Chapter 108: A White Rib

Chapter 108 – A White Rib
Behind the small door, many collections were displayed.

Lord Yin enthusiastically made an introduction for Li Fan.

“This is the fish bone of the Vedic Fish. Three thousand five hundred years ago, this fish became extinct. This fish bone was also collected by me after a lot of effort. It is said that the Vedic Fish is exceptionally intelligent and can learn human speech. If you eat its flesh, you can understand fish language. I don’t know if it’s true or not.”

Walking up to a lifelike, slithering and coiled giant snake that was thousands of meters long.

Lord Yin said excitedly again, “This is the Cong Yun Sea Serpent. It normally lurks in the deep sea and buries its body in the earth. I ran half of the Cong Yun Sea before catching one this long! Making it into a specimen really took me a lot of effort.”

Then, he whispered somewhat mysteriously, “According to my research, in fact, this kind of sea serpent, the snake is not the body. There is a mysterious parasite inside them, and this worm is extremely tiny. Even the divine thoughts of the Foundation Establishment Stage cannot easily detect it. Yet it is this tiny worm that manipulates the massive sea serpent! It is truly unimaginable!”

……

As they walked forward, the various collections opened Li Fan’s eyes.

The duo stopped in front of two human skeletons placed side by side.

Lord Yin pointed at the two skeletons and asked with some complacency, “Fellow Daoist may be able to tell what is the difference between these two human skeletons?”

“Different?” Li Fan’s divine sense swept through them, and they seemed to be simply just the remains of mortal bones.

Both were the bones of men, only their height and size were inconsistent.

But if one were to ask what is essentially different ……

After looking at them for a while longer, Li Fan shook his head, “My eyes are clumsy, I can’t see the difference.”

Lord Yin laughed, “Don’t talk about you! I bet that no other cultivator within this Sea of Cungus Clouds, other than me, can detect the difference between these two corpses and bones!”

He pointed at these two skeletons and came over to Li Fan, speaking in an extremely low voice, “These two people, they are not the same kind of people.”

“Not the same kind of person?” Li Fan froze, “What do you mean?”

Shang Yin gestured with his hands for a while, thinking for a while, and seemed to be unable to think of the right words to describe it.

After struggling for a long time, he violently clenched his fists, his face full of entanglement, “It’s just a feeling, a feeling you understand, right? Obviously they are both humans, but these two humans, they live in different eras and live in different regions. Maybe they all look alike, and they are all dug out by me since the bottom of Cong Yun, but there is an extremely special boundary that marks the difference between these two corpses ……”

Shangren Yin spoke in a mysterious manner, speaking for a long time yet unable to tell a specific reason why.

Also do not dwell on it, continue to walk forward.

In front of an empty display table, it stopped violently.

He pointed at the empty booth, his face pale and his fingers trembling.

Wanting to say something, his lips opened and closed, and he failed to spit out a single word in half a day.

“Fellow Daoist Yin, what happened?” Li Fan could not help but ask.

“I …… I ……”

“Where’s my baby!”

Lord Yin was shocked.

The hand dog that followed him, on the other hand, wailed and his ears drooped.

Stealing a glance upwards, it hurriedly cowered at Lord Yin’s feet, shivering.

Seeing this, Li Fan thought of something.

So he tentatively asked, “Fellow Daoist Yin, the treasure you are talking about, it wouldn’t be a bone, would it ……”

Lord Yin was overjoyed and nodded his head repeatedly, “Yes, you have seen it?”

Li Fan had an odd expression on his face as he led Lord Yin back to the entrance of this square-shaped building.

Having just come to this point, the manhandled dog ran headlong into Li Fan.

The thing it was carrying in its mouth fell with it. At that time, Li Fan glanced at it and saw that it was just a bone, thinking that it was just a toy for the human hand dog, so he didn’t pick it up. However, he did not expect that this bone was actually Yin Shangren’s treasure.

Only to see him picking up the bone with a heartbroken face and wiping the saliva on it clean.

With the eyes of a dream lover, he carefully admired and tenderly stroked it.

That kind of demeanor made the Li Fan on the side look at it with goosebumps.

Coughing lightly, he woke Shang Yin from his intoxication.

Li Fan could not help but ask out loud, “Fellow Daoist Yin, I wonder what is the origin of this bone? It makes you treasure it so much?”

Shangren Yin firmly held the bone in his hand, as if he was afraid of losing it again.

Staring at the bone in his hand, his expression was somewhat in a trance, “This ah, this is an extraordinary treasure. All my other collections can be lost, but only this, it is even more precious than my life.”

Li Fan couldn’t help but listen with solemnity, and really became somewhat curious, looking at Lord Yin with an inquiring gaze.

“The Xianfan Miasma must not be unfamiliar to you, Daolord.” Shangren Yin said in a showy manner.

“In the beginning, this Immortal Mortal Miasma was still only prevalent on the mortal world, for us Immortal Cultivators, it had no effect at all.”

“It was only later, after an Immortal Cultivator inexplicably contracted it, that it began to spread amongst cultivators.”

Li Fan looked at the white bone in Shangren Yin’s hand, “You mean ……”

“That’s right, this rib bone, belongs to that first cultivator who was infected with the Immortal Mortal Miasma.”

Shangren Yin smiled dementedly and rubbed back and forth on the rib bone again like he was caressing a treasure.

However, immediately afterward, he saw that Li Fan did not look surprised or excited in the slightest, and he could not help but be a little surprised.

“What, such a treasure? Don’t you feel trembling and surprised when you see it?”

Li Fan shook his head repeatedly.

“Ai, it’s a pity that you, Taoist friend, can’t actually understand how valuable it is.” Lord Yin sighed.

“Immortal-Fan Miasma infecting Immortal Cultivators, this is one of the biggest events in history. The impact on the current pattern of the Immortal Cultivation World is only below that of the Great Calamity.”

“And that unlucky bug who was the first to be infected by the Immortal Mortal Miasma in the first place, how valuable are his bones for research and memorialization?”

“Aren’t you curious? Why is it that a plague on a mere mortal can infect an Immortal Cultivator?”

“If we can figure out the source of this mutation, we might be able to solve the Immortal Mortal Miasma from the source!”

“At that time, I will be a great existence that the entire Immortal Cultivation world will remember!”

Shangren Yin was a bit mesmerized in his fantasies for a moment.

After a while, seeing Li Fan’s still impassive face, he let out a long sigh with a look of hatred.

“You don t know, this one is called Su …… Su something. Forget it, this unlucky bug’s bones, each one of them can be worth a lot of money, and there are countless cultivators who go to fight for them.”

“I was also extremely lucky to snatch such a rib bone.”

“Of course, the most precious one has to belong to that, stored in the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, his complete skull.”

The corners of Yin Shangren’s mouth were about to drool as he reverie.

Li Fan really couldn’t understand this kind of fetish and could only shake his head repeatedly.

At this time, Shangren Yin reacted abruptly, “Huh? I still don’t know what is the reason for your sudden visit?”

(End of chapter)