Chapter 201: The Brothers' Feud
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"Lan Hua!" Lan Yu was the first one to get up. Although he had no more strength left, he still glared angrily at his brother. "You haven't changed at all. You're still mean and despicable!" He had even enlisted people to help him!
"In what way am I mean and despicable?" Lan Hua's anger had reached a boiling point as well. As both of them had no energy left to fight, they could only engage in verbal sparring. "Wasn't it you who deceived me into becoming a fiend?"
"So what if I did?" Lan Yu got even angrier. "What you did to me was even worse. I won't forgive you even if you die a thousand times. I should never have let you off!"
"What did I do?" Lan Hua returned his glare. "You're my only brother, I guided you in your cultivation practice, and even let you rule the kingdom of Yun Zhe. What did I do wrong?"
"What did you do? You have the cheek to ask me!" Lan Yu snorted. "You know very well what you did."
"Tell me! What did I do?"
"Don't tell me you had no hand in what happened to Wen Qin?"
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"Wen Qin?" Lan Hua looked baffled. "Who's he?"
"You bastard!" Lan Yu exploded in anger. He charged towards Lan Hua and grabbed his neck. "You're still trying to pretend? You're not fit to be a human being!"
Lonemoon directed a meaningful glance at Chen Ge. They went up to the brothers and dragged them apart.
The duel between the two emperors had degenerated into a cat fight! Even the female immortals guarding Heavenly Gate were appalled. Was this... really our emperor?
"Let go of me!" Lan Hua yelled, struggling to break free. "I want to get to the bottom of the matter today. Why am I not fit to be a human being? What have I got to do with that Wen fellow?"
"When have you ever behaved like a human being?" Lan Yu retorted. "Wen Qin's my Dao partner. You dare tell me you don't know her?"
"Dao partner?" Lan Hua looked blank. Then wearing a look of surprise, he asked, "When did you have a Dao partner? Haven't you always been single?"
"And it was all thanks to you!" Lan Yu eyes reddened in anger. "Wen Qin and I were together for three thousand years. If it were not for you, she would not have abandoned me at our dual cultivation ceremony. She only wanted to marry you! All the time you were in seclusion, she waited outside your door, thinking about you everyday!
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Lan Hua was dumbstruck by this revelation. "I... had no idea about this?" Thinking back, the only thing he could remember that there was a commotion during one of his seclusions, so he had set up an isolating array formation. Could Wen Qin be the person outside?" I know nothing about this matter. I don't know anybody called Wen Qin."
"All right! Even if I overlook that matter," Lan Yu took a deep breath to calm himself before continuing, "What about Yun Yu, Ruo Shuang and Qiao Zhen?"
"Huh?" Lan Hua looked even more baffled. "Who are they?"
"Don't pretend! Yun Yu is my cousin. We grew up together; Ruo Shuang was my fiance in the lower realm; Qiao Zhen was my junior sister! You dare tell me you don't remember any of them!"
"I really don't remember..."
"Shut up! I gave you many chances but you kept ruining my marriages! If you really loved them, I have nothing to say. But you played with their feelings, causing them to leave me. You stole their hearts but you refuse to marry them. You're a scumbag, a degenerate!"
"Oh..." Everyone was shocked. They understood what happened. Lan Yu had been cuckolded by his lovers! They turned to look at the person responsible.
"Why are you looking at me?" Lan Hua was hopping mad. "I didn't do anything. From the time I was in the lower realm, I've been practicing my cultivation. I was either in seclusion or doing experiential training. I've no impression of those people he mentioned."
He did not know any of them, let alone abandon them. From young, he had only been interested in cultivation practice, how could he be involved in such matters of the heart? He had even less contact with the opposite sex. The only female he knew besides his mother were Good Heart and the bunch of girls from the Invincible Sect. He really did not know those girls that Lan Yu mentioned!
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"Then what about Xue Zhi? Lan Yu asked, "Don't tell me you've even forgotten her?"
"Xue Zhi! That sea hare demon?" Lan Hua nodded, this one he knew. "Isn't that the demon you were rearing? What happened to her?" Lan Yu loved that little demon. He had brought it along with him to the heavenly realm. When Lan Hua started his fiendish cultivation that little demon was already an exalted immortal.
"She became like that after listening to you!"
"..." Became like what?
"You knew that sea hares have no gender, they only select their gender once they have confirmed their Dao partner. If you had not told it..." Lan Yu gritted his teeth and continued, "It would have not become a male!"
"Oh!"
This was getting exciting. Everyone was stunned at this development!
Lan Yu must be the world's most unfortunate younger brother!
Lan Hua looked dumbstruck. He knew that Lan Yu loved that sea hare. "He became a male, how could this be..." He paused as he recalled something. Thousands of years ago, he vaguely remembered someone asking him whether it was better to be a man or woman. Being a full-blooded male, he naturally chose the former! A man was strong and could fight, what could be better than that!
Could that person who had asked him the question be the sea hare?
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He turned pale with the thought.
Lan Yu's temper rose. He had reared this sea hare for so long with the intention of making it his wife. Just because of his one word, it became a male! Whenever he thought about this, he felt like chopping Lan Hua into pieces.
It had been that way since they were in the lower realm. Whenever Lan Hua came out of seclusion, Lan Yu's girl friend would transfer her affections to his brother and abandon him. Every time... without fail.
"You've done this wife-snatching thing too many times. Turning you into a fiend was much too lenient of me."
"Brother Yu..." Lan Hua seemed at a loss. "I knew nothing about this. How would I know she... Hey! Can the rest of you say something. It wasn't my fault!"
Lan Hua looked imploringly at his teammates.
They immediately stepped back. Even Chen Ge, who was holding onto Lan Yu, dropped his hands. Everyone acted like they did not know him!
"You..." They were openly betraying him!
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Lan Yu, who had recovered some of his immortal qi, stepped forward. "Do you have anything to say now?"
"..." Lan Hua was speechless.
The onlookers retreated further as if wanting nothing to do with him. They all stood behind.... Lan Yu.
"Emperor Lan Yu, why don't you resume your fight? This has nothing to do with me."
"Every family has a black sheep, I understand your feelings! Please continue!"
"Do you need weapons? Take mine!"
"Do you want some melon seeds? You need energy to fight."
Lan Hua: "..."
Whose side are you people on? He was innocent! Apart from exchanging a few words with the sea hare demon, he had not even spoken to the others!
"Ah Hua!" A sweet and gentle female voice called out.
Lan Yu, who was preparing to do battle, trembled on hearing the voice.
Everyone: "..."
Lan Yu was about to put on another green hat 1 !
Chapter 202: Celestial Emperor Ying Zhi
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The fragrance of a flower wafted past their noses. All around them, there were little flowers floating in the air. A figure dropped from the sky. The lady was combing her hair, and a golden hairpin with jades caught their eye. In her hand, she held a cotton fan with peonies on it. She was wearing a moon-white robe with golden laced flowers, and walked with a sway, looking at them somewhat excitedly.
"Ah Hua, is that you?" Her voice was gentle and smooth., filled with emotion. Her eyes began to well up with tears. "I knew it.. I knew you were still alive. Ah Hua!"
She dashed toward them, reaching out for Lan Hua's hand.
Lan Hua jumped backward to avoid her. "What are you doing?" He had not recovered from hearing all the stories Lan Yu told him. Now, seeing this woman, his heart felt like it was going to beat out of his chest. He subconsciously hid behind Shen Ying.
The female immortal stared at him, hurt evident in her eyes. "Ah Hua... You still hate me for joining forces with the other celestial emperors to attack you?" A tear rolled down her cheek. She looked pitiful. Any man would have been moved. "But... the way you treated me back then... I was angry, so I-"
"Hey, stop coming any closer. If you take one more step toward me, I'll hit you!" Lan Hua cautioned her.
The female immortal looked wounded. Emperor Lan Yu next to her laughed mirthlessly. It was as if Lan Yu was used to this.
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"Ah Hua, you're really not going to forgive me?" The female immortal was sobbing by now. "So many years have passed and I still held on to the belief that you were alive. I told myself that as long as you came back to my side, I would pretend that nothing ever happened."
"Hey, hey, hey. Watch what you're saying. What even happened between us? Did we have a past?"
The female immortal continued to stare at him in disbelief. "Ah Hua, how could you do this to me? I didn't dare to betray you before, but there were some things you did wrong as well. I've lived in regret for more than a thousand years. I've even given you my most precious possession."
"What precious possession?" Lan Hua asked, somewhat afraid.
The female immortal wailed. "I... I gave you my first time. My only first time... I gave it to you."
The audience: "Oh..."
What wonderful gossip!
"What first time? I did not! Wait, why are all of you looking at me like that?" He did not do it! "I'm warning you–don't think that I won't hit you just because you're a woman! I don't even know you–who are you?"
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The female immortal swayed. She was utterly heartbroken. "You don't even want to acknowledge me?"
The audience looked at Lan Hua pointedly, not even wanting to blink.
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"Believe me, I don't know her!"
"Ah Hua..."
"Stop calling me 'Ah Hua'. It's so disgusting! Who exactly are you!"
"In the past, we... really did it for the first time..."
"Shut up, who the hell did it for the first time with you? Stop insulting me!" Lan Hua was so angry he was about to explode. His face was flushed. He shouted, "I haven't even done it before. I'm a virgin! A virgin!"
The audience: "Oh..."
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"I'm telling the truth!" Lan Hua became increasingly anxious, afraid that they would not believe him. "Believe me! I have never had a Dao Partner. I haven't even done it before. I'm a squab[1, Chinese slang for virgin.] ! I'm a squab, alright!" He became flustered. For some reason – maybe because he had spent too much time with Radish–he pulled apart his top and started to pull down his pants, as if wanting to prove himself.
He was so quick to prove himself. The heavenly gates echoed every single sentence back to him: I'm a squab... a squab... I'm a squab... squab...
The four people and the radish: "..."
Lan Yu: "..."
The female immortal: "..."
All the immortals: "..."
At last, Chen Ge was the first to react. He held on to Lan Hua's hands just as he started to pull his pants downward, shouting, "Celestial Emperor Lan Hua! We believe you! We believe you, alright?" Don't be rash – there are a bunch of female immortals standing right there!
Even the female immortal seemed shocked at Lan Hua's revelation. Her mouth fell open–she was unable to react.
"Heh! Well..." Lonemoon cleared his throat. Lan Hua was the boss that Lonemoon brought with him after all. It would not be right if he did not step in to clear the air. "Fellow Immortal, what exactly happened between you and Lan Hua? Could you make yourself clear?"
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"I don't know her!" Lan Hua added, glaring at the female immortal. He dared her to utter one more word–he would surely hit her if she dared to.
"Hmph, you really don't know her?" Lan Yu, who was standing aside, snorted. He looked at Lan Hua even more condescendingly. It was obvious that he knew who that woman was, but he did not look like he liked her very much at all. Instead, he seemed to... look down on her?
"I don't know her!"
Lan Yu's gaze hardened. He said purposefully, "She's the Celestial Emperor Ying Zhi of the Cloud Sea."
Everybody was shocked. They were too engrossed in the gossip. They did not realise that she was a Celestial Emperor.
"You must remember her other name..." Lan Yu smirked. "Xue Zhi!"
The four people and the radish: "..."
All the immortals: "..."
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Lan Hua: "..."
This was huge news! Isn't Xue Zhi the sea hare demon that Lan Yu raised? When did it become the Cloud Sea's Celestial Emperor?"
"You're spouting nonsense!" Lan Hua could not believe his ears. "I've seen the human form of that sea hare demon! You said that it chose to become a male..."
Wait! Before he finished speaking, his eyes widened. He looked again at the female immortal. This female immortal did look a bit too tall and strong. There was also... a... a bulge on his throat!
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This beautiful, gentle and fragrant person was... a... man!
Lan Hua turned pale. His legs turned to jelly. He had to hold on to the heavenly pillar beside him to keep from falling.
This Celestial Emperor was indeed extremely scary. I want to go back to Invincible Sect to refine pills!
"After Xue Zhi chose to change his gender, he naturally transformed." Lan Yu looked extremely entertained as he explained. "At the time, he was extremely loyal to you. That was why he took your advice." Lan Yu took a long time to persuade the hare to turn into a female. One sentence from Lan Hua was enough to convince the hare to become a male! For hundreds of thousands of years, Ying Zhi had grown used to the lifestyle of a female. It was extremely difficult for Ying Zhi to adjust in such a short time.
"Ah Hua..." Xue Zhi, no, Celestial Emperor Ying Zhi still looked at Lan Hua longingly. "We sea hares only have one chance to choose our gender. That really is our first time–our only time. Believe me!"
So that's what he meant by "first time". Lan Hua frowned and sucked in a deep breath. He straightened his back and said, "Sea Hare... Xue Zhi... No! Celestial Emperor Ying Zhi, I was wrong for not clarifying things with you! But I really did not know that was what you mean... What's more, I've only met you less than five times, right? You also nearly killed me once. Let's call it a draw. In any case, we're both men."
"I don't mind..."
I mind!
Ying Zhi looked like he had made up his mind, but Lan Hua felt like vomiting blood. He turned to Lonemoon and said, "Where's the bag that you keep Radish in?"
"What for?"
"Put me in as well, I'm begging you!" If this carried on, he would really puke.
Lonemoon: "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
Shen Ying: "..."
hapter 203: The Mischievous Cloud Beast
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The only daughter of a Celestial Emperor had become a transexual. They did not know what to think. Lan Hua, realizing that this transexual had designs on him, felt on the verge of a breakdown. Especially after being the object of Ying Zhi's adoring gaze for four hours.
Lan Yu seemed delighted to see Lan Hua's suffering. He had a 'You finally got what you deserved' expression on his face.
Since entering the Heavenly Gate, Lan Hua had not let go of Radish. Wearing a guarded expression, he followed closely behind Shen Ying, as if afraid of being violated.
"Emperor Xin Han?" said Ying Zhi. After they had told Ying Zhi the purpose of their visit, she finally pulled herself together and shifted her attention to them. "You're saying he has dealings with the fiend tribe?"
"Hmph! A real-life fiend is sitting here now. There are other fiends in the immortal realm, what's so surprising about that?" Lan Yu snorted. His eyes shot daggers at Lan Hua.
Lan Hua's mouth twitched but he refrained from retorting.
"This is not the only reason we came here." Chen Ge frowned and explained worriedly, "Since he's able to plant a demonic seed in me, he can do the same to the other celestial emperors. He definitely has some other plan up his sleeve." Besides, there could be people above him involved in this too.
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"Then why are you here?" Ying Zhi asked.
"We heard that unusual phenomena was sighted in Cloud Sea." Lonemoon stepped up to explain. "When Xin Han escaped, he used a sorcery technique that generated large amounts of demonic Qi, which could trigger unusual phenomena. So we came here to investigate."
Ying Zhi and Lan Yu fell silent. Both wore a strange expression.
"Then you have wasted your time." Lan Yu replied coldly. "Cloud Sea's strange phenomena was not caused by demonic Qi."
"It's not?"
"No." Ying Zhi could not help stealing a glance at Lan Hua as she said this. Lan Hua shuddered and shrank behind his friends. Ying Zhi retracted her gaze in disappointment and continued, "Cloud Sea's phenomenon is due to... The cloud beast in the sea throwing his temper."
"What?" What the devil! He tore a hole in the clouds just to vent his anger? The Lan ancestors would turn in their graves if they knew how childish their descendants were.
"What kind of animal is this Cloud Beast?" asked Lonemoon.
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"The Cloud Beast is the avatar of the Cloud Sea." Ying Zhi explained. "As all of you have seen, We in Cloud Sea and the other continents are different, our sea is suspended at the edge of the sky. The reason it's like this is because of the presence of the Cloud Beast. Once every million years, the Cloud Sea will develop spirit wisdom and become a Cloud Beast. The Cloud Beast controls all the living creatures in the sea. Even the Marine immortals in the Cloud Sea depend on it to survive."
Everyone nodded their heads. "But the phenomenon..." How do you explain the hole?
Ying Zhi expression stiffened and even Lan Yu turned his head away. After a moment, Ying Zhi said, "In the past, all Cloud Beasts born in the sea would all sign a contract with the Cloud Sea Emperor. It's like a contract beast of the Celestial Emperor. But... when I ascended the throne, the cloud beast had not been born yet. So the Cloud Beast now is still a child, only five thousand years-old."
He gave a sigh, then as if recalling something, he shook his head and continued, "In the past, Cloud Beasts hardly left the Cloud Sea. After all, they are in fact one body. Although they have avatars, once they leave, the Cloud Sea would dry up and shrink by half. But this particular cloud beast is still a child."
"It wants to leave Cloud Sea?" Lonemoon asked. They had sure raised a wilful child!
"It's not only this..." Ying Zhi's expression became even more unreadable. "I asked Emperor Lan Yu over because of this matter. But..." He turned to look at Lan Yu. The latter was frowning as if not sure of how to broach the subject. After a while, Ying Zhi gritted his teeth and stood up. "Please follow me to take a look and you'll understand."
Everyone looked baffled. But they had come to investigate the strange phenomenon. Although Emperor Ying Zhi had said that it had nothing to do with the Fiend Tribe, it was better to see with their own eyes. So they got up and followed him.
With Ying Zhi in the lead, they flew eastwards. Below them lay a stretch of blue sea, through which they could faintly see the silhouettes of forests and mountains.
After ten minutes, they arrived at their destination. Lonemoon looked around him and confirmed that it was the spot where the strange phenomenon was reported. Previously, when they were below the Cloud Sea, they could only see a huge waterfall, but now that they were above it, they saw a huge eddy. On top of it glowed a golden array that reached down to the sea bed. It seemed to be some sort of protective wall.
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A few immortals were guarding the place. In contrast to those guards at the Heavenly Gate, these were all males. All of them were exalted immortals and above, and a few were even young emperors and immortal emperors. All of them seemed to be talking frantically to someone in the eddy below.
As they drew closer to the eddy, a huge wave suddenly rose up. It formed into the shape of a fish tail and flapped itself down towards the group of immortals. A few of them did not manage to escape in time and were knocked into the water.
"Fellow Immortals, you see what's happening." Ying Zhi said. "The Cloud Beast insists on leaving and even tore a hole in the cloud sea, causing the strange phenomenon. Thanks to Emperor Lan Hua, who put up the arrays, we were able to stop him. But these arrays can't hold up for long..." He looked at Lan Hua again and asked hopefully, "Ah Hua, you are an expert at sorcery, can you..."
"I'm afraid I can't help you." Lan Hua stepped back immediately. This Cloud Beast and Cloud Sea were obviously of one body. Even if he patched up this hole, it would just tear another hole elsewhere.
"Why does the Cloud Beast insist on getting out?" Chen Ge asked. By right, these avatars are highly territorial and won't easily budge."
"Because..."
Ying Zhi was about to explain when they heard a child-like voice rise up from the bottom of the sea.
"You ugly things! Let me out! I want to find the pretty sisters!"
Ying Zhi: "..."
Lan Yu: "..."
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Everyone from the Invincible Sect froze. This voice... Instantly, all eyes locked on a certain radish.
"Why are you looking at me for?" A certain plant that was sitting on Lan Hua's shoulder looked startled. However, when Shen Ying turned to look at it, its eyes brightened. Passing her a dandelion flower which it had plucked from its head, it said, "Little Missy, for you!"
Yi Qing: "..."
Lonemoon: "..."
Lan Hua: "..."
Chen Ge: "..."
Do all your avatars behave like this?
"Get lost!"
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"..." The radish's heart broke into little pieces
Chapter 204: The Reason for Leaving Home
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"Ugly, it's you again!" That was the same voice again. When the few of them got to the top of the eddy, those below seemed to notice something. Compared to the pranking tone they heard earlier, this voice was much angrier. A moment later, a water column charged toward Ying Zhi. "You liar how dare you come any closer!"
Ying Zhi seemed to be used to this already. He raised a hand and a defensive array formed, blocking off the water column. Unfortunately, that was not the end of it. On top of the seabed, a wave took the shape of a huge fishtail. One by one, the waves started to attack them.
"Get lost, you liar!"
The immortals who were on top earlier landed on the water one by one. Ying Zhi looked at them apologetically. Then, he led the group back by a few metres. The waves stopped.
"Celestial Emperor Ying Zhi, why is the Cloud Beast doing this?" Chen Ge asked. It was obvious that the attacks were targeted at Ying Zhi. Yet, the Cloud Beast was supposed to be his contracted immortal beast. It should not be attacking him like that.
"Well..." Ying Zhi's expression changed. He looked like he did not know what to say. After awhile, he spoke again, "It's a misunderstanding." He subconsciously glanced at Lan Hua. In his eyes, there was a hint of blame mixed with indignation. Lan Hua's goosebumps rose when he felt Ying Zhi's gaze.
"I'll say it!" Lan Yu could not help but speak up. He sighed and then told the story of Ying Zhi and the Cloud Beast.
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The Cloud Sea was different from all the other six continents and three seas. It had a special kind of environment, so that anyone who became the Celestial Emperor of the Cloud Sea not only had to be of a celestial emperor cultivation level, but also had to be affirmed by the Cloud Beast. Afterall, the Cloud Beast was the embodiment of the Cloud Sea. Whoever wanted to stay on the Cloud Sea would have to apply for something like a land permit. This "land permit" was the contract between the Cloud Beast to make it a contract beast.
Only one Cloud Beast would be born every couple of hundred years. Once it matures, the Cloud Beast's strength would be comparable to that of a Celestial Emperor. Before Ying Zhi's cultivation level increased, the Cloud Sea did not have a new Cloud Beast. At the time, although the Cloud Sea did not normally interact with the other continents and seas, it was not as isolated as it is now. Ying Zhi had a water-elemental body-type, but he was not yet a Celestial Emperor. He always took on his human form when he walked next to Lan Yu, so everybody thought that he was an immortal. To this day, everybody thinks that the Cloud Sea's Celestial Emperor is an immortal and not a demon. What's more, Yun Feng had always been right next to the Cloud Sea. Half of the Cloud Sea even overlapped into Yun Feng continent's skies.
The water-elemental beasts naturally loved to stay near water. That explained why Ying Zhi often went from Yun Feng to the Cloud Sea to train. As time went by, he became close to the demon immortals in the Cloud Sea. Later, he became the first to achieve the level of Celestial Emperor. When he took over the Cloud Sea, he did not meet any resistance or objections whatsoever.
Later, when the Cloud Beast was born, Ying Zhi thought that it would take awhile before he would earn the validation of the Cloud Beast. If he went to battle the Cloud Beat immediately, he would either become an official Celestial Emperor sooner or he would be eaten by the Cloud Beast. Unexpectedly, when he first met the Cloud Beast, it was especially attracted to Ying Zhi. In fact, the Cloud Beast took the initiative to request to become Ying Zhi's contract beast. That was how Ying Zhi officially became the Celestial Emperor Ying Zhi.
It could be said that among the ten Celestial Emperors, Ying Zhi had the easiest time becoming a Celestial Emperor. After a few thousand years, perhaps Heaven thought it strange to let people go without any pain or troubles. As the Cloud Beast grew more mature, it became more and more intelligent. Suddenly, it hated Ying Zhi!
"You stupid, ugly liar! To think that I thought you were a beautiful lady before. It was all a lie!" An angry roar came from the seabed. "You lied to me when I was pure and simple. Hmph! I will never validate your ugly face. I'm leaving this place to look for a beautiful sister!"
"Mm, that's what happened!" Lan Yu concluded.
The four of them turned to look at the accused...
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"What are you looking at me for? I'm not the one who dressed him up as a lady!" Lan Hua exploded, blushing. Why are you blaming me for the Cloud Beast being mistaken?
Lonemoon: "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
Chen Ge: "..."
Shen Ying: "..."
So the Cloud Beast so easily agreed to enter into a contract with Ying Zhi because it mistook him for a lady. Speaking of that... was this a common problem faced by all avatars?
What's more, the Cloud Beast took a few thousand years to realise that Ying Zhi was a male. Was the Cloud Beast slow or did Ying Zhi play the role very well?
"The Cloud Beast is not yet fully mature – that's why it's acting this way," Celestial Emperor Ying Zhi sighed. He had a pained expression on his face. "When it throws a tantrum, there's nothing I can do as well. Anyway, the more we try to stop it, the more it insists on going out to look for a new Big Sister."
"It's just throwing a tantrum – why can't you get a female immortal to pacify it? Why must you let it out of the Cloud Sea?" It seemed that the Cloud Beast only wanted to find a Big Sister to form a contract with from the very beginning. When it found out that Ying Zhi was a male, it could not help but lose its temper. The problem would be solved if they could just find it a female immortal. The Cloud Beast was not yet mature anyway – nothing much would happen if they did not let it out of the Cloud Sea to cause trouble.
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"We tried that method..." Ying Zhi's expression fell. "But while the Cloud Beast throws a tantrum, its true body is hidden in the deepest corners of the Crystal Palace. Whenever it says it wants to escape from the Cloud Sea, it would only turn into an avatar and appear at the water surface. In order to enter the Crystal Palace, one has to at least be an Exalted Immortal."
So that's the case. No wonder they only saw the waves but did not catch a glimpse of the Cloud Beast – it was hidden at the bottom of the sea.
"All the demons that are Exalted Immortals in the Cloud Sea have tried to persuade it," Ying Zhi continued. "But all of them have been chased out."
"Why?"
Ying Zhi pursed his lips. "It says... they look ugly."
Everyone: "..."
Lonemoon subconsciously looked at Ying Zhi's face. Honestly, if one did not bother that Ying Zhi's body was that of a man's, his face was really exceptionally beautiful. His eyebrows and other features were so feminine, and he was even dressed in women's clothing. It was no wonder that the Cloud Beast would despise the other female immortals for being ugly. Ying Zhi already set such a high standard.
"There's nobody else in the Cloud Sea that we can use. We've run out of solutions – that's why we started looking outside of the Cloud Sea and invited female immortals from all around to come and try." Ying Zhi frowned. "The immortals in the Cloud Sea have never had relations with the other continents. Our immortals have always been extremely pure. It took us a long time to find a couple of immortals to come and try things out, yet all of them were male and each had their own personal motives. It was extremely irritating."
That was why they set up that sign outside the door?
"That's why we have not removed the spell to this day." Ying Zhi frowned even more deeply. He wanted to ask the few of them whether they knew any worthy females who were Exalted Immortals.
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Shen Ying, who had been munching on a fruit up till then, suddenly spoke. "Why not I give it a shot?" She was quite experienced in educating children.
"You?" The moment Shen Ying spoke, Lonemoon retorted. "Save it! Didn't Celestial Emperor Ying Zhi already say that the Cloud Beast has high expectations?"
Shen Ying tilted her head. "Am I not of a high enough standard?"
Lonemoon rolled his eyes and turned to look at her. "Don't you have an inkling whether you are of a high enough..."
Before he could finish speaking, his eyes focused on the familiar yet foreign face in front of him. He lost his train of thought all of a sudden. He had not paid much attention to her face before, and this was the first time he was paying attention to it and looking at it from a male's perspective.
It seemed that... she was quite pleasing to the eye!
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Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
She had chubby cheeks, small cherry lips and a fair complexion. She looked at them with wide opened eyes, two strands of hair dangling from her her forehead. She was not as beautiful as Qi Chengyu or as seductive as Ying Zhi, but she was unexpectedly... adorable! Very adorable! Exceptionally adorable!
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Lonemoon felt his heart lurch. He suddenly felt breathless.
Holy shit! Why had he never discovered that Shen Ying was actually so... attractive? He even felt an urge to take her in as his god-daughter?
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"What's up?" Everyone looked at Lonemoon curiously as he suddenly turned around and clutched his chest, gasping for air.
Yi Qing stepped up worriedly and pulled Shen Ying to him to take a closer look. "Master, what happened to your face..."
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He paused in mid-speech, a dumbstruck expression on his face. A blush spread over his normally stern-looking face and his heart started pounding.
He had never noticed that Master was actually... so attractive.
(⊙_⊙)
"Hey, what happened to the both of you?" Seeing the stunned expressions of the two men, everyone thought that there was something wrong with Shen Ying's face. They rushed up and examined her face closely.
Chen Ge: "Sect Master Shen, you..."
Lan Hua: "Good Heart, you're not... Holy Shit!"
Ying Zhi: "Fellow Immortals, what's the matter... So, so very adorable!"
Radish: "Get lost, all of you! Stop looking, Little Missy is mine!"
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Lan Yu: "Little Sister, how old are you, do you have a Dao partner? Do you fancy Celestial Emperors, the younger type?"
"Get lost!" *4
Yi Qing immediately kicked Lan Yu away and pulled out his sword!
Shen Ying: "..." This bunch of retards! Don't tell me that apart from Radish, none of you have ever noticed how I look?
Cloud Sea, Crystal Palace.
A small, short person was squatting in a golden array. He was striking at the ground with something in his hand. With every strike, golden sparks would burst out of the array, and the talisman on the ground would darken correspondingly.
As he was striking at the ground, he kept muttering to himself, "Hmph! That liar! He thinks that this stupid array can hold me back. Nobody can prevent me from looking for pretty young ladies!"
Shen Ying squatted beside him. She glanced at the object in his hand and asked, "What is this thing in your hand?"
"A tooth!" The little child replied without hesitation.
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"What kind of tooth?" It looked like a piece of stick.
"It's my tooth, naturally." The child continued, "It's the tooth that came loose when I was four thousand and five hundred years old. Until now, my tooth has not regrown!" He suddenly opened his mouth wide and showed her the gap between his teeth. "My tooth is the hardest object in the Cloud Sea," he bragged.
"Oh..." Shen Ying nodded. "Since it's so strong, why don't you tear it open with your teeth?"
The child paused in thought, then apparently convinced by her logic, lay down on the ground and bit down on the array.
Alas, in the end...
His tooth cracked!
"You lied to me!" He glared angrily at her, rubbing his cracked tooth. "Biting the array is painful!"
Shen Ying said earnestly, "It won't hurt once it has totally broken off."
"You... you....Hmph! You made me angry, I can't be bothered with you anymore!" The child snorted angrily and resumed striking the array with the huge tooth in his hand. After two strikes, his body stiffened. Shen Ying's presence finally registered in his brain. He turned to look at her with a stunned look in his eyes.
"You... who are you!" He fell onto the floor in shock. "When did you enter?"
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"Oh, I came in just when you said you wanted to look for pretty young ladies."
Turning pale in embarrassment, the child glared her angrily. "I warn you, don't try to stop me from breaking the array. Or else... I'll devour you!" Then he deliberately opened his mouth and displayed his teeth.
"Why would I stop you from breaking the array?" She had come to persuade him not to leave Cloud Sea.
"Huh?" The child swept her a suspicious look. "You're not? When why are you here?" Then a thought came to him and he said accusingly, "Are you sent here by that liar? Hmph! I've seen all the female immortals in Cloud Sea. None of them are to my liking! You too..."
He paused suddenly, looking at Shen Ying with interest. He had not seen this young lady before. She was quite pretty! If it were her...
A blush spread across his face as a thought came to him. "Ahem... I'll obey, but only if you become my pretty little sister."
"Oh." That's all? It seemed that he had a beauty obsession. "Then..."
The child suddenly rushed up to her and grabbed her hand. "I'm going to eat you up now!" He opened his mouth, which was full of sharp teeth, and bit down on her wrist.
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Then...
Crack! One of his teeth broke and fell out of his mouth.
"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!" He pressed his hand to his bleeding mouth, whimpering. This Little Missy is really tough!
"Why did you bite me?" Shen Ying asked, appalled by the child's action.
He answered with an aggrieved look, "The demon immortals told me to devour pretty young ladies."
What the hell? Who was the one who put such lewd ideas in his head?
"That's not exactly what they meant."
"I don't care!" The little Cloud Beast wiped off the blood off his mouth and transformed back into his original form— a gigantic fish that was so big that it blocked out the sun.
What a huge... fish!
"It has taken me so long to find a young lady that suits my taste," he said in a arrogant voice. "Although you are a little too short, thin and fierce for my liking, but I still want to eat you!"
"..." Thanks a lot!
"And... most importantly, your breasts are too small. I like big ones. Yours are too flat."
Shen Ying's mouth twitched. Flat?!
"It's even flatter than Ying Zhi's!"
"..."
Shen Ying felt his words echoing in her brain: Flatter than Ying Zhi's... Flatter than Ying Zhi's!"
"But as I can't see you once you're inside my stomach, I guess it doesn't matter!" With that he opened his mouth. Instantly, the surrounding sea water formed into a huge eddy in his mouth and began sucking everything nearby into his mouth.
Just as it seemed that Shen Ying was about to be swallowed up, she reached out and grabbed one of his razor sharp teeth with her hand.
"Little Cloud Beast..." She smiled and said menacingly, "Didn't anyone tell you that little animals who talk rubbish ... will be devoured!"
True to type, little children were... most annoying!
The cloud beast felt a terrifying aura rush towards him like a tidal wave. Crack! The tooth in his hand was crushed to pieces. Then he felt something hit his head. Bang! Before he knew it, his head had struck the sea bed.
His world turned pitch-black. The sound of someone's enraged voice reverberated through the sea bed.
"You are the one with a flat chest! As flat as an a runway, as small as a dumpling!"
"..." Had he used these similes?
So, an hour later.
"Do you still want to eat me up?
"Oooh... No."
"Do you still want to leave Cloud Sea?"
"No, no, never!"
"What you said about me...."
"Your breasts are the biggest, they are so big that I can't see your face."
"..."