The God of Cataka

23

Shen Zhu sighed up his body and looked around.

Then slowly the crowd began to limp in, dragging their steps while smothering their wounds, crowding under the rain of dust among the ravaged ruins of the buildings, and, some of them bowed to Shen Zhu as an expression of gratitude, replying to a brief nod and a sad smile.

Some of them were limping along while wriggling on his friend's shoulder. Passing through the dead bodies scattered among the heaps of ruins, some were swept to the edge of the fortress like the carcass of an animal, some floating in the pool water with their faces set like dolls.

They were all lying, lying in pools of blood, cloaks tangled, hanfu soaked with blood. The skin of the arm slit here and there.

"The first time fighting a demon head-on already found an opponent that was hard to deal with," Elder Yun said as he patted Shen Zhu on the shoulder. "How are you doing?" he asks.

"For a while it won't die," Shen Zhu replied with a flat expression. This is not my first time, he added in his heart.

Xie Ma blinked and gasped. Surprised by the change of his sister. Since when did he start to dare to talk recklessly? thought.

Shen Zhu's facial expression looked cold. So calm and seemingly fearless of anything. Very arrogant. Very different from him a few days ago.

Is he really my sister? Xie Ma looked in amazement. Where did the Fierce Cat who loved to roar go?

The chief looked at Shen Zhu from the veranda, nodding faintly with a gesture of gratitude, replying to the same faint nod. Behind him, the children and his wife raised their noses with a toned look.

Shen Zhu bowed to the elders and teachers, then said goodbye. He then led his brother to Dormitory Seven with their teacher and his brothers.

People bowed to him as they passed by.

Shen Zhu responded with a brief nod, not tempted to take any form of praise seriously.

After they reached Dormitory Seven, Bao Yu directed their guests to the guesthouse with Shen Zhu, while everyone recovered.

"Great work!" praise Bao Yu after they sat around the low-lesehan table in the living room, he patted Shen Zhu on the shoulder and smiled faintly. "However.." he lowered his hand from Shen Zhu's shoulder and linked the fingers on the table. Then he hung up his sentence for a moment and sighed before finally adding, "From now on you have to be careful. Your God seal is out. Your life may be threatened. People will be after your heirloom."

"Heirlooms?" Shen Zhu frowned. And so is her brother. "What heirloom?"

"The heirloom you used when bringing up the Evil God Projection, should be the Catastrophic God Seal!" sela Jyang Yue took over the explanation.

Xie Ma suddenly fell silent with a frown, like trying to remember something very important.

The Seal of the Cataclysmic God? thought. Where have I heard of it?

"The Catastrophic God Seal is the strongest single attack attribute that can carry out a massacre against the blood of a demon god," explained Jyang Yue. "Another heirloom of the God of Catastrophe beside the sword you have!"

"Other heirlooms?" Shen Zhu frowned. "I don't have any other heirlooms!"

"What?" Bao Yu and Jyang Yue were suffocated together.

"Imust be!" hiss Jyang Yue did not believe it. "Then how do you make god projections?"

"Actually.." Shen Zhu replied hesitantly, then looked at his teacher. "I summoned the sword spirit with the spell that Master taught me."

"I remember now!" Xie Ma suddenly stood up, jerking everyone. "The Seal of the Catastrophic God is the last heirloom that Dad brought!" his sizzle while looking at Shen Zhu with round eyes and mouth.

"What?" The whole room was again suffocating.

Bao Yu and Jyang Yue simultaneously blinked and exchanged glances.

Instantly Jyang Yue's words flashed across Bao Yu's mind.

"His last heirloom is wreaking havoc!"

"You mean—" Shen Zhu looked up at his brother and stammered. "The cremated ash jar…"

"But.." Shen Zhu hung up his sentence and was stunned.

"All your family heirlooms are stockpiled at the Knight Alliance Headquarters." Bao Yu interrupted. "How did you get it?"

"Not everyone" Shen Zhu said in a soft mutter. "If what is meant by the Seal of the Cataclysmic God is that ugly urn, I have already broken it!"

Xie Ma let out a rough sigh and twirled his eyeballs. "I thought you were going to destroy stuff!" his gerrick.

Shen Zhu chuckled uneasily as he scratched the back of his head that did not feel itchy.

"It's no wonder so many demons have escaped!" muttered Bao Yu with a tired face.

"What?" Shen Zhu and Xie Ma gasped together.

"The evil skull of hundreds of thousands of years, King Jin who attacked the Chief, the Vampire King who controls hundreds of thousands of bats.." Bao Yu gulped. Then gazed into Shen Zhu's eyes with eyebrows linked. "All of them were captives of the God of Catastrophe hundreds of years ago!"

The entire room was dumbfounded with round eyes and mouth.

"Then." Shen Zhu suddenly recalled something. "That chain!" said. "That nine-hundred-year-old chain of hell belongs to the god of calamity?"

"Wait a minute!" Xie Ma suddenly flinched and looked towards Shen Zhu. "Then." he squealed stifled. "The devil who attacked our village." suddenly he screamed while smothering his face with both hands.

"Calm down!" Shen Zhu pulled Xie Ma into his arms.

"No!" Xie Ma rebelled and jumped away from him. "You're the cause!" his screams while pointing his index finger at Shen Zhu. "You killed our parents! You killed everyone!"

"Xie Ma!" Jyang Yue immediately ambushed the girl and grabbed her. "It's not his fault!"

But Xie Ma was getting unstable. "Now do I know why I'm afraid of you?" his screams are uncontrollable.

Shen Zhu gulped and stammered looking at her brother.

Xie Ma thrashed as he continued to scream. His mental state deteriorated in an instant. The longer it gets worse. It's become like it was five years ago.

In the end Jyang Yue pleaded and fled Xie Ma to their college. "For a while don't go see her first," she told Shen Zhu before leaving.

Shen Zhu shook in silence, looking at the empty air nanar where Jyang Yue vanished with her brother.

Bao Yu also shook her head while frowning, then rubbed her chin with her knuckles. Suddenly everything made sense to him.

The last calamitous heirloom, the dark aura on Shen Zhu's body, all the dirt he sucked in, all the elements and heirlooms that rejected him…

He was never rejected! Bao Yu realized. It was he who rejected it. Because no one deserves it.

"Shen Zhu," Bao Yu patted Shen Zhu on the shoulder. "You said... Inadvertently, you have destroyed the Catastrophe God Seal?"

Shen Zhu turned his head and nodded.

"However.." Bao Yu frowned. "You can make a God Catastrophe Projection with a sword spirit summoning spell. I think.." he hung up his sentence and stuttered for a long time, while Shen Zhu waited. "Most likely, that seal is now embedded in your body!" Bao Yu concluded.

"What?" Shen Zhu was spontaneously flabbergasted.

"In other words.." Bao Yu continued. His forehead was still furrowed, he turned towards Shen Zhu and squinted his eyes, "Your body is the seal itself-you are the Heirloom of the God of Catastrophe!"

"I—" Shen Zhu stammered looking at his two hands, "Devil Heirloom?"