Chapter 43.2

Face-Slapping the White Lotus Merman (3.2)

Editor: ghost

He thought and thought. An Si remembered that his father often said that the southern ocean’s Spirit Shark had a canine tooth that could transform into swords or knives by itself. It was able to murder without a trace and was the best weapon in the southern ocean.

Thinking of the Spirit Shark, An Si was still a bit scared; mermen and Spirit Sharks were pretty much mortal enemies. A few thousand years of grudges and grievances could not be resolved overnight. If he went to ask a Spirit Shark to borrow a canine tooth, that shark definitely would not agree.

An Si wrinkled his brows, then came to a decision. He would first obtain the tooth and use it for a bit, then stealthily return it. This way, it was possible that the Spirit Shark could save Zhao Shuxuan without knowing.

An Si acted on his decision and wholly forgot that Zhou Xu could stop him.

Zhou Xu was soon annoyed to death by Ming Chi. Zhou Xu said that he could follow him, but Ming Chi actually followed him around constantly and closely.

Zhou Xu completely could not understand Ming Chi’s so called “tied by a string of fate” theory. To him, fate was something to be hated; his fate had been rewritten. Before these few worlds, he had been a puppet put into the role of a villain that never had a good end.

In those hundred worlds, Zhou Xu had absolutely no leeway for choice.

At present, Zhou Xu looked at the man clad in black in front of him and could only sigh, “I want to return to the Dragon King’s palace.”

Ming Chi said, “I can enter too if you bring me along.”

“No need.”

“If not, I’ll charge in by force. I’ve already waited a few thousand years for you; I don’t want to separate from you now.”

“Since that is the case, then you can continue to wait.” Zhou Xu was truly annoyed. He transformed into his dragon form and directly flew into the palace.

Ming Chi could follow him, but in the end, he did not. He realized that it was not only Zhou Xu who was interfering in the human world’s matters, but other forces as well.

Since Zhou Xu interfered in the human world’s affairs, he must have acc.u.mulated karma. Ming Chi naturally knew this. He himself had not yet meddled in those matters, hence he was not scared of any karma. Even if he had, it was simple for him, but it was different for Zhou Xu.

Since Zhou Xu had already gotten involved, Ming Chi decided that he would accompany Zhou Xu. Even if they were punished by fate, he was still willing to share the burden with Zhou Xu.

In an instant, Ming Chi transformed into a black fog and dissipated from above the southern ocean.

Ming Chi found something weird. Normally, when the human world experienced a great disaster, the devil world would also be affected. However, this time, there was no effect on the devil world. There was only one possibility – the disaster was man-made.

Ming Chi arrived at the imperial palace. He realised an odd point. He fought with the netherworld Ghost King a thousand years ago but shockingly, the aura in the palace matched that of the Ghost King. It was strange – hadn’t the previous Ghost King already died?

Carrying his doubts, Ming Chi found the State Teacher

Ming Chi concealed his body and aura. He entered an eerie, gloomy room and saw a grotesque hunched figure. When he got closer, he found that this figure was precisely the previous Ghost King Luo Cang.

A thread of black smoke slowly dispersed through a crack in the room, far from the imperial palace.

The black smoke slowly gathered together and a figure clad in black emerged from within.

Ming Chi slightly wrinkled his brows. He knew that since the Ghost King was involved in the world’s affairs Zhou Xu was in danger.

Ming Chi had quite a long fight with the Ghost King previously; their cultivation was on par. However, in comparison, Zhou Xu was a tier lower.

He sat cross-legged and thought carefully – what could he do to help Zhou Xu?

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The southern ocean’s Spirit Shark was shocked upon seeing Zhou Xu. To him, the Second Prince was always arrogant and would rarely look for him. Why was he here this time?

“Second Prince.” The Spirit Shark had the form of a regular shark except that he could speak. At the moment he was slowly transforming into his human form. It was not too suitable to use his original form to communicate with others after all.

“Spirit Shark, where is your canine tooth?”

“It’s put up in the house. Second Prince, is something the matter?”

“Go back and see if it is still there.” Zhou Xu said.

The Spirit Shark hurriedly went back. He found that the tooth was still in his room and wanted to report back to Zhou Xu, but realised that this canine tooth seemed a bit different than before.

He took the canine tooth and transformed it into a long sword. In the past this long sword was thin and light, but this time the Spirit Shark realised that it was unexpectedly very heavy.

Opening the sheath in shock, the Spirit Shark realised that the canine tooth had been switched for a poor imitation; the real canine tooth was missing.

“Second Prince, my canine tooth is missing. However, I am certain that it was here half an hour ago; I had picked it up and checked it.”

The corner of Zhou Xu’s mouth hooked up. As expected, a little thief would be a little thief.

“No need to worry. I guarantee that I will find it for you.”

Zhou Xu began to move the spiritual energy inside his body and chanted an incantation. The bright Dragon King’s palace was slowly dimming.

In only a few seconds, the entire southern ocean palace was like an enormous cage; Zhou Xu had sealed up all the exit points of the palace.

Zhou Xu returned to the audience hall of the Dragon King’s palace with the Spirit Shark.

People found Zhou Xu to ask what was happening one after another, but Zhou Xu only told them not to panic; he would open the exits after four hours.

Zhou Xu said that but many people still did not leave. They wanted to wait for Zhou Xu to open the palace’s doors.

Zhou Xu did not stop them. He would see An Si in a while. He had to let him know that no matter the situation nor the initial intention, as long as he did something wrong, he needed to pay the price of his actions.

The number of people grew. Zhou Xu’s expression remained calm.

Fifteen minutes pa.s.sed and even the southern ocean’s mermen clan leader An Xiao arrived.

Zhou Xu smiled faintly as he spoke to An Xiao, “Clan Leader An, I will soon hand over someone to you.”

An Xiao nodded. He had already made a guess in his heart; in the entire southern ocean, there was only one merman that did not listen to him – An Si.

One had to cultivate well just to hide their body. An Si’s cultivation was not high and he finally revealed himself after he hit some walls.

He recognised the problem. The Dragon King’s Palace was not sealed for thousands of years yet this time it was unexpectedly sealed.

Only the Dragon King as well as the First Prince and Second Prince could remove the seal, but the Dragon King essentially did not care about matters in the palace and the First Prince never left closed cultivation all year round. Then it could only be Zhou Xu?

An Si did not think that Zhou Xu sealed the palace because of him. He had merely taken the Spirit Shark’s canine tooth. It was not worth Zhou Xu making this kind of move. Afterall, he had indeed done something wrong, but it was only a minor wrongdoing.

However to Zhou Xu, as long as it was a crime, there was no minor or major crime; all had to receive punishment.

An Si sat at the doorway of the palace for a long time, not knowing what to do. His eyebrows were scrunched on his pretty face and anyone looking would feel that he was even more lovable. However, no matter how beautiful he was, he was only a petty thief in Zhou Xu’s eyes.

In the end, An Si was caught by Zhou Xu’s soldiers. There were not just three to five soldiers, but numbered three to five hundred.

An Si never expected to be met with such a grand sight. Seeing Zhou Xu behind them, he immediately began to admit his wrongdoings, “Second Prince, I was wrong. Please let me off.”

Zhou Xu was indifferently sitting on a chair. He asked with a cold voice, “An Si, you say that you are wrong. Where did you go wrong?”

“I…”

An Si grew increasingly panicked and could not say anything. His pitiful appearance made others feel distressed for him.

The canine tooth was the Spirit Shark’s, hence he naturally could feel its presence. He stepped forward to ask after Zhou Xu gave him a look, “An Si, you stole my canine tooth right?”

An Si nodded, but he tightly protected the canine tooth in his hands with no intention to return it.

“Yes, but I did it to save people. I did not have any bad intentions. If I could not obtain the tooth, the person I like would die, wu wu wu…” An Si spoke until he cried.

“Not allowed to cry!”

Zhou Xu berated An Si in a stern voice. The crying An Si was scared silly by Zhou Xu and immediately went quiet.

Zhou Xu wanted to continue, but merman clan leader An Xiao stepped forward. He bowed slightly to Zhou Xu and said, “Second Prince, let me discipline my clan’s people.”

Zhou Xu nodded his head. His original intention was precisely this. He could not be bothered to deal with An Si anymore.

An Xiao turned. “I-“, An Si wanted to speak, but An Xiao slapped his delicate face with his palm.

“Pa!”

The sound was particularly crisp, especially in this kind of large hall. One could judge just from the sound that the clan leader had truly hit An Si without a hint of favouritism.

“Clan leader, I was wrong… Clan-”

“Pa!” He was slapped again.

After the first slap, the left side of An Si’s face turned red. Now An Xiao gave him another slap on his right cheek.

An Si covered his face as tears continuously fell. His wronged appearance made it seem like the person who had done something wrong was not him.

“A few decades ago, your father went to the eastern ocean and entrusted you to me. Now I realise my mistake; I shouldn’t have let you stay from the beginning. The entire southern ocean are all looking at our mermen clan like a joke and this is because of you, An Si.” An Xiao was pained as he spoke. It was true; at present, of all the clans with prestige in the southern ocean, which did not have someone here watching the spectacle?

“But Clan Leader, it wasn’t on purpose. You want to hit me just for that shark’s one tooth, I feel that…”

“Pa! Pa!”

An Xiao slapped An Si’s face twice more. Both sides were already red and swollen, and after this bout, blood was flowing from the corner of his mouth.

“An Si, shut up. Even now, you don’t think that you’ve done something wrong? ”

“I know I was wrong but I did it to save someone, Clan-”

“Pa! Pa!” An Xiao ruthlessly slapped him another two times.

“You can just steal something to save someone? You couldn’t tell the Spirit Shark and honestly borrow it?”

“I was just scared that he wouldn’t agree; I heard the canine tooth was very important to the Spirit Shark so I…”

“Pa! Pa!”

“Why did you steal it if you knew that it was important to the other person?”

Presently, An Si’s face was swollen to the point of being unrecognisable. The blood at his mouth was increasing because the more he spoke, the angrier An Xiao became, thus the strength he used to hit him also increased.

“I, I did it to save people, wuwuwu…”

This time An Xiao did not hit him. He turned and took a whip from the Spirit Eel by his side and lashed at An Si’s body.

“Saving people is not a reason to steal. An Si, do you even understand where you went wrong? If you don’t understand, then today I will whip you until you do.”