Chapter 470: Precious Lotus Lamp?

A black afterimage flashed past, instantly crossing a distance of 60 meters, appearing from here to there.

And faintly, lotus petals seemed to appear and flutter, falling into the sea beneath his feet, vanishing without a trace.

The waves on the sea surface rose and fell, unable to even wet the corner of Tang Luo's clothes.

"Good, Ghost Shadow Step is already level three, Lotus Step level two." Tang Luo stood still, quite satisfied in his heart.

As for the levels of these two skills, he did not care.

What Tang Luo truly wanted was to thoroughly integrate these two skills; when the time came, he would comprehend and cultivate his own divine ability, making up for the shortcomings left behind when his cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, progressing a thousand li in a day.

He drew a Flight Talisman, slapped it onto himself, and Tang Luo flew toward the Dragon King.

Upon entering the room, Zhu Bajie, Ao Yulie, and Xiaotian Dog were already waiting.

They were about to welcome their fifteenth mission — counting the real-world missions, that is; if the special real-world missions don't count, then it is the fourteenth mission.

During this period, Tang Luo had also successively helped several Fate Holders extract their Fate Fragments.

The operation was very simple, just two steps.

One, beat the other party to death, wait for the Fate Fragment to appear.

Two, resurrect the other party.

In this way, they became ordinary God-Demon Walkers.

And interestingly, after becoming ordinary God-Demon Walkers, not all special traits from the Fate Fragments completely disappeared.

Among them, a few still retained a certain degree of related abilities.

You must know, Fate Holders do not only grow stronger by acquiring other fragments to complete their Fate Fragments.

Setting aside the normal skill acquisition of God-Demon Walkers.

Fate Holders themselves can also grow stronger through battle after battle, in the application of their related abilities.

Strengthening the Fate Fragment to a certain extent.

And this portion of power, after the Fate Fragment was extracted, instead became the God-Demon Walker's own power.

It did not completely vanish with the departure of the Fate Fragment.

Of course, this is also related to the nature of the Fate Fragment and the Fate Holder themselves.

Although the examples are not many, it can still be seen.

If the Fate original owner's ability comes entirely from bloodline or the like, or is extremely special with harsh conditions, after the Fate Fragment is taken away, the Fate Holder completely loses the ability.

And if the original owner's ability has little relation to bloodline and such, is relatively common, after the Fate Fragment disappears, a portion will be retained.

There is even the possibility of "re-cultivation."

Those few who retained some abilities had held the Fate Fragments for not a short time.

The other few who retained no abilities had all just become Fate Holders not long ago.

Of course, these discoveries were all summarized by Kongming.

Tang Luo merely performed "Fate Fragment extraction surgery" in a very plain and unadorned manner.

However, these few Fate Fragments were not considered powerful; compared to the merit consumed by Opening the Light to save people, they were only a small profit.

And those healing items sent by the God-Demon Walkers were also all consumed by Tang Luo.

Before starting this mission, Tang Luo's uninjured upper limit had reached 5.4 tenths.

In Zhu Bajie's words, that is rounding up to a hundred million; Master is invincible!

A faint light flashed on the Buddhist beads on his wrist, and the Glazed Pure Garment was already worn on his body.

Tang Luo and the others waited a few seconds, the scene before their eyes abruptly changed, and they had already entered the mission world.

"Stop Liu Chenxiang from splitting the mountain to save his mother."

This mission was still very brief, yet it made Tang Luo and the other two simultaneously frown, the expressions on their faces all changing slightly.

This mission is a bit interesting.

Temporarily pressing down the various thoughts in his heart, Tang Luo looked around; in the clearing in the woods, aside from their team and a pet Xiaotian Dog, no other God-Demon Walkers appeared.

Unknown if God-Demon Walkers with the same mission are not here — but that probability is not high.

Very likely, this mission only has the few of them to complete it.

Speaking of it, last mission, whether there were companions was also an unknown number.

Judging from the situation at the time and the subsequent developments, there should not have been any.

"Missing some merit power." Tang Luo spoke.

"Master, this Chenxiang, could it be the Chenxiang from 'Precious Lotus Lamp'?" Ao Yulie spoke.

With Liu Chenxiang and splitting the mountain to save his mother, many people's first reaction would definitely be Precious Lotus Lamp.

Ao Yulie, who knew many mythological legends, was no exception.

"Should be." Tang Luo said.

This kind of thing is hard to determine.

In the God-Demon Game, there are far too many messy, seemingly-similar-but-not-quite situations.

"Then wouldn't we be able to see Yang Jian?" Zhu Bajie mused.

Until the Shanhai Realm shattered, Yang Jian's sister Yang Chan had never encountered any Liu Xiang, Liu Xi, Liu Yanchang, eloping with a mortal and even giving birth to a child, infuriating Yang Jian half to death, transforming instantly into "the person I once hated most," beating the mandarin ducks apart, and even confining his sister — that story did not exist.

The Precious Lotus Lamp does indeed exist, it is a fine magic treasure, but it is not as exaggerated as in the story.

"Could it be that this pair of siblings stirred up trouble in this world, and the 'family scandal' spread to other worlds?" Ao Yulie's eyes lit up, the flame named gossip beginning to burn.

"I remember Master you hinted at this before, right? Yang Jian didn't listen before, now he definitely regrets it." Zhu Bajie also grew interested.

"Who knows." Tang Luo said, stroking the head of Xiaotian Dog on his shoulder, "Might get to see your master."

Xiaotian Dog raised its head, a face full of bewilderment, conveying the meaning of "I'm just a little kitty."

"Then what about Xiaotian Dog?" Ao Yulie looked at Xiaotian Dog and said, "Is there none, or did a fake appear? Ah! Could it be Yang Jian got a new dog!"

This time, the Heavenly Hound finally reacted, baring its teeth at Ao Yulie.

"Seems you still remember Yang Jian?" Ao Yulie laughed, "Forget that faithless man, follow your master properly, there's meat to eat."

"... Right, Master, how should we complete this mission?" After joking, Zhu Bajie steered the topic back to the mission.

If the mission is to help Chenxiang split the mountain to save his mother, then it's clear enough—defeat Yang Jian, split Huashan, and it's done.

But this mission is to stop Chenxiang from splitting the mountain to save his mother.

That's a bit tricky.

How exactly does one stop it? Could stopping Chenxiang's action once count as mission success?

Or must we make Chenxiang completely abandon the idea of splitting the mountain to save his mother?

The latter is no easy feat, for you must know, smearing one's uncle's face, splitting the mountain to save mother is a Yang family tradition.

Yang Jian himself did just that; now it's Chenxiang's turn.

"The mission is actually simple, we can set it aside for now—we ought to properly explore this world." Tang Luo said, "If this is a complete world, that is."

Some mission worlds are like dungeons, existing solely for the mission.

For example, the Jack the Ripper world Tang Luo first experienced; some worlds are complete.

Whether gods and demons walk or enter, that world continues to operate.

So far, Tang Luo has encountered quite a few "Journey to the West acquaintances."

Not counting the three disciples, it began with the remnant soul of the Heavenly Hound, then the little Xiaofeng, the Earth Store demonic thought, the Huang Mei old monster, the obsessions of Li Jing and his son, and a remnant soul of Li Jinzha.

Plus, the Black and White Impermanence still lingering half-dead in the death register副册, struggling to recover, hopelessly delayed.

Aside from the little Xiaofeng, everyone's doing pretty miserably.

Some dead, some wounded, some fallen into demonhood.

Interestingly, the missions where we encountered them showed no trace of connection to the Journey to the West world (Shanhai Realm).

If this mountain-splitting to save mother mission is truly from 《Baolian Deng》, then it has countless ties to the Journey to the West world.

In various versions, Sun Wukong is often Liu Chenxiang's master, Erlang Shen needless to say, and even more so a major villain.

Of course, there exists a version where Erlang Shen endures humiliation with noble intentions.

According to Ao Yulie and Zhu Bajie's appraisal, this version is highly rated—it's the contradiction at its core, the heavenly edict forbidding immortals from emotional entanglements and love affairs that doesn't quite work.

"Is the mission simple?" Hearing Tang Luo say it's simple, Ao Yulie's tiger-like frame shuddered, "Master, you wouldn't really want to beat Liu Chenxiang to death, would you? If he truly is Yang Jian's nephew, that wouldn't be proper."

"Why must we beat him to death?" Zhu Bajie said, "Just beat him half-dead and hand him over to Yang Jian for proper discipline—done."

"... You lot, why must you always fight and kill?" Tang Luo said, "We could dismantle Huashan beforehand, rescue Lady Chang—wouldn't that also count as completing the mission?"

"Huh?"

"Uh, the mission says to stop Liu Chenxiang from splitting the mountain to save his mother—so if there's no mountain, go further, no mother either..." Ao Yulie's mouth twitched.

"Xiao Bailong's analysis is spot on." Tang Luo nodded, "This is called solving worries at the root."

"... What if the mission judges strictly and counts us as failures?" Zhu Bajie said.

Tang Luo wore an indifferent expression: "Then forget it—that's why I said to set the mission aside for now, explore this world, see if we can find any old acquaintances—that's the proper way."

"Exactly." Ao Yulie immediately followed with flattery, "No wonder you're the master—you always grasp the essentials."

"Our perspectives just differ." Zhu Bajie sighed, seeming not to flatter but actually not showing his feelings, more calculating.

"Scatter. Contact me if you find anything." Tang Luo said, drawing a flying talisman, patting it onto himself, and slowly rising into the air, flying off in a direction even he didn't know.

There's no need for us to act together—it's a waste of time.

Opportunities to save people and earn merit are also extremely rare.

"Second Senior Brother, together?" Ao Yulie looked at Zhu Bajie and smiled.

"The master has spoken—don't loaf around." Zhu Bajie said, "Usually I tell you to cultivate properly, yet you've been loafing all along—now you're panicking?"

"Cough cough cough."

Ao Yulie coughed repeatedly, "I'm not injured, am I?"

"As long as you can run." Zhu Bajie patted Ao Yulie's shoulder, chose the opposite direction from Tang Luo, and shot up into the sky.

Ao Yulie thought for a moment, chose a direction close to Tang Luo's departure—fifteen degrees... no, too close, forty-five degrees then, can't go more.

That way, he'd feel much more at ease.

"Smelled anything familiar?" Mid-air, Tang Luo asked.

"Meow." The Heavenly Hound shook its head.

Their appearance spot wasn't great—right in the deep mountains and old forests; slightly gaining height, looking out was endless mountain ranges.

The time and place of the Baolian Deng story are obviously of no reference value to Tang Luo and company.

The only useful thing is the people.

We can look for human settlements, see if they've heard the names of San Shengmu, Erlang Shen, and such immortals.