"I'm here." Qishan appeared beside Chen Beixun and was immediately taken aback.
"Give me a little time," Qishan said, then disappeared.
Chen Beixun set An Changyan down from his arms and said softly, "Take whatever catches your eye."
"Think of it as a bride price."
After saying that, Chen Beixun fondled her again.
"Mm." An Changyan enjoyed his touch, but asked in puzzlement, "What's a bride price?"
Chen Beixun slapped his forehead. "It's nothing."
"How strange," An Changyan said, then began picking out the treasures she liked from the piles.
The place seemed quite safe. Apart from the mountains of treasures, there were no other dangers.
Chen Beixun stayed by An Changyan's side, his mind turning over ways to get out. Then he said to her, "I'll look around for an exit. Be careful."
"Mm." An Changyan nodded, looking sweet and charming.
Chen Beixun swallowed, let his hand wander for a moment, then flew off.
"Mm~" An Changyan pressed her thighs together, her face flushed as she laughingly scolded him, "You're awful!"
Chen Beixun made a rough sweep of the nearby area and found what seemed to be an exit leading straight outside.
"Is it really safe?" Chen Beixun wondered as he flew through the air.
He circled overhead once more before flying back to An Changyan.
"Stop fooling around." An Changyan's face was flushed as Chen Beixun kept teasing and flirting with her from behind.
"Ahem—know your limits. Intelligent Life has feelings too," Qishan's voice echoed in Chen Beixun's mind.
That finally made Chen Beixun restrain himself.
Qishan appeared in front of him. He had also kept his distance while the two of them were busy earlier.
"Heh, when I first met you, I thought you were pretty indifferent to romance," Qishan teased.
"Even an old tree can blossom," Chen Beixun replied with a laugh.
The two communicated through their thoughts, afraid An Changyan might hear them.
"Anyway, down to business. I did a rough calculation. The total value of the treasures here is 5.14 million Hunyuan Units."
"That much?" Chen Beixun was stunned.
It couldn't compare with that absurd World Lord from the original story, but it was still a considerable fortune.
"Can you carry it all?" Qishan asked.
"Heh, isn't my wife here?" Chen Beixun said aloud, deliberately letting the words slip.
"What?" An Changyan abruptly turned toward Chen Beixun, her eyes drooping, her expression languid with intoxication.
"Changyan, how much storage space does your World Ring have?" Chen Beixun asked.
"Fifty million kilometers long, wide, and high," An Changyan replied.
"Huh?" Chen Beixun was stunned. His own World Ring was only ten thousand kilometers long, wide, and high, and his guards were still inside it, so storing treasures there would be inconvenient. His Space Ring had limited capacity and couldn't hold that much.
Even the cheapest World Ring in the Virtual Universe Company's treasury cost 0.5 Hunyuan Units. It had a storage space of ten thousand kilometers in each dimension.
"Damn... Then I'll leave the treasures here to you." Chen Beixun pinched her nose.
"Mm." An Changyan slapped his hand away and said with an air of defiance, "Beg me."
"Heh..." Chen Beixun rubbed his hands together with a smile. "Do me a favor, or else..."
"Or else what?" An Changyan crossed her arms and didn't even look at him.
"Then I'll... beg you!" Chen Beixun pressed his palms together, looking pleading.
An Changyan chuckled. "Leave it to me."
A few minutes later...
"All done." An Changyan stood in front of him.
"Great. Then let's go. We should leave the World Lord World as soon as possible." Chen Beixun's hand moved down from her shoulder, feeling its way lower.
"Are we really leaving just like that?" An Changyan seemed to have something left to take care of.
Chen Beixun was confused. Her question left him momentarily speechless, unsure what she meant.
"Did you forget?" An Changyan asked anxiously.
Only then did Chen Beixun remember.
"Pavadode!" Chen Beixun said.
An Changyan nodded, her eyes earnest. Pavadode was her most loyal guard.
And Chen Beixun was the princess's one true lover, though their relationship couldn't be made public.
Meeting her sincere gaze, Chen Beixun smiled. "No problem."
When he asked her for information, An Changyan had no idea at all.
"You don't even know his exact location?" Chen Beixun was completely stunned.
An Changyan shook her head, then suddenly said, "Before something happened to Pavadode, he turned off location sharing."
"But we can search using the coordinates from before he turned it off."
Chen Beixun felt that this plan was far too reckless and impulsive. If Pavadode had turned off location sharing to protect them, then rushing blindly into danger to avenge him would clearly be unwise.
If Pavadode had gone to such lengths to keep them from finding out, why take that risk? That was what Chen Beixun thought.
An Changyan took his arm and murmured, "Let's go."
Chen Beixun looked at her, his heart heavy. Since he had agreed, he would face it. He was only afraid that An Changyan might be in danger.
"Ah..." Chen Beixun sighed. He had so much he wanted to say to persuade her, but when the words reached his lips, he swallowed them back. He didn't want to disappoint her.
"Why are you sighing?" An Changyan complained. Though she said that, her eyes remained fixed on him. If he backed out, she would understand.
The dangers here were obvious, and An Changyan wanted to leave as soon as possible too. But she hadn't avenged her great loss, and it weighed on her heart.
Chen Beixun said nothing. He merely patted her shoulder before flying off.
He flew ahead, with An Changyan following behind.
They soon arrived at the exit that seemed to lead straight outside.
An Changyan couldn't help looking up and asking, baffled, "This is the exit?"
"Yeah," Chen Beixun said. "Let's go."
Then he flew inside, with An Changyan close behind.
Danger always came with the unknown, while safety seemed nonexistent. Nothing was absolute.
Two figures flew out over a vast expanse of land made of golden metal. They looked tiny against the landscape. After hovering in the air for a moment, they hurried away.
Chen Beixun rode the Gold Cloud Shuttle through the air, scanning the ground below for clues about Pavadode.
As the old saying went: if he was alive, they would see him; if he was dead, they would find his body.
"Slow down!" An Changyan had been left behind and shouted anxiously, as though something precious had been torn away from her.
Chen Beixun looked back, and his speed slowed considerably with the movement.
"You're so slow," Chen Beixun said.
Her Mental Power Amplitude was indeed inferior to his. After all, An Changyan had only cultivated for a little over twenty years, while he had cultivated for more than three hundred. In terms of precision, he was miles ahead of her.
Watching his figure draw closer, An Changyan felt much more at ease.