Love from the Male Protagonist’s Harem - Chapter 24-4
Chapter 24-Executed by Heaven and Destroyed by Earth Part 4
Translated by Snowfall77
Outside the golden barrier, Gu Peijiu was like fresh meat to a pack of wolves, countless puppets furiously surging towards her!
Her ayara protecting her body, Gu Peijiu ruthlessly swept a puppet aside. For her ayara was sharp and tenacious, wounding every inch it touched.
“Oh~you got tired of acting the coward?”
The boy holding the pale piccolo jeered: “Such praiseworthy courage, maybe I’ll leave your corpse intact!”
Gu Peijiu marginally raised her head, scrutinizing the two boys, before asking in a light tone: “Do you have to stay up that high because it’s the only way you can actually see what’s happening?”
“We’re up here so we can kill more people!” Bairen shouted wildly, “Gu Peijiu, you’re going to die!”
Inside the barrier, Xia Ge could only incapably watch as several S rank puppets ignited into frightful roaring blue flames and sped towards Gu Peijiu!
……she couldn’t……how could she just stand still and do nothing?!
But she also couldn’t exit the golden barrier—–
Calm down and think, Xia Ge!
Even as some of the stronger S rank puppets were trying surround and kill Gu Peijiu, there were still numerous puppets surrounding the barrier, incessantly battering against it in a futile effort to rush the village.
Howls—–
The puppets attacking the barrier sounded low and hoarse, but almost like the cawing of birds, their movements mechanical, their spirit flames flickering—-
A long wail amidst the clamor—–
Then heart-piercing yowls, as if devils were being tortured in hell, enough to make a person’s blood run cold. Terror-stricken, Xia Ge felt vague memories well up from the depths of her memory. She shook her head involuntarily, recoiling a step back—–
A small despairing voice could suddenly be heard……
Mixed in with all the uproar, it was faint, yet impossible to ignore.
“Please, please……”
“……save me……”
“I don’t want……”
Xia Ge’s eyes widened. What kind of voice was that?
“I don’t want to……please……”
It was a puppet!
The puppet maniacally pounding away on the barrier!
Looking into the flickering blue spirit flames in the puppet’s eye sockets, Xia Ge detected a faint trace of white within the blue.
It was……
[It Is Not Yet Completely A Demon Puppet, But It Is Almost There.]
The system sounded a little subdued: [There Is Still A Human Consciousness There, However It Can No Longer Control Its Bespelled Body.]
“I don’t want……help me, please save me——”
“Ahhhh——”
“Aoo——–”
As the last trace of white was engulfed by the blue, the weak agonized voice ceased, replaced with even more intense attacks on the barrier.
“These demon puppets……were they……were they once all normal people?” Xia Ge’s thoughts were in disarray, “All……of them?”
Now the system’s voice seemed mechanical and heartless: [Yes. All Of Them.]
As if the system felt ‘it goes without saying.’
But……humans turned into demon puppets……?
Wait a minute! Hold on—–
Pupils abruptly shrinking, Xia Ge felt faded memories slowly resurfacing.
Demon puppets, the male protagonist, an entire family getting wiped out, the demon sect called Two Thousand Souls——-
And a storyline—-
Body quivering, Xia Ge raised her gaze to the two boys in white floating overhead—-
The plot of The Boundless Beauty of the Wind and the Moon was about to begin!!!
Demon puppets, demon puppets. She’d read this section, so how had she forgotten it?! And it was a significant part too, right? Nevermind, she had to do something!
Ye Ze!
The white-dressed twins of the Thousand Souls Sect, Bairen and Bai Luo!
How very remiss of her, to forget she was living in a book!
“”
There was some sort of important plot point, the Demon Sect and Ye Ze……and his parents!
Xia Ge tightly grasped the little wooden puppet in her pocket. Now that boy in white had shown up, it was a good opportunity to get close to the Demon Sect by any means possible……
What should she do?
Giggle—
But the last S rank puppet had been ruthlessly beheaded by the ayara, the soft fabric pulsing with qi, edges as sharp as swords. Where ever it passed, it wounded.
Crack!
Glancing behind her, Gu Peijiu’s pupils contracted. A small fissure had appeared in the golden barrier!
She couldn’t delay anymore.
Snap—-
Bairen also noticed the crack. With a taunting ‘haha,’ he played with a thin paper needle in his hand. Then, before Gu Peijiu could deploy her ayara, he threw the needle directly into the crack!
“If it breaks, they—-” Bairen’s eyes widened absurdly, his brazen laughter terrifying, “they’ll all die—-”
“You’re guilty—-you’re all guilty of living—–”
The sharp notes of the piccolo became more and more penetrating, while the paper needle from Bairen caused cracks to disseminate across the gold barrier like a spider’s cobwebs.
“……”
Eyeing that crack, Xia Ge maintained her tight grip on her small puppet.
How could she get close to the boy in white?
“Staying up high to kill more people, right?”
The young lady’s voice rang out, clear like a mountain stream, effortlessly cutting through the roar of the demon puppets.
Xia Ge turned her attention to Gu Peijiu, subconsciously holding her breath.
“That’s right—-” Bai Luo snorted arrogantly, face twisted up in a nasty grin, “Especially killing insects like you—-”
“Well then.” The young lady clad in red and white glanced up with endlessly calm eyes, the golden glow of the barrier mixing with moonlight to flow in her dark pupils, “I guess I should fly up high to save a lot of people, right?”
In the next moment, her ayara drifted away, a softly shifting red diamond above the gold glimmer of the barrier, as she rose high up into the sky, like a red maple leaf riding the autumn winds. Her limpid voice slightly raised: “Therefore……”
Xia Ge felt a bit witless.
The young lady in the white dress with embroidered maple leaves……her tone crystalline as an icy river, her every word like a song or a poem……
“First punishment-{flowing fire, heavenly punishment}.”
—-even if it was pitiless.
—-but high up.
—-you were born for salvation.
The instant the young lady’s words fell, sky and earth changed their countenance!
Easily soaring into the air, the young lady now floated at a point higher than the boys in white. Her undulating ayara now spread across the horizon like it had no end, scattering into filaments in the blink of an eye. The clear night sky was concealed by dense dark clouds, thunder boomed, and lightening flashed. Then the dispersing silk threads penetrated the inky clouds, staining their pitch-black to blood-red. Moonlight vanished—infernal clouds and a fiery fog churned, still accompanied by claps of thunder, and streams of fire fell from the sky!
Xia Ge’s eyes were as big as saucers: “Fuck……”
The loud, rumbling flames was enough to make one believe that devils were somehow descending to earth from the heavens. With Gu Peijiu’s ayara weaving and in out and the boundless cords of flames cascading down, what lay outside the golden barrier had become a sea of fire!
“Ahhh—-”
Shrill screams of puppets set ablaze rang out, one after the other, and in the gathering storm, the faces of the two boys in white had turned pallid—-
“How could this be……?”
Bairen was muttering to himself: “Impossible……impossible!”
Yet even as he spoke, blazing fire surged towards him!
Bang—-
Waving his hand, Bai Luo erected a translucent white barrier in an instant. However, under violent bombardment, the barrier quickly shattered. Blood trickled from the corner of Bai Luo’s mouth. “Go—-”
“……it’s {tianzhuling}!!!”
Bairen was screeching as he hatefully glared at the young lady above him: “Gu Peijiu, {tianzhuling} is actually in your possession?!!!”
“Go, get out of here!”
Bai Luo hissed frantically at his brother as more savage flames raced towards them. Stretching out a hand, he hooked Bairen’s collar and threw him towards the village—-
Within the flames, the young lady serenely floated, her white silk dress fluttering in the air, her jet-black pupils turned a gleaming red by the boundless blaze about her. Expression just as still as before, her ayara flowed brightly about her: “Second punishment-{karmic fire, earth extinguishment}.”
Boom—-
The earth began to tremble! Intense jolts cracked open the flat ground, innumerable terrifying fissures opening up, and countless puppets fell into the crevices as burning lava began to erupt out from the depths!
Scorching lava, shrieking puppets, and a world almost instantaneously transformed into purgatory.
In a flash, a thousand puppets gratuitously destroyed.
–{flowing fire, heavenly punishment}.
–{karmic fire, earth extinguishment}.
It was the Yimei from ancient times, {tianzhuling}!!!
天诛tiānzhū
heavenly punishment / king’s punishment
绫líng
damask / thin silk
