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Chapter 462: 462, [Stunning Twist?] (Third Update Supplementary)
Chapter 462: 462, [Stunning Twist?] (Third Update Supplementary)
Chapter 462: 462, [Stunning Twist?] (Third Update Supplementary)
“He! Is! Talking! What! Nonsense!?” Lu Xun thought word by word.
He and I are of the same kind?
And he doesn’t even possess the obligatory [Blood Pact] that Foreign Races should have?
Lu Xun’s first reaction was, “The old man is tricking me! ”
As for whether he actually does not possess the [Blood Pact], he would know upon testing.
The major concern was what he meant by saying that he and I were of the same kind.?
“So you mean to tell me that you are also a transmigrator?” Lu Xun expressed his disbelief.
“Hold on!” A possibility suddenly flashed through Lu Xun’s mind.
No Blood Pact and claims that we are of the same kind. Could it be that the Junior Priest is not from the Foreign Race; is he a native of Heavenly Dust Continent?
Is he… an undercover agent?!
Deep undercover for years on end, and the boy even became a priest!
Lu Xun thought about it for a while, then calmed himself down. He decided to go along with what the enemy was saying and listen to it first.
“Go ahead; continue reading your lines.” Lu Xun said with equanimity.
The Junior Priest seemed to find it a bit hard to sit with his legs crossed. His already crooked back bent even more. He coughed a few times; compared to his earlier light cough, it was a bit deeper now.
After coughing for a while, he lifted his head to look at Lu Xun. The first sentence that came out of his mouth made Lu Xun frown.
“To be exact, I am not a Foreign Race as you perceive.”
Looking at the Junior Priest whose demeanor was different from those of other Foreign Races, Lu Xun strangely, found his words believable.
“Are you still a native of Heavenly Dust Continent?” Lu Xun scrutinized him and asked.
“Yes, but also no,” the Junior Priest replied calmly and laughed.
Before Lu Xun could answer, the Junior Priest continued, “Lu Xun, you probably know once under the same circumstances during the Ancient Times.”
Lu Xun nodded, said in a light tone, “Go on.”
“Have you ever thought about it? The same Foreign Races that you speak of, although defeated, must have taken some people from the Heavenly Dust Continent when they retreated, right?” the Junior Priest asked.
“Are you saying that your ancestors were taken by the Foreign Race, and you were born among the Foreign Race yet a Heavenly Dust person?” Lu Xun raised his eyebrows.
“That’s not exactly right either.” The Junior Priest waved his hand, “At our place, Heavenly Dust people cannot survive, to be precise, Heavenly Dust individuals can’t even make it through the sacrificial altar while alive.”
“What are you trying to say?” The creases between Lu Xun’s eyebrows deepened.
The Junior Priest looked at him and calmly said, “Heavenly Dust people can neither survive nor traverse the altar alive. As such, the ones taken back were naturally all deceased.”
He raised his thin right hand, pointed at himself with his index finger and began to speak, “And I…”
“—Have risen from the dead.”
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“What?!”
Lu Xun felt a headache coming on.
He had anticipated that questioning the Junior Priest would be intense but hadn’t thought it would be this intense!
In his original plan, he would use [Charm] to prise open the Junior Priest’s mouth and get some useful information out of him.
Critical details would definitely be unattainable due to the Blood Pact, but he should be able to glean a bit of something.
Then he would reveal some of the information he knew, like how he had hinted at the truth with Yin Tian during the “Corpse Whip,” and tell others these were things he found out from questioning the Junior Priest.
That was how things were supposed to go.
But he hadn’t expected the Junior Priest, who was supposed to be playing a supporting role, to steal the scene!
The words that came out of his mouth left Lu Xun dumbfounded.
“How can a dead person resurrect?!” Lu Xun said coldly.
“In your Heavenly Dust continent, aren’t there many Anomalies who can resurrect after dying?” the Junior Priest retorted.
Lu Xun remained silent, but he was clear in his heart that foolish players differed.
For starters, at least they were summoned to the Heavenly Dust Continent and were not natives, nor were they born from the womb of a Heavenly Dust person.
The Junior Priest looked at Lu Xun and said: “But you’re right; I’m not exactly risen from the dead. You can understand it as my consciousness was born in a Heavenly Dust person’s corpse.”
As he spoke, his face took on a complicated expression, then he slowly said: “I was… created by my god.”
If it were merely a corpse developing consciousness, Lu Xun would not be surprised. That was practically similar to a zombie, and Lu Xun had once stabbed a mother zombie outside Qingling City; he had gotten a Yin Bead from her.
But usually, consciousness born out of a corpse was similar to ghosts, not so disorderly, but nevertheless simple-minded.
It was clear that the Junior Priest before him was anything but simple-minded.
On the contrary, every word and action from him made Lu Xun feel that he was in dire need of a lie detector right now.
Apparently guessing Lu Xun’s doubts, the Junior Priest said, “Perhaps you don’t trust me, but in my life, I’ve never told a lie.”
Lu Xun no longer wanted to think in depth. The more he did, the more exhausted he would feel. He decided to listen to the story for now.
He looked at the Junior Priest and said coldly, “You said I’m the same kind as you? Hmph, I’m not the sort of person who can resurrect from the dead.”
The Junior Priest coughed a few more times, his cough sounding rather heart-wrenching.
He looked at Lu Xun with clear eyes, and said, “Your reputation in the Heavenly Dust Continent is well-known. I don’t need to scout to know about you.”
“As far as I know, before you joined the Demon Sect, you leaped from Lead Peak.” The Junior Priest said in his aged voice.
Lu Xun was stunned. He asked, “So what?”
“A person without cultivation capabilities leaped from Lead Peak and survived, eventually brought in by Master himself. Also, considering the strands of [Primordial Power] in you, I am almost certain — Lu Xun, you and I, we’re of the same kind.” The Junior Priest’s eyes gleamed faintly and there was a youthful enthusiasm in his voice for the first time.
Lu Xun, “…..”
“Is that what you think?” Lu Xun pondered.
You thought that the real Lu Xun had already perished when he fell off the cliff, but I was the consciousness created by the Master, just as your god created you in a Heavenly Dust person’s body?
Seems quite logical at first glance…
Was the incident of leaping from Lead Peak, really such a marvelous foreshadow?!
Did you just say, I survived jumping off the cliff because I had multiple lives, and the [Primordial Power] in me that’s linked to your Foreign Race is because I damaged a half-finished altar where there was a pearl that hadn’t fully fused, and then I absorbed the pearl.
Of course, he would never tell the Junior Priest such things.
Meanwhile, he caught another detail.
The Junior Priest mentioned [Primordial Power]several times.
He thought I was in the same boat as him, and I was of the same kind with [Primordial Power], perhaps was a significant reason.
The Junior Priest looked at Lu Xun, whose face didn’t change color and said, “You seem to be unknowledgeable of what [Primordial Power] is?”
Lu Xun didn’t answer.
Because if he answered that he knew, he might be caught in a loop, and answering that he didn’t know would be uncool.
All the same, the Junior Priest was happy to find a “peer”. He seemed quite eager to talk.
After all, he was only a teenager in his teens.
And how did he figure it out?
Because the Junior Priest kept coughing so hard he felt like he was going to cough out a lung, yet he insisted on continuing the conversation…
The Junior Priest had another violent bout of coughing, and his face grew paler. Lu Xun was afraid he might accidentally cough himself to death.
After his coughing ceased, he calmed down himself before continuing:
“[Primordial Power] is the supreme power, the most mysterious power. In the terms of your Heavenly Dust Continent, you can understand it as, [Primordial Power] is the … Power of Heavenly Path in our Foreign Race!”
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(This is the third update~)