DRAMA NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 76 Agnes's Request
Under the bright moon, the white snow was glowing, illuminating the Snow Sect even in the night. Ricky and Agnes looked at each other under the moonlight. He was a handsome young man and she was a beautiful woman. They looked like a lovely couple, but Ricky's eyes had a mischievous gleam to them.
"Agnes, you've come to look for me so late. Are you feeling empty?" Ricky smiled suggestively. "Shut up!" Agnes didn't have the patience for Ricky when he was like this.
"Ha-ha, alright I'm sorry. What can I do for you at this hour?" Ricky asked, dropping the joking tone. "I want to ask you to do me a favor!" Agnes said quietly.
"A favor? Is it for something dangerous?” Ricky asked anxiously.
"Nothing dangerous.”
"I can do it, if that's the case." Ricky replied after some consideration. "But, you still have to tell me what's in it for me... even if you are really pretty.” Agnes scowled at this.
"Money, and cultivation resources!" she replied, half regretting that she had come to him.
"What about a beautiful woman?" Ricky grinned
"I will find someone who suits your request if you insist,” Agnes said seriously. "However, to make things clear again, I will never give myself to you."
"That would be no fun," Ricky curled his lip and said.
"Well, I am going to find someone else!"
"Forget it, Agnes. I was only jesting. What is it that you want to talk about?" Ricky said, noticing that Agnes wanted to leave.
Agnes turned around, saying, "I want you to visit Billow City with me..."
And then she explained.
Billow City, a large city west of Snow Land, was controlled by the people of Shui Clan and was one of strongest forces under the Snow Sect. Three demi-immortals and numerous strong warriors were in the Clan.
The strange thing was that most of the population of the Shui Clan were women, and even their three demi-immortals and strong warriors were almost all women too.
Three demi-immortals represented three factions respectively among the Shui Clan. They were not harmonious, constantly fighting over control of Sui Clan and even the Billow City.
But they could not fight outright, because they all belonged to Shui Clan. It would be self- destructive and they would only end up in the hands of people from other clans.
Therefore, the three major factions arranged for their juniors to compete. The faction whose junior won the competition would control Billow City for the next year.
In twenty days, this traditional competition for the juniors of three factions in Billow City would be taking place.
According to the rules of the Shui Clan, every junior who participated in the competition must invite a young male disciple who was non-native to the city, and was younger than sixteen to compete. Ricky could understand these two rules that served as the guidelines. But he was baffled at why they had to be male warriors.
Agnes explained that there were too many female in Shui Clan, so they had to invite younger male warriors.
Ricky accepted this reluctantly, at present unable to visualize the culture of Agnes’ hometown "Well, when do we leave?" Ricky asked, indicating that he agreed to her request.
Ricky was planning on cultivating outside the Snow Sect and had been worried about where to do so. Billow City was just right. Besides, Ricky knew that Billow City was far away from the Snow Sect, and that the Casting Faction and Refinement Faction would have no power there.
"In three days’ time," Agnes said.
"Okay. But you know that we must leave secretly. You know why!" Ricky answered.
"All right, see you at the perimeter of the Snow Sect by midnight! Three days, Ricky!" Agnes said, leaving.
After Agnes went away, Grace emerged from the shadows. "It seems that you already plan to train outside our Sect,” she said.
"Yes, Master, I know my progress will be limited if I continue to stay in the Snow Sect. And I'm afraid that Casting Faction and Refinement Faction will be making plans against me. It is just the right time to leave," Ricky said.
"You are right. I want to give you a piece of advice for your training, Ricky. Only trust yourself,” Grace told him.
"Yes, Master," Ricky said
Three days passed quickly.
Ricky spent almost the entirety of these three days on cultivation, but wasn't able to breakthrough another level for the time being. So, Ricky focused on cultivating the Five Beasts Arts.
The fist method, the saber method, and the palm method could be combined with Five Beasts Arts, and Ricky increasingly found that Five Beasts Arts really suited his fighting style.
Before he left, Heather gave him a good gift: a pill called the Sacred Essence Pill.
Master Lambert of the Lion King Castle invited a master of alchemy to practice it on their resources. And the advanced pill was the Sacred Essence Pill combined with blood essence of Sacred Blood Lion and Treasures from Heaven and Earth.
Pills included inferior pills, intermediate pills and advanced pills, which respectively corresponded to warriors of Skin Refinement, warriors of Blood Purification and warriors of Bone Reinforcement. Of course, there were pills that were even more superior to advanced pills.
Lion King Castle had sent a man to give Heather three pills, but Heather gave Grace and Ricky one each. That meant that Ricky was quite important to Heather.
Ricky accepted the pill without hesitation, smiling warmly at her.
He would remember this gesture of love
After briefly talking with Grace and Heather, Ricky secretly left the Snow Sect and came to the mountain gate Agnes had determined as their rendezvous point.
Agnes was already there.
"Ricky, as a man, it is not good to be late for the appointment!” Agnes complained, having apparently already waited for a long time.
"Oh, I apologize. It won't happen again!" Ricky smiled sheepishly.
And so the two young warriors set off for Billow city.
When they had traveled for some distance and were just outside the snowy mountains, a young man blocked their way.
"Agnes, you pick this guy with no spiritual meridian to accompany you instead of me!” The young man rudely said as he came up to them, staring at Ricky with emotionless eyes.
Dressed in a white robe, he looked charismatic and handsome indeed, but the unpleasant hatred in his eyes was disgusting.
He seemed to be a young man of Blood Purification and around sixteen years old at most. He was likely an inner disciple of the Snow Sect.
Ricky also understood from his words that the young man, probably an admirer of Agnes, knew about Billow city and wanted to participate in the competition with Agnes.
But Agnes had turned him down.
"Fred, you followed me!" Agnes said grimly, looking at him. She understood what he was trying to do.
"Hey, boy. It's not too late to change your mind about accompanying Agnes now, or I'll make sure you won't reach Billow City!" Fred spat at Ricky, ignoring Agnes.
Suddenly, Fred released his power of the first grade of Blood Purification instantly, flinging it at Ricky.
Agnes tried to intervene, saying "Fred-" but Ricky stopped her.
Ricky stepped forward and joked sarcastically, "I wonder why I won't reach Billow city!"
"Because I'm after your blood, and so are the Refinement Faction and Casting Faction. If I tell everyone where you are, two factions will definitely hunt you down!" Fred replied harshly.
"Oh, well. If that's the case, you have to die!" Ricky shouted.