Chapter 288 The Caller (2)

Luo Xuanyi felt a chill deep in her soul and subconsciously dodged to the right, narrowly avoiding the white light that fell silently from behind.

The white light brushed past the outside of Luo Xuanyi's left arm, then cut into the ground without any hindrance, causing the earth to crack immediately!

“Boom!”

A violent muffled sound came from the depths of the mountain, and a crack went straight from the top of the mountain, ignoring all the grass, trees and rocks, and quickly spread downwards. The whole mountain actually split smoothly into two halves and slowly fell down!

Countless ancient trees shook violently, the waterfall pool burst open, the water rushed straight into the bottomless abyss, huge rocks fell into the cracks, and after several breaths, a loud bang of heavy hitting the ground was heard!

Just one strike, and everything turned upside down in the blink of an eye!

In the chaos, Luo Xuanyi lightly tapped her feet and floated out. She felt the death energy spreading uncontrollably where the white light passed on the outside of her left arm. Luo Xuanyi barely controlled her arm to transform, and alarm bells rang in her heart.

This white light could actually directly harm her body as a ghost cultivator!

In unknown situations and with enemies, it is best to keep your distance first!

Luo Xuanyi made an immediate assessment, flicking her sleeves as a Wanli Pill landed between her fingers, ready to be taken at any moment. With a single step, she ascended from the mountaintop into the clouds, her deathly aura spreading across her entire being, attempting to capture the enemy's features while searching for a way to escape.

"call--"

Suddenly, a black wooden pole appeared in front of her and landed quietly in front of her.

Can't move.

As soon as she saw the pole, Luo Xuanyi, whose human form was condensed by death energy, seemed to be suddenly nailed to a wooden frame. As long as she moved, the mimicking skin would break free and she would transform into her original form.

A star twinkled in the sky. It was a star that Luo Xuanyi was familiar with: the Taixu Star, which dominated the universe and remained motionless. It was responding to the black pole in front of it, fixing Luo Xuanyi in the air.

The pole was pitch black and straight, with what seemed to be a finely carved pattern around the shaft. If it had been filled with gold powder and lacquer, it would have been extremely gorgeous and exquisite. However, the owner of this pole had no such leisure and elegance, and had allowed the wind and frost to wear away the carvings.

One end of the pole bent downward into a half-moon shape, atop which hung a white lantern, within which stood an unlit black candle. The white light that had just devoured Luo Xuanyi's deathly aura was likely this unlit lantern, quietly emitting an eerie aura before Luo Xuanyi.

At the other end of the pole was a hand clasped with age, devoid of any excess flesh, barely more than skin clinging to bone. Following this hand upward, Luo Xuanyi finally saw the visitor's face.

It was an old man who looked somewhat familiar.

His pale, dry hair covered the upper half of his face in a tangled mess, with faint black spots flickering through it. His face was covered in wrinkles, bearing the vicissitudes of life. At this moment, the old man seemed to have no desire to attack. Luo Xuanyi didn't detect any murderous intent in him, but she didn't take it lightly.

The old man was too dangerous and unknown. If he were to attack, Luo Xuanyi would have to flee from here immediately even if it meant exposing her identity as a strange cultivator.

Luo Xuanyi was tense when the old man suddenly raised his lantern and leaned closer, as if to illuminate her face for a closer examination. His dark eyes weren't focused on her. His shadow shifted slightly, and a skinny dog covered in blood-sucking flies emerged from behind him, holding a portrait in its mouth.

As soon as she saw the skinny dog, Luo Xuanyi immediately recalled that this was the crazy old man and the dog she met at Cairen Market!

When the old man saw Luo Xuanyi, he started calling her "granddaughter, sister, daughter" like a madman. He even grabbed a blood-sucking fly from a skinny dog and tried to feed it to Luo Xuanyi as if it were candy. Luo Xuanyi turned around and forgot about it. She hadn't expected him to suddenly appear here, and his strength was so strange!

The old man's pair of dark eyes rolled around in his sunken eye sockets. He looked at the portrait held by the skinny dog, then looked at Luo Xuanyi, and nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, it's you." But his speech was not as crazy as before, and he was no different from an ordinary person.

Luo Xuanyi noticed that the portrait was exactly the one in the file Fei Han sent her. It was a portrait of Luo Xuanyi drawn with reference to Yu Zhilaimian's memories. Although the mole on her face was not drawn, it already looked about 70% like her.

Since they were using this portrait for comparison, the old man in front of them must be looking for Luo Xuanyi. Luo Xuanyi's brain was working rapidly as she analyzed the situation.

The old man had previously been guarding the Vegetable Market, which was also the entrance to the Ghost Market set up by the evil Paper Arts Sect. His position should have belonged to the Paper Arts Sect. But she couldn't figure out why the Paper Arts Sect was looking for Luo Xuanyi.

Luo Xuanyi would not be surprised if the person who came was a cultivator from the six major alliances.

You can't be here to say hello, right?

"I found it, but what did Fu He say?" As Luo Xuanyi pondered, the old man seemed to be desperately trying to recall something. "Catch Shen Ranming... No, real name? Who's the real name?"

"Hey, is that your real name?"

The old man seemed lucid, but in reality, he was still mad. Luo Xuanyi tried to open her mouth, but found that her body was frozen and she couldn't make a sound. She had to mobilize the dead energy in her body to vibrate and make sounds, and try to play dumb for the time being.

"That's not my real name. Are you looking for someone with my real name?"

The old man scratched his hair irritably, and a few fleas jumped out of his head: "Real name? Is it a real name or a real name? I can't remember it, I can't remember anything..."

Luo Xuanyi adjusted her mind and softened her voice, "Can't you remember anything? Don't worry, try to recall your name first. What's your name?"

"You're right, my name, my name." The old man nodded, his face wrinkled as he tried to recall. Luo Xuanyi tried to interfere with Taixu Star, summoning a formation flag within his body and slowly injecting death energy into it.

"Oh! I remember now, that guy called me Huzhe! You should call me Huzhe too!"

The caller nodded happily to himself, but the lantern in his hand did not tremble at all.

"Caller." Luo Xuanyi reviewed the name in her mind. She had never heard of it before. Perhaps it was a pseudonym. She silently transformed the formation flag into invisible form. Under the protection of the formation, the flag transformed into a fake star, chasing the direction of Taixu Star in the sky.

"Huzhe, what a nice name. Does this dog have a name?"

"The dog's name?" The caller was stunned and looked down at the skinny dog biting the portrait. "Yes, what's your name?"

The fake star covered the starlight of the vast void, and the stagnant air around it began to flow again. The fake star, which had not yet formed a formation, flickered twice and faltered. Luo Xuanyi seized the opportunity and took the Wanli Pill without hesitation. As soon as the formation flag fell into her hand, her figure immediately soared through the air and flew thousands of miles away!

It was not until they went deep into the Zhongqu Mountains that Luo Xuanyi slowed down slightly. The death energy that spread out over the largest area did not capture the breath of Huzhe and Shougou.

Didn’t you catch up...?

"It refuses to say its name!" The caller's voice sounded again behind him.

Second update~