Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 190 189: Lu Chengjiang's Remains
"boom……"

Dust filled the air, and a strange beast made from the organs of various wild animals collided with the Scarlet Duke. Gravel kept rolling down the cave, and it was on the verge of collapse.

Lin Beixuan did not hesitate at all. The effect of the skinner's blood-stained clothes appeared, and everyone could not sense his breath for a while.

He turned back along the route in his mind. The dark tunnel posed no obstacle to him at all.

Coming to a fork in the road, Lin Beixuan stopped and turned his head to look to the left, which was an even darker and narrower path.

"it's here!"

Without hesitation, Lin Beixuan turned and walked in, groping on the stone wall with his hand until he touched a protruding stone and stopped.

Pushing hard inwards, the stone sank into it, and then a slippery liquid seeped out of the stone wall, and the originally hard stone wall unexpectedly became soft.

Lin Beixuan narrowed his eyes and lifted up the stone wall, revealing a staircase leading downwards.

"boom……"

Another loud noise was heard next to my ears. It was from the cave where Yang Jian was.

"I hope you can buy me more time." Lin Beixuan sighed, turned around and closed the stone wall.

Going down the stairs, the space soon became wider.

[You have entered a special area: Seven Killings Jedi. ]

[The evil map is opened, you are affected by the Seven Killings, and the fate of the Killing Star is slightly improved. 】

[Seven Killings Absolute Land: The burial place of Lu Chengjiang, the world's number one traitor. Influenced by his remains, the area is filled with the Seven Killings aura. An ordinary person would be attracted by the Seven Killings aura, and life and death would be unpredictable.]

Lin Beixuan looked up and saw a sarcophagus placed in the empty area. The sarcophagus lay there quietly, like a sleeping giant, with an indescribable sense of heaviness surrounding it.

"The remains are in this sarcophagus!"

Lin Beixuan slowly approached the sarcophagus, frowned and pushed open the lid. In the darkness, a crystal-like corpse appeared before him.

[You found a special target: Lu Chengjiang's remains.]

[The Great Common God (Sheep) - The Illusionary God is watching you. 】

[It tried to peek into your heart, but the panel's self-protection mechanism blocked its peek.]

The Ghost Hall on the waist trembled constantly, and wisps of black smoke floated out and gathered into an illusory human face.

Li Tianqing.

It stared at the corpse in the sarcophagus for a long time without saying a word, and finally let out a long sigh.

"It turns out that it has been so long since the great battle at Destiny Plains. You disappeared from our sight after the defeat. I didn't expect that when we met again, we would be separated by life and death.

Haha, what qualifications do I have to talk about life and death? I am just a remnant of soul left to survive!" Li Tianqing murmured to himself, recalling the past, with a tone of vicissitudes and bitterness that could not be concealed.

Lin Beixuan glanced at Li Tianqing, was silent for a moment, then reached into the coffin, intending to fish out the remains.

He did not have the same scruples as Yang Jian and others, who felt that it would be disrespectful to Lu Chengjiang and wanted to carry the coffin.

In his opinion, since the remains were important, it was enough to take the remains away. Why bother carrying the coffin? It was simply unnecessary.

His fingers touched the crystal-like corpse, but in the next second, the corpse seemed to be ignited, with blue flames emitting from the whole body, and quickly turned into ashes in Lin Beixuan's eyes.

"..."

Li Tianqing looked at the slowly rising blue flames, then turned his gaze to Lin Beixuan with a look of surprise and doubt.

Lin Beixuan was stunned and his cheeks couldn't help twitching.

He swore he really didn't do anything.

Is it because the coffin has not been opened for too long, causing the remains to be unable to come into contact with the air?
However, at this moment, a prompt suddenly appeared on the panel.

[You absorbed Lu Chengjiang's remains, and your fate as a killer has been upgraded.]

[Your fate - the star of death is born has been successfully upgraded to the fate - the seven killing days. 】

[You have obtained Lu Chengjiang's inheritance.]

[You have obtained the clue information of the thirteenth weapon legend atlas - the bottle of heaven and earth, clear and turbid. ]

[You have obtained the clue information of the third weapon legend atlas - the God-Slaying Sword.]

[You have obtained Lu Chengjiang's divine organ - the Heart of the Earth.] [You have obtained...]

Lin Beixuan's vision gradually became blurred, and fragments of memories flooded into his mind like a kaleidoscope.

That was Lu Chengjiang's life.

From following his father to guard the border as a child, to leading only 500 cavalry deep into enemy territory as a teenager, capturing the barbarian leader alive among tens of thousands of enemies, to traveling around the world as a young man, seeing and hearing everything.

Decades ago, an unprecedented famine broke out in the dynasties. There had been no rain for three years, but taxes continued to increase year by year. The government granaries were full of old rice, but no one had any food at home. The price of grain in the market even rose to twenty taels of silver per load.

Rebellions broke out in various places, and Lu Chengjiang was ordered to quell them.

……

"Where's your dad?"

"He died while conquering the barbarians."

"So...where are your family members?"

"My mother starved to death, and my brother went with others to steal food from a rich man's house and was beaten to death."

"You are only seven years old, why do you want to follow those traitors in rebellion?"

“Because they give us food.”

A thin child took out half a clay cake from his arms, ate it quickly in front of Lu Chengjiang, and then raised his hand.

"No more, don't come and rob me."

"...I won't rob you!"

Since the previous emperors died early, the new emperors were young, resulting in the harem being in power, officials forming cliques for personal gain, taxes and corvee labor increasing day by day, and coupled with natural disasters and plagues in recent years, there are still many children like this.

"Didn't the government release grain?"

The child shook his head and picked up the rusty knife on the ground.

"Yes, but we have to exchange our land for it. But our land has already been taken away by the rich man."

"Where are you going?"

"Of course, we should follow the leader and rebel!"

The child was only seven years old, but he was like an adult, puffing out his thin chest, and his arms were not much thicker than rice stalks.

"Rebellion means death."

"That's better than starving to death. I don't want to die of starvation."

The child's voice was childish but full of energy: "Once we capture that county town, we will all have food to eat."

"Do you want to rebel with the leader too?"

"I……"

On the dry and cracked ground, two figures, one big and one small, were walking in the sun. As they walked, the child was practicing the knife skills that he had learned from somewhere.

But after a few swings he ran out of strength, and he held the knife on his shoulder, panting.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked ahead.

"That's not right. The leader asked me to go out and gather intelligence. He said they were waiting for me up ahead. How come I haven't seen them for so long?"

"What did they ask you to find out?"

"This is a secret, I can't tell you!" The child looked warily at the person who appeared beside him inexplicably.

At this moment, an eagle suddenly descended from the sky.

Lu Chengjiang raised his arm to let the eagle land on it, and took a secret letter from his ankle.

"Report to the general, all the rebels in Shili Mountain have been wiped out."

Lu Chengjiang lowered his head and crushed the secret letter in his hand as he rubbed his fingers together.

(End of this chapter)