Douluo Continent: The World Shines with Stars

Chapter 73 The Gate of Inheritance

Back at the hotel, Xu Mingxi didn't hear the information he wanted from the three elders, and the four of them sat looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Eighth Elder, I'll need your help to go to the mayor's house with me tonight. Perhaps we can find something there."

Xu Mingxi broke the awkward atmosphere. The four of them, a team capable of attacking Mingdu, had actually gained nothing in this small town.

As night fell, Xu Mingxi and the Eighth Elder changed into their night clothes for their mischief and landed on the town mayor's wall from the air.

The Eighth Elder stretched out his hands, and specks of starlight fell from his hands, drifting into the town mayor's house on the wind.

Under the spell of the Starry Night spell, the mayor's family had no power to resist and all entered a deeper sleep, unlikely to wake up easily.

The two entered the mayor's house and began searching for clues by turning the house upside down, but they were disappointed to find that it was just the home of an ordinary soul master, with nothing special about it.

Xu Mingxi even touched and knocked around, but there was no secret room in the house. Everything indicated that the mayor was indeed just an ordinary soul master.

"Eighth Elder, let's go back first. The town mayor should have nothing to do with the inheritance."

"Okay, Mingxi, don't worry, we still have time to look slowly."

Xu Mingxi returned to the hotel and lay on the bed. He felt that something was wrong with him today, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. He seemed to be about to figure it out, but he was always just a little bit off. It was really awful.

Xu Mingxi covered her face with the pillow, closed her eyes, and cleared her mind. Gradually, she fell asleep.

"Strange, I didn't cultivate last night. That shouldn't be the case. Could it be that after being at sea for so long, I've become lazy when I relax?"

As Xu Mingxi stepped out of the room, she saw the three elders standing in a row at the door.

"Elders, what's going on here?"

"Mingxi, something seems off about this town. Although we've almost exhausted our potential, we've maintained the habit of cultivating at night instead of sleeping for decades."

Last night, however, something unexpected happened. The three of us surprisingly all chose to go to bed at the same time, which was completely impossible.

Xu Mingxi was taken aback by the words of the three elders. He had felt this way when he woke up, but he thought it was just his imagination.

After the elders said that, he suddenly realized that there had indeed been some discord in the town yesterday. How could a small town dare to use the name of the sun and moon? Weren't they afraid that the nobles and officials of the Sun and Moon Empire would cause them trouble?

Moreover, how could ordinary residents know that the royal family possessed both the Sun Martial Soul and the Silver Moon Martial Soul?

There seemed to be something strange about this small town. The group split up and decided to investigate thoroughly today, otherwise they wouldn't feel comfortable staying in this town any longer.

If it weren't for the fact that the mark had guided them here, and that the people here might all be believers in the gods, Xu Mingxi would have already used some special methods. If he could obtain the inheritance, what did it matter if a few people died?

The three elders each chose a direction, while Xu Mingxi rose directly above the town, overlooking the entire town.

"Huh?"

Xu Mingxi turned around and noticed that the layout of Riyue Town was actually a moon partially enclosing a sun. He felt he was getting closer and closer to the truth, but he was just one step away, and that step might fall on the flags planted in front of each house.

Xu Mingxi descended from the sky and then selected a lucky person to carefully examine the flag. Apart from not daring to pull it out for fear of affecting the inheritance, he even touched it, only to find that it was no different from an ordinary flag in terms of material.

"Isn't this just an ordinary flag? Apart from the different design, it's no different from any other flag."

pattern?

Xu Mingxi seemed to realize something, and immediately rose into the sky, with paper and pen appearing in her hand, recording the locations of the two flags in the town.

The two types of flags were present in equal numbers in the town, but their arrangement was chaotic. However, when recorded, it can be seen that the houses with flags formed two patterns in the town: a sun and a silver moon.

Xu Mingxi's eyes lit up. Could he simply insert the corresponding flags into the appropriate places? He leaped down, about to make a move, but then withdrew when he was about to touch the flags.

What if the actual situation is different? What if the silver moon pattern is actually a sun flag? If we make a mistake, we'll completely miss out on the heritage.

Xu Mingxi withdrew his hand. He needed to gather more clues to corroborate his guess. Just now, when he took off to observe the town, he discovered that the mayor's house was located in the center of the boundary between the two patterns.

As night fell, everyone decided to forgo sleep for the time being because of the inexplicable sleep disturbances the previous night; no one liked this feeling of being out of control.

The four changed into night clothes again, and the three elders searched the houses of those who had flags one by one, while Xu Mingxi went to the mayor's house again.

After knocking the mayor unconscious and searching the entire house again, Xu Mingxi still found nothing. He then turned his attention to the Rising Sun flag hanging on the mayor's door.

This flag was no different from the flags in front of ordinary townspeople's houses in terms of material and pattern. Xu Mingxi hovered in mid-air and stared at it for a long time.

As the dark clouds dispersed and moonlight shone on the flag, Xu Mingxi had a flash of inspiration. His first soul ring lit up, and specks of moonlight essence, accompanied by endless starlight, fell down and sprinkled onto the sun flag.

As expected, seeing a silver moon pattern appear on the flag in front of him, Xu Mingxi rose into the sky and unleashed his full power, instantly illuminating the entire town as if it were daytime.

On the houses where the sun pattern was located in the town, all the flags were changed to sun flags. The sunlight was extinguished, and wisps of moonlight fell from the sky, landing on the flags on the other side, making the silver moon appear.

The four gathered in the center of the town, stood in the sky, and watched as white mist continuously poured out of the mayor's house until it covered the entire town. Despite their strength, they were completely unable to see anything through the white mist.

Xu Mingxi kept staring at the white mist below, but sensed something. He reached out his hand, and golden and silver specks of light fell onto his hand.

He looked up abruptly, and the sight in the sky shocked him: the blazing sun and the cool, silvery moon appeared at the same time.

Moonlight and sunlight shone on the white mist at the same time, and the mist gradually thinned and slowly dispersed in all directions.

To the astonishment of the four, the entire town vanished into thin air. Golden and silver light intertwined, forming a magnificent gate in the center of the town. A black vortex spun continuously in the middle of the gate, as if beckoning people to walk in.

(End of this chapter)