Holy Bone

Chapter 2093 The White Coffin and the Fierce Corpse Found in the Snow Mountain

Jin An looked back.
The old Taoist priest was fast asleep in the cave.
He said to Xiaojian, "Xiaojian, you stay here and look after the horses and supplies. I'm going to investigate."

The swordsman nodded.

Jin An leaped away and left the cave.

The snow-capped mountain environment was so quiet that even from a great distance, faint sounds could be heard. Jin'an traveled for about a mile before finally finding the source of the sound.

The moment Jin An saw the familiar snow-capped mountain mist, he knew he had guessed right.

Having learned from his first experience, Jin An was prepared this time, using the eighteenth transformation, the Earth-Walking Technique, to approach the mist from beneath the ground.

Strangely enough, when he entered the mist from underground, the scene he saw was snow-covered mountains, just like any other snow-capped mountain landscape, and he didn't see any mist at all.

But the fog was clearly right in front of us, a huge mass that covered several miles.

Jin An looked slightly surprised, thinking to himself, "It seems that the main reason for this is still these mists. These mists have the effect of confusing people's vision and hiding their tracks."

With this thought in mind, Jin An immediately used the fourteenth transformation, the Borrowing Wind Technique. A strong wind suddenly arose in the snow-covered mountains, whipping up heavy snow that roared and surged through the mountains like a blizzard.

I don't know.

A strange scene unfolded.

The fog remained completely still, silently permeating the air, unaffected in the slightest, without the slightest fluctuation.

Moreover, when Jin An looked down from underground to the surface, there was no fog.

But when he used the Earth-Traveling Technique to escape the mist and looked back at the mist, the mist in the air remained in the same place, neither fading nor dissipating.

It was truly magical and bizarre.

Jin An looked even more surprised this time.

However, this time he didn't hesitate for long. A resolute look appeared on his face. He withdrew the Eighteenth Transformation Earth Travel Technique and walked straight into the fog, intending to personally investigate what the truth was within the fog.

As soon as Jin An stepped into the mist, he frowned deeply, as if he had sensed something. He then raised one palm, and Dao Qi scattered around, gathering the air in the air from a distance.

As he gathered air into his palm, a cloud of mist accumulated in his palm, but it was not his Dao Qi; rather, it was another kind of energy.

And this aura.

Jin'an was very familiar with it.

Because he had just met him at Emperor Kangzhao's ancestral worship ceremony, and Yuan Yiban, the Chamberlain and the newly appointed Imperial Preceptor, had just used him.

It is the aura of the mountain god!
Jin An's expression was solemn.

I never expected to encounter the aura of a mountain god here in the snow-capped mountains.

He recalled the scene when he first met these people. At that time, he saw at least three or four people. Didn't that mean that at least three or four traitors to humanity and lackeys of the mountain god had come to the steppe khanate?

Why are these mountain gods and canine teeth appearing together in the steppe khanate, but not going to Kangding? What are they trying to do?
If it were to avenge Yuan Yiban, the new Grand Tutor and the Chamberlain, one should have gone to Kangding as soon as possible to find him, right?
Could it be that these people knew he was no longer in Kangding and was already on his way to Luosha, so they waited for him in the snowy mountains?
But this makes even less sense.

Since you already know his whereabouts, why don't you come directly to find him instead of lingering in the snowy mountains?

After pondering for a moment, Jin An realized that these people weren't there to see him; they must have some other purpose. However, he didn't yet know what that purpose was and needed to investigate further.

Moreover, the behavior of these mountain gods with canine teeth is also very strange. They wear masks to cover their eyes, ears, nose and mouth, and are dressed in animal skins that cover their whole body. What exactly are these people avoiding in the mortal world?
What kind of being exists in the mortal realm that makes them so terrified that they need to avoid it completely?

Over the years, he had encountered many mountain gods and canine teeth, but this was the first time he had seen people like these, wearing masks and animal skins.

"Could it be that the mountain god's canine teeth are also graded, and these people are weaker and cannot withstand the erosion of the mortal world's energy?"

"But that doesn't make sense either. They're all human, and these people aren't from the mountain god clan."

Jin An pondered for a long time but still couldn't figure out the reason, so he decided to find an opportunity to find a few people to study it.

With this in mind, Jin An began to move slowly and cautiously through the fog.

Thanks to his status as a martial arts immortal, with keen hearing and sharp eyesight, and an exceptionally strong physique, he could hear subtle movements from a great distance. He quickly discovered that there was movement coming from the west side of the mist, so he approached that direction with slow but extremely fast movements.

This time, he only had to run a short distance before he successfully found the person he was looking for.

Sure enough, those who could move within this fog were all strange and mysterious humans wearing masks.

Jin An originally intended to take advantage of the others' inattention and secretly capture the last person, but after thinking about it, he temporarily gave up the idea because he was very curious about what these people's purpose was in appearing in the snow mountain, so he wanted to follow them and go and see.

Jin An followed these people, and strangely enough, the fog actually served the purpose of making the road flat, smooth, and wide. Any snow-capped mountains, peaks, valleys, cliffs, or avalanches along the way would turn into flat and smooth roads in front of the fog, allowing for unobstructed and straight progress to the destination.

Jin An was surprised. He turned around to look behind him, but unfortunately, everything behind him was shrouded in mist, making it impossible to see the outside world or the specific scene.

"That's getting interesting."

Jin An lowered his head and pondered.

Jin'an encountered about ten mysterious humans this time. These people did not speak at all and traveled quickly.

Soon, the group arrived at the leeward side of a mountain wall composed of several large rocks. As soon as they arrived, they noticed that there were twenty or thirty people lying among those rocks, all without vital signs, all dead.

The deaths of these people were strange; there were no wounds or signs of violence on their bodies. It was as if they had simply fallen asleep and died in the snowy night, never to rise again.

Unfortunately, he was too far away from those people to see many details.

Even though he was a martial arts immortal with extraordinary hearing and eyesight, he still couldn't see some physical details. He had to personally touch the corpse to see the most specific situation.

He was about a mile or a hundred feet away from the corpses, yet he could see that they had no wounds from sharp weapons or violent beatings, which already showed that his visual ability was quite remarkable.

He could only access the corpse and see all the details if he risked alerting those mysterious humans.

Just as Jin An was deep in thought, those mysterious humans approached the corpse and, with swift strokes of their knives, severed one head after another, then neatly piled them up to form a new mound of heads.

A mound of human heads made up of twenty or thirty human heads.

As for the headless corpses, they were kicked out of the mist and disappeared without a trace.

Upon seeing the familiar mounds of stones, Jin An paused for a moment, then his expression turned particularly grave. He had recently speculated with the old Taoist that these mounds might have been built by people from the steppe khanate, since the only inhabitants of the snow-capped mountains were the people of the Rakshasa Kingdom and the steppe khanate. And since the snow-capped mountains were close to the steppe khanate, the probability of them being native inhabitants of the steppe was higher.

But he discovered that he was wrong, terribly wrong. These mounds of earth were not left by the people of the steppe Khanate, but were actually left by the mountain gods who had disturbed the spirits!
or!
It could also be said to have been left behind by the Rakshasa Kingdom!
If the mountain god is truly in the Rakshasa Kingdom, then these canine teeth of the mountain god are undoubtedly people of the Rakshasa Kingdom!
Isn't that something left behind by the Rakshasa Kingdom?

With the fall of the steppe khanate, Kangding was too far from the steppes and snow-capped mountains, making it a suitable place for the Russian Kingdom to expand its borders!

If it really is the Rakshasa Kingdom appearing here, Jin An wouldn't be surprised at all!
After those mysterious humans finished building the Jingguan (a mound of ashes), they began to leave, heading deeper into the snow-capped mountains. As Jin An passed by the Jingguan, he sighed with pity and silently recited the name of the Supreme Taiyi Du'e Tianzun (a deity who saves people from suffering), hoping that these people could transcend reincarnation as soon as possible.

However, when Jin An looked at the Jingguan (a mound of stones), he was suddenly stunned because he saw several familiar faces inside.

It was just over twenty days ago, outside Jianlao Pass, that the members of the caravan who were with the obese middle-aged man, Mr. Lin! Those who envied the Rakshasa Kingdom for its ability to become rich overnight, where gold and silver were worthless, and who had argued with Mr. Lin before leaving the caravan!

Hey.

Jin An sighed again, thinking to himself that fate was truly cruel.

Mr. Lin said that these people were greedy for the wealth of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and that there was a high chance that something bad would happen to them in the snowy mountains during their trip there. Unexpectedly, something bad really did happen in the end.

Time flies.

It's only been twenty-odd days.

After lamenting his fate with a sense of compassion, Jin An continued on his way, his heart heavy, following the mysterious humans who were leading the way.

Because of the fog clearing the way, the road was smooth and flat, without the need for mountain climbing or rock climbing, so they traveled very quickly. They even saw the appearance of permafrost and dense, tall trees along the way.

These tall trees include conifers, spruces, fir trees, broad-leaved trees, and larch, but conifers are the most numerous.

Upon seeing the coniferous trees, Jin An's face showed even greater surprise. He hadn't expected that he could travel so quickly through the fog, and in less than a night, he was already close to crossing the snow-capped mountains and entering the high-altitude permafrost layer.

After passing through grasslands, snow-capped mountains, and permafrost, we will now directly enter the territory of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, he traversed a considerable distance from the Rakshasa Kingdom in less than a night.

Just as Jin An was observing his surroundings and reflecting on his surroundings, he saw the mist begin to thin out and dissipate rapidly. The mist, along with the mysterious humans, quickly disappeared into a large rift valley.

Jin An didn't have time to think it over. He used the eighteenth transformation, Earth Travel Technique, to enter the Great Rift Valley to check the situation. There were no buildings or military camps in the Great Rift Valley. Instead, there were many caves carved into the cliffs on both sides, and each cave contained a statue of a deity.

The statue was not of a deity worshipped, but of a mountain god.

Those mountain gods were shrouded in incense smoke, making it impossible to see their true faces. They were described as neither human, god, nor demon, with bizarre and varied appearances, resembling ancient demon gods in countless forms.

This scene reminded Jin'an of a place called the Thousand Buddha Cave!

How similar the Thousand Buddha Caves are to the scene before us!

The mountains and fields are filled with caves and grottoes, each containing a towering statue of a deity!
The scene was both majestic and magnificent, yet also eerily sinister!

"According to the information I obtained from Master Qingxi, mountain gods are not deities in essence, nor are they human beings. Rather, they are mountain spirits who have attained enlightenment and are the mountain deities that people yearn for day and night. Among these mountain gods, those famous mountains and marshes, sacred mountains and holy mountains are the most powerful and unfathomable, and are no less than the gods of the Heavenly Court."

"That's why the mountain god causes so many disasters in the human world. Every time he appears, there will be widespread suffering, devastation, and mountains of corpses and seas of blood."

"The statues in these cliff caves are neither human, god, nor demon, but they do resemble the mountain god described by Master Qingxi."

Jin An pondered and muttered to himself.

If these cliff-mountain statues are indeed statues of mountain gods, Jin An would not have prematurely exposed himself and alerted the mountain gods.

Because his mission was to go to the Rakshasa Kingdom to find the mountain god's trail and prevent the mountain god from reviving.

If we reveal ourselves too early, the plan to stop the mountain god will likely face significant changes.

Jin An pondered for a moment, then quietly withdrew from the Great Rift Valley, deactivated the Eighteenth Transformation Earth Travel Technique, and his figure re-emerged from the ground.

Then, his body moved like an eagle spreading its wings, leaping rapidly through the snow-capped mountains.

"Thanks to the fog that cleared the way, I was able to reach the deepest part of the snow mountain's permafrost so easily, which is perfect for me to dig up the beautiful white coffin of the White Coffin Ferocious Corpse."

"The three snow-capped mountains of Changyun in Qinghai stand tall in the clouds, overlooking the rift valley. This is the place where Mr. Yi and Senior Zhong's white coffins are hidden. They are hidden in the snow-capped mountain that faces the frozen rift valley."

"There are three snow-capped mountains just a mile away from the Great Rift Valley. I didn't expect Mr. Yi and Senior Zhong to be so fast. They have already explored this place and are very close to the Mountain God."

For a martial arts master like Jin An, a mile is a distance that can be covered in the blink of an eye.

When Jin'an arrived at the top of the snow mountain, he first lit three incense sticks and bowed respectfully to the surrounding air, which is called respecting ancestors.

The beautiful white-coffined fierce corpse sacrificed itself for the prosperity of humanity, becoming one of the guardian spirits of the Four Symbols Formation of Heaven and Earth. Isn't that an ancestor?

Then, Jin An took out a jade slip left to him by Mr. Yi and Senior Zhong, opened the Snow Mountain Secret Realm, and went to search for the white coffin.

……

"Sword-slicing, where is your master?"

"Old Taoist, I've woken up, but I haven't seen him anywhere."

On the plateau, it gets light very early. When the old Taoist priest woke up, it was already bright outside the cave. Curious, the old Taoist priest asked the sword-wielding guard at the cave entrance.

Xiao Jian raised his hand and pointed outside: "I'm back."

The old Taoist priest looked puzzled and asked, "You're back?"

"What? You're back?"

"You mean your master went out and came back, but I didn't see anything?"

Just as the old Taoist priest arrived at the cave entrance and looked around for Jin An's figure, a figure appeared out of thin air from beneath the cave floor, carrying a white coffin on his shoulder, and entered the cave.

"Old Taoist, what are you looking at at the cave entrance?" Jin'an, carrying a white coffin on his shoulder inside the cave, asked the old Taoist in surprise.

Upon hearing Jin An's voice, the old Taoist priest hurriedly turned to look at the cave, and then, the next moment, he stared in disbelief at the white coffin on Jin An's shoulder...

(End of this chapter)