Chapter 172.

“There’s breathing!!!”

Jiang Ran wasn’t the only one who saw it.

Ruan Yuqing also noticed the abnormality of the corpse.

For a moment, her face turned pale and she pulled Jiang Ran’s arm to step back.

Only tugged a hand did not tug, she made a decisive decision to let go of her hand, whooshing and scurrying out a zhang away.

Just kidding ……

Jiang Ran’s martial arts skills are world-class, he is not afraid of anything.

But himself afraid ah.

Jiang Ran glanced back at her, more or less speechless:

“Miss Ruan, isn’t this a bit too unrighteous?”

Ruan Yuqing took a deep breath and tightened the Soft Water Sword in her hand:

“Don’t worry, if you are truly eaten by a zombie, I will definitely save you!”

“……”

How can I save you if you’ve been eaten by zombies?

This Soft Water Sword is good in every way, except for its fear of ghosts, which is the same as Tang Yuyi.

It seemed that regardless of whether they were of the righteous or demonic path, before this, they were first and foremost a woman.

Jiang Ran gently shook his head, his gaze falling back onto the corpse, looking carefully, realizing that Fang should indeed have seen it correctly.

This body’s chest together and undulate, limbs slightly shaking, actually really seems to be breathing in general.

Just this body here already do not know how many years, although through a special method to save the body did not rot clean.

But also has long been dried up black, like a thousand years of sunken wood.

Such a corpse, how could there be breathing?

Jiang Ran pondered for a while, slowly came to the front, took out the deerskin gloves from his pocket and put them on, stretching out his hand to check the state of the corpse.

Ruan Yuqing took a look and felt his scalp go vaguely numb:

“Jiang young warrior …… be careful ah.”

Jiang Ran also did not turn around, a little bit of checking this corpse state.

Instead, his expression became more and more odd:

“How come?”

“What did you find out?”

Ruan Yuqing really couldn’t help but be a little curious, and afraid of not wanting to look, she couldn’t help but cast her gaze again.

Jiang Ran said softly:

“This corpse …… looks rotten, but there is something else inside.

“The person is dead, but …… but ……”

He seemed to not know what kind of words to use for a moment.

After thinking for a half a day, this is said:

“But the body is still alive.”

“???”

Ruan Yuqing felt that his mind and soul had been bullied to a certain extent:

“What do you mean? It’s even more terrifying ah!!!”

People are dead, corpses are alive, isn’t that zombies?

Jiang Ran, however, shook his head:

“It’s not that …… he’s a bit like a vegetable.”

“Huh?”

Ruan Yuqing found this word even more confusing.

Jiang Ran, on the other hand, seemed as if he had discovered some strange story, looking at the corpse with an expression of interest on his face.

He thought for a moment and said:

“How should I explain it to you ……

“Everything in this heaven and earth has life, a flower and a tree have their own vitality.

“You and I were born as human beings, with our own thoughts and ideas, and coupled with our vigorous vitality, we can walk freely in the world.

“The grass and trees, though they cannot walk and cannot be separated from the square inch.

“But the same life force exists within.

“And this corpse …… is an existence that does not possess thoughts and ideas, cannot leave this place, but has life force within.

“It is like a flower, a tree ……”

“Are you saying that this corpse is a grass and tree spirit!?”

Ruan Yuqing clearly had his own understanding.

“……”

Jiang Ran shook his head:

“I rather think that he was originally supposed to be a normal person, but I don’t know because of what means, he turned into his current appearance.

“His breathing, too, is not really breathing, as if the grass flourishes and thrives, with its own rules.

“This corpse’s chest rising and falling is its law ……”

As he said this, he looked at the beads in the hands of this corpse.

Slightly pondering, he took out a piece of cotton cloth from his pocket, covered this bead and gently wiped it.

Speaking to Ruan Yuqing, he said:

“Do you think this bead, could it be the key to his corpse not decaying? After I took away this bead, he just turned into flying ash?”

“How would I know ……”

Ruan Yuqing saw that Jiang Ran had been pounding this corpse for half a day, and the corpse didn’t jump up to give him two big ear posts, so he was a bit more bold.

Slowly walking towards Jiang Ran’s side, gazing at the beads, his brows knitted slightly:

“I seem to have seen this bead somewhere ……”

“Oh?”

Jiang Ran froze, “Where have I seen it?”

Ruan Yuqing didn’t say anything, gazing carefully at the bead for a moment, speaking softly:

“Hiding the stars in the heart, Namin in the dust.

“This …… I have seen it in a book.

“There is a book [Record of Curiosities] that states that when the Golden Cicada Dynasty was founded, there was once a strange stone that fell from the sky.

“It fell where the present capital city is located …… There is a square priest to open the stone and take out a bead from the middle.

“This bead within the hidden stars, as if the stars in the sky landed in the dust.

“Therefore named ‘falling star beads’!

“There was a book on the illustration, this one, looks with that illustration on the falling star beads, very similar ……

“But the Falling Star Pearl has always been collected by the Qin Tian Supervisor, it doesn’t make sense that it would appear here.”

“What if it was brought by someone from the Qin Tian Supervisor?”

Jiang Ran said softly:

“Do you think the official who died here back then could be someone from the Qin Tian Supervisor?

“And is it possible that they came here …… back then just to find this person’s tomb?”

This speculation seemed a bit borderline.

But if this was truly the Falling Star Pearl, then this guess might not be untenable.

Ruan Yuqing gently nodded her head, and saw that Jiang Ran had already reached out and snapped that bead out.

“Eh? You’re not afraid of the body turning into flying ash?”

Ruan Yuqing froze.

Jiang Ran then shook his head:

“If this is truly the Falling Star Bead that was brought here only seven or eight years ago, then it means that the method of preserving the corpse from decay has nothing to do with this ……”

Ruan Yuqing looked at the bead in Jiang Ran’s hand, and then at the corpse, and sure enough, there wasn’t the slightest change, and only then did he nod:

“Indeed it has nothing to do with it, and in this way, it is even more proof that this object is the Falling Star Bead.”

Jiang Ran held the bead at his end:

“What is the use of this thing?”

“If it is the Falling Star Bead,…… it is rumored that this item has a strange effect, placing it in drinking water can give ordinary water the effect of detoxification.

“If someone catalyzes their internal energy through this object, it has a great gain for healing injuries.

“Wearing this object year-round can also prolong life.

“However, the Chintian Supervisor of the people through this object night watch the stars, they believe that even if the heavenly objects are good, should not be placed on the side of the emperor, after all, the unknown is unpredictable, who knows today’s benefit, whether it is the poison of the next day?”

Ruan Yuqing is erudite, some words to tell, although may not be able to this falling star bead situation to say all, but also said a seven or eight.

After Jiang Ran wiped the object clean with a cotton cloth, he looked at the corpse again.

Finally, he reached out and took the lid of the coffin to one side and placed it on the ground.

Then he went to look at the child in the coffin who looked to be only seven or eight years old.

One could see that his face was dark green, and his limbs were even smaller in proportion, while his head was large and incongruous.

“This is a deformity ……”

Jiang Ran frowned slightly, reaching out his hand as he was about to take this corpse.

Ruan Yuqing followed suit and probed to see.

However, right at this moment, Ruan Yuqing’s eyes suddenly glazed over:

“Eyes open!!!”

“En?”

Jiang Ran looked down and saw that the corpse in the coffin had indeed opened its eyes.

A pair of eyes were full of blood color, and both hands reached out to grab Jiang Ran’s wrist.

“How dare you!”

Jiang Ran snorted coldly, and with a turn of the Da Brahma Vajra Skill, a flash of flowing light flashed between his fingers and palms.

The child’s hand could only stop three inches in front of Jiang Ran’s wrist, and it was no longer able to advance an inch!

Knowing that he couldn’t take Jiang Ran down, he violently slapped his hand in the coffin, and his figure was about to drill out of the coffin.

Jiang Ran where to allow him to leave?

Just now, when his eyes were closed, Jiang Ran was still not sure whether he was dead or alive.

Now open his eyes and dare to move against himself, Jiang Ran naturally see clearly, this person is not dead, but a living person!

All kinds of treacherous things here, and this person absolutely can not be unrelated.

At that moment, five fingers explored, straight to the front heart, want to take it in the palm.

But at this moment, Jiang Ran eyebrows slightly knit, although the sound of the wind is weak, but still can be heard clearly.

There was the sound of breaking wind lingering in the surroundings.

In the air, it seemed like there was something coming with the wind.

“It’s a thread!”

Jiang Ran’s heart stirred, and as soon as he pulled Ruan Yuqing, who was about to launch his sword, to his side, his body shifted, and he was already up in the air.

With two feet stepping in vain one after another, a diang qi rushed up into the sky, forming a phallic figure.

His figure then landed firmly in mid-air, and under his feet stepped on what was clearly a thin line whose traces could barely be seen.

Raising his eyes, he saw that the child’s figure had scurried to the edge of the high platform, and there was a person stepping over there.

One reached out and held that child in his arms, asking in a loud voice:

“Throwing child, throwing child, are you alright?”

The child tilted his head to look at the visitor, then fell into his arms and cried loudly.

The voice was mournful and tragic, as if ten thousand ghosts were wailing.

Jiang Ran, on the other hand, glanced at the visitor thoughtfully and sighed softly:

“Old man, it’s really you.”

Naturally, the person who came was not someone else, it was the hunched old man.

Only he turned a blind eye to Jiang Ran, gently patting the back of the child in his arms, softly comforting:

“It’s fine, it’s fine, daddy is here, daddy is here, then you are not afraid of anything.

“No one can hurt you anymore ……”

“The beads, they were robbed.”

The boy raised his head at this time and said in a rough, dry voice:

“It was …… robbed!”

The rickety old man sniffed and immediately looked at Jiang Ran, his eyes filled with a sinister color:

“Take my son’s Falling Star Pearl and give it back!!!”

“This thing, is it really the Falling Star Bead?”

Jiang Ran raised the bead in his hand and let out a light laugh:

“In that case, the person who died here back then was really someone from the Qin Tian Supervisor?”

“What does this have to do with you?”

The hunched old man looked at Jiang Ran and gritted his teeth:

“This place, you shouldn’t have come …… I had no ill will towards you, originally.

“You guys jumped in headfirst and disturbed us father and son, it’s clearly your fault ……

“Why, but also rob my son’s falling star pearl?

“He, he can only rely on this to stay alive!

“Hand over the Falling Star Pearl, otherwise, I’ll refine you two into ‘Sorrow’!”

“Sorrow?”

Jiang Ran’s expression was a bit odd:

“What is Sorrow? The first sorrow of the ages?”

“Sorrow ……”

The rickety old man’s eyes seemed to be in a bit of a trance, and after staying for a moment, he then said:

“Sorrow, sorrow is medicine!

“Able to cure poison, able to renew life, the first sorrow of the ages is the first medicine of the ages!

“This medicine can lead to a long life!”

When he said this, he didn’t give Jiang Ran a chance to react, and he laughed maniacally:

“The dog emperor of the Golden Cicada has a short life ahead of him and wants this medicine of longevity.

“My wife …… and I …… my wife …… in order to save my throwing son, which returned to the imperial court.

“They borrowed our secret art of geomancy and searched for dragons and points, in the vain hope of finding the precious medicine of the devil’s religion in the past.

“We, we also tried our best to help them find it ……

“However, they did not keep their promise!

“They said that we were unseemly ground rats, and that it was already an ancestor’s virtue to be able to serve the Heavenly Family.

“To presume to get the Falling Star Pearl is the way to take death.

“They …… they took my wife’s flesh and blood, sliced it off piece by piece, and took her life right in front of me.

“They also wanted to kill my son!

“Throw my son, throw my …… son!”

The rickety old man said this, holding the child in his arms in death.

As if this was the only way to get down to earth, he let out a long sigh of relief and fiercely looked at Jiang Ran:

“Hand over the Falling Star Pearl, and you and I will stay out of trouble.

“You can go wherever you want, can I take my son away?

“If you think it’s not enough, I can still work for you …… I’m very good at killing people.

“Outside, there is a thousand bells and ten thousand ren formation that I have set up, how many of those people come, how many of them will have to die!

“As long as you promise me to return the Falling Star Pearl to my son, how many people you let me kill, I’ll help you kill!!!”

His speech was upside down, with three not two, and his narrative was a bit clueless.

However, Jiang Ran and Ruan Yuqing looked at each other and still understood.

The Devil Cult has a precious medicine, which can lead to longevity.

This in the end is true or false do not know, anyway, the Golden Cicada Dynasty Emperor believed.

But wanting to find this precious medicine was obviously not easy.

Qin Tian Supervision of the people for this exhaustion of means, also can not get ……

In order to save his son, this hunched old man in front of him, together with his wife, returned to the imperial court and searched for the medicine for the late emperor through the secret art of geomancy that had been passed down.

The reason why it is the late emperor is because the current emperor ascended the throne five years ago.

According to the year, the one who wanted to find this precious medicine at that time was none other than the late emperor who was on the verge of death.

And they did have something.

Now that this is located, it might be them who found it.

According to the requirements, it was highly likely that what they wanted was the Qin Tian Supervisor’s Falling Star Pearl.

But I didn’t expect that when things came to a head, the Falling Star Pearl people didn’t give it to him, and they even killed his wife.

He was furious, and that’s why those things that happened seven or eight years ago.

Just …… there are still a few points here that make people elusive.

For example, the first emperor in order to find the words of the treasure medicine, the autumn resignation stage, how can it be so easy to stop?

What happened back then, eventually brewed the results of today?

These things, time change is difficult to trace, and in front of this hunched old man spirit has long been out of the question, the reality of the illusory mixed up, want to figure out, more not so easy.

But what can be determined at present is that this place is indeed the handiwork of the devil religion.

And that so called precious medicine ……

Jiang Ran’s gaze fell to the corpse on the lid of the coffin on one side.

In his heart, he sighed.

It was indeed the first sorrow of the ages!

“As it turns out, that wasn’t a martial art at all …… but rather, in the Eighteen Heavenly Demon Records, a tragic maneuver.

“It can take a living person and harden them into medicine!”

Ruan Yuqing also understood the key, her face appeared compassionate:

“The Devil Sect, really has no limits.”

“But if it’s really so ……”

Jiang Ran’s voice came: “Why didn’t he use it to save his own son?”

Ruan Yuqing was stunned, and for a moment he couldn’t even answer.

And from the old man’s arrangement, although this so-called ‘precious medicine’ might not be able to live forever, it clearly had some special powers.

Otherwise, why would there be a need to seal the Falling Star Bead in the mouth of the ‘precious medicine’?

The liquid on the bead that they had seen earlier was only the key to this child’s life renewal.

Between the thoughts turning in his mind, he heard Jiang Ran speak softly:

“Was your wife …… really lynched by them?”

His voice was not loud, yet the moment he said it, it caused Ruan Yuqing’s entire brain to boom loudly.

Suddenly, she looked up at the old man in front of her.

He saw that his face appeared terrified, and his right hand suddenly lifted, and a fragmented sound suddenly came from the void.

Jiang Ran didn’t move a bit, letting the threads envelop him, but none of them could cut into his protective phases.

The ickle old man frowned slightly, just this one encounter he knew that with his own skills, want to take down Jiang Ran that is absolutely impossible.

Immediately, he hugged his son and turned around to leave.

“As it is, where are you going, old man?”

Buzzing!

The sound of breaking wind was immediately heard in the void, and those silk threads that were entangled around and hadn’t sliced Jiang Ran to pieces suddenly turned against each other.

This old man, however, rolled his body, and after standing up smoothly, he violently looked up at Jiang Ran.

As they looked at each other, they saw a flash of blood color in the old man’s eyes.

Ruan Yuqing also saw these eyes, and for a moment felt as if he had stepped into the Cultivator’s Path.

As far as the eye could see was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and in the middle of the sea of blood there was a large hand slowly reaching out, enveloping it between its five fingers.

At the same time, the old man had already arrived in front of Jiang Ran and Ruan Yuqing.

With his five fingers, he was about to take the Falling Star Pearl in Jiang Ran’s palm.

However, just at the moment when he was about to touch it, Jiang Ran suddenly flipped his hand, and the Falling Star Pearl suddenly disappeared.

Immediately followed by a palm out.

There was a loud bang!

The old man’s body immediately flew backwards, and Jiang Ran pulled Ruan Yuqing, progressing forward to capture him.

Has been held by the old man in the arms of the child, suddenly sprang out, to Jiang Ran tiger mouth is a mouth.

He was born with a vision, teeth as sharp as a saw, steel teeth grinding, can directly bite off this palm.

Jiang Ran frowned slightly, his sleeve flew up, and with a buzzing sound, the child was immediately sent flying out.

His figure turned in mid-air, but then he swiftly landed on that old man’s shoulder:

“Didn’t grab it!!!”

“Let’s go!”

Since he was not an opponent and could not retrieve the Falling Star Pearl, it was natural to leave as early as possible.

Although that child didn’t know, the old man himself knew that the people outside were about to come after him.

However, at this time, it was already too late to leave.

Successive footsteps and silhouettes appeared within this underground space.

The first one was Dao Wu Ming, and the other one was naturally Tang Yuyi.

As soon as Tang Wuyi looked up, she saw Jiang Ran, who was hugging Ruan Yuqing, and instantly became furious:

“We fought and died outside, I didn’t expect you to actually have a private meeting with Ruan Yuqing here!!!”

The crowd sniffed and looked at her, thinking, running to such a hellish place can be called a private meeting?