Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 400 - 275: Searching

Chapter 400: Chapter 275: Searching

"What’s next? Of course, we make a plan to escape."

Xu Yuan chuckled in response, stood up, and then cast another glance at the alluring curves of his princess, clicking his tongue in appreciation internally.

Dressed in this Black Death Armor, why does it feel even more provocative than not wearing it at all?

No wonder she said going without a chest wrap would affect the soldiers’ morale.

"That kind of look really makes one feel insecure."

Facing that evaluating gaze, Li Qingyan sighed softly:

"As a commanding officer, the most basic thing is to ensure that when your subordinates see you, they should immediately convert all their worries into trust in you."

Xu Yuan coughed lightly and said with a low chuckle:

"With such a beautiful scene before me, it’s only human for the future Prince Consort to indulge in some daydreams about the future."

"Daydreaming about the future?"

Li Qingyan looked at Xu Yuan with strange crimson phoenix eyes and then laughed with a "pfft":

"This humble one thinks that the Prince Consort is not so much daydreaming about the future as he is trying to overspend it right here in the Underground Palace."

"....." Xu Yuan’s mouth twitched.

At this moment, Li Qingyan had already stepped forward with the hilt of her sword in hand, a smile in her phoenix eyes.

Just as Xu Yuan was wondering what she was up to.

Li Qingyan suddenly let go, and the sword, still in its scabbard, fell to the ground with a "thud." She then tiptoed to match his height, leaned in close to his ear, and breathed out softly with a husky voice:

"As I said before, whatever the Prince Consort wants to do, this princess will comply—if the Prince Consort wishes for a bit of pleasure now, overdrawing the future with me is not out of the question....."

At this point,

Li Qingyan’s beautiful eyes curved, and her jade hands gently hooked around his neck, her body leaning back slightly, her full chest protruding proudly, slender waist relaxing, her moist, rosy lips parted slightly:

"What do you say... would you like to give it a try, Prince Consort? Wouldn’t it be too much of a pity to die here like this?"

"....."

Xu Yuan watched her without saying a word.

The sharp and valiant aura of her eyes and brows had, at that moment, turned into devastating allure, but hidden beneath those misty crimson eyes was not passion but extreme calm.

After a moment,

"Snap!"

Xu Yuan pulled away Li Qingyan’s hands, his voice level:

"What time is it now, and you’re still here seducing me."

"Hmph...."

Glancing at her hand that was pulled away, Li Qingyan tilted her head, showing just the right amount of surprise: "Really... you don’t want to?"

Xu Yuan stared at her:

"If you wanted to remind me, why use this method?"

Li Qingyan, hearing this, finally showed a sincere smile:

"Who made this princess have to obey the Prince Consort one hundred percent? I had to resort to this method."

With that, a sly glint appeared in her phoenix eyes:

"However, what I said just now was serious, oh commanding officer....."

"That’s enough."

Xu Yuan gave her an exasperated look: "This young master has sense."

Li Qingyan took a step back, stood up straight, and asked again:

"So, what do we do next?"

Xu Yuan pointed to the Armor he was wearing:

"Don’t rush, you can’t feel it because your cultivation level is high, but this Black Death Armor’s absorption of Origin Qi is quite a burden on me, I need to first adapt and deal with it."

As he spoke,

Xu Yuan closed his eyes, sensed the consumption of his body’s Origin Qi from the Black Death Armor, then took out the Qingyu Sword and swung it a couple of times to adapt to the amplification that this new set of black Armor provided his body.

Yes, an amplification.

Quality-wise, this plain Black Death Armor was far less compared to his Blood Jade Lustrous Garment.

The Blood Jade Lustrous Garment is primarily defensive and resonates with the Blood Essence Meteoring Art, wearing it would speed up the circulation of Origin Qi in his body whether in battle or in cultivation.

But this Black Death Armor was made purely for combat.

Xu Yuan remembered that in the "Cangyuan Chronicles," the amplification provided by this vegetative armor was comprehensive.

And just now, Xu Yuan had begun to experience this kind of amplification.

Having fed the Black Death Mycelial Mat with his Origin Qi, his speed increased by at least twenty percent more than before.

Thinking of this,

Xu Yuan couldn’t help but smile slightly, but then he sighed.

This boost in strength was mostly due to his current cultivation level from the Prime Minister’s Mansion’s floor tiles; to the princess by his side, it was almost like zero.

Unless she continued to strip and solidify the mycelial mat from the tunnel walls.

However, his immediate priority was to resolve the speed at which the Black Death Armor was absorbing his Origin Qi. A level ninety plain Armor, no matter how plain, was still level ninety, and not something his minor Soul Condensation could handle.

As he pondered,

Li Qingyan seemed to realize this as well, and her voice, tinged with concern, reached him:

"Changtian, can you handle it with your cultivation level?"

Xu Yuan collected his thoughts and looked back with a slight smile:

"Don’t worry, of course, I can."

With that,

under Li Qingyan’s watchful eye, Xu Yuan calmly retrieved a Source Qi Pill from the Sumeru Ring and swallowed it, then took out a goose egg-sized Source Crystal.

Under Xu Yuan’s deliberate guidance, the Black Death Mycelial Mat around his arm immediately coiled up like a living organism to cover the crystal in his palm.

The next moment,

"Crack—"

A series of subtle, sharp crackling sounds emanated from within the mycelial mat, grinding the goose egg-sized crystal to powder and silently transporting the nutrients to his entire body.

After doing all this,

Xu Yuan looked up and smiled:

"Problems that can be solved with money are not problems at all."

"......."

Li Qingyan couldn’t help but smirk upon hearing this, then gave him an incredulous look with a touch of speechlessness, "Such virtue."