Chapter 326 The Genius Senior Brother's Storage Bag
Chapter 326 The Genius Senior Brother's Storage Bag
Lu Jiang extended his right hand towards Li Qingran, still smiling, but the bloodthirsty aura emanating from him, which had survived a hail of bullets, sent a chill down the spines of the arrogant and conceited cultivators.
"Hello, General Lu, I am Li Qingran." Although Li Qingran is indifferent, he does not have the arrogance of a cultivator. He may seem unapproachable, but in fact, he is considered to be relatively easy to talk to among cultivators.
He also extended his right hand and, imitating Lu Jiang, reached out and shook the other person's hand.
Lu Jun smiled with satisfaction, quite admiring of the cultivator who was actually leading the group. He didn't waste any time, gesturing behind him, and the other soldiers who had been holding their guns immediately made way for him.
"I'm quite familiar with your situation. The outside world has developed rapidly in recent years, and if you want to help, you'll need to adapt first. We've already made preparations for this; you'll need to undergo standardized training at a specific location." As he spoke, Lu Jiang gestured towards the helicopter behind him: "We came by helicopter, this big guy. It can fly on its own. We'll need to take it to leave later. Will you fly on your own swords or come with us on the helicopter?"
"Nonsense, who would want to fly by themselves when they have a mount to carry them?" Kunjue felt neglected and couldn't help but raise his head and interject.
Lu Jian smiled kindly, unperturbed by his slightly provocative words: "Then please."
"Hmph!" Kunjue snorted dismissively and stepped onto the path cleared by the soldiers.
Li Qingran followed behind as usual, and then Zhengze followed on his own.
He had been standing next to Li Qingran the whole time, but Lu Shangjiang hadn't noticed him at all. Because he was always in danger, he would constantly use a concealment technique to keep himself inconspicuous. Lu Shangjiang only realized his presence when he started moving.
The person who was the first to set off at this time must be of high status. He quickly weighed his options on the way, his smile remaining unchanged, but he gave Zhengze a careful look as he passed by.
Since he would be in charge of guiding this group against the enemy, he needed to know them inside and out. However, the moment he saw Zhengze's face, the general, who had remained expressionless, finally changed his expression drastically.
“You, you…” He pointed at Zhengze, his expression shifting.
Zhengze stopped in his tracks, a bad feeling rising in his heart. He couldn't help but wonder if his bad luck was about to strike again.
Sure enough, after his expression kept changing for a few seconds, Lu Jiang seemed to recall something. His eyes turned sinister and filled with terrifying killing intent. He suddenly reached for his waist and something appeared in his hand, which gleamed with a black luster under the sunlight.
Having trained over the years, Zhengze had long developed a premonition of danger and was already on guard. However, due to his unfamiliarity with external weapons, he was a beat too slow. At close range, he only saw the gun in Lu Shi's hand make a loud bang, accompanied by the muffled sound of a bullet entering a body.
"boom--"
Zhengze turned his body to the side in time, and the bullet only hit his left arm. The powerful bullet went through his arm and left a hole.
The gunshot seemed to be a signal. The soldiers who came to provide backup had been instructed to follow General Lu's orders. If General Lu made a move, they would stop at nothing to subdue the group of cultivators with special abilities. Therefore, they fired without hesitation.
The soldiers and cultivators were very close, and their sudden attack caught the cultivators completely off guard. The arrogant Kunjue was hit instantly, while Li Qingran, who had already activated a protective shield around himself while his expression shifted on the way, now appeared the most relaxed. He quickly approached Zhengze and brought him into his protective range.
He casually pressed down the baby, who had transformed back into a storage bag and was now restless in his arms.
"You...you're still alive!!!" Lu Lu kept his gun pointed at Zhengze, bullets flying non-stop. His previous amiable demeanor was gone; his face was contorted with rage, hatred etched on his twisted features. "Why are you still alive!!! I saw you carried off by wolves with my own eyes!! How could you be so lucky to be alive?! Why!!!"
He muttered to himself through gritted teeth, his voice somewhat muffled as it was squeezed out from between his teeth, but Li Qingran and Zhengze, both cultivators with sharp ears, easily caught what he was saying.
Zhengze was clearly startled; it was obvious that what Jiang had said on the way had stirred up his memories.
"It's you!!" In a flash, he remembered something from long ago and finally understood why the man on the road looked familiar.
Ignoring his injuries, he slightly raised his hand, and the longsword on his back hummed in response to his call, slowly sliding out of its sheath.
"I remember now. Before I was accepted into the sect by the sect leader, I was brought here and almost met a terrible end. My blood attracted a pack of wolves, and that person threw me to them to save their own life. Was that person you?!"
He was only three or four years old at the time and shouldn't have remembered it, but the experience left an indelible mark on his heart, which he still remembers to this day.
"Yes, it's me."
On the way, he laughed nervously; he no longer had the air of the dignified and imposing old man he once was.
"Hahahaha, Heaven is truly blind, allowing you to live to this day and even become an immortal cultivator!!! Hahahaha!!"
He fired wildly, clearly out of his mind. The soldiers around him who had initially instinctively followed suit upon hearing the gunfire finally came to their senses, realized something was wrong, and the gunfire suddenly became sporadic.
On the way, Zhengze's eyes were filled with hatred, and his expression became even more ferocious: "Hahaha!! How ridiculous! Your father was a notorious drug lord in the Hangnan area back then. My comrades and I risked our lives to capture your father. In the end, your father kidnapped my son and tortured him to death!! Do you know what he looked like when I saw him?"
His face was contorted in agony, only his eyes burning with deep hatred: "He was so young, and people cut off all the skin from his body, leaving him to bleed to death. When I saw him, he was just a mangled, bloody mess, you know that?!"
Recalling the most unforgettable event in his memory, his eyes turned bloodshot on the way, and reason completely disappeared at that moment.
"How innocent he was!! I know the mission I bear, but I can't turn a blind eye to my son's sacrifice, so I abandoned my teammates and kidnapped you alone. Your father's lair was nearby at the time. I brought you to this mountain forest, intending to skin you alive, piece by piece, but I didn't expect to encounter a pack of wolves. I thought I would put you in the belly of beasts and never be reincarnated, but I didn't expect you to be so lucky!!"
"Since fate has allowed me to meet you again, it means even fate is on my side. Today, you must die!! To be buried with my son!!!"
He kept firing his gun, yelling at Zhengze as he fired, which made the whole thing very clear.
Hidden inside Li Qingran's protective shield, Zhengze was naturally unharmed by Lu Shangjiang's bullets. While Lu Shangjiang was roaring, he kept his head down, making it impossible to see his expression.
Only after he stopped talking on the road did he slowly step forward, stand in front of Li Qingran, and step out of the protective shield.
"I don't know if you've ever heard this saying," Zhengze said, his face expressionless, the hatred in his eyes completely gone. He appeared eerily calm. "The saying is: Villains die from talking too much!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the energy that had been accumulating within his body finally erupted. His sword hummed and instantly unleashed countless sword energies, all of which rushed straight toward the road ahead.
"Puff puff--"
The road was riddled with holes in an instant, and Zhengze, who was seriously injured and barely able to cast spells, vomited a mouthful of thick blood and became unsteady on his feet.
The countless wounds on his body actually brought him back to his senses. A smile bloomed on his contorted face, and he finally pulled the trigger of the gun he had been holding.
A bullet unlike any before, carrying a subtle sense of pressure, shot out from the barrel.
"careful!"
Li Qingran gave him a timely warning, but Zhengze was standing too close. The bullet pierced his chest, and this time he didn't have time to dodge. The bullet exploded quickly, and the shattered flesh blurred the vision of Li Qingran and Yu Liu who were nearby.
"It's over..."
Yu Liu, who had quietly peeked out to observe the situation, said in a trembling voice.
She could see clearly that although the bullet didn't initially hit the heart, its explosion affected the entire chest, blasting a large hole in Zhengze's body, let alone his heart. While cultivators may have longer lifespans and stronger physiques than ordinary people, they are still human, and without a heart, they absolutely cannot live!
“It failed…” Yu Liu’s mind went blank: “I’m going to let Fairy Jiao Han down…”
Li Qingran heard Yu Liu's murmurs clearly. He frowned but did not ask any questions. Instead, he quickly caught Zheng Ze's falling body and circulated his spiritual energy to barely maintain his last bit of life.
Zhengze never expected the final result to be like this. His mouth was full of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, but his eyes were surprisingly bright at this moment.
“…I remember now.” He mumbled something in a low voice, his gaze fixed on the somewhat bewildered Li Qingran and the storage bag in his arms, then coughed twice loudly: “…cough, cough!”
He took a couple of deep breaths, and a bright smile appeared on his face, which, combined with his current situation, looked somewhat eerie. But he didn't care, his eyes fixed on Yu Liu, who was half-exposed: "Hi, we meet again."
Yu Liu was startled by his words and the entire storage bag fell completely from Li Qingran's arms. She quickly manipulated her willpower to make herself float lightly onto Zheng Ze, who was being supported, and carefully found a place where she could barely stand.
"You can recognize me?" Yu Liu was astonished. When she first met Zheng Ze, she was possessing a body dressed in embroidered robes. They were in different worlds and possessed different objects, yet Zheng Ze could still recognize her. It was simply unbelievable.
“It’s easy to recognize.” Zhengze laughed twice: “Your soul is the only thing I can’t see through. It’s so special that I recognized it at a glance.”
Soul? Yu Liu was somewhat confused.
Zhengze didn't want to explain too much. He could feel that his body was on its last breath. If he died now, he would be reincarnated.
This is the result he most hopes for during reincarnation, because only death can start a new cycle of reincarnation. He wishes he could die early each time, so that he could save time in the cycle and see the person he longs for sooner.
But this time, he suddenly had a premonition that he couldn't die! Li Qingran's several unusual actions went through his mind, and he was certain that the reason Li Qingran had been saving him was probably because of the arrival of this small storage bag.
So, could he assume that this small storage bag was made for him?
If so, then things will be much easier.
"Hey Yuliu, we're old friends, aren't you going to try to save me?"
"Huh?" Yu Liu was a little confused by this shameless question.
"Save them? How can we save them?"
Yu Liu was somewhat at a loss.
"Cough, cough! What else can we do to save him? Didn't you bring any miracle cures with you when you came here? You know, things from that place can easily bring the dead back to life here."
He didn't mention the divine realm because there were other people around, but his meaning was clear.
Hearing his words, Yu Liu suddenly felt very embarrassed: "If I said I didn't bring any magic pills, would you believe me...?"
Because she didn't need them, Yu Liu didn't actually have those things on her.
Upon hearing Yu Liu's words, Zheng Ze's reaction was to suddenly vomit a mouthful of blood.
Unable to dodge in time, a small drop of blood was splattered on the storage bag. Yu Liu's voice immediately became tearful: "I don't need that stuff, so I wouldn't normally think of keeping some on hand. Maybe I have some on me. Wait for me to look for it."
So, Zhengze, who was about to meet Yama, the King of Hell, stubbornly propped up his broken body, fixed his soul in his body, and decided to resolutely not return to the underworld.
Yu Liu searched through her entire space but couldn't find a single pill.
"I really didn't, look if you don't believe me!" She dejectedly opened the space for Zhengze to see, to show that she was telling the truth.
Zhengze spat out another mouthful of dark red blood, and in his blurred vision, he caught a glimpse of emerald green.
"Quick, that bracelet...give it to me!!"
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