Heavenly Dao Child - Chapter 499

Ryuu swirled the wine in his glass as he spoke with a small smile on his face, “There was a time when I hated everything related to alcohol I found it disgusting and now I drink like a thirsty man in a desert.”

Yamamoto simply chuckled as he spoke, “My Prince I have yet to see you drink like that and wine for cultivators is different than that of mortals as it has a large number of medicinal properties compared to that of the mortal trash, and as for you drinking too much I do not think so as there are plenty others who outstrip your drinking by quite a bit.”

“Really?”

“Of course my Prince.”

A knock at the door drew their attention as Ryuu spoke, “Enter.”

Yu Wu entered as she spoke with a small bow as she spoke, “Boss the prisoners are ready to be punished.”

Ryuu sighed as he spoke, “Please sister Yu Wu they are liars, thieves and all-round trash do not call them prisoners even calling them mongrel would be a great insult to canine kind, after all, you have already been briefed of their true nature and their list of crimes.”

Yu Wu’s face hardened as she spoke with anger in her voice, “Your right boss those sc.u.m are the very dregs of the society, the nature of their crimes are so heinous.”, her anger disappeared as she spoke again but her voice was filled with concern, “But the way you have ordered their execution many would not like it and might protest.”

Ryuu gave a small snort as he replied back to her with a smirk, “Let those narrow-minded idiots through a tantrum, it is beneath me to even think about them and if they dare to cause any problem then we will crush them after all we are Shangri-la.”

Yu Wu gave an uneasy smile as she spoke, “Boss, I do not think it is wise to cause unnecessary strife and gain more enemies.”

“Normally I would also agree with you but for the time being I would agree with Prince, as he is correct in this matter that sometimes it is good to be made a spectacle so as to dissuade others from attempting the same in the near future.”

Not only that he could smell the excitement in the air, and the very same excitement that was choking him, and the reason for such was the items that were sold, items that were sensational yet nowhere near breathtaking as those that would be sold within a few minutes just after the public execution.

‘Ugh, the stage would be ruined completely.’

“Welcome back everyone however before we begin I would once again invite our General Manager for a small spectacle before the beginning of the auction.”

As he spoke Ryuu once again walked in with a smile on his face, and as soon as he had garnered everyone’s undivided attention he began to speak.

“Hello and once again a big welcome to you all, I know you all are a bit anxious for the big event to resume but before we begin I would like to borrow a few of your precious time.”

“A couple of weeks ago one of our suppliers for wine was attacked along with that the envoy from Shangri-la, the end result was that both the parties were killed, when we went to investigate we found a conspiracy.”

“A conspiracy, that involved bringing higher-ups of Shangri-la to the site of the incident, and then kidnapping and brainwashing them in order to loot our wares and then to poison our guests thereby destroying our reputation.”

As he spoke a hush silence descended before quite a few showed a look of alarm at the thought of being poisoned only to calm down at Ryuu’s next words, “Unfortunately they underestimated our might and were crushed, their plans fell apart while they themselves were captured.”

Ryuu took a breath as he continued to speak, “Now, let me introduce you to the mongrels who decided to raise their hands against Shangri-la.”

Jacklin looked at the weird contraptions that were brought on to the platform as she spoke with a frown, “What is that?”

“I do not know but from the menacing blade that is placed on the object I think it is meant for beheading someone.”

“You are right Joseph.”

Joseph looked towards Yujie as he spoke with a surprised look on his face, “You recognize it, grandfather.”

Yujie nodded as he replied back while gently stroking his beard, “Yes, I have seen it once a long time ago it is known as a guillotine and it is normally used by mortals to execute someone.”

Joseph winced as he spoke, “This is going to be a cause some problems.”

Yujie looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze as he spoke, “You are talking about the recent ideology that has popped up.”

Joseph scowled as he spoke, “Yes, great grandfather the ideology that mortals are born to serve the Immortals such a ridiculous idea, those that preach it have they forgotten that they were mortals once.”

Yujie gave a small hum as he sipped from his cup of tea as he spoke with a sigh, “You are right child, you are quite right but we Immortals at the end of the day are powerful and superior when compared to a mortal in every way which caused the birth of this ridiculous idea, but they forgot without the mortals supporting us we would not have most of these things that we see around us.”

Joseph sighed as he spoke, “True but unfortunately, not everyone is as wise and broadminded as you are.”

The next scene startled them as Yujie spat out his tea as he spoke with disbelief in his voice, “Is that idiot looking for trouble what is he thinking bringing mortals to kill an Immortal, those believers in that stupid notion would cause a riot.”

Meanwhile, the executioner stepped on the platform without a care in the world and the reason for it was the hood that Ryuu had made him wear, the hood that not only made it difficult for others to discern the person’s identity but also to make sure that the person would not be able to see the audience in front of him.

As the guillotine chopped off the last of the trio while the host of the day read off the person’s crimes,  a voice full of disgust came from one of the private balconies, “Mortal, you used a disgusting mortal to defile a Celestial how could you, such blasphemous acts even Heaven’s would not tolerate.”

Ryuu looked towards the balcony as he spoke with a drawl, “I do not care if you condone their acts or if you hero-worship them they are criminals as such they will pay.”

A silence descended for a moment before the person shouted out again, “How dare you insinuate that, do you know who I am?”

“No.”

“Then listen well, and learn I am the young master of Ji clan, I…”

“You are an irrelevant side character when the entire cosmos is concerned.”, was Ryuu’s quick retort once again stunning not only the speaker as well as the audience.

With every needless sentence being spoken and time wasted Ryuu was getting annoyed as he spoke with a snarl, “You are wasting the precious time of everyone present here with your nonsense as such from here on out every ten seconds of time you waste you will have to pay an additional ten per cent on whatever you have brought, so please continue.”

“How dare….mmph.”

Ryuu narrowed his eyes towards the balcony as another voice came to his ears, “Fellow Daoist please reconsider, the folly of the youth caused him to misspoke don’t you think the additional sum is too harsh.”

Ryuu gained a pleasant smile on his face as he spoke, “Of course fellow Daoist but it is the burden and duty of those who are their seniors to teach them and when need to even punish them as such the ten per cent fine will stand with the hope it would increase soon.”

“How dare you! My family will slaughter…”

“JI NAAN BE SILENT.”

Ryuu gave an exasperated sigh as he spoke, “See you are still failing to muzzle and leash him even after I have levied the fine and that would be another ten for wasting everyone’s time, so thank you for your patronage.”

“Fellow Daoist brother…”

“My branch, my law and you are seriously impugning my honour.”

Su-Min simply giggled at Ryuu’s antics as one of her aunts spoke with a frown, “That is no laughing matter Su-Min you friend just made an enemy of the Ji clan, and you should know how sneaky and cutthroat they are.”

Su-Min shook her head as she spoke with a smile, “Aunty it would not matter as Ryuu is extremely prideful and the way they spoke was already extremely rude as such they were bound to be hostile but even then Ji clan bearing a fang towards Ryuu is akin to a worm bearing its fangs at a dragon, if they act against him they would perish in an extremely agonizing manner.”

Meanwhile, back in another balcony Yujie nursed a headache while Jacklin was having a time of her life as she guffawed out loud, “Serves that idiotic pervert right, I think I might be able to tolerate General Manager Ryuu a bit more now.”

Her sentiment was shared by her brother who himself had a large grin on his face as he spoke, “Anyone who puts that arrogant snivelling idiot in place is good in my books.”

Yujie sighed before he spoke towards Fang in an accusing tone, “Your son is worse than you Fang, even when you were at his age you were so much less of a troublemaker.”

Fang gave an unconscious nod before he whipped his head towards Yujie as he spoke, “What do you mean by that grandfather.”

Yujie cursed his luck as he winced inwardly, ‘Damn the wine was so good that it had loosened my tongue and my excitement caused me to speak the truth.’

Sabine looked at her grandfather her eyes wide as she spoke with disbelief, “Grandpa is he really…”

Yujie with a sigh gave a tired nod as Sabine tried to dash out of the room with tears in her eyes only to be stopped by Yujie himself.

“Sabine, control yourself this is why I did not say anything before.”

Sabine growled in anger as she spoke, “Let me go, I finally found him and you are preventing me from not approaching my son, not to mention how dare you hide Ryuu’s identity from us.”

Fang stood by his wife’s side as he spoke with a scowl, “Grandfather I stand by my wife’s side, please let us go and how long have you known his identity.”

A frown formed on Yujie’s face as he spoke, “I have been aware of your youngest son’s presence for some time, and today I was able to perceive his identity, and as for why am I stopping just calm yourself down and think, you are barging in while he is busy with his work, he would be suffering from great anxiety and nervous right now because of the burden of such a task so, for now, calm down we will go and meet him a few days after the auction is over.”

Seeing Yujie all but pleading to them, mollified the husband and wife duo as Fang spoke with a sigh, “When were you planning to tell us.”

“After we had returned home, but for now implore you to please wait patiently we have all waited for so long a few more days then we will meet him, and till then let him work without causing him further distress.”

While Joseph and Jacklin’s parents returned to their seats the twins especially Jacklin focused on the location where Ryuu stood a few minutes with an unreadable expression on their faces, they did not know what to feel after so many years they will be reunited with their long lost brother soon yet they did not know what to think about it.

‘ugh, I had taken a liking to him and I was fancying him, only for him to be my brother, ugh this is disgusting.’, was one Jacklin’s thought, as since the moment Ryuu had saved her, akin to the manner a princess is usually saved by a rather handsome and dashing prince, Jacklin had developed a small crush even if she stated otherwise but now the new revelation turned her world upside down.