45 You brought them here (1/2)

A thousand zithers played an epic tune in Chàng Bo's head, as Mao Lu's blue robes fluttered heroically in the zero gravity of space, as he stood in front of him.

\”SEAL\” Mao Lu said calmly.

Chàng Bo felt a large pressure fill the area, the Irregularity howled loudly as that pressure concentrated around it.

It tried to move its limbs but it couldn't. \”AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!\” It wailed.

\”Irregularity, you are not welcome in my Realm.\” Mao Lu said as he turned his wrist gently. As it turned an invisible force began compressing the Irregularity. Shrinking it, making it become smaller and smaller until it was the size of a marble.

\”Now that you've sealed it, the easy part is Expelling it. Just will it to be removed from your Realm.\” Gates guided.

\”Shouldn't I destroy it?\” Mao Lu mentally asked as he held the now marble sized Irregularity in his hand.

It continued to shriek loudly, \”krae closer and closer.

Just as they were one metre away from crashing onto the hard surface, they stopped.

Chàng Bo felt an invisible force wrapping around them, suspending them in the air.

Gates had caught them. It wrapped around both Chàng Bo and Mao Lu, carrying them away quickly at a supersonic speed.

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Moments after they left, Zhongshan park filled with Practitioners. Song Ou looked around, \”What the hell happened here, do you know Little Red?\”

Little Red who was standing next to him, and staring at the scene of intense devastation, filled with various craters and several nearby collapsed buildings, laughed \”If you don't know then why the hell would I know. All I know is that the Gatekeeper was involved in this. Meaning that whatever happened here, we don't need to know about. It's better we don't try to pry into Gatekeeper business.\”

Song Ou nodded, Little Red was right. Getting too involved in Gatekeeper business when you weren't a Gatekeeper was just bad news.

Gatekeepers have many ways to make people disappear. In the past, in the name of maintaining order, Gatekeepers killed or expelled any practitioners that dared try to pry too much into their business. The Gatekeepers in general are a very powerful and secretive group seen as Royalty but also deified like Gods.

Those that messed with Gatekeepers obviously didn't know Mount Tai, nor saw how high the heavens were. Amongst Practitioners it was common sense never to investigate too deeply into anything a Gatekeeper was involved in.

\”What we need to do now is repair the scene, this place looks like it has hit by an asteroid, not a 6.7 earthquake. We need to repair this place up a bit before the mortals start wandering out here.\” Little Red said as she looked at the large crater, or rather the deep hole in the middle of the park.

\”My Martial artists and cultivators are already on it. We evacuated all the nearby mortals so casualties are lower than two hundred. And the buildings are being fixed as we speak.\” Song Ou reported.

\”Good.\”

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CHAOYANG- MAO LU'S RESIDENCE

Mao Lu's eyes fluttered open. He felt rather comfortable, and instinctively squeezed the firm yet smooth pillow next to him.

He felt so well rested.

The room was dark and he leaned his hand over to switch on his bedside light, but he couldn't find it.

He patted around a little bit, disgruntledly, and leaned forward pressing his hands against his soft, warm, breathing pillow….BREATHING!!!!

In horror Mao Lu rubbed his eyes, but even before his sight adjusted to the darkness, Sense of the Realm was telling him, that he hadn't been squeezing a pillow just now, he'd been squeezing the sleeping Chàng Bo's chest.

\”What the hell is going on?!!!!\” Mao Lu internally screamed. He looked around left and right and realised he was in the East Wing, Chàng Bo's room, that's why he hadn't been able to find his bedside light.

\”Oh so you're finally awake.\” came Gates sly voice.

\”Gates, what's going on, how did I end up like this?\” Mao Lu asked in panicked confusion.

\”Don't you remember? You were talking to Chàng Bo after you sealed the Irregularity, and then all the burden from using such a powerful spell, hit you, and you passed out in exhaustion. Which by the way, congratulations, to not only perfectly use the SEAL spell first time, but with perfect precision, truly among Gatekeepers you are definitely a genius Mao Lu. Well done.\”

\”Thank you for the high praise, I was only following your instructions Gates, but seriously what happened after I passed out!?\” Mao Lu asked frantically.

\”Well it seems like Chàng Bo used a lot of energy when he was restraining the Irregularity for you. So when you passed out on his shoulder, he began to fall back to Earth. So I caught the two of you bought you back to your residence.

When you fell, Chàng Bo rather courageously embraced you to protect you from the fall. In that process you wrapped your arms around him, and by the time I took you both back to your place, your were firmly hugging him and you refused to let go.

It was absolutely hilarious. Chàng Bo tried pulling you off, waking you up, practically anything but you just wouldn't let go of him, and hugged him the entire time. In the end Chàng Bo gave up and decided to rest to regain his strength.

He fell asleep on his bed and you've been hugging him ever since.\” Gates laughed loudly, it found the entire situation very amusing.

Mao Lu's face turned a variety of colours, fist pink, then fusha, then red, and then a slight violet. He was so embarrassed.

\”H-h-h-how long have I been hugging him, how long have we been asleep here, like this.\” he asked faintly.

\”Oh you've been clinging to him on this bed for the last three days.\” Gates chuckled.

Three days….THREE DAYS…\”Holy!!!!\”, Mao Lu was so glad Tanaka wasn't around, if Tanaka had seen this he would hold this over Mao Lu for the rest of his life.