Chapter 422: Chapter 152: The Battle Unfinished, Old Friends at Cloud Mountain

"Old Zhu, you’re really a madman... Don’t you ever rest?"

Unfortunately, Peng Mi’s words fell on deaf ears.

Because when Zhu Ban is forging soldiers, even if the sky falls and the earth cracks, he must finish forging first.

As the confrontation intensified, he turned a deaf ear to outside affairs, focusing solely on the downfall of the Divine Wood, which became Zhu Ban’s usual state...

His enemies are the Divine Wood Hall Master at Qing Hancheng, the Jing Family who acted directly, and the Cui Family who secretly condoned the events, so he is determined to use all his life’s strength to help the Lotus Sect annihilate the Divine Wood Hall.

At the same time, this is also considered an investment on both sides.

If the Lotus Sect wins, his daughter and son-in-law will live because of him.

If he loses, his daughter and son-in-law will still live due to his son-in-law’s status as a Weapon Forger.

At this moment...

Peng Mi had no choice but to wait.

It wasn’t long before the "hissing" sound of quenching marked the end of Zhu Ban’s "silent mode."

"What is it?"

"Good news!"

"What good news?"

"Your old rival Gong Lang is dead."

Zhu Ban paused, first lowering his head to handle the Spiritual Artifact that emerged from quenching, then wiped his hands with a cloth before asking, "How did he die?"

Peng Mi said, "He died while forging soldiers.

The Spiritual Artifact he forged before he died is in the hands of a waste, but it’s still somewhat troublesome.

Just now, people from the Red Lotus came to find me to join forces to encircle that waste and kill him to prevent bigger problems.

By then, I will bring Gong Lang’s Spiritual Artifact back to you as a trophy! Amitabha..."

"He died while forging soldiers? What’s going on?" Zhu Ban asked.

Peng Mi replied, "It’s not entirely clear, just some hearsay..."

He then recounted the story of forging soldiers at Yinfeng Cliff with more or less accuracy.

Zhu Ban was silent for a long time before saying, "He usually acted carelessly, indulged in lust, and bullied others, but at the time of his death, he seemed like a real Weapon Forger."

Upon hearing this, Peng Mi knew their personalities were like fire and water, completely incompatible.

Zhu Ban asked, "Who did the Spiritual Artifact go to?"

"An Elder named Jing Ruyi." 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"Ha..." Zhu Ban laughed coldly, his eyes devoid of warmth, "Sect Leader Peng can easily handle this."

After thinking about it, he asked, "By the way, you haven’t been targeting my daughter and son-in-law recently, have you?"

Peng Mi showed a few signs of difficulty.

"What? Two-faced? Hard to say?" Zhu Ban sneered, "It seems that you, the Vice Sect Leader, have no prestige, and no one below fears you."

Peng Mi said, "Old Zhu, it’s not like that."

Zhu Ban’s expression slightly relaxed and asked, "Then what is it?"

Peng Mi replied, "This matter is sealed very tightly by the Divine Wood Hall, and even our spies can’t get information, but it’s said that Li Yuan used his life span to forge soldiers. Now he’s an elderly man, approaching his end, and he left the Divine Wood Hall alone, disappearing without a trace."

"Life Span Forged Soldiers?

Foolish!

Foolish!!

What kind of weapon can be forged with that little life span?!"

Zhu Ban was furious, shouting at the northern sky, "How did I teach you? Did I teach you to forge soldiers with your life span? Fool! Fool!! I must have been blind to have accepted you as a disciple?!!"

After Zhu Ban’s outburst, Peng Mi asked, "This... Life Span Forged Soldiers sounds quite impressive, doesn’t it work?"

Zhu Ban’s face flushed with anger, unable to catch his breath until he drank a sip of the "Black Lotus True Secret Medicine Wine" handed over by a disciple, and then he calmed down and said, "Life Span Forged Soldiers is a heretical path in the world!"

"Oh? Heretical path?"

Peng Mi became interested, "This... this suits us well. I was right; Master Li should have joined our sect. Old Zhu, you insisted on keeping him in the Divine Wood Hall, see..."

Zhu Ban, enraged, pointed at Peng Mi, about to say something.

Peng Mi quickly said, "Don’t be angry, don’t be angry, just saying.

Since it’s a heretical path, it should be quite powerful, right?"

Zhu Ban said, "I have actually seen the art of the ’Life Devourer’... It’s an incomplete scroll that can’t be practiced, and even if it could, it’s useless.

Because the ’Life Devourer’ Secret Technique lacks another Secret Technique..."

Peng Mi nodded thoughtfully.

Zhu Ban said, "It’s like my ’Heavenly Smell’ requires discovering the Land of Ultimate Yang, so does the ’Life Devourer,’ which needs to find the method to devour others’ lives. However, the latter has long been lost, as such heretical forbidden arts, no one dares to keep them."

Peng Mi interrupted, "No, Old Zhu, I would keep it."

He then chuckled, "Without destruction there is no rebirth, without death there is no life, only through destruction can there be rebirth.

The human world is frail, better to turn into a pile of corpses to ascend to heaven and open a new world!

’Life Devourer’ is wonderful."

Zhu Ban said, "Don’t preach your doctrine to me; I’m not working for you because of faith or religion.

In short, the ’Life Devourer’ cannot be mastered, and even if it is, truly forging weapons would not produce the world’s premier Spiritual Artifacts, at best... at best just a bit better than the average ones."

He sighed and said, "I thought Li Yuan was a smart person, a genius, maybe I was wrong...

Compared to Gong Lang, his death is truly worthless!

He wasted his talent; I must have been blind."

Peng Mi clasped his hands, inappropriately murmuring, "Amitabha," and then added, "Master Zhu, rest assured, I will bring you the Spiritual Artifact Li Yuan forged with his life span, so you can see for yourself."

"Who did he give the Spiritual Artifact to?" Zhu Ban suddenly asked.

Peng Mi replied, "He forged two pieces; one was given to the Jing Family Patriarch, Jing Banfeng, and the other is unknown... The other side has hidden it well; our spies can’t get any information."

"He forged two pieces? One was even given to Jing Banfeng? Doesn’t he know I have a grudge against the Jing Family?" Zhu Ban laughed in anger, pounding the ground with an iron hammer "bang bang bang," venting for a good while before calming down, then said, "Then I will bother Hall Master Peng."