I Have Refined Qi For 3000 Years - 638. 5. Ferryman

This big black sword seemed to have been someone’s weapon. After the Dark Iron Knight fell, it became a size that could be used by humans.

But Ivan’s current power is still unusable, even if he asks the gravekeeper girl to help him absorb the power in the crystal once, he still can’t use this sword freely.

Reluctantly, he could only ask the tomb-keeper girl to help him keep the sword temporarily, and then walked out of the door and left the cemetery.

Outside the cemetery was a path down the mountain, and there was no other monster on the path.

Halfway through, I suddenly heard the sound of running water in my ears. Ivan followed the sudden sound of running water and came to a river beach.

There are large and small crystal clusters all over the river beach. The light in these crystal clusters is not particularly bright. Some are already dimmed, and the outline is almost invisible. The ground of the river beach is also covered with large and small crystal fragments. There is no light in these fragments. When you step on it, the very fragile ground will shatter.

The weird thing is that with Ivan’s descent, the setting sun that was still in mid-air disappeared without knowing when, there was no other light source on this beach except for the gleam of crystals.

At the end of the river beach, there was a big black river, and the scene on the other side of the river was invisible. In this blackness, Ivan even thought it might be a vast ocean.

He walked around the edge of the river beach and found a very dilapidated trestle bridge in a bay on the river beach. Next to the trestle bridge, there was a big gong made of metal.

Seeing that gong, Ivan suddenly couldn’t help but slapped his hands, stretched his hammer and knocked.

The clanging sound spread all the way, and then a row of firelight suddenly appeared on the river bank.

A pitch-black boat came in from the darkness and docked gently on the shore. On the boat was an old man with a rickety figure and unable to see his face. He lifted the oil lamp on the bow of the boat and shone it toward Ivan.

“Hmm–was it a human?”

The old man’s voice was as unpleasant as Ye Xiao, with a slightly surprised smell.

“Unexpectedly, you can still meet people in this place. You came out of the cemetery? That’s even more rare. It’s an undead who is wise and hasn’t lost yet.”

“Hello.”

Ivan asked him:

“Are you a ferry on this river? If so, I want to take a ride, I want to go outside and see.”

“Go outside? What’s so nice outside?”

The old man hummed:

“Since the king outside closed the passage leading to this cemetery and sent steel puppets to the entrance of the cemetery to guard this place, I have no business to do. The rulers outside are afraid of being dead. The old king got up and seized their power again, so he sent all the kings and knights to this place. That puppet, it’s just a city wall. If it is there, don’t even think about getting inside. Don’t think of anything about it, even if it’s the end of the world… By the way, I haven’t asked, how did you come out?”

“I defeated that puppet. It took too long and it has aged.”

Ivan answered honestly.

“What? You defeated that puppet?”

The old man looked at him unexpectedly.

“Then you can go on board, I won’t charge you.”

“Thanks a lot.”

Ivan got on the boat, then sat down cross-legged at the stern.

The old man picked up the oars lying horizontally on the boat and started rowing. He was rowing while talking with Ivan.

“You can be buried in it, you are also a great man? Who are you?”

“I do not remember.”

Ivan replied.

“Lost memory? That means your spirit was robbed.”

The old man said:

“Did you see those lights? The light shining in the crystals on those river beaches is the spirit. In this world, everyone has spirits in their bodies, and there are many unowned spirits, born from the oldest one in this world. In a tree. People can absorb unowned spirits and turn these spirits into their own spirits. When the human spirit is taken away, there will be amnesia.”

“It turned out to be so.”

Ivan touched his chest.

“No wonder I often feel that something is missing in my body.”

“Don’t think about it, you can restore your memory or something.”

The old man glanced at him.

“Even if you grab enough spirits to make up for your emptiness, those spirits are not your original spirits anymore. Ha, but now this ghost in this world, you can’t remember it, and it’s nothing. The difference, anyway, your glory is more prominent, and the country you were in has now been destroyed.”

“Is the situation outside so bad?”

Ivan asked.

“Now there is no country outside. It can even be said that it is difficult to find people who are still alive.”

The old man replied:

“Now the outside world is full of dead people crawling out of the ground, monsters, and a group of god servants falling from the sky. Those god servants are now all a bunch of lunatics. They kill and burn people when they see them. To be honest, I really don’t understand why you are going out. That cemetery is probably the only place in the world where peace is maintained.”

“Got to go out and have a look.”

Ivan replied in a low voice.

The ship didn’t know how long it swayed on the dark river, and suddenly the river bank appeared vaguely ahead.

The little lights flickered over there, but the sun was still not visible over there, and it should look like night.

“It’s dark now, isn’t it?”

Ivan couldn’t help asking.

“It’s dark?”

The old man chuckled in a low voice.

“This is true for this country. To be precise, it should be their favorite Yongye.”

Seeing Ivan puzzled, he said again:

“This river now leads to different countries. Now in these countries, time does not flow. What is dark is always dark, and what is bright is always dawn. Of course, there are even more powerful ones. That’s great, hehe Hey-hey……”

Amidst the strange laughter, the old man sent Ivan to the small ferry on the bank of the river.

“If you encounter this kind of gong, hit it and I will appear.”

The old man did not intend to go ashore, but returned to the dark river on his boat. Before leaving, he said to Ivan:

“Anyway, at this time, there is no one else to cross except you, and I don’t charge you any money. If you want me to drive you away, just ring it. Of course, the premise is that you have not lost your sanity. Ha ha ha ha ha ha…”

After bidding farewell to the weird man with harsh words and harsh laughter, Ivan followed the road in front of the ferry and crawled to a higher place.

This place is obviously much larger than the scale of the cemetery. His feet are no longer mountain trails, but roads and stairs paved with stone slabs. Looking up, you can see the faint city walls and gates from far away.

Ivan followed the stairs and climbed all the way to the gate of the city. He looked up and saw the words written on the gate.

The capital of Wright.