Chapter 487: and translation of chapter title

Good!

Heng Xian answered bluntly, without even a flicker of emotion, as if agreeing to go eat a bowl of braised pork right away.

Heng Xian agreed to go eat a bowl of braised pork right away.

A Gongsun Family elder chuckled: "Aren't you worried?"

Heng Xian countered: "Do I need to worry about this...?"

The elder said: "If your strength is lacking, boasting will get you killed!"

Heng Xian fell silent for a moment, then said: "Then I definitely need to give my mother and sister more money!"

The hall was utterly silent.

The Gongsun Family's old matriarch laughed: "Sure! You'll lose a lot of money—go!"

With a light wave of the hand, Heng Xian was wrapped in a strong gust and flung out.

He silently sensed the old woman's cultivation.

Primordial Elixir Late Stage!

Just then, the surroundings suddenly changed; instead of landing in the courtyard, he appeared in a strange place.

All around was a world of molten rock and lava; fiery, bright lava occasionally blew bubbles, and a scorching hot wind swept over.

He stood on a slope of molten rock; one side led down into the lava depths, the other rose upward.

He looked up and saw nearly a thousand bare-chested youths above, desperately ramming a huge green stone with cold-iron battering rams.

Each strike sent up a thunderous shock that echoed dully in the lava world.

Heng Xian instinctively felt this was a real world, not an illusion or formation.

In other words, the Gongsun Family's old matriarch had blasted herself into a secret realm??

He immediately opened the Mysterious Yellow Heavenly Hexagram: "What the hell kind of place is this?"

The hexagram showed: 【Ancient Demon Realm, this is the gate of a great demon's Sumeru Mustard Seed!】

Heng Xian exclaimed: "Ancient Demon Realm?"

The hexagram showed: 【Ancient Demon Realm, that is, in antiquity it equaled a minor cave heaven opened by demons above the human Unity Stage, equivalent to humanity's ancient relics!】

Here is the entrance to the Demon Realm: the Five Elements cannot enter, spiritual power fails, magic treasures lose potency, all spells are useless!

So they haven't opened the gate yet!

Heng Xian looked at the crowd desperately striking the stone and asked: "Is that stone the gate?"

The hexagram showed: 【Not exactly; this is a crucial seal point of the Demon Realm's gate. Opening this means opening the realm is just a matter of time.】

Heng Xian sensed his cultivation—sure enough, it had failed. Looking again at the stone and the men above, he thought, "Damn, this isn't about strength at all! The Five Elements are barred, spiritual power null—this is just hard labor!"

Just then, a loud shout came from above: "Hey! Kid, hurry up and help!"

Heng Xian followed the sound and vaguely realized the speaker looked familiar.

"Come on already!" the man shouted again.

Heng Xian wiped the sweat from his forehead, strode forward, and gripped the ram's shaft.

The man drew near, chuckling: "You actually made it here too— not bad, kid!"

In that smile, he revealed a mouth full of yellowed buckteeth, thief-like eyes, and a horse face.

Even though Heng Xian had braced himself for honor or disgrace, the man's jolt made him blurt: "Dao Ye?"

This was the very person who, in the Great Zhou Capital's Rebirth Prison, had helped him escape jail, only to run into the State Elder Pavilion.

"Hehe..." Dao Ye grinned: "Surprised? Unexpected?"

Heng Xian shook his head: "When did you end up in this damned place?"

Dao Ye tugged at his singed beard: "About the same as you—when you went to the Imperial Capital, I took the chance to break out of prison!"

Heng Xian pondered, then said: "Dao Ye, tell me the truth—did you deliberately let me go to the State Elder Pavilion that day?"

Dao Ye blinked: "I did it on purpose—let my whole family die. I had no idea where it led; didn't I tell you beforehand?"

Heng Xian exclaimed: "Your whole family? How many were still at home?"

"All dead!" Dao Ye said matter-of-factly.

Heng Xian nodded: "All right!"

Dao Ye gripped his hand tightly and asked: "What do you think of the Great Zhou's affairs?"

"Do you know how the Great Zhou Imperial Capital ended?" Heng Xian asked.

Back then he took the unconscious Ji Yaoyue and left; the Great Zhou's splendor, riches and honors, or that helpless court coup—none of it concerned him!

Dao Ye stroked his beard: "Of course I know a thing or two! After you brought Princess Taiping away, the Heavenly Empress continued to suppress the State Elder Pavilion with Phoenix Shadow Power, but a few hours later she suddenly gave up the contest, as if all fighting spirit had vanished!"

He brought his personal attendant Xu Lulu to the State Elder Pavilion to cultivate!

Afterward, the State Elder Pavilion reinstated Ji Chun as emperor! Ji Chun immediately seized power, stripped Prince Qin and Princess Chang Gongzhu of their titles, demoted them to commoners, and confined them forever!

The wounded, crippled crown prince was deposed to Prince Qin, while the original Prince Wu, Ji Yifan, became crown prince!

Then they posthumously honored Consort De as Grand Empress of Virtuous Precious Glory, made Princess Taiping the State Defender Princess, and appointed you Prince of Three Mountains!

Heng Xian chuckled lightly, feeling a vague melancholy and boredom, inexplicably sensing that the realm of kings was nothing special.

Dao Ye seemed to read his mind and sighed: "Worldly prosperity is but fleeting clouds to us recluses who long for idle clouds and wild cranes."

Heng Xian sized him up—those buckteeth, horse face, a touch of self-satisfaction, wisdom and anticipation in his eyes—and said: "You're not quite like that!"

"Not like what?" Dao Ye blinked.

Heng Xian said: "Not like that damn idle-clouds-and-wild-cranes lifestyle—what are you really here for?"

Dao Ye glanced around, chuckling: "If you're asking that, I won't hide it—I deliberately posed as a strongman to sneak in and pull off something big!"

"Big?" Heng Xian asked: "Enter the Demon Realm?"

Dao Ye blinked: "You actually understand the Demon Realm?"

Heng Xian said: "I can't understand?"

Got it! No need for me to explain to the old man! Dao Ye patted his shoulder. "There's plenty of good stuff inside; I checked the fortune of Nine Palaces Mountain City—this Gongsun family's luck is thin, it's only right that I, Dao Ye, make a fortune! No! You, the Prince of Three Mountains Commandery, and I will make a fortune together!"

Checking the fortune, digging tunnels... Heng Xian realized. "You hammer, are you really a grave robber?"

I can understand the hammer, but what the hell is grave robbing? Dao Ye was taken aback.

Heng Xian was about to answer when an angry shout came from above: "What are the two of you doing down there? Is this a place for chatting?"

Upon seeing this, Dao Ye hurriedly said: "Get to work! Get to work!"

Heng Xian also gripped the handle of the ram tightly and pushed forward.

Bang, bang...

One hit, then another, and another.

The crowd kept striking without pause; of course, the crowd wasn't just being used as oxen nonstop—every one shichen someone would take out medicinal pills and distribute them, ensuring the crowd's stamina!

No one knew how long had passed when a noisy clamor came from below.

Heng Xian turned his head and saw seven or eight men looking around in bewilderment; obviously they had just been thrown in.

One of them, bald and big-bellied, who else could it be but Sun Bufan?

(End of chapter)