Blood-Sucking Empress

The small hunting grounds were located in the southeastern part of the palace. Although everyone called it the “small” hunting grounds, in reality, it was not small at all. It covered an extremely large area of land that was really not much smaller than the palace itself. Technically, this small hunting ground did not really belong to the Imperial palace, but rather, it was a natural hunting ground and the southeastern part of it was one big precipice, reaching as high up as thousands of meters. It could be considered a natural geographical barrier.

Since Yun Tailing was there at the time, Qianhe Liyou brought him with her while Fengying and the others accompanied her from behind. The small hunting ground suddenly became rather lively.

“Greetings to the Empress, long live the Empress, long live the Empress.” The guard in charge of guarding the small hunting grounds immediately greeted the procession.

“Where are the horses?” Qianhe Liyou ignored the guard and asked Long Xizhao.

Long Xizhao glanced at the guard with questioning eyes and the guard replied very cleverly, “This little one has already arranged everything. Will the Empress and Long da-ren[1] ride the horses now?”

“Naturally, go and fetch the horses.”

“Yes, this little one will go right now, uh…”The guard paused, as if she wanted to say something.

“What is the matter, humming and hawing, if there is something, just say it.” Naturally, Long Xizhao also noticed the guard’s strange behavior and asked in displeasure.

“This, it’s like this…Ning guifei[2]is also currently in the hunting ground, do you need this servant to find him?”

This time Long Xizhao did not dare to say anything, but just looked at the Empress inquiringly.

“No need, just go lead the horse over.” Qin Ning? She seemed to not have seen him for a while. The last time should be when he fell into the water. Otherwise, she had not seen him.

“Yes, this little one will go right now.”

The guards quickly brought over two horses, one black and the other white, the four limbs of the body looking powerful and overall had a very sturdy appearance. However, these horses looked a little anxious. Qianhe Liyou playfully looked at Long Xizhao, she had not seen this woman make a move yet.

Noticing the Empress’ gaze, Long Zixhao said, “Empress, these horses had just been captured, and their temperaments are still a bit wild. But no matter how wild or fierce the horse is, in the hands of the Empress, they will naturally be obedient. Which horse has the Empress taken a fancy to?”

Qianhe Liyou did not speak and went directly forward. The guards still wanted to rein the horses because the pair were extremely explosive and restless. They were afraid of hurting the Empress, but they were quickly stopped in their tracks after the Empress waved a hand at them. Then, everyone was surprised to find that the two fierce horses stopped their restlessness for some reason and had become extremely quiet. But, the silence did not last long, because everyone was astounded to find out that the two horses had actually begun to tremble, looking extremely frightened!

“Beloved Official Long, these horses are truly obedient.” Qianhe Liyou swiveled around and said this in an extremely innocent voice, but the smile in her dark eyes gave off an aura of wickedness and she emanated a terrifying charm. Everyone who saw this scene was a bit stunned.

“Yes, extremely obedient…” Long Xizhao nodded woodenly. It turned out that the Empress was extremely beautiful, it really made others amazed. No wonder these men in the palace were all enchanted by the Empress, infatuated and head over heels in love. If she were a man, she would have probably fallen in love with the Empress as well.

“Beloved Official Long, snap out of it. This pair of horses will be given to you, they are extremely obedient.” She did not want such a horse. Horses were very spiritually sensitive animals, so even if she tried to hide her aura, the horses would still feel it. This was animal instinct, just like how she instinctively sought out blood. Therefore, these kinds of common horses, upon meeting her, they would not even be able to stand firmly, no longer deserving of the two words “top tier” horse. She no longer wanted to use her mana on horses anymore, because there would only be one consequence, and that was death.

“This…if the Empress does not like anything, but that’s fine. This official will instruct the servants to continue to search for…” No matter how stupid she was, shecould discern that something was strange about the situation, not to mention that she herself didn’t think she was that stupid.

“Fine, you can go try out the horses. Zhen wants to go take a walk.” She felt there was something strange in the depths of the forest and wanted to take a look.

Long Xizhao had wanted to say something, but Qianhe Liyou had already long left and Yun Tailing had been following behind them this entire time. At this time, they could only watch as the Empress materialized out of sight.

“Well, this, Yun guiren[3]….what do you think?” Long Xizhao looked at Yun Tailing with some hints of embarrassment. This Empress was truly making things difficult for her. Not only did she not wait for Long Xizhao to leave, she even left a man here and moreover, he was her concubine. Wasn’t the Empress not afraid that seeing riches will provoke evil designs[4], bah, bah, bah, just what was she thinking about!

“Long da-ren, you can go ahead and go horse-riding, do not worry about me.” Yun Tailing smiled peacefully, letting Long Xizhao alleviate some of the embarrassment and she walked towards the two obedient horses after a quick bow. In fact, it was actually a bit rude to leave Yun guiren here like this and leave by herself, but Yun guiren had an extremely peaceful and graceful attitude. She thought that she could not continue to bother him.

At this time, Qianhe Liyou had already penetrated into the deepest depths of the forest, and she suddenly stopped.

“Anhui, go inform the Anbu Black Ops and pick out those who know medical skills as soon as possible, zhen needs it.”

“Should this subordinate go right now?” Anhui hesitated, if he left the Empress right now, there would be no one else to protect her. In any case, they were still on the hunting grounds, in case there was any danger…

“Go ahead, zhen will be fine.” Qianhe Liyou directly reassured Anhui, understanding this man’s thoughts.

Anhui hesitated for a while before tentatively departing, leaving Qianhe Liyou herself to move through the forest. With each step, the forest became quieter and quieter. The animals shrank into the shadows and did not dare to move, not ferocious at all. Qianhe Liyou did not give them a hard time. After about 30 minutes, she finally saw the reason why she had entered the forest in the forest place: Qin Ning was grasping a long sword and confronting a pitch-black animal that resembled something between a deer and a horse! And this animal that resembled a horse and a deer was what had attracted her to come here in the first place.

Qianhe Liyou did not deliberately hide her presence, so the confronting parties discovered her existence at almost the same moment!

Qin Ning’s eyes widened in surprise. He was in disbelief and did not understand why he was seeing the Empress right at this moment….and that animal’s reaction was even stranger. It’s pitch black eyes that swirled like black ink were like human eyes: fear, doubt, caution, etc; flashed in its gaze making people feel that they were not only a pair of animal eyes, but also a pair of eyes full of deep wisdom.

And although the animal seemed to be afraid of her, it still looked at her defensively, not giving any ground, but neither cowering either. She became interested in this animal but she did not know what to call it.

“Come here, I will not hurt you.” Qianhe Liyou said this to the animal in front of her, her gloomy tone confusing to those who heard it.

The animal’s gaze appeared confused and doubtful, followed by scrutiny and contemplation. Qianhe Liyou quietly allowed the animal to continue to observe and size her up, remaining open and peaceful. Qin Ning cautiously stared at the animal, but was wise enough to know not to disturb it. He had witnessed the Empress’ methods before and believed that this animal could not harm the Empress.

Finally, the animal moved, and it trotted slowly and tentatively towards Qianhe liyou, stopping about three feet away from her.

This time, it was Qianhe Liyou’s turn to walk towards the animal. The animal flinched, but did not back away, Qianhe Liyou’s wicked smile appeared on her beautiful face again, and she slowly, but firmly placed her hand on the animal’s back…

“Such a nice little thing, what is your name?” Although she did not know what this animal was, it was definitely not a mortal existence. Otherwise, it could not possess such intelligence or wisdom.

Naturally, the animal could not answer. Of course, Qianhe You knew this, so she continued and stated, “I will give you a name. How about Mo Ling ? Dark as ink, unhurried and leisurely soul, do you like this name?”

Although she knew that the animal could not answer, she believed that it would understand her. Sure enough, the animal reacted and nodded its huge head as if agreeing. This action stirred up a thread of satisfaction in Qianhe Liyou’s expression.

“This consort greets the Empress.” Now that the matter had been settled, Qin Ning could not help but say something…

Footnotes:

Pcitrue of Mo Ling

TN: New chapter! Enjoy and stay safe and happy everyone!