Chapter 936

No matter how you hear it, it just sounds utterly embarrassing!

"This old man thanks Mo Qixia for saving his life."

General Chilaowen felt grief and indignation in his heart, but he did not dare neglect his duties on the surface.

He immediately fell to his knees with a heavy thud, enduring the searing pain in his backside, and kowtowed toward Mo Shenggu.

Mo Shenggu had always been taught by Zhang Sanfeng, and was naturally not the sort of man who bestowed favors expecting repayment.

He immediately turned his body sideways, accepted half of General Chilaowen's bow, then held him steady,

"Please, please don't.

We are all people of Great Ming, and ought to help one another."

General Chilaowen took the cue to straighten up and asked,

"Why is Mo Qixia here alone? Where might the other six heroes be?"

Clearly, when they had entered that door earlier, all of the Wu Dangqixia had entered together.

So why was only Mo Shenggu here now?

"I find it strange too."

Mo Shenggu gave a brief explanation,

"After I came in, I never caught sight of my senior brothers.

I just happened to sense something amiss over here, so I rushed right over.

In the Buddhist hall, I happened to see that evil demon, that fiend, in the very act of… molesting… Mr. Chi…"

At this point, Mo Shenggu paused once more.

General Chilaowen's face flushed even redder; he wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Disgraceful, damnably disgraceful!

At this point, General Chilaowen no longer had any thought of finding the second Heavenly Fragrant Cardamom.

After all, not only had his late-life reputation been ruined, his strength had taken a serious hit as well.

Now the Dried Corpse Evil Buddha had fled, and he had no idea how to get through the sea maze.

After much deliberation, General Chilaowen said at once,

"Mo Qixia, to tell you the truth, I once passed through here on my way to the Central Plains.

But halfway there, I stumbled into a maze by mistake."

General Chilaowen then recounted the matter of the sea maze from beginning to end, exactly as it had happened.

At the end, he reminded him,

"In my view, if the other six heroes are not in You Dongying, then they are most likely in the Central Plains.

If Mo Qixia wishes to go to the Central Plains, he must pass through that maze.

It is truly difficult!"

Only now did Mo Shenggu realize how bizarre this world was.

On the island of You Dongying, there was this eerie, monstrous Dried Corpse Evil Buddha.

And over the great sea, there was a maze.

The more you looked at it, the more it seemed as though You Dongying had been cut off from the Central Plains.

How were his senior brothers faring now?

"Thank you for the warning, Mr. Chi. May I ask where you plan to go from here?"

Mo Shenggu, a disciple of Wu Dang who put righteousness first, naturally expressed his gratitude to General Chilaowen at once.

General Chilaowen's face flushed with deep embarrassment, and he said helplessly,

"Originally, this old man was thinking of heading to the Central Plains to try his luck, to see if he could obtain that Heavenly Fragrant Cardamom.

But now, thanks to that villain…"

At this point, General Chilaowen paused, his face full of bitter hatred.

If he ever ran into that Dried Corpse Evil Buddha again, he, General Chilaowen, would make him regret ever coming into this world.

Pushing the thought aside, he said to Mo Shenggu,

"Right now my cultivation has been damaged, and I truly can no longer carry out the task Your Majesty entrusted to me."

The Your Majesty he spoke of was, of course, none other than the young Emperor of Great Ming in the Nine Provinces.

Mo Shenggu nodded, knowing that it was indeed no longer suitable for General Chilaowen to remain here.

After offering a few more words of advice, telling General Chilaowen to mind his medication and recover from his injuries, they agreed to reunite once they had returned to the Nine Provinces.

Only then did Mo Shenggu stroll away at leisure; he still had to find a way to the Central Plains and meet up with his senior brothers.

Seeing Mo Shenggu leave, General Chilaowen no longer hesitated.

He vaulted into the air, searching the heavens above for the door he had come through.

Although he had lost more than twenty percent of his cultivation, his foundation was still there after all.

Apart from a dull ache in his backside, everything else was more or less fine.

Enduring the shame and the searing pain, he rose up into the high sky.

After searching for a long time among the clouds, he finally found a faintly glimmering door.

His heart leaped with joy, and he immediately plunged headlong into the door without a second thought.

When he came back to his senses, he had indeed returned to the Jixian Academy in the capital of Great Ming in the Nine Provinces.

By now, the martial arena had far fewer people than before.

But the agents of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the Eastern Depot, and the Western Depot of Great Ming still filled the area around the martial arena.

Upon the high platform, Cao Zhengchun was carefully and cautiously attending upon the young Emperor of Great Ming.

GLOSSARY:

【Mo Shenggu, Mo Qixia, Wu Dangqixia, Zhang Sanfeng, Wu Dang, General Chilaowen, You Dongying, Great Ming, Your Majesty, Emperor, Cao Zhengchun, Embroidered Uniform Guard, Eastern Depot, Western Depot, Jixian Academy, Nine Provinces, Central Plains, Heavenly Fragrant Cardamom, Dried Corpse Evil Buddha, Touzharu Sect, Runadao Sect, Xiong Society】

The moment Chi Laowen touched down, the Embroidered Uniform Guard reacted immediately.

A Battalion Commander was seen leading a group of Embroidered Uniform Guards rushing over,

"Who has returned?"

If his power were still intact, Chi Laowen would have been ready to cut his way out right then and there.

But on second thought, not only had he lost two-tenths of his power, he had also lost so much face.

Once Mo Shenggu came back from over there and the story got out, the old man had been humiliated by that You Dongying desiccated-corpse evil Buddha.

Then the Great Ming martial artists, and even the martial artists of the Nine Provinces, would only mock this old man whom he, Chi Laowen, had already killed.

But if Chi Laowen now cast all caution aside and exposed his identity,

the martial artists of the Nine Provinces would surely mock him instead.

His thoughts flashing like lightning, Chi Laowen could only back down, obediently crouching low as he said,

"It is I, the old man."

This old man was clearly also a famous martial artist of the Great Ming; the moment he said this,

the surrounding Battalion Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard recognized him at once, and his attitude immediately softened considerably,

"So it is the old gentleman! How is it that your honored self has returned after only two hours?"

Two hours?

Chi Laowen was startled. He had first been caught up in the snowy ground in the battle between Duan Tianya and Liusheng Dan Ma Shou, and had both his arms injured by Duan Tianya.

Afterwards, out on the great sea, he had been lost for over ten days.

Then, because of a small town near the Shinto Shrine, he had stayed overnight for one night.

Only after that did he go to the Shinto Shrine and fall into the scheming of that desiccated-corpse evil Buddha.

Adding it all up, front and back, if not a full month, it was at least half a month.

How could this Battalion Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard not know the time, saying he had only been gone for two hours?

Astonished in his heart, and with his identity still unexposed, Chi Laowen immediately said,

"Battalion Commander, my lord, surely you must have misremembered the time.

This old man ran about over there on all sides, searching for the Heavenly Fragrant Cardamom for the court; one might say he bent his back to the task until his dying day.

Front and back, there were no fewer than ten battles, great and small.

The injuries he suffered were beyond counting.

Reckoning by the days, it is fully a month and more!"

As he spoke, Chi Laowen pointed at his own clothes, which looked like those of a beggar.