Who Stole My Eggs? - Chapter 98

At dawn, even the asuras outside the city stopped, and there was silence inside and outside the palace.

Xie Zuo leaned in Huo Yao’s arms, but he wasn’t sleepy at all. He raised one of Huo Yao’s hands and looked carefully at the circle of karma fire on his wrist.

They were suppressed by Huo Yao’s power and did not spread any further, but they did not stop biting into his body either.

“Don’t worry, I can handle it.” Huo Yao withdrew his hand and kissed Xie Zuo’s forehead. “Aren’t you tired?”

“Tired, but I don’t want to sleep.” Xie Zuo looked at him with wide eyes. He was afraid that if he closed his eyes and opened them again, he would find that it had all been a dream. What if Huo Yao and the little snake were gone when he woke up?

Huo Yao hugged him tightly. “I will always be by your side. Don’t worry; just go to sleep.”

“…Yeah.” Although he agreed, Xie Zuo still refused to sleep. However, probably because Huo Yao was there, he relaxed unconsciously and finally fell asleep.

Huo Yao looked at Xie Zuo’s sleeping face, a satisfied smile on his lips, and fell into sleep.

The next day, the little snake woke up in a daze from the room next door and was shocked to find that he had slept by himself. Where was his father? Where was Xiao Hei?

The little snake hurriedly climbed out of bed, and as soon as he got out from under the door, he collided with Xie Zuo, who was trying to get through.

“Ouch—!” the little snake yelled. “Where did you go without even telling me?”

Xie Zuo wrapped his body around the little snake affectionately and said, “I saw you sleeping soundly and couldn’t bear to wake you up. I went for a walk.”

“Oh.” The little snake stood up and looked around. “Where’s my father? I’m telling you; I don’t want to take care of you. But you better not offend my father, I won’t even know how you died by then.”

“Well, I’ll pay attention.” Xie Zuo couldn’t help but stick out his tongue and lick the little snake’s round head because he thought the little snake was so cute. “Huo… your father went to the underground palace to take a bath again.”

The little snake’s body turned red again, and he said embarrassedly, “You, don’t always touch me; you are seducing me, and it is immoral!”

Three black lines slid down Xie Zuo’s forehead: seduction, seduction again; did the father and son have no other words?

“Wait a minute,” the little snake sniffed sensitively. He turned around to smell Xie Zuo. “You smell like my father all over. What’s going on? What did you do with him last night?”

Xie Zuo secretly thought: Of course he did everything. But he must not say it now; otherwise, the little snake would definitely think it was a betrayal, and he couldn’t stand the little snake ignoring him.

Xie Zuo looked innocent. “How could we? I saw him when I got up early for a walk.” Seeing that the little snake was still suspicious, Xie Zuo added, “You should also go and see him. He was very angry when I saw him. How terrible!”

The little snake immediately forgot his doubts and said anxiously, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier? I will go and have a look!”

Xie Zuo hurriedly followed the little snake and crawled toward the underground palace.

In the underground palace, Huo Yao was soaking naked in the underground river.

The karma fire on his wrists and ankles was so fierce that it almost engulfed his whole body.

Those chains seemed to be alive, wrapping around him and trying to drag him into endless hell again.

Thunder and lightning travelled around Huo Yao’s body, protecting him, swallowing up the arrogant karma fire, and cutting off the chains again and again.

The unique river water sped up the cooling of the karmic fire.

After a long time, the karma fire finally fell, like ashes with only one breath left, laying languidly on his wrists and ankles. The chains around him were like snakes with their bones removed, hanging down obediently.

Huo Yao breathed a sigh of relief.

“Father!” The little snake rushed over with a cry. “Are you in pain? You must be in pain!”

The little snake wrapped around Huo Yao’s neck, tears in his eyes. “Father!”

Huo Yao patted the little snake. “Why are you crying, little one? I’m fine.” He looked at Xie Zuo on the shore. “I’m really fine.”

Xie Zuo finally saw how powerful this endless chain of karma and sin was.

According to legend, the underworld was the most terrifying hell for extremely evil people. Those who fell into it were burned by the fire of karma, and the chains of sin repeatedly penetrated their flesh and bone marrow, day and night without stopping.

Why did Huo Yao have to endure the pain of being burned by karma and being pierced by the chains of sin even though he had done nothing evil? Was it a sin to betray Tiandi? Even if that Tiandi was fake!

Xie Zuo found that he really couldn’t believe Huo Yao’s words like “it’s okay” and “it doesn’t hurt.”

When he woke up in the morning, he found that the karma fire on Huo Yao’s body was spreading. Huo Yao said something like “it doesn’t hurt at all” and “just take a bath and it will be fine.”

Xie Zuo slowly climbed onto Huo Yao and got close to the little snake.

He had to find a way to extinguish the fire of karma, break down the chain of sin, and free Huo Yao from the sea of suffering as soon as possible.