Lord of the Desert

Chapter 579 Embrace
"What are you thinking?"

Seeing him deep in thought, Xiao Chu asked.

"I wonder what the clan would be like without me."

Hong Fan replied.

"Why would you suddenly think of such an unlucky thing? It's so inexplicable!"

Xiao Chu frowned.

"Don't worry, I have no taboos when it comes to the Star Lord."

Hong Fan smiled reassuringly, but noticed that the woman's expression was slightly cold.

Silence is like poison, destroying the beautiful scenery before our eyes.

Both of them keenly perceived the problem, but avoided it.

"So what does it feel like to break through the elemental magnetic field?"

Xiao Chu asked the question in a complicated tone.

This is also a complex issue.

Hong Fan recalled that day, his mind flashing back to the profound process of the transformation of his internal organs into their innate form, the joy of truly touching the innate spiritual energy, the confidence of doubling his strength, and the unrestrained indulgence of his true essence...

After a moment, two words finally settled in his mind.

"free."

Hong Fan's gaze pierced through the clear blue sky, reaching towards the blazing sun.

"Breaking through the magnetic field brings me closer to freedom."

"Free?"

Xiao Chu repeated in a low voice, seemingly moved.

"As a Yuan Magnetic Warrior, one can fly autonomously, and that feeling is completely different from that of the Sand Wing."

The silence lingered for a moment amidst the strong winds of the wilderness.

"You want to be with me..."

"Can you take me with you..."

They both spoke at the same time, stared at each other in a daze, and then burst into laughter.

"How to do?"

Xiao Chu tucked her loose hair behind her ears, her cheeks slightly flushed.

Carrying it by the shoulder is too disrespectful, holding it horizontally is too frivolous, and carrying it on one's back doesn't seem quite right either.

"You're stepping on my boots, and I'm supporting you?"

Hong Fan suggested.

Xiao Chu, unusually, lost his own opinion and simply nodded along with the crowd.

Hong Fan took a deep breath, straightened his back, and his face became tense.

It felt as if we were facing the Iron Throne directly in front of the Hanging Gall Fortress.

"and many more……"

Xiao Chu's voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz. He took off his riding boots, leaving only plain white silk stockings.

Holding onto Hong Fan's left arm, she stood on tiptoe and stepped on his right foot.

"Actually, you don't have to take off your shoes."

"That would get your boots dirty, and people would see it..."

There were only two people in the world, but they both lowered their voices, as if even the passing wind could eavesdrop.

A faint, ambiguous warmth emanated from between her stockings and boots.

They looked away, avoiding eye contact.

Xiao Chu was tall, only half a head shorter than Hong Fan, which brought the two very close together.

Hong Fan's Adam's apple bobbed as he was forced to wrap his right arm around the waist of the woman in his arms.

"May I?"

"Look at you."

The rings tightened even more.

Shortness of breath.

The person is still standing on the ground, but the heart has already floated into the clouds.

"Be careful."

Seven years have passed since he traveled through time, and Hong Fan feels he has never felt as young and naive as he does now.

True essence circulated freely, and the two embracing figures slowly rose to the center of the world.

The air in northern Xinjiang is clean and refreshing in summer; the convective winds in the air feel cool and slightly itchy on the skin.

But the direct sunlight felt exceptionally warm.

Xiao Chu nestled close to her beloved, her eyelashes trembling slightly, her peripheral vision gazing at the distant, verdant earth below, willingly succumbing to the comfortable, dizzying sensation of warm water.

We're sticking very close together.

The world is so narrow and sensitive that even the natural rise and fall of one's chest seems excessive.

The two of them held their breath simultaneously.

I could have used sand to form a vessel, and thus avoided such constraints.

Hong Fan suddenly realized this belatedly.

[Luckily I didn't think of that before...] His mind raced, and he cut off this harmful and useless distracting thought.

It is already more than 500 meters above the ground.

It stands as high as the mountains, and the clouds are within reach.

The wind grew increasingly violent, and Xiao Chu, who had been only holding onto her clothes, wrapped her arms around Hong Fan's waist—she had forgotten that she was a congenital martial artist and had regressed into a weak and incompetent girl.

"Want to try flying even faster?"

Hong Fan asked.

No answer was needed; he already knew the answer from the sudden, rapid heartbeat transmitted between their bodies.

"gone!"

Holding the delicate body tightly in his arms, Hong Fan accelerated his penetration into the rain clouds not far away.

The water vapor blurred Xiao Chu's vision.

It turns out that clouds and fog are indistinguishable except for their altitude.

She thought silently, listening to the sound of clothes fluttering in the wind, her peripheral vision briefly catching glimpses of the hundred-foot-thick cloud formations.

"how?"

The arms around her waist were wrapped even tighter.

So the two of them rose vertically towards the heavens, plunging into the upper clouds.

Grayish-white clouds blanketed the sky, obscuring everything, while damp, cold air and tiny ice crystals lashed wildly against their cheeks, leaving tear-like streaks.

The strong winds blurred the lines between up and down, left and right, and the rapid speed obscured the flow of time.

At this moment, Xiao Chu was unaware of his own location; only the heartbeats of our embracing hearts were breathtaking.

She experienced firsthand the freedom Hong Fan had spoken of, and so she screamed wildly and laughed heartily...

At an altitude of 10,000 meters, atop a sea of ​​clouds.

The two leaped out of the clouds and water, and what they saw was a magnificent, towering spectacle stretching diagonally across the heavens and the earth.

The veil of clouds, intertwined with countless golden arrows of light, stretches and floats, more majestic than any mountain range in the human world.

"Come again!"

Piercing through layers of clouds of various shapes, weaving through the dreamlike mist, experiencing the interplay of the gentleness of the wind and clouds and the masculine strength of the sun.

Identity, current situation, crisis, war...

Everything of practical significance was driven away by speed and passion, leaving only a nameless, soulmate couple.

She pulled out the hairpin with one hand, and her long braid came undone in the strong wind.

His long, flowing black hair danced in the air, brushing against his bare neck and jaw.

Then, they embraced and fell back into the sea of ​​clouds.

Disperse your true energy, surrender everything to gravity—chase after gusts of wind, pass through layer after layer of clouds—dazzled and dazzled, traversing endless worlds.

Until beyond the winds and clouds;

Until the mountains and green fields came into view;
Until the small black dot representing the beacon tower city came into view out of the corner of my eye...

The world and history, which they had only recently departed from, caught up with them and permeated them once again.

He became Hong Fan, the top star on the list of prodigies.

She was Princess Xiande, the commander of Shengyu.

As the speed decreased, Hong Fan hovered in mid-air, his tightly clasped hands slightly relaxing.

Xiao Chu's forehead was covered in a light sweat, and his heart pounded for a long time.

In the distance, a rainbow rose over the nameless lake in the east—its outer edge was bright red, followed by orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple, with the yellow-green in the center standing out against the backdrop of the sky and clouds.

The two gazed at the rainbow bridge with such rapt attention that they became completely mesmerized.

At this moment, Xiao Chu had an urge to rush to the lake to examine it closely, but a vague fear in her heart prevented her from saying it.

Many things look wonderful from afar, but upon closer inspection, they are found to be riddled with flaws.

As a princess, she had experienced far too many situations like this.

"Some factions in the court are considering opening up Mingxing's mind."

Xiao Chu suddenly spoke.

"It was led by Duke Anping, and my third brother was also involved; however, they did not dare to provoke you directly."

Hong Fan nodded silently, showing no concern.

All of Kaiming Bank's assets are in Liangzhou, and since Jin Ziming left, he has had no rivals in Liangzhou.

Administration, industry, martial arts academy, weapon crafting bureau, sects, large and small powerful families...

Hong Fan's connections and business interests span all aspects of the state. As long as he lives, it is virtually impossible for forces from other states to seize his wealth through trickery or force.

As for personal safety, after advancing to the Yuan Magnetic Realm, his combat power is conservatively estimated to rank among the top 300 in the Great Hua Dynasty. There are quite a few people in the same realm who can defeat him, such as Hou Zhiye and Zhou Wenyang, who are famous on the Earth Ranking, but there are probably no more who can kill him.

"Now is the time for the imperial court to completely subdue Zhenbeiwei, and no one, regardless of Tianren Yuanci, will touch me."

Hong Fan said confidently.

"Otherwise, it would only cause trouble for the headmaster and the guardian king."

The two's dialogue and thoughts combined were extremely brief, lasting less than the time it takes to breathe.

But in that brief moment, something shattered silently, calming their heartbeats and restoring their usual firm and powerful gazes.

The rainbow is still there.

Its beauty vanished suddenly.

(End of this chapter)