Chapter 23: When Even a Fire-Poker Disdains a Useless Wood

In the Lost Garden, Mo Tianming's mental state had already collapsed.

He was just one step too slow; how could his opportunity be gone, not even leaving him a scrap?

They ate his meat, and didn't even let him drink a mouthful of broth! Immediately, Mo Tianming rushed to question.

"System, didn't you say the opportunity here was mine? You also said the Gu Mother here could be refined into my Life-bound Gu, so where is my Gu? Did it fly away?"

The Long Aotian System was silent for a moment, also feeling puzzled.

【Host, do not be anxious. This system's calculations cannot be wrong, but the Heavenly Dao is forty-nine, and there is always someone who might find a glimmer of survival within it; the opportunity here must have been taken by someone else.】

【However, the items will eventually return to the host's hands!】

【The host can first go to the next opportunity location. There is an Immortal Sword there suitable for refining into the host's Life-bound Sword; the system can help the host subdue it!】

Mo Tianming said bitterly, "Fine, I'll go get my sword first."

"Don't let me find out who snatched the opportunity that should have belonged to me first, otherwise, I will definitely make them pay!"

……

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Lost Sword Tomb.

This sword tomb is named "Lost," which is closely related to the creator of this Secret Realm.

Lu Ren casually threw down the sword that had already snapped, his brow containing an unresolvable disdain.

A sword that had absorbed the blood of ten thousand people actually wanted to have designs on him; it truly had ambitions higher than the heavens.

Even after being subdued by Lu Ren, this sword hurriedly begged for mercy, wanting to acknowledge him as its master, and even offered up its Soul Fire, yet Lu Ren found it incredibly repulsive.

"Disgusting thing, it's a waste of firewood even as a fire-poker."

Therefore, Lu Ren snapped it directly and gathered up the other swords in the sword tomb.

Apart from this sword, the others were just ordinary Spirit Swords.

There were also Demonic Swords among them.

But unlike this sword, which was clearly an Immortal Sword yet acted like a Demonic Sword, the artifact spirits were extremely weak.

"Family Head, I have already collected the Underworld Soil from this sword tomb; it is indeed a good item for nourishing sword bodies." Lu Daocheng was slightly excited; he had already learned the essence of the Lu Family.

Lu Ren glanced at the notification of -50,000 Qi Luck Value that had popped up again and curled his lips.

He wasn't entirely without gains, after all.

"Let's go. In this Luoyun Mijing, these are nothing but petty gains."

……

……

Mo Tianming was going crazy.

Gone again! Gone again! Could it be that he was running behind someone else's backside?

It was simply driving him mad!

The Gu Mother was just gone, leaving behind a pit.

The Life-bound Sword was also gone, not even leaving a bit of dirt.

Pills, secret manuals, none of them were there!

He did see the predetermined Spirit Beast, but he only saw the bones that had been gnawed clean!

"Ahhh! Damn it! Who exactly is working against me!"

"Am I not the protagonist? Who dares to snatch things from me, the protagonist!"

Mo Tianming roared at the sky, a flash of blood-red flickering in his pupils.

Under such extreme rage, he was actually forced into developing a Heart Demon! After a long while, Mo Tianming lowered his head with a gloomy expression, gritting his teeth.

"System, no need to give me any more hints about what opportunities are ahead; I just want to see who that shameless thief is now!"

"My things are not so easy to steal. Once I find them, I will tear them into ten thousand pieces!!"

Having said that, he sped away, his eyes fierce and resolute.

……

……【Host has forced the Child of Luck Mo Tianming into developing a Heart Demon, Mo Tianming Qi Luck Value -200,000!】

Hm? Lu Ren's footsteps as he walked toward the Alchemy Inheritance land paused slightly.

Along this journey, every time he collected an opportunity, he could almost hear the notification sound of Mo Tianming's Qi Luck decreasing.

More or less, a few hundred or a few thousand each time.

But Lu Ren really didn't expect that Mo Tianming was still holding back a big one.

"Just because some opportunities were snatched by others, he actually entered the path of a demon?"

Lu Ren was simply completely baffled.

【Ding! Hint: Mo Tianming is a person who used Possession, coming from another world.】

After hearing the system's notification sound, a flash of realization crossed Lu Ren's eyes.

No wonder.

Mo Tianming was truly miserable; he must have transmigrated here, thinking he was the protagonist of this world, only to have his hopes dashed everywhere, and was backlashed by his own extreme emotional ups and downs! Although Lu Ren was also a person from another world, his soul was compatible with the original Lu Ren, with no distinction between the two; even an Immortal would not consider him a practitioner of Possession.

After sighing with emotion in his heart, Lu Ren threw this matter to the back of his mind.

The reason he found it so easy to snatch opportunities now was precisely because he had already broken free from the Fate that originally belonged to him.

Aside from not being able to directly kill the Child of Luck, there were almost no restrictions.

It was just that he needed to guard against the Heavenly Dao continuously providing resources and opportunities for the Child of Luck.

But! This was not a bad thing.

Just like today.

Whatever amount the Heavenly Dao loses, Lu Ren can snatch away just as much!

A ten-thousand-fold profit! Lu Daocheng clung tightly to the fur collar of the Spirit Beast, not making a sound.

His cultivation was low, he could not fly, and he had no Spirit Beast, so he had no choice but to be this disheveled.

However, he adapted quite well and even had the mood to check his Storage Bag.

There were not many things inside; aside from the items he had collected along the way to hand over to the family upon his return, there were the cultivation resources issued to him by the Lu Family, and also...

A primitive-looking stone.

A tattered wooden bottle with a unique design.

An extremely ordinary Necklace, and a dusty arm ring.

These items all gave Lu Daocheng a very strange feeling, extremely similar to the ring he had originally handed over to Lu Ren.

He was lost in thought, temporarily putting away all these things that had fallen before him for no reason.

Perhaps...

A flash of brilliance streaked through Lu Daocheng's eyes.

This was an opportunity for him to be greatly appreciated by the Family Head! At the same time.

After several days of non-stop pursuit, Mo Tianming's eyes were red to the point of turning purple; he looked like he was about to go mad.

He had not stopped along this journey, but he had been more or less attentive to his surroundings.

The person in front of him was simply a glutton, plucking feathers from every goose that passed and never leaving empty-handed; they had left him nothing but a belly full of rage.

Enraged, he directly exchanged for a pile of paper talismans from the system—Ten Thousand Mile Swift Travel Talisman, Sharp Wind Talisman, Swift Talisman—he used them all! This also caused his points to drop completely to zero!

But that was not important; what was important was that he had finally found the person! Mo Tianming did not even look, his heart burning with anxiety, and he roared, "Little thief in front! Stop for me!"

"Are my things something you can steal?!"

Before his voice had even faded, he threw all the offensive paper talismans he had exchanged for earlier in one breath, his eyes flickering with alternating malice and gratification!

The speed was so fast that the Long Aotian system did not even have time to stop him.

The person's voice was exasperated; Lu Ren looked toward the sound, and the Villain System moved in response.

【Detected Child of Luck Mo Tianming!】

It was also at this moment that Mo Tianming's Long Aotian system finally reacted, its voice sounding like a chicken with its neck being strangled.

【Ahhh! It's Lu Ren, damn it, he is a Supreme Saint powerhouse, run! Run quickly!!】

(End of this chapter)