Nu Wa Wants to Kill Me

Nu Wa stared at the Merit above her head for a long while but found nothing unusual. She laughed at herself. "I never thought I'd be affected by someone who hasn't even begun cultivating. I must want to attain the Dao too badly—I'm becoming overly anxious."

[Who knows whether Hong Jun, that huge shady bastard, tampered with this Merit?]

Nu Wa finally understood why Liu Mang was so resistant to Merit. "The Dao Ancestor tampered with Merit? And what kind of 'big shady bi' was that? It certainly didn't sound like anything good."

She turned to look at Liu Mang. Noticing Nu Wa's gaze, Liu Mang could not help grumbling in his head.

[What are you looking at me for? Look at the Merit! There's no Merit on my face! If you want Merit, go up there and absorb it yourself!]

Hearing Liu Mang's words, Nu Wa went completely numb.

Who told you Merit was something you absorbed? Did you think it was air, something you could suck in as much as you wanted?

Besides, if it could be absorbed, would I still need you to tell me?

Merit belonging to someone else was something you couldn't absorb even if you sucked until you stopped breathing. Didn't you know that?

Nu Wa was truly afraid that if she kept looking at Liu Mang, she would not be able to resist strangling him, so she could only turn back to the Merit.

[Why are you looking at the Merit? Look at me! The Merit isn't going anywhere! I'm the first human. If someone kills me, the human race is finished!]

Hah! You rebellious son, what exactly do you want from me?

When I look at you, you tell me to look at the Merit. When I look at the Merit, you tell me to look at you!

And what was that about the human race being finished if you were gone? Did you take me for decoration?

How could you look so solemn on the outside while saying something so shameless in your head?

No one else needs to kill you! I want to kill you myself!

If she had not listened to Liu Mang and begun suspecting that the Merit above her head had a problem, Nu Wa would have wanted to kill Liu Mang herself!

"Whew. Calm down, calm down. I molded him with my own hands, I molded him with my own hands."

Nu Wa truly could not stand Liu Mang talking inside her head anymore, so she took the initiative to speak.

"Can you talk?"

"Yes!"

The one who spoke was not Liu Mang, but the Second Human.

At that moment, he was staring at Nu Wa with a curious expression. He felt an intense urge to be close to her, so when Nu Wa asked, he answered without thinking.

"Shut up!"

Who would have thought that the moment he finished speaking, Nu Wa would glare at him with an angry, bashful expression.

The Second Human was utterly baffled. What was going on?

Didn't you ask? Was I wrong for answering?

Why did you keep looking at him instead of me? Wasn't I molded by your own hands too?

Why did I have to suffer this kind of grievance the moment I became human?

Realizing that she had directed her anger at the wrong person, Nu Wa pointed at Liu Mang and said, "Go rest to the side first. I'll look at him."

[Someone else says he can talk, and you tell him to shut up. Then I refuse to say anything. What can you do about it?]

Nu Wa heard Liu Mang's grumbling in her head perfectly clearly. That gloating tone made her teeth itch with hatred.

Looking at Liu Mang, whose face remained perfectly solemn, Nu Wa could not help sighing. "Can't talk? Looks like he failed! Should I just destroy him?"

As she spoke, Nu Wa slowly raised her arm.

Just look at you, putting on an act in front of me!

You think I can't handle you?

[Fuck! That's ruthless! You could tolerate Sun Wukong turning into a monkey, but you can't tolerate me not talking?]

Looking at the jade-like hand that was about to descend upon his head, Liu Mang did not doubt the power of that palm strike in the slightest. He hurriedly opened his mouth. "Ah-ba! Ah-ba!"

[Hehe, didn't expect that, did you? If I can't stay silent, then I'll just pretend to be an idiot!]

[Hehe! I really am a little genius.]

One moment, Nu Wa was still wondering who Sun Wukong was. The next, she nearly coughed up blood in anger.

Pretending to be an idiot—how did you even think of that?

Were you playing with an idiot here?

I'd like to see how long you can keep this up!

"Is he an idiot? Better destroy him. If other fellow Daoists saw him, he'd disgrace all of Hong Huang!"

As Nu Wa spoke, she prepared to strike again. Liu Mang went completely numb!

[Fuck, I'm seriously numb! You're a dignified Saint—why aren't you playing by the rules? Oh, right, you're not one yet!]

The moment Liu Mang finished grumbling, the hand pressing down seemed to speed up even more.

[You're determined to destroy me on purpose, aren't you?]

"That's right!" Nu Wa answered happily in her head!

No matter what schemes and tricks you have, I'll crush them all with a single palm!

"No wonder the Wu Clan loves fighting. This feeling really is pretty good! When I have time later, I definitely need to ask Sister Hou Tu for some pointers."

Nu Wa looked at the utterly panicked Liu Mang, unable to stop a smile from surfacing in her eyes.

As Liu Mang watched the palm draw ever closer to the top of his head, his face went ashen.

[It's over. I'm barbecue!]

Liu Mang had already resigned himself to death, but unexpectedly, a stream of merit separated from above Nu Wa's head and swiftly entered his body.

Nu Wa stared at it all in bewilderment. This stream of merit was ten thousand times greater than the one that had been divided out before. Even if Liu Mang was the First Human, he should not have received such treatment.

"Could it really be as he said? Did the Dao Ancestor tamper with things in secret?" The Heavenly Dao was emotionless. This sort of special favor could not help but draw Nu Wa's attention.

Better to believe it exists than to believe it does not.

When Liu Mang saw the merit fly into his body—and saw that it was tens of thousands of times greater than the merit given to the second human—his first thought was that Hong Jun had definitely made a move and was preparing to stir up trouble!

He did not believe Hong Jun was unaware of his existence as an anomaly, much less that Hong Jun would kindly leave him until the end.

If it were him, he would definitely kill the other party at the first opportunity.

Only the dead could truly put one at ease.

But Liu Mang did not know that although Hong Jun had merged with the Dao, the Heavenly Dao still held the dominant position for now.

According to the original course of events, only after the Witch-Demon Calamities and the God-Sealing Calamity would Hong Jun use the power gained by devouring the Earthly Dao and Human Dao to completely overpower the Heavenly Dao.

[Whoa, I'm done for!]

[Back then, I was always the one entering other people's bodies. Who would've thought the tables would turn today? Hunt geese all day, and one day the geese will peck your eyes out!]

[Hey, don't run around! Not there! You can't go there! I haven't even used it once in this life!]

The merit that entered Liu Mang's body kept roaming through him, completely beyond his control.

At first, Liu Mang had worried that something might go wrong. But after the merit circled his body three or four times and he was still alive, he simply went with the flow.

[Do whatever the hell you want! If you want to wander, then wander.]

Though Liu Mang had already given up struggling, Nu Wa continued to watch the power of merit inside him, wanting to know whether things truly were as Liu Mang had said.

Just thinking about it frightened Nu Wa. The Merit Saint Method had been personally passed down by the Dao Ancestor.

If it was true, then the consequences...

[Hong Huang is way too dangerous! Once Nu Wa creates the human race and becomes a Saint through merit, I'll run off and lie low!]

After creating the human race, I'll become a Saint?

Heh. If I let you get away, then I, Nu Wa, will take your surname.

[I refuse to become Taishang's disciple! There are so many raggedly dressed fairy maidens in Hong Huang—only an idiot would want tranquil nonaction.]

"Your life is on the line, and you're still thinking about female immortals! You really deserve a beating!" Nu Wa thought.

"Taishang would take you as his disciple? Do you think just anyone can become Xuanmen's first disciple?" Nu Wa grumbled inwardly.

Looking at Liu Mang's appearance, Nu Wa could not resist teasing him. "Ah, I wonder where Big Brother Fu Xi is. If he attains the Dao, a single thought will let him survey all of Hong Huang. Finding you then would be easy!"

[Holy shit! You can do that? I never heard about this before!]

Seeing the shock on Liu Mang's face, Nu Wa was absolutely delighted!

She had deliberately told Liu Mang about Saints being able to survey Hong Huang with a single thought. Just looking at his expression made her feel smug.

Serves you right for showing off. Now there's nothing you can do, is there?

[No, no! I need to find somewhere to hide. Should I go to Purple Sky Palace? The most dangerous place is the safest place!]

[No, no! They go there all the time! One slip and I'll be discovered. Luohu probably isn't completely dead—should I go find him?]

[No, no! If Luohu possesses me, it'll be game over!]

Liu Mang's earlier words had merely made Nu Wa feel both annoyed and amused, but when he revealed that Luohu was not dead, she began to take things seriously.

Luohu wasn't dead? How did he know?

Didn't the Dao Ancestor say Luohu's soul and spirit had been utterly destroyed?

[Ming He won't work! The entire Blood Sea belongs to him! And he's all avatars—if I go in, I'll definitely be discovered.]

Ming He is that powerful?

Could it be that he had been hiding his strength before?

[Kunpeng won't work either. I run slower than him, so I'd be the one who dies! Isn't that how the Demon Race got sold out? He even stabbed those two idiots, Di Jun and Tai Yi, in the back!]

Kunpeng would betray the Demon Race? Isn't he the Demon Race's Demon Master?

What would happen to Big Brother Fu Xi then?

[Dragon Abyss? Qilin Secret Realm? Phoenix Ancestral Land? None of those will work! There are way too many big shots inside!]

Hiss~

Didn't the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races vanish along with the Dragon-Han Calamity?

Could these be the places where the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races lived?

Nu Wa grew more and more curious. There were some secrets of Hong Huang that even she did not know—how did Liu Mang know them?

[Ah, a Lesser Thousand World! Right! I'll go lie low there. Find somewhere that's neither too conspicuous nor too inconspicuous—just right!]

Your knack for running away really was unparalleled!

A Lesser Thousand World truly was a good place to hide!

And with the place you picked, if you did not tell anyone, even Saints might not necessarily be able to find it.

[I'll come back out after the Witch-Demon Calamity, the God-Sealing Calamity, the Journey to the West Calamity, and the Foreign Invasion have all happened!]

[By then, that earthworm Hong Jun will make you all swallow the Saint-Slaying Pill! Who will be able to do anything to me?]

[Sigh, actually, finding Hong Jun would be best, but this guy screws over his teammates, then screws over his disciples, and in the end even screws over all of Hong Huang. He really can't be relied on.]

The more Nu Wa listened, the more shocked she became, and the uglier her expression grew.

According to Liu Mang, would Hong Huang even still exist in the end? Would Hong Huang still be this Hong Huang?

If Hong Huang was gone, what meaning would there be in her creating humanity?

And these calamities all seemed to have been deliberately brought about by the Dao Ancestor, with the goal of devouring the Heavenly Dao.

Had the Dao Ancestor not said that merging with the Dao was for the sake of stabilizing Hong Huang?

The Dao Ancestor had even made them take the Saint-Slaying Pill. Could there truly be another hidden truth?

The way Nu Wa looked at Liu Mang was, for a moment, filled with conflict.

If it had been before, she would definitely have believed the Dao Ancestor and chosen to attain the Dao through Merit—but what about now?

If things were truly as Liu Mang said, then with Merit-based sainthood being the weakest path, would she have the ability to resist when the time came?

But if she did not choose to become a Saint through Merit, then how was she supposed to walk the path of attaining the Dao?

Nu Wa looked at Liu Mang as the power of Merit within his body gradually calmed down. Her face was full of turmoil, her expression relaxing one moment and turning grave the next.

"You little thing, you've given me quite a difficult problem, haven't you?"

Liu Mang knew nothing at all of Nu Wa's worries. He did not know that every single word of his inward grumbling had been heard loud and clear.

He thought Nu Wa was struggling over whether to kill him. Seeing that she seemed ready to make a move, Liu Mang hardened his heart.

[Damn it! I'm going for it! Either way, I won't be the one losing out!]

Nu Wa had only just heard the voice when she saw Liu Mang shift from sitting cross-legged to lying flat on the ground in full prostration. Then he slowly raised his head, his eyes already swimming with tears, looked at Nu Wa, split his big mouth in a grin, and wailed.

"Mother!"

Nu Wa went completely numb, as though she had been struck by high-voltage lightning—shocked crispy on the outside and tender on the inside!

Of course, she had heard newly born little demons of the Demon Race call their mothers "Mother."

But she had never imagined that someone would call her that one day—so affectionately, so... shamelessly.

For a moment, she was stunned too!

It was not until a familiar voice sounded by her ear that she snapped out of it.

"Younger Sister, only a few days apart, and your child is already... this big!"

Nu Wa turned her head and saw Big Brother Fu Xi standing not far away, looking at her with a face full of gratification.

As though his little sister had finally grown up and finally knew to carry on the family line!

Hearing this middle-aged man address Nu Wa that way, Liu Mang immediately understood that he was Fu Xi, and his eyes lit up.

Still prostrating himself, he turned in another direction and faced Fu Xi. "Uncle! My dear uncle!"

[Woohoo! I'm about to take off!]