"You don't know, little Taoist friend, when I picked up this bead on the roadside, the remaining Yin energy on it made me feel very uncomfortable. Fortunately, I still have a treasure. Look at this..."

Taoist Zi spoke incoherently, trying to show off his rare treasures in order to attract Wei Xicheng's attention. Unfortunately, Wei Xicheng's attention was all on the "yin energy" he mentioned.

"What yin energy are you talking about?" Wei Xicheng interrupted him and took the red bead from his hand and looked at it carefully.

Taoist Zi looked at him with a smile, and did not reveal his secret. He only said, "Little Taoist friend also has the same aura. Maybe you have seen the owner of the bead before?"

Wei Xicheng nodded and said to Zi Dao Ren: "I know why you are looking for me, but there is a restriction in my body."

"Let me see." It happened in a flash. Before Wei Xicheng saw the Purple Taoist move, the Purple Taoist's hand had already rested on his wrist.

Wei Xicheng then looked squarely at the sloppy man in front of him. With his subtle perception, he could clearly sense that Taoist Zi had no ill will towards him, so he let Taoist Zi pinch his wrist.

There was a sharp pain in his wrist. As the pain intensified, Wei Xicheng saw that Zi Daoren's brows were getting deeper and deeper. Then he put down his hand and said to Wei Xicheng: "Have you seen my junior brother before? That's not right..."

Wei Xicheng rubbed his wrist and watched Taoist Zi lost in his own soliloquy.

"Can you find the owner of this bead and the aura on my body?"

"Yes..." Taoist Zi answered casually, then immediately came back to his senses and stared at Wei Xicheng with wide eyes, "Why are you looking for a ghost by yourself? I don't need to see this ghost, I can tell that he is a very powerful guy. Aren't you looking for death by going there?"

"You said it just now. I've seen it. I'm not dead." Wei Xicheng stated the fact calmly. Now it was Zi Daoren's turn to put away his frivolous look and look serious.

"Little guy, tell me, what is your relationship with that ghost?"

"Friend." Wei Xicheng thought for a moment before saying this.

"Then don't keep this friend of yours. Humans and ghosts are different. If you continue to live together for a long time, either you will die or he will die." Taoist Zi put the bundle on the ground and opened it, and a pile of bottles, jars and miscellaneous unknown things fell out.

He reached in and picked and chose, and finally took out a bottle of gray water. He twisted two fingers lightly, and two yellow talismans appeared from nowhere and quickly burned. The purple Taoist pressed the two talismans into the water, and the flames strangely did not go out.

"Here, drink it." Taoist Zi handed the bottle to Wei Xicheng.

Wei Xicheng stood there, looking at him calmly.

"Hey, little guy, I'm saving you, do you know that?" Taoist Zi raised his eyebrows, put the bottle on the ground, and without saying anything more to persuade him, he just packed his things into his bag one by one.

"You little Taoist fellow are so ungrateful. Forget it, I'm leaving." Taoist Zi put his bag on his back, turned around and left, looking like he had no regrets.

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"Okay." Taoist Zi took back the leg he had already stepped out. "It's rare to see someone with talent. Tell me, why did you drink so late? You have to know that I can force you to drink by force."

Wei Xicheng closed his already open mouth and moved it twice, "I said, take me to find Yu...that ghost."

"You drink first."

"You go first." Wei Xicheng did not give in. He must have what Zi Daoren needed, but for some reason, Zi Daoren would not force him too much. It was just to find a ghost. After seeing Zi Daoren's methods, Wei Xicheng naturally did not think that this was difficult for him.

"Okay, okay, kids nowadays are really..."

Taoist Zi took out a worn-out compass from his bosom. A stream of air seemed to flow from the bead and flew straight to the center of the compass. A buzzing sound was heard and Taoist Zi muttered, "Hmm?"

"What?" Wei Xicheng took a step forward, but was stopped by Taoist Zi.

"This aura is too weak. I can only tell that he is due west, about... fifty miles away?"

"The breath is too weak?" Wei Xicheng wanted to see what was on the compass. He had learned some Taoist techniques before, but the rules of each world were different, so he didn't dare to comment.

"Didn't you say he had a strong aura?"

"Yes, this is exactly what's strange." Taoist Zi looked at the compass carefully, trying to deduce the details. "This aura is sometimes strong and sometimes weak. It seems that he is doing something. It seems that he is trying to snatch something from his body... What are you doing?!"

Wei Xicheng picked up the water on the ground and drank it all, then grabbed the purple Taoist's sleeve and walked out the window, "You go down first, I'll come to find you right away."

Taoist Zi let Wei Xicheng push him out of the window, watched Wei Xicheng close the window, and then hurried out.

Taoist Zi sighed, then jumped down several times along the same path he came, and landed on the ground safely.

In just one minute, Wei Xicheng ran downstairs panting, "Let's go, let's go."

"Where are you going?"

"Looking for a ghost!" Wei Xicheng said nothing more. He grabbed the man and hailed a taxi. He pushed Taoist Zi and asked, "Location."

"Oh oh, just drive west."

After saying this, he looked at Wei Xicheng's somewhat anxious face, and a smile flashed in his eyes. It was really interesting.

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When Wei Xicheng and Taoist Zi arrived at the location finally indicated by the compass, they saw only a desolate wasteland.

All he saw were either messy stones or colorful garbage residues. Just as Wei Xicheng was about to step into this wasteland, he was pulled back by Taoist Zi.

"Wait a minute, something's not right here." Taoist Zi put away his previously relaxed expression.

Wei Xicheng was stopped by him. He was too eager to find Yu Beiyan just now, and now he was obstructed. He also found something wrong with this place.

It is so quiet here that even the wind brings a cool feeling, but it is June now and the temperature has not dropped for this city.

When they came out of Wei Xicheng's house, they still felt the unbearable heat wave, but the temperature difference could not be too big over such a short distance.

"Here..." Wei Xicheng looked around and saw an even more terrifying situation.

As far as he could see, there was a sea of black and red. The color was like rusted blood, staining a large area of land.

Since the restrictions in his body had been released, after he calmed down, he found that he could see things that he could not see before, such as strange airflows.

Wei Xicheng was sure that it was not the trajectory of the wind. Then there was only one explanation, it was some kind of energy. Wei Xicheng believed that since the Yin Qi on the evil spirit could cause harm to people, it could also be considered a kind of energy. For him and Yu Beiyan, any invisible energy could be connected to the system through some medium and converted into the energy required by the system.

After experiencing the "online game world" with Yu Beiyan, Wei Xicheng's perspective on the system has changed a lot. He no longer thinks that the system is uncontrollable. Now, he and Yu Beiyan are thinking of ways to make the system fully work for them.

"Did you see it?" Taoist Zi did not miss Wei Xicheng's gaze. Although this sentence was a question, he turned it into an affirmative sentence.

"Yeah." Wei Xicheng nodded. His original body had never encountered such things, and the script never mentioned them. Wei Xicheng couldn't rashly speculate on the rules of this world, so he had to follow the Purple Taoist's thinking.

"Go to where these air currents come from." Taoist Zi had a serious expression on his face, and he finally seemed to be able to convince people.

Wei Xicheng nodded and stepped into the strange circle surrounded by stones. What Taoist Zi said should be correct, because although these messy air currents were flying all over the sky, it was easy to see that they all flowed out from that black and red area.

Obviously, that's where the problem originated.

Wei Xicheng walked very cautiously at the beginning. Taoist Zi followed him slowly and stood beside him, with half of his body slightly leaning forward. It was obvious that he didn't want Wei Xicheng to get hurt.

Wei Xicheng looked at him, said nothing, and continued to move forward. After not encountering any danger, the two quickened their pace and soon arrived in front of the strange land.

"Here?" Taoist Zi retracted his foot that had already taken a step forward and looked at Wei Xicheng who suddenly stopped beside him.

"Hmm." Wei Xicheng looked at the red soil next to his feet. He didn't step on it, but the Purple Taoist accidentally stepped on it. Now he could see the air flowing out from under the Purple Taoist's shoes.

Wei Xicheng pursed his lips and suppressed the tip that was about to come out of his mouth. He still couldn't completely trust Zi Dao Ren, even though Zi Dao Ren had tried his best to show his kindness from the time they met until now.

But somehow, Wei Xicheng always felt that he couldn't be completely unguarded. After experiencing too many dangerous and disgusting worlds, Wei Xicheng had long been indifferent to such unprovoked displays of goodwill.

Taoist Zi took out a compass. The needle on the compass no longer pointed in one direction steadily as before, but began to rotate faster and faster.

"Not good." Taoist Zi exclaimed, quickly stopped the compass and put it in his arms. If he hadn't acted quickly, the compass would have been destroyed by now.

I don’t know what the reason is, but this place has such a strong power.

The endless red soil looked no different from ordinary land in the eyes of Zi Dao Ren, but in the eyes of Wei Xicheng it caused a great shock. He looked forward, and the dark red color seemed to have no boundaries.