Towards Eternity
Ch 596's. Retrieving Memory
Inside the inn, Du Zhe was meditating in his room when Li entered the room and told him to hurry up and pack.
"What's wrong?" Du Zhe asked in confusion. For various reasons, Li had never behaved like this before.
"Captain says we have to get out of town. There have been some things that have made us hostile towards the Lin Family, so we have to hurry away. And also, our ship has been stolen, so from now on our journey will be by land" Li explained in a hurry.
Not yet had Du Zhe asked any further, Li had already hurriedly left his room, leaving him in confusion. But he immediately did what Li told him. He quickly got up to his feet and picked up all his belongings, before then stuffing them into a medium-sized bag that was hung on the wall of the room.
His things were not so much that it only took him a few minutes to pack.
After he finished packing, he came out of the room, then went down to the first floor of the inn where it turned out that the crew of Weng Lou had finished packing first from him, and were waiting for him.
"Everything?" Nearby, Weng Ying Luan sat down and looked at Du Zhe who had just descended from the stairs.
He got up to his feet and looked at Du Zhe and the others before then nodding and walking out of the inn. "Follow me, we'll get out of here."
They all immediately followed him, including Du Zhe who was wondering where Weng Lou was. Weng Ying Luan who knew that the boy was looking for his teacher, explained to him briefly that Weng Lou had left the city earlier than them, and wait for them all in one predetermined location.
On their way out of town, Du Zhe and the others could see the soldiers passing through the city which could be clearly seen with black smoke and flames soaring high.
"W-What's really going on here?" asked one of the crew members of Weng Lou, he felt strange at the current situation where some of the Lin Family soldiers were lying unconscious as they crossed the city streets.
However, the other fine soldiers seemed to be indifferent to them and just rushed towards the middle of the city, as if their comrades were of no importance to them.
"Keep on, if you stop suddenly, it'll be hard to get you in this crowd," said Weng Ying Luan who saw Li's footsteps slow down slightly as they passed an unconscious soldier on the stairs and his head faced down.
"Ba-Good!" Li answered nervously.
They all continued to walk at a steady pace towards the city gate which turned out to be not only those who intended to get out of the city, but many others who wanted to do the same.
Yet slightly different from the brand group, these people were the culprits hidden all over Tiesha City. They tried to get out of the city immediately so that all their crimes were not detected by the city's soldiers.
Because, in this situation, the people who will be suspected for the first time as the perpetrators are all those who are clearly criminals in the city. They just wait for time until then they are captured one by one by the city soldiers if they remain in this city.
"On the orders of Captain Lin Hong, everyone is forbidden to get out of the city! Anyone who fights will be arrested and taken to the city prison!" A soldier wearing full armor on his body cried out loud and caused a commotion to grow in front of the city's east gate.
The group of Weng Ying Luan who also heard the cry of the soldier clicked her tongue. Already he had expected the soldiers of Tiesha City to move quickly to deal with this incident. He began to think, it might be better for him to make these soldiers faint when fighting against the seven Tiesha City administrators.
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Outside the city, in the Lava River area.
Weng Lou was seen wiping his two bloodied hands, and nearby was the figure of Lin Dan who was in a miserable state.
All of his fingers had been crushed, and some teeth were missing from their places. His eyes seemed empty, like he had no more spirit. Even when Weng Lou put a pill in her mouth, she did not react to it, until she swallowed the pill and her wounds healed, except for a few missing teeth.
"You know I can do this all day, and no one's gonna save you. You better open your mouth and tell me where the men from the Pursuit Army took my ship."
Weng Lou spoke right in front of Lin Dan's face, but the man who looked to be in his early fifties did not look at him at all. He was like a person using drugs and his consciousness was not with him.
"Haaa.I.m because you didn't give me any choice, then it looks like death you want. All right, I'll grant you that wish" said Weng Lou who then pulled out his twin swords from inside his Spatial Necklace.
Lin Dan's eyes slightly moved when he saw those two swords. He gritted his remaining teeth and took a deep breath. He was ready to die for his family.
However, Weng Lou did not visit also give his attack even though he had established his heart to die. Lin Dan turned his head and saw the face of the young man in front of him smiling horribly at him.
"Samsara, you said you could read the memories of the people you absorbed, right? Does that mean you can see all those people's memories?" suddenly asked Lou.
His Soul Power entered Samsara, and a form of Samsara wearing the figure of Chizi Ryuan appeared beside him with his distinctive flat face.
"I can read their memories, but only those with powers under you can read them completely. If the strength of the person I absorbed is much stronger than you, then I can only see pieces of their memory, just like the case of the person I wear this form," explained Samsara calmly.
Hearing that, Weng Lou's face became calm and then put on his creepy smile back.
"Hehehe."
Weng Lou quickly swung his hand which then stabbed right into Lin Dan's chest. Lin Dan put on an expression of disbelief, and then vomited a large amount of blood. His gaze soon darkened and he finally died when Weng Lou retracted his hand and grasped something that was none other than his heart.
"I just need his head actually, but since it would be a waste of resources, I'll take his body, too," said Samsara who then immediately made a transparent energy ball that covered the entire body of Lin Dan who had been lifeless.
Samsara closed his eyes, the memories that were on Lin Dan began to enter his head. It takes some time to absorb all those memories. Weng Lou who was just silently looking at it all chose to insert the heart he got from Lin Dan into his Spatial Necklace.
In any case, the bloodline power of the bloodline was something extremely precious, especially if it was the Phoenix bloodline that was extremely famous for its incredible life force. It was no secret that the source of bloodline power lay in one's heart.
Because the heart is a place to pump all the blood in the body which then circulates it regularly, then the heart is also the central point of the power of the bloodline. When one increases his bloodline to become purer, in fact all he does is increase his heart.
When the heart has undergone changes, then automatically blood will be increased every time it enters the heart. Weng Lou's Divine Race bloodline was also centered at his heart. This is what makes Zhi Juan make a seal for him that is located in the heart.
There were some rumors regarding the bloodline retrieval ritual that Weng Lou had heard before on Black Sand Island.
This ritual aims to take the bloodline of a person through the heart of the owner of the bloodline power of the bloodline that will be purified and given to ordinary people. That person would receive the bloodline power from the owner of the heart and make him an owner of the bloodline as well.
But obviously the person who has the heart will die because he sacrificed his own heart. Therefore this ritual is considered a very evil ritual and is usually performed by people who work in the dark.
Weng Lou himself did not care about other people's views on such trivial matters. According to him as long as he got the heart from his enemy, then he would consider it as his victory prize.
He has his own plan with that heart. And the heart is not for itself. Weng Lou's smile became wide when he remembered Du Zhe who was practicing martial arts at that time and also his condition which made him have to keep his original talent secret.
Weng Lou was still in place until Samsara made his daydream stop.
"I'm done absorbing it, do you want to trace its memory? A little warning from me, you'll experience pain like being hit by your own training hammer in your head, or maybe you'll feel a very heavy current of water lacerating your head." Samsara spoke to Weng Lou while showing a small golden ball of light on his left palm.
Without thinking twice, Weng Lou directly asked Samsara to transfer Lin Dan's memories into his head.
The golden ball of light in Samsara's hand moved into Weng Lou's head through his forehead. At first Weng Lou's forehead wrinkled from feeling a sensation like something was entering his head, until then cold sweat began to appear and the look on Weng Lou's face turned one hundred and eighty degrees.
"Brach!!! AGH!!!"
Weng Lou fell to his knees on the ground while holding his head. He groaned in pain but still tried his hardest not to scream. The ground he was treading cracked when he accidentally slammed his head into the ground.
Inside his head, various memories belonging to Lin Dan flowed in with a rush like a river that had a torrent. There was nothing to do but let those memories get into his head.
About half an hour later, Weng Lou finally stopped groaning in pain and lay down on the ground with his irregular breathing. Sweat soaked all over his body, making him look like a sweat bath.
"He..ha..ha....." Weng Lou regulated his breathing, before then turning his head towards Samsara who was sitting quietly beside him.
"You seem to have gotten used to the pain like that" he commented to Weng Lou.
"It's not right to say that I'm used to it, but at least I've been through some pain that's the same or even more painful than that" said Weng Lou.
He wiped his sweaty face before finally changing his position to sit cross-legged and started meditating while using his Soul Cleansing Technique.
When she started to calm down again, Weng Lou started to check on the memories she had just obtained. It took him a long time to find what he was looking for. He found a memory of the Lin Family's Vice-Captain of Pursuit Forces requesting permission from the city administrators to inspect all the ships in the harbor and be allowed.
The memory did not end there, Weng Lou could see that Lin Dan and the three Tiesha City officials also took part in the inspection at the port. This was because they were the ones responsible for giving the previous information about the Lin Family traitor to the Pursuit Army, but unfortunately the traitor managed to escape because of the information that was late given.
The memory in Weng Lou's head then showed a display when ten Martial Practitioners in the realm of Soul Unification surrounded Weng Lou's steam hood for accidentally finding a sign of the Black Ape Brawlers inside the ship and suspected as part of the planned assault on the city.
Finally, with the cooperation of the ten people in the realm of Soul Unification, The Black Ape Fighter was handled easily and was immediately taken to a place by the Pursuant Force using the steamer Weng Lou drawn by a sea beast.
After trying to find the exact location of the Pursuit Army, Weng Lou stopped his meditation and immediately opened his eyes with a deep sigh.
"I finally know how they took my steamboat, and it turned out that they were using the help of a beast of the sea that had been tamed by the Pursuers. I was thinking there was someone who knew how to use a steam engine on that ship, but it seemed like my worry was just a bottomless worry."
Weng Lou stood up, then walked to the edge of a lava river that continued to flow from the top of the volcano.
"It will be difficult to pass the route around the Lava River, it looks like we have to pass another route that turns. Du Zhe and the others won't stand the hot temperatures around here." Weng Lou thought calmly.
While he was still determining what he should do, Weng Ying Luan's group was seen in the distance walking closer towards where Weng Lou was. But their condition was very messy, their bodies were covered with dust and dirt, as if they had just passed through a fierce battle.
"They finally came. I should discuss this with Luan, before then deciding on the route we should take."
**Author Note:
Want the test instead of the task stopped, even given more and more. Hadeh🥴's.
For all readers, you should not wait every day, because the author himself does not guarantee updates every day**.