Artifact Chapter 32: Green Mountain Town

Chapter 32: Green Mountain Town

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

Lu Ming’s eyes were gloomy, his expression slightly stunned. This decade had been filled with his uninterrupted search, but he had no clues. The only reliance was this valley. But now even after learning about that day, the clues were once again broken. Lu Ming did not even know what he had been doing in these ten years, not only Hua Tui had not been found, he even completely lost Jing Mo’s whereabouts.

Lu Ming’s heart was sad, his heart was mixed, and he fell into self-hatred for a long time. After a long time before retracting his gaze, he took out a nail-cap sized soul fixing magic Artifact, and mouthed a few phrases of a mantra, the young man’s soul was quickly sucked into it.

Ming Duo was so scared that he kept hitting the magic Artifact with his body in an attempt to get out, while roaring, “You, what are you trying to do? Are you trying to destroy my soul? What a vicious daoist!”

Lu Ming said coldly, “Shut up, if you make any more noise, your soul will be used to refine Artifacts.”

Ming Duo’s body trembled, and suddenly dropped his head like a frosted eggplant, not daring to speak again. After a long time before choking, “There is no such bad-hearted daoist.”

Lu Ming saw that he was really frightened, so he had to softly explain, “You do not want to go home to your hometown? I’ll take you back and reincarnate your soul so that you can be reincarnated as a human being soon.”

Ming Duo stopped crying immediately and said excitedly, “Are you really willing to send me home?”

Lu Ming laughed and cried, “I never said I wouldn’t send you home, but you’ve been talking to yourself. Where exactly is your hometown?”

Ming Duo hurriedly said, “From the southeast, only 500 miles away from here is the town of Green Mountain.”

“Green Mountain Town?” Lu Ming read silently, then said, “In that case, let’s go.”

Lu Ming tied the soul fixing magic Artifact on the antique silver bracelet around his wrist, looking as if it was a small pendant. Ming Duo was a little scared and said, “Will this soul fixing magic Artifact work? If I get out of this valley, what if I accidentally get stabbed by the sunlight?”

Lu Ming wondered, “Aren’t you a ghost cultivator? Why are you afraid of the sunlight?”

Ming Duo said, “Two of my three souls have been taken away by someone, so my soul is not aligned and I can’t cultivate at all.”

Lu Ming understood, took out a talisman from within the interspatial ring, silently recited a mantra, the talisman then quickly burned up, then flew up into the air, a blue ghostly light then shot to that wrist chain of fixed soul magic Artifact. After a second of time, the blue ghostly light immediately disappeared, as if the light had never appeared at all.

Although Ming Duo was inside the fixed soul magic Artifacts, the eyes, ears and nose can clearly sense everything outside, the situation just fell into the eyes. He wondered, “What is the purpose of this spell?”

Lu Ming smiled faintly and said, “With this talisman light you will no longer be afraid of sunlight. You must have asked me to bring you back to Green Mountain Town because you wanted to find those two souls, right?”

Ming Duo nodded and said, “Indeed, as long as I go back to my hometown, find the stinking daoist and get back my two souls, I will soon be able to reincarnate.”

Before Lu Ming could say anything, Ming Duo gritted his teeth and cursed, “I’d better not find that stinky daoist who took my soul three hundred years ago. If it wasn’t for him, how could my parents have died at the hands of others, and how could I have drifted alone for 300 years without being able to reincarnate as a human being?! If I am lucky enough to meet this person again, I will make his life worse than death.”

Lu Ming, while casting his aura to the southeast towards the Green Mountain Town, asked curiously, “What’s going on here? If it’s not a deep hatred, why would they do such a thing?”

Ming Duo had been lonely and friendless for 300 years, and almost lost his ability to communicate.

It turned out that Ming Duo was originally the only son of a mayor of Green Mountain Town, but because he got into trouble with a certain giant in the Cultivation World, he ended up breaking up his family, and two of his three souls and seven souls were taken out of his body by the cultivator who came to take his life. He could not train as a ghost cultivator, and could not be reincarnated. But he was worried that Cang Zhi would suck away the only remaining soul, so he spent his days hiding in the depths of the valley, unable to leave.

When Lu Ming heard that, his heart also had some sympathy for Ming Duo. Three hundred years of time was not night and day, and the virtue of tenacity and determination was also absolutely no matter.

Ming Duo smiled grimly and then said, “Before I died, I had quietly put a forbidden spell on that stinky daoist. If I hadn’t been able to sense every day that he was still alive in this world, I probably would have been unable to endure it. Whether I live or die, I will seek revenge on him so that he can pay his debts!”

Lu Ming, “…” Well, hatred is also a way to support willpower.

After rushing day and night, in just two days, Lu Ming brought Ming Duo to Green Mountain Town.

The town was not very big, but the scenery was winding, the mountains and water were beautiful, and the flowers looked like a paradise. The more they went into the town, the more they could feel a sense of tension in the air, the town seemed far from being as peaceful as it seemed outside.

Lu Ming’s face was so frightening that all the people who saw him fled in fear.

Lu Ming’s doubts were all over the place, while Ming Duo became unusually silent since he entered Green Mountain Town, and only after a long time did he sigh and say in a low voice, “Three hundred years have passed, and this place has changed so much that I can hardly recognize it.”

Lu Ming smiled lightly and said, “It’s normal for people to change, so it’s only right that you don’t recognize it.”

Ming Duo recalled for a moment and said, “I remember there was a big acacia tree in front of my house, I don’t know if it’s still there.”

Lu Ming nodded his head, and then used his aura to fly towards the front. The pedestrians on the road were not surprised to see him flying past, but after a glance at him, they hurriedly looked down and ran away, looking terrified.

Lu Ming walked for a while, almost the whole Green Mountain Town footed once, finally found the big acacia tree. The plaque on the top of the house happened to have the two characters “Ming House” written on it, which looked strong and firm.

When Ming Duo saw that his family’s mansion had not disappeared for 300 years, he was so excited that his voice trembled.

Lu Ming said, “I see that the plaque is not dusty, the ground is clean, and the red paint on the gate is not dry, so I think someone often cleans it.”

Ming Duo was puzzled and said to himself, “Strange, three hundred years ago, the whole Ming family was killed, why do people still remember the Ming family so much?”

While the two were pondering, the door of the Ming House was suddenly opened, only to hear a “creak”, the two raised their eyes to see that a young man dressed as a boy came out of the house.

The boy obviously also found Lu Ming, hastily retracted his steps, reached out to close the door tightly.

Lu Ming, seeing this, immediately stretched out his finger towards him, and the boy was frozen in place, shouting in shock, looking at Lu Ming with an increasingly frightened gaze, and shouting with a crying voice, “Somebody! Help!”

Lu Ming helplessly went forward, softened his voice and said, “Don’t be afraid, I’m not a bad person, just answer a few questions.”

The boy saw that Lu Ming was dressed as a monk and looked like an Immortal, with handsome eyebrows, he didn’t look like a bad guy either. Although there was still some fear in his heart, his lips were trembling and he said, “If you have anything to say, please ask, I will tell you everything.”

Lu Ming nodded and reached out to him, and the boy was able to move, nodding his head and saying, “How do I address this Master?”

Lu Ming said, “You don’t have to call me daoist Master, just call me Lu Ming. Let me ask you, what has happened in this Green Mountain Town? Why do all the people on the road look nervous and act in a hurry?”

The boy immediately explained, “You don’t know, the town has been peaceful and happy, but unexpectedly, just a month ago, there were suddenly several murders, many people in the town were sucked out of their souls for no reason, and the death was so tragic that everyone was in danger. Later, the mayor could not do anything, so he invited several daoist masters to practice, and only then learned that it was the good deed of a demonic cultivator. Later, although a series of dozens of daoist masters came, but they were no match for the demonic cultivator, the town people continued to die, even those daoist priests died as a result.”

Lu Ming mused, “In that case, there should be other Daoist priests in Green Mountain Town?”

The boy nodded and then said, “Not long ago there were a few more Daoist priests, but the leader of the Daoist priests asked for a thousand top quality spirit stones, otherwise he would not help us catch the demon cultivator, but let the demon cultivator be a helper for the tiger. The town is a small family, where there will be so many top quality spirit stones, the mayor will go from door to door to raise money, but also managed to put together 400 top quality spirit stones. The mayor repeatedly begged the daoist, hoping that the other side can be a little slow for two days, but the daoist is really bad-hearted, still unmoved, and said nothing to agree. This is not all, last night the Fang’s boy’s soul was taken by the demon cultivator, the whole person struggled for half an hour, suddenly turned into a puddle of blood and water and died, not even a corpse left.”

Lu Ming’s face sank, his heart was indignant. Let’s not mention the demonic cultivator, such an important matter of human life, the daoist has such a dirty act, not only greedy for money, but also ruthless, dehumanizing, simply the whole Cultivation World’s shame. It was no wonder that the people in the town were so repulsed and afraid when they saw him on the way, thinking that they also disliked him.

At this moment, 233 suddenly sprang out from the space, jumped to Lu Ming’s shoulder, wagging his tail excitedly, “Host, this is a good time to increase the Dominance Value, quickly take this task!”

 

 

 

 

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