The Immortal Seeker: Legend of Bronze Mirror-Chapter 383 - 169: Invitation from the Heavenly Master Mansion and the Predestined Ultimate Calamity (Please Subscribe)_2

Xu Qing nodded; Su Lianqing’s analysis was not without reason.

Moreover, Xu Qing had learned from a man in a straw raincoat last time that his origin might be related to the Wenxiang Sect. If the Demon Fox was the Holy Spirit of the Wenxiang Sect, there might be some entanglement with him in the future.

He pondered and said, "You were asked to investigate Yan Kong’s whereabouts before, how is it going?"

"Ever since Yan Kong went overseas, he seems to have disappeared. This servant is incompetent and has not been able to find any traces of him yet."

Xu Qing sighed, "This is not your fault."

He knew very well that Yan Kong was quite peculiar, possessing some secret technique, changing his appearance, and hiding among the vast sea of people - something that Su Lianqing could hardly discover.

It was simply a matter of doing one’s best.

Xu Qing thought deeply, feeling that the Old Heavenly Master’s invitation to him should not be about the Wenxiang Sect’s Demon Fox. Firstly, there was no solid evidence linking him to the Wenxiang Sect; even if the Luo Sect deliberately leaked information, the Heavenly Master Mansion had no reason to use this as a pretext to find Xu Qing.

And if Xu Qing flat-out denied it, the Heavenly Master Mansion couldn’t do much to him.

The only real tangible involvement he had with the Heavenly Master Mansion was the Golden Light Spell.

His Golden Light Spell was learned openly from the Golden Ray Monastery, known to many, making it impossible to keep secret. However, as the Heavenly Master Mansion had not interfered before, their summoning him now must have to do with recent events at Dragon Tiger Mountain.

Xu Qing initially planned to go to Dragon Tiger Mountain himself to inquire about the Five Thunders Skill.

It seemed inevitable now.

As for how he would go, it needed some consideration.

After pondering for a while, Xu Qing remembered something, "Right, does that Demon Fox have any title or characteristics?"

Su Lianqing: "This servant only remembers that in the Luo Sect’s records, this fox is referred to as ’Heart Moon Fox.’"

Waves stirred in Xu Qing’s heart.

It turned out to be the Heart Moon Fox.

The Heart Moon Fox was the mythological symbol of the Heart Mansion among the Seven Azure Dragon Constellations, representing teaching among people, intelligence and strategy, a symbol of wisdom and light.

It is known that in the worldly society, there are only wrong choices of names, but never wrong choices of nicknames.

So, it could be said that the Demon Fox’s abilities and modus operandi were definitely related to this.

Not long after he had mastered the Seven Azure Dragon Constellations, the matter of the Heart Moon Fox had arisen, and the oppressive feeling of a destined calamity washed over him.

Xu Qing looked at the lifespan entry on his bronze mirror; it had been a long time since it had increased, and instead, it was decreasing day by day. Even though he had recently gained a bit of Holy Virtue through Recovery Society’s actions and some teaching measures, it did not seem to make much difference.

It looked like it was indeed a fateful calamity.

His Holy Virtue was still too little to even shake this impending doom.

Xu Qing planned to accumulate some more, use it all at once, and then see the effect.

Holy Virtue dissolving a calamity was like using water to extinguish a fire.

As the fire blazed more fiercely, using just a little Holy Virtue to extinguish it was akin to trying to extinguish a cartload with a cup of water, ineffective.

At the same time, inside the bronze mirror, the blood-red intensity of the word ’Outer Heaven Demon’ was increasing day by day.

Strangely, no matter how the bronze mirror labeled him as an Outer Heaven Demon, once he began cultivation, Xu Qing could still remain calm in spirit, unlike other Divine Soul cultivators who were prone to cult-related mental aberrations.

Xu Qing had carefully observed Feng Wu’s Divine Soul Cultivation.

Even though the cultivation in the Annihilation Dao stresses discarding stray thoughts and being undisturbed by external factors, Feng Wu was still prone to illusions of the Heart Demon. But she could overcome them one by one.

Xu Qing’s Divine Soul cultivation, however, was of another style.

Even if he practiced the Five Great Demon Gods Visualization Method, more often, it was due to insufficient Divine Soul Cultivation power that prevent him from presenting them all completely.

For instance, the strongest he could visualize now, the Destruction Ming King, was mainly because his Divine Soul Cultivation was insufficient. The difficulty did not lie in the cultivation of such Divine Skills and Strange Skills prone to mental aberrations.

Of course, it’s not to say that Xu Qing had never encountered illusions of the Heart Demon, but these simply had no impact on him.

If Feng Wu overcame the illusions of the Heart Demon through talent,

For Xu Qing, overcoming these was as natural as eating and drinking water, simply too normal.

It was difficult to explain this solely by his ability to enter a state of Absolute Focus.

Because it was impossible for him to be in a state of Absolute Focus during all his cultivation.

Xu Qing instructed Su Lianqing to continue monitoring the matter, then returned to the Xu Mansion.

Feng Wu approached and said, "The Temple Master has sent a letter, saying that junior brother Wei Yuan is coming to Yingtian Prefecture to visit relatives and then will make a trip to Dragon Tiger Mountain in the neighboring Xijiang Province. He wanted us to remember to host him when the time comes."

Wei Yuan was the closest disciple to the Chaotian Temple Master.

Actually, by seniority, he was much older than Feng Wu because the Chaotian Temple Master was her maternal great-uncle.

However, Chaotian Temple Master didn’t care about these details, allowing Wei Yuan and Feng Wu to be on equal footing.

Wei Yuan, now just in his early twenties, had already mastered much of the Chaotian Temple Master’s true teachings, and his swordsmanship was divine.

"Isn’t he an orphan?" Xu Qing was curious.

Feng Wu replied: "The Temple Master helped him find his maternal grandparents, and both old folks are still alive. Speaking of which, this matter also has something to do with father."

"How so?"

"The grandparents of little junior brother are the hidden households of Duke Wei, and their lands were re-measured and re-registered in the Yellow Book, revealing that his mother was a maidservant of Duke Wei Mansion and later died of an illness. After that, Wei Yuan was sent to Chaotian Temple by someone from Duke Wei Mansion’s steward."

Xu Qing sharply sensed something was amiss.

Even if Wei Yuan’s maternal grandparents were discovered to be hidden households and the Yellow Book was reconstructed, it still shouldn’t have been so easy to discover a relationship with Wei Yuan.

He connected this with the account book from Breeze Temple and Duke Wei’s reaction to the matter, linking everything together.

Could it be?

Xu Qing made a bold guess.

Could this cheap junior brother actually be Duke Wei’s illegitimate son?