White Bone Monkey King

Amul, whose hair had not yet dried, was wearing Yari's clothes and wrapped in Yari's blanket, and began to talk about a special experience he had in the desert.

He had indeed seen almost the same merchant ship from a thousand years ago.

The merchant ship was very old.

It's even worse than Jin'an's merchant ship.

The strange thing is that the way the ancient ship ran aground was very strange. The bow was tilted up with a light head and a heavy stern, and the entire hull stood upright. The scene was like a heavy object pressing on the stern, and the hull suddenly tilted out of balance. .

It was also the first time for Amul and the others to encounter this kind of shipwreck. They were amazed at the time. With curiosity about this ancient ship, they decided to board the ship after a short discussion.

Although Amul didn't say it clearly, everyone knew in their hearts that these people were probably trying to find some bargains and wanted to go to the ancient ship to see if they could get some bargains, just in case they happened to encounter an ancient ship that happened to contain gold and silver that had been returned from the transaction. Gemstone agate, that can make you rich overnight.

Of course, no one laughs at this behavior.

These merchant ships sunk in ancient rivers have become ownerless over time.

No matter who comes across it, they will go into the ship to look for any valuable items left behind. Even if there are not the most precious gold and gemstones, a few pieces of ordinary porcelain are still considered antiques.

Amul's story continues.

It is not easy to climb up a straight ship. At first, they walked around the ship to find a place where they could get down and climb.

They soon noticed that a large hole was opened near the bottom of the cabin. This large hole should be the cause of the river water intrusion and sinking.

But they still couldn't find the reason why the merchant ship ran aground with its bow upright. Water leaked from the stern and the ship sank. It was impossible for the ship to sink in such a strange way.

However, this big hole gave them a leverage point. Amul and the others threw the flying tiger claws several times, and then climbed up along the rope.

When they were halfway up and hanging in the air, a person in the team looked up at the hull of the boat above and below, and suddenly said, do you think this boat is similar to the death of a person who fell into the water and drowned? The head and feet are also upright, showing evil nature.

As soon as he said this, the atmosphere in the team changed a bit. Someone immediately yelled at him to shut up, and the team continued climbing.

The climb went smoothly. Amul and the others successfully entered the large hole in the stern cabin, which is the lowest level of the whole ship. It was very dark inside the ship. After lighting the torch, they found that the stern cabin was filled with river water. It has long been filled with dry mud and there are few places to set foot.

But that's when the weird things started.

Curious about this strange sunken ship, they began to search curiously in the stern cabin. It turned out that the stern cabin contained not silk tea and other commercial goods, but coffins for dealing with the dead. It was not a two-piece coffin, but Lots and lots of coffins.

They also dug out from the mud clay pots with creepy human faces, cocoon urns and other shabby clay pots.

In these coffins and broken earthen jars, except for dead bodies and shriveled insect corpses, no valuable treasures were found. Originally, I wanted to board the ship to see if I could find some treasures, but in the end, they dug out all these unlucky things. Later, Amul and the others stopped digging. , hurriedly left the tail cabin and continued walking up.

The road was blocked by mud and sand, but fortunately Amul and the others managed to reach the ship building on the deck.

The things in the cabin were also very messy. Tables, chairs, and beds were all smashed to pieces.

It was also covered with a lot of mud and sand, and they were very careful with every step they took, fearing that a piece of wood would become brittle and fall into the cabin. If it fell, they would be able to get out, but they would have no regrets.

The strange sunken ship gave them a rather eerie feeling, with a chilly wind in broad daylight. If it hadn't been during the day, Amul's group would never have had the guts to stay on the ship for so long.

But this time Amul and the others really found something important. In a small hidden room that looked like a secret room, they found the mummified body of a man who died in front of the desk.

The death of the mummy was very strange.

The mouth was wide open, and a mummified hand was stuffed into the mouth. Even the palm of the hand was stuffed into the throat, and it was stuffed deep into the throat without knowing the pain. According to that depth, it is absolutely impossible for a normal person to do it, because the pain has long been unbearable. .

This scene looked like something had been put into his mouth, so he opened his mouth wide and stretched out his hands to grab it out, but he died on the boat in the end.

The room was not big, and the contents inside were clearly visible. The mummy was holding a wooden box tightly in its arms with its other hand, and was unwilling to let go of it even before it died. It looked like there was a good treasure in the wooden box.

After so many years of decay, the wooden box had long become crumbly and brittle, and it didn't take much effort to break open the wooden box smoothly.

Amul and the others excitedly smashed open the wooden box, originally expecting to find something valuable, but in the end there was nothing inside except a roll of parchment.

Parchment is easy to preserve and can last for thousands of years without decaying. In addition, the desert is scarce in materials and paper is more expensive than gold. Therefore, parchment is used as a record in the desert. Amur and the others did not expect that the parchment was actually from the Guchi Kingdom. It turns out that in order to expand its territory, the leader of the Guchi Kingdom bribed merchant ship owners, smuggled a boatload of dead people and insects into neighboring countries, created a plague, and helped the Guchi Kingdom conquer the neighboring countries.

There is not much content on the parchment, and it does not specify how the merchant ship owner is required to act, but it can be guessed without even thinking.

To do all this, the leader of the Guchi Kingdom promised the merchant ship owner that once the plan was successful, the merchant ship owner would not only receive a hereditary noble title, but also a small town as a fiefdom in the newly conquered territory.

The temptation was indeed great. No wonder the mummy clung to the wooden box before it died.

However, I don’t know what happened later. The bottom of the boat hit a rock, hit a big hole, and turned into a strange sinking posture with its head and tail down.

At that time, Amul and the others also noticed a piece of parchment on the desk that was covered with dust and had not yet been written on.

The parchment was a suicide note from the owner of a merchant ship, but he stopped writing it only halfway through. The last few words in the suicide note were "There seems to be movement outside the door"...

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Hiss!

After listening to Amul's words, Yari and the others who were standing aside suddenly felt that the stormy night was getting colder. Their hands and feet were a little cold, and they subconsciously leaned closer to Jin An.

Sure enough, getting close to Taoist Jin'an is like getting close to the sun to warm yourself up.

No wonder they were so nervous, not long ago they found dozens of wine tanks hiding corpses in the bilge of the ship.

They must be nervous.

They were worried that their ancient ship, riddled with holes, would somehow sink in the storm.

"Taoist Master Jin An, did you really not find anything special in this ancient ship or hear any special noise while sleeping at night?" Amul lowered his voice again and looked at Jin An.

At this time, Jin An was still thinking about Amul's words and did not answer immediately until Amul called him twice. He raised his head and grinned at Amul: "To be honest, Mr. Amul, I have long suspected that there is something wrong with this ship. It’s clean, but I’ve been too scared to go down to the darkest and dampest bottom. Mr. Amul, you are more experienced than us, why don’t you take us down to the bottom of the ship tonight to find out?”

At this time, Yali and Adan, the few people who could understand Chinese, all looked at Jin An in surprise, but they did not talk nonsense.

"?"

Amul pressed Jin An's face with a smile like sunshine. Why didn't he see that the other person had a slightly scared expression, but instead looked very happy?

I didn't expect this to go surprisingly smoothly.

Amul readily agreed to Jin An's request without thinking. He was not worried at all about whether there were coffins or corpses hidden in the cabin.

"Taoist Jin'an, don't look at me so strangely. Taoist Jin'an, Taoist Jin'an, saved my life today. Of course, I have to find a way to repay your life-saving kindness. Don't you Han people have a saying called 'Knowing the Enlightenment Tu'?" "Revenge!" Amul said without hesitation.

Just do it.

Don't be sloppy.

At that moment, the two of them went straight to the bottom of the ship.

"You don't need everyone to come down from the cabin with me. There needs to be someone on the ship to look after the situation. Sureti, everything on the ship will be left to you. All you need is Ari and Adan to come down with me."

A group of four people quickly descended to the bottom of the ship.

"Yari, Adan, you guys stay outside the door." Jin An ordered and then began to enter the tail cabin with Amul.

Naturally, there was nothing in the stern of the cabin. The wine vat inside had been thrown away by Jin An and the others, and the bones in the wine vat had been buried in a good place.

Amul seemed to be surprised when he came in. He looked at the empty and open bilge space in front of him in surprise.

"Taoist Master Jin'an, it seems that my initial worries were unnecessary. Your ship looks very clean."

As he spoke, Amul stretched out his fingers and rubbed them on the ground, then stretched out his scarlet tongue and sucked on his fingers, showing an intoxicated look on his face.

This look.

What a human being.

More like a starving ghost.

"Taoist Master Jin'an used to be here..."

Amul's words came to an abrupt end. He looked at Jin An who appeared behind him in shock, as if he was startled.

"Taoist Master Jin'an, why do you walk so lightly without any sound of footsteps? When did you stand behind me silently?" Amul put away his tongue and fingers at this time, turned his head and looked up, standing motionless behind him, with a hidden expression on his face. Jin'an in the dark shadow.

Crackling.

Two torches were burning in the bottom of the ship, barely functioning as lighting. The bottom of the ship was very large, and most of the place was still shrouded in gloomy darkness.

"I walked over as usual. Didn't Mr. Amul hear my footsteps at such a close distance?" Jin An still stood still, his upper body hidden in the dark shadows that could not be illuminated by the torch.

Amul shook his head.

Jin An was silent.

"This is strange. In the raging wind and waves, there is only the sound of the storm and the waves. People can't hear the cry for help in the waves at all, but we all heard it from so far away on the boat. Now Mr. Amul said You were so close and you didn't hear my footsteps." Jin An's tone was calm.

At this time, Amul had already noticed something was wrong.

"Taoist Master Jin'an, what are you talking about? I, Amul, don't understand anything."

Amul, who sensed something was wrong, had already stood up.

He stood up and moved the air. The two torches at the bottom of the ship swayed violently under the airflow. Finally, he could see the expression on Jin An's face clearly.

It was a calm and stern face, with indifference and sternness.

A pair of eyes as cold as lightning.

It's chilling.

He didn't even have the courage to look at each other.

Amul subconsciously avoided those cold, electric eyes that made him feel uncomfortable.

Even he couldn't figure out why he was so afraid of the eyes of a young Taoist priest. Whenever he looked at her, he always had a frightening and uncomfortable feeling, as if something terrible would happen if he stared straight at him for a long time.

"This merchant ship was once the ship of a group of human traffickers. It is right at the foot of where you are standing, Mr. Amul. Not long ago, there was a wine vat. Do you know what those wine vats are used for?"

Jin An's tone was calm, and without waiting for Amul's answer, he had already answered by himself: "Those traffickers kidnapped beautiful women from all over the country, put them in wine jars and disguised them as wine for smuggling and selling."

"Do you know the three types of people I hate the most in my life? The first is those who do not keep their filial piety, the second is those who bully widows and eat out their families, and the third is human traffickers."

"But this all happened a thousand years ago. A thousand years is a long time. The sea can turn into a mulberry field, and everything can become a passing cloud."

"Do you know what I was thinking when I heard Mr. Amul say he had seen the same merchant ship?"

"I was not afraid of whether this ancient ship would be clean. No one knew better than me whether this ancient ship would be clean. The first thing I thought about at that time was not fear, but the sudden realization that the group of human traffickers were Women were to be trafficked to the Guchi Kingdom, and this group of human traffickers were closely related to the brutal and bellicose leader of the Guchi Kingdom. They should be directly helping the royal family and nobles of the Guchi Kingdom to traffic women...I was there at that time I thought, this human trafficker must have done this kind of thing more than once, and he must have been resented by many people. If I killed the enemies of the trafficked women with my own hands in front of them, I would definitely make them put aside all their resentments, which would be considered a great merit. One piece... So, this human trafficker must not fall into my hands, even if he dies but doesn’t survive for a thousand years, so what, it’s not like I haven’t killed thousand-year-old corpses before!”

When he said this, Jin An's eyes became like two sharp knives, extremely cold, and he looked directly at Amul.

"Mr. Amul, you must hate the human trafficker I mentioned as much as I do. If it were you who encountered such a thing, you wouldn't be able to ignore it, right?"

Amul: "Master Jin'an, what do you mean by this? Is there some misunderstanding? I can't understand a word."

"But I do understand one sentence. Is Taoist Jin An trying to stand up for someone who died a thousand years ago?"

"Those women who have been trafficked thousands of miles into the barren desert are indeed worthy of sympathy, but isn't there a saying that if people are not punished by heaven and earth for themselves, why should Taoist Jin'an stand out? There are many injustices these days. If Taoist Jin'an After asking about everything, can you take care of all the injustices in the world by yourself?"

Jin An lowered his head and rubbed the handle of the Kunwu knife at his waist. His fingertips rubbed the handle inch by inch, feeling the warmth of the pure sun on the red handle. No matter what the outside world said, it never wavered in his true heart. .

He said softly: "Are you still pretending?"

The red blade of the Kunwu knife was gradually becoming hotter and scorching like a big oven in the limited space of the cabin, making all evil spirits feel uncomfortable.

"But it doesn't matter, whether it's you or not."

"I just need to feel like you."

sulfuric acid!

Pulling the sword out of its sheath, a circle of blazing fire exploded on the red blade.

Red blood power!

boom!

Amul raised his hand and took the Kunwu knife forcefully.

As a result, he was caught off guard. As soon as he made contact, he was shaken by the mysterious rhythm on the Kunwu knife. The human skin on his body exploded and exploded into evil spirits, revealing an ugly dead man with exposed muscles and black blood flowing continuously.

Boom!

The black bloody corpse flew upside down and hit the cabin planks hard. The cabin planks that seemed to be crumbling were extremely strong and not even damaged under such a fierce impact. There was a black energy barrier on the cabin planks to offset the damage caused by the battle. Destructive power.

Facing the ancient corpse that had been dead for thousands of years, Jin An was not confident at all. He instantly used the Six Ding Liujia Talisman and slapped it on himself.

"Ding Chou prolongs my life, Ding Hai restrains my soul. Ding You restrains my soul, Ding Wei prevents me from disasters. Ding Si protects me from danger, Ding Mao protects me from misfortune! Jiazi protects my body, Jiaxu protects my shape. Jiashen strengthens me. Life, Jiawu guards my soul. Jiachen suppresses my spirit, Jiayin nurtures my truth! Six Ding Liujia Talisman, open!"

moment.

The divine aura of the Twelve True Gods is on the Liuding Liujia talisman, which travels thousands of miles from the indescribable Shanghe Zhaozhao Void and descends upon Jin'an's soul and body.

At this moment, he borrowed the prosperous power of the Twelve Righteous Gods, and fully activated the three Yang Fires on his left and right shoulders and the top of his head.

Qi and blood are as strong as an oven.

Incredibly strong.

Even so, he still felt that it was not enough, "Black Mountain Technique"! Black Mountain destroys the city!

His momentum is like an ancient elephant, boom! Boom! Boom!

Chase in an instant.

His left palm was filled with the inner energy of the Black Mountain, and he stretched out his hand to grab the black corpse's face. The Kunwu knife carried the power of the extreme sun and was the nemesis of these dead people. However, under the concussive power of the mysterious rhythm of the Kunwu knife, the black corpse actually Recover soon, ho!

Boom!

The two flew upside down at the same time.

They all hit the cabin wall hard.

The black corpse's monster power is so powerful that the black-shirted aura mask on Jin An's body couldn't even withstand a slap, and it exploded with just one claw. The poisonous claws of the black corpse clawed at Jin An's skin, which was as hard as black iron. , like two iron plates colliding, exploding large sparks.

"Come again!"

"Black Mountain Technique"! Black Mountain destroys the city!

Boom!

Boom!

The black corpse destroyed Jin An, who was completely blackened by the black mountain!

Boom!

The two of them collided hard again.

"Come again!"

The third form of "Twelve-pole Xingyiquan"! Bear back!

Boom!

There was another violent explosion in the bilge of the ship, and one body and another were knocked out of each other again.

"Come again!"

"Come again!"

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There were constant explosions in the cabin. Although the outside world was calm, the killing inside was fierce. In the battle in the small space, two figures came and went and hit the wall constantly. The black air barrier on the wall began to become thinner after being smashed by one corpse and another.

Jin An, who had three yang fires, twelve righteous gods, and a black mountain to destroy the city, was actually evenly matched with a thousand-year-old corpse.

"Thousand-year-old corpse... you are much weaker than I thought. You are not even as good as the leader of Teng Kingdom!"

Although one person and one corpse were killed evenly, Jin An suffered a lot of serious injuries, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth, but he still thought the black corpse was too weak.

It's not like the strength that a thousand years of cultivation should have.

"Did I really admit my mistake this time?"

However, it has been a long time since he practiced "Twelve Extremes Xingyi Quan" so vigorously. Jin An used this black corpse to hone his hard qigong and feed the war with battle. With this rare opportunity, he continued to make the Twelve Extremes The mastery of door moves helps him practice to reach higher peaks.

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Suddenly!

Boom!

A loud noise, like the earth shattering, exploded in the dark night. The sound was so loud that even the violent wind and waves outside the ship were suppressed.

The sky was shattering and the earth was shattering like a mountain, and the loud noise outside continued.

Not long after, Yali's surprised shout came from outside the door: "Taoist Master Jin'an, everything was right, there really was a landslide in the desert! Sureti sent someone to report that there was a landslide in Haizi, the desert! "

Outside the door, there were constant shouts of surprise and knocks on the door from Yali and others.

Jin An's eyes sparkled. He had no intention of continuing to fight with the black corpse in front of him, and planned to fight quickly.

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squeak.

The door of the cabin was like a dying old man, groaning in pain as if he was suffering from illness. When Jin An walked out alone, he looked a little tired and had a lot of wounds on his body.

This was the first time they saw Jin An injured. Ari and Adan quickly became concerned about Jin An's injury.

"Taoist Master Jin'an, don't worry... Hey, where is the old man Amul? Why don't you see Amul coming out with you, Taoist Jin'an?"

Jin An raised his hand indifferently and asked, "Ignore him for now. What happened? Did the Holy Mountain of Guchi Kingdom really appear?"

The three of them walked and talked, already arriving on the deck.

At this time, the wind and waves on the deck have reduced a lot, and a clear dawn gradually appears at the end of the sky. The turbid air sinks and the clear air rises. This is the moment of dawn between heaven and earth, and it will be dawn soon.

As soon as they saw Jin An returning to the shipbuilding, Sureti and the others, who had been responsible for staying on the deck of the shipbuilding, immediately pointed to the end of the desert sea, where there was still a lot of smoke and dust that had not completely cleared away.

"Taoist Master Jin'an is in that direction! That's where the landslide happened just now! It happened to be dawn, and the first light of dawn appeared over there, and the landslide happened just then, otherwise we wouldn't have discovered it!" Sureti said excitedly, Yari Responsible for translation.

Sureti, who had witnessed the scene of landslides and earth fissures with his own eyes, still couldn't suppress his excitement and said: "Taoist Master Jin'an, that old man from Amur didn't say that when landslides and earth fissures occur and the water level of the desert sea drops at the same time, it means entering the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom. Isn’t it the best time? The opportunity is right in front of us. Should we enter the legendary ancient desert country Guchi Country right now?”

As soon as he finished speaking, he was about to turn around to look for Amul, but he didn't find Amul next to Jin An. He was startled: "Where is the old man Amul?"

As the sky gradually gets brighter, the desert becomes scorching again, the storm that blew all night slowly begins to subside, and the desert lake returns to the calm sapphire sky lake again.