Artifact Chapter 34: Dust of Memory

Chapter 34: Dust of Memory

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

Lu Ming spent half a day in Green Mountain Town investigating, and heard from the townspeople that the devil had killed 48 people so far, all of whom died in a puddle of blood and bones, leaving only a pile of clothes scattered on the ground. Lu Ming’s expression was slightly serious, and he was silent for a long time before he said to the mayor who was standing by, “It is indeed the work of a demon cultivator. However, there are two killers.”

“Two people?” The mayor smiled, his expression was a bit stunned, and then asked, “But that Daoist Master Fang said that all these people were killed by the same demon cultivator.”

Lu Ming frowned, shook his head and mused, “No, the demonic cultivator is insidious, but it is a fatal move. Demonic energy instantly soaked into the victim’s body, non-monastic body without aura protection, which was demonic energy refining into a puddle of blood; but since five days ago, the situation has changed. There is no demonic energy in the victim’s body. The cause of death was not caused by demonic energy, but by eating an elixir called Soul Dissolving Pill.”

“Soul dissolving pill? What is that?” the mayor hurriedly asked.

Lu Ming replied, “The Soul Dissolving Pill is produced by the Medicine Sect. Since the refining process is complicated, the materials are expensive and hard to find, it is very rare in the market. If this drug is entered through the mouth, in less than half an hour, the toxicity will spread to all the bones of the body, then it will turn into blood and die. The human blood will coalesce into a thumb-sized kernel. A cultivator can also absorb the essence of this kernel, and directly absorb the life of the person killed. This effect can be achieved in different ways. This shows that the person who killed and took life in five days is a cultivator.”

After hearing these words, the mayor’s body was covered with cold sweat, and he knelt down on both knees towards Lu Ming with a crying tone, begging, “Please save the people of Green Mountain Town! If this continues, I’m afraid more and more people will be killed!”

When the people behind him saw the mayor, they also hurriedly cried and fell to the ground, their expressions all mournful, “Please save us, Daoist Master! Among those who died, there are young and strong people, young and old, women and children, and even babies less than a month old!”

Lu Ming sighed lightly, reached out to help the mayor and the people up, and said warmly, “Get up quickly, the murderer has not yet been caught, how can I bear the worship of the people? In any case, I will do my best to protect everyone and find out the person who has been doing evil in secret, so as to return peace to Green Mountain Town.”

Lu Ming took out a stack of talismans from his pocket and said, “Carry this talisman on your body at all times, so that if you are in danger, you can tear the talisman and save your lives.”

The people of the town came forward to receive the talisman, bowed to Lu Ming, expressions of respect and gratitude, and only after a long time to disperse.

Lu Ming saw that the people had gone home, so he turned around and went back to the Ming House. On the way, Ming Duo said curiously, “Are you sure that demon cultivator will not appear tonight?”

Lu Ming nodded and said, “As you heard yesterday, the demon cultivator probably committed a serious crime in the demon world and was chased to this place by people from the demon world. However, this also happens to explain why the demon cultivator has fled, but there are still people dying one after another, the real culprit is actually someone else.”

Ming Duo understood and said, “Do you have any clues about the Daoist cultivator who is secretly harming people?”

Lu Ming eyebrows lightly said, “Tonight will be able to see the difference.”

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That night.

The moon was blocked by heavy clouds, and the whole town was silent, as if it was sleeping peacefully in the darkness. The occasional glimmer of moonlight poured over the earth, but it was also blocked by the tall trees, and the ground was slightly dappled with residual shadows.

Lu Ming specially concealed his breath and carried the invisibility talisman in his arms, hiding himself well in the darkness. His eyes were warm, his face was cold. Standing at the top of the highest pavilion in Green Mountain Town, the cool breeze slowly blew through his green silk robe, causing it to flutter. His white tunic’s wide sleeves were swinging lightly, and he seemed to be dissolved with the heaven and earth as one, outlining a beautiful to the heart moving landscape.

However, except for Sang Wusheng, who hid in the dark and also concealed his breath, no one could see this scene in front of him.

Sang Wusheng’s obsidian eyes still shined in the darkness of the night, looking towards Lu Ming’s location motionless, the memory that was suppressed at the bottom of his heart seemed to be gradually taking root and sprouting. Every time he met this person, the unspeakable impulse in his heart would quickly grow, and in a moment it would have grown into a huge tree, so that he could not help but want to get close to the other. He wanted to embrace him in his arms, to feel his body heat. That touch, it was as if he had been waiting for several years.

Sang Wusheng eyes tightly closed and opened again. The emotions in his eyes were sharply reduced. A trace of black gas gradually drifted away from his fingers and slowly reached out to the handsome young man dressed in black on the roof. Soon, the black gas unknowingly entered the body of the youth, and then disappeared.

Sang Wusheng recalled the news from his men, this person was named He Qingci, the son of the He family. Ten years ago, he separated from the He family, became a rootless drifting cultivator. His qualification was really superior; he was only twenty-five years old, and was already a Nascent Soul stage, one in a million. However, He Qingci seemed to have been looking for his brother. He spent ten years going over the entire Cultivation World, but all came to nothing.

Ten years… Could this person really be related to the part of his memory that disappeared ten years ago? He only remembered that he had somehow made a blood contract with Cang Zhi, worshipped him as his master, and then entered the demon world, and now he had become a demon ambassador second only to Demon King in status and power. But everything that happened before seemed to be hidden in a big fog, trying to remember everything, but always to no avail.

Sang Wusheng’s eyes lightly turned. He lifted his hand to look at his finger and stared at the simple silver ring. He did not know who gave this object to him, and what extraordinary significance it has for him.

Sang Wusheng fell into contemplation, and a long time passed. Suddenly, in a flash, the young man standing on the roof not far away suddenly moved, and the surging aura was released from his body in an instant, and disappeared from sight in the blink of an eye.

Sang Wusheng was stunned. He immediately released demonic energy. Hidden in the darkness, he moved towards the most surging aura in Green Mountain Town with rapid flight.

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“Help! Come on, someone!” A harsh cry cut through the long silent sky. He stumbled and ran towards the front while turning his head every now and then to look at the black shadow not far away from him, the panic in his eyes was unmistakable.

The black shadow gradually approached the man, reached out and swung hard, the man slammed to the ground, survival dominated his brain. With hands on the ground, he was constantly struggling to crawl towards the front.

The black shadow sneered, approached the man, reached out from his pocket and pulled out a white ceramic vial, from which he took out a pill emitting a turquoise light, only to hear him shout, “Enter!” Instantly, the pill flew straight towards the man’s mouth.

The man suddenly remembered the charms handed to him by the young daoist master in the daytime. He gritted his teeth, before the elixir flew to his mouth, he used all his strength to turn over and quickly pulled out the charms in his arms, and forcefully tore the charms apart.

As if in the blink of an eye, the talisman suddenly emitted a strong blue luster, the luster became brighter and brighter, and actually covered the entire man who fell to the ground, forming a huge blue water ball, wrapping him in it. The elixir was caught off guard and hit the light shield with force, making a crunching sound, and then slid to the ground.

The black shadow’s expression changed, his heart said bad. He hurriedly turned around and wanted to fly away, but in the next second, his feet stopped. His body froze, and a violent murderous aura came over him, almost knocking him to the ground.

“Where do you want to go?” A voice that was cold to the extreme suddenly rang out from the front.

The black shadow’s heart flushed with coldness, the opponent’s appalling power, the rank is at least above Nascent Soul, his current power was far from enough to compete with the opponent. He could only hold back the inner fear, towards which the opponent coldly said, “Daoist, I do not mean to offend you. I hope the Daoist will not meddle.”

The man was Lu Ming, who smiled coldly and slowly approached the black figure, shining the magic Artifact in his hand at his face, and then he saw the figure clearly, which was a middle-aged man with ordinary looks and wearing a basaltic daoist robe.

Lu Ming said indifferently, “You and I have no grudge, but you are doing wrong and harming the countryside, so I have to take care of it.”

The daoist master gnashed his teeth, but still held back his anger and waved his sleeve, coldly snorting, “Who are you to say that I’m a wrongdoer? I didn’t take this man’s life just now.”

Before Lu Ming had a chance to intervene, the man who had fallen to the ground suddenly let out a cry of surprise, followed by a cry of, “Fang, Daoist Master Fang! How could it be you?”

The Daoist Master Fang was recognized and a trace of killing intent flashed in his eyes, but fearing Lu Ming, he quickly lowered his head and hid the sinister look in his eyes. He then looked up and smiled at the man, saying softly, “It’s all a misunderstanding. I thought that the demon cultivator had returned in the middle of the night to take another life, so I chased him all the way here, but I never thought it would be you.”

The man obviously could not believe it, he said suspiciously, “Daoist Master Fang saw me yesterday, how could you not recognize me?”

Daoist Master Fang smiled lightly and said without changing his face, “The light is too dark, it is normal that I can’t recognize you.”

Lu Ming glanced at him coldly and suddenly took out a rope of two meters long from his interspatial ring.

The Daoist was tied up with the rope and froze for a moment before he realized that he had been tied up into a dumpling and cursed, “What are you tying me up for? Let go of me!”

Lu Ming stretched out his finger and pointed it at the location of Daoist Master Fang, and the rope moved on its own, lowering him to the ground and dragging him slowly towards the direction of the mayor’s house in Green Mountain Town.

When Daoist Fang saw what Lu Ming was holding, he changed his expression and hurriedly cast his aura to escape.

Lu Ming quickly pasted the talisman, and the Daoist master instantly became honest, his body could not release any aura no matter how much he struggled, he could only raise his head and glared at Lu Ming, roaring, “I will kill you!”

Lu Ming was not angry, just gave a light smile, and then said, “This is the best spiritual Artifact ‘small peep mirror’, just shine a light on the figure, you can learn from the mirror all the movements of the person in the last three days. Then everything that appears in the mirror will be judged by the mayor and the people of the town. If you are not the one who harmed the people, I will bow to you and ask for forgiveness; if it was daoist cultivator who took the lives of people, then you can wait for your soul to be scattered.”

When Daoist Master Fang heard this, his face turned white and his body trembled involuntarily, looking at Lu Ming as if he were looking at a beast of burden.

 

 

 

 

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