23 The Eternal Empire

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Lower realm - Zhu Manor

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At the outer courtyard that turns into a training ground for fatty to spar with Blacky. Zhu Wushang looks at the jade seal on the wooden bench and asks.

"So? What is this? Fatty?"

"What? Arff!!" Fatty divides his attention for a bit and the black tentacle from blacky just punch into his face.

"Blacky! You damn dog!! Didn't you see that I'm talking with your master!?" Fatty yell in protest while Blacky just sits down and panting while acting cute and innocent which made fatty can't get angry at it for long.

Zhu Wushang thinks for a bit then drive his wheelchair out of the manor and looking around and found his target.

He threw a silver needle at the direction of the nearby tree before 2 black cloth body drop from the tree with paled face and disbelief.

"Fatty! bring our guest in!" He yells and drives his wheelchair into the manor like nothing had happened.

[What the f**k with this cripple. Isn't he too strong for a cripple!? I'm a beyond Ascension expert you know!? What the hell happened in this lower realm!!] The spy from the upper realm starting to doubt the way how the world work in despair. While fatty following by Blacky is coming to them.

Blacky smile and pant while using his front paw to point at two spies and his mouth with a cute face and a cute little whimper.

"Blacky He's not your food you know. At least wait until our master has done interrogating with these two first." Fatty answer while bringing one of the spies and the other one Blacky wrap him in its black tentacle.

[Damn it these guys has some screw loose in their head! What the hell is this godforsaken place of the lower realm!!] One of the spies thought in further despair after seeing Fatty interaction with Blacky.

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In the Zhu Manor courtyard, Zhu Wushang let fatty unwrapped the cowl from the two spies head that kneeling on the floor and bring the jade seal out of his chest pocket.

"Ok, Can somebody tell me what organization or who is this jade seal belongs to?" Zhu Wushang asked and show the jade seal in front of both spies.

One of the spies eyes widens in disbelief while looking at the jade seal.

"HaHaHaHaHaHa You fool! now you're dead you just offend the power of the upper realm that you should not." the other spy laughs in glee and arrogance.

"Oh? Care to elaborate? What is this power? and what about their strength?" He asked with interest without minding the manner of a spy who's laughing at him. Fatty gritting his teeth in anger and want to stomp at this guy arrogant face but Zhu Wushang raises his hand to stop fatty before it happens.

The spy continued to laugh and smile in arrogance. Zhu Wushang also returns the smiled, but his smile didn't reach his cold and calculative eye.

"Fatty go to Lan'er and see if she need anything, leave me with this blockhead for a moment."

Fatty saw a smile on Zhu Wushang face, and a cold shiver runs through his spine. He immediately complies with his master request.

"Yes! Young Master!" He then quickly get out of the courtyard as soon as possible.

Zhu Wushang looks at the laughing spy again while leaving another spy to trembling. This spy can feel the ominous air around this young master thicken it's like he's looking at the most ancient and incomprehensible cruel beast of the primordial era.

He's praying for his safety and swear to himself that if he survives this ordeal. He'll never return to this godforsaken place ever again.

Zhu Wushang is waving his hands to throw the sealing talisman around the area along with the perception deceiving seal to not let the outside see what's going to happen from now on.

The other spy is still laughing and smiling in arrogance at Zhu Wushang face, but… the pain at his wrist makes his smile stop.

"Arrrgh!! My hands!!"

His hand now bound in the nearly transparent steel string that connects with Zhu Wushang hand. The pouring of blood from the clean-cut hand stirring the appetite of Blacky and it starts licking its mouth. The growling sound of many strange beasts that one cannot differentiate whether it's a beast or a cry of joy from vengeful spirits resound within this sealed space and the source of this sound... is Blacky.

"I know... That most of my information... is not a secret anymore within the upper realm sect" Zhu Wushang use the severed hand to lightly pat at the spy cheek, slowly he speaks again in a lazy tone.

"Your information might tell you that… I'm a nice person but… In truth… I'm only nice to my friend and family."

At this moment Zhu Wushang threw the spy hand at Blacky.

"Noooo!!!!"

A despairing objection scream of the one hand spy makes no difference to Black. It opens its jaw wide and eats the severed hand in one bite.

The crunching sound of mixed bone and flesh etched the fear deep into both spies heart. But The one hand spy still try to act tough.

"Yo.. uummph!!!"

Not even a word had been let out of the mouth of a one hand spy. His body got bounded and hung upside down. His left arm that has no hand exposed out of the steel wire.

"If you don't provide me with an answer then you'll provide food for my dog, choose within 10 seconds." Zhu Wushang then slides his back on his backrest and slants sideward with one hand lazily supporting his chin.

Zhu Wushang gave out an ultimatum with a cold smile while Blacky starts to transform. Many tentacles appear with a dog-like mouth that made of bone appear at the end of each tentacle. Many crimson red eyes appear on its head; each eye looks hungrily at the exposed arm of a one hand spy.

Blacky body starts to get bigger and bigger on each step as it's walking toward the one hand spy. Each step more terrifying organs appear on its body, each step more mouth, fang, and claw appeared until its stinking breath reeks of blood touched the nose of the one hand spy.

This scene causes more and more fear to both spies they don't know what this species is other than its form that looks like a dog. Blacky licks all of the blood stains on the floor cleaned and start to lick the wound on the cut one hand spy arm.

"Oh, seems like you're quite delicious I've changed my mind you don't need to answer just be my dog food is…"

"It's Eternal empire! that jade seal is the seal from the emissary of the Eternal Empire!!!"

The one hand spy yell loudly like his life depended on it before Zhu Wushang sentence end. He feels that if he let those sentences finish there'll be no turning back for him.

"Stop!" In one command blacky stopped its motion.

Zhu Wushang moves his body from a slant and lazy pose on his wheelchair to sit straight up waving his hand and release the spy from his binding while Blacky is transforming back to his average big black dog form.

"See? It's easy, isn't it? Just keep your useless ego down, and you got a way to survive." Zhu Wushang smiled happily then wave his hand to call all of his talismans back and unseal the area.

"Ok, Tell me what you know." He acts as a kind and ordinary youth like he staying with his family because he knew that his wife is looking at him from a distance.

"Y… Yes, The Eternal Empire is the strongest power on the upper realm, and according to the rumors, the Eternal Emperor is an Immortal realm expert."

"Immortal realm expert?" Zhu Wushang murmurs and thinking back to his origin.

Tian Xiulan is walking toward him from the main house followed by Meimei and Fatty Pao. She interested in what the spy said because; according to her conjecture, her husband is most likely to be a son of an Immortal expert. And this information immediately perks her interest.

"What else? What is this empire policy?" Zhu Wushang ask.

"Policy? We don't know, but usually, this empire will not act unless provoked. And your dog just provoked them." The spy said.

Zhu Wushang turns to looks at his dog that it's lower its head and whimper like it knew that it just made a mistake.

"Don't bother blacky. I already make a warning signboard, they can't blame me on this. They need to blame their Illiterate arrogance idiot lackey for losing his life despite the warning sign."

Blacky heard that and its tail waggling its face smile in happiness.

While Blacky is acting cute to its master, what Zhu Wushang said just blown the two spies mind.

Brother! Can't you be too domineering? You are only at the peak of Ascension realm expert! And you dare to call the Eternal Empire emissary an illiterate arrogance idiot? We're talking about the Immortal expert an Immortal f**king expert you know!?