Chapter 54

Chapter 54: Zhongshan Country [1]

The voice sounded familiar. Zhang Qiu thought, “Is it Bai Guang’an?”

“It’s Bai Guang’an’s voice.” Li Shu nodded.

There was no way of knowing whether it was Bai Guang’an in the flesh, but listening to Li Shu’s meaning, Bai Guang’an had already been possessed by another person. Zhang Qiu thought so too. The two Er Sao and Qi Xi were totally not Bai Guang’an’s opponents at all.

Li Shu stopped Zhang Qiu from coming forward. Bai Guang’an slowly came behind Qi Xi. Su Zhicai and Su Yu appeared behind the other two pillars. Su Zhicai’s dried palm held Ling Dang’s throat. They looked down respectfully at Bai Guang’an.

The Su’s father and son even came.

“Li Shu, I advise you not to move. Stand in place, obediently.” Bai Guang’an chuckled. “I could kill you before, but now I can still do the same.”

When Zhang Qiu listened, he had only two words of 'as expected'in his heart. He looked at Bai Guang’an. His deep eyes were not the Bai Guang’an’s superficial look at all. He did not know when Bai Guang’an had changed his core.

Looking at the past event carefully, Bai Guang’an was unconscious after the sandstorm. When he woke up, it was in the evening and he huddled in a corner without saying anything. It should be at this time that he had changed. Zhang Qiu felt uncomfortable when he thought that when they all fell asleep, he was staring at them like a venomous snake, spitting out snake hissing. The six bloody zongzis should also be his arrangement in order to disperse them. He led Er Sao and Qi Xi in, and then lead them in ——

Bai Guang’an did not solve them all at the same time, but scattered them. This person should also be afraid.

“GouWang, what do you want?” Li Shu asked lightly.

Bai Guang’an or it should be said GouWang smiled and said with relief, “You are worthy of my training. I had given you supreme honor and status. Now it’s your turn to offer as a tribute.”

It’s truly endless. Li Shu had been pitted once, and now he wants a second time? Zhang Qiu held his temper in and cursed GouWang for not having a face.

“I’ve waited so long that I’m fed up with changing my body so often.” GouWang looked at Li Shu’s face, which was the same as in the past, and he flashed mad jealousy in his eyes and then smiled softly, “But waiting always pays off. This moment has come at last, and I can live forever and ever.”

“Jin LaoDa and Su WanTing are all your people?” Li Shu asked.

GouWang nodded, “Those useless things, even a bead can not be grabbed. If you hadn’t come out early, I would have collected all these materials. Now, giving them a moment longer to live was already a gift.”

Su Zhicai had pinched Ling Dang’s neck and moved to the pillar. Zhang Qiu had just moved a step and GouWang’s cold eyes swept over him. “I advise you not to seek death.”

“The dead absolutely will not be him.” The moment Li Shu’s opened his mouth, he already appeared in front of GuoWang.

With Li Shu engaging GuoWang, Zhang Qiu, Lu Feng and Hua Ting rushed quickly to the pillar to untie the people, each at a time. There was strength in numbers that GuoWang was even afraid of them. Never expected that Su Yu rushed forward just before they reached a pillar. From Zhang Qiu’s back, Xiao Jiang brandished his shiny claws and flew straight at Su Yu.

Zhang Qiu and the rest took advantage of that to untie Qi Xi first. This was the nearest to them. Who would have expected that Su Zhicai, who was pinching Lin Dang’s neck, came over? He didn’t make a move immediately. Instead, in a twinkle of an eye, he glanced at Lu Feng.

It felt wrong. Zhang Qiu just finished thinking, the next moment, Lu Feng, who was standing next to him and the nearest, stretched out his fist and hit him. Zhang Qiu fled and shouted, “Senior, Lu Feng is under control, run!”

It was too late. Lu Feng grabbed Hua Ting’s neck and lifted him in one hand. Hua Ting went white in a moment, and he gasped for breath. “Lu Feng, Lu Feng it’s me! It’s me Huating, Lu Feng!”

Zhang Qiu smashed two punches behind Lu Feng. Lu Feng turned his head impassively and put down Hua Ting. Hua Ting fell directly to the ground, gasping and coughing. Lu Feng had already chased Zhang Qiu. Zhang Qiu could not avoid him. His body greeted with blows twice and he coarsely grinned with pain. He had no idea that Lu Feng was so powerful.

Hua Ting had come to help, constantly shouting Lu Feng’s name in his mouth, in order to awaken Lu Feng’s consciousness.

On the other hand, Su Zhicai nailed Lin Dang in his hand to the pillar. As soon as Lin Dang touched the pillar, the originally sluggish expression immediately gave out a shrilling cry. His whole skin bled. Over time, he bled more and more, it quickly condensed under the pillar and flowed to the bottom of the golden coffin in the middle.

It’s the sound of Lin Dang….

Lin Dang was crying out 'Brother'. At the side, the unconscious Pei Qing’s eyebrows were slightly wrinkling. He opened his eyes slowly. His ears were filled with cries of Lin Dang, sobbing and sniffling. Before his eyes was a fight between Li Shu and a man. Li Shu was obviously at a disadvantage.

“Lin Dang…” Pei Qing moved his lower body and implicated the wounds on his body which made his eyebrows frowning more in pain. Lin Dang’s crying in his ear was getting lower and lower, like he had no breath left. Pei Qing pulled at the nail violently, and the whole chain jingled. He roared Lin Dang’s name in his mouth.

But it didn’t help.

Zhang Qiu could not avoid it. He was firmly knocked by Lu Feng’s fist, and his eyes were bursting with stars and saw double images of people. Lu Feng pinched Hua Ting’s neck with one hand and raised another fist high. Zhang Qiu hurriedly staggered to pull them away. He did not know what was going on. Lu Feng’s strength was getting stronger. If Senior was touched like this, he would lose half his life.

Lu Feng would regret his death when he wakes up.

Before he touched Lu Feng’s arm, Lu Feng’s fist was about to fall. Hua Ting’s voice was muted and his eyes were closed in despair. Suddenly, a dark shadow appeared in front of him and grabbed Lu Feng’s arm. There was blood all over the place.

Zhang Qiu focused his eyes to see, it was Xiao Jiang.

Pink nails grew out of Xiao Jiang’s fingers, not long but very sharp. Now his whole body was smeared with blood, the nail seams were stained with flesh and skin; it weren’t Lu Feng’s, just Su Yu’s.

Lu Feng covered his arm and was about to make a fierce attack, but suddenly, his footsteps shook and the whole man fell to the ground.

Hua Ting embraced Lu Feng. Zhang Qiu’s heart was filled with Li Shu. Suddenly, he heard Li Shu’s cry out. He had never seen Li Shu’s cry out in pain. Turning his head, he saw Li Shu fell to the ground, half a black needle stuck out on his head.

GouWang’s clothes were in mess, his scars of wounds strung together like beads. He was standing beside Li Shu, looking down from the top of his head, he said sinisterly, “You can’t fight me without your spiritual soul.”

“What the fuck did you do to Li Shu! I’m going to kill you, bastard!” Zhang Qiu’s eyes flushed with hate and rushed over.

GouWang coldly swept a glance and Zhang Qiu seemed to be fixed in place and could not move.

“Ordinary people, do you really think that Li Shu loves you? At that time in the tomb, if you weren’t there, it would have been someone else. He was just using you. However, pure Yin bloodline is a good material.” GouWang smiled at the last sentence. His expression looked as if he was considering the ingredients for cooking. He moved to the little jiangshi, who was hazardly brandishing his claws. “This mix species is also good. You two, move quickly. I can’t wait any longer.”

The latter was meant to Su Zhicai and Su Yu.

The Su’s father and son trembled with fear, so Su Zhicai rushed forward first. Xiao Jiang stood in front of Zhang Qiu and stared at Su Zhicai viciously. Who dares to move his daddy, he must tear each of them up!

Su Zhicai did not dare to go forward. GouWang uttered useless. He grabbed Xiao Jiang himself and threw him to Su Yu.

Su Yu’s skin had been fragmented and scratched by Xiao Jiang just now. He simply peeled off the skin and exposed his original appearance. His blood was muddy and his eyes were staring at Xiao Jiang viciously. Slowly, his skin looked like a good one. He looked like the slave zongzi in Changsha’s pit.

“Although there are not enough mythical beasts, but with you, it’s enough.” GuoWang, with the unequivocal excitement in his eyes urged Su Zhicai and the slave to speed up.

Except for Li Shu, all of them were nailed to the pillar. Zhang Qiu was totally in pain and felt dizzy. His body was sweating like it couldn’t be stopped. There were bursts of dragon roars and angry voices in his ears, as well as a loud laugh.

“Great, it’s an Azure Dragon. Heavens help me. Hahahahaha, it’s useless. It’s a nail in the neck, you can’t get out of it!”

Zhang Qiu opened his eyes and the golden coffin in front of him seemed to have melted. The whole golden coffin mixed with blood flowed back and forth in the complicated array carved on the ground. Li Shu lay in the middle with eyes closed, and he seemed as if he was asleep.

“When he taught me to take out your spiritual soul, your flesh body was trained for thousands of years by the magic array. If it wasn’t for that accident, I didn’t want to be so hasty. But he had said that as long as there is you and two Divine Beasts as supplementary, the great thing could still happen. Now I have an Azure Dragon, a Firebird chick and also a XieZhi. Hahahahahaha, the magic array is about to start. I want eternal life and turn to God.”

GouWang threw the spiritual soul in his hand directly above the gap. It floated in the air as if it had been fixed, slowly it began to roll, and the spiritual soul was getting bigger and bigger.

Zhang Qiu’s brain hurt. He felt like he’s being sucked by something and his brain was coming out. His ears were full of roars. He was clearly in pain and felt like dying, but his mind was clear and he couldn’t pass out.

GouWang stood at the top of the magic array. The things above them seemed to suck up their energy. They all converged at the bottom of GuoWang’s feet.

Li Shu lay in the blood pool magic array. As time went by, the flesh and bones on his body seemed to be ablated by this array.

Zhang Qiu opened his eyes unbelievably and tried his best to shout, “Li Shu, Li Shu, wake up!”

The roars in the room drowned out Zhang Qiu’s voice. Zhang Qiu watched Li Shu disappeared a little bit by bit. Over time, the speed of disappearance became faster and faster, while Bai Guang’an’s skin fell off a little bit, and he reshaped himself, slowly from the sole of his feet to his legs and then to his body——

With the rebuilding of GuoWang’s body, the roars in the room became lower and minuscule. Zhang Qiu was dizzy and lost all his energy as if he had been drained into despair.

Zhang Qiu could not hold his eyelids open; he closed his eyes and fell into an endless darkness.

Li Shu that was about to dissipate in the magic array suddenly opened his eyes and spread a crimson mist all over his body.

“How could it be? Your soul should be flying away and scattered!”

In his ears was the cry of GuoWang’s despair and unwillingness. Whose soul should be flying away and scattered?

His body slowly slid down and was embraced. Zhang Qiu subconsciously grasped the other person’s arm. “Li Shu.” When he opened his eyes, it was Er-sao. They all had come down from the pillars. He asked, “What’s about Li Shu?”

Zhang Qiu was anxious and he looked around the room. Li Shu stood within the magic array. His whole body was transparent, his eyes were completely crimson, and he looked at GouWang coldly with his original spiritual soul in his hand.

Half of GuoWang’s body reconstruction was interrupted, and now half was Bai Guang’an and the other half was himself.

“Now you are like this, even if you take back the spiritual soul, you can’t deal with me!” GouWang laughed. “No one can run away, neither of you can run away.”

Li Shu suddenly turned his head to Zhang Qiu. Upon meeting Li Shu’s line of sight, Zhang Qiu’s heart suddenly ached. “Li Shu, what do you want to do?!”

“Just experimenting. I’m going to knock you off myself today.” Li Shu turned his head back, stared at GouWang and coldly said it. He stimulated the spiritual soul in his hands, and took himself as the center to emit a huge energy light.

Ka——

The cracking sound came from the top of the tomb and water from above poured in.

“Li Shu!”

The holes in the top of the tomb were getting bigger and wider. Zhang Qiu could even hear the sound of the top still cracking. If they didn’t go away, they would drown. The next second, the whole top of the tomb cracked.

“Li—Li Shu, quickly cough go.” Zhang Qiu swallowed a few mouthfuls of water, and then his whole body was pushed out by a force.

A dragon roared in the water, the whole water stirred. An Azure Dragon threw Zhang Qiu on its back, its claws in the water to catch all of them, dragging them to its back with the tail, then the whole dragon body hovering upwards. Zhang Qiu’s hands in the water wildly waving, wanting to grasp anything, then suddenly a chill was on his hand. He was tightly grasped by the other’s hand.

Zhang Qiu’s brain lacked of oxygen. He could vaguely see Li Shu holding his hand and following them up, his heart then relaxed.

The dazzling light became brighter, and Li Shu suddenly loosened his hand. Zhang Qiu looked down in a hurry. Deep down, it was like a huge black mouth wanted to swallow them up. GouWang followed closely behind Li Shu.

“Quickly go!”

Zhang Qiu shook his head, his face a blurred piece. He grabbed Li Shu’s hand and slid down. “First—first come up, and then we talk again.”

Li Shu quickly came forward, holding Zhang Qiu to sit firm, and kissed Zhang Qiu’s lips. The ice in Zhang Qiu’s mouth seemed to slip into his stomach. Zhang Qiu tried his best to grasp Li Shu, but was pushed out of the water by a force.

“Cough, Li Shu!” Zhang Qiu swallowed the water in his mouth and looked down in panic. Under the water, Li Shu and GouWang had disappeared, and the whole surface of the water suddenly rolled like it was about to burst open.

The Azure Dragon hurled up into the sky, its tail pulling at Zhang Qiu who was going to jump off, tightly wounded around him.

“Bead!” Pixian Hui Wang suddenly shouted.

The Phoenix bead in his bosom fell from the air at a great speed, and Pixian Hui Wang jumped off without thinking, but the speed was too late and his heart sank. He and Da’er were doomed, it was impossible to be together.

As his body was getting lower, the blasted water formed a big mouth, as if to swallow up Pixian Hui Wang.

Suddenly, with a cry, a huge golden Nine-Tailed Phoenix rushed out of the water, holding the fallen Pixian Hui Wang steadily.

Pixian Hui Wang felt light. It was extremely fast, like an uprush. He held the Phoenix under him unconsciously. After a while, his lips trembled and he called uncertainly, “Da’er?”

The Phoenix followed the Azure Dragon and quickly landed in a safe position around. Instantly, it turned into a human form. The flaming red stark naked was the manifestation of Zhang Yushui, but much taller than the human Zhang Yushui.

Zhang Qiu came down from the Azure Dragon. “Second brother, rescue Li Shu. Li Shu is still in it.”

“Don’t worry, believe in Li Shu.” The Azure Dragon turned into a human figure of Pei Qing spoke. Then he looked at Zhang Yushui, who he had never met before. “Let’s go and see it.”

“I’m going too.” Zhang Qiu said.

Lu Feng and others said they would go too. Zhang Yushui said, “Let’s go together, but Zhang Qiu will have to listen to me later.”

Pei Qing and Zhang Yushui once again turned into Azure Dragon and Phoenix, carrying the people flying to the oasis in the desert. From a distance in the sky, they saw that the water level of the lake dropped a lot. The Azure Dragon liked water, and when the dragon tail was patted, the water flow on the lake surface was separated. They went down along the middle road.

Zhang Qiu jumped down in a hurry. The whole tomb was in a mess. His arms and legs were floating in the water. Zhang Qiu’s face was white with fear.

“It’s the Su’s father and son.” Pei Qing said. His upper body was a human figure and his lower body was a dragon tail, with the dragon tail sweep through the water, the water was opened for them to find.

Zhang Qiu’s face was not slightly better, but he did not find Li Shu after looking for a circle. “He—he must have gone out. He must have gone out along the tomb passage when we came.”

After that, he took the lead to go to the tomb passage. The water in the tomb passage was already flooded. Pei Qing followed closely and broke the water with the dragon’s tail.

“Wait, there is someone ——” Zhang Qiu accelerated to run over, there was a person lying on the ground in the corner. Zhang Yushui followed from behind. When Zhang Qiu’s hands almost met the other, he paused. The person who was leaning suddenly turned over and grasped Zhang Qiu’s hand.

The other person’s face was scarred, but Zhang Qiu recognized Bai Guang’an’s face at a glance.

“GouWang, where’s Li Shu? Where’s Li Shu!”

Zhang Qiu’s hand that was covered by GouWang grasped with increase strength. Zhang Qiu felt a pin-prick pain in his wrist. The familiar feeling of energy being absorbed came over again, but after a while, this feeling disappeared again. GouWang suddenly fell heavily on the ground. “He actually gave you the spiritual soul.”

Zhang Qiu did not care about any spiritual soul. He grabbed GouWang at the collar and punched him. “Fucker, where’s Li Shu?”

“Haha.” GouWang laughed and coughed up blood. He retaliated against Zhang Qiu. “Dead, hahahaha. Li Shu, at the risk of his soul flying and scatter still could not kill me. He’s dead himself. He’s done. There’s no more hahahaha.”

Zhang Qiu did not believe it, and gave him two strong punches.

The light in GouWang’s eyes was getting weaker and dimmed, with unwillingness in the eyes, he murmured: “I clearly follow what you said, why, why… just short of the last step…”

“He’s dead. He was dangerous when he reconstructed his flesh body. After being interrupted, he’s an entity. He’s been severely damaged by Li Shu, and now he’s all wipe out.” Zhang Yushui blocked the angry Zhang Qiu, “First, look for Li Shu.”

Zhang Qiu returned to his senses and kicked the corpse. His eyes were cold. “You’re right. First, look for Li Shu.”

They went out along the whole tomb passage, and they had found nothing in the end. They came out of the temple. Kangba held a stick in his hand, and he was relieved upon seeing them. “You finally came up. Here is the Pu Lei Country. Don’t offend the Queen God.”

Zhang Qiu had a splitting headache and his eyes were muddled. He couldn’t hear Kangba’s words at all. He only thought of Li Shu. Where did Li Shu go?

He did not believe that Li Shu was dead just like that.

Kangba saw that Zhang Qiu’s group of people wore unsightly expression and were wet. He knelt down in front of the stone statue and prayed for the Queen to forgive their offence and so on.

Zhang Yushui was wearing the coat that Pixian Hui Wang gave him. He was very tall. His clothes covered only up to his thighs. He was naked and did not shy away from Kangba’s eyes. He put his hand on Zhang Qiu’s shoulder. “Believe me, Li Shu did not die.”

The tone of his voice pledged in all sincerity and seriousness, carrying firm strength.

Zhang Qiu looked up sharply and said quickly, “Second brother, do you know anything?”

“My feeling tells me that Li Shu is not dead yet.” Zhang Yushui could not explain the relationship, he frowned and describing it: “Since I changed, I have a familiar feeling with Li Shu. This feeling is very weak now, but it has not disappeared. I believe that Li Shu is not dead.”

Zhang Qiu was relieved to hear Zhang Yushui’s sixth sense. Second brother said that, Li Shu would be all right.

“Daddy.” Xiao Jiang embraced Zhang Qiu’s thighs with two lines of tears on his face. He tearily said, “Big Daddy will be all right, Daddy.”

Just along the way, Zhang Qiu was consumed with the thought of Li Shu and had forgotten the existence of Xiao Jiang. Now that he was soothed by his son’s crying voice, his heart abruptly ached and his eyes turned red. Especially, his Xiao Jiang’s face was full of scars, the healing of the wound on his wrists was not fast enough, and he still held him in a wet and dirty embrace.

Zhang Qiu couldn’t help but pick up Xiao Jiang and kissed him. He echoed, “Hmm, Big Daddy will be all right.”

Kangba finished his prayer and said, “I already took the others back. This time I came to pick you guys up. I didn’t expect you to go down so long. This is Pu Lei Country. I’m afraid you won’t be able to come up and have to accompany the Queen.”

In the morning, Kangba had found the camels scattered yesterday and came here. The director first called for him to go back, especially the girl could hardly carry on. Kangba saw the director and the girl go back first and hurried to pick them up. Aishan said that they had not come out of the hole since entering it. So the two brothers stayed here, intending to wait for one night. If no one came out, they would ask for help.

“It’s getting dark now, so we can only stay one night and go back early tomorrow morning.” Kangba saw this group of people came up strange, he was afraid of their souls being sucked by the Queen, his mouth could not stop saying: “You have too much courage. The Pu Lei Country had disappeared for thousands of years. It was once very prosperous, and later heard that the treasures of the country were lost, it slowly ruined. But some people said that the Queen sucked the people’s energy, cause the country to ruin.”

Aishan said beside him, “Big brother, Aba clearly said that the Queen listened to the words of the Witch God: if she wanted to live forever, absorbed the spirit of human beings. And finally, she was sacrificed to the True God by the people.”

“It’s right to stay away from here anyway.” Kangba was determined not to let them stay he overnight.

Zhang Qiu didn’t care about anything. They set up a tent underneath. It was brought by Kangba and Aishan. There was plenty of food and water. After a quick meal, the sky was already dark. Everyone entered the tent. Zhang Qiu slept outside with Xiao Jiang in his arms. After a tired day, Xiao Jiang fell asleep quickly. However, Zhang Qiu could not sleep at all. As long as he closed his eyes, he would see the last time Li Shu let go of his hand.

Thinking of the last time Li Shu kissed him, he had felt a cool thing traveled along his throat to his stomach. GouWang said Li Shu gave him the spiritual soul. Zhang Qiu touched his stomach, he felt nothing.

There was a rustling noise. Pixian Hui Wang lowered his voice and said, “Let go!” After that, he ran away in a hurry.

Zhang Yushui followed closely.

The tent was quiet again. After a while, Pei Qing whispered, “Lin Dang, let brother hold you. I almost couldn’t see you today. I woke up as soon as you cried. Don’t cry anymore. Brother will never again let people bully you…”

“Xiaoting, I love you.”

It was Lu Feng’s voice. Hua Ting whispered back words of 'love you'.

Everything around his ears was amplifying. Zhang Qiu could even hear the voices of Pixian Hui Wang and Zhang Yushui, who had gone out talking. After a while, Pixian Hui Wang began to scold again. Zhang Qiu could not sleep, and he was stunned as soon as he came out of the tent.

There was no Pixian Hui Wang and Zhang Yushui around, but their voices were very clear. He followed the voice. Behind the sand dunes ten meters away from him, were Zhang Yushui pinning on Pixian Hui Wang and kissing.

What’s going on? His hearing seemed to have improved.

Dong dong, dong dong——

Daddy.

Zhang Qiu heard a soft voice called Daddy. He looked back at the tent. Was it Xiao Jiang that woke up?

He quickly went back. In the tent, Xiao Jiang was sleeping soundly, and the soft spoiled voice sounded again.

Daddy.

Zhang Qiu was stunned for a moment. He reached out and touched his abdomen gently.

Man~ that was long and intense. Sorry if some words [from chapter 1 till now] don’t make sense. It was already hard for me to translate this. This is the hardest novel to translate among the three. What with the dialect, internet slang and detailing… So spare me~ hihihi

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