Instinctively, he used his Ghost Karma Pupils.
"As I thought." He murmured.
The thing was just as he thought.
[Race: Human.
Name: Qin Rouxi
Realm: 6th Level Body Refinement Realm.
Identity: Royal Qin Family, 3rd Princess.
Treasure Bone: Mid Grade 4.
Special Physique: Frostjade Lotus Body.]
"With your tiny strength, why would you run away from, home?" Ren Wei asked as he closed the personal data of the 3rd princess.
"Huhhh.... well, it was like living in a prison. Like a caged bird. It wasn't that they didn't treat me well. I mean you get it right?" Qin Rouxi replied.
"I get why you did it? But have you ever thought of why they did it in the first place? Also how would your parents feel about it? Do you ever thought of how are they doing? Are they anxious or not?" Ren Wei poured out all kinds of questions to Qin Rouxi. It looked like he was asking it to Qin Rouxi, but he was also asking it to something.
"I-I... .." Qin Rouxi could not answer. She also realized what she did was stupid and also she hasn't really thought about that questions.
Shaking his head, Ren Wei turned back to fishing.
After a sort silence, Qin Rouxi asked in a soft, low voice. "Do you think my parents were sad, worried, or anything like that when they found out I was missing?"
"Of course. There aren't any parents in this world that won't be sad when there child went missing. Why would you even ask that?" Ren responded as he remembers the time when he almost felt like the world was crashing when his children left him.
"Maybe that is right for my mother. But for my father... I don't think so." Qin Rouxi remembered how her mother and father treated her.
"Why would you say that?" Ren Wei asked to girl who was likely at the age of his children.
"My father... he is always busy with works. And he doesn't treat me well that much. Whenever something happens, he would first think of my brothers, instead of me and my sisters. Except for the youngest." She said nonchalantly.
Ren Wei opened his mouth to say something positive about it, but he stopped himself when he realized she was from a royal family.
In a royal family, it was always normal for the king to favor his sons above his daughters. And judging from her tone, Qin Rouxi was likely to be a daughter born from a concubine.
To lighten the depressing mood, Ren Wei said. "You don't look like someone who just escape from kidnappers."
"Really?" Qin Rouxi smiled and asked in a somewhat lighten tone.
Without turning back, Ren Wei nodded his head.
At this time, Ren Wei suddenly felt the pull on his fishing rod. Without delaying a second, he quickly pulled up the fishing line.
Finally, he caught the third catch of the day.
[Fish: Small River Carp.
Grade: Peak Mortal Grade.
Details: A favorite food for the mountain cats.]
In front of Qin Rouxi's eyes, he put it into his fish pot.
As he was ready to leave, he took out his round hat from the dimensional storage and put it on.
As soon as he did that, Qin Rouxi widened her eyes, she could not clearly see the face of her savior after he put on the round bamboo like hat.
"Sir, are we ready to leave?" She asked politely.
Ren Wei jumped on the back of his horse and replied. "Well, since you said you are from the capital, you are lucky. I am also heading to the capital."
"Oh.!" Qin Rouxi was a bit surprised when she heard that he was also going to the capital.
Then, another problem arose. She didn't know he will send her home. 'Don't tell me that he wants me to ride that horse with him?'
As she was facing down, she heard him speaking. "Okey, ready. Come up."
Her face instantly turned red. 'Oh my God! He really is telling me that!'
However, when she turned to look up, she realized that she was just thinking too much.
Without her knowledge, there was another horse beside the one Ren Wei was on. It was just a normal looking horse, not like like light blue horse.
Seeing that, her face turned even more redder. She thought to herself, 'How could you even thought about it.' She felt ashamed of herself.
Looking at Qin Rouxi, who was looking left and right and shocking her head with her eyes closed. Ren Wei was confused.
"Is there anything you need to do before or something like that?" He asked in a puzzled tone.
Instantly, Qin Rouxi shook her head and said. "No, sir."
"Then, get on your horse. We are late."
"Yes, sir." She quickly jumped on the back of her horse.
"Okey, then. Let's start our journey." Ren Wei said as he magical materialized a lease made up of ice, in front Qin Rouxi's very ice.
Seeing that, Qin Rouxi asked quickly. "Sir, are you... you cultivate ice techniques?" Her voice contained the somewhat excited tone.
Ren Wei knew why she was asking that. But, he acted like he didn't.
"Ohh.. you mean this. Yes, I cultivate ice techniques, which suits my icy attribute." He replied as matter of fact.
Qin Rouxi was too excited inside, but she concealed it and asked in a manner like a child asking something from their parents. "Sir, can you teach me that cultivation technique."
Without even giving it a second thought, Ren Wei firmly denied it. "No."
"And you should know it is rude to ask someone to teach you their technique. Remember that."
Rouxi opened her mouth and tried to speak. But before she ould do that, Ren Wei said.
"Okey, we are late. Let's go." Without looking back, he rode away.
Behind, Qin Rouxi showed a somewhat dejected look. In her mind, she was thinking, at least one chance.
Sighing, she also urged her horse to start running. Like that, she followed Ren Wei.
What she didn't know was that, Ren Wei was observing her action.
His original goal of going to the capital was to become a teacher for the 3rd princess. But he also was not just going to teach her his techniques.
At first, he needed to know what kind of person is the 3rd princess. Just because he was not some hero, he wasn't going to create a devastating disaster for the world.
If he were to found out that the 3rd princess to be an ungrateful brat. Then he was just to find another way to get the information of Heavenly Sword Domain.
Now that he had met her in person before reaching the capital, it was the perfect time to judge her character — to find out whether she was worth the trouble and time he was about to invest.
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On the other side.
Somewhere in the city, inside a room, two men were kneeling in front of young boy, whose face was full of arrogance. It was the two burly men from earlier who tried to kidnap Qin Rouxi. And in front of them was their young master.
As soon as he heard that they failed to catch the girl he ordered to catch, his face instantly gloomy.
In anger, he grabbed something from a nearby table and threw at rhe faces of the two men.
Clang...clang..
"USELESS." He shouted, with his nose fuming with anger.
He stood up from his seat and angrily approached the two burly men kneeling on the ground.
Tap tap tap.
However, something shocking happened.
The moment the arrogant young master stepped within a one-meter radius of the two burly men, an explosion erupted.
But instead of fire or debris, a massive block of ice burst forth, instantly engulfing them all — including the young master himself.
Inside the solid, the three men were frozen. They could still breath inside it, but there face was filled with pain as they felt the freezing pain from being frozen.
Even when they used their strengths and power, they could not even broke the ice, not even a little bit.
It was the punishment Ren Wei had prepared for the arrogant and evil brat and his two guards.
Ren Wei could have prepared something that could kill him, but he thought that killing him instantly was letting him off easy. And he also thought what if that was the first time.
To prevent himself from making a mistake—and to ensure the young master wouldn't cause further harm—he prepared a fitting punishment.
Seven days of torture.
But instead of burning them, he chose a colder path. He would let them taste what it felt like to be frozen alive, sealed in ice for seven merciless days.
After some time, some people ran into the room after hearing the sound of the explosion.
It was the servants. And to their shock, they found they huge chunk of ice inside the room. And their young master inside it, well alive with pain.
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On a forest path, Ren Wei and Qin Rouxi was on their way towards the capital, riding their horses.