Harness Cultivator
Chapter 184: Bone Age Test

Cai Hong was a bit dumbfounded to realize Lee Tao had managed to replace a room in her palace despite its vastness.

It goes to show how wide his spiritual perception was, and the more Cai Hong thought about it, she came to a realization that her plan to evacuate her people should have long been noticed by him.

'Why did he still play along and let me do it then? Was he really that confident in his ability?' She wondered silently.

Sometime later, she entered the room that Lee Tao had gone into.

When she entered, she saw him casually laying on a chair with a carefree attitude, almost like he was at his own house.

Cai Hong didn't know how to react to this situation since it was her first time seeing a stranger become so carefree in her camp.

After all, one command from her and the entire snakesmen guards would flock inside to detain them and possibly kill them as well.

Hence, most people are always frightened and would act timidly in front of her.

She narrowed her eyes and wiggled her snake tail to the opposite side of Lee Tao. There was no way she would get close to such a dangerous man that doesn't understand the meaning of death.

"Speak, how did you know about me undergoing an evolution?" She swiftly asked, not bothering to beat around the bushes.

The matter of her trying to go through an evolution was a private matter and she had never told anyone else before.

Meanwhile, Lee Tao smirked coldly as he sat up straight and stared at Cai Hong. His gaze seemed to be electrifying as it caused Cai Hong's body to tense up for some reason.

She was a dignified queen with a majestic aura, and it was always her glare that intimidated people. When had it ever been her who would be intimidated by others?

"Queen Cai Hong, I call you this because I have a bit of affection toward you. Otherwise, I wouldn't even bother wasting my time with you here and hoping to maintain a decent relationship between us." Lee Tao said nonchalantly.

It was true that he originally planned to threaten the snakespeople clan's ruler into coughing up valuable information for him to navigate the inner zone of the Sierra Desert.

However, he never expected the ruler would actually be a woman and that her quality as a woman was top-notch. Not only was she a beauty, but she also exuded a majestic aura that one could only obtain from birth.

It would be a shame for such a woman to end up in the hands of other men other than him. Hence, he didn't mind making an extra effort to earn her affection. Though that didn't mean she could cross his bottom line.

If she happens to not know what's good for her and still goes against him, then Lee Tao could only shake his head in shame.

Once she becomes his enemy, then there is only one thing he would do, and that is to eliminate the person whether she's a woman or not.

The reason why Zhou Jingjing and Zheng Wenling were still kept alive is that they are somewhat useful as pawns. Plus, they had stopped thinking about going against him, and they were no longer a threat with their identity exposed.

However, Cai Hong was someone in the Heaven Spirit Realm and such an enemy would definitely be an obstacle in his path. She would be too dangerous to be kept alive if she were to become an enemy.

"Queen Cai Hong, the evolution you are undergoing must have been recorded in some ancient text, right?" Lee Tao crossed his legs and asked. What he wanted to do is to avoid the possibility of becoming enemies.

He had offended too many people already, and those were inevitable fate. Cai Hong was a different story because she doesn't know who he is and what kind of identity he holds.

After all, she was always residing in the inner zone and didn't care about the outside world much. Therefore, Lee Tao had a choice to befriend her rather than make another enemy.

Cai Hong remained silent for a moment since every word Lee Tao had uttered was correct. She had indeed found a hidden record of ancient text regarding the possibility of evolution.

The clan would soon collapse if she were to still stagnate in the Heaven Spirit Realm, so it prompted her to take a risk and keep it a secret from everyone else.

"How did you know about the evolution matter that I took? The records in the ancient text were extremely old, and you shouldn't have such knowledge regarding it." Cai Hong enquired.

She found it suspicious that Lee Tao, who looked so young to have such profound knowledge.

Lee Tao shrugged his shoulders.

"If you don't believe my facial appearance, then do you want to do a bone age test on me?" he suggested.

A bone age test naturally referred to someone dripping some of their blood in special water that would determine a person's actual age.

This was the surefire method for everyone else that wanted to know a cultivator's true age since it could not be falsified nor concealed by their cultivation.

Lee Tao thought his suggestion was enough to deter Cai Hong's suspicions of him, but never did he expect that Cai Hong would actually agree to it.

"Alright then, let's do a bone age test." Cai Hong said and retrieved a bowl of water from her spatial ring. "I just so happen to have that particular water for the bone age test, so please drop some of your blood in."

Lee Tao twitched his mouth in disbelief.

What kind of queen was she?

Why would she have that particular special water for the bone age test in her spatial ring?

Did she prepare it in advance and hoped to figure out his age from the get-go?

Lee Tao was truly caught off-guard as he smiled bitterly. "No wonder why you took a while to enter the room after I left. Did you want to prepare this in advance?"

Cai Hong had no guilty feelings so she answered truthfully, "Obviously, I ordered some maids of mine to prepare it in advance. There was no way you would believe that I would think someone so young like you could endure my demeanor and pressure, right?"

"Heh, you have impressed me this time, Queen Cai Hong. However, this wouldn't be fair to me if it's only me taking this test, right?"

"Hmph, it was your suggestion in the first place. It's not like I suggested this and forced you to take it. As a man, are you going to be a pussy and go back on your word? If so, then my impression of you had truly dropped to a sub-zero degree."

Lee Tao faked a cough and pretended that he did not hear her. At first, he wanted to make a bet with her and get some advantages from her.

However, her words had straight-up denied him and the loophole he could take.

As expected of a queen, her words are truly venomous and dead on point.

"Tsk, since you are that doubtful of my age, then I wouldn't mind showing it to you." Lee Tao snorted coldly. He got up and walked over to the desk where she placed the bowl of special water on.

Since she didn't bother lending him a needle to poke a tiny hole in his finger, Lee Tao could only use some of his profound qi to make a tiny cut.

As his finger was cut slightly, blood started dripping down onto the special water.

Cai Hong's gaze was fixated on the water as she wished to see his true age.

'This Lee Tao must definitely be some thousand years old ugly man that's trying to fool other women.' Cai Hong thought. In her mind, only such an age could be immune to her pressure and act leisurely in her presence.

However, when the number 17 appeared in the bowl of water, her jaws dropped down. She was clearly in disbelief and dumbfounded by the number showcased.

"H-H-How is this possible??!" Cai Hong stuttered as she rubbed her eyes multiple times to make sure she wasn't seeing things wrongly.

"You're really only 17 years old??!' She turned toward Lee Tao and asked him in disbelief. His age and mentality clearly do not match at all. Yet the bone age test result was really indicating the age of 17.

There was no way her maid would betray her for Lee Tao who she had never met. Therefore, the doubt of the special water being swapped is negligible.

Not to mention, she had been staring at Lee Tao in case he did something funny. Thus, the probability of Lee Tao using some method to fool her was also impossible.

"Queen Cai Hong, are you finally satisfied now? I'm very young, so you should be proud to make love with someone capable like me, right?" Lee Tao smiled cheekily while his finger slowly regenerated from the cut.