Chapter 87: You Try to Deceive Me, I'll Spank You Hard
"Alright!"
Long Shaoyu nodded and said, "Once we find the Central State teleportation gate and leave the Secret Realm, I will not only return your map to you, but I will also give you all of the maps."
Each time the Jiuzhou Secret Realm opens, the environment and terrain within undergo drastic changes.
Therefore, after the Secret Realm ends, these maps are useless, so giving them all to this bear child is not a problem.
"Really? Big brother, if you lie to me, I'll make your butt bloom like a flower," warned Chu Xin, waving her little fist once again.
"Sister, stop saying that all the time; it's very unladylike," Chu Chen tugged at Chu Xin's sleeve and whispered gently as a reminder.
Then he looked at Long Shaoyu, cleared his throat with a childish lilt, and said, "Big brother, just pretend you didn't hear what my sister just said, I'll start over. If you lie to my sister, I will make your butt blossom."
As he spoke, he too waved his chubby little fist.
Long Shaoyu rolled his eyes and said speechlessly, "Fine, fine, fine, if I lie to you, I'll make my own butt bloom, happy now?"
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Upon hearing this, Chu Chen shook his head repeatedly, "You can't do it yourself, it has to be me."
If one does it oneself, surely it won't hurt. When he had previously angered his father, he'd act coquettishly and charm his way out, after which his father would let him spank his own butt.
He'd always do it lightly, then pretend it was very painful, screaming loudly, and his father had never discovered the ruse.
He was all too experienced in this matter.
So if big brother lied to his sister, he must be the one to do the spanking.
"Alright, alright, you can do it, are you satisfied now?"
Long Shaoyu rubbed his forehead, finding it exhausting to communicate with this bear child.
Sometimes this bear child seemed so clever, yet at other times so adorably foolish.
"It's settled, Sister, the deal is done," Chu Chen said, nodding contentedly and smiling at Chu Xin.
"Big brother, here's the map," said Chu Xin, as she finally took out the map and handed it over to Long Shaoyu.
"Mhm!"
Long Shaoyu nodded, took the map, and started piecing it together with his own.
Unfortunately, these two pieces of the map were not consecutive and could not be connected.
"To find the Central State teleportation gate, we need more maps," Long Shaoyu frowned slightly.
Chu Chen raised his little hand and said, "I know, I know, the complete Secret Realm map is made by piecing together the maps of Jiuzhou's number one Heavenly Pride."
Aunt Long?
A thought crossed Long Shaoyu's mind, could these two bear children also be members of the Long Family?
He probed and asked, "Little brother Ai Kaorou, what is the name of the Aunt Long you mentioned?"
Chu Chen tilted his head, thought for a moment, and shook his head, "I don't know, Aunt Long never said."
Thwap!
No sooner had he finished speaking, a snow-white little hand struck his head with a slap.
"Silly brother, Aunt Long has told us her name," said Chu Xin in her babyish voice.
"She did? I forgot," Chu Chen said, rubbing his little head, his eyes filled with confusion.
"Of course, she did."
Chu Xin looked certain, but upon seeing the expectant Long Shaoyu, she giggled and said, "But I can't tell."
"Uh!"
Long Shaoyu touched his nose and, knowing when to drop the subject, looked at the two maps in his hand, sighed, and said with a worried frown, "It's a shame the other states' top Heavenly Prides are so strong, it's too difficult to snatch the maps from their hands."
"Big brother, don't be afraid, I'll make their butts... uh, I'll beat them all down and make them hand over the maps obediently."
Chu Xin held her little head high, her face full of arrogance.
"Great! I'll help you guys too," Long Shaoyu nodded, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
"Mhm, that's much more ladylike."
Chu Chen looked at his sister Chu Xin, with a hint of relief in his eyes, nodded his little head like a wise old man and said in a precociously solemn tone.
Chu Xin gave him a glare, then turned to Long Shaoyu and asked, "Big brother, where do we go now?"
Long Shaoyu glanced at his map and then at Chu Xin's map, his gaze settling on a spot on Chu Xin's map, and he smiled, "Let's head to Divine Sword Mountain first."
"Divine Sword Mountain? Where is that?" Chu Xin and Chu Chen asked, looking up with their little heads, confusion brimming in their big eyes.
"A mountain shaped like a sword. At the summit, there's a huge Divine Sword Pond, and in the Divine Sword Pond there is a Divine Sword Tree, which bears the Divine Sword Fruit, they are very tasty," Long Shaoyu said with a smile.
"Divine Sword Fruit? They sound delicious."
Chu Xin's eyes sparkled, and a shiny line of drool ran down her mouth, her little tongue lapping eagerly as she urged, "Big brother, let's hurry, I can't wait."
"Okay!"
Long Shaoyu nodded and soared into the sky following the route displayed on the map.
The square-faced youth and the bow-carrying youth exchanged glances and both took to the air.
Chu Xin hopped onto the head of the two-headed fire swine king, and Chu Chen landed on the other pig's head.
"Big pig, let's go." Chu Xin waved her little hand, releasing the Talismanic Chains on the two-headed fire swine king, and ordered in her milk-like, childish voice.
Roar!
The two-headed fire swine king let out an angry roar, but did not move an inch.
Chu Xin bared her teeth and threatened, "If you don't move, I'm going to bleed you again."
"Take two basins, no, take ten basins," Chu Chen also threatened in his babyish ferocity.
Roar!
The two-headed fire swine king roared in grief and anger, but the memory of being bled made its huge body shiver, and with a thrust of its hooves, it leaped up and dashed away on a trail of fiery clouds.
Sitting atop a pig's head each, Chu Xin and Chu Chen, one hand holding onto sharp tusks, the other clutching Beast Milk, occasionally took sips, looking utterly content.
It was a long way to Divine Sword Mountain, and after flying for some time, craving for a snack, Chu Xin would descend from the skies, chop off a couple of pig heads, or a few pig trotters to roast and eat.
After their bellies were full, they hit the road once again.
While roasting the meat, Chu Xin would stick a myriad of Talismans to the two-headed fire swine king, the dense Talismanic Chains binding it so tightly that it couldn't move, let alone escape.
It could only watch in utter sadness as the two little demons ate its pig heads, gnawed on its trotters, and drank its blood.
Adding insult to injury, they even used its own Magma Fire to roast the pig heads and trotters.
Once the little demons were well-fed and quenched, they would continue their journey riding on its back.
This was undoubtedly the darkest period in the two-headed fire swine king's life.
"The two-headed fire swine king is so pitiful."
For the first time, Long Shaoyu and his companions felt pity for a Demon Beast.
But compassion notwithstanding, when it came to feasting on roasted pig heads, trotters, or sipping blood soup, they were relentlessly unsparing, eating their fill every time.
"We're here!"
A few days later, the leading Long Shaoyu came to a halt.
Sitting on the pig's head, Chu Xin and Chu Chen stretched their necks to look down, fog swirling below their feet but unable to obscure their vision; in the midst of the mists, a huge, almost ethereal Divine Sword could be seen.
"Such a huge sword."
"Big brother, you really weren't lying to us, Divine Sword Mountain really is a sword!"