Chapter 263: Master

Chapter 263 Master

"Old bones! You just wait, sooner or later, there will come a time when you cannot move..." The scholar Lu bent over picking firewood, muttering under his breath with a ferocious expression.

Dog Boy leaned over, bumping him with his arm. "Hey, you kid really have guts, daring to steal Senior Brother Li's sword."

Scholar Lu glanced at him contemptuously. "A joke, holding a sword, so what? What? You dare not?"

"Dare not, dare not, that sword smells so bloody, even getting close makes me feel all over uncomfortable."

Hearing those words, Scholar Lu's face showed even more arrogance.

"Would I fear this? Let me tell you, back then I saw that thing smelled heavy with blood before I pulled it out, if I want to, I still dare now!"

"Oh my, impressive, impressive."

While the two were chatting, they put down the firewood they were carrying by the iron pot, turned around to fetch water again.

"Scholar, come here for a moment." Li Huowang, sitting on a tree stump alongside Lu Zhuangyuan, looked toward the thin boy in the distance.

Under Dog Boy's malicious gaze, Scholar Lu lowered his head and turned to walk over.

Scholar Lu raised his head to look at the one-eyed youth before him, his heart panicked, then lowered his head again to look at the straw sandals on his feet.

"Don't lower your head, look up at me."

Hearing the other say this, Scholar Lu finally raised his head again.

"How do you feel recently? Is your personality still the same?" Li Huowang asked in a calm tone.

Scholar Lu shook his head. "Much better, already become almost like before I took the sword."

Just then, the grinning Dog Boy walked over to Li Huowang's side, repeating every word of their conversation to him.

Hearing his own son would actually say such things, Lu Zhuangyuan sighed deeply with exhaustion, raising and lowering the lit pipe in his hand.

"You damn... you....."

Scholar Lu was about to curse at Dog Boy, but a slap landed on his face.

It was Li Huowang who struck it, seeing Scholar Lu staring at him with that man-eating gaze, he turned sideways to Lu Zhuangyuan saying: "Master Lu, after all these days, he still shows no change, it seems this influence will follow him for life."

"Daoist Master, is there truly no way at all?" Lu Zhuangyuan said unwillingly.

Although he had always disliked his youngest son for being foolish and timid, compared to the son before him now, the previous son was infinitely better.

"If you fear Scholar Lu's violent personality will cause big trouble in the future, you can also eliminate the root of evil now."

Upon hearing this, not only was Scholar Lu startled, but Lu Zhuangyuan was also frightened, fear simultaneously appearing in both their eyes.

"That... that's unnecessary, truly unnecessary."

A forced smile appeared on Lu Zhuangyuan's face, dragging his youngest son away from Li Huowang's side.

Although facing his father's approach, a trace of disgust appeared on Scholar Lu's face, but seeing the pipe in his father's other hand, he dared not shake off the grip.

Just as they were about to leave, a voice from behind called out to stop them.

"Wait, I just thought of a method, perhaps it can make Scholar Lu return to normal, it depends on whether you are willing to take this risk."

When Scholar Lu and Lu Zhuangyuan turned around simultaneously, they saw Li Huowang holding several sheets of parchment covered in writing.

And what Li Huowang held was nothing else, precisely the cultivation technique extracted from Han Fu's Nascent Soul previously to drive the copper coin sword, the Immortal Capital Zi She Seal.

If Li Huowang's guess was correct, any sect's abilities were applications of something specific.

Since Scholar Lu now had killing qi entering his body, it would be perfect to borrow the Luo Sect's cultivation technique to flush it out.

Regardless of what the Luo Sect cultivates, or what it absorbs after practice, as long as it can replace the killing qi currently on his body, that is enough.

Furthermore, Scholar Lu could help test if the technique had any tricks, killing two birds with one stone.

While Lu Zhuangyuan was still hesitating, the excited Scholar Lu knelt directly before Li Huowang, forehead hitting the dirt, heavily bowing three loud times.

When Scholar Lu, with red mud stamped on his forehead, raised his head, his eyes were full of longing for power.

"Master! Accept your disciple's bow! I am willing to learn divine powers!!"

Li Huowang raised his head to look at Lu Zhuangyuan, waiting for his reply.

Looking at his son on the ground, Lu Zhuangyuan struggled to hesitate for a moment, finally nodding.

With hope for his son to return to normal, Lu Zhuangyuan finally decided to gamble, the Daoist Master also said, the risk was not high.

Moreover, if it succeeded, his useless youngest son would truly rise to prominence.

"Fine, let's try it, maybe it will work."

In Scholar Lu's burning gaze, Li Huowang handed the parchment in his hand to him.

As soon as Scholar Lu got it, he immediately began reading it greedily.

But seeing him like this, Li Huowang sighed in great discouragement. Rubbing his swollen brow with his finger, expression turning helpless, he said: "Scholar, didn't you notice you're holding it upside down?"

"Master, I don't know how to read characters." Scholar Lu held the stack of parchments in his hands, looking at Li Huowang in bewilderment.

"Sigh.... You truly live up to your name."

Li Huowang reached out and took the parchment back, translating it sentence by sentence for him.

This task was very tiring, especially facing an illiterate who couldn't even write his own name.

Fortunately, Li Huowang had nothing urgent to do temporarily, Scholar Lu was very persistent about divine powers, no matter how tired or bitter, he endured it.

By the day they arrived at the county town, Scholar Lu had just learned the beginning.

Although Li Huowang's group was large, there were also many tenant farmers departing from the village carrying goods to sell in the county town. The flat dirt road became lively.

Watching Scholar Lu memorizing the incantation without eating or sleeping beside him, Li Huowang asked him: "Do you not wish to kill me?"

"Master, where did you get that idea, why would I kill you?"

Scholar Lu spoke very frankly, Li Huowang could see he was not lying, otherwise with that kid's depth, it would have been exposed long ago.

"I hit you before, and even planned to persuade your father to kill you, with your current personality you surprisingly hold no grudge, I am truly surprised."

"I just became a bit more irritable, I didn't turn into a madman, besides you taught me divine powers, it was offset long ago." Scholar Lu's words were very matter-of-fact.

Li Huowang nodded understandingly, patting the rear end of the ox pulling the cart with his hand.

"Moo~" The ox lifted its head and bellowed, pulling the cart towards the city gate.

Upon entering the city, because the guards insisted on inspecting the ox cart containing Black Tai Sui, it took some effort, fortunately the experienced Lu Zhuangyuan managed to pass safely through with some silver coins.

Stepping on the bluestone ground again, looking at the bustling market of the town, everyone seemed to come alive anew.

Following custom, they found an inn, ate a delicious meal, and after checking in, everyone started moving.

The local Bai Lingmiao took Chun Xiaoman to find a map, and inquire about the location of Ox Heart Mountain.

While Dog Boy, Zhao Wu, and Gao Zhijian went to sell those sheep, and purchase enough grain to eat.

As for Li Huowang, he went to search within this bustling county town for traces of the Sky Monitoring Bureau that might exist.

(End of Chapter)