Chapter 76: There’s A War Criminal!
Jiang Ce, who had simultaneously practiced Golden Bell Shield and Righteous Qi, was not afraid of falling from a high place.
As the saying goes, cultivate one breath internally, refine muscles, bones, and skin externally.
Previously at the construction site, he had jumped down from a tower crane dozens of meters high, and it was nothing more than shaking his five viscera and six bowels uncomfortably.
Now already at Sixth Rank, plus bolstered by Righteous Qi, even a hundred meters or so could not trouble him at all!
Jiang Ce frowned slightly: “Why has it been falling for so long? It’s more than a hundred meters, right? Wait, the formula for free fall is”
He slapped his forehead: “Forgot the beginning, forgot the end, the middle is also wrong, I never went to school at all!”
Thud!
With a loud crash, Jiang Ce smashed heavily into a pile of corpses.
These corpses had long since weathered, and as Jiang Ce fell, this area of corpses shattered with a boom. Moreover, who knows which unlucky person had his skull firmly sat on and shattered by him, scorched by the Golden Bell Shield into a pancake stuck to his butt.
Fortunately, though, Jiang Ce himself was not injured. Just as he had expected, aside from being shaken numb, there was nothing unusual.
Jiang Ce grimaced and struggled to climb out of the corpse pile, casually picking corpse remnants off his butt while muttering “what cold face sticking to hot butt,” and curiously surveying the surrounding environment.
He was on a huge stone mill-shaped disc, no smaller than a standard soccer field, densely packed on the disc with seated corpses, roughly thousands upon thousands at a glance.
These remains had not turned into White Bones like those he had seen before, but were in the shape of mummified corpses; a light touch would cause them to crack.
Jiang Ce withdrew his hand, his expression pensive. Logically, with the huge commotion he had made, the ghosts and monsters here should not be able to sit still, but after so long, why was there still no action?
Could it be that he was too weak to even trigger the Great Tomb’s immune system?
“In that case…”
Jiang Ce rubbed his fists and searched for those relatively well-preserved corpses:
“I’m already here, let me see if there’s anything valuable.”
At that moment, a surprised voice came from behind: “Big Brother, what are you doing?”
Jiang Ce turned his head and saw Xuan Qing using pure qi to slowly lower several people. Liang Zhi Che saw him rummaging through corpses and couldn’t help but speak up.
He was stunned, then his mouth twitched: “There’s a ride and I’m busting my ass for what…”
“Huh? What did you say?” The distance between them was too far; Liang Zhi Che didn’t hear clearly.
But Jiang Ce clearly noticed a subtle change in Xuan Qing’s expression.
“Nothing, I thought you guys would take a while to come down.”
Jiang Ce felt a bit embarrassed.
“This is…” Qin Shen Bo immediately focused on the situation here and was shocked by the eerie yet spectacular sight before him.
Then, the others also took a deep breath, all feeling shocked.
Liang Zhi Zhou recalled the history books he had read and couldn’t help but click his tongue: “This scale, it has to be a vassal king, right?”
Xuan Qing immediately noticed the cleared area not far from Jiang Ce, as well as the severed limbs, and frowned: “It wasn’t like this when we came down just now.”
Jiang Ce reacted quickly: “No idea, it was already like this when I came down. I suspect something took advantage of the gap when it grabbed Martial Uncle to mess around.”
“You come down first.”
“Okay.” Jiang Ce nodded, kicking aside blocking corpses all the way, and walked straight down the disc.
His simple and brutal style made several people twitch their eyelids, fearing these things would suddenly reanimate.
Xuan Qing did not stop him, because he had confirmed these things had no ghosts and monsters aura on them; they were safe, just plain corpses. However, he still couldn’t bear to watch Jiang Ce’s actions, so he turned his head away, pretending to see nothing.
“How can you be so disrespectful to the dead? They pose no threat, yet you won’t even leave them whole—this damages merit!” Liang Zhi Zhou frowned deeply.
Jiang Ce didn’t care: “Then kowtow to them and see if it grows you any merit.”
“Sophistry!” Liang Zhi Zhou angrily turned his head away.
Liang Zhi Che immediately stood by Jiang Ce: “Clearly you provoked first—is it because my Big Brother is alone and weak?”
“Whose little brother are you exactly?!”
Qin Shen Bo couldn’t stand it anymore and interrupted the pointless conversation, asking Xuan Qing: “What do we do?”
Xuan Qing then said: “Just now when coming down, I calculated the location of the formation eye, but when I went to look, I didn’t find it. I suspect some sorcery I’m unaware of is concealing the Corpse King’s aura, making it look like an ordinary corpse, so I had you come down to check one by one, to quickly resolve it.
As for safety, don’t worry. There’s not even a trace of ghosts and monsters aura down here. I suspect these corpses aren’t enough to sustain the consumption needed for the Corpse King’s metamorphosis. After such long ages, the corpse raising ground was abandoned, and the Corpse King stalled indefinitely, posing no threat—this isn’t unprecedented.”
Jiang Ce half-believed Xuan Qing’s judgment. All this setup, just abandoned?
“Then how do you explain those ghosts and monsters above?” Jiang Ce felt something was off.
“Perhaps above and below aren’t connected, or there’s some issue with the link between the two places. Anyway, we’ll know once we find the Corpse King.”
Xuan Qing wasn’t too sure: “Not only are these corpses harmless, the area near the formation eye is also safe. No need to worry too much.”
“How about I try first?” Jiang Ce still wasn’t reassured. For some reason, he hadn’t thought much before, but after hearing Xuan Qing, he felt uneasy.
Subconsciously, he felt that along the way, Xuan Qing appeared as a powerful cultivator with empty strength, but unreliable.
“How do you want to try?” Faced with Jiang Ce’s repeated doubts, Xuan Qing showed no impatience—not only because Xiao Lin stood behind him, but also because Jiang Ce’s actions along the way had earned his attention.
“Wait a bit.”
Jiang Ce opened his shoulder bag and took out the wooden fish he hadn’t used in a long time.
Everyone was baffled, but Jiang Ce had no intention of explaining. He knocked the wooden fish while reciting the Ksitigarbha Sutra.
While reciting Buddhist Scriptures, Jiang Ce seemed like a different person—solemn and majestic, radiating Buddhist Charm. Even Liang Zhi Zhou, who had always looked at him unfavorably, felt that Jiang Ce truly deserved the name of Buddhist Cultivator at this moment.
Thump—thump—thump—
As the ethereal and lingering sounds of the wooden fish and sutra recitation drifted, the countless corpses on the disc still showed no reaction whatsoever.
Suddenly, Jiang Ce stopped knocking the wooden fish, closed his mouth, then looked up.
Xuan Qing seemed to sense something and also raised his head, his expression grave.
Soon, faint rustling sounds came from above.
The others were puzzled and hadn’t time to ask when they heard Jiang Ce laugh awkwardly yet politely:
“Haha, good news is there’s indeed no ghosts and monsters here—it’s safe. Bad news is… I seem to have become a war criminal.”
The next moment, ghosts and monsters came falling from above like a blanket sky, as if to bury everyone completely!
