novelraw Chapter 579: Preparing to Cultivate the Five-Colored Divine Light to Kill—Mixing the Colors for Lu Ding
Chapter 579: Preparing to Cultivate the Five-Colored Divine Light to Kill—Mixing the Colors for Lu Ding
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He thought he had discovered the key point!!!!
Zhan Tingzhou put down his sister, took the teacup, and began to demonstrate his sincerity. With a thud, he directly knelt before Lu Ding.
As the saying goes, a man's knees hold gold beneath them—now was the time to cash in!
Without excessive words, he raised the teacup high above his head.
Only two words.
"Thank you!!!"
This "thank you" carried complex emotions—both gratitude for Lu Ding warning him before his rebirth, and gratitude for Lu Ding saving his sister after his rebirth.
If not for this, the Zhan Family wanting to snatch someone back from the Yellow Heaven Sect and Rooster Sun Niangniang, while not entirely impossible, the difficulty involved... was unimaginable....
Who knows how many Zhan family members would have died.Lu Ding was caught completely off guard by this sudden kneeling.
His gaze fell on the bandage wrapped around Zhan Tingzhou's head.
No wonder he's so erratic, acting on whims, scattering his efforts everywhere... it makes sense now........
He reached out, took the teacup, and drained it in one go.
Seeing this scene, Zhan Yuanliang finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Over the past few days, the fearsome reputation of Corpse-Shattering Taishui, accompanied by the destruction of the Luo and Zeng families, had already spread throughout White Ridge.
Ruthless methods, an arrogant personality.
A swift and decisive work style, along with the fact that he didn't target small families.
Made many people both fear Lu Ding and somewhat respect him.
In private.
Rumors about Lu Ding blossomed in countless variations.
But ultimately, they all conveyed one thing: he must not be provoked!
"Hahahaha Grand Duke Lu, thank you for returning my daughter. Madam, quickly go bring out the fine wine I've been saving, and instruct the servants to begin the feast."
Zhan Yuanliang said this.
Lu Ding shifted his gaze away from Zhan Tingzhou.
"There's no need for a meal, Family Head Zhan. I'd like to trouble you with a matter."
Zhan Yuanliang bowed his body slightly lower.
He dared not accept the word "trouble."
"Grand Duke Lu, you saying that shames me, Zhan Yuanliang. 'Trouble' is too heavy a word. You saved my daughter, you've shown kindness to my Zhan Family!"
"To you, it might have been a casual act, but to our Zhan Family, this kindness is greater than heaven itself. Forget one matter, even if it were ten matters, a hundred matters, you need only speak, and Zhan Yuanliang will absolutely not refuse!"
Such an attitude pleased Lu Ding greatly.
Although the reality was that once Lu Ding made a request, even if it were excessive, the Zhan Family wouldn't dare refuse, but Zhan Yuanliang phrasing it this way.
Sounded much more comfortable.
"It's nothing too major. I just want the Zhan Family to help me mix a specific color. It needs to adhere to weapons, be wear-resistant, heat-resistant, cold-resistant, and stable......."
Lu Ding listed his requirements.
Hearing this, it didn't seem particularly excessive.
After all, he had said it needed to adhere to weapons;
qualities like wear-resistance and heat-resistance were essential.
Zhan Yuanliang cupped his hands respectfully: "Grand Duke Lu, rest assured. Our Zhan Family are masters of pigments;
this is our family's specialty skill. As long as you specify what you want, Grand Duke, we will absolutely create the best possible version for you."
He was very confident.
In his heart, he thought, it's just a color, right?
There's no color the Zhan Family can't produce, only colors Lu Ding can't conceive of.
"Might I ask what color the Grand Duke desires?"
Lu Ding voiced the idea he had long contemplated: "A brilliantly colorful black."
"Just like this."
He lifted the hem of his long robe, gesturing for Zhan Yuanliang to look.
Initially, upon hearing 'a brilliantly colorful black,' Zhan Yuanliang's mind instantly buzzed.
This......
When he went to look at the hem of Lu Ding's long robe.
His face gradually grew red and heated.
This.......
Earlier, due to the joy of his daughter's return, Zhan Yuanliang hadn't paid much attention to the long robe Lu Ding was wearing.
Now, looking at it...
The skill involved in mixing this color was, without knowing how many levels higher than his Zhan Family's.
The words he had just spoken were instantly proven wrong.
Zhan Yuanliang felt somewhat unable to save face.
He wanted to say 'no problem, leave it to us.'
But with the Zhan Family's current skill level, they couldn't produce such a color.
Back and forth, Zhan Yuanliang's face grew redder and redder.
Until Zhan Tingzhou's voice sounded beside him: "No problem, Grand Duke Lu. We will deliver the mixed pigment to you as soon as possible."
In his previous life, Zhan Tingzhou had wandered aimlessly for years. Not only had he refined and improved this family craft, he had even managed to find a forbidden extraordinary phenomenon, [Five-Colored Divine Light], that could synergize with his family's pigments.
It was a pity that by then, Zhan Tingzhou's cultivation realm had already surpassed the Five Decays of Heaven-Man, making him unable to cultivate the Five-Colored Divine Light.
Now reborn in this life!
He was determined to condense the Five-Colored Divine Light!
Once the extraordinary phenomenon was fully formed, nothing would be immune to its brushing effect.
A man who could wander alone for hundreds of years searching for his sister, and nearly stepped into the God Sealing realm in the end, was never a kind or benevolent person by nature.
Perhaps to others, 'a brilliantly colorful black' sounded very metaphysical, even nonsensical.
But for him.
It was completely within his grasp. He wouldn't just meet Lu Ding's requirements!!!
He would even exceed Lu Ding's expectations!
For no other reason than that the debt of gratitude from both his past and present lives was something he could never fully repay!!
Ask, what color is 'a brilliantly colorful black'?
A thousand people give a thousand answers;
everyone's interpretation is different.
But if Zhan Tingzhou were to answer.
It would definitely be Life!
The end of life is death, death is darkness, but the process of life is brilliantly colorful.
As long as he used the Five-Colored Divine Light to madly brush away and plunder the lives of others, he could mix a color exclusively for Lu Ding alone.
The end of brilliant colorfulness is ultimately the darkness of life, pitch-black like ink, yet faintly reflecting the colors from the process of life itself.
Zhan Tingzhou clenched his fists tightly, feeling a pang of guilt in his heart. The thought that Lu Ding was the only one who warned him in his previous life, the thought that Lu Ding would specifically save his sister...
Thinking of these things, he felt he truly deserved to die!!!
Such a sincere friend, and he hadn't taken him to heart!
Therefore, no matter what request Lu Ding made, he would fulfill it!
This was repaying kindness!
For hatred and blood debts, blood must be repaid;
for one drop of blood feud, tenfold the blood debt!
For kindness and favors, return kindness with kindness;
a kindness spanning two lifetimes is difficult to repay even in ten lifetimes!
He was precisely such a person who valued loyalty and righteousness deeply. Otherwise, in his previous life, he wouldn't have let those two parasites suck his blood while also scheming against him.
But that was impossible in this life.
He would kill kill kill kill kill!!!!
For Zhan Tingzhou, the immense value of rescuing his sister and resolving the mental burden he carried for hundreds of years could not be described in words;
this was his obsession!
If only Lu Ding knew what he was thinking.
Otherwise....
'You're laying it on a bit thick there, pal.'
Although Zhan Yuanliang didn't know why his son said this, when he met Zhan Tingzhou's determined gaze.
The reprimands stuck in his throat, impossible to voice.
The relationship between father and son is strange. Often, it's a matter of a single sentence, yet the words remain lodged in the heart, hard to speak. The delay causes the son to realize the truth years later, and the father to feel regret years later.
Zhan Yuanliang silently closed his mouth, having decided in his heart to support his son. After pondering for a moment, he ultimately spoke words to back up his son.
He cupped his hands, offering both respect and face: "Grand Duke Lu, the Zhan Family will definitely spare no effort to mix the color you require!"