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The black figure was momentarily silent: “Why are you looking for him?”
Xu Xingzhi thought that he was in luck and was pleasantly surprised as he replied: “He’s my shidi. . .”
Just when the black figure was about to respond, the two suddenly heard a loud explosion in the distance and a shockwave of spiritual energy that was enveloped in a warm current washed over them, almost pushing Xu Xingzhi to the ground.
The source was the giant tower to the southeast.
Surprisingly, an anxious look flooded the black figure’s face as he shoved Xu Xingzhi’s shoulder: “That’s the place, go quickly! Hurry!”
According to Xu Xingzhi’s personality, normally he would’ve immediately turned tail and ran towards the opposite direction as fast as he could. He definitely wouldn’t have poked the belly of the beast, but when he considered that Meng Chongguang might be there, Xu Xingzhi only gritted his teeth and rushed towards the giant tower.
As he approached the center of the battlefield, Xu Xingzhi could feel the person on his back become more and more restless.
And at the same time, the closer he got to the giant tower, the more Xu Xingzhi felt an inexplicable sense of pressure that suffocated him.
The first thing that entered Xu Xingzhi’s line of sight was a young man standing by the edge of a cliff. The upper half of his face was covered by an eerie phantom mask made of iron. He stood on the high ground, his black clothes fluttering like a crow while a faint purple ball of light revolved in his palm.
. . . However, he was only a short crow.
Xu Xingzhi knew who this person was. He had also appeared in his novella and was Meng Chongguang’s subordinate, a ghostly cultivator well-versed in the art of controlling ghosts.
Except Xu Xingzhi didn’t have the time to give him a name.
To be precise, in the entire story, Xu Xingzhi had only given Meng Chongguang a name.
In Xu Xingzhi’s imagination, the world was divided into Mortal, Spiritual, Ghostly, and Demonic Cultivation, these four methods. Amongst them only Mortal Cultivation was publicly acknowledged as a righteous path and had the ability to rule the three realms.
While Spiritual Cultivation is characterized by the ability to utilize the essence of heaven and earth and is practiced by animals and plants.
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Ghostly Cultivation is based on the principle that “all beings must die, and all things dead must return to the earth” and so they are able to command both ghosts and corpses.
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And those who were trapped in this wasteland were without a doubt those spirits, demons, ghosts, and monsters as well as those mortal cultivators who took to a darker path and fell to nefarious ways.
Xu Xingzhi looked around and there were countless ragged ghosts of the dead floating around just as expected, each wielded a sharp blade as they waged war against the enemy.
Their foreheads all glimmered with a faint purple cloud pattern the same color as that of the ball of light floating in the phantom-masked youth’s palm.
The phantom-masked youth was standing on the high ground and although he was completely dressed in black, he was still too conspicuous. Not long after, a sharp arrow was released straight towards his chest like electricity bridging a gap.
When the arrow was still over thirty meters away, a nine-star tasseled spear that was longer than a meter suddenly blocked in front of him and met the tip of the arrow head on.
The two tips collided and an metallic spark flashed as the tasseled spear slashed the arrow into two using brute force!
Afterwards a mirage shimmered in front of the phantom-masked youth and a humanoid shadow gradually manifested.
The humanoid figure grabbed the bottom end of the tasseled spear and drew a perfect arc of light in mid-air with a flip of his wrists.
It was a very handsome and peerless youth, it’s only a pity that there was a faint purple cloud pattern between his brows as well.
. . . This meant that he was a deceased soul too.
He temporarily ignored the intense battlefield below, turned to the short phantom-masked youth, then leaned over and gave the tip of the mask’s nose a peck before he commented jokingly: “. . . Why’re you so careless ah, don’t you even know how to try and dodge a little.”
The phantom-masked youth froze and felt both ashamed and annoyed: “Zhou Beinan, hurry and get down there for me!”
With a pinch of his fingertips, the purple light undulated and the youth with the tasseled spear fell off the cliff against his will. He staggered in mid-air a few times before he could steady himself.
The phantom-masked youth touched the tip of his nose while he bit his full lips, the corner of his mouth drooped slightly downwards as if he was sulking.
Xu Xingzhi heard the black figure on his back sigh in relief: “. . . Thankfully it’s okay.”
Xu Xingzhi asked: “What should we do now?”
The black figure looked up at the sky and whistled.
Xu Xingzhi didn’t understand what he was doing and just when he wanted to ask in detail, a skeleton suddenly emerged from behind a huge rock, startling Xu Xingzhi so badly that he almost choked on his own breath.
It was a female skeleton. The entire body was extremely clean without a trace of residual skin or flesh, but she still had her full head of black hair which she had properly coiled up with a long silk ribbon.
She recognized the charred black person with a single glance and exclaimed in surprise: “You only went out to clear your mind, how did you make such a mess of yourself?”
The black figure didn’t bother answering and only coldy inquired: “What happened?”
The skeletal girl stretched out her thin bony right hand, placing it on the radial pulse of the black figure’s burnt left hand and then answered: “It’s the one that was sealed in the mountain.”
The black shadow sneered: “. . . Doesn’t know it’s place.”
The bones of the skeletal girl started to glow with a faint green light as she pushed wave after wave of light into the black figure’s body: “Let me heal you first. . . . There is no need to be concerned, even if you didn’t return in time, Qu Chi and Zhou Beinan would still triumph.”
Xu Xingzhi kept feeling that something was a little strange somehow as he listened in on this conversation, but the collision of the spiritual weapons and the resulting screeching noises kept interrupting his thoughts, so he decided to stop thinking about it and emerged from their hiding spot.
In the midst of a melee, it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe with everyone similarly in tatters and haggard, but if he insisted on pointing out something out of the ordinary then it would be the 13- or 14-year old girl.
She was extremely thin, her brown tight-fitting clothes were already torn to shreds and her sleeves were rolled up to her elbows to reveal her thin and snow white wrists.
And in stark contrast to her appearance, was the sabre she held in each hand. The double blades were made of bronze and if she were to stand them up, they wouldn’t be that much shorter than she was. Yet, she easily wielded them with one hand and beheaded the enemy with a single stroke as she leapt forward.
Her face was stained with numerous streaks of blood which made her fair and delicate complexion stand out even more.
Just like the skeletal girl predicted, these people who came to attack the giant tower quickly retreated in defeat like the falling tide as they dragged their troops back and hauled their weapons away.
The girl crisscrossed the two sabers in her grip and inserted them into the cross-shaped scabbard that was buckled on her back in preparation to give chase.
Xu Xingzhi was anxious and immediately emerged from his hiding place to shout: “Don’t chase them!”
The battle took place in the middle of an empty valley so his voice started to echo with one layer building upon another as it bounced back and forth endlessly.
The girl turned back upon hearing it and when she saw that it was a male stranger she didn’t appear surprised either, only tilting her head to one side slightly.
The phantom-masked youth that stood at the top of the cliff also reacted to the sound and turned around, the purple glow in his palm immediately disappeared, and the floating talisman that he used to manipulate the battalion of ghosts fell straight to the ground with a pata.
He muttered: “. . . Xu-shixiong?”
The girl also wasn’t wary of him and raised her voice to question: “Why should I not chase them down? They were obviously fleeing in defeat!”
Xu Xingzhi pointed at the direction they retreated in: “Their standard hasn’t fallen and even the formation they fled in wasn’t chaotic. Have you ever seen such an orderly retreat?”
The girl was startled and she wavered between whether or not to give chase for a moment.
On the other hand, the skeletal girl who was just healing the black figure was staring blankly at Xu Xingzhi as her frame creaked and trembled guzhi guzhi.
“Listen to him.”
A slightly cold voice rang out from behind Xu Xingzhi.
Xu Xingzhi looked back and was immediately stunned.
The burnt body of the black figure was smoothing out naturally as the previously extremely dehydrated husk rapidly filled out, his height quickly surpassed Xu Xingzhi’s.
He was just like a caterpillar that had gained its wings after metamorphosis, gone was the burnt skin and rotten flesh of the cocoon as the true nature of his original appearance was revealed.
His skin was extremely white, so white that it seemed to glow faintly. As for what people describe as “masculine sex appeal”, he probably only accounted for the latter two words. His entire body was surrounded by a hazy air of lethargic indolence that other people wouldn’t find annoying. The corner of his eyes were slightly upturned and its ends were stained with a natural cinnabar red color.
He wrapped up his body with Xu Xingzhi’s outer robe but that only made him seem more charming than if he wasn’t wearing anything at all because everything that should’ve been covered up wasn’t.
Xu Xingzhi only spent a brief moment staring at his face, yet he couldn’t remove his gaze from his nether regions.
. . . F*ck.
This person looked prettier than a girl yet was bigger than himself when he pulled it out.
Xu Xingzhi’s thoughts were chaotic for a long time before he noticed something, an extremely important feature that he had just missed.
. . . At the center of this person’s brow there seemed to be a very beautiful cinnabar mole.
Xu Xingzhi shifted his gaze up and coincidentally locked gazes with a pair of peach blossom eyes.
The owner of the peach blossom eyes and cinnabar mole stared directly back at Xu Xingzhi. His gaze was like a stagnant and deep pool of water, both seductive and possessive to the point that it seemed as if he wanted to drown the person within: “Shixiong, Chongguang has waited for you for so many years, you finally came to find me.”
Author's Chapter Summary:
High towers, serpentine monster, restoration arts
The translator has something to say:
Meng Chongguang: I’ve finally restored my appearance, will shixiong recognize me now?
thanks for the chapter ♡
You’re welcome~
well… he knows now ehheheheeheehhe
Thank you for the chapter!
A terrifying surprise, but XXZ managed to keep it in, pretty good for a first-time actor in his own story wouldn’t you say?
And that was when Xu Xingzhi knew that he shouldn’t have saved him
Thanks for the chapter
What can be done, after all fate is a mysteruous thing
Thanks for the chapter ♥️♥️
You’re welcome
The only thing missing was he needed to open his own pants and check them before looking at the other’s again to compare 🤣
XXZ (stares): gimme me a moment, I must have saw this wrong
turns around to check at lightning speed before whipping back around
XXZ (stares again): . . . Guess not. . .
🤣🤣🤣
Damn…
Thanks for the chapter 🥰
gosh, i suspected it was him but the charred body was too cute, and how did he get hurt so badly if he’s so strong?!? hmm.. i never thought the villain to be so cute.
shixiong did recognize you shidi
it’s so annoying i can’t select text in chapter section english is not my native so i need to google translation for words quite often can’t do that here what a waste
CASI NO VE EL LUNAR POR ESTAR VIENDO OTRA COSA😊
Ahahahaha 🤣✨ Surprise Surprise!
I can see that Meng Chongguang likes to act cute and obedient to his Shixiong~