This was because she now acknowledged Xiaoyao, so naturally there would change. Of course, if Xiaoyao didn't give her face, she wouldn't mind forcing him to do some things.
Xiaoyao also knew this, so he generally wouldn't refuse Le Youran's requests. Le Youran also wouldn't come looking for him without reason - only when she truly needed something would she seek him out.
During this year, she had hardly asked Xiaoyao to do anything. At most, she would ask him for some advice on martial arts - just advice, not actual techniques or anything like that.
"Tell me what it is first. I'll see what kind of trouble it is. If it's not too big, I can do it without needing your conditions," Xiaoyao said.
"Hehe, so good to me! Alright, I'll tell you. This matter actually isn't very difficult for you - I just need your Divine Farmer internal energy to solve a problem," Le Youran said with a smile. Xiaoyao's words made her very happy, and she knew Xiaoyao could use the Divine Farmer Art because of Nangong Suxin's incident.
Although Le Youran had misunderstood before, she later investigated and learned that Nangong Suxin wasn't simply rescued, but was almost pulled back from death's door by Xiaoyao. She knew Xiaoyao had some medical skills and could use a miraculous support technique - the Divine Farmer Art.
Regarding medical skills, Le Youran couldn't be certain of their effectiveness, but she could be sure about the Divine Farmer Art - regardless of cultivation level, Divine Farmer internal energy could help heal people.
Therefore, when Divine Farmer internal energy was needed today, Le Youran thought of Xiaoyao. If medical skills were required, she might not necessarily think of him, especially for matters in the imperial palace, because making mistakes there would be very troublesome.
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"Needing Divine Farmer internal energy? Oh, then there's no problem," Xiaoyao nodded. Because matters requiring Divine Farmer internal energy were actually very simple - just input it and that was enough. This wouldn't cause any problems.
But Xiaoyao didn't understand one thing, "There should be quite a few people in the imperial palace who know the Divine Farmer Art. Why look for me?"
"Not enough manpower!" Le Youran said.
"Are you joking with me? The imperial palace's staffing would only be excessive, never insufficient. How could there not be enough people!" Xiaoyao looked at Le Youran in confusion.
"It's an unexpected situation. Something happened in the imperial palace - the Emperor and Empress were both injured, along with several princes and princesses, so there aren't enough people!" Le Youran said.
"... Now I feel I shouldn't have agreed!" Xiaoyao was speechless. This situation was obviously complicated - there must have been a coup or something. In such situations, he might well be silenced for two simple words - secrecy!!
"Don't worry, with me here, I guarantee nothing will happen to you. Actually, I didn't want to get involved in this matter either, but one of my close friends happened to get caught up in it. Right now no one can help her, so I could only come find you!" Le Youran understood Xiaoyao's concerns and made assurances first. Her guarantee could make even the imperial family not dare to do anything, so there wouldn't be any problems with "secrecy."
"Le Youran, you came from the imperial palace to find me, then from here back to the imperial palace. Don't you think this time is enough for others to treat your friend!" Xiaoyao looked at Le Youran, feeling his going would be pointless.
"This is still an opportunity. I can't just wait there uselessly. On the contrary, if I come get you, at least I can be certain you can help. By then, perhaps no one will have gotten to her yet, and you'll be useful," Le Youran said.
"Fine, let's go quickly! When the incident happened, were you there? Were you injured?" Xiaoyao looked at Le Youran and asked casually.
"I was at the imperial palace, but not there. I wasn't injured. Are you concerned about me?" Le Youran smiled at Xiaoyao.
"No, if you were injured, I'd treat you while I'm at it, as long as you give me some extra wages," Xiaoyao said indifferently.
"Don't worry, once this matter is handled, I'll double your wages and give you a bonus!" Le Youran patted Xiaoyao's shoulder with a laugh.
"Then it's settled!" Xiaoyao had the smile of someone who'd found treasure.
"You useless thing, getting so happy over a little money - how embarrassing!" Le Youran said tsundere-ishly, with an 'I look down on you' expression.
"Hehe, I'm a little servant. This little money isn't little to me!" Xiaoyao said with a laugh.
"Let's go, quickly!" Le Youran went out and mounted a horse, speaking to Xiaoyao.
"There's no horse! Didn't you prepare one?" Xiaoyao looked left and right but couldn't see any other horses - just the one horse Le Youran was riding. Xiaoyao directly ignored the possibility of riding together with Le Youran, feeling this was absolutely unreliable.
"Stop looking. Time is urgent, sit behind me!" Le Youran extended her hand with a 'hurry up and give me your hand' expression.
"..." Xiaoyao was silent.
"Hurry up! What are you dawdling for!!" Le Youran urged.
"Fine! To save someone, I'll sacrifice my beauty..." Xiaoyao grabbed Le Youran's hand and was immediately pulled onto the horse.
"Sacrifice what beauty! The one being taken advantage of is this young miss. Quick, hold on tight!" Le Youran said casually, then spurred the horse to gallop rapidly toward the imperial palace.
Just like that, the two rode the same horse through the streets, attracting considerable attention. People who recognized Le Youran either gaped, stared wide-eyed, were stunned, or stood dazed when they saw this situation...
After this moment, new rumors about Le Youran began circulating in the city...
"We're here. Get off the horse. Haven't you hugged enough?" Le Youran arrived at the palace gates and wanted to dismount, but found herself being held by Xiaoyao.
"Had enough long ago. You took all the advantage!" Xiaoyao said very resentfully.
"..." Black lines appeared on Le Youran's forehead. She felt these words should have been hers to say.
"Let's go, quickly. Otherwise, if something happens to your friend, don't come asking me!" At this moment, Xiaoyao changed his demeanor and began urging Le Youran.
"Mm, let's go! Follow me, I'll clear the way!" Le Youran grabbed Xiaoyao's hand and began running. The palace guards saw Le Youran running like this but didn't stop her, allowing her passage, they didn't even care about Xiaoyao as an attachment.
To receive such treatment at this special time showed that Le Youran had a very different status in this imperial palace.
"Impressive. This swordwork has already reached transcendent mastery,"
When Xiaoyao arrived at a certain place in the palace, it was already in ruins everywhere, with traces of battle all around. Corpses were still arranged to one side, all seemed to be palace guards. No one had dealt with these bodies yet because everyone was busy with rescue efforts.
When Xiaoyao saw these traces, he made the above exclamation!
"Youran, who did you bring? You told him about this? Is he trustworthy?"
Xiaoyao's exclamation made some people notice his existence. When they saw Xiaoyao, everyone felt they didn't recognize this youth. But seeing Le Youran beside him, they understood, he should be Le Youran's person, which was enough to explain some things.
However, this still wasn't enough to let what just happened be spread around. This matter needed to be kept secret.
"Yes, he's someone I brought. But I didn't tell him about this, Xiaoyao, how do you know this was caused by swordwork, and that it was transcendent swordwork?" Le Youran was somewhat curious.
Xiaoyao said indifferently, "I not only know this was caused by swordwork, but also know that this place became like this because of one person, a swordsman with transcendent abilities! To think that merely Saint level could turn the imperial palace of the world's greatest empire into this, with royalty killed. Honestly, did you all do something that angered both heaven and earth?"
"..." The entire scene fell silent.
"Shh, you little fool, don't talk nonsense here. Sorry, his brain doesn't work well, he likes to talk nonsense," Le Youran immediately explained for Xiaoyao. This matter couldn't be gotten involved in.
"Right, my brain doesn't work well. I was just talking nonsense," Xiaoyao also realized he had spoken too much, probably because this scene was too shocking. Now he was more interested in carefully studying the sword marks here.
"Let's go see Xin'er's condition," Le Youran directly pulled Xiaoyao away, not giving anyone a chance to ask more questions.
"Xin'er? By the way, is Princess Mengmeng also nearby? I want to see the stunning beauty from the beauty rankings!" Xiaoyao said.
"You want to see Princess Mengmeng? She's lying over there. Go look and maybe you can see what she used to look like," Le Youran pointed to the row of corpses on the side.
"..." Xiaoyao was silent for a while. "Dead?! Truly, beauties have thin fates!"
"This time it really was her thin fate. Originally it had nothing to do with her, but she insisted on getting involved and lost her life as a result," Le Youran said coldly. From her tone, one could hear she didn't like Princess Mengmeng.
In fact, although Princess Mengmeng had a good reputation for beauty, her character wasn't very good, she was too focused on fame and profit. This time it originally had nothing to do with her, but to show her importance, she forced herself into the situation. As a result, she lost her life.
"Gain and loss, she wanted opportunities but also got danger. This is fate," Xiaoyao sighed. Although it was a pity he couldn't see this peerless beauty, he didn't have any particular feelings about it. After all, he was just looking casually.
Whether someone else was beautiful or not was none of his business. Besides, no matter how beautiful, she was now just a beautiful skeleton...
(End of Chapter)