I stretched out my limbs. Life hadn’t been kind to recently. Imagine being cooped up indoors, analysing how to convincingly play the role of a nigh-crazy Fengpengnia patient. Yes, it took ages to co up with my emotionless-glaring edgelord character, but it was excruciatingly hard to stay in role. Never again was I accepting such a challenging role - it’s unhealthy.
Gewu went through every expression ever written in a novel. I would believe you if you told he got married eighteen tis and cucked eighteen tis. Who could bla him? Having admitted to all of his cris and the illegitimacy of his post, even his followers in the distance wanted to spit in his face.
I was the only one Gewu had eyes for. That sounds… gross. Let reword that: His eyes were on . He had a case of silent chatterbox. The man was probably so mad that he couldn’t breathe.
“Y-y-you fool-”
“Yeah, bro, I fooled you. All the cast, backdrop and scripts ca together to fool you. How does it feel to enjoy the spotlight all to yourself?”
Gewu saw the four monarchs wearing smugness on their lips. “I! I! You! You! Possible!”
“You an ‘impossible’, yeah?” I gave Ol’ Ge a friendly smile. “I was never in trouble in the first place. Those snakes, dragons, dragonsnakes and whatever don’t do squat to . I just happened to see you musing over my condition on one of the days I ca back to fetch so money, so I went along with you.”
“Scouts!”
“Well, yeah, they did see lose it because I went crazy for them. How else do you expect to fool you?”
“Impossible!”
“You an, ‘possible’, yeah? You’d be right if logic applies, but, man, you can’t apply logic to Six Evils. Like, the Fengpeng I ate alive has the biggest army. After you eat, you take a dump, yeah? The Fengpeng gives birth after eating. Like, where’s the logic there?”
“But you! But you!” Gewu pointed to the corpse on the ground.
“Oh, the great guya on the ground? My bad. I almost forgot about him. Help the man up. Give Brother Lai so extra chicken drumsticks for his dedication.”
In only a few steps ti, Lai Jingzhen had reverted from his corpse form to his real form.
“I’d like to take this opportunity to comnd everyone on set today. First, Brother Lai deserves recognition for taking on the role of a punching bag and exploding when asked to. The next person I’d like to thank is… Please co forward.” The commoner who had his arm ripped off ca forth and removed her mask for to continue, “Our adorable Wawa. Co introduce yourself.”
“I’ll introduce you to the King of hell! You done?! Squash him already!”
I pretended not to hear Wawa in my ears, picked up a stick and went over to Hong Jiu. “But today’s best actor award goes to my junior - Hong Jiu!”
Hong Jiu took the stick and dabbed his eyes with the back of his hands. “Thank you for the love. I’d like to take the opportunity to thank my family, my director and my brother, all of whom is the sa person, Ming ‘Leader’ Feizhen. Without him giving the opportunity, I would not be where I am now. Henceforward, I shall carry this honour with on my travels to promote love and justice. Love you all. Thank you!”
“Nonsense!” Wisdom certainly did co with age. Gewu was back to his usual self, save for his tomato face. “… You already connected with the imperial court? Impossible… When did you…?”
“When I arrived at the bottom of the mountain. You don’t think I ca down ahead of you to engage in idle chatter with our four envoys, did you?”
“Impossible… Impossible… Why would the four monarchs listen to you?”
“I must give you credit for reading people well. The four of them weren’t interested when I suggested we team up to lynch you; they even rolled their eyes at .”
While they didn’t like Gegewu, they refused to go against Shaman Faith’s Great Spirit Shaman. Comparatively speaking, I was less trustworthy than him since they had t him before.
“Then…”
“Confucius said, ‘Counter rigidness with money.’” I sauntered over to Gergewu and quietly said, “I gave them a letter Western Region’s Dayue state’s King personally wrote, agreeing to do business with them. What do you think is going to happen when money moves them?”
Really, the root of it all was Gegewu. In order to pre-empt any threats to him, he obstructed states trying to develop. What he did is akin to stopping people from growing instead of continuing to grow himself so that people couldn’t keep up; it harms the competition but doesn’t reap you any gain. In order to secure the opportunity to do business with the insanely wealthy rchants of Western Regions, they sided with without needing a minute. My request for five hundred soldiers instantly beca a thousand, too. The fewer people privy to the stuff behind the scenes, the better, which was why we kept it from the envoys.
Gegewu watched , seemingly waiting for sothing. As it never ca, he grumbled, “You… You consud dragon blood.”
“Did I now?” I took out a red pill from my shirt and waved it in Gegewu’s face. I smacked it into my mouth, then opened my hand, showing him the pill. “I glued it to my hand using spider silk. You actually think I’m stupid enough to think I can trust your pill? While I’m at it, you realise this isn’t dragon blood, yeah?”
“… Say what?”
“This is jiao blood. I see you’ve also obtained the crimson jiao. Given dragons make a move once every few centuries, considering the three incidents at Nieyao, you have three to four dragons, don’t you?”
“Are you crazy?! You’re Shaman Monarch, yet you’re asking soone to destroy your own faith?!”
“I’m Shaman Monarch now? Am I? I’m the Central Plain’s martial world’s Liu Shan n’s faithful, ninth rank civil servant whose principles are not malleable to poverty, humbleness, threats, force or pork shoulders braised in soy sauce. See that dashing tough gentleman and that maiden who takes up the ocean over there? They are my superiors and her foster father. I only joined your faith to obtain intel. When did I ever sign up to your faith?! All that blood you drink must be loosening rusting screws in your head!”
Emperor Yuansheng looked pleased, very pleased.
Gegewu had no retort. Hell, not even if I would have one against such a perfect guy inside and out.
“You… You…”
“Save your breath. You think anything you say will get to when you’re about to die?”
“You ugly freak!”
Watch your mouth!
Gegewu really was a sly bugger. Whilst we were conversing, he shifted his position to jump onto the white python’s head after disparaging . Although Le Kuangnu died, the beast had the intelligence to know there was soone who took over, so it never made a move. As soon as Gegewu climbed on, it started wriggling.
Blue and red energies from Abels and Luo Ming, respectively, stiffed the white python, neutralising its attempt to crush so people.
“Don’t fight. Let’s go!” Gegewu, knowing he would inexorably lose, commanded.
Instead of charging through the dust to give chase, Abels and Luo Ming tuned around to , who was pretending to take in the scenery. My reason for letting Gegewu escape boiled down to not wanting to kill in front of Emperor Yuansheng.
Once I was sure Gegewu was gone, I yelled to Emperor Yuansheng, “I set up lots of traps up ahead. I shall go capture him now. I promise to bring him back, dead or alive.” As I took off running, I yelled, “Second, co with .”
“On it!”
“Constable Ming, be careful!”
“Yes, Your Majesty! Wait for my good news!”
Never knew His Majesty cared about so much. I appreciate you.
“Dugu, follow after Ming Feizhen to see what his true skills are like. Go now.”
Hold up. I didn’t get that script.
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