Chapter 521: Chapter 520: The Elusive Washing Lady_1

𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

With the rules broken and the Washing Lady’s momentum greatly weakened, Lu Yang seized the opportunity and made his move first.

“Beheading Mantra!”

After Daoist Buyu’s enlightenment, Lu Yang’s understanding of what he saw had reached a higher level, and the power of the original Beheading Mantra was also different from the past.

The Washing Lady was split in two, screaming painfully, and she turned into two streams of ink, retreating back into the scroll.

Within the scroll, the Washing Lady’s expression was filled with resentment. She glared at Lu Yang but didn’t dare to show her face again, instead hiding within the scroll.

She wanted to kill, but she had realized from the fight just now that she would struggle even against Lu Yang alone, not to mention three people.

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“Cultivator, I admit you are stronger than me, you win this time!”

If she was done speaking, the scroll floated up, ready to escape with a fast speed.

“Escape?”

The scroll flew, but Lu Yang’s sword was faster. He once again cast the Beheading Mantra. With a single stroke, he cut the scroll down from the sky. The scroll fell, but without any damage.

Lu Yang clicked his tongue. he hadn’t expected that the quality of the scroll would be higher than he estimated. With his current level, he couldn’t cut it off.

“Cultivator, you are indeed strong, but you can’t push things to an extreme. Let me go now, and I promise I won’t come back, and I won’t hurt Mr. Song. If you keep blocking my escape, you may protect the Song family for a while, but can you protect them forever?”

Lu Yang sneered, unmoved, and poked the scroll with his sword tip, “Don’t think I don’t know that such a magic artifact like you has its own rules. You’ve completed the goal for Mr. Song and you have to get your reward. If you don’t claim your reward, at best your foundation will be shaken, at worst your intellect will be wiped out!”

The Washing Lady remained silent, not expecting that her rules would be figured out by Lu Yang so quickly, but she couldn’t admit it: “Nonsense!”

Lu Yang didn’t bother to argue with the Washing Lady. Regardless of what was said, he had to take the scroll away to ensure Mr. Song’s safety.

Tao Yaoye and Lan Ting both chose to trust Lu Yang’s judgment. Tao Yaoye stepped forward and took the scroll with her identity jade.

But the scroll quickly flew out of the jade.

“You think you can trap me with this thing?” The Washing Lady sneered. Though she was a masterless magic artifact, any storage ring could take her, but she could control the scroll and escape from the storage ring at any time. No one could catch her.

Tao Yaoye and Lan Ting tried twice with the identity jade, but the scroll escaped each time.

The two women looked serious. If they couldn’t take the scroll away, once they left, the scroll would probably retaliate against Mr. Song’s family.

“Let me try.”

Lu Yang took the scroll. Initially, the Washing Lady didn’t care much, but a force of absorption from Lu Yang’s palm changed her expression.

Lu Yang used the Village in the Palm method, drawing the scroll into his palm.

“Success? Senior Brother Lu, what technique is this?” The two women were surprised and had never seen this move before.

“A spatial type great divine skill – Universe within the Sleeve.” Lu Yang said lightly.

“Don’t think you can trap me just because you know a spatial divine ability!” Lu Yang’s palm transmits the voice of the Washing Lady. She escapes once again.

Lu Yang scratched his chin, used his Village in the Palm method again, drew the Washing Lady into it and then clapped his hands.

The Washing Lady, who fell into Lu Yang’s palm, didn’t know what was happening. She thought it was just a repetition of an old trick. She controlled the scroll to fly from the left palm to the right, then from the right palm back to the left, but she couldn’t find an exit.

“Strange, where is the exit?”

Fortunately, she wasn’t cultivating for the first time. She had seen many cultivators and spatial types of divine abilities; such divine abilities consume spiritual essence too quickly and can’t be constantly used. With Lu Yang’s cultivation level, he could only maintain it for three to five minutes.

“Senior Brother, is this going to work?” Tao Yaoye curiously watched as Lu Yang clapped his hands together. The more she watched, the more he seemed like a monk.

“Not yet. Using the Universe in the Sleeve consumes a lot of spiritual energy. I can only maintain it for a quarter of an hour.”

“Then what do we do?” Mr. Song was anxious. Judging by the Washing Lady’s intentions, she would surely retaliate against his family once she escaped.

He once had a crush on the Washing Lady too.

“It’s okay. Consuming the Great Recovery Pill can prolong the casting time of the divine ability, and it should work for an hour.”

“But we can’t make it back to the sect in an hour.” Lan Ting began to worry too and started thinking of solutions.

Lu Yang shook his head: “It’s okay, I already have a plan.”

…

“Dear customer, are you sure you want to sell a scroll-type magic artifact that carries a spirit device?” The manager of the Land Money Trade Association asked politely, his eyes shining.

A magic artifact carrying a spirit device can sell for a sky-high price.

This customer just looked a bit unusual; he held his hands in a prayer position, and the two female cultivators on his sides were like protectors, feeding him an elixir from time to time.

Is he some sort of a joyful Zen monk?

It was by necessity; Lu Yang couldn’t free his hands to take the medicine, so he had to ask his two junior sisters to feed him the elixir.

Mr. Song volunteered to do this job at first, but he was intimidated by the stares of Tao Yaoye and Lan Ting.

“Daoist Lu, are you sure this can work?” Mr. Song asked softly, feeling a little insecure.

As Yuanhe County was remote and had a corrupt local custom where dumpling stalls often overcharged customers, the Land Money Trade Association didn’t have a branch there.

Lu Yang and his group hence had to go to Qingshui County.

“Of course.”

“But what if the scroll runs back to my house?”

“Then you’re making a profit. You can sell it again.”

“That makes sense.”

Mr. Song always felt that there was something not quite right.

If Lu Yang himself couldn’t hold the Washing Lady for a long time, he didn’t believe the Trade Association couldn’t either.

If they couldn’t even trap a magic artifact, what reputation would the Trade Association have left?

The Trade Association heard that a magic artifact with a spirit device was for sale, and they immediately invited their senior appraiser to verify the authenticity of the magic artifact.

“My magic artifact is quite fast,” Lu Yang reminded.

The branch manager laughed and pointed at the room, “With twelve different array methods deployed inside and outside this room. I want to see what kind of magic artifact can escape from here!”

Lu Yang opened his hand and Washing Lady drove the scroll to fly out of his palm in a flash.

Crash!

She collided head-on with the wall and fell to the ground.

The senior appraiser picked up the scroll, employed a secret method, and saw miniature array methods that appeared one after another before his eyes. With the effect of these array methods, he could decipher the structure of the scroll.

The appraiser stroked his white mustache and smiled with interest, “Interesting, it’s made of Spirit Transformation-grade materials, but the person who refined it wasn’t skilled enough to bring out the full potential of the materials. Even so, this magic artifact has a spirit device, which is extremely rare, not to mention that this one even contains rules.”

“Three million spirit stones, how about this offer?” The appraiser gave the price with a cheerful smile.

Lu Yang thought for a while, removed the identity jade from his waist, and handed it to the appraiser, “I’m from the Seek Dao Sect.”

“Five million spirit stones.”

The appraiser immediately corrected his price on the spot.

Lu Yang continued, “I am Lu Yang, my brother is Meng Jingzhou, the young master of the Meng family. The two junior sisters behind me are from the same sect as me and one from Laurel Fairy Palace.”

“Six million spirit stones.”

The branch manager immediately raised the price on the spot.

Fearing that Lu Yang would continue speaking, he quickly added, “Really can’t add any more. Let us make a bit too.”

The Land Money Trade Association, as the largest trade association in the continent, also had cases where sellers undercut prices.

Although Lu Yang didn’t know the market, he could bring out his identity to prevent the other party from undercutting the price.