NOVEL NEXT Chapter 152: Great Harvest, Could It Be That the One Who Killed My Grandson Is a Fake Core True Person!
Chapter 152: Great Harvest, Could It Be That the One Who Killed My Grandson Is a Fake Core True Person!
Inside a mountain cave.
Lu Changsheng closed his eyes and used his spiritual sense to examine himself.
He saw a gray, eerie aura within himself.
“Is this what they call a soul imprint?”
“Not only can it inform the caster of the target’s death, but also allow the target to transform their soul into a vengeful spirit before dying, which can then be tracked by the caster, no matter how far the killer flees.”
Lu Changsheng gazed at the gray aura, muttering to himself.
He attempted to dispel the aura using his spiritual powers.
However, the aura twisted and struggled like a living creature, resisting his attempts to eliminate it.
Lu Changsheng then took out a low-grade purification talisman and activated it on himself.
A pure, white light flowed through his body, sensing the gray aura and immediately enveloping it.
However, the purification power could only suppress the aura and cannot eliminate it.
“It seems that the soul imprint left by the Fake Core True Person is not so easily resolved.”
“Could it be that I’ll have to use the Substitute Life Talisman?”
Lu Changsheng’s eyes narrowed, his mind racing.
Knowing that Meng Yibai was the grandson of a Fake Core True Person, he had dared to kill him. Naturally, he had his reasons.
This reliance was the Substitute Life Talisman.
The Substitute Life Talisman had the effect of substituting one’s life, allowing one to escape death.
Not only could it defend against fatal attacks and break through the void, but it could also take on the curse of the vengeful spirit and other forms of soul-binding curses.
“Let’s see if there are other ways to resolve this vengeful spirit first.”
“Otherwise, using this fourth-grade Substitute Life Talisman would be too wasteful.”
Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, thinking to himself.
He didn’t want to waste his life-saving talisman so easily.
After all, this Substitute Life Talisman could allow him to escape even when facing a Nascent Soul cultivator.
To use it on a Fake Core True Person who hadn’t even been found yet would be too embarrassing.
“Moreover, if I’m going to use the Substitute Life Talisman, I should wait until I find that Fake Core True Person.”
“By then, I’ll be able to remember their appearance and aura, and use the Demonic Curse of Fate to send them on their way, settling the score once and for all.”
“The Demonic Curse of Fate requires a hundred years of lifespan to kill a Core Formation true person; I wonder how much lifespan it would cost to kill a Fake Core True Person – thirty years, or fifty years?”
Lu Changsheng thought to himself.
Although Fake Core True Persons were called true persons, they ultimately had a “fake” label.
They didn’t cultivate themselves, but relied on external objects, refining demonic pills to advance.
Compared to genuine Core Formation true persons, they were in a different league altogether.
Not only were they inferior in terms of strength and lifespan, but they also had a limited lifespan of only three hundred years.
“However, this is a last resort, and I should try to avoid it if possible.”
“Not only would it waste two precious items, but killing the Fake Core True Person might also attract the attention of the Blue Cloud Sect.”
Lu Changsheng thought to himself.
He then closed his eyes, sat down, and began to circulate the Seven Stars Great Freedom Sword Technique.
He attempted to transform his spiritual powers into seven-star sword energy to refine the vengeful spirit.
After all, the seven-star sword energy could even refine pill poison, so maybe it could refine this vengeful spirit as well.
“Zi zi zi——”
Lu Changsheng’s body was filled with sword energy, almost bursting out of his body.
The seven-star sword energy inside him was like a serpent, wrapping around the vengeful spirit and making a loud, fiery sound.
However, the vengeful spirit was extremely eerie and continued to struggle and twist, even when wrapped by the seven-star sword energy.
A moment later.
“It’s working!”
“The Seven Stars Great Freedom Sword Technique is indeed a Genuine Level technique. It is even capable of refining the vengeful spirit of a Fake Core True Person.”
“However, the refining speed is too slow; I’ll need at least two to three days to refine this vengeful spirit.”
“In two to three days, that Fake Core True Person might already be here.”
Lu Changsheng opened his eyes and a hint of joy appeared on his face.
He remembered that the low-grade purification talisman had a suppressing effect on the vengeful spirit earlier.
He took out another low-grade purification talisman and activated it on himself.
As the purification power flowed through his body, Lu Changsheng began to circulate his technique, using the seven-star sword energy to refine the gray aura.
Indeed, in this situation, his refining efficiency increased significantly.
By the time the purification talisman’s effect disappeared, Lu Changsheng had refined about one-tenth of the gray aura.
“If I had a high-grade purification talisman to suppress this vengeful spirit, I might be able to refine it quickly.”
Seeing the effectiveness of this method, Lu Changsheng immediately took out the materials for a high-grade purification talisman from his storage bag.
He began to draw the talisman, preparing to use it to quickly refine the vengeful spirit.
Having just experienced a fierce battle, not only was his spiritual powers depleted, but his mental state was also not fully recovered.
So Lu Changsheng didn’t directly draw a second order top-grade purification talisman.
Instead, he first drew a second order medium-grade purification talisman to recover his touch and calm his mind.
After a quarter of an hour.
Lu Changsheng held the talisman pen and slowly drew a medium-grade purification talisman, infusing it with spiritual powers.
White light gushed out from the talisman paper, causing the talisman to take shape.
After finishing this talisman, Lu Changsheng didn’t rest.
He began to draw a second order high-grade purification talisman.
Drawing this high-grade purification talisman took Lu Changsheng almost half an hour.
Creating talismans was like this.
The higher the grade of the talisman, the more difficult and complex it was to create, and the more time and spiritual powers it consumed.
However, Lu Changsheng not only had the skill of creating second-grade talismans.
He also had the Xuan Yuan Bead, a second Dantian that stored nine times his own spiritual powers.
This allowed him to have almost endless spiritual powers, without worrying about running out.
Moreover, he had recently broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage, and his mental state was no longer affected by drawing a few talismans.
“Ah!”
With the feeling of drawing two talismans, Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, his expression serious, and began to draw a high-grade purification talisman.
Currently, he had a 98% chance of successfully drawing a top-grade talisman.
But for a high-grade purification talisman, he only had a 70-80% chance of success.
He didn’t dare say he could draw it with 100% success.
Lu Changsheng held the talisman pen and slowly drew.
The spiritual powers in his body flowed endlessly through the second-grade talisman pen, drawing mysterious talisman scripts on the talisman paper.
An hour later.
Lu Changsheng looked at the successfully drawn high-grade purification talisman, with a faint smile on his face.
He immediately picked up the talisman and used it on himself.
Instantly, the talisman’s white light burst forth, making the cave seem like daytime.
The purification power surged into Lu Changsheng’s body, wrapping around the vengeful spirit and refining it.
In this process, the vengeful spirit was directly refined by the talisman.
Lu Changsheng felt that as long as he had five or six high-grade purification talismans, he could directly refine the vengeful spirit.
Lu Changsheng didn’t think much, quickly circulating the Seven Stars Great Freedom Sword Technique.
Using the seven-star sword energy to combine with the purification talisman, he refined the vengeful spirit.
Half an hour later, the vengeful spirit in Lu Changsheng’s body was directly refined by 80%.
Lu Changsheng didn’t continue to refine the second-grade top-quality purification Talisman. Instead, he directly used the second-grade high-quality Talisman he had just refined.
With the assistance of the high-quality Talisman, Lu Changsheng directly refined the remaining vengeful spirits.
After refining, Lu Changsheng used his divine sense to check again with the remaining second-grade medium-quality purification Talismans.
Only after confirming that the vengeful spirits in his body had been refined and there were no other issues did he let out a sigh of relief.
He glanced at the Six-Winged Golden Silkworm, which was still absorbing Meng Yibai’s corpse blood.
“Let’s go.”
Lu Changsheng beckoned, and the Six-Winged Golden Silkworm returned to him.
He then cast a fireball technique, incinerating Meng Yibai’s corpse and causing the cave to collapse.
Only then did he take out a Hundred-Mile Invisibility Talisman and quickly depart.
After fleeing for hundreds of miles, Lu Changsheng finally stopped to rest.
He took out two Pills and swallowed them, recovering his physical and spiritual energy.
He then began to clean out Meng Yibai’s storage bag to see what spoils he had obtained.
“This is all the Sword Cultivator has? Except for a flying sword and a destiny sword bead, there’s only a turtle shell magical weapon, and no other magical weapons.”
Lu Changsheng looked into the storage bag, scanning it roughly with his divine sense.
He discovered that there were no magical weapons inside, only spirit stones, spiritual medicines, and various Pills.
He immediately set aside the spirit stones, spiritual medicines, and precious materials.
He picked up a medicine bottle, sniffed the fragrance, and nodded: “Yes, it should be a Nurturing Pill, and there are seven of them, not bad.”
“This should be a Harmonizing Pill.”
Lu Changsheng identified the Pills one by one.
Just then, Lu Changsheng opened a porcelain bottle, looked at the Pill inside, and his eyes widened in surprise.
He immediately poured the Pill into his palm and examined it carefully.
“It’s indeed a Foundation Establishment Pill!”
“How did he have a Foundation Establishment Pill on him!”
Lu Changsheng looked at the Foundation Establishment Pill with some surprise and excitement.
He had never thought that Meng Yibai would have a Foundation Establishment Pill on him.
He had been thinking of getting a genuine Foundation Establishment Pill for Lu Miaoge.
After all, Lu Miaoge’s talent was exceptional, but without a Foundation Establishment Pill, it would be almost impossible for her to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
So, he had planned to visit the three great immortal cities once Lu Miaoge’s Qi Refining was complete, to see if he could obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill through some channel or auction.
Who would have thought that he would unexpectedly obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill from Meng Yibai?
And it was a genuine Foundation Establishment Pill, not some inferior version.
“Now that I have the Foundation Establishment Pill, the Three Yang Pill, and the Foundation Establishment spiritual object, Miaoge’s Foundation Establishment should be stable.”
Lu Changsheng didn’t think much about where Meng Yibai got the Foundation Establishment Pill.
He was just grateful for the kind person’s gift.
He put the Foundation Establishment Pill away, preparing to give it to Lu Miaoge when the time came.
After all, she was his only wife who had a chance to reach the Foundation Establishment stage.
If he could help her, he naturally would.
Unlike Lu Miaoyun, Qu Zhenzhen, and Lu Miaohuan, whom he couldn’t help even if he wanted to.
After cleaning out the storage bag, Lu Changsheng opened the spiritual pet bag.
He immediately saw a golden-furred, palm-sized, cute hamster-like creature inside.
“A hamster?”
Lu Changsheng was taken aback by the adorable golden hamster, which was unlike the fierce demonic beasts he usually saw in the cultivation world.
Suddenly seeing such a harmless, cute creature made him feel a bit stunned.
“Is this the Earth Spirit Rat?”
Lu Changsheng looked at the golden hamster and immediately knew that this was the low-grade demonic beast, the Earth Spirit Rat, that Meng Yibai had mentioned.
It was this creature that had detected his aura and seen through his disguise.
Lu Changsheng took out the beast-controlling token from the storage bag.
He then used his divine sense to release the golden hamster from the spiritual pet bag.
“Squeak squeak!”
The little hamster appeared, saw Lu Changsheng, and showed a fearful expression.
Although this demonic beast had a low-grade bloodline, its main ability was its sense of smell, which was used for treasure hunting.
It was not good at fighting and was very timid.
Now, with only late-stage Qi Refining cultivation, it was naturally afraid of Lu Changsheng, a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Moreover, Lu Changsheng held the beast-controlling token that controlled its life and death.
“I have been wandering for half my life, and I only regret that I have never met a wise master. Now that I’ve met one, I’m willing to acknowledge you as my master!”
The golden hamster looked at Lu Changsheng, knelt down on both legs, and made a bowing gesture with its hands.
It also sent a mental communication through the beast-controlling token.
“???”
Lu Changsheng received the mental communication and looked at the little hamster in surprise.
He didn’t expect this demonic beast to have such intelligence.
Unlike his own Six-Winged Golden Silkworm, which was a heavenly-grade bloodline insect with no intelligence and only knowing how to kill.
“This is indeed quite a loot.”
Lu Changsheng smiled, picked up the hamster, and stroked it gently.
The golden fur was as smooth as silk, and it felt very comfortable to touch.
“This Earth Spirit Rat has an extremely keen sense of smell, which is very useful for exploring secret realms and ancient ruins. Having this demonic beast would be a great help.”
“Too bad I don’t usually go on side quests.”
Lu Changsheng looked at the hamster and clicked his tongue.
But he didn’t feel like it was a waste.
This treasure-hunting rat was very valuable to the family.
Moreover, he didn’t need it, and he could sell it for at least 10,000 spirit stones in the future.
“But what kind of demonic beast is this egg from?”
Lu Changsheng put the hamster back into the spiritual pet bag.
He then used his divine sense to take out a pale blue, watermelon-sized egg.
When he checked the spiritual pet bag earlier, he saw that there was a pet egg inside, besides the Earth Spirit Rat.
But looking at the egg’s appearance, he couldn’t recognize what kind of demonic beast it belonged to.
“It’s unlikely to be an ordinary demonic beast egg, considering it’s from a second-generation cultivator’s spiritual pet bag.”
Lu Changsheng held the egg and examined it carefully.
He could see that there was a normal life aura inside, but it would take some time to hatch.
He put the egg back into the spiritual pet bag and planned to research it later.
“Although I only got around 6,000 spirit stones, and no other magical weapons…”
“But with the Talisman, Foundation Establishment Pill, Earth Spirit Rat, and this pet egg, it’s still a great harvest.”
Lu Changsheng roughly calculated the spoils of war.
There were 51 medium-grade spirit stones, 1,372 low-grade spirit stones, spiritual medicines, materials, and Pills worth around 4,000-5,000 spirit stones.
Then there were the Talisman, golden flying sword, destiny sword bead, flying shuttle, Foundation Establishment Pill, Earth Spirit Rat, and pet egg.
After a few hours…
A flash of light streaked across the sky, descending from above.
“Yibai must have fallen here.”
It was an old woman standing on a spiritual boat, her eyes shining with a bright light as she surveyed the surroundings.
After a while, her face turned extremely solemn.
“Yibai was a Sword Cultivator who was unmatched at the same level, and I even gave him a blue jade ruler Talisman to protect himself. Even if he faced a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, he could still escape.”
“But not only did he fall here, but the soul imprint I placed in his body has also disappeared.”
“Could it be that the one who killed my grandson is a Fake Core true person?”
The old lady’s face turned grave, her eyes lost focus, and she muttered to herself.
She could only judge from the remaining aura that her grandson had died here.
But she couldn’t figure out the specific circumstances.
She couldn’t sense the soul imprint, the vengeful spirit, which made her realize that the one who killed her grandson was absolutely not simple.
It was very likely a Fake Core cultivator.
But the next moment, she slightly shook her head, feeling that it shouldn’t be a Fake Core cultivator.
If it were a Fake Core cultivator, it wouldn’t have left so many residual martial arts auras.
Moreover, her grandson, no matter how reckless and arrogant, would never dare to provoke a Fake Core true person.
“If it’s a Foundation Establishment cultivator…”
The old lady’s face turned even graver.
She realized that if a Foundation Establishment cultivator had killed her grandson and resolved the vengeful spirit, it meant the opponent was extraordinary.
There might be a Fake Core true person or even a Core Formation true person backing them up!
Otherwise, the opponent wouldn’t have dared to kill her grandson.
“Alas, I’ve told Yibai many times, ‘overconfidence leads to downfall, the bold will be broken, the swift will be slow, the sword’s peak is in its sheath, cultivating the sword path is not just about seeking sharpness.'”
The old lady clasped her hands behind her back, let out a sigh, and muttered to herself, her body slightly hunched.
At this moment, despite the anger and hatred in her heart, she had nowhere to vent.
Moreover, guessing that the one who killed her grandson was not simple made her even more cautious.
After all, she only had a few decades of life left.
The entire family relied on her to hold everything together.
Now that Meng Yibai, the future pillar of the family, was dead, she had to continue to hold everything together and ensure the family’s continuation.
“Yibai was serving as the chief inspector in the city, how could he suddenly get into a fight with someone here?”
The old lady’s heart skipped a beat, her eyes narrowed like a slit, still pondering her grandson’s situation.
Although she was cautious, she couldn’t just give up and ignore her grandson’s revenge.
Immediately, the old lady controlled her spirit boat and flew towards Blue Cloud Market Town.
She planned to investigate why her grandson had left the city and got into a fight with someone.