Above the Great Dao
Chapter 478 - 228: Joining the Mortals as a Clumsy One

Chapter 478: Chapter 228: Joining the Mortals as a Clumsy One

The bees had the sloppy Taoist hung upside down,—by hanging upside down, it meant his hands and feet were bound behind him, then a stick was threaded through and lifted, with his face and belly facing down.

His face and body were covered in poisonous stings, but suspended in the air, the stings would not touch the bees.

Only when he was lowered, he would inevitably be stung even deeper.

This Great Cultivator from the Mahayana Realm had suffered a most unjust fate, his formidable abilities had not yet been deployed when he was already poisoned and fell to the ground, captured by the Bee Mansion’s ghostly soldiers.

His abilities were mighty, his cultivation profound and unmatched, otherwise he would not have been so composed facing Ah Zhu, the Yin Commander.

But he had never anticipated that the poisonous bee stings would be so formidable!

"These poisonous bees might belong to the underworld creatures, their stings disregard physical and Primordial Spirit defenses, the toxin that paralyzes the Primordial Spirit is truly too powerful!" Chen Shi marveled in his heart, the slightest carelessness could cause even a being from the Mahayana Realm to take a serious fall.

Ah Zhu summoned a Bee Officer and ordered, "Take Daoist Xue back to the underworld first, execute his physical body, and lock up the Primordial Spirit, I will handle him when I get back."

The Bee Officer complied, leading many bees away.

Ah Zhu walked over to the pigsty, where he saw five pigs, three large and two small.

He muttered an incantation and blew a breath, transforming the five pigs in the pen back into five prostrate people, filthy all over, and dreadfully dirty.

These five were none other than Shi Jming’s family, who had been turned into pigs by the sloppy Taoist’s spell, and now they had regained their freedom, they couldn’t help but cry out loud, prostrating in gratitude before Ah Zhu.

"There were six people in your family, where is the other one?" Ah Zhu asked.

Shi Jming wept and said, "My father was taken by the sorcerer to the market and sold!"

Ah Zhu summoned a Bee Officer, instructing it to check on the whereabouts of Shi’s father, saying, "If the butcher has not yet slaughtered him, there’s still hope."

The Bee Officer flew off.

After a short while, the Bee Officer returned and said, "The meat has already been sold."

Ah Zhu said to Shi Jming, "I cannot save your father, there’s nothing I can do. You must not spread the word about me, otherwise, it will harm your virtue in the afterlife and ghosts and deities will come to judge you."

Shi Jming’s family felt immensely grateful and vowed not to speak of it to others.

Ah Zhu did not revert back to the intimidating form of the Yin Commander of the Bee Mansion, but remained in his simple beekeeper guise, leaving the village with his bee cart.

Chen Shi followed behind him and said, "Uncle Ah Zhu, where are we going?"

"Home," Ah Zhu replied with a smile.

Chen Shi froze, home?

Does a Yin Commander have a home in the mortal world?

The old ox pulling the bee cart, transformed by two Bee Officers, moved at a decent pace, and they crossed mountains and ridges, arriving by a lotus pond next to a village in the afternoon. The village, built along the Great South Lake, was quaint and picturesque, with a river flowing through the village into the Great South Lake.

The bee cart crossed the stone bridge, and several old men under a tree at the bridgehead, cooling themselves with fans, looked at Ah Zhu with surprise and joy, "Ah Zhu is back!"

"Aunt Qu, Uncle Yuan, Uncle, I’m back!" Ah Zhu greeted with a laugh.

Chen Shi watched them talk at the bridgehead, finding the scene before him both strange and yet heartwarming.

Ah Zhu was clearly a top cultivator of this era and also a Yin Commander of the underworld, and not long ago, he had even led ghostly soldiers in a rout of Daoist Xue, a great Mahayana Realm expert who had escaped the cycle of life and death!

But now, he was like an ordinary person, returning home, meeting villagers and chatting about trivial matters of life!

His uncle laughed and said, "Ah Zhu, don’t block the road here, hurry on home, your wife and children have been looking forward to your return these days!"

With a simple smile, Ah Zhu continued with the bee cart over the bridge and made his way to the opposite bank, walking home along the riverside road.

He was like an ordinary villager who rarely came home and greeted every villager he met, chatting amicably, looking somewhat shy.

The villagers were also curious about Chen Shi’s origins. Ah Zhu said, "He is a helper I hired, who also wants to learn beekeeping."

Chen Shi greeted the villagers.

"What a polite and sensible young man!" the people praised.

"Hmph, if I brought out my identity as Deputy Magistrate, I could... punish you all,"

Chen Shi thought about how even the Yin Commander was like an ordinary person, so his Deputy Magistrate status really wasn’t worth boasting about, so he continued to act like an average man.

Ah Zhu returned to his own home and opened the courtyard gate.

There was a diligent woman in the courtyard, around forty years old, with her hair wrapped in a flower-patterned ribbon, holding a winnowing basket and scattering some shriveled grains to feed the chickens. Seeing him walk in, her eyes lit up with both shock and joy. freewёbnoνel.com

She put down the winnowing basket and ran over, but on seeing Chen Shi nearby, she hesitated before still running over, hugging Ah Zhu excitedly and laughing. Then she suddenly remembered something, turned her head, and called out loudly, "Qiao Wei, Qiao Hu, your father is back! Aren’t you coming out?"

Clattering sounds came from the main room, and two boys younger than Chen Shi rushed out, throwing themselves at Ah Zhu.

Ah Zhu laughed heartily, picked up a child with each hand, and teased their faces with his beard, making the children giggle non-stop.

"Aying, I went out beekeeping and made some money," Ah Zhu said after playing for a while. He put down the children, took out a purse and tossed it to the woman, smiling, "This should be enough for our family expenses."

Aying, the woman, accepted the money and looked at Chen Shi with a puzzled expression.

"Auntie," Chen Shi greeted Aying respectfully and said, "My name is Chen Shi, from Huangpo Village of Qianyang Mountain..."

Aying became alert and asked, "You’re a Chen, what relation do you have with that old Chen head?"

Chen Shi replied, "Chen Yindou is my grandfather."

Aying snorted and seemed even less pleased, saying, "Your grandfather is unreliable, full of schemes, and often leads my Ah Zhu astray. Whenever he leaves, he’s gone for several months, sometimes coming back covered in wounds. There are a few other unreliable ones, named Du Yiran, Hu Xiaoliang..."

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