ATG: Formation Master c10

Cang Long took her to his Royal Palace, behind it, where he practised in his early years. 

The pair sat down on mats available in the training field.

He pulled out a wooden stick and drew on the ground symbols.

“Each word has to have a meaning, an understanding. When you want something specific, spell the entire sentence before pouring profound energy.” 

The prince wrote a sentence before pouring profound energy into it. What he got was a sentence glowing before it turned into an orb of energy that he picked up and activated.

What he got was a glass wall that reflected Chu Yuechan.

“What about its durability? Its strength?” she asked him, already having an idea of how this worked. The fairy was a genius after all.

“You can decide those, but you would need to write more.”

“Then it’s useless in actual combat.” She frowned, realising people could beat her up until she writes it…

“Are you sure?” His eyes glowed as tens of spheres surrounded her.

“...” Chu Yuechan’s eyes widened as she saw many, many formations surrounding her.

“You… created them beforehand and stored them in your Mind Scape…” She realised how crazy this could be!

She could have stored extremely complex and dangerous formations in her mind and deployed them when needed!

“Indeed.”

“Good! Then let’s start!” She got a bit excited, as she wanted to take his stick and begin writing.

“You can practise your Profound energy control and write purely with it.” He used his finger and wrote a simple sentence that turned into a snowflake. He added more letters, and they turned into snowflakes. Then, it turned into a cloud that started raining snowflakes. It turned further into a cycle, and it became a snow cloud that snowed in the whole area.

“Show off…” The fairy commented that she wanted to do that. As an ex-fairy, she had already decided on an ice theme.

As she quickly picked up on the basics, Cang Long decided to teach her through a game he was playing with Cang Yue.

It was a ‘ball game’; he created a floating word, and this word would fly at her. She needed to add something and send it back to him. 

Since it was a formation, it had to be shaped with a familiar word, for example, wisp. She would add ice and send it back, and the prince would add more and send it back to her.

Sadly, Chu Yuechan is not flexible and would quickly lose. The ladies of Frozen Cloud don’t have that great of imagination, unlike his little sister, who is very good at this game by this point.

Regardless, all those losses fed her motivation as she began to practise like a lunatic.

Days would pass until THAT fateful day.

“Where is he?” Chu Yuechan, who wanted to return to their practice, complained. She walked into the Royal Palace. By this point, all the guards knew her, even when they didn’t know her name. No one told them. They didn’t need to know her name. The beauty was very noticeable…

As she went to his palace, she heard a girl crying loudly.

‘What in heaven is going on?’ She walked over and poked her head through a side.

The fairy saw that the little princess girl was crying in Cang Long’s arms.

‘Did something happen?’

“Why didn’t you tell me that something is wrong with her? You know that I could have checked in with her?” The Formation Prince sighed loudly.

“I know! But she didn’t tell me anything either!” The princess replied with red eyes.

It looked that Cang Long was pissed!

After a while, the princess fell asleep in his hands. Finding herself the moment the fairy walked in, she was curious to know what had happened.

“What happened?” She asked him, not knowing how to interact in this kind of situation.

“Her mother passed away, all of a sudden.” He sighed, stroking Cang Yue’s long hair.

“All of a sudden, how does that happen?” She was confused. Cultivator illnesses are rare, especially at higher cultivation realms. In her eyes, all the Royals should have decent cultivation with Cang Long’s achievements in formations.

“Royal family politics!" He exclaimed. An annoyed sigh escaped from his lips as she took the princess and carried her away. Chu Yuechan followed after him.

“My Royal Father has a harem. It's not a big one, but it's still a harem. The Empress is a…” He looked around before leaning towards her and whispering. “...an incarnation of a bitch.” 

“My mother stays away from these politics, simply because I am the Emperor’s favourite; by that definition, she is his favourite. Yue’er’s mother was a bit strange and naive even for a while, until she met and interacted with the Empress.

She got burned a couple of times, and after that, she turned weird, melancholic and that weird stuff. Giving Cang Yue another name was strange.

So… she got sick, didn’t tell anyone, and now she died.”

“...” The Fairy looked…strange for a bit.

“You royals are… strange.” 

He shrugged. Arriving at his living quarters, he got in and took the princess to his bed. He gently placed her in his bed and tucked her under the sheets.

After that, he spent the rest of the day in the room with his little sister.

Midway, the fairy started to feel strange… again! Emotions she can’t understand or explain.

All of a sudden, she ended up hugging the prince, she placed her head on his back, snuggling…

“Is my fairy feeling jealous?” Cang Long joked. He can see that she doesn’t like the amount of attention he is giving to the other girl.

“...No…I don’t know… myself.” She tried to explain, as she is acting upon how she is feeling, while she is acting upon it she can’t explain why.

“I see. Well, I can tell it’s jealousy.” He chuckled, making her grab and pull him in, making him lie on the couch. She looked at him from above.

“Don’t speak, like you know.” She answered with narrowed eyes.

“But I do.” He smirked, seeing how she couldn’t handle these emotions.

After more ‘bickering’, the beauty leaned forward and began to kiss him. It was another sloppy amateur kiss that lasted for a while, but then, when Chu Yuechan pulled back, she noticed a bit away the awake Princess who was looking at them with inflated cheeks. 

The girl clearly didn’t like the fact that the Fairy had her beloved brother’s attention.

~~~~~~A Few Short Weeks Later~~~~~~

After her death, the Princess changed a bit. She was no longer that bubbly, and she might have lost some of that innocence.

Instead, she trained more, cultivated and made sure she was strong enough.

In mere weeks, she leapt over the whole major realm and reached Earth Profound. She became a powerful Princess. People began calling her the Blue Moon Princess.

Same title as in the book, but not in reverence of her beauty alone, but her might as well.

She was strong, but sadly, at fifteen, she could not represent her family in the tournament.

“This is clearly not fair! I want to fight!” Cang Yue has complained for a while now, even trying to use her influence to get admitted!

“Why don’t you participate?" She asked her brother as she turned around. They were together on his Giant Snow Eagle, flying towards the Heavenly Sword Villa. 

“I don’t think it’s fair for Sky Profound to be participating in a tournament.”

By this, he is thinking about whether they should be part of the tournament at all. All of their disciplines are in the middle to late Earth Profound.

It will be bullying. They should announce to what degree the Imperial Family is above them and restore the Four Sect ranking.

As the pair were quite close, there was another person there. Chu Yuechan was next to Cang Long. The Fairy was annoyed that the Princess was abusing his affection for his sister to this extent!

The Fairy was his woman, so she should be sitting that close, not his sibling! It makes her more aware of her jealousy.

Foreign emotions—by this point, she is getting accustomed to them. It was far better having them suppressed than this!

“Still, I think they have to know how great we are.” The Princess complained. She was disappointed that she wouldn’t be able to represent her family.

As the group of white birds landed, the Prince was accompanied by his sister and his Fairy. Behind them were another batch of disciplines representing their Imperial family.

This time around, the Emperor was not needed. Cang Wanhe was far more busy these days with developing his Empire and centralising his rule.

They are earning much more now, thanks to the formations they are selling. They have one-time use, several-time use, great formations, and all that stuff.

It’s a new Market that they are lording over. 

Sadly, their newfound wealth is coming to bite them, as the Divine Phoenix Empire is beginning to notice the countryside bumkin trying to become rich…

An issue that Cang Long will address soon. 

As they approached the gates of the Sword Villa, the guards lined up and very respectfully bowed. 

“Your Highness and Princess, welcome to Heavenly Sword Villa! We are honoured to have you here.” 

Cang Long nodded as he motioned, and the invitation flew over to the leading guard.

The guard swiftly read through the content.

There was a huge array of different emotions going through his face.

For one, they were absurdly happy that the Prince was not participating, and for another, the woman next to the Prince was Chu Yuechan!

The missing and presumably dead Frozen Beauty!

Who thought she was with Cang Long all along!

“You are all clear, please enter, Villa Master and Mistress will greet you in person.”

As the royals walked in, the guard looked at his subordinates.

“Inform the Villa Master, The Royals are here, and… Frozen Beauty is with them.”

The fellow guards gawked at that information!

“That veiled woman is Chu Yuechan!?” 

They honestly believed that the Prince found a gorgeous girl and raised her to be his attendant. It made the most sense. But for her to be from Frozen Cloud!?

That never happened before!

~~~

‘She is here! She is here! And she is alive! T-This is incredible!’

Ling Yuefeng became a spaced out moron after learning that Chu Yuechan was alive. His wife, standing next to him, looked absolutely livid and angry.

“You!” She grabbed his hand.

“Control yourself! So what if she is alive!?” Xuanyuan Yufeng had dealt with a depressed moron before. When the information slipped that fairies were looking for Chu Yuechan, she was missing. Ling Yuefeng became depressed, and now they learned that the fairy was with the prince the whole time.

They learned that he saved someone at some point. Never thought that it was the Frozen Beauty.

“The woman is with the Prince. Get over it!” 

Ling Yuefeng looked like he swallowed a very bitter lemon when he heard his wife’s rant!

“...”

He wanted to counter that, but it was that freak Formation Prince.

“You don’t know that. She is his senior!” He tried to reason with him.

“Senior? What Mortal nonsense you are talking about? They will be living for hundreds of years. What does twenty years mean for cultivators? Wake up, Yuefeng.” She gnashed her teeth as she explained to him, did this idiot forget that there was a ten-year difference between them, too!?

Her words didn’t help, as he was fighting this ugly reality in which his Fairy is sulled by that freak prince!

Sure enough, the Blue Wind Imperial Family arrived, and Ling Yuefeng was slapped by reality.

The woman standing next to Cang Long was, in fact, Chu Yuechan. But she was different… There were no ice spirits around her. There was no ice.

All he saw was Blue Wind… and those eyes with a tint of blue. A sign of the Imperial Family’s Dharma Body. This Chu Yuechan was practising that art.

There was nothing of Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace in her.