Who Stole My Eggs? - Chapter 103

The Messenger of Underworld had come and made a scene, burning most of the furniture in the room, while the other half had also been soaked by the water dragon released by Xie Zuo. The whole room was a mess and could no longer be lived in.

What worried Xie Zuo even more was that Huo Yao hadn’t woken up, even after such a big noise.

Xie Zuo wanted to move Huo Yao to the next room, but when he walked to the bed, he discovered that Huo Yao’s whole body was covered in a golden barrier. He stretched out his hand tentatively, and the barrier immediately made a “crackling” sound, with lightning bolts erupting from the originally flat surface, threatening electric light emitting.

No one else was allowed to get close.

Huo Yao couldn’t be moved in this condition, and Xie Zuo didn’t bother to clean up the room. He simply tidied up the area around Huo Yao, then took a quilt, spread it in front of the bed, and lay down hastily.

Although he was laying down, Xie Zuo wasn’t sleepy at all. His ears were listening for Huo Yao’s movements, and his eyes were staring at the water stains on the ground in a daze.

The underground river water in the underground palace could suppress the karma fire on Huo Yao. Just in case, Xie Zuo had also collected a lot of it and kept it on his person. He was afraid that one day those karmic fires would suddenly engulf Huo Yao.

According to Lao Luo, the reason why the underground river water had such magical effects was entirely due to a compassionate ancient deity.

According to legend, at the beginning of the birth of the Asura World, it had been a dead place. It was full of burning flames, filled with poisonous gas, and ravaged by poisonous insects and ferocious beasts.

An ancient deity had come here by chance and couldn’t help but shed tears when he saw the life here in dire straits. His tears fell into a river. Wherever the river passed, the fire subsided, the miasma was eliminated, and the entire land regained its vitality.

Hundreds of thousands of years passed, and the Asura world also underwent changes. The river from back then had been buried deep underground and turned into an underground river, which was exactly the one under the underground palace now.

Xie Zuo thought that just a few drops of the ancient deity’s tears melted into this underground river could relieve the pain of Huo Yao’s karmic fire. Then if the ancient deity himself were here, wouldn’t it be possible to completely eradicate these karmic fires?

Unfortunately, the era when this ancient deity lived was too far away. Hundreds of thousands of years had passed, and even if he were still alive, he would have been reincarnated in the six realms countless times. The hope of finding him was too slim.

Xie Zuo sighed; instead of thinking about these unrealistic things, it would be better to consider what could be done.

The reason why these karmic fires and chains of sin haunted Huo Yao was that after Tiandi had knocked him into the underworld for punishment, the underworld judged him guilty. But as far as Xie Zuo knew, Huo Yao was upright and had never done anything harmful to nature. Instead, he had been doing good deeds and accumulating countless merits. How could he be guilty?

Even if, as the Deity of Thunder who executed people, he bent the law for personal gain, Xie Zuo would not consider him guilty!

Crime…

Xie Zuo sat up suddenly—by the way, the Pillar of Sin!

Countless sin pillars stood on the wasteland of the Asura World, and each pillar was engraved with the crimes of a sinned deity. Huo Yao had now lost his deity status and was the new king of Asura. He was already an Asura body. He must have his own Pillar of Sin!

He wanted to see what charges were on Huo Yao’s Pillar of Sin. Once he found the cause, he could prescribe the right remedy to see if Huo Yao had accidentally injured someone during the execution or if he had made any unfulfilled promises. He could help remedy the situation. In this way, it could also help Huo Yao escape from the sea of suffering as soon as possible.

Making up his mind, Xie Zuo called Wu Xiao and placed the sleeping little snake next to Huo Yao. He asked Wu Xiao to take care of the little snake and protect Huo Yao at the same time. “I have to go out. Don’t leave them until I come back.”

Wu Xiao was very reluctant, but he didn’t dare to disobey Xie Zuo’s order, so he had to agree.

As soon as Xie Zuo left, Wu Xiao immediately extended his tentacles to Huo Yao. Taking advantage of his illness to kill him, he came to strangle him now!

“Suffer death, Huo Er!”

“Bang—!” Thunder light exploded from Huo Yao’s body, blowing Wu Xiao into a charred ball.

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In the centre of the Asura World was a vast expanse of wasteland. The entire Asura world was built around this wasteland. There was no grass growing on the wasteland, and there were sin pillars standing one after another. They formed a huge stone pillar forest.

Each pillar in the wasteland represented a fallen deity, Asura, with his life and crimes engraved on it. The pillars belonging to them would not collapse until they died.

These pillars exposed the darkest parts of the past of the sinned deity, without mercy.

No one wanted to come here to pay homage to their disgraceful past. This place was deserted all year round, and the only living creatures were insects crawling around in the damp soil.

Xie Zuo flew over the wasteland and found Huo Yao’s Pillar of Sin without much effort.

That pillar was too obvious. It was taller and thicker than the other pillars. Its overall shape was like lightning pointing straight into the sky, with golden thunder and lightning flashing from time to time on the pillar.

Countless thick chains wrapped around the pillar, which were exactly the same as those on Huo Yao. The chains emitted a faint blue light. Xie Zuo dropped a pebble, which vaporized as soon as it touched the chains.

“It was indeed Karma Fire.” Xie Zuo frowned, slowly lowered his eyebrows, and kept a safe distance from the pillar.

The Pillar of Sin rose from the ground, and the chains and karmic fire were like maggots on the tarsal bones, entangled with it from the roots.

Seeing it, Xie Zuo thought of Huo Yao’s current body and wished he could immediately dismantle the chains.

The blue light on the chain was just enough for Xie Zuo to see the pillar clearly. However, he walked around the pillar several times and looked up and down several times, but he didn’t see a single word.

“What’s going on? Why is there nothing?” Xie Zuo murmured as he looked at the other pillars.

Whichever sin pillar Xie Zuo approached lit up automatically, making it easier for him to see the sins on the pillar.

“Lao Luo, didn’t you know the best about the three realms? What was going on with Huo Yao’s pillar? Was that one his?”

Lao Luo didn’t say anything for a long time. Xie Zuo thought it was asleep and took it out of his sleeve, only to find that it was very energetic, its eyes wide open.

“Hey, why are you staring?” Xie Zuo shook it.

Lao Luo hesitated. “Well… I don’t know… I know—”

‘Hm? I don’t know…’ lying, Lao Luo was definitely lying! Xie Zuo sneered, “What were you unclear about? Is there anything in the Six Realms that could hide from you?”

Lao Luo grimaced. It wasn’t that he didn’t know; it was because he didn’t dare to say anything.

Seeing that his mouth was still tightly closed, Xie Zuo said, “He Tu, do you know?”

Lao Luo was shocked. “Your Majesty, are you going to abandon me—”

Xie Zuo shouted, “Who is your master? Hurry up and tell me!”

Lao Luo’s heart skipped a beat. “That wasn’t the Pillar of Sin; that’s the Scapegoat Pillar—”

The scapegoat, Huo Yao, whose sin was it for? Xie Zuo’s heart sank. The suspicion that had been floating in his mind for a long time was finally confirmed by Lao Luo today.

Lao Luo said in a trembling voice, “There was no other person in the six realms who could make the Great Thunder Deity willing to suffer punishment on his behalf. It was you, Your Majesty—!”

“Replace me? What sin did I have?” Xie Zuo was furious, and a sharp demonic force struck at the chain on the pillar. “Why did you all say that I was guilty?! I really didn’t know what evil things I had done that let Huo Yao suffer this on my behalf!”

“Boom!” The muffled thunder rolled over Xie Zuo’s head, like a warning and a threat.

Seeing that he was angry, Lao Luo didn’t dare to express his fear and said quickly, “The Great Thunder Deity was right; it had always been you who lost your memory. You had forgotten your true identity, but Tiandi would not forget it. The Great Thunder Deity was indeed doing it for you. If you touched that pillar, you would know what your sin was—!”

Xie Zuo said angrily, “That’s nonsense. My memory is fine. When did I lost my memory? I think you’ve gone insane!”

Lao Luo felt aggrieved, but he didn’t dare to argue. He only said, “You must never tell the Great Thunder Deity that I told you, otherwise I would die without a burial place—”

“Humph, aren’t you afraid that I would let you die without a body?” Xie Zuo said, reaching out his hand to the huge pillar of sin.

The moment he touched the pillar, a strong white-gold light suddenly burst out from inside the pillar, enveloping him entirely.

Everything in Xie Zuo’s eyes disappeared.