Chapter 518: Invincible Core Magical Combat

Who Asked Him to Cultivate Immortality! Chapter 518: Invincible Elixir Legal Battle After Squire Song was resurrected, he always felt that the atmosphere at home was rather strange.

He remembered that the family atmosphere before his death had been quite harmonious, so how was it that less than half an hour after he died, he felt a faint hostility among his children?

Especially his youngest daughter, who was kneeling on the ground and weeping with her face buried in her hands. Was she crying over his death? She was quite filial.

Unfortunately, no matter what, he could not allow her to marry that boy surnamed Zhou. After all, they were biological siblings.

Squire Song temporarily set aside the problems at home; at present, the most important thing was to resolve the matter of the scroll first.

His appearance was highly unseemly, with blood all over his face and clothes. This was caused by bodily dysfunction and vomiting blood after his soul had been dragged away.

"Many thanks to the Daoists for saving my life!"

"You are too polite, Squire Song. We wonder, what is the situation with the scroll?"

Squire Song let out a long sigh, sat down on a chair, and began to recount the past.

"Twenty years ago, my business failed, and I wanted to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. Unexpectedly, I was caught by tree branches in mid-air and narrowly escaped with my life. Right beneath me extended a stone platform. I jumped onto it and discovered a cave deep inside."

"Something deep within the cave was calling out to me. At that time, I was not afraid of death either, so I followed the sound and found that it was a scroll speaking. The scroll said it could assist me in commerce and help me become a great wealthy man, so I brought it out of the cave."

"With the help of the scroll, doing business indeed became smooth and easy. Several successful investments made me the foremost merchant in the county town. Because of this, I married, had children, and enjoyed a blissful and harmonious family."

When Squire Song spoke to this point, Lu Yang and the other two silently turned their heads to glance at the Song siblings and the housekeeper.

"Please continue?"

"In recent months, every night the scroll says it wants me to give it my life. Out of fear, I tried drenching it in water and burning it with fire, but nothing worked. Even if I throw it out into the countryside, it returns home the next day just the same!"

Speaking to this point, Squire Song’s eyes were filled with panic. These days he had been made restless and anxious by the scroll, his state of mind dazed, and over the past two weeks, he was frequently startled awake.

Lu Yang stroked his chin; this was rather novel.

"Let's go, take us to see the scroll."

Squire Song led the three of them twisting and turning, and after touching a mechanism in a small room, a subterranean passage opened, pitch black below.

In the secret chamber lay a great deal of gold, silver, and jewelry, which was precious to mortals, but to Lu Yang, even the tassel on his sword hilt was worth more than these.

Among them, one box was the most prominent. It was made of iron and wrapped in layers of talismans. Squire Song tore away the talismans and opened the iron box, revealing the scroll inside.

"It was by this that my soul was dragged away."

Thinking of the scene just now, Squire Song still had lingering fears. Had Lu Yang not produced the Soul-Returning Pill, he would most likely have met with disaster.

"As expected."

The closer they drew to the scroll, the more they could feel a gloomy aura.

Lu Yang unrolled the scroll. Upon it was an ink wash landscape painting, within which a young washing woman was washing clothes by the riverbank.

Suddenly, the scroll distorted, and the washing woman seemed to come alive, slowly turning her head to look at the crowd outside the painting.

"Cultivators again?"

Water stains seeped from the scroll, floating up and condensing into the image of the washing woman in mid-air.

"Was it you who dragged his soul back again?"

The washing woman stared at Lu Yang with an unfriendly expression, her fair countenance somewhat distorted.

"Cultivators, do not poke your noses into others' business."

The washing woman sensed a profound threat from Lu Yang and the other two. These three were different from any cultivators she had encountered before; if she could persuade them to leave without fighting, it would be best.

The washing woman pointed at Squire Song and said coldly, "Twenty years ago, he promised me that as long as I helped him become a wealthy man of the locality, he would dedicate his soul to me. Twenty years have passed, his family is complete, his business is successful, and he is immensely rich. It is precisely time for him to fulfill his promise!"

"Is there such a thing?"

Lu Yang turned his head to look at Squire Song. He was actually not surprised. Squire Song's previous statement had definitely concealed something, otherwise why on earth would a mere scroll help you in business?

There was always something to be sought.

Back when they encountered the water ghost in Hanshui City who helped people commit insurance fraud just to buy salt, it was the exact same logic.

Squire Song nodded in shame.

"You see now, don't you?" The washing woman sneered, looking at Squire Song with disdain.

"The promise back then was made out of mutual willingness, without a shred of falsehood. Now that I demand the fulfillment of the promise, what wrong is there?"

Only to see Lu Yang slowly shaking his head, looking at the washing woman with a gaze full of pity. "Have you read the Criminal Law of the Great Xia?"

"The Great Xia Criminal Law?"

A smile curled at the corner of Lu Yang's mouth. Activating his Invincible Elixir, he said, "The Great Xia Criminal Law stipulates that a victim's promise allows others to infringe upon their own specific legal interests, such as the disposal of property, causing minor injuries, serious injuries, and so forth, but a promise that results in death is invalid."

"Of course, it is not that all promises resulting in death are invalid. In a few circumstances, such as a life-and-death arena duel entered without coercion, the promise is valid. However, this behavior of yours does not belong to those few circumstances."

"If you were a bit more studious and had studied the history of Great Xia law, you would know that historically there have been many magical treasures of the demonic path. They used the fulfillment of wishes as bait to entice others to exchange their lives as a price, thereby achieving the purpose of refining souls."

"The Minister of Justice at that time discovered this situation, and subsequently added this clause to the Great Xia statutes precisely to prevent magical treasures like you from doing such things."

Lu Yang sighed, looking at the washing woman with the gaze one would give to someone completely ignorant of the law. "Looking at it now, the popularization of law is still not thoroughly in place."

Ever since learning that his own master was frequently locked up in the great prison, Lu Yang studied the law whenever he had time, striving not to follow in his master's footsteps.

Now it seemed that studying law was indeed useful.

When ordinary people studied the statutes, though they learned a lot, they did not know which clause to choose when it came to practical application, usually falling into a dilemma of caught between two choices.

But Lu Yang was different. He possessed the Invincible Elixir. Utilizing the Invincible Elixir during a legal battle allowed him to filter out the most suitable legal clause from his mind in the shortest amount of time.

It was worth noting that the Invincible Elixir could not choose a legal clause that Lu Yang had not studied before. After all, the victory conditions provided by the Invincible Elixir were made based on Lu Yang's own cognition.

The Immortal Fairy watched from within the spiritual space and clicked her tongue in amazement. As the creator of the Invincible Elixir, she had never imagined that the Invincible Elixir could be used this way.

Tao Yaoye secretly sent a sound transmission to Lan Ting, "Junior Sister Lan, did you know about this clause?"

Lan Ting shook her head blankly, "No, the sect does not teach this."

Both saw confusion in each other's eyes, feeling as though an invisible chasm lay between them and Senior Brother Lu.

"You have detained Squire Song's soul, which already violates the Criminal Law and constitutes attempted murder. Come with us."

The washing woman sneered, not frightened by Lu Yang. "Don't think you are the only one who has read the Criminal Law. To tell you the truth, I am a magical treasure, and simply not an object governed by the Criminal Law!"

Lu Yang raised his eyes to glance at the washing woman and uttered an "oh". "Is that so? That's even better. Since you are an ownerless magical treasure, it doesn't matter if I break you."

Lan Ting’s expression turned peculiar. Why did this dialogue sound more and more familiar the more she heard it?

"Arrogant! Do you truly think I am afraid of you three minor cultivators!"

The second update is at eleven o'clock.