Chapter 162 Key

"You…" Ling Jun just opened his mouth when he saw Yuanshi Tianzun press his hand down and said in a deep voice, "Let's talk inside. Is Victoria there?"

Ling Jun took a deep breath to calm himself down, took the initiative to open the door, and welcomed Yuanshi Tianzun into the house.

It was just past mealtime, and the two maids in the villa, one was cleaning the kitchen and the other was cleaning the living room.

Victoria's figure appeared next to the railing on the second floor. She was wearing a purple nightgown, her chestnut hair was loosely draped over one side, her perfect oval face had delicate and deep features, and her light blue eyes were full of amorous feelings.

Standing high above, she smiled lightly: "Long time no see!"

To have such a beautiful older woman accompanying him, and still thinking about flirting around, tsk, Ling Jun is such a scumbag! Zhang Yuanqing nodded slightly and said:

"Elder Victoria, can you help me arrange a secret room blessed by Taiyin?"

The mature beauty with chestnut hair looked him up and down a few times and readily agreed, "No problem, but you should learn to control these powers yourself."

Zhang Yuanqing shrugged: "I only advanced to Ruler half a month ago."

Ling Jun took another deep breath, suppressed the urge to ask, sat down on the soft sofa, and watched Victoria walk down the stairs, across the living room, and towards the basement.

Since Yuanshi Tianzun requested a secret and blessed room, it meant that the matter to be discussed next could not be made public.

This also meant that his mother's matter was extremely important.

Ling Jun took out a cigarette, lit it, exhaled a puff of white smoke, and instructed the maid, "Bring the guest a glass of iced cola."

The maid put down the mop and walked towards the refrigerator in the kitchen.

Zhang Yuanqing asked in surprise, "When did you learn to smoke?"

"It's just a prop for me, specially used to deal with beautiful women who like melancholic, rogue, and rebellious men. Of course, sometimes it can really help me relieve my emotions." Ling Jun took half a cigarette in one gulp and exhaled a long stream of smoke: "Like now..."

He flicked the ash and said:

"Don't cause any more trouble recently. I reckon that Dark Night Rose, Lingneng Hui, Void Sect, and Soldiers of the Church are all preparing to deal with you. Your level-up speed is too terrifying, it has reached a point where even Demigods are afraid.

"The unwritten rules are still in place, and Demigods may not take action, but if peak Rulers are sent out, a hundred of you will surely die."

The unwritten rule is that Demigods cannot personally participate in battles to slaughter Extraordinary, Saints, and Rulers.

Don't think that the evil camp's Xingzhe are well hidden. If a Demigod takes action, it would actually be very easy to find them. Like the Eye of the Sky in New Covenant County, if it were controlled by a Demigod, the price of a rule-type attack might not cost the Demigod their sight. By then, what evil profession couldn't be found out? Find one and kill one. But unless the Demigods of both camps decide to be lone commanders, they won't personally take the field.

This is the same logic as nuclear deterrence in the real world.

Zhang Yuanqing nodded and said, "The final battle between the evil and the righteous is not far off. No matter how terrifying my leveling speed is, in the eyes of the Demigods, I'm just a genius who was born at the wrong time. Of course, if I emulate the Marshal's success and advance to the peak Ruler within half a year, the level of importance will be different."

Ling Jun stared at him for a moment, then suddenly sighed:

"Whether it's the final battle between good and evil, or you emulating the Marshal, it's none of my business anyway. I'm just a Saint, I won't have much success in this life, just eating, drinking, having fun, and sleeping with women, that's all."

Zhang Yuanqing took a sip of cola and suddenly said, "You got together with Victoria because you lack maternal love, right?"

Ling Jun was shocked: "Don't talk nonsense..."

"Me too."

Ling Jun was shocked: "No wonder we get along so well."

Zhang Yuanqing laughed, but sighed inwardly. Ling Jun lost his mother at a young age and was bullied by his older brothers. Later, he lived with his grandfather, living under someone else's roof.

Victoria was the only light in his childhood.

Under Ling Jun's lazy exterior, he actually hid a cautious heart. No one loved him, no one relied on him, so he didn't dare to compete for anything and could only pretend to be carefree.

Over the years, he lost motivation for his career and level-ups, and he didn't have the fighting spirit and arrogance of Fu Qingyang, who would go against the world or have everyone under his feet.

If Ling Jun doesn't have something to regain his fighting spirit, he will probably continue to be depressed, living a carefree life of eating, drinking, having fun, and sleeping with women.

The above analysis all came from the Voidbringer's talent.

The Voidbringer was also known as the "inner demon" in ancient times. Sensing the target's most real psychology, excavating the target's deepest fears, and peeking into the target's most sincere emotions are the talents of the "inner demon."

According to Niangniang of Three Paths Mountain, ancient cultivators, from Extraordinary to Ruler, and from Ruler to Human Immortal, had to experience heavenly tribulations.

The inner demon likes to take advantage of the weakness of ancient cultivators during heavenly tribulations.

When Zhang Yuanqing had almost finished drinking the iced cola, Victoria returned from the basement and said:

"The place is ready to use. When the door is open, the array is in an open state and is not blessed by Taiyin. When the door is closed, the array is activated."

After speaking, she stretched lazily and went upstairs in cotton slippers.

Ling Jun immediately stood up, "I'll take you over."

Victoria's basement was much cleaner than Elder Zhao's. The floor and stairs were paved with elm wood, and the forty-square-meter space was filled with some repair tools, clean mop heads, brooms, and spare household items.

Wealthy families would throw away old furniture and worthless junk directly, and would never pile them up at home.

"This way…"

Ling Jun led him through the basement to a small room on the left. This was where the Taiyin protection was located. The door walls and floor were covered with black spirit rune arrays.

Zhang Yuanqing carefully examined these arrays and found that they were different from the arrays drawn by Elder Zhao, but they were extremely similar, belonging to the same core with random appearances.

Are there different ways to depict the Taiyin array? Or is it that as long as a part of the core array is drawn correctly, the details can be freely displayed? Zhang Yuanqing silently noted it down and planned to ask Lao Bangzi for advice when he had the opportunity.

Ling Jun couldn't wait to close the door tightly, stared at him, and asked urgently:

"What exactly are you looking for me for today? Why did you mention my mom?"

Zhang Yuanqing sat cross-legged and took out a black, palm-sized miniature speaker from his pocket.

He placed the speaker in front of him, "Do you know what this is?"

Ling Jun shook his head.

"This is the Demon Lord's relic. Although it's not high-grade, it's very special. It's an item that cannot be stored in the item bar and must be carried with you at all times." Zhang Yuanqing introduced the Mao Wang speaker:

"The Demon Lord used it to record his inner thoughts, trying to use his kind self yesterday to awaken his depraved self tomorrow, so as to resist the erosion of the Chalice of Corruption. Because he carries it with him at all times, he inevitably recorded some content that requires payment…"

Speaking of this, Zhang Yuanqing slapped the Mao Wang speaker: "That audio clip I told you about last night can be played now."

"Buzz…" A low voice came from the Mao Wang speaker: "I'm done playing with her, and if I don't pay, then it's not selling!"

"What do you mean?" Ling Jun glanced at the speaker and then looked at Yuanshi Tianzun with a puzzled expression.

Zhang Yuanqing twitched the corner of his mouth: "It's satirizing us for wanting to get something for free. Take out your phone and play a song for it."

Hearing this, Ling Jun took out his phone and asked, "What kind of song does it like?"

"Gu Yong Zhe." (Crawling person/maggot)

"It's still a baby." Ling Jun laughed, opened the music software, and played a children's battle song.

A song ended quickly.

Ling Jun put away his phone and stared at the Mao Wang speaker with great anticipation.

"Buzz…" After a burst of static, a sharp, high-pitched voice came from the speaker:

"Honey, harder, harder, I can't take it anymore…"

Ling Jun looked up at Zhang Yuanqing with a blank expression, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "You came to the capital mysteriously just to gossip with me about the Demon Lord's audio of having sex with a woman?"

Don't you think this woman's voice is familiar! Zhang Yuanqing thought.

The audio of pleasure continued, and the Demon Lord's hoarse laughter came:

"Auntie, you and Teng'er are the same, you can't stand being whipped. Could it be that after your husband returned to the Spirit Realm, you haven't found a lover?"

Ling Jun's expression suddenly froze.

He stared blankly at Zhang Yuanqing, and Zhang Yuanqing looked back calmly. The sound of slapping echoed between the two.

Swift as the wind, sudden as the rain, aggression like fire, screams like the tide.

Ling Jun suddenly pounced on the Mao Wang speaker, his expression as ferocious as if this was his father's killer, no, his mother's killer.

Zhang Yuanqing suddenly pounced on him, subdued him with the physique of a Ruler.

Ling Jun refused to accept and shouted, "Are you here to humiliate me?!"

Zhang Yuanqing hurriedly comforted, "Don't worry, don't worry, the good stuff is yet to come."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Demon Lord's lewd laughter came from the Mao Wang speaker:

"Auntie, I heard from Teng'er that she has an aunt? You are so beautiful, that sister must be good too."

Ling Jun was furious: "Are you also insulting my mom? Is this what you call serious business?"

"Calm down, calm down!" Zhang Yuanqing comforted, "Don't get angry when it involves family…"

But thinking that if he didn't get angry at this, then what should he get angry at, he didn't say anything more and chose to calm him down physically.

Finally, after a new round of physical exercise in the audio and in reality, Teng'er's mother's sigh came from the speaker:

"My sister is the wife of the Taiyi Sect Leader. She returned to the Spirit Realm in the second year after giving birth. The Taiyi Sect claimed that she died in the Spirit Realm, but I think her death was not simple."

Hearing this sentence, Ling Jun's body, which was struggling hard, stiffened.

In the audio, the Demon Lord asked, "How do you say that?"

"…She was indeed about to enter the Spirit Realm at that time, but, but she called me before entering the Spirit Realm. She said that she had discovered a terrible secret… My sister didn't tell me what the secret was, but she told me that if one day she encountered misfortune, she would raise Ling Jun well…"

"Why didn't you tell your father about this?"

"I was afraid that this matter would involve the Taiyi Sect Leader."

Having played up to this point, Zhang Yuanqing got up from Ling Jun, patted the top of the Mao Wang speaker, and the audio suddenly stopped. There was no need for Ling Jun to hear the subsequent segment of the Demon Lord injecting life essence into his aunt's body.

"That's what happened." Zhang Yuanqing said.

Ling Jun sat cross-legged in silence, his eyes glazed over, dejected: "Her death is related to the Taiyi Sect Leader…"

Although he had no feelings for his stallion father, and even hated him very much, he still couldn't accept the cruel fact that his biological father might have killed his mother when he heard his aunt's guess.

At the same time, the fact that his mother may have been killed caused an unnamed fire in his heart.

"No, no…" Ling Jun shook his head vigorously, his voice becoming excited: "My mom died in the Spirit Realm, I remember Elder Zhao was there at the time and witnessed it with his own eyes. There are videos and servants who can testify, and it was indeed the node for her to enter the dungeon at that time."

As the wife of the Taiyi Sect Leader and the daughter of Elder Miao, such a big event as returning to the Spirit Realm must have been repeatedly checked and confirmed, and it was impossible not to investigate it deeply.

"Don't get excited!" Zhang Yuanqing sensed Ling Jun's turbulent emotions and quickly helped him calm down—he didn't calm him down just now purely because of his bad taste, wanting to see Ling Jun's embarrassment and frustration.

After Ling Jun's condition returned to calm, Zhang Yuanqing got straight to the point:

"Your mom left a relic, which I obtained. I won't tell you what it is, and I won't show it to you. You don't know anything, which is the safest thing for you and me."

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"Then what are you looking for me for?"

"That thing needs a key to open, which is related to the Wood Elemental profession. Think carefully, did your mom tell you anything before returning to the Spirit Realm? Or, think back on everything about your mom." Zhang Yuanqing almost said directly: the cultivation method of spiritual plants.

But he couldn't reveal any more information. If he said too much, Ling Jun's future would change accordingly.

Ling Jun smiled bitterly: "Didn't my aunt say that she returned to the Spirit Realm in the second year after giving birth to me? I was only two years old. I don't even remember her."

He recalled carefully for a moment and shook his head: "She didn't leave me any special or important relics either. Her belongings were either taken away by my grandfather or handled by the Taiyi Sect."

There were no relics left for Ling Jun. He didn't even have the ability to talk to his mother. Zhang Yuanqing didn't want to give up. "Think again?"

Ling Jun thought seriously for a moment and shook his head again:

"I can't think of anything. Even if she left a key, it shouldn't be related to me. However, if my mom really left a key, I think it might be at the Miao family.

"My grandfather, uncle, and aunt may all have it. I'll take you to see them now."

Before Zhang Yuanqing could refuse, he suddenly exhaled as if he had lost his energy: "No, if this matter is related to my stallion father, revealing it to the Miao family will only bring about a catastrophe."

Zhang Yuanqing's heart stirred. The secret was hidden in the seed. The seed was the key. The cultivation method was actually irrelevant. This irrelevance referred to the irrelevance in "fate."

If the person who knows the cultivation method does not know that the seed exists, then there is no causal relationship between the two.

Knowing the cultivation method and knowing the existence of the seed will be highlighted in the river of fate.

In other words, Ling Jun's biological mother was very likely to have told her relatives the cultivation method.

Ling Jun was not a Night Wanderer after all, so he didn't understand the mysteries involved. Zhang Yuanqing didn't intend to tell him either, so he stood up and said:

"I will continue to investigate this matter. Just pretend that you don't know anything, and don't try to investigate it. Once you take action, the Art of Observation will be able to sense it. You come from the Taiyi Sect, so you should understand this.

"I will tell you if there are any results in the future."

After speaking, he picked up the Mao Wang speaker, put it in his pocket, and walked towards the door.

Ling Jun took a deep breath, suppressed all his emotions, forced himself not to think about it, and was about to get up to see him off when he heard a "buzzing" sound coming from Yuanshi Tianzun's pocket:

"It's good to have a mother in the world, a child with a mother is like a treasure…"

Is that item comforting me? Ling Jun felt a warmth in his heart, and then he heard the audio change: "Ya shi a nei." (vulgar phrase)

"Sorry, it's a bit petty." Zhang Yuanqing slapped his pocket, opened the door, and disappeared into starlight.

Grandma's house, in the bedroom.

Zhang Yuanqing's clone suddenly appeared. He put the Mao Wang speaker on the desk, and his body disappeared immediately.

An invisible hand reached out and took the Mao Wang speaker.

Zhang Yuanqing, wearing the Accompanied Spirit Moon and entering Night Wanderer state, took out his phone and played "Shouldn't Use Affection" for the Mao Wang speaker.

After the song ended, he said in a deep voice:

"I want to hear all the audio of the Demon Lord and Teng'er's mother."

He suspected that the cultivation method was on the members of the Miao family. Elder Miao didn't have many children. Including the deceased Miao Fengling, there were only three children in total.

In the context of peak Rulers and Demigods all being stallions, actively breeding offspring, it was considered a clean stream.

Based on the Demon Lord's hostility and attention to the Taiyi Sect, he would definitely inquire about the cause of Ling Jun's mother's death and relics. With Miao Teng'er's mother's emotional dependence on the Demon Lord, she would definitely say everything she knew without reservation.

"Buzz…" The familiar static sound came from the Mao Wang speaker:

"Are you, are you taking so much from me day and night because you want me to get pregnant?"

The "aunt's" coquettish voice came from the speaker.

(End of this chapter)