Only Got My Martial Arts Modifier in My Old Age
Chapter 286: Chapter 149: A Literal Scapegoat, the Entire Gong Family Relocates to Yun Port City
These heretics from the Lifeless Lotus Sect were a bizarre and troublesome bunch, each one more so than the last.
’That old woman must have used some kind of substitution sorcery, perhaps a spectral double she’d been raising for years.’
Lu Yun’s Divine Thought glanced one last time in that direction. His gaze was as deep as a dark pool, his expression unreadable.
Then, the purple glow gradually dimmed, and that wisp of Half-step Divine Thought Golden Core Power completely vanished between heaven and earth.
As for how Lu Yun knew all this, he slowly withdrew his gaze and sank his consciousness into the deep blue light screen within his mind.
[Extreme Blue Martial Arts Modifier]
Name: Lu Yun
Gender: Male
Realm: Grandmaster of Divine Intent (???)
Cultivation Technique: Ten Directions Annihilation Fist (1st Floor), Glazed Radiant Body (2nd Floor)
Modified Value: 2950
The numbers were laid out clearly before his eyes. He’d had 2,050 Modified Value before, and now it was 2,950. In other words, he had gained a total of 900 Modified Value.
This meant that with that last palm strike, he had unintentionally killed a wraith that was on the cusp of the Grandmaster of Divine Intent realm.
After all, killing that weakling, Count Thorne—a half-baked Grandmaster of Divine Intent—had only netted him 1,000 Modified Value.
Even after the purple glow faded, everyone remained lost in the shock of what they had just witnessed.
And so, the crowd stood there, stunned speechless, their eyes glued to the walking stick in Lu Fu’s hand.
’Did that earth-shattering strike just now come from this walking stick?’
Then, they slowly turned their stiff necks to survey the devastation around them.
The ground was spiderwebbed with cracks, the courtyard walls had collapsed into rubble, the entire roof had been ripped away, and the corridor pillars were snapped in two. Wisps of smoke still curled up from the enormous crater...
The power of this attack was comparable to the most terrifying landmines of the Western Countries—in fact, it was likely far greater.
A single landmine couldn’t create a crater this large, nor could it produce such an oppressive aura—it was as if a god had slammed its palm into the earth.
As the crowd looked at the walking stick, their shock turned to awe, and their awe morphed into an almost greedy envy. That greed, however, was fleeting and quickly suppressed by reason.
An item like that was not something they could ever hope to possess. Lu Fu, facing the crowd’s mixed gazes of envy and awe, remained as calm as ever, his expression serene.
He slowly drew the walking stick back, pulled a spare silk cloth from within his coat, and meticulously re-wrapped it.
Afterward, Lu Fu turned to Pan Heng. "Chief Pan, I’ll leave the cleanup to you. I must be going now."
Pan Heng snapped to attention, saluting as he replied with grave sincerity, "Yes, sir! Take care, Elder Fu. I will handle this matter with absolute impartiality and will not spare anyone involved!"
Meanwhile, in a subterranean structure far, far away, candlelight flickered in a dark, secret chamber.
Suddenly, a massive, gut-wrenching scream erupted, shaking dust from the chamber walls.
"AAAAAHHH!!!" It was Master Xuantan, whose current state could no longer be described as merely ’wretched.’
Master Xuantan trembled violently, collapsing limply onto a stone bed draped in white fur.
"That damn bastard... How could he possess the power of a Manifest Saint True Monarch..."
"This is impossible... Absolutely impossible... In this world... there can’t be anyone who has broken through to this Realm before the Sect Leader..."
Although she had survived, she felt she would have been better off dead.
She had spent over two hundred years pining for and finally achieving the Grandmaster of Divine Intent Realm. Now, it was crumbling to dust. It had all started the moment her "Lotus Shadow Divine Attendant"—a being she had nurtured for over a century—died in her place.
Master Xuantan had nurtured the Lotus Shadow Divine Attendant with her own essence blood and refined it with the Lifeless Lotus Curse. Their life-souls were bound together, making it her final, life-saving talisman.
Now that it had taken a fatal blow in her stead, a drop in her Realm was the least of her worries.
Worse still, Master Xuantan’s spiritual will was descending into chaos. Her consciousness was slipping away, bit by bit, and she could drop dead at any moment.
Master Xuantan’s clouded eyes suddenly snapped open, flashing with a frenzied will to survive. She used every last ounce of her strength to struggle into a sitting position on the stone bed.
"No... I don’t want to die... I must see the Sect Leader... Only she can save me..."
A few days later, in Gong Ning’s room, she closed her eyes and felt the surging Qi within her body.
Lately, Gong Ning had felt a subtle shift; her cultivation at the Peak of Anjin was finally showing signs of loosening.
She knew in her heart that the next few days presented the perfect opportunity to break through to the rank of Grandmaster of Huajin.
Gong Ning took a small cloth pouch from her robes. She unwrapped it, layer by layer, to reveal the item nestled quietly inside: a small piece of Immortal Flesh.
This was a resource Gong Ning had prepared a year ago, specifically for this moment. She stared at the throbbing, black piece of flesh for a long while before steeling her resolve.
Gong Ning placed the Immortal Flesh in her mouth and swallowed. In the next instant, a searing heat swelled madly within her. An endless torrent of power erupted from her core, surging through every inch of her body.
Meanwhile, on an official road just outside Yun Port City, a group of people on horseback rode onward in the morning sun.
The five people riding at the very front were all elders with pure white hair—two men and three women. They sat ramrod straight in their saddles, their gazes as steady as stone.
Following behind them were hundreds of people: the middle-aged, the young, women, and children. It was clearly a group in the midst of a great migration.
If Gong Ning had been there, she would have immediately recognized the five people at the head of the procession: they were the five Elders of the Gong Family.
The people following them were the last remaining members of the Gong Family from the Eastern Province. The Gong Family had previously sent the father-daughter duo of Gong Yuanshan and Gong Ning south to Yun Port City, but they were merely an advance party.

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