A figure disappeared into the darkness.
"Just let him go like that?" Ning Yanlan stood aside, feeling uneasy.
“Since you’ve sworn an oath to the Golden Gate, you surely won’t betray us!” Jiang Yuan shook his head and said.
Before leaving, Su Hongyi made a vicious oath, and Jiang Yuan released him as well. Since he had obtained the information from him, it was only right to spare his life!
Although possessing the bloodline of the Holy Spirits would prevent them from fighting the Holy Spirit race, they could still handle the beast tide.
"Then how will they solve it?" Ning Yanlan gestured with her eyes to the two people behind her, one old and one middle-aged.
"This place is no longer safe, take them somewhere else!" Jiang Yuan could only postpone the monster hunting for a while, but his devouring limit had reached ten points again when he killed these people, so there was no need to rush.
"Alas, it's all because they coveted opportunities! This world, people's hearts are no longer what they used to be!" The old man beat his chest, stamped his feet, and sighed to the heavens.
"Shut up! If you want to live, come with us!"
Jiang Yuan's respect for the elderly and love for the young had completely vanished. The old man in front of him was no ordinary person who could stir up such a storm, so he had to be careful.
"Grandma, can you help your son?" Ning Yanlan asked in a gentle tone.
"Yes, my two benefactors saved my life and my son's life. From now on, I will follow their arrangements!" The old man helped the middle-aged man up. He himself already had the strength of the sixth rank, but his sixth rank was entirely obtained through chance and was full of exaggeration. His combat power was even inferior to that of an ordinary fifth or sixth rank Spirit Awakener.
"Yanlan, you go ahead and lead the way. I'll keep watch over them!"
Jiang Yuan had Ning Yanlan lead the way, firstly because the Stone's Breath could be used to its fullest potential, and secondly to guard against the father and son.
"Let's go to Nan Guishan Pagoda, it's very safe there!" Ning Yanlan transmitted her voice. After scrutinizing the Chen father and son for a few moments, she continued, "It's best to check if they have anything on them that could expose their bodies!"
She had worked in a special department for two years, and this kind of tactic was extremely common.
Jiang Yuan became more attentive after this reminder, and a full scan by the Sky Eye indeed uncovered something fishy.
"What's in your shirt pocket?" Jiang Yuan pointed his gun at the old man.
"Me?" The old man, unaware of anything amiss, obediently took out something. "Oh, this is the pocket watch my unfilial son gave me some time ago!"
"Give it to me!"
Jiang Yuan snatched it without permission, and his Heavenly Eye scan revealed that the pocket watch was engraved with the unique patterns of the Holy Spirit Clan.
"It can definitely pinpoint the location!" Jiang Yuan crushed the pocket watch to pieces, tossed it aside, and said, "Keep following!"
"mine……"
A pang of sadness flashed through the old man's heart as he watched Jiang Yuan destroy his pocket watch. He wasn't stupid; he naturally saw the problem. He just hadn't expected that his son, who rarely gave him a gift, would betray him like this.
Nanguishan is at least seven or eight kilometers away from the slaughterhouse, but Jiang Yuan and his group only need half an hour to get there.
"No one's following us, is there?" Jiang Yuan asked.
"No!" Ning Yanlan shook her head and looked at the tower standing on the mountaintop with a smile.
Jiang Yuan seemed to remember something and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
"It's only been ten days since we last parted, but it feels like centuries have passed!" Ning Yanlan exclaimed.
"You're probably too tired. Once the beast tide is over, I'll spend some time with you!" Jiang Yuan knew exactly what Ning Yanlan meant. They had spent a relatively easy time at the Nan Guishan Tower, but since leaving, they had been so busy that they had no time to stop and rest.
"It's alright, let's go find out what happened!" Ning Yanlan unleashed her spiritual energy and climbed up the tower, which was over ten meters high.
"Stop playing dead!" Jiang Yuan kicked the middle-aged man leaning against the old man's shoulder. "All the foreign tribes you colluded with have been killed by me. You know in your heart what to choose!"
"My lord, I was forced into this!"
As expected, the middle-aged man, unable to continue pretending, simply begged for mercy.
"I'm very interested in your story. Would you like to tell me?" Jiang Yuan said with a sneer.
"My lord, I, Chen Xinghuai, will certainly tell you everything I know!" The middle-aged man immediately pledged his loyalty.
"I don't need your answer. A person who can lie to and kill even his own father has no credibility whatsoever!" Jiang Yuan ignored Chen Xinghuai and looked at the old man. "Old man, we made a deal this afternoon. I don't want to make things difficult for you. Just tell me about your extraordinary encounter, and I'll give you some money to let you go!"
"My lord, what about me?" Chen Xinghuai's face turned pale.
"Shut up!" Jiang Yuan only slightly activated the Innate Emperor's power, and Chen Xinghuai was already covered in sweat, not daring to say another word.
"Fine, I knew all along this wasn't something I deserved!"
The old man clapped his hands and sighed, then said, "Actually, what I told you this afternoon wasn't complete!"
"On the night of the cataclysm, I did have a miraculous encounter! At that time, the golden gate in the sky opened wide, and countless meteors flew out from the gate. Just as I was preparing to escape, I saw a meteor hurtling towards my backyard. At that time, I was raising several pigs in my backyard, and I was afraid that the pigs would die, so I quickly went to check on them!"
"But to my surprise, what fell wasn't a meteor or a meteorite, but a coffin! I was really scared when I saw the coffin, but I had an urge to open it. And when I saw the world like this, I didn't hesitate anymore. I chose to go forward and open it!"
"At the time, I simply opened the outer coffin. Inside lay a coffin and some burial objects! According to our ancestors' tradition of respecting the dead, I didn't touch the coffin. I just collected the burial objects from the inner coffin and reburied the coffin in the ground!"
At this point, the old man looked at Chen Xinghuai with a look of disappointment and said, "It's all my unfilial son's fault. He used to have a gambling habit. I didn't expect that even after being lucky enough to be awakened after the apocalypse, he still couldn't get rid of this bad habit. He spends his days gambling with those thugs and ruffians for Holy Spirit Stones. In the end, when he ran out of money, he even thought of me, this old codger!"
"At that time, I was careless and left some burial items that weren't very valuable outside. As a result, this kid saw them, and this unfilial son happened to know a group of scoundrels. After recognizing them as burial items, he brought people to dig up the coffin!"
"Alas!" The old man secretly shed tears.
"Do you think I wanted this? They were threatening my life. If I hadn't reacted quickly and sold it to the auction house first to transfer the crisis, my whole family would have been wiped out long ago!" Chen Xinghuai said disdainfully.
"Wait a minute, what about the outer coffin and the Holy Blood Spirit Pearl?" Jiang Yuan realized that several parts were missing. The Holy Blood Spirit Pearl was the most important part, but the auction house was only offering the innermost coffin, not the outer coffin!
"Yes, that's the key!"
The old man's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he said with rare pride, "Sometimes, our nation's five-thousand-year-old tradition really does come in handy!"
"Oh?" Jiang Yuan wondered what the old man was up to.
"Actually, there was no Holy Blood Spirit Pearl in that coffin, but! When I laid the coffin to rest, it seemed to be grateful, and the outermost layer of the outer coffin turned into a blood bead and entered my body!"
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