Chapter 61 (1/2)
Chapter 61
Chapter 61 —Evil—Part One
Translated by K of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
*Warning: as usual, you might not want to be eating when you read this chapter
“Ahhhhhhhh…!!!”
w.a.n.g LingJiao sat up from her bed with a scream. Wen Chao, who was reading a letter by the desk, slammed its surface, enraged, “What are you howling at again in the middle of the night?!”
w.a.n.g LingJiao panted as if she still hadn’t overcome the shock, “I… I dreamed of Wei again, I dreamed of him again!”
Wen Chao, “It’s been three months since I threw him into Burial Mound. Why are you still having dreams of him? Just how many times has it been?!”
w.a.n.g LingJiao, “I… I don’t know why either. These days I’ve been dreaming of him a lot.”
Wen Chao had already been annoyed while he was reading the letter. He didn’t have the time to pay attention to her. He didn’t care much for holding her and comforting her like he had used to do either. He spoke impatiently, “Then don’t sleep!”
She got out of bed and threw herself over to Wen Chao’s desk, “Young Master Wen, I… The more I think about it, the more scared I am. I feel like… back then, did we make a big mistake? … He was thrown into Burial Mound, but is it possible that he didn’t die? Is it possible that he…”
The vein by Wen Chao’s temple pulsated, “How could it be possible? Before this, how many cultivators have our sect sent to clean Burial Mound up? Did any one of them come back alive? Now that he’s been thrown inside, his corpse has probably rotted away already.”
w.a.n.g LingJiao, “It’s scary even if he’s dead! If he really did what he said and became a ferocious ghost and comes back to haunt us…”
As she spoke, both of them remembered that day, what Wei Ying’s face was like as he fell, what his expression was like. Both of them s.h.i.+vered involuntarily.
Wen Chao immediately refuted her, “It’s impossible even if he’s dead! The people who died in Burial Mound, all of their souls would be shackled there. Don’t scare yourself. Can’t you see that I’m annoyed?!”
He crumpled up the letter in his hand into a ball and tossed it out, his voice filled with hatred, “What Sunshot Campaign? Some Sunshot it is. Want to shoot down the sun? Dream on!”
w.a.n.g LingJiao stood up. She carefully poured him a cup of tea. In her heart, she thought over some flatterings words before speaking in a sweet voice, “Young Master Wen, those few sects could only keep on doing what they want for a couple more days. Sect Leader Wen would definitely…”
Wen Chao cursed, “Shut up! What do you know?! Get lost, stop annoying me!”
w.a.n.g LingJiao felt wronged, but she felt hatred as well. She put down the teacup. Fixing her hair and her robes, she walked outside with a smile.
Just as she went out the door, the smile on her face faltered. She opened up the paper ball within her hand. Back then, when she exited, she secretly picked up the letter that Wen Chao had tossed away. She wanted to see just what news he had received for him to be so irritated. She couldn’t read too well. After looking at it for a while, she could finally guess what the letter said: the eldest son of Sect Leader Wen, Wen Chao’s elder brother Wen Xu, had been beheaded by one of the dissidents’ leading sect leaders and was displayed at the tip of a sword as a sign of power in front of the battle array!
w.a.n.g LingJiao had frozen.
The GusuLan Sect was burnt down, the YunmengJiang Sect was destroyed, and many other sects, whether large or small, were cracked down upon. It wasn’t that there hadn’t been any defiant voices, but that they had always been quickly suppressed by the QishanWen Sect. For this, three months ago, the sects Jin, Nie, Lan, and Jiang formed an alliance and led the revolt. When they emerged under the banner of the ‘Sunshot Campaign’, n.o.body took them seriously.
Sect Leader Wen spoke up back then. Among the four sects, the LanlingJin Sect was on the fence—watching how all of the sects were angrily going on some expedition, it wanted to take part as well, but if it suffered more defeats than victories, it’d soon realize that there was no good in it, perhaps even coming back to hug the Wen Sect’s leg and wors.h.i.+p it once more; the QingheNie Sect’s sect leader was so stiff that he’d easily snap in half—soon afterward, no need for others to move and he’d die in his own people’s hands sooner or later; the GusuLan Sect had been burnt into ruins—although Lan XiChen was here to inherit the position of sect leader after he had moved the Library Pavillion, he was only a junior and couldn’t do anything much; the most laughable one was the YunmengJiang Sect, the people of which either had been killed or had scattered, leaving only Jiang Cheng,
who was younger than even Lan XiChen and was still a child born yesterday, who had n.o.body in his hands but still dared call himself sect leader, holding up the banner of rebellion as he recruited new disciples.
It could be concluded with two words: unpromising and overconfident!
Everyone who stood on the Wen Sect’s side took the Sunshot Campaign as a joke. However, three months later, the circ.u.mstances didn’t turn out the way they expected them to at all!
Many places in Hejian and Yunmeng had been taken over, but that wasn’t the most important. Today, even Sect Leader Wen’s eldest son had been beheaded.
In the hall, w.a.n.g LingJiao worried for a while. Uneasy, she returned to her room. Her eyelids kept on twitching. One hand rubbing her eyelids, she pressed her other hand onto her chest, trying to come up with a route of retreat.
She had been following Wen Chao for almost half a year. Half a year was the most time that Wen Chao could spend on a woman, from loving her to becoming tired of her. She had thought that she was different, that she was the one who could stay until the end. However, Wen Chao’s growing irritation during the the past few days had told her already. She was no different from the other women.
Biting down on her lip, w.a.n.g LingJiao thought for a while. She then squatted down and took out a small chest from beneath her bed.
The chest held all of the valuables and weapons that she had managed to h.o.a.rd during the half-year of staying by Wen Chao’s side. Valuables she could spend, weapons she could protect herself with. Although she didn’t want it to, the day had finally come.
She wanted to count how much was in her inventory. She dug out a miniscule key from her belt and muttered as she opened the lock, “What a sc.u.m of a man. You greasy thing will die sooner or later. Now that I won’t have to serve you anymore, I’m the one who should be happy… Ah!”
She collapsed onto the ground.
Back then, the second that she opened the chest, she saw what was inside.
There was none of her beloved treasures,
only a pale-skinned, curled-up child!
w.a.n.g LingJiao was so shocked that she screamed. Kicking her legs, she couldn’t help from s.h.i.+fting back. She had always kept the chest locked. The only key she wore on her at all times. How could there be a child inside? She didn’t even open it up once a month. If a child had been hiding inside, then how could she have not known? How was the child still alive?!
The chest had been kicked over by her. Its mouth was on the ground and its bottom faced here. For a few moments, nothing happened.
w.a.n.g LingJiao crawled up from the ground with s.h.i.+vering legs. She wanted to go nearer and take another look at it, but she didn’t dare to, thinking to herself, There’s a ghost, there’s a ghost!
Her cultivation was extremely low. She wouldn’t be able to deal with it even if there was a ghost. Suddenly, she remembered that this was a supervision office. Talismans were stuck outside of the gates and every house. If there was a ghost, the talismans would certainly be able to protect her. She quickly rushed outside, tore down the talisman outside of her room, and stuck it in front of her chest.
With the talisman on her body, it was as though her mind had been set at ease. She snuck into the room, found a long clothing pole, and flipped the chest over from afar. Inside of it, her treasure rested neatly. There was no child at all.
w.a.n.g LingJiao let out a breath of relief. The pole in her hands, she squatted down. Just as she was about to start counting, she suddenly realized that two white lights shone under her bed.
It was a pair of eyes.
A white-colored child lay p.r.o.ne under her bed, staring into her eyes.
This was the third time tonight that Wen Chao had heard w.a.n.g LingJiao’s screams. The fire within him grew stronger as he yelled, “You b.i.t.c.h! You’re too neurotic, can’t you f.u.c.king let me be a little less annoyed?”
If not for how there had always been irritating news coming in these past few days and he didn’t have time to find new beauties, afraid that he found dishonest, untrustworthy female a.s.sa.s.sins from those minor sects but still wanted somebody to warm up his bed, he would’ve told the woman to f.u.c.k off long ago. Wen Chao shouted, “Somebody! Make her shut up for me!”
n.o.body answered. Wen Chao kicked over a stool. He was even more furious, “Where did all of you f.u.c.kers go off to?!”
Suddenly, the doors opened. Wen Chao, “I told you to shut the b.i.t.c.h up for me, not to come in…”
As he turned around, part of the sentence was stuck in his throat. He saw a woman standing in front of his house.
The woman’s features were all distorted, as though they
they had been smashed and then pieced together again. The two of her eyes were looking in different directions, the left upward and the right downward. Her entire face was hideously twisted.
Wen Chao tried with much effort before he could finally manage to recognize her from her rather revealing robe. This was w.a.n.g LingJiao!
w.a.n.g LingJiao’s throat was gurgling. She walked a few steps toward him and reached out, “… Help… Help… Help me…”
Wen Chao shouted. He unsheathed his new sword and sliced at her, “Go away! Get lost!”
w.a.n.g LingJiao’s shoulder had been gashed by the sword. Her features were even more twisted as she shrieked, “Ahhhhhh… It hurts, ahhhh… It hurts, ahhhh!!!”
Wen Chao didn’t even dare pull his sword away. Grabbing a stool, he hurled it toward her. After it hit her, it broke into pieces. w.a.n.g LingJiao staggered before kneeling down and collapsing onto the ground, as though she was kowtowing someone, mumbling, “… I’m sorry… I’m sorry… Let me go, let me go, let me go…”
As she knocked her head on the ground, blood dripped from her qiqiao. With her blocking the entrance, Wen Chao couldn’t leave. He could only open the window, shouting his lungs out, “Wen ZhuLiu! Wen ZhuLiu!!!”
On the ground, w.a.n.g LingJiao had already picked up one leg of the stool, frantically stuffing it into her mouth, laughing as she did, “Fine, fine, I’ll eat it, I’ll eat it! Haha, I’ll eat it!”
An entire chunk of the leg had been stuffed down by her!
Wen Chao was almost dead from the shock. Just as he was about to jump out the window and flee, he suddenly realized that in the courtyard, a black silhouette stood amid the pool of moonlight on the ground.
At the same time.
Jiang Cheng was standing before a forest. Noticing that somebody approached, he turned his head slightly. The person was dressed in all white. Wearing a forehead ribbon, its ends swept behind him along with his hair. His face, more handsome than anything, was as fair as jade. Under the moonlight, his entire body seemed to be enveloped in a soft glow.
Jiang Cheng spoke in a cold voice, “Second Young Master Lan.”
Lan w.a.n.gJi’s expression was solemn. He nodded, “Sect Leader Jiang.”
After the two acknowledged each other, they didn’t say anything else. Each carrying their cultivators, they flew on their swords in silence.
Two months ago, the Two Jades of Lan cooperated in a surprise attack with Jiang Cheng. They took back the swords that had been gathered from each sect’s disciples at Wen Chao’s ‘sector of indoctrination’, bringing them back to their owners. Only then did Sandu and b.i.+.c.hen return to them.
Lan w.a.n.gJi’s light eyes glanced at the other sword at Jiang Cheng’s waist. He turned his gaze away.
A few moments later, staring straight in front of him, he asked, “Has Wei Ying still not appeared yet?”
Jiang Cheng looked at him, as if surprised that he had suddenly asked about Wei Ying. He answered, “No.”
He looked at Suibian, which hung by his waist, “The people on my side still haven’t gotten news of him yet. But when he returns he’ll find me for sure. After he appears I’ll give him his sword.”
Soon later, leading a group of cultivators, the two arrived at the supervision office where Wen Chao hid, preparing for a night attack. Before they entered, Lan w.a.n.gJi’s face stiffened. Jiang Cheng frowned.