A weirdo he is, weird friends he makes
Ye Xiao was too shocked to close his mouth. Even though he had been calm all along, he could never have imagined that this seeming impossible miracle had actually occurred.
This body… had actually belonged to someone else…
Where Ye Xiao stayed at the moment was the Land of Han-Yang [1], the mortal world as it was known in the Qing-Yun Realm.
Although this body had belonged to a stranger, he still retained the name Ye Xiao, as he and the former owner of the body coincidentally shared names. The previous Ye Xiao was the son of the Northern General Ye Nan-Tian in the Kingdom of Chen [2].
It was in the General’s House where our main character Ye Xiao awoke in his second life.
He had been drinking all night at a brothel with his disreputable friends before he got home and died with an excruciating pain in the belly.
At that moment, a tiny piece of our Xiao Monarch’s soul was still active and coincedently flew into the dying body.
“I think I can understand my situation right now… No… I still don’t get it…” Ye Xiao frowned, kneading his temple, “I did feel my soul fading away… There was no way I can still be alive. How did I survive and got reborn in this body? Unbelievable…”
He didn’t know what was going on, even though he was a quite knowledgeable man.
It was absolutely impossible for this kind of thing to happen… but, it had really just happened to him.
“Well, fair enough… One who is alive has hopes and now I have mine. With my extensive experience, as long as I cultivate myself correctly, I will soon become the great Xiao Monarch again! When that day comes, I will take my revenge on the three factions and kill them all! NO MERCY!!”
He gnashed his teeth, with a combative look.
The three factions had spared no efforts to deal with him and they had finally beaten him to death, but they could never have thought that the annihilated Xiao Monarch was still alive at this moment.
“Bastards, one of these coming days, I will surprise you all!” He thought.
While he was collecting his thoughts, he was suddenly assaulted by a pain inside his belly causing him to grimace. It was an unbearable pain that felt like his intestines were being torn apart.
“Damn! Now I know how this kid died… He was poisoned…” Ye Xiao realized what had happened to him immediately, since he had had lots of similar experiences. Even though he had realized what was happening, he couldn’t stop the influence of the poison on the body. He was in too much pain to even wipe the sweat off his forehead.
The boy, the son of a general, had actually been poisoned to death.
At the moment, even though Ye Xiao had taken over the body, the poison still existed and had the function of causing death. However, while the poison was strong enough to have killed the boy, luckily it was not strong enough to kill Ye Xiao!
“It is just nothing but a Qing-Ming Fruit Poison [3]… humph.”
Ye Xiao thought, looking down at the poison, because he had identified the poison at once. Suddenly, his vision went black. He realized that the poison had started working again, so he decided to quickly use his spiritual power in order to clear up the poison, but was astounded to feel nothing in his body. That’s when he realized that he wasn’t the Xiao Monarch of his former life anymore. Now, he was just a playboy of a general’s family, who seemed to have practiced some spiritual martial arts but had no spiritual power at all.
Thinking of this, Ye Xiao nearly yelled out painfully while performing a face-palm.
It would be a bad joke if the Xiao Monarch, who had just survived a huge disaster, would get killed by a trivial Qing-Ming Fruit Poison!
The pain was turning more and more severe and Ye Xiao gnashed his teeth. He knew that he should try to survive first before considering anything else. He had no choice for now but to use the very last piece of his soul power to deal with the pain.
Then, he sat still with his legs crossed and grimaced due to the pain, then transferred the soul power out of his mind. He quickly targeted the soul power to where the poison was present and then pressed it right on the poison…
“Puff!” Sputter.
He spat out blood, while his face turned as white as a dead body.
“Damn… my last soul power… was actually used to deal with some lame poison. Now I really am faint… Who would have thought that there would be a day when I actually would be so embarrassed…” He wiped away the blood on his mouth and thought, “For now I have to remove the poison first… otherwise this body could rot in a few days… not to mention my revenge…”
“But… even if I survive this stupid poison… I have no powers remaining to go with my cultivation… My experience… my classy formulas… are all wasted.”
He murmured dolefully, “Right now, I am like a wealthy man walking in the brothel. I have the money and there are girls, but I turned out to be a eunuch… A gloomy thing like this has happened to me. How can I be the Xiao Monarch? Why don’t I claim the title of Xiao Moron...”
Complaining wouldn’t help. He realized that he should figure out a cure.
……
“Who’s the steward? Come quickly!” He yelled, “Go buy me some herbs.” He handed over a script on which he had just written a list of herbs to the steward. For the educated Xiao Monarch, spiritual power wouldn’t be needed to cure the poisoning. He surely had some other way.
Looking at the obsequious steward, he felt satisfied, “Aha, well at least it feels good to be a toff, giving orders and waiting to be served.”
“Uhh…well… sir…I am afraid…” The steward held the script, looked at it, then twitched his mouth and scratched his head, with a dazed look.
“Um? What?”
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