Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Everyone gathered over when they saw the two crystal coffins.
“This is…”
One of the coffins had been heavily damaged. Only the upper half of the corpse was left inside, and the lower body was missing. Looking at the wound, it seemed to have been crushed by a rock.
Although the corpse of a Spirit Wheel expert couldn’t be destroyed easily, it would be completely different if a nuclear bomb exploded on it.
The other coffin was relatively complete with a fairly intact corpse.
Although neither corpse was fully intact, their faces were completely preserved. At a glance, everyone could see the appearances of the two bodies, which were somewhat similar to that of the chief of the Temple of Heaven.
“The twenty-first chief of the Feidu Temple and the twenty-ninth deputy chief of the Temple of Heaven.” Wen Xiaosheng took a glance and immediately recognized the two bodies.
“The twenty-first chief of the Feidu Temple… Isn’t that…” Everyone started to wonder. Wasn’t this the disciple of that dried-up corpse downstairs? According to Zong Shang, wasn’t this the receptacle that Qing Lan, the former chief of the Temple of Heaven, switched into?
Her body was unexpectedly still preserved within the Temple of Heaven in such a complete state.
“The Temple of Heaven is gone. We were digging and found these two corpses below. There’s a secret chamber beneath the temple that no one knew about,” someone said.
“Just right. Cut open the bodies and everything will come to light.” Fei Yan took a glance and had a relaxed look on her face.
Ren Baqian stood curiously at the side, waiting to see what it looked like inside their bodies.
These foreign beings manipulated the human body through the brain… They looked no different from any living person, and he felt that something was strange about this.
It suddenly reminded him of something. Gundam!
The foreign beings were the pilots, and the human bodies were the Gundams.
Ren Baqian didn’t expect a fantasy from the comics to be presented to him in such a way.
It was somewhat ironic.
Not far from him, the people had already tossed the remaining half of the lid aside, revealing the partial body in the coffin.
“The two bodies are soaked in an unknown liquid,” someone said as he looked at the wound. This liquid wouldn’t stick to parts of the body that were intact, but had left some residue on the wounded areas.
Xu Wuming looked solemnly at the two bodies and gestured in the air with his finger. An invisible sword shot out and slashed through the air.
A horizontal cut suddenly appeared on the nasal bridge of the half-intact corpse.
Someone reached out and touched it, causing the upper half of the head to completely detach.
“Hiss!” The room was immediately filled with wincing sounds as the looks on everybody’s faces changed.
The upper half of the cut open skull was filled with a dark green liquid.
Most importantly, among the dark green liquid, there was also half the body of a person!
Half the body of a person that was the size of a finger!
After Xu Wuming’s sword cut across this little person’s waist, its hands and lower body were gone. They couldn’t tell its gender from the upper half of its body. This little person, who was surrounded by the dark green liquid, seemed to have felt the pain, and its body was shivering slightly.
“It really is a foreign being. It’s still alive!” everyone shouted.
There was a foreign being in the corpse’s head. This sight was enough to shock everyone, not to mention that it was still alive.
The face and eyelids of the bisected foreign being were twitching slightly. Everyone immediately put up their guards. This thing actually used a human body as a receptacle, and nobody knew if it would suddenly wake up and fight back.
Ren Baqian immediately shrank behind Zong Shang, using him as a meat shield.
However, that situation didn’t happen.
The bisected foreign being stopped moving after shivering for a while.
“It’s dead,” someone said after a while.
Ren Baqian peeked from behind Zong Shang’s back and confirmed that there was no threat. He then moved over to the body and looked into the cut open head, only to see the sticky dark green liquid slowly oozing out
The lower half of the foreign being’s body was in there.
What he cared about was that this foreign being’s back actually had a tail. Or rather, there were a bunch of tails. Countless white filaments extended from its tailbone. These were embedded all over the skull, making it look like it was filled with spider webs.
Ren Baqian guessed that this foreign being controlled the human body through this method, similar to how the jade-waisted slaves had done it.
Before the jade-waisted slaves matured, they also lived in the human body, but they had almost no reaction to the outside world. They had no cognitive ability and were completely like the walking dead.
This one was more advanced.
Everyone in the room stayed silent for a long time before starting a commotion.
At present, everything had been proven and everyone was no longer the same. They didn’t expect the creator of the Temple of Heaven to actually be a foreign being or that the temple had been under the control and manipulation of foreign beings for thousands of years.
This made it intolerable for the members of this organization who had been secretly setting the direction of the human race for so long!
“I have nothing to say now. I just have a question. Can the human race succeed?” Xu Wuming shut his eyes and stood still for a moment before glaring at Ren Baqian.
“Naturally!” Ren Baqian replied with a relaxed look.
As long as you give me enough time… Would you believe that I can blow up the foreign races using railroads?
“That’s good!” Xu Wuming seemed relieved. “I said that I would settle accounts with you after the investigation, and it’s time for me to do so! Since the human race still has you guys, I have no regrets.”
“Xu Wuming?” The others immediately grew anxious when they heard this.
However, he didn’t worry about them and simply cupped his fists at Ren Baqian and the rest.
“Too many people are waiting for me!” After this sentence, he suddenly fell to the ground without any further response.
Life quickly dissipated from him.
The crowd could bear the sight of this.
They didn’t expect Xu Wuming to simply die like this.
After everything had come to light, the Temple of Heaven had lost a great deal of their fighting force. Xu Wuming was also one of their best fighters.
Zong Shang’s face turned gloomy as he recalled the conversation he had with Xu Wuming the night before.
When he handed the fire poison protective equipment to the villagers, he told Xu Wuming what Ren Baqian had agreed to, that as long as they would vanish without a trace, they wouldn’t be pursued.
Unfortunately, with Xu Wuming’s pride and arrogance, how could he bear to live such a miserable life?
“I don’t fear death and won’t hesitate to! If that man can really take the human race out of this cage, my death will prevent the Temple of Heaven from being implicated. Besides, those who have died at my hands all these years are waiting for me down there!”
Too many people had died at the hands Xu Wuming over the years.
If it was for the sake of the human race, the conscience of the sword in his heart would be crystal clear and wouldn’t reek of blood.
However, since all of the chiefs of the Temple of Heaven were foreign beings, what was it that he had done all these years? How was he supposed to make up for all those people that he had killed?
He had lost faith, and his sword was stained with blood. It was better to call it a day.
“Sigh!” Zong Shang shifted his attention to another man.
“I’ll make a move first!” Wen Xiaosheng cupped his hands with a gentle smile.
He took his last breath after this sentence.
Everyone in the room felt a chill run down their spines.
Zong Shang closed his eyes and recalled the words that Wen Xiaosheng said before, “Zhen Toufeng!
The Temple of Heaven doesn’t lack experts. There will still be many top experts even if we die, although it will take some time. However, the Temple of Heaven is still part of everyone’s identities. If problems were to arise, it would implicate everyone.
We have committed a grave offense this time, and we have to pay for it. If we keep quiet about it, we might have to pay it back at a price that is hundreds or thousands of times higher. If Ren Baqian hadn’t made that request back then, there would still be room to salvage the situation. However, since he mentioned it, it has taken root in our hearts. That being the case, it would be better to end things here!”
Ren Baqian watched the two die, sighed slightly, and walked out the door.
He felt his enthusiasm waning for a moment.
