Chapter 551: Kill These Clowns for Me! (1/2)
Kill These Clowns for Me!
Black Jade City, Thalia District.
The party came to a small and dilapidated house made of stone that contained little more than a few items of crude furniture; a table, a chair, a bed, and an iron cooking pot. On that bed of stone, a woman that had long gone without a trace of life silently lay.
Sanguis took light steps into the room and knelt before his mother’s stone bed. After a heartfelt round of prayer, Sanguis stood up emotionless, turned to Han Shuo, and said, “Master, I wish to bury my mother’s body!”
Han Shuo nodded. Without saying another word, he took out a few pieces of pitch-black ‘black stone coins’ from his space ring and placed it on the crack-lined table at the center of the room.
Whichever material plane one was on, burying the dead was not for the penniless. The Abyss realm was no exception. The reason Sanguis had left home for the streets was precisely to find the funds to properly bury his mother. But he chanced upon his ‘old friends’ and was nearly beaten to death.
Had he not met Han Shuo, this impoverished child wouldn’t have gathered enough money for a burial even when his mother’s body had rotten. Towards this newly known master of his, Sanguis did not behave overly humble. After he saw the enormous sum of black stone coins Han Shuo placed on the stone table, Sanguis only said in a dull voice, “Thank you master.”
In the Abyss realm, black stone coins were of the greatest denomination in circulation. One coin could be exchanged for ten blue stone coins, or for a hundred pieces of yellow stone coin. In normal circumstances, just a few blue stone coins were enough for a basic ceremony. Those pieces of black stone coin Han Shuo put down were definitely more than enough for Sanguis to squander.
“Alright, you go take care of your matters.” Han Shuo nodded, looked at his three ladies standing outside the door, and apathetically exited.
“With black stone coins, it wouldn’t take long to complete,” Sanguis replied. After he followed Han Shuo out of the room and said, “Master, masters, please wait here for a while. I need to leave for a moment and will be back very soon,”
“Go ahead,” Han Shuo agreed.
With the few pieces of black stone coins, Sanguis bolted off. This youngster had a strong and even morbid thirst for power. Even since obtaining the foundation cultivation methods of Bloodgod Mantra, he had been persistently thinking about the cultivation methods. Han Shuo could make that out from his constantly knitted brows and abnormalities of the blood inside his body.
“Han Shuo, this kid, he does have very tenacious willpower. But, can he really become the powerful expert to match your expectations?” Jasper asked with gently creased brows as she watched Sanguis leaving.
“Yeah, he said that he couldn’t cultivate in any of the eight elemental energies or four edictal forces. In the Abyss, those would can’t cultivate in any of these twelve energies definitely are, just like he said himself, rubbish. How could such a person also possess mighty strength?” Sylph too was skeptical. Having grown up in the Abyss realm, they did not seem too optimistic about this youngster.
Han Shuo put on the smile of an insightful man, turned his eyes to the three ladies, and said, “The eight elemental energies and four edictal forces are not the universal cultivation pathways for everyone. Some are gifted and different from birth, and destined for the unbeaten path. If Sanguis hadn’t come across me, he might remain mediocre his whole life. But, since he was so fortunate for us to have met, it is a matter of course that he would be an outstanding expert in the future.”
The three ladies were astonished at Han Shuo’s explanation. After exchanging glances with each other, Jasper gave a smile and said, “I believe you. Hehe, there are indeed many magical things about you. Perhaps it is true that only by meeting you could Sanguis ever expect to excel in life.”
Han Shuo was actually quite satisfied with this newly adopted apprentice of his. As he didn’t have any business to deal with, Han Shuo decided to stay there with his three women. He watched on as Sanguis got busy arranging his mother’s funeral.
Han Shuo and his three ladies had actually offered to help Sanguis with the burial. However, that was tactfully declined by Sanguis. He insisted on doing it alone and finishing his mother’s funeral by himself. From this, it was reasonable to say that Sanguis was a filial son.
The Abyss realm wasn’t one for overly elaborate ceremonies when burying the deceased. Thanks to the few pieces of black stone coins, Sanguis had properly completed his mother’s burial in less than half a day. After completing all the matters and a round of griefful weeping, Sanguis’ heart finally regained tranquility. He returned to that tiny stone house.