Admit Defeat (Third Update!)

Chapter 210: Admit Defeat (Third Update!)

Qin Mu reattached the arm for Master Ma and the legs for the cripple. He placed the two old men in the medicine cauldron, boiled a full pot of medicinal soup to cook the two men, and ordered Hu Ling'er to add more fire to the cauldron.

He walked out of the room and saw that it was already dark outside. Qin Mu came outside the courtyard, but found that Shiziju was empty. They should have all run away to seek refuge. Only Dutian Demon King was left standing in the alley of Shiziju, unable to move.

Qin Mu stepped forward and opened the belly of the statue. There were hundreds of delicate gears in the belly. Qin Mu stretched out his hand and fiddled with the gears twice. The Demon King Dutian suddenly felt that his legs and feet could move. He quickly ran away. After running a few steps, he heard a crackling sound in his body again, and all his joints were locked again.

"Long Da, drag him back to the yard." Qin Mu said to Long Qilin at the door.

The dragon unicorn shook its tail, walked forward with its big belly, bit one of the legs of the Demon King Dutian, dragged the demon king to the ground, dragged him back to Qin Mu's yard with a clanging sound, and threw him into the corner.

"Fuck you, if you dare, fight me for three hundred rounds!"

The Demon King of Dutian cursed, "How can you be called a hero if you lock me up?"

Qin Mu turned a deaf ear and quietly prepared the elixir. Suddenly, lightning flashed from the statue and tried to fly out of it, but then various rune marks appeared on the surface of the statue. The rune marks became brighter and trapped the lightning in the statue.

The Demon King Dutian cursed loudly. The surface of the statue was branded with the seal rune of the Loulan Golden Palace. These were the rune marks that Qin Mu learned from the talismans in the treasury of the Loulan Golden Palace. He secretly imprinted them on the statue when he was refining it.

Qin Mu was also worried that he would be able to escape after entering the statue, so he added this rune seal.

After Qin Mu prepared the medicine, he turned to the Dutian Demon King in the corner and said seriously: "Tell me all the Youdu language you know, and I will release you."

"I believe your ghost!"

The Demon King Dutian said angrily: "Don't even think about fooling me again!"

Qin Mu looked honest and sincere, "We can sign the Tubo Agreement, then you can rest assured."

"Don't worry, sir!"

"Hey, why are you cursing like that, Demon King?"

"I love you, uncle! Don't even think about making me believe you again. If I believe you, I will be your grandson!"

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The Lame Man and Master Ma lay comfortably in the big cauldron, with the medicinal soup in the cauldron bubbling and popping.

"Little fox, add more fuel to the fire."

The cripple narrowed his eyes, watching his big gold chain float up from the water, turned his head to glance at the still cursing Demon King Dutian, and said with a smile: "Mu'er, this little guy has really grown up. I originally thought that you and I would need to work together to get rid of this damn demon king, but I didn't expect him to do it by himself. I am a little worried now, not for him, but for those who are against him. By the way, who did this kid learn to be so bad and mean?"

Master Ma stared at the lame man.

The big gold chain around his neck also floated up from the water, and the gold paint was almost boiled off.

The lame man wondered, "Everyone in the village is a good person. Who did this kid learn to be so treacherous? Did he become a bad person after leaving the village?"

Ma Ye continued to stare at him.

The lame man laughed and said, "Why are you looking at me? Is there something wrong with my face? You are staring at me and it makes me feel creepy. Master Ma, have you ever been a constable? I always feel creepy when you look at me."

Master Ma turned his head and said calmly, "I worked as a detective in the Protectorate for decades, and later worked in the Dali Temple. After I solved a major case, I became famous all over the world, so the Great Leiyin Temple found me, and that's why I didn't continue to work."

"No wonder you make me feel creepy. The monks in the Great Leiyin Temple are really nosy. They still come to look for you even though you have already left the secular world."

The two were boiled all night, during which Qin Mu changed the medicine again. When it was daybreak, Master Ma and the cripple got up and washed up. Qin Mu had already prepared breakfast, and the family sat down to eat a peaceful meal. Hu Ling'er ran to help Qin Mu wash the dishes, and the cripple stood up and said with a smile: "Mu'er, Master Ma and I will not live with you anymore. We are leaving."

Qin Mu quickly dried the water on his hands and said, "I'll see you two grandpas off."

Master Ma waved his hand and said, "No need. Seeing that you are doing well, the lame man and I are relieved. We are old, and you can protect yourself now."

The lame man, still leaning on his cane, looked at him and said with a smile, "Old Master Ma is sad again. Well, come and see us off. If you don't see us off, he will be sad for two or three days."

Qin Mu followed them and escorted them down the mountain, saying, "Master Ma, Grandpa Lame, your arms and legs have just been reattached, so you can't use too much force yet. You need to recuperate for a year or two, and you also need to practice your arms and legs regularly to avoid future problems."

Master Ma nodded.

The lame man sighed, "I've been used to having one leg for twenty or thirty years, and now the chopped-off leg has suddenly grown back. I'm really not used to it."

Ma Ye feels the same way: "After being disabled for half my life, my hand is back, but I always feel like I don't need it."

Qin Mu sent them to the mountain gate. The lame man smiled and said, "Go back. Don't send me off."

Master Ma waved his hand and said, "Remember to go home for the New Year."

"I will definitely go back!"

Qin Mu nodded seriously and watched the two of them leave.

Master Ma and the cripple walked out of the capital. The cripple said with emotion: "The little kid we picked up back then has really grown up. We almost gave him away back then."

Ma Ye nodded: "Almost. Fortunately you stole him back."

"We have taught this little fellow so that he won't be fooled so easily. I was always worried that he would get into trouble outside. Now he can go back to the village without any worries..."

The lame man suddenly stopped talking here, and Master Ma also stopped. The two old men looked ahead at Tujiang River. They saw a middle-aged man standing in the middle of the river, with turbulent waves under his feet, but he did not move at all.

"Master, are you healed?" The lame man raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile.

Imperial Master Yankang nodded: "My injury has healed, how are your injuries?"

Master Ma stretched his arms and said in a deep voice, "I can barely fight."

The lame man shook his legs and sighed, "Mu'er said that we can't use too much force, but if you want to fight, I can use one leg. The national teacher is also very patient. When he heard that we were in the room that day, he knew that I stole things from your house, but he still chose to retreat. It's really not easy for him to endure until now."

Imperial Master Yankang said calmly, "My injuries that day had not healed yet, so I had to give in. You two are both senior masters, not bad people, and even though you stole things, it was only for disaster relief. I don't want to fight with you, as long as you hand over the Emperor Disc, I will let you go without hurting the relationship."

"Emperor's disc?"

The lame man looked at Master Ma and said with a smile, "I have studied the Emperor Disc for more than 20 years but have not figured out any secrets. It's okay to give it to you, but I've already given it away."

"Give it away?"

Suddenly, stars appeared above the head of Yankang Imperial Master, a dazzling galaxy, and the stars shook. It was obvious that he was not at peace: "Who did you give it to?"

"Your Zhongsan Doctor of Yankang State."

The lame man chuckled and left side by side with Master Ma.

"Doctor Zhongsan?"

Imperial Master Yankang was stunned for a moment, watching the two men leave without taking any action. He said softly, "The Imperial Disc was given to him? He actually dared to accept it? Is he planning to rebel? This Imperial Disc was given to the founding emperor by God, symbolizing the imperial power, and it is said to contain a secret... Should we ask him to return it?"

He stood in the middle of the river, pondered for a while, shook his head, turned around and left: "The imperial power cannot be determined by an imperial disc. The imperial power depends on the support of the people, and has nothing to do with the imperial disc."

The scholar sat in the middle. Qin Mu poured out the medicine soup, cleaned the medicine cauldron and the medicine stove, scrubbed them several times to leave no stains, and then put them in the sun to dry.

Hu Ling'er also helped clean up. Seeing a jade ring on the table, she was surprised and said, "Sir, those two masters lost something!"

Qin Mu leaned over to take a look. Some of the words on the jade ring were constantly changing and looked very familiar. He said, "This is... Grandpa Lame's Imperial Disc. Most likely it was left here by Grandpa Lame. When the village chief and I went to the dark of Daxu, Grandpa Lame put this Imperial Disc around my neck, but it was of no use. Why did Grandpa Lame leave the Imperial Disc here? He always picked up things as he walked and never lost anything..."

He shook his head, tied the Emperor Disc to his jade pendant, and thought to himself, "I'll give it back to him after we get back to the village." Then he dragged out the Dutian Demon King, opened the statue's belly, fiddled with it for a while, changed the trajectory of the gears, and said, "Demon King, you can move now."

The Demon King Dutian sneered, "You are teasing me, I won't move. You little bastard, when my real body comes, I will make you live a life worse than death!"

Hu Linger stood up, with her paws on her waist: "My master now has a hundred ways to make you live a life worse than death!"

Qin Mu said meaningfully: "Ling'er, that's too few. How can one hundred be enough?"

The Demon King Dutian laughed and said, "Little devil, you can do whatever you want. If I'm scared, I'll be wasting my tens of thousands of years of practice."

Qin Mu advised, "Why bother? We are all fellow demons, and I am also a demon. You teach me the Youdu language you know, and I will let you go. Isn't that the best of both worlds?"

"Bah!" the Demon King Dutian shouted.

Qin Mu sneered and said, "I will send you to Qingyang Palace and let Master Faqing recite Buddhist scriptures to you every day. Master Faqing likes to convert demons the most, so he will definitely enjoy it."

The Demon King Dutian sneered: "Haha, I am a demon who became a god. How can he influence me? Let the Zen Master Faqing you mentioned come and see whether he can influence me or I will turn him into a demon!"

Qin Mu hesitated. The demonic nature of Dutian Demon King was very strong. If Zen Master Faqing came to convert him, he would most likely be converted by him and turn into a demon.

"Master, why didn't he turn us into demons?" Hu Ling'er wondered.

The Demon King Dutian was furious and shouted, "Little fox demons, do you still need me to turn you into demons? You are demons in the first place! I admit defeat this time, give me a quick death!"

Qin Mu shook his head and said softly, "I'm not that kind of person. Ling'er, let him follow you from now on. I'll teach you how to control the mechanisms here."

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