Burial with Qing Yao

After the boat docked, Jiang Ran returned the heart to the boatman, thanked him again, and left in no hurry.

But the boatman couldn't stand it any longer, and urged him: "I've been hungry for hundreds of years, and I haven't seen anyone with such an unappetizing taste like you. Why don't you go?"

The boatman didn't really want to see him again.

Jiang Ran glanced at the black queue in the distance, and felt that the boatman should know something.

"Old man, do you know what those things that you just wade through from the bottom of the water are?"

The boatman stuffed his heart back into his chest, "They existed before I came here, I'm afraid even they themselves have forgotten what they are."

The boatman said, putting the penny into the water, "Most of the monsters here have amnesia, because a hundred years ago, there was a Ascension Realm who fought here, and a sword split open the ground, going straight to the underworld Wangchuan, making Wangchuan and Wangchuan fight together. The lake and water here blend together... that's all I remember, in fact, I have gradually forgotten the purpose of my coming here over the years."

The boatman doesn't know why he has to endure a hundred years of hunger, and he is still obsessed with this.

Having lived here for a long time, he, like other demons here, has forgotten who he is.

Hearing this, Jiang Ran obviously didn't have a good impression of Ascension Realm.

First, the Ascension Realm slaughtered all the Rakshasa Realms in the world overnight for its own benefit, and then forbade all the Ghost Creature Realms from advancing upwards, and the dominance reached this point.

Now because of fighting each other, the mountains, rivers and lands have been destroyed, causing the river of forgetfulness in the underworld to flow back, and many monster clans living here have forgotten their original appearance.

"Is there no one in this world who can control them?" Jiang Ran's impression of Ascension Realm became worse and worse.

As soon as these words came out, Bai Wenxing and Yinjuan looked at each other in dismay...

The two big brothers recalled it carefully, and they really had a fight here back then!

After the fall of Yaodu, Yinjuan broke with the other four Ascension Realm members.

He resented that the four Ascension Realm failed to protect the one he put on top of his heart. After they joined forces to slaughter the Raksha Realm, they began a century-long infighting.

That person is gone, and the Ascension Realm will be separated from each other.

Yinjuan and Bai Wenxing fought together for more than a month, but it was impossible to tell the winner because the two sides were in the same realm.

Bai Wenxing's memory gradually returned to that day.

She stood on the clouds, her eyes were red, "He died, are you the only one suffering? We tried our best..."

"We really didn't know that Sang Zhuo would betray him and seriously injure him! There is no clue at all, and everyone was chatting and laughing together the night before."

Bai Wenxing's tears rolled down, "He obviously didn't have to die. Although the injury was serious, it was not fatal... It was he himself who gave up all of us for the sake of the world, and he didn't want us... ..."

"Maybe he treats you differently, and he doesn't want you to see him die with your own eyes, and send you away alone. But why do you blame us for this? Well, I'm tired too, and I don't want to fight back. Today you have the ability, just like If you punish Sangzhuo, you should punish me too."

The setting sun dyed the clouds red, Yin Juan held the long sword tightly, turning all the anger, unwillingness, and regrets in the past into sword energy.

He slowly raised his hand, and pointed his sword at Bai Wenxing.

He remembered what the man had said to him:

"Among the five, you are the only one who wields the sword like me. Ah Juan, you must remember that at no time should your sword be pointed at your family members."

"The five of you will always be one. For me, they are all family members. So no matter what happens, I will stand in front of you."

The sword energy continued to condense, and in an instant, the wind and clouds surged, and the sky and the earth changed color.

Bai Wenxing closed his eyes.

Yinjuan's sword cut down half of the mountains and rivers with the force of heaven and earth.

After all, it did not fall on Bai Wenxing's head.

"This sword cut off all the friendship between me and you in the past. From now on, we will be strangers when we meet."

He turned and left, his lips were covered with chapped blood.

There were countless wounds, large and small, and the blood had already coagulated.But what are these pains?

Recalling this unpleasant past, the atmosphere between Yinjuan and Bai Wenxing is even worse than before.

One of them stood on Jiang Ran's left, and the other stood on Jiang Ran's right. They ignored each other and didn't want to see each other, so they all turned their eyes to one side, and carried out the past as strangers to the end.

Standing in the middle, Jiang Ran recalled what the boatman said, and then looked at the appearance of these two people constantly shifting their eyes, and sent out a soul torture:

"Am I really so disgusted?"

Bai Wenxing hid behind Jiang Ran's sleeve and explained: "Mr. is not off-putting, but someone else is off-putting."

Yinjuan wanted to retort, but he was afraid that Jiang Ran would find out, so he endured her this time, and comforted Jiang Ran: "The boatman must have been hungry for hundreds of years, and he was so hungry that he was anorexic. It has nothing to do with you. Don't worry about what he said. What."

The queue stopped quickly, and a paper house suddenly appeared in the mountains.

This paper house is very big, sitting lightly on the mountainside, swaying left and right by the wind, as if it will go away with the wind at any time.

There are two white lanterns hanging in front of the gate of the paper house, and there are two huge founding characters written on the lanterns. There are some paper figurines scattered in the house, and paper money is floating all over the floor.

Jiang Ran's first impression of this scene was that they were imitating a human funeral.

These monsters must not even forget the monster burial ceremony of their own race...

Jiang Ran instinctively removed the copper fish around his neck, spread his palms, and got a little lucky.

The mountain is deep and the dew is heavy, and the bleak mist of the surrounding plants is rapidly compressed into a small pool of water.

The dew hanging on the vegetation also gathered in Jiang Ran's palm and condensed into a small ball, wrapping the copper fish in it.

The environment around Jiang Ran became much drier in an instant.

But the copper fish is not like usual, it swims as soon as it enters the water.Today this copper fish has been sinking to the bottom of the water, no matter how you look at it, it is a dead thing.

Jiang Ran put away the copper fish, knowing everything clearly.

Bai Wenxing looked up and down curiously, holding Jiang Ran's arm and waiting for his patient explanation.

Jiang Ran hung the copper fish back around his neck again, and said in a low voice: "The copper fish has not moved, which means there is no demon corpse here."

Bai Wenxing pointed to the coffin in the center of the paper house, "But what's lying there?"

"Go and have a look and you'll know." Yinjuan never took these monsters seriously, with him around, those things would not cause any trouble.

Jiang Ran passed through the huge wreaths, came to the side of the coffin, and looked inside.

The lid of the coffin was open, and there was really a monster lying inside.That demon, like the other demons here, covered his whole body with a black cloth, and could only see a human figure, but not a face. Unlike humans, he seemed to have a tail.

Jiang Ran had always wanted to know the true colors of these monsters. Now that the black cloth was in front of him, he lifted it without thinking much.

"No face!" Bai Wenxing was a child at heart, and immediately exclaimed, pretending to throw himself into Jiang Ran's arms, hugging him and refusing to let go.

"Sir, I'm so scared." Bai Wenxing showed panic, pretending to cry from fright.

Jiang Ran touched the top of her head to comfort her, and Bai Wenxing made a provocative grimace at Yinjuan where Jiang Ran could not see.

Yinjuan gave her a sideways look, his eyes were cold.

The monster lying in the coffin has a blank face and a human figure, and has an extra tail than a human.

Jiang Ran immediately reached out to feel his pulse, but the place where he touched it was cold, and there was no pulse.

He injected some demonic power into it and probed, and the demon's body was full of decay, with a strong sense of death, and its meridians had been exhausted. It was indeed dead, but only the tail was a bit strange.

"That's too weird."

At this time, Jiang Ran was engrossed in his exploration, and he didn't notice that these monsters covered in black cloth surrounded them.

"I kindly invited you to attend the funeral, but you are so ignorant of etiquette that you desecrated the body of our patriarch!"

This move by Jiang Ran obviously angered them. One by one, these demons lifted the black cloth covering their bodies to reveal their true faces.

There are hundreds of people of the same kind, but they all have no faces and look exactly the same!

Being "stared" by countless blank faces, ordinary people must panic, but Jiang Ran is used to big scenes and is not afraid at all.

It's not that he has a high level of self-cultivation, but that he already has a rough guess.

"Everyone has lived here all year round and drank the water of the River of Forgetfulness. Do you still remember who you are, what race you are, and what you originally looked like?"

Standing in the paper house, he clanged his words and showed no fear on his face. With just a few words, he calmed down these faceless monsters.

"I can help you recall your own face."

Jiang Ran recalled the previous scene, and slowly said: "You waded through the water, but the strange fish in the water did not hurt you, which means that you originated from that river, and reached a consensus with the creatures in the water, and did not invade each other."

"Human form, with a tail, it means that your ancestors migrated from water to live on land."

"You use the jay's feather as an invitation to invite the spirits of the mountains. This is the only ghost burial custom you remember, and the rest are the same as humans."

In the early years, Jiang Ran met a few mature jays, who were caught and plucked because they could not move easily, so the jays taught their children not to get close to certain races that like to pluck their hairs. The categories were recorded in the demon burial book one by one, and now they are excluded one by one under comparison.

When Jiang Ran said this, he turned his eyes to the coffin, "Dead, but not dead. Life is so tenacious, only the Hydra family."

Just when Jiang Ran uttered the word "Hydra", the faceless monsters around him were instantly awakened, and the memories they had forgotten gradually flooded into their minds.

On Hydra's blank face, their respective facial features began to emerge.

Jiang Ran stood in the center of the paper house and looked around. Different faces appeared one after another, and more and more monsters recalled their faces.

But... without exception, they all have extremely old faces.

After recalling the original face, the whole group ages collectively...

It shouldn't be. In Jiang Ran's impression, the Hydra family has an extremely long lifespan. Why do these monsters seem to have been drained of their lives?

Suddenly, one of the old Hydra cried and fell to the ground, "I just remembered, our clan has been around for a hundred years, and no new life has appeared! In the past hundred years, no one in our clan has been able to conceive an offspring, and our clan is about to perish!"

"Wait a minute!" Jiang Ran couldn't help interrupting him, "How do you usually... breed?"

When Jiang Ran said this, all the elder Hydra immediately became interested and started talking in a hurry.

"We sent a few representatives to the human world to learn about human breeding methods. In order to prevent forgetting, we even drew it!"

As he spoke, he took out a bunch of albums and explained to him on the spot.

"For example, this one, you have to chew it mouth to mouth first, then stack it up like this... and then..."

Jiang Ran only glanced at it and was shocked.

There are actually two men in the picture...