Chapter 10.1 (2/2)
“Oh you……” He feels a soft and sweet-smelling body pressing against him from behind. Without turning, he knows that the beautiful and alluring woman is currently holding herself tightly against his back. The soft touch causes Shu Hai’s heart to race.
“Why are you so careless? Exposing such an important thing to someone else so easily……” With a pitiful sigh, the woman whispers into his ear softly. Her arms are like two soft water snakes that swim into Shu Hai’s robes, encircling his muscular waist.
“What thing?” Shu Hai asks, distracted.
“Your lord’s seal, of course.”
Before Shu Hai had the time to react, he feels blades of coldness sinking into the position where his seal is at with lightning speed. The sharp pain shoots through to his mind and his entire person falls forward heavily.
The woman pushes her hair out of her face and her eyes gaze into the nothingness of the night. White mist is turbulent in her pupils, making the smile on her face appear horrifying.
What is even more horrifying is that, within the dress on her chest, a few sharp blades reflecting harsh cold light are retreating back into her body with a splattering sound, as if a large sh.e.l.led insect is tearing through her chest and crawling inside it.
“Ai yah, this man, it’s been so many years and he hasn’t changed a single bit. So b.l.o.o.d.y……” She gazes into the distance at where the cave is located and smiles.
The white silk covering the skies return to their place wrapped around her body before morphing into the black train of a dress.
“My lord, we will be reaching that island in a few moments” Lu Jue is perched at the head of the boat as he tugs on the sails. The wind blows open his robe and the sunlight s.h.i.+nes onto his tanned and firm chest. His sweat reflects the light to resemble jewels resting on his chest. He turns to look at Qi La, his dark and long eyes looking like a black valley under the strong glare of the sun.
“Lord Qi La, you can create chess pieces, can’t you? Why must we spend so much effort in taking a boat here? Why not just teleport using a chess piece?” Lu Jue wipes at the sweat on his body. His face is red from prolonged exposure to the sunlight. His smile is mature and charismatic. In comparison to the youth he had been five years ago, the him at present time has grown into a fine young man.
Qi La looks at the sweaty and half-naked body of Lu Jue’s that resembles a muscular carving from marble before smiling as he replies: “Chess pieces only lead to places that the creator has been to before. If the creator hasn’t been to a place, then it is impossible for him to create a chess piece that will reach the place directly.”
Lu Jue nods before sighing and he glances at Qi La.
As if the burning heat of the sun has no effect on him, Qi La sits quietly at the side of the boat. He still resembles a G.o.d carved from ice, his features delicate and eye-catching. No matter how stifling or overwhelming the air surrounding them is, he will always resemble the water flowing down the spring from a glacier, bringing along coldness with fragrance. Sensing Lu Jue’s gaze, he turns to smile and nod at him.
Lu Jue lifts his head and looks towards the coast, failing to see the two handsome man he had expected to be waving at them from the sh.o.r.e.
The Disciple of Earth, Zang He and the Disciple of the Sea, Shu Hai has both disappeared. The empty beach filled with black rocks is silent under the glaring sun.
“Where are Zang He and Shu Hai?” When Lu Jue turns to ask Qi La, he sees the tension on his face.
After alighting the boat with Qi La, they walk slowly along the coastline. As Qi La walks, he senses the soul powers present on this island. His brows are furrowed slightly under the hot sun. No one knows what he is thinking.
A large beam of light s.h.i.+nes from the tops of one’s head, as if coming from the depths of the heavens, here to punish the evils and misdoings of the mortal realm.
All secrets start to worm their way out from beneath the surface of the ocean.
The seawater is turbulent as it surges, it pushes forth, countless sharp black rocks interweave with each other, as if the mouth of a monster attempting to devour all sources of life.
Qi La whips his head back suddenly. At the corner of his vision, a black shadow had disappeared quickly behind a piece of rock, as if monitoring them.
“You stay here. There’s something wrong with this island. Wait for me to return. If anything happens, seek me through the lord’s seal.” Qi La exhorts Lu Jue.
Lu Jue nods. Before he has the chance to reply, Qi La’s silhouette has shot forth like a flash of lightning towards the distance.
“What a familiar speed……”
Standing atop a distant peak is a lovely and beautiful woman. A dismissive smile is present on her face; it hints at the freshest temptation in the mortal realm. The wind blows at her gown, wrapping around her voluptuous bodyline.
“Ai yah, such a familiar physique. Five years ago, it was this speed as well. It’s been so many years, master Qi La, you’re still as polished as before……or should I say, you’ve never improved?” The alluring woman lifts a hand and uses her luxuriously decorated sleeve to cover her face as if embarra.s.sed by her own words, “then master Qi La should find me familiar, right? Five years ago, a young boy and I smashed Tong Que into pieces in an array you created, at that time, if it weren’t for us escaping so quickly, you might have killed us then and there, do you still remember?”
“Why are the two of you here?”
“Because two of your disciples are here. We followed them.”
“Why are you seeking Zang He and Shu Hai?” Qi La demands coldly, the blood vessels tick under his skin on his hands.
“Of course to kill them. What else?” The young woman chuckles, as if stating an obvious fact.
Instantaneously, a blinding array forms beneath Qi La’s feet. The rotating light seems to envelope the entire island. Countless explosions of light rise from the ground towards the sky.
“Ai yah, don’t scare people. He was the one who killed them. I’m just here to pa.s.s on a message. What do you think you’re doing?” Light spins in the beautiful woman’s pupils. The smirk at the corner of her lips is captivating.
“What message?” Qi La asks.
“Oh, it’s nothing important. Just dropping by to tell you that you’re no longer the Top Lord. You’ve been demoted.” The woman ruffles her black dress and moves her body into an even more alluring posture, “He’s the little boy you almost killed back then. He’s now above you. This means that you no longer need to keep your three disciples. Only the Top Lord has the authority to do that. Of course, two are already dead, the last one, of course he can live, but he can no longer call himself the Disciple of Heaven, if not, he will be killed. Hehe~”
“You mean, I am now the Lord to the Second Degree?” Qi La bites out a laugh. Despite that, a layer of sweat has crept into his palms. However, he is confident in his abilities, as until now, even the Silver Priests may not be aware of his true capability.
“Of course not!” The captivating woman stands amidst the rays of the array, her dress in chaos “You’re not the Second Lord, that youth right there, he is now the Second Lord. What you are now is merely the Third Lord!”
She pauses and looks at the disbelief on Qi La’s face and seems even more joyous. She is basking in the confusion she brings to Qi La. “He was going to be the Top, but what a pity, a monster even more powerful than him has appeared, he couldn’t defeat him,and so he can only be the Second, which makes you the Third.”
“Oh, and by the way,” The woman smiles slyly as she covers her mouth, “I forgot to say this, maybe because I feel embarra.s.sed doing so, but whatever, I’m the now Forth Lord. My name is Thalia. That youth, his name is Nether.”
Thalia smiles lightly. The strong sea wind that blows from the distant dark ocean stirs her robes, making her resemble an erratic ghost at midnight.
“How is it? Our names are quite nice, am I right? Oh, I forgot to say this as well but, that monster, you know, the new Top Lord, his name has an even better ring to it. His name is Gilgamesh.”
The vast and bare island gives off a dank feeling as no gra.s.s ever grows. Despite the harsh sunlight beating down on everything, yet in the twisting waves of heat under the light, there always seems to be ghosts and ghouls lying low.
*lit. Floating life at the bottom of the spring.
**Older brother.
***lit. Electric fox.
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