Chapter 504: Lu Sheng Blamed Herself
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Afraid that they would be discovered, Lu Sheng and Chu Sihan did not dare to look up.
They only looked up slightly when the ‘Lord’ walked into the altar and Xian Jing and Xian Ya left.
“Brother, have you investigated who killed those hundred puppets?”
Xian Jing shook his head. “No, I’ll go over again tonight.”
Xian Ya said coldly, “A hundred puppets were destroyed just like that. That person is definitely not simple.”
“It should be Lu Zhou or Chunyu Dong. It might also be Bailian and the rest,” Xian Jing guessed.
Xian Ya frowned slightly.. “It would be alright if it was Bailian, but I’m afraid it would be Lu Zhou, Shangguan Dian, or Chunyu Dong.”
Xian Jing sighed softly and said, “Lord has been suppressed in the ice lake for thousands of years. His strength is no longer as strong as before. If he goes against the people from the Five Peaks, I’m afraid he’ll be in trouble. Go to the nearby village to take a look these few days and get a few children to nourish Lord.”
“Yes.”
…
Xian Jing and Xian Ya’s conversation drifted over.
Lu Sheng gritted her teeth in fury. When the stone door opened and closed, she said angrily, “They actually still have designs on those children in the village!”
When she spoke, Chu Sihan immediately covered her mouth.
Lu Sheng’s eyes widened. She belatedly remembered that the Emperor Ghost was still in the secret prison.
She smacked her forehead in frustration. She was so angry that she forgot that someone had just entered the secret prison.
The duo heard the footsteps coming down the stairs stop and then the sound of someone going upstairs.
Chu Sihan immediately tore open a black hole and pulled Lu Sheng in.
The moment the hole closed, the door to the altar opened.
The Emperor Ghost stood outside the altar and scanned the puppets coldly under his black hood.
He circled the altar and sensed it carefully. He could not help but frown.
He had clearly heard someone speaking just now. Why was there no aura of a living person here?
Could he have escaped?
His expression turned cold. He did not return to the prison but walked out.
Xian Jing and Xian Ya, who had just left the stone door, suddenly heard the sound of the stone door rubbing the ground behind them.
The duo turned back at the same time. When they saw that it was the Emperor Ghost, they were stunned.
“Lord, why did you come out? Is that land bad?” Xian Jing asked.
“Someone else sneaked in.” The Empero Ghost’s voice was still hoarse and unpleasant.
Xian Jing and Xian Yun frowned when they heard that.
Xian Ya shook her head. “Impossible. The security here is tight. How can ordinary people sneak in?”
“What if they’re from the Five Peaks?” the Emperor Ghost asked coldly.
Xian Jing and Xian Ya were shocked.
Xian Jing asked solemnly, “Lord, did you discover something?”
“After you came out, I heard a woman’s angry voice. However, when I came out, I didn’t discover anything.”
The siblings’ hearts jumped. They looked at each other and nodded at the same time.
Xian Jing said, “Lord, we’ll give the order to send those puppets away first.”
“Yes.”
The Emperor Ghost replied before turning into black mist and disappearing.
At this moment, Lu Sheng and Chu Sihan had returned to the small village.
Afraid of an accident, Lu Sheng contacted Lu Zhou and told him about the situation at the back of the mountain.
When Lu Zhou heard that, he told the two of them to wait at the village entrance. They would come over.
Lu Zhou and the rest came quickly. Lu Sheng had not seen many of them before.
“Disciple, bring us over quickly.”
Before they could catch up, Lu Zhou spoke.
When Lu Sheng and Chu Sihan brought them to the back of the mountain, there was only silence and a few burning torches left in the courtyard.
“He ran away,” Lu Zhou said in a deep voice.
Lu Sheng did not expect them to act so quickly and leave in just a moment.
“It’s all my fault!”
She smacked her forehead in frustration.
If she had not spoken, they would not have alerted the enemy.
Now, they had finally found the whereabouts of the Emperor Ghost, Xian Jing, and Xian Ya. Now, they lost them again.
Chu Sihan hugged her and said softly, “You didn’t do it on purpose. It’s not your fault!”
“Puppets can’t enter the void.” Lu Zhou said to Lu Sheng, “Disciple, you and Young Master Han return to the village first. We’ll chase after them.”
“Okay!”
Lu Sheng, who had done something wrong, was exceptionally obedient.
Lu Zhou nodded. He, Shangguan Dian, and Chunyu Dong split into two groups and chased after them.
Lu Sheng and Chu Sihan returned to the village.
The two of them did not sleep the whole night and kept their eyes open until dawn.
The sun had just risen when the owners of the house woke up.
Perhaps afraid of waking them up, they walked and spoke very softly.
However, they did not know that the two of them were not asleep at all.
Lu Sheng climbed up, put on her shoes, and got off the bed. After tidying her clothes, she opened the door and walked out.
Chu Sihan looked at her back view and sighed softly.
He had not realized in the past that the girl had so heavy thoughts. It was useless even when he persuaded her for a night.
Lu Sheng was already up, so he could not continue lying down.
He had just left when he saw Lu Sheng rinsing her mouth.
“Young Master, you’re awake too? Breakfast is almost done. Sit down after washing up.”
When the old woman saw that Chu Sihan was awake, she hurriedly spoke with a smile.
Chu Sihan nodded at the old woman before walking to Lu Sheng and washing up.
Lu Sheng seemed to be thinking about something. When she saw him coming over, she did not speak but stared at the water basin unblinkingly.
“It’s really not your fault last night. Don’t think too much!”
Lu Sheng seemed to have regained her senses. She tilted her head and glanced at Chu Sihan. Then, she lowered her head again with a dejected expression.
“If I hadn’t alerted them, we might have killed them all.”
She sighed deeply and continued blaming herself. “Great. Now that the Emperor Ghost, Xian Jing, and Xian Ya escaped, more people would probably die.”
“Even if Uncle-Master Lu and the rest really arrived, it’s impossible to capture them in one go. The reason why they chose to stay there proved that they had long prepared the escape route.”
“Moreover, the Emperor Ghost is an extremely cunning person. Even though its strength has decreased drastically, it can easily escape if it wants to.”
It was unknown if Chu Sihan was speaking up for her or telling the truth.
“Even if we can’t capture those three, we can at least finish off those puppets.”
Lu Sheng blamed herself. “If I had known earlier, I would have burned all those puppets before we left.”
Unfortunately, she had only cared about saving her life back then and forgot about this.
She did not know if her master and the rest had caught up to those puppets. She only hoped that they could.
If so many puppets were released at once, the citizens in a hundred miles radius would probably suffer a calamity.
They ate steamed buns with salted vegetables for breakfast. As Lu Sheng was concerned about Lu Zhou, she ate absent-mindedly.
This made the old woman think that her breakfast did not suit her appetite. She said apologetically, “There’s nothing else at home except these items. I haven’t been to town recently, so I have to trouble the two of you to eat this coarse food.”
They only stayed for one night and two meals but they gave them money for a year’s worth of food.
To be honest, the old woman felt embarrassed to give these things to the two of them.
“Why don’t we do this?” The young man suggested. “Don’t leave in a hurry. I’ll go to town to buy some delicious food later. You can leave after eating.”
“No need, no need.”
Lu Sheng regained her senses and hurriedly smiled. “We usually eat these too. Moreover, we have other matters to attend to today. We can’t stay here for too long.”
It was obvious that the family did not believe her.
Of course, it was not that they did not believe that she had other matters, but that they often ate this.
How could someone who spent ten taels easily eat such coarse food?
She only found an excuse because she was afraid that they would feel bad.
However, since she said that she had something on, they could not continue to persuade her to stay, lest they delayed her big matter.
The two of them left after breakfast.
When the duo returned to the inn, they saw Gao Xu and General Xiao sitting there.
There was no one else inside except the two of them.
“Why did they disappear into thin air?”
General Xiao frowned anxiously.
“I don’t know either!”
Gao Xu looked troubled. “When I went upstairs to find them at noon, I realized that the room was empty. There was no one!”
Lu Sheng knew that they were talking about her and Chu Sihan’s departure.
She looked up at Chu Sihan and realized that he was looking at her too. There was a hint of worry between his eyebrows.
He was probably afraid that she would still blame herself.
Her heart warmed and she hurriedly smiled at him, hinting for him not to worry.
The duo sat at the next table and ordered a pot of tea.
General Xiao and Gao Xu looked over. When they saw two unfamiliar faces, they turned back.
“Sigh, there were more last night. Do you think they were really angry with me and left town?”
General Xiao looked troubled and regretted his actions last night.
Now, there were more puppets. Other than hiding, they had no clue about those things.
They could not live in fear forever. If this continued, they would be scared to death even if they were not killed by those things.
“No way?” Gao Xu said in a low voice. “They must have left for something urgent. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have left without greeting me.”
He felt that something must have happened, which was why Lu Sheng and Chu Sihan left in a hurry with Ye Luo.
“Does Mr. Gao have a way to find them?” General Xiao asked expectantly.
Gao Xu shook his head. “No.”
It was basically fate that he met Ye Luo.
Unless he returned to Xuan Yue Country, he really did not know where to contact Chu Sihan.
General Xiao was disappointed.
Lu Sheng remembered that she had used up her Invisibility Talisman and the yellow paper in the Space Bracelet was gone. She had to buy some more to use.
However, this was not Huang Yang Town. She did not know where the village was.
She looked at the shopkeeper at the counter and hurried over to ask, “Shopkeeper, do you know where the village is?”
The shopkeeper looked up at her and asked with a smile, “Miss, you’re from another city, right?”
Lu Sheng smiled and nodded.
“Those runes are useless against those strange people.”
The shopkeeper thought that she wanted to buy talismans from the village. After all, many people had bought them recently and they said that they were useless.
Last night, there were two people who refused to believe the supernatural. They pasted the talisman on themselves and went out. When they were discovered the next day, they had already become corpses.
Their bodies were covered with talismans.
“I’m not buying runes. I just want to buy some paper money to burn to an old friend.”
Lu Sheng lied casually.
“I see!” The shopkeeper smiled awkwardly and pointed nearby. “There’s a grocery store opposite. If you want to buy paper money, you can buy it from there.”
Lu Sheng looked in the direction he was pointing at. After confirming it, she nodded and thanked him.
She and Chu Sihan sat and drank tea for a while before getting up to go out. She wanted to ask if there was any yellow paper used for talisman drawing.
They had just left when General Xiao followed them out.
Gao Xu sent General Xiao to the door. He stared at the backs of the two people opposite him and suddenly felt that they were very familiar.
He frowned and waited for General Xiao to leave before following them.
Lu Sheng bought a stack of yellow paper and was about to leave when she saw Gao Xu waiting at the door.
He looked at the two of them suspiciously.
Chu Sihan and Lu Sheng walked out and pretended not to see him. They walked past him.
“Wait!”
He shouted, but the duo did not stop. They continued striding opposite.
Soon, he realized that the duo had entered the opposite inn, which was also his Gao family’s inn.
Gao Xu frowned and walked back to the opposite side.
When he entered the inn, he happened to see the backs of the duo entering the room.
That room was the room he got someone to prepare for Lu Sheng and Chu Sihan.
“Lad, you even dare to fool Uncle-Master. You’re too much!”
Gao Xu gritted his teeth and ran over.
Chu Sihan and Lu Sheng were sitting at the tea table. When they saw him walk in, they looked at him with faint smiles.
“You…”
Gao Xu wanted to reprimand the duo, but he felt that they might have other difficulties.
His reprimand immediately turned to worry. “Why did you suddenly change your appearance? Where’s Senior Brother? Where did he go? Why didn’t he say anything when he didn’t return for the night?”
Chu Sihan raised his eyebrows. “Uncle-Master Gao has so many questions. Which should I answer first?”
“Forget it.” Gao Xu sighed softly. “Tell me why you changed your appearances.”
Chu Sihan said coldly, “Of course it’s for convenience.”
“For convenience?” Gao Xu was puzzled. “What’s the matter?”
“Hero Gao saw those puppets too. We can’t let them stay in town every day, right?”
Lu Sheng sighed softly and said, “In order to find out where those puppets came from, we went to a nearby village yesterday. We realized that there were puppets even in the nearby villages. However, the number was not as large as in town.”
“What? They’re even at the countryside?” Gao Xu was shocked.
Recently, in order to prevent those puppets from going elsewhere, the town gate had basically closed once it reached evening. Hence, everyone thought that only the town had them.
Lu Sheng said lightly, “That puppet’s den is at the back of the mountain near the countryside. How can they not be there?”
“You found it?”
Gao Xu was elated. Lu Sheng said coldly, “Unfortunately, when we returned, they had already left.”
When Gao Xu heard that, he was immediately disappointed.
He was silent for a while before asking again, “Do you know who’s behind this?”
Lu Sheng nodded. “I know, but you don’t know him.”