172|Riding the Black Bull Flying Hoof to the Copper Furnace

This is the sword that Yu Shi Huang used when he killed himself! It is a sacred weapon yes, but it is also a murder weapon. Rong Guang said: “Yu Shi Huang is also a big enough heart, or else deliberately scared him to remind him, actually took the rain dragon to him. He dared? Hahahahaha ……”

Xie Ren couldn’t help it and said, “Why think so gloomy?” Raising her hand, she sealed his mouth with another talisman. At this moment, Pei Ming over there said from afar, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, Blood Rain Scout, have you two rested well? The bed should be put away, let’s hurry.”

It wasn’t a long break, and the conversation died down.

The rest of the people stayed here, Xie Ren, Hua Cheng and Pei Ming set off, Yu Shi brought his mount and offered to give them a ride to the foot of the copper furnace, Xie Ren gladly thanked him. Then, the black ox transformed itself into two or three times its original size, which could accommodate six people. It landed on its front hooves first and crouched down, Yu Shi went up and sat at the front. Pei Ming sat behind him at a distance. Finally, there were Xie Ren and Hua Cheng.

Xie Ren sat on it, and the black ox rose up, high off the ground. He stroked the oily black fur and wondered, “Master Rainmaker’s mount is truly magical. Sanlang seems to have mentioned it, how did it transform into something?”

The black ox spread out its four hooves and ran, the landscape on both sides flying backwards, strangely fast and steady. Hua Cheng sat behind him and gently wrapped his arms around his waist, seemingly afraid that he would fall, and said, “It’s made from the door ring of one of the side doors of the Rain Dragon Temple, the royal dojo of the Rain Master Kingdom.”

Originally, the rain dragon temple has a small custom, see the door ring golden beast, go up and touch it, can increase the popularity of the accumulation of good karma. Believers flocked to touch most of the dragons, tigers, cranes and other immortal beasts head, cow’s head is generally not much to touch, very cold and lonely. So, the rain master Huang in the rain dragon view of Qingcheng, every time you pick up water past the door, will touch the gold ring of the bull’s head. Door ring on the bull’s head dipped in her popularity, rain master ascension, the bull followed along. As for the others, not a single one of them was named.

As the black ox flew forward, Xie Ren was led to lean back slightly, as if leaning into his arms, and laughed audibly, “Sanlang really does know everything, as if no allusion is too difficult for you.”

Hua Cheng also laughed, “What else does brother want to know? Knowing is not without words.”

Pei Ming sat in front, and when the Rainmaker didn’t speak, he didn’t speak either, listening sideways to the movements behind him and casually saying, “His Excellency, the Ghost King, makes a really good point. Why don’t Your Highness the Crown Prince ask the Blood Rain Visitor about his life and see if he will answer you?”

Xie Ren’s smile immediately narrowed slightly. Asking about a Ghost King’s origin was not very polite, and its level of privacy was almost equivalent to asking about another man’s size in Xie Ren’s mind. Fearing that Hua Cheng would be offended, he immediately changed the subject and lightly said, “General Pei.”

Pei Ming: “What?”

Xie Ren: “It’s bumpy ahead, be careful.”

Pei Ming: “What?”

As soon as the words fell, the black cow under the four’s seat mooed a long sound like a bell, and Pei Ming was thrown off. He was stunned and said, “Outrageous?”

This is really unheard of and unseen! I don’t mind if I dumped him, but why didn’t he dump the one sitting in the front or the one sitting in the back, but dumped the one sitting in the center? That’s not how it usually works.

The cow does not stop hoofing, Xie Ren turned back in front, dropping a string of far cry: “Said the bumps ahead, General Pei careful ah ……”

After throwing Pei Ming down seven or eight times along the way, the four of them finally arrived at the foot of the Copper Furnace on the Rainmaker’s protective mount.

The Copper Furnace was originally a lush green mountain located in the center of the royal capital, with a beautiful landscape, similar to the Tai Cang Mountain, and at the foot of which was the lofty royal capital, the most prosperous imperial city.

This royal city had originally been buried deep underground, roughly because it had experienced several earthquakes and was shaken out again to see the light of day. Xie Ren sat on the black bull and watched for a moment, and was about to come down, when he realized that Hua Cheng was standing below, stretching out a hand to him, and with a movement in his heart, he gave him his hand, rolled over and came down, and said, “There are shrines in the royal city as well, aren’t there.”

Flower City said, “That’s for sure.”

Although Pei Ming was dropped seven or eight times along the way, but deserved to be a martial arts god, very tenacious, walking without a limp, and reached out to pat the neck of the cow, mixed not paying attention to the cow rushed him dangerously bare teeth. Pei Ming said, “The highest building in the city is either the palace or the temple, right?”

Flower City then said, “No. The Imperial City’s Uyong Shrine is on the mountain.”

He reached out and pointed. Sure enough, the crimson half of the mountainside revealed a corner of the flying eaves, with more of it hidden deep within the nickering red shadows. Xie Ren said, “Why is that mountain crimson ……”

Before the sentence was finished, suddenly, the black bull that had transformed back into its original form let out a loud roar. Several people had already moved forward and turned back with a shock, while the bull threw its head violently and rolled on the ground. Yu Shi firmly held its rope without letting go and said, “What’s wrong?”

那头黑牛居然发出了人声的尖叫：“啊啊啊啊啊啊啊——！！”

And when the Rain Master heard the scream, he drew|out the Rain Dragon and slashed down at the Black Bull!

The sword light slashed through, and something as dark as that was picked off and snapped to the street wall, splattering a huge scarlet cloud of blood.

Ghoul mice!

The one who shouted was not the black bull, but the corpse-eating rat that jumped up on the bull’s body and bit it hard while the people were not paying attention. Although it was about to die, it was still screaming, “Your Highness the Crown Prince – Your Highness the Crown Prince! Save me, save me, save me!”

“Bang!”

Xie Ren’s scalp went numb and his brain ached from its screams, while Hua Cheng quickly stopped him behind him and with a slight lift of his hand, the ghoul rat was instantly blown into a bloody mist. However, there was still a pair of tiny eyes sticking to the wall, emitting a scarlet ferocious light. Hua Cheng said, “Your Excellency Rainmaker, I suggest you check your mount.”

Rainmaker was already flipping the black bull’s fur and said, “Minor injury.”

However, more and more voices began to gather and rise on all sides:

“Cough, cough …… Take me away, someone take me away!”

“It would have been nice to have escaped earlier ……”

“I’m so upset …… just don’t believe his bullshit, I died in vain!”

“Brother, brother? Your Highness!”

This extraordinarily clear sentence was Hua Cheng’s voice. Only then did Xie Ren return to his senses and said, “Sorry!”

Hua Cheng looked grave and said, “Did you understand what they were saying again?”

Xie Ren nodded. Hua Cheng reached out and covered his ears, saying, “Don’t listen. They are not addressed to you.”

Xie Ren’s scalp was still numb, and he reluctantly said, “I know.”

Thousands and thousands of corpse-eating rats were like a black tide, spreading towards the four people in the center a bull. This was the royal capital, the population was denser than the previous dungeon, the dead were more numerous, and the rats’ stock of food was more plentiful, so their numbers and size became more considerable. Seeing that they were about to be overlapped and surrounded. Pei Ming’s complexion turned serious, covering his body with a faint layer of protective aura, saying, “You guys go first, I’ll draw …… away.”

Who knows, before he could finish speaking, he saw a sea of ghoul rats all screaming and rushing towards him, staggering away from him and galloping towards the back. Looking back, they were actually chasing after the Rainmaker!

At some point, Rainmaker had already re-straddled the black bull and ran in the opposite direction. The ox had already run out a few feet, not too fast, so fast that the ghoul rats couldn’t keep up, and not too slow, so slow that the ghoul rats surrounded it and gnawed it into a skeleton, but keeping it at a speed just enough to lead them and be chased behind by them. Rainmaker said from afar, “Everyone please go first, I’ll just draw them away.”

The rainmaker rode the ox while sprinkling snow-white rice along the road. The rats, after all, love rice by nature, and have not seen such snow-white, fat grain in years, and flocked to it. This was Pei Ming’s thing to do, but the Rainmaker grabbed it first, leaving him with nothing to do, and his expression could be described as extremely subtle. Hua Cheng, on the other hand, let go and said, “Brother, let’s go.”

Xie Ren had a headache as soon as he heard those ghoul rats, so he was relieved not to hear them and nodded. Pei Ming, however, turned her head and said, “Wait. You guys are just leaving?”

Flower City raised an eyebrow, “Or what?”

Pei Ming frowned: “What about Yu Shi’s side? She can’t cope with it, can she? Isn’t it a mess to just run away like that?”

Xie Ren said strangely, “Why does General Pei think that Master Yu can’t handle it? Looking at that situation, Senior Rain Master is clearly at ease.”

Pei Ming, however, didn’t seem too pained, and in the end, still said, ”It can’t be done, right? It’s not like there aren’t any Martial Gods here, there’s no reason to let the Goddess Officer on. Your Royal Highness, you guys go first, and after that, we’ll catch up and rendezvous at the Goddess Temple.” After saying this, he chased after himself. Xie Ren shouted a few times from behind, while Hua Cheng said, “Let’s go brother. Don’t care, just can’t stand being protected by a woman, must get back.”

Seizing the time, the two of them ran through the king’s city and the countless empty shells of petrified people towards that big mountain. Half an hour later, they finally stepped onto this copper furnace.

The reason why this mountain looks as if it is dyed in blood from afar is because a large part of the forest on the mountain is red. Clearly not maple, but red like maple, blood-like color. Xie Ren also faintly smelled the smell of blood, I’m afraid that the land that nourishes them is full of grievances and human blood.

This fourth Uyong shrine, built on a slightly protruding rock halfway up the Copper Furnace’s mountainside, thus escaping the fate of being engulfed by magma, was the largest of the four shrines, and also the best preserved one comparatively speaking. There were also many petrified people with different postures in the hall, when they were the hall attendants. The duo went straight to the main hall, and once inside, there were indeed murals on the walls. However, after taking a look at it, Hua Cheng said, “It seems that someone has rushed ahead of us.”

Inside the main hall, there was only one mural, and the other two walls had intact walls, but the wall surfaces had been smashed to pieces.

This is the first time, Xie Ren was slightly stunned and said, “Who did it?”

They haven’t even solved the mystery of who painted the mural, so there’s another unsolved mystery of who smashed the mural. But since they had smashed it, it was better to look at the mural first. After just a glance, before even taking a closer look, all the cold hairs on Xie Ren’s back instantly stood up.

It’s something!

This mural and the ones in the first three shrines were all radically different. There was only one person on the picture, however, the colors were dark and the lines and face were all distorted, so it was impossible to tell what the person looked like, and one could only tell that it was a commoner in rags.

This was nothing. What creeped Xie Ren out was that the man’s expression seemed to be in extreme pain, and in the midst of his madness, he tore his clothes, revealing his body.

And on his body, he actually had three faces, each as twisted as his own!

Sphinx Epidemic!

Under the huge impact, Xie Ren’s eyes were filled with the black color of that mural invasion|occupied. He muttered, “It’s simply …… exactly the same ……”

The nationals of the Uyong country also suffered from the sphinx epidemic!

Why did Prince Wuyong, a person who had existed for more than two thousand years, possess such a terrifying degree of similarity to him in his experiences?

Seeing the bad situation, Hua Cheng stabilized him and said, “Your Highness, don’t look at it for now.”

But the impact of that distorted image was too great, and the shadow left by the sphinx epidemic in Xie Ren’s heart was too heavy, he was a bit possessed and stared at it. Thus, Hua Cheng simply pulled Xie Ren over and pressed him into his arms, his tone strong but not too soft, “Alright! Your Highness, listen to me. Listen to me.”

After a pause, he said in a deep voice, “Look, the first few murals are all chronologically developed with causes and consequences, the last one or Prince Wuyong built a bridge to the sky, the next one must be right after it. But this mural doesn’t pick up on the previous one at all, does it.”

Xie Ren reacted quickly as well and said, “…… Yes, there must be something missing in the middle. Someone came before us and destroyed the other two murals.”

Hua Cheng said, “Since this person destroyed the other two murals, why didn’t he destroy this one as well? Why leave it behind?”

Xie Ren said, “Two possibilities. First, he thinks that it doesn’t matter if he leaves this one behind, he can leave it behind or not, and he’s not afraid of being seen by me.”

Flower City said, “What about the second one?”

Xie Ren slowly said, “Secondly, this person, destroyed all three murals. The one left behind is actually a fake, he painted it on later!”

Hua Cheng said, “Very true. It’s not a bad idea to think more boldly, maybe all the murals along the way are lies, maybe. We’re pretty close to the end of the mystery, so until then, don’t think too much on your own, okay?”

Buried in his arms for a long time, Xie Ren finally dug that horrible image out of her mind, and only then did she notice the two men’s posture, and hurriedly prepared to pull herself out of Hua Cheng’s arms | out | and said, “…… I’m sorry ah Sanlang, that I… …”

Instead of letting him disengage, Hua Cheng hugged him tighter and smiled, “There’s nothing to be embarrassed about. But ……”

He lowered his head and said, “There is actually a third possibility.”

The lower half of Xie Ren’s face was buried in his shoulder, and Hua Cheng’s voice was right in his ear, pressed so low and so low that no one but him could hear it anymore.

He held his breath slightly and heard Hua Cheng say in a deep voice, ”The third possibility is that it’s not that this person didn’t want to destroy all the murals, but, he was too late. He had just destroyed the other two when we arrived. And now, he is hiding in this great hall.”