Douluo: Law of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 970 Lu Qibin's Past - Extra Chapter 31: The Final Stage

Inside a dilapidated hut in Lanke Village, Huo Xing's eyelids twitched, then he opened them. Seeing the open roof, he struggled to sit up and asked in confusion, "Where am I?"

"you're awake!"

Li Zhao lifted the straw curtain hanging on the door lintel and walked in, her face beaming with joy. She handed him a letter and said, "This is a letter that older sister wants to give you."

"big sister?"

Huo Xing was puzzled, but he still took it, opened it, and read:
[Huo Xing, by the time you read this letter, Li Yang should have already been captured, and I will have left Xingluo City...]

Huo Xing immediately knew who wrote it—Li Ming.

Continue reading:
You are just a servant who knows nothing. Even if you go to Xingluo City, as long as you keep a low profile, no one will pay attention to you.

However, I hope you can survive and return to your hometown so that you can enlighten the children in your village. Even if they don't become Soul Masters in the future, learning to read will always give them more choices.

This is the truth I've come to know from you!
As long as you have knowledge and the ability to think, an ordinary person like you, apart from being less powerful than those true Soul Masters, is not much less intelligent than them. In fact, you are smarter than most of the Soul Masters I have ever seen.

By the way, there's no need to worry about others seeing the contents of this letter, or whether the higher-ups of the Star Crown Sect will spare any non-direct descendant who knows about it...

This sentence was Li Ming's way of intimidating the literate people in Lanke Village. She was certain they would be the first to read it, so she needed to give them a warning.

Only in this way would they not dare to act recklessly, but instead wait for Huo Xing to recover from his injuries and then beg him to leave quickly.

I admire Li Yang, but through my interactions with her over the years, I've come to know that she's someone who will do anything to satisfy herself, and she's quite different from how she was back then.

Don't go looking for her, just live your life honestly.

and also.

Your book has probably already been burned by Li Yang, hasn't it? Don't be sad, I've made a backup for you. Once you've recovered, go to the alley where you used to share your lunch with the beggars...

Also, I've left you fifty gold soul coins. Remember, fifty!

The letter was short and ended there, leaving only the signature "Li Ming".

Huo Xing clutched the letter tightly, momentarily at a loss for what to do.

"What's wrong?" Li Zhao asked.

"It's nothing, thank you, little girl. Did you save me? I won't trouble you. I'll leave in a couple of days once my injuries have healed," Huo Xing said to Li Zhao, expressing his gratitude.

“Yes, my uncle also said that after you recover from your injuries, it would be best if you left and never came back, otherwise you would cause trouble for Lanke Village,” Li Zhao said.

Huo Xing expressed his gratitude once again.

Five days later, Huo Xing felt she had recovered enough, so she bid farewell to Li Zhao and her Uncle Edward, and with the fifty gold soul coins in hand, prepared to head to Xingluo City.

Entered the city.

Huo Xing didn't rush to that alley immediately. Instead, he strolled around the crowded streets for a couple of hours, found a temporary job moving goods, earned some copper soul coins, and bought some paper and ink. Although Miss Li Ming said that she had made a backup of his book, having only one copy wasn't enough, so he wanted to make several more copies.

Why should you earn money to buy paper and pens?

The letter highlighted the words "fifty gold soul coins," and he felt that these fifty gold soul coins should be used wisely, so he decided to keep them for the time being.

In the evening, he headed down that alley.

"You came!"

When the beggars, missing limbs and broken arms, saw Huo Xing, they treated him as if he were their savior, and hurriedly asked, "Did you bring any food?"

"I'm sorry, I've been kicked out." Huo Xing apologized to the beggars, indicating that he could no longer give them food.

The beggars were disappointed. "Oh, right, that pretty lady seemed to have told us that if our benefactor could no longer help us, we could show him that."

"Do we really have to do that?"

"That's so strange!"

"That rich little girl did that to our heads..."

"We have no choice, we can't starve to death!"

"..."

In the end, after some discussion, the beggars led Huo Xing to the deepest part of the alley, to a low house built of rags and rotten wood.

Huo Xing was puzzled, but a sense of vigilance arose in his eyes as he recalled Li Ming's warning to him—that beggars would repay kindness with enmity.

But to his surprise, the leader of the beggars did not call on the others to gang up on him. Instead, he picked up a rusty razor and began to shave his own hair.

Swish swish!
As the thick layer of grime and dandruff fell, rows of densely packed characters were revealed on the man's bald head.

It's a tattoo!
And the content on it was actually the content of the book he had written!

Then, the beggar handed the razor to the second person next to him, who also began to shave his own head, revealing another piece of content.

Following closely behind was the third person, the fourth person... until the fiftieth person finished, and everything Huo Xing had written appeared before his eyes.

“I am ‘Page One’,” said the first beggar to shave his head. “That’s what the pretty lady told me.”

"I am on page two."

"Page three."

"..."

Page 50.

"That lady said that if we show you this, we can get food!"

Looking at these beggars, Huo Xing was inexplicably moved to tears, realizing the purpose behind Miss Li Ming leaving him fifty gold soul coins!
The book he wrote was exactly fifty pages long!
However, after that, Huo Xing decided to include Miss Li Ming's actions as well—he wanted to continue this "touching" feeling!
After paying fifty gold soul coins and having his writing copied down completely, Huo Xing reminded the beggars to cover their heads with rags until their hair grew back, to avoid being discovered by those with ulterior motives...

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"I bet you want to know what happened to Huo Xing in the end, right?"

Lu Qibin didn't keep them in suspense, stating directly, "Ten years later, he was accidentally captured by a direct disciple of the Star Crown Sect. At that time, he had accumulated a considerable amount of money and wanted to print and publish his book, but its contents happened to catch the attention of a direct disciple of the Star Crown Sect..."
He died on a moonless night, but the Milky Way shone exceptionally brightly in the sky.

After saying that, he saw that Zhou Qing's expression was calm and asked in confusion, "Don't you think it's a pity?"

"It's a real pity; he's a very talented person."

Zhou Qing nodded, "But his spirit has been passed down, it's just a pity—"

"What's a pity?" Seeing Zhou Qing sigh halfway through his sentence, Lu Qibin looked directly into his eyes.

"pity--"

Zhou Qing said earnestly, "After Li Yang passed on the feeling of being moved to others, he forgot about that feeling himself."

"Yes!"

Lu Qibin closed his eyes. "This story has entered its final stage..."

(End of this chapter)