Lu Ming's eyes were dim and he looked slightly stunned. He had been searching for the past ten years without interruption, but there was no clue at all. His only hope was this valley. But now, even after learning about the situation on that day, the clues were cut off again. Lu Ming didn't know what he had been doing for the past ten years. Not only did he not find Hua Tui, but Jing Mo had also completely disappeared.
Lu Ming felt sad and mixed, and he was trapped in self-reproach for a long time. After a long time, he retracted his gaze, took out a fingernail-sized soul-fixing magic tool, and silently recited a few mantras, and the boy's soul was quickly sucked into it.
Ming Duo screamed in fear, and kept hitting the soul-fixing magic weapon with his body in an attempt to get out, while shouting: "What do you want to do?! Are you trying to destroy my soul? You evil Taoist priest!"
Lu Ming said coldly: "Shut up, if you make any more noise I will use your soul to refine a soul weapon."
Ming Duo shuddered all over, and immediately hung his head like an eggplant hit by frost, not daring to speak again. After a long time, he choked and said, "How can there be such a bad-hearted Taoist priest..."
Seeing that he was really frightened, Lu Ming explained softly, "Aren't you going back to your hometown? I will take you back now and pray for your soul so that you can be reborn as a human as soon as possible."
Ming Duo stopped crying immediately after hearing this and asked excitedly, "Are you really willing to take me home?"
Lu Ming was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and said, "I never said I wouldn't send you back. You just kept talking to yourself. Where is your hometown?"
Ming Duo said hurriedly: "Go southeast, Qingshan Town is only 500 miles away from here."
"Qingshan Town?" Lu Ming muttered silently, and then said, "In that case, let's go."
Lu Ming tied the soul-fixing magic weapon to the simple silver bracelet on his wrist, which looked like a small pendant. Ming Duo was a little scared and said, "Will this soul-fixing magic weapon work? What if I leave this valley and get accidentally stabbed by the sunlight?"
Lu Ming asked curiously, "Aren't you a ghost cultivator? Why are you afraid of sunlight?"
Ming Duo said aggrievedly: "Two of my three souls were taken away by someone. My souls are not complete and I can't practice at all. That's why I wander around the bottom of the valley all day and can't leave."
Lu Ming understood, took out a talisman from the space ring, and silently recited a mantra. The talisman quickly burned up and flew into the sky. A blue light shot onto the soul-fixing magic weapon on the chain between his wrists. In just one second, the blue light disappeared immediately, as if the light had never appeared at all.
Although Mingduo was inside the Soul-Fixing Instrument, his eyes, ears, and nose could clearly sense everything in the outside world, and he also saw what had just happened. He asked curiously, "What is this spell used for?"
Lu Ming smiled slightly and said, "With this talisman light, you will no longer be afraid of the sunlight. I guess you asked me to take you back to Qingshan Town because you wanted to find those two souls, right?"
Ming Duo nodded, and then said: "Indeed, as long as we return to our hometown, find that stinky Taoist priest, and take back the two souls, we will be able to reincarnate soon."
After that, before Lu Ming could say anything, Ming Duo gnashed his teeth and cursed: "It's better not to let me find that stinky Taoist priest. He was the one who took my soul away three hundred years ago. If it weren't for him, how could my parents have died tragically at the hands of others, and how could I have been wandering alone for three hundred years without being able to reincarnate as a human being! If I'm lucky enough to meet this person again, I will make him live a life worse than death."
While Lu Ming used his spiritual energy to head southeast towards Qingshan Town, he asked curiously, "What on earth is going on? Taking away the soul and preventing reincarnation, how could someone do such a thing unless there is some deep hatred?"
Mingduo had been lonely and friendless for the past three hundred years and had almost lost the ability to communicate. But now that he met Luming, he immediately started talking. In a fit of excitement, he told Luming everything that had happened in his life without reservation.
It turns out that Mingduo was the only son of a former mayor of Qingshan Town. However, he offended a giant in the cultivation world, which eventually destroyed his family. In addition, two of his seven souls were taken out of his body by a cultivator who came to take his life. He could not become a ghost cultivator, nor could he be reincarnated. After his death, his soul had no one to guide it, so it drifted around in a trance and finally stopped at the bottom of the valley. However, he was worried that Cangzhi would suck away his only remaining soul, so he hid in the depths of the valley all day and could never leave.
Hearing this, Lu Ming felt a little sympathy for Ming Duo. Three hundred years is not a short period of time, and the resilience and determination required to endure it are definitely not ordinary things.
Ming Duo smiled grimly, and continued: "Before I died, I had secretly cast a forbidden spell on that stinky Taoist priest. If I hadn't been able to sense that he was still alive in this world every day, I would have given up on enduring it. Whether I'm alive or dead, I will seek revenge on him so that he can pay off the many evil debts he owes!"
Lu Ming: “…” Well, hatred is also a treasure to support willpower.
After traveling day and night, Lu Ming and Ming Duo arrived at Qingshan Town in just two days.
Qingshan Town is not big, but it has beautiful scenery, beautiful mountains and clear waters, and clusters of flowers. It looks like a paradise. However, the further you go into the town, the more you can feel a sense of tension in the air. This Qingshan Town seems to be far from being as peaceful as it looks from the outside.
The pedestrians looked hurried, probably because they saw Lu Ming looked unfamiliar. They looked up at him and immediately became a little frightened. Before Lu Ming could react, they immediately turned around and ran away. They met several people in the same situation. Lu Ming was puzzled, wondering if his appearance had become so scary that everyone who saw him was scared and ran away collectively?
Lu Ming was full of doubts, and Ming Duo had become unusually silent since entering Qingshan Town. After a long time, he sighed and whispered, "It's been three hundred years, and this place has changed so much that I can hardly recognize it."
Lu Ming smiled faintly and said, "It is normal for characters to change. It is normal for you not to recognize them."
Mingduo recalled for a moment and said, "I remember there was a big locust tree in front of my house. I wonder if it is still there now."
Lu Ming nodded, and then he used his spiritual energy to fly forward. He met pedestrians in twos and threes on the road, and they didn't think it was strange to see him flying past. They glanced at him and hurriedly lowered their heads and ran away, looking panicked.
Lu Ming walked for a while, almost stepped on the entire Qingshan Town, and finally found the big locust tree that Ming Duo mentioned. And next to the locust tree, there was actually a big house, and the plaque above the house happened to have the two big characters "Ming Mansion" written on it, which looked vigorous and powerful, with a strong stroke.
Ming Duo was so excited that his voice trembled when he saw that his mansion had not disappeared for three hundred years. He choked up and said, "I can finally come back here. The words on this plaque were written by my grandfather... I don't know which kind-hearted person has kept this mansion for our Ming family."
Lu Ming said, "I see there is no dust on the plaque, the floor is clean, and the red paint on the gate is not completely dry. I think someone cleans it regularly."
Ming Duo was puzzled and said to himself, "It's strange. Three hundred years ago, more than a hundred people in the Ming Mansion were killed. Why do people still care about the Ming family so much?"
Just as the two were lost in thought, the gate of Ming Mansion was suddenly opened with a creaky sound. The two looked up and found that a young man dressed as a servant walked out of the mansion.
The servant obviously also noticed Lu Ming. His expression changed and he quickly retracted his steps and reached out to close the door.
Seeing this, Lu Ming immediately stretched out his finger and pointed at him. The boy was frozen in place. He screamed in shock and looked at Lu Ming with more fear. He cried out in a sobbing voice: "Help! Help!"
Lu Ming reluctantly stepped forward and softened his voice to soothe him, "Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person, just answer a few questions."
The servant saw Lu Ming dressed like a Taoist monk, and he looked like an immortal, with handsome eyebrows and eyes, and he didn't look like a bad guy. Although he was still a little afraid, he still trembled and said, "Master, ask whatever you want to say. I will tell you everything I know."
Lu Ming nodded, stretched out his hand and pointed at him, and the boy was able to move. He nodded and bowed hurriedly, saying, "What should I call this Taoist priest?"
Lu Ming said: "You don't have to call me Taoist priest, just call me Lu Ming. Let me ask you, what happened in Qingshan Town? Why do the people along the way look so nervous and in a hurry?"
Upon hearing this, the servant immediately explained, "Master, you don't know. This Qingshan Town has always been peaceful and happy. But unexpectedly, a month ago, several murders occurred one after another. Many people in the town had their souls sucked away for no reason. They died in a very tragic way, making everyone feel insecure. Later, the mayor was helpless, so he invited several Taoist priests to perform a ritual. Only then did he find out that it was a demon cultivator who did the good deed. Later, although dozens of Taoist priests came in succession, they were no match for the demon cultivator. People continued to die in the town, and even the Taoist priests lost their lives because of it."
Lu Ming pondered and said, "So, there should be other Taoists in Qingshan Town?"
The servant nodded, and then said, "Not long ago, several Taoist priests came again, but the leading Taoist priest demanded a thousand high-grade spirit stones, otherwise he would not help us catch the demon cultivator, and instead let the demon cultivator do what the devil wants. This Qingshan Town is full of small families, where would there be so many high-grade spirit stones? The mayor went door to door to collect money, and only managed to collect 400 high-grade spirit stones. The mayor went to the Taoist priest many times, hoping that he could delay for two days, but the Taoist priest was really mean and remained unmoved, and refused to agree to anything. Just last night, the kid from the Fang family was taken away by the demon cultivator again. He struggled for half an hour, and suddenly turned into a pool of blood and died, without even a corpse."
Lu Ming's face darkened, and he was indignant. Let's not talk about the demon cultivator for now. In such a matter of life and death, the Taoist priest actually had such a despicable behavior. He was not only greedy for money, but also cruel and inhumane. He was simply a shame to the entire cultivation world. No wonder the people in the town were so repulsive and afraid of him when they saw him along the way. I think they also hated him as a cultivator.
At this moment, 233 suddenly rushed out from the space, jumped to Luming's shoulder, and said excitedly while wagging his tail: "Master, this is a good opportunity to increase your domineering value. Hurry up and take on this task!"
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