Chapter 2455: Meeting the Parents

Zu An panicked.

Am I destined to leave love debts everywhere? I've already tried my best to avoid contact with the other side, so why did things still turn out like that?

It wouldn’t be a big deal in his time, but now that he had returned to the past, words like ‘ancestral grandmother’ just kept popping into his mind.

The Asura men looked at Zu An in awe and envy. They were awed because the Asuras respected the strong, and his earlier performance had won them over. They were envious that their princess had just confessed to him.

“So, what did you ask me earlier?” Princess Ni Huang asked, unfazed by her earlier confession.

Zu An quickly composed himself before repeating his question. “What’s your relationship with the Shaman races? How did you end up in the Eye of the Ocean?”

“The Shaman races are our enemy.” Princess Ni Huang’s gaze turned cold. “As for your latter question, we live here.”

Zu An was confused. That answer sparked many questions in his mind.

Princess Ni Huang noticed his confusion and explained, “Our Asura race used to war with the Celestial race, but we lost and were exiled to the underworld. We thought we could kill our way back there as long as we bided our time and trained up diligently, but...”

She suddenly let out a sigh. “That battle was a huge blow to us, but the underworld is so severely lacking in resources that we steadily grew weaker instead of recovering. It doesn’t help that it is also shrouded in death energy. In the end, we had to abandon our plan of launching a counterattack against the Celestial race.”

Zu An fell silent. The underworld was indeed more suited for the dead than the living.

“The Shaman races suddenly arrived later on.” Princess Ni Huang gritted her teeth. “They invaded our territories and plundered the little resources we had left. That’s not something we could tolerate, so a conflict broke out.”

“What’s the situation in that conflict?” Zu An asked.

The Asura men looked awkward. Even Princess Ni Huang looked mildly uncomfortable as she answered, “We initially had the upper hand, but their powerhouses suddenly made a move and pushed us back. Of course, we made the Shaman races pay the price for their aggression too.”

Princess Ni Huang’s hesitation made Zu An chuckle under his breath.

The Asura race must have suffered heavy losses in that battle. How intriguing. The Asura race must be fairly powerful to be able to compete with the Celestial race, yet they lost to the Shaman races?

“Who are their powerhouses?” Zu An asked.

“I don’t know their names, but within the Shaman races, they are called ‘Ancestral Shamans’,” Princess Ni Huang replied.

“Ancestral Shamans!” Zu An was taken aback. Back on his Earth, there was a legend that after Pangu severed the sky from the land, his eyes turned into the sun and the moon, his body turned into all creations, and his twelve drops of blood essence morphed into the Twelve Ancestral Shamans. This hinted at how powerful the Ancestral Shamans could be.

In the legends, the Ancestral Shamans easily ranked among the strongest powerhouses. I’d have never expected to meet them here.

He felt a little anxious, but the many trials he had been through over the years helped him to quickly compose himself. He would just have to deal with it when the situation presented itself. Not to mention that so far, this was just his conjecture.

Besides, right now, his strength was likely on par with the legendary figures from his previous world.

“What’s the situation with the Shaman races? Why did they suddenly appear in the underworld?” Zu An wanted to verify if there was a link between this world’s Shaman races and the ones he knew about from legends.

“We did learn a bit about them from many years of battles. Before they were exiled to the underworld, the Shaman races had a massive battle with the Fiend races, but what’s weird is that the Fiend races they speak about dwell in the sky, and they have something called a Celestial Court. Their enemies resemble our ancient foe, the Celestial race,” Princess Ni Huang said.

“Doesn’t that mean you have common enemies? Shouldn’t the enemy of an enemy be a friend?” Zu An asked.

Princess Ni Huang scoffed, “Our Asura race always beats our enemies fair and square; we do not need external help.”

Zu An was stunned.

It feels like the Asura race is a bunch of fools.

An Asura man added, “Our enemies might both dwell in the sky, but their enemies are different from the deities we know. Besides, the Shaman races have a lot of stubborn idiots, so there has been a lot of conflict between our races. It eventually culminated into a fight.”

“I noticed that you just came from the underworld. Were you planning to do something outside?” Zu An asked curiously.

“Not really...” Princess Ni Huang’s face reddened. “The Shaman races have always guarded the Eye of the Ocean, but they suddenly stomped out not long ago, only to return with livid faces. Shortly after, they removed the troops stationed near the Eye of the Ocean. We were curious to know what happened, so I brought them here to investigate.”

Princess Ni Huang assessed Zu An. “You seem to be from above. You should know what happened.”

Zu An calmly replied, “I do know a thing or two.”

Overjoyed, Princess Ni Huang quickly pressed for further details. The Asura men also looked at him with expectant eyes.

“They went up to fight with the Ocean races. I'm on good terms with the Ocean races, so I helped them repel the Shaman races...” Zu An quickly filled them in on the situation.

Princess Ni Huang eyed Zu An skeptically. “I know about the Ocean races. They aren’t weak, but they aren’t a match for Ox Head, Horse Face, Golden Cangue, and Silver Chain. You must have been the one to subdue them.”

“I didn’t subdue them; we merely crossed blows. They didn’t reveal all their means.” Zu An offered his most objective evaluation of the situation.

“You’re too hypocritical,” Princess Ni Huang snorted. “That ox has a terrible temper. He would have stood his ground if he thought he could defeat you. Hahaha, it's been a long time since I saw them suffering such humiliation!”

The Asura named Pi Lu exhaled in relief. He'd thought it was embarrassing to have lost to Zu An, but the knowledge that Ox Head, Horse Face, and the others had also been defeated by Zu An allowed him to straighten his back once more.

The more Princess Ni Huang spoke, the more excited she became. She grabbed Zu An’s arm and declared, “I must introduce you to my royal brother. Come with me! Now that you have defeated Ox Head and Horse Face, you’re our Asura race’s most esteemed guest!”

Feeling the squeeze against his arm, Zu An rubbed his nose to stop it from bleeding.

Does she not realize that her thin clothes do little to conceal her explosive figure...

In the end, he accepted her offer. He'd been thinking of venturing into the underworld to investigate the situation anyway. It was better to make friends than enemies.