Chapter 303 - What A Monster! (2/2)

"Senior martial brother, where are we going?"

"Mountain Zhong"

Zhong Yue replied, "We will be dragged into conflicts right now if we return to Swords Gate before the end of the year so we should wait for a couple of months first. Now, we will go to my hometown, take a break and return to Swords Gate when it's time!"

"Zhong Shan Clan?"

Qiu Jin'er's heart thumped quickly, and after lowering down her head in an attempt to hide her blushed face, she thought,  Am I going to meet his parents?

After another few days, they finally arrived at the Zhong Shan Clan, but both had different thoughts; Zhong Yue was happy to return to his own home while Qiu Jin'er was extremely nervous.

Zhong Yue's clan was named as Zhong Shan Clan because it was located under the Mountain Zhong. This clan was not a very big clan; when Zhong Yue left, there were only about a hundred families here. But when he returned, nothing much had changed as well.

Like other ordinary clans, the able-bodied men went hunting, and the women stayed at home to cook. The elderly men educated the children and also helped in refining weapons.

"Yue Yue has returned!"

When the two of them returned to the clan, the women and the old men were all shocked. They quickly set aside their tasks and shouted happily, "Yue Yue has returned!"

A white-haired old man looked at Zhong Yue and said in a shaky tone, "The little boy has all grown up! You were still shorter than me when you left, but now, you are so much taller! Yue Yue is now a Qi Practitioner, am I right?"

"Old man, you're the one who grew shorter," said an old lady beside him with a big smile on her face.

A woman measured Qiu Jin'er from head to toe, and she said with exuberantly, "Yue Yue, is this your wife? Where did you find her? How beautiful, too bad her butt is small. Birthing a child may be a problem, but at least her chest is big. She should be able to produce plenty of milk!"

"Are the two of you back here to get your babies?"

Qiu Jin'er blushed, and her head lowered down to the words of the woman. She had long heard of the bluntness of tribal women but experiencing it first-hand was still quite jarring for her.

Thank god senior martial brother is not like that….  thought Qiu Jin'er in embarrassment.

"A little girl!"

A woman stared at Qiu Jin'er, and she shouted, "Yue Yue you monster! She is still so young! How dare you! Monster!"

Zhong Yue then shook his hands and said with a smile on his face, "She is not that small!"

"Yes! What a monster!" The others around them echoed in agreement.

"Brilliant!" the old man blurted, and he immediately became the center of the women's fury.

The entire clan became filled with laughter and joy. The children were running around them while Zhong Yue smiled like an idiot as he said, "Aunt Shen, Aunt Da, we'll be staying in the tribe for a few days."

"This is your tribe. You can stay for as long as you want. Quick, quick, prepare some nice food, it's been a long time since the last time Yue Yue has come back!"

However, Qiu Jin'er couldn't see any signs of Zhong Yue's parents. She was puzzled and when she asked the ladies in the tribe about it. She learned that when Zhong Yue was still a baby, his father went on a hunt and never returned, while his mother died not long after that. It was the other tribesmen and families that took him under their care.

The two of them stayed at the Zhong Shan Tribe. Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin'er both changed their clothes for the tribe's beast-hide garments that gave the two of them a different aura than usual. The two of them went out to hunt and brought the prey back to the tribe, the other hunters came forward and received the prizes, taking them down to prepare. At night, the tribe started a bonfire party; when the night grew late, they all went to sleep, but the shy Qiu Jin'er couldn't sleep all night as her senior martial brother was sleeping in the same room as her.

After a few days, Zhong Yue brought back a thousand-year ancient wood. He was going to make a totem for the tribe; he was focused, concentrating on making it, however, it was not a totem pillar but a totem statue. The totem patterns on it weren't the Great Sun totem patterns nor the Bright Moon totem pillars, but his Sui Sovereign Yuan Shen's totem patterns.

The Sui Sovereign Yuan Shen was his third Yuan Shen, one that incorporated the sun spirit and moon spirit with the Golden Crow and Star Toad in the eyes of his Sui Sovereign form. Thus far, only Xin Huo was able to cast it; Zhong Yue had yet to attain it successfully.

Zhong Yue was lost in concentration. A dozen days passed before the final pieces of the totem statue and today, the last bit of the totem statue – the sun pupil and moon pupil – was nearing completion. But the young man stood in a trance before the totem statue. There was a slight surge of Sword Qi waltzing on the top of his finger while a gentle smile was held on his face.

He had sunk into a marvelous state of mind, and the surroundings grew silent – peaceful and serene. A glimmering luster was added to his eyes as the sun and moon emerged in them.

Qiu Jin'er looked at him from afar and found that his aura was indistinctly imperceptible. He was now in a state of enlightenment. His aura was undergoing constant changes, and oftentimes, it felt like as if he were a galloping horse, a crouching tiger, a flying bird, or even a silent rabbit.

He remained in such a state and was not moving at all for a very long time while the Sword Qi was lingering around his finger.

After a very long time, the three-legged Great Sun Golden Crow celestial being appeared behind him, then the six-eyed Star Toad celestial being; the two celestial beings were over 200 feet tall. All of a sudden, the two celestial beings began to shrink, and they eventually turned into a blazing sun and a bright moon. Then, the figure of an emperor slowly emerged in the middle while the sun and moon fell into his eye sockets to become his eyes!

Zhong Yue laughed out loud, the Sui Sovereign Yuan Shen took over the Sword Qi in his hand and completed the last bit of the totem statue.