Chapter 1

Deserted mountains, torrential rain!

A leisurely whistling sound suddenly rang out from a broken temple halfway up the mountain.

It was like a dragon roaring in a large marsh, like a tiger whistling in an empty valley.

As soon as it was emitted, the rainstorm in the sky seemed to be slightly stagnant.

Its sound is spread more than ten miles square land, enough tea party rest.

To wait for this whistling sound to fall, see a silhouette from the temple flew out.

To a stone monument engraved with the words ‘Mountain God Temple’ before the three big words.

About ten feet apart, this person sent a single palm.

Then heard a loud sound, that stone monument was hit by his palm in the air and exploded, rubble flying.

A lightning bolt cut through the sky, allowing the figure to show its true face, but it was a handsome young man.

At this moment, he looked at his palm fixedly, his face was filled with stunned colors as he muttered:

“This one armor of internal strength, unexpectedly this strong?”

Thinking about this, his mind moved.

A translucent panel appeared in front of him.

[Knife Catcher System]

[Host: Jiang Ran]

[Target: Iron Swallow Zhou Chang]

[Apprehension Progress: Completed]

[Reward Received: One Armor of Internal Strength (Claimed)]

[Nine Deadly Veins: under repair ……]

[Remaining Life: One year and twenty-nine days!

“One year and twenty-nine days ……”

Jiang Ran looked at this line of text and surprisingly didn’t lose half of it, instead, there was a low chuckle emitted.

This laughter was small at first, then became louder, and in the end, it was a maniacal laughter, full of pleasure!

“This is the sky does not exterminate me!!!”

After a long time, Jiang Ran took a deep breath and stopped laughing, his eyes bright and uncertain.

Turning around, he stepped back into the broken temple.

Coming to sit down in front of the fire, beside the fire there was also a bundle and a black sheathed single knife.

He put the knife aside and took out a roast chicken wrapped in greaseproof paper from the bundle, skewered it with a wooden stick and placed it on the fire to warm it up.

In his heart, he was thinking back to this Nine Deadly Extinct Veins recorded in the medical books.

The Nine Deadly Extinct Veins was an incurable disease.

This disease does not originate from the twelve main meridians and the eight strange meridians.

The root cause lies in the fact that those who harbor this disease have nine more hidden veins than normal people.

The syndrome is so odd that it is more of a physique that is different from normal people than a disease.

The medical scriptures have a saying: those who have nine dead and extinct veins are like those who are carrying a funnel, with their vitality flowing out of them, and there is no medicine to save them.

Therefore, although there are not many people with this physique since ancient times, none of them can live past the age of twenty.

And Jiang Ran, this year exactly twenty years old ……

Since crossing over to this world twenty years ago, after being carried back home by that unkempt old drunkard.

In the past twenty years, the Nine Deadly Veins has been a knife hanging over his head.

He watched this knife fall little by little, but there was nothing he could do about it.

It seemed that since the day he crossed over, his life had already come to an end.

The old drunkard had gone through a lot of trouble for this, and Jiang Ran himself hadn’t been tossed around much.

But it was all in vain.

At the time of awakening this system, there was only one month left before his big day!

“If it wasn’t for the old drunkard suddenly sending a message for me to go to the Cangzhou Mansion to save him.

“If it wasn’t for the fact that I didn’t have enough silver, I had no choice but to go and uncover the list to catch the flying thieves in exchange for some money on my plate.

“I’m afraid that even until I die, I don’t know that there is even a system on my body ……

“It’s really a matter of woe and fortune.”

Jiang Ran gently let out a breath, and his face was a bit odd.

After all, he truly hadn’t expected that the activation condition of this system would be to reveal the list!

Moreover, he had only completed the mission once.

As a result, not only did he receive a reward of one armor of internal strength.

Even this Nine Deadly Veins, which had no cure, was able to be repaired through this.

“Doesn’t this mean that as long as I continue to catch those wanted criminals, I can even …… completely cure this Nine Deadly Veins?”

Thinking of this, his heart was a ball of fire.

And wanting to do this, yet it is by no means difficult.

Nowadays in this world, there is not much else, it is the sea arrest notices and wanted criminals more.

Although the Golden Cicada Dynasty is not a chaotic world, it is not a peaceful world either.

Especially since the thirteenth year of Tianzong, the end of the ten-year-long war of the five countries, the Golden Cicada Dynasty’s national strength declined, the world is more and more unfriendly to the ordinary people.

The imperial court is weak, and the Jianghu disputes have risen in all directions.

Between the city and the wells, gangs were formed and armed fights occurred from time to time.

Every time there is a fight, a lot of corpses are thrown down.

There are even masters who rely on their martial arts skills to run amok, committing crimes and treating human life as if it were a piece of grass.

The government is unable to capture the thieves, they will send down the sea arrest instrument wanted, please the jianghu masters on behalf of the capture.

The knife catcher in the jianghu refers to this kind of person who makes a living by offering bonuses.

Judging from the name of this system of his, it targeted this item as well.

“In other words, this entire jianghu is filled with medicines to save my life!!!”

He gently clenched his fists, calming his mind and resisting the urge to immediately rush into the county town and unveil the notice.

Whenever there is a big event, there is calmness, this matter can never be accomplished overnight.

Now that his life has been extended by one year, he can take his time.

Can’t make the mistake of being too hasty.

Thinking of this, he gently exhaled a breath, took off the soaked clothes on his body, intending to borrow the fire to dry.

Although it had been written in martial arts novels that jianghu masters could dry their clothes through their inner strength.

The reason why Jiang Ran didn’t do this was simple …… because it was something he wouldn’t do.

Just as he was planning to find a few pieces of wood to hang his clothes, he suddenly heard a sound of breaking wind.

Jiang Ran was slightly stunned, in this kind of weather, there were still people walking outside?

And listening to the movement, it seemed to be coming straight here.

Sure enough, in just a few moments, the visitor had already arrived in front of the broken temple door.

Jiang Ran used a wooden stick to set up the crossbar, while looking back, he saw a woman with a cool face, stepping into the broken temple.

Between the four eyes, Jiang Ran was slightly stunned.

It was unexpected that it was a woman who was scurrying all over the mountain at night without sleeping.

The woman was staring at the bare-chested Jiang Ran, and her originally cool eyes, momentarily glared.

Jiang Ran was not afraid to look, he was just bare-chested, his pants were still on.

Just silently scrutinized this uninvited guest ……

She is not very old, should be similar to himself.

The appearance is exquisite, the face is pale, and it looks a little down.

There are injuries on her body, more than one, a plain white dress has been stained with blood, and was melted by the rain, the whole person presents a touch of light red state.

That pale face, is also from this.

She has a sword in her hand, the sword light has been sheathed, the cold light is superb, not like a mortal product.

It was many times better than Jiang Ran’s single sword that he had spent two taels of silver on and bought from the blacksmith’s store.

No matter which way you look at it, this seems to be a woman warrior who has just gone through a battle in the jianghu.

Only this would seem to be looking foolish.

Jiang Ran was a bit puzzled, was it that good looking?

Glancing at the long sword in her palm, he felt that he should still remind her.

So he coughed gently:

“Girl, you’re holding a murder weapon, are you planning to rob money, or are you planning to rob sex?”