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Chapter 461: 461, [The Most Special Foreign Race]
Chapter 461: 461, [The Most Special Foreign Race]
Chapter 461: 461, [The Most Special Foreign Race]
The Great Priest felt a wave of shock surge through him as he listened to the words of the Supreme Lord!
“No Blood Covenant!? How could there be no Blood Covenant in his bloodline!” The Great Priest’s pupils widened, his face full of shock.
Immediately after, as if he had thought of something, the Great Priest couldn’t help but say, “Supreme Lord, could it be that the Junior Priest is…”
The gigantic black figure raised its hand to signify no need for further words.
With his palm lowered, the towering shadow nodded, tacitly confirming the Great Priest’s guess.
The Great Priest took a deep breath, trying to calm his heart for a while, but still found it difficult to be at peace.
He could never have imagined that the old youth in his eyes was the most unique among all.
The Great Priest couldn’t help but glance at the silhouette of the Supreme Lord. It should be noted that even the Supreme Lord had a Blood Covenant in his bloodline!
Of course, now he understood why the Supreme Lord was so concerned about the Junior Priest.
Since he didn’t have a Blood Covenant, they indeed needed to do everything possible to find him.
Being a non-cultivator and without a Blood Covenant, falling into the hands of the Heavenly Dust Cultivators would significantly impact us!
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In the back mountain of the Demon Sect, Lu Xun arrived at his previous closed cave, bringing with him the Junior Priest.
Theoretically, as a captive, he should be thrown directly on the ground.
However, seeing his body, identical to that of a doddering old man, Lu Xun was indeed afraid that he might throw away his half-life with a casual toss.
With his physical condition, there’s no need for severe torture!
With one application of a torture device, he would collapse on the spot, and then what could be inquired!
“But fortunately, I have other alternatives.” Lu Xun said to himself.
It doesn’t matter to him whether the body is good or not, as long as your mental state is not too bad.
After laying down the Junior Priest, Lu Xun saw no panic or tension on his face. Instead, he was watching him with interest.
Lu Xun wanted to ask, “What are you looking at?”
After a while, he heard the Junior Priest sincerely exclaim, “Rumors say that you are very handsome, and today I indeed see it.”
Lu Xun had already become indifferent to such compliments. However, from the Junior Priest’s expression and tone, he could sense a hint of melancholy.
Understandable, considering his real age was less than 20, he should be in the prime of his youth, still just a young man.
But now, he was nothing more than skin and bones, with silver hair and wrinkles covering his face, even age spots were visible on his body.
Still not having lived his youth, he had grown old.
This remineded Lu Xun of a phrase:
[The tragedy of the elderly is not that their bodies grow old, but that their hearts remain young.]
Through the Junior Priest’s clear, innocent eyes, Lu Xun could see this.
Looking at this old youth, he asked, “I’m curious, when the Third Brother was going to take you away, why did you surrender so easily?”
“Because there’s no point,” the Junior Priest said.
He elegantly sat down cross-legged, looked at Lu Xun, and said, “I am fundamentally useless, besides prediction, I am good for nothing.”
He continued to explain, “If I were to rely on divination, when calculating your Third Brother’s move, I couldn’t have avoided the master who sent him.”
“So, what I actually need to calculate, is the master.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Xun asked, “So you couldn’t figure out the master?”
The Junior Priest smiled and said, “To be precise, the master could figure me out first.”
Having heard this, Lu Xun kind of understood.
Given this situation, any action the Junior Priest could have taken would be futile. He probably calculated countless times, and the outcome was always captivity, then why not… simply give up?
Even if the Junior Priest explained this way, Lu Xun still didn’t understand.
“Putting myself in his shoes, if I were the Junior Priest, I would still refuse to surrender, and at the last minute, cause a disturbance to see what happens.” Lu Xun figured most people would do the same, a bit like a cornered beast still knowing to struggle.
After all, it’s about one’s own life, it’s challenging to be indifferent and give up.
Look again at him, riding a giant snake, surrendering himself to the Third Brother, even said: “I have waited for you a long time.”
For some reason, Lu Xun found this guy to be a total sicko!
The Junior Priest sat cross-legged, his back not straight, slightly hunching over and looked up at Lu Xun, asking, “Was it you who destroyed the altar in the Three Thousand Mountains?”
Lu Xun didn’t answer him, instead he thought to himself, “Sorry, I’ve destroyed quite a few more that you can’t even imagine.”
Seeing that Lu Xun wasn’t responding, the Junior Priest didn’t much care. The man didn’t seem to realize he’d been taken hostage and continued to ask, “How did you break Yin Tian’s Blood Covenant, or to be more precise… have you really broken it?”
Lu Xun looked at him, and said coldly, “You sure talk a lot.”
The Junior Priest carelessly laughed and said, “It’s because I’m curious.”
“Your curiosity should consider your current predicament,” Lu Xun retorted coldly.
The Junior Priest softly coughed twice, then spoke with his aged voice, “For a doomed man, there’s really not much else to worry about.”
“Oh? You claim to be an expert in divination, do you also know when you’re going to die?” Lu Xun asked.
“Yes, I do. Tomorrow,” the Junior Priest replied.
Lu Xun: “…”
What the hell, if this white-haired youth isn’t bluffing, he’s going to die way sooner than I did when I played “Heavenly Dust” in my previous life!
At this point, Lu Xun couldn’t be bothered chatting with him. His eyes shifted subtly. Anyone looking into Lu Xun’s eyes would quickly become entranced!
—[Charm]!
The Junior Priest locked eyes with Lu Xun for a moment, but his lone eye remained clear, with not a hint of change.
“That really is a remarkable technique, but it’s useless against me,” the Junior Priest coughed a few times and spoke out.
Lu Xun was shocked. How was it that his technique could fail against a person with no cultivation base like this Junior Priest?
How could it be!?
Just yesterday when he was teasing Mao Nanbei, he had used [Charm] on Mao Nanbei – who had transformed into a small black cat – and it worked perfectly!
It worked on a formidable being from the sixth stage, but failed against a man on the brink of death with no cultivation base!?
Even though Lu Xun was astonished, it didn’t show on his face.
As the top male idol of Heavenly Dust Continent, he was a master at managing his expressions.
Looking at Lu Xun, the Junior Priest appeared surprised, and said, “I hadn’t noticed before, but when you tried to use your technique just now, I could sense [Primordial Power] from you.”
“Someone can actually absorb [Primordial Power]!?” the Junior Priest remarked in astonishment.
Lu Xun suddenly felt that this interrogation subject was somewhat tricky to handle.
Neither the second priest nor the Great Sacrificial Rite’s Avatar had noticed that Lu Xun harbored the [Primordial Power], yet this powerless Junior Priest had.
“It seems his Divine Sense is vast. [Charm] is a kind of spiritual attack, he can keep himself immune to it!” Lu Xun came to a conclusion in his mind.
“You don’t quite seem like a member of the Foreign Race,” said Lu Xun casually as he looked at the Junior Priest.
The Junior Priest indeed differed from all other Foreign Race members he had encountered.
He had no malicious aura, and he was calm.
Upon hearing the words, the Junior Priest smiled and said, “Indeed, I’m different from them all.”
“Hmm?” Lu Xun quickly noticed something else in his words.
Still hunched over, the Junior Priest’s finger rested on his knee while he gently tapped his index finger and then, he finally said, “I really didn’t want to say anything, but since I’ve sensed [Primordial Power] in you, I’ve changed my mind.”
“What do you want to say?” Lu Xun stared at him.
“Some things you couldn’t possibly get out of others during an interrogation,” the Junior Priest said with a laugh.
“Oh? So, you don’t have a Blood Covenant?” Lu Xun asked.
“Correct,” responded the Junior Priest calmly.
“What!?”
The Junior Priest watched as Lu Xun’s face finally lost its calm. He continued smiling, but his voice held a touch of sympathetic empathy, “Lu Xun, you and I, we are alike.”
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(PS: the second update, another chapter coming soon?)