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Heaven Official’s Blessing

Heavenly Blessing • Thiên Quan Tứ Phúc (Vietnamese) • Tiān
Guān Cì Fú • 天官赐福
Eight hundred years ago, Xie Lian was the Crown Prince of the Xian
Le kingdom; one who was beloved by his citizens and the darling of
the world. Unsurprisingly, he ascended to the Heavens at a very
young age. Now, eight hundred years later, Xie Lian ascends to the
Heavens for the third time as the laughing stock of all three realms.
On his first task as a god, he meets a mysterious demon who rules
the ghosts and terrifies the Heavens……yet unbeknownst to Xie Lian,
this demon king has been paying attention to him for a very, very
long time.
Author(s): Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 墨香铜臭

Artist(s):
Year: 2017
Country: China
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Shounen Ai,
Xuanhuan
Tags: Ancient China, Cultivation, God Protagonist, Gods, Handsome
Male Lead, Hated Protagonist, Honest Protagonist, Immortals,
Mythology, Past Plays a Big Role, Shameless Protagonist, Slow
Romance, Unlucky Protagonist
Source: Sakhyulations, Imported
ASIANOVEL VERSION: 3.9

PDF VERSION: 1.4
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USER: Dewi_Shaven
DATE CREATED: 2019-06-06
LANGUAGE: English
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Chapter 1
Source: Sakhyulations
Surprise!! This was the new BL project I was talking about. Heaven
Official’s Blessing is one of my favourite BL novels of all time, and
when it first came out I had been wondering if I should try TLing it (I
wasn’t a translator back then haha). But then it got picked up and
the newbie me decided to give up that idea.
Anyway, a while back I noticed that the previous TL Snail

Translations seemed to be inactive. I asked around a bit and found
out that a new TL took HOB up after Snail went inactive, and after
negotiating with them, I became the new TL for this project! Am so
happy! In any case, that TL and I sent Snail around three emails in
total for the past month or two with no reply, so we’re reasonably
sure they’re inactive now. It’s been over three months and just in
case, I decided to TL this from the beginning so there won’t be any
problems if Snail does come back~ I plan to update this at least
weekly (though I might miss the next week or the week after rip sorry
guys, its exams ORZ) so please look forward to it!
LOL though spent over 10 hours on the first chapter……the author

writes in such flowery prose sometimes it hurts my brain to decipher
it haha. The real MVPs are KagamiTL and eik, who are my go-to
helpers when I get stuck on a phrase!!
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Here’s the first chapter!
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The First Arc: Bloody Rain Reaching Towards a Flower
“Congratulations, Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince.”
Hearing those words, Xie Lian raised his head and smiled before he
spoke, “Thank you. But may I ask what you’re congratulating
me for?”
Ling Wen ZhenJun1 stood with her arms crossed as she said,
“Congratulations for getting first place on the list of
‘Heaven’s Officials most anticipated to be demoted and
banished to the mortal realm’.”
Xie Lian replied, “No matter how you say it, it’s still first
place. But I think that if you’re congratulating me, then it
should still be a position worth being happy about?”
Ling Wen stated, “Yes, if you’re first, you can get one
hundred merits.”
Xie Lian responded immediately, “ time, if there’s another list

like this, by all means, please put me on it.”
Ling Wen asked, “Do you know who is in second place?”
Xie Lian thought for a moment before replying, “That’s too hard
to guess. After all, just based on strength, I alone ought to be
able to take the top three places.”
Ling Wen answered, “That’s more or less right. There isn’t a
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second place. The moment you started, others could only see
your dust with no hopes of catching up.”
Xie Lin said, “I dare not accept the honor. Who was the first
place winner from the previous years?”
Ling Wen stated, “There wasn’t one because this list was
created this year. More accurately, it was set up today.”
“Eh,” Xie Lian blanked for a bit before asking, “Based on what
you said, this list wasn’t created specifically for me, was it?”
Ling Wen responded, “You can think of it as luckily winning

merely because you were coincidentally in time for it.”
Xie Lian said with a face full of smiles, “Alright, if I think about
it like that, I’ll be slightly happier.”
Ling Wen continued to say, “Do you know why you would seize
first place?”
Xie Lian replied, “Everyone expects it.”
Ling Wen explained, “Let me tell you the reason. Please look
at that clock.”
She lifted her finger to point, and Xie Lian turned around to look in
that direction. What one could see there was extremely beautiful.
Gazing into the distance, one could see a palace made out of white
jade, pavilions and kiosks, immortal clouds curling about with flowing
streams and flying birds.
Xie Lian gazed for a long time before asking, “Did you perhaps
point in the wrong direction? Where’s the clock?”
Ling Wen replied, “I didn’t point in the wrong direction. It’s

there, have you seen it yet?”
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Xie Lian looked carefully again before truthfully saying, “I don’t
see it.”
Ling Wen responded, “You’re right not to see it. Originally,

there had been a clock there, but it was shaken off when you
ascended.”
“…”
“That clock was even older than you. Nevertheless, it had a

lively and vivacious character. Every single time someone
ascended, it would ring a few times to cheer them on. But on
the day you ascended, it rang like it had gone crazy, unable
to stop. Only when it fell down from the clock tower did it
calm down. However, when it fell down, it smashed into a
passing Heavenly Official.”
Xie Lian asked, “This… Then, are they okay now?”
Ling Wen: “No, they’re still being repaired…”
Xie Lian: “I’m referring to the Heavenly Official who was

hit.”
Ling Wen replied, “The one who got hit was a martial god. He
turned his hand over on the spot and split that clock into two
halves. But now, please look over there at that golden palace
hall. Do you see it?”
She pointed again, and Xie Lian’s gaze followed her finger once
more. He saw a vast area covered in mist and clouds, before seeing
the top of a resplendent palace roof made out of gold glass. Xie Lian
said, “Ah, I see it this time.”
Ling Wen responded, “If you see something, that means

there’s something wrong. Originally there had been nothing
there.”
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“…”
“When you ascended, many Heavenly Officials’ golden

palaces shook to the point that their golden pillars toppled
over, and their glazed roofs shattered. Some palaces couldn’t
be repaired in a short period of time. Without any better
options, many people improvised and built new and
temporary places.”
“I’m to blame?”
“You’re responsible for it.”
“Uh…” Xie Lian asked to confirm, “Did I happen to offend

many Heavenly Officials the moment I came up?”
Ling Wen answered, “If you can redeem yourself, then

perhaps you won’t.”
“What can I do to redeem myself?”
“That’s easy to answer. Eight million, eight hundred and

eighty thousand merits.”
Xie Lian smiled again.
Ling Wen said, “Of course, I know even one-tenth of that is

something you can’t take out.”
Xie Lian replied in a frank and genuine manner, “How do I say

this? Although I’m truly sorry for the inconveniences, even if
you requested one ten thousandth of that, I still won’t be
able to take it out.”
The conviction of believers in the secular world could be converted

into a Heavenly Officials’ spiritual power. Every incense stick they
burned as offerings was called ‘merits’.
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His smile disappearing, Xie Lian seriously asked, “Would you be
willing to punt me down from here with one kick, and then
give me eight million, eight hundred and eighty thousand
merits?”
Ling Wen stated, “I am a literature god. If you want someone

to kick you, you ought to find a martial god. The harder you
get kicked, the more merits you’ll receive.”
Xie Lian heaved a deep sigh. “Allow me to think about what to

do.”
Ling Wen patted his shoulder and said, “Don’t lose your head.
When you encounter a mountain, there will always be a way
through.”
Xie Lian responded, “In my case, when the boat reaches the
pier head, it will naturally sink.”
If it was eight hundred years ago, during Xian Le nation’s most

prosperous time, eight million, eight hundred and eighty thousand
merits weren’t a big problem. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince
would wave his hand and give them, not even blinking over such a
loss. But the present was now different from the olden days. In the
secular world, all of his temples had already long burned away, not a
single one remaining. He had no believers, no incense, and no
worship.
It was needless to say more. He just had nothing, nothing, not a

single thing!
One person squatted at the edge of the Immortal City’s main street
as they had a headache for quite a while, before he suddenly
remembered something. It had already been almost three days since
he had ascended, yet Xie Lian had not entered the spirit
communication array. Just then, he had also forgotten to ask Ling
Wen for the password.
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The Heavenly Officials who had ascended united together to create
a spirit communication array. It was possible for them to use their
divine sense and immediately communicate with each other within
the array; and after ascending, it was imperative for the new gods to
enter it. However, one must know the password to be able to locate
the particular array. It had already been eight hundred years since
Xie Lian had last entered the spirit communication array, thus he
certainly hadn’t remembered the password. So he released his divine
sense to look around before he found an array that seemed to
resemble it. As he casually entered, he was immediately hit in all
directions by violent and excited voices so powerful that he became
a bit unsteady.
“Place your bets, no take-backs! Come bet how long our

Royal Highness the Crown Prince can persevere before he’ll
have to descend once more!”
“I bet one year!”
“One year is too long, last time he only lasted the time
span of one incense stick. Perhaps this time he’ll persist for
three days? I’ll place a bet for three days, three days!”
“Don’t ah, you dunce! Three days have almost gone by

already. Are you gonna be okay?”
… Xie Lian silently left the array.
Wrong place. It definitely couldn’t be this one.
The deities in Heaven were all big-shot Heavenly Officials who

oversaw their own region; and each one of them were a household
name among a great number of people. Because they were all
Heavenly Officials who had seriously cultivated to ascend, they were
dignified and were usually quite reserved. More often than not, their
speech and behaviour had an air of arrogance. There would only be
him who, because he had been too excited the first time he had
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ascended, had went and grabbed every Heavenly Official in the spirit
communication array to make his greetings. Xie Lian had been
incomparably earnest as he introduced himself, and his thoroughly
detailed introduction was unparalleled.
After he had retreated from the previous array, he began randomly

searching once more. Finally, he casually entered another array
again. After entering this time, Xie Lian relaxed a bit as he mentally
thought: “It’s so quiet here. This is probably the one.”
At that moment, he heard a voice lightly say, “Your Royal

Highness the Crown Prince has returned again?”
At first, this sound was extremely comfortable to hear. The voice

was soft and the tone was gentle. However if one listened to it
closely, they would realize that the voice sounded extremely cold,
and the speaker’s tone appeared very indifferent as well. Thus, it
made that gentleness seem as if it harboured some evil intentions.
Originally, Xie Lian had wanted to enter the array in a restrained

and well-behaved manner. Silently lurking there was good enough.
However, since someone was already looking for him to chat, he
couldn’t pretend to be mute and deaf. He was also extremely happy
that a Heavenly Official in Heaven was still willing to take the
initiative to talk to him, a god personifying pestilence. Thus, he
quickly replied, “That’s right, ah! Hello everyone! I returned
again.”
How would he know that after this one question and

response—every Heavenly Official in the spirit communication array
at that moment all perked up their ears.
That Heavenly Official continued to speak in a leisurely manner,

“This time, Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince’s
ascension made a really big commotion, ah.”
Within Heaven, it could even be said that monarchs were walking
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around everywhere, while heroes were as common as water flowing
in rivers.
If one wished to become an immortal god, they must first become

an outstanding individual. In the mortal realm, people who achieved
and accomplished many goals or people who had a lot of talent, of
course, had a larger opportunity to ascend. As a result, it wasn’t
exaggerated to say that princesses, princes, and generals weren’t a
rare sight to see here. Who wasn’t a proud child of the Heavens?
However, everyone was still extremely polite and courteous to each
other, calling one another ‘Your Majesty’ or ‘Your Highness’ or
‘General Lord’. They would say whatever sounded more
complimentary. But for the prior words spoken by the Heavenly
Official, that title he used no longer sounded like a polite gesture.
Although Xie Lian had been a Crown Prince, and the other had
greeted him thus—his tone didn’t have even a bit of respect. It rather
sounded as if he was trying to use a needle to stab someone. There
were many other Heavenly Officials who had been genuine Crown
Princes within the spirit communication array, and those few
greetings simply made goosebumps appear on their backs as they
felt uncomfortable from head to toe. Xie Lian also heard the ill
intentions in the other’s voice, but he did not want to make a scene.
Thinking to himself that he would escape, he replied with a smile, “It
was okay.”
However, the Heavenly Official didn’t give him a chance to escape.

He spoke in a voice that was neither warm nor cold, “Huh, Your
Royal Highness the Crown Prince is okay? My luck was not
that good.”
Suddenly, Xie Lian heard a whisper from Ling Wen.
She only said a single word, “Clock.”
Xie Lian instantly understood. So this had been the martial god
who got smashed by that clock!
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If that was the situation, then the Heavenly Official being angry
wasn’t something without reason. Xie Lian had always been
extremely good at apologizing and thus immediately said, “I’ve
heard about the incident with the clock. I’m extremely sorry,
please pardon me.”
The other snorted once, making it impossible for anyone to tell

what he meant by it.
There were many martial gods within Heaven and among those,
quite a few were new upstarts who had ascended after Xie Lian left.
This was why he was unable to pinpoint which god this was just by
listening to his voice. However, one couldn’t apologize without even
knowing the other’s name. Thus, Xie Lian went to the heart of the
matter and asked, “Excuse me, may I ask how I should address
you, distinguished one?”
The moment he said those words, the other party became silent.
It wasn’t only the other god who became silent. The entire spirit
communication array seemed to freeze as if a puff of stagnant air
slapped everyone in the face.
On the other side, Ling Wen whispered to him once more, “Your
Highness, though I don’t believe you haven’t recognized the
other person after talking to him for so long—I still want to
remind you. That is Xuan Zhen.”
Xie Lian asked, “Xuan Zhen?”
He choked up in a flash before finally reacting as he sent a

message back in slight shock, “This is Mu Qing?”
Xuan Zhen Jun was a martial god who kept watch over the
Southwest. He had seven thousand temples, and in the mortal realm,
his reputation was illustrious.
This Xuan Zhen Jun, who had the personal name Mu Qing, used to
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be a deputy general in the Palace Halls of Xian Le country’s Crown
Prince eight hundred years ago.
Ling Wen was also very shocked. “It couldn’t be that you really
didn’t recognize him?”
Xie Lian replied, “I really didn’t recognize him. Back then, he

didn’t talk to me in this manner. In addition, I can’t even
remember when was the last time I met him. If it wasn’t five
hundred years then it was six hundred years ago. I almost
completely forgotten what he looked like, so how could I still
recognize his voice?”
It remained silent within the spirit communication array. Mu Qing

didn’t make a single peep. The other Heavenly Officials, on one hand
pretended that they weren’t listening, while on the other hand they
crazily waited for someone to continue talking.
When it came to these two, it was relatively awkward. After so

many years, many rumors had been passed on, so everyone already
understood almost everything. In those days when Xie Lian had been
the precious Xian Le Crown Prince, he cultivated in Huang Ji Temple.
That Huang Ji Temple was the Xian Le country’s Imperial Taoist
Temple. Their selection standards for disciples were extremely strict.
Mu Qing came from a poor background, and his father was a sinner
who had been beheaded. A person like that simply did not have the
qualifications to enter the Huang Ji Temple as a disciple. As a result,
he had no other choice but to become someone who did odd jobs. In
the temple, he was mostly in charge of sweeping the floor for His
Highness the Crown Prince, or delivering tea and water to him. But
Xie Lian saw he was assiduous, and thus he asked the Taoist
Ministers to make an exception and receive him as a disciple. His
Royal Highness the Crown Prince’s words carried great weight. Only
then was Mu Qing able to enter the temple to cultivate because of
the Crown Prince’s will. After Xie Lian ascended, he appointed him as
his general and took Mu Qing along with him to the Immortal City.
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However, when the Xian Le nation was wiped out and Xie Lian was
demoted to descend into the mortal realm, Mu Qing did not follow
him. Not only did he not follow Xie Lian, but Mu Qing didn’t even say
a single word in defence for him. The Crown Prince was gone anyway,
so he was free. He found a blessed place and began to painstakingly
cultivate like crazy. Not many years later, he withstood the Heavenly
Tribulations and ascended himself.
Back then, one was in the heavens while another was on the
ground. Now, there was still one in the heavens and one on the
ground, it was just that the two people’s circumstances were
thoroughly reversed.
At the other end, Ling Wen said, “He’s really angry.”
Xie Lian replied, “I guessed that too.”
Ling Wen responded, “I’ll go say some other things. Quickly

take the opportunity to leave.”
Xie Lian said, “There’s no need. If we pretend nothing

happened then everything would be fine.”
Ling Wen asked, “No need? Just looking at you guys make me
feel awkward.”
Xie Lian replied, “I’m still okay ah!”
For Xie Lian, any situation was okay as long as he didn’t die. He
didn’t have much, but he could definitely still lose a lot of face. He
had already done plenty of things that were many times more
awkward than this; so he really felt okay in his heart. Who would
have thought he shouldn’t have said that so early; Xie Lian had just
said the words ‘still okay’ when he heard a voice roar, “Who the
f*ck dismantled my golden palace?! Come out!”
This one roar made the Gods listening within the spirit
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communication array feel as if their scalps were going to explode.
Though their stomachs were already flipping, everyone still held

their breaths as they listened with rapt attention. They didn’t make a
single peep as they waited to see how Xie Lian would respond to the
loud cursing. But nobody expected that instead of something
exciting—they would hear something even more thrilling. Xie Lian
hadn’t even started talking before Mu Qing spoke first.
Mu Qing laughed twice. “Haha.”
The person who came coldly said, “You were the one who tore
it down? Alright, wait for it.”
Mu Qing faintly replied, “I did not say it was me. Don’t

randomly spray blood at people.”
The other person asked, “Then why are you laughing? Are you
mentally ill?”
Mu Qing answered, “It isn’t like that. What you’ve just said
was funny, that’s all. The person who destroyed your golden
palace is currently in the spirit communication array, you can
go and ask him yourself.”
With things evolving to this degree, no matter what, Xie Lian felt
too embarrassed to escape now.
He coughed dryly before saying, “It was me. I’m sorry.”
The moment he spoke, the person who came later also became
silent.
By his ear, Ling Wen again transmitted a message. “Your Royal

Highness, that is Nan Yang.”
Xie Lian responded, “This time, I recognized him. However, I

think he hasn’t recognized me.”
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Ling Wen replied, “No. It’s just, he spends most of his time in
the mortal realm and less time in the Immortal City. Thus, he
merely didn’t know you had ascended again.”
Nan Yang ZhenJun was the martial god who oversaw the
Southeast. He was popular and had nearly eight thousand temples,
receiving the love and respect from the common people.
In addition, his personal name was Feng Xin. Eight hundred years
ago, he was the first general of the Xian Le Crown Prince’s Palace
Hall.
Feng Xin was a devoted and loyal person. He was Xie Lian’s
Imperial bodyguard ever since the other had been fourteen years old.
Feng Xin grew up with the Crown Prince, entered the Heavens with
him, was demoted with him, and was banished with him.
Unfortunately, he was unable to endure those eight hundred years
with Xie Lian. In the end, they separated on bad terms and parted
ways, never to see each other again.
1. ZhenJun is a title. Zhen means ‘genuine’ while Jun means Lord.

Later, one character will also have the title ZhenJun while another will
just be called Jun. ↩
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A former superior master was reduced to a laughingstock of three

realms; someone who didn’t have incense offerings, temples, or
believers. The two retainers who had once sat underneath him both
passed Heaven’s tribulations, ascending and becoming strong martial
gods who each oversaw a whole region. With circumstances like this,
it was impossible for people to not wonder more. If you were to ask
Xie Lian to choose whether Feng Xin or Mu Qing made him feel more
awkward, he would say, “They’re all okay ah!”
However, if you asked bystanders whether they wanted to see Xie

Lian fight Feng Xin or if they wanted to see Xie Lian fight Mu Qing,
then everyone would make different choices according to their
tastes. After all, there were abundant reasons for either pair to fight,
so it was hard to pick which was the more interesting option.
Therefore, when there was no response from Feng Xin’s side for a
long time because he had unexpectedly stopped talking and instead
immediately hid, everyone felt utterly disappointed. Meanwhile, Xie
Lian collected his tail and beat himself down a bit as he said, “I also
didn’t anticipate making a commotion like this. It wasn’t
deliberate, I’ve inconvenienced everyone.”
Mu Qing responded in a cool manner, “Oh, then that was

indeed quite coincidental.”
Coincidental? Xie Lian also thought it was really too coincidental.

How could the clock fall right onto Mu Qing, while his ascension also
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happened to destroy Feng Xin’s palace? For bystanders, it was as if
he was deliberately taking revenge. However Xie Lian was the type of
person that, should there be a thousand cups of wine with only one
poisoned, Xie Lian would always manage to pick the poisoned one.
But there was no way to control what other people believed, so Xie
Lian could only say, “I will try my best to compensate for
everyone’s golden palaces and other losses. I also hope you
may give me some time.”
One didn’t need a brain to understand that Mu Qing definitely

wanted to continue his sarcastic remarks. However, since Mu Qing’s
golden palace didn’t suffer any losses and even the clock that fell
onto him was sliced into two halves, continuing to be overbearing
would appear unsightly and something beneath his identity.
Therefore, Mu Qing also concealed himself before falling silent. When
Xie Lian saw that the terrible problems had left by themselves, he
also quickly fled.
He was still genuinely pondering over where he was supposed to

get those eight million, eight hundred and eighty thousand merits the
next day, when Ling Wen invited him to go to her Ling Wen Palace
Hall.
Ling Wen was the Heavenly Official in charge of managing

Heaven’s personnel. When mortals wished to get a step ahead in
their careers, they would worship her. From the ground to the very
top, the whole Palace Hall was filled to the brim with official
documents and scrolls. This kind of scene was utterly shocking, one
that would make anyone shiver with fear. As Xie Lian walked forward,
he saw that every Heavenly Official coming out of Ling Wen’s Palace
Hall dragged out an exceptionally tall stack of paperwork. Their faces
were pale; and if they didn’t have an expression that looked as if
they were about to collapse, then they had a look of numbness.
When the two of them finally entered the Palace Hall, Ling Wen
turned around and got straight to the point. “Your Highness, there
is a matter in which the Emperor would like to request your
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help. Are you willing to assist him and lend a helping hand?”
In Heaven, there were many people who had the titles ZhenJun or
YuanJun. However, only one person could be called the Emperor. But
if that person wanted to do something, then there would never be
the need for him to beseech other people. This was why Xie Lian
stared blankly for a bit before he replied, “What matter?”
Ling Wen handed him a scroll before explaining, “Recently, the

North has a large number of zealous worshippers repeatedly
praying for blessings. It can be assumed that they aren’t
passing their days peacefully.”
These so-called zealous worshippers generally referred to three

types of people. First, rich people: they paid money in order to burn
incense and build temples for gods. The second category consisted of
those missionaries who would preach to bystanders. And, last but not
least, the third type of zealous worshippers were people whose body
and mind were thoroughly doused in faith and belief. Among them,
most of these worshippers belonged to the first category, since in
this world, the rich were like carps passing through rivers. The third
category had the least people, because if one was truly able to get to
that level of faith, then their degree of proficiency was surely quite
high, and they wouldn’t be far from ascending themselves. The
people Ling Wen mentioned was clearly from the first category.
Ling Wen continued to speak, “At present, the Emperor cannot

attend to the North. If you are willing to take his place and
make the trip, when the time comes, regardless of how much
offerings these zealous worshippers make, everything will be
allocated to your altar. What do you think?”
Xie Lian received the scroll with both hands as he said, “Many
thanks.”
This was evidently Jun Wu helping him, but instead he flipped it

around and made it sound as if he was asking Xie Lian for his help.
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How could Xie Lian not see through that? However, he couldn’t find
more fitting words to express what he thought in place of the two
words he had just said. Ling Wen replied, “I’m only responsible for
handling these affairs. If you want to thank someone, you
should wait for the Emperor to return before personally
thanking him instead. —Oh right, do you need my help
borrowing any magical artefacts?”
Xie Lian answered, “There’s no need. Even if you give me a

magical artefact, once I go down I won’t have any spiritual
power, and so I won’t be able to use it.”
Xie Lian had been beaten down twice, so he lost his spiritual
power. It was easier to cope in the Heavens, the place where all the
immortals assembled. After all, spiritual power was abundant and the
source won’t dry up, thus he could casually grab some to use.
However, once he returned to the mortal realm, he would be
powerless. If Xie Lian wanted to fight with magic, then he could only
make do by finding someone he could borrow spiritual energy from,
something extremely inconvenient.
Ling Wen pondered for a moment before saying, “Then it would

be best to borrow a few martial gods to assist you and lend a
helping hand.”
The current martial gods either didn’t recognize him, or they didn’t
like him. Xie Lian understood that thoroughly, and so he responded,
“There’s also no need for that. You won’t be able to borrow
anyone.”
However, Ling Wen seemed to have taken it into serious

consideration and only said, “I’ll give it a try.”
There wouldn’t be a difference whether she tried or not, therefore

Xie Lian didn’t approve or oppose her words, and allowed Ling Wen
to try. As a result, Ling Wen entered the spirit communication array
before announcing in a bright tone, “Everyone, the Emperor has
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an important task to be handled in the North and urgently
need people. Which martial god Highness can lend out two
martial officials from their Palace Halls to help?”
The moment her voice faded, Mu Qing’s floaty voice emerged,

“I’ve heard that the Emperor isn’t in the North right now, so
I’m afraid you’re borrowing people for His Highness the
Crown Prince, right?”
Xie Lian mentally thought: “Are you keeping guard at the

spirit communication array all day long…?”
Ling Wen was on the same wavelength as him. Although she only
wanted to slap the Mu Qing who was hindering her work right out of
the array, she started speaking with a smile. “Xuan Zhen, why am
I always seeing you in the array these two days? It seems like
you’ve been stealing time to slack off and now you’re quite
idle. Congratulations, congratulations.”
Mu Qing replied in a light tone, “My hand is injured, so I’m

recuperating.”
Every Heavenly Official there mentally thought, “In the past, it

would be nothing difficult for that hand of yours to split a
mountain in half. So, what would hacking a foolish clock into
pieces do to you?”
Originally, Ling Wen had wanted to deceive two people to come

work before explaining the details. But not only did Mu Qing guess
those details in one try, he even said them out loud. With the
circumstances now, it was certain she wouldn’t be able to find
anyone. Sure enough, no one else answered her inquiry for quite a
while. Xie Lian also didn’t believe anyone would come forward, and
thus told her, “You see, I said you wouldn’t be able to borrow
anyone.”
Ling Wen responded, “If Xuan Zhen didn’t say anything, I
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would have indeed been able to.”
Xie Lian smiled. “Those words of yours had been as if you

were carrying a pipa, but concealing half its face, beautifully
blurring the scene to some degree. People would have
thought they were going to help the Emperor with some
work, so of course they would come. But when they come and
realize they were going to have to work with me, I’m afraid
there would be trouble. How could we work together like
that? In any case, I’m used to being alone, and I’m not
missing an arm or a leg, so let’s just go with this ah. Thank
you for your trouble, I’ll leave now.”
Ling Wen was also powerless. Thus, she cupped her hands in a
salute before saying, “Alright. I wish Your Highness’ journey
goes smoothly, and may the blessings of Heaven’s Officials
be upon you.”
Xie Lian replied, “All taboos are off!1” Waving his hand, he left
in a confident and carefree manner.
Three days later, mortal realm, the North.
By the side of a major road, there was a small teahouse. The

storefront wasn’t big and the shopkeepers were simple folks, but
goods were expensive because the scenery was good. There were
mountains and bodies of water, there were people and a city. They
had everything, not much of everything—not much, but just right.
Located in the middle of such scenery, if one were to come across
the teahouse by chance, it would certainly create a wonderful
memory. The teahouse’s tea sommelier was exceedingly idle, since
he currently didn’t have any customers. Thus, he moved a small stool
to the door of the store and began looking at the mountain, the
water, the people and the city. He was happily looking when, from
afar, he saw a Taoist clad in white walking over. The Taoist was
covered in dust, looking as if he had been walking for a very long
time. When he came closer, he walked past the small teahouse,
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before suddenly stopping in his tracks and slowly retracing his steps.
The Taoist tilted up his bamboo hat with his hand before raising his
head. He only took one glance at the store before he started
speaking with a smile. “‘Chance Encounter Little Store’, the
name is interesting.”
Although this person had a tired appearance, he also had a face

full of smiles. It made the people looking at him unable to stop the
corners of their own mouths from curving up. The Taoist then asked,
“Excuse me, may I ask if Mount Yu Jun is nearby?”
The tea sommelier pointed in a direction for him, before replying,

“It is in this region.”
That person breathed out, and for once he didn’t spit out his soul
with that breath. In his mind, he thought, “I’ve finally arrived.”
This person was precisely Xie Lian.
He left the Immortal City that day. Originally, he had already

decided the location he would descend to; Xie Lian had wanted to fall
near Mount Yu Jun. Who would have thought that when he left
without a care and jumped down without a care, his sleeve would get
caught on a carefree cloud. Yes, it got caught on a cloud. Even Xie
Lian didn’t know how his sleeve got caught on a cloud. In any case,
he tumbled around at a lofty, high altitude, and by the time he rolled
down, he had no idea where he was. After three days on foot, he
finally reached his originally planned arrival location. Thus, for a short
while, he felt extremely moved.
Entering the teahouse, Xie Lian picked a table beside the window
before asking for some tea and snacks. He finally got seated after his
previous difficulties, when he suddenly heard endless wailing and the
sound of beating drums from outside the room.
Xie Lian turned his gaze toward the street before seeing a group of
people from all ages escorting a crimson-red marriage sedan as they
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walked past the teahouse.
This procession was surrounded by an extremely odd air. At first

glance, they seemed to be the relatives delivering the bride. But if
one looked closely, they would notice how the faces of these people
all had solemn expressions—expressions of grief, anger, dread, yet
the only emotion that wasn’t present was joy. Whatever the case, it
didn’t have the appearance of a wedding. However, contrary to that
thought, everyone was wearing red flowers as they played wind
instruments and beat their drums. This situation was really too
strange. That tea sommelier carried a copper teapot in his hand and
raised it up high to pour some tea. He had also seen this scene, but
he only shook his head before leaving.
Xie Lian followed that strange, departing procession with his eyes,
before pondering for a brief moment. He was just about to take out
the scroll Ling Wen had given him to look over one more time, when
he suddenly felt something dazzling flit by.
The moment Xie Lian raised his head, a silver butterfly flew past
his eyes.
That silver butterfly was sparkly and translucent, looking pure and
limpid. As it flew around in the air, it left behind bright traces. Xie
Lian couldn’t help but reach out a hand toward it. This butterfly was
extremely intelligent. Not only was it not frightened, it even
temporarily stopped on his fingertips, both wings glittering and
beautiful to the utmost degree. Under the sunshine, it looked as if it
was a fragment of an illusion. After a moment, however, it flew away.
Xie Lian waved at it, something that could be considered as his

goodbye. But when he turned back, his table had two more people
sitting there.
This table had four sides. One person sat on the left and another
sat on the right, each taking one side. Both people were teenage
boys who looked around eighteen or nineteen years old. The one on
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the left was taller, with facial expressions that looked quite defined
and brightly handsome. Within his gaze was an arrogant and
obstinate light. The right side had very light skin. He looked delicate
and pretty, yet also refined. However, his expression looked
somewhat overly cold and apathetic, an appearance that made it
seem as if he wasn’t too happy. In fact, the colour of the faces of
both people didn’t look that great.
Xie Lian blinked his eyes before asking: “You two are?”
The person on the left replied: “Nan Feng.”
The person on the right responded: “Fu Yao.”
Xie Lian mentally thought: “It’s not like I’m asking for your
names…”
At that moment, Ling Wen suddenly transmitted her voice over.

She said, “Your Highness, there are two small martial gods
from Middle Heaven who are willing to help. They’ve already
gone down to look for you, so they should have arrived by
now ah.”
The so-called Middle Heaven was naturally relative to Upper

Heaven. The Heavenly Officials of Heaven could be simply and
roughly divided into two categories: the ones that ascended, and the
ones that didn’t. The Heavenly Officials of Upper Heaven had all
ascended by relying on themselves. There were only about a
hundred within the whole of Heaven, and they were each extremely
precious. But within Middle Heaven, the deities there were the ones
who were brought up by “appointing them as deputy”. Strictly
speaking, their full names ought to be called “Fellow Heavenly
Officials”. However, when people called them, more often than not
they would leave out that “fellow” word.
Since there was an Upper Heaven and a Middle Heaven, was there
a Lower Heaven?
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There wasn’t.
Actually, when Xie Lian ascended for the first time, there really had
been a Lower Heaven. At that time, Heaven was still divided as Upper
Heaven and Lower Heaven. But later, everyone found a problem.
When they introduced themselves and opened their mouths to say,
“I am from Lower Heaven’s so-and-so”, it sounded truly
unpleasant. With the ‘lower’ word existing, it made them feel
especially inferior. Among the deities of Middle Heaven, there was
definitely no shortage of talented people. Their spiritual power was
rich and strong, and they were each excellent and well-known
figures. The only difference between them and real Heavenly Officials
was merely how they lacked experiencing a Heavenly Tribulation. But
who knew when the day that Heavenly Tribulation they were waiting
for would really come. Therefore, some people proposed to change a
single word—turning introductions into ‘I am from Middle Heaven’s
so-and-so’. This was much more pleasurable to hear, though they
both had the same meaning. In short, after the change, Xie Lian
hadn’t gotten used to it even after quite a while.
Xie Lian looked at these two small martial gods. With one face
slightly more unpleasant than the other, it was unlikely they were
“willing to come forward and help”. Thus, he couldn’t help but
ask, “Ling Wen ah, I think they don’t look like they came
down to help me, and instead it looks more like they want to
retrieve my dog head. Did you deceive them to get them to
come?”
Unfortunately, it seemed that this question of his wasn’t

transmitted out. He was also now unable to hear Ling Wen’s voice by
his ear. It was probably because he was so far away from the
Immortal City, and it had been so long since he descended, so his
spiritual power was all depleted. Xie Lian was incapable of doing
anything else, so he first gave a smile to both the small martial gods
before saying, “Was it Nan Feng and Fu Yao? To be willing to
come and help me, let me thank you in advance.”
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The two of them only nodded their heads, both appearing to have
a somewhat lofty attitude. It seemed that the martial gods they were
under had a rather illustrated reputation. Xie Lian had the tea
sommelier bring two more cups of tea. Picking up his cup, he scraped
the tea leaves before casually asking, “Which Highness’ Palace
are you under?”
Nan Feng replied: “Nan Yang Palace Hall.”
Fu Yao said: “Xuan Zhen Palace Hall.”
“….”
This truly made one feel frightened.
Xie Lian swallowed a mouthful of tea before asking, “Your

Palaces’ Generals allowed you to come?”
The both of them responded, “My Palace’s General didn’t

know I came.”
Xie Lian thought for a bit before again asking, “Then, do you
know who I am?”
If these two small martial gods came here because they were
muddleheaded and thus deceived by Ling Wen, then after helping
him, they would return to get scolded by their Palace’s General.
Something like that certainly wouldn’t be worth it.
Nan Feng replied, “You are His Royal Highness the Crown
Prince.”
Fu Yao said, “You are the correct path for the human world,
you are the heart of the universe.”
Xie Lian choked once, before he asked Nan Feng in an uncertain

manner, “Just now, did he roll his eyes?”
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Nan Feng responded, “He did, let him scram.”
Nan Yang’s relationship with Xuan Zhen wasn’t good. This wasn’t a
secret. So when Xie Lian heard of that matter, he didn’t really feel
surprised. This was because, even back then, Feng Xin and Mu Qing’s
relationship hadn’t been all that great. Only, in those days, he had
been the master and they were the retainers. The Crown Prince said
don’t argue ah, you guys have to become good friends, so the two of
them endured and refrained from becoming hostile with each other.
When they became extremely unhappy, at most, they merely use
words to stab the opposite side. Muddling until today, there was no
longer a need to be so insincerely courteous. Thus, even the
worshippers from the Southeast and Southwest didn’t look upon each
other in a positive light, while the Nan Yang Palace Hall and the Xuan
Zhen Palace Hall had even more mutual hatred for each other. The
two before him were a prime example. Fu Yao smiled sarcastically as
he stated, “Ling Wen ZhenJun said that if you were willing, you
could come. So, for what reason would I scram and leave?”
The word ‘voluntary’, saying it with his expression didn’t look

convincing. Thus Xie Lian said, “Let me confirm once. Are you
two really voluntarily doing this? If you’re not, by all means,
don’t force yourself ah.”
The two of them both said, “I willingly volunteered.”
Looking at those two deeply depressed faces, Xie Lian mentally

thought, the words the two of you actually wanted to say were ‘I
want to commit suicide’, right?
“In short—”
Xie Lian began, “Let’s first discuss the real work. You guys
already know why we came to the North this time, so I won’t
start explaining from the beginning…”
The two of them both said, “I don’t know why.”
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“….”
Xie Lian was incapable of doing anything and could only take out
the scroll before saying, “Then it would be best if I explain
everything from the start.”
It was said that many years ago in Mount Yu Jun, there was a bride
and a groom who were about to be wed.
The couple loved each other very much. The bridegroom waited for
the procession that delivered the bride, but even after waiting for a
long time, he didn’t see the bride arrive. The bridegroom began to
feel anxious, and thus began to look for the bride’s family. The result
was his father-in-law and mother-in-law informing him that his bride
had long set off. The two households reported this to the officials
before they began looking in all directions. However, from beginning
to end, they never found her. But even if she had been eaten by a
fierce beast in the mountains, there should have been remains of an
arm or a leg or what not. What was the justification behind her
disappearing in thin air? Thus, it was inevitable that people harbored
suspicions that the bride herself didn’t wish to marry, resulting in her
colluding with the procession before escaping. But who would have
known that after a few years, another new couple married and the
nightmare repeated itself.
The bride disappeared again. However, this time she didn’t leave
without a trace. On a small road, people found a foot that something
hadn’t quite finished eating.
1. This is from the first part of the Chinese saying “All taboos are
off and all evil withdraws”. Honestly, it seems like Xie Lian said
that as a customary reply to Ling Wen’s sentence about the blessing,
AKA its unclear even in the raws why Xie Lian said that.↩
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Things started to get out of hand ever since then. In the hundred
years afterwards, a total of seventeen brides went missing in the
Mount Yu Jun region. Sometimes there would be a dozen or so years
of peace. Other times, two brides would go missing in the time span
of a short month. Before long, a frightening legend rapidly spread
around: within Mount Yu Jun lived a ghost bridegroom. If he fancied a
woman, he would kidnap her during her wedding procession before
devouring the party of relatives that were sending her off.
Originally, this situation wouldn’t be communicated to the

Heavens. Although there were seventeen missing brides, hundreds of
thousands of other brides in the world had passed their wedding days
safe and sound. In any case, it was impossible to find those brides or
protect them now, so people had no other choice but to make due in
this kind of event. The families who dared to marry their daughters
off in this region merely lessened a bit, and the local newly-weds
didn’t dare to make their weddings a big event. However, it was
precisely the seventeenth bride who had a bigshot official for a
father. This father rather doted on his daughter; and when he caught
wind of this legend, he meticulously selected forty brave and
outstanding military officials to escort his daughter to her
bridegroom. However, despite all of his preparations, his daughter
still disappeared.
This time, the ghost bridegroom really stabbed a hornet’s nest.

This official could not find anyone in the human realm who could do
anything to help. As a result, he furiously made an alliance with his
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government official friends, and then crazily performed a ritual. This
official even followed an expert’s advice and opened the granary to
help the poor. After making an uproar, he finally managed to startle a
Heavenly Official. Otherwise, it would have been almost impossible
for those tiny, mortal voices to reach a Heavenly Official’s ear.
Xie Lian said, “That’s more or less the big picture.”
As the two martial gods’ expressions looked very uncooperative,

he wasn’t sure if they were listening or not. If they hadn’t been
listening, Xie Lian didn’t have any choice but to explain the situation
once again. Yet contrary to what he had expected, Nan Feng raised
his head before wrinkling his forehead. He asked, “Do the missing
brides have anything in common with each other?”
Xie Lian replied, “There were some rich brides and some poor
ones. There were beautiful ones and ugly ones. Some were
wives, and others were concubines. In short, the
disappearances completely lack a pattern. One simply cannot
determine the preferences of this ghost bridegroom.”
“Mm,” Nan Feng grunted once, before raising his tea cup and
taking a sip. He seemed to have started pondering over their
problem. On the other hand, Fu Yao didn’t even bother touching the
tea cup Xie Lian pushed toward him. He just leisurely and
continuously wiped his fingers with a white handkerchief before he
asked indifferently, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, how did
you decide that the ghost is a bridegroom? That can’t be
certain. No one has ever seen it before. How can you tell if
it’s a man or a woman, if it’s old or young? Are you thinking
of things too simply?”
Xie Lian smiled before answering, “The conclusion written on

this scroll was a summary by the Heavenly Officials from Ling
Wen’s Palace Hall. ‘The ghost bridegroom’ is just the popular
name used among the people. However, what you’ve said
really makes sense.”
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After these exchanges, Xie Lian realized that these two martial
gods’ thought processes were quite sharp. Although their
expressions didn’t look good, they weren’t careless about their work
affairs. This made Xie Lian feel considerably gratified. Since the sky
outside the window was darkening, the three of them temporarily left
the small teahouse. Xie Lian put on his bamboo hat before he started
to walk. After walking for a bit, he suddenly became aware that the
two people behind him hadn’t followed. Bewildered, Xie Lian turned
around to take a look, before realizing that those two were staring at
him in bewilderment as well. Nan Feng asked, “Where are you
going?”
Xie Lian replied, “I’m going to search for a place to stay. Fu

Yao, why are you rolling your eyes again?”
Nan Feng asked again in bewilderment, “Then why are you

walking toward the mountains and the wild?”
Xie Lian was accustomed to frequently eating and sleeping on the

streets. As long as he could find a piece of cloth to spread on the
ground, he could lie there for a night. Naturally, he was preparing to
find a cave and light a fire, something he usually did. It was only after
this reminder that he remembered; Nan Feng and Fu Yao were
martial gods under their respective Palace Halls. If there was a Nan
Yang or Xuan Zhen temple in the vicinity, they could directly enter it.
Why would it be necessary for them to sleep outdoors in the
wilderness?
In a short while, the three of them found a worn-out and damaged

local shrine in an unremarkable and tiny corner. The plate holding
the incense was broken, and the whole place gave the feeling that it
was rarely frequented. The Earth God’s name was engraved on a
small, round stone plaque. Xie Lian called out to him a few times. It
had been many years since someone had called or made an offering
to this local Earth God. When he suddenly heard someone calling
him, his eyes widened. He saw the three of them standing in front of
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him. Even the area around their bodies was covered with a rich layer
of divine light. It was simply impossible to see their faces clearly.
Jumping up with great alarm, the Earth God trembled and shivered
before asking, “Do the three Heavenly Officials have any
orders for the humble me?”
Xie Lian nodded his head in greeting before speaking, “There are
no orders. We merely wanted to ask if there are any General
Nan Yang or General Xuan Zhen temples in the vicinity?”
The Earth God didn’t dare to slight them, and thus replied, “This,
this, this…” He calculated on his fingers before saying, “Around
five li1 from here, there is a temple to provide offerings to,
to, to General Nan Yang.”
Xie Lian pressed both of his hands together before replying,

“Many thanks.” However, that Earth God felt as if he was being
blinded by those two dazzling lumps of divine light standing beside
Xie Lian. Thus, he quickly concealed himself again. Meanwhile, Xie
Lian fumbled around before finding some coins to use as an offering
to the Earth God’s shrine. Then, upon spotting the incense sticks
scattered to the side, he straightened them before lighting them up.
During this process, Fu Yao had rolled his eyes so many times Xie
Lian practically wanted to ask him if his eyes were tired.
As expected, five li later, they really spotted a temple. It was

erected beside the roadside, and it looked to be popular and
prosperous. Although the temple was rather small, everything one
would need was there. Still, the place bustled with unusual
excitement and noise as people came and left. The three of them
concealed themselves before entering the temple. And sure enough,
a Godly statue of an armoured Nan Yang Martial God holding a bow
was precisely what was located on the altar for offerings.
The moment Xie Lian saw this Godly statue, he went “Uh huh…”
once in his heart.
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For a small temple in the countryside, the Godly statue itself and
the paint on were created quite crudely. As a whole, the look of this
statue contrasted hugely to Xie Lian’s impression of Feng Xin himself.
However, most Heavenly Officials were accustomed to how their

Godly statues were inaccurately depicted. Don’t mention how their
own mothers wouldn’t recognize them, there were some Heavenly
Officials who couldn’t even recognize their own Godly statues. After
all, there weren’t many master artists who had met the Heavenly
Officials personally. Therefore, these statues were either beautiful to
the extreme, or immensely ugly. One could only rely on the statue’s
specific posture, their weapon, and their garments to recognize
which Heavenly Official the statue was depicting.
Generally speaking, the richer the area it was built on, the closer
the Godly Statues would look when compared to the Heavenly
Officials themselves. The poorer the place, the more inferior the
artist’s taste, which would result in the Godly statue becoming a truly
tragic sight. Until now, only General Xuan Zhen’s Godly statues were
rather nice as a whole. Why? It was because most Heavenly Officials
didn’t really care if ugly Godly statues of themselves were made.
However, whenever Xuan Zhen saw someone make an ugly Godly
statue of himself, he would stealthily break it to make the artist
remodel it. Sometimes, he would even create a vague dream to
express his dissatisfaction to the artist. Thus after a while, all the
believers now knew they needed to create a nice-looking statue of
their master!
Members of the Xuan Zhen Palace Hall had a personality similar to

their General’s. All of them were rather fond of paying attention to
detail. Within one shichen2 of entering the Nan Yang temple, Fu Yao
continuously found fault in the details of the Godly statue. It was
either “the shape was distorted”, or “the colours of the paint
were vulgar”, or “the technique the artist used was of inferior
quality”. He even commented on how the artist’s tastes were too
strange. When Xie Lian saw how the veins on Nan Feng’s forehead
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were slowly bulging, he began thinking about how he should quickly
find another topic to divert his attention. Coincidentally, Xie Lian saw
yet another young lady come inside to pay homage to Nan Yang. As
she piously kneeled, he began to talk warmly. “All things
considered, Nan Yang ZhenJun’s home ground is in the
Southeast. I didn’t expect the incense burning for Nan Yang
to be this strong in the North as well.”
When mortals constructed temples, they were actually trying to

imitate the Palace Halls in the Heavens. The Godly statues, on the
other hand, were supposed to be a reflection of the Heavenly
Officials themselves. The gathered believers at a temple and the
incense they burnt became a Heavenly Official’s important source of
spiritual power. In addition, as a result of every individual’s
geographical location, history, social customs, class and many other
reasons, people living in different areas normally worshiped different
Heavenly Officials. Every Heavenly Official’s spiritual power was the
strongest on their own turf, which was also known as the home field
advantage. Only a deity like the Martial God Heavenly Emperor could
have believers in every nook and cranny under the sky. He was a
Heavenly Official with temples erected in every direction, so whether
or not Jun Wu was on his ‘home ground’ didn’t have any meaning.
Nan Feng should have been proud that incense was burning so
vigorously at a temple not on his General’s domain. However, looking
at the complexion of his visage, it didn’t appear like it was a good
thing to him. Fu Yao stood to the side and smiled faintly before
saying, “Not bad, not bad. General Nan Yang receives no small
measure of love and respect.”
Xie Lian responded, “Although, I have a question. I don’t

know…”
Nan Feng cut him off. “If you wish to say ‘I don’t know
whether it’s something suitable to ask’, then just don’t say
it.”
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Xie Lian mentally thought, “No, I wanted to say, ‘I don’t know
whether anyone could answer it’.”
However, Xie Lian had the premonition that the response to his
question would be far from good. Thus, he decided that it was still
better for him to change their conversation topic once more.
Unfortunately, who would have thought that Fu Yao would choose to
leisurely speak up now. “I know what you wanted to ask. You
must have been wondering, out of so many believers who
had come here today, why were there such a large amount
women, right?”
That was precisely the question Xie Lian had wanted to ask.
A martial god’s female believers were always less than the male
believers. Only he had been an exception eight hundred years ago,
and the explanation behind this exception was very simple. It
consisted only of a few words: he was good-looking.
Xie Lian thoroughly and clearly understood this fact. It hadn’t been
because he was a person of virtue and prestige, nor was it because
he was extraordinarily talented. It had only been because his Godly
statues looked nice, and his temples also looked nice. Almost all of
his temples were built by the imperial household, and his Godly
statues were made by the top artists across the country. His statues
had also been carefully sculpted according to his real face. Moreover,
because of his phrase, ‘body in the abyss, but heart in paradise’, the
artists usually liked adding flowers to his Godly statues. In addition,
they were also fond of turning his temples into a sea of flowering
trees. As a result, back then, he had another name. Xie Lian was also
known as the ‘Flower Crown Martial God’. Thus, the women loved
how his Godly statues were pretty, and they also liked how his
temples were filled with flowers. That was enough to make them
dash over. Fortunately, they were also conveniently willing to come
in and pay their respects to him.
However, normal martial gods were usually surrounded by heavy

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killing intent. Thus, more often than not, the appearances of their
Godly statues were solemn, fierce, or callous. For female believers,
they would rather worship the Goddess of Mercy, Guanyin, rather
than stare at statues like that. And although this Godly statue of Nan
Yang was far from releasing killing intent due to its appearance, it
was still far from something considered to be good-looking. Still,
there were almost more female believers who came to pay homage
to Nan Yang than male believers. In addition, it was clear that Nan
Feng unexpectedly didn’t want to answer this question. Thus, Xie
Lian found things to be quite weird. At that moment, that young girl
finished paying homage and got up to light some incense. She also
turned around.
When Xie Lian saw her turn around, he slightly pushed the other
two people. Originally, neither of them were resistant to looking.
Being pushed like that, they casually followed his gaze. However, this
one look made both of their expressions suddenly change.
Fu Yao yelled, “Too ugly!”
Xie Lian choked for a moment before he managed to speak, “Fu

Yao, you can’t say something like that about a girl.”
In all fairness, what Fu Yao said was the truth. That young lady’s
face was incomparably flat, as if someone had flattened it by giving
her a hard slap. In addition, if one said her facial features were
mediocre, then it would cause the word ‘mediocre’ to feel wronged. If
someone had to give her appearance a description, Xie Lian was
afraid they could only use the phrase ‘a crooked nose and slanted
eyes’.
However, Xie Lian absolutely didn’t distinguish whether she was

beautiful or ugly. The main reason was, when she turned around, a
gigantic hole could be seen at the back of her skirt. It was truly
impossible to pretend they had not seen it.
Fu Yao was shocked at first, but he quickly calmed down. On the
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other hand, the pulsing veins on Nan Feng’s forehead disappeared
without a trace.
When he saw how their complexion changed, Xie Lian hurriedly

said, “Don’t fret, don’t fret.”
After that, young girl retrieved her incense and she kneeled down
once more. Then she began to pay her respects as she started to
talk, “Protect us, General Nan Yang. Female believer Little
Ying prays that the ghost bridegroom will be captured as
soon as possible. Don’t let innocent people suffer his evil…”
She did her worshiping in a truly devout manner, totally oblivious

of the hole on her skirt. She was also completely unaware of the
three people crouching by the foot of the Godly statue she was
paying her respects to. Xie Lian felt a headache as he asked, “What
should we do? We can’t let her leave like this, can we? She’ll
be seen by everyone on her way home.”
Moreover, the tear on her skirt looked as if it was deliberately

created by someone with a sharp object. Xie Lian was afraid that not
only would there be people who would come and watch, there would
also be people who would wantonly ridicule her, creating a public
spectacle. Something like that would truly be humiliating.
Fu Yao replied indifferently, “Don’t ask me. The one she’s

worshiping isn’t my General Xuan Zhen. There wasn’t
harassment, I didn’t see anything.”
On the other hand, Nan Yang’s handsome face just alternated

between green and white. He could only wave his hand around, but
he couldn’t say anything. A proper and proud lord was forced into
becoming a mute. It was clear you could no longer count on him.
Thus, Xie Lian had no alternatives other than doing something
himself. After thinking for a bit, he took off his outer robe and
dropped it. Following a breeze, that robe floated toward the young
girl’s body before blocking that indecent hole on her skirt. With that
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done, the three of them released a sigh of relief.
However, that gust of wind was really too perceptible. It scared the
young girl and made her look around in all directions. She then took
off that robe, hesitated for a moment, before placing it on the stage
of the statue. She was still completely unaware of her own situation.
As her incense had finished burning, she began to prepare to leave. If
they really allowed her to walk out and about, Xie Lian was afraid
that this young lady would no longer dare to face people because of
her shame. When Xie Lian saw the two people beside him were just
stiff and stiffer, both looking completely useless—he sighed a bit.
Nan Feng and Fu Yao only felt the space by their sides empty before
they realized that Xie Lian had already taken a form mortals could
see and jumped down.
The lights in the temple weren’t dark, but they did make things
look unclear. The jump of Xie Lian’s brought about another gust of
wind, making the flames of the candles flicker. The young girl, Little
Ying, only felt as if her sight shimmered before she saw a man
abruptly emerge from that darkness. The upper part of his body was
bare. Thus, when he extended a hand toward her, Little Ying’s soul
basically flew away and scattered in fright.
As expected, the girl shrieked. Xie Lian was just about to speak,
when the girl reflexively threw out a slap as she yelled, “Ah,
harassment!”
“Pa!” Xie Lian earned a slap on his face.
The sound of the slap was sharp and clear. When they heard it, the
faces of the two people who were still crouching by the Godly statue
both began to rapidly twitch in the same way.
Although he suffered a slap, Xie Lian was neither annoyed nor

angry. He only resolutely passed over his outer robe, before rapidly
saying a few words in a quiet tone. Upon hearing him, that girl
became shocked. The moment she touched the back of her skirt, her
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face immediately became red as her eyes filled with tears in less
than a split second. One was unable to tell if she was angered to
tears or shamed to tears, but she firmly grasped the robe Xie Lian
gave her, before she rushed out of the temple and left. Only Xie
Lian’s fragile-looking figure was left in that empty temple. When a
cool breeze passed through, he suddenly felt a bit cold.
Xie Lian rubbed his face before he turned around. Sporting a red
handprint on a cheek, he began speaking to the other two little gods.
“Alright. Everything’s fine now.”
The moment his voice faded, Nan Feng pointed at him before
asking, “You… Did your wound open?”
Xie Lian looked down before uttering an, “Oh”.
What was revealed after he took off his outer robe was pretty skin
as white as jade. However, his chest was covered completely with
layer after layer of white cloth, bound extremely tightly. Even his
neck and both of his wrists were wrapped with bandages, with
countless tiny wounds crawling from underneath the edges of the
white cloth. It was truly a shocking sight.
After thinking about it, Xie Lian determined that his sprained neck
should be fine by now. Thus, he began unbinding his bandages. Fu
Yao gave him two glances before asking, “Who was it?”
Xie Lian replied, “What?”
Fu Yao elaborated, “Who was the one who fought against

you?”
Xie Lian: “Fought? Ah, no one…”
Nan Feng: “Then these wounds on your body…”
Xie Lian hurriedly explained, “I fell by myself.”
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“…”
They were the wounds he had accumulated as he rolled down from

the Heavens. If he really had fought against someone, then it would
be hard to say if he could even be wounded to this degree.
Fu Yao muttered something under his breath. Xie Lian couldn’t

make out what he had said, but since it was certainly not praise for
him trying to be strong, Xie Lian disregarded it. He just focused on
unwrapping the cloth around his neck. Yet the moment he finished,
Nan Feng and Fu Yao’s gazes became so concentrated, they
practically solidified on his neck.
A black collar encircled his snow-white neck.
1. An ancient Chinese unit of measurement, it is approximately

500m. Thus, 5 li would be around 2500m.↩
2. One shichen is about two hours.↩
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Chapter 5
Many thanks to Baozi for the coffee for this project waaaay back!!
QAQ I finally finished this chapter. Actually, I finished it a while

back, but I didn’t get a chance to post it ORZ. Heading into the most
busiest 2 months left of school…….Although, I’m excited for next
week because two translators and an editor who lives nearby me are
coming to visit! I’ll share pictures of our food next time haha~~ Can’t
believe I’m meeting someone from the translation community!
This chapter is a bit shorter than normal, but after this I think the
chapters only get longer hahahaha….great for you guys but it sucks
for me lol. This chapter also ends on a cliffy, so, well. I’ll try my best
to poop out another chapter sometime soon.
Also, please welcomeeeee… *drumrolls* Jade, the new editor for

this project! She’s already gone through the previous chapters and
given them an edit, and this chapter is edited already too. Thanks for
joining amazing Jade!!!

Enjoy the chapter guys!
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Chapter 6
Ooof late update is late. Apologies and thanks for all your patience
everybody! We should be returning to regular updates now that I’m
finally on break, uhuhu.
Here’s the answer to that mini cliffie from last chapter, haha. This
chapter was longer than the last one, and man, translating some of it
was pretty hard. Many thanks to my smol HB translation help team
once again!
Also, a short thing, I received an email way back about including

some fanart of HB here to share with you guys and then I forgot to
reply, oops. Anyway, replying here! I’m always happy to share fanart
here, but the thing is, I need to have the artist’s permission! For the
picture inserts I use, I either have the artist’s permission or they’re
stock photos! So if you have friends who draw HB fanart or if you
draw it yourself and would like them to be pic inserts feel free to tell
me, but otherwise, I can’t use the random fanart you find on weibo
ahaha. Thanks anyway!

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The whole marriage sedan was covered in crimson satin. Lovely

flowers, the moon, dragons and phoenixes were sewn on with
brightly coloured thread. Nan Feng and Fu Yao each stood on one
side of the sedan, guarding the sedan from tilting to one side. Xie
Lian sat upright in the middle of the sedan, swaying with the walking
rhythm of the ones carrying it.
In reality, the eight people carrying the sedan were all outstanding
military officials who were proficient in martial arts. In order to find
people highly skilled in martial arts who could disguise themselves as
sedan carriers, Nan Feng and Fu Yao directly went to that official’s
residence and revealed their plans. They clearly explained how they
wanted to go and explore Mount Yu Jun. Thus, without asking any
more, that official immediately pulled out a row of tall and strong
martial artists. However, the reason why Nan Feng and Fu Yao
wanted strong fighters was not because they were hoping they could
help them. Instead, they merely wanted them to be able to defend
themselves and flee when the fierce ghost began fighting back.
Contrarily, those eight military officials didn’t really think too highly
of them. Within the government, they were all first class experts.
When weren’t they the leaders or the stars of the show? Despite that,
the moment these two little pretty boys came, they began stepping
on their heads and forced them to become sedan carriers. It could be
said that they were already extremely unhappy. However, their
master’s orders had to be followed, and thus they could only restrain
the disdain in their hearts. But since they were unhappy, it was hard
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to avoid their anger from flaring up. This was why, from time to time,
they would deliberately slip up and shake the sedan, making it jolt
terribly. Outsiders wouldn’t be able to tell that, as long as the person
sitting in the sedan chair was somewhat delicate, they would have
already vomited themselves to death.
The sedan chair tilted and jolted. Sure enough, they heard the Xie
Lian inside sigh softly. A few of those military officials couldn’t help
but secretly feel pleased.
Outside, Fu Yao asked in a cool tone, “Young lady, what’s

wrong? Marrying at such an elderly age, you’re happy to the
point of tears?”
Indeed, when brides married, many of them couldn’t help but wipe
their tears and cry in their marriage sedan. As for himself, when Xie
Lian heard that, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. However,
when he began talking, his tone was gentle and smooth.
Unexpectedly, there wasn’t even a trace of discomfort as he said,
“It’s not that. I merely realized that this wedding procession
is lacking a very important thing.”
Nan Feng asked, “What are we missing? We should have

already prepared all the things we ought to have.”
Xie Lian responded with a smile. “Maids who are accompanying

the marriage.”
“……”
The two small martial gods standing outside spontaneously

glanced at each other. One couldn’t tell what kind of scene they had
imagined, but they both trembled violently. Fu Yao spoke up and
said, “Just pretend your family is impoverished so there isn’t
enough money to buy servant girls. Thus, you decided to
make do.”
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Xie Lian replied, “Alright.”
The military officials heard their impromptu, slapstick live comedy

and couldn’t help but smile. The dissatisfaction in their hearts had
dissipated a lot, and they felt a bit more closer to the other three.
This resulted in the sedan chair becoming much more stable.
Xie Lian leaned back once more. Although he was still sitting
upright, he closed his eyes to rest.
Who knew, after a short while, a child’s laughter sounded near his
ears.
Cackling and cruel, laughing and mirthful.
The sound of laughter was like a ripple as it spread through the

mountains and fields. It sounded quite ethereal, but also very
strange. However, the sedan chair hadn’t stopped and was still
advancing as steadily as before. Even Nan Feng and Fu Yao didn’t
say anything, as if they hadn’t noticed any abnormalities.
Xie Lian opened his eyes before speaking in a low tone, “Nan
Feng, Fu Yao.”
Nan Feng was walking on the left side of the sedan. He asked,
“What’s wrong?”
Xie Lian replied, “Something came.”
At this time, their ‘marriage procession’ had already entered the

depths of Mount Yu Jun.
It was completely silent. Even the creaking noises made by the

wooden sedan chair, the crunching noises of the dry leaves and
branches under their feet, and the breathing sounds of the sedan
carriers appeared too noisy in this quiet.
And the child’s laughter still hadn’t disappeared. Sometimes it
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sounded far away, as if they were in the depths of the mountain.
Other times, it sounded very close, as if they were crawling beside
the sedan.
Nan Feng’s expression became more solemn as he said, “I don’t

hear anything.”
Fu Yao also coldly spoke up, “Neither do I.”
As for the other sedan carriers, it was even more unlikely for them
to have heard anything.
In response, Xie Lian said, “If that’s the case, then they are
deliberately only letting me hear.”
The eight military officials were originally overconfident because of

their high skills in martial arts. In addition, they believed that
because the ghost bridegroom randomly picked brides, they were
bound to return home that night without any achievements. Thus,
they hadn’t been fearful at all. Now, for some reason, they couldn’t
help but think of those forty military officials in that wedding
procession, the ones that had mysteriously disappeared. Suddenly,
cold sweat began appearing on some of those sedan carrier’s
foreheads.
Xie Lian noticed someone’s footsteps stagnating and said, “Don’t

stop. Pretend nothing happened.”
Nan Feng waved his hand, motioning for those military officials to
keep walking. Xie Lian spoke up again and said, “He’s singing.”
Fu Yao asked, “What is he singing?”
After carefully listening to that child’s voice, Xie Lian began

repeating the words phrase by phrase. “New bride, new bride,
new bride on the red marriage sedan……”
In the middle of this silent night, Xie Lian’s slightly sluggish voice
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came out very crisp. Clearly, he had been just saying those words.
However, those eight military officials felt as if they could hear a
child’s voice singing that odd song with him. It really made one’s
blood run cold.
Xie Lian continued to speak, “Eyes brimming with tears,

passing the mountain’s mound, under the veil do not……hold
the rising smile……ghost bride……do they mean ghost
bridegroom? Or something else?”
He paused for a bit before saying, “This won’t work. He keeps

laughing now, so the words are unclear.”
Nan Feng frowned. “What does all of that mean?”
Xie Lian replied, “The literal meaning. He’s telling the new
bride in the sedan chair that she should only cry, and that
she shouldn’t smile.”
Nan Feng corrected his previous question. “I meant, what is the

meaning behind this thing running over here to remind you
of that?”
On the other hand, Fu Yao would eternally have an opposing idea.

“It might not necessarily be just reminding us. It could be
possible that it’s deliberately trying to make you do the
wrong thing. Perhaps, smiling is the real way to come out
unscathed. However, its goal is to trick others to cry. It’s
hard to say if, in the past, the other brides fell for their
plans.”
In response to that, Xie Lian said, “Fu Yao ah. If an ordinary

bride heard this kind of voice in the middle of the road, I’m
afraid she’ll only be scared to death. How could she smile? In
addition, whether I cry or smile, what would the worst result
be?”
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Fu Yao responded, “You’ll get kidnapped.”
Thus, Xie Lian reminded him, “Isn’t the purpose of our trip
tonight exactly that?”
Fu Yao snorted, though he didn’t continue to argue. Contrarily, Xie

Lian spoke up again and said, “Also, there’s something I think I
should tell you guys.”
Nan Feng asked, “What is it?”
Xie Lian responded, “Ever since I sat onto the sedan, I’ve
never stopped smiling.”
“……”
He had just said this when suddenly, the marriage sedan sank
heavily!
The eight military officials began to immediately riot, causing the

marriage sedan to completely halt. Nan Feng shouted, “Everyone,
don’t panic!”
Xie Lian raised his hand slightly before asking, “What

happened?”
Fu Yao replied in a light tone. “Nothing. Nothing more than

meeting some beasts.”
He had just finished answering, when Xie Lian heard a mournful

wolf howl cut through the night’s silence.
A pack of wolves was blocking their path!
No matter what, Xie Lian thought this wasn’t very normal. Thus, he
asked, “May I ask, do wolf packs frequently roam Mount Yu
Jun?”
One of the military officials holding the carriage replied, “I’ve

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never heard of this happening before! How could they be on
Mount Yu Jun?!”
Xie Lian raised his eyebrow before saying, “Yeah, then we’ve
come to the right place.”
It was nothing more than a pack of wolves on a mountain. They

weren’t something difficult for Nan Feng and Fu Yao to deal with, and
they weren’t something scary for those military officials who
regularly rolled around and fought against others. But just then, they
had been pondering over the ghost bridegroom’s eerie song. That
had been the only reason they were so caught off-guard and afraid.
From the darkness of the forest, many pairs of faintly green wolf
eyes lit up as the wolves themselves began slowly walking out.
Quickly, they began surrounding them.
However, when one compared a pack of beasts that happily found

a meal to that thing they couldn’t hear nor touch, the weird thing was
of course scarier. Thus, one by one, everybody began rolling their
sleeves up for battle, preparing to show their talents and go on a
killing spree.
Unfortunately, the best part of the show had yet to come. Tightly
following their steps, a rustling noise appeared, followed by a strange
voice that didn’t sound human nor like a beast.
A military official exclaimed in alarm. “This……what is this?!

What is this thing?!”
Nan Feng also began cursing. Xie Lian knew that something had
quickly changed and thus wanted to stand up. He asked, “What
happened now?”
However, Nan Feng immediately yelled, “Don’t come out!”
Xie Lian raised his hand, when suddenly, the sedan chair began to
shake. It seemed as if there was something leaning against the
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sedan door. Xie Lian hadn’t been lowering his head that much. He
directed his gaze downward, before seeing the back of a head of
some kind of thing from the crack between his veil.
It actually climbed into the marriage sedan!
That thing had stuck its head into the marriage sedan, but was
immediately dragged out by someone outside. Nan Feng stood in
front of the sedan and cursed, “F*ck, it’s a base slave!”
As soon as he heard it was a base slave, Xie Lian knew that things
would now become troublesome.
According to Ling Wen Palace Hall’s judgement, a base slave was

something that couldn’t even obtain the ‘Fierce’ rank.
It was said that originally, base slaves were human. However, if

one looked at them now, even if they were people, one could only
say they were deformed humans. It had a head and a face, but they
looked vague and unclear. They had legs and arms, but they were
too weak to walk on. They had a mouth and teeth, but it would take
them forever to bite someone to death. However, if they let people
choose, most people would rather meet the scarier ‘Fierce’ or
‘Severe’ ranked monsters than meet a base slave.
This was because, in most cases, base slaves appeared and

coordinated with other ghosts and monsters. When their prey was
fighting against their enemies, they would suddenly appear. Then,
they would use their endlessly tangled arms and legs to stick to their
prey. They also had countless companions that advanced
dauntlessly, all winding around their prey like sticky candy.
Even though their combat strength was extremely low, they were
very tenacious and hard to kill. Furthermore, they usually emerged in
a large group. It was pretty hard to shake them off, and it was even
more difficult to quickly kill them all. Gradually, one would waste too
much strength fighting them, or they wo end up stumbling. As a
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result, there would inevitably be a short moment of carelessness, one
that would let the enemy who had been waiting for an opportunity to
succeed.
After the prey was killed by the other ghosts and monsters, the
base slaves would collect the remains of the prey, those broken arms
and legs, before eating them with relish. They would gnaw and nibble
until they were full of holes.
Base slaves were truly a very disgusting existence. To a Heavenly

Official from Upper Heaven, letting out divine light and pulling out
their weapons were naturally enough to scare base slaves into
retreating. However, to the small martial gods of Middle Heaven,
these things were truly hard to deal with.
From what seemed to be a distant place, Fu Yao said in a tone full

of revulsion, “I! Hate! These things the most! Did Ling Wen
Palace Hall mention these things?”
Xie Lian responded, “They didn’t.”
Fu Yao immediately retorted, “What use do those guys have?!”
Ignoring him, Xie Lian asked, “How many of them came?”
This time it was Nan Feng who replied. “Around a hundred,

probably a bit more! Don’t come out!”
For things like base slaves, the more there were, the stronger they
became. When there were more than ten of them, it would already
be extremely hard to deal with. More than a hundred of them? There
would be more than enough base slaves to drag them to death. Base
slaves usually liked living in places where there were a lot of people.
Thus, Xie Lian would never have expected that there would be this
many living on the deserted Mount Yu Jun. Xie Lian thought for a
moment before slightly raising his arm, revealing a wrist that was
half-bandaged.
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He said, “Go ahead.”
The moment he said those words, those white bandages began

automatically sliding off his arm. Like it was alive, it flew outside by
passing the curtains of the sedan.
Xie Lian sat upright in the sedan before gently ordering, “Strangle
them to death.”
In the midst of the night, a white viper suddenly swam out.
When that white, thin silk was bandaged around Xie Lian’s wrist, it
seemed to only be a few chi in length. However, when it flew as quick
as lightning into the fight, it seemed as if it was infinitely long. With a
‘crack crack’, ‘crack crack’, a succession of snapping sounds echoed
in the air. In the blink of an eye, dozens of wild wolves and base
slaves had their necks broken by the white silk!
The six base slaves bothering Nan Feng instantly met a violent
death and fell to the ground. He thrust out his palm and sent the last
wolf flying. However, though Nan Feng had escaped the danger, he
didn’t relax even the slightest bit. Instead, he rushed toward the
sedan and yelled in disbelief, “What is that thing?! Aren’t you
without any spiritual power, and thus can’t activate magical
artefacts?!”
Xie Lian responded, “There would inevitably be exceptions to

everything……”
Nan Feng was furious. He slapped one side of the sedan carriage
and roared, “Xie Lian! Say it clearly, what is that thing?! Is
it……”
That slap of his almost made the whole sedan fall apart. Thus, Xie
Lian had no other choice but to raise his hand and support the door.
But for once, he was slightly startled. When Nan Feng said those
words, his tone unexpectedly made him recall Feng Xin’s appearance
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when he got mad in the past.
Nan Feng was still waiting for an answer when suddenly, the
distant screams of the military officials echoed through the air. Fu
Yao coldly said, “If you want to talk, beat back this wave of
enemies before doing it!”
Nan Feng had no other choice but to go back and save the show.
However, Xie Lian quickly snapped out of his daze and said, “Nan
Feng, Fu Yao, you guys leave first.”
Nan Feng looked back, “What?”
Xie Lian explained, “If you guys stay around the sedan chair,
more things will come. You won’t be able to finish fighting. In
that case, take the other people and leave. I’ll stay behind
and meet that ghost bridegroom.”
Nan Feng wanted to start cursing again. “Just you……”
However, on the other side, Fu Yao coldly spoke up. “Since he

can use that silk cloth, for a short while nothing will happen.
If you have time to argue with him, wouldn’t it be better
spent settling that group before returning to help? I’m
leaving.”
Fu Yao was rather confident and at ease. He was also

straightforward as well; when he said he was leaving, he immediately
left, not even slowing down for a moment. Nan Feng clenched his
teeth, knowing in his heart that the other small martial god wasn’t
wrong. Thus, he turned to face the remained military officials and
said, “Follow me!”
Sure enough, when they were farther away from the sedan, though
the previous base slaves and wolves were still there, no more new
ones joined the fight. The two small martial gods protected four
military officials. As they fought, Fu Yao began speaking with a tone
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of hatred, “Ridiculous. If it were not for me……”
He stopped talking. The two of them glanced at each other, their

gazes both completely strange. Fu Yao swallowed the rest of his
words before turning his head. For the time being, the two of them
put away this topic and didn’t mention it again. Instead, they only
continued hurrying.
All around the marriage sedan, corpses covered the ground.
The silk Ruoye1 had already strangled all the leftover base slaves
and wolves that had tried pouncing onto the sedan. It flew back and
began automatically and gently wrapping itself on Xie Lian’s wrist
once more. Xie Lian calmly and quietly sat in the marriage sedan,
surrounded by the complete darkness and the rustling sounds of the
trees.
Suddenly, everything became completely silent.
The sound of the wind, the sound of the rustling trees, the shouts
of the monsters. In a split second, all of that became deathly silent,
as if they were afraid of something.
After that, he heard two light laughs.
It sounded like a young man’s voice, but it also sounded like the
voice of a teenager.
Xie Lian sat there and didn’t speak.
The silk Ruoye wrapped around his wrist, ready to act. As long as
the person who came had even the smallest trace of killing intent, it
would immediately and frantically strike back with ten times the
power.
Unpredictably, Xie Lian didn’t meet an abrupt attack or a blast of

killing intent, but something completely different.
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The curtain of the marriage sedan was slightly lifted. Looking
through the crack of the red veil, Xie Lian saw the person extend a
hand toward him.
The fingers and joints of that hand were well-defined. Red thread
was tied around the third finger. On that slender and pale-white
hand, it looked as if it was a colourful and bright knot of fate.
1. [若邪] pronounced as Ruoxie, but the author has made a note

that we should refer to it as Ruoye. This is the name of the silk. It
means, ruo = as if, like, xie = demonic, evil. ↩
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Chapter 8
Hiiiii guys! New site, how does it look? /o/ Super long chapter this
time, cries. Almost 6k Chinese charas. And next chapter is gonna be
7k+, someone light a candle for this poor plant-sama….
There’s a nice video in this chapter that a reader linked me! It’s a
video of the creepy song Xie Lian keeps hearing! First 20 seconds is
the lines being read, and starting around 22s, the song is actually
sang! Listen to it, brr, so scary.
In addition, I started an original story on webnovel! Here’s the

synopsis:
How many deaths does it take to corrupt a person?
Alfonso, praised as the textbook example of a knight by his peers,

would never have dreamt of being a villain. But when his family is
destroyed and he is left with only his ailing sister, he has no other
choice but to join the second most powerful mafia family in the
world. In a twist of fate, he ends up becoming the personal attendant
(or for the lack of a better word, the babysitter) to the boss of this
family, an eleven-year-old boy with the face of an angel and the
heart of a demon. Could things get any worse?
And just when Alfonso begins to truly care for him, his baby boss
dies. In an attempt to save his boss, Alfonso goes back in time, only
to witness his boss die, again and again. How many times must this
happen? How many times must he watch this happen? And how far
will Alfonso fall?
Basically, this is a story where an upright, honourable, knight-type

character gets bullied by a cute, black-belly brat and forced to be the
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brat’s nanny. And this upright knight slowly blackens into a black-
belly character who has a heart more blackened than that brat, LOL.
It’s a happy ending story, with a good dose of comedy and angst!
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Each chapter is pretty short and I’ve written more than that for fun
while translating daily so…just wanted to share my original writing
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Chapter 9
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Fu Yao noticed that Little Ying was hiding within the crowd of
people. Frowning, he asked, “Why is there a woman here?”
Although his tone wasn’t aggressive, it didn’t contain any goodwill

either. Thus, when Little Ying heard it, she bowed her head. Xie Lian
was the one who replied for her and said, “She was afraid that
we’ll meet a mishap, so she came here to take a look.”
Fu Yao turned to ask the bystanders another question, “Did you

guys come up here with her?”
At first, the people in the crowd hesitated a bit before they replied.
“I don’t remember anymore.”
“It’s hard to say.”
“That’s wrong. When we came up, she wasn’t with us,

right?”
“In any case, I didn’t see her.”
“I didn’t see her either.”
Little Ying hastily spoke up, “It’s because I secretly followed

you guys.”
The youngster immediately asked, “Why did you secretly follow

us? Do you have a guilty conscience? Perhaps you’re the
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disguised ghost bridegroom?”
The moment he said this, the people standing around Little Ying
abruptly fled, creating a vast and empty space. Little Ying began
waving her hands in a flustered manner before she said, “No……No,
I’m Little Ying! I’m really her!”
Then, she turned toward Xie Lian and said, “Young lord, we had
just met each other! I helped you put on make-up, and helped
you dress and groom yourself……”
Xie Lian: “……”
When they heard this, everyone began looking over to stare at

him. There were even some people who started to whisper things. In
bits and pieces, Xie Lian heard phrases like, ‘kink’, ‘different from
ordinary people’, ‘I can’t believe it’.
Coughing twice, Xie Lian explained, “This……is just a

requirement of the mission. A requirement of the mission.
Nan Feng, Fu Yao, you guys……”
It was only after he turned his head did Xie Lian become aware
that Nan Feng and Fu Yao were staring at him in a strange manner.
In addition, they began slowly moving away from him in a restrained
way.
Being stared at with gazes like that made Xie Lian feel
goosebumps all over his body. He asked them, “……Do you guys
have something you want to say?”
How could Xie Lian have known that a girl’s skill in make-up
created legendary and mystifying results? Little Ying had only taught
him how to fix his eyebrows by drawing them elegantly, how to
powder his face with some white powder and how to dot his lips with
deep, red rouge. However, if he didn’t speak, Xie Lian looked exactly
like a gentle, soft and beautiful young lady.
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Thus, when those two looked at him, it made their hearts shake
tremendously. They found this scene hard to believe; it made them
feel uneasy from head to toe as they began to doubt life itself. Xie
Lian’s face still looked like his face, but both Fu Yao and Nan Feng
felt as if they didn’t know who they were talking to when they faced
his current appearance.
Fu Yao asked Nan Feng, “Do you have something you wish to
say?”
Nan Feng immediately shook his head. “I don’t have anything I

want to say.”
“……” Xie Lian replied, “Perhaps its better if you guys said
something.”
At this time, the people in the crowd began speaking up.
“Eh? This is a Ming Guang Temple?”
“This mountain’s forest actually had a Ming Guang Temple?

Odd, I’ve never seen it before.”
One after another, everyone began looking at the strange sight.

However, Xie Lian suddenly said, “Yes, it’s a Ming Guang
Temple.”
Nan Feng noticed that his tone was a bit odd. He asked, “What’s
wrong?”
Xie Lian replied, “The North is clearly General Ming Guang’s

territory. It isn’t as if the incense burning for him wasn’t
flourishing, and it’s not like his spiritual power is weak.
However, why is there only a Nan Yang Temple under Mount
Yu Jun?”
It was rather easy to understand why that Official would send his
prayers to the Martial God Heavenly Emperor. After all, he had been
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the number one Martial God for the last millennium, and his status
far exceeded General Ming Guang’s. Naturally, the higher and more
influential you went, the more insured and secured one would be.
However, General Ming Guang’s position was equal to General Nan

Yang’s position, and there was hardly any difference between the
two of them. If you really had to differentiate them, then General
Ming Guang had nine thousand temples, a thousand more than
General Nan Yang. Xie Lian really couldn’t understand why General
Ming Guang would give up something close and instead seek
something far away.
He continued speaking and said, “Normally, even if the Ming

Guang Temple on Mount Yu Jun is taken over by the ghost
bridegroom, resulting in other people being unable to find it,
one could always just build another Ming Guang Temple
somewhere else. However, for what reason would another
Martial God’s temple be built here?”
Fu Yao immediately understood and said, “There has to be

another reason.”
Xie Lian replied, “Yes, there has to be another reason that

would make the people of the Mount Yu Jun region stop
building Ming Guang Temples. You guys, please lend me
some spiritual energy again. I’m afraid I have to go and
ask……”
At this moment, someone suddenly shouted, “So many brides,

ah!”
When he realized that the voice had come from within the temple,
Xie Lian immediately turned around. He had told these people to
properly stay on the open space outside the temple, but they
actually turned a deaf ear to his instructions and ran inside!
Nan Feng yelled, “The situation is dangerous, don’t run
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about!”
However, that youngster said, “Everybody, don’t listen to

them! They won’t dare to touch us! We’re all good people,
would they really dare to kill us? Everyone, get up! Get up,
get up!”
This youngster actually realized that the three of them wouldn’t

seriously hold down their waists and give them a beating. Thus, he
began to become absolutely unrestrained.
Seeing this, Nan Feng’s knuckles began to crack, and he seemed

like he was trying to restrain himself. However, as a martial god
under Nan Yang Palace Hall, he really couldn’t beat up an ordinary
person just because he wanted to. If a supervising Heavenly Official
found out about it and reported him, then the aftermath really
wouldn’t be fun to deal with.
The youngster laughed mischievously before sneering. “Don’t

think I can’t tell what you guys are trying to do. You just
want to deceive us and make us stay put, so you guys could
solve this case all by yourselves and then collect the
reward!”
With those instigating words, at least half the people in the crowd
actually became restless. Thus, they followed the youngster and
began running into the temple. Fu Yao apathetically brushed his
sleeves and said, “Let them do what they want. This group of
wicked commoners.”
His tone sounded extremely loathing, like he no longer wanted to

care about what happened to them.
Then, within the Ming Guang temple came another loud scream,
“These are all dead people ah!”
The youngster was also greatly shocked as he asked, “All dead?!”
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“All dead!”
“What evil rituals! Some of these brides died decades ago,

so how could their skin have not rotten yet??”
However, it didn’t take long for the youngster to get over his
surprise. “It’s fine if they’re dead. Let’s carry the corpses of
the dead brides down the mountain. After all, how could the
people from their families not buy them back?”
When he heard that, Xie Lian’s gaze gradually sank. And after the
group of people thought it over, they began thinking that this was
reasonable. Some people sighed, some people muttered under their
breaths, and some people became more cheerful.
Xie Lian stood near the doorway of the temple and said, “It’s
better if everybody comes out first. For many years, a breeze
hadn’t passed through this temple and thus the death qi has
settled in. If ordinary people breathe it in, it won’t be good
for them.”
His words made a lot of sense, and everyone didn’t know whether
or not they should listen to him. Then, Little Ying spoke up quietly,
“Everyone, stop being like this. It’s this dangerous here,
won’t it be better if we listen to this young lord? Come
outside and sit down, ah.”
However, this crowd of people didn’t even listen to Xie Lian and his
team, so how could they listen to her? Nobody paid any attention to
her at all. But Little Ying wasn’t discouraged and repeated her words
a few more times.
Ignoring her, the youngster began instructing the crowd,

“Everyone, we must choose the freshest corpses. If the
corpse is too old, who knows if their family members are still
living on this world. This way, we won’t have to waste our
strength carrying the corpses down the mountain.”
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Unexpectedly, there were actually people who praised the
youngster for being smart and efficient. When he heard that, Xie Lian
didn’t know whether he should cry or laugh.
Then, Xie Lian saw someone start moving and immediately

warned, “Don’t take off their veils! Those veils can block the
death qi and yang qi. The yang qi in your bodies is too
strong. If the corpses absorb it, I can’t guarantee that
nothing would happen.”
However, because this group of people wanted to pick out the

freshest corpses, they had already taken off almost all of the veils.
Xie Lian exchanged a glance with Nan Feng, who had just walked
over to the doorway, before shaking his head. He knew that he
wouldn’t be able to stop this crowd of people. After all, it wasn’t like
he could give them a beating until they vomited blood and couldn’t
move any more.
If they did that and something happened later, wouldn’t their

wounds prevent the crowd of people from trying to run away? Xie
Lian truly felt quite helpless.
At this moment, a buff guy removed one of the bride’s veils and
exclaimed, “The f*ck! This young lady is really beautiful
enough to the point she could ascend to the heavens!”
Everyone began gathering around him as people started discussing

her.
“She probably hadn’t even crossed her husband’s door yet,

right? Dying like that is really too unfortunate.”
“Her clothes are a bit worn out, but this girl is truly the
most beautiful!”
This bride had probably just died recently, because the skin on her
face was still quite flexible. Someone provocatively asked, “Does
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anyone dare to touch her face?”
The youngster immediately replied, “Why wouldn’t we dare

to?”
The moment he finished saying that, he pinched that corpse’s face

twice. The youngster only felt that the skin beneath his hands felt
smooth like tofu, making people’s hearts feel itchy. He even wanted
to grope this girl a few more times.
Xie Lian truly couldn’t continue watching this scene anymore and
was just about to go over there to stop the youngster. However, Little
Ying had already rushed over and said, “Don’t be like this!”
The youngster easily gave her a push and said, “Don’t hinder us
big men from doing things!”
However, Little Ying crawled up again and said, “Doing

something like this, you guys are truly just courting wrath
from the Heavens!”
This time, the youngster became angry. “F*ck! You ugly person!
Not only you’re ugly, but you’re bothersome as well!”
While he cursed her out, the youngster started kicking at her as

well. Xie Lian reached over to grab the back of Little Ying’s collar and
lightly lifted her away from him. Who would have thought that after
he had done that, he suddenly heard a ‘bam’ noise, before the
youngster yelled, “Who hit me?!”
Xie Lian turned around to take a look. That youngster’s head was
unexpectedly badly bruised, and it even had a big hole. A stone
covered in blood fell onto the ground. Little Ying blankly stared at it
for a moment before she hastily said, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I……I
was scared, and accidentally threw it……”
However, even if Little Ying rushed to admit her wrongs, nobody
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would believe her. This was because, the direction that rock had
come from was completely incorrect. That stone had been thrown
into the window that was behind the youngster.
Thus, the moment that youngster had yelped in pain, everyone

had looked over in that direction. They had been just in time to see
the shadow of a person’s figure flit past the window.
The youngster yelled in a strange manner. “It was him! It’s that
ugly creature with the bandages wrapped around his face!”
Xie Lian stuffed Little Ying into Nan Feng’s hands before taking two
steps over there. Then, gently supporting himself by placing his right
hand onto the window frame, he flipped out of the room and began
chasing the creature into the forest. A few braver people who wanted
to get the reward also followed him and jumped out of the window.
However, when he reached the edge of the forest, Xie Lian

suddenly smelled the reeking odour of blood. Being extremely
vigilant, he sensed something was wrong and immediately halted his
steps. “Don’t go in!”
Xie Lian had already spoken up to warn them, but those people
thought to themselves that it was great he wasn’t chasing after it,
because now they could. Their steps didn’t stop and they instead
charged right into the forest. The rest of the crowd that had been
originally in the temple began rushing out as well. When they saw Xie
Lian standing at the edge of the forest, those that weren’t too brave
began gathering around him to watch.
It didn’t take too long before they began hearing a few blood-
curdling screams. A few black shadows began stumbling out of the
forest. They were exactly the people who had taken the lead in
charging into the woods. Staggering out, these black shadows
swayed around until they reached a spot where the moonlight shined
down and illuminated them. And the moment everyone saw their
appearances clearly, they were immediately terror-stricken by the
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sight.
When these people walked into the forest, they were still living
humans. So why was it that when they walked out, they became
people drenched in blood?
From their faces to their clothes, these people were all covered
with bloodstains. It looked as if blood was gushing out of their bodies.
If a regular person had bled this much blood, then it was impossible
for them to continue living.
However, step by step, these people were still walking over to

them. Everyone became so scared, they began uniformly scrambling
backwards until they were hiding behind Xie Lian.
Xie Lian raised his hand and said, “Be calm. The blood isn’t
theirs.”
Sure enough, those people said, “That’s right, ah! The blood
isn’t ours, it’s……it’s……”
Even though their faces were covered in blood, it still wasn’t able
to conceal their completely frightened looks. Following their gazes,
the rest of the crowd shifted their eyes over to the forest. It was quite
dark, so it was hard to tell what exactly was going on within the
woods. Xie Lian grabbed a torch and went a few steps forward as he
held the torch up to illuminate the forest.
Within the woods, something dripped onto his torch, making a

sizzling sound. Xie Lian glanced at his torch before shifting his gaze
upwards. After contemplating for a moment, he lifted his hand and
threw his torch.
Even though the torch only illuminated the sky for a short moment,
everyone still clearly saw what was on top of the trees.
Very long black hair, a deathly pale face, a tattered military official
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robe, and an arm that kept swaying back and forth in the air……
More than forty corpses of men were swaying in the air, hung
upside down at various heights on the trees. Xie Lian didn’t know
how long the fresh blood had flowed for, but it still hadn’t dried.
Drip, drop. Drip, drop. This created the frightening scene of a forest
filled with corpses as blood rained down from above.
The crowd of people outside were all strong and buff men.
However, when would they have ever seen a gruesome sight like
this? They were all frightened so badly, they completely blanked out
as not a single voice could be heard. And when Nan Feng and Fu Yao
walked over and saw this sight, both of their gazes became focused.
After a moment, Nan Feng said, “Green Ghost.”
Fu Yao replied, “Indeed, this is his favourite trick.”
Nan Feng told Xie Lian, “Don’t go over. If it’s really him, then
this is going to become a bit troublesome.”
Xie Lian turned around to ask, “Who are you guys talking
about?”
Nan Feng responded, “A ‘Near Devastation’.”
Confused, Xie Lian asked, “What’s a ‘Near Devastation’?

Something approaching the Devastation rank?”
Fu Yao replied, “Not bad. ‘Near Devastation’ Green Ghost.

He’s precisely a ‘Wrath’ that had been assessed by Ling Wen
Palace Hall, and they claimed that his realm was actually
awfully close to the ‘Devastation’ rank. He’s extremely fond
of stringing corpses on trees and making a forest of corpses,
this kind of game. It could be even said that its part of his
famous reputation.”
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When he heard Fu Yao’s explanation, Xie Lian thought in his heart,
‘This name was truly unnecessary. If it was a ‘Devastation’, then it
was a ‘Devastation’. If it wasn’t, then it wasn’t. Just like how there
were only the phrases, ‘ascended’ and ‘haven’t ascended yet’. There
were no such things as ‘near ascending’ or ‘approaching ascending’.
On the contrary, adding on a ‘near’ word made people feel awkward.
Suddenly, Xie Lian recalled how that teenager who had robbed his
sedan had held his hand and led him here. Back then, there really
had been a moment where the sound of rain hit the umbrella that the
teenager had opened. Could it be that the reason the teenager
opened an umbrella was because he had wanted to block him from
being drenched by this rain of blood?
“Ah,” Xie Lian quietly let out a noise. The two small martial gods
beside him immediately asked, “What’s wrong?”
Xie Lian gave a brief explanation of how he had met a teenager on

the sedan and how that teenager brought him here. When he
finished, Fu Yao said sceptically, “When we came up here, I had
sensed that befuddling array. It had been extremely
treacherous. However, you say that guy had just destroyed it
without any extra trouble?”
In his heart, Xie Lian thought, ‘It wasn’t ‘without any extra trouble’,
that guy had just casually stepped onto it! He didn’t care about it at
all.’
However, Xie Lian said, “That’s right. Thus, do you guys think
that this ‘Near Devastation’ Green Ghost is him?”
Nan Feng thought for a moment before he replied, “I haven’t

seen the Green Ghost before, so it’s hard for me to say. Did
that teenager have any special characteristics?”
Xie Lian said, “Silver butterflies.”
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Just now, when Nan Feng and Fu Yao saw the forest of corpses,
their expressions could have been considered as completely calm.
However, the moment he said that, Xie Lian clearly saw the
expressions on their faces immediately change.
Fu Yao asked in an incredulous tone, “What did you say? Silver

butterflies? What kind of silver butterflies?”
Xie Lian sensed that he had probably said something quite

important. He replied, “They were silver, but they also looked
as if they were made out of crystal. They were not alive,
although they did look extremely beautiful.”
Then, he saw Nan Feng and Fu Yao exchange glances. Both of their
complexions became extremely ugly, paling until they were deathly
white.
After a while, Fu Yao spoke up in a deep voice, “Let’s leave.

Let’s immediately leave.”
Xie Lian asked, “The ghost bridegroom case hasn’t been

solved yet, how can we go?”
Fu Yao responded, “Solved?”
Fu Yao turned around and smiled grimly. “It seems like you’ve
truly stayed in the mortal realm for too long. This ghost
bridegroom is no more than a ‘Wrath’. And even if the Green
Ghost was responsible for this forest of corpses, he is just a
‘Near Devastation’ and would only give us a headache.”
After pausing again, Fu Yao’s tone unexpectedly became quite

stern. “However, do you know who the master of those silver
butterflies is?”
Xie Lian honestly replied, “I don’t know.”
“……” Fu Yao stiffly said, “Even if you don’t know, currently
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we don’t have enough time to explain it to you. In short, it’s
not someone you can go against. You should just hurry back
to the Heavens and send off some rescue squad soldiers.”
Xie Lian replied, “Then, you return first.”
“You……”
Xie Lian explained, “The owner of those silver butterflies

didn’t reveal any malice. And if he had been hiding his evil
intentions and is truly as scary as you make him out to be,
then I’m afraid it’ll be hard for us to escape him when we’re
within the Mount Yu Jun range. At this time, it’s best if
someone stays back and guards this place. That’s why, it’s
better if you return first and see if you can help me by
sending over a rescue squad.”
He could tell that Fu Yao didn’t want to stay here and deal with all
of these troublesome things. Since he didn’t want to stay, Xie Lian
definitely wouldn’t force him to reluctantly stay here.
Fu Yao was precisely a straightforward kind of person. Without

another word, he brushed his sleeves and actually left.
Xie Lian turned toward Nan Feng. He was about to speak up and
thoroughly question the small martial god about that teenager,
however, the crowd of people was suddenly in an uproar. Someone
exclaimed, “Caught it, we caught it!”
With this, Xie Lian didn’t have any time to ask Nan Feng more
questions. He immediately asked, “What did you catch?”
Two bloody figures began walking out of the forest. One was a
strong and buff man. He had been one of the people who had taken
the lead in rushing into the forest. Surprisingly, he hadn’t been
scared into retreating because of the forest of corpses’ rain of blood.
He could truly be considered as someone daring and fearless.
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The other figure was the young boy he had been dragging out with
his hand in a death grip. This young teenager had bandages wrapped
around his head and face in a messy manner.
Xie Lian still remembered what the tea sommelier from the Chance
Encounter Little Store had said. “Rumours state that the ghost
bridegroom is an ugly creature that lives on Mount Jun.
Because he was born too ugly, no women would like him. This
is why his heart gave birth to resentment, and why he would
snatch other men’s brides to prevent the couple from
experiencing a happy occasion.”
At that time, Xie Lian and his team had thought it was just a
rumour. Unexpectedly, there really was a person like this.
But him existing was just him existing. Whether or not he was the
ghost bridegroom was another matter entirely. Xie Lian was just
about to carefully take a look at this bandaged young teenager when
suddenly, Little Ying rushed over and exclaimed, “You guys are
wrong! This isn’t the ghost bridegroom, he isn’t!”
The youngster retorted, “He got caught red-handed at the

scene and you still say he isn’t? I……”
He suddenly stopped talking before he looked as if he had realized

something. “Oh, I kept asking why you were so weird, always
continuously going ‘it’s not’, ‘it’s not’. It turns out you were
colluding with the ghost bridegroom!”
Little Ying was startled by his accusation and began repeatedly

waving her hands. “No, no. I’m not involved, and he isn’t
either. He really hasn’t done anything before. He’s just an
ordinary……ordinary……”
The youngster aggressively asked, “An ordinary what? An

ordinary ugly creature?”
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He carelessly grabbed the top of that bandaged teenager’s head
twice. “Then let us take a peek at what this ordinary ghost
bridegroom looks like, to be so fond of robbing other men of
their wives.”
His two movements caused some of the boy’s bandages to loosen.

That induced the young teenager into hugging his head before
screaming. His voice was brimming with fear, sounding extremely
mournful, yet extremely pitiful as well. Xie Lian grabbed the
youngster’s elbow and said, “Enough.”
Hearing the boy’s miserable screams, Little Ying’s tears

immediately began rolling down her face. However, when she saw
Xie Lian step in, she looked as if she saw her light of hope.
Immediately, she clutched his sleeve and begged,
“Young……Young lord, help me. Help him.”
Xie Lian glanced at her. Little Ying immediately let go of his sleeve
in an embarrassed manner. She looked as if she was afraid he would
dislike her because she had touched him, and thus wouldn’t help her
anymore.
Xie Lian comforted her, “It’s alright.”
Then, he took another look at that bandaged teenager covered in

blood. Suddenly, he noticed that the boy was looking at him with a
pair of bloodshot eyes. In fact, he had been peeking at him through
the gap between the bandages hanging from his arms. The teenager
had only stolen a single glance before he immediately bowed his
head again to redo his bandages.
Although he hadn’t exposed his face, the little skin that had been
revealed was already extremely frightening. It looked as if his skin
had been burned by a fierce fire. It wasn’t hard to imagine what kind
of a horrific face he would have under his bandages. It made other
people suck in a breath of cold air, and that reaction made the young
teenager shrink in on himself even more.
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Xie Lian noticed that unexpectedly, both Little Ying and this
teenager cowered in the same manner, as if they didn’t see light all
year round and as if they didn’t dare to meet people either. As Xie
Lian sighed in his heart, the youngster beside him became on guard.
“What do you want to do? The ghost bridegroom was caught
by us!”
Xie Lian let him go and explained, “I’m afraid it wouldn’t be

that simple for you guys to capture the ghost bridegroom.
Just now, my friend had searched for him in the vicinity and
didn’t find him. This boy probably only came afterwards. The
real ghost bridegroom should still be hiding somewhere
here.”
Little Ying summoned her courage and said, “You want the
reward……but you can’t randomly grab people and claim
they’re guilty!”
When the youngster heard that, he once again wanted to make a

move. Ever since this case began, this guy kept causing trouble for
Xie Lian. At the end of his patience, Xie Lian waved his hand. The silk
Ruoye abruptly shot out and slapped the youngster, causing him to
take a tumble. And it seemed that Nan Feng had also reached his
limit for he swiftly gave the youngster another kick. Finally, the
youngster hit the ground and didn’t get up again.
That youngster was a specialist in stirring up trouble. Once he

stopped moving, the crowd didn’t know who they should follow. Thus,
they became rather well-behaved. In fact, even after a few sparse
shouts, they couldn’t create a disturbance.
In his heart, Xie Lian thought, “I can finally begin handling

affairs.”
After sizing up the young teenager on the ground for a moment,

Xie Lian asked, “Were you the person who threw that stone
into the window?”
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Although his voice sounded gentle, that teenager still shook like a
bamboo sieve. He once again took a secret peek at Xie Lian before
he nodded his head. Little Ying replied in his stead and said, “He
doesn’t want to hurt anyone. He only saw how the youngster
looked as if he was going to hit me, so he wanted to help
me……”
Xie Lian questioned that teenager again, “Those corpses

hanging in the trees, do you know what’s going on there?”
Little Ying replied, “I don’t know what’s going on, but I

definitely know the corpses weren’t hung up by him……”
That teenager kept trembling, but he still began continuously

nodding his head. Nan Feng, who had been staring at him, suddenly
asked, “Do you know who Green Ghost Qi Rong is?”
When he heard that name, Xie Lian became slightly startled. On

the other hand, that teenager looked obviously at a loss. He hadn’t
reacted at all toward that name, and he also didn’t dare reply to Nan
Feng. Little Ying said, “He……He’s just scared, and doesn’t dare
to speak……”
She kept trying to protect this strange teenager at all costs. Thus,
Xie Lian asked in a warm tone, “Young lady Little Ying, what’s
the matter with this child? Whatever you know, let me hear
about it first.”
When she saw Xie Lian, it seemed as if Little Ying managed to

summon a bit of courage. Even when the flame of the fire illuminated
her face, she didn’t hide.
Instead, she wrung together her hands as she said, “He really
hasn’t done any misdeeds. This child only lives on Mount Yu
Jun. When he becomes too hungry, he’ll go down the
mountain and steal some food to eat. Once, he happened to
end up in my house……I saw that he didn’t really know how to
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speak and that furthermore, there were wounds on his face.
So, I found some cloth bandages to wrap up his face and
sometimes, I would send him some food to eat……”
Originally, Xie Lian thought that these two were perhaps a couple.
However, now it seemed as if Little Ying’s protection for this teenager
was more like an older sister’s protection to her younger brother, so
much that she resembled a senior who took care of their juniors.
Little Ying continued to speak, “Afterwards, there were a lot of

people who began believing that he was the ghost
bridegroom. I couldn’t do anything about it, and could only
hope that someone would quickly catch that genuine
evildoer……I thought that since young lord and your
companions are this powerful, even if you disguise yourself
as a bride to catch that ghost bridegroom, in the very least
you definitely won’t catch the wrong person. This is because
he absolutely, absolutely wouldn’t go and rob your marriage
sedan. However, who would have known that after I left, I
heard that the youngster and his team intended to go up and
search the mountain as well? I was truly too worried, so I
secretly followed them up to take a look.”
She stepped in front of the teenager to protect him, as if she was

afraid that someone was going to hit him again. Then, she began
defending the teenager once again, “He truly isn’t the ghost
bridegroom. Look at him, only a few people were able to beat
him up into this state. How would he have been able to beat
all those military officials who had accompanied the bride’s
sedan……?”
Xie Lian exchanged glances with Nan Feng, both feeling an

extreme headache.
If what Little Ying had said was the truth, then wasn’t this teenager
completely unrelated to their current assignment?
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The bandaged teenager, the ghost bridegroom ‘Wrath’, the ‘Near
Devastation Green Ghost’. Oh, and they couldn’t forget that powerful
master of those silver butterflies, someone who could even make the
complexion of a Heavenly Official’s face change when they were
brought up in a conversation.
A small Mount Yu Jun actually had this many guests who kept
visiting it. It really made it impossible for people to deal with this.
Who was who? Who had a relationship with who? Xie Lian felt his
head swimming.
Xie Lian rubbed the spot between his eyebrows. For the time
being, he didn’t ponder over how much of Little Ying’s words were
genuine or false. Instead, he suddenly recalled the question he had
always wanted to ask. “Young lady Little Ying, have you always
been living around the Mount Yu Jun area?”
Little Ying replied, “That’s right. I’ve always been living here,
so I can guarantee that he has never done any bad things.”
In response to that, Xie Lian said, “No, I wanted to ask you

another question. In the Mount Yu Jun region, other than the
temple here, has any other Ming Guang Temples been built?”
Little Ying stared blankly for a moment. “This……”
After thinking it over, she continued to speak, “Yes, they should

have been built.”
When he heard her answer like this, Xie Lian suddenly had the faint
feeling that he had stumbled upon something quite important.
He asked, “Then why is it that under the mountain, only Nan

Yang Temples were built, and not Ming Guang Temples?”
Little Ying scratched her head before answering, “It has indeed
been built before. However, I’ve heard that whenever they
make the decisions to build a Ming Guang Temple, the temple
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would always catch on fire for no reason before it was
completed. Someone then said that they were afraid General
Ming Guang had a reason for being unable to safeguard this
place. Thus, they chose to build a Nan Yang Temple
instead……”
Nan Feng noticed that Xie Lian’s gaze had become focused. He
asked, “What’s wrong?”
Xie Lian suddenly realized that everything was too simple.
The brides that couldn’t smile, the temple that caught fire for no
reason, the Ming Guang Temple locked up by the befuddling array,
General Pei’s impressive-looking Godly statue, and the ghost
bridegroom who had disappeared after it was hit by the silk
Ruoye——
It was too simple!
However, something had been continuously blocking his line of

sight, making Xie Lian unaware of this simple fact from the very
start!
He suddenly grabbed onto Nan Feng and exclaimed, “Lend me

some spiritual energy!”
Being grabbed like this, Nan Feng stared blankly for a moment
before he hastily slapped his palm again Xie Lian’s hand. He once
again asked, “What’s going on?”
Xie Lian dragged him along as he began running. “I’ll explain

later! For now, think of a way to subdue the corpses of those
eighteen brides!”
Nan Feng asked, “Are you confused? There’s only seventeen

brides, unless we add on you to make eighteen!”
Xie Lian replied, “No, no, no! Before, there had only been
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seventeen corpses, but now there’s eighteen! Within the
corpses of those eighteen brides, there’s one that’s
fake——the ghost bridegroom has mixed itself in!”
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Chapter 10
Here’s this week’s chapter! Most of the mysteries are all solved
here, hope everyone enjoys it!
Once again, please light candles for your poor translator for the
next two chapters haha. Good news, the ML is gonna finally be
formally introduced in chapter 12, from what my friends told me! Bad
news (for me, not you LOL), chapter 11 is 2x the length of this
chapter, and chapter 12 is 3x the length of today’s chapter. //lies
there and cries// BUT! For the ML, I’m going to fight the hard battle
and persevere! Xie Lian better thank me hahaha……

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Chapter 11 Part 1
Source: Imported
The female ghost had an oval face with a pair of arched eyebrows.
She really was extremely beautiful. Although her beauty may have
alluded to hints of heroism before, now, it only bled unconcealed
resentment, as if all her hatred had been concentrated into a
confined space where no light could be shed. As she knelt on the
ground, the part of her bridal dress below the knee looked
threadbare and ragged. It was now obvious how the rumours had
started.
The two of them stared in silence for a moment before Xie Lian
finally spoke, “Xuan Ji?”　
It seems it had been many years since someone had called her by
this name. It took awhile for the resentment reflected in the female
ghost’s face to faintly scatter; replaced by a light that flashed across
her eyes　　
She spoke, “……He sent you to come find me, didn’t he?”　　
This ‘he’……Xie Lian guessed, certainly must be referring to that

General Pei.　　
Xuan Ji then proceeded to ask, “What about him? Why didn’t

he come see me himself?”　
When she spoke, her face held such a fervent, hopeful and
anticipatory expression that it made Xian Lian feel it be best not to
reply with a “No, that isn’t the case”. Seeing Xie Lian’s silence,
Xuan Ji suddenly collapsed and sat onto the floor.
She leaned against the statue of the handsome and tall Martial
God, as her crimson bridal attire spread across the earth not unlike
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that of a massive bloodstained flower. With her hair in disarray, face
contorted with pain, it was as though she was subjected to great
torment. Xuan Ji asked, “……Why does he not come see me?”
This was yet another question Xie Lian could not answer, thus he
could only remain solemn. Xuan Ji raised her head and gazed up at
the God Statue, before she mournfully cried, “Pei Lang……oh Pei
Lang. I betrayed my kingdom for you, I abandoned my
everything and turned into this. Why won’t you come see
me?”
With both hands, Xuan Ji yanked at her own hair and continued to
question, “Pei Lang, is your heart made out of iron?”
Xie Lian silently observed her. Upon hearing these lines, he

inwardly pondered: Xuan Ji said she betrayed her kingdom for
General Pei……could it be that this General Pei took advantage of
their intimacy to deceive secret military intelligence from her, which
led to Xuan Ji’s kingdom’s defeat in war?
She also said that it was only because of General Pei that she
became this way. By “became this way”, it could only be referring
to her awful broken-legged miserable state. Xuan Ji was a female
General, to be on the battlefield, it would not have been possible for
her to be handicapped, which can only mean her legs were broken
after the fact. Could this have something to do with General Pei as
well? Could it be that when General Pei no longer found her useful
and tossed her aside, this was the very reason that led to her
resentment being so deep?
Although Xie Lian felt that having these thoughts were quite
tasteless, yet with Xuan Ji’s resentment so deep to the point she
would harm innocent lives……his thoughts may be vulgar, but he
could only force himself to continue thinking this way for the time
being.
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Suddenly, a woman’s scream came from outside the temple,
“Help! Help!”
Xie Lian and Xuan Ji glanced out the window at the same
time. What they saw was that within the white circle Ruoye had fallen
into, a person was dragging that bandaged teenager outwards. Little
Ying was firmly clinging onto that person’s leg without letting go,
causing that person to start raining curses.
It was in fact that youngster from before. “Scram! You moronic

trash, what if your shouts attract that female ghost over?”
Little Ying continued loudly, “If I shout her over then so be it!
You’re much worse than that ghost! I……I’d rather face that
female ghost than you!”　
As it turned out, the youngster that Xie Lian had knocked

unconscious with his silk had woken up. Seeing how his surroundings
were littered with fumbling deceased brides had frightened him at
first, however, he quickly took notice that they were all unable to
see. Emboldened and being all brawn and no brains, he had thought
that while the others were too scared to move, he would drag the
bandaged teenager down the mountain and claim the bounty for
himself.
He cared not whether the bandaged boy was in fact the ghost
bride groom. Since everyone below the mountain thought he was,
then he is. Who knew Little Ying would throw herself over at him,
shouting and screaming, startling all the brides roaming around as
well as Xuan Ji from within Ming Guang temple.
When Xie Lian saw and realized it was the youngster again, he
regret not being more ruthless. He should have been more ruthless
and knocked him out so he wouldn’t wake for another three days and
three nights.
Xie Lian shouted, “Hurry up and return to the circle!”
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When the youngster suddenly saw a black fog heading toward him,
he frantically withdrew.
But, he was dragging a bandaged teenager and his leg was being
clung onto by Little Ying. Thus, being a step too slow, he was
instantly swallowed up by the black fog and brought back into Xuan
Ji’s hands.
As he turned around to look, he thought: This messy long-haired,

gloomy woman, wasn’t she one of the corpse brides lying among the
group from before? The beautiful corpse that he had touched and
groped?
As things stand, the youngster finally knew to be afraid and started

screaming. Xuan Ji bent her five fingers, piercing through and
instantly ripping out his skull from within his thick scalp.
The stripped skull was piping hot, its mouth still agape in a scream.
“AHHHHHHH—!!!”
Within the protective white circle, the terrified bystanders who

nearly had their souls frightened out of their skins also began
screaming, “AHHHHH—!!!”
Little Ying was also terror stricken, screaming as she dragged that
bandage teenager into the circle. Xuan Ji reached out towards them
with five fingers extended again, but this time, Xie Lian darted in
front of her to block before saying, “General, cease this killing.”
He called her ‘General’, this was originally intended to remind her

that she was once a heroine who charged on the front-lines in the
battlefield to protect and defend in the name of her kingdom. Be that
as it may, Xuan Ji instantly crushed the still screaming skull in her
hand to pieces; with her beautiful face in that moment seeming quite
deformed. She sneered, “Is he afraid to come see me?”
Xie Lian was at a loss. He thought to himself, might as well pretend
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to be someone sent by General Pei first……yet Xuan Ji hadn’t needed
a reply. She laughed aloud a few times before she suddenly turned
around and pointed at that Godly statue, “I burn your temples and
stirred up trouble in your domain! All in hopes that you’d
come pay me a glance! I’ve waited for you for so many
years!”
She stared at that Godly statue in a daze for a long while, before
she suddenly leapt up, strangling its neck and shaking violently as
she screeched, “YET YOU STILL REFUSE TO COME SEE ME, IS IT
BECAUSE YOU FEEL GUILT TOWARDS ME?! LOOK AT MY
LEGS!!! LOOK AT MY APPEARANCE NOW! IT WAS ALL FOR
YOU, ALL FOR YOU!!! IS YOUR HEART MADE OF IRON?!” ”
As an outsider, Xie Lian did not think he had the right to comment.
However, according to his own feelings, he couldn’t help but think to
himself, “If you wanted to see him, couldn’t you have done it
in a more normal way? If there was someone who wanted to
see me using your methods, I wouldn’t want to come at all.”
On the other end, Little Ying and the bandaged teenager finally
returned to the circle and looked towards his direction. Little Ying
anxiously whispered, “Young lord……”
Upon hearing her, Xie Lian smiled, indicating that she need not
worry. But who would have known that this smile of his would cause
Xuan Ji’s face to instantly contort. Suddenly leaping down from the
Godly statue, she bolted over and said, “Since you don’t look at
me but instead like looking at other women who likes to
smile, I will slowly let you have your fill!”
Although the one she began strangling was Xie Lian, her words
were nevertheless directed at General Pei. Xie Lian originally thought
it was because Xuan Ji was not able to marry the one she loved, and
thus upon seeing those brides on the marriage sedans, smiling
happily, her heart became filled with jealousy
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But he’d never thought it would turn out to be because this
General Pei liked women who like to smile. In Xuan Ji’s deranged
state, she managed to distort the smiling brides to them getting
married to her beloved instead.
No wonder she had burned down all the Ming Guang temples below
the mountain. It must be because she could no longer bear to see all
these women coming and going, in and out of General Pei’s temple
all day, all the while sharing the same Godly statue as her. This
female ghost was worthy of being ranked ‘Wrath’.
Despite her broken legs, her speed was still so demonically fast.
Even after she had been hit by Ruoye, she still remained incredibly
strong. Xie Lian and her became stuck in a deadlock as she strangled
him. He was just about to call Ruoye over when he suddenly heard a
loud shout, “Ahhhhhhhhhhh—”
Despite her broken legs, her speed was still so demonically fast.
Even after she had been hit by Ruoye, she still remained incredibly
strong. Xie Lian and her became stuck in a deadlock as she strangled
him. He was just about to call Ruoye over when he suddenly heard a
loud shout, “Ahhhhhhhhhhh—”
When that young girl Little Ying saw his current predicament with
the female ghost, she swiftly picked up a branch from the ground and
charged over. As she was running, she began yelling loudly, as if this
would give herself more courage in the process.
Xuan Ji had no need to even make a move against Little Ying. She
only turned to look at her and the very next moment, Little Ying was
flung back backwards before she could even come close. She flew
several meters away with her head downwards, and body upwards,
before she smashed into the ground.
That bandaged teenager hoarsely cried “Ahhh” as he rushed over.

Xie Lian was also startled before sitting up. However, he suddenly felt
a chill from behind his head.
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Xuan Ji’s five fingers were already upon his head, as if she was just
about to rip his skull out of his scalp like she had done with the
youngster from before. In a moment of desperation, Xie Lian’s right
hand grabbed her wrist before shouting, “Bind!”　
Only the sound ‘shua shua’ burst into the air as a white strip of silk
immediately appeared. Ruoye wound itself around Xuan Ji, binding
her upper body, with her arms tied behind her back. Since Xuan Ji’s
legs were already broken, she was unable to dodge in time.
She fell heavily on her knees with a thump, then proceeded to roll
about on the ground in an attempt to break apart the white silk. Her
actions, however, only made Ruoye wound around her even more
tightly. Having barely escaped from this crisis, Xie Lian hadn’t even
caught his breath before he immediately got up and ran toward
where Little Ying had fallen.
With Ruoye having been called away by Xie Lian, there were still
people too wary to randomly move about. But there were also a few
villagers bold enough to have become used to those fumbling brides
and went to encircle Xie Lian and Little Ying.
That bandaged teenager knelt by Little Ying’s side, at a loss of

what to do. He was as anxious as if he was like a small bug on a hot
pot. No one dared to move her, because they were all worried she
may have broken something important. If they moved her now, it
could perhaps make her situation worse.
Xie Lian quickly checked her condition despite knowing in his heart
that no matter how careful they were around her, it would be
useless. With a fall like that, it was obvious she won’t live through it.
Even though his time spent with this girl, Little Ying, was not long,
not to mention, they didn’t converse that much either, but he knew
that despite her appearance being ugly, her heart was kind. For her
to have such an ending, it weighed heavily on one’s heart.
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Over on the other side, Xuan Ji shouldn’t be able to break away
from Ruoye for a little while longer. Within his heart, Xie Lian
thought, “Even if it’s useless, we can’t let her die in this
position.” So, he very carefully flipped her over.
Little Ying’s face was drenched in blood, causing everyone to sigh

and click their tongues at the sight. Yet, she still had a breath in her
left, so she quietly murmured: “……Young Lord, I turned out to
be more of a hindrance than a help, didn’t I……” 　　
Although she hadn’t helped the situation, she really wasn’t of

any real help either. At that moment, Xie Lian was already about to
call for Ruoye, so he wouldn’t have needed any help. And as for that
branch of hers, even if she somehow managed to land a hit on Xuan
Ji, it wouldn’t have resulted in anything at all. What’s more, it would
have been impossible for her to have approached that female ghost
in the first place. So truth to be told, she had thrown away her life in
vain.
Xie Lian said, “You didn’t. You helped a lot. Look, only after
you came over and drew away the female ghost’s attention,
did I have the time to subdue her. It was all thanks to you.
However, next time, you can’t be like this. If you want to
help, you have to tell me first. Otherwise, if I didn’t react in
time, it may end up disastrous.”
Although she hadn’t helped the situation, she really wasn’t of

any real help either. At that moment, Xie Lian was already about to
call for Ruoye, so he wouldn’t have needed any help. And as for that
branch of hers, even if she somehow managed to land a hit on Xuan
Ji, it wouldn’t have resulted in anything at all. What’s more, it would
have been impossible for her to have approached that female ghost
in the first place. So truth to be told, she had thrown away her life in
vain.
Xie Lian said, “You didn’t. You helped a lot. Look, only after
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you came over and drew away the female ghost’s attention,
did I have the time to subdue her. It was all thanks to you.
However, next time, you can’t be like this. If you want to
help, you have to tell me first. Otherwise, if I didn’t react in
time, it may end up disastrous.”
Little Ying smiled and said with a sigh, “Young lord, you don’t
need to humor me. I know that I did not help at all, nor will
there be a next time.”
Her words became muffled as she coughed up more blood. Within

the drops of red were a couple of teeth that had broken off. The
bandaged teenager was anxious to the point of trembling and could
only cry, unable to think of anything to say.
Little Ying said to him, “In the future, don’t go down the
mountain to steal food again. If they find you, and beat you
to death, you’ll be done for.”
Xie Lian spoke, “If he gets hungry, he can come find me for
food.”
Upon hearing his words, Little Ying’s eyes immediately lit up,
“……Really? Then, then thank you very much……”
As she smiled, tears slowly trickled down from her small eyes.
Softly, she said, “I feel as though my entire life, there

weren’t many days where I lived happy.”
Xie Lian also didn’t know what to say, and gently patted her hand.
Little Ying sighed, “Oh well, forget it. I might just be
someone……born unlucky.”
Her words sounded a little laughable. Furthermore, due to her

crooked nose and slanted eyes, she was so ugly that it was truly a bit
comical. With blood and tears running down her cheeks, it also
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looked quite funny.
As tears streamed down, Little Ying continued to speak, “But still,

even so, I still……I still……”
Having said that, the young girl took her last breath and passed
away. That bandaged teenager saw that she had died, and so he
hugged her dead body and began to quietly sob. His head burrowed
into her stomach, as if because he had lost his only support, he
refused to lift his head up ever again.
Xie Lian reached over and closed her eyes, before silently telling
her from his heart, “You are much stronger than I.”
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Chapter 11 Part 2
Source: Imported
Right at this moment, the bizarre sound of a clock could be heard.
“Dong!” “Dong!” “Dong!” Three chimes echoed loudly. Xie Lian

was instantly overcome with a bout of dizziness. He asked, “What is
going on?”　　
When he surveyed his surroundings again, the brides all swayed

before falling to the ground. Only their arms were still raised,
pointing at the sky. The villagers also fell and did not rise again. It
was as if they had all lost consciousness from the quake of the ear-
splitting clock chimes.
Xie Lian also felt a bit dizzy. With one hand on his forehead, he
exerted himself to stand up, only for his legs to go weak before he
half knelt on the ground. Luckily, someone supported him. When he
raised his head up to see who, he discovered it was Nan Feng.
As it turned out, after the seven brides entered the forest, they had
dispersed in separate directions. Nan Feng basically had to scour the
entire mountain to catch them all and had just returned. Seeing his
calm demeanor, Xie Lian immediately asked, “What’s with the
bell?”
Nan Feng said to him, “Need not worry, they are

reinforcements.”
Following his line of sight, Xie Lian suddenly discovered that a row
of soldiers had appeared in front of Ming Guang Temple.
This row of soldiers all wore armor, glowing in divine power as

mighty aura faintly radiated from them. At the very front stood a tall
and handsome young general. It was clear he wasn’t an ordinary
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person. That general walked over with his hands clasped behind his
back. Once he was in front of Xie Lian, he bowed slightly, and said,
“Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
Before Xie Lian was even able to open his mouth to inquire, Nan
Feng said in a low voice, “This is General Pei.”
Xie Lian immediately glanced at Xuan Ji who was on the ground,

and repeated, “General Pei?”
This General Pei wasn’t quite what he imagined, nor was he similar
to the Godly statue at all. That Godly statue was flourishing with
heroism, while his countenance overflowing with arrogance. It was an
invasive and powerful type of handsomeness. Meanwhile, although
this young general was also quite handsome, his appearance was
fair, while his countenance looked peaceful like a cold jade. Void of
any killing intent, and full of undisturbed calmness. You could say he
was a general, yet it wouldn’t be strange if somehow claimed he was
a strategizing minister instead.
General Pei saw Xuan Ji on the ground and spoke, “Ling Wen
Palace Hall notified us that the situation of Mount Yu Jun has
rather a lot to do with us Ming Guang Palace, so this
subordinate hurried over. I did not expect that it really does
have a rather deep relationship with us. For your trouble, you
have my gratitude, Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
Xie Lian thanked Ling Wen in his heart. In what way had Ling Wen
Palace’s efficiency decreased?? “I thank you for your troubles as
well, General Pei.”
But when Xuan Ji, in her struggles, vaguely heard the words
“General Pei”, she suddenly raised her head and fervently shouted,
“Pei Lang, Pei Lang! Is it you, have you come? Have you
finally come?”
Having been tied up by Ruoye, no matter how wild she was with
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joy, she could only kneel up. Yet who would have expected her to
take in the sight of the General, only to go pale in the face, “Who
are you?!”　　
On Xie Lian’s side, he was giving Nan Feng a summary of what the
situation was with the ghost bridegroom. When he heard her
question, he asked, “Isn’t this General Pei? Has she waited so
long that she can’t recognize him anymore?”
Nan Feng answered, “He is General Pei. But not the one she
has been waiting for.”
Xie Lian found it strange. “Don’t tell me there are two General
Peis?”
But Nan Feng answered, “That’s right, there indeed are two!”
As it turned out, the General Pei this female ghost Xuan Ji was
waiting for was Ming Guang Temple’s main god, while the one in
front of them was the deputy god. He was also someone from
General Pei’s family’s successor. To differentiate them when they
were called, everyone called this one “Little General Pei”. In a
proper Ming Guang Temple, it was necessary to honour them with
both positive and reversed moon blocks1.
General Pei was the main god of the temple, so his god statues
faced the temple doors. Little General Pei’s god statues were
positioned behind his. However, although one was from a previous
generation and the other from a later generation, they looked as if
they were brothers. But for two people from the same family
ascending, it could be regarded as a very odd story that captured
one’s imagination.
Xuan Ji looked around but still did not find the person she wanted
to see among the soldiers. She bleakly asked, “Where is Pei Ming?
Why did he not come? Why did he not come see me?”
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Little General Pei nodded his head slightly, answering, “General
Pei is occupied with an important matter.”
Little General Pei nodded his head slightly, answering, “General

Pei is occupied with an important matter.”
Xuan Ji mumbled, “Important matter?”
Under her long hair, her tears started to fall as she said, “I’ve
waited for him for centuries, what important matter does he
have? Back then, in order to see me, he would cross half of
the border in a single night, so what important matter could
he have now? So important that he wouldn’t even be willing
to see me once? An important matter? He doesn’t actually
have one right?”
Little General Pei said, “General Xuan Ji, please be on your

way2.”
Two soldiers of Ming Guang Temple broke formation and walked

over. Ruoye swiftly leapt from Xuan Ji and wound around Xie Lian’s
wrist affectionately. Xie Lian softly patted it twice to comfort it.
Xuan Ji allowed those two soldiers to grab her as she knelt there in
a daze. Then, abruptly, she started to struggle, pointing towards the
sky as she cursed, “Pei Ming! I curse you!”
Her cry was very sharp. Xie Lian stared blankly before he thought
to himself, “Isn’t this cursing the predecessor while in front of
their successor?”
But that Little General Pei kept a straight face and said, “Please
excuse this scene.”
Xuan Ji continued to shout herself hoarse, “I curse you, you

better never fall in love with anyone. Otherwise, if such a day
comes, I curse you to be like me, forevermore and for all
eternity, to be endlessly scorched by love! Let the fire sear
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through your entire body and very being!”
At this time, Little General Pei said to Xie Lian and the others,
“Please excuse my rudeness and wait a moment.” He lifted two
fingers and lightly pressed them to his temple. This gesture was what
activated the spirit communication array, so he must be
communicating with someone. After a moment, he let out a
“hmmm”, lowered his hand and returned them clasped behind his
back. He turned toward Xuan Ji and said, “General Pei would like
me to pass on a message—’That is impossible.’”
Xuan Ji screeched, “I curse you—!!!”
Little Pei General slightly raised his hand, and ordered, “Take her
away.”
Two soldiers picked up the crazily struggling Xuan Ji and dragged

her away. Xie Lian asked, “Little General Pei, may I ask, how will
Xuan Ji be dealt with?”
Two soldiers picked up the crazily struggling Xuan Ji and dragged

her away. Xie Lian asked, “Little General Pei, may I ask, how will
Xuan Ji be dealt with?”
Little Pei General answered, “She will be restrained beneath a

mountain.”
Finding a mountain to restrain her, this was indeed the method

often used by the heavens to deal with demons and ghosts. After
muttering to himself for a while, Xie Lian still said, “This General
Xuan Ji’s resentment is rather heavy. Since she’s constantly thinking
about the hatred from committing treason against her kingdom and
how her legs were broken because of General Pei, I’m afraid that
suppressing her won’t last long.
Little General Pei titled his head, and said, “She said she
committed treason and broke her legs due to General Pei?”
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Xie Lian answered, “She indeed said before, that it was
because of General Pei that she ended up in her current
state. As for what the truth is, I do not know.”
Little General Pei spoke, “If it is to be said that way, then

sure. It is true she committed treason for General Pei. But
the details may differ to what other people may think. After
herself and General Pei had parted ways, in order to urge him
to stay, General Xuan Ji did not hesitate to offer up military
intelligence. However, General Pei was unwilling to accept
this unfair advantage and did not take her offer.”
……Xie Lian would have never thought that her, ‘I betrayed my

country for you’, was actually like this. He asked, “Then when she
said her legs were broken because of General Pei..….?”
Little General Pei answered, “She broke her own legs herself.”
……She broke them herself?
Little General Pei answered, flat and unwavering, “General Pei

does not like strong-minded women, and Xuan Ji’s natural
disposition is strong-willed. This is why they could not stay
together for long. General Xuan Ji was unwilling to let go, so
she said to General Pei that she was willing make sacrifices
and change herself. Thus, she voluntarily abolished her
martial arts and broke her own two legs. In this way, she did
the equivalent of breaking both her wings and tying herself
to General Pei. Despite all this, General Pei didn’t abandon
her. He took her in and looked after her, yet, he still wouldn’t
take her as his wife. Because General Xuan Ji’s long-
cherished wish could not be fulfilled, she killed herself in
hate. Not for any other reason, but only to make General Pei
feel sad and aggrieved. But, forgive me for speaking so
bluntly—”
Little General Pei’s speech had been rather refined and courteous
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from beginning to end. With an overly calm expression he said, “But
that will not happen.”
Xie Lian rubbed his forehead. He didn’t speak out loud, but he
thought to himself, “Just what kind of people are they?”
Little General Pei spoke again, “For who was in the right or
wrong, I do not know. I only know that if General Xuan Ji had
originally been willing to let go, it wouldn’t have ended this
way. Your Highness Crown Prince, this subordinate shall take
my leave.”
Xie Lian returned the fist and palm salute and saw them off. Nan
Feng gave his personal evaluation, “Weirdos.”
Little General Pei spoke again, “For who was in the right or
wrong, I do not know. I only know that if General Xuan Ji had
originally been willing to let go, it wouldn’t have ended this
way. Your Highness Crown Prince, this subordinate shall take
my leave.”
Xie Lian returned the fist and palm salute and saw them off. Nan
Feng gave his personal evaluation, “Weirdos.”
Xie Lian thought to himself, he himself was also a laughingstock in

the three realms, a famous weirdo; it was not his place to critique
other people. As for the matter between General Pei and Xuan Ji,
unless one was directly involved, it was better not to comment on
who was right or wrong. He could only pity those seventeen innocent
brides, the military officials and drivers who had escorted them. It
truly was an unexpected disaster.
Speaking of the brides, he immediately turned around to take a

look, only to see that the dead bodies of the seventeen brides were
all showing different stages of change. While some turned into white
bones, others started to rot and emit a strong foul stench. The odor
woke everyone on the ground. When the villagers slowly came to
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their senses and took in the situation, it was another round of great
alarm and shock.
Xie Lian took this chance to ramble at them and scatter some
doctrine about good and bad karma retribution. He told everyone
that once they went down the mountain, they must pray a lot for the
brides. In addition, they should try to think of ways to notify the
brides’ family so that their corpses could be claimed. They definitely
should not do anything shady like selling the corpses or any other
shameful deeds.
After experiencing such a core-shaking night, and without a leader

stirring up trouble, how could anyone listening dare to say otherwise?
One after another, they all agreed while trembling with fear. They all
felt as if they had all undergone a nightmare. Only then did they
realize how they had all acted as if they were possessed last night.
With so many dead, how could they still only have thoughts full of
earning money?
Thinking back, they all felt terrified of themselves. Last night, since
everyone did it, they relied on the fact that they were big in numbers
and that there had been someone taking the lead. Thus, their
muddle-headed selves rushed along with the flow. Now, still with
lingering fear in their hearts, it was best to obediently repent and
pray for blessings.
Dawn has yet to rise. Within the mountain, there were still wolf
packs waiting to cause trouble. Nan Feng had only just ran a lap
around the mountain, but he was already tasked to lead a large
group of people off the mountain. In spite of that, he made no
complaints, and agreed with Xie Lian to discuss that forest of hanging
corpses and its follow-up arrangements together later.
After that bandaged teenager woke up, he sat once more by Little
Ying’s corpse, hugging her. Without saying anything. Xie Lian also
went to sit next to him. After racking his brain for a while and just as
he about to say something comforting, he suddenly noticed that the
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bandaged teenager’s head was bleeding.
If it was the blood from the corpse forest, it should have dried
already. But this blood was still flowing without pause so it could only
be that he was injured. Immediately, Xie Lian said to him, “Your
head is injured, take off your bandages and let me help you
take a look.”
That teenager slowly raised his head, his two bloodshot eyes
looking at him as he hesitated timidly. Xie Lian gave a small smile,
and told him, “Don’t be afraid. If you are injured, it must be
treated. I promise I won’t be frightened by you.”
That teenager hesitated for a moment, then turned around and

slowly unwrapped the bandages on his head. His movements were
very slow, and Xie Lian waited patiently for him. He was already
thinking over what he should ask next. ‘This teenager definitely could
not stay at Mount Yu Jun, but where could he go? It was not like he
could return to Heaven with me. Not even I know when my next meal
will appear, so I need to think of a dependable arrangement to settle
him down somewhere. Furthermore, there’s Qing Hui, Qi Rong……’
At this point, that teenager had finished taking off his bandages

and turned around.
And when Xie Lian clearly took in that face, he felt as if in that split
second, all the blood in his body drained away.
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Chapter 12 Part 1
Thank you to Rehmiel for the coffee!
Long chapter this weekend! Heads up though, our poor translation

checker/editor Maru got pretty sick during their trip and only
managed to edit the first half of part two, so I got a friend who did a
quick skim translation check! Maru said they were sorry and that
they’ll come back to re-tlc after they’re better, so please check back
in for the better and improved version then haha!
Anyway, this chapter is super long and was supposed to be split

into two parts, but everyone said they wanted to get them at the
same time so here it is! Please enjoy!!

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Chapter 12 Part 2
And here’s part two! Once again, Maru was down with a fever and
couldn’t do the second half of this, so it might not be as pretty!
Please check back in in a week or so and they’ll make the second half
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Chapter 13
Thank you to Syeki, PTchan and Nicole for the coffees!
Ugh, I’m currently typing this at near 3AM. This would have been
up a couple of hours earlier had my suite-mate not blasted her radio
at 1:30AM and I had to try and ask them to not??? This university
residence and its customer service is terrible. This roommate of mine
blasts her music so loudly that you can hear it loud and clear through
2 closed doors and 3 walls down (according to the suite-mate living
furthest away from her — I unfortunately live right beside her and I
swear the decibel levels are like a rock concert) at odd hours like
2AM and 4AM and 5AM etc, but the manager told us we needed to
‘compromise’ and stuff (compromise what?? my sleeping time???)
and now the manager went on vacation for two weeks so I can’t even
contact him to complain. They make us pay $2600 per month for a
tiny room and an apartment suite I share with 3 people, and this is
the customer service they give me?? SCREAMS.
Anyway, enough about my horrible suite-mate and my lack of

sleep. This chapter, we meet a certain special someone! Hope
everyone is excited for it~

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Chapter 14
Thanks to PTchan for the coffee!
Exams are right around the corner, but the good news is that we
have a new translator joining for this project. Everyone, please
welcome Lily! Both Lily and I have finals in December (although a bit
staggered) and Maru is going on a trip for a week so we can’t
guarantee quicker updates this month, but we’ll see if we can step
up our game after finals hell pass!
In any case, let’s give a warm welcome to dear Lily!!
This chapter is slightly shorter than usual, but the next chapter is
slightly longer so it should make up for it, haha.

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Chapter 15
Thanks to Nicole for the coffee!!
OMG formatting this chapter was a headache, it’s footnote galore

so please prepare yourselves. We did a lot of researching for this
chapter!
Also, once again, please welcome Lily to our team! The bulk of this
chapter was actually translated by her and she did a fabulous job!
Both Lily and I just finished final exams so hopefully we can start
cranking out those chapters, no promises but chapter 16 should
come soon too! Maru did a beautiful job translation checking and
special thanks to my friend and Maru’s mum (real MVP!) for clearing
up iffy parts with us!! Hopefully, this chapter will read as smooth as
butter even with all the Chinese aspects thrown in~
It’s pretty late now so I’ll leave it at that (I swear I spent like an
hour+ just formatting this chapter LOL). Please enjoy the chapter
everyone!!
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Chapter 16
Thank you to Lianhua, scplusts, and Nicole for the coffees!!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone who celebrates

Christmas or whatever else you celebrate!! Many thanks to the rest
of the HOB team for maso’ing and dying over this chapter so we can
get it out on Christmas, I’ve worked you guys hard QAQ~
My mouse is still faulty af so formatting this chapter has been a

challenge. I can’t wait for boxing day tomorrow so I can get a better
mouse. I’ve been eyeing one that goes on sale tomorrow, so
everyone, please pray to Xie Lian for me that it doesn’t run out
before I buy one or something .
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Chapter 17
Thank you to Joseph, Emma, and Shanron for the coffees!
Hi everybody, we’re back with the next offering of HOB! 3 Many

thanks to the team + eik for helping with the quality check since I’m
as sick and miserably as a wet, soggy tissue paper rip.
Nothing much to say this time except that school is starting again
LOL rip. At least for me and Lily (I actually have to go to my first
lecture in like……a few hours rip PRAY FOR ME I’LL GO CHUG THAT
CAFFEINE)! People, please pray to Xie Lian for me that I’ll survive
Advanced Organic Chemistry, and that Lily will kick ass in school too!
(And that Maru will kick ass at work LOL)
Did anyone notice the website’s new makeover? Getting ready for
Chinese New Year, hahaha~

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Chapter 18
Good morning, it’s 5AM and I need to be up in a couple of hours for

my first lecture of my horrible 5 hours of straight lectures on Monday.
:))
pls don’t ask me why i’m not sleeping screams
Anyway, hope everyone enjoys this chapter! Many thanks to Maru

for the quick TLC~ Also, we get to see some old friends, please look
forward to it~

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Chapter 19
Many thanks to Mumunyan, rin, and Somebody for the coffees!

QAQ 3
Sorry for being late with this, wanted to get this out together with
Halo but it didn’t happen rip. Halo should be out tomorrow, my editor
literally only has two paragraphs left to edit haha. Also, like always,
thanks to the HOB team + eik for helping get this chapter out!
Its like past 3AM now and I can’t sleep until I finish 4 hours of orgo
chem……even though I only slept 3 hours yesterday so I’m dead
right now lol sooooo I’ll keep it short and sweet today. Good
night/morning everyone hahahaha……

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Chapter 20 Part 1
Many thanks to Robo and Chel for the coffee! (I really needed them
this week omfg)
Hey guys, here’s the chap! For those that weren’t informed by
Sakhyulations’ twitter , the entire team were caught up with real life
last week (I had midterms, Lily was mia and Maru had complicated
fam issues), which is why this is a bit late. Sorry everyone! ;w;
That being said I just had my advanced organic chemistry midterm

an hour ago and our whole class collectively died. Like wow. I would
feel extremely depressed right now but it was an 8am midterm and I
was awake by 6am so I feel too sleepy to feel sad LMAO. In fact, after
I post this I should nap till my afternoon classes before I drop dead
during my 2 hour commute home kjashdkdh.
In any case, because chapter 20 is pretty long (and chapter 21 is

even longer holy smokes), its split into two! We’ll try to get the
second part up soon! Special thanks to eik who helped me check the
translation a second time since I had been too busy, I love you fren!!
;w;

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Chapter 20 Part 2
Thank you to kami, Brook Murphy and all the Anons for the much-
needed coffees!!
Hi everyone, sorry for the super long wait! Some things came up
this week for both me and Maru, but we finally finalized this chapter
today so here it is! Thank you all for being so supportive and patient
during my midterm seasons QAQ. I really appreciate it!! Also, special
thanks to eik for doing the preliminary tlc checks over this since I was
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Chapter 21 Part 1
Many thanks to Haku and 嗎零 for the coffees!!
Sorry for the long wait, everybody! Spent the last few days dying in
university because of midterms. Exams are coming up again and I’m
already feeling spent Please let school end soon. Anyway, special
thanks to Maru, who you know as our darling translation checker. We
ended up switching roles (so they translated this chapter while I
translation checked) since I was so busy Maru is the real mvp!! We
had some delays because of school and because of Maru’s
photoshoot, but the only reason we even got this part of the chapter
out now is because of them!
That being said, this is a really long chapter (11k characters when
usual BL novel chapters are 3k rip. MXTX has more 4k character
chapters though), so it’ll be split up. Thanks for everyone’s patience!!
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Chapter 21 Part 2
Thank you to the Anon for the coffee! 3
Here’s the next chapter! Sorry for being a day late, there had been
a few iffy parts we had to review before deeming it ready to be
posted. Also, my exams are starting in 3 days (my exam schedule is
actually like, one on the 6th, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 23rd, and 26th), so
please expect an update in the bigger gaps in between rip. Like, if all
goes well, I’ll be able to update sometime around the 10th…please
wish me a lot of luck ahahaha.
I’m actually posting this in class right now (I translation-checked

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Chapter 21 Part 3
Thank you to NatalyNovak, kou and the anons for the coffees! QAQ
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AHHH GUYS I’M BACK FROM THE WAR. ;;w;; Thanks to everyone for
being so patient! Finally done year two of university, but haha
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Chapter 22
Thanks to everyone for the coffees ;w;
Sorry, kind of short on time right now. I just finished midterms (I

know, I just finished finals and then I got plunged into summer school
and midterms…I hate myself, why did I think this was a good idea
again?) and I have an anime con to go to in the morning, so I really
should have been asleep like…3 hours ago LMAO. I’m going to be so
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Here is chapter 22! Small changes to note – instead of the Kindred

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Heaven Oﬃcial’s Blessing

Author(s): Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 墨香铜臭

ASIANOVEL VERSION: 3.9

More info and chapters:

Anyway, a while back I noticed that the previous TL Snail

LOL though spent over 10 hours on the ﬁrst chapter……the author

And like always, if you wish to support me please and/or turn oﬀ

Here’s the ﬁrst chapter!

The First Arc: Bloody Rain Reaching Towards a Flower

“Congratulations, Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince.”

Xie Lian responded immediately, “ time, if there’s another list

Ling Wen asked, “Do you know who is in second place?”

Ling Wen answered, “That’s more or less right. There isn’t a

Ling Wen responded, “You can think of it as luckily winning

Xie Lian replied, “Everyone expects it.”

Ling Wen replied, “I didn’t point in the wrong direction. It’s

Ling Wen responded, “You’re right not to see it. Originally,

“That clock was even older than you. Nevertheless, it had a

Xie Lian asked, “This… Then, are they okay now?”

Ling Wen: “No, they’re still being repaired…”

Xie Lian: “I’m referring to the Heavenly Oﬃcial who was

Ling Wen responded, “If you see something, that means

“When you ascended, many Heavenly Oﬃcials’ golden

“You’re responsible for it.”

“Uh…” Xie Lian asked to conﬁrm, “Did I happen to oﬀend

Ling Wen answered, “If you can redeem yourself, then

“What can I do to redeem myself?”

“That’s easy to answer. Eight million, eight hundred and

Xie Lian smiled again.

Ling Wen said, “Of course, I know even one-tenth of that is

Xie Lian replied in a frank and genuine manner, “How do I say

The conviction of believers in the secular world could be converted

Ling Wen stated, “I am a literature god. If you want someone

Xie Lian heaved a deep sigh. “Allow me to think about what to

If it was eight hundred years ago, during Xian Le nation’s most

It was needless to say more. He just had nothing, nothing, not a

“Place your bets, no take-backs! Come bet how long our

“I bet one year!”

“Don’t ah, you dunce! Three days have almost gone by

… Xie Lian silently left the array.

Wrong place. It deﬁnitely couldn’t be this one.

The deities in Heaven were all big-shot Heavenly Oﬃcials who

After he had retreated from the previous array, he began randomly

At that moment, he heard a voice lightly say, “Your Royal

At ﬁrst, this sound was extremely comfortable to hear. The voice

Originally, Xie Lian had wanted to enter the array in a restrained

How would he know that after this one question and

That Heavenly Oﬃcial continued to speak in a leisurely manner,

Within Heaven, it could even be said that monarchs were walking

If one wished to become an immortal god, they must ﬁrst become

However, the Heavenly Oﬃcial didn’t give him a chance to escape.

Suddenly, Xie Lian heard a whisper from Ling Wen.

She only said a single word, “Clock.”

The other snorted once, making it impossible for anyone to tell

Xie Lian asked, “Xuan Zhen?”

He choked up in a ﬂash before ﬁnally reacting as he sent a

Xie Lian replied, “I really didn’t recognize him. Back then, he

It remained silent within the spirit communication array. Mu Qing

When it came to these two, it was relatively awkward. After so

At the other end, Ling Wen said, “He’s really angry.”

Xie Lian replied, “I guessed that too.”