The Sacred Ruins

Red magma was shining and emitting scorching heat as it broiled the rocks and layers of soil in the vicinity until it all turned red through and through.

Chu Feng burned the Little Daoist’s “rock carvings” to the point where nothing was left. Red liquid flowed on the ground like gurgling and surging molten iron as it spread and passed over it.

“Son, slowly study attentively beneath the ground. This is our Chu Family’s most valuable treasure passed on through the generations. It contains a world-startling secret that powerhouses from the Yang Realm will be envious about if they got to know about it. Comprehend it well.”

After he said such words, some kind of emotion seemed to appear in this world as though there really was someone listening nearby. It seemed as though there was an endless feeling of regret that was slowly dissipating away.

“Child, take a very good look!” said Chu Feng.

But at this moment, a radiance flashed by in his eyes as it swept over that clump of clouds and mist in the distance.

That sheet of clouds high up in the sky was very agile as it floated into the distance.

Whoosh!

At this moment, Chu Feng suddenly made a move and rose steeply from the ground as he charged up into the sky. In the blink of an eye, he reached the region between the clouds and mist. He stretched his hand forward and grabbed at the clouds.

“Chirp, chirp! Caw, caw!” Strange cried came from the clouds and mists. It first sounded like the panicked cry of a chick. After that, it resembled that of a crow crying out in fear as it flapped its wings to run away in a hurry.

There was a falcon in the clouds that was completely golden in colour without a mixed strand of feather in it. It was glittering splendidly with a panicked expression on its face as though it was carved out of gold.

This was a young bird; it wasn’t very big and was most likely a third of a meter long. However, it was an uncommon breed while the Blood qi around its whole body was actually very dense and surpassed that of similar raptors.

“Uncle, don’t kill me! I was only passing by and saw that someone could actually approach that stone millstone. In a moment of curiosity, I spied in from afar. I don’t have ill intents and don’t dare have any either!”

This strange golden bird spoke in a melodious and distinctly puerile voice. It really did appear to be a golden heterofalcon that wasn’t fully grown yet as it kept begging for forgiveness here.

Chu Feng kept staring at the bird. After that, he grabbed it in a single hand and swooped down to the ground. He then stood on a hill outside the region of the stone millstone.

“Interesting.” Chu Feng grabbed this young bird in his hands and finally evaluated it in this manner. He had a calm expression and very abstruse eyes with a glimpse of divine light in them.

“Uncle, I’m scared. Don’t kill me, alright?” pleaded the young bird in a tender voice that bore a slight trill. It had clear eyes that was slightly panicky as it pleaded for Chu Feng to be magnanimous and not to kill him.

Chu Feng smiled but it swiftly vanished as he flicked a finger on the young bird’s head, immediately giving rise to a miserable shriek from the young golden bird. A large bump rose on its head as it swelled on the spot.

“It hurts! It really hurts! Chirp, chirp! Uncle, don’t kill me! Don’t eat me! Huang’er is still young. I haven’t grown up yet, so my meat isn’t tasty to be eaten. Release me. Woo...”

This young bird had golden feathers and a tender voice. It looked pitiful and weak and it could really move those people who had hearts of stone very easily.

But at this moment, Chu Feng remained unmoved. He just held the bird like this and simply didn’t look sympathetic but rather, he flipped and moved it over as he inspected the bird’s whole body.

“Pretend. It’s no use putting on a pitiful look.” Chu Feng wasn’t swayed. He carefully looked over the bird for a moment before he released his Dual Yin-Yang Qi. He turned into a ray of light and charged out of this region, arriving on the wasteland.

After that, two golden rays of light shot out from his eyes as he used his Fiery Eyes. He searched that Four-Winged Rhinoceros as he wanted to find it once more.

“You’re rather quick-witted. You’re still thinking of running away?!” Chu Feng had a cold smile on his face as he disappeared from where he was with a sway of his body. It was as though he had shifted and re-appeared five kilometers away in a flash. He made a move again and disappeared from the spot once more.

He appeared to cross a vast distance in a single step and that the mountains, rivers and earth was only beneath his feet. The vast land fell back behind him when he moved just a little bit.

Rumble!

The explosive sound and the sound of energy surging made it seem as though sudden claps of thunder broke out in this wasteland. It cut through the deathly stillness and broke the silence.

Whoosh! Chu Feng immediately appeared up ahead and barred the way of the Four-Winged Flying Rhinoceros and obstructed this golden rhinoceros.

“Senior, spare me. I never had the intention to offend you. I even revered and respected you not too long ago and answered any questions you had. Why have you come again?”

This Flying Rhinoceros was trembling and no longer spoke nimbly as it appeared to be alarmed.

Chu Feng stretched out his hand and pressed it against the Flying Rhinoceros’ head. He immediately suppressed him to the ground from mid-air as he looked at it with a cold smile on his face.

“How interesting. The both of you are golden in colour and appeared in this region at the same time too. You’re friends with similar interests, hmm?”

“Senior, what do you mean? I don’t understand.” The Flying Rhinoceros was scared and had a frenetic look in its eyes as it kept retreating.

“If there isn’t a ghost in your heart, why do you want to run away?” Chu Feng asked it.

“I can see that Senior is showing his might since you can actually go about the region around the stone millstone so freely. Also, you once let it be known that you want to slaughter demonic gods and flatten the Vicious Beast Plateau. I was really scared and wanted to leave this sketchy area earlier.”

Chu Feng sneered and said, “I have my reasons and basis for doing so. But you’re in such a frenzy and you’re not even speaking clearly anymore. Why is it that you still have a rather clear sense of logic? You’re purposely looking afraid when you’re actually very calm, right?”

“No. I really am very afraid. I’m worried you’re an existence that wants to slaughter gods and am afraid you’ll stir up the fire and get burnt, so I want to flee.” The Flying Rhinoceros was increasingly afraid.

“Alright. You still want to dupe me. You really are capable!” When he said this, black lines appeared on Chu Feng’s forehead and he continued, “I’m so old, yet this is the first time someone has deceived me. And in such a tragic manner too! My mood was fluctuating fiercely not too long ago and I was inconsolably heartbroken. You guys really are competent!”

When he recalled the mournful mood he had not too long ago as well as the emergence of glistening teardrops, he felt sad and dispirited at those carved words. Now, he really wanted to beat someone up and go wild.

He knew he had been duped!

Everything wasn’t real!

Who was Chu Feng? The whole starry sky knew of his great name of being a human trafficker and a group of saint children and saintesses called him Great Demon Chu. He could understand the whole truth thoroughly when there was a slight hole in this kind of matter.

Previously, he was a mess out of his feelings of care, but he was completely clear-headed now.

“Little Daoist, Chu Nan, Chu Wuhen! I’ll beat you to death!” Chu Feng flew into a rage and grabbed that young bird in his hands right away.

“Ah... Senior! Why are you grabbing me? I’m really afraid!” The young golden bird was trembling with fear. He had a tender voice and a terrified expression as he looked at Chu Feng with large, pure and perfectly round eyes; he appeared to be incomparably pitiful.

“Little brat! The greatest gap in your trick is that you shouldn’t appear too early! Who is your father? My divine senses are so sharp that any mere rustle of grass in the wind will appear in my heart. You actually dared to hide in the clouds and spy on me. Do you think you can keep me in the dark just because you mastered the secret technique of a supreme deity in your past life? You’re in a disordered state out of concern too, aren’t you? You’re too concerned about the most valuable treasure handed down in my family!”

Chu Feng had an enraged expression. After all, he had really been deceived at the very start and fallen into a great pit. The main reason was naturally because the first impression was the strongest, in addition to the fact that he cared about those people too much.

“Uncle, I don’t understand what you’re saying. Can you not eat me? I really am very afraid,” whined the young golden bird in a young and tender, yet weak voice. It blinked with its large eyes and wept as though it was going to cry. It looked at Chu Feng in a pitiful manner and had a very innocent appearance.

“Senior, is there some misunderstanding here? We really don’t understand what you’re saying,” said the Four-winged Flying Rhinoceros. It was shivered as it was extremely frightened.

Chu Feng kicked the Flying Rhinoceros away and stared at the young golden bird as he said, “I admit that the secret technique from your previous life is very impressive. You could almost deceive my Fiery Eyes, but my Fiery Eyes still thinks you’re somewhat abnormal. Even if I can’t make anything out for the moment, I can feel that there’s something wrong with the soul light in your body. You turned into a bird to deceive your father?!”

When he said this, Chu Feng started to knock this young golden bird ruthlessly on the head.

“Ah... this is hurting me to death! Stop! Senior, you’ve got the wrong person!”

Chu Feng gritted his teeth and said, “The most hateful thing is that you actually found someone, a rhinoceros at that, to support you in hoodwinking me together!” Chu Feng was increasingly angry as he spoke.

After that, he slapped the Flying Rhinoceros’ body and it shrieked miserably too. It immediately flew out in a half-kneeling position.

“This is a scam from beginning till the end. Now that I carefully think back to it, there were many gaps among it.” Chu Feng was unbearably angry. He flew into a rage out of humiliation because he actually fell into the trap the Little Daoist set up. “It must have took you a lot of trouble to carve so many words on the rock to arouse my true emotion and sympathy. So you did everything as a bedcover when ultimately, that was all only to draw out the matter regarding the most valuable treasure handed down in my family. It seemed to be just a little careless mention, but it’s actually the main point. You father-deceiving brat! I’ll beat you to death!”

Crackle! Rattle!

Without saying another word, Chu Feng immediately set off and gave that young golden bird a beating. He seriously sorted the bird out to his heart’s content and caused an unceasing stream of miserable shrieks from this young bird. It fluttered its wings and rolled its eyes right away and was about to stop breathing soon.

“Stop! Stop!” shouted the young golden bird as it said, “Everything is just based on your assumption. You’re accusing me wrongly. Uncle... You can’t act with utter disregard for this bird’s life!”

“Motherf**ker! Your biological father’s place has dropped to being Uncle? I’ll beat you to death! I won’t stop until I reach Yellow River! You really need a spanking!” Chu Feng beat it up once again and golden feathers momentarily swirled in the air.

“Ah! Stop! What proof do you have?! Don’t kill a good bird without a reason!” shouted the young golden bird.

“What evidence do I have to speak about? I have a feeling in my heart and came to see the truth in a flash. It’s enough for me that I sensed a gap in the matter because I’m your father. There is no need to talk about proof!” When Chu Feng finished talking, he flipped it over and held it as he viciously slapped it right away.

“Ao... Great Demon Chu, stop! Father, stop! If you beat me anymore, don’t blame me for being impolite! I’m going to retaliate!” The young golden bird struggled as it howled.

The Little Daoist didn’t conceal himself anymore because he felt that this father of his was too motherf**kingly rough. Chu Feng lifted him up and violently beat him up without even brining proof along with him.

If he continued putting on an act, he could only suffer losses and get beaten up for no reason. So, it would be better for him to lay his cards on the table. He had somewhat of a headache encountering a father like this.

He was still immensely pleased with himself not too long ago. His great plan of deception really was in defiance of the natural order. Everything was going on without a hitch, yet in such a short period of time, there was a plot twist; he had been deceived instead and suffered such a fat beating.

Chu Feng was glaring and breathing heavily. After he heard the Little Daoist admit it with his own ears, he really wanted to slap his buttocks to the point where it turned to mush in a single hit. This really was... a deception against his father, not just in name only but it was reality.

When he recalled how he had been “tricked” not too long ago, he really was ashamed and resentful. This was the first time he had experienced such a thing in his life! As such, he wanted nothing more than to violently beat this brat up!

“You really are capable. You even carved words on rocks. I’m sure you thought it through a lot, didn’t you? You invoked this great lonely sad mood out of me as though the world is a lonely place, that the blue sea turned into a mulberry field and only I’m the only one left in the world. I’ll give it to you!”

“Also, you actually even hired a rhinoceros and made it wait nearby. You made a rhinoceros your aid and organised to sway your father. You laid out one trap after another that interlocked with each other!”

When he got to this point, Chu Feng was getting angrier the more he thought about this. With a crackle and a rattle, he madly beat this young bird up again.

After that, he waved and detained that Flying Rhinoceros over too as he beat it with all his might.

This was a motherf**king aid, yet it had such good rapport and cooperated with the young bird so well that even Chu Feng was conned and fell into the trap. He felt extremely unhappy and gave it a vicious round of beating.

“Don’t hit me anymore! The more you hit me, my body will turn to mush. Father! Old Father Demon! Stop this instance! Let us both have a good talk!” howled the Little Daoist.

He felt gloomy because he failed in deceiving his father and now he was the one who fell in a trap in return. It was not f**king worth it to suffer this fat beating. He grimaced in pain as he was aching from head to toe.

The Four-Winged Flying Rhinoceros was also howling in grief as it loudly cried out his grievances, “Senior, these are matters unrelated to me. The Little Daoist threatened and intimidated me to do so. Besides, he inserted a wisp of his soul light into my flesh. He was the one who said those words himself too.”

“Father, don’t hit me! You evil hearted great demon! When you discovered that something was amiss, you immediately burned the secret of the most valuable treasure handed down in your family that you were going to speak about to lava. I didn’t see a f**king thing, yet you’re still beating me? Stop, you old fox!” shouted the Little Daoist.

“Your father is only fourteen and a half years old. My magnificence has yet to be luxuriant. The leaves of my little lotus has just shown its tip, yet you dare say that I’m old? I’ll beat you to death!” Chu Feng continued beating without err as he punched the young bird and kicked the rhinoceros; he was venting his anger over here.

“You’ll suffer the misfortune of being struck by lightning if you act young. I know about your ins and outs. My biological mother has told me about it!” The Little Daoist was getting anxious and said, “Father, stop! This young bird is a Spirit Egg I discovered with much difficulty. It only hatched not too long ago and is rather compatible with my flesh and divine soul. Don’t beat it until it’s broken!”

Chu Feng finally stopped because he felt that the Little Daoist had very little soul light and something wasn’t too right.

After that, the Little Daoist revealed the truth under his interrogation. He only had a ray of soul light left in him which was considered to be a personification and embodiment of his true self. The soul light of his real body wasn’t here as it was with Qin Luoyin and the rest.

The Little Daoist left a soul light behind because he mainly wanted to refine a useful physical body while... deceiving Chu Feng in passing.

“Ouch! Why are you beating me again? Stop! Father, we’re considered to be even now, alright? You snuck an attack on me on the Reincarnation Road and snatched my black talisman paper. Now I’m returning the favour with another. After you return my talisman paper back to me, none of us owe the other anything anymore. Naturally, you’re still... my biological father.”

The Little Daoist was admitting defeat because he was about to lose his temper from being beaten up.

But Chu Feng was still in a bad mood. He got to know from this brat that this fraudulent Little Daoist seriously planned this out. When he was carving words on the rocks, he had intentionally made it look old so that it resembled the markings of the calligraphic style from hundreds of years ago. He had spent a lot of thought into doing so for the sole purpose of deceiving him.

“Exactly how much time has passed?” Chu Feng enquired.

“More than a year!” answered the Little Daoist.

The flow of time in that narrow space that was about 2,500 kilometers long behind the stone millstone was different from Dameng Pure Land; a day was equivalent to more than a month on the Vicious Beast Plateau.

At this moment, Chu Feng was still in an extremely bad mood. The main reason was because what he was beating now was only the Little Daoist’s doppelganger and it simply wasn’t the soul light of his real body at all.

“Lead the way!” Chu Feng commanded.

“Where are we going?” asked the Little Daoist.

“To find your real body!” said Chu Feng.

“What do you want to do?!” The Little Daoist was diffident and was slightly scared.

“Naturally, that’s to beat your true self up!” Chu Feng felt that he had been disastrously defrauded. This Little Daoist had actually duped him into shedding tears and felt that he had lost a little face.

No one could torment him like that in the past!

He got increasingly angry the more he thought about it. His old face even turned red and said, “Son, I’ll beat you to death!”

Evidently, this was him brewing a crisis over the Little Daoist’s real body!

The Little Daoist’s doppelganger immediately shrunk his neck back as he felt that matters were far from encouraging and a huge matter was going to arise. He didn’t want to lead the way at all because he didn’t want his real body to be beaten up!

“Father, there is a well said proverb. People who don’t belong together don’t get to live together. Don’t you think that the both of us are very alike?”

When Chu Feng heard this, he was so angry his nose almost turned crooked. He still dared to say that the both of them were very alike after he finished defrauding his own father? He immediately lifted the Little Daoist by the neck and forced him to lead the way. He wanted to hit someone and he really wanted to beat that scourge to death!