Chapter 51: Chapter 51

Long Ren appeared not far from his home at the forbidden mountain. His right hand began trembling and at once Long Ren frowned.

"What is this again? I didn't go away for too long. What did she encounter? Does she think that I'm her gonna be her savior once again? Dumb!" he said to himself and started walking slowly towards his home.

"At most, it would only be a spirit beast chasing her." he concluded.

So he didn't try to walk any faster.

Meanwhile, Theresa tried to struggle out of the chains, to no avail while the twins were assessing her body.

"Nice shape and butt." Chao Ling commented.

Chao Jian tore off her outer robe and inner shirt only to see tight wrappings around her chest.

"Decent girl huh? I like it!" Chao Jian teased.

Both of them started taking off their robes after unsealing Theresa's voice.

"No, please don't do this. Please don't do this." she begged but it only made them smile more.

The moment their pants fell down, she closed her eyes and a figure flew inside now dressed in purple. It was Ju Wei.

His hair color is now red and brown and on seeing the state Theresa was in, his eyes became fiery red.

"YOU BASTARDS! HOW DARE YOU?" he roared and shot two fireballs at the twins.

They were shocked by his sudden appearance and reacted a little bit late so though they dodged the fire, their hair was burnt to half.

"Who are you?" Chao Ling asked angrily. How dare this man disturb their fun moment?

"JU WEI." he introduced himself.

At once, the men knelt down due to fear.

"Ju Wei?" Chao Jian asked.

"Impudent. Who do you think you are that you would dare call my name? How dare you try to harm great mistress, do you not want your heads anymore?" Ju Wei thundered, sending several chills down their spines.

"The first man who dared to do this, has met mother earth to rest. I think you two are tired of living so I will send you on your way to her- free of charge! What do you say?" he asked.

"Yes, yes, I mean no... no..." Chao Ling stammered in confusion.

"Chiao Ling, how could you?" Chao Jian scolded his twin using voice transmission technique.

"Since your twin already said yes, I'll send you both to her but first I must make you cry tears of joy. What do you say?" Ju Wei asked again.

This time no one replied to him. Ju Wei took a look at Theresa and muttered some inaudible words.

Immediately, blue light covered her body from head to toe and after 20 seconds, the light diminished. The chains broke in two and fell off her hands.

Theresa weakly fell to the floor though, Ju Wei slowed down the process. Seeing that she wasn't hurt, Ju Wei burned the twins' clothing and turned to face the twins again.

"Let's find a nice place to begin our lesson, is that okay?" he asked again but none of the twins dared to answer.

"I'll take your silence as a yes. Let's go," Ju Wei used the whip to trap both of them and vanished with them both.

Theresa opened her eyes, a tear slid down her right cheek. She struggled to rise up from the ground.

"Ptui!" she spat out blood and it was this moment that Long Ren finally arrived at the entrance.

"You can't even take down some little spirit beasts? Why then are you my mistress? Ever since I became your contracted 'slave'... for the days I've been with you... I only have bad luck. I lost everything. I even lost my mate." he barked

"I, the once feared demon lord, Long Ren, has fallen with no one to raise me up. Even Ju Wei is much stronger than me. He's an unrestrained spirit. Do you think that... he'll still be loyal to me if he finds out that I'm much weaker than he thinks I am? Theresa or whatever you are called... you..."

"ENOUGH! ENOUGH OF THIS. I AM DONE WITH ALL THIS COMPLAINING. YOU THINK I WANTED TO BE HERE? YOU THINK THAT I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE? YOU GET TO SEE YOUR HOME WHENEVER YOU WISH BUT CAN I GO BACK TO MY HOME AND BACK TO MY WORLD?" Theresa ranted, startling him a bit but he quickly recovered.

"I know you've done quite a lot for me. You mean everything to me, Long Ren." she spoke in a softer tone and sighed.

"Yeah! I'm a money bank of course. Even my tears are the most precious. If I were in your shoes, I wouldn't let go of such a wonderful person. I understand now. You don't have to explain." he said sarcastically.

"Long Ren, I've told you so many times that I am willing to sever the contract but you never listened. You chose to believe whatever you wanted to believe about me. I am a rich heiress back in my world but I was summoned here. I try to behave foolishly, to hide my pain, anger, and resentment but still... do you think that pearls are worth anything to me? It might be the most precious money you have here but back home, pearls are nothing to me. Long Ren, you've never given me a chance to explain anything. Yes, I recall that I did adopt a sister and a foster mother. That was also to hide my pain and loneliness. You rejected my sister of your own accord yet you blame it on me. You blame it on me. Every bad thing that happened to you is because of me right? It's all my fault. Had I listened to my parents, none of this would have happened. You could still have been enjoying your freedom to kill and your so-called prestige."

"So you've regained the bits of memories you lost? Then that's good. I suffered a lot under your hands"

"I wasn't in my right mind and also you started it." Theresa thundered.

"Oh really? I was training you,"

"Training? Duh!"

"Theresa, your mother didn't teach you to behave. Other than being pretty and spoiling you to the extent that you do not know how to cook, wash or clean the home, what else did she do for you? Are you the only one whose mother has died? Do you think I got that Life flower as a gift? That flower is gotten in exchange for 5 stages of my cultivation. Do you know what that means?"

"Isn't saving a life better than having a seven-story pagoda"

"You... I don't blame you. I blame you your parents; especially your bitch of a mother." Long Ren spat and it made Theresa's eyes widen in shock.

'You... called my mum a bi*ch?" she asked in disbelief.

"Yes, and your so-called father is useless. Now your mom is alive, what did he contribute towards it? Nothing! Nothing Theresa!" he barked.

Theresa walked to him with teary eyes.

Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa!

She gave Long Ren four hot slaps across his face. He was shocked and he stared at her with hatred.

"You... you crossed the line!"

"You started it. My mother isn't a bit*h and neither is my dad useless. Long Ren, today I know that you really are as the people say; you are, a monster. I was wrong to think that I could try to tame you and change you for better." said Theresa, her chest heaving up and down.

"Better! Like you are even a figure worthy of emulation. It was this same hatred that brought about the dark qi that we managed to get rid of. Now the hatred is back with friends. No need to restrain it.

Pa!

"That's for making me have periods. Those times were nightmares to me!"

Pa!

"That's for all the humiliation you made me go through till now,"

Pa!

"That's for my lost cultivation!"

Pa!

"That's for calling me a monster. Now we're even. What else do you have in store for me, little one? A punch? Or you wanna kick my baby maker too?" Long Ren mocked her.

"Fine! I'm doing it now." she shifted his right collar, revealing his fair collar bone and a part of his well-built chest but Theresa didn't have time to look at or admire such a thing now.

She sunk her teeth into Long Ren's flesh, biting hard until she tasted blood. Only then did she let go.

"There, I've bitten you on the shoulder. We no more know each other. You can go now. I'll get to meet my parents on my own, without any help from you. You are free now," Theresa said as she wiped out the blood on her mouth with her sleeve.

"This is my house!" Long Ren reminded.

"Yeah! I almost forgot that. I'll leave then." she marched out of the house, heading into the unknown.

Long Ren did not go after her. He just stood there watching her back and clenching his fists. When she was no more in sight, he roared and punched the wall which collapsed.

"Heavens, you are unfair! So unfair!"he sat on the floor and started crying.

Theresa did not care about where she was going anymore. She kept walking and didn't know when she was sucked by a vortex that had just appeared 2 minutes ago. It was the very vortex that sucked Marabelle in.

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Back at the valley, Clark and Aarti, done with their moment of love, decided to face reality.

"How do we get outta here now?" Aarti asked.

Ju Wei appeared suddenly in front of them, scaring Aarti outta her wits.

"Ghost! Ghost! Clark, save me!" she cried as she hid behind Clark who laughed.

"Calm down, my dear. He won't harm us!" Clark reassured her in German before turning to speak to Ju Wei in Chinese.

"So where did you go? Did you find my daughter?" he asked.

Aarti's eyes suddenly widened.

"Oh no! How did I forget?" Aarti exclaimed.

"What happened?" Clark asked her in German.

"Marabelle. She's at the cliff. Or maybe,"

"Ju Wei, please help us check if my daughter's friend can be found nearby" Clark requested.

"Wait here," Ju Wei said and then disappeared. He reappeared in less than two minutes.

"She's gone. I detect that she's been sucked by a vortex to the forbidden dessert." said Ju Wei.

"What? "Clark exclaimed.

"What did he say?" Aarti asked Clark in German.

"She's been sucked into a vortex," Clark said sadly.

"To where?" Aarti asked.

"Forbidden Desert," replied Clark.

"What place is that?" Aarti asked.

"What and where is the forbidden dessert?" Clark asked Ju Wei.

"Simply put, it is where the most dangerous and powerful beasts are hidden. Every minute spent there is a battle. I'm afraid..."Ju Wei paused.

"What are you scared about?" Clark asked.

"She's probably dead. Forget about her. If you can't, then just burn some paper money for her after preparing a grave and burying an empty casket inside." Ju Wei said casually. Before Clark could have time to react, Ju Wei held his left hand and Aarti's right hand.

"Let's go," Ju Wei whispered and all three vanished.

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Forbidden dessert.

This place really lives up to its name. It has blistering heat at some places and freezing cold at the remaining parts. It had no human lining in it except very strange powerful animals. Every now and then you'd hear different animal sounds even when you can't see them.

Though the outside world was at night, here was as bright as day. Theresa who had just being delivered by the vortex couldn't help but rub her palms together because she had landed in the cold part of the forbidden desert.

"Freezing! It's too cold in here." she muttered and struggled to stand on her feet.

The wind that blew was too chilly for her to bear and she fell down to the ground. This cold part doesn't have snow. It's just cold. Theresa looked at her right wrist and saw that the crest of the contract with Long Ren was still there.

"Shouldn't it have disappeared? I ended the contract didn't I?" she thought but was woken back to reality by the wind again.

"How am I gonna get outta here when I can't even walk?" Theresa thought in frustration.

She scanned the area she was and found that the clouds were dark like it was about to rain and her face paled. If it rains in this condition that she was in, it is possible that she will die.

She struggled to get up but she kept falling. She didn't even have a sword to help her since she was only interested in daggers and now she was paying the price for it. To worsen things, lightning struck and thunder bolted.

"Yeah! Bad luck follows me wherever I go." Theresa said to her self.

In less than two minutes, rain began pouring but surprisingly it wasn't chilly as Theresa expected. It was warm; close to being hot.

Theresa didn't mind being drenched by the rain. At least, it could keep her alive and warm before help comes. That is, if help ever comes. She doesn't expect Long Ren to save her anymore. To her, he is a dead person. He never existed and her heart is dead toward him.

On the other side of the forbidden desert, lay Marabelle, who was almost roasted by the heat but now that the rain fell, it was unexpectedly cold which was a relief to the unconscious Marabelle who had passed out from the heat.

The rain that is falling currently happens only when the two moons of Luo Ye appear or are about to disappear. Right now, the latter is happening in the outside world.

Theresa's home.

Three figures appeared at the secluded room in the home.

Aarti was shocked. She stared at Ju Wei with her mouth wide open.

"Tell your wife to close her mouth. She looks ugly that way; just like a dead fish!" said Ju Wei to Clark.

"Aarti, mouth closed, please," said Clark to Aarti.

"Let's face reality. How do we get Marabelle from that place?" she asked but Ju Wei just stared at her.

"What did she say?" Ju Wei asked Clark.

"She asked how to save Marabelle," said Clark.

"I already told you to burn paper money for her. Forget it! I brought you two here for a reason," Ju Wei explained.

"What reason?" Clark asked.

"Your daughter who happens to be my great mistress..."

"What happened?" Clark asked in worry.

"She was almost deflowered by two fools." stated Ju Wei.

"What?" Clark exclaimed in shock and anger.

"Clark, what happened?" Aarti asked in worry.

"He said, Theresa was almost deflowered," said Clark. He clenched his teeth and fists afterward.

"What? Who dared?" Aarti exclaimed. Her eyes shot flames and her ears smoked.

"You are her parents so I'll let you handle the fools," said Ju Wei.

"Where... are... they?" Clark slowly asked.

"Here they are!" Ju Wei brought out the nude twins and threw them on the floor.

Their hands were tied behind their backs in a twisted manner. They wanted to cry out their pain but it wasn't to be since Ju Wei had sealed their voices.

"Here they are. I've taken away their cultivation so do whatever you want to them. I'll go get your daughter for you," said Ju Wei before disappearing.

"They are the ones?" Aarti asked with fiery eyes, making the twins shiver even though they didn't understand German.

Aarti walked to them and went on one knee.

"You two are handsome but instead of getting a wife and raising a family and contribute to the society's progress, you go about eating girls? You might have been lucky the other times but surely not this time. When my child arrives, if I find a scratch on her body, you'll be dead meat." Aarti said angrily.

The twins didn't know what feeling to show except fear. Though they didn't understand what she was saying, they knew they were done for especially now that they've lost their cultivation.

Aarti rose and lifted Chao Jian's chin.

"Nice skin huh? Take this!"

Pa!

The crisp sound of a hot slap was heard in the room. Five red fingerprints appeared on Chao Jian's once smooth right cheek. The pain was stinging. He didn't have much time to get used to the pain before receiving more slaps.

After a few seconds, Clark stopped Aarti and made her sit on a chair in the room to quell her anger.

"Let me handle this," Clark said to her in German before turning to face the twins.

"Man! We're really in a hot soup." thought Chao Ling.

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Ju Wei appeared back at the entrance of Long Ren's home and found that Long Ren was sitting at a corner in a lotus position and cultivating.

"Master, Master!" he called out to Long Ren using voice transmission.

Ptui!

Long Ren opened his eyes and spat out blood. Ju Wei was shocked and became alarmed.

"Master!" he ran over to Long Ren and knelt.

"Master, please forgive me for intruding. I didn't mean to. It's just... I left great mistress... she was here. I left her here. Em..."Ju Wei stammered, saying words that were indecipherable to Long Ren.

"Ju Wei, don't beat around the bush." Long Ren spat.

"I came here because I felt that, something was wrong and my heart led me here," explained Ju Wei but he was cut short by Long Ren's chuckle of mockery.

"So you actually have a heart?" Long Ren asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I... Great mistress was at the verge of being deflowered."

"Yeah! That happened a few weeks ago. After all, I did fo her, she's still ungrateful."

"No, I'm not talking about that time,"

"Then what time?" Long Ren asked.

"Today. Two twin brothers wanted to deflower her. If I didn't arrive in time, it would have been too late." said Ju Wei.

Long Ren gave him an insincere applause and laughed hysterically.

"Yeah, yeah! You're right! You arrived in time to play the knight saving the damsel in distress. Very touching and brave of you. Very good!" said Long Ren and then he continued to laugh.

Ju Wei stared at him in confusion.

"What's wrong with master today? What's wrong?"he thought, unable to decipher what was going on.

"What happened between his master and great mistress? Did they have a misunderstanding again? What really happened?" Ju Wei said to himself and looked at Long Ren whose eyes had turned red.

"Master!" Ju Wei stuttered.

Long Ren rose up and leaned on the wall.

"Don't you ever mention that bitch in front of me ever again You hear me?"he warned and then he disappeared.

"Master..." Ju Wei disappeared too and reappeared at a lava pool.

He saw Long Ren taking off his clothes and his eyes widened.

"Master, what are you doing?" Ju Wei cried out.

He ran towards Long Ren but was sent flying by an array that appeared.

"Master, please don't do that." Ju Wei cried.

"GET OuTTA HERE. TAKE THIS," Long Ren threw the dragon bone whip to Ju Wei. The whip passed through the little hole that opened in the array and landed at Ju Wei's feet.

"Get lost. Don't ever come back here again and you are not my contracted spirit anymore. Didn't you always wanna be fre? Now you are free. You are free. Go! Go! Get away from my life, you and that lady." Long Ren thundered.

"Master..." Ju Wei's eyes became teary.

"What? Get lost!"he yelled, making Ju Wei tremble.

"Get lost!"

"Ju Wei thanks ex-master for his generosity. This lowly one will take his leave." Ju Wei heavily said and bent down to pick the dragon bone whip.

His right hand trembled and a tear slid down his eye and took one last look at Long Ren once again.

"Goodbye!" Ju Wei whispered and vanished.

He reappeared at Long Ren's home's entrance and kowtowed three times before disappearing again.

Back at the lava pool room, Long Ren smiled bitterly.

"I will start all over again. I will start a new life. A life without being ordered around." Long Ren muttered before taking off his undergarment and jumping into the lava pool that could melt a normal human to death.

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Meanwhile, the twins had gotten the beating of their lives from Clark. Aarti just wept for her child.

"My child has suffered a lot. I can't believe this. Even her whereabouts are still unknown. Why has that Ju Wei not returned yet?" Aarti cried.

"Aarti," Clark walked to her and sat close to her.

"Calm down my dear. I beg you. I trust Ju Wei. He'll bring her back safe and sound with Marabelle. Both of them will be alright." comforted Clark.

"It's because of me. It's all because of me. I'm the reason why all of this happened," Aarti blamed herself.

"Shush my dear. Shush!" he made her shut up with a kiss.

The twin brothers now looked more like ghosts than humans. They were so unpleasing to look at but the couple wasn't concerned about them.

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At the Forbidden dessert.

Marabelle reawakened due to the cold she was feeling because oy the still pouring cold rain.

"My gosh! I'm freezing!" she muttered and managed to survey her surroundings.

There were no trees, not even grass. All she could see was wet barren soil. The rain stopped pouring all of a sudden and the heat came again drying up Marabelle's drenched clothes and body.

At first, it was a relief to her but as minutes passed, the heat became unbearable for her and her throat felt dry.

"Help! Help! Someone, please help me!" Marabelle called out weakly in a hoarse voice.

Theresa on the other hand, since the hot rain had stopped pouring, the cold started again.

"It's freezing!" Theresa muttered.

She subconsciously rubbed the spatial ring that Doctor Fu Jin had gifted her and smiled.

"It seems this is my end. I'm very sorry, foster father. Sorry, a foster mother. Sorry, father and mother. Sorry, Marabelle and sorry Ju Wei... I" she didn't get to finish her words before a light radiated from the spatial ring and enlarged forming a red ball.

Slowly it took on the shape of a little child and the light dimmed.

"Hi little one, I'm called Bai Lu Chen," said the little child dressed in black robes. His hair is brown and he was very cute.

"You are so cute." Theresa commented and fainted.

Metal nation.

As the name indicates, the gifted residents here have great affinity with metals. There is a metal fire different from Luo Ye cultivators' fire. This fire is used for making weapons out of iron. The sects here all specialized in armaments. Armament masters are priceless in war. An armament master can pressure his opponent whether a fire, wind, nature or water/ice cultivator because he has tons of hidden weapons some which can be poisonous. They have the best iron in this nation and it is prosperous too.

In a luxurious inn on the second floor and 26th room lay Doctor Fu Jin on the bed with red hair. He was chewing a stick made from an unknown tree and thinking about who knows what. Suddenly, his spatial ring flashed and he immediately sat up.

"The ring flashed? Does it mean, my foster daughter is in danger? I did leave her in Long Ren's care right? Why..." he thought but he didn't waste time and vanished from the room.

He reappeared at the forbidden forest at the cliff where Aarti had once fallen from.

"The smell here... it was a different weak person that was snatched into that dessert? Then what about my child?" Fu Jin thought.

His space ring flashed again and he nodded. He took out a small round shaped metal and threw it down. Immediately, a vortex appeared. At this moment, Ju Wei also appeared.

"Doctor Fu Jin? What's he doing here?" he thought as he ran to the old man

"My ring flashed!" Fu Jin explained.

"Yes, the great mistress is in trouble. I don't know where she is but... her bestfriend is also in the forbidden dessert too," Ju Wei explained.

"Whatever the reason, I'm going in " Fu Jin said determinedly.

"I'll come with you,"Ju Wei offered.

"No, it's too dangerous. You'll be devoured by spirit eating beasts and don't forget you must find my child. Where is Long Ren?" Fu Jin asked.

"He... had something to do. Don't worry, you go first. I'll manage," said Ju Wei.

"Okay then!"

Fu Jin jumped into the vortex and Ju Wei against Fu Jin's warning jumped in too. He had a feeling... maybe he could find his mistress in there. Even if it wasn't true, he had to try at least.

The vortex then closed.

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At the forbidden dessert,

The little kid named Bai Lu Chen, knelt and placed his hand on Theresa's forehead.

"Little one, be warm." he whispered and a faint pink light left his hand and entered into Theresa's shivering body. In less than ten seconds, she stopped shivering though still unconscious.

The vortex opened, throwing out Fu Jin and Ju Wei not far from Bai Lu Chen and Theresa.

"Great mistress, she's here!" Ju Wei quickly rose and rushed to her.

"My child," Fu Jin called out and rose up too.

He rushed toward Theresa but couldn't beat Ju Wei.

"She's alive. Still alive." Ju Wei said with teary eyes.

"Tell me, Ju Wei, what happened and why is my daughter here? Don't hide anything from me." Fu Jin thundered.

"Err.."

Having nothing to say, Ju Wei disappeared, he happened to reappear at where Marabelle lay- unconscious and very feeble.

"She's really here too?" he exclaimed.

He knelt down and picked up a small rat. This rat named Lali is the second rat who had been chasing Marabelle and Aarti towards the cliff. The rat's mouth was stained with blood and Ju Wei stared at Marabelle and then back at the rat.

"Spirit, please get me outta here quickly, if not, I'll die," the feble rat said using voice transmission.

"As expected, you are an intelligent rat." he thought and placed the rat into his pocket.

He carried Marabelle bridal style and disappeared. He reappeared at where Fu Jin was feeding Theresa an unknown liquid.

Despite him not knowing the contents of that drink, Ju Wei trusted Fu Jin; after all he considered Theresa to be his daughter and if possible, future apprentice.

"She's out of danger now but her dantian is in danger of getting damaged. Did she break the contract with Long Ren?" Fu Jin asked.

"I don't know. Ex-master Long Ren... he was really angry when I tried to talk to him about her. I don't know what happened between them but I'm sure it was very bad." Ju Wei explained.

"And who is this girl that is dressed indecently?" Fu Jin asked with raised eyebrows.

"Em... she isn't a prostitute." Ju Wei quickly defended.

'I didn't say she was. Who is she? Your mate?" Fu Jin asked.

"No, she isn't. She's great mistress' bestfriend from her world." Ju Wei explained."

"I get it. Let's get outta here and I think that she's quite lucky to form a contract with a demon hybrid rat." Fu Jin commented and smiled knowingly.

"Don't you dare think of eating it," Ju Wei warned. He knew this doctor loved eating spiritual rats.

"Who said I would? Why would I hurt my daughter's friend? Let's get outta here,"

The portal appeared again and the four of them were sucked into it.

The moment the portal closed, a lot of animals appeared that looked strange and unpleasant to the eyes.

"Damn it! We're late. How did we not sense the smell of four morsels?" the biggest and ugliest one complained.