Chapter 6
Huo Yao brought two lotus flowers to Xie Zuo. One was fresh and tender pink, already in full bloom, and the other was as white as snow and still in bud.
The two lotus flowers were still covered with water vapor, obviously just broken off.
At that time, Xie Zuo had just finished a new day of thunder torture, slumped on the ground, looking at the sky with resentment, cursing the cold world. The entire field of vision was suddenly occupied by these two lotus flowers, and a faint fragrance slowly spread out, refreshing. It entered his heart.
Xie Zuo’s accumulating resentment dissipated with a “pop,” and an emotion he had never felt before suddenly emerged in his heart, and the taste was surprisingly sweet.
Huo Yao’s tone was stiff: “Here.”
Because of the sudden good feeling in his heart, Xie Zuo looked at Huo Yao much more favorably at the moment. He smiled lazily and stretched out his hand: “Can the powerful Thunder Deity, give me a hand, you are too fierce today. You almost break my bones.”
Huo Yao hesitated for a moment but still gave him a hand.
Xie Zuo was helped to sit up, took the two lotus flowers, and curiously played with the soft and thick petals with his fingers.
“It’s wet and so soft. What kind of flower is this that can enter this abyss?”
“It’s under the Buddha’s seat. The pure lotus can survive anywhere and can purify all kinds of impurities.”
“Oh? But it won’t purify me too, right?”
“That won’t happen.”
Xie Zuo raised the lotus and looked at it carefully, then buried his face in the flower, sniffing around. “It’s strange, I can’t smell the smell even when it’s so close.”
Huo Yao saw him appreciating the flowers so rudely and he remembered these four words — Ox chewing peonies.
He also thought about how Heavenly Father taught him little by little, and Xie Zuo was the only remaining bloodline of Heavenly Father, so he couldn’t bear to criticize him harshly and only said: “If you like it, plant it well, meditate around it, and chant sutras every day. It will help you lose your ferocity as soon as possible.”
“I know.” Xie Zuo said perfunctorily, pulling off a petal and about to put it in his mouth, but Huo Yao stopped him, “You don’t want your life!”
“What’s wrong? I just want to have a taste. Can’t I?”
“This lotus is a sacred object that can purify filth, but it is extremely poisonous to you!” Huo Yao really didn’t expect that he would dare to eat anything.
“Oh.” Xie Zuo’s scarlet eyes rolled around, and he licked the corners of his lips. “Great Deity of Thunder, why are you so nice to me?”
Huo Yao said nothing with a cold face.
“You sealed me here, as if you wanted me to die early, but you cared about me very much and gave me flowers, and you were afraid that I would be poisoned… Are you so capricious with other demons?”
Xie Zuo collected the lotus, got up, walked behind Huo Yao, stretched out his arms to hug him, and pressed his cheek against his hard armor, “Great Thunder Deity, I know you like me very much. You are alone all day, so you must be very lonely. Come on, let me love you and let you taste the bliss of this world.”
“Piss off!”
Thunder and lightning crackled all over Huo Yao’s body, pricking Xie Zuo until he couldn’t hold him, so he reluctantly let go. “It’s really boring. I really don’t understand about you? What’s wrong with practicing dual cultivation with me for once?”
Huo Yao clenched his hands and was about to teach him a lesson to stop this idea.
Suddenly, a golden light broke through the heavy blood mist and fell.
Huo Yao stretched out his hand to catch the golden light. As soon as the golden light fell on his palm, it turned into a piece of yellow paper.
“Hey, it is here again?” Xie Zuo looked over, wanting to see what was written on this decree of heavenly punishment.
Huo Yao clenched his fist, and when he released it, the yellow paper had turned into a pile of shiny dust.
Seeing that Huo Yao was about to leave, Xie Zuo quickly seized the last chance to show his goodwill: “Be careful.”
After saying this, he felt very awkward and couldn’t help but add, “Don’t be like last time when you came back being beaten half to death.”
These words sounded harsh to Huo Yao, and he said in a cold voice: “Don’t worry about it; it was just an accident last time.”
“Oh my, I care about you but you are really ignorant. If it’s not a difficult, Tiandi won’t personally issue decrees to you, right? For so many years, you have been risking your life to carry out executions on behalf of Tiandi. I heard that other deities live very easily, eating and drinking all day long. Just having fun, but look at you; you only have one set of clothes, you don’t even have your own temple, you stay with me in the abyss all day, and those who don’t know might think you are also sealed, why not come with me…”
Huo Yao didn’t want to listen to his fallacies again; he turned into a bolt of lightning and disappeared.
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Xie Zuo’s crow’s mouth came true, and three days later, Huo Yao came back with a broken body full of blood.
Looking at Huo Yao who suddenly fell from the sky, Xie Zuo did not make the same mistake this time but flew up to catch him.
Huo Yao’s golden helmet was gone, his usually meticulous bun was spread out, and his body was stained with blood. The right side of his forehead was injured by unknown means. There was a wound deep enough to show the bone, and a large amount of blood was pouring from the wound.
Seeing so much blood, Xie Zuo’s eyes suddenly became hot. Oh, it smelled so good, he really wanted to suck him dry!
Lao Luo quietly sent him a message to remind him: “Your Majesty, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The Great Thunder Deity is a gentleman who values kindness and justice. As long as you help him when he is weak, he will always remember your kindness.”
Xie Zuo had no choice but to take his saliva back and carry the unconscious Huo Yao back to his lair.
Putting Huo Yao on the bed, Xie Zuo took off his armor in three times.
After taking off his hard golden armor, Xie Zuo discovered that Huo Yao’s body was covered with black and purple bruises, and his muscles and bones were broken.
Huo Yao must have had a fierce battle with a certain tentacle demon. Although he won, he was also severely injured.
Xie Zuo frowned: “What could hurt him so badly?”
Lao Luo flew out from his sleeves, “Wu Xiao, the king of the East China Sea, is actually a giant squid with innate supernatural power. It is said that he was the same like Great Deity of Thunder, Tiandi also personally trained him. This Wu Xiao is famous for his violent temper. Although he is a Deity, he often makes trouble at will, causing countless people to die in vain. Now it has come to an end, Tiandi personally ordered the Great Thunder Deity to clean him up—”
“Tiandi is Huo Yao’s heavenly father?”
Lao Luo shook his head: “The Great Thunder Deity’s heavenly father is the spirit of Tiandi. He is the dharma body transformed by Tiandi to walk around the world. He has the same joys and sorrows as you and me. But Tiandi is the one who take care the world. It has only divinity but no humanity. It is everywhere but controls everything. It is completely different from its spiritual form—”
“Oh, it is not a good thing anyway.” Xie Zuo said to the world that always wanted to punish him. Not liking him at all.
He raised one of Huo Yao’s arms and said, “What should I do now? If he can’t recover, I’ll just eat him. It’s too difficult to persuade him to practice dual cultivation with me.”
Lao Luo was shocked: “Your Majesty, absolutely NO—!”
Xie Zuo leaned over, held Huo Yao’s face, and stuck out his tongue to lick his wound, “If I can’t eat, then don’t. But let me drink the blood first. It’s such a waste to let him bleed like this.”
Note:
Tiandi here is the heaven and earth. The energy that supplies the world and maintained orders.
There is also Heavenly Father later on, it is Tiandi but the humanoid form. It could also be said as the emperor of heaven.
There will be a lot of deities coming, so is the heavenly court. I’m just laying the ground work so everyone don’t get confused.