novelraw Chapter 584 - 583: What about my matter?
Chapter 584 - 583: What about my matter?
"What I said is true!"
The mysterious entity, beaten to the verge of tears, did its utmost to contaminate part of the net confining it, but still found no way to escape.
Suffering continuous severe injuries, continuing to possess the old man was impractical.
With no way forward or backward, to save its life it had to offer more, "I have another precious treasure that can nurture souls, but it also requires the nourishment of my soul power!"
Jiang Yuan paused again, thinking that although this mysterious entity had lost even its name and realm, its possessions seemed inexhaustible, like squeezing water from a sponge.
[Ink Jade Space: An exquisite spiritual artifact forged by an unknown person, with a vast storage space, able to absorb spiritual energy to nurture items inside. It can nurture divine souls without bodies and has extremely high security, impervious to water, fire, and external destruction.]
An exquisite spiritual artifact?
To know that just one level higher is a half-step divine artifact, it’s the first time he’s stumbled upon such a valuable trophy. Carefully, he used the Soul Hook to grab it, avoiding any unforeseen circumstances without the exoskeleton armor.
The mysterious entity’s slime oozed out a small black jade token from Lin Chunsheng’s body, not much larger than a mahjong tile, which Lin Chunsheng had tied with a thin string, with some old gray dirt lingering in the small hole.
Because it hadn’t been kept smooth, the Ink Jade Space appeared to be just an ordinary black stone slab.
Once in hand, Jiang Yuan clicked to check and found that the storage space was indeed large, with a full 300 storage slots.
And usually, the storage rings and bags collected show themselves as unusable and can only be given away, but this piece of Ink Jade Space, like the storage box and system-bound storage bag, is very convenient to use.
"Do you have anything else?" Jiang Yuan asked, putting it into the storage bag and looking at the mysterious entity with anticipation.
"Fellow Daoist, treasures like these are rare encounters not to be sought after, how could there be so many?" The other party played its last card, continuing to negotiate terms: "I am willing to acknowledge you as master, using my soul power to nurture the two treasures, and if someone with no eyesight appears, feel free to release me to vent your anger..."
Jiang Yuan was somewhat disappointed and wielded the Soul Hook again.
Just a second ago, the entity thought it was saved, but the next second it got struck again. Facing someone who only took benefits and wouldn’t spare its life, the mysterious entity immediately shouted angrily, "They both require my soul for nurturing. If you kill me, the two rare treasures will never be usable again!"
By now, Jiang Yuan was more concerned about whether Lin Chunsheng could still be saved and whether he could figure out the origin of this Ink Jade Space, slicing as he chuckled, "You escaped a calamity because you hid in the Ink Jade space, thinking I wouldn’t recognize it? You willingly hand them over, and I’ll give you a swift end; otherwise, once I kill you, these things are mine anyway."
"You, you..." The mysterious entity, exposed, was both furious and in pain, gasping through the gray slime, unable even to speak.
Bai Heqing couldn’t see the specific situation but could sense the terrifying energy gradually weakening, feeling a secret delight in his heart, "I don’t know where this mysterious thing came from, it nearly caused a disaster! Fellow Daoist, don’t show mercy, kill it quickly to be proper!"
The green bird, carrying a giant axe, stood aside not even wanting to speak, feeling that after a sleep, the world outside had become strange.
Could the mysterious entity be slain in this way?
As the two came into contact, the gray mist emitted by the slime could not touch her brother at all, and oddly, though he was using techniques to attack the entity, there was no spiritual power fluctuation.
To be able to keep the energy contained, what realm has brother reached? And what cultivation technique has he practiced?
"Come take a look, a big spectacle in Anping Town! First came a boy who could fly, and then suddenly a little girl sprung up, carrying an axe bigger than herself, clearly not an ordinary person!"
"A person? Perhaps a monster! Have you ever seen a person who can fly? Have you ever seen a five or six-year-old girl who can appear out of nowhere?"
"Don’t you want to live? Keep your voice down, don’t let them hear you!"
"Shh! That little girl’s huge axe is enough to handle, plus she’s fierce, swinging her axe to chase people away, not letting them watch the commotion..."
...
Driven away once by Jiang Yuan, and once by the green bird swinging the axe, the curious crowd finally retreated to the street entrance, watching from afar, the crowd growing denser.
Qiao Mei, rushing all the way from the upper street to the lower street, was blocked by the crowd before even getting close to the scene, anxious and unable to squeeze through, while others whispered wild rumors.
One person said a boy went mad and strangled an elderly person;
Another said the mad child was cut to death with an axe;
Some even vividly described it, saying the boy went mad, strangled the elderly, and even wanted to eat people! Fortunately, a flying boy came to stop him, unable to handle him alone, he called in a girl carrying an axe, who already dismembered the mad child, the scene being too bloody for others to approach, and so on.
"Chunsheng!" Qiao Mei heard it, her heart clenching, fighting her way through the crowd desperately, shouting without regard, "Let me through! That’s my son!"
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the crowd watching the commotion looked at her in shock, and gave way to create a path for her.
"Hurry and take a look, I’m afraid not even a whole corpse will be left."
"Oh my, be careful, an old man was strangled to death by your son, can his family let him go?"
"If the child is sick, get him treated. If it’s really bad, lock him at home. What does it mean to let him run out and go crazy?"
...
The chaotic debates of blame drilled straight into her ears, and Qiao Mei held back her grief as she passed through the crowd, clinging to a sliver of hope—since the little Immortal himself came to deal with it, he definitely wouldn’t harm Chunsheng, and everything they said were just rumors!
The street she walked on daily seemed incredibly long at this moment. She finally squeezed through the crowd to the end of the street, where Jiang Yuan happened to be finishing slicing the bizarre remnants of anger, still needing 112 more captures to reach 500 pieces of mysterious soul fragments.
"Phew! It’s finally resolved, Green Bird, it’s all on you now." He sighed in relief, and seeing Qiao Mei stumbling, he waved, "Hold on a bit, Chunsheng will be okay soon."
The system identified that he had been possessed by the bizarre for a long time, suffering from pollution, and although his soul was slightly weak, it needed proper nurturing, but there wasn’t much other damage.
"See my Ice Flame!" Green Bird set the axe on the ground, leaning against it, and with his eyes slightly closed, the blue feathers on his head fluttered gently as his fine hair lifted, revealing a glowing Green Bird mark on his forehead. Then, he pinched a spell with his right hand, igniting a strand of Ice Flame at his fingertips.
Extreme cold and intense burn fused perfectly, the blue Ice Flame seemed to turn into a pool of water that clung on, greedily licking the gray aura on Lin Chunsheng and Bai Heqing.
The Capture Net was one-time use; Jiang Yuan clicked to retract it, instantly turning into nothingness, and the filth upon it vanished as well.
"Thank you, fellow Taoist, for your help! Bai will surely repay this life-saving grace with all my efforts!" Moments later, the pollution on Bai Heqing was completely cleared, spiritual power circulated once again, letting him deeply feel the joy of surviving a disaster.
Lin Chunsheng, after all, was a mortal, and had been possessed by the bizarre for too long; even though purified and nurtured with divine soul by Green Bird, he slowly woke up with a dazed expression.
"Slap!"
Qiao Mei rushed over, both relieved and fearful and angry, delivering a slap on his back and scolding with tears, "Why are you courting death? If it weren’t for the little Immortal passing by today, you’d be dead!"
There were still some details to be asked of Lin Chunsheng; Jiang Yuan gave Green Bird a look and she immediately understood, lifting the axe and dispersing the spectators, "Go, go, back to your own business, there’s nothing to see here."
From afar, the crowd saw the old man stand up with a rosy face and a smile, and the crazy child climb up, lively but quiet after his mother slapped him, and were amazed that not one was dead!
There was no fatal incident, the old man did not pursue it, and there happened to be a strange little girl driving people away fiercely; nightfall approached, and the wilderness was about to descend, the crowd on the street quickly broke into small groups and dispersed amidst lively discussions.
Qiao Mei hurriedly welcomed everyone into the house.
Her daughter Chunxi and her third grandmother were busy selling steamed buns, she also wanted to know what exactly happened, so she lit the lamp and closed the door, sternly saying, "Chunsheng, tell the little Immortal everything you know clearly. If you dare hide anything, I’ll beat you to death with a rolling pin!"
"I..." Lin Chunsheng scratched his head and muttered, "I have a black stone slab given by my dad. My dad said it was dug up by my grandfather when he worked in the field in his younger days, and it looked like a pendant, thought it might be worth some money so kept it.
Later, went to a pawn shop in town to ask, they said it was just a worthless stone, not worth taking. My grandfather was reluctant to throw it away, thinking it was at least something, so he gave it to my dad before he died.
After all, it was one of few items left by my grandfather, my dad treated the black stone slab as a family heirloom and passed it to me. A couple days before the rat spirit corrupted the village, someone in the black stone slab spoke to me, said he was an Immortal..."
Upon hearing this, Qiao Mei became furious, "And you believed him? How can you be so foolish?"
Feeling somewhat aggrieved, Lin Chunsheng stuck his neck out wanting to retort but glancing at Jiang Yuan, hesitated to say, "I’m speaking truth, don’t get angry."
Jiang Yuan was puzzled, thinking to himself, do I have something to do with this?
After promising multiple times not to get angry, he blushed slightly and argued, "I didn’t believe it at first! My dad said, there are no Immortals in the world, if there were, how could the three big surnames be so domineering?
If there truly were Immortals, there wouldn’t be any evil people in the world, spirits watching over us would strike them down with lightning, hence there are no Immortals, only demons and ghosts!"
"Makes some sense." Green Bird, wobbling her little feet while sitting on the kang, gazed at the roof, thinking to herself that she hadn’t managed to ascend to the Celestial Realm successfully, despite years of cultivation, she had never witnessed a true Immortal descend.
Where the Immortals go after ascending, what they govern, who’s to know.
"I thought the black stone slab became a spirit, talking to me was a demon. Wanted to throw it away but couldn’t bear it, firstly, it was left by my grandfather as a family treasure; secondly, the demon kept saying it could help me cultivate and ascend in the future."
Feeling a bit embarrassed, Lin Chunsheng continued, "I’ve seen those terrifying demons outside the village at night, and thought since the black stone slab could contain a demon, couldn’t it also contain other demons? If it could, we wouldn’t have to endure the attitudes of the three big surnames anymore!"