Signing-In: The Lazy Moon Goddess-Chapter 732: Inside the Flower Temple
Ru Yunlan without understanding the contents of the conversation between the soul fragment of the death god and that talking black rod with dragon design on it, remained silent waiting for the two to notice him. It didn’t take long for the artifact soul to notice the mortal behind his master.
{Master, there is a human behind you? Let me take care of it!}
Before the soul fragment of the death god could react, his weapon had attacked the innocent Ru Yunlan before he could react.
{Stop! That’s my successor!}
However, it was already too late. Ru Yunlan tried to block the attack and activate his physique and everything within his means to block the attack. But his defensive formation was like a glass before this attack and even the talismans he threw were ripped apart. The only thing Ru Yunlan can do is try to defend with his body but he knew it was nothing in the face of this attack that was beyond his understanding.
He didn’t even notice that the Jade Token given to him by his godmother, the Moon Goddess, had activated on its own. A crescent moon appeared behind him and Yue Xuexia’s silhouette also appeared in front of him, catching everyone by surprise. This is a soul fragment Yue Xuexia left on the token and it was there to protect Ru Yunlan for cases like this.
Stunned. Ru Yunlan calls, "Godmother?!"
{Bold. You dare to harm this Empress’s Godson!}
The Moon Goddess had spoken before lightly waving her hand and cancelling the attack the artifact soul’s like nothing. She made a grabbing motion as if to destroy the weapon. She gripped the weapon and with a single pull everything that restricted it was broken and the formation was badly destroyed including the hall itself.
{What the hell?! How can she possess a Tribulation realm strength while this young!?}
The death god’s soul fragment exclaimed even forgetting to speak up for his weapon who attacked out of nowhere.
{Who the hell is this!? How is she so powerful!?}
{Master, save me!} The death scythe (rod part) shouted while in the grip of Yue Xuexia’s soul fragment.
{Moon Goddess, spare that fool. That one doesn’t have a brain. He didn’t mean to harm your godson. Yunlan is my successor so this weapon will be his in the future.} The God of Death’s soul fragment said.
{This should be disciplined.}
Ru Yunlan approached the silhouette of his godmother. Even though she looks like a soul her strength is undeniably stronger than an artifact spirit.
"Godmother, is it truly you?" Ru Yunlan asked as he tried to touch his godmother only for his hand to touch nothing.
Yue Xuexia said, "I am only a soul fragment. My duty is to protect you from danger." She passed the black rod to Ru Yunlan and said, "Remember, I will always be with you."
After giving the part of death scythe to Ru Yunlan, the Moon Goddess’s soul fragment faded and disappeared to where the token was hanging on Ru Yunlan’s waist. As for the black rod in his hand, despite its slight trembling it didn’t dare to move under the cold gaze of his future master. Once any sign of the Moon Goddess was gone. The terrified artifact spirit noticed two pairs of eyes falling onto him. One is from his former master and the other is from his future master. As for the scary lady from before she is now gone and the killing intent that fell on him had also disappeared.
{That woman? Is she gone?} The terrified artifact spirit asked.
Ru Yunlan said, "Do you want me to call her back for you?" He looked at this black rod who almost killed him and threw it back to the soul fragment of the Death God.
{No!} The artifact spirit cried out.
Snorts~
Ru Yunlan didn’t have a good feeling with this artifact spirit after throwing it to its original owner, he looked around for treasure. He saw some things inside and even picked up the high grade spirit stones from the broken formation. He noticed that it had a trigger to inform the maker of the formation after it was broken and he didn’t know what his godmother did, to cancel even that part of the formation.
On the other hand, not far from him, the soul fragment of the death god and his weapon artifact part of the death scythe was having their own conversation.
{Master, are you sure that’s the Moon Goddess? The Moon Goddess I know is infamous for being lovestruck and a weakling Celestial Goddess. The one before is so majestic and definitely someone at Tribulation Realm. Am I in a parallel world?} The artifact spirit said.
The death god’s soul fragment responded, {Believe it or not, she is definitely the Moon Goddess. To be exact she is her reincarnation or the other half the Goddess of the Moon we knew but now that they’ve merged then... This is most likely the real her.}
{Moreover you tried to harm her godson. In this life, she didn’t have a husband nor a child. She only has two godchildren which are her friend’s children. One of them is Ru Yunlan whom you tried to harm just now. So when we go back, well... You might suffer a bit more.
The artifact spirit was dumbfounded that he didn’t know what he should say next. The next moment it started crying, {Ying ying ying. Master, you have to save me!~}
{Cough! You are asking the wrong person,} said the soul fragment of the death god and glanced at Ru Yunlan who was picking up some treasures scattered in the hall.
This gesture alone was enough for the artifact spirit to understand what he is supposed to do and flew towards his future master even calling him little master. Ru Yunlan was annoyed by it and was going to ignore it, until it promised to find him more treasures on their way out of this building.
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Inside the Flower Temple...
On the other hand, in the case of Han Haerin and Xiao Muen who had entered the building that looked like a huge flower, what welcomed them inside was very fantasy-like. Pillars covered in wines and flowers, glowing plants as light. Huge leaves as tables and chairs. The walls were made of wood yet are smooth as a jade.
The whole place emits the aura of fantasy making them feel like they had gotten lost in some kind of world where most beings were considered only a part of the story. As they looked around the place, they had picked quite a few numbers of immortal flower herbs to give to Yue Xuexia or to plant in their own gardens. They’ve spent hours looking around and when they finally found nothing else, they decided to go out of the place.
Uncle Xiao said, "Xiao Rin, this place doesn’t have much. We should go back."
"Um... Uncle, I feel something is calling for me. Should I listen to it?" Han Haerin asked.
Upon hearing these words, Xiao Muen’s expression turned serious. He thought that this might be some kind of trap or illusion from this building. It targets someone weaker and that his niece might be the target this time.
Xiao Muen said, "Xiao Rin, we should leave. Don’t listen to whatever that voice is telling you. Let’s go!"
He was about to pull Han Haerin out of the building when suddenly the whole building shook. However, the cause of the shaking wasn’t an earthquake but instead, this whole building was moving because it was alive. It seems that this building is a part of the huge flower they saw from the outside. With the wobbling movement of the area under their foot, Han Haerin got separated from Xiao Muen and was pulled deeper inside the building as for Xiao Muen he was pushed away to the direction leading outside. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
"Uncle!"
"Xiao Rin!"
The two got separated by the situation and the two who were secretly protecting them had to split as well. One to accompany Han Haerin further deeper within the building and the other to bring him out safely. Clearly, the building had rejected Xiao Muen’s presence and wanted to throw him out. On the other hand, it pulls Han Haerin deeper to the building towards the core region of this place.
Yue Xuexia and the others who were waiting outside for the two who entered the flower building witnessed Xiao Muen being thrown out of the building. The trees and flowers near the building were so lifelike as if kicking a troublesome child out. Xiao Muen fell face first on the group and almost chewed a bit of grass on the way. When a tree branch tried to whip Xiao Muen, Xue Renxue appeared out of nowhere and parried it with his weapon.
Puff!! Phew!
"What the hell!? Did this damn building just throw me out!" Xiao Muen complains. "Xiao Rin. Xiao Rin is still inside!!"
Those who were meditating outside woke up after hearing Xiao Muen’s words, especially Han Haerin’s parents, Lin Ruri and Han Yoonjun. It seems that the time outside had progressed faster than inside the inheritance site like this flower building or the pyramid where Ru Yunlan is. At least a few years had already passed as those who are recently reincarnated like Lin Ruri, Ru Lanyu and Han Yoonjun had gained enough age to slowly shed their young versions.
Lin Ruri asked, "What happened?"
