Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei, Starting as a Seeker of the Law

Chapter 2 The Eternal Immortal Lord of Ten Thousand Dharmas

"This guy..."

Sitting on a rock, the man in white robes watched the boy jumping and hopping around in front of him, his gaze lingering on the boy's clothes. He didn't offer any more help, but simply watched.

It wasn't that he was unwilling to completely block the punishment of causality, but the nature of the punishment of causality meant that it had to fall on the person who was destined to be punished.

Otherwise, he would be punished even if he blocked everything.

Lu Mingfei staggered to the ground and sat down, staring blankly at the scene before him.

A scorching sun blazed down, turning the sky half-scorched. Lead-gray clouds hung low, like tattered cotton wool soaked in water, settling heavily at the edge of the distant wilderness. A wind blew from afar, carrying fragments of withered grass, sweeping across the endless expanse of yellowish-brown earth, and also across the boy's cheek.

"Holy crap."

Startled, Lu Mingfei felt a sudden tightness in his chest and couldn't help but feel nervous.

I've been kidnapped?

No, this place isn't even a city. Is he dreaming?

Hoping for a lucky break, Lu Mingfei touched the dirt next to his buttocks, grabbed a handful, and tried to find a flaw.

But the earthy smell of the soil hit him hard; he had never smelled this authentic, weathered earth before, meaning...

This is not a dream!

Lu Mingfei froze, staring blankly into the distance. Then, as if grasping at a straw, he looked at the figure sitting on the rock.

"Where am I!?"

"Oh? You don't even know where you are?" The man in white robes stood up, looked at Lu Mingfei in front of him, and disappeared in an instant.

"Gone...disappeared?" Lu Mingfei was dumbfounded. Could that man be a ghost?

Lu Mingfei's mind went almost blank. The next moment, he suddenly turned his head and saw the white-robed man standing in front of him with a sinister smile.

A ghost! The person in front of me is definitely a ghost! How could anyone move so fast? The other person is definitely not human!

Run! I must run! This was the only thought in Lu Mingfei's mind.

"Are you scared?" the man in front of him suddenly asked, his expression changing.

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

"You... are you a human or a ghost?"

"Of course I am human, but you... are you even human?" the man asked Lu Mingfei in return.

"Of course I'm a human being, but if you say you're a human being, I can write my name backwards." Lu Mingfei felt his heart beating faster than ever before, not even for Chen Wenwen!

This is a human instinct when encountering something incomprehensible; he had never seen a human move at such speed.

Lu Mingfei took two steps back, looked at the man's face, which could be described as 'beautiful,' and began to say, "Of course I'm human, a pure human! And what are you?"

For some reason, Lu Mingfei felt he needed to stand firm on this issue, as if something terrible would happen if the answer wasn't clear. It was a strange premonition.

"A person?" The man looked at the boy in front of him and pondered for a moment, then smiled slightly, his robes fluttering without wind.

"who I am?"

"I am Jiang Mingzi," the man said confidently.

"People call me by my Daoist name, which is Changshi Wanfa Immortal Lord!"

Hearing the man's words, Lu Mingfei felt a million questions pop up above his head, his mind went blank. He couldn't figure out what kind of person the man was, and just stared blankly.

"Try playing... what thing?"

Although he could understand every single word the other person said, once those words were combined and inputted into his brain, only four words remained in Lu Mingfei's mind.

He's dreaming!

Who would say something like that? Is there any other possibility besides dreaming?

Unless he time-traveled like in a novel.

That's impossible...

Lu Mingfei pinched himself hard, then froze, and then, as if he didn't believe it, twisted his fingers hard!

"Whoa!! Whoa whoa whoa!!"

..............

Lu Mingfei sat down under the rock, looking at the man on the rock, gazing up at the figure that was not much stronger than his own, lost in thought.

"You mean this is the fifth year of the Zheng Guang era in the Northern Dynasty? And there's also a Southern Dynasty?"

Lu Mingfei's eyes widened. He had just finished reviewing history, so this meant he was in the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties period? Converted...

524 AD?

How could he suddenly travel from 2009 to 524 AD? This isn't a time travel movie set; what makes him so special...?

The only possibility is that he's dreaming, but... that's impossible, isn't it?

"Of course. What, are you saying you're not from this era?" The man named Jiang Mingzi stroked his chin, looking at Lu Mingfei. "That's not impossible, after all, the punishment of causality doesn't just randomly strike people down."

"The punishment of causality? What's that?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned. This thing was obviously no ordinary object. Where was he supposed to get his hands on something like this?

"That lightning that struck you before, if it weren't for my help, you would have been reduced to ashes long ago." As he spoke, Jiang Mingzi even put on an expression that said, "Come and praise me."

"Then I should thank you?"

Lu Mingfei understood this time.

He understood completely.

If what this man said is true, then the lightning he dreams of every night must be the punishment of cause and effect that the man spoke of. It's just that every punishment in the past turned him to ashes, but today is different.

He met the man in front of him, and he survived.

"Thinking about it this way, if I get blasted into ashes again, wouldn't that mean I can go back?" Lu Mingfei realized, "Why does time travel require me to die to get back?!"

"And what are you then? An immortal cultivator?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Mingzi smiled, "I am merely a seeker of the Dharma, but I am the foremost seeker of the Dharma in this world. You may call me an immortal if you wish."

With Jiang Mingzi's explanation, Lu Mingfei suddenly realized that the so-called seekers of the Dharma were just the same old cultivation method with a different name, changing the cultivation of spiritual energy to the cultivation of a power called Dharma, also known as supernatural power.

Isn't this just cultivating immortality?

It's just a different skin, the same medicine. If what this person says is true, then what's the difference between him and a real immortal? Is it that he can't move mountains and fill seas, or that he can't live forever?

Lu Mingfei didn't want to know; just hearing the name, he knew the person in front of him was very strong.

The strongest seeker of the law.

Muttering this name, he quickly raised his head and looked at Jiang Mingzi.

If that's the case, why not just ask the other party to set off another lightning bolt?

"That? The Immortal Lord of the Myriad Laws of the Eternal World?" Lu Mingfei said the title with some hesitation.

"What is it?" Jiang Mingzi asked frankly. "No need for thanks. This immortal lord merely wishes to see who is causing the karmic punishment to continuously descend upon this place. If..."

"No...no," Lu Mingfei hesitantly interrupted the man's long-winded explanation, asking, "If...if I wanted to bring down the 'punishment of causality' you mentioned, what would I need to do?"

Lu Mingfei had only one thought in his mind—he had to get back as soon as possible; he had to go to school tomorrow and see Chen Wenwen.

You'd get struck by lightning, but if you turn to ashes in an instant... it probably wouldn't hurt too much, right?

Thinking of this, Lu Mingfei swallowed hard and looked at Jiang Mingzi.

"I want to go back."

Lu Mingfei looked at him and said, word by word, "I want to go back to my time!"

The man looked at the boy under the rock, but instead of answering immediately, he turned to look at the horizon.

"Look, the sun is about to rise."

At that very moment, a pale red hue slowly spread across the eastern horizon. Then the sun struggled to climb out of the clouds, its fragmented orange-red hue piercing through the leaden-gray clouds, clearly defining the boundary between heaven and earth.

The man turned his head, and the orange-red color against his face made him look like a Buddha statue gilded with gold.

"If I were to send you back, that would be fine, but I have conditions."

Immediately, Jiang Mingzi's lips curled up, and his entire face became eerie.

"Let this immortal lord take a good look at your body."