Artifact Chapter 38: Meeting the old man again

Chapter 38: Meeting the old man again

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

Immortal Mountain was the first mountain in Cultivation World. The terrain was treacherous, towering into the clouds, often haunted by fierce beasts, and the Immortal Qi was always around. The illusionary formations were all formed naturally by the surrounding environment, not only there was no fixed way to break, but even with the wind, season, weather and other factors change from time to time. Therefore, there were many dangers, dangerous, rash intruders met their deaths.

Despite the danger, the Kunlai sect was still here to take root, without the intention of moving away. To say the least, it was because this place has the most abundant spiritual energy, suitable for cultivators and artifact refining, it was undoubtedly the greatest help for cultivators. Kunlai sect can become the first major sect of Cultivation World, and the terrain here has an inseparable relationship.

Lu Ming remembered that the plot of the book mentioned that the founder of the Kunlai sect was the last Immortal emperor, Ze Yu. Under his leadership, the Kunlai sect quickly rose to the Cultivation World’s first faction from an unknown small sect, in just a few hundred years; it can be seen Ze Yu had both means and wisdom, and was beyond the reach of ordinary people. Even after thousands of years, his name still rang a bell, and no one could mention him without awe and admiration, so he was a mythical figure.

Lu Ming and others arrived at the bottom of the mountain, looking ahead at the still foggy mountain peaks, opened his mouth towards Yun Ruan and asked, “How should we get there?”

Yun Ruan smiled lightly, reached out and released a surging aura, a golden light appeared in the sky and poured out right in front of them. A few moments later, the golden light suddenly drove away the fog ahead, a winding straight up the rugged path appeared in front of them.

Jing Mo’s eyes narrowed slightly, looking at Yun Ruan with an inquisitive gaze. This person was really unfathomable, with divine sense, he was actually completely unable to detect his rank, just that moment the aura released, although fleeting, but still he used demonic energy to detect he was at least two realms higher than his own.

Yun Ruan looked at them with a slightly surprised gaze, so he explained, “The strength of the formation is weakest here, and it is easiest to force the fog away with spiritual energy.”

Lu Ming and Jing Mo looked at each other, nodded at Yun Ruan, and followed him, flying up with their auras, without any obstacles, and reached the Kunlai Sect at the top of Kunlai Mountain.

The Kunlai Sect is really rich! This was Lu Ming’s first thought when he reached the top of the mountain. The first thing that caught his eye was a tall building with a big bell on top and a huge black wooden plaque with the word “Kunlai” written on it, which looked solemn and wise. After the building, there was a long stone staircase that could hardly be seen.

Yun Ruan said, “This is the Kunlai Sect, you two take a rest and then follow me to the forbidden hall to deal with Daoist Master Fang.”

Lu Ming nodded and followed Yun Ruan up the stone stairs. They could not easily finish the stone steps and were about to breathe a sigh of relief when they were suddenly distracted by a clamor.

The three looked for the sound, only to see a blue-shirted youth surrounded by a group of people, punching and kicking, from time to time there were painful moans from the youth’s mouth. His face was bruised and purple, obviously he had been beaten for a while, his eyes were slightly closed, it seemed that even struggling for mercy had been too much effort, and he had to lie on the ground and let the group beat him.

Lu Ming saw the youth’s face, familiarity suddenly came up, he frowned and thought carefully, then remembered that this person was He Qingqiu who should still be in confinement on the Red Jade Mountain!

Jing Mo had obviously also recognized the other party, his eyes immediately turned cold and said to Lu Ming, “How did he get here?”

Lu Ming shook his head, he hadn’t heard anything about the He family for ten years, He Qingqiu was still being punished at Red Jade Mountain, but he didn’t know what had happened in the past ten years, and looking at his clothes, he must have been under Kunlai’s tutelage.

One of the young men in white who was beating He Qingqiu spat at him while beating him and cursed at him, “Isn’t your He family very powerful? What, now you’re lying here like a dog?”

The people around him laughed, but their fists didn’t show any sign of stopping, their faces were mocking and contemptuous, their eyes looked as if they were looking at a dirty rag. One of them scoffed, “Their He family has now gone, He Yuanqi died, the youngest master He Qingci is also unaccounted for, the house’s use of forbidden art artifact refining happened to be exposed. The people in the house died, fled, the status is worse than a dog. If it was not Sect Leader’s kindness, would he have been saved? His soul should have been scattered long ago!”

He Qingqiu lying on the ground, his face could not help but stiffen, a trace of shame and anger flashed in his eyes, but still did not say a word, silently withstanding the fists that kept coming to his body.

Lu Ming heard the words just now, but his heart did not feel much. He didn’t expect the He family to fall in just ten years, from the fourth artifact refining family out of history, the status also fell, the previous oppressed families have come to seek revenge, or cold eyes, or secretly framed.

As the saying went, the tree fell so the squirrels scattered, the wall fell on the people pushed, saw him raise a high building, saw him banquet guests, but unfortunately overnight the high wall collapsed, the former prosperity suddenly fell out, leaving only infinite bleak cold scenery. Fate was unpredictable.

Lu Ming sighed quietly, but did not say anything, nor did he go to the rescue. He silently watched the actions of several people in front of him, his heart turning a thousand times. He did not know whether he should go to the rescue of the person who once tried to kill him.

Lu Ming was still contemplating, but Yun Ruan was not happy. His face suddenly sank a little, a pair of sword eyebrows slightly wrinkled, threw a sleeve, towards the front of the angry shouted, “Stop!

The group of people heard the noise, stopped the action in their hands. Used to being arrogant, the young man in the lead did not turn his head to see clearly the appearance of the visitor, opened his mouth and cursed, “in the end which is not a long-eyed thing, dare to meddle in this master’s business?!”

Yun Ruan indifferently interjected, “It’s me, I wonder if I have the right to take care of it?”

The group of people finally got a clear look at Yun Ruan’s appearance, their faces immediately became pale, cold sweat immediately covered their brains, their feet went weak, their knees hit the stone slab heavily. Only after a long time did they tremble their lips and say with fear and cries, “Sect Leader!”

Lu Ming and Jing Mo’s hearts were astonished, this person was the Sect Leader of the Kunlai Sect! The legendary Sect Leader who could fight the King of the Demon World, Shen Mu, with the strength of one person, and let the other side not get a half advantage, Daoist Yun Shan!

Yun Ruan eyebrows indifferent, looking at the kneeling ground cowering in fear in front of him, slowly said, “Bullying fellow Shixiong disciples, gathering a crowd to fight, disrespect to Sect Leader, according to the sect rules, what should be the crime of these three items combined?”

A few people heard the words, the face could not help but turn from white to blue, one was enough to expel them, let alone three articles and committed ah. They kowtowed to Yun Ruan, tears and snot flowing out of their eyes, crying and begging, “Sect Leader, for the sake of our first offense, please let us go!”

Yun Ruan sighed lightly, his eyebrows did not move, but only softly replied, “If the rules of the sect are broken because of you, the next time others commit the same fault, will not also be able to get a chance to forgive? This time it was really you who did wrong, so you should bear the corresponding consequences.”

After saying that, ignoring the pale faces of the people in front of him, Yun Ruan took out a small crane folded into white paper from his Qiankun bag, and mouthed a few words of the mantra, the paper crane actually flapped its wings and flew up into the sky. Yun Ruan said indifferently, “This matter will be transferred to the Forbidden Palace, by Master Fu Chen according to the disciplinary rules.”

A few people heard that it would be transferred to the Forbidden Palace, thinking of the handsome face, but the hard-hearted Master Fu Chen, their hearts suddenly became incomparably desolate and regretful. They didn’t expect to run into Sect Leader’s master returning from his travels today, it was simply too much bad luck. When they thought of the unruffled Master Fu Chen, they were drenched in cold sweat and hated that they could not turn back the clock.

The leader of the youth was still not dead, still kowtowing and crying, “Master, in the hands of Master Fu Chen, we will have to die or give up half a life, please have mercy, do not send me to Master Fu Chen ah!

“No need to say more.” Yun Ruan said indifferently, “If you don’t want to go to Master Fu Chen, you have to go to the Storm Valley to endure for seventy-seven days, are you willing?”

Several people’s faces stiffened, thinking of the power of the Storm Valley, the heart can not help but have fear. The storm valley formation was made in heaven, every forty-nine days a cycle. During this period, the climate in the storm valley was very strange. Sometimes burning fire, sometimes hail, sometimes hot sun, sometimes snow, and always being on the lookout for fierce beasts, there were no punished Disciples who left alive.

Ming Duo took in everything with his eyes, coldly smiled, “Hum, usually a moral appearance, but the heart is still the same vicious.”

Lu Ming secretly communicated with him using divine sense, “Yun Ruan did not do anything wrong, you really-“

Ming Duo interrupted Lu Ming with a cold snort and said, “Anyway, his heart is very bad!”

Lu Ming shook his head helplessly and sighed, but at this moment Yun Ruan turned his words and glanced at the kneeling people and said indifferently, “That’s all, your punishment is to go to the forbidden hall and kneel for ten hours. If you do it again next time, you will be thrown into the storm valley, no mercy.”

As if they had been given a pardon, they hurriedly kowtowed to Yun Ruan and stood up to go to the forbidden hall to receive their punishment.

Lu Ming walked forward, reached out and took He Qingqiu, slowly injected his aura into his body, and saw that he had woken up, then he said lightly, “Are you okay?”

He Qingqiu opened his slightly closed eyes, looked at Lu Ming in some confusion, and then opened his eyes wide, as if a myriad of emotions flashed through his eyes in a flash, including surprise, anger, shame and anger, but more than anything else, anger. He gritted his teeth, slapped Lu Ming’s hand away and said angrily, “Did you come to see me to laugh? No need for you to pretend to be nice!”

Lu Ming glanced at him, no emotion in his eyes, just turned around and said to Yun Ruan and Jing Mo, “Let’s go, it’s okay.”

Jing Mo nodded and gave He Qingqiu a cold stare, followed Lu Ming without a word and walked ahead.

He Qingqiu looked at the fading backside in front of him, his heart was filled with mixed feelings for a while, as if the old days had rushed to his mind in an instant, as if the stubborn and unyielding teenager who was deliberately humiliated by himself appeared before his eyes, but the glow in his eyes never went out. The thought that now he actually fell into this situation, being wantonly humiliated, living worse than a dog, the heart was not only infinitely desolate. After a long time, he laughed loudly to the sky, with infinite bitterness and sourness in his voice, making his heart tremble.

Not far away, Lu Ming also heard He Qingqiu’s laughter and sighed secretly in his heart, then whispered to Yun Ruan, “Please asking Sect Leader to take care of He Qingqiu more in the future, so that he does not suffer too much. If he still does not reflect and repent in the future, Sect Leader please, do not spare him the punishment, do not let him go to the evil path.”

 

 

 

 

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