Peerless Bodyguard of a Stunning Beauty

Seeing Ghost King Huazi appear in mid-air, Lili exclaimed in surprise, ”Brother Zhao Rong, didn’t you say that Ghost King Huazi was embedded in the Taoist robe you always wear? And after we killed Fierce Ghost East City, didn’t you have that robe sent back to the chairman to be placed in the robbed tomb?” After she finished speaking, Lili thought to herself, Hasn’t Ghost King Huazi already left Zhao Rong? How did she suddenly appear again?

Just as Lili was wondering, Zhao Rong explained with a smile, ”Although Ghost King Huazi left, she left a quantum particle with me when she departed. We’re connected through quantum entanglement. Do you understand?”

Lili shook her head, confused. ”What is quantum entanglement? And what does it have to do with Ghost King Huazi’s sudden appearance?”

”It means that as long as I carry her quantum particle, I can summon her anytime, anywhere,” Zhao Rong explained. ”No matter where she is, the entanglement allows her to appear before me instantly.”

Hearing about such a magical thing, Lili immediately gave Zhao Rong a thumbs-up. ”Wow, I had no idea ghosts were into high-tech stuff!”

At that moment, Huazi, who was floating in the air, said promptly, ”Master, let’s start refining the Elixir right away.”

It turned out that Zhao Rong had agreed to refine and replicate the Thousand Year Old Demon’s Rushing Gate Elixir because he had already communicated with Ghost King Huazi beforehand. The reason Ghost King Huazi knew how to refine it was due to a strange coincidence.

Ghost King Huazi had died by jumping off a cliff 1,000 years ago. Coincidentally, the Thousand Year Old Demon had arrived on Earth in a flying saucer at that exact same time. Back then, Huazi was still a young girl, farming in the fields. The Thousand Year Old Demon’s flying saucer had suffered an accident and crash-landed at the edge of her family’s field.

People 1,000 years ago had never seen large flying objects like saucers, so when they saw one descending from the sky, their first reaction wasn’t fear or the urge to flee, but curiosity about the unknown. Huazi walked over and carefully observed the vessel before her. Just then, a group of aliens emerged from the flying saucer, with the Thousand Year Old Demon at their head.

At that time, the Thousand Year Old Demon was eighteen, and Ghost King Huazi was only sixteen. The moment the eighteen-year-old demon saw the sixteen-year-old girl, he fell head over heels in love. He immediately jumped down, pulled a bouquet of roses from his clothes, and presented them to Huazi, declaring, ”Oh, beautiful girl, you are as lovely as a flower! You fascinate me, you drive me wild, you fill my thoughts with desire…”

But just as the Thousand Year Old Demon was about to confess his feelings, the sixteen-year-old Huazi looked at him and suddenly screamed, ”A ghost!” With that, she turned and fled. Seeing that the beauty he’d fallen for had not only rejected his confession but had mistaken him for a ghost, the Thousand Year Old Demon was heartbroken. In his sorrow, he immediately took out a pen and paper, lay on the ground, and feverishly wrote a love letter to her.

After finishing the letter, he placed it in a beautiful envelope, went to Huazi’s home, and slipped it through the crack under the door. Having delivered his letter, the Thousand Year Old Demon left feeling blissful. However, when he returned to Huazi’s doorstep to await her reply after completing his mission on Earth, he realized he had made a terrible mistake. As it turned out, in his carelessness, he hadn’t put the love letter into the envelope. By a strange twist of fate, he had instead inserted the secret alchemy manual for refining the Rushing Gate Elixir and given that to Huazi.

At that moment, holding the actual love letter in his hand, the Thousand Year Old Demon slapped himself twice and muttered as he walked back toward her home, ”Damn my luck! If I had just sent the love letter earlier, she might have already agreed to marry me. After all, being an alien, my prospects are excellent.” But when the Thousand Year Old Demon arrived at Huazi’s home, he learned that she had been forced by a villain to jump from a cliff to her death not long ago.

Seeing that the woman he loved had suddenly died, he stood there holding the undelivered love letter, utterly heartbroken and despondent. The Thousand Year Old Demon donned mourning clothes and kept a vigil before Huazi’s spirit tablet in her home for three days and three nights. After three days, when the demon prepared to return to his now-repaired flying saucer and go back to his home planet, he was shocked. To his surprise, his companions had already departed, leaving him stranded on Earth all alone. So, the Thousand Year Old Demon stood on the ground, pointing at the sky and cursing for three straight days and nights. Afterward, he went to the Black Wind Cave on Black Wind Mountain to wait, hoping his companions would one day return from space to take him home to his own world.

Meanwhile, back when Huazi was still alive, she had woken up the next day to see the envelope in the crack under her door and had immediately picked it up. Excitedly, she opened the ”love letter,” assuming it was from her sweetheart. But when she opened it and saw the contents were about alchemy, she was utterly disappointed. Although disappointed, she didn’t throw away the alchemy manual from inside the envelope. Instead, she kept it. She held onto it for 1,000 years.

That was, until just moments ago, when Zhao Rong used ventriloquism and quantum entanglement to communicate with the distant Ghost King Huazi, asking if she could help him refine an elixir known as the Rushing Gate Elixir. Although Zhao Rong asked, he didn’t have much hope. He thought Huazi was merely a ghost king, not an Alchemist, and that it would be impossible for her to help him. However, to his surprise, Huazi not only agreed to help refine the Elixir but also produced the alchemy manual. When Zhao Rong saw the recipe for the Rushing Gate Elixir that Huazi showed him, he was stunned. Surprised as he was, he knew that with her help, he could win. So, Zhao Rong made the bet with the Thousand Year Old Demon.

When Lili, who was standing nearby, finally understood everything, she gave Zhao Rong a thumbs-up. ”Brother Zhao Rong, I really underestimated you! I had no idea you were so well-prepared before making that bet with the Thousand Year Old Demon.”

Then, Lili actually apologized to him. ”Brother Zhao Rong, I owe you an apology. I really thought it was impossible for you to refine an elixir identical to the Rushing Gate Elixir. But now, after hearing your story and Ghost King Huazi’s story, I think you’re an absolute genius!”

Zhao Rong chuckled and, under Ghost King Huazi’s guidance, began the refinement process.

When a person’s luck is on a roll, nothing can stop it. As it turned out, Zhao Rong already had all the necessary materials to refine the Rushing Gate Elixir. For instance, the recipe required two Demon Crystals from toad demons. Zhao Rong had acquired these back at Xi Jing University when he killed the toad demon principal and his lover, the beautiful captain of the cheerleading squad. As for the toad toxin, he had successfully extracted it from the pus-filled boils on the principal’s body after killing him. The Divine Grass was something he had tricked out of the dragon Ma Long in the Dragon Cave, where he had been pushed by villains during his training at the True Martial Gate. Then there were the Dragon Crystals, needed to catalyze the reaction when placed on either side of the pressure cooker. He had conned one from the dragon Mark when he accidentally fell into a Dragon Cave at a management training center, and the other had been a gift from the ghostly principal of Xi Jing University.

So, while the Zhao Rong before them seemed to have nothing, looking short, slim, and impoverished, he was in fact born with good fortune, great luck, and sheer awesomeness.

Under Ghost King Huazi’s guidance, Zhao Rong methodically refined the Rushing Gate Elixir. Meanwhile, the elixir lent to him by the Thousand Year Old Demon was being thoroughly analyzed by Huazi using her Piercing Eye and extreme analytical skills. As time ticked by, Zhao Rong meticulously controlled the size of the alchemical flames, following the procedure step by step. Three hours later, when Ghost King Huazi told Zhao Rong the refinement was a success, he leaped into the air with excitement.

After calming himself, Zhao Rong adjusted his mindset. He tiptoed over and, very carefully, opened the pressure cooker. Inside, a Rushing Gate Elixir as tiny as a grain of rice lay quietly in a corner. All the medicinal herbs and water previously placed inside had vanished without a trace. When Zhao Rong saw that so many valuable ingredients had produced such a tiny elixir, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a huge sense of accomplishment, ”Finally, it’s done. That was exhausting…”

Just as Zhao Rong was about to sit down and rest, the Thousand Year Old Demon suddenly woke up.

”Zhao Rong, are you finished yet? Let me see!” the demon said, emerging from the darkness.

Hearing the demon, Zhao Rong smiled. ”No problem, it’s all done. Come and take a look.”

The Thousand Year Old Demon scoffed dismissively, ”Kid, stop putting on an act. If you actually managed to replicate and refine this Rushing Gate Elixir, then pigs might fly.”

Lili interjected from the side, ”Thousand Year Old Demon, just tell us, what will you do if Brother Zhao Rong successfully refines it?”

The demon thumped his chest and declared, ”If Zhao Rong can successfully refine a single Rushing Gate Elixir, then I will give him every single one that I own! And I will eat a pile of dog crap!”

Hearing the Thousand Year Old Demon make such a dire oath, Zhao Rong broke out in a cold sweat. It looks like this Thousand Year Old Demon is destined to eat dog crap today.

Meanwhile, Lili sat nearby, thinking, How will the Thousand Year Old Demon react when he sees the beautiful young girl he had a crush on 1,000 years ago?