Chapter 169.

“Having just died not long ago, the person who killed him should be around.”

Jing Tan Jushi’s eyes came together and suddenly looked above the wall on one side.

He was immediately taken aback:

“That?”

The crowd followed his gaze and saw a figure with a hidden firelight was standing on top of the wall.

What he was wearing was Feng Wu’s clothes, but the top of his neck was empty.

“Headless ghost!?”

Tang Yuyi only felt her scalp tingle, and in her heart, she scolded Jiang Ran half to death.

The reason why Jiang Ran was scolded was naturally because she had just gone to Ruan Yuqing’s room as well.

As a result, she didn’t find these two people.

Leaving his sister-in-law in fear, but following another girl out for a rendezvous, who would get scolded if not him?

As ‘Li Tianxin’, she couldn’t show too much fear.

For a moment the whole person was bad.

And just at this moment, a cry of alarm came:

“Fengwu!!!?”

Looking back, it was Dao Wu Ming and the others who had also come out of this pavilion stage.

The one who shouted out was none other than Ning Jiu Kite.

As she shouted, she flew up and was about to rush over.

However, she was stopped by a hand from a diagonal:

“Girl, wait!”

“What are you doing?”

Ning Jiu Kite reached out and was about to push the man away, “Don’t block me!”

After exchanging a hand and each backing away, they heard the man say:

“He’s not Feng Wu!”

“What?”

Ning Jiu Kite looked across at this person.

Tang Yuyi also looked at him:

“Tian Yu, what did you say?”

The person who stopped Ning Jiu Kite was none other than Li Tianyu.

He was frowning tightly:

“Can’t you guys see that? That’s just a human skin ……

“Moreover, there’s a source of fire inside, approaching it rashly, in case there’s some kind of mechanism ……”

Li Tianyu’s words had just reached this point when he saw that ‘Fengwu’s’ figure, began to gradually fly up.

Indeed, it did not look like something that a human being could do.

Instead, it was like a peacock lantern ……

“A heavenly lantern.”

A few people’s expressions were a bit odd.

Could it be that this Feng Wu, had been stripped of his human skin and lit a heavenly lantern?

Ning Jiu Kite was also pale.

Regardless of whether that person was Feng Wu, at least what appeared there now was indeed Feng Wu’s clothes.

Thinking of this, she was about to charge forward again.

However, the sky lantern would have already flown into mid-air, and was floating around when it let out a loud boom!

The whole thing exploded in the night.

Its sound was surprisingly no weaker than the thunder in the sky by a few points.

“This ……”

Ning Jiu Kite’s eyes were lost in thought:

“Senior brother, senior brother …… How could this happen? After I go back, how should I explain this to Master Shifu?”

Dao Wu Ming gazed at the scene in front of him, slightly silent:

“Miss Ning, don’t be anxious, now that we have yet to see Young Master Feng’s corpse, we can’t be sure of his life or death.

“Now listen to the words of the young student, first a little peace and quiet.

“Within this pavilion stage, but there are oddities …… We are now best not to scatter, together to find that old man, perhaps he can give us an answer.”

Ning Jiuji Kite’s spirit immediately lifted at those words:

“Elder Dao is right, this stagecoach station has been deserted for many years, that old man has an odd origin, and this matter is bound to have nothing to do with him.

“We ……”

As she spoke, she heard footsteps coming out of the pavilion stage again.

This time, it was Cheng Tianyang and the others who came.

They had already heard screams just now, but as dart masters, not being alarmed by changes was the first priority.

So they didn’t come out to check first, but to make sure the darts were safe.

After counting the manpower, confirming the dart, and finally hearing the sound of the lamp blowing up, Cheng Tianyang left the manpower to look after the dart and came out to check the situation.

Gathering with the crowd at this moment, Tang Wuyi looked at him with a slightly odd expression:

“Chief Bodyguard Cheng is really extraordinary, his own men died, but he came even slower than us.”

She spoke at this time, taking all the tone of ‘Li Tianxin’.

It was just that after these words were said, Cheng Tianyang was stunned:

“What makes you say that, young warrior Li? Cheng mou just came out from the pavilion stage, but also counted the manpower, the people under his command, one is not lacking ah, how can ……”

As he said this, he also saw the headless corpse.

At the same time, noticed the clothes on his body.

For a moment his face changed:

“What’s going on here?”

The dart masters under his hands were also stunned.

“It shouldn’t be.”

“The Chief Dart Head counted the people just now, and they are indeed all there.”

“Then who is this person? Why is he wearing the clothes of our Tianyang Dart Bureau’s dart master?”

“Could he have stolen them? He wanted to blend into the pavilion and stage to steal our escorted goods, but was killed by a headless ghost?”

In a few words, this group of people did list a possibility.

Even Tang Yuyi felt that this possibility wasn’t small.

At least as far as this situation was concerned, the Tianyang Dart Bureau was outnumbered, so it was indeed the best place to break through.

If someone really wanted to take advantage of the chaos and pretend to be one of them, the onlookers wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

Thinking of this, Tang Wuyi thought of the sky lantern that blew up earlier and suddenly asked Nameless:

“Speaking of which, that nickname Jiang Ran, where did you guys hear it from?”

This name had just been given to him by Mr. Big for just over ten days.

It was only the people of the Penetrating Thunder Hall who knew about it, and since they claimed to be going on an errand, they should logically not have the leisure time to spread this kind of thing all over the place.

Dao Wu Ming glanced at Tang Yuyi with some surprise at his words.

Gently shaking his head:

“Earlier, we once encountered Chi Scale of the Penning Thunder Hall.

“I heard him talk about what happened within Lifeless Town …… That’s how I realized that Brother Jiang’s Shocking God Nine Blades had improved again.”

“……”

Tang Yuyi gently exhaled a breath and suddenly opened her mouth:

“What is the most prestigious …… of the Running Thunder Hall besides the [Running Thunder Shocking Palm], and the sect’s secret tradition [Running Thunder Skill]?”

“Heavenly Thunder Son!”

Almost no one had even the slightest bit of hesitation.

The three words, Heavenly Thunder Son, then directly came out of his mouth.

It was just that once these words were uttered, the crowd each looked at each other in disbelief.

Cheng Tianyang took a deep breath:

“What Brother Li means to say is that this corpse wearing my Tianyang Dart Bureau’s costume is someone from the Running Thunder Hall?

“That loud bang just now was caused by the Heavenly Thunder Zi of the Running Thunder Hall?”

“Just a guess, the Running Thunder Hall has yet to show up, but now it doesn’t dare to talk nonsense.”

Tang Yuyi frowned slightly.

Dao Wu Ming’s words made her completely certain that the people of the Running Thunder Hall had actually never been far away.

It was only that they hadn’t appeared in their field of vision.

When she thought about the speculations that Jiang Ran had made about them in Lifeless Town that day, then I’m afraid that today’s matter really had nothing to do with them.

Unfortunately, Jiang Ran is not here now, although she has some speculations, but she feels that her heart is a bit unable to reach the ground.

Dao Wu Ming pondered for a moment:

“If that’s the case, I’m afraid that what happened tonight is not as simple as we thought.

“Can only be checked one by one …… first go to find that old man to ask, busting out must first security, if it is really Ben Lei Hall intention, they are not dare to come in, I’m afraid that there are some scruples.

“There is another key is, this body in the end is who did it?”

Tang Wuyi nodded.

Dao Wu Ming’s words made sense.

Even if it was really as she thought, that the suspected Fengwu’s sky lantern was made by Penetrating Thunder Hall, and the corpse wearing Tianyang Dart Bureau’s clothing was Penetrating Thunder Hall’s own people.

Then how did the latter die?

Both appearing at the same time could be explained as wanting to cause confusion and thus fish in troubled waters.

But how could they not have gotten their own people killed.

Unless the person who killed him was inside the pavilion.

In that case, I’m afraid that both the inside and outside of the Pavilion Stage are not at peace.

“Speaking of which, where did Young Master Jiang go?”

Cheng Tianyang looked around, “Why is he missing?”

“And where’s Sister Ruan?”

Gu Sheng Yan also spoke softly, only in a pair of eyes, there was more or less a bit of teasing color.

After all, this lone man and woman disappearing into thin air at the same time late at night was still worth gossiping about.

Tang Yuyi glanced at her and gently shook her head:

“Jiang Ran is a godly dragon, who knows if he’s discovered something or has other plans.

“But he’s a world-class martial artist, even if he encounters any problems, it’s not our turn to worry about it.”

“That’s true.”

Cheng Tianyang nodded approvingly at this:

“Young warrior Jiang’s martial arts are indeed formidable, someone like Shi Pingzhang is helpless against him.”

“Rather, we can’t take it lightly.”

Although Dao Wu Ming liked to watch Fang Zhi on weekdays, when it came to the critical moment, he appeared to be extremely cautious.

The crowd also nodded at his words.

At that moment, the group did not separate, and searched in the post station.

However, after several round trips, there was no sign of the old man.

This person seems to be from this post station, disappeared. ……

……

……

Just as Tang Yuyi, Dao Wu Ming, Cheng Tianyang and the others joined forces to search in the post station, Jiang Ran and Ruan Yuqing also searched for the old man.

Jiang Ran and Ruan Yuqing also discovered the oddity of the place they were in.

“Underneath the corpses on the ground, there is a blood canal, originally thought it was just a mere pattern, but upon closer inspection, it connects to the outside world.

“Killing people for blood, could it be to cultivate some kind of demonic skill?”

Ruan Yuqing spoke softly and turned to Jiang Ran:

“Young warrior Jiang, what do you think?”

Jiang Ran gently nodded his head, his fingers were pressing on one spot on the wall, and with a gentle snap, a click was heard.

This seemingly doorless room suddenly gave birth to a secret door.

Ruan Yuqing’s eyes lit up:

“How did you find it?”

Jiang Ran smiled:

“Just luck.”

It was hard to explain this matter of the Seven Dexterous Heavenly Worker’s Hands, but for finding organs and such, it really couldn’t be better.

Ruan Yuqing nodded slightly and didn’t ask any further questions.

When the two hit this room, they realized that the outside world really did have the same pattern.

Only the blood canals that extended out were only on the two sides of the building’s floor.

It went all the way along the corridor, but eventually disappeared into a hole.

Jiang Ran and Ruan Yuqing glanced at each other, both seeing the strange colors in the other’s eyes.

Originally, they thought that this blood canal would be able to bring them answers directly.

However, they didn’t expect it to disappear so abruptly.

The two circled around the hole and looked at their surroundings again, realizing that this place was connected to several passages.

After a slight contemplation, Jiang Ran said:

“This should be the core of the Pavilion Post’s underground.

“Perhaps every room that housed a rack bed had one of these traps, corresponding to a secret room.

“The blood of those who died in the trap would flow here with the blood canal.

“It eventually converges in this hole and seeps into the ground. ……

“Then the key point, I’m afraid, lies in what exactly is underground.

“But if I’m not wrong, there should be other entrances here that can reach the underground.”

If there is no entrance, do not know what exactly is underground, this some arrangement will be considered in vain, will be meaningless.

No matter what the ultimate goal of the person who set up this means here was.

Both have to pay, must be in order to have some harvest.

But if one cannot even reach the place of harvest, then is it not a basket of water?

Ruan Yuqing nodded slightly:

“Then let’s look for it?”

Jiang Ran didn’t refuse, since he had already come here, no matter if he was looking down or up, he always had to look.

If we don’t go to find out what’s going on, we still have to find a way to escape from this place.

The entrance is not as difficult to find as one might think.

In fact, in addition to the passages linking several other rooms around the room, there were only two paths.

Jiang Ran was lucky that the first one was the downward entrance.

It’s just that standing on this entrance and looking down, no matter how they looked at it, they felt that this place was a bit odd.

“Do you think …… this looks like a robber’s cave?”

Jiang Ran dwelled on it for a while before still voicing out his guess.

This hole was not a natural formation, nor was it repaired afterward.

Rather, it seemed to have been dug out with a shovel, bit by bit.

Although Jiang Ran and Ruan Yuqing were both amateurs, they could vaguely sense that the person who dug this hole should be very skilled.

Ruan Yuqing hesitated for a long time afterward:

“I’m not really sure about this, I haven’t seen it in the past.”

“Go, go down and take a look.”

Jiang Ran momentarily raised his interest again.

Thief holes ah, ancient tombs ah, treasures ah …… things like this, will still make people’s hearts ripple.

At that time in Penma County, there was an ancient tomb.

Only that one was almost trampled.

This one shouldn’t be.

Moreover, if this really was an ancient tomb, then this old man’s reason for pretending to be a ghost in the stagecoach station would probably be there.

Was he there to guard this ancient tomb?

Or rather, to guard the things within this ancient tomb?

Then, what Ning Jiu Kite had said, the murder that had occurred in this post station seven or eight years ago, was it also related to this ancient tomb?

As these questions lingered in their minds, the two of them had already jumped down into the cave.

The place was not big, and it looked like it had been dug out by people with one shovel.

The two people could only crawl and cower forward within the cave.

The feeling was actually quite awkward.

The air circulation inside the cave was poor, narrow and cramped, as if there was no end to it, which would bring a lot of psychological pressure.

It was also Jiang Ran and Ruan Yuqing, both of whom had deep inner strength.

They were not so dizzy because of the bad air.

Otherwise, it would really be unbearable after a long time.

“These ground rats, just make a hole, it’s better to make it bigger.

“Such a small hole, a fat person would probably not be able to get through it.”

Jiang Ran crawled forward while still not forgetting to count.

Ruan Yuqing sighed:

“At least it shows that the one who made this hole is definitely not a fat person.”

“Miss Ruan, what exactly do you think could have built an ancient tomb here? And what kind of person discovered it?”

Jiang Ran said as he crawled forward:

“The court official who died here seven or eight years ago, what was it again?

“Earlier, when I heard Ning Jiu Kite say it, I felt that story was a bit odd ……

“An official died and lost an attendant.

“Do you think it’s possible that the official didn’t die, and it was only the follower who died?

“And the big official, in fact, secretly hid?

“Disguised as a hunched old man with a confused mind, guarding an ancient tomb passed down from an unknown age, wandering around all day like a ghost for his own ulterior motives?”

Ruan Yuqing listened with a blank stare, but nodded seriously:

“You don’t say, hearing you analyze it like that, it still feels very reasonable.

“Listening to that Mistress Ning, this case has never been solved.

“That means that even now, no one has found the head from back then, and it can’t be verified.

“So whether the one who died was an official, or an attendant …… is still a mystery to this day.”

“Exactly …… so.”

Jiang Ran’s words came to this point, but then fell somewhat silent:

“Miss Ruan, do you think there is a nine ghosts purgatory in this world?”

“…… How would I know.”

Ruan Yuqing froze: “Young warrior Jiang, you don’t want to scare me, you know I’m timid …… is there something in front of me?”

“We seem to have reached the exit.”

Jiang Ran said:

“It’s just that this underground place has this intense firelight.”

“Firelight?”

Ruan Yuqing was confused when Jiang Ran suddenly disappeared.

This time, Ruan Yuqing was surprised, and hastily backtracked forward a few times before noticing that there was indeed an exit in front of him.

At the exit, a dark red firelight came into view.

She came to the exit, only to realize that Jiang Ran had already jumped down from the hole, and was now standing on top of a platform, raising his eyes to look forward.

In front of them was actually a circle of underground lava.

“This is ……”

Ruan Yuqing was taken aback, “There’s even a place like this underneath this stage?”

This scene was really out of the two people’s expectations.

Moreover, there were traces of artificiality on top of this lava.

Both sides could be seen paved with lapis lazuli, on which stood huge sword weapons, which were then linked through chains to form a large net.

In the middle of this lava sword net was another platform.

On top of the platform, a coffin was faintly visible.

Ruan Yuqing drilled out of the hole at this moment, and Jiang Ran reached out to catch her, smoothly patting the dusty soil on both of them.

After glancing at each other, they both saw the stunned look in the other’s eyes.

Both of them did not act rashly, this place was not a good place at first glance, so they were bound to have to act carefully.

Jiang Ran pondered slightly, found a stone on the ground and threw it with his hand.

The stone hit the chain between the swords and weapons, making a clanking sound.

While the chains clattered and shook, there was suddenly a burst of fire, covering the spot Jiang Ran had struck with the stone in lava.

“There really is something odd.”

Ruan Yuqing took a deep breath.

“It’s a formation.”

Jiang Ran frowned slightly:

“This underground lava came from nowhere, and someone used it to set up a formation, drawing the sky and lava together, and then hanging iron ropes to form the formation.

“If you don’t know the root, rashly wade in, will certainly be burned by the lava of the bones.

“If ten days ago, come to this place we can only turn back the same way, but now then, I have some skills itchy, want to see if I can break this formation open ……”