Chapter 38: The Imperial Carriage

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  Bai Jian turned his head back with a desperate struggle, but the Golden Corpse suddenly froze in place, holding its sword. Under the Golden Corpse's feet, at some unknown time, a silver long snake appeared, and this long snake tightly wrapped around the Golden Corpse's two horns. The Golden Corpse's enormous strength couldn't even break the snake's body.

  "Old master, don't worry, I'm here." Yulin Bells didn't know when she walked out of the darkness, pulled out a silver hairpin from her temples and stabbed it into the back of the golden corpse's brain. The back of the golden corpse's head had only one point that entered the cranial cavity, which was also the golden corpse's only weakness.

  The silver hairpin entered the golden corpse's brain, and was instantly melted by the true fire liquid inside. However, from the empty position on the silver hairpin, a crystal of ice shot out. As soon as this ice crystal appeared, the true fire in the zombie's brain was immediately extinguished, and cold air sprayed out from the zombie's mouth and nose.

  Bai Jian didn't need any guidance at this point, he exerted all his strength and smashed the long spear onto Jin Shi's head with a loud crash, shattering the already brittle skull into powder.

  Bai Jian was affected by the purple gold card, and Jin Shi was no exception. Yu Lin's experience of fighting against various monsters was rich, and she had been hiding in the dark waiting for an opportunity. She came prepared, and Qin Ershi's transformed golden corpse was unlucky to have encountered the Xuan Xiao symbol ice that countered it.

  It wasn't until the two of them joined forces to break through Jin Shi's defense that Bai Jian's long spear fell to the ground, emitting a metallic clashing sound. Yu Lin Dang also stopped in his tracks, slowly inhaling and exhaling, trying to recover his strength as soon as possible.

  He bent down and picked up the Zi Xiao Jin Ling, swallowing it into his abdomen. It wasn't that he wanted to do so, but rather the Ni Lin Gun repeatedly urged him on. After the Zi Xiao Jin Ling entered the mysterious space, the Ni Lin Gun began to spew out a cyan-golden aura, slowly refining and absorbing it.

  Bai Jian saw Bai Qi's strange behavior and didn't say anything, but instead looked at Yu Lin.

  Yu Lin Ting said: "Qī ér, how did you get in again?"

  Bai Qi said: "Outside... The Emperor has arrived."

  Bai Jian listened to Bai Qi say this and let out a long sigh.

  "Mr. Yu, take your son and leave."

  Yu Lin Dang said calmly: "You ask him if he is willing or not."

  Bai Jian wanted to speak out the truth but didn't know how to start. At this time, Bai Qi said: "Mother, Xiaoyu has been taken away!"

  "What!" Bai Jian and Yu Lin Dang asked in unison: "Who did it?!"

  "Two women from the Kunlun Sect took him away by force, saying they wanted to accept him as a disciple. The woman seemed to be called Su Mei."

  "Su Meng..." Yu Lin Ting heard this name, and his breathing calmed down. If Xiaoyu were to be favored by Kunlun, her future would be boundless. Su Meng was already a powerful being at the peak of Return to Void a thousand years ago, and now he must have already merged with the Tao.

  Bai Jian didn't know what Su Mei was up to, he looked at Yu Lin with suspicion. After all, Yu Lin was his own daughter, taken away by someone, how could he be at ease?

  "Master, it's just a light rain. Now is when we're probably unable to leave."

  Yu Lin Dang said that, Bai Jian just remembered that the current emperor of Da Jin had already arrived at the outer city of Qin Wang Mausoleum, waiting for him to come out. Thinking back to the emperor's orders, if Bai Jian still didn't understand the cause and effect by now, then he was an idiot.

  It never occurred to him before that the imperial inspector was invited by the emperor himself.

  It seems that the Emperor was confident in killing Tian Di's inspector, and he just came to wear down the inspector's strength first. However, the Emperor did not expect that it was himself who survived, rather than Yan Gongzi.

  Looking at his father and wet nurse staring at each other, Bai Qi couldn't help but say: "Mother, that emperor..."

  Yu Lin Ting shook his head, and Bai Jian said to Bai Qi: "That emperor has gone mad. He left the capital and came here in person. He must have already merged with the Nine Tripods. Once he dies, the Great Jin Dynasty will no longer be able to sustain itself."

  Yu Lin Dang said: "If he could swallow the entire dragon vein, or live forever, but here..." Yu Lin Dang pointed to the Nine Abyss Copper Coffin that was destroyed by Yan Gongzi.

  Bai Qi was speechless, the essence of this dragon vein had been absorbed by the Inverse Scale Spear. Now the Inverse Scale Spear was also decomposing and absorbing the golden token left behind by the Heavenly Emperor's Inspector. If spitting out these things could exchange for his father's safety, Bai Qi would not have hidden it. It was just that the dragon vein being absorbed by the Inverse Scale Spear was easy, but wanting to spit it out again was already impossible.

  Bai Jian became even more calm at this time, and he said to Bai Qi: "Qi'er, wait for me to go out later. If the emperor makes things difficult for us, you find an opportunity to escape, and I will have nothing to worry about."

  He said this, and his intention to kill was already evident. Without any scruples, he simply wanted to overthrow the king.

  The White family followed the Li family for tens of generations, and the bond between monarch and subject was severed overnight. Bai Jian couldn't help but feel a sense of regret. However, the Emperor had already left the capital, which was an unprecedented event in thousands of years, indicating that the Emperor had refined the Nine Tripods. Without the Nine Tripods, the Great Jin Dynasty would also come to an end, and the bond between monarch and subject could not be continued.

  Bai Jian took out a box from inside his armor, which was less than a foot long and made of deep red wood. The front of the box had twelve rows of ancient seal characters, with four characters in each row. The back of the box was carved with twelve human figures. The entire box was seamless, with hollow sides that resembled an old tree root. It seemed to have grown together naturally, and it was unclear how to open it.

  "Get up, take this with you. If you can escape, go find Xiao Yu, don't return to Jinling City."

  "Dad!"

  "Listen, if you can escape, go and gather news about Jinling City. If I'm not dead, I'll still be the Duke of Wei State, but don't come back. Go find Xiaoyu and marry her. If you have children, pass down the True Dragon Seven Kill Spear. If I die..."

  Bai Jian said up to here, paused for a moment, and said: "It's not necessary to avenge me. The true dragon seven killing gun technique of the Bai family has been cultivated to my level, and it is already indestructible. The last chapter of the True Dragon Seven Killing Gun will be understood when you cultivate it."

  Bai Qi didn't understand and stared stubbornly at his father.

  Yu Lin Dang said, "If the soul is not destroyed, it will be summoned to the underworld. If your father dies in battle, he will at least become a general commanding millions of troops in the underworld. That's also a way of cultivation, only the future advancement will be more difficult, and there may not be another day to meet again. I heard that ancient warriors mostly dominated the underworld, originally thought it was the nonsense of the immortal people in the immortal world, didn't expect the soul to be indestructible."

  "Father, I have a superior Taoist instrument in hand, it's not necessarily impossible to make a comeback!" But Bai Qi was unwilling. Letting him abandon his father and escape, he was not willing to do so.

  "The Nine Tripods are divine artifacts, and that thing of yours probably can't be controlled at will." Bai Jian said, waving his hand to signal to Bai Qi not to mention it again. He stuffed the box into Bai Qi's hands and said, "This is one of Qin Huang's Twelve Golden Men, completely sealed away. It requires the blood of a true dragon to break the seal. In this world, true dragons are extinct. If one day you can kill Jin Huang and use his blood, you can also open the seal on this golden man."

  Bai Qi raised his hand and grasped a wooden box, this wooden box was no more than eight inches long, but weighed as heavy as a thousand jun.

  "Take it back." Yu Lin's deep voice urged. Bai Qi subconsciously swallowed the wooden box into his abdomen. The wooden box entered a strange space, and the dormant Inverse Scale Spear slightly opened up some space for the wooden box of Qin Huang's Twelve Golden Men.

  "Get up, this matter cannot be refused. If I go out now, the White family will probably only have a few people left to escape. If you don't leave, the White family is finished." Bai Jian said calmly, bending down to grab the soft and limp body of Yan Gongzi. A red ring that had turned black was removed from Yan Gongzi's hand by Bai Jian and tossed to Bai Qi.

  "This should be the spatial ring of a Qi Refiner. I don't need this thing, help me find it, is there any medicine that can recover from injuries." Bai Jian had just entered the Land Sword Immortal realm and was unable to open the spatial ring like a Qi Refiner.

  Bai Qi infused his yuanqi into the ring, carefully exploring it. The space inside the ring was a thousand times larger than his storage ring, but there weren't many things inside. With a sweep of his divine sense, he found several bottles that seemed to be used for storing dan medicine and took them out.

  Yu Lin Ting was somewhat astonished, Yan Gongzi's ring had many restrictions, but Bai Qi opened it at will, without any hindrance. She didn't know that Bai Qi's innate yuanqi had been transformed by the Inverse Scale Spear, and spatial equipment below the level of a sacred artifact was simply defenseless against him.

  A dozen or so bottles were first handed over to Yu Linzhong, who glanced at the tadpole script on the bottles, opened them separately, sniffed them under his nose, quickly picked out two bottles, and handed the rest to Bai Qi.

  Yu Lin rang threw two bottles of the same style to Bai Jian, saying: "You can have them both, I'm afraid there won't be another chance to drink again."

  Bai Jian didn't have anything to suspect either. Yu Lin Dang herself tilted her head and poured the entire bottle of Dan medicine into her mouth, swallowing it all in one gulp.

  Medicines are like tigers and wolves, the harm they cause is more severe than the benefits they bring. The kind of thing where eating an immortal pill can make you ascend to heaven in broad daylight only appears in the stories told by traveling performers. In normal circumstances, for someone of Bai Qi's status, swallowing any kind of immortal pill would result in nothing but a violent death.

  If the elixir's grade is high enough and has already formed a dan spirit, it may even counterattack and devour Bai Qi or directly seize his body.

  Yu Lin Dang and Bai Jian swallowed two bottles of unknown-grade elixir like roasted beans, then meditated on the spot. Bai Qi's heart was uneasy, summoning four symbol soldiers, only three blood-patterned knives were left, Bai Qi picked up the golden corpse's bronze sword and handed it to a symbol soldier.

  This soldier's fight against his father was of no help whatsoever, but it was better than nothing.

  "White Ai Qing, are you inside?" Emperor Jin's voice penetrated the layers of the palace and reached the deepest part of the tomb, still clear and loud.

  Bai Jian opened his eyes and took a step forward, replying: "Your subject is here."

  "Can you come out and talk?" Jin Huang asked seemingly unhurriedly.

  "I'll go out and meet him now." Bai Jian said, adjusting his armor, looked back at Bai Qi, who hastily followed in Bai Jian's footsteps, bringing his four token soldiers.

  Yu Lin rang shook his head and had no choice but to follow behind Bai Jian. The Qin Wang Mausoleum only had one exit, but beneath the copper coffin of the Second Emperor was a passage leading to the Nine Hells. Even an immortal wouldn't dare to cross it lightly.

  Facing a person like Jin Huang, this great demon also didn't have half a grasp.

  The Great Jin Li royal family, if they were easy to deal with, those cultivators wouldn't have targeted Bai Jian first. Bai Jian is just one person, but the Li family has many imperial bloodlines, and their power can suppress that of the cultivators.