Getting a Sugar Mommy in Cultivation World!!-Chapter 631: Departure

Stepping out of the royal palace, Noah looked back at it blankly. While he was looking, he felt a hand sliding on his shoulder slowly. The warmth of the hand spread through his body, making him turn to look at the owner of the hand.

"Are you okay?" Seeing Xin Yan standing behind him, he smiled assuringly. He could see worry hidden deep within her soft eyes that looked at him with care and affection.

"Now that we are done here, shall we continue on our journey?" Noah changed back to his original, taking Xin Yan's hand as they walked through the well-guarded castle.

No one seemed to have noticed his little act and the fact that someone no guards knew about was roaming through the passage of the supposedly impenetrable castle.

No one but one person…

Deep in the isolated chambers of the royal castle was a room used to contain something dark… something very dangerous.

One of the chains binding the coffin appeared to be on the verge of breaking apart. Under the suppression of the chains, the lid covering the coffin trembled.

"Looks like Wuhan has some intriguing friends." The eerie voice came from within the coffin: "Even then he will be nothing to worry about."

A tendril escaped the small gap that was created for a moment using the trembling of the lid. The dark tendril, made out of wisps of smoke, crept up to the chain, filling the spaces between the cracks.

Within a matter of seconds, the chain started to look new, matching the other ones hanging in the air.

"Don't be too lonely, my dear Wuhan; I am coming to accompany you soon!" The creepy voice echoed before the room returned to silence once more.

…

Several months later, two figures could be seen moving through the streets of a desolate city in some backwater kingdom that was ruled and filled with mostly mortals.

Only a few humans there had the qualifications or talent to become a cultivator. Even then they could not move past the basic qi condensation realm.

"No matter how weak these cultivators are, they find a way to get themselves in high positions among the weaker bunch and feel like a god among them." Xin Yan uttered with a tone that made the people around her shiver in fright, but when they looked around, they found no source of the oddity.

Since the start, Noah and Xin Yan had made themselves invisible to the naked eye, only showing themselves when they needed something. With their cultivation, it was not a difficult feat to achieve.

"They like to feel the taste of the power and reverence it brings." Noah glanced at the patrolling guards extorting money—nothing more than a few silvers—from a family of three. "And in the end they let the sweet taste stick to their tongue, so much so that normal things appear unpleasant and bitter to them."

Although unwilling, the man of the family passed the money without uttering a single word of resistance. He even tried to please the man with some sly remarks.

Turning his attention back to Xin Yan, Noah asked, "Do you want to help them?"

Without stopping, she looked away and shook her head. "What's the point of helping them when deep down they have accepted their current predicament?"

Looking back at Noah, a sweet smile appeared on her face as she commented. "And rebellion brews in the heart of the oppressed, doesn't it?"

"I don't recall you being oppressed." Noah smirked back as he closed the distance between them, his hand creeping up on her waist.

Xin Yan twisted her waist in his grasp and chuckled, "I was enslaved by my own thoughts. My lovesick brain that refused to believe I was being mistreated."

"What about now?"

Xin Yan's crystal blue eyes stared into Noah's golden ones as their faces drew closer. "Now… you can enslave me however you want; I will be willing to walk into your jail."

Noah trembled, feeling her hot breath caressing his face, their lips only an inch apart. Just as they leaned in to merge, a loud noise tore through the air.

"Ahhhh!" A sharp screech of a woman echoed through the silent streets, freezing not only them but anyone who heard it. The agony and pain filled in that scream made Noah and Xin Yan look alert.

Exchanging looks, the two of them disappeared from the spot and appeared in a clearing where several thatched houses at some distance with boundaries made of bamboo shoots were arranged in a single line.

This area was clearly occupied by the poor civilians of the city who had no money to afford a proper stone house.

At the periphery of one of the houses, they saw a woman bawling her eyes out at the feet of a middle-aged guard.

"No…n…no." She was holding onto a piece of cloth and a broken wooden rod.

While they were watching the scene unfold, people started to gather around the house, watching everything from a distance.

"Is it another one?"

"What is going to happen to us now?"

"What are the cultivator guards of the city doing?" From the way they looked and spoke among each other, the townsmen appeared to have seen something familiar before.

"Yet another kid? What should we do?" One of the concerned mothers in the group trembled with her hand covering her mouth.

"What can we even do? Even the city lord is not able to help us with anything." The man standing beside her groaned in frustration and anger. The others in the group also seemed to agree with him.

"If only we could hire some reverend cultivators from the legendary immortal lands…" His words drifted in the air, and their eyes gained a glint of hope hearing him.

But it was not long before someone blew that flame of hope out as well.

"But why would they help us? We have nothing to give them. No money, no treasures… We barely keep ourselves fed from the money we earn."

The flame never grew again, and the nearby guards dispersed the group from gathering around. The middle-aged officer left, and the woman was left alone to weep with the things in her hand.

"What has happened to these people?!" At the corner of the road, Xin Yan looked at the scene with undisguised anger, and it was not at the situation. "These people are just going to act like nothing happened?"

Xin Yan understood that something had happened to the kid of the woman crying on the ground.

"What if it was their kid…" She could not even bring herself to complete the sentence; her eyes moistened. "These people… have truly given themselves… and their families up to their fates."

Noah stayed silent until she finished venting before opening his mouth, "Shall we take a look around first before understanding what has happened here?"

His words immediately caught her attention. She may not have meddled in the matter of someone losing their money, but when it comes to kids, Xin Yan becomes an entirely different person.

"Can we do that? Please?" She looked at the woman and then at Noah.

"Of course, I also want to help the woman as well, seeing that she has not given up all hope." Noah smiled as he watched the woman slowly stand up, forcing herself to stop crying. She dragged herself back into the house.

"I have seen mothers unhesitatingly go through thick and thin for their kids, and somehow they also gain power to do things beyond what one might think they are capable of."

His words drifted in the air as they watched the makeshift gate of the thatched hut opening and the woman walking out again. This time with a more determined look on her face and with a hoe in her hand.

"And every time I see such things happen, it leaves me in awe and a chill running down my body."

As the woman walked in the direction of the forest behind her house, Noah and Xin Yan followed behind her with their presence hidden from her.

She made her way through the woods, her hands tightly gripping the wooden handle of the old hoe in her hands. There were no signs of fear or hesitation in her eyes, only fierce determination.

She searched around for a while but could not find anything. Just when she felt like all hope was lost, she heard the sound of leaves crushing behind her.

She immediately turned around, her arms ready to swing the weapon in their grasp, but she froze at the last moment when she saw a couple appearing in her sight.

"You look like you could use some help." Noah stepped towards the woman slowly with a calming smile on his face. "Mind telling us what happened? Maybe we can be of any help."

The woman continued to stare at two of them, her mouth opened and closed, but no words came out. Xin Yan thought she was nervous and wanted to say something before suddenly the woman's legs buckled.