Chapter 541: Chapter 541: Death
Chapter 541 Death
Mengyu tore off the now useless talisman from her foot: “Is this the talisman you are talking about?”
She examined it carefully: “The drawing is not that impressive.”
Old man Bang spewed another mouthful of fresh blood and fell down.
With a sweep of her Divine Sense, Mengyu knew he was at the end of his rope.
The old man had previously forcibly used the Taboo Technique to revive Bai Renfeng, suffering from the backlash, which had already consumed a lot of his Life Energy.
Then, he performed soul exchange for Mengyu and Bai Renfeng and drank the Medicine Liquid to forcibly extract life potential, using the Taboo Technique once more. Even if he could succeed, his days were already numbered.
Yet, he was audacious, actually wanting his daughter to possess the body of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator like Mengyu—an impossible feat. He still forced it, squandering his remaining Life Energy, naturally burning the candle at both ends.
Mengyu summoned the Five Elements Fan and waved it several times, setting up an Array around her, before turning to look at Old man Bang, exuding the suppression of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
Old man Bang coughed up another mouthful of old blood. His already deathly pale face grew even more withered.
Mengyu looked at Old man Bang: “Your daughter wanted to change the fate of Wang Huilan, who is the one to take her daughter’s place, she is my disciple.”
Old man Bang’s face turned ashen: “Provoking the disciple of a Cultivator, her death is not wrongful.”
How could it be possible for her daughter to find a Cultivator and successfully switch fates for Ah Mei?
Mengyu shook her head: “I did not intend to take her life, at most I would have punished her. It was her own too great a belief in your Magic, wanting to escape the punishment by death. Poisoned herself to commit suicide.”
Old man Bang was stunned. To commit suicide due to a failure in Magic was to give an explanation, and also a price for using the Taboo Technique. Even if she hadn’t killed herself, she wouldn’t have escaped the punishment of the Heavenly Dao.
Her death allowed him to revive her again, the Heavenly Dao would not pursue further as she had already died once.
As for the little backlash he endured, it was just a matter of shortening his life by a few years.
However, the failure of the revival technique forced him to resort to the extreme measures of the Soul Swapping Technique. If successful, good; if not, then meet with honor.
Actually, if Old man Bang had waited for Mengyu to leave and then found someone else to perform the Soul Swapping Technique, perhaps he could have succeeded.
But no, he chose to use Mengyu for the soul exchange!
“Immortal above, I have a request.”
Mengyu was expressionless: “Do you think you’re qualified to ask something of me?”
Indeed, he had just coveted someone else’s body, capturing her for his daughter’s soul exchange. Why should she heed his request?
“People like us are always lacking and defective. Bai Renfeng is my daughter who I hadn’t taught before entering the path. I calculated her fate and found that this year would bring disaster, and her daughter would depart before her.
Neither she nor I was willing to accept this, so we wanted to take a chance against heaven. The outcome, as it stands now, was expected. In the end, there will be nobody following me.”
He took out a book from his pocket: “It’s just that, I never took a disciple, and my daughter, too, has passed. Now, this Magic has nobody to inherit it, and I only hope the fairy would help me find a successor—”
Mengyu shook her head: “Since becoming your successor means having no descendants, I fear it’s difficult to pass on.”
In fact, his art was considered a left pathn art. Mengyu cultivated the way of the Golden Core, how could she deign to pass on such a left side art for him?
Old man Bang sighed: “Since that’s the case, let it be. Please bury me and my daughter, and take the wealth in my house as compensation.”
“Heaven does not aid me.” With that, he sighed thrice and breathed his last.