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Chapter 121 A Thrill from Another Dimension

Beneath the surface of the imperial city's peaceful and prosperous facade, a struggle has secretly erupted between the Xia Yu Dynasty and the Nightmare Town Cult.

Moreover, unlike the previous minor skirmishes, this was a desperate gamble by the higher-ups of the Nightmare Town Sect. When Emperor Wusheng decided to personally lead the expedition, the middle and lower-level cultivators of the Nightmare Town Sect had already shown signs of fleeing.

The Nightmare Town Cult only has time left until the day after the Lantern Festival ends.

Once Emperor Wusheng finishes presiding over the ancestral worship ceremony, he can free himself up. The higher-ups of the Nightmare Town Sect naturally understand this. However, unlike the Nightmare Town fanatics at the bottom, they all understand very well that as long as Emperor Wusheng personally takes action, then no matter how they try to escape, it will be futile. Even if they run to the ends of the earth or even into the universe, it will be in vain.

No matter how far the distance, it is just a step away for cultivators at the level of the Unborn Emperor.

There's no way to escape, and it's impossible to escape. Fighting to the very end and awakening the Nightmare Town Cult Leader is everyone's only way to survive.

"bang bang bang"

Colorful fireworks rose into the sky, exploding into dazzling displays. Sister Xi and Su Yan sat on a small boat on the river, watching the magnificent scenery.

After the sound of the fireworks subsided, Su Yan continued to ask Sister Xi'er the question he had asked earlier:

"Is the Undead Kingdom clan hidden within the Demon Suppression Division?"

"Yes, I personally arrested more than twenty of them and they are being held inside."

Sister Xi slowly exhaled and said, "You're familiar with the Ten Witches of the Undying Kingdom, aren't you? Although I don't know who gave those monsters such a beautiful name, it's still a term that can be used to refer to those cultivators whose souls have dissipated."

"When the Nightmare Suppression Technique is cultivated to a high level, the problem of the soul will inevitably arise. After the soul of the Nightmare Suppression disciple dissipates or perishes, the powerful body that has been fused with a large number of different races will not necessarily die. On the contrary, it may become even more powerful because of the death of the soul."

The bodies of the Nightmare Slayers are like Frankenstein's monsters; they take whatever talents of a race they fancy and stitch them onto themselves.

The talents of the demon race reside in their souls. To seize the supernatural powers of the demon race, one must devour their souls. Therefore, the souls of the Nightmare Suppressors appear to be humanoid, but their internal structure is extremely distorted and chaotic. As the control center, the distorted soul within the soul dissipates, revealing its inner twisted nature.

Although they lack reason and senses, their deep-seated demonic instincts make their behavior even more brutal and destructive.

Moreover, after the distorted vengeful spirits aggregated and took control of the body of the Nightmare Suppressor, that stitched-together body, which fused the bloodlines of different races, would often evolve due to the perfect match between the soul and the body.

Although the names of the 'Ten Witches of the Undying Kingdom' and the 'Undying Clan' are similar, they have nothing in common except for their extremely powerful physiques.

The Ten Witches of the Undying Kingdom were ancient sages who fought for the interests and survival of their respective tribes. Although their souls dissipated and they were left with empty shells wandering the world alone, driven by their inner obsessions, they were generally harmless to living beings.

But the Undead race is different. They continue to devour living beings and stitch them onto their own bodies, constantly changing as if through a jigsaw puzzle, evolving through quantitative change leading to qualitative change.

"So, the Nightmare Town Cult is trying to release those immortal monsters from the Demon Suppression Division's underground?" Su Yan said with a look of horror.

From Sister Xi'er's detailed explanation, Su Yan was able to distinguish the differences between the Ten Witches of the Undying Kingdom and their respective clans. In addition, Sister Xi'er had previously mentioned that the Nightmare Town Cult had infiltrated the Demon Suppression Division, so Su Yan was naturally able to make a reasonable guess.

"Are those monsters really that terrifying? Is it possible that even His Majesty has no way to deal with them?"

"Of course it can be solved!"

Sister Xi pinched Su Yan's ear and said, "The Undying Kingdom clan is very important to Xia Yu. As for why it's important? You can ask me when you're an adult! Little foxes shouldn't listen to too much about adult matters."

The Undying Kingdom clan is one of the cornerstones of Xia Yu. It is they who keep the land of Xia Yu fertile and ensure that every family in Xia Yu has access to natural gas. Without the Undying Kingdom clan imprisoned in the Demon Suppression Division, Xia Yu's agriculture would have regressed to at least the level before the founding of the kingdom.

Whether you get to eat or not depends on luck.

........................

Although Su Yan tried his best to be cute and ask questions, Sister Xi'er did not answer him until she took Su Yan home. She did not answer why the Undying Kingdom clan was so important to Xia Yu, and although her aunts and the others had high cultivation levels, they also knew about the Undying Kingdom clan.

But they couldn't answer Su Yan's curiosity either; no one knew why Xia Yu was collecting the Undying Kingdom's people.

"Let's go back to the dorm and sleep!"

While Su Yan slipped out to set off firecrackers, the mahjong competition in the main hall had already ended. Jiao Nanwu, with her rich experience, successfully broke through the encirclement and won the priority experience of the Fox Bouncy Massage tonight.

Jiao Nanwu ran excitedly to the fourth floor, grabbed Su Yan's fox paw, and headed towards the dormitory.

Seeing that he couldn't get any information out of her, Su Yan could only suppress her curiosity about the Undying Kingdom's race and instead went back to her dormitory with Jiao Nanwu to test the sensation of a fox jumping and stepping on her back.

Su Yan was also quite curious about this service. Would a back massage really feel comfortable?

"It's already shrunk by two sizes, and it will return to normal in another month and a half."

Spring goes and autumn comes; in another month and a half, the merfolk's regular breeding season will come to an end.

Separated from Su Yan by a screen, Jiao Nanwu removed her coat, revealing her true mermaid form. She measured her own body with her palm and couldn't help but let out a sob.

All the food and drink I ate and drank before was wasted, and all the weight I gained was completely useless.

"Little fox, are you really not going to take a bath together?"

"No. Unless you swear you won't use my tail as a bubble ball."

Su Yan, who was lying on the bed, raised her head and called out to Jiao Nanwu behind the screen.

The fox's fluffy tail was not only beautiful, but it could also be wrapped with soap pods for making foam. There was nothing Su Yan would refuse to bathe with a female cultivator.

"A fox's tail can be used like this?" Jiao Nanwu looked at Su Yan with a surprised expression as she peeked out from behind the screen.

"Um"

As Su Yan lay on the ground, he recalled the time when they lived in their ancestral home in the southern state. His elderly mother, annoyed by the dirt on his fur, accidentally discovered a new use for his tail while washing it with soapberries by the river.

Fortunately, his mother had more tails than him, otherwise Su Yan felt that his mother could use him directly as a bubble ball during bath time.

"I wonder how my mother is doing now? She was taken back to the clan's territory, so she's probably living a poor, Buddhist-like life. She doesn't even have the leisurely daily routine of going to the brothel to listen to music anymore."

Thinking about life in the ancestral home, Su Yan couldn't help but think of his elderly mother, whom he had lost contact with for a long time.

I wonder how she's doing now.

"How pitiful."

Jiao Nanwu emerged from behind the screen, squatted down in front of Su Yan, poked Su Yan's bulging belly with her little hand, looked at Su Yan with a face full of heartache, and hugged Su Yan, who was missing her mother, into her arms: "Don't worry! I will never press you down on a washboard and scrub you hard, or put you on a bamboo pole to dry."

As she spoke, Jiao Nanwu rubbed her face against Su Yan.

Su Yan was completely baffled. He didn't think he had anything pitiful about in the past. To Su Yan, what Jiao Nanwu said was like being chased all over the street by his mother with a clothes hanger for being disobedient in his previous life.

An elderly mother is simply disciplining her disobedient child; it's a perfectly normal behavior, isn't it?

"But can your tail really bubble?"

"Yes, it lathers up really smoothly, I personally quite like using it."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 122 The Second Day of the Imperial Martial Arts Demonstration. (Third update, bonus chapter for average order volume)

"Well"

As the warm sun rose outside the window, Su Yan, who had been lying on Jiao Nanwu's snow-white back and was tired from jumping around, slowly opened her eyes. A cool, damp chill made Su Yan, who usually slept very well, feel no discomfort.

Su Yan looked closely and realized that the snow-white fur on her belly was completely wet, and most of the fur was stuck together. Su Yan hurriedly tried to stand up, but the non-slip pads on her four paws slipped, causing Su Yan to fall headfirst onto the floor.

"woo"

Su Yan, who had bumped her nose, was in so much pain that tears streamed down her face. Jiao Nanwu, who was on the bed, also woke up at that moment. She was slightly stunned when she saw Su Yan lying on the ground, and then she remembered what had happened last night. The fox hopping was indeed a very comfortable massage.

Especially considering Su Yan's small weight, Jiao Nanwu fell asleep while chatting last night, without undergoing any physical transformation and falling asleep directly in her original form.

Merfolk are aquatic animals. In dry areas on land, they secrete a layer of moisturizing liquid on their bodies to prevent them from drying out like small fish. In addition to basic moisturizing, this mucus also has a certain resistance to blunt force physical impacts.

When a blunt weapon strikes a merman's body, it will slide off naturally to the side.

Su Yan must have stepped on the moisturizing lotion, then fell to the ground and hit her nose.

Having guessed the cause and effect, Jiao Nanwu's face showed a look of sudden realization. She quickly got up from the bed to help Su Yan: "Little fox, don't move. That layer of merman moisturizing liquid is not soluble in water. It needs to be scraped off with a scraper."

"boom!"

Having returned to human form, Samena Mist walked towards the edge of the bed while talking. Her first step landed on the dry floor without incident, but her second step landed right where Su Yan had fallen. Due to the interaction of the two highly stubborn mucus layers, Samena Mist also crashed to the ground.

"woo"

Jiao Nanwu curled up, covering her forehead, and looked at the little fox who was covering its nose with teary eyes: "It hurts so much."

"Sister Nanwu, you should just fly!" Su Yan said, his face full of exasperation.

.....................

After taking a shower in Jiao Nanwu's bedroom, Su Yan jumped up and pried open the door latch. After stretching out for a long time, he glanced at the lobby of the brothel, where a bunch of ruddy-faced drunkards were lying sprawled out.

There were also some girls kissing each other, whispering sweet nothings, and you could easily guess what kind of romantic dreams they were having.

After glancing at them a few times, Su Yan ignored the girls in the lobby and ran to the fourth floor.

My aunts and the others were still sitting around the tea table, eating melon seeds, drinking tea, and chatting about things in the cultivation world.

Mosquito Taoist, Winter Insect, and Qin Yuan Bee are all cultivators who came to Xia Yu from different regions, and the information they know is naturally not limited to things within Xia Yu's territory.

"The little fox is here just in time! I was just about to go wake you up and get you ready!"

Auntie bent down and scooped Su Yan into her arms, placing her on her lap. With practiced ease, she patted the little fox's shoulders gently, saying, "What would our lucky fox like to eat this morning? Auntie will immediately instruct the monkeys to bring it to you."

When Su Yan was patted on both sides of his shoulders, he immediately became energetic and full of fighting spirit. It was as if there were some switches on Su Yan's body while he was in his original form. Kneading his ears could make him feel so comfortable that he would lie down, and massaging the acupoints behind his ears could make Su Yan's whole fox body go limp to the ground.

A forceful pat at the point where the tail connects to the body, and on either side of the shoulders, and Su Yan immediately perks up.

"As long as it's not dairy products, it's fine. Otherwise, I'm worried that someone will beat me until I vomit milk later," Su Yan complained, sitting on her aunt's lap.

Yesterday's contestant wielding the black iron token, along with Jin Lin, were both heavy-hitting fighters. After one round of matches, they had already eliminated more than a dozen contestants. On the second day of the Imperial Martial Arts Competition, the contestants would need to fight two rounds.

It was only the second day, and Su Yan couldn't even imagine how many matches the final round of the Imperial Martial Arts Competition would require.

But those things were none of Su Yan's concern, because Su Yan felt that with her small frame, she could only last until the fourth day at most.

………………

After having meat buns and soy milk at Ruchun Garden, Auntie led the group to Luohe Residence. They ascended back to the Imperial City via the top-floor pavilion, where Emperor Wusheng and the court officials were already seated in high positions, waiting for the competition.

Just like yesterday, my aunt casually chose a front-row seat. Perhaps because there were many important cultivators around her today, the divine tree also put up a cordon around the seating area.

The cordon isn't meant to block people from entering or leaving; it's to tell other ambitious cultivators that those sitting here are the worst villains in the cultivation world, and they should remember to avoid them.

"First round! Let's begin the draw!"

My aunt seemed to arrive right on time. She had barely sat down when a page dressed in official robes announced the start of the next day's competition on the arena, and raised the glass sphere high, making the token spin.

[Mid-Foundation Establishment Fox Demon: Su Yan, Water Element.]

[Early Golden Core Stage Royal Family: Nameless, Metal Element.]

Two black iron tokens flew out one after the other, leaving Su Yan, sitting in the audience, with a look of surprise and uncertainty on his face:

"Has my mouth been blessed?"