Chapter 221-230
Ch.221: Meet the Ghost King; Hiding in the Palace of Crown Prince
This time, Hua Cheng’s smile wasn’t fake. On the contrary, it was even brighter. Guoshi was
stunned, and he raised his hand, pointing at him, ”...You you you, it’s you? That child? You are
that child???”
His finger and voice were practically shaking. Hua Cheng was cheerful and didn’t speak, but his
face was clearly written full of: That’s right, I’m the Star of Solitude himself that almost burnt
down the entire Mount TaiCang!
“...”
Guoshi turned over to demand, ”Your Highness, what’s going on? Explain a little?”
Xie Lian opened his hands and shrugged, smiling shyly, ”...It’s... just as you see.”
Guoshi was completely shocked. He slapped the back of his right hand into his left palm a few
dozen times, and it was a moment before he could finally speak, ”You see, you see you see you
see, I told you so! I told you Supreme Ghost Kings shouldn’t be so easily provoked. He’s been
coming onto you from such a young age, such ghastly persistence! It’s been what, eight
hundred years? EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS! He’s been stalking you for eight hundred years!
Scary, too scary! My fortunes really are too accurate!”
“Please master, please drop it, let’s not talk about this anymore...” Xie Lian pleaded.
He thought inwardly, ’You haven’t even seen the divine statues that filled the entirety of the Cave
of Ten Thousand Gods.’ If he saw it, he’d probably take Hua Cheng for a savage beast of the
floods, some mad, insane ghost, and he’d stuff Xie Lian under his arm and run away. Guoshi
still hadn’t recovered from his shock, ”No, he’s too scary like this, this is such deep obsession
and calculation! Your Highness, you must be absolutely careful, you’d be easily taken
advantage of like this, be cautious of him deceiving you!”
“San Lang wouldn’t do that.” Xie Lian said.
Hua Cheng also said drily, ”My lord* thinks too much. I’d deceive anyone but His Highness.”
Guoshi leaned over to argue, ”You cunning young man, don’t think I can’t tell. Aren’t you exactly
using the fact that His Highness isn’t too learned in this aspect? Why don’t you tell me right now
to my face how spiritual power is lent? How many ways can it be lent, and how do you lend it?
What did you tell His Highness?”
“...”
Xie Lian started yelping and cried random noises, ”HAHAHAHA, ALRIGHT ALRIGHT! LET IT
GO, IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW AS LONG AS IT’S LENT, RIGHT? HAHAHA, IT’S ALL THE
SAME, ALL THE SAME!”
If they continued the subject he was going to start flapping like a duck drowning and boiled. Xie
Lian suddenly turned serious, ”So, let’s talk about serious business. Right now he’s locked us up
here and hadn’t made a move, what is he planning?”
“Probably thinking of setting another riddle up for you.” Hua Cheng said.
“How would it be done though?” Xie Lian wondered.
“That’s hard to say.” Guoshi said, ”To be honest, anything is possible. Your Highness, don’t
change the subject! I’m giving you advice, don’t let perversions confound your mind or be
deceived by pretty words, I say he’s...”
Just then, Hua Cheng suddenly said darkly, ”Gege, someone’s come.”
“Don’t think you can lie to me,” Guoshi said, ”I’m not so easily deceived like His Highness...”
But Xie Lian said, ”Ah, master, he’s not lying to you, someone really is coming, let’s hide first!”
Then, together with Hua Cheng, the two of them lightly pushed off with their feet and lightly leapt
onto the beam on the ceiling, hiding away.
It wasn’t long before the sound of messy footsteps expectedly came from outside the chamber.
A man kicked the door open and laughed wildly in pleasure, ”WAHAHAHAHAHA, THE
HEAVENLY REALM IS NOTHING! DIDN’T IT STILL HAVE TO BE STEPPED UNDER THIS
ANCESTOR’S FEET IN THE END!”
“...”
“...”
“...”
The moment the three heard this voice they all became speechless.
A green robed man came swaggering in from the outside, and wasn’t it indeed Qi Rong that
they hadn’t seen for days!
It seemed, not only did Jun Wu lock up all the heavenly officials, he’d also let loose all the
monsters and demons. That those creatures could actually loiter and rampage the streets of the
Heavenly Capital so freely, this was practically the toppling of reason, exceedingly bizarre!
Guoshi didn’t think it’d be Qi Rong either and he stiffened. Qi Rong pointed at him and yelled,
“You friggin’ Guoshi, friggin’ old man, undying old man! Hehe! Remember how you looked down
on me and wouldn’t take me for a disciple? What do you think now? A slap in the face, right? It’s
karma, you deserve this kind of end!”
From behind him peeked a timid little head, it was Gu Zi. It was probably the first time Gu Zi had
entered such a sumptuous building, and his eyes were widened, looking all over, like he wanted
to secretly feel those jaded bricked but didn’t dare. Qi Rong was proud and pleased, ”Good son,
do you see? This here is the heavenly realm, and now, it’s me, your daddy’s domain!”
Gu Zi was shocked, ”Really, dad? This place is so big...”
“OF COURSE!” Qi Rong exclaimed, ”If you don’t believe me, watch, P’TUI P’TUI P’TUI! I’LL
SPIT WHEREVER I PLEASE AND WHO’D DARE TO TELL ME OFF?”
Guoshi: ”...”
Gu Zi hesitated for a moment, but still whispered, ”Dad, it’s not very good to spit on the ground.
It’s so beautiful and clean here, you’ll dirty it.”
Qi Rong was stumped.
Guoshi couldn’t hold back any longer either, ”Take a look at yourself, how are you teaching
kids? How old are you now and you still don’t know how to be a good role model? Even kids are
more mature than you!”
To be lectured from both sides, Qi Rong’s embarrassment turned into anger, and he jumped up,
cussing, ”YOU FRIGGIN’ OLD MAN, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU KNOW! Pretending to be
some elder, I WON’T ALLOW YOU BOTH TO DISCIPLINE ME! AND YOU! HOW DARE YOU
SPEAK TO YOUR OLD MAN LIKE THIS, YOU UNGRATEFUL BRAT!”
Gu Zi got scolded and stopped making sounds aggrievedly. After Qi Rong was done yelling, he
then very guiltily wiped away the spit he spat with his feet, pretending as if nothing had
happened, and cursed and cussed as he dragged Gu Zi out. Before he left he even wrote a line
in big letters upon the most conspicuous wall of the Palace of Ling Wen – ”The number one
Ghost King of the three realms the Green Ghost Qi Rong was here”.
After Qi Rong had exited the Palace of Ling Wen, the blue daruma doll Xie Lian tucked away in
his sleeve fell out, landing in front of the wall that was written with those big words and the spit
mark Qi Rong messily wiped away, and it spun madly, like it was crazy with rage. Xie Lian and
Hua Cheng also leapt down, and Xie Lian picked up the daruma doll anew. Guoshi shook his
head, ”Prince Xiao Jing truly is... A hundred years like a day, his taste is incredibly bad, I can’t
believe he hasn’t improved at all.”
Hua Cheng took a glance at the wall, and was too lazy to even show a disdainful expression,
and only gave a one word comment: ”Hideous.”
Guoshi finally agreed with him, and he tucked his hands in his sleeves, ”Extremely hideous.
After so many years, other than that hellish mess of a set of verses on the doors of the
Gambler’s Den in the Ghost City, that writing was over ten times more hideous than this, I have
never seen anything more hideous!”
Hua Cheng: ”...................”
Xie Lian on the other hand, was desperately trying to laugh it over, ”Hahahahaha, master I’ve
also seen that set of verses you speak of, and I thought it was pretty well written? It’s very full of
style, I rather like it.”
Guoshi was puzzled, ”Your Highness, how can you say something like that? Your calligraphy
was taught by world class masters, how can you not tell the difference between beautiful and
hideous? That writing is totally the worst of the three realms, not even the best teachers can
salvage it. What exactly do you like about it? Did your taste fall apart?”
Xie Lian, ”HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAMASTER, PLEASE DON’T SAY ANYMORE!!!”
Suddenly, Hua Cheng said, ”Ge ge, Jun Wu is making a move. He’s probably going to look for
you. He’s heading to the Palace of XianLe right now.”
Guoshi jolted, ”What! Then Your Highness you must hurry back! Crimson Rain Sought Flower,
you hide yourself well too, absolutely do not let him discover you two have gotten together. My
three friends’ mountain spirit bodies are currently bound within the borders of Mount TongLu and
are trying to break free. No matter what actions we take, there’s more sure of a chance after
they’ve broken free. Remember, do not act recklessly!”
Naturally, Xie Lian knew this. Having bid Guoshi farewell, the two left the Palace of Ling Wen,
swiftly and stealthily flying past, evading countless guards and demons, and there were four
more blocks before they reach the Palace of XianLe when just then, Hua Cheng spoke up
again, ”Ge ge, there’s one more block before he reaches the Palace of XianLe.”
Xie Lian: ”!”
He touched that monitoring silver butterfly, and before his eyes flashed a scene. Sure enough,
with one hand behind his back and walking by his lonesome, it was almost a hundred steps
away before Jun Wu would reach the gates of the Palace of XianLe.
What should they do?? Wouldn’t this mean they would either get back after Jun Wu, or bump
right into him? It must be known that the guards at the gates of the Palace of XianLe were still
petrified by Hua Cheng!
Suddenly, the gates of the divine palace behind Jun Wu opened, and someone stood behind
those doors, speaking up, ”My lord.”
Jun Wu paused in his step and looked back, ”Rain Master? What is it?”
The one who stopped him was indeed the Rain Master. It was probably because Jun Wu had
given instructions that irrelevant figures must not come close to the Residence of the Rain
Master so other than guards, there weren’t any other demons or monsters visible. She said very
politely, ”My lord, I have something I’ve forgotten to give you. Might I ask my lord to stop in for a
moment?”
Jun Wu inclined his head, ”Very well.” And sure enough, he turned back around. Xie Lian sighed
a breath of relief, ”Thank god for Lord Rain Master!” He’d decided after he returned he’d burn
eighteen tall incense sticks for the Rain Master!!!
Using this chance, the two dashed across the four blocks, and returned to the Palace of XianLe
before Jun Wu. As they crossed through the doors, Hua Cheng casually waved his hand and
released the spell on the guards at the gates. They were confounded for a moment and
completely did not notice anything amiss. Xie Lian sprinted back to the inner chambers but
before he had a chance to sigh in relief, his face changed again, since, the guards at the gates
had come to announce Jun Wu’s arrival.
Jun Wu had come so fast!
It seemed the Rain Master hadn’t stopped him for long. The two exchanged looks,
communicating without words, and Hua Cheng turned to hide himself behind the curtains while
Xie Lian hopped onto the bed pretending to be asleep, his back facing outwards. Just as he
pulled the cover up, Jun Wu entered.
He slowly came to the tableside and was quiet for a moment before he spoke up, ”Xian Le, are
you resting?”
Xie Lian didn’t respond. Jun Wu seemed to have sat down at the table, and placed something
that was in his hands onto the table surface, then poured himself a cup of tea.
He said gently, ”Xian Le, I made you stay here properly for your own good. There are many
things that as long as you listen to me, the end result would be much better.”
Xie Lian didn’t flip over and was still facing him with his back. Otherwise, having remembered all
that Guoshi had told him, with his heart like the raging seas, he wouldn’t know what expression
he’d use to face Jun Wu who at this moment was still kind and gentle.
The next moment, behind him, Jun Wu said languidly, ”But, not only did you sneak out to play,
you even brought someone back to hide in your chamber. It seems, you really don’t listen to me
anymore.”
———
●Hua Cheng didn’t actually address MNQ by title, I just wanted to show that both Xie Lian
and Hua Cheng had been using the honorific ”You” throughout their interaction with
MNQ, as it’s the only time in the book besides to XL that Hua Cheng used it.
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Ch.222: Meet the Ghost King; Hiding in the Palace of Crown Prince 2
Having heard him say so, a chill instantly went down Xie Lian’s back, and each of his hairs was
raised.
It was as if he could feel what it was like that night Guoshi had snuck into Jun Wu’s room and
removed that mask, and he heard Jun Wu rise to his feet from the tableside, coming this way
slowly.
Hua Cheng was just standing behind the curtains next to the bed!
When Xie Lian got onto the bed he had hidden Fang Xin underneath the pillow, and at this
moment, the hand on the hilt clenched it tight, waiting for the right moment, but at the same
time, doubtful if there really would be the right opportune moment. Yet unexpectedly, Jun Wu
didn’t go to the curtains, but instead came to the bedside and lifted the cover on his body
directly. Xie Lian felt his body go chill and shot up, glaring at him, but Jun Wu only eyed him
calculatingly and said quietly, ”This robe doesn’t suit you.”
“...”
Only then did Xie Lian remember that he was still wearing the Brocade Immortal!
Although the Brocade Immortal had now turned into a white cultivation robe, but of course Jun
Wu wouldn’t have missed it. He watched Xie Lian calculatingly for a moment, sighed, and said,
“You just wouldn’t listen to me. You went out to cause trouble again, didn’t you?”
Xie Lian watched him anxiously when suddenly, his eyes swept onto the table, and upon it was
a gift box. The gift box was already unwrapped, and inside it was a few cabbages, several
potatoes and some carrots.
“...”
So it turns out when the Rain Master stopped Jun Wu just now and said she forgot to give him
something, she meant the souvenirs from YuShi Country...
Behind Jun Wu, Hua Cheng soundlessly used a hand and raised a corner of the curtain,
revealing his face behind, and met his eyes with Xie Lian’s through Jun Wu.
His hand slowly rested on the silver scimitar hilt hung on his waist, seeming to be deliberating
on whether to make a move immediately. Xie Lian didn’t think it was the right moment, and
whilst pretending to not want to talk to Jun Wu, he shook his head.
“Where did you hide Ling Wen?” Jun Wu asked.
Of course he couldn’t give him Ling Wen. The moment he saw Ling Wen there wouldn’t be any
need to ask her what was going on; just take a look at her daruma doll form and one could
guess Hua Cheng must’ve snuck into the Heavenly Capital.
But, Xie Lian couldn’t help but wonder – had Jun Wu really not suspected Hua Cheng had
already snuck in at all?
Just then, Jun Wu spoke again, ”Xian Le, your expression seems to say, ”wrong”. What’s
wrong? Could it be, that other than the Brocade Immortal, you’ve hidden someone else?”
Xie Lian’s expression just now didn’t change at all. Jun Wu really knew him very well.
Silently exchanging a look with the Hua Cheng behind Jun Wu, Xie Lian steadied himself and
said coldly, ”Think whatever you want. Either way no one can leave right now, so there’s nothing
I can do. Do what pleases you, you old fart.” Then he laid down again, pulling the covers over
his head. As for Jun Wu, he turned around and started pacing about leisurely within the
chamber, searching.
Taking his time and searching for a while, nothing was found, Jun Wu then pondered for a
moment, and sure enough, still turned towards those curtains and reached out.
When the curtain was lifted, there was nothing.
Pausing for a moment, Jun Wu dropped the curtain and returned to the table anew. As for Xie
Lian who was still lying in bed, his lurched heart still hadn’t relaxed.
Under the covers, Hua Cheng was lying right next to him, their faces pressed extremely close.
Xie Lian’s heart was thumping really hard, his entire person was tense and taut. Hua Cheng
smiled, mouthing soundlessly, ”Don’t be afraid, Your Highness.”
Just now, the moment Jun Wu turned around, Hua Cheng easily dropped the curtains. Then
after Jun Wu walked past him, he then easily slipped out from behind the curtains, and
soundlessly blitzed to Xie Lian’s bedside. Xie Lian yanked him onto the bed and stuffed him
inside, and just as Hua Cheng had rolled in, Jun Wu turned around again.
The timing was seamless, plus the positioning was intricate, so other than a bunch of messy
blankets, Jun Wu saw nothing.
Finally, Jun Wu said, ”Xian Le, stop sleeping. You can’t sleep anyway. Get up and come with
me.”
Xie Lian actually really wanted to slack off in bed and not get up, but he was afraid that Jun Wu
would come over again to lift the covers, so he could only shuffle out of bed, and hide the blue
daruma doll inside his sleeve by the pillowside.
Jun Wu had already left the bedchamber, and Xie Lian looked back. Hua Cheng had already
gotten out of bed, his eyes dark, ready to come over. Xie Lian hurriedly waved, gesturing for him
to absolutely not be exposed, that everything was fine. Jun Wu who had already exited called
out, ”What’s wrong? Why aren’t you coming? Is there something in bed that’s keeping you
behind?”
Xie Lian instantly returned to the chamber, grabbed that box of souvenirs on the table, then
went back out, closing the door behind him. He then picked up a carrot inside the box and took
a chomp, replying drily, ”It’s nothing. Can’t I be hungry?”
Jun Wu glanced at the thing in his hand and said warmly, ”If you like this, I’ve got more. I’ll send
them to you another time.”
Xie Lian, ”...”
They walked a few blocks, and from afar they could hear a voice was making a ruckus,
“HAHAHHAHAHAHA! FENG XIN! YOU DOG! THIS DEMON KING IS TRAMPLING YOUR
PALACE RIGHT NOW, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT? WHAT! COME FIGHT ME!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
It’s Qi Rong again!
As they approached, they could see all around the golden palace was under his attack, the giant
and ugly ”QI RONG WAS HERE” was all over the place. Qi Rong even hopped onto the roofs to
uncover the shingles, hollering and screaming at the heavenly officials inside. Gu Zi was by his
side, looking greatly aggrieved, wanting to speak but stopped himself.
He was currently jumping and stomping on the Palace of Nan Yang, and Feng Xin was troubled
so he ignored him completely; Qi Rong yelled for a while but got bored, so he went to Mu Qing’s
palace and screamed the exact same things. Mu Qing seemed to have rolled his eyes a few
times at his antics, and Qi Rong stomped his feet in anger, hopping all over the place, and
hopped on top of Quan Yi Zhen’s palace. Yet before he even opened his mouth, a divine statue
with a head full of curly hair suddenly blasted out of the room and came flying, smashing him off
the roof with his head crashing first. It was the enraged Quan Yi Zhen who had used his own
divine statue as a weapon and flung it at him directly! Gu Zi was stupefied, and he clung onto
the edge of the roof and cried, ”DAD! ARE YOU ALRIGHT?”
Qi Rong was furious, ”QUAN YI ZHEN YOU SHAMELESS IDIOT! YOU DARE USE
UNDERHANDED AMBUSH AGAINST ME!”
Gu Zi hesitated for a moment, then asked confusedly, ”Dad, how was that underhanded?” Didn’t
Quan Yi Zhen openly throw the divine statue over?
Qi Rong yelled, ”YOU STUPID SON! As long as he wins against me, no matter how he did it, it’s
all underhanded! Otherwise how could he possibly win against this ancestor??”
“Oh...” Gu Zi replied.
“...” Qi Rong was his little cousin no matter what, so Xie Lian couldn’t help but cover his face.
Jun Wu paused in his step, ”Green Ghost.”
When Qi Rong heard this voice, his face stiffened, and crawled up, looking over cautiously,
seeming to be very wary of Jun Wu. With this gaze, both the ’father and son’ naturally saw Xie
Lian, and Gu Zi exclaimed happily, ”Scrap Cultivator ge ge!”
Qi Rong on the other hand, only snorted derisively, ”My! Who’s this? Ain’t this Cousin Crown
Prince!”
Xie Lian didn’t want to acknowledge him in the slightest, but he still came over to harass him,
going around Xie Lian in circles, taunting, ”Weren’t you very high-spirited before? With two
mountains behind your back, looking down on me, why do you look like a lost dog now?”
Xie Lian was puzzled, ”two mountains behind his back?”, then he realized, one was Hua Cheng,
the other was Jun Wu. He glanced at Jun Wu who was standing in front of him, and couldn’t
help but feel all sorts of things. Suddenly, he remembered a long time ago, he asked Hua
Cheng what Jun Wu was like. At the time, Hua Cheng’s response was, Jun Wu must really hate
him.
Qi Rong continued, ”Hehehe, before you’d use Hua Cheng that fucker as backing and
ambushed me, I haven’t even sought vengeance against you and someone else got to you first,
truly what good karma!”
Jun Wu spoke up quietly, ”Green Ghost, stop talking nonsense to Xian Le. You can let your
subordinates out now.”
Although Qi Rong cursed Jun Wu madly behind his back in the past, but when he really came
before Jun Wu, he glumly tucked in his tail. Even while his expression showed how unwilling he
was, without another word, he hopped onto the roof, picked Gu Zi up, and ran off to do his
errands. Jun Wu then turned to Xie Lian, ”Let’s go.”
Xie Lian looked at the path Jun Wu was taking him down and pondered inwardly, ’This direction,
it’s headed to... Qi Rong’s subordinates? Could it be...’
After a while, they turned a corner, and sure enough, a sumptuous martial palace appeared
before the two.
The Palace of Ming Guang!
And at the palace, there were already angry roars and incoherent shouting coming from the
inside. Xie Lian was alarmed and stopped caring to follow behind Jun Wu, running ahead to go
inside.
It certainly was a mess inside the palace!
Pei Ming’s face was steely dark, and Xuan Ji was like a viper, clinging onto him in a chokehold,
wrapping around and around just short of tying a knot, her long hair spread, her face green, her
teeth red, her eyes savage and glaring. It looked as if she wanted to bite through Pei Ming’s
neck, but she herself had her neck choked and pulled away by Ban Yue; on the other side, a
broken sword was pointed right at Pei Ming’s neck, like it was about to pierce through but was
firmly held down by Pei Su’s hands so the blade didn’t move forward; and behind Ban Yue and
Pei Su, Ke Mo was swinging his fists about to punch, and if it wasn’t the ashen faced Pei Ming
who dragged him down, Ke Mo’s two giant fists bigger than iron hammers would probably
already squashed Pei Su and Ban Yue flat. Xuan Ji and Rong Guang were arguing who was
going to choke or stab Pei Ming dead first, and they were screaming and ripping at each other.
Xuan Ji shrieked, ”GET LOST! PEI MING’S SHIT LIFE IS MINE, MINE, IT’S ALL MINE!!!”
Rong Guang who was possessing the Ming Guang sword yelled back, ”YOU GET LOST! WHAT
AN IGNORANT WENCH! THERE’S AT LEAST EIGHT HUNDRED IF NOT A THOUSAND
WOMEN PEI MING DOESN’T WANT, THINK YOU RANK HIGH? THE ONE WHO WILL TAKE
PEI MING’S SHIT LIFE IS ME!!!”
Veins popped violently on Pei Ming’s forehead, ”...YOU’RE... BOTH... MENTAL!!! GET LOST,
ALL OF YOU!!!”
“...”
Xie Lian felt endless sympathies. In some sense, this was probably considered the misfortune of
over-popularity. He called out, ”General Pei, hang on!” And was just about to go rescue him,
when unexpectedly, before he even moved a hand rested on his shoulder.
Behind him, Jun Wu spoke up, ”Xian Le, did you actually think I’ve called you here just so you
can help do good deeds?”
In the midst of getting bruised and battered, Pei Ming and company also noticed them, and Ban
Yue called out joyously, ”General Hua!”
With that hand pressed down, Xie Lian suddenly couldn’t move a muscle, ”Then why did you
bring me over here?”
Jun Wu maintained the position of his hand on his shoulder, and pushed him into the palace.
The moment he entered, the mob that was entangled together in a bunch all fell to the ground in
an instant, as if their strengths were sucked away, and only a couple could still flop around.
“Ming Guang.” Jun Wu said.
Xuan Ji wasn’t strangling him anymore, and Pei Ming’s face finally recovered. He sighed a
breath of relief and replied, ”My lord, really... thank you for this.”
While his tone wasn’t sarcastic, the words themselves were rather ironic. Jun Wu didn’t seem to
mind and smiled, ”No need to thank me so early, Ming Guang, I’ve come to have you help me
do something.”
“What?” Pei Ming asked.
“In the royal capital down in the lower realms,” Jun Wu said, ”There’s currently a human array.”
He knew it!
Jun Wu said quietly, ”Break the human array, and I’ll return your status of Martial God of the
North.”
Pei Ming glanced at Xie Lian and chuckled drily, ”Isn’t it that Crimson Rain Sought Flower who’s
guarding that array? I may not be able to break it forcefully.”
“Of course you cannot break it forcefully,” Jun Wu said, ”But I didn’t say you have to break it
forcefully.”
If it was Pei Ming, it would actually be very easy to break this array. As long as he pretended to
go to help, Shi Qing Xuan would let him in for sure. And once he entered the array then
unexpectedly break away, then the array would be ruined!
Besides, Hua Cheng wasn’t even guarding the royal capital right now, so he wouldn’t be able to
fix it at all!
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Ch.223: Coiling and Encircling; Silver Butterflies and Blessings Lanterns Shield
Xie Lian spoke up, ”General Pei... That array is for shielding against those resentful spirits that
poured out from the Kiln. Once it’s broken, then the Human Face Disease will break out for the
third time, it would probably...”
It would probably bring disaster to the world, and annihilate all that was living.
Pei Ming rubbed his nose, ”Let me verify this... My lord... didn’t give me any other choice, right.”
“Of course I did.” Jun Wu said, ”If you descend, I will let you go; if you don’t, I will let them go.”
Who’s them?
Xuan Ji, Rong Guang, and Ke Mo!
The three ghosts on the side all flashed a green light from their eyes as if they were starving,
and it was easy to imagine what they would do once they were released. Strangle him to death,
scratch him to death, stab him to death, punch him to death; choose one, or all.
Jun Wu added, ”Little Pei is also here. I imagine you think very highly of this descendent of
yours. After all, in order to keep him, you were willing to cover up his luring people to their
deaths at the Banyue Pass, and even planned to push this affair onto the heads of others.”
Having heard this, Rong Guang’s grievance seemed to have rolled up anew, and he cussed
madly at Pei Ming for being a terrible friend, that he’d take his great great great great grandson
over his brothers, and Xuan Ji was also on the side, grumbling and griping some grievances.
Pei Ming endured all these demonic noises encircling his head, and after much thought, he
sighed, ”Will my lord allow me to think more on this?”
“My patience is limited, so I don’t want to give you too much time.” Jun Wu said.
Just as he finished, delight suddenly appeared on the faces of those three ghosts. They could
actually move now, and instantly they charged forward!
The gates of the Palace of Ming Guang shut close, and Xie Lian could hear tortured screaming
from someone and something ripping and tearing coming from the inside. His face dropped and
he cried, ”GENERAL PEI! BAN YUE!!!”
He wanted to go in to see, but Jun Wu’s hand was still placed on his shoulder, and forcibly
pushed him down the other end of the street. Xie Lian kept looking back, but his body was not
his own, and he cried angrily, ”WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING?”
“Next one.” Jun Wu said.
Next one? What next one? After making way for a bit, they stopped once again, and Xie Lian’s
breath was almost going to stop.
Lang Qian Qiu’s Palace of Tai Hua!
Qi Rong also came over from the opposite end of the street with Gu Zi tucked under his arm, his
expression refreshed and rejuvenated, looking like he just trampled all the major divine palaces
and was very pleased with himself. He spoke up, ”Why did you call me here?”
Jun Wu actually summoned Qi Rong to the Palace of Tai Hua. Xie Lian felt a sense of
foreboding, and scolded, ”THERE’S NOTHING HERE TO CONCERN YOURSELF WITH,
LEAVE NOW!”
Qi Rong’s face fell, and it looked as if he was just about to spit at Xie Lian when Jun Wu spoke
up, ”Go inside.”
Qi Rong was smiling in pleasure again, ”Hehe, your words don’t matter here!” Then he went
inside with his head raised and his spirit high.
Within the Palace of Tai Hua, Lang Qian Qiu’s face was dark and gloomy, and he was pacing
back and forth with his hands behind his back. When he saw Xie Lian and Jun Wu had come,
he demanded suspiciously, ”What are you both doing here?”
Then, he saw Qi Rong who was behind them, and instantly his colours changed, and he cried
angrily, ”YOU!”
Gu Zi shrank from his angry roar, but the Qi Rong right now certainly wasn’t afraid of him, and
he sat outside the hall, crossing his legs, so cocky he was getting carried away, ”NOTHING TO
FEAR, MY GOOD SON! That’s right, IT’S ME. Lang Qian Qiu, haven’t you been pursuing me to
kill me for so long? Didn’t you still fall into my hands in the end?”
Lang Qian Qiu was outraged, and veins popped on his forehead and on the back of his hands,
yet he was locked within the palace and couldn’t take a single step out, so he turned to Xie Lian
furiously, ”WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? DID YOU BRING HIM HERE TO SHOW HIM
OFF?”
“NO!” Xie