Son of the Supreme God

Ch.3 - Curse

Tian Zhu slowly opened his eyes, his vision still blurry and his head aching.

After a few moments, his sight finally cleared. He frowned when he realized that he was surrounded by trees and bushes.

When Tian Zhu recalled the last thing that had happened to him, he immediately stood up and looked around anxiously, as if searching for something.

"Where is this? Where did Father send me? Don’t tell me I’m in the Dou World?" Tian Zhu panicked, but when he remembered that his father had said he would not send him to the Dou World, he felt a bit relieved.

However, he was soon shocked again when he sensed that something was missing within him. He could not feel any energy inside his body—not even a trace.

"What is going on?! Could it be…"

Tian Zhu’s body went limp as he realized that all of his cultivation had been completely stripped away by his father, leaving him an ordinary human.

"Damn it! You’re really ruthless, Father, stripping away all my cultivation!" Tian Zhu shouted angrily at the sky. "But at least I wasn’t sent to the Dou World. This is still far better than ending up in that place."

Tian Zhu let out a sigh. He felt a little better, but then froze again as he noticed something strange about his body.

"My body… it feels smaller." Tian Zhu opened his shirt and looked at his arms and abdomen. "Where did all my beautiful muscles go?!"

His arms and stomach no longer had the muscles he was used to. His body could not be called skinny, but it was no longer muscular either.

"Don’t tell me my body didn’t change, but I was transferred into someone else’s body?!"

Tian Zhu glanced around before running in a certain direction.

Soon, he found a river and used it as a mirror, looking at his reflection.

"This is my face, but it’s not as handsome as before. Not only was my cultivation stripped away, my body has also become that of an ordinary human—and I even look like a fifteen-year-old youth." Tian Zhu let out a long sigh. "Father, didn’t you at least leave something behind for me?"

Tian Zhu sat down and lay back by the riverbank, staring at the blue sky and white clouds.

"At least Father left my memories intact. With my experience and knowledge, I’ll regain my peak strength sooner or later—and then rebuild my harem! Sister Lan won’t find out! Muahahaha!"

Tian Zhu clearly had not learned from his mistakes. Even after being beaten and humiliated in front of his entire family, his rotten nature had not disappeared at all.

While Tian Zhu was lying leisurely by the river, he suddenly sat up when he noticed something. A figure was floating downstream and eventually stopped at the riverbank.

When Tian Zhu looked more closely, he realized it was the body of a young girl who seemed to have been swept away by the river. For some unknown reason, part of her clothing was torn, leaving her body more exposed.

"Heheh, I get luck like this right away." Tian Zhu walked closer. There was not the slightest intention to help her in his mind, which was obvious from the lecherous expression on his face.

Tian Zhu crouched beside the girl’s body, his right hand slowly moving toward her soft curves.

But before his hand could reach its target, he suddenly felt something strange, causing him to jump backward instinctively.

"Huh… huh… huh…"

For some reason, Tian Zhu’s breathing became erratic, like someone gripped by fear.

He pressed a hand to his chest, feeling his heart pounding far harder than usual.

"W–what was that just now? What actually happened?"

Tian Zhu was confused. After calming his breathing a little, he walked toward the girl again.

Unwilling to give up, his right hand once more reached toward her chest. Yet again, without his control, his body retreated, his breathing uneven.

"So that’s how it is… I understand now."

Tian Zhu finally understood the punishment he was meant to endure.

His father had stripped his cultivation and cast him into some unknown world. If that were all, Tian Lan would never have agreed to spare him from the punishment of the Dou World.

But if he had been given a curse that prevented him from touching women, then everything made sense—why Tian Lan had agreed to let him off.

"This is going to be extremely troublesome. How am I supposed to build a harem if I can’t even touch a single woman?" Tian Zhu felt like crying over his miserable fate. "If this is a curse, then there should be a way to remove it. But I don’t know how—and I’m sure Father wouldn’t tell me even if I asked."

Tian Zhu understood his father’s intention: to prevent him from repeating his past behavior. He looked at the unconscious girl lying by the riverbank.

"I should help this girl first. But how am I supposed to do that when I can’t touch her at all?"

Tian Zhu thought for a moment before an idea struck him.

"There’s a chance this curse only activates when I try to touch a woman with impure intentions. Let me try."

He tried to reach for the girl’s hand. But before touching her, he unconsciously stepped back again. His body trembled slightly, though his breathing was not as labored as before.

"It seems this curse truly prevents me from touching any woman, no matter the reason. However, the effect becomes much stronger if I harbor malicious intent. If not, the backlash is weaker."

Tian Zhu took off his shirt. Without touching the girl, he tied one of his sleeves around her wrist and pulled her out of the river.

"This girl is quite beautiful. How did she end up drifting down the river?" Tian Zhu muttered. "The sun is almost setting. I should look for some firewood."

Tian Zhu gathered firewood from the surrounding area. Since he was in a forest, it was easy to collect enough dry branches.

As night fell, Tian Zhu quickly built a campfire. With his vast knowledge, he was able to start a fire using traditional methods.

The girl still had not woken up. When Tian Zhu glanced at her exposed body, the longer he looked, the tighter his breathing became.

"Damn it, this curse won’t even let me enjoy such a beautiful sight for too long!"

He moved the girl closer to the fire so her wet body could dry more quickly.

"I just hope this woman isn’t some vicious type. At least when she wakes up, I can ask her for information about this world."

Tian Zhu kept the fire burning, waiting for the girl to regain consciousness.