Freezing Cold Curse

"Buzz!"

The Jade Seal trembled slightly. Lu Zheng examined it with his mind and found that the four people had shared a total of five wisps of the Light of Luck with him.

Not bad! Also...

Good heavens, the efficacy of this Corpse Dissolving Powder is a bit strong. It's truly a good recipe for destroying corpses and eliminating traces. Which great god invented it?

Lu Zheng used the Corpse Dissolving Powder again to completely dissolve the bodies of the other three people.

Under the powerful corrosion of the Corpse Dissolving Powder, the bones, internal organs, meridians, flesh, and blood of the three people were all turned into a pool of sewage, which then seeped into the ground and disappeared.

He dug a deep pit and buried the remaining clothes and weapons of the four people together. The only evidence that they had ever existed was the two large packages in front of him.

Opening the packages, they were filled with bundles of coarse cloth. Lu Zheng, illuminated by the moonlight filtering through the trees, saw the various items separated by the cloth.

Goldware, agate, white jade, pearls...

Each item exuded a trace of Yin energy.

Burial goods! As expected, they were a group of grave robbers. He didn't know whose tomb they had plundered.

"The wronged have their avengers, and debts have their debtors. I have already helped you avenge your grievances. Shouldn't you thank me?"

Lu Zheng said to himself, "There is no victim in this matter, and these things of yours can't see the light of day. If I hand them over to the government, I don't know who they would be returned to, and how much would be embezzled. The key is that it would expose me, and might even attract the revenge of that Golden Severing Hall.

"Since that's the case, then I have no choice but to reluctantly accept your gifts. You see, I have a big house here, but I'm still renting a place in my hometown. How pitiful."

Lu Zheng first took out an Evil Expelling Talisman, performed a ritual, and threw it into the two packages. The Yin energy remaining on the objects was extracted bit by bit and disappeared silently.

Burial goods are stored in tombs for many years, absorbing Yin and cold energy. If they are worn immediately after being taken out, the Yin energy will enter the body, inevitably causing illness. They need to be exposed to the sun for dozens of days before they can be worn.

The Evil Expelling Talisman was certainly not the sun that creates all things and shines brightly, but its effect in dispelling evil energy was no less effective. By consuming an Evil Expelling Talisman, he completely removed the faint Yin energy that had contaminated these ordinary objects.

He transferred everything to modern times and erased all traces in the forest. Lu Zheng took out another Breath Concealing Talisman to replace the previous one, which was about to run out of energy.

Ever since he heard that there were also cultivators in this Golden Severing Hall, Lu Zheng had been very careful.

Having resolved everything, Lu Zheng returned to Tong Yi Alley silently.

However, as soon as he turned the corner of the alley, he saw a graceful figure standing at the door next to his house, holding a lantern and looking towards the entrance of the alley.

Their eyes met, Liu Qingyan smiled in relief, then blushed and hurried back inside.

The next day, sunlight filtered through the window paper, dimly illuminating the bedroom.

Looking down at the quilt on his body, Lu Zheng sighed helplessly.

Vigorous energy, Qi and blood like a furnace, what to do—

"Brother Lu! Brother Lu!" Liu Qingquan's voice rang out in the front yard, "Father asked me to call you to our house for breakfast!"

"Coming, coming!"

Hastily putting on his clothes, Lu Zheng was dragged away by Liu Qingquan before he could wash up.

Aunt Liu couldn't stop smiling, but sighed helplessly, "Well, there's no need to make breakfast for our young master."

Lu Zheng arrived at the Liu family, looking sleepy, as if he had just woken up.

Liu Qingyan glared at her younger sister, then went to fetch water and came over with a soapberry towel to help Lu Zheng wash up.

"I can do it myself! I can do it myself!"

Old Man Liu and Madam Liu watched happily from the side.

"It should be, it should be. You saved our family of four, isn't it worth Qingyan helping you wash up?"

After washing up, Lu Zheng was invited to the front yard hall. Madam Liu had prepared a hearty breakfast, including porridge, pickles, steamed buns, vegetable cakes, and a bowl of sour soup noodles.

Great kindness needs no thanks. Everyone understood the follow-up matters, so the Liu family didn't mention what happened last night. They just diligently urged Lu Zheng to eat more, truly treating him as one of their own.

"Hic... Well, I definitely won't need to eat lunch today."

After eating breakfast and saying goodbye to Uncle Li and the others at home, Lu Zheng traveled back to modern times.

First, he sorted out the spoils.

Lu Zheng separated the various items, wrapped each in cloth, and placed them in a large suitcase with a handle, to be dealt with another day.

"Goldware together, jade together, these are agates, these are rubies, these are pearls, and they're all so big! Oh, is this jadeite? What's the water content?"

Lu Zheng muttered to himself as he sorted, "Looks like my wish for a bigger house will soon be realized."

"Hmm?" Lu Zheng's eyes narrowed.

He was holding a piece of gold foil in his hand, covered with dense, tiny writing. If you didn't look closely, you'd think it was just some kind of pattern.

"What's this?"

Lu Zheng read carefully and discovered that the text recorded a spell! The Freezing Cold Curse! Using special runes, supplemented by True Qi, it could absorb and store cold energy, and finally release it on a target.

It could be cast out of thin air, used to draw talismans, or engraved on objects, channeling True Qi to absorb cold energy and then release it.

Lu Zheng immediately thought of the four people going to Renxin Hall during the day. Their bodies were filled with cold energy, mixed with death energy and Yin energy.

From this, he could infer that the owner of the tomb had buried a talisman or magical artifact with the Freezing Cold Curse in the tomb, which was activated when they dug it up.

However, although they were seriously injured, they did not die immediately, but insisted on taking the item out of the tomb, and even managed to hold on until they reached Renxin Hall.

At the end of the gold foil, it was specifically mentioned that this kind of curse was most suitable for practitioners who cultivated cold attribute techniques, or it could be used in winter, or in the icy and snowy lands of the Northern Frontier, where its power would be great and difficult for humans and ghosts to resist.

"Good stuff!"

Although Lu Zheng didn't cultivate cold attribute techniques, and it was still summer, he had a refrigerator in modern times!

How much cold energy do you want? Just name a number! I won't haggle!

Without another word, Lu Zheng put the gold foil aside and worked even harder.

He didn't find anything else related to cultivation until he had finished sorting everything.

Based on the explanation on the gold foil, he could tell that the owner of the tomb should have been a wealthy mortal who had obtained the Freezing Cold Curse by chance, and he didn't understand cultivation methods either.

The object that could release the Freezing Cold Curse was probably just a copycat, and it had only produced a little mutation over the years, injuring the four tomb raiders.

"That's right, if he were a cultivator, he wouldn't have had his tomb dug up by four people who hadn't even stepped onto the Martial Path."

"But it benefited me!"

Lu Zheng happily opened his computer and transcribed the text on the gold foil one by one, then put the gold foil in a book separately.

It wasn't until nearly ten o'clock that Lu Zheng finished cleaning everything up.

Thanks to fellow daoist Ao You Gen, fellow daoist Observer in Time and Space, and fellow daoist Book Friend 20200512190307488 for the hundred rewards.