Chapter 601: Chapter 187: Breaking into the Lair of the Evil God! The Unlucky Ones from the Great Yan Dynasty! (10,000-word mega Chapter, please subscribe)_5
The room contained living people ensnared in captivity.
Their eyes were devoid of any spirit, and all of them were locked inside iron cages. Their mouths were stuffed with rags, allowing only for unending muffled groans, incapable of uttering a single word.
Fan Wu looked around.
There were at least a dozen people.
Among them, the most eye-catching was a prison cart, an identical one to which Fan Wu had seen on a royal road. And in that particular cart sat a person dressed in a monk’s robe.
Only... the robe was worn haphazardly, as if someone had hurriedly thrown it on in a frantic moment.
This person.
Was no longer breathing!
If his guess was right, could this person be the next one to undergo the "Becoming Buddha Ritual" and achieve enlightenment on the spot?
How tragic.
"You... you’re not a monk?" Suddenly, a voice reached Fan Wu’s ear.
Upon closer inspection,
he noticed that one of the people in the iron cages had somehow managed to remove the rag from their mouth. This person’s eyes perhaps held the only glimmer of light among them.
The person went on to say, "From inside, I could hear the commotion outside, something about a monk shouting that the abbot is dead. Then, I saw you kicking the door in."
"If it had been those evil monks, they should have had the keys and wouldn’t have needed to come in so violently. Hence, I think... you must not be a monk."
"Even more, you might be an enemy of these evil monks! They said the abbot is dead, does that mean... the old evil abbot of Longhe Temple died at your hands?"
Fan Wu could detect the hope in the person’s dry, coarse voice as he spoke.
Fan Wu nodded, "Indeed, you have guessed correctly."
As his words fell,
the spirit of the person in the cage instantly perked up. He licked his cracked lips and hurriedly said, "My good sir, if you release me, whatever you ask within my ability, I can provide!"
"Although I don’t have much in the way of wealth or connections within the Great Zhou Dynasty... but once we reach the Great Yan Dynasty! Truly, whatever you ask for, I can provide!"
"Oh?" The words "Great Yan Dynasty" caught Fan Wu’s attention: "You belong to the Great Yan Dynasty?"
Looking at this fellow’s thin, delicate appearance,
Fan Wu felt he was different from the people of the Great Yan Dynasty.
Having encountered envoys from the Great Yan Dynasty at the Nanjun Prefecture Government, he knew their looks well – their skin bore the hue of wheat, their muscles well-developed, and their tempers hotter and rougher than the common folk of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
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Mostly, it was that this man’s attribute information, displayed above his head, did not label him as someone from the Great Yan Dynasty.
Moreover, he seemed to be a cultivator, albeit an extremely weak one, so frail that Fan Wu felt a single breath from him could finish off the emaciated cultivator.
It was as if the man, realizing the faint doubt in Fan Wu’s eyes, hastened to explain, "Judging by your reaction, you must have encountered people from the Great Yan Dynasty. I am not of pure Great Yan blood; half of my lineage is from the Great Zhou Dynasty."
"I swear to heaven!" the man vowed earnestly. "Every word I speak is nothing but the truth!"
Fan Wu had not expected that on his journey across the Great Yan Dynasty, aiming for the Shangwu Dynasty, he would encounter someone from the Great Yan Dynasty... He could see that the man was not lying.
"You need not promise anything. Since you hail from the Great Yan Dynasty, then you must be quite familiar with it, right?" inquired Fan Wu.
The man was taken aback, "You’re asking because... could it be that you’re heading to the Great Yan Dynasty?"
He sensed that Fan Wu wouldn’t ask him out of the blue whether he was familiar with the Great Yan Dynasty.
"Correct," Fan Wu nodded frankly.
"That’s wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!" The man was immediately more excited, speaking hastily, "You want to go to the Great Yan Dynasty, and I wish to return there, what a coincidence! I can show you the way, wherever in the Great Yan Dynasty you want to go, I know the way!"
"Right, the keys!" The man pointed to a set of keys hanging on the wall, continuing, "Those keys hanging there are to unlock these cages... Huh?"
He suddenly saw Fan Wu place his hand on the cage, prompting a moment of surprise, "What are you doing?"
He asked, puzzled and astonished, "These cages are incredibly sturdy; even if I exerted all my strength, I couldn’t bend them. It’s best to use the keys..."
But before he could finish, he saw Fan Wu gently pry the cage open.
In that moment!
His eyes widened more than anyone’s, for he was witnessing Fan Wu bending the bars of the cage. And the way he did it, it seemed as if it hardly took any effort at all.
It even felt as though he used no effort whatsoever, simply prying casually to create an opening big enough to escape through.
He was utterly dumbfounded.
His face was a picture of disbelief!
"You, you, you..." He wanted to ask furiously what kind of mysterious being Fan Wu was, but then it dawned on him that questioning his savior in such a way was perhaps a bit ungracious.
Then he saw Fan Wu bending open each and every cage.
