Chapter 257: Awaiting The Miracle
The Han People’s world was about to usher in great turmoil. For experts among the Han People, unless they were guilty of heinous crimes, Yun Ce generally did not want their internal breath.
The guy surnamed Zhou in front of him was an expert with the skills of a Thousand-man General. Yun Ce estimated that this person’s abilities should be comparable to Wu Tong’s. Zhou Chengming from the same clan probably was not this person’s opponent.
Someone who could reach the skills of a Thousand-man General was basically already a Hegemon on one side. As for this identity surpassing that of a Thousand-man General right in front of him, his status should be even higher.
Yun Ce did not take to heart the fact that this guy had sneak-attacked him with a saber just now. This magnanimous state of mind was something he had only recently developed, especially after being slapped into the ground by Shehuo and waking up, and being led by Shehuo to comprehend the difficulty of life. He felt that his vengeful personality had undergone a great change.
Of course, this was also related to his martial art becoming stronger. After all, that one saber strike could not take his life.
Moreover, the Red Date Horse had already taken Doggy to the Bear Spirit. The tentacle had already entered the Bear Spirit’s body along that miserable wound. Last time, he was only busy checking the Bear Spirit’s meat and did not expect that there was good stuff inside this guy’s stomach.
Seeing Yun Ce pick up the horse spear, Zhou Sheng pointed his saber at Yun Ce. Having failed to succeed with that saber strike just now, Zhou Sheng was still very regretful. After watching Yun Ce’s battle with the Bear Spirit, he felt that Yun Ce’s martial art was not inferior to his.
“If you leave now, I won’t say anything.”
Yun Ce shook the red tassel on the horse spear and said.
Zhou Sheng shook his head and said, “I just slashed you with a saber. This matter cannot end peacefully.”
1 Just as Zhou Sheng raised his saber to prepare to attack, the Red Date Horse came running over with a bloody bead in its mouth and dropped it at Yun Ce’s feet.
1 After seeing that bead, Zhou Sheng swept his long saber over with full force. This was an attempt to force Yun Ce back with this bold and sweeping move, so he could pick up the bead.
1 The horse spear blocked horizontally, and he advanced with a straight thrust. Zhou Sheng’s saber momentum was interrupted by the horse spear. Seeing the horse spear blade heading straight for his face, he had no choice but to retreat, then turned and slashed diagonally from the side.
1 The long saber struck the spear shaft, cutting two sections of hemp rope embedded in the lacquer. Yun Ce lifted his leg and kicked toward Zhou Sheng’s waist and ribs. Zhou Sheng flipped to avoid it and, in mid-air, slashed his saber at the incoming horse spear blade, getting shaken by the force to flicker past backward.
1 Yun Ce bent down to pick up the bead, wiped off the blood on it, held it in his hand and felt it for a moment, then said to Zhou Sheng standing not far away, “There’s a route map inside. What kind of treasure is it?”
1 Zhou Sheng stared at the bead in Yun Ce’s hand and slowly said, “Naturally, it’s a map left by my Zhou Clan clan members. If you don’t probe its secrets, you might live. Now, it’s do or die.”
1 Yun Ce said impatiently, “If you have the ability to kill me, come at me. If not, tell me. Otherwise, after you suffer later, you’ll still have to tell me. Why bother?”
1 Seeing Yun Ce’s horse spear thrusting over, Zhou Sheng raised his saber to block horizontally. But after blocking once, he surprisingly couldn’t block it. The immense force like a mountain on the horse spear pressed down, so he had to use the force of his long saber being shaken away by the horse spear to dodge left. Then, Yun Ce actually let go of the horse spear and smashed a heavy fist into his waist and ribs. His body, which had just taken off, was smashed to the ground by this punch.
1 Ignoring the intense pain, he rolled sideways, but was kicked in the stomach by Yun Ce’s advancing foot. He only felt his internal organs leave his body in an instant, his vision went black, and he passed out.
1 When he woke up again, as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a huge bear skull. At this time, although the Bear Spirit’s days were hard, it rarely showed a smile.
2 “You have this day too!”
2 Listening to the words painfully spat out by the Giant Bear, smelling the foul breath exhaled by the Giant Bear, Zhou Sheng turned his head to look around for Yun Ce, but piercing pain came from his two legs, making him unable to help roaring.
2 “He broke one of your legs and slashed open the other. He also gave you half of the iron chain. You didn’t suffer any less than I did.”
2 The Bear Spirit used all its strength to grab the iron chain, freeing its throat, finished mocking Zhou Sheng, then ran out of strength and was once again strangled by the iron chain until its eyes rolled back.
2 Zhou Sheng endured the pain strongly, grabbed the iron chain with his hand, and regardless of where Yun Ce was, shouted loudly, “This is the route from King Huo’s Tomb. There are rumors that King Huo did not die, but was imprisoned in King Huo’s Tomb. These jade balls containing the route map were specially sent out by King Huo.
2 He just hopes someone can rescue him from King Huo’s Tomb.”
2 Yun Ce, who had been playing with the jade ball for a long time, suddenly thought of the Demon Concubine Yu Heng’s pregnancy event.
2 He asked, “Are there many of these things?”
2 Zhou Sheng said, “I know of at least sixteen. Each jade ball contains a section of the mechanism route map of King Huo’s Tomb.”
2 Hearing Zhou Sheng say this, Yun Ce casually tossed that jade ball away. This thing had no value. If one had to say it had any value, it was a huge pit.
3 Great Han people are simple and have not yet become desensitized to treasure map tricks. If you ask a normal person in the ancestral land, upon hearing that the treasure is in a place full of mechanisms and requires collecting as many as sixteen jade balls to pass through, their minds will immediately conjure up countless films and TV works about treasure hunting.
3 They would also immediately determine that this is a damn scam, and one deliberately set up by a conspirator. This scam not only takes money but also your life.
3 The jade ball rolled and rolled to the ancient tree under which the two were hanging, slowly entering the pool of blood gathered from the blood flowing from this man and bear.
3 The Bear Spirit suddenly gained strength, grabbed the iron chain to free its throat, and anxiously said to Yun Ce, “This bead is mine. This guy came to rob my bead. The bead is real. Not all sixteen beads are route maps. Some can make women pregnant and give birth to King Huo’s offspring. Some can lead people to King Huo’s former treasure vaults. Others are said to allow inheriting King Huo’s internal breath.
3 In short, this bead is real. On next year’s Spring Festival, all who obtain the beads will go to King Huo’s Tomb, open the Dragon-Breaking Stone, and become King Huo’s new subordinates. On the day King Huo sees the light of day again, they can once again follow King Huo to conquer the world.”
3 Yun Ce looked at the bead soaking in the pool of blood and shook his head, saying, “Have you noticed that these sixteen beads can automatically select the sixteen strongest experts on this ground?”
3 Zhou Sheng grabbed the iron chain and shouted loudly, “To follow King Huo in conquering the world is the supreme glory for warriors. In the world’s martial arts, who can surpass King Huo? In the world’s military achievements, who can exceed King Huo?
3 Brother, listen to me. With this bead, we have the opportunity to follow King Huo. Release me and this stupid bear. When next year’s Spring Festival comes, we’ll open King Huo’s Tomb together, rescue King Huo, then conquer the world again, and restore the glory that our Great Han deserves.”
3 Yun Ce frowned and said, “How was King Huo locked into King Huo’s Tomb back then?”
3 Zhou Sheng roared, “King Huo held great power for six hundred years. Those who followed him to conquer the world back then have all grown fat and forgotten the oaths they made when following King Huo to conquer the world.
4 It was this group of shameless villains who colluded with the Imperial Family and harmed King Huo.
4 If you don’t believe it, take the bead and shine it in the sunlight, and you can see King Huo’s decree to revive the world.”
4 Yun Ce bent down to fish the bead out of the pool of blood, wiped the blood off on Zhou Sheng’s body, held the bead up to the sun and looked. A strong beam of light suddenly shot out from the bead, hitting Yun Ce’s eyes. Yun Ce screamed in pain, clutched his eyes, and squatted on the ground.
4 Zhou Sheng roared angrily at the Bear Spirit, “Now!”
4 One bear and one man each used their still movable injured legs to push hard against the ancient tree. Their two bodies were swung high up. Zhou Sheng, with his lighter body, endured his eyes bulging from the iron chain strangling, quickly climbed on the ancient tree, actually circled around the horizontal branch to unlock the chain. After being pulled by the Bear Spirit’s heavy body to circle twice on the horizontal branch, the man and bear heavily fell to the ground.
4 Ignoring untying the chain, the man and bear surprisingly hugged each other, shared two good legs, and rushed into the forest at extreme speed.
4 Yun Ce squatted on the ground and placed the bead in the sunlight. A beam of focused sunlight projected from the middle of the bead onto the ground, instantly igniting the fallen leaves.
4 Doing something stupid like using a convex lens to look at the sun was something Yun Ce had known not to do since he was three. Naturally, he would not be fooled by Zhou Sheng’s words.
4 He was just very regretful that the Bear Spirit had run away, causing E Ji and Zhang Min, the two women, to lack postpartum nourishing food…
4 The reason Yun Ce was willing to let this bear and man go was because of what the Bear Spirit said: some beads could make women pregnant and give birth to King Huo’s offspring. Yun Ce knew this matter in detail. Yu Heng was said to have given birth to offspring for King Huo across six hundred years of time.
5 He originally thought it was baseless talk, but now it seemed eighty percent true. If it were false, Yu Heng wouldn’t have persistently demanded King Huo’s mansion from the court back then.
5 Zhou Sheng’s words might not all be lies—probably half true, half false.
5 Regardless of whether Huo Qubing was really still alive, if he saw the light of day again, it should be greatly beneficial to the current Great Han. No matter what, it would be better than the current terrible situation.
5 “How can a person live so long?”
5 Yun Ce sighed to Doggy.
5 “Sometimes, we must believe that miracles exist in this world. If we are unwilling to even believe in miracles, future people won’t be able to create them.
5 The reason a miracle is called a miracle is because when everyone is desperate, one person brings light, stepping on clouds to come, bringing light to the dark world.”
5 Doggy’s words were very poetic.
5 Yun Ce was unwilling to comment, because it being able to say such empty nonsense was itself a miracle.
5 The Gui Fang people were coming. Huo Qubing might run out from the grave. The vassal lords of the world had already sharpened their weapons and prepared for battle.
6 Yun Ce’s child was also about to arrive. Even without obtaining the nourishing bear meat, Yun Ce still rode the Red Date Horse happily advancing toward Yun Clan Villa. Even if a blizzard started falling from the sky again, his steps would not stop.
6 Just as Doggy said, the miracle was ahead.
