Primordial Era: When a Good Guy Awakens a Morally Unethical System

"What happened on your trip?" Zhen Yuanzi asked cautiously, feeling that Hongyun wouldn't be so diligent for no reason.

This had happened twice before: once when they encountered a ferocious beast, and once when they offended Yuan Feng.

Hongchen: "Nothing special, it's just that we encountered the demon race besieging Dongwanggong on the road, and Dongwanggong self-destructed and perished."

Zhen Yuanzi's brows furrowed even deeper. Was it because he had witnessed the fall of the Eastern King Duke? Could it be that he was also worried that he might have made enemies, and that the Eastern King Duke of today might be the Hongyun of tomorrow?

That shouldn't be the case; Hongyun shouldn't be that timid.

"Is there nothing else?" Zhen Yuanzi asked again.

Hongchen thought about it carefully and realized there really wasn't anything else.

But Zhen Yuanzi interpreted Hongchen's head shake as something she was hiding from him, that Hongchen and Hongyun had a secret and were keeping it from him.

Zhen Yuanzi's eyes darkened, and he immediately withdrew Hongchen from his body. He then brewed a pot of tea and waited outside Hongyun's room.

Hongyun used all his "moral points" to buy a breakthrough in his cultivation, successfully severing his own evil corpse, and emerged from seclusion after more than a thousand years.

Just as he was about to go and tell Zhen Yuanzi the good news, he saw a person drinking tea alone in the courtyard. He happily went over and sat down next to him.

"Is the second corpse an evil corpse?" Zhen Yuanzi poured Hongyun a cup of tea.

Hongyun nodded, picked up the tea, and drank it all in one gulp.

"Why are you suddenly so diligent?" This is a question that Zhen Yuanzi has pondered for over a thousand years without finding a solution.

Hongyun was taken aback. Was he usually not diligent? "No reason, I just go into seclusion when I feel like I'm about to achieve the level of 'Slaying the Corpse'!"

Zhen Yuanzi: "Did you encounter anything when you went to the Heavenly Court?"

"No, nothing's wrong!" Hongyun had completely forgotten about the matter of the Eastern King Duke. As far as Zhen Yuanzi was concerned, that matter and that person had nothing to do with him, so she didn't think of coming back to tell Zhen Yuanzi.

"Oh? Really not?"

Seeing that Zhen Yuanzi's expression was off, Hongyun leaned closer and asked, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

Zhen Yuanzi lowered his eyes: "It's nothing. It's just that when they brought my body back, they were vague about what happened. I was worried, so I asked again."

Hongyun looked puzzled. What was being said so vaguely? Did he use the recording stone to record Tongtian fighting the evil corpse and then send it to Kunlun Mountain? But why was there any need to be vague about this?

"It's nothing, you know me, I just like to play around. Maybe... indirectly, Tongtian got another beating." Hongyun chuckled, even pinching a tiny bit with her little finger, as if to say, "Little beating!"

Zhen Yuanzi is now certain that Hongyun and Hongchen are hiding something from him; their stories don't match up. He knew he shouldn't have revealed his ugly thoughts. Hongchen even ignores the original Hongyun's words when he's around.

"Where is your evil corpse? Why don't you let it out to see us?" Zhen Yuanzi didn't dwell on what Hongyun's secret was. Anyway, Hongyun was simple-minded and might reveal it herself at any time.

Compared to the secret, Hongyun's pouting and inscrutable expression aroused Zhen Yuanzi's curiosity even more.

"What's wrong?" Zhen Yuanzi poured tea for Hongyun.

Hongyun sighed, thinking of the non-mainstream teenager she had seen the moment she opened her eyes. She tossed her multicolored bangs and said in that ear-piercing, bubbly voice, "Hello, I am TEL Ghost Domain Netherfire!"

He never imagined his monstrous corpse would be such a thing. It shouldn't be like this; he'd never experienced anything like this in his thirty-plus years in the future!