Chapter 76: Once in the Dragon Tomb, Abandon All Worldly Concerns

Seeing my silly look, Ru Xue laughed. I was baffled by her laughter because I couldn’t figure out what was so funny about my question.

But Ru Xue is not Ru Yue, and it is impossible for her to laugh out loud. She just smiled a little, then she stopped laughing and said, “Of course there were only three, because the fourth demon is on your neck.”

On my neck, I jumped, and subconsciously touched my neck, but suddenly I touched the familiar chain on my neck. Suddenly I understood everything. I pulled out the chain, and there was a tiger claw on it. Then I asked in shock, “Are you saying that? Are you saying that Silly Tiger is the fourth great demon?”

“Yes, Silly Tiger is the fourth demon. Don’t ask me what happened, I don’t remember what happened. But after inheriting Renhua’s memory, I know that Silly Tiger is the fourth demon, and the leader of the demons. It is the most powerful one.” Ru Xue explained to me.

I looked at the tiger’s paw in front of me, something I had worn for 32 years, and realized that I had never really understood it until now!

But if Xue said that Silly Tiger was the fourth great demon, then there is a 90% chance that the person who stopped Renhua was my master, Old Li. But why did Old Li want to kill Silly Tiger? I remembered the vague memory of the time of the union of souls. Silly Tiger’s memory鈥攖oo much killing!

From another perspective, if there really was a dragon that took human form and fell here, it would have taught the demons skills but not moral character? Then Shahu was the most unruly of the apprentices? Is that so?

Maybe not. From the dragon’s perspective, human lives are not necessarily more important than those of demons or animals. And then again, the moral code of demons is not necessarily the same as ours. In short, a dragon should not be imagined picking up a teaching cane and saying to his subordinates, “Come, my little ones, today we will have a lesson in moral character.

I realized that my thoughts were really ridiculous, but if I didn’t think that way, I was afraid I couldn’t bear the shocking truth. I had been carrying the soul of a great demon for 32 years, and I didn’t even know it. And then I thought about this seemingly unintentional trip to the old forest, and I realized that fate is really funny. If I hadn’t come, no one would have been able to open the tomb of the great demon, unless that person was even more powerful than the legendary dragon that transformed into a human.

However, the past is too complicated, and there are many doubts that people can’t figure out. For example, who was the person who stopped it? Was it my master? Was the remaining soul left on purpose by the master, or was it unintentional? If it was done on purpose, how does it match up in time? After all, Renhua was such a long-standing mission, and the disappearance of the master can only be traced back to a few decades ago!

Why didn’t he just pass on his skills to his disciples or collect the souls of the great demons directly, instead of playing this game? I thought again about the existence of characters like Jenny and Wang Feng. I found that in that distant past, what happened was simply a mess, and I couldn’t figure it out no matter how hard I tried.

I can’t think about it, so I don’t think about it. I asked Ru Xue, “Who cares who Silly Tiger is? Anyway, I can understand the soul of the great demon. We’ve already got three of them. What about the rest? You tell me about the rest. How is it related to you?”

“It’s very simple. The demon’s body is dead, but the demon’s aura is still there. It will take hundreds of years for it to dissipate completely. So Renhua and that man hid the bugs inside the demon’s corpse. The powerful aura of the demon gave the bugs the illusion that they were “full” and needed to digest. This sounds very absurd 锟斤拷, but the principle is very simple, just like training a puppy to think that there is food when it hears a bell. In order to prevent the bugs from discovering the trick by their instinct of hunger, Renhua used a secret method, a secret method that sacrificed herself, to make the bugs fall into a deep sleep. As long as the aura of the great demon does not dissipate, the bugs will not wake up completely and go crazy. As for the man, he also intervened, using Taoist secret methods to seal the three not-so-well-controlled insect kings. Of course, the suppression of the insect kings requires the breath and will of Renhua. Next, you should understand, right?” Ruoxue said to me. I opened my mouth with a bitter smile and said, “Well, I kind of understand. The great demon’s aura is about to dissipate, and the bugs are about to wake up completely. The hungry, crazed bugs! Is that scary? Ru Xue, answer me. What do you need to do? Answer me again. Why are you so sensitive to the old forest when you are in the village? Yes, it’s like a grand plan that has been in place for hundreds of years. Who is it that has such natural talent and has calculated everything? “Let me answer your second question first. I am sensitive to the old forest. According to vague memories, I am afraid it goes back to an ancestral curse in our village. It is the blood curse left behind by Renhua’s cultivation. Every child born in our village will receive the 鈥楤aptism鈥�. The baptism is a secret, and I can only tell you that every month, the people of Yueyan Miaozhai will be left with a seed by the ancestral bug. There are many reasons for this. What I can tell you is that at least the people of Yueyan Miaozhai will not kill each other and will be very united. So, if you ask me why, I can only explain that Renhua’s ancestral curse must have something to do with it, or it may have a distant resonance with Renhua?” Ruoxue said with uncertainty. I took a deep breath. If that was the case, it would be too amazing to imagine how talented Renhua was. But the art of the gu was always mysterious and profound. Thinking about the gu that led to the ghost incident, I was relieved. After all, it was a profound art that I couldn’t understand. I nodded, agreeing with Ru Xue’s answer, and then looked at Ru Xue nervously. From now on, it would be crucial what Ru Xue would do. Until now, I was still thinking that if possible, even if there was a little chance, I would help Ru Xue fight for her freedom, even if we could no longer be together. “As for what I’m going to do, I’ll clean up this mess, bring all the bugs into the Dragon’s Tomb, use the dragon’s powerful breath to continue suppressing the bugs, use Renhua’s secret method to make the bugs fall asleep, and use my breath to suppress the bug king.” Ru Xue spoke lightly about what she was going to do. But my throat tightened, and I said, “Ru Xue, so that means you have to go into the tomb, right? Ru Xue, Ren Hua sacrificed herself back then and used secret methods to put the bugs to sleep. You… you also…” At this point, I tightly gripped Ru Xue’s hand. If Ru Xue said yes, I would immediately take her out of the forest, no matter what. I didn’t care, and I didn’t bother to care. I wasn’t the savior of the world. I didn’t care if the sky fell or the earth collapsed. I just wanted Ru Xue to live. That’s what I thought in that moment. As if she had read my mind, she looked at me calmly and said, “Chengyi, if Master Jiang had encountered this kind of thing, what do you think he would have done? Do you think he would have dared to die? You are Master Jiang’s disciple, what would you have done?” I was stunned, and I remembered the battle between humans and insects in the thunderstorm, the battle between the little devils, and I seemed to see my master, who was still standing there, saying to me, “Humans always have a bottom line.” I know my answer too well. I might really make the same choice as Ru Xue, but I also know too well that I have a slimy personality. I might be able to endure everything myself, but I can’t accept the people around me. “Chengyi, I won’t die. Renhua did it because she had a short life expectancy, but I don’t. I can’t even use the secret method that Renhua left behind to that extent. I can only persevere and keep them asleep until they starve to death. That’s fine.” Ru Xue took my hand and comforted me softly. “That means that in fact, there is no difference between you and me in the Yueyan Miao village, right? We can still meet, no matter what happens in the future. We can go to the movies once a year, okay? I promise you, I will not be unfilial to my parents. I will definitely give them an explanation, but before that…” I was suddenly excited. If that is the case, then it can be considered a compromise. “Chengyi!” Ruoxue interrupted me with a slightly stern tone, and then said softly, “Let’s not fool ourselves, okay? The pain of being awake is more painful than being in a coma, but in the end, we have to face it, right? I or I may still see you, but I can tell you for sure that once you enter the dragon tomb, it will be difficult to be like an ordinary person again, and you can’t just come and go as you please. I don’t know much about the dragon tomb, but this is the memory that Renhua left me. To put it more clearly, it’s not the ordinary tomb we imagine, it’s just a dark underground place. Before the dragon died, it did something, something we can’t imagine. “What would that be? What do you eat and drink when you enter the dragon tomb? Who talks to you? I don’t understand what you’re talking about!” I don’t understand. I only know that Ru Xue is a girl and an ordinary person. Ordinary people always have to eat, drink, shit, and piss. What’s going on with her? If she stays in the tomb, she will die in less than a month. “Chengyi, I’ve told you, the Dragon Tomb is not an ordinary cemetery. In Renhua’s memory, there was once a tombkeeper who left behind some words that might explain some of the circumstances of the Dragon Tomb,” Ru Xue said. “What is it?” I was excited, and my eyes were a little red. “Once you enter the Dragon Tomb, you abandon the mortal world!