“Dirt poor?”
Huo Furong glared at the two men and one dog standing across from her.
“Yes, yes... We really are dirt poor!”
Lu Ming hastily chimed in again.
Big Yellow and Wang Defa nodded repeatedly in agreement.
A mischievous glint flashed in Huo Furong's eyes as she snapped the tablecloth in her hand.
“Since you're poor, strip!”
“What?”
“Woof, woof??”
“Huh?”
Huo Furong's single sentence nearly made their jaws drop to the floor!
Lu Ming couldn't help but look down at his clothes. What on earth was that supposed to mean?
“Senior, you're not trying to rob our virtue as well, are you?” Wang Defa trembled all over.
“Huh?”
“Uh...”
Wang Defa's words nearly choked Huo Furong to death!
My goodness... I didn't realize this fellow had such a wild imagination.
Even Lu Ming and Big Yellow stared at Wang Defa in utter shock. The old man sure had an active imagination...
“I only rob wealth, not virtue! I see your clothes are worth a few coins, so hurry up and strip them off for me...”
Hearing Huo Furong's words, Wang Defa couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Then, he chuckled. “Alright! Senior, we'll strip right away!”
“Hmm?”
Seeing how cooperative Wang Defa was, Huo Furong was taken aback. Is this fellow really going to strip?
Just as Huo Furong was reeling from his compliance, Lu Ming's voice rang out:
“Run!”
Before his voice even faded, the two men and one dog bolted, throwing out a thick stack of offensive talismans as they fled.
Boom... Boom...
Explosions went off one after another, creating rolling shockwaves. Huo Furong raised a hand to block the residual blast.
“You little rascals are pretty clever... but today, I'll still show you the power of a Half-Immortal.”
At the same time, she couldn't help but feel a sense of gratification. They had finally grown to the point where they could take a beating.
It would be even better if they could take another step forward; that way, they would be much more resilient!
Just like how the Sect Master used to beat them back in the day.
With those thoughts in mind, Huo Furong snapped her tablecloth, unleashing her Half-Immortal pressure upon Lu Ming and the others.
Lu Ming and his companions, who were in the middle of fleeing, felt their blood and energy boil under the pressure, instantly slowing their escape.
“Ouch!”
“Pfft...”
“Woof, woof??”
Next, the three of them were thoroughly thrashed by Huo Furong, who wielded the tablecloth like a whip.
Their agonizing screams echoed through the void, a truly heartbreaking and tear-jerking sight for anyone who might have witnessed it.
In the end, it was only after Lu Ming threw out a pile of array disks that the two men and one dog managed to escape, albeit severely injured.
Looking at their pitiful state as they fled, a smile tugged at the corners of Huo Furong's mouth.
Then, with a flash of her figure, she vanished into the void.
She then found a quiet place and began refining pills.
She would wait for the two men and one dog to recover before looking for them again!
Inside a cave concealed by layers of arrays.
Lu Ming, Big Yellow, and Wang Defa were gloomily swallowing recovery pills!
Afterward, the two men and one dog entered closed-door cultivation to heal their wounds.
“We should change our appearances!”
Once their injuries healed, Lu Ming spoke to Big Yellow and Wang Defa.
The man and dog nodded repeatedly in agreement. After all, with their previous appearances...
...they had already offended that Half-Immortal. If they encountered him again, wouldn't they just be seeking death?
Thus, the three of them immediately disguised themselves as members of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
Next, Lu Ming and the others hung another set of storage bags from their waists, though this time, the contents inside were even scanter.
This way, if they encountered another robber, their losses would be minimized.
Once everything was settled, the three of them resumed their journey.
Just to be safe, they didn't even use their usual spirit boat this time, opting for a completely silent model instead.
However, not long after they set out.
“Robbery!”
Hearing that familiar voice, Lu Ming almost bit his own tongue off.
What was going on?
How did they run into this person's robbery again?
Was he really that poor?
Just then, the burly man opposite them shouted:
“Oho, I've run into demonic cultivators! You three should have more money than those three dirt-poor fellows from earlier, right?”
Lu Ming's mouth twitched. Is there a chance that we are those exact same three dirt-poor fellows?
What followed was the same familiar banter, the same familiar process, and the same familiar result: Lu Ming and the others were beaten to a pulp and barely managed to escape.
“Old Man Wang, do you think it's because we stepped out with our left feet first today? The moment we set out, we ran into a Half-Immortal robber. And we even got robbed repeatedly...”
Big Yellow muttered, baring its teeth.
Lu Ming also turned to look at Wang Defa in confusion.
Was it truly because they hadn't checked the auspicious dates before leaving? Otherwise, how could they be this unlucky?
Usually, there wasn't even a single Mahayana stage cultivator to be seen in the entire Eastern and Northern Provinces.
Yet now, they were being robbed by a Half-Immortal?
Most importantly, they had been robbed by the exact same person twice in a row!
This... this was simply too unlucky!
If the three of them hadn't been clever, they would have kicked the bucket and gone to report to Huang Tianbao by now!
“Cough, cough...”
Wang Defa coughed, his face pale, and began to calculate the fortune of the day they had set out.
Suddenly, Wang Defa's eyes widened.
“What's wrong?”
“Is it a sign of extreme misfortune?”
Lu Ming and Big Yellow both stared at Wang Defa in shock.
If it really was a sign of extreme misfortune, they would head back and set out another day to shake off this terrible luck.
Wang Defa still looked bewildered. “It's a sign of extreme good fortune!”
“Extreme good fortune?”
“Old Man Wang, are you sure you didn't miscalculate? We got robbed twice right after stepping out of the door, almost lost our lives, and you're telling us it's extreme good fortune?”
Lu Ming looked at Wang Defa with deep suspicion.
Wang Defa was starting to doubt himself, but his calculations indeed showed extreme good fortune!
The two men and one dog then fell into silence.
After a brief moment, Big Yellow's voice broke the silence:
“Could it be that Old Third is exerting his influence?”
Lu Ming was also taken aback, but then he felt it was impossible!
Old Third was now the Xuanming Great Emperor of the Xuanming Great World and had his own forces.
Even if he were to jinx anyone, it should be his own forces.
He shouldn't be jinxing them anymore, right?
But what was going on with their current situation then?
Could it be because they were fellow disciples with Old Third?
But he was the protagonist, so shouldn't he be able to suppress Old Third's special physique?
In the end, Lu Ming decided this must be one of the trials meant for him as the protagonist!
Afterward, the two men and one dog resumed healing their injuries.
When they set out again, Lu Ming directly kept Big Yellow and Wang Defa inside the secret realm, traveling alone while wearing the cloak of invisibility.
He refused to believe he would still run into robbers if he didn't even show his face!
Boom...
As Lu Ming was flying, he was completely caught off guard and crashed headfirst into an invisible spiritual energy barrier.
The collision left Lu Ming's head buzzing.
Then, a familiar voice rang out:
“What on earth just crashed into my barrier trap?”
The moment he saw the burly man, Lu Ming nearly went insane.
Well, they really shared quite a deep fate with this fellow. This time, it wasn't even the other party actively robbing them.
Instead, he had literally crashed into the guy on his own.
Boom... Boom...
The Half-Immortal pressure swept over him once more, followed by a flurry of attacks.
Even wearing the cloak of invisibility, Lu Ming was beaten until he was half-paralyzed before he finally found an opportunity to escape.
At the same time, Lu Ming lamented his terrible luck. Although the opponent couldn't see him...
...every single attack somehow managed to graze his body as they swept past.
Even like this, he was beaten so badly he had absolutely no power to fight back!
Watching Lu Ming's fleeing figure, Huo Furong's lips curled up slightly. This was the Sect Master's secret treasure.
Others might not be able to track his traces, but how could she possibly fail to catch his scent?
...
Seeing the severely injured Lu Ming once again, Big Yellow and Wang Defa were also utterly shocked.
After all, they knew exactly how effective Lu Ming's cloak of invisibility was; it was practically foolproof. They never expected it to fail!
But after hearing Lu Ming's explanation, the man and dog could only sigh at their rotten luck.
To literally crash headfirst into the opponent on his own... there really was no one else like him.
Rate on N.U.
