Douluo: Law of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 955: Lu Qibin's Past - Extra : Bastard
"He is indeed very talented, but he is too stupid. For the truth, he chose to commit suicide. Isn't it better to hide and study in secret?"

Xu Ming took out Li Yang's stargazing research materials again and examined them carefully. He found that some of the records were a bit childish, but he had to admit her excellence.

"However, these materials have given me a lot of inspiration—"

"Continue the research and perfect the picture of the universe. One day in the future, a certain generation of direct descendants in the sect will surely realize the sect's current mistakes. What I am doing now is for that future!"

Xu Ming also loves the sect deeply! It's just that the other senior leaders of the sect cannot understand his "love" yet.

But this did not prevent him from laying the foundation for the sect's future.

but.

He also discovered a fact.

That is, he is no longer young. Even though the books here were collected and recorded when he was young, it is extremely troublesome to find them.

Therefore, he needed an assistant.

But no one in the sect can be trusted——

"I can only find a smarter servant."

Day two.

Xu Ming went to Xingluo City and bought a sturdy man at the Xingluo Royal Auction House.

"What's your name?" Xu Ming asked.

"No name."

The man shook his head. "I'm an orphan. People call me a bastard. Can you give me a name, Mr. Xu Ming?"

"Then let's call him dog bastard." Xu Ming was too lazy to think and directly applied the somewhat insulting name "dog bastard" to him and used it as his name.

"Oh."

The bastard felt a little lost.

"What is your martial soul?" Xu Ming asked again.

"Eye."

The bastard said.

"Is the martial soul related to the body? It's very rare." Xu Ming was slightly surprised. He looked at the height of the bastard, who was a head taller than him, and joked, "Since the martial soul is the eyes, it should be a spiritual attribute, right? Why is it so tall?"

"Before I sold myself, I worked for a merchant in a nearby town, mainly responsible for transporting goods. I had an agreement with him to let me eat whatever I wanted, and I ate a lot... The landlord felt sorry for the food and didn't want me anymore. I wanted to make a living in the city, but no one wanted me... After changing places many times, I somehow ended up in the Xingluo Empire."

As an ordinary man with a bit of strength, it would be difficult for Gou Zongzhong to survive in an imperial capital like Xingluo City.

So he thought of a way and sold himself.

In this way, although fate is not in our own hands, as long as we meet a good master and work hard, our life safety and living will be guaranteed.

And the mongrel also has his own little cleverness, which is that no matter what the personality of the person who buys him is, he is definitely rich and will not let him go without a bite of food.

It was precisely this cleverness, which was not really clever, that made Xu Ming take a fancy to him and buy him.

Simple and honest, but not pedantic... Once trained, he will definitely be a loyal servant.

In the following year, in addition to handling the affairs assigned to him by the sect, Xu Ming spent his time perfecting the "Earth and Star Theory".

Practice?

He is already in his seventies, and even if he practices diligently, his soul power will not improve much. Moreover, increasing his soul power by one or two levels will not improve his status in the sect.

Therefore, it would be better for him to do more research on stargazing to lay a foundation for the future of the Xingguan Sect, which would not let him down in his kindness to the sect.

It was during this research that Xu Ming gradually understood what Li Yang meant by "touching" and why she chose to commit suicide by taking poison. The girl realized earlier than him that inheritance is not based on literal knowledge, but comes from the knowledge passed down from generation to generation.

feel!

And the curiosity that every normal person is born with!
"amazing!"

Xu Ming suddenly realized that the first half of his life had been wasted, but——

"It's not too late to understand this now..."

While thinking, Xu Ming called Gou Zazhong and prepared to ask him to cook for him, but found that he had a book on his waist.

"This is?"

"I'm reading." The bastard took out the book and handed it to Xu Ming, feeling a little embarrassed.

Xu Ming was silent for a while, then asked, "Do you know how to read?"

"In the past year, I have also been to the school in the sect... I am not very smart, so I didn't learn much. I only know 20 or 30 people."

The bastard told the truth.

"I am almost 40 years old and I have learned 20 to 30 Chinese characters in one year by watching students in the school. This is already very good."

Xu Ming looked directly at the bastard, first praising him, then asking quietly, "Why do you want to learn to read? It's meaningless for a slave like you, right?"

The bastard opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopping himself. He was silent for a long while. Seeing Xu Ming still looking at him, he realized that if he didn't say anything, the stalemate would continue. He could only timidly say, "I don't know either."

"do not know?"

Xu Ming became interested.

"Yes, I don't know. I just saw that you spent most of your free time on it, and I had an urge in my heart to learn the characters and understand what was written in the book. But I didn't think about what I would do after learning the characters."

The bastard tried hard to explain and said a lot of rambling.

But in Xu Ming's eyes, this can be summed up in two words: touched and curious. The mongrel was touched by his own behavior, then he became curious, and then he took the initiative to find a way to learn to read.

So he took off the pendant from his neck, which had a small metal ball hanging on it.

"Elder, what are you doing?"

Seeing him handing over the pendant, the bastard reached out his hand curiously, but immediately thought of himself as a slave and couldn't do that, so he stopped.

But Xu Ming took the initiative to put the pendant in his palm.

"take it."

"You are not even a spirit master, but you dare to learn secretly. It's really amazing, just like her." Xu Ming smiled, "Just think of it as an insurance."

The bastard was puzzled, but since the pendant was in his hands, he could only hang it around his neck.

"Do you know what I am studying?" Xu Ming asked.

"do not know."

The bastard shook his head. After all, he only knew 20 or 30 words. How could he know what Xu Ming was studying? However, he had also looked through the books in the basement, so he tentatively said, "It seems to be related to the stars? People in the sect are studying astrology to assist their own cultivation."

Speaking of cultivation and becoming a soul master, Gou Zongzhong had a little yearning, but he also knew that it was impossible, so he only had a little expectation.

"I do study the stars, and I study the paths of the stars."

These straightforward words stunned the bastard. Even though he didn't know more about the Xingguan Sect, he had heard others say that -

"This seems to be a taboo?"

Disciples who do research without a Star Crown Martial Spirit will be tortured, and may even have their tendons cut, depriving them of their spirit master powers; and direct disciples who do research will also be subject to extremely harsh punishments, with the most serious one discovered so far having been put in solitary confinement for twenty years!
(End of this chapter)