Chapter 41 She was unwilling

  "Sister, why are you staring at me like that?" Feng Ruoyu shrank her neck and said uncomfortably.

  "Little girl, the story your Qi Bei brother told is also nonsense. Don't you think he's being childish?" Feng Ruoyun said.

  "But I think he's not bragging." Feng Ruoyu retorted.

  Feng Ru Yu looked at her sister's clear big eyes, smiled, perhaps she was thinking too much, although her sister was clever and knew everything, knowing didn't mean she understood.

  "You don't know that after Qi Bei's engagement, he will also go to his fief? If you want to hear the story, I'll invite a traveling bard to tell it to you specially." Feng Ruoyun gently stroked her sister's hair.

  Feng Ruoyu mumbled a couple of sentences, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said: "Sister, look quickly, Qi Bei Gege and Ming Yue Jiejie are here."

  Qī Běi led Míng Yuè Princess down from the carriage, with two rows of palace maids and Nuo Dé family's servant girls holding onto the long ribbon on Míng Yuè Princess' body. Petals rained down from the sky as the guests in attendance erupted into warm applause.

  The engagement ceremony has officially begun.

  The grand ceremony of the Goddess of Life Temple has ended, and the guests in attendance have begun to gather around Ziqi and Princess Mingyue, with the two protagonists being the focus of everyone's attention.

  Facing the sincere or hypocritical congratulations of the crowd, Qi Bei smiled faintly and responded to each one with impeccable etiquette, revealing the demeanor and temperament that a young master from a noble family should have.

  Princess Mingyue smiled reservedly, her eyes occasionally glancing at Qi Bei's smiling face. For some reason, looking at the demeanor he showed, she always felt a bit awkward. He was obviously a scoundrel, yet pretended to be a gentleman.

  At this time, the high priest of the temple held the divine book, facing the statue of the goddess of life, and began to recite the words of blessing.

  The Da Jisi faintly brought out a hoarse voice with a peculiar pronunciation rhythm, reciting incomprehensible auspicious words, and the entire square including the onlookers outside the isolation zone fell silent.

  Each syllable, like a tangible thing, slipped into Qi Bei's ears, giving him a strange feeling, as if his thoughts had pierced through time and space to reach some mysterious world.

  There, a pair of eyes as calm as autumn water was gazing at him gently, with a hint of faint surprise.

  Who is that? How can there be such beautiful eyes in this world, like a starry sky embedded in them. At first glance, it makes people feel like their soul has been sublimated.

  Qī Běi's eyes widened in anger as he tried to see more clearly.

  Just then, Ziqi's whole body shook and his thoughts were abruptly pulled back.

  "What's wrong with you? The grand ceremony is about to begin." Princess Mingyue stared at him inexplicably, as if his soul had just escaped.

  "Oh, I was a bit drowsy just now." Qi Bei shrugged and walked with Princess Ming Yue to the front of the grand temple's main altar.

  The Temple's Grand Priest was an affable old man with a kind face, his body spotless and dust-free, his eyes bright and full of vitality.

  "You are all children of God, the Goddess of Life blesses you, and the legacy of life will continue forever." The High Priestess said, stretching out her hand to gently wipe the foreheads of Qi Bei and Ming Yue Princess, instantly, a faint light swept across the two.

  Zi Bei and Ming Yue Princess both felt that their bodies were infused with extra vitality, every pore opening comfortably.

  That's the legendary life magic that only a select few Life Temple High Priests can use, it's indeed extraordinary.

  Next, the Grand Priestess of the Temple held a jade bowl with a faintly glowing liquid inside, which was the Elixir of Life that many followers had been longing for, capable of prolonging life and warding off all diseases.

  Zi Bei was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, born into the number one noble family of the Golden Leaf Empire, always having privileges.

  During an engagement ceremony or wedding, the couple is required to drink the holy water of life together.

  Ordinary people get engaged or married in the Temple of Life, but what they are actually presiding over is just an ordinary ritual, and the Life Holy Water they drink is actually just plain water.

  "Under the Goddess of Life's statue, Qi Bei. Nuo De, are you willing to spend this life with Ming Yue, bound together by golden leaves, never to part or abandon each other?" The high priest of the temple looked at Qi Bei.

  "I'm willing," Zhi Bei replied, though the question made him somewhat uncomfortable.

  "Under the Goddess of Life's statue, Mingyue. Jinye, are you willing to tie your fate with Qibei Nuo for this life, never to part or abandon each other?" The high priest of the temple looked at Princess Mingyue.

  "I..."

  "She doesn't want to!" Just as Mingyue Gongzi was about to respond, a gloomy voice suddenly rang out.

  The guests suddenly burst into an uproar, looking around for the source of the voice, and saw a handsome young man in a purple magic robe walking over with an air of arrogance.

  Qī Běi narrowed his eyes, a cold arc rising at the corner of his mouth. Indeed, this engagement ceremony would not be peaceful.

  "I have no intention of blaspheming the great Goddess of Life, I'm just telling the truth. It's lying in front of the Goddess of Life that would be the greatest disrespect. Princess Mingyue herself told me that she only agreed to marry that brat out of desperation." Huo Tian said loudly.

  "Who is this, so bold? Even if you've put on a magician's skin, don't you see that this is a game of go?"

  "Could he be the one in Princess Mingyue's heart?"

  "You don't know squat, let me tell you, he's a disciple of Tongtian Mountain, one of the Five Great Sacred Lands. He's got the Emperor and the Norden family eating out of his hand, they wouldn't dare do anything to him."

  A crowd of guests discussed and debated, human nature being what it is, each one not only not worried, but extremely excited.

  The Emperor Hamos and the Lord of Noldor were both expressionless, as if this sudden change had nothing to do with them.

  "I am willing, I am willing to be engaged to Qi Bei. Nord." Just then, Princess Mingyue spoke up, her voice not loud, but using magic to make it reverberate and linger in the square for a long time.

  His face stiffened, and he suddenly felt like a fool. He had gone to great lengths to make a scene, but everyone ignored him.

  The temple's grand priestess smiled as she handed over a jade bowl filled with holy water of life.

  Qibei took the jade bowl with a calm face, drank half of it in one gulp, secretly spat some back out, and then handed the jade bowl to Princess Mingyue.

  Mingyue Gongzhu took it over, just about to drink, but heard that Huo Tian Dao: "Shi Mei, you have just entered Tongtian Mountain, perhaps you don't know that the disciples of Tongtian Mountain cannot privately engage without the permission of their master."

  Princess Mingyue was stunned, as Katie had never told her about this rule, but she also didn't know that she herself was engaged.

  However, Princess Mingyue was stunned for a moment before directly drinking all of the Life Holy Water in the jade bowl.

  "Sister, you..." Feng Tian exclaimed in disbelief. This move was his trump card, and he wouldn't have come to stir up trouble without being prepared. However, while he had anticipated the reactions of the imperial family and the Nuo De clan, he hadn't expected Ming Yue Princess's reaction at all.

  Zi Bei looked at Princess Ming Yue with a mixture of surprise and curiosity, then glanced at Feng Tian's pale face, suddenly feeling some sympathy for him.