Chapter 595

The night is like dusk, and the blood moon is in the sky!

The swordsman presses the hilt of the sword with one hand, his eyes lowered.

The Golden Cicada Emperor didn’t know if it was because Jiang Ran was originally tall, or because of the contrast with the blood moon, it made him look extra tall.

So tall that it gave him a kind of illusion.

A suffocating illusion.

Facing such a Jiang Ran, he was a little out of breath.

How could an emperor be afraid?

As the son of heaven, he could never be afraid of anyone.

Emperor Golden Cicada took a deep breath and looked at Jiang Ran:

“The eighth move?

”Could it be that… it’s just a show?“

Jiang Ran seemed a little taken aback, and then sighed:

”So… you still haven’t understood.“

Understood what?

Jiang Ran said softly:

”I said, no matter what martial arts you’ve practiced, and no matter who’s helping you, in front of me they’re all just cheap, overrated, no-talent cowards.”

Jiang Ran was calm, so calm that it was as if they were not about to fight to the death.

Instead, they were like old friends, getting together to chat and talk.

But the more calm he was, the more uneasy Jin Chan Tianzi felt.

He gazed at the blood-red moon above, wondering where Jiang Ran’s blade would fall.

Would it turn into a sword because of the blood-red moon, or was there a hidden danger in the darkness of the night?

But there was no movement in the blood-red moon above or in the darkness of the night.

The Golden Cicada Emperor knew that he could not continue to wait.

Rather than being passive, he would take the initiative.

No matter how powerful Jiang Ran was, he would have to exert himself in order to kill someone. Otherwise, everything would just be a joke!

The Golden Cicada Emperor let out a light drink, and with a flip and a press of his palms, the sound of a dragon’s roar resounded through the night.

Nine bloody dragons soared into the sky, their imposing presence shocking the world. They did not look like mortals, but rather like immortals from a myth.

“No matter what you’re pretending to be, today, I will kill you…”

As he spoke, the Golden Cicada Emperor suddenly froze, feeling something trickle from the corner of his mouth.

He hastily reached out to touch it… It was blood!

And as soon as he saw what was in his palm, an entire arm suddenly split into pieces.

The nine dragon shapes on his back also disappeared, and the true energy in his body seemed to have been stolen cleanly.

Everything was gone…

He then realized that all the meridians in his body had been broken.

When did he make his move?

The knife?

Where is the knife?

“The knife is in the moonlight.”

Jiang Ran didn’t know when, but he had already come to his side, and placed a hand on his shoulder.

The Golden Cicada Emperor suddenly felt very helpless.

It was as if he had been stranded alone on a deserted island.

There was nothing on the island, and the sea stretched out as far as the eye could see.

Between heaven and earth, there was only himself.

And he was…weak.

Jiang Ran said softly,

“The moment you saw the blood moon, you were already defeated.

“The moonlit sky, the moonlit sky…under the moonlit sky, everything is empty!“

The moment the words fell, the dark curtain in the sky gradually faded away, and the original blue sky and white sun returned.

The bloody moon had disappeared completely, as if it had never existed.

The Golden Cicada Emperor could no longer support his body, and he fell to his knees with a thud:

”This is impossible…

“In the world…there is no such martial art…”

“Martial arts are created by people. If there is none, then create one.”

Jiang Ran’s gentle voice echoed in his ears, and it was the last sound he would ever hear in his life.

No one knows what was going through his mind when he closed his eyes.

Jiang Ran had no desire to find out.

He looked back to see the princess… but they were already far apart.

There was a deep pit in the clearing in front of the door.

Jiang Ran was in the pit, so naturally he couldn’t see the princess’s expression.

He thought about it for a moment, and then sighed:

“It must be very sad.”

But there was nothing he could do.

Their relationship had never been about Jiang Ran’s goals.

The Golden Cicada Emperor had grand ambitions and wanted to unify the world, which was actually understandable.

What he should never have done was collaborate with Jun Hezai.

He should never have become obsessed with the magic weapon of the Demon Sect.

He should never have died without repentance and still wanted to capture Jiang Ran in the hope of getting a clue to the magic weapon.

The two of them have long since been in an unending relationship.

There will be no third condition that will allow this conflict to simply vanish.

Jiang Ran wanted to get out of the pit and go find them.

However, when he looked up, he frowned slightly.

He heard the sound of wind breaking through the air as a figure smashed into the side of the pit, his body shaken into the air before finally falling.

Jiang Ran reached out a hand and captured this person in the palm of his hand.

It was the old drunkard!

The old drunkard’s mouth was bleeding, he was in a sorry state, and his eyes looked as if he had seen a ghost.

When he saw Jiang Ran, he let out a small sigh of relief.

He was about to say something when he saw Jiang Ran’s mouth twitch… The old drunkard swallowed his words, his face full of shock:

“Are you trying to laugh?”

Jiang Ran shook his head vigorously, and then he heard a ‘puff’ sound.

“Naughty disciple!!”

The old drunkard was so angry that he almost stamped his feet and cursed.

His own master had been beaten up, and it was fine if the disciple didn’t feel sad, but Jiang Ran was still laughing?

What was so funny about it?

Who hadn’t been beaten up before?

However, when he thought about it, it seemed that Jiang Ran had really never beaten him since he was a child.

For a moment, his heart was depressed…

If I had known that I would raise a wicked disciple, I should have taken advantage of the fact that he couldn’t kung fu when he was a child and beaten him up severely.

No, even one beating is not enough.

I should beat him eight or ten times.

As the saying goes, beat the child when it rains. I’m idle anyway.

The thought crossed his mind viciously.

Then he saw another figure fall and fly.

Jiang Ran casually caught it and dragged it over to him.

This time it was Jiang Tianye.

The father and son glanced at each other, looking at each other’s faces, which were seven or eight parts similar to their own, and both felt a little embarrassed.

“Ran, I’m fine…”

Jiang Tianye tried hard to maintain his image as a master.

However, blood kept dripping from the corner of his mouth. He swallowed, but it didn’t go down well, and he ended up spitting it out.

Jiang Ran gave a little kick, and the two of them flew directly outside the pit.

They saw Qilan and Qizhu lying side by side, while Nie Hongyi was skipping along, walking towards Qilan, as if to give her something.

Jun Hezai stood with his arms crossed, not moving.

A stiff-bodied man, on the other hand, was charging towards Nie Hongyi in a way that was incomprehensible to the world.

The reason why I say that this man’s method of movement is incomprehensible is because people have knees, and when moving, they inevitably need to bend.

However, this person’s legs were straight, as if they would never bend.

When moving, they relied on jumping on both legs, and they jumped without bending.

This feeling… Jiang Ran felt like he had seen it before…

“A zombie?”

Jiang Ran widened his eyes and looked at the old drunk:

“My goodness, what have you become, a corpse collector? Hurry, go find Qingyuan Daozi, they might have a way to capture the corpse!“

”Jiang, don’t talk nonsense, the Daoist sect doesn’t have such abilities!”

Qingyuan Daozi’s voice came from behind.

It turned out that when they heard no more noise from this side, everyone decided to come forward to check.

As soon as they arrived, they heard Jiang Ran ask Qingyuan Daozi to capture the zombies, and Qingyuan Daozi quickly refused:

“My master doesn’t even give me a peachwood sword, and I’m risking my life to catch the zombies!”

“It’s not a zombie…”

Jiang Tianye seemed to want to explain something to Jiang Ran, but before he could finish, he heard the old drunkard say:

“Why isn’t it a zombie? This is the method of refining corpses from the Valley of the Wind!

”They have been refined, they are zombies!”

“The Valley of the Wind and the method of refining corpses?”

Jiang Ran suddenly realized.

The Valley of the Wind does have a method of refining corpses. At that time, he had heard the Demon King of the Underworld talk about the Valley of the Wind.

These people refine corpses, control corpses, and spend their days with corpses.

However, when he went to the Ghost Mansion of No Heart, he encountered those disciples of the Valley of the Wind, but they didn’t have any of these abilities.

At that time, Jiang Ran didn’t think much about it. After all, the Demon King of the Underworld was never reliable, and there was something wrong with the information, so it was understandable.

But I didn’t expect to see it today.

Seeing that Nie Hongyi was about to be captured by the zombie, Jiang Ran hurriedly snapped his fingers.

A Cold Moon Nail went straight for the zombie’s arm. At the moment it hit, a sound of clanging metal was heard.

Jiang Ran’s cold moon spike instantly turned to powder, and the zombie also trembled all over after being hit.

It stopped chasing Nie Hongyi and began looking for the person who had just attacked it.

Nie Hongyi took this opportunity to quickly drag Qi Lan and Qi Zhu with her, and they all ran all the way to Jiang Ran’s back.

“Master Demon, you be careful, these things are not easy to deal with.”

“These?”

Jiang Ran’s eyes widened as he saw, behind Jun Hezai, one zombie after another jump out, their faces pale, eyes blank, and bodies rigid.

Jiang Ran was speechless:

“You’ve gone to the wrong set, haven’t you? The set for the Taoist priests from Mount Mao is next door.

”This is the real world of martial arts.”

Everyone was a little confused by this.

What set? What Taoist priests? Was he talking about Qingyuan? What kind of mountain is Mount Mao?

Questions came one after another.

Then the old drunk struggled to his feet and patted Jiang Ran’s shoulder lightly:

“The method of controlling corpses in the Valley of the Windy Ghosts is devious, so don’t be careless, and don’t talk nonsense.

”These corpses… were all people with profound internal strength in their lifetimes, not inferior to the previous dozen or so…“

”…aren’t there a bit too many masters in the world?”

Jiang Ran looked at the old drunk helplessly.

The old drunk rolled his eyes:

“Didn’t you already suspect that Jun Hezai would definitely try to meddle with the Northern Route?

“Do you remember the magic technique that your Demon Sect lost?”

“…Drawing in murderous intent and accumulating internal strength?”

Jiang Ran nodded:

“Of course I remember.”

“At the time, I thought that they wanted to use the soldiers killed in the border war to create a supreme expert to compete with you.

”But I didn’t expect…”

Jiang Tianye also stood up at this time:

“Jun Hezai is far more vicious than I imagined.

“Jun Hezai killed all the masters who had practiced this demonic technique and used secret methods to turn them into zombies that could be controlled by humans.

”The method of refining corpses in the Valley of the Wind is that the higher the cultivation level of the corpse before it dies, the more unpredictable it will be after it is refined.

“The corpses of these masters are all indestructible, ignorant and insensitive, without pain or fear, and the methods of the Demon Sect are even more useless to them…

“It can only be a real fight with real weapons.

“Unfortunately, this old thing is old. After fighting Jun Hezai, he was already a bit out of breath. I thought I could kill him with one blow, but I didn’t expect these zombies, who had been ambushing for a long time, to suddenly jump out and catch us off guard.”

Having said this, Jiang Tianye glared at the old drunk:

“The antidote!!!”

The old drunk rolled his eyes:

“I can’t believe it made you think of it… Damn it.”

Jiang Ran then noticed that Jiang Tianye had a palm print on his chest.

His clothes had been smashed to pieces, and a dark palm print had been branded on his chest.

You could smell the stench of rot, and it was obvious that he had been poisoned.

The old drunk reluctantly reached into his bosom and took out a small bottle, which he threw to Jiang Tianye.

Jiang Tianye didn’t suspect anything, opened it, and was about to put it in his mouth.

But before he swallowed, he glanced at Jiang Ran:

“Ran, do you see anything wrong with this?“

Jiang Ran was speechless for a moment:

”He wouldn’t do that…“

”He’s never given up on killing me, so how could he not do it?“

Jiang Tianye’s face turned black:

”After working with him for so long, all I do is think about how to secretly get rid of him.

“This isn’t the first time.”

“…”

Jiang Ran looked at the old drunk with hollow eyes.

The old drunk immediately covered his heart:

“You don’t need a master when you have a father. Have you ever thanked me for raising you for the past twenty years?

“Do you think I would harm him? No one believes me, not even you?”

Jiang Ran rolled his eyes:

“You and I are cut from the same cloth… It is precisely because I know you that I know he is right.”

“…I don’t want to live anymore!!”

The old drunkard was about to cry.

Jiang Ran pondered, this old thing is really not too badly hurt.

Immediately, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers, puncturing more than ten pressure points on him.

The old drunk was shocked:

“Ran, do you really want to avenge your real father and disregard the twenty years of nurturing kindness from your teacher?”

Jiang Tianye laughed heartily:

“Old thing, this is my son, if he doesn’t help me, can he help you?”

As soon as the words fell, Jiang Ran felt his arm turn, and more than ten acupoints on his chest were also sealed.

His smile immediately came to an end.

The old drunkard was happy:

“It’s fair!”

“You two should calm down.”

Jiang Ran glanced at the old drunkard:

“You should know why I want to point your acupoints.”

”…This time, I won’t run away, I really won’t run away!”

The old drunkard hurriedly said,

“Trust your teacher, when have I ever lied to you?”

Jiang Ran’s mind suddenly flashed back to several memories. It felt like these yellowed images were all of himself being miserably cheated on, while the old drunkard smirked with glee…

He shook his head lightly:

“Yes, teacher, you have never lied to me.

”So, you old man, just rest for a while. Don’t worry, I will untie you after I’m done here.”

After saying this, he grabbed the old drunkard’s shoulders and, with a flick of his wrist, threw him at Tang Shiqing.

“Shiqing, Jingshuang, help me take good care of my master.”

Tang Shiqing reached out her hand, captured the old drunkard with internal strength, and dropped him into the palm of her hand. She then placed him on the ground next to Xia Rou:

“Don’t worry.”

“Don’t worry, Brother Jiang.”

Ye Jingshuang and Tang Shiqing each gave a response.

Jiang Ran then looked at Jiang Tianye.

Jiang Tianye was helpless:

“Why did you have to point at my acupoints?”

“The old drunkard wanted to get you killed, and I guess your thoughts are similar to his.

”You two are both safe and sound, neither can do anything to the other, and there is also… her matter, so to a certain extent, an agreement can be reached.

“However, this is a zero-sum game. He cannot move, but you can, so it is difficult to ensure his safety.

“I can bet that you won’t do that, but I can’t bet the life of an old drunk.

“So, for the time being, I’ll have to inconvenience you a bit.

”After this is over, I have something I want to say to you.“

After Jiang Ran finished speaking, he didn’t wait for Jiang Tianye to reply, and with a similar motion, he threw him over:

”Hua Yi, Yuchen, help me take care of…him.”

Tang Huayi and the princess immediately hurriedly agreed, reached out and caught Jiang Tianye, and placed him on the other side of Xia Rou.

Ye Jingxue was the only one left standing, and for some reason, she suddenly felt a little depressed.

Jiang Ran’s actions were beyond reproach.

It was reasonable to let his woman take care of the elders in the family.

But looking at Tang Shiqing and Tang Huayi on the side, as well as her sister and the princess,

her heart inexplicably felt a little blocked.

She let out a long breath:

“Could it be that you sustained an injury during the fight just now?

”But…what kind of injury is it?“

Ye Jingxue was confused.

Jiang Ran took a bottle of pills from his bosom and threw it to Nie Hongyi:

”Give them all a few pills…it can contain the corpse poison.“

”Good.”

Nie Hongyi was overjoyed, he didn’t want to waste his precious wine anymore.

With Jiang Ran’s pills, it really couldn’t be better.

He immediately stuffed the pills into his belt, grabbed Qilan Qizhu, leaped over the large pit, and rushed towards Shiqinghua and the others.

Jiang Ran then counted the several zombies in front of him one by one:

“There are eight in total, plus Jun Hezai, there are nine in total.”

“I wonder if the nine of us together can defeat Your Majesty?”

Jun Hezai stepped forward, passed Jiang Ran, and looked at the pit:

“Your Majesty will rest here forever?“

”You don’t seem surprised.“

”Why should I be?“

Jun Hezai laughed:

”Facing an opponent like Your Majesty, a master with an unstable foundation, even if there were many of them, they would all be dead.

“But Your Majesty… you really live up to the name Demon Lord.

”Rebellion and treason are crimes that dare to kill the king.

“Looking at the world, I’m afraid there will be no place for you to stand.”

“That’s too official.“

Jiang Ran laughed:

”There are no outsiders here, so why say such empty words?

“Let me ask you a question: if I were to be killed by you today, what would you do next?”

Jun Hezai was silent for a moment, then pointed behind Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran didn’t care and glanced back, then turned back around and understood:

“Hold the princess hostage to order the vassals?”

“Exactly.”

Jun Hezai said softly:

“The emperor is dead, but the princess lives. As long as my subordinates can gain the support of the princess, it will be easy to control the golden cicada behind the scenes.

“Then support the imperial bloodline to ascend the throne, use the divine weapon given by the emperor as an excuse to pacify the four countries and unify the world.

”Then let the emperor issue a self-criticism edict and abdicate to me. At this point…the major event will be over.“

Jiang Ran nodded lightly:

”One last question.“

”Speak.“

”How do you want to die?”