Chapter 54: Chapter 54

The person in question had appeared in front of the car with both arms folded shocking the men.

"This guy is a demon!" was the thought in their hearts. What to do now? They couldn't just come out of the car and challenge him to a fight, right? That meant offering their heads to Yama free of charge.

They weren't morons. And also,it didn't make sense to keep driving as he'd easily catch up and they don't have limitless petrol in their car. They didn't want to hand her over either.

"What are you guys waiting for? Come out!" Long Ren yelled.

"He's Chinese!" exclaimed one of the men.

"How do you know that?" another asked.

"I watch Chinese dramas a lot." the man replied.

"Is it then enough so speak with that man?" the fourth man asked.

"No, it isn't!"

"Then how do we communicate?" the third man asked. All were confused on what to do and an impatient Long Ren hit the car bonnet and it bent outta shape, also ruining a lot of things like the radiator, battery etc.

One of the men sighed and mumbled: "We're done for,"

And so they decided to come out of the car to face this demon lord. But to their surprise, he vanished.

"Huh? He vanished? Where did he go? Were my eyes playing tricks just now?" the 2nd man exclaimed. But another immediately rushed to the car; only to find the captive gone.

"We're dead!"

"What happened?"

"She's gone!"

Meanwhile, Long Ren reappeared with Theresa in a forest. He sat her down on a chopped tree trunk and wiped off his sweat. Man, that was the only time he'd run so fast. Though he knew this was a dream, he wanted to go back to reality but didn't know how. All he knew was that the key lay in his Mi... no Ex-mistress.

In less than two minutes, Theresa slowly opened her eyes and then both Long Ren and her got sucked into a portal that all of a sudden just appeared.

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Luo Ye,

Theresa's home.

Long Ren who had been left to lie on the floor all this time, finally opened his eyes slowly. He could hear two people arguing loudly.

Aargh! His whole body hurt. He rubbed his eyes and saw those two geezers still drinking wine from a spatial jar that contained lots of wine. Seeing them almost at each others throat over a silly bet, made his head ache badly. Damn it, those bastards! They left his holy body here on the floor all this time like a rag to be stepped upon!

He gritted his teeth, swearing to teach these two farts a lesson. He struggled to get up. Ju Wei who had just entered the room, saw that Long Ren had awoken. Delightedly he called out "Master!" but he immediately covered his mouth and coughed.

"Help me!" commanded Long Ren but to his surprise, Ju Wei did not obey but instead brought out a bucket containing very cold water and poured it on Long Ren, successfully alerting the two quarreling geezers.

"What happened?" both asked in unison as the wine jars fell from their hands.

"Nothing!" Ju Wei replied with a cold face and made for the seat besides Theresa's bed and sat down.

"You,,," Long Ren was still stunned and took a while to register what Ju Wei had just done to him.

"How dare you?" Long Ren raised his voice but Ju Wei put a finger to his own lips and said: "Shh! Mistress is still sleeping. Don't wake her!"

"You..." since when did Ju Wei become like this? What happened to him? Or could it be that... he was in another dream?

"Grandson, you are back and wet." his grandpa stated.

"Old man, are you just noticing that now?" Long Ren's fury was increasing every minute.

"You deserve the state you are in now." Ju Wei said to Long Ren while glancing through a book he took out from his spatial ring.

"What did you say?"

"Oh, could it be that the all powerful demon lord is partially deaf now. Well, with how things are going, it won't be long before you become deaf and blind and finally crippled. I pray that day comes soon enough." Ju Wei said before returning back to reading.

"So... this is what you think of me all along. You hate me and now that I'm weaker than you... you wanna vent all your pent up frustrations on me huh? You are right! I deserve all this, whatever state I'm in is all my fault." Long Ren slowly dried up his clothes and body with a low level spell, sat on the floor and crossed his legs.

"What's the use of meditating? I won't let you calm down, you stupid fox" Ju Wei spat.

Long Ren who'd closed his eyes opened them again.

"What did you say?"

"This is the second time you ask me that question. Anyway, now that your eyes are open, it's easier for me to preach to you." Ju Wei put down his book and stood up. He then put his hands behind his back and circled around Long Ren slowly.

"Ex-master Long Ren, I've never hated you. If you didn't save me back then, I'll be non-existent and for that I'll be forever grateful to you. I revered you and always sought your approval but you... you never approved of me!"

"That's because you do disgusting things!" Long Ren spat.

"Oh, the fact that I'm a cutsleeve? Hahahaha. Indeed compared to me in this aspect, you are holy. But it doesn't change the fact that you are a scumbag. You hated mistress from the start and that's why you ditched her at the last minute. She was almost raped but you did nothing to help her. All 'cos of you she ended up in the forbidden dessert. In your eyes, she was better off dead. You are a monster!"

"Kettle calling pot black." Long Ren muttered.

"I'm no kettle. But you are indeed a pot. Black inside out. No, I'm wrong! You are Yama's subordinate."

"JU WEI,"

"Don't raise your voice at me, disgusting fox!"

"I see, Fu Jin just have fed you fat with his stupidity"

"You call me stupid?" Fu Jin who'd been planning to watch this movie without doing a thing, got irked.

"What? Aren't you stupid?"

"You... evil pal, can you see your grandson?"

"He's not my grand child. I think he was switched at birth by the enemy." commented old Long.

"Thief! Theif!"

The four angry men were awakened to reality by a shrill female scream.

All four of them turned their heads and saw a kid of around five years old. She possesses light brown hair, big black eyes and pale red lips. She's dressed in a black knee-length gown and white shoes.

An '?' appeared in their minds. Where is their Theresa? Who was this kid and how did she get here? Why didn't they feel it? Something is definitely wrong here!

The kid ran towards Fu Jin, hugged his legs and began to cry profusely.

"Is this kid made of water?" Fu Jin thought with a frown.

"Uncle, that guy..."she pointed at Long Ren and continued: "He... he's a thief. A big bad wolf. Uncle, help me beat him!"

"Me? A thief?" Long Ren asked in disbelief.

"Uncle, he kills people... he beats people. He eats people. He's ugly too. Uncle didn't you say that ugly men like him deserve a beating? Please beat him for me. Beat him to death. No, just beat him into his casket. I will help bury him. Uncle..." the lass tugged at Fu Jin's sleeves with poppy eyes.

"Kiddo... ahem...I'm not your uncle. What's your name, little one?" he asked.

"Bush baby!" she replied.

The four stared at each other and thought: "Bush baby? What sort of name is that?"

"Uncle..."

"Okay, I will help you beat him but you must remind uncle of your real name first." said Fu Jin in a small voice.

"It's Bush baby!"

"B...Bush baby?" old Long asked.

"Old man, you don't like my name? My parents gave it to me." she sounded aggrieved.

"Oh! They did great. Kiddo, where are you from?" old Long was getting a headache.

"Uncle..." the lass tugged at a tired Fu Jin's sleeves again.

Using the nicest tone of voice he could have, he spoke: "My dear Bush baby, what is it again?"

"Uncle, I think he's a kidnapper. He must be an accomplice with that ugly guy. As they say, one's ugliness rubs on other people. It's no wonder this old man is hideous. His hairdo makes things worse."

"Wow!" Ju Wei applauded in delight.

"Mistress, you are the best." he screamed in delight.

"That's Theresa?" the other three exclaimed in shock.

"How did you know?" asked old Long.

"Easy! Look at her right wrist." Ju Wei pointed at the little girl's right wrist and all could see the crest of a fox on it and when they subconsciously glanced at her right legs, there was the tattoo of a snake.

"She's mistress. She's so cute. Bush baby, come to Papa!" Ju Wei laughed as he spread out his hands.

"Monkey, get away from me! You can't be my dad. My dad is the most handsome in the world and my mum is the prettiest. How dare you try to steal my dad's position? You must be an accomplice with these hideous people. I know what you are... you are a child thief," the little girl retorted and then hugged Fu Jin's leg tighter.

"Uncle, there are three monkeys here. Help me beat them." she said in a small voice, nearly hiding her face in Fu Jin's sleeves. He sighed and stooped to her level.

"My dear, these hideous people are not bad." he explained as he petted her head which she seemed to like very much.

"They are good people?" she asked skeptically.

"Yes! There are some good people who are hideous like them." Fu Jin pointed at the unhappy three.

Who liked being called hideous continiously?

'Bush baby' left Fu Jin and ran over to Long Ren.

"Hideous uncle, what's your name?" she asked in sincere eagerness but Long Ren itched to slap her. She was still stubbornly calling him, a handsome guy, hideous? She needs to be taught a lesson.

He went on one kneel and wanted to pat her head but she avoided it.

"..."

"Hideous uncle, I asked for your name not pat."

"Oh, call me Long Ren,"

"Lone Bread?" 'Bush baby' asked in puzzlement.

"Long Ren," he corrected.

"Long Rain?"

Long Ren gritted him teeth. Damn this little version of his Ex-mistress. She's so annoying! How dare she spoil his awesome name?

"Forget it! You name's too hard. I'll just call you uncle hideous. Sounds better!" she decided before moving on to Ju Wei.

"Hideous guy here, what's your name?"

"Eh..." Ju Wei scratched his head.

"Is there lice in your head? Ewww!"

"No, little angel, my name is Flower." Ju Wei replied. Flower is easy for her to say right? So he'll just lower his pride. No pain in it.

'Bush baby' frowned.

"Flower? Are you a girl?" she circled around him and shook her head.

"Little one, that's my name."

"Then your parents must have been blind. They've disgraced the flowers. No, I think I should call you uncle thorny. Sounds better!"

"You..." Ju Wei was at a loss for words.

'Bush baby headed to the last person- old Long.

"Hideous old man, what's your name?"

"..."

He refused to answer.

"Could it be that your parents gave you no name? So pitiful. Since you met me today, I'll give you a name. Flower man!" she decided without giving him a chance to talk.

"That's settled with the three of you." she ran back to hug Fu Jin's leg.

"Uncle yummy, I know their names now. That one is uncle hideous, then there is uncle thorny and Flower man. Uncle yummy, did I do well?" she asked.

"Yes, you did well. Hideous, Thorny and Flower man, please give her a gift." Fu Jin said with a mocking chuckle.

"I'm poor!" said an unhappy Long Ren. All he wanted to do now was leave this instant but he knew he couldn't.

"Uncle hideous, since you are poor, you can work for me. I will pay you enough to feed yourself. Uncle thorny and Flowerman, you can still work for me too. What do you say?" she asked.

"Eh, I have money so I can afford you a gift," Ju Wei took out a golden necklace from his spatial ring and walked to her. He stooped and placed it in her hand.

"Do you like it?"

"Uncle, I feel you are handsome now." 'Bush baby' hugged a stunned Ju Wei who hugged her back.

"Uncle thorny, you smell," she whispered into Ju Wei's ears.

"What?"

She left his embrace and went back to hugging Fu Jin's thigh.

Old Long walked to her and gave her a small jade bracelet but she threw it away.

"I don't like it. Give me sweets!" she threw a tantrum making Fu Jin and old Long sigh in defeat.

Suddenly, the door opened and three people rushed in - Aarti, Clark and Marabella.

"How's Theresa?"

"How my baby doing?"

"How's my daughter doing?"

They asked in unison but were stunned to see the empty bed.

The four men in the room earlier "..."

"Mummy? Daddy?" a little girl's voice broke the silence.

The trio (Aarti, Clark and Marabelle) turned attention to the little figure they'd not noticed upon their entry.

They were shocked because they recognized this little girl.

"Theresa!" they cried out but 'Bush baby' frowned.

"My name is Bush baby." she corrected as she ran to Aarti.

"Mummy Red, where have you been all this time? Daddy Black, why didn't you come in time? And Maya why are you with them. Aren't you supposed to be working?"

"..."

"What's going on?" Clark asked.

"Er... this should be a side effect of some sort, I guess," Ju Wei replied.

"Side effect? How could the side effect be so big? How did she turn into a 5 year old?" Aarti wasn't convinced.

After waking up from bonding with her new pet who's now sleeping, she rushed here with Marabelle and her husband because she was too anxious to see her baby. But this... this wasn't how she envisioned their meeting to be like.

"Forget it. It's good that you're now here. I've made three new uncle friends," Bush baby began to introduce the unlucky three men by the names she gave them and their mouths twitched.

This little version of Theresa is too vicious, alright!

"Daddy, Mummy... I... ow! It hurts!" 'Bushbaby' held her head in pain.

"What happened?" Aarti asked in concern for her daughter.

"Your head hurts?" Clark knelt and caressed her head but she pushed him and Aarti away and then vanished.

"..."

When did she get the teleporting ability? Everything was just going wrong tonight! From the interference of Wang Jiao till now, everything was just going too bad! How could they be so unlucky? Aarti's heart hurt; knowing that her little angel was in pain in someplace she didn't know.

"Where did my daughter go? You guys have to find her for me or I'll die. Where is she? Do you know?"

"Will my friend be fine?"

"Why can she vanish? Is this a side effect too?"

"Eh..." old Long and the others were getting serious headaches and so old man Long decided to cast a sleeping spell on the three of them and they fell to the floor like sacks of grains.

"My gosh! This is terrible. One troubling event keeps coming up before we had time to solve the former one. It'll soon be dawn and the problems are only increasing." Ju Wei exclaimed.

"This is all your fault, unfilial grandson!" old man Long scolded.

"Me? How is it my fault? Did I turn her into a 5 year old? Or did I give her the ability to teleport? How can you blame me? You..." Long Ren was cut short by Ju Wei.

"Just shut up, Foxy."

"Ju Wei, how dare you? Say that again if you dare."

"I dare. Shut up! Shut! Shut up Foxy!"

"THAT'S IT!" infuriated, Long Ren charged at Ju Wei with the fullest speed that he could muster up despite his low cultivation level.

Seeing him coming, Ju Wei chuckled.

"Too slow!" he muttered before charging at Long Ren.

Just an inch away from each other, both stopped.

"You are currently weak so I won't bully you, EX-MASTER," Ju Wei emphasized the word to show that he no longer cared about him.

"Bully me? You better pray that you have a casket."

"Ha! Very funny! You really have a talent to be a clown. I think the one needing a casket is you."

"We'll see about that," Long Ren immediately gathered fire energy into a fireball.

"Weak!" Ju Wei gathered a fireball three times bigger than Long Ren's.

"See? I already win." Ju Wei proudly proclaimed himself winner but would Long Ren accept that?

"Let's bet then," Long Ren suggested.

"WHOA! You want to be a gambler now?"

"Cut it out and let's get down to business"

"Fine, Foxy, what do you want to bet on?"

"Mistress taking me back and tossing that snake away."

Hearing this, Fu Jin coughed. Ju Wei and old man Long stared at him like he was an idiot.

"Let's bet on better things like our dicks. Let's do a dick showing contest. The one with a bigger dick gets to slap the loser a hundred times." Ju Wei proudly suggested.

"You brat. How can your head be filled with vulgar thoughts all the time. You actually plan on doing my grandson in the ass? Are you crazy?" old Long thundered but Fu Jin jumped in front of him.

"Hey, I support Ju Wei. I bet 200 diamonds that Ju Wei's member is bigger, thicker and longer!" Fu Jin stated his stand shocking Long Ren and old man Long who itched to slap Fu Jin until he forgot his name.

This was a real betrayer and black bellied man. Nothing in him was worthy of emulation by the younger generation.

"Are you really a doctor?" Long Ren asked. He was silently glad that his old man didn't support Ju Wei.

"Oh, you'll know when I pierce your foxy butt," the doctor replied in annoyance.

"Enough of this! You three are stupid. How can you forget that Theresa is missing?" old Long scolded.

"Aren't you just also recalling?" Ju Wei mumbled.

"Now who has an idea of where she is?" Long Ren asked.

"Oh, let me send my messenger bird to check," old man Long suggested.

"Don't bother. I know where she'll be," said Fu Jin abruptly.

"Where?" Ju Wei asked in sheer eagerness.

"Go to the source, that is her origin." Fu Jin said.

"Her source? Isn't it the cold palace?" Ju Wei was shocked at the thought his mistress had teleported to such a far distance easily.

Fu Jin shook his head.

"Where she started cultivating. The secluded room recall?"

"Oh! You should have said so. Just pulling our legs for no just reason." Long Ren mumbled.

"I'm out," Ju Wei vanished.

"Me too!" Fu Jin did the same leaving Long Ren alone with his grandpa.

"You unfilial child! Why did you treat her like that? You misunderstood your mistress this time. You shouldn't have abandoned her. Do you know what she went through because of you? You're such a fool. You are one of the lucky pets in the world to meet a master like her. Thankfully,no matter what you do, you can't run away anymore since you are bound to her for life." old Long spoke with a sigh.

"Grandpa, is there any other way?"

"To do what?"

"To... Grandpa please, you must help me out. That snake is stronger than me. I can't stand him too. He wants to steal my limelight. Please find a way to make mistress reject him. I want to go back to her and let her forgive me. Grandpa." he knelt down and put his palms together to plead but old Long shook his head.

"I can't help you. Child, your life is a mess but I can't always clean it up for you. Your mistress had begun to trust you like a big brother but what did you do? You dashed her hope to pieces. Why did you even have to hit her face?" he thundered but Long Ren couldn't reply.

"Was it because she insulted you? Or because she slapped you first? ANSWER ME!"

"Grandpa, please lower your voice. Please don't shout at me." Long Ren begged with a small voice. He was already close to tears.

"Tell me, my child." old Long lowered his voice and went on one knee. "What's happening to you these days? What's going on with you?"

"Grandpa I... didn't really want to be her pet from the start because I thought she'd be evil and treat me so badly. My first impression of her was really bad and I hated her so much that I prayed she'd die but for some reason, my hate began to diminish especially with the way she handled the mission handed to her by the late Han Fei Fei. But all went wrong when I got that life saving flower."

"I see! So it's because of your cultivation? I indeed took 5 stages of your cultivation but I didn't have a need for it. That flower requires someone with a low cultivation to perform the rituals. Your cultivation was just too high; so I took some and made the qi energy into a spirit bead." he took out a glowing small red ball of light and it floated in the air.

"My cultivation!" Long Ren muttered softly with longing but then, he quickly bowed low his head.

"I planned on giving this back to you after you were done and stabilized but who knew you wouldn't cherish what you have. Let this serve as a lesson to you child. You must turn a new leaf from now on and treat your mistress well. I also want you to cultivate diligently and teach her the ways of this world. When the time is right, take her to a school and let her learn at her own pace." with those words, old Long crushed the ball of light and it scattered into fragments of light which soon vanished like smoke and before Long Ren could mutter anything, he had vanished.

Long Ren clutched his chest and spat out blood. His whole body was trembling.

"My cultivation! My cultivation! It's all gone. Why? Why?" Long Ren whispered in disbelief.

"My precious cultivation!" Long Ren began to weep bitterly. This was the second time he was crying after the death of his parents. He pulled his hair in frustration and roared, hitting the floor continuously with his right fist.

"How did it turn out like this? How? This must be a joke right? It must be!" he tried to convince himself but reality was harsh.

"Your so stupid, Long Ren" he began to slap himself. "STUPID! STUPID!"

Outside the door to the Theresa's room, old Long reappeared,a sly smile on his lips.

"Boy, things will be even more fun. Now I need to go see my grandson's mistress." he took out another ball of light from his spatial ring that shined more brightly than the crushed one from earlier.

"I'll keep this until you learn your lesson. I spoiled you too much and you forgot how wicked this old man could ever be."

He kept the ball of light back in the ring and stretched his arms sideways; yawning like someone who wanted to sleep so badly, before walking towards the secluded room.

At this same moment, Aarti opened her eyes.

Aarti Willaims opened her eyes but before she could register anything, she was sent back to sleep by Long Ren's spell. Evidently, he didn't want her to him in this miserable state he was in.

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At the secluded room.

There are currently a total of four persons in this room.

The center of attention, 'Bush baby' (Theresa), is lying on the bare floor convulsing with foam coming out from her mouth. The snake tattoo on her right leg and the lotus flower tattoo on her right wrist shone brightly.

The three men sat down on a couch and observed her. Its not like they were heartless. They'd really tried out all their knowledge to help her but a shield kept appearing and stopping them from helping her. So, they decided to just sit and watch.

Ju Wei was even in the mood to eat apples. Fu Jin took out dumplings and began to eat and as for old Long? He just fiddled with his hair like a maiden.

4 minutes later, little Theresa stopped convulsing and the trio stood up.

"Ju Wei, you go first." Fu Jin suggested shamelessly.

"You! You want this handsome spirit to be a test subject. What if I end up losing my life?" Ju Wei complained.

"You are a spirit; so you are the best one available." Fu Jin explained.

"You!"

"Yeah! Please go my son," old Long spoke abruptly, shocking Ju Wei.

"You too? You must want to get back at me for proposing that competition right? But come to think of it, I'm not a virgin and I'm sure I'd win. You think I wanna f**k him in the ass right? Actually, I think he deserves it. I want him to see how great being the one below under me is. I'll do him so well that..." Ju Wei's words were left unfinished as old Long kicked him towards little Theresa.

He flew backwards towards her direction with full speed and he became frightened at the thought of that wicked shield. Fortunately, the shield didn't appear but he ended up crashing onto the wall butt first and fell to the floor like a sack of grain.

"My whole body hurts. Old man, better say your last prayers now. When I've recovered..."

"I will send you to a brothel. You can get to f**k all day long and increase your energy okay?"

"You...." Ju Wei spat out blood.

Seeing this, Fu Jin applauded, making old Long frown.

"Stupid pal, why the applause?"

"Eh... the master and his ex-disciple both spit out blood in one day. Isn't that great?" Fu Jin said delightfully.

Hearing this, Ju Wei's eyes turned red.

"Old geezers! What did you do to him?" Ju Wei spat out in a raised voice tone.

"He is your ex-master. You shouldn't concern yourself with him." old Long advised.

"Damn it!" Ju Wei vanished without getting up.

"Wow! Old man Long, can you do that?" Fu Jin nudged Long Ren's grandpa but he only snorted before walking over to check Theresa's injury.

Meanwhile, Ju Wei appeared at Theresa's room and saw an unconscious Long Ren in a miserable condition.

"Master!" Ju Wei called out softly.

He crawled to Long Ren and made him rest his head on his lap.

"Master, you never know the truth about me. I didn't tell you my past all this time but I felt it was too terrible to tell. But right now, I'll say it." caressing Long Ren's hair, he began to tell his tale.

"Master! 500 years ago, my parents were sleeping in bed with me separating them both. By then, I was just nine years old. That night, some unknown men came and tried to kidnap my mom. My dad tried hard to save her but right in front of me and my crying mom, they cut off his... you know... what brought me to life. They cut off his privates and pelted it to meat paste with a stick. Then, they tied him up and forced him to... to... to open... open his legs wide. And they did that... they fucked him right in the ass. In front of me!

My mom couldn't bear to watch and fainted. They abused my father and when my mom woke up again, he was killed. They forced her to eat the ruined cock of my father and rap*d her in front of me. The men were 16 in total from what I can recall. They all wanted to have a taste of her but she died under the third man but they didn't still let her be and the rest had their way with my dear mom's corpse. I didn't want to live anymore but I wanted to escape in order to seek revenge later. But do you know what happened next?" Ju Wei was already crying profusely by now.

Unexpectedly, he heard a weak voice from under him.

"What happened next, Ju Wei."