Chapter 581 - 340: The Puzzled Lu Luwei

Chapter 581: Chapter 340: The Puzzled Lu Luwei

Spiritual Contamination was the equivalent of an incurable disease in this world.

But Spiritual Contamination had only ever occurred in those who became Reincarnators prematurely. Lu Cang had never heard of it affecting normal Reincarnators.

Lu Luwei...

’Didn’t she become a Reincarnator normally?’

As far as Lu Cang recalled, Lu Luwei had said she completed her Reincarnation on her sixteenth birthday, the day she came of age.

"Lu Cang."

Lu Luwei opened her eyes, having Awakened.

At this moment, Lu Luwei’s eyes were clear, showing no sign of the murkiness caused by Spiritual Contamination.

She just sighed. "As I thought, I’m completely helpless against you."

"I’ve lost to you again."

Lu Cang calmed himself and said gravely, "Lu Luwei, your Spirituality has been contaminated."

He paused for a moment.

Then Lu Cang added, "Were you... aware of this yourself?"

Lu Luwei was visibly stunned, her pupils contracting slightly. "Lu Cang, are you saying my Spirituality has been contaminated?"

Lu Cang nodded steadily. "Yes."

"Are you... joking with me?"

Lu Cang shook his head. "I’m not."

"Lu Luwei, I’m being very serious right now."

"Your Spirituality really has been contaminated."

"You were about to do something terrible just now. You were planning to attack civilians who have nothing to do with any of this, weren’t you?"

Lu Luwei looked dazed, as if trying to recall what she had just done.

"No."

"I wasn’t thinking that at all!"

Lu Luwei’s words were frantic, her chest heaving violently under the dim light.

Lu Cang could see her agitation wasn’t an act.

But her words were a lie.

"Lu Luwei."

"Do you, yourself, have any idea that your Spirituality has been contaminated?"

This time, Lu Cang’s voice was even more solemn, completely unlike the way a child would normally speak with Lu Luwei.

It was more like an interrogation from a superior.

Under the dim light, a trace of fear flickered in Lu Luwei’s expression.

The flicker of fear vanished just as quickly.

"No, I don’t know."

Lu Luwei continued, "How could my Spirituality be contaminated?"

’She doesn’t know...’

There was no lie in that statement. Lu Luwei was genuinely unaware that her Spirituality had been contaminated.

’It seems those who are contaminated don’t even realize they’ve changed.’

’If that’s the case...’

Lu Cang paused, reflecting on himself.

’Have I, myself, done anything that shows a drastic change in character?’

"Lu Cang, what you said... is it true?"

Lu Luwei asked again.

"Yes, it’s true."

Lu Luwei’s emotions were clearly a mix of shock and despair.

Just then, a patch of shadow in the corner of the room stirred.

Leng Qingying had arrived.

"I heard."

Leng Qingying materialized in the corner of the room, and Lu Cang immediately grabbed her by the wrist.

Leng Qingying looked up at Lu Cang, confused.

But just as quickly, Lu Cang let go of her hand.

Leng Qingying was fine.

Her Spirituality hadn’t been contaminated. It seemed only Lu Luwei was affected.

’And my own Spirituality...’

Lu Cang checked his own Spirituality and felt nothing amiss. When he touched himself, the information he perceived was all normal.

But still, Lu Cang felt a persistent unease.

’Is it really normal?’

Lu Cang looked into his future Destiny again. In it, he didn’t undergo any strange transformations.

"I..."

Lu Luwei started to say something.

But as she opened her mouth, the words wouldn’t seem to come out.

"Lu Luwei, for the time being, I don’t think I can let you act alone anymore..."

If he let Lu Luwei go off on her own, she might truly commit a terrible massacre.

’When that happens, how should I deal with Lu Luwei?’

’Kill Lu Luwei for the sake of people I don’t even know?’

Lu Cang admitted to himself that he wasn’t that righteous.

Lu Cang was not in the habit of avenging strangers. Even if Lu Luwei really did it, at worst, she would just be a wanted criminal guilty of heinous crimes in his eyes.

But... Lu Cang had no need to hunt down this wanted criminal.

However, Lu Cang couldn’t bring himself to ignore Lu Luwei either.

’Could this be the reason why Lu Luwei’s Date of Death is only thirty years away?’

As this speculation ran through Lu Cang’s mind, he took out a Destiny Card, which he flipped over in his hand...

It was the night of April 30th.

The time when the influence of chaos was at its peak.

’Performing a Divination now... the interference is too great.’

’I should wait a few hours for the Purity Moon before I do the Divination.’ ℯℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

The initial Divination result had a significant impact. Subsequent divinations would also be influenced by the first one.

"Mm... I understand," Lu Luwei said.

Lu Cang could sense a dazed emotion coming from Lu Luwei.

"An Su."

"Her Spirituality has been contaminated. Why do you think that is?"

"It must be something that happened recently."

An Su’s Perception was synchronized with Lu Cang’s, so it also knew what had happened.

It just didn’t know how Lu Cang knew Lu Luwei’s Spirituality was contaminated. Once the contamination was deeply rooted, it was extremely difficult to detect.

"Spiritual Contamination isn’t just caused by ascending prematurely."

"Do you know what the source of the contamination is?"

Lu Cang replied in his mind, ’I have some idea. Is it the Filth Source Nest?’

An Su was slightly shocked again in its mind.

’This guy even knows about the Filth Source Nest...’

’It seems the amount of Hidden Knowledge he possesses is not small.’

"Heh, if her contamination is a recent event, then there are many possibilities."

"You remember what month this is, don’t you?"

At this reminder, Lu Cang immediately realized something was wrong.

"You mean... the contamination."

The month of chaos and madness. Reading any knowledge carried the risk of coming into contact with contamination.

This was also the worst month for learning.

However, the Possibility of being contaminated was very low, and since Lu Cang himself was immune to knowledge contamination, he naturally never felt the side effects of this month.

"Are you saying that Lu Luwei was contaminated this month?"

An Su said, "It’s possible she came into contact with something she shouldn’t have."

"But it’s hard to say. It’s also possible she was contaminated a long time ago."

"Can your method for detecting contamination find latent contamination?"

Lu Cang paused.

’The function of Hidden Origin is more about tracing back. While tracing, it provides a lot of related information, but there’s no guarantee the information is exhaustive...’

’It really is hard to determine if Lu Luwei was contaminated at an even earlier time.’

While Lu Cang was lost in thought, Lu Luwei’s mind also felt empty.

’My Spirituality... is contaminated?’

’Why would he say that? Is it just because of what I was about to do?’

’I didn’t even do anything, did I?’

’What’s wrong with killing those bad people to uphold my principles?’

Lu Luwei looked at Lu Cang in confusion.

’Is he the only one allowed to become strong? Is it wrong for me to become strong too?’