Chapter 598

Jun Hezai’s face was clearly filled with shock.

Obviously, he never thought that the current Demon Lord of the world… would lie to him!

There was no such thing as being possessed.

He had lied not only to Jiang Ran in front of him, but also to Tang Shiqing not far behind.

“You probably don’t know how I grew up…

”Gambling, drinking, whoring, and cheating.

“To me, it’s all second nature.”

Jiang Ran glanced at the old drunk:

“To be honest, in this state, I can keep myself pure, and my concentration is far beyond that of others.”

Jiang Tianye couldn’t help but glare at the old drunkard again when he heard this.

The old drunkard scratched his head:

“I’m also trying to temper his character.”

“Get out!”

Jiang Tianye snapped, his face dark.

Jun Hezai smiled, but the smile was a little bitter.

Jiang Ran was also smiling, his smile full of derision.

Since he knew this person, until now, he has finally caught him.

He was actually a little surprised by the previous scene.

Jiang Ran knew very well the extent to which Jun Hezai feared him, otherwise he would not have gone to such great lengths to create these eight corpses to fight against him.

Jun Hezai’s mentality was that on the one hand, he believed that these eight corpses could put Jiang Ran under a lot of pressure.

On the other hand, he was worried about whether Jiang Ran still had other ways to turn the tables.

Of course he knew that the most crucial thing was his own life.

Therefore, Jun Hezai hid himself very well.

Under this state of affairs, what Jiang Ran had to do was to make Jun Hezai believe that he did have a way to turn the tables.

In fact, there were many speculations about him in the world.

Many people suspected why Jiang Ran could have such superb martial arts skills.

A person who had never practiced internal strength since childhood, Jiang Ran could almost achieve the reputation of being the number one person in the world in less than a year.

Jun Hezai must also have doubts about this.

Today, Jiang Ran gave him an answer.

By asking the princess to give him a mission to complete, Jun Hezai, with his intelligence, instantly understood where Jiang Ran’s martial arts came from.

But he didn’t know the details.

Even Jiang Ran himself didn’t expect that he could settle his task just by asking the princess for a promise.

Therefore, when the prompt popped up in front of him, Jiang Ran couldn’t help but blurt out, “How is that possible?”

However, no one knew what he meant.

What everyone could see was that after that, Jiang Ran’s body began to emit the qi of the Ancient Dragon Emperor’s Secret Technique.

Jun Hezai immediately and naturally thought that Jiang Ran had indeed obtained this martial art.

Although he could not understand why, he understood that Jiang Ran’s martial arts had the shadows of too many other martial art schools, and the Nine Dazzling Swords had even incorporated many strange martial arts from the rivers and lakes.

If Jiang Ran were to obtain the Dragon Emperor’s Secret, it might even be possible to create the ninth blade that annihilates everything.

Therefore, Jiang Ran must not be allowed to succeed.

He kept talking to distract Jiang Ran’s attention.

He knew that Jiang Ran cherished the people around him, so he tried to provoke Jiang Ran by threatening their safety.

And Jiang Ran…

In fact, he had not accepted any rewards since the beginning.

No one in the world knows better than him that the rewards given by the system take time to digest.

After the previous battle in the capital, the rewards he received for killing those people took him several days to completely digest.

Not only did his martial arts progress by leaps and bounds, but he also opened two of the nine hidden veins again.

It extended his life by twenty years!

Up to this point, Jiang Ran already had a lifespan of thirty years, and as long as he didn’t die prematurely, he could easily live to be fifty.

In this era, this is already considered the lifespan of a normal person.

There are limitations to receiving rewards, and Jiang Ran could not do it in front of Jun Hezai.

The qi of the “Dragon Emperor’s Secret” was just an illusion created by Jiang Ran by disrupting his own internal energy.

And Jun Hezai was determined to make him go mad, so Jiang Ran simply went with the flow.

The real problem was how to make his face look as if the yin and yang energies were not compatible…This really took a lot of effort.

As for Tang Shiqing… As long as she and Jiang Ran made physical contact, they could connect with each other.

At first, she was really fooled by Jiang Ran.

But as soon as she landed a palm strike on Jiang Ran’s back, her palm touched his back, and she understood what Jiang Ran was thinking.

At that moment, she froze for a moment, and it was a close call that she didn’t reveal her flaws.

It was also at that time that Jun Hezai, seeing that the plan was working, was so happy that she didn’t care about these trivial details.

She forced all that blood out herself.

The part where she was ‘shaken away’ by Jiang Ran’s internal strength was something Tang Shiqing added herself.

Jiang Ran never would have guessed that this girl had acting talent.

With their combined efforts, they finally managed to lure the coward out.

Jun Hezai was so pleased with himself that he thought Jiang Ran had gone mad and couldn’t move, and wanted to stab her with his finger to end the matter.

However, Jiang Ran caught his finger.

And in that instant, his fingers were crushed by Jiang Ran.

The cause and effect of all this was completely understood by Jun Hezai in that instant when he was caught.

He looked at Jiang Ran with a wry smile on his face:

“Finally, I want to ask one more question…”

“The Dragon Slaying Scripture has truly been destroyed,”

Jiang Ran said indifferently:

“Unifying the world means death, and the Dragon Slaying Scripture is the most tragic method.

“Once it is activated, it will change the world.

“The killing is too heavy, and it is not suitable to remain in the world.”

Jun Hezai’s eyes narrowed slightly:

“What I want to ask is, can you really obtain martial arts from the people you capture?”

Jiang Ran smiled dumbly:

“No.”

Jun Hezai looked carefully at Jiang Ran’s eyes:

“Really?”

“Really!”

Jiang Ran nodded seriously.

Jun Hezhai tried his best, but he never caught the slightest hint of guilt in Jiang Ran’s eyes after a lie. In the end, he sighed:

“So… I was thinking too much after all.

”If you really have such abilities, what kind of magic weapon is the Dragon Slaying Classic?”

As he said this, a flash of light suddenly burst from his shoulder.

It turned out that the two people had been fighting since the moment Jiang Ran grabbed his finger.

At this point, Jun Hezai could no longer suppress Jiang Ran’s internal energy. The first flash of light from his shoulder was followed by a second, which came from behind him, then the small of his back, the top of his head, his leg sockets…

A chaotic array of sword lights flashed from all over his body.

In the blink of an eye, the shadow of the Blood Flame Demon Emperor behind him had dissipated.

He looked like a ragged sack.

The group of people who had been struggling to maintain their strength while fighting the eight corpses noticed that the eight corpses, which had been so lively and seemingly invincible, had become increasingly sluggish.

Gradually, they could no longer move.

Finally, they heard a few thuds, and the corpses finally collapsed, never to move again.

Seeing this, the group let out a long breath.

They felt as if they had survived a catastrophe.

After fighting these eight corpses, they finally realized the terrifying power these eight corpses possessed.

Even if their goal was only to delay the corpses, by this point, almost everyone was injured.

Fortunately, they finally succeeded.

They first looked at each other, not knowing who laughed first.

Then, as if it was contagious, the laughter rose one after the other, gradually becoming deafening.

Jiang Ran looked at the now limp Jun Hezai in front of him, and with a swipe of his finger, he cut off his head without giving him any chance.

Reaching out to grab the head, he let out a soft sigh:

“His martial arts were mediocre… he was just too slick.”

He glanced back at Tang Shiqing and Tang Huayi, and when he got to Tang Huayi, he reached out to wipe the bloodstains under her nose and gave her a little tap on the head:

“Don’t have any confidence in me?”

“…You almost scared me to death.“

Tang Huayi still looked shocked.

Then, somewhat annoyed, she grabbed Jiang Ran’s arm and tried to bite it:

”After all this time, you’ve all been lying to me!

“It’s all fake, I’m the only one who was really injured by Jun Hezai…”

Jiang Ran let her vent her anger and didn’t argue with her.

He looked up at Tang Shiqing.

Their eyes met, overflowing with tenderness.

Jiang Ran then spoke softly:

“Where is the Lord of the Underworld?”

“Here, my lord!”

The Lord of the Underworld came flying through the air and landed in front of Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran glanced at him and said softly:

“Let’s clean up the battlefield and get ready to go back.”

“Yes!”

The Lord of the Underworld subconsciously took the order, stood up, and then couldn’t help but say with a bitter face:

“I’m the only one?”

“Those who can do more get more work.”

Jiang Ran patted his shoulder gently and spoke earnestly.

The Demon King felt as if he had been bullied, but he didn’t know how, so he could only scowl as he ran off to collect the bodies.

The rest of the group did not really all sit down to rest.

Jin Ge helped the Demon King collect the bodies, especially his Moon-Expelling Arrows…

He had to collect them no matter what.

After all, there were only eight left, and losing one was one less.

Jiang Ran glanced around and noticed that Shan Yuchen was nowhere to be seen.

He walked over to the pit not far away, which he and the Golden Cicada Emperor had made.

Sure enough, he saw Shan Yuchen standing next to the Golden Cicada Emperor’s incomplete corpse, lost in thought.

Jiang Ran fell silent for a moment before landing next to Shan Yuchen.

Hearing the sound of his footsteps, Shan Yuchen knew who was there. She shook her head lightly, brushed her palm across her cheek, and then turned to Jiang Ran and smiled,

“I’m fine!“

Jiang Ran looked at her slightly reddened eyes and said after a moment of silence:

”Even if there is something wrong, it’s too late to make you sad.

“The war in the northern border is not over yet, we still have to rush over there to end this war.”

Shan Yuchen nodded immediately.

After just looking at Jiang Ran for a moment, she still couldn’t help but throw herself into his arms and bury her face in his shoulder.

A muffled voice came out:

“He did a lot of things, didn’t he?

“The matter Dao Wuming investigated… it has something to do with him.

“Father’s death, perhaps…”

Jiang Ran nodded lightly.

Back then, the late emperor investigated the elixir of immortality, but it seemed like it never happened.

Something happened in the palace, and Dao Wuming went to investigate.

In the end, Dao Wuming died.

Since then, the Blood Cicada has resurfaced…

Since the Golden Cicada Emperor is the cicada host of the Blood Cicada, naturally he was involved in what happened back then.

Perhaps the death of the previous emperor was also at his hands.

And the unkind Wuwang lost the throne because of these two words.

In the past, I thought that he had nothing to do with this matter, but now it seems that it may not be the case.

“He also told us to go to the Green Country. I was kind enough to help him solve his problems, but he had the people of the Green Country come here to kill us.”

The voice of Shan Yuchen carried a hint of gnashing of teeth.

Jiang Ran nodded again.

“The Qing emperor of the Qing Empire also learned martial arts from him.

“Those in the Qing imperial family have all indirectly died at his hands, haven’t they?”

“Yes.”

Jiang Ran could only agree.

Once again, Shan Yuchen’s voice sounded:

“Just now, he tried to kill you, tried to kill me…”

“That’s right,”

Jiang Ran said:

“He really did try to kill you and me.”

“But he…is my brother.”

Shan Yuchen’s shoulders slightly shook:

“Jiang Ran, I no longer have parents, a brother of the same mother and father, and I also no longer have…”

“I no longer have anything.”

They were born into an imperial family.

The imperial family is ruthless, and they can naturally do anything to achieve their own ends.

Since the Golden Cicada Emperor appeared and admitted that he and Jiang Ran were on opposing sides,

Shan Yuchen has had no choice.

It seems that she can return to the side of Shan Yuzhi and continue to be the princess.

But if she really chooses this… I’m afraid that the first one who won’t agree won’t be Jiang Ran, but Shan Yuzhi herself.

It’s a life-or-death battle, and the outcome is hard to predict.

There are chips on both ends of the scale, which is what ensures that Jin Chan is invincible.

It’s just that there are some things that they haven’t said.

And they don’t actually need to say these things.

The reason for staying by Jiang Ran’s side is real, as is the heart.

But likewise, not letting Jinzhan lose is also true.

Shan Yuchi knew exactly what Shan Yuchen had chosen, but she deliberately made her choose, forcing her to make a decision.

This way, no matter what happened, Jiang Ran would not implicate her in what he had done.

Of course, if Shan Yuchi won and Jiang Ran died,

the Princess would probably go with him…

At least Jinzhan still had an ambitious and ruthless Shan Yuchi.

She would never be annexed by the four countries.

She is still the same princess, the one who can do whatever she wants.

Shan Yuzhe’s sobs were very depressing.

Jiang Ran offered no comfort, just gently patting her on the back.

After a while, Shan Yuzhe looked up.

She is the princess, and now the most powerful person in the entire Jinchan royal family.

She may even become the empress of Jinchan in the future for a long time.

Therefore, she can adjust her state of mind.

She must be able to.

“Your Highness!”

The voice came from overhead, and the devil king asked with a headlong curiosity:

“What should we do with the eight corpses?”

Jiang Ran blinked:

“Dig a deep pit and bury them?”

Digging a deep pit and burying them is probably not an option.

These corpses are themselves dead, and although they are buried, there is no guarantee that they will not be dug up by someone with malicious intent.

The Valley of the Wind has not lost its legacy. If someone from their side finds these eight corpses and takes them back, there will definitely be trouble in the martial world.

Jiang Ran tried it with the Broken Gold Knife.

The corpses were hard and difficult to damage with ordinary weapons.

Fortunately, Jiang Ran still had the technique of “Invisible Form”.

After several consecutive strikes, the corpses were separated. Jiang Ran saw that they seemed to have an urge to fuse together, so he quickly ordered someone to separate the pieces of the corpses.

After getting a certain distance, this trend of fusion finally stopped.

“The method of refining corpses in the Valley of the Wind Spirit is indeed formidable.”

The old drunkard’s brows were knitted:

“For now, I’m afraid we need to separate them completely.

”In that case, I will take the eight heads with me to the ends of the earth and sea, find the mysterious iron box to store the heads, and then take a boat to sail out to sea and drop them into the eye of the sea.”

He said this and then wanted to take the heads and run away.

However, he ran head-on into Jiang Ran’s gaze.

The old drunkard laughed dryly:

“Ran, why are you looking at your master like that?”

“Where are you planning to run to?”

Jiang Ran sighed helplessly:

“I should have already done most of what needs to be done, right?

”Besides, I can see that your results are pretty average.

“In the end, I’m the one who solves all the problems, right?”

“…Nonsense.”

The old drunkard glared at him:

“Without us working in the shadows, could you have come here so smoothly?

“Without us, the people planted by the Golden Cicada Emperor would have been enough of a problem, wouldn’t they?

“Without us, the power of these eight corpses would have been even more terrifying… The Northern Route would have long since fallen, wouldn’t it?”

“Okay, okay.”

Jiang Ran quickly waved his hands:

“Someone else can do the dismembering and dumping of bodies.

”You can’t go,“

the old drunk said with a sad face:

”I was born carefree and love freedom…

“I can’t stay in one place forever. For your sake, I’ve been imprisoned for twenty years. Now that you’ve grown up and are invincible, why don’t you let your old master do the things he likes?“

”What do you like to do?“

Jiang Ran looked at him quietly.

The old drunkard was forced to look at this gaze and for a moment, he didn’t know what to say.

At this time, Jiang Ran looked at Jiang Tianye:

”And you…

“I already knew your identity when we met earlier, why didn’t you admit to me?“

”…I don’t have the face to see you.“

Jiang Tianye sighed:

”I originally didn’t want to involve you in this matter, but you used the Divine Weapon as bait, so we decided to set the place for the final battle here…

“Otherwise, I really hate the idea of never letting you know that I’m still alive…”

“So, you plan to kill Jun Hezai and then die?”

Jiang Ran asked coldly.

“…Yes.“

Jiang Tianye nodded:

”Your mother left twenty years before me, and on the Bridge of Sorrows, I couldn’t let her wait for another twenty years.

“I have never once shown you any parental love.

”Ayang, who had the biological bond with you, has also long since died.

“Now that you have avenged her…this can be considered a repayment.

”Let’s…just pretend we have never met.”

Jiang Ran gazed at Jiang Tianye, and after a long while, sighed:

“What if… she were still alive?“

”Who!?“

The old drunk asked, taken aback.

Jiang Tianye didn’t bother arguing with the old drunk, and looked at Jiang Ran in shock:

”What are you talking about?“

Jiang Ran looked at An Na:

”Bring Xia Rou!”