Chapter 188

Li Miao here caught Devotee Zhou and beat him fiercely, beating him until trees fell and stones opened, flesh and blood flew, not to mention.

Back to Ji Tianrui here.

The Yang-surnamed old man, considered Yang Lixuan's cousin, named Yang Lizhang.

And looking at his angry and gnashing teeth appearance toward Yin Ruihua, one knew that the two had a deep grudge.

One must know, Yin Ruihua was an expert who roamed the Jianghu when Great Shuo was founded; although it is not known why he can still live today, he clearly hasn't appeared in the world for many years, so what grudge could he have with Yang Lizhang, this seventy-year-old young man?

This matter, however, has to be traced back to nearly two hundred years ago, to the founding emperor of Great Shuo.

The founding emperor of Great Shuo, a beggar by origin, finally set the world. Among the emperors of all dynasties, he can be said to be the one with the lowest origin, so there is also the saying of "the most correct acquisition of the country".

Everything is difficult at the beginning, especially rebellion. Regarding how he started from a beggar who was poorly clothed and hungry, and finally saved the family foundation for rebellion after many years, there are many different opinions. Some wild histories even record that he relied on "pleasing people with color" to save the family foundation for rebellion.

Of course, the person who wrote this wild history has already been finely chopped into meat sauce.

And the more widely circulated saying in the Jianghu is that after he was driven to a dead end, he defected to the Ming Sect, received the appreciation of a big figure in the Ming Sect, borrowed the power of the Ming Sect to cultivate his foundation, and finally rose to power.

This word, right, but not right.

He did borrow the Ming Sect to rise to power, but there was never any "appreciation from a big figure".

Or rather, he himself was that "big figure".

By the time the world was in turmoil and heroes were competing for the deer, he had effectively controlled the entire Ming Sect. And the Ming Sect leader at that time was just a puppet he placed on the stage, named Yang Haofeng.

When he was fighting for the world, the Ming Sect secretly did some dirty work for him, such as assassinating enemy generals, spying on intelligence, or some things that couldn't be seen, which can be said to have great merit.

In short, later he set the world and established Great Shuo.

When the Ming Sect felt that it could finally walk to the stage, and was calculating how to educate the world after becoming the "State Religion".

It ushered in the Emperor's "just cutting".

Together with that Yang Haofeng who acted as the Ming Sect leader for him, they were together labeled as rebels and inexplicably lost their lives.

Actually, thinking about it, one knows that the Ming Sect is an old rebel. In prosperous times, they want to rebel, and in chaotic times, they also want to rebel; when the Han people are in power, they want to rebel, and when foreign races are in power, they want to rebel even more; if life is bad, it is "why not rebel if life is so bad?", if life is good, it is "since we are idle, why not rebel!".

How could the Emperor really lift such a stirrer to the stage?

Moreover, the Ming Sect at that time was doing dirty work for him. Of course, the dirty knife should be thrown away; if it gets blood on the body, it doesn't look clean.

And the descendants of that Yang Haofeng took over the Ming Sect and began to rebel against Great Shuo, until today.

As for the grudge between this Yin Ruihua and the Yang family, it is another story.

In short, enemies meet, eyes are red.

The old man named Yang Lizhang stared fixedly at Yin Ruihua, but suddenly burst into wild laughter.

"Good, good!"

"I thought you harmed my ancestor, your sworn brother, back then in exchange for what glory and wealth! It turns out it was just to be a grave-keeper for that old thing for more than a hundred years!"

"Seeing you living so wretchedly, I am relieved! Hahahaha——"

Ji Tianrui chuckled in the back and raised her hand.

Two women rushed out from the dense forest behind and arrived at her side.

Covered in scars, clearly also of "Pupa Girl" origin. They looked at each other, but suddenly raised their hands into claws.

Stabbing into their own abdomens!

Their arms moved inside their own bodies, the two didn't change their expressions, and blood flowed down their arms to the ground.

Pfft, pfft.

Two soft sounds.

The two raised two lumps of flesh and blood and placed them in Ji Tianrui's hands.

The moment the internal organs left their bodies, their faces began to age rapidly. The two retreated two steps, as if the Pupa Girls kneeling in front of the Miao King's coffin in the Miao King's tomb, knelt on the ground toward Ji Tianrui and let out a long breath.

And then, they lost their breath.

"Sigh..."

Ji Tianrui stepped forward and touched the tops of their heads, sighing.

Afterwards, she swallowed the two lumps of flesh and blood.

After the flesh and blood entered her abdomen, Yin Ruihua's gaze shifted to Ji Tianrui.

"Three paths combined? Storing the realm in others, and taking it back when needed, to avoid the Five Decays of Heavenly Humans?"

"Indeed a good method."

Ji Tianrui smiled sweetly and bowed.

"I don't deserve such praise from Yin old gentleman. It's just some side-door left-path, unable to be mentioned in the same breath as your longevity method."

"If I didn't have this method, I wouldn't have been able to hide from the search of the imperial court's Heavenly Humans and live until now."

Yin Ruihua waved his hand.

"In martial arts, those who are capable come first."

"For thousands of years, how many senior experts have been exploring the path to avoid the Five Decays of Heavenly Humans. My Great Shuo can only rely on the turtle-breathing method to delay it for a while."

"This method of yours is much more brilliant."

Yin Ruihua scanned Yang Lizhang and looked at Ji Tianrui again.

"You are not surnamed Yang, right?"

"Don't want to be."

"In that case, are you willing to be surnamed Yin?"

Yin Ruihua completely ignored Yang Lizhang's suddenly gloomy face and said kindly.

"Offer this secret method to the imperial court, and I guarantee that the matters between the Yang family and the Ming Sect will have nothing to do with you. You don't have to hide and dodge, and you can practice martial arts with me here."

"The secret manuals collected by the imperial court, you can flip through at will; the strange treasures collected from the four seas, you can enjoy at will. With your aptitude, it's not impossible to cross the Heavenly Human realm and touch the threshold of an immortal in the world."

"How about it? It's better than the days of rebelling with this group of fools, right?"

Ji Tianrui smiled without speaking, looking at Yang Lizhang intentionally or unintentionally.

Yin Ruihua waved his hand.

"Don't look at the Yang family fools; you are different from them. Seeing how those two women were willing to die for you just now, I know you are a person with thoughts."

"The Yang family, heh. They don't understand that accompanying the monarch is like accompanying a tiger, rushing forward blindly, leaving no way out. When death is imminent, they still have an aggrieved look of having been betrayed, not thinking at all why they must die."

"Do you think I wanted to kill Yang Haofeng? It was just that he had to die; dying in my hands at least could be a quick death."

Yin Ruihua looked at Ji Tianrui.

"I won't tell you any empty words."

"With your talent, in the future, you might be able to inherit my mantle and guard the inheritance of Great Shuo. As long as you don't touch certain things, I guarantee you will be fine."

"How about it, are you willing to be my Yin Ruihua's adopted daughter?"

In the moonlight, Yin Ruihua stretched out his hand toward Ji Tianrui.

Yang Lizhang and the middle-aged man supporting Yin Ruihua both held their breath together.

They knew clearly that if Ji Tianrui stepped forward and placed her hand in Yin Ruihua's, she would no longer be a rebel.

But would soar into the sky!

(End of chapter)