Chapter 450
Chapter 450
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 450
>Chapter Title: Changes
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Looking at Lv Xiucai, whose mouth was spewing increasingly vicious profanities, yet who just stood at the doorway without going up, Chun Xiaoman puzzledly looked toward Bai Lingmiao beside her.
“Miaomiao, did you know long ago that he’d act like this?”
Looking at Lv Xiucai’s conflicted back in the distance, Bai Lingmiao chuckled lightly.
“Do you think I cursed him out for being useless at everything just for fun? He can’t be a good person, and he’s even less fit to be a villain. This guy at best qualifies as a scumbag.”
At that moment, Gouwa came down the stairs, holding a bowl of rice and food in his hands.
When he saw Lv Xiucai cursing up a storm, he was utterly shocked. He hurriedly set the bowl down on the ground and rushed over to stop him.
“Hey hey, Xiucai, what are you doing? What are you doing! It’s not worth it, really not worth it.”
With Gouwa blocking him like this, Lv Xiucai grew even more agitated. He raised the short blade in his hand and tried to charge outside. The skinny Gouwa nearly failed to hold him back several times.
After Gouwa’s bout of persuasion, Lv Xiucai finally calmed down a bit. Under his pulling and tugging, he squatted to the side and started eating. As he ate, he vowed solemnly to Gouwa,
“Gouwa, let me tell you, this isn’t over! All those things that old bag of bones did to me, I’ve got them all etched in my heart! One day, I’m definitely going to chop him up!!”
“Hey, you’ve been hungry all day. Eat up quick. You can chop your dad anytime, but once the rice gets cold, it won’t taste good.”
Lv Xiucai held the big bowl and wolfed it down. As he ate, he suddenly noticed that today’s food was exceptionally good.
He skewered a chicken-egg-sized chunk of greasy fatty pork with his chopsticks, dipped it in the rice in his bowl, and popped it into his mouth, chewing blissfully.
Chewing the fragrant fatty meat in his mouth, Lv Xiucai looked puzzledly at Gouwa.
“What’s going on? Is the village celebrating the New Year early or something?”
“Nah, Senior Brother Li’s back! So the village threw a feast to celebrate.”
“Oh?! Really?! My master’s back!?” Lv Xiucai instantly grew excited and was about to rush outside, but then he immediately thought that maybe he should ask permission from the master’s wife who had taught him the new divine ability.
Yet when he looked toward Bai Lingmiao, he found that the white-haired girl and the hairy woman had both vanished. A side door nearby stood open.
Walking through the dim corridor, Bai Lingmiao stumbled and nearly fell. Clutching her knee, she complained,
“This damn place is so dark.”
Chun Xiaoman walked over and helped support her as she replied,
“It’s alright, not that dark. I’ll hang a few more oil lamps on the walls tomorrow. By the way, aren’t you going to tell Senior Brother Li about the divine ability cultivation method left behind by the White Lotus Cult?”
A flash of impatience appeared in Bai Lingmiao’s eyes.
“What’s the point in telling him? You might think this martial spirit medium thing is impressive, but in his eyes right now, it’s nothing. He’s way more powerful than you think.”
“Really? Senior Brother Li’s gotten this strong? That’s great news!” Chun Xiaoman couldn’t help feeling happy for Li Huowang.
“Great news? You really think it’s great for a madman to get even stronger? Think about the things he’s done in the past.”
As Bai Lingmiao spoke, she kept walking inward until she reached the innermost secret chamber and stopped.
“But didn’t Senior Brother Li tell you that he won’t lose control anymore?”
“You believe whatever he says? Then you’re even crazier than he is. Anyway, I think it’s iffy. Just now on the bed, when he mentioned hallucinations, he immediately changed the subject, like he was hiding something.”
“Let’s wait and see for now, so he doesn’t overthink it. He probably won’t run off for a while. Once we see what his situation really is, we can plan from there.”
“Miaomiao, you’re really good to him.”
“What choice is there? Married to the chicken, follow the chicken; married to the dog, follow the dog. He didn’t mind me being a burden back then, so how could I mind him being crazy now?”
“Since he’s gone that mad, all we can do is figure out how to cure him.”
The stone door opened, and Bai Lingmiao walked in. The white jade lotus flower on the cabinet emitted a soft, yin-like glow that illuminated the entire room.
Under this light, Bai Lingmiao looked up at the mural on the wall, at that double lotus pulled by six white donkeys.
Ever since that bizarre chanting had rung out last time, the double lotus had appeared and never vanished again. Instead, it had grown increasingly clear. She had no idea what it meant.
“Could this have something to do with the White Lotus Cult’s Eternal Mother?” Bai Lingmiao wondered puzzledly. But she had searched through every book in this secret chamber and found nothing related to the double lotus.
Thus, Bai Lingmiao couldn’t tell whether this development was good or bad for her.
With the White Lotus Cult down to just her now, whatever good or bad changes came next would directly determine her future influence and power.
“If only I knew where that bizarre chanting came from. Maybe I’d get some insight.” Bai Lingmiao murmured to herself.
But that was obviously difficult. During this time, whenever she went outside to perform spirit medium rituals, she had specifically asked about the origin of that strange chanting. Yet she got no answers.
The only thing she could learn from the possessing spirits was that the sound was very chaotic and messy. Though they hadn’t said it outright, Bai Lingmiao sensed that the spirits seemed afraid of the chanting.
Bai Lingmiao thought for a moment, then took three incense sticks from nearby. She bowed toward the double lotus and inserted them into the small incense burner.
She didn’t know if it would work, but she’d give it a try. At least according to the books, the Eternal Mother didn’t forbid others from paying respects.
“Miaomiao, what about those human sacrifice arrays and heavenly books in the corner?”
Chun Xiaoman’s words snapped Bai Lingmiao back to attention. She looked toward the books she had selected over this time in the corner.
“What else? Burn them.”
“Really burn them?”
Bai Lingmiao’s voice was filled with disgust.
“Burn them! Seeing that disgusting crap just pisses me off! I, Bai Lingmiao, say what I mean and do it.”
An oil lamp tumbled through the air and landed on the books, instantly igniting raging flames.
Under the orange-red firelight, something faintly emerged within the double lotus on the wall—a mass that was upside down inside and out, top and bottom reversed.
Neither Bai Lingmiao nor Chun Xiaoman noticed this horrifying and eerie sight.