usatvline Chapter 585 - 184: Eldest Son of the Taiyang Goddess, Receives the Talisman Seed, Destroys the Ghost Realm
Chapter 585 - 184: Eldest Son of the Taiyang Goddess, Receives the Talisman Seed, Destroys the Ghost Realm
Then, anything that might cause his death... must die.
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At the end of March, spring rain drizzled onto the small town.
In the solitary forest, there were two desolate graves.
One was inscribed with "Grave of my late master Li Yu."
The other was inscribed with "Grave of my father Tang Chou."
In the tranquil forest, a sinister wind suddenly blew, and a burly figure emerged from the woods, revealing the fleshy face of a woman in the daylight.
Zhao Chunxin carried the Ghost Head Blade on her back, holding two jars of fine wine, and beside the graves, she patted open the seals on the jars with two slaps.
She poured the wine before Li Yu’s grave, then grabbed the jar and poured some on Tang Chou’s grave beside it.
After pouring, Zhao Chunxin bowed respectfully and said, "Teacher, I have come to see you again. You would never have imagined that back in the day, even a little chubby who could barely master the Crescent Blade, would one day become Fifth Grade, right?"
Though she spoke with pride, there wasn’t a hint of a smile on her face, only... bitterness.
The rain and wine mingled at the corner of her thick lips, while a trace of loneliness appeared in her eyes.
"Teacher, you wouldn’t have imagined that I’m now the Sword Master of the Jue Dao Palace among the three small palace masters of Wendao Palace..."
"My Wendao Palace has many people, and its influence is vast..."
"There are countless experts, and resources are abundant..."
"Disciple is truly happy.
You must be happy in the afterlife too.
Right?"
Though she said she was happy, she revealed an increasingly self-mocking smile.
The wine flowed more, a jar down.
Zhao Chunxin steadied the edge of the jar with one hand, muttering, "Good wine, good wine..."
This wine contained Heart-Burning Flower.
Such herbs, the past Zhao Chunxin couldn’t afford to use, but now she could use freely.
Because she was now one of the three small palace masters of Wendao Palace, and the other two were people of the Lotus Sect.
Suddenly, the woman with the fleshy face began to cry.
"I broke through to Fifth Grade, and they told me the truth. They made me realize that Wendao Palace is nothing more than a pig farm!"
"They asked if I wanted to trade life for justice, or use power for the future?"
"Disciple told them, disciple... disciple wants power for the future..."
"Hahaha!!"
Zhao Chunxin laughed madly to the sky, then grabbed the jar, tilted her head back, and drank the remaining wine. While choking and drinking, she said, "Still like the taste from thirty years ago, still that taste, hahaha!"
After laughing, her head tilted suddenly to the side, and she fell, starting to snore.
Spring rain, Swordman, drunk... fell asleep.
And on the branch, a hopping sparrow was watching her.
Soon, a ghostly figure floated out, fingers slightly moving, wrapping an invisible thread around her, then gently placing two bouquets of white flowers before the tombstones.
The figure bowed gently to the tombstone, looked silently once more at the sleeping Swordman, then turned and left.
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The figure was indeed Li Yuan.
After Li Yuan left, he soon became just another ordinary person on Shanbao Street.
When he reached Shanbao County’s North Gate, it was near dusk.
He walked out the gate, heading towards Wendao Palace.
Along the way, he saw a disciple walking with a Black Lotus Robe, holding an umbrella.
This disciple was chatting with another beside him.
From their conversation, Li Yuan learned they were en route to Miracle Beast Valley for a shift change.
Therefore, Li Yuan raised his hand.
In his hand, the silent Sword Qi gathered.
The Sword Qi stretched for miles; he gently slashed, cutting off a few strands of a female disciple’s hair.
The female disciple didn’t notice.
The hair drifted with the wind, and just as it was about to land, a Flying Bird swooped down, grabbed it, and soared skywards again, eventually landing in Li Yuan’s nearby hand.
Li Yuan repeated the same method to collect some hair and then, at night, went into a forest where no one would come to gather information about Miracle Beast Valley and Wendao Palace.
Flying Birds, long-distance Sword Qi, combined with the White Wooden Box, Human World Transformation, formed a strong information network for him.
After several days of observation, he fully understood the shift change patterns, patrol patterns, and even the names and strengths of the top experts.
Therefore, a month later, he chose the time when the weakest overseer was on duty, disguised as a duty disciple to enter Miracle Beast Valley, and while feeding the Exotic Beasts, lightly took away their "Talisman Seeds."
As for the duty disciple that day, he used "Human Skin Handcuffs" to write the fate of "an accidental death."
Only after thoroughly understanding the disciple did Li Yuan give him a simple directive: hide outside for a night without telling anyone as if he had completed a normal shift; afterward, while sorting poisons for the Black Lotus Sect, accidentally knocked over a deadly poison, unintentionally touching the skin, causing instant death.
During this time, he repeated the process, entered Wendao Palace again, and took the Talisman Seeds of those luckless crazed but untransported Sixth Grade disciples.
Once the Talisman Seeds entered his body, they seemed legalized, and those crazed disciples quickly calmed down, closed their eyes, and fell into a coma.
By daylight, these disciples would find themselves fortunate like "Palace Master Zhao" and "Instructor Yang," not leaving Wendao Palace, but becoming new instructors, and perhaps... future palace masters.
Li Yuan, like an invisible man, came and completed the task, yet no one knew.
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After harvesting the Talisman Seeds, he moved his fingers slightly and returned to Chenxi Manor.