"Female slave?" Su Pu's expression changed. He hurriedly asked what had happened, and Aman recounted every detail of how she had been captured.
Hearing that she had been saved by the Water Moon Great Sect Master, Su Pu looked grateful. But when he learned that the two of them had later shared a single camel, and that his beloved had been thoroughly taken advantage of in another man's arms, he became deeply displeased, his eyes filled with hostility.
Öchen, Usun, and the others beside them wore strange expressions. They thought the Water Moon Great Sect Master was quite lucky to have encountered such a chance to save a beauty like a hero. But why had he gone to all that trouble? Wouldn't it have been easier to simply make her his female slave?
Could he be trying to win her heart by taking a roundabout route? These Japanese really knew how to play.
Öchen did not mind much, since he was about to marry the princess. But Usun was rather displeased. He had long regarded Yalixian and Aman as his own forbidden possessions. How could he tolerate someone else laying a hand on them?
However, they had only just suffered a crushing defeat, and he was injured as well. It was not a good time to fall out with the Water Moon Great Sect Master. After hesitating for a moment, he said to Öchen, "Why don't we return to Karakorum and gather troops to avenge this humiliation?"
Once they returned to Karakorum, the resources he could command with his status would far exceed those available to the Water Moon Great Sect Master. How could that man compete with him then? If they remained here and let Aman stay around that veteran rake, who knew when he would get the first