Chapter 28: The Person Who Could Make Him a Sucker Hasn't Been Born Yet

The fire-red mist of Yanfen Chixin Hu grew increasingly dense, carrying with it wisps of a strange fragrance that captivated the soul.

It was unknown when a drunken red hue had stained Mo Tianming's pupils, and a deep sense of urgency flashed between his brows.

On the right side of his face, there was even a butterfly pattern that flickered and vanished.

It was just that the people around him were not paying any attention to him at all, and thus, no one noticed.

Lu Ren probed his divine sense into the lake, only to find that after penetrating halfway, it was as if it had suddenly hit a wall and was blocked outright.

This discovery immediately piqued his interest.

Where there is concealment, there is either a treasure or an unspeakable secret.

Yanfen Chixin Hu had been searched so many times, yet this thing capable of blocking divine sense remained; it must be extraordinary.

He turned his head and said, "I will go down to take a look; you two wait here."

Lu Daocheng nodded without the slightest hesitation.

His cultivation was practically non-existent, and he dared not take any risks.

Surprise filled Mo Tianming's pupils.

Lu Ren was leaving?

Did that mean he had an opportunity to exploit? But the words Lu Ren said next immediately dispelled the thoughts in his mind.

"Qiongqi, guard the shore and protect these two."

Lu Ren glanced at Mo Tianming indifferently; the undisguised killing intent made Mo Tianming's heart turn cold, and he lamented his misfortune incessantly.

Especially when Lu Ren said, "Watch Mo Tianming well; if he tries to escape, kill him."

Qiongqi instantly grew larger, its ferocious silver-white wings tucked at its sides, its tiger-like face exposing fangs; its body was only one and a half times the size of Mo Tianming, but he knew this was not Qiongqi's true size at all.

When he had investigated Lu Ren previously, he had purchased an Image Recording Stone regarding Lu Ren from the black market.

In the recording, Lu Ren appeared to be just over fifty years old, high-spirited and vigorous, with a smile on his lips—completely worthy of his top-five ranking on the Hero List.

And beneath him was the terrifyingly shaped Qiongqi, its size nearly blotting out the sky; ordinary Spirit Beasts could never be this large, and only the Dragon Clan or Phoenix Clan could compare.

After all, Qiongqi was a notorious Fierce Beast of the highest order.

The more Mo Tianming thought about this, the more his expression collapsed instantly.

The reason he dared to enter this place was because he had a system at his side and many treasures in his Storage Bag.

But now, the system had lost contact, and his Storage Bag had been taken away directly by Lu Daocheng.

Even if he were given eight times the courage, he would not dare to face Qiongqi head-on.

Damn Lu Ren, why did he arrange things so tightly? Lu Ren, however, did not take the man's internal grumbling to heart at all; he turned and leaped into the lake water, the icy lake instantly wrapping around him, the cold and bone-chilling temperature not at all like the mild temperature on the surface.

This feeling was like suddenly falling into an ice cellar.

There were no fish or Spirit Beasts in the lake, which in itself was an unusual aspect.

Lu Ren controlled his body, descending to the bottom of the lake.

He saw quite a few traces left behind by others here.

There were marks from blades and swords, as well as heavy hammers.

Presumably, many people before him must have discovered the anomaly here, but they had no way to deal with it and could only give up and return in defeat.

Because of the repeated probing by predecessors, the silt at the bottom of the lake had vanished, and the ground was covered everywhere with various silver-white patterns that looked like array patterns, but Lu Ren judged with a single glance that this was not any kind of formation at all! No...

That could not be said either.

"Bloodline Screening Array!"

Lu Ren stated with certainty.

Beneath his feet was a bloodline screening mechanism disguised as an array; unless one used the blood of a specific person to break it, there was no other way.

Not only was there no other way, but it was also covered with multiple shifting arrays; one wrong step meant every subsequent step would be wrong.

However...

"No, there is another possibility." Lu Ren had originally intended to return to the shore to ask Luoyu if she knew anything related to this, but before he could turn to leave, his peripheral vision swept over the patterns on the ground, and he suddenly discovered something amiss.

There should be two ways to break this; heaven does not cut off all paths.

Besides the specific bloodline method, those with deep Buddhist affinity could also break the array patterns here.

Lu Ren could not help but frown.

Of the two, he was neither; he was not included in either, and because he had snatched the Red Lotus Karma Fire several decades ago, he had even formed a feud with Fomen.

Wait...

A light suddenly shone in Lu Ren's eyes.

If one spoke of deep Buddhist affinity, did the Red Lotus Karma Fire count? He did not hesitate, directly drawing out a wisp of flame and bringing it close to the array patterns on the ground; as the flame in his hand neared the patterns, a miraculous thing happened.

Even though they were underwater, the flame began to steam along the array patterns.

Circle after circle of strange rose-red light lit up at the bottom of the lake, illuminating the entire lake.

On the shore, Lu Daoshuang pressed her lips tightly together, sorting through the gains from the journey while keeping a wary eye on Mo Tianming, leaving him not even the slightest chance to escape.

And right at this moment, Luoyu, who had already hidden herself within her body, suddenly woke up and drifted out.

She first looked around, and then, doubting her own existence, she opened her mouth wide.

"Your Lu Family Head went down?"

"He is actually the one who awakened this inheritance?"

"How is that possible! What part of him has anything to do with Buddhist affinity!"

"This is a Buddhist inheritance!"

It was, moreover, the Inheritance Land set up by her main soul for her old friend to choose a successor.

"It is actually a Buddhist inheritance?"

Lu Ren, at the bottom of the lake, also discovered the true face of this fortuitous encounter at this moment.

His expression became extremely disgusted.

Had he known it would be like this, why waste so much effort! This place was underneath the lake bottom; not long after he had channeled the Red Lotus Karma Fire into the formation patterns, Lu Ren had been brought here by a teleportation formation.

This place was empty, even drier, looking like a secluded stone chamber, containing only a bronze tripod, a wooden fish, and a prayer mat.

What was inside the bronze tripod was not incense ash, but dried mud.

Enclosed within it was a cracked lotus seed.

Furthermore, there was a letter.

After Lu Ren had read it, the letter spontaneously combusted.

The content of the letter was extremely simple.

The gist was that regardless of how the person arrived, they were a fated person; the wooden fish was a sealing artifact, inside which was sealed a Strange Fire, and the lotus seed in the bronze tripod was the key for Jiufang Heshang to reshape his physical body.

The Strange Fire could be used to exchange for resources to help Jiufang Heshang reshape his physical body, and the lotus seed needed to be taken out by the fated person who arrived here to be nurtured...

The fated person needed to perform three kowtows and nine prostrations on the prayer mat to fulfill the master-disciple bond with Jiufang Heshang, and once Jiufang Heshang reshaped his body and awoke, there would surely be a great reward.

Lu Ren after reading it:...

He was nearly amused to laughter.

This letter, looking at it horizontally, vertically, left, right, up, down, east, and west, truly depicted the three words "sucker" vividly between the lines! Leaving him nothing, yet expecting him to do his utmost to plan for a monk of unknown origin, and even pay out of his own pocket for resources?

He took out a snake blade, the smile on his lips extremely cold and indifferent.

"In this world, the person who can make me a sucker hasn't been born yet!"

Naturally, this Jiufang Heshang need not be born either.

(End of this chapter)