“How arrogant!” The constants were infuriated, and some of them immediately surrounded her.

  Since you’re asking to be killed, we’ll satisfy you.

  “You can come together!” Ah Luo counted five of them and crooked her finger.

  She had a cute face and a petite body, and the action looked playful and not provocative at all.

  But it didn’t make the five people whom she had singled out any less angry.

  The first guy charged forth, and Ah Luo dodged quickly, before she released a streak of brilliant red light that stabbed the guy through the chest. He stared at Ah Luo in disbelief.

  She was only a teenager. How could she boast such enormous spiritual power?

  The rest of the guys lost their courage and hesitated, but Ah Luo dashed over like a ghost and knocked each of them out with a single attack!

  These twenty-four candidates had been sent by the noble families to test how fierce the competition was. They weren’t the best in their families.

  Thus, Ah Luo could crush them however she wanted.

  Ah Luo looked at the empress dowager and said, “Your Highness, I’ve defeated five of them. I would like ten plates of hot delicious meat. I’m going to have it with my lady.”

  The empress dowager was still in shock. She hadn’t expected the girl to emit that red brilliance.

  Red spiritual power couldn’t be acquired without a hundred years of cultivation. Was this girl a hundred years old?

  But she seemed to be just a teenager.

  Why hadn’t the empress dowager heard of such a tough person before? Was she uninformed because she had remained inside the royal palace for too long?

  Or was the intelligence which the Earthly Residence had given her wrong?

  “Your Highness?” Receiving no response from the empress dowager, Ah Luo shouted again, “My lady said that you would give me meat if I defeated five of them. You weren’t lying, were you?”


  “How bold of you to talk to Her Highness like that!” the eunuch nearby roared.

  “Please forgive her, Your Highness. Ah Luo was born simpleminded. Please don’t be angry with her,” Gu Bailu hurriedly explained to the empress dowager.

  The empress dowager smiled and said, “It’s fine. Why would I be angry with a little girl? Rest assured, I never lie. But do you really only want ten plates of meat?”

  The empress dowager wouldn’t accept the childish request because she was hosting a game of serious magnitude.

  Ah Luo thought for a moment and realized that she could ask for more. She stretched out both hands and said, “I would like another ten plates of meat. Hot. My lady is pregnant and can’t have cold food.”

  Gu Bailu was slightly embarrassed. Ten plates of meat aren’t enough for you, and you’re asking for ten more?

  Ah Luo could have mentioned that the ten plates would be for herself. When she said that Gu Bailu couldn’t have cold food, she made it sound like Gu Bailu was the one who was going to monopolize the twenty plates of meat!

  She swore to god that it would be a miracle if she could even finish one plate for herself.

  “Very well, then. Twenty plates of meat. It’s not unusual for a pregnant woman to desire more food.” The empress dowager laughed, not expecting such a simple request.

  The girl seemed really foolish.

  A piece of garbage and an idiot…… What a tragic combination.

  Gu Bailu’s lips twitched. Why am I being cursed when I’m only going to have one plate of meat?

  “Your Highness, what kind of meat will it be? Is it dragon meat?”

  Gu Bailu was lost for words.

  She shouldn’t have told Ah Luo to join the game. She was wrong……

  “Dragon meat?” The empress dowager was stunned for a moment.

  512 The Royal Palace Is No Fun at All

  Did this girl know what she was talking about? Twenty plates of dragon meat?

  Even the empress dowager hadn’t had dragon meat before!

  Dragons were supreme monsters that human beings could only avoid. Who dared to kill them?

  “It’s fine if you don’t have it. I would like Dongpo pork, then,” said Ah Luo with an “I knew you didn’t have it” look on her face, which made the emperor’s face darken.

  The empress dowager: “.……”

  Are you sure you’re not here to make trouble?

  “Okay, Ah Luo, only Shao Di has dragon meat, and Dongpo pork can only be found at Prince Zi’s house. We’re in the royal palace, and we’ll have the royal chef’s best meat.” Gu Bailu petted her and smiled at the empress dowager apologetically. “Please forgive her ignorance, Your Highness.”

  The empress dowager chuckled. “This girl seems to have enjoyed a lot of food. The royal chef here makes the best chicken. You’ll like it.”

  Ah Luo nodded and said, “Okay then.”

  Gu Bailu returned to her seat with Ah Luo, who was quite upset.

  “My lady, why is there no dragon meat or Dongpo pork in the royal palace?” Ah Luo frowned in confusion.

  Wasn’t the royal palace supposed to have everything, when the greatest monarch in the world lived there?

  She remembered that there was a dragon in the royal palace.

  “Because they don’t have time to hunt dragons, and no other chef is capable of making Dongpo pork except for the one at Prince Zi’s house.”

  Ah Luo lay over her table and pouted. “The royal palace is no fun at all. I thought we would have delicious food here.”

  “You can defeat another five people later and then tell the empress dowager that you want to return home to rest. Then we can go back.” Gu Bailu didn’t feel guilty at tricking her maid into fighting for her.

  Ah Luo was immediately energized. “Okay. I want to go home and get some rest.”

  But when the chicken was served, Ah Luo was completely conquered by the spicy and delicious food. She was too devoted to the chicken to ask to go back.

  Gu Bailu knew that the girl wouldn’t go home until she had all the chicken. One plate of chicken would take her a quarter of an hour, while twenty plates……

  Fine. Gu Bailu decided to focus on the game and see if she could learn any new tricks.

  The five contestants defeated by Ah Luo were carried out of the hall.

  Gu Bailu hadn’t expected Ah Luo to be so ruthless as to almost kill them with the red brilliance.

  But it wasn’t uncommon in games. People in this world never restrained themselves, even in a game.

  Gu Bailu had been quite shocked by the red spiritual power as well.

  So far, Feng Qingtian and Gu Yunjing were the only ones she had seen with red spiritual power.

  The spiritual power on this continent could be classified according to seven different colors. Among them, yellow was the color of beginners, while red indicated the best spiritual power.

  Above red, there were also hybrid colors, but Gu Bailu had never seen anyone with them.

  There were few people on this continent with multi-colored spiritual power.

  Some people would fight using a color that was lower than their actual level in order to dupe their enemies.

  Thus, it was hard to tell if those with red spiritual power were actually stronger.

  There were quite a few people with unpredictable strength, like Feng Qingtian and Ah Luo.

  The game soon came to an end. While not all of the contestants were as ruthless as Ah Luo, there were a lot of casualties, and the winners were all above Master level.