244: Chapter 96: Slay the Great Dragon with Black and Red as the Pieces_1 244: Chapter 96: Slay the Great Dragon with Black and Red as the Pieces_1 However, outside the Hu Clan Mine Site, Jiang Wang engaged in battle with a man wearing a pig bone mask.
In the heat of battle, the man with the pig bone mask crushed a bone whistle and swallowed it.
Thousands of miles away, inside a side hall of an underground palace.
“Pig face!
Pig face?”
The woman wearing a rabbit bone mask called out repeatedly but received no response.
“Sothing’s wrong.”
She hurriedly ran outside.
It wasn’t that she wasn’t anxious enough.
It was just that this underground palace forbade all techniques, so this was already her limit.
She ran to another side hall, where Zhang Linchuan, wearing a white bone mask, was playing chess with soone.
His opponent was none other than Lu Yan, the once second elder of the Bone Tao and now its sole elder, naturally endowed with the ability to see into the netherworld.
The Bone Tao, which had accumulated power for hundreds of years and swelled in strength for a ti, was now withered in talent.
The vast underground palace was empty and desolate.
Once boasting tens of thousands of followers, the Bone Tao had aspired to establish a divine kingdom on earth.
Now, only a few core mbers were left.
On the chessboard were not black and white pieces, but black and red ones instead.
In terms of position, the black pieces Lu Yan controlled had a slight advantage.
Even though the use of techniques was prohibited, such a short distance shouldn’t have caused the woman in the rabbit bone mask to be out of breath.
Her urgency was solely due to the pig bone mask wearer, but how much of it was genuine and how much was feigned remained unknown.
“Elder, esteed envoy,”
She paid her respects and then reported, “Pig face has unleashed his full power in Yang Country and has lost contact!”
Although he had an advantageous position in the chess ga, Lu Yan was not relaxed.
He picked up a piece, deep in thought, and seed deaf to the words of the rabbit bone mask wearer.
Instead, Zhang Linchuan turned his head and looked through his mask at the rabbit bone mask wearer: “How is his mission proceeding?”
After a mont of silence, the rabbit bone mask wearer replied, “He has already completed the branding and planted the seed.
This disconnection occurred because he took a detour to kill soone from Zhuang Country.”
Zhang Linchuan returned his gaze to the ga and comnted indifferently, “As long as the job is done, that’s all that matters.
Leave the rest to him.”
By this ti, Lu Yan had made his move.
Zhang Linchuan responded with a red piece and suddenly asked, “Who in Zhuang Country?”
“I don’t know.
He didn’t make it clear, only ntioned a small insect from Zhuang Country that he wanted to snack on,” the rabbit bone mask wearer said cautiously, glancing at Zhang Linchuan, “That little insect seems to hail from Fenglin City.
That’s why pig face couldn’t hold back.”
The failure encountered by Fenglin City nearly destroyed the Bone Tao’s efforts of hundreds of years.
“Fenglin City…” Zhang Linchuan said with an ambiguous smile, “It reminds of Zhu Weiwo.
I heard that he ignited the Sun True Fire in Irredeemable City, achieved the Divine Skills within God’s Inner Mansion, slew four of my mask wearers, and even withstood the martial artist Kui Shan.
I wonder how much the Ember Ending Lance shines now!”
To his musings, the rabbit bone mask wearer did not respond or move.
Zhang Linchuan didn’t look at her and simply asked, “Anything else?”
“Pig face had a complication practicing the Divine Appearance Secret thod of the twelve Bone Tao forms, causing him to lose his mind when unleashing his full power.
With a small place like Jia City, I’m not sure who could have pushed him that far.
I am worried he…
might be in danger.”
Zhang Linchuan casually placed another piece on the board, “Do you know why the chess pieces I play with the elder are black and red?”
He explained, “Before the era of Bone Tao descends upon us, so of us are dood to never see daylight, while so can never wash away the bloodstains.”
“Your subordinate…
understands,” the rabbit bone mask wearer said, bowing and taking her leave.
In the vast side hall, only Zhang Linchuan and Lu Yan were left, continuing their chess battle.
The black and red pieces fought ceaselessly.
No one knew how much ti had passed; the lighting in the hall did not reveal the change of ti.
Suddenly, Lu Yan said, “Pig face is dead.”
His tone was casual.
With his ability to see through yin and yang, it wasn’t strange for Lu Yan to detect the death of pig face, a fellow mber of the Bone Religion, from millions of miles away.
Zhang Linchuan didn’t even show a flicker of emotion and simply said, “We’ll need soone to keep an eye on Jia City.
I’ll send Snake face there.”
“I’m curious, though; which fish that escaped the net in Fenglin City has the power of the Ascending Dragon Realm or above to kill pig face?
Having been in Fenglin City for so long, can’t you figure it out?”
“Pig face had strong paper power, but because his mind was dominated by rage, he couldn’t fully utilize his actual combat power.
While his strength ranked near the top among the twelve bone masks, he was easier to kill than the others,” Zhang Linchuan shook his head, “His death is not worth noting.”
If he knew that the person was Jiang Wang, and that Jiang Wang had faced him head-on with overwhelming force, he perhaps wouldn’t have spoken so lightly.
Lu Yan took a detour, “Since Fenglin City, Snakeface and the Holy Maiden have grown close.
If you move her to where Pigface died, and she also dies, you better be careful of the Holy Maiden’s thoughts.”
“Is she still a Holy Maiden if she’s estranged from the Holy Lord?” Zhang Linchuan said.
“I only need to be careful of the Holy Lord’s thoughts.”
Lu Yan glanced at Zhang Linchuan with those eyes that showed only the whites, “And the Holy Lord, seems to have no thoughts at all.”
“So I don’t need to be careful.”
Zhang Linchuan picked up a piece, “Speaking of the Holy Lord, has there been any change in him?”
Lu Yan shook his head, “He’s still sitting there.”
“Heh,” Zhang Linchuan laughed.
“In this underground palace, the Holy Lord, the elders, and the envoys are all present.
I wonder who from Zhuang Country could find this place.”
He pressed down the red piece, “To slaughter this great dragon!”
…
The Hu family courtyard burned in fierce flas.
Millions in wealth were confiscated by the Heavy Mystery family.
Two bodies turned to ash with the blaze.
The death of Hu Shaong would have no small impact, but his scheming after the Zhong Xuan family’s property and his many misdeeds all had ironclad evidence.
Jiang Wang didn’t need to co forward himself; if there were any questions from Yang Country or the Diao Hai Building, the Zhong Xuan Family would deal with them personally.
In fact, if the Xi Family in Jia City turned a deaf ear to it, the upper echelons of Yang Country would be content to turn a blind eye.
Jiang Wang cut off Hu Shaong’s head and carried it back to the mine site.
Zhu Bijing was waiting for him outside the mine gate.
The two did not speak.
Jiang Wang directly handed her the head along with a small pouch embroidered with the character “Su.”
Zhu Bijing only glanced at Hu Shaong’s head before tossing it aside.
The head rolled a few tis on the ground, coming to rest facing the outside of the gate.
She held the small pouch, gently stroking it.
“My sister embroidered this,” she murmured.
“I have one too.”
“Found on Hu Shaong.
The pouch only contained Pri Stones, which I took,” he said.
Zhu Bijing humd in response.
For Hu Shaong to have kept Zhu Suyao’s nto, her emotions were complex.
Just then, three dogs raised in the mine suddenly burst out.
Two black and one yellow, the yellow one running at the front.
Probably slling the stench, they circled around Hu Shaong’s head, sniffing low to the ground.
Jiang Wang moved quickly, standing beside the head and chased them away with his scabbard.
The yellow dog ran off in a flash, but the two black ones were not afraid, staring him down, growling nacingly.
“Old people in Fengxi Town used to say that dogs that eat human flesh beco demonized.
So, no matter how much you hate soone, don’t let dogs eat them,” Jiang Wang explained.
“Fengxi Town?” Zhu Bijing ntioned, then said, “I’m afraid it’s too late.
They’ve already eaten.”
She looked at Jiang Wang, “The severed fingers you cut.
And the fat man’s mutilated corpse…”
Right then, Little Little stepped out.
Jiang Wang frowned at her, “I asked you to take care of things, didn’t you dispose of the bodies?”
“Don’t bla her, I told her not to bury them.
I think they don’t deserve the ground, letting the dogs eat them fits right,” Zhu Bijing interjected.
Little Little hung her head, speechless.
A cold light flashed suddenly, and the two black dogs still growling were now corpses on the ground.
Jiang Wang killed the two black dogs, then shouted to soone in the mine, “Kill that yellow dog too.”
The yellow dog had already run into the mine, playfully running around people.
Xiang Qian, without a word, smacked it dead.
After today’s events, especially since Jiang Wang reported back imdiately after making a promise, if Jiang Wang told him to go east, he would not go west.
Old Hu Root watched from a distance, unable to suppress a mournful cry, “Raised them so long, they were guarding the yard, oh master!”
Jiang Wang paid him no heed.
It was Zhu Bijing who spoke up, “You really believe in these things.”
“Those who eat human flesh should die,”
Jiang Wang said, “Whether it’s a man or a dog.”
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