Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
In the city of Youxiong, the capital of New Yu, the streets were crowded with people, many of whom were itinerant immortals and cultivators in daoist robes.
It was impossible to see immortals and cultivators in Liangzhu. But here, some immortals were even absorbed into the army and various government offices. It was said that dozens of immortal sects led by Gold Immortals had brought all their disciples to New Yu. The Gold Immortals had become important courtiers in the court while their disciples were naturally enjoying a superior status in the city.
Wu Qi swaggered into Youxiong wearing a daoist robe with a seven-stars sword made of turtle shell carried on his back, and a ruyi scepter forged of purple gold and inlaid with seven different types of gemstones stuck out of his collar. Yet, no one questioned him at all. The soldiers stationed at the gates turned a blind eye to him, and their superior even smiled brightly at him. Wu Qi was disgusted by his flattering manner.
Such a thing would never happen in Great Yu. Even if one were a high official of a province, when one passed through the city gates, the soldiers and officers stationed there would not give him or her any privilege because of his or her official position. Instead, they would seriously ask to stop one’s chariot and go through an inspection. They were old-fashioned, but they were simple and honest; their faces would never have such flattering, lowly smiles.
The streets of the city were crowded with countless men and women, some of whom were openly flirting. Although it was daytime, women in gorgeous clothes were winking at passing men outside several elaborate buildings built of fragrant wood. Wu Qi could not help feeling shocked. How could New Yu have fallen so low so fast? He had never seen such a sight in Great Yu before. Why did it seem so common here?
He could even hear the occasional moans coming out of the buildings. When he sent his divine sense over, he found that customers were having pleasant moments with the women who traded their flesh for a living, even though it was daytime. He saw Nascent Souls or Gold Cores in some of the men, who were obviously itinerant cultivators, and some men with very strong bodies, who were clearly warriors practicing cultivation techniques of the human race.
Whether in Great Yu or New Yu, only those who had been chosen to serve in the army could practice cultivation techniques of the human race. In other words, these men who hung out in brothels in broad daylight were probably New Yu’s military officers or soldiers. In Great Yu, any officer or soldier who misbehaved in the slightest way would be severely punished by the military law, not to mention running out of the barracks in the daytime to visit the brothels.
But, Wu Qi counted over two hundred officers and soldiers having fun in these few brothels. Among them, several had the cultivation base of Second Pangu Heaven or above, who were clearly the generals of New Yu’s army. He could not help rolling his eyes. New Yu had indeed created a new culture. Such a thing would never happen in Great Yu.
As he was walking down the street, there was a sudden commotion in front of him. A gray-haired old man was kicked into the air, splitting into seven or eight pieces when he landed. Then, he heard the shrill cry of a young girl. Wu Qi hurried forward and saw a young man in a rich robe holding a young girl who was only thirteen or fourteen years old in his arms, grinning obscenely as he kissed and groped the girl. A group of soldiers in leather armor surrounded the young man, laughing and intimidating the nearby pedestrians with knives, letting no one come near them.
Wu Qi was once again deeply shocked. New Yu had only been separated from Great Yu for a few years, and yet it had corrupted its culture to such an extent! The emperor of New Yu should feel very proud of himself!
Perhaps it was not just the emperor’s problem; the immortal sects who had chosen to submit to New Yu should have made a great contribution to this too. Their goal was to corrupt the upper echelons of the human race and then gradually erode the whole race, just like those living in outer heavenly realms and mortal worlds. When the human race lost faith in themselves and lost all hope, they would naturally believe in and worship the gods, saints, immortals, and buddhas who were above them. By then, the entire human race would have fallen into the hands of Dao League and Buddhist League.
While Wu Qi was absorbed in his thoughts, the young man ripped off the girl’s coarse cloth. Her fair feet were still stained with some mud, and many lotus roots were scattered on the ground beside her. Apparently, she and the gray-haired old man who had just been killed had come to the city to sell lotus roots, only to encounter such a calamity.
With her clothes ripped off and her body exposed to everyone, the girl threw her head back and gave a shrill scream. Then a stream of blood spurted from her mouth; she had killed herself by biting her tongue. She was so fast that her soul had already flown into the sky and vanished without a trace before Wu Qi could react.
Wu Qi’s eyes twitched with anger. He flicked his finger with a cold snort, laying a small restrictive spell beside the young man and the group of soldiers who had held the candle to the devil. Then, he quickly walked away, passing through the crowd like a fish and leaving the street in a blink of an eye.
Shortly after he had left, a loud boom rang out and a red flame blazed into the sky, completely enveloping the young man and the soldiers around him. Caught unprepared, they struggled and twitched violently on the ground, howling and wailing in pain. Strangely enough, the fire only burned the young man and his subordinates; when an onlooker accidentally touched it, it did not hurt him at all, as if it were only an illusion.
Under everyone’s watchful eyes, the young man was reduced to a pile of ashes. Wu Qi looked into the sky from a distance and saw the souls of the young man and the soldiers around him all rise into the air and then vanish in the blink of an eye. He could not help but sneer, “Are you taking away the souls of all the living beings who have died on Pangu Continent, so that you can make them deities later? What a grand plan! Heh, even if you make this guy a deity in the future, I’ll still find him and beat him to death!”
As he stood in the middle of the street staring at the sky in the distance, a heavy dragon whip suddenly and violently lashed over in his direction. “Get out of the way, you blind daoist! No one ever dares to block the Honorable Elder’s chariot!” cried a shrill, harsh voice.
Wu Qi took two steps back and dodged the whip. Then, he saw a chariot made of pure gold slowly pass by, surrounded by about a hundred soldiers. Several tall and strong eunuchs were standing on the chariot, proudly swinging their dragon whips. Whenever they saw someone blocking the way or someone who was not pleasing to their eyes, they struck the person hard.
After sweeping the chariot with his divine sense, Wu Qi could not help but sneer. The so-called honorable elder was nothing but an eighteenth-tier Gold Immortal, and yet he acted like a tyrant!
What surprised him the most was that the eunuchs on the chariot were real eunuchs; in other words, their manhoods had been removed!
There were no eunuchs on Pangu Continent. Even the Human Emperor of Great Yu believed in the principle that people’s offices and titles might differ, but they were all the same fundamentally, the creation of nature, and there was no distinction between nobility and inferiority. Therefore, Great Yu did not have eunuchs, who were permanently disabled and could no longer be called men. All its internal officials in court were healthy men. They were able and allowed to marry with the palace maids and have children, and their families could become internal officials for generations. The power of some chief internal officials was no inferior to the ministers of the outer court.
The visit to New Yu’s capital had really widened Wu Qi’s horizon. He could not believe that he saw eunuchs here, real eunuchs!
He could imagine the process. The fall of the whole New Yu had begun when the manhood of the first eunuch was cut off in the palace. Since then, they became more and more like the mortal kingdoms in outer heavenly realms and the humans in the mortal worlds. The entire city of Youxiong gave Wu Qi the impression of being flashy, decadent, confused, and disorientated, full of a filthy atmosphere that he was not used to and even disgusted with.
Looking coldly up at the sky, he sneered. ‘Is this what ‘you’ want? Let the human race degenerate step by step, so you can freely control it later?’
He shot a glance at the chariot, which had been driven some distance away, then flicked his sleeve and squared his shoulders as he made his way to the palace in the middle of the city. Along the way, he deliberately emanated the aura of a peak-level Gold Immortal. As he expected, he soon caught the attention of others. Hundreds of divine senses, strong and weak, swept through him. But when he expanded his powerful divine sense further out, all of them left carefully.
The so-called honorable elder, who was in fact just an eighteenth-tier Gold Immortal, ran out of the chariot that had just passed by in fear. He hurried over to Wu Qi and said with a flattering smile, “It is this Junior’s honor to have Senior visiting…”
Wu Qi slapped him in the face and sent him flying. The poor guy had half of his cheekbones smashed and all his teeth shot out of his mouth. With a cold snort, Wu Qi said, “You are a lowlife, worse than pigs and dogs! What gives you the courage to speak so arrogantly in front of me?”
After that, he strode over to the palace and shouted at the generals stationed at the front gates, “I’m here to be an official! Bring my words to your superior at once! Ask him how important an official I can be and how many benefits he can give me! If the benefits are too few, hehe…” With his laughter, a fierce and overbearing aura rose to the sky. The few generals trembled, and then were knocked to the ground by the menacing aura.
Three Supreme Oracles in black robes appeared silently in front of Wu Qi. When they sensed the aura emanating from him, they could not help laughing at the same time. They bowed to him slightly, then one of them chuckled and said, “Fellow daoist, you have a pretty good cultivation base. New Yu is thirsty for talent, and you’ll surely find a good place here. Please come with us…everything can be discussed! If we may ask, where do you come from?”
Wu Qi glanced at the few Supreme Oracles who had come out to greet him. He smiled as he looked to his left and right, then shook his body and suddenly transformed into a monster about a hundred feet long, with the head of a dragon and the body of a tiger. A terrible aura rushed out of his body, which suddenly broke through the limit of the Gold Immortal realm and reached the level of a Primordial expert.
He opened his big mouth and gave a wicked laugh, then snorted coldly and said, “Now you know where I come from, don’t you? I am Lord Teeth, and I came down the mountain to seek glory, splendor, wealth, and rank…as well as to accumulate virtue!”
The three Supreme Oracles were startled, then cried out excitedly, ” Yayu 1 …”
After exchanging a glance, they bowed deeply and respectfully. Then, Wu Qi transformed back to his human form and swaggered into the palace.
Two hours later, the emperor of New Yu issued a decree announcing that Lord Teeth had become New Yu’s Chief Honorable Elder!
