Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes Chapter 21 (1/2)

Chapter 21

a cuter picture of wild boar Kong

“Hey.”

Hiding in the gra.s.s, I asked Chu Kong in a low voice: “What are they wors.h.i.+pping?”

At this time the sunlight gradually faded and the night came. Two men holding three torches were kneeling on the ground against a dusky hole. Bowing three times and wors.h.i.+pping with great respect.

Chu Kong didn’t answer my question. His eyes were fixed on the two men. A little while later he said: “You go and howl two times.”

His att.i.tude made me unhappy. I smiled coldly: “Go howl yourself. Why should I go?”

Chu Kong didn’t say anything. A hoof landed on my paw. I howled in pain, shocking all the tigers in the mountain. I gritted my teeth. This guy…this guy….

“Ah,” one of the man exclaimed.

“Ti…tiger!”

Together with two torches in his hands, he fell on the ground. Like someone paralyzed, he only moved a little back. The other guy hold his torch in front of me, while he steps back. Stepping back, he pulled the man on the ground up.

“Calm, calm down! She’s afraid of fire. She’ll not come here easily.”

Since he said that, I moved towards him. The two men were so afraid that they were trembling and sweating. One of them fell down. I was surprised for a moment and wondered if I’ve scared somebody to death. The other man suddenly started to run. In a blink of eye, he was gone. He must be thinking that since I’ve a prey, I would certainly not chase him.

I shook my head while sighing. When it’s between life and death, you can see someone clearly. Behind me there was a sound of gra.s.s rustling. Wild boar Kong stepped out. I patted the man who collapsed on the ground with my paw.

“Hey, look at what happened because of you. You took him back to the village on the foot of the mountain.”

“You still have the heart to care about these stupid humans,”Chu Kong said. “You’re still as ignorant as ever.”

He ignored me and walked with his four hooves carefully into a dark cave. Although I was dissatisfied with his att.i.tude, but seeing the always arrogant Chu Kong being so careful, I hold back my temper and carefully walk behind him.

Inside the cave, it’s really dark. If humans enter here they will get lost. Fortunately, the vision of tigers is stronger than humans. I can see all the things in the cave clearly: where the stones are, where the puddles are…wait, why does this puddle smell like blood?

My gaze followed the sound of water dripping. There was a hole on the wall. The water is flowing out from there.

I was still looking at the hole, when suddenly a human head slowly came out. My heart went through a shock. I was stunned for a moment. I saw that the man’s expression was distorted, looking really haggard. I don’t know what suddenly sucked the flesh away, leaving only the bones. With a “hulalala”sound the bones fell down. Before my paws was a white skeleton.

Although I’m an immortal, but I lived a peaceful life. I never saw someone who died so miserably. I was scared an gasped for air. Subconsciously I wanted to grab the Chu Kong in front of me. But he’s a wild boar now, facing me with his behind. I exposed my sharp claws and carelessly hold onto Chu Kong’s rough skin of his behind.

“There’s a demon,” I yelled.

Chu Kong also shouted: “Do you want me to drag you with my claws and dump you in the river of wine!”

“But there’s really a demon!”

I pointed with my claws at the hole in the wall and also pointed at the white skeleton near me.

“Before he dropped in front of me, he was eaten cleanly.”

Chu Kong no longer accused me. He turned around and looks at the pile of bones and said with a cold voice: “Now do you know what the two men were wors.h.i.+pping outside the cave?”

I shook my head.

“I don’t know.”

Chu Kong felt hopeless, looked at me and said: “Two people carrying three torches. There must’ve been three people. One of them entered the cave.”

Chu Kong pointed at the pile of bones with his hoof.

“This man turned into a sacrifice. They are wors.h.i.+pping with a living sacrifice for the….”

Chu Kong thought for a moment: “I don’t know who they are wors.h.i.+pping, but I can be sure that’s not an immortal from heaven. It’s full of yin air here, just like….”

Netherworld.

Chu Kong didn’t say it, but I could guess his meaning. My cultivation is still a bit less than him. At the beginning I didn’t detect the strange atmosphere in here. But now that Chu Kong has pointed it out, I could feel it. The cold air here is exactly like the netherworld.

Chu Kong explored everywhere and said: “The ground has yin. It must be connected to the netherworld. His voice turned deeper: “Seeing the two men like that before, this living sacrifice must be something very common.”

I wondered: “Accepting living sacrifices will harm the yin and will make it easy to fall into the evil ways. This is clearly prohibited. I didn’t hear any immortal from the netherworld is so daring.”

“Heng, an immortal doing something evil, will he dare to say it?”

Chu Kong said full of dislike: “What were you doing so many years in heaven? How come your head doesn’t have any common sense?”

I exposed my claws and said with a low voice: “If you speak like that to me again, I’ll scratch of the skin of your behind.”

Chu Kong shook his tail and continued: “The immortals of the netherworld aside from Yanw.a.n.g and the magistrate, to treat them equally are prohibited from accepting sacrifices. In the netherworld is prohibited to kill. The ghosts working in the netherworld don’t have the ability to receive sacrifices, so they won’t ask for sacrifices, let alone living sacrifices. Aside from the ghosts, there’s also G.o.ds from the heaven in the netherworld. There are two possibilities why a G.o.d will go to the netherworld. First, like you and me, to end something. This sort will be a short stay. We don’t have the time nor the ability to receive sacrifices. As for the second possibility, must be a G.o.d who committed a great sin. He must go to the eighteen floor1 of the netherworld to atone for his sins.”

My heart skipped a beat.

“Obviously the G.o.d is being punished in the netherworld, he still has the gall to do such a thing. This is sin with a sin. Which G.o.d doesn’t want to live anymore and dare to commit such a grave sin…..”

Chu Kong was silent for a moment. Then he said: “Yanw.a.n.g should be informed about this matter as soon as possible.”

I nodded in agreement: “But we haven’t a.s.sessed the situation clearly yet.”