Jiang Qiao had not expected this.
He had only followed the Vicious Ghost out of curiosity and taken a lap around the place. Not only had he entered the deepest part of the Ancient City Ruins, but he had also discovered what appeared to be the corpse of the ruler of the Cheshi Kingdom and found the legendary scepter.
But...
Why did this ancient city contain a path that did not exist in reality? Why had the founding ruler of the Cheshi Kingdom come here in his later years and chosen to bury himself here?
Most importantly...
According to the story Uncle Beard of Beihu Town had told, that ruler of the Cheshi Kingdom had wandered across the Northern Territory for hundreds or even thousands of years, searching for someone destined to meet him.
Legend had it that anyone who could approach him could make a wish.
And the richest man in Tacheng, who had been renowned throughout the Northern Territory in the Old era, was supposedly just a shepherd boy in his youth. When he happened to encounter the ruler of the Cheshi Kingdom while sleeping beneath a large tree, the gears of fate had finally begun to turn.
If...
The person in the coffin was the ruler of the Cheshi Kingdom...
Then who was the fellow wandering through the desert for all those hundreds or thousands of years?
Jiang Qiao could be certain that the corpse in the coffin had been there for more than a thousand years. It had absolutely never moved during that time.
Discovering this...
Was no difficult matter for someone at his level who also possessed the great power of time.
So, was the legend unreliable?
Or had the ruler of the Cheshi Kingdom become some kind of Strange Entity detached from its Physical