Chapter 108 A White Rib
Behind the small door, many collections are on display.
Master Yin introduced Li Fan enthusiastically.
"This is the bone of a Vedic fish. This fish became extinct three to five thousand years ago. It took me a lot of effort to collect this bone. It is said that Vedic fish are extremely intelligent and can learn human speech. If you eat its meat, you can understand fish language. I don't know if it is true or not."
Walk up to a lifelike, winding giant snake that is over a thousand meters long.
Master Yin said excitedly, "This is a Congyun Sea Snake. It usually lurks in the deep sea, burying its body in the soil. I ran across most of the Congyun Sea to catch one this long! It took me a lot of effort to make it into a specimen."
Then, he whispered mysteriously, "According to my research, this kind of sea snake is not actually its true form. It has a mysterious parasite inside its body. This worm is extremely tiny. Even a divine consciousness at the foundation-building stage cannot easily detect it. But it is this tiny worm that controls the huge sea snake! It is really unimaginable!"
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Walking forward, Li Fan was amazed by the various collections.
The two stopped in front of two human skeletons placed side by side.
Master Yin pointed at the two skeletons and asked with some pride, "What difference can you see between these two human skeletons?"
"Different?" Li Fan took a quick look with his spiritual sense and it seemed to be just the remains of a mortal.
Both bodies were of men, but they were of different heights.
But if you ask what the essential difference is...
After looking at it for a while, Li Fan shook his head: "My eyes are not good enough to tell the difference."
Master Yin laughed loudly: "Don't talk about you! I bet that in this sea of clouds, except for me, no other cultivator can detect the difference between these two corpses!"
He pointed at the two skeletons, came close to Li Fan, and said in a very low voice: "These two people are not the same kind of people."
"Not the same kind of people?" Li Fan was stunned. "What do you mean?"
Master Yin gestured with his hands for a while and thought for a while, but he seemed unable to think of the right words to describe it.
After struggling for a long while, he suddenly clenched his fists, his face full of confusion: "It's just a feeling, you know what it feels like? They are obviously both human beings, but these two humans lived in different times and in different regions. Maybe they look similar, and I dug them out from the bottom of the Congyun Sea, but there is a very special boundary that marks the difference between these two corpses..."
What Master Yin said was mysterious. He talked for a long time but couldn't explain it in detail.
Don't worry, just keep moving forward.
He suddenly stopped in front of an empty display stand.
He pointed at the empty booth, his face pale and his fingers trembling.
He wanted to say something, but his lips opened and closed, and for a long time no word came out.
"Fellow Daoist Yin, what happened?" Li Fan couldn't help but ask.
“I…I…”
"Where's my baby!"
Master Yin was horrified.
The human-handed dog following behind him whimpered and drooped its ears.
He glanced upwards secretly, then quickly huddled down at Master Yin's feet, trembling.
Seeing this, Li Fan thought of something.
So he asked tentatively: "Fellow Daoist Yin, the treasure you are talking about is not a bone..."
Master Yin was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, have you seen it?"
Li Fan had a strange look on his face as he led Master Yin back to the entrance of the square building.
As soon as he arrived, the human-handed dog bumped into Li Fan.
The thing in its mouth also fell out. At that time, Li Fan took a look and saw that it was just a bone. He thought it was just a toy of the human dog, so he didn't pick it up.
But I didn't expect that this bone was actually Master Yin's treasure.
I saw him pick up the bone with a distressed look on his face and wipe the saliva off it.
Look at it as you would your dream lover, admiring it carefully and caressing it gently.
That expression gave Li Fan, who was standing by, goose bumps all over his body.
A light cough woke Master Yin from his intoxication.
Li Fan couldn't help but ask, "Fellow Daoist Yin, where did this bone come from? Why do you treasure it so much?"
Master Yin held the bone tightly in his hand, as if he was afraid of losing it again.
Staring at the bone in his hand, he looked a little dazed: "This, this is an incredible treasure. I can lose all my other collections, but this one is even more precious than my life."
Li Fan couldn't help but be solemn after hearing this. He became really curious and looked at Master Yin with a questioning look.
"I'm sure you are familiar with the miasma of immortals and mortals." Master Yin said boastfully.
"In the beginning, this immortal-mortal miasma was only prevalent among mortals, and had no effect on us immortal cultivators."
"Later, after a cultivator was inexplicably infected with it, it began to spread among cultivators."
Li Fan looked at the bones in Master Yin's hand: "What you mean is..."
"Yes, this rib belongs to the first cultivator who was infected with the Immortal Mortal Miasma."
Master Yin smiled foolishly and rubbed his ribs back and forth as if he was caressing a treasure.
But then, he saw that Li Fan didn't look surprised or excited at all, and he couldn't help feeling a little surprised.
"Why, such a treasure? When you see it, don't you feel trembling all over and inexplicably surprised?"
Li Fan shook his head repeatedly.
“Alas, fellow Daoist cannot understand its preciousness, what a pity.” Master Yin sighed.
"The immortal-mortal miasma infecting the immortal cultivators is one of the most significant events in history. Its impact on the current situation of the immortal cultivation world is second only to the great calamity."
"And how valuable is the remains of the unfortunate person who was first infected with the Immortal Mortal Miasma in terms of research and commemoration?"
"Aren't you curious? Why can a plague on a mere mortal be able to infect a cultivator?"
"If we can figure out the source of this abnormality, perhaps we can solve the immortal-mortal miasma from the source!"
"By then, I will be a great being that the entire cultivation world will remember!"
Master Yin was a little immersed in his own fantasy for a while.
After a while, seeing Li Fan's still indifferent face, he sighed deeply, looking as if he was disappointed in Li Fan.
"You don't know, this guy is called Su...Su something. Forget it, the bones of this unfortunate creature are worth a fortune, and countless monks are fighting for them."
"I was also very lucky to be able to grab such a rib."
"Of course, the most precious one is his complete skull which is stored in the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance."
Master Yin was daydreaming so much that drool was about to flow from the corners of his mouth.
Li Fan really couldn't understand this hobby and could only shake his head repeatedly.
At this time, Master Yin suddenly realized: "Huh? I don't know why you suddenly visited me."
(End of this chapter)
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