Chapter 125: Plum Blossom Seat and Nameless Village
Chapter 125: Plum Blossom Seat and Nameless Village
"Your Holiness, you are looking for me."
"Ah... plum blossoms?"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Michelle brought good news. They found where Yan Wuchang and Xue Nu lived. You go and discuss the truth."
"Michelle is... the Master Mingzun? The Master ranked first..."
"Go, find them both, and look for clues Ling Yue left behind about the Saint's Mark and the curse on me."
"Yes, Your Majesty. I will do it right away."
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A dark night several months ago.
Lingyi's training plan was put on the agenda. He rested during the day and practiced at night. Now he was brought to the top of Luoan Peak by the Snow Girl. He sat cross-legged in the snow, absorbing the essence of the moon.
Beside him, the Snow Girl looked at the village in front of her that had already fallen into a dream with a somewhat sad look in her eyes, and sighed deeply: "Hey... Is it right or wrong to teach Xiao Yi to practice, Lao Yan?"
Boom! With a sound of flames flashing, Yan Wuchang's body unexpectedly appeared behind the Snow Girl, but his body was still in the state of a hunchbacked old man, and his body seemed a little wretched, but his face was solemn, examining Lingyi who was practicing.
Yan Wuchang nodded with some satisfaction and said, "I don't know if Xiaoyi is gifted or a god from heaven. He is only a teenager, but he has already reached a bottleneck that we have been unable to break through for decades. If you or I face Xiaoyi who has murderous intentions alone, do you have a chance of winning?"
"Don't be ridiculous. How could her child be mediocre?" The proud Snow Girl suddenly said self-deprecatingly, "If one day I'm lucky and the mark on Xiaoyi's forehead doesn't cause any trouble, I might actually have a chance to fight. The only thing I'm afraid of is that the full power of the mark will be unleashed."
"Yes, for more than ten years, I still don't understand the purpose of this mark on Xiaoyi's forehead. At present, I only know that it has a great help to Xiaoyi's cultivation. Other than that, it really is..." Yan Wuchang sighed and shook his head, "It feels more like a seal, blocking the huge magic power in Xiaoyi's body, making him look like a normal child."
"Now it's about the proficiency of the moves. Let's not talk about your Sun, but my Moon Shadow, although this little guy knows all of them, it is extremely difficult for him to use them. Otherwise, he wouldn't have reversed his training time and absorbed the essence of the moon in the middle of the night." The Snow Girl also sighed.
"Xiaoyi is gifted and has a high level of comprehension. You have to believe in him and believe in his child." Yan Wuchang said, gently raising his hand and patting Xue Nu's shoulder. Xue Nu turned her head to look at Yan Wuchang, closed her eyes slightly, feeling the cold wind blowing on her face from afar, and nodded slightly.
Suddenly, Xue Nu's cheeks flushed slightly, and she said calmly: "Old Yan, how long has it been since we were alone like this?" But she didn't hear Yan Wuchang's voice, which made Xue Nu a little irritated, "Old Yan? I'm asking you a question."
The Snow Girl's urgent questioning did not bring any response. Instead, gusts of even colder wind blew in front of her, making her originally hot heart feel even colder.
"I'm not asking you a question, why are you..." The Snow Girl finally couldn't hold back her anger. She opened her eyes and turned back to scold Yan Wuchang. However, Yan Wuchang didn't care about the Snow Girl at this time. Instead, he turned his body behind the Snow Girl and stared at the snow-capped mountains.
The cold wind was howling and the place was calm as water. There were only snowflakes falling on the snowfield, and no moving objects.
It seemed like a normal scene, but Yan Wuchang's eyes were filled with endless murderous intent: "Axue, protect Xiaoyi first, don't let Xiaoyi be discovered by others."
"What do you mean?" The Snow Girl also frowned and asked in confusion, "Why? Are those bastards from Nord Town chasing us again?"
"This guy is not ordinary this time... You stay with Xiaoyi first, so as not to be lured away from the mountain." Yan Wuchang murmured. The Snow Girl nodded, and watched Yan Wuchang's body turn into flames and drift away with the cold wind.
The Snow Girl looked back at Lingyi who was still concentrating on his training. She did not dare to let her guard down. Her eyes released a suffocating murderous intent. Countless cold air was released from the Snow Girl's body, covering the entire Luoan Peak.
The fourth of the Seven Tribulations of Moon Shadow, Snow Realm
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Inside the dense forest, the plum blossom man was moving quickly between the trees, with four men in black at his side. They all looked like top-notch masters, and they didn't even make any noticeable sounds when passing through the bushes in the woods.
The five people ran all the way to the entrance of Wuming Village. There were three words "Wuming Village" written in regular script on it, but none of the five people present could understand what the words meant.
The plum blossom man looked at a man in black beside him. The man in black immediately took out a stack of papers and slowly opened it. It was a map of the outskirts of Nord Town. He looked around and compared it with the map.
"Sir, we're here. This is it," said the man in black.
"Okay, remember not to make any noise after you find Yan Wuchang and Xue Nu. Get together first, two by two to take care of each other, and then disperse." After the Plum Blossom Man gave a brief instruction, the four men in black beside him immediately rushed in all directions and entered the Nameless Village in two groups.
The plum blossom man looked up at the three big characters "Wuming Village" written in regular script, his fists clenched tightly.
It was as if a name was squeezed out from between his teeth: "Ling Yue..."
Pitch-black magic power instantly surged out from his body and enveloped the body of the Plum Blossom Man. The Plum Blossom Man glanced at him with disdain and took a step forward. The moment his feet touched the ground, the magic power was instantly released, covering the entire Nameless Village. The "Nameless Village" plaque at the entrance of the village also broke into two pieces at this moment.
The plum blossom man suddenly jumped forward with his next foot, and in a flash he was already in the village square of the nameless village, looking over the village.
"The door is not locked? How reassuring are you?" The Plum Blossom Man complained when he saw the "suspicious" scene in the Nameless Village. Then he entered a room at random and slightly pushed the door open. The creaking sound of the wooden door was heard, followed by the sound of a man and a woman snoring heartily.
When the plum blossom man saw this scene, he reached behind himself and took out a dagger in a short while. He skillfully rotated the dagger and walked into the house quietly stepping on the floor tiles.
Suddenly, the plum blossom man turned his dagger around and stabbed the big man fiercely...
The dagger was suspended in the air, just a millimeter away from the big man's eyebrows, as if the blade would scratch him if he just turned his head.
The plum blossom man withdrew his dagger in confusion, and looked at the safe big man sleeping soundly without any guard: "Is he pretending? Or are the people here simple and honest? The nearest place here should be Nord Town. Even the border city of Andressa is several days away. It should be a good place to live in seclusion." After the plum blossom man said this, he was about to leave when he caught a glimpse of the stove in the house.
The plum blossom man walked to the stove curiously and looked it up and down. It looked a little different from ordinary stoves, especially the red gem in the center, which caught the plum blossom man's special attention.
Gently tapping the gem, red sparks flew out and almost burned the plum blossom man's fingers. Looking back at the well-equipped equipment, even those made of iron, the plum blossom man could not help but marvel inwardly.
"How can such a small village still use iron tools? Is it just that this family is a little richer? Or..." The plum blossom man said, and immediately walked out of the wooden house, and then searched a few more wooden houses. The furnishings inside were similar, but strange devices and iron tools like stoves were indeed found in other villagers' homes. Does this mean that there is an iron mine in this village?
While the Plum Blossom Man was searching, the four men in black who followed the Plum Blossom Man came back to his vicinity. Two of them stood on the roof, and the other two walked in the alleys on both sides.
"Your Excellency, no information about the Yanxue Duo has been found in the east."
"It's the same in the west. Is the intelligence wrong?"
The men in black looked at each other and waited for the man with plum blossoms to give the next instructions.
"Have you looked around the entire village?" the plum blossom man asked curiously.
"Yes sir, every home in the east has been searched."
"Same thing in the west, nothing was gained."
The plum blossom man nodded and said, "Well, did you see the things in those untouchables' homes?"
The four men in black looked at each other, but all nodded affirmatively.
"Yes, sir, it is indeed very suspicious. The most common things we have found so far are stoves that can make fire out of thin air, bathtubs that flow out hot water, and containers that contain cold water."
"We have roughly tried these things. They don't have any significant killing power, but they don't require us to consume our own magic power."
"I have never seen such a magical product before. No magic weapon in any country can reach this level."
"There are many varieties. It will take some time to register them one by one."
The four men in black reported the situation one after another, but the plum blossom man looked at the ground thoughtfully and muttered to himself: "Appearing out of thin air without consuming magic power is very characteristic of you, Ling Yue..."
"Sir?" a man in black asked, "What should we do next? We can't find any evidence that Master Yan and Master Xue are alive. Should we..."
The plum blossom man lowered his head and thought for a while: "It's not over yet, next... we have to go up the mountain."
"Mountains?" The four men in black looked at the Andesaro Mountains behind the Nameless Village in confusion. "Your Highness, do you mean that they might be living in seclusion in the mountains?"
"No, I just have a feeling that the cold air coming from the mountain is not normal." The plum blossom man said, looking back at the Andesaro Mountains, and said in a deep voice, "It's a bit like... wind and waves emitted by magic."
"Your Highness, do you mean to say that there might be a Snow Lord living on the mountain?"
"But it will take time to climb the Andesaro Mountains. We should..."
The men in black had not yet finished their discussion when the sound of crisp footsteps suddenly came from the end of the Nameless Village.
The footsteps were heavy and crisp, and besides the sound of the feet, there seemed to be the sound of a wooden stick knocking, which might be a cane.
The sound was very loud, especially in the dead of night when no one was around. The combination of the cane and the crisp stomping of the ground would tug at the heartstrings of ordinary people every time.
The four men in black were well-informed and naturally did not place bets at the first opportunity. One of them immediately shouted, "Who is playing tricks here?"
Walking towards me was an old man in his seventies or eighties, holding a wooden stick in his hand, with a hunched back. He was wearing a cloak that covered his head and entire body like a large piece of cloth. His face could not be seen clearly, but from the cold and faint moonlight, one could tell that the old man seemed to be wearing nothing but a pair of underpants.
"I just heard a noise outside the house, so I came to look for you, and then I saw you all coming. I'm sorry for not coming in person to welcome you." The old man clasped his hands together, held the wooden cane and bowed respectfully.
"Where did this bastard come from? Why don't we do it ourselves..."
"No rush. We are looking for someone now. It would be fine if there is a living person we can ask."
"To prevent future troubles, it's better to ask before killing."
The men in black discussed with each other and seemed to have made up their minds. Then one of them came out and walked towards the old man, but the plum blossom man stretched out his hand to stop the man in black.
"Your Excellency?" The man in black looked at the man with plum blossom in confusion.
Although the plum blossom man's face was covered by a huge pattern, one could clearly feel the solemn expression under the mask. The magic power gradually dissipated, making the man in black gradually feel a little scared.
"Back off, this guy is not someone you can handle." The plum blossom man said in a deep voice.
"Yes... yes." Seeing the plum blossom man giving orders, the man in black hurriedly retreated behind him. The other three men in black also came to the side of the man in black, stood behind the plum blossom man, and stared at the old man.
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