Chapter 14: Lv Lingqi and Nan Feihuang

Nan Feihuang practiced for a short while, his gaze fixed on Lv Lingqi the entire time.

When a Spirit Master absorbs a Spirit Ring, it is generally divided into two stages: the first is enduring the attack coming from the Spirit Ring; if one cannot hold on, they will explode and die. The second is, after successfully passing the danger period, using the power of the Spirit Ring to temper the body, strengthen various physical attributes, and generate a soul skill.

Seeing Lv Lingqi pass the first stage with ease, Nan Feihuang felt relieved.

Seeing this, Lan Xue smiled slightly, "My treasure, Lingqi is very beautiful, isn't she? Although she is a mute, her natural talent is extraordinary. Do you like her?"

"I do!" Nan Feihuang said honestly. He had no need to pretend; liking someone is just liking them. The original *San Guo Qun Ying 2* did not have the general Lv Lingqi, and the reason he added Lv Lingqi to the Three Kingdoms game back then was precisely because he liked her heroic and spirited nature.

As long as Lv Lingqi herself was willing, he would be absolutely happy to be with her.

So what if she is a mute? He could just find a way to cure her; if he couldn't, it didn't matter, her talent was right there.

"Then just marry her into the family. However, her status is too low; being of slave origin doesn't sound very good. Originally, I estimated she could only be a lady-in-waiting or something similar. Fortunately, her aptitude is strong enough; if her strength is high in the future, she can be a Concubine," Lan Xue said.

Her son was the future King; as long as he reached his teens, taking in a Secondary Concubine before his official marriage was not a big deal.

"A Concubine?" Nan Feihuang thought for a moment and did not argue with Lan Xue, though in his heart, he disagreed.

What Concubine, what bad background? As long as he liked her, he would make Lv Lingqi the Queen.

Besides, wasn't his mother a commoner herself? And now she had become the Queen.

A mother knows her son best. Seeing Nan Feihuang's slightly reluctant expression, Lan Xue knew what he was thinking, "Huang'er, don't you think about making her your primary wife. Your mother, I, am at least a legal citizen of the Gulei Kingdom, not a slave without human rights. When I married your father the King, I was even the direct disciple of the former Dean of Tianshui Academy. This status alone is not lower than that of an average noble. But Lingqi's status is truly too low; if you take her as your primary wife, you will be mocked."

She doted on her son and did not want him to suffer the slightest grievance.

Then only Lv Lingqi could be wronged.

There was no help for it; in this era, the status of a slave was truly too lowly. How could a Queen of a nation be of slave origin?

"Moreover, your father the King has already gone to make arrangements for your primary wife," Lan Xue continued.

"What?" Nan Feihuang was startled, "Mother, I am only six years old. Are you and Father so bored?"

"What of it? Among royalty and nobility, there are many who are betrothed from birth. You are the Crown Prince of our nation; a Crown Princess of equal social standing is necessary. Rest assured, the one your father found for you is absolutely a woman whose status, position, and appearance are worthy of you. Furthermore, your mother would not do something as cruel as breaking up a pair of lovebirds. If you like Lingqi, just continue to be with her; you just need to treat them equally in the future."

Nan Feihuang was completely stunned. Right now, his mind was filled with only four words: I want to cancel the engagement!

Heaven knows what kind of woman Nan Tianchen would find for him. He couldn't accept having a primary wife he hadn't even met.

Just at this moment, on Lv Lingqi's side, the yellow Spirit Ring suddenly contracted and merged into her body.

She had successfully absorbed the Spirit Ring, and her soul power fluctuation was approximately level thirteen.

"Ah, ah, ah..." Lv Lingqi ran happily to Nan Feihuang's side, then lowered her head, looking for praise.

Nan Feihuang smiled and reached out to gently stroke her silver-white hair, "Well done, Lingqi. What is your soul skill?"

Seeing the interaction between the two, Lan Xue smiled with satisfaction. It seemed this Lv Lingqi also liked her son; this was a mutual attraction, not bad.

Lv Lingqi could not speak and could only demonstrate it directly.

She summoned her martial soul, and the Feilian Halberd radiated a thick golden light.

Then, she threw it out. The Feilian Halberd struck a large tree in front at extreme speed, shattering the tree into powder in one blow.

A single-target attack skill. Although its sustained attack capability was not as good as Dian Wei's Ghost Halberd, its attack speed was faster, and it seemed to have some other effects.

"Throwing the Feilian Halberd like a flying knife, the golden light... could this move be... Imperial Flying Knife?" Nan Feihuang asked tentatively.

"Ah, ah, ah..." Lv Lingqi nodded happily. As expected of her lord, he understood her. This was indeed her First Soul Skill, Imperial Flying Knife.

Nan Feihuang was overjoyed. Among general skills, Imperial Flying Knife was not a low-level skill. Being able to appear as a First Soul Skill was an unexpected surprise.

The attack power of this move did not exceed the Ghost Halberd by much, but it had a very special ability: in the game, it disrupted the gathering of energy and delayed the opponent's time to release general skills.

It was very suitable for the popular "suffocation" tactics of that time.

Placed in this world, it was likely to disrupt the opponent's soul power; after all, Spirit Masters also needed to concentrate soul power to release soul skills.

Once an opponent could not effectively and quickly release soul skills, it was easy to seize the initiative on the battlefield.

Obtaining the first Spirit Ring so smoothly could be considered a good start.

After resting for the night, the group continued to advance the next day. After going deeper for a while, they were approaching territory where thousand-year Spirit Beasts appeared from time to time.

In this kind of small Soul Hunting Forest, a thousand-year Spirit Beast could be considered an overlord of a region; after all, whether there were ten-thousand-year Spirit Beasts here was a question mark.

"Boom!"

A five-hundred-year Qiangong Xi Cleaving Axe Mantis was frozen into an ice block, falling at Lan Xue's feet, with only its head exposed.

Lan Xue waved her hand at Xun Yu, "Gou Huo, do it!"

With the Spirit Ring right there, Xun Yu couldn't be bothered to correct Lan Xue and stepped forward to crush the mantis's head.

Soon, he also completed the absorption of the Spirit Ring. His martial soul could be transformed into a Great Blade Soldier Token. With the Spirit Ring, he could finally release his soul skill and summon soldiers.

"Ambush Formation!"

Xun Yu summoned over twenty servant blade soldiers and ordered, "Listen to my command: search for Spirit Beasts everywhere for our lord. If you discover a Spirit Beast with strong attack power above six hundred years, report immediately!"

"Yes!" The soldiers dispersed in all directions.

This soul skill was not only useful for combat; it had wonderful uses in many other areas as well.

No matter how dangerous a Spirit Beast gathering place was, these soldiers could be sent in. After all, they were not real people, just energy bodies formed by soul power; the kind that didn't even leave a corpse behind when they died.

Even if they were beaten to death, as long as Xun Yu still had soul power, he could replenish them at any time.

Lan Xue felt that with Xun Yu in the future, she would be much more relaxed.

The group found a place to rest, quietly waiting for the soldiers' intelligence.

Sure enough, there is strength in numbers. Not long after, a soldier returned, "Report, three miles ahead, there is a Silver Moon Sky Wolf!"

(End of chapter)