Free Web NovelChapter 1377: Chapter 437: Demon Ancestor Power, Ancient Demon Technique
"What, you two know Young Master Yu?"
Zhang Quan noticed the strange look on Wuyue and Di Shen’s faces.
"It’s not that we know him, it’s just that he looks familiar. Sixth Brother, don’t you think this Young Master Yu looks a lot like that Hong Mingyue from Moon Peak?"
Wuyue thought back. That Young Master Yu’s features were very similar to Hong Mingyue’s. If not for the fact that he was a man, she would really have thought Hong Mingyue had come back to life.
However, that Young Master Yu was dressed in a gaudy green robe, with obvious powder smeared on his face, looking anything but proper.
Combined with the strange tone Zhang Quan had used earlier when talking to those Martial Artists, Wuyue had more or less guessed that the relationship between this Young Master Yu and Xuanwu City’s City Lord Ma was anything but simple.
The customs of the Ancient Nine Provinces were even more open than those of the Qing Province Continent. Some rich folk and even nobles found that merely taking wives and concubines no longer satisfied them. Among them, it was fashionable to keep male concubines. Most of these male concubines were young and handsome, graceful youths, and were called male concubines.
These male concubines were either well-versed in poetry and music, or had honeyed tongues, and by this gained the protection of those powerful figures.
It seemed this Young Master Yu was one such existence.
Wuyue had already learned from Di Shen that Hong Mingyue had not changed her nature; earlier she had even tried to collude with the Demon Clan in Shui City to harm Ye Lingyue together, and had already been killed. This matter had already been reported to the Sect.
"There is indeed some resemblance." Di Shen mused.
As for memories of that Young Master Yu, Di Shen had none.
But he remembered that his wife seemed to have said that Hong Mingyue was her half-sister.
Aside from Hong Mingyue, there had also been an elder sister (deceased) and an elder brother, Hong Yulang.
Could this Young Master Yu have something to do with Hong Yulang?
The Young Master Yu sitting inside the chariot was none other than Hong Yulang.
Back when the Hong Residence went under, although Hong Yulang had luckily escaped execution and was rescued by Elder Zhuge, because Elder Zhuge was later expelled from the Sect and hunted down, the grandfather and grandson had been on the run all this time.
Halfway through their escape, Elder Zhuge was killed by people from the Sect.
They captured Hong Yulang, and seeing that he had no talent to speak of and only a decent face, they turned around and sold him off as a slave.
The slave traders saw that Hong Yulang was of noble birth and had handsome features. After carefully training him, they sold him on again and again, and in the end actually sold Hong Yulang into the hands of City Lord Ma of the Ancient Nine Provinces.
City Lord Ma happened to fancy men. Relying on his glib tongue and skill in bed, Hong Yulang coaxed the Master Ma, who was old enough to be his grandfather, into great delight and became Master Ma’s darling treasure.
Master Ma even specially bestowed upon him the title of Young Master Yu and gave him the nominal post of Patrol Envoy of the Jiu Provinces Alliance.
With that, Hong Yulang could be said to have achieved Ascension along with the chickens and dogs. Backed by favor, he ran rampant in Xuanwu City, strutting about in high spirits.
As Hong Yulang’s chariot passed the city gate, he did not pay any attention to the people outside.
"Driver, why aren’t we entering the city yet?"
On the Beast Chariot, Hong Yulang sensed that the carriage had slowed down and was somewhat displeased.
"Reporting to Young Master, some Martial Artists heading to Xuanwu City to participate in the Jiu Provinces Hunting are blocking the gate."
The driver spoke from outside the carriage.
"Tell them to scram. Blocking this Young Master’s carriage and delaying the City Lord’s important business—can you afford that? Whoever refuses, beat them hard for me."
Hong Yulang said arrogantly.
His family had fallen and he had become a male concubine; his heart had changed a great deal as well. The Hong Yulang of today despised crowded places like this. He always felt that when people gathered together, they would point at him behind his back.
Xuanwu City’s gate was divided into an Ordinary lane and a VIP passage.
The City Lords and representative teams of other large cities in the Ancient Nine Provinces, as well as those of Hall Master rank from the Jiu Provinces Alliance, all had to pass through the VIP passage when they arrived. Those queueing in the Ordinary passage were all from small cities or even Newbie Cities—Ordinary representative teams. Hong Yulang did not put these people in his eyes at all.
"Yes, at once, I’ll see it done." The driver relied on his master’s power to bully others. His eyes immediately fell on Di Shen, Wuyue, and the others, a vicious glint flashing in them. The whip used to drive the Blood Tooth Tigers cracked in midair with a "snap," forming an arc as it lashed toward the petite Wuyue.
Wuyue had her back to the Beast Chariot. By the time she heard the sound of the wind, the whip’s force was already snapping toward her back.
"Fifth Sister."
When Di Shen saw this, his gaze turned icy cold. A formless demonic power silently spread out.
Hong Yulang, sitting on the Beast Chariot, suddenly felt a shiver run through him. The driver, too, felt his whole body stiffen, as if he had been immobilized; in an instant, none of them could move.
Di Shen’s eyes flashed sharply. The eight Blood Tooth Tigers suddenly went berserk, leaping up fiercely and dragging the Beast Chariot madly toward the city wall.
"They’ve gone mad! Quick, grab those beasts!"
By the time the Half-Beast Guards realized something was wrong, the Blood Tooth Tigers had already pulled the carriage into the city wall. The driver sitting at the front was smashed headfirst, blood spurting; he died on the spot.
Hong Yulang, stiff as a board inside the carriage, rolled out when the chariot shattered. His hands and feet still couldn’t move, and he had no way to dodge. In the chaos, he was stepped on several times, his handsome face beaten black and blue.
Not only that, two of the Blood Tooth Tigers, completely berserk, pounced on him and knocked him to the ground, tearing at his hair. Hong Yulang was utterly bedraggled.
"Quick, save Young Master Yu!"
Only then did those Half-Beastmen come back to their senses. If the City Lord’s male concubine Young Master Yu died, all of them, these Half-Beast Guards, would lose their heads.
The Half-Beastmen quickly subdued the frenzied Blood Tooth Tigers.
But Hong Yulang’s dignity had been utterly trampled.
"Look, even the beasts can’t stand it. That guy really had it coming."
"Serves him right. So arrogant—he’s just a male concubine, and he thinks he’s something important."
All around, mocking voices rose one after another. Young Master Yu had bullied others in the city, leaning on the dog’s might of his master, and had offended plenty of people. These people had been afraid of City Lord Ma and dared not provoke him; seeing him this wretched today, everyone was gloating.
"Who—who did this?!" Hong Yulang’s face was swollen and bruised. Only after he was rescued did he slowly regain sensation. He could swear that someone had definitely ambushed him just now.
He had no idea what kind of Martial Arts the other party had used to make his limbs unable to move, unable even to speak.
Hong Yulang was furious and was just about to investigate who had struck when he suddenly heard someone shout that City Lord Ma had arrived.
The crowd that had gathered to watch scattered at once. A short, dried-up old man walked over.
Taking advantage of the fact that everyone’s gaze was drawn to City Lord Ma, Di Shen curled his lips and slipped back into the Wuling City representative team.
Very good. Ancient Demon Technique—he had finally mastered the Shadow Sewing Technique.
