Chapter 279: Cleanup
Before the next day's day even broke, the entire garrison city was already bustling with activity.
Song Xing and Fu Yuanzi brought the monster disguised as Jiang Zhan's skin to the rooms of other team leaders overnight, which scared dozens of other team leaders awake.
They gathered together and looked at the monster, which looked no different from a normal person except for being covered in skin. Feelings of nausea and fear kept rising in their hearts.
"What is going on? Could it be that the disciples of the Sword Holding Sect left the city without permission?" This was the only explanation that the leader of the Miaoyin Valley monks could think of at the first moment.
Due to the old grudges between the two sects, these disciples have always only maintained superficial peace and have not been on good terms with each other in private.
When Fu Yuanzi heard what the other party said, he immediately became unhappy: "What nonsense are you talking about? We, the Sword Holding Sect monks, have always abided by the rules. There are regulations in the city that prohibit private entry and exit of the garrison city. Our people will definitely not knowingly violate the rules."
"These were brought by the two groups of ghosts in disguise earlier. It's just that they are really good at hiding and have been hiding until now."
Instead of reassuring the team leaders, this explanation made them even more terrified.
Song Xingye said, "Now is not the time to ask about his origins. I don't know how long the skin-covered ghost has been in the city, and I don't know how many Taoist friends have encountered accidents during this period. We must check everyone in the city again as soon as possible!"
There were also some smart people who immediately figured out the key point: "In a few days, some cultivators will leave Senluo Realm. If there are ghosts among those who leave..."
The team leader didn't finish his words, but the expressions of the others changed. They had all thought of the consequences.
Realizing this, everyone dared not delay any longer and checked themselves first. After making sure that there were no skin-covered ghosts among the team leaders, they went to find a few of their most trusted fellow disciples and began self-checks in their areas.
Xie Liuyin was found in the middle of the night. She heard the noisy noise outside and felt something was wrong, so she changed her clothes and went out to check.
She happened to run into Liao Yan who came looking for her, and learned from him that there were still skin-covered ghosts in the garrison city.
Xie Liuyin lowered her brows, feeling anxious. Although she was the one who came up with this guess, she was also worried and didn't actually hope that she was right.
Even though she was proven to be right, Xie Liuyin couldn't be happy at all.
Liao Yan comforted her, "Junior Sister Xie, don't be sad about this. We should be thanking you instead. If you hadn't thought of this, we would have been fooled and wouldn't have realized that danger was right beside us."
Especially since Senior Brother Song Xing also told him Xie Liuyin's final guess, that a group of cultivators would be leaving soon, and if those monsters really found a chance to escape.
All of Liao Yan and his companions will become eternal sinners in the world of cultivation, and he will never forgive himself.
Thinking of this, Liao Yan couldn't help but feel grateful to Xie Liuyin.
Since Xie Liuyin and his companions had only been in the Senluo Realm for two days, and their identities had been confirmed by their fellow disciples, they were temporarily judged to be safe. They had to follow several team leaders to help them check the remaining people one by one.
Fortunately, the Qingxiao Sect had to gather together every day to discuss matters concerning the Senluo Realm, so the skin-wearing ghost did not find an opportunity to take action, and the remaining sixty people were finally checked and all of them were found to be without any problems.
But the situation on the Sword Holding Sect side was different. Jiang Zhan had been lurking for too long, and several other people who had contact with him had already been implicated.
It was later discovered that except Jiang Zhan, four other members of the Sword Holding Sect had been replaced by ghosts.
After finding out all this, Fu Yuanzi blamed himself immensely. He felt that it was because he had failed to fulfill his responsibilities as a team leader that so many of his fellow disciples died silently.
If he could gather his fellow disciples together regularly for communication like Song Xing did, perhaps he would be able to discover the problem earlier and at least save the other four people.
But it's too late to say this now. The monks' investigation eventually alarmed the skin-covered ghosts. Several skin-covered ghosts realized that the situation was not good, and without waiting for anyone to find them, they tried to attack other monks or find opportunities to escape from the garrison city.
But the team leaders had already sealed off the entire garrison city before they began the investigation, in order to prevent the ghosts from having a chance to escape.
Although these skin-covered ghosts are good at hiding, their strength is very average. Although they are very good at escaping, this skin helps them disguise themselves while also restricting them.
The monks showed no mercy and were determined to keep these skin-covered ghosts to avenge their fellow Taoists.
After a night of turmoil, there were twenty-five more corpses in the city.
There were still three living ghosts who they planned to keep for interrogation.
Looking at the bodies of so many familiar people on the ground, everyone present felt sad.
Many of them will be leaving the Senluo Realm soon, as they still have relatives and friends waiting for them in the world of cultivation.
But at this moment, these people were left in this desolate land forever.
"Their bodies were eaten by the skin-covered ghosts, leaving only this skin. For a moment, I didn't know whether it would be more cruel to send them back or keep them here." Fu Yuanzi's face was as cold as ice.
Taking the skins back is undoubtedly telling their relatives and friends what kind of torture they suffered before their death.
But if they don't bring the skins back, then these people will really be left with their corpses in a hellish place like Senluo Realm.
Song Xing sighed deeply: "Let's use a trick to deceive them, so that they don't leave in such an undignified way."
His proposal was unanimously approved by the other team leaders, and everyone took action to transform the skin bag on the ground back to its original appearance.
Afterwards, everyone put them into the makeshift coffins one by one, planning to take their bodies back to the world of cultivation when someone was about to leave.
However, after experiencing this terrifying incident of a skin-covered ghost sneaking in, the monks became more cautious about returning to the world of cultivation.
Some of the more rational leaders even planned to go to the demon cultivators first to inform them about the ghost in disguise and tell them not to be fooled.
Once a monster escapes from the Senluo Realm, it will bring endless troubles.
By then, it won’t just be the righteous ones who will be in trouble, but also the demons and evil practitioners.
The demon cultivators stationed in the city originally did not welcome the righteous cultivators, and they were even unwilling to listen to them speak.
But after the righteous cultivators told their experiences of last night, the evil cultivators suddenly became nervous.
They were relatively harmonious in their righteous ways and interacted with each other on a daily basis. Because of this, it was not so easy for the ghosts to take action and not so many people died.
But it’s different for the demon cultivators. Even here, they don’t trust each other and don’t communicate much, making them the easiest to be targeted by ghosts in disguise.
They dared not imagine what the consequences would be if there were also ghosts among them.
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