Chapter 692

Chapter 741: 14.17 Last Violet Star – Ancestral Mound

At night...

Luan City’s hidden graveyard.

The Ancestral Mound of the Lu Clan.

A secret land protected by arrays was used by the Lu Family as their Ancestral Mound. This is a place where they bury the descendants of their clan including their weapons.

The two Lu brothers had spent too much time at the marketplace and could only check the family’s cemetery at this late time. The Ancestral Mound of the Lu Family was protected by an illusion array that not only protects the land but also prevents those who aren’t cultivators from entering the secret land. This is to avoid ordinary humans from entering this place, especially the tomb raiders who like to steal from the graves.

But recently, there are reports coming all over the town that a lot of ordinary people had gone missing, especially women and teenagers. There are witnesses, of course, they all said they had disappeared in the direction where the Lu Clan’s Ancestral Cemetery was located.

The hidden land was surrounded by forest which is intended to keep the place away from the other people while the array prevents ordinary people from entering the mound. There is only one way for an ordinary mortal to enter the cemetery and that is for a cultivator to lead the way.

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But cultivators only from the Lu Weifeng Sect (Green Wind Breeze Sect) had the jade to enter the Ancestral cemetery and they had to be a direct descendant to have one. In short, only Lu Yi and Lu Er had these jade keys to enter the mound without being affected by the illusion array that protects the place.

The sun had long fallen half an hour ago. Lu Yi and Lu Er were walking down the forest with only a lantern as light as they walked past the quiet road toward the Li Clan’s Ancestral Mound. Lu Er was grabbing his elder brother’s sleeves clearly afraid of the dark despite his age.

Lu Yi shook his arm and said, “Walk properly. You’re a cultivator yourself so walk properly. How can you be scared of ghosts!?”

“Wuwu~ (QAQ) Isn’t that Dage’s fault? You always showed men those scary drawings when we were young. I’ve never gotten over it as Brother Bai also used to tease me a lot. Now only ghosts I’m scared the hell of it!” complained Lu Er with tears in the corner of his eyes.

“A’Wuan did? What did he do to you?” asked Lu Yi.

Lu Er replied, “He summoned real ghosts for fun. Especially those with the most gruesome death of all and let it chase after me for three whole days. Day and night!”

“Um! He is still as ruthless as always,” said Lu Yi. “When I’ve asked him for a spar before, he said the loser would be punished for losing. I thought he would choose to make me his servant for days but...”

“But... What did Brother Bai do?”

“He tied up my legs and hung me upside down on a cliff and said to cool down my head. He even said it might cure my battle-maniac personality. But after 3 days I was still hanging in there until the elders found me. I’ve asked A’Wuan why he didn’t fetch me. He said he forgot about me after eating moon cakes at the festival. He’s cruel right?” said Lu Yi.

Lu Er mumbled, “Woa~ I wonder how many had suffered from Brother Bai’s pranks. Only Chun Hongyun-Jun could stop him from doing all those things. They always fight afterward.”

“That is because he only sees Yun Jieye as someone who is on the same level as he is. Didn’t Yun Jieye end up killing him for that so-called greater good the elder cultivators say? Now they cannot even utter a word toward Yun Jieye as he had become the strongest in our realm,” said Lu Yi.

Lu Er said, “Chun Hongyun-Jun had longed to stop smiling after Brother Bai’s death. I’ve always thought they would become Dao Companions when we were young. But they ended up in such a tragedy because of the rumors of the Devil Race.”

“Stop talking about this! He is already gone. Why talk about such nonsense? A’Wuan would never come back anyway!” said Lu Yi as he took huge steps forward as if he wanted to leave behind his younger brother.

Lu Er on the other hand knew why his elder brother was suddenly in a bad mood. He had always admired Brother Bai’s strength. But he didn’t even know that he had fallen for that person because Brother Bai’s existence is so bright that the other genius could not stand by his side. Among anyone else in their generation, only Yun Jieye was able to do so but then that happened and everything had gone chaotic.

“Brother, wait for me. I won’t talk nonsense anymore okay!” said Lu Er as he followed after Lu Yi.

But who would expect the scene they would be welcomed with at the mound would be something Lu Er would never forget?

An old brick cave door, the only entrance to the underground cemetery of the Lu Clan was destroyed. A thick black fog was coming out of it and the whole area was surrounded by it. Seating above the tall stone door is a man in pure black robes. His skin was white to bloodless that even his vein had long turned black patterned on his skin and his irises were crimson in color as if it was dyed in blood. But his pupil was pure in black as well.

Lu Er was shocked as he stared at the inhuman man before his eyes. There are traces of blood smeared on his mouth and he was holding a breathless human child in his hand as if it was its meal for that night.

“W-What the hell is this creature!?” said Lu Er.

Lu Er saw the monster in human shape and turned his head at 360 angles at him. With a wide grin on his face and half of it covered in blood, the humanoid monster stares at him like a new prey.

A hoarse voice echoed in the area and said, “What is this? Food coming over themselves. Sadly, I don’t eat males~ Kekeke.” said the monster before them.

Lu Er was about to speak once more when Lu Yi appeared within the black fog and covered Lu Er’s mouth before running away. There are traces of blackening on Lu Yi’s face as he runs away. Unexpectedly, the humanoid monster didn’t chase after them. No one knows whether that thing could not leave or live there. Lu Yi was halfway out of the forest when he felt his mind going crazy and the blackening of his skin spread even faster.

ARRRGGHH~

Lu Er looked at his elder brother worriedly. He didn’t know whether that black fog was poisonous or not. But based on his brother’s current situation there was something in the fog that made him look like this.

“Dage! Dage!? Please don’t scare me like this! I only have you right now! Wuwuwu~” said Lu Er with his face full of tears.

Lu Yi was about to lose his sanity when he heard his brother’s crying voice. It was enough to let him grasp at the last strand of his sanity.

“Xiao... ER... L-Listen. Wait for Chun... Hongyun-Jun. Tell him... What we saw tonight. Send a message to the alliance. Tell them... A prospective devil race... Appeared in Luan City.”

“Un. un. I will, Dage. What should I do now?”

“Knock me out.”

“What!?”

“KNOCK ME OUT! I might go insane in my current state. Just knock me out for now and seek doctors. Not ordinary ones by cultivators who practice medicine. That black fog... It might be something not from this realm. Knock me out now. I can’t hold back anymore!”

Lu Er was panicking for a moment but still followed his elder brother’s request. He hit him badly on the back of his head and forcefully knocked him unconscious. He could only carry him out of the illusion forest array on his back. He didn’t even forget to activate the second defense array around the Ancestral Mound. It is more like a prison array that was made to lock the Ancestral Mound from inside and out.

There was chaos in the Lu Weifeng Sect (Green Wind Breeze Sect) when their Great Elder returned with their Sect Leader in such a state. Half of the body had turned dark for unknown reasons. It continues to spread all over his body and the only way to halt its progress is to channel qi to Lu Yi’s body continuously.

Lu Er ordered people to channel qi into his elder brother’s body 24/7 in a shifting schedule. He also sent urgent messages to the alliance and told them about a devil race possibly appearing in their town. Chun Hongyun-Jun who heard about this emergency had stopped the camping of his disciples and hurried them to leave so they could arrive as soon as they could at Luan City.

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Lu Weifeng Sect (Green Wind Breeze Sect)

Sect Master’s abode.

Lu Yi had been unconscious for hours. He had been groaning all this time in his sleep. The elders of the sect had all gathered in the room, half of them were meditating trying to get back lots of qi in their bodies after overusing them. The other half was surrounding Lu Yi whose half of the body had turned black.

Lu Er had been sending his elder brother his qi to prevent whatever caused his skin to turn black. The elders say that he is infected with death qi. There are only two ways to remove this kind of malicious qi. The first is through purification and the second is to use yin qi or ice element to cancel the effects of death qi.

Giving Lu Yi qi could only halt the progression of death qi in his body. This is only a temporary measure but it could only prevent not cure it completely.

Lu Er at this moment is completely pale from overusing his qi as he transfers it to his elder brother. The elders beside him had been begging him to stop transferring his qi to Lu Yi. Among all of them, only Lu Er didn’t stop once to keep his brother alive.

“Sect Master, please stop for a moment. Leave the rest to us old men.”

“Take a rest, please. We will do our best to keep the eldest master alive.”

“Right now as the Sect Master of our Lu, you cannot collapse now. Our whole sect would be in chaos if something also happened to you.”

Lu Er spoke in a haggard manner, “Ask Big Brother Yun to come to help me. I cannot lose my elder brother as well. Mom and Dad are already gone. Brother is all I have!”

Suddenly a disciple from their sect wearing a light green robe comes running to report something to them.

“Sect Master! Someone came to visit. He said he could save the eldest master!”

“What nonsense!? Who is joking around our sect at a time like this!?”

“We told you not to entertain this kind of person!”

“Send him away!”

Sect Master Lu observed the disciple who came to report and stared at him as if he was in a daze. He realized that there is something wrong with this disciple before him.

“Silence. Let me listen to what he wanted to say,” said Lu Er.

A few elders spoke out, “Sect Master. This is the fifth one who comes to our sect saying that they can save the eldest master but all of them are fake!”

Lu Er didn’t remove his eyes from the disciple that came with him and saw him look at him. His dull eyes suddenly glowed with a glint of silver, rendering Lu Er speechless and shocked. The elders were speaking their concerns to their sect master that they did not even notice that the disciple who reported just now had now watched the scene before him with an expressionless face on his face. The only difference is that his eyes right now had completely turned silver.

“Stop talking!” said Lu Er.

Silence ascended in the room, only then the elders noticed that the expression of their Sect Master had turned serious and noticed that he was staring at the disciple who had reported just now.

Lu Er asked, “Who are you, Sir?”