Chapter 258 I Don't Want to Be a Dead Eunuch

"Are you the Red Ancestor?"

"You really are just an old eunuch from the palace!"

Yan Chu looked down at the old eunuch dressed in a flying-fish python robe. His expression turned surprised, and he sneered,

"You're quite something. You became a eunuch yourself, and now that you've created an organization, you want to turn everyone else into eunuchs too!"

The Red Ancestor stood upon a green pine, red robes striking to the eye. The posture was leisurely. Although the hair was white as snow, it was combed meticulously, and the face was as rosy as an infant's. Apart from the world-weariness in the eyes, there wasn't a single wrinkle on the face.

This was the very manifestation of having Cultivated one's martial arts to the state of Unity of Heaven and Man, a return to simplicity.

"What's wrong with being a eunuch?"

The Red Ancestor's old eyes narrowed slightly. It seemed it had found a suitable person to confide in; after all, Yan Chu was, like The Red Ancestor, a Celestial Being, which made it willing to say a few more words,

"By Cultivating the Cultivation Technique I bestowed, one can achieve a Breakthrough in the martial Dao Realm, attain longevity, and extend one's life. Isn't this a hundred times better than those affairs between men and women?"

"I entered the palace at twelve after being castrated. I spent four hundred years in the palace, rising from a ninth-rank eunuch to a supervising eunuch, then to the Chief Eunuch of the Directorate of Ceremonial, before finally retiring to spend my remaining years in the palace."

"In this life, what trials and tribulations have I not seen?"

"Men and women—aside from that final spasm, the rest of the time is just a waste. It's not as carefree as strolling with birds and teasing fish."

"Yan Chu, you are a Celestial Being, yet you obsess over carnal desires all day. In the end, you won't get very far."

"Heh."

Yan Chu shook his head and laughed. A rootless old man who had entered the palace at twelve and likely would never be able to grow anything back, sitting here talking to him about the affairs of men and women, was truly ridiculous.

"Enough, rootless old man. You've been waiting here for a few days, haven't you?"

"I thought you wouldn't be able to hold back and would make your move the moment I left the Central Province. I didn't expect you to wait until now. Hurry up and make your move; there are people waiting behind us!"

"Hmph! Young people are always so impatient!"

The Red Ancestor flicked the horsetail whisk in its hand,

"I originally intended to spare your life and let you enter the palace to keep me company. But looking at you now, I suppose you can't bear to part with those two taels of flesh. I'll have to make my move first."

Boom!

Just as its voice fell, Yan Chu saw a fist wreathed in flames magnifying before his eyes. The entire valley seemed to be flooded with firelight, and the air itself seemed to be burning violently.

Yan Chu's voice echoed in the air,

"My meat is worth more than a thousand pounds on the scale!"

"You birdless dead eunuch, today I'll put you in the ground!"

"Hmph!"

The Red Ancestor let out a soft hmph and lowered its body. The green pine beneath its feet bent under the pressure. It swung its whisk, and millions of strands of golden Sword Qi sprayed out, transforming into a golden sunflower that clashed with the light of Yan Chu's fist with a clanging sound.

Boundless flames and Sword Qi collided throughout the valley. The valley immediately erupted into a raging inferno, riddled with holes by the Sword Qi.

"Yan Chu, if this is all the ability you have, then I must take you back to the palace today!"

The Red Ancestor's malicious laughter came from within the flames. Standing in the sea of fire, the surrounding flames automatically kept three zhang away from it, unable to get close at all.

Crackle!

His response was a clap of thunder on a clear day.

From the clear, bright sky, a massive blue bolt of lightning crashed down. Yan Chu grasped the lightning, the power of the thunderous light vast and mighty. The surrounding mountains shattered piece by piece under the lightning. The wedding procession in the distance watched the apocalyptic scene, stunned into silence.

Even Princess Yun Shu couldn't help but lift the brocade curtain, looking in shock at the collapsing mountains in the distance.

Third High Priest stood with his arms crossed, watching the front with a grave expression.

Beside him, General cast a questioning glance,

"Should we?"

He made a gesture across his throat.

Third High Priest narrowed his eyes and shook his head,

"Let's watch first!"

Inside Hidden Blade Valley, the Red Ancestor was bathed in golden light. Its sleeves had long since been shattered by that fist from Yan Chu, exposing its arms, where veins stood out like coiled dragons. Containing a terrifying strength capable of moving mountains and filling seas, it steadily supported Yan Chu's fist.

"I have simultaneously opened both the Qi Sea Divine Treasury and the Physical Body Divine Treasury. Your Dao cultivation is still very shallow!"

"Is that so?"

Yan Chu sneered, and a brilliant light erupted from the center of his brow.

Swish!

The Red Ancestor immediately felt a powerful suction force coming from above, one that was almost impossible to resist.

Not good!

The Red Ancestor's expression changed slightly. The golden light on its body intensified as the power of its Physical Body Divine Treasury and Qi Sea Divine Treasury operated simultaneously, resisting the devouring of Yan Chu's Primordial Spirit.

Its Primordial Spirit was its weakest point, yet Yan Chu happened to have opened the Spiritual Divine Treasury.

Hum!

In that instant, a divine blade appeared in Yan Chu's hand.

The frost-cold Qi caused the surrounding burning flames to freeze instantly. Taking advantage of the Red Ancestor's exposed center, Yan Chu slashed down with his blade.

His self-created blade technique: Severing the Buddhas Brow!

Snap!

This strike was caught between a pair of flesh palms when it was three inches from the Red Ancestor, failing to sever its brow.

Whoosh!

At this moment, his attention was obstructed, and his Primordial Spirit flew out uncontrollably, falling into a golden Sea of Consciousness, splashing a tiny wave.

Before he could react, the world spun. His aged Primordial Spirit, as if time were flowing backward, became young, shrank, became the size of an infant, and then transformed into a point of light, thrown into the Reincarnation.

Yan Chu's Primordial Spirit was high above, the Reincarnation disk behind his head blazing with light.

Scenes flashed before his eyes as he observed the Red Ancestor trapped deep within the Reincarnation he had constructed for it.

In the first life, its Family was poor. It originally wanted to cut itself and enter the palace to become a eunuch, but it didn't have the money to enter the palace, so it could only work as a servant for a wealthy Family surnamed Qi. As a result, during a lawsuit, it exposed its identity as a rootless person because of perjury, facing mockery from the entire county and receiving the evaluation: "Another dead eunuch."

In the second life, it entered the palace at twelve. After fifty years, it was still a ninth-rank eunuch. Although it had mastered martial arts, it felt deeply ashamed of being a eunuch and began searching for a corpse, legend having it that it could make the thing in its crotch grow back.

But in the end, it was not only mocked by a woman who said, "It's not that you can't, it's that you don't have it," but it was also killed by a couple who practiced plastic surgery, creating the story of "The Plastic Surgery Couple Battles the Rootless Old Man."

In the third life, it was also from humble origins. After discussing it with its Family, it entered the palace to become a eunuch. This time the process went smoothly; the master's technique was very good—steady, accurate, and ruthless—with little pain.

Who would have thought that less than a month after entering the palace, news of the Dynasty's fall would arrive. All the eunuchs in the palace were dismissed by the new Dynasty, and in its helplessness, it found a temple to spend the rest of its life.

In the fourth life, it finally was no longer from humble origins, born into a great Family. Its father was a high official of the current Dynasty. Who would have thought that during a palace coup, it would commit a great crime, causing the entire Family to be implicated. As the son of a sinner, it was sent into the palace, and with a chop of the knife...

In the fifth life...

Life after life, the Red Ancestor was trapped deep within the Reincarnation. No matter how its identity changed, it could never escape the outcome of being castrated. The hatred for its identity as a eunuch was deeply engraved in the depths of its consciousness.

Yan Chu's lips curled up slightly.

"You don't think being a eunuch is great? I will let you be a eunuch for every lifetime! I will let you enjoy it to the extreme!!"

Finally, when it reached the nineteenth life of Reincarnation, the Red Ancestor, which had just been snipped, looked up at the sky and screamed,

"Ah!!!!!"

"I don't want to be a dead eunuch!!"