Seeing Ye Ming, he immediately stood up and said lightly, “Follow me.”
Ye Ming didn’t ask much and followed the old beggar just like that. In fact, he didn’t have much hope in his heart. He was just an old beggar, what ability could he have to help him? But even with just a glimmer of hope, he decided to come. He didn’t want to miss even one out of a million chances!
An old man and a young man crossed the street, went out of Shanshui Town, and kept walking towards the mountains. In the cold moonlight, even the small pebbles on the ground were clearly visible; and Ye Ming, who was clad in thin clothes, shuddered slightly.
“What are we going to do up the mountains?” He could not help asking.
“Stop asking questions, just keep walking.” The old beggar replied coldly, but his pace was getting slower and slower, and his movements were getting uncoordinated, akin to a puppet manipulated by strings behind, as if his body was not his.
After climbing to the top of the mountain, the old beggar found a flat and smooth lying bull stone and ordered Ye Ming, “Sit down.”
Ye Ming sat down, still thinking in his heart: What good fortune is he going to send me?
The old beggar examined Ye Ming carefully before speaking again, “Before your meridians were destroyed, your aptitude was pretty exceptional. It’s worth noting that your luck is much stronger than ordinary people, otherwise this old man would have never found you.”
Ye Ming, who couldn’t understand a word of what the old man was saying, asked, “What good fortune you said during the day will you send me?”
The old man smiled strangely, and answered, “I want you, your body, to dominate the world in the future, does that count as a good fortune?”
Ye Ming was once again shocked. Dominate the world? Wait a minute! He made mention of his body, what does he mean?
The old beggar chuckled ‘hehe’ and pointed in between Ye Ming’s brows. Suddenly, Ye Ming felt a strange force restraining his body so that he couldn’t move. Panic prevailed and he couldn’t resist asking sharply, “What are you going to do?”
The old beggar sat down slowly as if totally worn out and said, “What am I going to do? I’ve only possessed this physical body temporarily and can’t hold on for long. I must find a new host as soon as possible.”
Noticing the doubts in Ye Ming’s eyes, the old man continued calmly, “For the sake of contributing your physical body, this old man will let you know of the truth before you die.”
“You … you want to kill me?” Ye Ming was enraged.
The old beggar chuckled ‘hehe’ again and replied, “Kill you? In my eyes, you are but an ant. If I weren’t in such a hurry to find a new body, did you think you’re worth my attention? Boy, this is your good fortune!”
Although Ye Ming wasn’t entirely clear about anything, at this juncture, the best way for him to survive was to stall for time, and so he immediately submitted, “Right, I’ll let you turn me into a ghost, but why should you kill me?”
The old man looked up at the bright moon and said, “Since the right time to possess your body has yet to arrive, there’s still some time for storytelling, so let this old man tell you the chain of events.”
“I was originally the general of the Vermilion Bird Dynasty, who fell into a scheme of some crafty villains and got persecuted, with my entire family killed together. Later, I fled to another country and accidentally acquired an ancient scroll on, “Grafting flowers onto a tree.” This skill is perfect in wrestling control over someone else’s body and replacing him! I used this skill to possess the body of an inner disciple of the Heavenly Earth, and infiltrated the Heavenly Earth with his identity. That disciple’s talents were top notch, but it took me 30 years long to become a core disciple from just being an inner disciple, and all the way into becoming the head of the Heavenly Earth!”
“But that’s not enough, to achieve my revenge, I must become stronger! So after thorough planning and layers of arrangement, I took advantage of an enemy’s invasion and stole the Three Great Treasures of the Heavenly Earth. When the theft came to light, I was pursued and ambushed by martial arts saint masters of the Heavenly Earth. I was seriously injured and my primordial spirit almost disappeared.”
“Fortunately, at the last moment, I relied on my ancient seal to escape, I let my primordial spirit flee from the Heavenly Earth and came to your Sanshui Town. At that time, my primordial spirit was extremely weak and almost dispersed. At that fatal moment, I saw a dying beggar. As a last resort, this great general was forced to possess this body and temporarily dwelled in it, waiting for a more suitable body.”
“Then you met me later?” Ye Ming was pale as death, now he knew he’s done for! His physical body might likely be possessed by the person in front of him!
The old man chuckled the same ‘hehe’: “In my eyes, your talents can only be regarded as within average. What’s more, your meridians were also crushed. But right now, my primordial spirit is too weak and this beggar is too old, his health is also deteriorating, so I can’t stay in it for much longer. Otherwise, if I don’t find a suitable body sooner, I will vanish in a puff of smoke all at once. Soon after, I met you, so I can only pick you.”
Ye Ming immediately followed with another question: “What did you mean when you said the right time has yet to arrive?”
“It’s very simple. When the moon is at its fullest, the yin is at its heaviest. By then, the effect of snatching the host’s body would be perfect.” The old beggar glanced at the moon again and grinned.
“But you yourself said that my talents are not good enough and even my meridians were destroyed. My body won’t be a good choice!” Ye Ming refused to give up. He yelled out loud, unwilling to surrender control over his body, and become a lonely wandering ghost!
“Your average talents and ruined meridians are all irrelevant. With the help of the Heavenly Earth’s Divine Nine Transformations foundation Building pill and the Divine Treasure Cloak, I can still achieve legendary feats!” The old man sniggered again, “Even if I can’t become a martial arts immortal, becoming a martial arts saint in this generation is no problem.”
Ye Ming deeply regrets his decision. He shouldn’t have believed the lies of this evil man and got enticed with that good fortune he said he’d give him. Now, everything has gone upside down, there was no good fortune, and soon he’d be a dead man!
The old beggar suddenly said, “It’s almost time. This old man must regulate your body before taking possession.”
In the middle of the conversation, he took out a jade bottle and continued, “Inside this bottle is the Divine Nine Transformations Foundation Building pill. It has an extraordinary origin and can only be used by gifted successors of the Heavenly Earth. It can completely enhance your physique allowing me to possess and dwell in your body afterwards, and make me a gifted genius after your sacrifice!”
Ye Ming could not help lamenting and cursing out loud: “You’re harming people for no reason, you’ll certainly be accorded your retribution soon!”
The old beggar actually burst into laughter: “Retribution? How ridiculous! You are just as stupid as your country men. You actually believe in the existence of ‘God’ as well as the so-called retribution. In Tianyuan Continent, the strongest are revered. If there is real retribution, the strong under the heavens would have died early!”
In the midst of running possible questions through his mind, the old beggar suddenly posed: “There is not much time left, the Divine Nine Transformations Foundation Building pill can’t be taken orally so I must cut your heart open and put the pill directly inside, and then slowly refine it with blood. I’m going to execute this step now.”
“Ah!” Ye Ming exclaimed, straight into the heart? Wouldn’t that make him a corpse?
The old beggar seemed to read what he was afraid of, and cheered him gently, “You won’t die. If you die, wouldn’t my efforts be wasted?” Then he opened the bottle and poured out a dragon-eye sized pill.
The surface of the pill was surrounded by nine bizzare and magical lights, secreting a heart-inducing aroma. Ye Ming merely sniffed a scent of it and immediately felt relaxed from head to toe. It’s as if every single cell in his body was singing a song.
What shocked him even more was that the pill was in the shape of a human being. It didn’t look like him. It sat directly in a suspended disk. It had a nose and eyes, radiating a dignified majesty. In addition, within the nine-layers of mythical lights, there are spiritual demon gods wandering around in a spiral, exuding the breath that deters the heavens.
On the other hand, Ye Ming felt even more nervous. Cut his heart open and put the divine pill in! He thinks that if such a huge pill were to be inserted into his heart, wouldn’t that affect his blood flow? Just a tiny bit of carelessness would kill a man!
But when he thought of his body being occupied, he thought it better to die, lest this vile creature in front of him would profit from his death!
The nine magical lights around the pill released glows that seem to be expanding. And those spiritual demon gods within appeared to be coming to life, rather like soaring in search for exit. The old beggar loosened Ye Ming’s coat and exposed his chest. Then, a bright light flashed in his eyes, while his fingers slashed sharp as a knife, stabbing forward lightning fast. He struck in the twinkling of an eye that Ye Ming didn’t even see clearly how he did it.
“Whiz!” With this sound, his chest was punctured by a sharp force, and before blood could even spray out from the cut in his heart, the old beggar inserted the divine nine transformations foundation building pill into the wound with his other hand.
An eye-popping scene followed right after. When the divine pill came into contact with the blood, it immediately transformed into a golden ray of light and snuck with a whoosh deep into the heart, turning into a little golden humanoid and settling in the center of the heart. Both of his hands bore odd marks, the picture of a holy jewel. Behind him were the nine mythical glowing lights, each of which has spiritual demon gods, similar to an essence, which are clearly distinct from each other.
Whenever Ye Ming’s blood passes through his heart, it would be stained with a touch of gold by the golden little humanoid, and then flows back to the whole body to nourish the flesh.
The moment his heart was cut open, Ye Ming felt a chill at the pit of his stomach, and then followed by a heart-wrenching pain. However, when the golden little humanoid emerged, he felt extremely warm and comfortable. His wound healed at a speed that was visible to the naked eye, and his skin surface soon became as clean as new.
Ye Ming was shell shocked. The moment his blood comes into contact with that divine pill, it actually turned into a golden energy! Is this the wonders of the divine pill?
“Success!” The old beggar nodded with satisfaction.
Ye Ming was blown away. There was no wound on his chest, and the golden blood was replenishing him with strength!
“The time has come.” The old beggar looked up at the night sky, where the moon had reached its brightest moment. An eerie smile appeared on his face, making Ye Mingxin’s hair stand on ends. He felt that the surrounding environment has suddenly grown colder, and gusts of wind began to blow.
The old beggar pressed his palm between Ye Ming’s brows followed by a hot breath bursting into his consciousness. Ye Ming groaned, feeling as if the world has suddenly turned upside down. His eyes were closed, his consciousness turned groggy, and then he lost his consciousness at once. But before he could totally lose it, a thought in his mind clung into his heart, crying deep down: I can’t die! I can’t let this wicked villain succeed!
The next moment, the old beggar’s body collapsed into the ground, and “Ye Ming” opened his eyes. He stretched his hands and feet, moved freely, and began laughing, and cheering to himself, “This body is better than I’ve expected. I just didn’t expect that that boy’s will to survive was so strong that he even hid his soul into the depths of his consciousness at the critical moment. No harm done there. Once I’ve refined my Divine Treasure Cloak, it is not too late to annihilate him.”
Then, from the body of the old beggar, he took out a cloak that was as thin as a silkworm’s wing. The cloak gave out a faint glow under the moonlight, just like an illusion. He draped the cloak on his body, nipped his fingertips, and then sprinkled blood on the thin Divine Treasure Cloak. The cloak was stimulated by the blood and it briefly unleashed a horrible pressure.
Seconds later, the divine cloak transformed into a ray of light and entered Ye Ming’s body in a flash. A warm and fresh and clean power immediately throbbed within his body, giving off an immortal ripple feel.
The old beggar laughed into the sky and said to himself: “Wonderful! The Divine Treasure Cloak is indeed worthy of its name! The thirty long years I’ve exhausted weren’t in vain, it’s worth it!”
At the same moment, the old beggar felt a powerful force that made him palpitate, potent and grim, sweeping across his body and soul in an instant, and then a cold voice suddenly rang in his mind: “Physical check completed. Soul waves in perfect consistency. Blood sacrifice succeeded!”
The old beggar was startled at first, but immediately reacted and asked in shock: “Are you a guardian spirit?”
“External soul invasion detected. Destroy at once!” The same cold voice rang anew.
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