Chapter 18: Horrible Child (2/2)
The buddha statue trembled and yelled, ”Evil creature!”
”Stop chanting!” the monster cried, promptly begging for mercy. It was clearly scared out of its wits. ”I beg you, stop chanting!”
Qin Mu stopped chanting the devil incantation, but the golden buddha completed one round of its own incantation, causing the monster to puke blood once again.
Qin Mu walked around the temple. Although he wasn’t able to find anything good, the mountain of bones behind the buddha statue still shocked him. Countless people had apparently died in this rundown temple at the hands of this monster.
”Hiding the bones of your victims behind the buddha statue makes the buddha statue your partner in crime. It helps you to cover up your mistakes and trick more people,” Qin Mu said. He couldn’t help but shake his head in disapproval. ”If I borrow the power of the buddha statue to exterminate you, your destruction would become its achievement instead. Therefore, I will not do that. So, demon, where are all of your treasures?”
”Why would I have any treasure?” the monster asked as it trembled in fear. ”This baldy monk over here took everything when he trapped me here.”
”Qi ke duo…” Qin Mu began.
”Stop chanting!”
The monster girl put on a smiling face in an attempt to please Qin Mu. ”Having run this place for a few years, I did manage to plunder some good stuff while satisfying my appetite. Fine then. I’ll just give them to you.”
Barely managing to get up off the floor, it struggled to climb to the ceiling of the temple hall. Gently pushing at a specific part of the ceiling, she revealed a hidden panel and removed it.
The items stashed away in the space behind that panel came clattering to the floor. Most of the items were weapons and armor. Other than that, there were clothes, a majority of which were women’s undergarments. However, considering the material of all the clothes, they looked like things that only wealthy people could afford to wear.
”This is everything I have left.” The monster smiled.
Qin Mu frowned in disappointment. ”This is it? You don’t have anything like spirit pills or miraculous medicines?”
”If I ever found spirit pills of miraculous medicines, I’d have ate them already.” The monster stretched in a relaxed manner, the bony centipede plates within its feminine body cracking. ”I’ve been imprisoned in here for so long that I just eat everything. How could I ignore spirit pills or miraculous medicines that taste leagues better than humans? Don’t underestimate these weapons, though. All of them are treasures; good stuff called Spirit Weapons that can only be found within a person’s Six Directions Divine Treasure. They’re called Spirit Weapons because they are nurtured by a person’s vital qi from birth and possess great power.”
Skeptical of the monster girl’s claims, Qin Mu picked a goose wing knife from the pile of weaponry. This knife felt extremely heavy compared to the Pig Slaughtering Knife strapped to his back. However, the strange thing about it was that, although his Pig Slaughtering Knife was much larger, it weighed a lot less than the ordinary looking knife.
The goose wing knife was much longer and narrower, whereas the Pig Slaughtering Knife was much wider and thicker.
Gripping the Pig Slaughtering Knife and brandishing it, Qin Mu hit the knives against one another with a soft clang. The Pig Slaughtering knife cleanly slashed through the goose wing knife’s blade, the top half of which dropped to the temple’s floor.
The monster stared blankly at the Pig Slaughtering Knife in Qin Mu’s hand with its eyes wide open, speechless.
Considerably disappointed, Qin Mu threw the goose wing knife aside.
”W-who forged that c-cleaver-like knife of yours?” the monster stuttered in surprise. ”For a Spirit Weapon that was nurtured by the vital qi of a strong practitioner in the Six Directions Realm to break at a gentle touch… your knife definitely wasn’t forged by an ordinary person!”
Qin Mu caressed the cold blade of his Pig Slaughtering Knife, sending cold air straight into his heart and lungs. Mute the Blacksmith had forged it for him. Mute was a very well known blacksmith in this area of the Great Ruins. Everything he forged sold like hot cakes. People from other villages would often come find him and ask him to forge items like cleavers, hoes, and iron ploughs.
”That knife isn’t made from ordinary metal!” the monster girl cried, foaming at the mouth. It wanted to move forward to take a closer look, but it was afraid that Qin Mu would chant the devil incantation again, so it just shouted, ”Try touching your knife! Is there any cold air coming from it? If there is, it was probably made out of Winter Crystal Iron!”
”There is indeed cold air coming from it,” Qin Mu said in astonishment, nodding his head.
”Why would someone use Winter Crystal Iron to forge a cleaver-like knife?” the monster cried. ”Someone with such excellent forging skill actually created a cleaver-like knife? What a waste of talent and materials!”
Qin Mu stared at the Pig Slaughtering Knife, then strapped it to his back again. He then started collecting all of the weapons and treasures, moving them out of the rundown temple and placing them in front of its entrance.
”Why do you still want to take away my loot when you already have such a good weapon?” the monster shouted angrily.
”Granny told me that I should always bring back everything I take with my own strength.” Qin Mu turned around and flashed a simple smile. ”I took all of your items with my own strength, so I definitely have to bring them all home.”
This infuriated the monster so much that it wanted to die. However, it was afraid of ruining things with Qin Mu and could only watch as the boy moved all of the treasures it had painstakingly collected.
Qin Mu suddenly to look at the monster and asked, ”Do you have anything like a cloth sack laying around?”
”No!”
”Okay.” Qin Mu turned away again and went outside of the temple.
The monster cautiously left the great hall and walked to the entrance of the temple. It could see Qin Mu chopping at the bamboo trees in the surroundings. After a short while, he managed to use the bamboo he cut down to create a makeshift raft. Putting all of his loot onto the bamboo raft, he pushed off from the island and used a bamboo pole to maneuver back upstream.
”Who raised such a horrible child?” the monster yelled, finally flying into a rage. ”What is this world coming to? He even dared to ask me for a cloth sack to carry everything with! He makes me so angry I want to die!”