Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1204 590: Head of the Family! (High Energy)

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Li Banfeng learns about the "High Pillow Worry-Free Skill" and its ability to restore his body. He then attempts to remove a curse from a pair of gloves with the help of his wife and other magical items. After struggling to find the curse's root, he eventually identifies a changed black spot on the gloves by comparing them to old photos. The other items offer suggestions on how to remove the curse, but Li Banfeng decides to wash the gloves.

"I, I..." Judge's Pen grew more and more anxious as it spoke.

Li Banfeng said, "You rest first, I'll think of another way."

Thinking over and over, there was no other way, so Li Banfeng still used his hands to rub.

"I say, have you ever washed clothes?" Judge's Pen finally managed to say the words.

Li Banfeng looked up and said, "I really haven't washed much."

Usually, my wife washes the clothes.

"Clean water won't work!" Judge's Pen said with difficulty, "You need soap!"

Li Banfeng suddenly realized.

Washing clothes needs soap!

He searched for a long time, found a bar of soap, lathered it on the gloves, rubbed for a while, and the black stain on the back of the gloves began to fade.

After rubbing for a little longer, the black stain got lighter and the gloves gradually became able to move.

Fearing it wasn't safe enough, Li Banfeng scrubbed vigorously for a long time, and the gloves spurted out a mouthful of water, "Oh my, I'm drowning, I'm drowning, I can't swim, where am I falling into?"

Li Banfeng held the gloves in his palm, laughing out loud, "Brother, you really scared me."

Once the gloves understood where they were and sat in Li Banfeng's palm, they waved their index and ring fingers, crying for quite a while.

"Master, I finally see you. I thought I was done for this time. I've never feared death while charging into battle with you, but this time I was really scared, afraid I would just disappear like this."

Tang Sword snorted, "Look at your lack of backbone!"

Li Banfeng didn't feel the gloves were wrong, "There's nothing wrong with being afraid of death, life is only one, who's not afraid of death?

For me, you got hurt by that old thing, I'll forever remember this loyalty, risking my life, I had to save you back."

The gloves thanked him a thousand times over, but suddenly remembered something, "Master, who was that old thing you mentioned just now?"

Li Banfeng said, "The Grandmaster of Stealing, Xiao Qianshou."

The gloves shivered, jumped off Li Banfeng's hand, and used its thumb and pinky to walk back and forth on the table.

Watching it patter from left to right, and right back to left, the phonograph picked up a feather duster, always tempted to smack it on the table.

"Wife, calm down," Li Banfeng convinced the phonograph, "the gloves just woke up, they're weak, can't withstand this."

The wife said angrily, "If you have something to say, stand still and say it, swaying back and forth is annoying!"

The index and ring fingers hugged tightly to the chest, showing the emotional turmoil at that moment, walking back and forth dozens of times, the gloves looked up and said, "Master, I remembered something."

"Let's hear it." Li Banfeng pulled up a chair and sat beside the table.

"I remembered Xiao Qianshou's hands."

Li Banfeng thought carefully for a moment, "What's special about his hands?"

"His hands, they are me!" The gloves said excitedly, words slightly incoherent, "Master, Xiao Qianshou has many hands, I'm one of them, I'm his disciple, I took him as my master!"

Li Banfeng didn't quite understand, "Brother, take a sip of water, and speak slowly."

"Can't go slow, not here, I have to hurry and say it, or I'll forget again, I'm the Young Master of the Ghost Hand Sect, wasn't initially the Young Master, the Head of the family never intended to appoint a Young Master in his lifetime, he wanted to remain Head of the family his entire life,

but he got old, couldn't handle many things, so he found a few managers, I was one of them, I handled many things, handled them well, they would come to me when there were issues, the Head of the family appointed me as Young Master,

later on, the Gang came to me for issues, and the Head of the family handed the Gang to me, I was already at the Ninth Layer by then, I didn't want to go to the Inner State to be a dog, the Head of the family showed me a path."

Li Banfeng said, "What was the name of this Head of the family you mentioned?"

"He, he was named Xie, what was Xie what again?"

"Xie Juncong?"

The gloves nearly jumped up, "Yes, that dastardly old dog! That old dog said, my talent is superb, the Ancestral Master of the Taoist Sect admired me, wanted to take me as his disciple,

once I became the Ancestral Master's disciple, I wouldn't have to go to the Inner State to be a dog, I could directly ascend Above the Clouds,

I believed his words, I met the Ancestral Master, I became the disciple of the Ancestral Master,

I truly didn't expect, this Ancestral Master was so worthless, he had many disciples, all of whom he turned into gloves,

He was called Xiao Qianshou, whether or not he had a thousand hands, I don't know, anyway, he had many hands,

these hands were all disciples transformed, I'm one of them!"

This time, Li Banfeng understood.

"What did you do as a hand for Xiao Qianshou?"

"Steal things!" The gloves' memory grew clearer, "Xiao Qianshou hardly ever took action himself, the ones who did were us gloves,

every time we failed, he'd chop off a finger, when all fingers were chopped off, we'd vanish into thin air,

he told us, all thief cultivation disciples owed him a debt, only by repaying the debt could we leave,

but I've been his disciple for many years, never saw him let anyone go, there were those who tried to escape, they were all caught back, first chopped into pieces, then vanished into nothingness!"

Li Banfeng said, "How did you escape?"

"How did I escape?" The gloves pattered on the table, circling dozens of times, the phonograph raised the feather duster again, the gloves finally remembered, "Once, he clashed with a fierce character, I forgot who that fierce person was, but he was truly fierce, almost killed him,

Xiao Qianshou's hands were mostly incapacitated by the beating, I was also hit, I wanted to escape, Xiao Qianshou used a curse technique on me, I failed to escape, passed out,

when I woke up, I found myself thrown in a pile of garbage, among a heap of rags and waste paper, looking about to be burned by a fire,