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Chapter 1680 Loulan Ancient City, Divine Beast?
"Ok?"

Jiang Chen turned his head to look.

King of the Wheels.

Characters in "Reign of Assassins".

In the drama, he is the leader of the assassination organization "Black Stone," who single-handedly established Black Stone's position as the number one assassin organization in the martial arts world. He aspires to unify the martial arts world, but unfortunately, he is too arrogant, fails to grasp the true situation, and thus cannot achieve his ambitions. The Wheel King's Wheel Sword resembles a sword in shape, yet its power is as great as a cleaver's strike. Furthermore, the "Fine Rain" and "Blooming Green" water-splitting sword techniques were also taught to him by the Wheel King.

Beside King Yama was Lei Bin.

In the series, he is a top-tier assassin within the "Black Stone" organization, wielding various types of steel needles of different lengths. He is the only Black Stone assassin who is married with a daughter and enjoys family life, which leads him to consider leaving the organization. His true passion is eating and selling noodles, and his dream is to create a type of noodle that "noodles that never fall apart no matter how long you cook them."

There were quite a few assassins around King Wheel and Lei Bin, but Jiang Chen didn't recognize any of them.

"Who are you?" Hua Chunran asked.

"Me? Of course, I'm the one who will kill you. I just didn't expect that you, a mere woman, would want to join this game of vying for supremacy." The Wheel King's duck-like voice rang out again.

"Kill me?" Hua Chunran thought to herself, "You think you can do what you're capable of?"

"Kill." King Yama didn't waste any words and went straight for Hua Chunran.

"kill."

Xi Yu, Ye Zhanqing, Lei Bin, and others followed closely behind.

"You're really overestimating yourself." Jiang Chen sneered, his right hand forming two sword-like fingers.

shhhhhh...

One after another, sword beams shot out.

Apart from Xi Yu, everyone else was shot dead.

"Shh."

Jiang Chen raised his hand and grabbed Xi Yu directly.

"Are you from Blackstone?" Jiang Chen asked.

"Black Stone?" Hua Chunran looked at Jiang Chen.

“Yes, I’ve heard of it before. It’s an assassin organization,” Jiang Chen explained.

Within the Black Stone assassin organization, Jiang Chen felt that apart from Xi Yu, there was no need for anyone else to remain.

Xi Yu, who had been grabbed by Jiang Chen, just stared coldly at him without saying a word.

"Take him away and lock him up," Jiang Chen said.

"Yes."

Two Imperial Guards came over and took Xi Yu away.

"Young master, why do we keep her here?" Hua Chunran asked.

“I want to know about Rama,” Jiang Chen explained.

The plot of *Reign of Assassins* revolves around a legend that the remains of the Indian monk Rama contain a martial arts manual. Whoever deciphers its secrets can master unparalleled martial arts and dominate the martial arts world. The fearsome assassination organization "Black Stone" is searching for Rama's remains. Within this organization is a top-tier master nicknamed "Fine Rain," named for the fine, rain-like sword wounds she inflicts. After assassinating a loyal subject, she is enlightened by a highly skilled monk who sacrifices his life to lay down her weapons and retire from the martial arts world. However, once she enters the world of martial arts, she finds herself unable to control her own destiny. "Black Stone" issues a warrant for her capture, offering a hefty reward for her head.

Zeng Jing, a cloth seller from the north of the city, marries Jiang Asheng, a stable boy working at a post station in the capital, through a matchmaker. Their life, though ordinary, is happy. However, tragedy strikes, leaving Jiang Asheng's life hanging by a thread. It turns out Zeng Jing is no ordinary person. The leader of the "Black Stone" organization, Wheel-Turning King, promises Zeng Jing that if she retrieves the remains of Rama for the "Black Stone," he will spare her and Jiang Asheng…

As for Rama, legend has it that 800 years ago, an Indian named Rama crossed the sea to the Central Plains to spread Buddhism. He voluntarily purified himself and preached in the palace of Emperor Wu of Liang for three years. Afterwards, Rama crossed the Yangtze River and meditated facing a wall on Mount Jiuhua for nineteen years, mastering unparalleled martial arts. After Rama's death, he was buried by his disciples on Mount Xiong'er. Several years later, his remains were stolen from his coffin and divided into two parts. Legend has it that whoever obtains the remains will master unparalleled martial arts and dominate the martial arts world. A bloody conflict erupted in the struggle for the remains. Black Stone—the most mysterious assassination organization in the martial arts world—also coveted the remains.

Rumors circulated that half of Rama's body had been acquired by Zhang Haiduan, the Grand Secretary of the Liang Dynasty. Rama had voluntarily castrated himself to preach in Emperor Wu of Liang's palace; at that time, he was likely a eunuch, yet his body was perfectly intact. King Chakravartin obtained the body and dissected it, realizing Rama's internal energy was unparalleled, and that he possessed the ability to regenerate and restore what was missing. Having entered the palace at a young age, King Chakravartin had always wanted to be a true man, and thus meticulously plotted to seize Rama's body.

According to the story, Rama's internal energy is a Buddhist internal energy technique deduced by studying the traces of meridians in corpses. Its practice path is unique and different from the principles of common internal energy techniques. Its core advantage lies in its powerful healing ability, which can generate repair power and has a significant effect on external injuries. It may even promote the regeneration of severed limbs (requiring an extremely high level of cultivation). However, it requires the assistance of Buddhist cultivation to reach a high level of cultivation. The conditions for advancement are harsh and cannot be advanced by simply practicing hardship.

"A healing technique?" Hua Chunran was surprised to hear Jiang Chen's words.

“Yes.” Jiang Chen nodded. “I overheard about it when I was traveling in the Fengyun Continent, but I don’t know the specifics. If we can subdue that assassin from earlier and get her to tell us herself, that would be best. If not, we’ll think of another way.”

"I'll make the arrangements." Hua Chunran understood.

……

"Let's go to the ancient kingdom of Loulan first."

As Jiang Chen flew westward, he thought about the plot of "Storm Riders".

The four mythical beasts in the drama are the Fire Qilin, the Divine Dragon, the Phoenix, and the Dragon Turtle. They originate from ancient legends and each possesses unique abilities and habitats.

The Fire Qilin on the Lingyun Cave of the Leshan Giant Buddha is a divine beast that guards the dragon vein. Its scales are impervious to swords and spears, and it can breathe high-temperature flames. Legend has it that it was the mount of Emperor Yan Shennong and often appeared during floods in Leshan. It is listed as the "First Fear" among the "Twelve Fears".

The dragon sleeps on a remote island overseas for many years, only awakening once every few hundred years on the "Auspicious Day". It is incredibly strong and has thick skin, capable of causing earthquakes. Its dragon essence and blood have the ability to increase one's power or grant immortality.

The phoenix lives in a hidden cave. It does not appear in its true form in the drama, but is only mentioned in flashbacks. It was killed by the army led by Indra and used to make an elixir of immortality. Its image and combat power are relatively vague.

The Dragon Turtle (also known as the Black Tortoise) is rarely seen. The series mentions that it may have been imprisoned in the ancient city of Loulan. Its shell contains the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. Bu Jingyun's Wuqiu Yijue was comprehended from the shell left behind by the Dragon Turtle. Xiao Sanxiao also gained immortality by consuming the blood of the Black Tortoise.

Soon, Jiang Chen arrived above Loulan.

The ancient Loulan Kingdom stretched from near the ancient Yangguan Pass in the east to the ancient city of Niya in the west, from the Altun Mountains in the south to Hami in the north.

"Is this the ancient city of Loulan?" Jiang Chen looked around the ancient city of Loulan.

The ancient city of Loulan is an irregular square. The east city wall is approximately 333 meters long, the south city wall is 329 meters long, and the west and north walls are both 327 meters long. The city walls are made of rammed earth. There is a gap in the middle of the north and south city walls, which may have been city gates. The tallest building in the city is a 10.4-meter-high Buddhist pagoda located in the eastern part of the city. The pagoda is constructed of adobe bricks and timber. The base of the pagoda is square, with each side measuring approximately 19.5 meters.

The most prominent architectural remains in the city are the "Three Rooms" in the center, whose walls are the only ones in the city built with adobe bricks. Based on the location and structure of this group of buildings, this may have been the site of the ancient government office of Loulan. There are also remains of an ancient east-west canal that runs through the city.

Five kilometers northwest of the ancient city stands a beacon tower, 12 meters high, constructed of clay and wood. The southwest of the city was a residential area, now collapsed. The walls were mostly built by sandwiching mud between two rows of red willow branches, reinforcing them with reed ropes, and then plastering the outside with mud. Around the city are also some Buddhist temple ruins, beacon tower remains, and ancient tombs.

Within the city are the ruins of government offices, residences, pagodas, and temples; in the suburbs are dried-up riverbeds, withered poplar forests, and the remains of irrigation canals and fields; to the east and north of the ancient city are ancient tombs, pagodas, and beacon towers.

"I wonder where the dragon turtle is."

Jiang Chen probed downwards with his spiritual power.

After a while.

"I didn't expect it to actually be underground."

Jiang Chen's figure flashed, and he arrived in front of a stone tablet in the east of the ancient city of Loulan.

This stone tablet is an unidentified tombstone.

"I didn't expect it to be a formation."

Jiang Chen had read the books on formations he bought from the Southern Continent. Although they were only the most basic ones, they still gave him some understanding of formations.

This array technique is completely useless in places like the Southern Continent and the Dou Qi Continent, but it's perfectly adequate in the Wind and Cloud Continent.

Jiang Chen formed hand seals and began to break the formation.

A quarter of an hour later.

hum!
boom!
A sound rang out.

A downward passage appeared in front of the tombstone.

Jiang Chen's figure flashed and he entered the passage.

The passage wound downwards, deep and dark.

However, this was nothing to Jiang Chen.

After walking through the passage for an unknown amount of time, Jiang Chen finally arrived at a huge underground space.

"Is this a dragon turtle shell?"

A sweep of the underground space revealed a giant tortoise shell.

"It seems that not only the plot of the TV series, but also the plot of the comic 'Storm Riders' has appeared."

Jiang Chen remembered that in the TV series "Wind and Cloud", Bu Jingyun came to the desert to save Bu Tian. There, he not only met the divine doctor Xue Huatuo, but also Wu Wudi, one of the top ten martial artists. When two strong people meet, a battle is inevitable. Wu Wudi and Bu Jingyun fought a great battle in the desert. In the end, the quicksand was shaken apart by the aftershocks of their battle, revealing the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan that had been buried for hundreds of years. Bu Jingyun and Wu Wudi fell into the ruins without warning.

According to Xue Huatuo, in order to preserve its national destiny, Loulan captured the dragon turtle hundreds of years ago and locked it underground in the ancient Loulan Kingdom. Later, a series of disasters occurred in the ancient Loulan Kingdom, which was soon destroyed in history. The dragon turtle disappeared without a trace, and no one knows whether it is still alive underground in Loulan.

After many twists and turns, Bu Jingyun found a huge dragon turtle shell beneath the ruins of the ancient Loulan Kingdom. However, he did not see the dragon turtle's corpse, so he could not confirm whether the dragon turtle was truly dead. Although Bu Jingyun did not see the real dragon turtle, he comprehended a complete set of the Wuqiu Yijue (a martial arts technique) from the dragon turtle shell, and from then on embarked on the path to invincibility.

The show never mentions that Xiao Sanxiao killed the dragon turtle. It only says that Xiao Sanxiao obtained the dragon turtle's blood by chance. However, the novel "Wind and Cloud" mentions that Xiao Sanxiao only accidentally came into contact with the dragon turtle's blood and thus became immortal. Therefore, it cannot be concluded from this content that the dragon turtle was dead.

Therefore, Jiang Chen believed that the Dragon Turtle was definitely not dead and should be active somewhere in the world. It's important to know that Xiao Sanxiao obtained the Dragon Turtle's blood thousands of years ago, while the Dragon Turtle was still active in the world hundreds of years ago, and was even captured underground by the Loulan people. If the Dragon Turtle was killed by Xiao Sanxiao thousands of years ago, then what were the Loulan people capturing? The timeline simply doesn't add up.

"However, even just this dragon turtle shell is not bad."

Jiang Chen reached out and grabbed the dragon turtle shell.

After carefully examining the dragon turtle shell, Jiang Chen discovered that the owner of the dragon turtle shell was at least a third-tier demon beast.

"Although they are mythical beasts in the show, the strength of these mythical beasts varies."

"I just don't know..."

Jiang Chen's gaze fell on the huge underground lake in front of him, and then he used his mental power to extend it over there.

One hundred meters!

Two hundred meters!
As his spiritual energy spread towards the bottom of the lake, the look of surprise in Jiang Chen's eyes grew stronger.

He had never imagined that this underground lake was so deep. More importantly, this underground lake had different downward passages.

"Could the dragon turtle be in these passages, or somewhere else?"

Jiang Chen was extremely disappointed that he could not detect the dragon turtle with his mental energy.

but……

"I wonder if we can lure the dragon turtle out."

Jiang Chen flipped his hand and took out a ten-thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit and ten high-grade spirit stones.

Jiang Chen's goal was simple: to use the Ten-Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit and high-grade spirit stones to lure out the dragon turtle.

In Jiang Chen's view, regardless of whether the dragon turtle is a divine beast or not, the ten-thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit and the top-grade spirit stone are extremely attractive. As long as the dragon turtle smells the relevant aura, it will definitely come over.

Of course, Jiang Chen wouldn't actually give the ten-thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit and the top-grade spirit stone to the dragon turtle, so he set up a simple formation around the ten-thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit and the top-grade spirit stone.

Not only that, Jiang Chen also arranged various simple formations around the area.

After completing all of this, Jiang Chen found a place to hide.

Jiang Chen understood that by doing this, he was essentially waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump, and the chances of success were very slim.

But he had no other choice.

Time passed day by day.

Five days have passed in the blink of an eye.

"Wait another day. If the dragon turtle doesn't appear, then leave."

Jiang Chen thought to himself.

Soon, a day had passed.

"never mind."

"Let's go find the Fire Kirin first."

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen prepared to collect the Ten-Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit and the High-Grade Spirit Stones.

Just then, a sound of water breaking rang out.

"Ok?"

Jiang Chen's heart stirred, and he looked towards the underground lake.

Ripples spread across the surface of the lake.

next moment.

A gigantic monster burst forth from the water.

"Is this a dragon turtle?" Jiang Chen examined the dragon turtle.

The dragon turtle was blue-green and over twenty feet long.

While Jiang Chen was pondering, the dragon turtle had already left the underground lake.

"Well done."

Jiang Chen's figure flashed and he appeared above the dragon turtle.

At the same time, Jiang Chen clenched his fists and unleashed a powerful punch.

The Dragon Turtle First World sensed the danger and raised its head to spew out a jet of water.

boom! boom!
The two enormous fist shadows collided with the water column.

In just a moment, the water column was shattered, and the fist shadow struck the dragon turtle, producing only a dull thud, without causing any damage to the dragon turtle.

"rise."

With a wave of his hand, Jiang Chen activated the array around the dragon turtle, simultaneously sending out talismans.

The water prison talisman directly enveloped the dragon turtle within it.

The immobilization charm landed on the dragon turtle.

The lightning talismans struck the dragon turtle directly.

Why did Jiang Chen use talismans? He wanted to see what the effects would be if different talismans were used in combination.

After all, even when I went to the Monster Forest before, I killed the monsters with my strongest attacks.

Of course, more importantly, Jiang Chen wanted to subdue the dragon turtle, not kill it.

Therefore, trapping the dragon turtle and engaging in a prolonged battle was Jiang Chen's choice.

Therefore, after using the talisman, Jiang Chen used fire-based martial arts techniques, and even a different kind of fire.

The dragon turtle possesses the strength of a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator.

This strength is not great.

After all, the mid-stage of Core Formation is equivalent to the Martial Emperor realm.

Fortunately, it was only at the Core Formation stage; otherwise, it would have been very difficult to deal with.

Rumble!
bang bang bang!
A series of deep, resounding booms echoed, and countless energies spread outwards as if they were tangible.

"Shh."

Jiang Chen waved his hand, and a handful of seeds fell around the dragon turtle.

next moment.

These seeds grew rapidly, transforming into vines that shot towards the dragon turtle, instantly entangling it.

"boom!"

Almost simultaneously, Jiang Chen unleashed the full power of his Myriad Manifestations Realm aura, crushing it towards the dragon turtle.

The Myriad Manifestations Realm is suppressing the Martial Emperor Realm.

It's still stressful for the dragon turtle.

Perhaps due to the attack just now, or perhaps because Jiang Chen released the pressure of the Myriad Manifestations Realm, the dragon turtle remained inside its shell and refused to come out.

"They're...hiding?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Li Feng's eyes.

However, he didn't think much of it and directly put the dragon turtle into his spirit beast bag.

"It's time to leave."

After Jiang Chen put away the Ten-Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit and the high-grade spirit stones, he left.

"its not right."

"This dragon turtle has the strength of the mid-stage Core Formation realm, which is equivalent to the Martial Emperor realm. How come it fought in the underground space without the underground space collapsing?"

"Could this underground space be more than it seems?"

Jiang Chen suddenly thought of the passages beneath the lake in the underground space.

When the dragon turtle appeared before, although it was unclear which passage it came from, its spiritual power had not detected it before, so it was clear that the underground lake was not simple.

Although this is a world that blends film and television, not everything in this world is set up according to the situation in the film and television drama. Some unreasonable parts have been corrected.

"Looks like I'll come back to visit again when I have time."

After exiting the passage, Jiang Chen not only restored the formation to its original state, but also added other formations.

After finishing everything, Jiang Chen turned and left.

However, Jiang Chen had only taken a few steps when he saw a figure in the distance.

"It's him?"

Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes.

The person who arrived was none other than Shangguan Yun.

Characters from "Dragon Ball: Demon World".

In the drama, he is the leader of the Zhongxin Hall, a deep and calculating man who rarely shows his emotions. He is extremely ambitious. Shangguan Yun leads a group of martial arts heroes to Qilian Mountain to seize the Dragon Pearl, massacring the Chamu tribe and forging an irreconcilable enmity with Chamu Dragon. To achieve his ambition of ruling the world, Shangguan Yun doesn't hesitate to kill indiscriminately, even murdering his own wife. Ultimately, his evil deeds become utterly depraved. He believed that obtaining the Dragon Pearl would bring him the world, but instead, the Dragon Pearl turns against him.

"How could it be him?"

"By the way, 'Dragon Ball of the Demon World' is integrated into the fourth world, the Wind and Cloud Continent."

"However, now that we've seen him, there's no need to leave immediately."

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen walked towards Shangguan Yun.

(End of this chapter)