svetikya Chapter 81 A Corrupt Scoundrel
Chapter 81 A Corrupt Scoundrel
Chapter 81 A Scoundrel (Fourth update, sorry for being late.)
The huge impact left Gao Haoguang completely stunned. He stood there dumbfounded, looking at Jiang Mingzi and then at Lu Mingfei beside him.
Hesitation welled up in his eyes like a tidal wave.
Lu Mingfei hurriedly raised his hands and shook his head frantically, wishing he could write a statement on the spot to sever ties with Jiang Mingzi.
"Don't look at me! I don't know that kind of magic!"
To be honest, Lu Mingfei once really admired the kind of ever-changing supernatural powers in myths and legends—like Sun Wukong, who could change his appearance by plucking a hair.
But Jiang Mingzi's use of the "transformation technique" really opened his eyes... or rather, he couldn't comment on it.
For various reasons, Lu Mingfei still did not learn this technique.
Even though this was the first technique Jiang Mingzi taught him, it was still the same.
After all, this thing is far too absurd to be effective in actual combat.
You can't expect someone to just use a transformation technique to fight, can you? Do you think if you turn into the enemy's son, they won't attack you?
Or do you mean if you transform the enemy, their allies will attack him?
That's just too illogical.
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As Gao Haoguang stared at the smiling "Fairy Jiang" in the picture, his face scrunched up, looking like a greenish winter melon.
To be fair, although the current Patriarch Lu is somewhat eccentric, he is quite normal compared to the "Immortal Lord of the Myriad Laws of the World".
"Alright, the time for the same month is limited, and now is not the time for jokes." Jiang Mingzi waved his hand lightly, and his body shimmered with light. In the blink of an eye, he returned to his original male appearance, but a hint of the playful tone from before remained in his eyes and brows.
"Call your senior brothers and sisters over. They can't hear or see you, so Lu Mingfei, you can relay the message from the side."
"Me?" Lu Mingfei pointed to himself. Why was he involved?
Before Lu Mingfei could speak, Gao Haoguang spoke first, taking a step forward and straightening his chest.
"No need, I can handle it all myself."
Gao Haoguang glanced around the courtyard, then turned to look at Jiang Mingzi in the scene before him. "Master is old, Senior Sister's personality is not suited for adventure, and Second Senior Brother also has his own family. Only I grew up alone. Leave everything to me."
His voice was soft but firm: "If you drag them into this, then there's no point in talking."
Upon hearing this, Lu Mingfei glanced at Gao Haoguang, then at the wall beside him, and ultimately remained silent.
On the other side of the same month, Jiang Mingzi smiled upon hearing this: "It's very presumptuous of you, but I admire you."
That's settled then.
"Now that you have become the successor of the Same Month Order, this Immortal Lord will tell you what the Same Month Order is."
"Listen, this immortal lord wants you to become stronger, so that one day, you can join me in destroying the legendary King of Nirvana, the Corpse Immortal of Myriad Industries."
"Eliminate the Corpse Immortal of All Trades?"
"Destroy the Myriad Corpse Immortals!"
As Gao Haoguang uttered those words, Ma Chao's voice came from behind the wall. He had barely turned his head when Lu Mingfei abruptly yanked him away with a loud bang!
Perhaps Lu Mingfei's previous fall affected the ground structure, as huge cracks suddenly appeared in the walls on both sides, and bricks and stones crumbled.
The wall collapsed with a crash, revealing Ma Chao, Qingqing, and Huang Erguo who had been hiding behind it. They stumbled and fell out as the wall crumbled, clearly having been listening there for quite some time.
The scene froze in awkward silence.
Huang Erguo was the first to react, rushing forward to hug Gao Haoguang tightly, his voice choked with emotion: "Junior brother! I never knew you cared about us so much!"
"Ah Guang—" Qingqing's eyes also reddened as she stepped forward and gently stroked his hair. "Your senior sister didn't spoil you for nothing."
Ma Chao stood there, looking at Gao Haoguang for a long time, before finally letting out a long sigh: "Silly child."
In the same month, Jiang Mingzi obviously also saw this scene. A meaningful smile appeared on his lips as he said to Gao Haoguang, "You don't want your master, senior brothers, and senior sisters to be in danger, do you?"
"Then dig up the ground in the center of the palace; there lie treasures there that can save their lives."
Upon hearing this, Gao Haoguang broke free from the embrace of his senior brothers and sisters and walked without hesitation toward the seemingly ordinary land in the center of the Dharma Palace.
Lu Mingfei sensed something was wrong and took a step back, keeping a safe distance.
Jiang Mingzi is a good teacher. That's how things are in reality, but that's definitely not how the disciple feels. How could he be so considerate of this successor of the same month?
He would never believe such a story, even if you beat him to death.
There's definitely something fishy going on here!
Just as Lu Mingfei was thinking this, Gao Haoguang had already dug up the solid ground, revealing the mahogany box buried beneath.
The emblem of the Three Truths School is clearly printed on the box lid.
"Is this it? A scroll?"
Gao Haoguang opened the wooden box, revealing its contents—
A yellowed scroll, and beneath it lies a book?
Jiang Mingzi's voice came from the same month's message at just the right time: "Yes, it's a letter. Pick it up. The method recorded inside can ensure that you will not encounter the same death calamity as last time."
Lu Mingfei stood outside the courtyard gate, only his head showing, his eyes fixed on the box.
"That's... the aura of Sanzhen Zhuikongxi?"
Lu Mingfei thought to himself that he could tell that Jiang Datou was indeed up to no good.
As soon as the box was opened, the special aura of "Dharma" on the scroll was revealed.
Perhaps these disciples of the Three Truths Sect a thousand years later don't know, but he was a disciple who personally learned skills from Jiang Mingzi, so how could he not know?
This thing isn't a letter at all.
That was a trap! A trap tailor-made for Gao Haoguang!
The Three Truths Chasing Void Seal was a magical artifact that Jiang Mingzi specifically used to find Dharma Corpses. This master had used it many times to mark those troublesome Dharma Corpses, then "guided" Lu Mingfei to "train."
To put it simply, it means sending your apprentice to hunt down the marked target.
If this thing gets touched...
Lu Mingfei could almost see Gao Haoguang being forced to hunt down the corpse.
"The root of evil," he lamented in his heart.
During the same month's scroll, Jiang Mingzi seemed to notice Lu Mingfei's gaze. While Gao Haoguang was still looking down at the scroll, he turned the scroll towards Lu Mingfei, gently placing his finger to his lips and giving his all-knowing disciple a slight smile.
That smile clearly said, "Don't talk too much."
"Huh, what's this... a book?"
Gao Haoguang was cautious and did not touch the scroll immediately. Instead, he picked up the book under the scroll.
"Huh? What happened?" Jiang Mingzi immediately leaned closer. "I didn't put anything else in there!"
"Is this your diary?" Gao Haoguang held up the book, exposing it to Jiang Mingzi's view.
At that moment, he also saw the book in Gao Haoguang's hand and the four large characters on it.
Akiko's daily affairs.
Jiang Mingzi:
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For once, Jiang Mingzi fell silent. He looked at the daily journal and fell into deep thought.
"baffling."
"What? This is your diary? Well, I'll read it."
"Wait a minute, do you even know what it means to respect the founders?!"
"But it seems you're hiding something."
As the two were arguing, Huang Erguo silently walked over, looked at the scroll in the box, and slowly moved his finger forward. "This is... a letter?"
"etc!"
Just as Huang Erguo was about to touch the letter, Gao Haoguang realized something was wrong and rushed over with a shout.
But it was all too late.
The instant Huang Erguo's fingertips touched the scroll, a surge of bright yellow magical power erupted like a tidal wave, instantly enveloping the two of them. That power, like a tidal wave, swept up Huang Erguo and the onrushing Gao Haoguang—
It soared into the sky and transformed into a shooting star.
Everything went exactly as Lu Mingfei had predicted.
"Ah Guang! Are you coming back for dinner?" Miao Qingqing shouted from the ground.
But clearly, Gao Haoguang, flying at top speed, could no longer hear.
In the blink of an eye, he transformed into a streak of light, shrinking into an almost imperceptible black dot in the sky.
"Stop calling them, they're not coming back."
As Tong Yueling flew away with Gao Haoguang, Lu Mingfei walked in from outside the courtyard gate and said to Miao Qingqing.
"Master sent him out to gain experience, so don't worry."
"...I guess so?"
Lu Mingfei was also unsure whether this successor of the Same Month Order would encounter any trouble. After all... the location targeted by the Three Truths Chasing the Void Seal was the Dharma Corpse that the seeker of the Dharma transformed into after death.
Those things, none of them are easy to deal with.
Upon hearing this, Ma Chao looked astonished. If the person on the other side of the same month was this young man's master, then the seniority of the person before him was—
He immediately tried to kneel and pay his respects, saying, "Greetings, Ancestor!"
Almost instantly, the boy appeared in front of him, took his arms and gently helped him up.
"There's no need to be so polite. I'm just a young man myself."
"But in terms of seniority..."
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Lu Mingfei interrupted him, saying, "Never mind seniority, I'm just a minor supernatural being, don't say that."
He paused, looked at the long-vanished black dot on the horizon, and added softly.
"After all, the most crucial thing is how your apprentice performs."
Upon hearing this, Ma Chao's expression changed slightly: "Could it be that Patriarch Jiang's arrangements are dangerous?"
"Um... I don't think so, do I?" Lu Mingfei stroked his chin, his tone somewhat uncertain.
Although the Three True Ones only pursued the Dharma Corpse, Jiang Mingzi would not let go of any Dharma Corpse with lesser supernatural powers or higher.
Or rather, this person will not let any of the corpses of the Dharma go unpunished.
Those corpses that could outlive him from his era...
He's probably also disabled, probably...
...Will everything be alright?
Lu Mingfei silently calculated in his heart that although Jiang Mingzi acted erratically, he wouldn't really go so far as to kill his grand-disciple... probably.
Lu Mingfei turned to look at Ma Chao and Miao Qingqing, softening his tone: "Don't worry, Gao Haoguang seems clever, he should be fine."
"Then I should go too."
Seeing that Jiang Mingzi's goal of "letting him try" had been achieved, and since the successor of the Same Month Order had also disappeared, it seemed that... he could go back?
After all, he had more important things to do.
After thinking it over, he decided to go back to Jiang Mingzi's place first. Anyway, all he needed to do to get back to his own world was "die," so there was no rush.
With a thought, his innate divine power unfurled a familiar fiery portal before him. The orange-red flames swirled, outlining a passage to another dimension.
The moment he stepped in, the world spun around him.
"Huh, why am I so dizzy?"
This was Lu Mingfei's first thought when he stepped into the Flame Gate, and also his last thought when he was conscious.
The Third Palace, which was not yet completed in 525 AD.
Jiang Mingzi was standing in the center of the newly opened cave. He had just finished his hand seals when he sensed the spatial fluctuations and looked up.
"You're back so quickly—"
Before he could finish speaking, his expression changed drastically.
The fiery door that was slowly unfolding before them suddenly trembled violently the moment it took shape—
It wasn't just ordinary spatial ripples; rather, it was as if the edges of the door began to twist and tear, as if gripped by an invisible giant hand.
Distortion is a common phenomenon in teleportation abilities; if it were just a shift in spatial coordinates, it wouldn't have caused him to lose his composure like this.
but.
Jiang Mingzi's pupils contracted sharply as he sensed a presence.
An aura he would never forget in his life.
That's a distorted law of causality!
"All industries!!"
He practically roared as he darted to the door like lightning. His hands moved swiftly, forming hand seals, and several streams of light flew out from his magic treasure bag. A series of powerful magical treasures, each carrying a different color of light, appeared behind him.
A surge of immense magical power was emanating from his body, transforming into golden chains that coiled around the doorway in an attempt to stabilize the passage, but it was all too late.
The fiery door exploded completely before his eyes.
There was no loud noise, no shockwave, only a cold, deathly silence.
Where the door disappeared, the space was like a torn piece of cloth, and countless scarlet eyes vaguely emerged from the depths of the cracks—they indifferently gazed at the present world, at Jiang Mingzi, and then slowly disappeared.
The crack healed, as if nothing had ever happened.
After a long pause, a slow smile appeared on his lips.
That smile had no warmth, no emotion, only an almost inhuman coldness.
"Good... very good..."
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"As expected, they are all cowards."