Badass Celestial Emperor Returns!

(78) Her Parents

The travel continued again. They met quite a few strong spirit beasts, it was lucky no demon beasts were spotted. Sovereign Hei's dark shadowy body moves swiftly from the forest at dawn and headed to Zi Yingjun's spotting area. He is sleeping as if he doesn't care if any beasts will lunge on him. It was also fortunate Hai Liang keeps favoring Shi Zhao every night. But at day, Zi Yingjun will get her neverending attention. Upon feeling a cold presence, Zi Yingjun lifted his eyelids to see Sovereign Hei on time.

"That was fast." Zi Yingjun smiled with closed eyes and leaned on the tree. He used his divine sense and immediately located where the others are. Its impossible they will hear him conversing with Sovereign Hei because they are far. "How did it go?"

"Very well." Sovereign Hei grinned like a devil as usual. "Sigh, the only problem is I am stuck in the Foundation Building. I already swallowed all demon beasts ten miles from here but it never helped me reach a new realm. Furthermore, my limit outside is decreasing. The yin energy in your dantian is keeping me fine temporarily."

"In my past life, legend says a Celestial Death cultivator made a pact with a Feral Semi-Devil and Myth Demi-God. It was a story a long time ago when Celestial Death cultivators still existed. He suffered a fatal attack from a war and his cultivation returned to zero. At the same time, the demon and spirit beast he has were wounded severely and their level also diminished. But when the master climbed through ranks, the two supreme beasts also rised in realms." Zi Yingjun looked at Sovereign Hei. He still cant fathom what level Sovereign Hei has.

"Then enter the next realm already. All those demon beasts I ate were nothing then." Sovereign Hei sounded unhappy as he sat across Zi Yingjun and propped his cheek on his palm. The reason why he tried to unseal Zi Yingjun's aptitude is that it was the only way to keep himself sustained. A Feral Semi-Devil may be halfway through immortality but heavy wounds are very difficult to restore unlike human cultivators who have fragile bodies but easier to heal. The Pure Yin Zi Yingjun has can keep his fatal wounds healed temporarily.

"Where is the wound? Who did it?" Zi Yingjun cant help but ask. He knew less about the world outside their own world. But he have heard from mortals that there is called the immortal realm where immortals lived with their own rankings. The current realm he is residing in is the mortal world but it was quite vast. The third realm is the underworld, where sinners were judged after death. But, the World of Undead, he never heard of it.

"My nine hearts are severed by a demon that suddenly awakened. It is inside me and a heart is keeping me alive, the other eight are withered. I can regain my eight hearts again if I can annex cultivators in high ranks such as those in Nascency and above. Humph! That demon is unforgivable. He rose from the Underworld without arbiters giving commands and destroyed half of our world. I was forced to leave and got separated with my group. However, I was able to sense your aptitude and waited in that forest. That is why I saved you from those two strangers. At first, I thought I should kill you and take over your body to heal myself but the Little Critter showed up. The only thing left is the contract. It saved me from death, ahaha!"

"You love death, don't you?" Zi Yingjun sarcastically remarked. He looked down once the sun provided enough light. The rest are now awake and ready to leave. "Good job out there. Keep it until we reach the rural areas."

"Hey, boy. I nearly forgot." Sovereign Hei made him stop. "There is another group out there. Two of those people resembles your cousin. I cant remember clearly but I think their name were Zi Yanfan and Zi Mingde."

"Them?" his eyes widened a bit. Zi Yingjun contemplated and simply waved his hands. "Its fine. They're her parents. Zi Mingde is my mother's closest cousin too and he is not much against me. Except for his wife, Zi Yanfan, she doesn't like me but she doesn't hate me either."

"Ai, I thought I can annex their dantian." he sounded disappointed. "Boy, do you know the Lost Annexing Method?"

"En." Zi Yingjun paused after jumping down the tree. The Lost Annexing Method was used to effectively swallow talents, aptitudes and immortal dantians. It was not forbidden since the righteous path used it to take every demonic cultivators' modified talents and dantians in order to transfer it to their disciples. However, it disappeared after the child of fate vanished. No one knew the method aside from the Ten Ancient Sect but when Zi Yingjun was just a core disciple in the Thousand Sword Sect, there was no record of it. The supreme elders said the ancient elders forbade to share anything about it.

"I know the method. It is very helpful for my case. Even more than that, it can strengthen the pact which means you will also get stronger if we were to merge." Sovereign Hei smiled smartly. Zi Yingjun gave him a glance.

"Well, these elders here are not bad. Shi Zhao and Zi Gu Wen are also prodigies." he muttered. Zi Yingjun still shook his head. "We can try the method later on if things get out of hand. So that, we have a trump card."

Sovereign Hei agreed and entered the dantian again. Their group travelled forward when they met the scouting members. Zi Yanfan and Zi Mingde are leading the scouting members. They immediately saw Zi Gu Wen that is in front.

"Oh, it was Xiao Wen." Zi Yanfan recognized him. She likes the gentlemanly demeanor of the boy and his achievements kept her favor rising. What a good husband for her daughter.

"Aiya, Yingying is here!" suddenly, her husband cheerfully spoke and ignored his future son-in-law. Instead, he approached Zi Yingjun. Zi Yanfan's lips tugged downwards in dismay for her husband's behaviour.