Chapter 1302: Double-Skin Milk

Double-Skin Milk

Sun Bumian and the other two sat down at the round table with blank expressions on their faces.

At this time, Teacher Ye, who had been waiting outside the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake, also slowly walked into the pavilion. Seeing him, The Blind Man waved to a guard behind him:

"Add a seat for this gentleman."

When Teacher Ye saw The Blind Man, he still bowed very respectfully. He knew that this blind man before him was the confidant who had always been by the Lord of the South Sea's side.

"Thank you, Senior."

"There is no need to be polite. The Integration Faction will still have to rely on your care in the future."

Teacher Ye nodded and sat down at the end of the round table.

As everyone took their seats, the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake, which was originally somewhat lively, suddenly quieted down.

Jian Changsheng shot a look at Sun Bumian: Diamonds, don't you know them? Didn't you say Hearts arranged this?

Sun Bumian: I don't know! I haven't seen either of these two people before!

Jiang Xiaohua was beside them, his eyes staring straight at the table full of dishes, swallowing his saliva wildly.

Just as Sun Bumian was frantically thinking about how to start the conversation, Teacher Ye, who had just sat down to the side, let his gaze fall on the three young men, and a pleasant surprise suddenly surfaced in his eyes!

"Are the three of you also friends of Mister Hearts?"

The moment this sentence came out, Sun Bumian and Jian Changsheng's eyes lit up simultaneously!

"Yes!" Sun Bumian nodded repeatedly.

This matched up!

As expected, this was all arranged by Chen Ling!

"When I saw the three of you get out of the car just now, I felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy from you, just like seeing my own family!" Teacher Ye spoke somewhat agitatedly. "Since you are friends of Mister Hearts, you are friends of my Integration Faction!"

"So Your Excellency is the leader of the Integration Faction. I've looked forward to meeting you for a long time!" Sun Bumian was also very perceptive and immediately cupped his fists toward Teacher Ye.

"How is Mister Hearts doing right now? How are his injuries?"

"Oh, he's doing great. We even met him outside the Domain just now. He said he had already let you guys enter the South Sea Domain... With you guys keeping him company now, we are also relieved."

"...Hm? Us keeping him company?" Teacher Ye was stunned. "But didn't he just go to the Ghost Mockery Abyss?"

"What abyss?"

"The Ghost Mockery Abyss, which is the territory of the Calamity of Mockery."

"?!"

Sun Bumian and Jian Changsheng looked at each other, turning pale with fright!

During the half a year they were outside, information was already extremely blocked. What Chen Ling had experienced during this time and where he was now, they had absolutely no way of knowing. The reason they just said Chen Ling was in the South Sea Domain was entirely because the marks they left on the tracks could only be understood by people from their Dusk Society. Since someone specially came outside the Domain to pick them up, it could only be Chen Ling or someone sent by Chen Ling!

But now, this leader of the Integration Faction actually said Chen Ling went to the Ghost Mockery Abyss?!

Then who picked them up?!

Sun Bumian abruptly turned his head and looked at the smiling blind man sitting opposite him.

A drop of cold sweat slid down his forehead.

In other words, this person in front of them wasn't arranged by Chen Ling, but... the upper echelons of the South Sea Domain?

They, three wanted criminals from the Dusk Society, had just strutted in and sat at the table of the upper echelons of the South Sea Domain? And from the meaning of that guard earlier, it was even the supreme leader, the Lord of the South Sea, who sent him??

What was this for? Wasn't this throwing themselves into the net? Was the South Sea Domain planning to set up a Hongmen Banquet, and after they ate and drank well, execute the three of them on the spot?!

At this time, the atmosphere at the table once again fell into deathly stillness.

Not only Sun Bumian, but even the thick-nerved Jian Changsheng also realized. He gulped down his saliva and slowly moved his hand toward his waist; Sun Bumian also silently gripped the talisman in his pocket, veins bulging on his temples.

As for Jiang Xiaohua... Jiang Xiaohua was already grabbing a roasted suckling pig with his left hand and a steamed chicken with his right hand, starting to gorge himself. He ate until his mouth was covered in grease, and had even started smacking his lips.

"..."

After a brief deathly stillness, The Blind Man finally spoke with a smile.

"Don't panic, you three. We invited you here with absolutely no ill intentions."

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers.

Seeing this, the Police Officer to the side immediately held three open wooden boxes and respectfully walked up to them. Inside each box lay an object radiating an ancient aura.

"These three Ritual Artifacts are good items excavated from the Emperor Path Ancient Vault. I took the liberty of presenting them to the three of you as a meeting gift. I hope you won't disdain them," The Blind Man said gently.

Seeing this scene, Sun Bumian and Jian Changsheng were somewhat dumbfounded.

What happened to the Hongmen Banquet? Why were they giving out grand gifts right from the start? And they were even all Ritual Artifacts?

"One cannot accept a reward without contributing... Senior, isn't this generosity a bit too big?" Sun Bumian asked tentatively.

"Little brother, those words are mistaken. There will still be many places we will rely on you all in the future... These three Ritual Artifacts are nothing more than a meeting gift. If the three of you can stay in my South Sea Domain, we will definitely treat you as honored guests!" The Blind Man raised his wine cup and spoke sincerely.

"Stay in the South Sea?"

Sun Bumian was truly puzzled now. He carefully observed The Blind Man's expression, confirming that the other party wasn't joking,

"Senior... did you recognize the wrong people?"

"How could I? I had long prophesied in the hexagrams that a General Star would arrive at the South Sea Domain today... Since the three of you arrived at the same time, I naturally had to invite all of you and host you well."

"General Star?"

"That's right." The Blind Man didn't hide anything. "One day in the future, a General Star will possess the ability to slay a World-Ending Calamity... Among the three of you, there should be this General Star, right?"

Hearing these words, the expressions of Sun Bumian and the other two immediately became incredibly strange.

The ability to slay a World-Ending Calamity?

Jian Changsheng pointed at himself, "Slay a World-Ending Calamity? Me?"

"Or perhaps these two beside you," The Blind Man laughed.

"..."

Jian Changsheng's expression began to shift constantly.

Slay a World-Ending Calamity... Slay a World-Ending Calamity...

Jian Changsheng knew he was very strong now, but he also didn't expect himself to be able to slay a World-Ending Calamity in the future! During the half a year he was outside, he had been chased constantly by those Eighth-Tier Calamity subordinates of the World-Ending Calamities. Just this alone had left him battered and exhausted, let alone slaying a World-Ending Calamity!

But since this senior in front of him was the confidant of the Lord of the South Sea, his prophecy definitely wouldn't be groundless.

Could it be... that I, Jian Changsheng, really am the General Star who will slay a World-Ending Calamity? I actually am the main character?!

The corners of Jian Changsheng's mouth uncontrollably turned up madly. He tried hard to suppress it, but couldn't suppress it at all. He was like a sunflower laughing wildly in the wind.

Seeing this, Sun Bumian helplessly covered his eyes.

He pushed his sunglasses and turned to look at The Blind Man:

"This senior, does the General Star in your prophecy have any specific characteristics?"

"Nothing too specific, but he's very young, should be about the same age as you few." The Blind Man thought for a moment, "Furthermore, the hexagrams showed that this General Star is an omen of extreme [Great Inauspiciousness]."

Extreme Great Inauspiciousness?!

The moment these words came out, Jian Changsheng to the side suddenly widened his eyes!

Wasn't this just reading out his ID card number?! When was he, Jian Changsheng, ever not a [Great Inauspiciousness]??

This General Star! It must definitely be him!

Just as Jian Changsheng was about to stand up and admit it, Sun Bumian pushed him back down with one hand,

"You mean... extreme [Great Inauspiciousness]?"

"That's right."

The golden and black qi in the depths of Sun Bumian's eyes circulated again. His gaze looked at Jian Changsheng in front of him... He saw that although Jian Changsheng was enveloped in a faint layer of inauspicious qi, it was still far from being called [Extreme]. At least in Sun Bumian's eyes, it could only be considered [Medium Inauspiciousness].

Although Jian Changsheng was usually usually very unlucky, there was a limit to his bad luck. It was impossible for him to trip on flat ground every time he walked or choke on cold water every time he drank. That wasn't [Great Inauspiciousness], that was already being dead.

If Jian Changsheng wasn't the [Great Inauspiciousness]... then who else among the three of them was?

Sun Bumian turned his head to look at Jiang Xiaohua beside him. On Jiang Xiaohua's body, there was only death qi and life qi; there was no auspiciousness or inauspiciousness to speak of.

And as for Sun Bumian himself, he was an existence capable of pursuing auspiciousness and avoiding inauspiciousness. He never allowed himself to be in danger.

In other words, among the three of them, there simply wasn't the General Star of extreme [Great Inauspiciousness] that The Blind Man spoke of.

What was going on?

Sun Bumian frowned slightly. He seemed to have remembered something. Just now when they performed the Divination by the seaside, that hexagram should have clearly been extreme [Great Inauspiciousness], so why did it ultimately present as half-fortune and half-misfortune?

This meant that in this South Sea Domain, there existed a matter or person of extreme [Great Inauspiciousness], and also a matter or person of extreme [Great Auspiciousness]... The two canceled each other out, which resulted in the half-fortune half-misfortune hexagram.

But where was this extreme [Great Inauspiciousness]?

Just as Sun Bumian was pondering, a Police Officer quickly ran up to The Blind Man, bent down, and lowered his voice to say:

"Mister, the people defending the edge of the Domain just reported..."

"What did they say?"

"They said, they also saw another person."

"Another person?" The Blind Man was stunned. "Who is it?"

"That person was covered in blood, looking... looking like Chu Muyun from the wanted posters? He seems to have already lost consciousness and was washed ashore by the seawater."

The Blind Man's brows immediately furrowed.

Before he could even speak, a crisp clinking sound came from the long corridor of the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake.

Ding-ling——

Ding-ling——

The Blind Man's ears twitched. He raised his head and "saw" a young man wearing a peaked cap, hands in his pockets, whistling, walking leisurely from the long corridor.

His short black hair was gently blown by the sea breeze, and the silver Snake Earrings by his ears gently swayed and clinked.

Ding-ling——

A gust of wind blew past. For some reason, everyone present felt a chill down their backs.

The Police Officer seemed to have also noticed this youth who appeared out of thin air. He quickly stepped forward to block him: "Halt, who are you? Who let you come here?"

Bai Ye stopped his footsteps. Across the Police Officer, he looked at The Blind Man in the center of the stone pavilion, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly:

"Who am I?"

"I'm here to eat double-skin milk."