CH 122

Chapter 122: He’s Not Coming Back.

Three months after meeting Qi Ci, however, Qi Ci unexpectedly told him: “I have to go.”

Bian Zhonghua grabbed Qi Ci’s wrist and asked anxiously: “Where are you going? Will you come back?”

Qi Ci felt that he couldn’t tell Bian Zhonghua about the matter of the Ghost Domain, so he didn’t elaborate much. He simply said: “Don’t be afraid. Even if I’m not by your side, I’ll always protect you.”

‘Since I’ll be protecting everyone once I enter the Ghost Domain, I’ll also be protecting Bian Zhonghua.’

However, Bian Zhonghua said: “How so? You won’t be by my side, so all the things you’re saying are nothing but empty, pompous, and stupid words.”

Qi Ci, sensing that Bian Zhonghua was angry, didn’t dare to say more. After hesitating for a moment, Qi Ci finally said: “I have to go.”

After a long silence, Bian Zhonghua asked again: “Will you come back for me?”

Qi Ci didn’t reply.

‘I won’t come back.’

‘I can’t come back.’

Bian Zhonghua let go of his wrist and resolutely said: “Alright, tell me where you’ll go. Since you don’t want to come back, I’ll go look for you myself.”

Qi Ci, thinking that Bian Zhonghua would forget about him over the years, decided not to hide this information from him: “Ghost Domain, on Mount Dushuo.”

Bian Zhonghua replied confidently: “Alright, wait for me to come find you.”

After the two young men embraced each other and bid farewell to each other, Bian Zhonghua continued to cultivate on Zhuolu Mountain. A while later, Bian Zhonghua met the Immortal Lord Zhenwu. From then on, Bian Zhonghua carried the heavy burden of having to seal the Four Fierce Beasts on his shoulders.

Under the teachings of Immortal Lord Zhenwu, Bian Zhonghua gradually grew up to adulthood. After cultivating for hundreds of years, Bian Zhonghua finally lived up to everyone’s expectations and sealed the Four Fierce Beasts. Because of this, he was crowned as the ‘Demon Emperor’ by the world that had finally obtained peace thanks to him.

After sealing the Four Fierce Beasts, Bian Zhonghua began to travel around the world. He traveled to the ends of the earth and got rid of any demons and evil spirits he encountered along the way. Because of this, the entire world began to believe that Demon Emperor Zhonghua was fighting for the justice and peace of the world.

However, the reality was that Bian Zhonghua wasn’t doing it with that intention.

In fact, he was looking for someone. If anything, he was merely running into evil and unpleasant beings along the way.

The journey was extremely long, and Bian Zhonghua traveled all the way from the southern mountains to the northern sea.

One way or another, Bian Zhonghua traveled far and wide and witnessed many deaths and people being separated by death. There wasn’t a single day when Bian Zhonghua didn’t sigh wondering in vain why he still kept the promise to find him.

Eventually, Bian Zhonghua found some records about the Nine Sons of the Dragon King in a tattered ancient book.

Bian Zhonghua still remembered that the young man had once told him that he was Chiwen, the ninth son of the Dragon King.

Therefore, Bian Zhonghua searched for him following the information in this ancient book.

At last, Bian Zhonghua succeeded in finding that mountain of sea Immortals in the middle of nothingness, amidst an ethereal white mist.

However, no matter how much Bian Zhonghua searched, he still wasn’t able to find the Ghost Domain recorded in the ancient book.

Bian Zhonghua stood on top of the mountain and looked around, feeling completely bewildered and lost.

He searched for so long, for so many years, and still he was unable to find the person he longed for.

‘Is it time for me to give up?’

Demon Emperor Zhonghua, whom the entire world admired, took out a packet of candied plums that he always carried with him wherever he went and gloomily said, “If you don’t come now, I will eat them all and not leave you a single one.”

As soon as he said those words, a big crack formed in front of Bian Zhonghua. From one moment to the next, a powerful burst of foul-smelling blood erupted from the crack, only then to be followed by a man falling from it and slamming heavily against Bian Zhonghua. At the same time, a demon-eyed monster fell from the crack, who instantly jumped into the air and disappeared.

After all that happened, the crack closed and everything went back to normal.

Bian Zhonghua was blinded by the blow. When he came back to his senses, he found that he was being crushed by a man covered in blood.

The man’s consciousness was chaotic and broken. So much so that he even intended to chase after the demon who had escaped from the Ghost Domain. However, he staggered several times without being able to get up. Eventually, he fell to the ground and lost consciousness from physical exhaustion.

“Hey, buddy, are you alright?” Bian Zhonghua patted the man’s shoulder, but he soon realized that it was becoming impossible for him to maintain his human form. Because of this, the man gradually took the form of a creature with the head of a Dragon and the body of a fish.

It was Chiwen.

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Bian Zhonghua’s eyes widened open like saucers, and his hands began to tremble uncontrollably.

If searching for him didn’t count as fate, then fate might be that they would eventually meet again anyway.

In this life, this obsession would ultimately lead them to their predestined fate.

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After entering the Ghost Domain, Qi Ci didn’t meet Fu Xi or his other siblings.

What awaited Qi Ci there were fierce spirits, a sea of blood, and an endless darkness.

Qi Ci, however, thought that Fu Xi had perhaps already ascended as an Immortal.

Therefore, all he needed to do was to get rid of the evil spirits that still lingered in the Ghost Domain. Only then could he one day see his siblings again, whom he longed for so dearly.

Therefore, day and night, Qi Ci began to fight endlessly with the evil spirits in the sea of blood inside the Ghost Domain.

As the evil spirits in the Ghost Domain fell, one by one, they vanished. However, at the same time, Qi Ci’s body received heavier and heavier injuries. Eventually, Qi Ci began to lose all consciousness, to the point of only knowing that he had to kill, kill, and kill. At some point, he stopped thinking of anything else.

Sometime later, Qi Ci came across a demonic creature that was hideously ugly and was covered with odd eyes. It looked extremely savage.

As Qi Ci fought against this demon, somehow, the demon managed to open the Ghost Domain and pushed Qi Ci out!

Qi Ci, who had been exhausted for a long time already, remembered bumping into someone and fainting right after.

When Qi Ci woke up again, he didn’t know where he was. However, when he looked up, Qi Ci noticed that there was a young man resting in front of his bed.

When the young man opened his eyes, his eyes lit up with joy: “You finally woke up! Do you still remember me?”

However, due to the fact that Qi Ci had devoted himself to killing the evil spirits day and night non-stop for many years, he had long since forgotten that he had visited the human world. Qi Ci looked at Bian Zhonghua cautiously and asked: “I’ve never seen you, how could I remember you?”

Bian Zhonghua: “…..”

Bian Zhonghua was furious.

‘I’ve tried so hard for so many years to find you, and it wasn’t easy to track you down. But now that I finally have you by my side, you tell me that you have never seen me in your life?’

The angered Demon Emperor Zhonghua threw a packet of candied plums at Qi Ci and left the room. Bian Zhonghua was determined not to speak to Qi Ci for a full hour.

Qi Ci was unaware of what the young man had thrown at him, but he soon put it aside after confirming that it was nothing dangerous. Then, he used the entire hour he was left alone to remember who he was and what his fate was.

‘I’m the ninth son of the Dragon, Chiwen. My fate is to get rid of the evil spirits in the Ghost Domain, and then reunite with my siblings.’

After thinking about this, Qi Ci immediately panicked.

‘Oh no! Nine hundred years haven’t even passed yet and I’ve left the Ghost Domain?! Not only that, but I’ve let a demon get away?!’

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Despite his injuries, Qi Ci was in a frenzy to leave.

Right at that moment, Bian Zhonghua arrived to stop him. Bian Zhonghua then asked him in a low voice: “You’ve lived in Mount Dushuo all your life, are you even familiar with this world?”

Qi Ci: “…..”

“Do you even know how to travel from Magpie Mountain to Yanmen Pass?”

Qi Ci: “…..”

“Are the Qilian quicksand to the south of the East Sea or to the south of the West Sea?”

Qi Ci: “…..”

“Since you don’t know any of that, where do you plan to go?”

Qi Ci: “…..”

Bian Zhonghua picked up the packet of oil paper that Qi Ci had put aside, opened it and took several candied plums. After throwing them into his mouth, Bian Zhonghua said: “Don’t worry, I’ve already sent someone to find the whereabouts of the demon that ran away. Do you want to eat?”

After saying that, Bian Zhonghua handed the oil paper packet with the candied plums to Qi Ci.

“What is that? Who are you?” Qi Ci stared at Bian Zhonghua and asked.

Bian Zhonghua faintly raised his eyes to look at Qi Ci with a somewhat weak gaze.

Bian Zhonghua now knew for sure that Qi Ci had forgotten about him.

‘He has forgotten all about me.’

‘Although I don’t know why…..’

‘Due to my own greed to not be apart from him, I spent all those days and nights searching tirelessly for him. However, all those painstaking efforts I went through, and all those deep feelings I felt for him, they now seem so ridiculous when I hear him say: Who are you?’

Bian Zhonghua looked down in defeat. But all of a sudden, he looked up again with a big smile on his face.

‘Even if it’s ridiculous, so what? At least I found him.’

Therefore, Bian Zhonghua curved his eyes in a smile and said: “Forget it, I’ll tell you everything again. But this time, try to remember everything very well, okay? Don’t forget it again.”