince.
"
Hmp!
Even if you stew me, there isnât much meat in this form. I already retained my sanity. How come I canât turn back to human!? And why do I feel so small?"
The baby leopard speaks like a young body yet talks like an old uncle.
This baby leopardâs real identity is the crown princeâs second brother born from the Consort Bao. In reality, he is from the uncle side of the Ye Clan. After all, the current emperor only has his empress as his wife and no one else is in the harem.
So to increase the power of the royal family, the relatives with royal bloodline were included. This second prince is actually a distant cousin connected to the royal blood. However, the Bao clan is close to the royal family and is loyal compared to the other princesâ clans. Thatâs why Ye Qinya is actually quite close to this brother of his. But not close enough to share a wife, thatâs why he is annoyed.
Well in reality, the ministers just didnât want the Crown Prince to be the sole heir. After all, everyone already knows that he is on the verge of transforming and the other prince was given the title just in case the royal family loses this one heir to the throne.