Artifact Chapter 27: Tianze Secret Realm

Chapter 27: Tianze Secret Realm

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

Lu Ming winked at Sang Wusheng, who nodded gently at him with understanding. The two men thoughtlessly put a piece of meat in their mouths and chewed it, but secretly put it under their tongues and pressed it down. After a short while, they pretended to be dazed by the powder and fell motionless on the ground.

Hua Tui saw that the two had been hit, and could not help but lightly laugh. Stood up and walked over, reached out and patted Sang Wusheng’s face. She looked at Lu Ming, lightly hummed, “Such a handsome face. I did not expect him to be so stupid, so little powder put him down.”

Lu Ming sighed silently in his heart, You’re the one who’s stupid!

Hua Tui took out a turquoise porcelain bottle from her Qiankun bag at her waist, and gently unscrewed the cap. She took out two pills with a biting fragrance from inside, as if talking to herself, she said, “This is a freshly made soul-stealing pill, one for each of you, so this is a reward for you two.”

Lu Ming’s heart jumped when he heard these words. In the days of the He Mansion, when he had nothing to do every day, he often went to the Book Depository to borrow books and read them, and knew some of the pills made in the Pill Refining Sect.

The Soul-stealing Pill was one of the most vicious and poisonous pills in the Pill Refining Sect. The effect of this pill was the same as the name of the medicine; it was a strange medicine that would take the soul of others. If a regular person took one pill, their soul would slowly be pulled out of their body. Although their soul would not be extinguished, since their soul was out of their body, over time, the body would become a walking corpse, ignorant all day long, intelligent like a newborn baby, with almost no ability to think and no sense of self.

Hua Tui wanted Jing Mo and him to eat this pill, so that their souls could be taken away from their body, and then their souls could be used to feed gu, which in turn would increase the growth rate of the gu by several times or even a hundred times.

Due to the fact that the Soul-Stealing Pill was so vicious and poisonous, it had been listed as one of the forbidden pills by the Medicine Sect hundreds of years ago. If someone dared to make such insidious pills privately, they would be imprisoned and punished, with the heaviest punishment being their soul getting scattered. The Cultivation World had no one who dared to buy it and use it on others. He didn’t expect this Hua Tui to have this kind of poisonous pill. Although she was young, she really had a snake heart.

Lu Ming secretly sighed. When he had read the novel, he did not think she was that cruel, but rather felt that this woman dared to love and hate to the extreme. She loved Sang Wusheng enough to die for him and was finally killed by He Qingci. The comment section was covered in a lot of complaints, curses towards the author, He Qingci, and even male protagonist Sang Wusheng since he did not protect his loved one and was chased by readers venom for a long time.

When Lu Ming entered this world and became He Qingci, he witnessed many things and felt that in this place, the weak’s lives and deaths were always in the hands of the strong, and the weak had no right to choose life or death.

This time, Hua Tui did not notice the two were just pretending to sleep, she quickly bent down, and was about to open Sang Wusheng’s lips to feed him the pill. Sang Wusheng suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes were cold without a trace of temperature and his palm filled with spiritual energy. He raised his hand and viciously pushed it against Hua Tui.

Hua Tui was surprised by the sudden change, and fiercely moved backward several steps, avoiding Sang Wusheng’s harsh attack. She reacted very agilely as she pulled out the long whip at her waist and fiercely flung it on the ground. Her delicate voice moved towards Sang Wusheng as she smiled, “My powder has always been extremely strong. One will not wake up so early, I think you two saw through me. “

Lu Ming got up from the ground and said indifferently, “Miss, we have no grudge against you, why do you have to harm us?”

Hua Tui’s phoenix eyes were slightly raised. She looked at Lu Ming, and then covered her mouth and laughed lightly, “This gentleman is serious, I am not going to harm you, only because the insects are really hungry, I want to feed your soul to them to eat. You two are also considered to die in the right way.”

Lu Ming simply wanted to laugh in her face, did she actually believe such morals?

Sang Wusheng coldly glanced at Hua Tui, then said, “Brother, no need to talk nonsense with her. This woman is ruthless, poisonous and sinister; it is better to kill her directly.”

Lu Ming gently patted Sang Wusheng’s shoulder, indicating to him to take it easy, and then said to Hua Tui, “Let me ask you, under the cliff outside the He Mansion, did you once grab two women with that long whip?”

Hua Tui froze, her eyes flicked, then laughed, “I have never.”

Lu Ming was speechless, Hua Tui’s heart was malicious, full of lies, and although very beautiful, her three views were really worrying. Sang Wusheng actually liked this type of woman? It was simply a slightly heavy taste.

Sang Wusheng’s eyes were cold. He moved to catch Hua Tui off guard, and suddenly flew forward, releasing the surging demonic energy in his body. Hua Tui’s action instantly stopped, and then he reached out to clasp her throat. His fingers gradually tightened, as if only a slight force and her life would be snuffed out in a moment.

Hua Tui was dumbfounded by this situation, instinctively wanted to raise her hand to swing her long whip, but found herself unable to move. She barely moved and was immediately stimulated by needle-like pain and was covered in cold sweat. Immediately after, her nostrils smelled the familiar scent of the royal family of the devil, so she could not help but pale. In her brain a loud sound rambled and she was left shivering in place.

After a long time, Hua Tui found her voice. Her lips trembled and she spit out two words, “Demon King.”

“Shut up if you don’t want to die.” Sang Wusheng deliberately lowered his voice and threatened indifferently from his position next to Hua Tui’s ear. His voice was so cold, it was like it was from hell, like a bird of prey. Hua Tui’s eyes flooded with tears of fear, and she panicky nodded her head and tightly pursed her lips, not daring to speak again.

Sang Wusheng said coldly to Hua Tui, “Where are the two women now? Tell me and I will spare your life.”

Hua Tui’s forehead was beaded with sweat, and her voice was tinged with sobs, “Just now, just now the girls have escaped!”

Sang Wusheng was stunned, hurriedly opened his mouth and asked, “Escaped?

Hua Tui’s beautiful eyes were filled with tears of fear and she said aggressively, “I dare not lie to the Demo-“

Before Hua Tui could finish her sentence, Sang Wusheng’s fingers clasped on her neck tightened hard and said angrily in a low voice, “Don’t call me Demon King again.”

Hua Tui could only continue to say, “I would never dare to deceive you, please believe my words.”

Lu Ming smiled and immediately said, “Tell me everything about what happened.”

Hua Tui did not dare to be slow, and hurriedly replied, “That day I originally went to the cliff to collect herbs for medicine, and suddenly saw two women falling from the cliff, so I used this soft whip to save the two. I intended to use their souls to feed my parasites. And because my whip had been soaked with my herbs, as long as a person touched it, they would instantly fall into a coma, so I could easily take the two away. But I was not aware that one of the women had already woken up, and I was bitten by the poisonous insects that she raised and could not move. She injured me and escaped. The other woman has also woken up by now and ran away while I couldn’t move.”

Lu Ming frowned and said, “The one who made the poisonous insect should be Xu Zhongyan, so Fu Shu should have escaped too.”

Hua Tui heard Lu Ming’s words and scolded with a dissatisfied beak, “Hum, fortunately, Tui’s medical skills are superb, otherwise, in the middle of this wilderness, without a village in front or a store in the back, I’m afraid I would have been killed by her poisonous insects.”

Lu Ming gave a speechless look at Hua Tui. In his heart, he secretly thought, this Xu Zhongyan is indeed quite poisonous, anyone compared to her had no equal, okay? You can easily take the lives of innocent people for your own personal gain, but I really don’t know where to spit it out.

Sang Wusheng then asked, “Let me ask you, how can the poison of ‘Wu Fury’ be undone?”

Hua Tui froze, then skimmed, “Although I know the formula for the elixir to unlock the ‘Wu Fury’ insect compulsion, but each Wu Fury feeds a different poisonous herb, there are millions of poisonous herbs in the world. If I do not know which kind of poisonous herb you are fed ‘Wu Fury, the only way to find this poisonous herb is to prepare an antidote. You may want to let me take a look at you, okay?”

Sang Wusheng said in a cold voice, “I can let you go for now, remember not to play tricks.”

Hua Tui’s big eyes were full of aggression, “I don’t dare, you have to trust me.”

Sang Wusheng then withdrew the hand clasped on her neck, Hua Tui patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief. She quickly walked up close to Lu Ming to take a closer look, and only after a long time said, “There are two blood marks behind your ears, so it seems that the parasite should be fed with Purple Heart Grass.”

“Purple Heart Grass,” Sang Wusheng recited silently, then said, “Where can I find this Purple Heart Grass?”

Hua Tui searched her memory and carefully recalled, “The Purple Heart Grass should only be found in the Tianze Secret Realm, nowhere else. I just happened to come across someone selling it and bought it from him for a few thousand spirit stones, but you simply can’t buy this poisonous herb on the market.”

Lu Ming asked, “Where is the Tianze Secret Realm?”

Hua Tui reached out and pointed to the west and said, “In that direction. It is hundreds of miles away from here. However, I advise you two not to go in, there are many dangers there. Giant beasts often roam and there are also horrible and weird maze formations staggered about. Few people who enter the Tianze Secret Realm can come out alive.”

Lu Ming lightly sighed, “If we continue to delay, sooner or later, I will be devoured by the parasite and die, it is better to take a chance.”

Sang Wusheng smiled lightly and said, “Brother, don’t worry, it will be fine.”

Hua Tui wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead and looked at Sang Wusheng with some fear, “Sir, I can leave now, right?”

Sang Wusheng said indifferently, “Hand over the prescription for the antidote to the ‘Wu Fury’.”

Hua Tui’s eyes dodged a bit and said, “I don’t have the prescription on me, I left it at home.”

Lu Ming smiled faintly and said, “Oh? Did you leave it on Jade Mountain in the Demon World?”

Hua Tui’s body was in a state of shock and she looked at Lu Ming incredulously and said, “You, how could you”…

“How do I know about Jade Mountain?” Lu Ming said indifferently, “I not only know that Jade Mountain is the place where you hide your treasure, but also know that because of your previous mistake, the cave where you hide your treasure was forbidden to be opened for fifty years because of the eighteen forbidden talismans placed by the demon world Sacred Lord. If you dare to play tricks, in a few days I will find the place and set a fire to burn Jade Mountain.”

Hua Tui could not help but bite her lip when she heard that someone dared to destroy her property. Her eyes shone with anger and she trembled with anger, “You! What a cruel heart!”

Lu Ming said indifferently, “If you hand over the formula of the antidote, I will let you go; if you give me a false formula, when I find out, I will run over to burn the mountain down, and destroy all your precious herbs and magic Artifacts you have collected over the years.”

Hua Tui, as if her own treasures had already been burned up in front of her eyes, cried, “I’ll give you the formula for the antidote, but don’t you touch my treasures!”

Lu Ming smiled gently and said, “Of course.”

Hua Tui was forced to take out a piece of paper from her pouch and handed it to Lu Ming, saying with a displeased face, “This paper is the antidote to the ‘Wu Fury’, if you find the Purple Heart Grass, crush it and squeeze out the juice, then drop it into the medicine.”

Lu Ming put the paper away and then said, “I believe you wouldn’t dare to lie to us again, in that case, you should go now.”

Hua Tui heard the words, as if she had been given a pardon, she did not even have time to answer before casting aura and hurriedly leaving. Lu Ming looked at her anxious escape, could not help but shake his head and sigh with a smile.

This Sacred level female, besides raising gu, her other biggest hobby was that she was unusually fond of collecting treasures. Whether it was the cultivation world, the magic world or the human world, wherever she heard that there was an exotic treasure, she would have to have it in her hands to be satisfied. And because she was paranoid, she worried daily about her treasures being targeted by others. So she found the perfect place to store all her treasures and precious herbs, hidden in the caves of Jade Mountain.

Due to her mischievous nature and disobedience, the people of the demon world were killed and injured. But because she was a demon world Sacred female, her identity was very special. The Demon King also did not punish her severely and ordered her treasures to be hidden behind 18 forbidden talismans, and Hua Tui was banned from touching or looking at her treasures for 50 years.

Lu Ming could not help but admire the Demon King, as the saying goes, hit the snake seven inches, this move was really stable, accurate and vicious ah!

Lu Ming and Sang Wusheng no longer delayed too much. They extinguished the fire and then got on the carriage, briskly moving towards the west. They were ready to go to the Tianze Secret Realm to find that life-saving Purple Heart Grass.

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After a few days of travel, the two finally arrived at the location of the Tianze Secret Realm.

The fog that surrounded the Tianze Secret Realm was so thick that it was hidden from view. If it were not for the fact that they had consulted a lot of information about the Tianze Secret Realm, they would not have been able to find the entrance.

Lu Ming handed a brand new ring to Sang Wusheng and said, “Xiao Mo, this is an interspatial ring. It is inconvenient to carry a QianKun bag on your body, it will be lost if you are not careful. This ring is more secure, so I made one for you.”

Sang Wusheng looked at the ring in Lu Ming’s hand, simple and ancient, emitting a faint silver luster, almost identical to the one Lu Ming was wearing in his hand. Sang Wusheng’s heart was somehow jumping and excited. He suppressed the strange feeling in his heart, reached out to take the ring and put it on, smiled gently and looked at Lu Ming, his black eyes were gorgeous and he said, “Thank you, brother.”

Lu Ming smiled, reached out and rubbed his hair, and said, “Why say thank you to me? I’m the one who should thank you for coming here with me to find the Purple Heart Grass. You must not forget that no matter what danger you encounter in the secret realm, remember that it is most important to save your life. The most important thing is not wealth and status, but one’s own life, no matter what you encounter is something you must not mess up.”

Sang Wusheng heard the words, the corners of his mouth slightly hooked up, his eyebrows suddenly spread out, and softly opened his mouth and replied, “Okay.”

Sang Wusheng actually wanted to tell Lu Ming that there was something more important than life in this world, and now he had found that thing and decided never to give it up in this life.

On this side, Lu Ming took a deep breath, held the magic Artifact he had just made in his hand and shone it forward. At once, something strange happened, the fog gradually began to disperse under the light, as if blown away by a strong wind, and a narrow stone path appeared in front of the two in a short while.

“This should be the entrance to the Tianze Secret Realm.” Lu Ming retrieved the magic Artifact and spoke.

Sang Wusheng nodded, and the two of them walked along the stone path towards the front. At first, the surrounding area was still green water and green mountains, but gradually, the deeper they went, the darker the secret realm. The environment along the road actually experienced four seasons in just half an hour, one second it was summer heat, and the next second it suddenly changed to snow-capped, and the weeks kept repeating themselves, so Lu Ming was amazed to see, although the situation was a bit weird, but unexpectedly interesting. 

Lu Ming looked up at the sky and found that it had unknowingly been replaced by a black curtain, with only the stars shining high in the sky, and a full moon so bright that it illuminated the environment on the ground clearly.

Lu Ming walked ahead, saying as he went, “Fortunately, the moonlight is bright enough, Xiao Mo, be careful.”

However, no one responded to him.

Lu Ming shouted once more in confusion, “Xiao Mo?” Jing Mo still did not answer.

Lu Ming suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart and turned around to look behind him, but Jing Mo, who was supposed to follow him, seemed to have disappeared into thin air and was not behind Lu Ming at all.

Lu Ming’s heart was gradually flooded with chills, and his fingers were a little cold. The road he had been walking on had neve had any forks in the road. Lu Ming had just talked to Jing Mo. Lu Ming’s consciousness was a bit chaotic. When he desperately recalled the scene just now, it seems to have been a long time ago? So long that he couldn’t recall what had happened after entering the secret world.

Lu Ming forced himself to calm down, but the uneasiness at the bottom of his heart was still growing slowly like an inexhaustible weed. He tried to keep his brain awake, remembering everything about the secret realm. He vaguely remembered that the most terrifying thing in the Tianze secret realm was the illusion formation, so maybe just now, or even the moment he entered the secret realm, he had already fallen into the illusion.

Lu Ming bit his finger, a slight tingling sensation immediately came, coupled with the smell of blood between the nose and breath, so that his mind immediately maintained a high level of consciousness. Lu Ming knew that the only way to escape from the illusion was to destroy it and return to Jing Mo.

At this moment, a bright light suddenly flashed in front of Lu Ming’s eyes, the light was getting stronger and closer. Lu Ming could not help but be attracted to the past, his eyes were fixed on the light, and he slowly walked over.

Immediately after, Lu Ming felt as if he had come to a strange place. Two lanterns hung on a solemn, tall iron gate, which was flanked by red walls that seemed to grow out of sight.

Lu Ming felt as if he was being guided by something, and slowly walked out toward the iron door. He stretched out his hand, and pushed hard toward the door. The iron door made a loud noise, and then slowly opened.

Lu Ming lifted his feet and walked in, and a huge palace immediately appeared in front of him. The palace was built in a magnificent way, the floor was made of white jade, and there was a straight pillar next to the altar, which was carved with golden dragons, looking lifelike. In front of the palace, the vermilion lacquered door has a huge nanmu plaque, “Yin Long Hall” , three big words attached to it, that looks very strong and powerful, majestic.

The entire palace was so poorly crafted and beautiful, with the misty purple smoke hovering up. Lu Ming could not take his eyes off, and his heart filled with a solemn atmosphere.

“Your Majesty, now the plague has spread to the whole country, thousands of people have died from the disease. If we can’t find the remedy to control the epidemic, I’m afraid more people will die in this catastrophe.” An old voice suddenly came from inside the hall, full of pathos and even a little shaky.

Lu Ming walked forward and looked into the hall. There was an old man with white hair kneeling in the hall, his face was full of tears at the moment. And standing in the forefront was a young man dressed in a black brocade suit. His hair was meticulously tied to the back of his head by a jade crown with a golden silk pulling it back. His handsome and extraordinary face, his eyes bright and clear, as if the world’s rare jade, but at the moment with a trace of sadness and sorrow, his gaze looked not far away for a long time without speaking.

When Lu Ming saw his face clearly, his pupils suddenly shrank and his breath suddenly tightened.

This face clearly looked exactly the same as his. Not this life’s He Qingci, but Lu Ming’s original appearance.

The young man called His Majesty sighed softly, his gaze distant, “This plague is raging, the nation’s healers are helpless, what can I do? Is it possible that the Immortal Emperor has abandoned this country?”

The old man’s body burst and his tears flowed even harder, “Your Majesty, no, you work day and night for the Great Shang Kingdom, and now you pray for blessings to heaven every day, how could the gods abandon us?”

The young man laughed bitterly and said, “If I can really bring back the peace of the Great Shang Kingdom and the health of my people, even if I have to die, what’s the harm? Unfortunately, it seems that the heavens do not hear my prayers and do not see my sincerity. The people are now in dire straits, yet I am hiding in the palace doing nothing.”

“Your Majesty!” The old man cried out and fell to his knees, while crying, “Your Majesty must not take all the blame on yourself!”

The youth was about to say something when he was suddenly interrupted by a cold snort from outside the door, “Are you really willing to die for the sake of your people?”

The young man’s eyes widened, startled by the sudden voice, and then reacted with a sudden jump, thinking it was a divine manifestation, and eagerly exclaimed, “Of course!”

The voice gave a soft laugh, and a breeze blew into the hall. A young man dressed in white, somewhat thin figure appeared in the hall out of thin air.

The white-clothed boy ignored the astonished and frightened eyes of the young man in brocade clothing, walked straight up to him, raised his head and smiled slightly, and said, “I can help you. But remember, you owe me a favor, remember to pay me back in the future.”

 

 

 

 

 

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