The Coming-of-Age Ceremony

Verdant Green Maiden had no intention of getting married. What she wanted was to become a Dragon, to ascend!

The Black Ice Platform wanted to capture her? Impossible, not in a million lifetimes!

But, perhaps it was because Ying Zheng had told them about Verdant Green Maiden's little habits, these people were quite adept at finding her! Verdant Green Maiden had been hiding for over a year, but she couldn't evade them any longer. At an intersection, she cornered them and, hands on her hips, yelled, "Are you guys crazy? Don't you have shifts to rest?"

The men exchanged glances, then bowed respectfully to Verdant Green Maiden.

"Queen!"

Her fists clenched.

Her fists were hard.

Verdant Green Maiden pinned these men to the ground and beat them. After about fifteen minutes, their leader finally rushed to the scene.

He dismounted his horse and ran over quickly, shouting as he ran, "Master! Master, please calm your anger!"

Verdant Green Maiden held one person down with one hand and pointed at the leader running towards her, asking, "You! Are you here to get beaten too? Lie down properly..."

The leader frantically waved his hands and explained, "Master, you've misunderstood!"

"Misunderstood?"

Verdant Green Maiden narrowed her eyes and questioned, "If you're not here to get beaten, then what are you here for?"

The leader nervously took out a silk scroll from his embrace and handed it to Verdant Green Maiden, respectfully saying, "This is what the Great King asked us to give you once we found Master! The Great King will be coming of age in Yong City soon, and he hopes Master can attend!"

"The Great King said that he was wrong about everything that happened before."

It was rare for Ying Zheng to admit he was wrong.

When saying this to Verdant Green Maiden, the leader was practically prostrating himself on the ground, afraid that if Verdant Green Maiden was displeased and tore up the scroll, she wouldn't go!

If that happened, they would be completely helpless, as they couldn't defeat her in a fight either.

Verdant Green Maiden finished reading the contents of the silk scroll, then kicked the men she had beaten to the ground, saying, "Scram!"

These men scrambled back to the leader's side.

Verdant Green Maiden then crumpled the silk scroll, stuffed it into her small bag, and said, "Go back and tell him I'll be there! It's good that he knows he was wrong."

With that, she turned to leave.

"Um... Master!"

The leader opened his mouth.

Verdant Green Maiden turned back, a glint of coldness flashing in her eyes. Her Vertical Pupils were fierce as she asked, "Kid, what else do you want to say?"

"We have carriages and horses, we can send Master back."

The leader bowed and said.

Verdant Green Maiden waved her hand and said to the leader, "No need, your carriages and horses aren't as fast as I am! Going back with you would be boring!"

The few people didn't dare to force Verdant Green Maiden, so they could only nod and watch her leave.

Hong Luan landed on Verdant Green Maiden's shoulder. Before it could speak, Verdant Green Maiden directly grabbed it and chided, "Although the clumsy bird flies first, you can't always fly ahead! Can't you beat people with me when we fight? That way, our momentum will be stronger too!"

"Stupid Snake, are you sure I can beat people?"

Birdie was so helpless. How big was it? It could catch wild rabbits and eat sacrificial meat, but fight people?

The situation was too chaotic, it couldn't fight at all!

Verdant Green Maiden stared at it for a while, then let go and sighed, complaining, "When will you turn into a human! Do Mountain Spirits and Wild Monsters cultivate so slowly? It's been almost six or seven hundred years! You're still in the form of a bird, and you don't get fat no matter how much you're fed."

"Then when did you turn into a human?" Hong Luan hopped onto Verdant Green Maiden's shoulder and asked.

Verdant Green Maiden heard this, calculated with her fingers, and then said in a deep voice, "Probably, the day after I was fished out of the Wei River by the Yellow Emperor?"

Hong Luan's bird eyes widened.

"The next day? How old are you?"

Verdant Green Maiden counted on her fingers and said, "Probably... less than a year old."

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The memories of her time as a snake were very vague, not as profound as the memories of her previous life of over twenty years.

But she clearly remembered that on the day after she was lifted from the Wei River by the Yellow Emperor, she woke up in the tribal camp in human form. She was revered as a miracle by the tribe and embroidered onto their totem.

She was the original form of the You Xiong Clan's Dragon totem!

After Verdant Green Maiden finished speaking, Hong Luan fell silent. After a long while, it hopped to the outside of Verdant Green Maiden's shoulder, then turned its head away, no longer looking at her.

Verdant Green Maiden turned her head to look and asked, "Bird Sister, are you angry?"

"I refuse to talk to you!"

Hong Luan turned its head away, not looking at Verdant Green Maiden.

The cold war between the snake and the bird had not ended even when they were nearing Hangu Pass.

Every time Hong Luan brought back a wild rabbit, it would just drop it from the sky, without considering whether Verdant Green Maiden could catch it. When Verdant Green Maiden roasted meat, it wouldn't eat it and would go find fruit itself. Even when sleeping at night, it no longer stayed in Verdant Green Maiden's embrace!

One day, as Hong Luan was about to go out to find food for Verdant Green Maiden again, it was grabbed by her.

"What are you doing?"

Hong Luan cried out in surprise.

Verdant Green Maiden forcibly turned its little head to face her and said, "Bird Sister, I was wrong! Stupid Snake shouldn't have shown off its talent. Please, Great Bird, don't hold a grudge against a little snake, don't be mad at me anymore?"

Hearing Verdant Green Maiden's apology, Hong Luan became flustered.

"You, you, you... what are you apologizing for!"

"Huh?"

Verdant Green Maiden tilted her head and asked, "Didn't I make you angry?"

Seeing her dazed look, Hong Luan mumbled a bit and said reluctantly, "No... I just feel useless. After all these years, I can't even transform into a human. Besides helping you find food, I can't do anything else."

"Hong Luan!!"

Verdant Green Maiden hugged Hong Luan emotionally.

Hong Luan shook its head and shouted, "Ah, stop hugging me, it's so cheesy..."

Verdant Green Maiden still held it and mumbled, "Even though you really can't help with anything besides finding food, I won't dislike you! Let's spend the next few thousand years together..."

As soon as she said that, Hong Luan pecked Verdant Green Maiden on the earlobe.

"Stupid Snake! Go to hell!!"

"This snake still wants to live for a few thousand years, it doesn't want to die..."

One snake and one bird bickered as they climbed over Hangu Pass from the small path, heading towards Yong City.

Yong City had been the capital of Qin hundreds of years ago, much earlier than Liyang and Xianyang. The ancestral temple of Qin was located here.

The capping ceremonies for the successive Qin rulers were also held here!

In the ancestral temple, Ying Zheng paid respects to his ancestors.

He walked out alone and turned to look at Afang and the others waiting outside the ancestral temple. He asked in a low voice, "Is there still no news from Master?"

Afang shook her head and said, "The Black Ice Platform sent a letter. Although they saw Master, they couldn't persuade her to return with them. However, Master said she would come! Great King, please rest assured. Perhaps Master has already arrived in Yong City, and we just don't know it."

Hearing this, Ying Zheng still sighed and looked at the others.

"Have the things I asked you to prepare been made ready?"

As soon as he asked this, everyone nodded and cupped their fists, replying, "Your Majesty, please rest assured, everything in Yong City has been prepared! With Prime Minister in Xianyang, there will be no mistakes!"

"Prime Minister again..."

Ying Zheng let out a soft sigh. "This King understands."

He dismissed his attendants, allowing only Afang to follow. As they strolled through the palaces of Yong City, he and Afang suddenly caught sight of a maiden in a blue quju robe, leaning against the palace wall ahead.

She swayed the Sacrificial Meat in her hand and spoke in a clear, gentle tone.

"King of Qin, Ying Zheng! How have you been lately?"

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