Panicked around 150, and couldn’t find a way out. 2.
by Jessie@AFNCCTwo thousand or so!
Upon hearing this, all the people were slightly condensed. Xie Ren glanced at Hua Cheng and said, “It seems that choosing the west is really right.”
The skeleton’s teeth chattered, “Ugh! Choosing either side is wrong, there’s no way out at all!”
Indeed, for ordinary brats like them, choosing a side was a disaster. No matter east or west, they could easily be crushed; no matter which way they went, they would end up as ashes to be used as sustenance. After a few dry howls, the ghostly fire in the eyes of the skeleton also gradually went out.
Xie Ren gently placed it on the side of the road and said, “Sanlang, do you know what’s in the east?”
Hua Cheng said, “We can’t be sure for now, but it’s coming this way, so it’s not advisable to engage it head on. This one to the west is slightly better.”
Xie Ren nodded, “Good. Then let’s continue traveling west.”
A group of people from the ground full of corpses through, hurry forward. After a night’s walk, they did not encounter the man in black that the skeleton said, nor did they see any sign of the Rainmaker, so Xie Ren couldn’t help but worry.
Along the way, the road on both sides of the building more and more houses, has become a group, and can even recognize, this is the poor people’s homes, this is the leisure play theater, this is buying and selling groceries store, this is the courtyard of the rich and noble family …… This road under their feet, is also a man-made road, can also see the pavement tile pattern The road they are walking on is also a man-made road, and you can still see the pattern of the paving bricks, just like a rich town, just empty, unusually desolate and bleak.
Seeing an ancient well by the roadside, they pumped water up to take a look, the water was still clear, so the people rested here for a moment. Xie Ren and Pei Su drank a little water and washed their faces in the process, and when they looked up, they saw Half Moon walking over.
Half Moon had been holding the black ceramic jar and had been waiting for a long time, saying, “General Hua, brother Pei Su, have something to eat.”
Pei Zhu said, “Good. Tough on you.”
Xie Ren also said, “Everyone has worked hard, let’s all give it a try.”
Thus, the crowd gathered around. However, the moment Halfmoon opened the jar, many people’s expressions froze.
Although “odor” was colorless and invisible, the moment Hanuki opened the lid of the jar, it was as if some mysterious substance had distorted the air at the mouth of the jar.
The crowd stared at the scene in that jar for a long time, everyone’s pupils reflecting an infinite darkness as if it could pull one into the abyss, no words could express the emotions contained in those eyes. After a long time, Xie Ren patted Half Moon’s shoulder and gave a thumbs up, “Not bad. For the first time, it’s fine.”
Pei Ming gazed at them incredulously and said, ”It’s her first time, and it’s your first time too, Your Highness the Crown Prince? If I remember correctly, you made her do it all according to what you taught her, and you did it more than she did. I said how I always felt that what you guys did was not right somewhere, so it wasn’t my illusion.”
Flower City, however, said, “Is that so? Since it was made by my brother, I’d really like to give it a try.”
Upon hearing this, Pei Ming and Pei Zhu raised their eyes in unison to look at him, their gazes combining various emotions such as amazement, creepiness, admiration and so on. Hua Cheng said, “Brother, what is this called?”
Xie Ren coughed lightly and said, “…… ‘Upside Down’.”
Flower City said heartily, “Good name.”
After saying that, he put his hand into that black bottomless jar. Pei Ming and Pei Su had that look in their eyes, as if they were nervous that he was about to be swallowed by that jar. On the other hand, Hua Cheng calmly took out a small piece of something like a burnt and crushed corpse, and calmly sent it into his mouth.
Pei Ming said, “How.”
Flower City said, “The flavor is as the name suggests.”
Pei Ming said to Pei Su, who had a complicated look on his face, “It’s made for you. You watch.”
Pei Su: “……”
He took the jar from Halfmoon, and with a grimace, put one hand inside.
Xie Ren wiped his face with cold water again, straightened his hair, turned around, no longer looking at them, and asked while surveying the surroundings, “Why are there so many traces of people in this isolated place? Could it be that people still live in Copper Furnace Mountain?”
It was a question he’d asked yesterday, only no one had been able to answer him then. Now there was. Hua Cheng said, ”Yes, but it was a long time ago. The Copper Furnace Mountain has a wide area of seven cities, covering a huge area, and was once an ancient country, and all of these houses are the remains of the towns of that ancient country. The closer you get to the ‘Copper Furnace’ in the center, the more remains there will be and the more prosperous it will become.”
Without questioning, Xie Ren said, “So it is.”
At this time, Pei Ming’s voice came from behind him, “What are you doing, Little Pei? There’s gold under a man’s knees, stand up for me!”
Without turning around, Xie Ren said, “What is the name of this ancient country, does Sanlang know?”
Hua Cheng didn’t turn around either, and said with his hands in the air, “Wuyong Country.”
Pei Ming rebuked, ”Your Highness the Crown Prince? Your Highness, do you have an antidote or something? You can’t just kill and bury. And you, how did you cook for him? What’s wrong with this snake of yours, after cooking for so long it can still move? Has it become a spirit?!”
The half moon seemed to be constantly kowtowing and apologizing, saying, “I’m sorry …… I’m sorry …… I’m sorry, it did become a sperm, I don’t know how long it takes to cook one that has become a sperm… …I’m sorry ……”
Xie Ren rested his cheeks on one hand, pondered for a while, and said, “I’m ignorant, and I never seem to have heard of this country’s name. How ancient is it?”
However, just as he finished, he was uncertain. Wuyong, Wuyong. At first glance, it was indeed unfamiliar. But upon closer examination, it seemed that he had heard it before, a long, long time ago, from someone’s mouth.
Hua Cheng said, “I’m not sure about the specifics, but it must be even more ancient than the Immortal Music Kingdom. It’s at least two thousand years old.”
Xie Ren looked around and said, “But looking at these buildings, it doesn’t look like they have lasted for a thousand years.”
Hua Cheng said, “That’s natural, because the vast majority of the time, Copper Furnace Mountain is completely closed to the outside world, it’s like being sealed into a huge mausoleum, isolated from the outside world, and naturally well preserved.”
Xie Ren lowered his head and fell into deep thought. Over there, Pei Ming finally left Pei Su behind and came over, saying, ”Your Excellency the Ghost King is truly omniscient. However, this information of yours is far too esoteric, can you ask where the source is? Mister Pei has actually never heard a single shred of it circulating around.”
Hua Cheng did not look at him and said, “Dare I ask General Pei, what kind of person can gather this kind of information in the Copper Furnace Mountain?”
Pei Ming said, “Theoretically, any ghost will do. But given that the rules of Copper Furnace Mountain will cause ten thousand ghosts to fight, to gather so much weighty information, one would have to stay longer, so it must be very strong.”
Hua Cheng said, “After gathering this information, what kind of people can come out of the Copper Furnace Mountain?”
Pei Ming said, “Then it must be only a Jedi Ghost King like Your Excellency.”
Hua Cheng said, “So, I gathered this information myself. As long as I don’t talk about it, naturally nothing will circulate outside.”
He finally returned his head and said with slight derision, “Keeping a secret may be harder for a Divine Officer of the Upper Heavenly Court than crossing a heavenly tribulation; for me, it is not.”
“……”
That’s true. If a similar grade of intelligence was known by any of the Divine Officials of the Upper Heavenly Court, it wouldn’t take more than an hour before you would hear people discussing it excitedly in every psychic formation. With such a heavy weight of intelligence, Hua Cheng was actually able to hold it back for so many years without selling it to anyone else or talking about it to show it off, it was really very calm. Pei Ming said, ”Understood. It seems that to His Highness the Crown Prince, Lord Flower City not only knows everything, but also knows everything and says everything.”
Xie Ren suddenly said, “That’s not right.”
The crowd turned their heads and said, “What’s wrong?”
Xie Ren Fang had been pondering hard, and at this time, finally, his right hand formed a fist and lightly smashed it in the palm of his left hand, saying, “I said just now that I never seemed to have heard of the name ‘Wuyong Country’, and this is incorrect. This name, I have heard of it!”
Hua Cheng’s complexion slightly condensed and said, “Where has brother heard of this?”
Xie Ren turned back and said, “When I was a teenager, I cultivated at the Royal Dojo of the Immortal Music Kingdom, the Imperial Extremity Guan, and my teacher of instruction was the Immortal Music Kingdom Master. When he first accepted me as his disciple, he told me a story.”
It wasn’t really a story, rather, it was a story that instilled Xie Ren with a certain tall and glorious legendary image – once upon a time, there was an ancient country with a crown prince who was gifted, young and intelligent, and a stunning figure who was unrivaled in the world in terms of both literature and martial arts. He loved his countrymen, and his countrymen loved him. Until he died a long time ago, people did not forget him.
The State Master said to Xie Ren in a serious, kind and compassionate manner, “My child, I hope you can become that kind of person.”
Xie Ren, who was still young at the time, sat upright and said without thinking, “I don’t want to become that kind of person. I want to become a god.”
“……”
Xie Ren said, “If the Crown Prince you are talking about is really so unrivaled, why hasn’t he become a god?”
“…………”
Xie Ren continued, “If people really haven’t forgotten him, why is it that I’ve never heard anyone mention this Crown Prince?”
“………………”
Xie Ren swore that he didn’t bring half a bit of provocation and rebelliousness when he asked these questions, he was genuinely curious and puzzled for guidance. However, the expression on the State Master’s face after hearing this was still very wonderful.
Why could Xie Ren recite the Tao Te Ching backwards and forwards? Because, on this very night, the State Master had made him copy the Tao Te Ching a hundred times, euphemistically calling it, “Cultivating the body and nourishing the character.” Xie Ren was very skeptical that if it wasn’t for the fact that he was the Honorable Crown Prince, the State Master would have made him kneel on the nail board to copy it.
In short, since then, every word of the Tao Te Ching had been deeply burned into Xie Ren’s mind. By the way, he had also left a little impression on this “Prince of Wuyong Kingdom”.
Xie Ren usually love to read, did not see in the ancient books “Wu Yong country” related records, so think most likely is the master of the country casually made up to try to educate him, or is the master of the country playing too many cards remember the fork. But he did not feel the need to dismantle, and did not want to copy the Tao Te Ching a hundred times, so he did not take it seriously, and did not pay attention to it.
Pei Ming said, “Your Royal Highness, it sounds like this State Master of your Immortal Music is not a small person and knows quite a lot? Can you ask what happened to him afterward?”
After hesitating for a moment, Xie Ren said, “I don’t know. After the Immortal Bliss Kingdom was broken, what happened to a lot of people afterward, I’ve never seen them again.”
At that moment, he suddenly felt a tightness in his ankle, and with a look of awe, he said, “What the hell!”
He was about to stomp down and break a tendon, but when he looked down, he sighed in relief and said, “Little General Pei, what are you doing making an appearance in such a way? So close, so close, almost ruined this hand of yours.”
That hand was none other than Pei Su’s. His entire body was lying on the ground, his face buried in the dirt, both hands grasping Pei Ming with one hand and Xie Ren with the other. The two squatted down and said, “What do you want to say?”
Half Moon held the jar and said, “I don’t know, just now, brother Pei Zhu has been crawling around on the ground, as if he has found something very important.”
Pei Ming said, “Oh? You can make a discovery even like this? Worthy of being Little Pei. So what did you discover?”
Pei Su loosened his grip on his hand and pointed to the side. Xie Ren looked along with his guidance and said, “This is ……”
The crowd gathered around, studied it for a while, and said, “Cow hoof prints?”
Pei Su’s face finally lifted from the dirt, and said in a mute voice, “This, is …… the seal left by the Rain Master Da, person’s protector sitting, riding, mark.”
Half Moon said, “Brother Pei Su, your break seems to be wrong.”
Pei Su said, “I don’t have, things. Yu Shi Da Ren, people, people ……”
He was stuck here in the “people” and couldn’t go on. Xie Ren skeptical: “This …… could be poisoned by the scorpion tail snake?”
Half Moon said, “The scorpion-tailed snake’s toxicity, it’s not like this ……”
Hua Cheng said, “Yu Shi has already met and fought with this man in black in the west.”
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