Chapter 988: Vengeful Spirit?

"We only need three rooms, for two days first."

Luo Li placed the purse on the counter, and the copper coins made a dull sound when they fell on the table.

What poured out of the bag were clearly eighteen strange stones, but the old man put them into the clay pot with satisfaction.

Luo Li just discovered that the scattered crystal soul coins in the space ring had turned into some azure stones.

The old man's gray eyes rolled around, "Xiaoyi, take the guests to the upper room."

The girl Xiaoyi responded happily and led everyone up the creaking stairs.

When passing the corner of the second floor, Luo Li noticed that the reflections of the six of them in the bronze mirror hanging on the wall were all missing their heads.

"This room is for my two sisters!" Xiaoyi pushed open the carved wooden door at the end of the corridor. The room was beautifully furnished, but the lotus embroidered on the bed curtains was slowly changing its shape, sometimes turning into entangled snakes, and sometimes turning into bloody eyeballs.

However, in just a moment, everything returned to normal, as if what he had just seen was just an illusion.

Xuan Mu's folding fan suddenly snapped shut, and a few wisps of black smoke seeped out from the gaps between the fan ribs.

Xiaoyi took two steps back as if frightened: "This brother's injury... seems to be more serious?"

"It's okay," Luo Li stood in front of Xuan Mu, flicking her fingertips to disperse the black smoke. She chuckled, "He just needs to rest."

Xiaoyi said with a smile: "My two sisters, please rest first. I will take these guests to their rooms."

"Okay," Luo Li smiled, "Thank you for the trouble."

"No trouble, no trouble," Xiaoyi waved her hand quickly, "If you need anything, just ring the bell in the room!"

"good."

After all six people were settled, Luo Li set up a soundproof barrier in the room.

Xuan Mu and the other three also slipped in.

Sitting around the table, Xie Shiyuan frowned and said, "This is too weird. Everything in this city is weird."

Xuan Mu crossed his arms, "Didn't we already know this? This place was clearly just a ruin before, but after we entered, it turned into this. Is this an illusion?"

Luo Li tapped the table lightly with her fingertips, and suddenly a slight "rustling" sound came from outside the room, like countless scales rubbing against the wooden floor.

She calmly increased the spiritual power of the barrier. "This isn't an illusion. The traces of time on these objects are undeniable. They were constructed with powerful soul power. To construct something of this level, that person or beast must have at least comprehended the elementary power of the laws of heaven."

Xuan Mu suddenly lifted a corner of the bed curtain with a folding fan, and the originally exquisite embroidery pattern was instantly distorted, and dark red blood beads seeped out of the silk thread of the lotus.

Xie Shiyuan took a breath and asked, "What on earth is this?"

At this moment, there was a knocking sound outside the window. When everyone turned around, they saw the headless reflection in the bronze mirror tapping the mirror surface with its knuckles.

Xiaoyi's clear voice echoed in the corridor: "Brothers and sisters, do you need a midnight snack? Freshly made lotus seed soup..."

Xuan Mu and the others looked at Luo Li——

Luo Li thought for two seconds, then stood up and opened the door.

When I opened the door, I saw Xiaoyi holding a tray with six small bowls of lotus seed soup on it.

She raised the tray with a smile and said, "Would you like to try it? Grandpa's cooking is really good!"

Luo Li moved half a body away and said with a smile, "Come in first."

Xiaoyi nodded, walked in cautiously, put the tray on the table, and said with a smile: "Come and try it, it's delicious!"

Luo Li pulled Xiao Yi to sit down and said with a smile: "Wait until it cools down before drinking it. Sister has a question to ask you."

"Huh?" Xiaoyi was a little confused when she was pulled to sit down.

Luo Li chuckled, "You know we just arrived in Desolate City and don't know much about this place, so I wanted to ask Xiaoyi, is that okay?"

Xiaoyi's eyes suddenly lit up surprisingly, and the corners of her mouth stretched into an exaggerated arc, which looked a little weird.

She said in a sweet voice: "Sister, what do you want to know? There are so many stories about the Desolate City—"

Her words stopped abruptly.

There was a crisp "click" sound outside the window. When everyone turned around, they saw spider-web-like cracks on the surface of the bronze mirror.

"Oh, it's going to rain," Xiaoyi suddenly jumped up and skipped towards the door. "Grandpa said we have to put away the clothes before it rains! Brother and sister Xiaoyi is going to put away the clothes! I'll be back soon!"

Luo Li's fingertips moved slightly, and a wisp of spiritual power quietly wrapped around the hem of Xiaoyi's skirt.

The girl was unaware and pushed the door open humming a strange nursery rhyme.

The moment the door closed, the lotus seed soup on the table suddenly boiled. The soup, which originally looked delicious, now became turbid, with some catkin-like things floating on it.

“Eh—”

Shen Fuzhou wrinkled his nose, “What the hell is this?!”

Luo Li raised her fingertips, and a wisp of black and red flame fell into the bowl.

The lotus seed soup suddenly made a sharp hissing sound and turned into black smoke and dissipated.

"It seems to be a foul substance formed by resentful spirits." Xuan Mu waved his folding fan lightly, dispersing the black smoke. "It seems that the residents of this city are no longer living people."

"Ghost?" Shen Fuzhou frowned, "What is that?"

"It's normal not to know," Xuan Mu explained. "In today's Continent of Gods, vengeful spirits almost never appear. But tens of thousands of years ago, in the Continent of Gods, if someone died with resentment, there was a chance that a vengeful spirit would be created."

Thunder roared outside the window, and countless pale arms suddenly stretched out from the fragments of the bronze mirror.

Wen Xingyan's sword automatically unsheathed, nailing the first hand that stretched out to the wall.

The arm instantly withered and turned to ashes, but a scarlet flower bloomed in the ashes.

"Mirror World," Luo Li suddenly stood up and said with a frown, "We are all in the mirror."

As if in response to her words, the entire wall suddenly shook like water waves.

The carved wooden door disappeared, replaced by a huge bronze mirror.

The true appearance of the deserted city emerged in the mirror—countless bones piled up among the broken walls, and a blue crystal was inserted on the top of each skeleton's head.

Luo Li frowned, "The Mirror World... the person who comprehended the laws of heaven and created this place must be extremely powerful."

The only thing she was sure of was that it was definitely not Yan Ye.

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Xie Shiyuan clenched the jade flute in his hand and whispered, "No wonder those crystal soul coins turned into stone... I'm afraid what we saw was just an illusion in the mirror."

Xuan Mu's folding fan suddenly emitted a dazzling green light, and he suddenly opened the fan to block everyone.

I saw the white bones in the mirror slowly stand up, with blue flames dancing in the empty eye sockets.

"Be careful!" Wen Xingyan swept his sword across, and the sword energy cut the first three skeletons that rushed over in half.

However, the bones melted as soon as they hit the ground, corroding black holes in the wooden floor.

An ice lotus condensed from Luo Li's fingertips, and she shouted softly, "Break!"

The moment the ice lotus exploded, the entire room shattered into pieces like shattered glass.

Everyone felt empty and fell into endless darkness.