Chapter 42.1
Face-Slapping the White Lotus Merman (2.1)
Editor: ghost
The charming woman did not shut up. She continued, “Your excellency, is your head filled with water? Looking at the second prince, perhaps you’ll be the one pressed down by him? No, perhaps you’ll be killed by him? Ha ha ha…”
“Shut up. If you continue talking, I’ll seal up your five senses.”
“Tsk, isn’t it just the truth? Do you need to be so ruthless?”
The Devil King turned and left. A thousand years ago, he fought with the Netherworld’s Ghost King and both sides suffered losses. He had to go into closed cultivation and the Ghost King died a few hundred years back. At present, the current Ghost King was just a little ghost, unworthy of him making a move.
The charming woman sighed helplessly from behind as she followed him and disappeared from the sea’s surface.
When Zhao Shuxuan regained consciousness, he had already regained his handsome and radiant appearance. He stared at the people in front of him. He did not dare to believe it; had he not already died? He was even certain that he had met the ghost envoy, why was he alive now?
Pinching his thigh, he felt pain. He was then convinced that he had really come back to life.
Zhao Shuxuan asked the two old people in front of him, “Who are you?”
An old man with a head of white hair checked Zhao Shuxuan’s forehead temperature. He had a hunched back and hands full of calluses. He said, “I am Tian Chuanguo. When my spouse and I saw you, you were unconscious on my doorstep.”
“You two saved me?”
“Ai, it’s nothing worth mentioning. Eat something since you’re awake now.”
Zhao Shuxuan sat upright. He realised that his body seemed to be very light and was filled with strength— as if he had been reborn as an immortal.
What he did not know was that this was all the revival pill’s effect. However, there was a side effect to the pill – everything would be the same as usual in the first month, but afterwards he would be completely paralysed for a year.
If in this one year the paralysed person could persevere and hone themselves, then they would be able to regain their normal state. Otherwise, they really would be paralysed for life.
Zhao Shuxuan naturally did not know about this. A month later, he suddenly found his body exhausted and realised that he had celebrated too early.
He was unable to believe it and questioned why he would suddenly become paralysed with no rhyme or reason. Furthermore, he did not meet any enemies within the month. He even cooked meals himself to repay the two old people’s kindness in saving him.
Lying on the bed, Zhao Shuxuan was in extreme pain. His joy in his rebirth was already completely smashed by his current paralysed state. He even thought that he should have just died at the start if he was going to be in this state.
The old couple continued to treat Zhao Shuxuan well. Their children had been sent to the border to fight, but once they had left, they never came back.
The old couple treated Zhao Shuxuan like he was their own son, but Zhao Shuxuan became more and more irritable.
Meanwhile, a certain charming woman was bored until her b.a.l.l.s hurt and finally could not take it any more. She had waited at the south sea for the second prince to reappear for more than a month and any patience she had left had been cleanly depleted. Moreover, she was a woman who originally did not have any patience.
Standing up, she dusted her hands together, then dusted her b.u.t.t. The woman then disappeared from above the southern ocean.
At present, the Devil King was solemnly sitting in his palace. Inside the palace stood two newly-descended devils, one on each side of the hall, trembling in fear and not daring to make a sound.
The charming woman saw this upon her arrival. She stood at the door for a while and realised that this scene was really static.
Lightly sighing, she leaped into the palace.
“Do your b.a.l.l.s hurt from boredom, your excellency? I was watching from the door for half a day, yet you didn’t even move.”
The Devil King expressionlessly looked at the woman and asked, “Hong Yu, he appeared?”
Hong Yu shook her head, “He didn’t so I came back to tell you something: why don’t you go and keep watch yourself.”
“No.”
Hong Yu took a deep breath and asked as calmly as possible, “Why?”
“Don’t ask. Just go since I have ordered you to.”
Hong Yu took another deep breath and roared, her voice reverberating throughout the palace, “b.a.s.t.a.r.d! Don’t think I don’t know that you made me keep watch because you are afraid of basking in the sun and getting caught in the rain. You idle in here until your b.a.l.l.s hurt while I weather the elements outside to wait for your little lover. Go to h.e.l.l!”
The Devil King slowly raised his head with a chilly gaze. Hong Yu instinctively trembled, but put up a strong front as she shouted, “Don’t think I’m scared of you! I’m telling you, my mother told me that if you dare to bully me, she will bully you to death.”
“Hong Yu, come here.” Devil King Ming Chi said after a moment of silence.
Hong Yu mistakenly thought he did not take her words to heart, hence she went to him. As a result, when she got close, Ming Chi smashed her head with a fist.
Hong Yu shouted in pain and wanted to stomp in anger, but was frozen in place by Ming Chi’s spell.
“I’m telling you, Ming Chi, I will go back and complain to my mother. At that time I’ll see how you die, hmph.”
The Devil King Ming Chi feared neither the heavens nor the earth, but feared one person in his entire life – the flame phoenix Hong Yan. She had saved Ming Chi when he was still an infant and had brought him up. Hence despite becoming the king of the devil world, Ming Chi still treated Hong Yan with much respect, never retaliating nor retorting.
Hong Yan had one daughter who was loved by all and she was precisely Hong Yu.
Ming Chi exited closed door cultivation two years ago. Hong Yan handed her daughter over to Ming Chi, saying that she should follow Ming Chi to temper herself. But after following Ming Chi for two years, Hong Yu realised this guy was wholly irresponsible.
He said to the ten great law protectors, “Don’t find me if there are no matters and don’t find me even if there are. Settle it by having a vote amongst yourselves. I was gone for a thousand years, weren’t you all still able to manage well?”
There were naturally people who had a bellyful of complaints so Ming Chi shut them up with one more line, “If you are unconvinced, then make sure to properly cultivate and defeat me.”
As a result, these people quietly retreated.
Hong Yu was sorely disappointed. When she saw the Devil King idling his days away, she experienced a sort of phantom limb pain.
At the beginning, Hong Yu did not scold Ming Chi. Afterwards, she realised that he would not retort when scolded, hence her words became more and more cutting.
“Then what do you suggest I should do to see him again?” Ming Chi pensively asked. This made Hong Yu who had calmed down flare up again; she had been angry for half a day, yet it seemed that the other party did not notice.
The Dragon King’s palace had the highest concentration of Yang energy and had been protected by a screen of Yang incantations. These incantations had no particular effect on aquatic life, but could cause lethal damage to devils, hence the Devil King did not dare to trespa.s.s into the Dragon King’s Palace.
In fact, the Devil King could enter but it was best for an aquatic being to lead him in so that he could transfer a part of his devil energy to that person. However, Ming Chi could not find someone to lead him in.
Hong Yu dumbfoundedly answered Ming Chi, “You can just charge into the Dragon King’s palace.”
“But wouldn’t he hate me?”
“It’s not like I’m criticising you, your excellency, but I think that your head may regrettably be filled with water.”
“You want to die?”
“The second prince didn’t kill that person lying on the beach in the end. You can start from there.”
The Devil King was deep in thought for a while before replying, “Do you think he fancied the merman so he had to get rid of the person the merman liked?”
Hong Yu quietly sighed, “Your excellency, what on earth is in your head? If this was true, then why wouldn’t he directly kill that person?”
“Fine, I’ll go take a look. He consumed the revival pill and should be paralysed now.”
Hong Yu rolled her eyes and said, “Undo the freezing spell.”
The Devil King seriously looked Hong Yu in the eye then simply said, “Stay there for now so you don’t look for trouble when you have nothing better to do.”
Hong Yu, “…”
“Right, what was that person called?”
“Not telling you.”
“If you don’t say it then I’ll seal your five senses.”
“Zhao Shuxuan.” Hong Yu shot him a scornful glance as she replied.
“Good girl.”
“Go to h.e.l.l.”
The Devil World’s matters did not need Ming Chi to manage so no one cared where he went. However, he still scouted out the place first before meeting Zhao Shuxuan; he was afraid that he would accidentally scare the ordinary mortals.
Making himself invisible, he sat in the house. Ming Chi observed Zhao Shuxuan for an entire day and then reached a conclusion – this person was full of dedication to his country, but had no money or power to do anything.
It was even better now that he was paralysed and thus bedridden. His moodiness that arose from the loss of his hopes worsened.
However, Ming Chi still obtained useful information – Zhao Shuxuan worshipped a general who had been pushed out of the imperial court and was now banished into exile. If he could gain this general’s support, Zhao Shuxuan could still put in some worthwhile effort.
Ming Chi straightforwardly went to find this general, but unexpectedly found out that this general was on the verge of death.
The banished general Ke Yuanlin had experienced bullying and oppression; even a small-time official would act tyrannically towards him. In the end, the general who was oppressed in all sorts of ways finally fell apart in both body and mind.
He was a capable and loyal general. Yet at his deathbed, he had no one by his side. It was miserable. Currently, this person was truly in an abyss of suffering.
However, regardless of whether one was a celestial, demon, devil or ghost, they would not meddle in the human world’s matters. One would have karma with the mortal, and this karma often would not have any good consequences even if it resulted from doing a good deed.
However Ming Chi was not one to care about such rules. He could even defeat the Netherworld’s Ghost King, what karma would he be afraid of?
When Ke Yuanlin was nearing death, Ming Chi protected his own body and then had his soul possess Ke Yuanlin’s dying one. He then brought the possessed body back to Zhao Shuxuan.
When Zhao Shuxuan saw Ming Chi, he was moved to the point of br.i.m.m.i.n.g with tears. But as he was paralysed, he could only let his tears fall.
“Brother Ke, it’s unexpected that I would meet you here. I…”
Ming Chi was dumbfounded; he was not used to seeing people cry and could only somewhat awkwardly say, “I’ve finally found you, Brother Zhao.”
“Ai, it’s already useless to find me. I’m now a waste who cannot do anything.”
“No, believe me, Brother Zhao; as long as you train, you can recover. A year’s time is enough.”
“How do you know?”
“Because you’ve eaten a revival pill. I’ve seen this medicine in a secret book. If it is eaten by someone who had just died, he would revive after just a day and within a month of eating it, his body would be as light as a feather. But after a month, the limbs would be fatigued and weak; if one can persevere and train, they can recover in a year.”
“Is that really so?”
“Of course.”
Zhao Shuxuan was again moved to the point of tears. He had thought that he would be useless for life and never expected there was still salvation. He looked at Ming Chi and said, “Brother Ke, if I recover, why don’t we join hands to save this country’s common people from misery?”
Translator’s Note:
heyo back with chapter 42.1 ! it was exam season where i live so really hectic, i scheduled all the chapters 2 weeks in advance so i could shut myself in and study…. well that’s enough from me, hope you enjoyed the chapter; i just LOVE hong yu so much she really out there with her witty comments!! i’ve read the comments and im glad to say she aint a b.i.t.c.h, she’s the likable female character we’ve been waiting for thank you so much for the continued support, your comments really mean a lot to me