The next day, Zhenlong can be seen doing his work as patriarch and preparing for his wife Ye Xu's funeral. It was a closed casket since she got trampled and squished. LinJian stayed with his brother in case something comes up. LinJian, looking around the room feels like he had seen a battleground. The servants didn't have time to clean up since they are hurrying up for the coming funeral. The guest were coming to pay their respect for Ye Xu's passing. They have been working nonstop helping the doctors and assistants in getting bandages and supplies. Chen Yue wasn't the only one injured. There were almost 40 guards that were missing limbs and severe injuries also. So they were short handed, they even let the injured men's families help them treat their injuries since the doctors only gave some instructions and focused mainly on the young master Yue.
In Chen Yue's room, there are bloodied gauze and bandages. He occasionally cough blood while the bone and muscle were tearing and repairing. LinJian see that he is still sweating like crazy, so he wipe clean his brother and change the IV. He looked at his brother and see that he is pale but breathing normally. Some tears came down his cheeks.
LinJian: " Thanks you brother for staying alive. It's so hard loosing mom, but loosing you too. I almost lost all hope. I was afraid dad might commit suicide if he loose you too. So thank you for staying alive brother."
He then left to attend his mom's funeral since he is one of the guest greeters with his dad. He assigned a maid to start cleaning the room and call the doctor if an emergency comes up. The doctors were treating the other injured people from the hunting expedition.
A lot of guest came from different families. Some aristocrats and some other nobles and major families. They are only here for show though so Zhenlong didn't care much. But when the Snow wind family came. He did a very low bow and start tearing up.
The Snow wind family patriarch is also the City lord but most importantly the older brother of his wife. His name is Ye Zong. He came looking at Zhenlong with anger and frustration. He couldn't contain it, so he punched him in the face sending him to the wall.
(BOOOM!)
Zhenlong made a dent on the wall, his lips were bleeding.
LinJian: "Father!"
Zhenlong raised his hand and commanded his son to stop. He got up and walked to Ye Zong which he treats as a brother and continued to bow down.
Zhenlong: " I deserved that or even worst. I have no words to give you brother Zong except I'm sorry for letting you down and failing to protect Xu'er." He said it while tears was running through his eyes.
Ye Zong: "I was inspecting the borders 2 days away from here with my family. When a messenger eagle came with the message that my sister and godson got trampled and died. I rushed with my family here. Ziyun was crying the whole time. Her Aunt Xu was her second mother and Yue'r is like her younger brother because he looked like her and Ziyun. That punch is for my sister you failed to protect."
Zhenlong: "There is some news you haven't heard yet... Yue'r survived.. But we don't know his full condition until he wakes up."
The news froze Ye Zong and his family. Ye Zong see his godson as his son since he looked exactly like Ye Xu when she was young. He was overly protective of him. He doesn't have a son from his wife that died years ago and he ended up adopting a genius boy that Ye Mo recommended and named him Ye Han. But he only treated him as a guard for his daughter Ye Ziyun. His heart still see Chen Yue as his son. Ziyun also started crying in happiness. She treated Yue'r or to her "little Yue" like a real little brother. When she looked at her young pictures, she see Yue's face and hers are the same. So she often dress him up as her and spoiled him like a mother. Yue was a child so he didn't know he was dressing drag so the family got a laugh of it all.
Both Ziyun and her father wanted to visit Yue right away, but must attend the funeral. They couldn't say goodbye to her corpse since it was shredded and unrecognizable. So they have a picture to mourn on. While in the funeral reception. Ye Zong calmed down. Ye Zong treats his best friend like a real brother rather than a brother in law. Just loosing a sister hurt so much that he wanted to vent out. And since he found out it was Zhenlong's fault by taking the family hunting just to impress his eldest son for his first hunt, he wanted to go big and hunt a whole herd. But unknown to him that the leader of the heard was a black-gold demon beast with a lot of gold and silver rank subordinates.
After the funeral procession, every guest started ushering out. Only the main family and the snow wind family are left. The divine branch family held their own funerals afterwards, for their loss guards and hunters. So they left the patriarch with their in laws.
Both family hurriedly went to Chen Yue's room. Where the maid is still cleaning. Blood stains were hard to take out, but cannot move the patient without risking further injuries. So his sheets were all blood stained. The maid needs the doctors help to move the patient to another bed but the doctors and his assistants are still busy with other patients. So both families seen a bloody war zone with Chen Yue in the middle of it.
Ye Zong's heart broken seeing Chen Yue's condition. He looked malnourished and pale. It's ΔΊike looking at a corpse. Chen Yue's body greedily absorbs the IV like a starving beast. It has to be changed every hour.
Ye Zong: "My god! What happened to this room... It looked like he exploded and came back."
Ziyun and Ye Han seeing this ran outside to throw up. Ye Han is the adopted son of Ye Zong and also friends with Chen LinJian. Ye Han is over protective in Ziyun but also cares for Chen Yue due for him looking like Ziyun. Ye Mo the father of Ye Zong and also Chen Yue's grandfather on his mother side felt loss for words. He is the strongest being the only legend rank demon specialist, and have seen many battles. But seeing his grandson in this condition horrified him. So he stepped out to attend to Ziyun and Han. He can't she'd a tear due to his pride as the strongest. He must not show weakness or the enemy or spies might target his family as they know his weakness.
LinJian: "It is actually cleaner than before. The maid did a good job."
Ye Zong: " Call one of the doctors, I want to hear about everything that happened here... Tell the servants to bring my family home. They can visit once he is awake. "
The maid since it was the city lord, rushed right away to get the doctor. The doctor came and summarized what had occurred in the last 2 days where he cough and blood ejected to the ceiling and everywhere. The doctor blamed the high recovery potion overdose to save his life. He was dead for over an hour and believed the potions started working at that time which have a lot of consequences. They also told him that he screamed in pain for 2 days and believe that he will be mentally traumatized due to the incident. And they can't make proper assessment until he wakes up. Moving him now may further injure him so they left him in the bloody bed.
After the visit, Ye Zong and his family were affected emotionally. Ziyun was the most affected of all. It's like she went to his funeral instead of his aunt. He saw the body of Chen Yue looking like a corpse. She cried all night. Ye Zong wasn't feeling any better. He cannot think straight, so he left all the work of city lord to the vice city lord and taken a week off to recover emotionally.
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Another couple days later, Chen Yue suddenly open his eyes. It was the middle of the night.
(Grrrrrrrhhhhhhhrrr!....)
Chen Yue: "Damn, I'm hungry... uuurrrrggghhh."
Chen Yue got up in a sitting position and he stretched.
(Craaaackk, pop pop!)
His bones cracked and muscles rubbed like leather. He tried standing up and taking his IV off. He was wobbling and trying to get used to his new body.
Chen Yue: "Whoa~ freakin' a man. Everything is so big. Being a kid, I guess little places seems like castles."
He went over the mirror and checked his body out. He had long hair and looked like a girl. He suddenly panics and immediately pulled his pants down to verify something important.
Chen Yue: " Oh thank god I'm a male... (Phew~) I though I might have to kill myself. But I'm a little disappointed with the size of my ding dongs. Hope they grow when I hit puberty. (Sniff Sniff) Oh my god I stink like crazy... okay first shower then eat."
He inspected the room for extra clothes and the bathroom to get cleaned up. He doesn't have any memories of the previous body, but he got knowledge of Nie Li in his head. Personal memories of Nie Li is thrown out so only the alchemy, places of interest, cultivation and martial arts knowledge was in his head.
After cleaning up, he sneaked in the food storeroom. And he started eating like a madman. He also put some food to his inventory for emergencies. After eating, he was surprised at how much he has eaten. He felt like he was a saiyan. His skinny pale corpse body became healthy. And he saw a pretty child in the mirror.
Chen Yue: "Man, I have to workout a lot and build muscles. people might think I'm a trap. Maybe I should cut my hair later."
He went back to the room and started to inspect it. He saw it was his, since there were pictures of him and his family. Due to Nie Li's knowledge, He understands the languages and writings. He looked at finger paintings and his previous body's writing. He found out his name is Chen Yue and his now family through the art and writings. He also found a storage ring that are filled with toys and some demon coins. He took the demon coins to his inventory. He doesn't need storage rings. His inventory is safer.
Chen Yue: "Man this room stinks of blood and goo. I can't sleep here. I might as well find an empty room to sleep on... well this is my house after all technically."
He started to look around for a room to sleep on. Every room was occupied either by other injured soldier or the doctors and his assistants. So he looked around for some comforters and pillows to use, and he will just sleep in his pocket dimension.
After getting what he needed he willed a door to appear and stepped into his dimension. It was morning in his dimension so he called out status panel and adjust the environment to night time. He feels so relaxed with the heavy spiritual energies. He was also shocked that his inventory panel has his status in it. It says that he is already a 1 star silver spiritualist in body strength and cultivation. He doesn't even began to cultivate.
Chen Yue:"Must have been my soul strength that God told me about. Well thank you for that...(Yawn~) I better get some sleep. I'll see my family tomorrow."
Unknown to him, when he adjusted the environment to night time, he didn't know that it will stay that way unless he changed it. And since the spiritual energies are 10x the normal environment, he accidentally went to deep meditation while sleeping and it was like a closed door cultivation.
That night, when the maid went to his room to change his IV, she panics and sound the alarm when she saw the young master was missing. Zhenlong and LinJian thought someone kidnapped him and sent everyone to look for him. Later, the City lord learned of the kidnapping and sent all available hands to look for Chen Yue.
1 day...2 day....1 week...2 weeks...
On the 3rd week, Zhenlong was like a ghost. He put the patriarch duties to his vice chief. He put all his efforts in looking for his son. Ye Zong also extended his vacation. The acting patriarch and acting city lord understands so they let them be. LinJian was also searching the slum areas and border families.
In the pocket dimension, Chen Yue woke up so refreshed and wonders why it is still night time. He checked his panel. He was surprised that his cultivation went to 2 star silver rank. Then he looked at the timer and got the surprise of the lifetime.
Chen Yue: "Holy sh*t! 510 hours.... let's see... divide it by 24...sh*t 3 weeks.... I'm in so much trouble.. What will be my excuse then... hmmm... Well there's always the amnesia act... yah let's do that.... Let me see here.... ah there it is. The map to Glory City. Let's exit in the alleyways near the market."
Thanks for Nie Li's knowledge in all the locations. He has a working map of a lot of places. He can will the exit anywhere within the map. So he can look around. Also, he wanted to taste some of the cuisines of Glory city. He has about 30,000 demon coins to spend. So it will last him awhile.
He exited the alleyways and into the market. He bought some herbs and plants to grow in his dimension. He made sure to pick the ones with healthy roots. Then he stopped by some street food vendor. He liked simple street foods rather than restaurant foods. It's cheap and delicious.
While he was shopping he had a lot of boys trying to ask him out and he shout out loud "I'm a boy you idiots!".
He was walking around until someone recognized him. It was a guard from the city lord. He asked him to stay put and sent a subordinate to notify the city lord.
Chen Yue: "You know who I am?"
Soldier: "Oh yes young master Chen. We have been looking for you for a long time. Please come with me to the city lords mansion."
He was escorted into a carriage and they drove off to the city lord mansion. Chen Zhenlong was informed of the news and then he rushed over to the city lord mansion with his eldest son LinJian.
Once arrived in the City lord mansion he got tackled by a purple dust bunny.
Chen Yue: "(Oofffhhh!) Uuuurrrggghhh... what hit me?"
He looked at the purple haired girl that was attached to him hugging him.
Ye Ziyun: "Little Yue! Your alive.. Waaahh...π
Chen Yue: "(pretending to not know her) Okay~ whoever you are and who is little Yue?"
Ye Ziyun: "π²π’π’π’ Waaahhh! πππ Little Yue forgot about me!"
He patted the head of Ziyun while still crying. Ye Zong saw this and figured Chen Yue have amnesia. He was glad he was healthy though but wants to know who took him and where have he been in these 3 weeks. Before he can ask him, a big blurr passed him and picked up both Ziyun and Chen Yue into a tight hug.
Zhenlong: "Yue'r! Your back my son... my dear son!" while tears in his eyes were flowing.
Chen Yue: "(Still pretending) Again... Who are you guys and who is this Yue guy anyway."
This shocked his father and he just froze. LinJian and Ye Han saw this with shock.
LinJian: " He doesn't remember anything"
Ye Zong: "Summon the doctors, healers. I want them here now."
The servants scrambled to follow his orders.
Zhenlong: "Yue'r, where have you been in the last 3 weeks? We were all worried"
Chen Yue:"I don't know. I just woke up a couple of days ago in the slum area wearing noble clothes and I have some demon coins with me. I rented a room and registered Li as my name since I don't know my name and was shopping around for food. I was gonna apply for a job here or go to the orphanage then a guard saw me and brang me here. You guys call me Yue, so I guess that's my name, but I wanna apologize. I don't remember any of you. But this girl here look like me except older."
Zhenlong: "I see. That girl is your cousin Ye Ziyun. You and her are a carbon copy of your mother Ye Xu. She is your uncle Ye Zong's sister. Ye Zong is also you godfather so he treats you like his son.....But, whoever took you to the slums are still out there. I will have guards posted on you at all times starting today."
After their talk, the doctors arrived and made their assessment.
Ye Zong: "So how's my godson doctor? Will he get his memories back?"
Doctor: "Hmmm... I'm afraid not. I believed that is permanent. Due to him being dead for over an hour, the part of the brain that stored his previous memories died or shut down. It's a miracle that all his motor functions still works and his retaining his new memories and changing it to long term memories. But there's an anomaly on his health.... I don't know if it was the overdosing or coming back from the dead..."
Zhenlong: " Is his health in danger?"
Doctor: "Well, it's quite the opposite really... he's healthy.. a bit too healthy...how can I say this.... Well in short, he is already the youngest silver rank demon specialist in glory city at a mere age of 5 years old."
Everyone: "What!!!???"