Chapter 228 Red Kite Seeks Jade (Part Two)
Three months later.
Wangyue Islands, northern part.
The shop where magical artifacts were forged was bustling with people, as blacksmiths were scarce and cultivators had to form long queues.
A pair of silver wristbands covered in black bone were handed to the shopkeeper behind the counter.
The shopkeeper was a demon cultivator with rabbit ears drooping behind his head. His round eyes stared at the wristbands for a long time before he looked up at their owner, who appeared to be in his early twenties. The man was handsome and dressed in a striking red robe, but his cultivation level was deeply hidden, making it impossible to detect. His icy aura made him seem very unapproachable. The shopkeeper cautiously asked, "Guest, would you like to cultivate or cultivate smelting?"
“Repair it,” Wei Feng said calmly.
The shopkeeper's rabbit ears twitched, and he hissed, carefully transmitting his voice: "Guest, your wristbands are made of the divine artifact Netherworld Bone. They can't withstand the evil energy on them, and the cracks will only increase in the future. You might as well just replace them with better ones."
Wei Feng frowned slightly: "Just tell me if it can be repaired."
Not wanting to cause trouble, the boss said politely, "Please wait a moment, I'll go to the back and see if there are any materials."
Wei Feng could only wait patiently. The cultivators queuing behind him were talking in twos and threes. With his current cultivation level, he could hear every word they said.
"Hey, have you heard? It seems the Jiang family is planning to move the temple back to Pingze, they don't seem to mind the trouble."
"Who dares to complain about the trouble? The Jiang family is now the only one in power. I heard that Jiang Xiangyun broke through again a few days ago and has reached the Great Perfection of the Taiyi Realm. He will soon reach the Daluo Realm. With such a high level of cultivation and holding most of the Wangyue Temple in his hands, he can do whatever he wants."
"That's not quite right. In that battle seventeen years ago, Jiang Yinzhong and several other family heads, including Jing Cang, perished while trying to kill Xiao Dan. Jiang Xiangyun and Lin Feibai also contributed. It's only right that the temple got a larger share. If it weren't for them, we wouldn't even be able to touch the divine artifacts now, and the spiritual energy would be monopolized by Wangyue..."
"Hmph, who knows if it won't become the next Yanyutai?"
"You're heartless to say that. There are still so many temples around, and the Jiang family didn't go through with their ten-story buildings and eight pavilions. In my opinion, they will definitely not repeat the same mistakes."
"Recently, Pingze set up a ranking list for cultivators, and have you heard of someone named Hu Jingchen on it? Good heavens, he's only so young, yet he's already reached the Taiyi Realm. Is this even fair?"
"Those inside are all people with celestial spiritual roots. They're called geniuses. If we try to compete with them, we're all doomed."
"That's not necessarily true. In the battle of Wangyue, it was Jiang Qi who ultimately killed Xiao Dan. He only had four spiritual roots at the beginning."
"That guy is ruthless. He forcibly transformed four spiritual roots into a single spiritual root and cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness to the True Immortal Realm. I heard he killed Xiao Dan's demigod with a single strike..."
"So many powerful figures like Jiang Yinzhong couldn't kill him, can Jiang Qi really kill Xiao Dan?"
"He finally channeled his divine power into his dantian. Logically speaking, with so many Great Luo Realm cultivators like Jiang Yinzhong and so many people helping him, Xiao Dan, who only had a Nascent Soul stage, might not be a match for him. But damn it, this guy doesn't follow the rules. He used all his divine power. Jiang Yinzhong and the others used spiritual power to fight him, which was no match for them. However, it still wore him down quite a bit. That's why Jiang Qi was able to finally channel his divine power to kill his Nascent Soul stage. Otherwise, with Jiang Gu being only a True Immortal Realm cultivator, even if he could use divine power, he wouldn't be able to kill him... But to be fair, Jiang Qi is really ruthless. Despite his young age and low cultivation level, he has done some earth-shattering things."
"So what? He's dead now, isn't he? He didn't get a share of the temple's artifacts," someone laughed.
A chilling pressure suddenly enveloped his head, and the man's face changed, but he was unable to move. Those around him sensed the danger and fled. He looked at the red-clad man standing at the front with a pale face and said with trembling lips, "Fellow Daoist...please have mercy. I had no intention of offending you."
But then the red-robed cultivator turned around and stared coldly at him: "Who did you say died?"
"Jiang, Jiang Qi..." he answered truthfully, but saw that the other party's killing intent grew even stronger.
A fearless bystander watched the spectacle and whispered, "Is that him? Jiang Gu's apprentice?"
"I heard they've been looking for Jiang Qi for over a decade but haven't found him."
"Are you crazy...?"
"Who knows if he's an apprentice? I heard there's something going on between them, tsk."
Suddenly struck by a flash of inspiration, the cultivator quickly changed his words, saying, "No, no, Young Master Jiang Qi has only gone missing! You are magnanimous! Young Master Jiang Qi is certainly safe and sound!"
"roll."
The oppressive aura dissipated, and the cultivator ran away with a pale face. Wei Feng coldly looked around, and the gossiping cultivators who had been watching the spectacle scattered in all directions.
The shopkeeper then carefully came out with the wristband, saying nervously, "Fellow Daoist, the warehouse is out of materials. You can look further north."
His drooping rabbit ears were almost standing up in fright. He carefully pushed the damaged wristband to Wei Feng, afraid that Wei Feng would eat him in a fit of rage. Jiang Qi's apprentice had a bad reputation. It was said that he was violent and loved to eat human flesh and blood and devour human souls. He was an absolute monster. He had been searching for Jiang Qi in Wangyue for many years like a madman and had long been possessed by demons.
"Thank you." Wei Feng took the wristband, nodded to him, and turned to leave.
The shop owner was sweating profusely. He immediately went back to the shop and closed it, preparing to go to Pyeongtaek to hide for a few years and avoid trouble. Who knows if this madman still holds a grudge against him?
Wei Feng has undergone several tribulations without making a sound, and people outside still don't know his exact cultivation level. Countless people have come to cause him trouble.
Most of them were drawn by Jiang Gu's name. After all, Jiang Gu's killing of Xiao Dan made him famous in the cultivation world. However, the outside world had long assumed that Jiang Gu was dead. The Jiang family was powerful and influential, and no one dared to provoke them. In the end, they could only turn to Wei Feng to try and seize Jiang Gu's famous magical artifacts: the Crimson Snow Sword, the Ink Jade Bracelet, the Fire Rope, and the Hooked Chen Hairpin. These artifacts were not high-level magical artifacts except for the Ink Jade Bracelet. In fact, even the Ink Jade Bracelet, a divine artifact, was not even a Heavenly Rank artifact. But because of Jiang Gu's name, they became famous and convinced that these items were incredibly powerful.
Jiang Gu had left him all these things, and they still wanted to take them. Wei Feng went from being furious at the beginning to calming down later. If they dared to take them, he dared to kill them. Anyway, he was not afraid of becoming infamous.
As expected, he hadn't gone far when someone, oblivious to his surroundings, blocked his path.
"Hand over the Jade Bracelet and the Crimson Snow Sword!" The other party came aggressively, with more than a dozen Golden Immortal cultivators behind them, and they also carried several divine artifacts that were many times better than the Jade Bracelet.
Wei Feng was a little down because he hadn't fixed the wrist guard. He glanced at them, then walked straight past them and said, "Get lost."
"Young Master Jiang Qi has already fallen. How dare you, a monster, try to seize his belongings?!" someone cursed at him.
Wei Feng said calmly, "I am his disciple. If he doesn't give it to me, should I give it to you?"
Someone sneered: "Who knows if he's a disciple? You've been kidnapped by Wangyue's people for years, maybe you've been in cahoots with them for a long time. Seventh Young Master is a ruthless Daoist, how dare you, a lowly Six Desires Daoist, think you can be his disciple? Look at how many disciples related to Seventh Young Master have appeared in Pingze and Wangyue now! What do you think you are!"
Wei Feng was puzzled. When Jiang Gu was still alive, they sneered at him, but after Jiang Gu killed Xiao Dan and disappeared, he was praised by everyone and became a selfless and fearless hero who was willing to sacrifice himself to light the way for future generations, just like Jiang Yinzhong and his group of old bastards... What utter bullshit!
Jiang Gu was trying to avoid being controlled by Xiao Dan. At most, he and Wei Feng had absolutely no connection with these shady characters. But they clearly didn't think that way. They even started to distort Jiang Gu's past, saying that he seemed ruthless but actually cared for the common people, that he had taken in dozens of disciples, that he sacrificed Gu Qinghui to kill Xiao Dan, and some even claimed that he was Jiang Gu's former Daoist partner... As for him, the real disciple and Daoist partner, he had become an insignificant monster by Jiang Gu's side.
At first, Wei Feng was killing relentlessly, wanting to wipe out everyone who fabricated these stories. However, he gradually discovered that rumors were endless, and people only believed what they wanted to believe.
But it doesn't matter, he'll kill them one by one.
A thick fog rose out of nowhere, invisible ghostly patterns covered the sky and earth, screams filled the air, and blood splattered all over the ground.
Half an hour later, Wei Feng's red clothes had deepened in color. He stepped out from the broken bones and rotten flesh, made a water-drawing spell, and casually dusted off the fragments of primordial spirit on his sleeve.
"See, you've fallen into demonic possession..."
"It was an evil creature to begin with..."
"madman……"
"Jiang Gu might have been killed by him..."
"He's jumping around here, and he doesn't even know if Jiang Qi recognizes him."
"Jiang Qi is long dead..."
Whispers drifted from afar, and a fierce and chilling aura instantly enveloped the entire city, finally silencing the chattering crowd.
Wei Feng looked down at the dark jade bracelet on his wrist, wiped away the bloodstains, but could not suppress the increasingly sharp murderous intent and empty rage in his chest.
...I want to crush all these people.
It's clearly his.
——
Three more months passed.
The Mirror Flower Scroll is already a flawed divine artifact.
Wei Feng sat on the Crimson Snow Sword, with drifting clouds around him, wetting his brightly colored sleeves. He was like a fiery red cloud floating in the sky, looking down at the tattered Mirror Flower Scroll in his hand, his peripheral vision sweeping over the city below the clouds.
This city was newly built more than a decade ago. It has no temple and even has very little spiritual energy. However, there are countless sealing formations pressing down on the city. Tens of thousands of cultivators in the city are the guardians of these formations. The Jiang family, the Linglong Sect, the Zhou family, the Lin family... They have repeatedly reinforced Jiang Yinzhong's sealing formations in order to prevent Xiao Dan from making a comeback. However, this also completely cuts off the possibility of going to Chenyao. But Pingze Continent has never been connected with Chenyao, so it has no impact on them.
With the collapse of the boundary village, the number of cultivators from other races has increased in recent years. Wei Feng looked at the few little flower fairies around him who were flapping their wings and absorbing his overflowing spiritual energy, but he ignored them. His current cultivation level was high enough to conceal his figure at will. Over the years, he had refined several divine statues and had countless divine artifacts in his hands, but the one he used most often was the Crimson Snow Sword.
He sank his primordial spirit into the Purple Palace.
Pushing open the door, the person lying on the bed was breathing lightly, surrounded by clean and clear pale golden spiritual energy. Wei Feng had a fire spiritual root, and it was very difficult for him to collect and maintain this spiritual energy, but he enjoyed it nonetheless.
More than a decade has passed. Wei Feng has accumulated clean spiritual energy during his several tribulations and carefully sent it into Jiang Gu's dantian. Jiang Gu's injuries have long since healed, and even his old ailments and chronic illnesses caused by frequent distractions have been cleared away. His meridians have also been nourished by spiritual energy, making him look no different from a living person, and his appearance is even better than before.
Wei Feng sat on the edge of the bed, took his still warm hand, and kissed it.
When Jiang Gu was still alive, Wei Feng rarely looked at his master so closely. He always knew that Jiang Gu was extremely handsome, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and a tall stature. Especially his face, with its clear and cold eyes, straight nose, and extremely beautiful lips. It is no exaggeration to say that Jiang Gu was the most handsome person he had ever seen. Even the immortals in heaven could not compare to him. He was just lying here quietly, and his beauty was breathtaking.
But Wei Feng rarely dared to look at it before.
Perhaps because Jiang Gu's aura is so strong, people tend to subconsciously overlook his appearance.
What impressed him even more was Jiang Gu's cold gaze, the oppressive aura, the chilling killing intent, the bloody aura surrounding him, and his unhurried scheming at all times. It was Jiang Gu's haughty arrogance and disregard for everything that made people feel inexplicably at ease whenever he appeared.
He missed Jiang Gu scolding him with a dark face, teaching him a lesson without mercy, awkwardly patting his back, stiffly touching his head with his wrist, domineeringly and forcefully pressing him into his arms, protecting him from behind, or the fleeting smile in his eyes and the reserved corners of his mouth... He would hit him, scold him, scheme against him, but also protect him, take care of him, and love him in a way that contradicted his true feelings.
Rather than a beautiful and quiet shell.
Wei Feng lay down beside Jiang Gu, carefully pulling him into his arms, burying his head in the crook of Jiang Gu's neck, inhaling Jiang Gu's fading scent, and whispered to him, "Master, I've broken through to the Great Luo Realm after my tribulation, isn't that amazing?"
"It hurt so much when I was struck by lightning, but I didn't even cry." He told Jiang Gu with some pride, "I was counting, but I fainted when I got to sixty-something... I woke up quickly. There were some bastards around who wanted to take the opportunity to ambush me, but I dealt with them all. I didn't eat their primordial spirits. The primordial spirits of these ordinary cultivators are not enough to fill my stomach. I ate a lot of divine artifacts, which are very hard to digest."
“My wrist guard is torn at one corner, and now the White Bone Gate is gone. I don’t know how to repair it. Master, please remember to fix it for me when you come back.”
"My clothes are torn, and I've been saving them so I haven't dared to wear them during my tribulation. Master, you're so thoughtful, why didn't you leave me a few more sets of clothes? Wangyue doesn't even have a decent shop for robes right now..."
“This ring is a bit too dark. I’d like to change it to a shark scale one, but I’m afraid it won’t look good.” Wei Feng raised his hand to show him. He held it up for a while, probably thinking that Jiang Gu had seen it, before lowering his hand and putting his arm around Jiang Gu’s waist, hugging him even tighter. “I lost my hairband. I’ve been looking for it for days and still can’t find it.”
“Master, there’s a technique I can’t seem to learn. I’ve seen you use it before, and it looks so simple… But I’m not very bright. I’ve been trying to learn it for months, but I’m too afraid to use it when I’m fighting with others, for fear they’ll laugh at me.”
"Master, how exactly did you draw the calming talisman you used to draw between my eyebrows? I haven't been able to sleep well in ages. And what about the pain-relieving magic circle? I don't know how to do it. When I asked others, they said there's no such magic circle at all. They're all ancient people who've lived for hundreds of years, they're so ignorant..."
“I can control my ghost patterns now, Master. Did I not tell you before that sometimes those ghost patterns are completely uncontrollable? I was terrified every time. I wanted to tell you but I was afraid you wouldn’t let me use the ghost patterns to entangle you. But now it’s all good. The ghost patterns can become invisible. You can’t see them at all, but you can touch them.”
He manipulated the transparent ghost patterns to quietly wrap around Jiang Gu's wrist, grabbed Jiang Gu's hand, touched his own head, and remained silent for a long time.
“I’m really good,” he said.
Jiang Gu's hand fell limply to his side. Wei Feng intertwined his fingers with Jiang Gu's and placed the hand on his heart, whispering with a smile, "Master, can you kiss me?"
Jiang Gu didn't answer. He held Jiang Gu's chin, leaned in and gently kissed the corner of Jiang Gu's mouth. He stared intently at Jiang Gu's closed eyes, hoping and pleading that he would open them and look at him. He smiled and said to Jiang Gu, "Master, don't sleep. Open your eyes and look at me, please."
The smile in his eyes gradually faded, and the corners of his mouth were forced into a stiff arc. He stared intently at Jiang Gu for a long time before letting go and pulling him back into his arms.
“I’ve searched all over Wangyue, but I can’t find you.” He lowered his head and kissed the top of Jiang Gu’s head, his voice finally filled with a hint of grievance and helplessness. “Master, I can’t find you, what should I do? Master… please help me.”
"They all bully me when you're not around."
The only response he received was a long, endless silence.
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