LORD CHESTER COMES BACK

“Jade Buddha Forest!” Marietta Stewart answered without hesitation.

Jun Chester’s brows furrowed slightly. “Jade Buddha Forest? Where is this Jade Buddha Forest?”

Marietta Stewart shook her head. “I… don’t know.”

Jun Chester’s face turned extremely cold. He had never imagined that he was not the son of Wilfrid Chester and Iris Garner.

But he could not take Marietta Stewart’s words as the final truth after only hearing one side of the story. Most importantly, Jun Chester was very reluctant to believe that he and Iris Garner were not actually mother and son. After all, they had lived together for so long in maternal love and filial piety.

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After a long silence, Jun Chester spoke coldly, “Until this matter is investigated, you are not to leave this place without permission, or you will face the consequences!”

Marietta Stewart was immediately relieved, as if granted a great amnesty. She knocked her head to the ground, “Yes! I will definitely not leave this place without permission!”

Jun Chester gave a cold snort. He pressed his palm against Marietta Stewart’s forehead.

Boom!

In an instant, Marietta Stewart felt a violent surge of energy rush into her core. In just a moment, she felt as if all the power in her body had been sealed. If she dared to circulate even a hint of inner energy, her entire head felt like it would explode!

Marietta Stewart’s face was filled with horror. “What did you do to me?”

Jun Chester sneered. “Didn’t you say you would obey my every command from now on?”

Marietta Stewart cried out in panic, “I did say that, but… what exactly did you do to me? Why can’t I mobilize any inner power at all?”

Jun Chester did not answer. He simply said, “Reflect on yourself here.”

Marietta Stewart wanted to say more but saw that Jun Chester had nothing else to say.

With a tip of his toe, his entire body suddenly shot up from the ground and disappeared.

The moment Jun Chester vanished, Marietta Stewart anxiously looked up into the abyss and cried out, “Jun Chester! Jun Chester! Come back!”

At this moment, what Marietta Stewart feared was not just Jun Chester, but also Melina Hale and Thelma Hale. Especially Melina Hale!

In the past, Hale House had been destroyed by Stewart House. Even now, descendants of Hale House still served Stewart House as slaves! For Melina Hale, this hatred was as high as the heavens.

Now that Marietta Stewart could not even mobilize a hint of inner power, if Melina Hale made a move to kill her, it would be as easy as slaughtering a chicken!

Melina Hale coldly looked at Marietta Stewart, seemingly seeing through her thoughts in one glance. She spoke slowly, “Afraid?”

Marietta Stewart glared at Melina Hale. But she did not dare make any rash moves! Like a fallen phoenix, she was not even as good as a chicken now.

“I never thought you, Marietta Stewart, would have a day like this!” Melina Hale looked at Marietta Stewart and enunciated each word.

Marietta Stewart did not speak.

After observing Marietta Stewart for a while, Melina Hale suddenly said, “Rest assured, I will not kill you. I want to watch as you serve Jun Chester as a slave from now on!”

Marietta Stewart’s face was extremely gloomy, but still she did not say a word.

Just then, Thelma Hale, who had been silent all this while, suddenly spoke. “Marietta Stewart, you should know that in this world, not only my Jun can make you suffer a fate worse than death, I can too!”

Marietta Stewart stood up. She suddenly closed her eyes. She carefully sensed the core within her body.

A moment later, a dark golden glow emanated from Marietta Stewart’s body. “Is that so?”

Marietta Stewart slowly opened her eyes, staring unblinkingly at Thelma Hale. She casually asked back.

As she spoke, a dark golden light also emanated from Marietta Stewart’s pupils. Her entire being was like a female celestial being.

Seeing the change that had come over Marietta Stewart, Thelma Hale’s face revealed shock. “You!”

Thelma Hale immediately retreated several dozen meters away. The way she now looked at Marietta Stewart was filled with horror, as if facing a formidable foe.

Thelma Hale was utterly confused. Why could Marietta Stewart still emanate such a profound aura? Hadn’t her inner power been sealed by Jun Chester using some secret technique? How could she still emanate such a terrifying aura?

Melina Hale also clearly sensed how terrifying Marietta Stewart’s aura was now. Melina Hale even had a strong premonition that as long as Marietta Stewart wished it, she could easily kill both mother and daughter!

Marietta Stewart’s earlier panic was completely gone. She did not even glance at Melina Hale once. Her gaze was fixed on Thelma Hale as she sneered coldly.

“If I didn’t mishear, you called yourself Chester Thelma Hale? It seems you also wish to become Jun Chester’s woman?”

Thelma Hale flushed with anger and embarrassment. But just as she was about to lash out with her blade, Marietta Stewart suddenly vanished from where she stood and appeared right in front of Thelma Hale. She grasped the blade bare-handed.

Then, without seeming to use any strength, the blade in Thelma Hale’s hand was pressed down. The ground beneath Thelma Hale’s feet cracked like a spiderweb.

In that instant, Thelma Hale was too shocked to speak. She could not believe that Marietta Stewart had become so terrifying again.

It was at this moment that an exquisitely beautiful yet shocking smile appeared on Marietta Stewart’s face.

“It is my business to be Jun Chester’s slave. Even if Jun Chester now tied me up and whipped me, I would be willing from my heart!”

“But you, what are you? How dare you impudently claim to be Jun Chester’s woman?”

Here is my attempt at translating the Chinese text into natural English:

Thelma Hale’s face flushed red. “Jun Chester was right, you really are a slut!”

Marietta Stewart laughed instead of getting angry. “So what if I’m a slut? What can you do about it? You don’t even have the qualification to be scolded as a slut by Jun Chester! How pathetic!”

Thelma Hale was speechless. She could not understand Marietta Stewart’s eccentric logic at all. How could a woman be seen as a slut and act as if it was something to be proud of?

Just then, Marietta Stewart looked up again in the direction Jun Chester had disappeared. Her entire body seemed to flush as if hit by a rising tide, her face covered in a rosy glow. She muttered to herself:

“So charming!”

Both Thelma Hale and Melina Hale were rendered speechless. Was there something wrong with Marietta Stewart’s mind?

Marietta Stewart retracted her gaze and also withdrew her hand. She scoffed, “You haven’t even met Jun Chester’s mother. Don’t put on airs in front of me in the future!”

Thelma Hale’s eyes widened as she stared unblinkingly at Marietta Stewart, as if looking at a mentally ill woman!

After spacing out for a bit, Marietta Stewart parted her red lips and continued, “Although I did so much for her and still didn’t gain her approval, I was at least half her disciple!”

“Having carefully served her for so long, how could I not have learned something?”

“Compared to me, what do you have, Thelma Hale, to compete with me?”

Upon hearing this, Thelma Hale’s mind was filled with question marks.

Who was the ‘her’ Marietta Stewart was referring to? Could it be… Jun Chester’s mother?

Just then, Marietta Stewart sighed again, muttering to herself, “I really want to slap you mother and daughter to death, forcing me to use this forbidden art and shorten my lifespan by twenty years!”

Having said that, Marietta Stewart turned and walked away. With her back to Melina Hale and Thelma Hale, she scolded, “Get lost! Don’t disturb my solitary contemplation!”

At her words, Melina Hale and Thelma Hale almost simultaneously shot up into the air.

After the mother and daughter had disappeared from this already dilapidated training hall, Marietta Stewart sat down cross-legged. She closed her eyes and did not move anymore.

After about a quarter hour, Marietta Stewart opened her eyes again. She suddenly raised her hand and touched the sword scar between her eyebrows that Jun Chester had left. Her slender brows furrowed slightly as she muttered to herself:

“Having to painfully watch you grow up and marry someone else while working hard to play the villain and pave the way for your future emperorhood, or else how would you ever become an emperor with your pitiful combat power? Really… not considerate of others at all!”

“And was I really using you? Of course not!”

“Your mom made me do it, what choice did I have?”

“Daughters-in-law have always suffered at the hands of evil mothers-in-law. Not only are you not cherishing me, you even injured me with your sword, trying to frighten me! Jerk!”

As she spoke, Marietta Stewart heaved another sigh. “It’s all fate!”

Just then, a black shadow descended from the sky and landed in front of Marietta Stewart. This black shadow, wasn’t it the returning Jun Chester?

Seeing Jun Chester, the cross-legged Marietta Stewart’s expression tightened. She stood up abruptly from the ground, looking at Jun Chester incredulously.

“You… didn’t leave?”

Jun Chester looked at Marietta Stewart coolly and spoke slowly, “I heard everything you just said.”

Marietta Stewart was astonished.

Jun Chester continued, “When I sealed your inner power with the Avatom Sutra earlier, I discovered something interesting. Your meridians are different from ordinary people’s, they are Pyrokinetic!”

“And there is a trace of some forbidden art within your meridian pathways that can temporarily boost your cultivation at the cost of your own lifespan!”

Marietta Stewart’s eyes were full of surprise. “Just what level of cultivation have you attained?”

Jun Chester smiled. “I said before that I have cultivated the Luminescence Core a hundred times. I also said that all these years, I have been using acupressure to conceal my true cultivation. Now with the needles removed, theoretically I can beat you with just three moves.”

“But I never said that I only know how to temper my body with the Unification method when cultivating the Luminescence Core. Nor did I say that apart from cultivating the Luminescence Core, I do not know any other tempering methods!”

Marietta Stewart gasped. Then she instinctively looked up towards the abyss above and could not help asking, “Where exactly were you hiding just now?”

Jun Chester’s smile did not change. “On this point, you should be clearer than me. The rock walls around this training hall are all veined with Nanite Stone. Who knows how many mining tunnels have been carved out of them!”

“Do you think that after I went up just now, I was hiding in one of those mining tunnels?”

Marietta Stewart looked at Jun Chester with extremely complex eyes.

Jun Chester’s expression changed. He said coldly, “Now that Melina Hale and Thelma Hale are gone, you can speak the truth, right?”

Marietta Stewart put on an innocent look. “Every word I said just now was the truth!”

Jun Chester gave a cold snort. “Looks like you won’t shed tears until you see the coffin!”

As he spoke, Jun Chester suddenly vanished and reappeared in front of Marietta Stewart.

Marietta Stewart was so frightened that she knelt down again and pleaded in a tearful voice, “Everything I said was true! I really was telling the truth! Please don’t be so fierce with me!”

But contrary to expectations, Jun Chester did not make another move after she had spoken.

Suddenly, a small stone fell from above, accompanied by a middle-aged woman’s voice drifting down slowly:

“Marietta Stewart is quite superstitious, but be gentle with your own servant, my son.”