Artifact Chapter 33: First Encounter in Ten Years

Chapter 33: First Encounter in Ten Years

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

Lu Ming glanced at 233 and said, “I will help them catch the demon cultivator even if there is no mission. The other day I asked you to collect the drawings of the ‘Purple Furnace’ magic treasure for me, have you found them?”

233 beamed, looking a little frustrated, “Not found, but there are some clues. When the mission of the Green Mountain Town is completed, we will follow the clues to find the drawings, probably 80% chance to find.”

Lu Ming heard, could not help but clench his fist. His eyes were flashing with excitement. This was really the best news he had heard in ten years. In this way, as long as the drawings of the Purple Furnace were found, the Purple Furnace magic Artifact could be manufactured. The Purple Furnace magic Artifacts was the best spiritual Artifact, since you just needed to use fire to ignite the sky silk grass, and purple smoke would show the location of what you wanted to find, then successfully retrieve Jing Mo and Fu Shu, it would not be so difficult. What’s more, now that he was already in the early stage of Nascent Soul, making a purple furnace was not a difficult task.

Lu Ming suppressed his excitement and asked the boy, “Who is in charge of this Ming House now?”

The boy replied respectfully, “A chief Immortal has instructed me to take care of this place all year round. He comes here every March to stay for a month, but the rest of the year, no one lives in the house.”

“Immortal?” Lu Ming repeated, and then asked, “What does the Immortal look like?”

The boy recalled for a moment, then said with some difficulty, “I am not reluctant to say, but simply can not say. The Immortal long came here for 30 days a year, but never ate or drank, nor did he see him move around the house, and every day he locked himself in the west side of the flower pavilion and did not come out. Although I have been taking care of the Ming House for ten years, I have only seen him once. Only think this Immortal is very handsome. Just a glance from afar, and I already want to bow down and worship, I really did not see clearly what he is actually like, also I do not know the name of who.”

Lu Ming’s heart was slightly stunned. If the boy’s words were not false, he said that Immortal Ming should be a great person. But all Cultivators, the higher the rank, were imposing, without deliberate intention to become that way. Like Yun Ji and Yun Xu, these two Daoists from ten years ago, all people did not dare to feel contempt. In addition to people being afraid of Kunlai Mountain, a large part of the reason was the natural aura, so that People dare not disrespect them.

Lu Ming’s side was contemplating, but Ming Duo’s heart set off a million waves, the flower pavilion… wasn’t this not his favorite place to go with that person before he was killed?

The person who caused the death of his family, his soul left his body, and the reason he still could not be reincarnated, Yun Ruan.

Thinking of this, Ming Duo smiled sadly, the past scene in front of his eyes. The entire Ming House also instantly collapsed, all Ming family members completely disappeared in the world that night, even to the point where the soul flew away and scattered, the bones of the corpse did not exist.

The matter had come to this point, Yun Ruan still came here to pretend to do these things and what was the use?

Lu Ming seemed to feel Ming Duo’s inner turmoil and anger at the moment, and even vaguely showed signs of breaking the talisman. Lu Ming hastily recited two phrases of mantra to reinforce the power of the talisman, and opened his mouth to advice, “No matter what the truth is, don’t get busy getting angry first, if you break the talisman and thus accidentally break out of the fixed soul magic Artifacts, exposing the soul to the air, it will be somewhat dangerous. Dangerous, then it will only cost more than it’s worth.”

Ming Duo heard these words, anger gradually calmed down, a long time before sighing lightly, “I’m fine, you let the boy let us in, I want to go inside to see.”

Lu Ming nodded and said to the boy, “I’m an old friend of the young master of the Ming family, Ming Duo, can you let me in to have a look?”

The boy’s eyes widened and his lips trembled as he looked at Lu Ming, exclaiming incredulously, “You’re the former friend of young master Ming Duo?”

Lu Ming frowned and said, “What’s the problem?”

The boy shook his head hastily and said, “If you are really a friend of Young Master Ming Duo, you can go in.”

Lu Ming nodded and pushed open the door of the Ming House and walked inside.

The young man behind him froze in place and did not move for a long time before he suddenly reacted and quietly took out a contact talisman from his pocket, wrote a few words with a pen, and hurriedly lit the talisman. He then wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. But in his heart, he secretly prayed that the message written on this talisman would reach Immortal as soon as possible.

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The Ming House was worthy of being one of the largest families in Green Mountain Town. Although three hundred years had passed, at this time, it still seemed that the opulence of the time could be glimpsed. And because of the constant renovation, there was no sign of its decay and obsolescence, but the repair was very neat and clean, and also considered the heart.

Lu Ming knew that the person should have an inextricable relationship with Ming Duo. Otherwise, when Ming Duo learned the truth, his reaction would not be so big. He thought it should be another unspeakable story. But since Ming Duo did not want to tell him more, he did not ask further questions. He moved along the bright and spacious corridor, slowly wandering around the Ming House. Not long after, came to the flower pavilion mentioned by the boy.

Ming Duo looked at it for a long time before he sighed quietly and said, “Nothing has changed here.”

Lu Ming looked at the surroundings and pondered for a moment before saying softly, “This Flower Pavilion is actually surrounded by a formation that even I can’t unlock.”

Ming Duo was puzzled, “Why is that?”

Lu Ming said, “Maybe they are afraid that someone will destroy this place, so they set up such a mysterious formation. Whether it’s a landslide or a karmic fire, this pavilion will never be damaged. I guess the person who set up this formation also has a high regard for this place.”

“If it wasn’t for this man’s prophecy that the Ming family would kill the entire Cultivation World’s bone line, how could it have led the four clans to besiege the Ming family, which led to the destruction of the family.” Ming Duo yelled, “If God has eyes, then let me find my lost soul and seek revenge on him!”

Lu Ming’s eyes twinkled and he spoke slowly, “Didn’t you say you wanted me to bring you here to reincarnate?”

Ming Duo’s anger suddenly shrank back and he spoke awkwardly, “After revenge, I will be reincarnated.”

Lu Ming faintly said, “You have never mentioned the matter of revenge.”

Ming Duo suddenly choked and hurriedly smiled, “I probably forgot to mention it.”

Lu Ming said helplessly, “I don’t care about your revenge. After I find your soul, we will go our separate ways. If you want to take revenge and kill your enemies, that’s your business, not mine.”

Ming Duo immediately said seriously, “Just get my soul back for me.”

Lu Ming nodded and was about to speak when he was suddenly interrupted by an ear-splitting sound. He looked aghast and hurriedly flashed aside, looking warily not far away.

Only five meters away from Lu Ming, several men in blue were standing in a row, and from afar, they exuded a somewhat stern aura. And in the middle of those people, a man dressed in black robes was clearly inside. His eyebrows indifferent, black hair meticulously tied up by a jade crown, handsome face almost unlike a mortal, a pair of black eyes cold and sharp, lips tightly pursed, not a word said as he looked at Lu Ming’s location.

Lu Ming’s heart immediately set off ten thousand layers of huge waves. The black-clad huafu man in front of him was actually the male protagonist Sang Wusheng, whom he hadn’t met in ten years!

Lu Ming did not move on the surface, but secretly used divine sense to explore the past, but found Sang Wusheng’s body aura was weak. His heart was immediately alarmed. There were only two situations, one was Sang Wusheng previously suffered extremely serious internal injuries, resulting in the loss of almost all of the aura; and the other was proof that Sang Wusheng has reached a status that can hide the rank product, at least in the middle Nascent Soul or above.

And now it seemed that Sang Wusheng’s case should be the second one without a doubt. Lu Ming’s heart was suddenly a little anxious, Sang Wusheng’s growth was undoubtedly a huge threat to him, he felt as if he was getting closer and closer to danger.

Lu Ming suppressed the ripples in his heart, his eyes were no different than usual, and he spoke lightly, “I wonder what you have come for?”

Sang Wusheng saw Lu Ming speak, his eyes flashed a trace of suspicion, but quickly disappeared. With an austere expression, he spoke in a cold voice, “Are you the daoist priest that Green Mountain Town invited to catch the demon cultivator not long ago?”

Lu Ming was stunned and then explained, “I was just passing by and wanted to stay here for a few days, I am not the Daoist priest invited by Green Mountain Town.”

Sang Wusheng looked at Lu Ming indifferently without saying a word, Lu Ming was uncomfortable by his look, but was not willing to admit defeat, instead, he continued to stare at him indifferently, his eyes never leaving each other.

When Sang Wusheng saw this, a trace of teasing flashed in his eyes, but he withdrew his gaze and asked the man on the side, “Where is the demon cultivator now?”

The man in blue opened his mouth respectfully and replied, “Lord Demon Envoy, that demon cultivator has fled to the east at this moment, should we chase him?”

Sang Wusheng’s expression did not change and he said, “Let’s go.”

As soon as the words left his mouth, Sang Wusheng turned around and used his aura to fly away. The group of men in blue did not dare to be slow, and hurriedly flew after Sang Wusheng, and soon they disappeared from view.

Lu Ming was relieved to see that Sang Wusheng had left, and was secretly glad that the man did not recognize him at all. Lu Ming carefully recalled the plot of the book, Sang Wusheng should have gone to the demon world at this moment, and got the reuse of Demon King Shen Mu, so just now, Sang Wusheng’s men called him Lord Demon Envoy.

But what made Lu Ming feel strange was that in the original story, although in the demon world Sang Wusheng and his own father met because of Cang Zhi,  in order to prevent Shen Mu from finding out Sang Wusheng’s identity, Cang Zhi wanted to make Sang Wusheng’s body a unique demonic king. This was the only way to fool Shen Mu, and could not sense the demonic energy of Sang Wusheng related to him, and then not know the real identity of the other party, only then, he was used as a henchman.

Thinking about it, Lu Ming only sighed in his heart. Now the plot had diverged, Jing Mo had worshipped Cang Zhi as a teacher, naturally, he would not be able to suppress the demonic energy in Sang Wusheng’s body. Could it be that Sang Wusheng was actually recognised as his own son? Or perhaps the plot had adopted other methods to close this loophole in order to develop smoothly?

Things were getting more and more complicated. Lu Ming did not want to think about it, instead, he made up his mind. After the matter in Green Mountain Town was over, he would go to find the drawings of the Purple Furnace, retrieve Jing Mo and Fu Shu, and then go to Kunlai Mountain to focus on cultivation.

At that moment, Sang Wusheng, who was using his aura to fly, suddenly stopped. He reached out and waved his hand at the people behind him, and the group of men immediately stopped and knelt down on one knee, saying respectfully, “What is the order of the Demon Envoy?”

Sang Wusheng’s eyes narrowed slightly, that person brought him an inexplicable sense of familiarity, almost making him lose his mind on the spot. This situation had never occurred in this decade, and really made him very concerned. Perhaps this person was inextricably linked to the part of his memory that disappeared, from his mouth he may be able to find out some of the things that happened ten years ago.

Sang Wusheng’s gaze was dark, his voice still cold and ruthless, he opened his mouth and instructed his men, “Go check the man just now, do not alert the snake, and do not hurt him.”

The blue-clothed men looked astonished and bowed their heads, “Yes!”

 

 

 

 

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