Urban Cultivation: The master who has overcome the tribulation is reborn

The boys and girls, who poked their heads out of the holes, raised their heads and tried to stick out their tongues to behave like a good boy, heard Xia Wanwan's words, and there was a brief clarity in their eyes, but they did not dare to show it too obviously.

Jiang Ran didn't detect the smell of contraband in the air, and guessed that Four Finger Tan's method of training them was nothing more than cooperating with violence, depriving them of water and food, and adding appropriate rewards and punishments to form conditioned reflexes.

Not to mention children, if they are really imprisoned and have no conditions for suicide, even an adult will gradually succumb to the instinctive desire for survival.

This kind of surrender is somewhat against one's will at first, but as time goes by, it will completely destroy a person's self-esteem and shame, and truly become a "pet" that pleases the owner.

There was no movement in the room for a long time, and then the other two children raised their heads, leaning on the iron cage bars to observe the situation outside.

They had obviously been locked up not long ago and were still in a state where they could maintain their self-esteem.

Although he was also on all fours, he was not like the other two who made a gesture like a puppy sticking out its tongue whenever someone came in.

The secret room was not big, and Jiang Ran had a clear view. Seeing that there were only a few locked up children, he turned around and prepared to leave.

A hint of sarcasm appeared on Liu Qingqing's face, but it was directed at Xia Wanwan, whose face was pale.

She didn't think there was anything wrong with Jiang Ran's approach. She had the power to do it herself, and whether she saved him or not was a matter of thought, and no one else could comment.

To a certain extent, Grandmaster Jiang was just as unscrupulous as Four Finger Tan.

"Mr. Jiang!"

Xia Wanwan looked at a girl who was holding on to the fence tightly with both hands and a timid expression on her little face. The compassion deep in her heart was infinitely magnified. She suppressed the fear in her heart and opened her arms to stop the indifferent young man.

Before Jiang Ran even raised his feet, he lowered his eyes and glanced down at her eyebrows, neck and collarbone. He could already see that the hair was slightly raised and fine cold sweat was quickly oozing out.

"Please save them." After shouting that call, Xia Wanwan's tone quickly became softer. Even though her whole body was feeling cold, her beautiful eyes were still looking directly at his face.

"What does it have to do with me?" The desolation in Jiang Ran's soul infected his emotions. He was refining living corpses and growing Yin Dan. He was used to seeing scenes where life was worse than death. These things could hardly cause his emotions to fluctuate.

The blazing flames of the ordinary heart are difficult to ignite the soul of a great cultivator in the Tribulation Realm. This state of mind has lasted for too many years, and it is difficult for ordinary things to shake it.

"Mr. Jiang, if I were the one locked in the cage today, would you be so indifferent?"

Xia Wanwan felt inappropriate as soon as she blurted out these words. No matter how considerate and discerning she was, it could not change that she was still an ordinary person of flesh and blood.

As long as they are not bad to the core, they will eventually have compassion.

She was both fearful and brave, looking with burning eyes at the young man who could crush her to death with one finger.

Under such eyes, Jiang Ran remained calm and shook his head slightly: "Of course you are different from others."

In fact, whether it was her, Yu Jia, or even Ma Yilun and others who were in this situation, Jiang Ran didn't mind lending a helping hand.

Xia Wanwan obviously misunderstood the meaning of his words. Her beautiful eyes shrank for a while, and the courage she summoned disappeared without a trace in an instant.

She didn't understand what the other person's state of mind was when he said such a sentence. After a moment of hesitation, she suppressed the ripples in her heart.

"Since I am different from others, then..."

Jiang Ran seemed to know what she wanted to say, and interrupted directly: "They are just bystanders, there is no need to say any more words of rescue."

Xia Wanwan's face was pale. She could only detect sarcasm and resentment from Liu Qingqing. It was obviously not feasible to ask the other party to let him go.

She looked at Jiang Ran with a confused look. Her sixth sense told her that the innocent heart in the other person's chest was beating crazily, but it seemed to be grasped by a big hand and she couldn't struggle out.

For a moment, he was delighted by what Jiang Ran had just said, but he didn't know how to persuade him, so he remained in a stalemate in front of him.

The two children in the iron cage holding on to the bars with their hands seemed to understand that the young man with his back to them would decide their fate, and they did not dare to breathe.

The eyes of the two children who poked their heads out of the hole were dull and confused. After too long, apart from being beaten, starved, and trained on the reward and punishment mechanism, their thinking had become somewhat rigid.

Jiang Ran lowered his gaze, falling on Xia Wanwan's nervous face, and his eyes gradually became covered with frost.

"Mr. Jiang, do you still remember what you said in Yunshang Immortal Palace?"

Xia Wanwan was a little thirsty at the sight, and she gritted her teeth and made a decision, "The friendship you promised me will be exchanged for you to rescue these children."

The coldness in Jiang Ran's eyes faded away. He looked at the woman with her arms stretched out and wearing a small sling standing in front of him. His tone was slightly surprised: "Seriously?"

Liu Qingqing was still watching the joke at first, but when she heard Xia Wanwan suddenly say something about exchanging friendship, she was slightly stunned at first, and then the jealousy and resentment in her eyes almost overflowed.

Why!Why!Not only does this bitch have a favor from the Grandmaster, but she also wants to use this favor to ask the Grandmaster to let go of these little bastards?

You bitch, do you know what stupid thing you did?Why don't you die if you exchange the imperial green for bread?

"Seriously." Xia Wanwan didn't know what she was thinking, so she took a deep breath and answered.

She didn't dare to think too much, for fear that if she hesitated for a few seconds, she would give up on the decision.

To be honest, Xia Wanwan already regretted it when she said the word "seriously".

The road ahead is long, and I don’t know how many hardships there will be. Holding this favor may be of great use in the future.

But when Jiang Ran turned around again and walked towards the iron cage, she saw the darkness in a little girl's eyes gradually dissipating, and the trace of regret became difficult to detect.

Why don't you have any regrets at all? It's enough to just have a clear conscience when you look back on the past.

Jiang Ran didn't ask Liu Qingqing to find the key to open the iron cage. He just stopped in front of an iron cage and stretched out his right hand.

In this iron cage is the boy who trembles when he sees Liu Qingqing. When he sees an expressionless young man reaching for where he is, he is immediately frightened and retreats on all fours, hiding in the corner. Shivering.

Jiang Ran grabbed the solid iron pillar and pulled it back. As if it was stuck with glue, an iron pillar was held in his hand and taken out.

The other side of the dog chain tied around the little boy's neck was locked on the iron cage. He twisted it with two fingers and the connection was broken. When he tried to break the collar around his neck, he found that the dog kept shrinking into the corner. .

Now that he could move freely, Jiang Ran no longer cared about him, and followed the law to break the bars of the other two cages.

These children were so frightened that they did not dare to come out. Jiang Ran had no intention of comforting them at all.

After tearing off the iron bars of the fourth cage, things changed.

The girl with a pale face and blue lips raised her bright eyes and stared at the young man who reached out to touch his neck.

It wasn't until the tight collar around her neck broke that she finally moved her bloodless lips, her clear voice mixed with a bit of hoarseness from a scream.

"Brother, could you please help me find some clothes?"

Her voice was a little trembling, but it was commendable that a little girl could still have such a calm mind after going through these things.

Hearing these trembling words, Jiang Ran's mortal heart made a mistake and bypassed the suppression of the soul, prompting him to extend his right hand to the little girl who was kneeling on the ground.

The little girl looked against the light and couldn't see clearly Jiang Ran's appearance. She could only see the angular profile and a jade-like hand.

She felt as if she fell to the ground and was suddenly held by her sister to stand up, so two dimples appeared on her small face.

After many years, Lu Zijun still remembers the night when he was 12 years old, when he woke up from despair again, the hand that held him up, and the person standing outside the iron cage against the light.