Chapter 650
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Chapter 650 Evil Blood Jade!
“Great Temple? What kind of place is that?” Fang Yu frowned and asked.
“You don’t know about the Great Temple? It’s the most famous landmark in East Capital. Even if you’re not from East Capital, you should have heard of it,” Young Master Cao glanced at Fang Yu and said.
Fang Yu shook his head and said, “I rarely go out, so I really haven’t heard of it.”
“Young Master Cao, we’ve heard of the Great Temple, but isn’t it just a tourist attraction? What use is a key?” asked the middle-aged man beside them.
“When you normally visit the Great Temple, aren’t you just walking around the perimeter taking photos?” Young Master Cao gave the middle-aged man a dismissive look and said, “With the key, you can naturally open the Great Temple’s main door and enter directly!”
“But the interior of the Great Temple… isn’t it still just a tourist site? Why would martial artists from East Capital’s martial arts community be attracted by such a reward?” another man asked in confusion.
“Sigh… you people are really slow-witted.” Young Master Cao sighed, shook his head, and said, “The Great Temple is a very mysterious place. If you had read the legends about the Great Temple, you would know how significant this place is…”
As he spoke, Young Master Cao turned his head to look beside him, noticing several beautiful women with attractive faces, his eyes lighting up.
“I don’t have time to waste with you guys. Go play by yourselves.” Young Master Cao dropped these words and walked toward the beautiful women.
The three men were merely curious; as people from the secular world, the major events of the martial arts community had nothing to do with them.
So, the three men dispersed.
Fang Yu retreated to his original spot under the tree, holding his now-empty cocktail glass, his brow slightly furrowed.
The Great Temple…
Actually, he had been to this place before.
When he traveled through the Nine Provinces Country years ago, he had stayed in East Capital for a period, perhaps about two hundred years ago?
At that time, the Great Temple wasn’t considered a tourist attraction, just a large ancient building left from the past. And back then, the Great Temple’s main door was indeed tightly locked, with no entry permitted.
At the time, Fang Yu had walked around the Great Temple but didn’t sense anything unusual. Finding it uninteresting, he left afterward.
But just now, hearing that Young Master Cao say that the East Capital Martial Arts Association was using the Great Temple key as a bounty, causing a stir in East Capital’s martial arts community…
This suggests that there must be something significant inside the Great Temple?
“A bounty for Fang Changsheng… interesting.”
Fang Yu stroked his chin, his pupils flickering slightly, before revealing a faint smile.
He suddenly thought of a good idea to successfully obtain the Great Temple key provided by the East Capital Martial Arts Association.
“Divine Doctor Fang!”
Just as Fang Yu was thinking, a male voice sounded from nearby.
Fang Yu turned to look and saw Tang Mingde.
“Family Head Tang.” Fang Yu nodded in greeting.
“I knew you would come tonight, Dr. Fang.” Tang Mingde smiled.
Fang Yu glanced behind Tang Mingde but didn’t see Tang Xiaorou, and breathed a sigh of relief.
“Xiaorou still has classes, so I didn’t have her return to Jiangnan,” Tang Mingde said.
“Very good,” Fang Yu said.
After chatting casually with Tang Mingde for a while, the atmosphere in the courtyard suddenly became lively again.
It seemed that another important figure had arrived.
Fang Yu and Tang Mingde both looked toward the courtyard entrance.
At this moment, two figures walked in under the gaze of everyone in the courtyard.
They were two young men who appeared to be less than thirty years old, with handsome features but with a hint of exotic charm in their brows, suggesting they might be of mixed heritage.
But these two men looked very similar, likely a pair of brothers.
The reason they attracted so many gazes was because of their attire.
All the guests present were wearing suits. But this pair of brothers wore silk robes, similar to what ancient grooms would wear at weddings.
“These are the Yuan brothers from West Capital,” Tang Mingde said quietly beside him. “The Yuan family is a famous silk family in West Capital. The Yuan brothers came to Jiangnan last week and closed a silk business deal with our chamber of commerce… They wear these silk robes because of their family rules, I’m told.”
“Oh,” Fang Yu nodded, not saying much.
But at this moment, the atmosphere in the courtyard reached its peak.
“It’s the Yuan brothers from West Capital! They actually came too!”
“Is that the Yuan family from West Capital?”
“I didn’t expect them to come… let’s go meet them quickly!”
Many of the guests present were surprised by the Yuan brothers’ arrival.
From their reactions, the Yuan family from West Capital was clearly extraordinary.
“The Yuan family is a top-tier… family in West Capital with extremely deep heritage. Their business empire covers the entire Northwest and Southwest regions… Many of their industries hold absolute leading positions… calling it a monopoly wouldn’t be an exaggeration,” Tang Mingde continued to explain, seeing that Fang Yu kept staring at the Yuan brothers.
At this moment, Fang Yu was indeed staring at the Yuan brothers.
However, he wasn’t focusing on the two men themselves, but on the various jade ornaments they wore.
These jade pieces had a very special color.
Not the traditional blue-green, but a light pink.
Especially the string of jade beads worn on the brothers’ right wrists, which displayed this characteristic most vividly.
Streaks of bright red appeared within the overall pink jade beads, creating a strange beauty.
Of course, what Fang Yu sensed was not the beauty contained within, but the cold yin energy and faint resentful aura.
Blood jade.
All the jade ornaments worn by the Yuan brothers were made of blood jade.
The last time Fang Yu had seen blood jade was a long time ago.
Back then, the people who made such jade pendants were mostly associated with demonic cultivators.
The finished blood jade had two uses.
One was in a positive direction, retaining the most basic function of blood jade: when worn, it would ward off all diseases, using others’ vital blood essence to nourish one’s own spirit.
This way, those who wore blood jade for a long time could maintain a radiant appearance and abundant energy.
The jade ornaments worn by the Yuan brothers probably served this purpose.
The other direction was that blood jade would be made into various implements used to harm people without their knowledge, or directly crafted into offensive magical treasures.
Regardless of its purpose, the production process and ultimate function of blood jade highlighted the behavior of benefiting oneself at the expense of others.
Therefore, the Righteous Alliance of that era classified blood jade as a first-class evil object, prohibiting anyone from making it.
The Righteous Alliance was quite authoritative at that time.
As a result, blood jade gradually disappeared from the world.
Fang Yu never expected that at an occasion like today, he would see this evil object, blood jade, again.
