Chapter 153: The Ruan Yunxiong Case (2) The sound was not loud, but in the silence...
The extremely yang things that Bai Ma mentioned are very common in the field of metaphysics, and Si Ling has also heard of them.
But letting a ghost carry these things out is quite abstract.
Hot Knowledge: These things were most likely created not to balance yin and yang or feng shui, but to drive away ghosts and evil spirits.
However, as the saying goes, listening to advice is the key to success. Seeing that Bai Ma described the destination so unusually, Si Ling asked the Black and White Impermanence to help her find these things.
The next morning, Fan Wujiu arrived carrying a massive bag. The bag had a special material that could block out yang energy. He placed it on Si Ling's coffee table and was about to introduce it to her when Xuan Chi emerged from the bedroom, bleary-eyed. This startled Fan Wujiu, and he couldn't help but glance at Si Ling a few more times. Xuan Chi, noticing him at the same time, lazily greeted him, "Good morning."
"...Good morning." Fan Wujiu quickly came back to his senses, and the next second he saw Si Ling reaching into the bag.
"Hey, be careful!" Fan Wujiu hurriedly tried to stop her, but he was still a step too late. Si Ling had already taken out the Bagua mirror on the top and was looking at it carefully with interest.
"..." Fan Wujiu twitched his lips, "Don't you feel it's too hot?"
Si Ling was startled and looked at him: "I didn't think so."
Fan Wujiu thought to himself: I was overstepping my bounds.
These extremely yang elements can easily harm ghosts, with the most common reaction being a burning sensation. However, as a 30,000-year-old ghost, Si Ling's attributes are even more yin than the extremely yin, so it's not surprising that they offset the damage...
Fan Wujiu was feeling complicated when he saw Xuan Chi also walk to the table, look into the bag, and take out the wooden dagger.
That's lightning-struck jujube wood...
"These things can balance yin and yang?" Xuan Chi exclaimed in amazement. "How did you come up with that?"
Fan Wujiu didn't want to stay here anymore.
"This is the clearance document." He handed over another folder. "By the way, don't use the Myriad Shadows to attack Ruan Wenxiong. Annan is also part of the Celestial Court's territory. The Celestial Emperor will know immediately if this kind of magic is used."
Si Ling took the folder and sneered, "He can't possibly be on par with the Emperor of Heaven, right? He doesn't need such a powerful move."
"That's right." Fan Wujiu sighed softly, "Just let me know when you leave. I'm leaving first."
Si Ling nodded: "Let's go now."
...No more preparation?
Fan Wujiu was very self-aware and did not ask this question. The three of them left the Ghost Academy together. Fan Wujiu and Si Ling went to the Cross-Border Contract Hall together and returned to Fengdu through formal channels. Si Ling then went from Fengdu to the human country of Annan.
Xuan Chi was considered an illegal immigrant and had no formal documents to allow him to pass through the Cross-Border Contract Hall, so he could only fly to Annan and meet Si Ling at his destination.
So this time Si Ling was faster than him. Before Xuan Chi arrived, she had already entered the mountain range where Ruan Wenxiong was. This mountain range was very large. There were three or four mortal villages not too deep in the mountains. Once you went deeper, you could no longer see any people.
Si Ling followed the coordinates and floated all the way to the deepest part of the mountains. As she floated, she suddenly felt a strong yin energy, so yin that she felt a distinct chill.
Si Ling frowned suddenly, picked up the Tongming disk and looked at the navigation again, and found that the coordinates were still 10 kilometers away from her!
This is too gloomy.
Si Ling, cautious, cast a protective spell on herself before continuing deeper. She encountered nothing along the way, but she felt the yin energy was no longer steadily increasing, but instead fluctuated between light and heavy. The heaviest stretches of yin energy made her almost feel like she was freezing, while lighter areas were barely noticeable, and still others left her feeling both cold and hot.
This is a very strange situation.
Generally speaking, if there is a ghost with extremely strong yin energy nearby, the closer you are to it, the more yin energy you will feel and the lower the temperature will be. It doesn't make sense for it to be hot and cold, or even both cold and hot. The same goes for the yin energy being caused by the terrain and feng shui.
Bai Ma is right, this place was definitely not formed naturally.
When he was still a few hundred meters away from the destination coordinates, Si Ling saw Ruan Wenxiong's house.
It was a small courtyard that looked no different from the houses in the villages outside the mountain range. It was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only way to the outside world was from Si Ling's side, but there was actually no mountain road.
Si Ling stopped and looked at the hut - from where she was to the hut was a nearly 200-meter-long crack in the mountain. The narrowest part of the crack was so narrow that even a child would find it difficult to pass through. At the end of the crack was a dense forest that completely obscured the house.
If she hadn't been vigilant and used spells all the way, it would have been difficult for her to find this courtyard here, let alone a mortal.
Si Ling passed through the crack and stopped in the dense forest, waiting for Xuan Chi to join him.
This wait lasted for most of the day, and during this time, there was no movement in the courtyard, no one entering or leaving, and no sound was heard. If Fan Wujiu had not provided official information from Fengdu, Si Ling would probably have suspected that the courtyard had been abandoned.
Just after midnight, Si Ling suddenly heard a strong wind. He looked up and saw a pair of black wings falling rapidly.
Si Ling smiled: "Are you here?"
Xuan Chi landed behind her, took a deep breath, frowned, and looked around: "Something is wrong with this place. I can feel it even from high above."
Si Ling concentrated and pondered for a moment, then asked him, "You've fought and seen more monsters and demons than I have. Is there anything that makes you feel both cold and hot at the same time?"
Hyun Chi glanced at the house not far away and said, "I had this feeling just now on the road."
Si Ling: "...Except today."
"That's gone." Xuan Chi said.
Si Ling took a breath and said, "Let's be careful and test the situation from the outside first."
They then took advantage of the cover of the woods to approach the yard, and when they were still dozens of meters away from the yard, they split into two groups, one to the left and the other to the right.
Three minutes later, Si Ling jumped over the fence and approached the window of the main house on the left. He looked inside through the gap in the bamboo window. The room was pitch black and he could not see anything.
Ghosts can see clearly even in complete darkness.
Si Ling couldn't help but frown and secretly cast a spell: "Netherworld Vision."
She had Ruan Yunxiong's photo in her hand, so she tried to use this spell to search for his location directly. However, when she looked through the window again, her field of vision was still pitch black. She turned to look at the other rooms in the courtyard, and the scene she saw was also pitch black.
Si Ling thought about it, added another protective spell, and used his energy to pass through the wall.
In an instant, a strong suction force came roaring, Si Ling exclaimed, "Oh no!" and wanted to dodge, but it was too late.
She seemed to be caught in an unfathomable vortex, but the whistling of the wind in her ears made the force seem more like a tornado.
Si Ling sank rapidly under the suction force. He tried to steady his body several times but to no avail. He was knocked to and fro by the strong wind.
The surroundings were still pitch black, but she could feel that she was falling extremely fast, much faster than the elevator in Fox City. However, the falling process still lasted for more than ten minutes. During these ten minutes, Si Ling could not see anything, and could only vaguely estimate that she seemed to have reached a depth underground that she had never reached before.
The falling did not stop until it hit the ground hard.
Si Ling was a little dazed after being knocked around for a long time. He struggled to stand up and took a long time to recover. His vision gradually adjusted to the darkness and he could see the situation clearly.
As far as her eyes could see, there was a bizarre dome. It had a little light halo in the dark underground, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, so she could see some colors, but the colors kept changing.
She fell into a... barrier.
A barrier of astonishing size.
Si Ling subconsciously held her breath. When her eyes met the distance, she took a half step back in shock, immediately transformed, and pulled out the silver ribbon from her bun with both hands.
——In the open space a few meters away, there are stone statues of various shapes and colors. They look like humans, but they are skinny, with bulging eyeballs, and their heads are mostly bald, but with a few strands of long hair hanging down. Their facial muscles are distorted, making them look very hideous.
Si Ling looked at these stone statues, and long-forgotten memories suddenly popped into her mind. She suddenly realized that she was actually not unfamiliar with the feeling of being both cold and hot.
But in all the long years, she had only experienced it once, and it didn't last long, only about half a day.
It is in the Rakshasa realm.
Rakshasas were originally gods, but because of their violent nature they were incompatible with the heavenly realm.
They were gradually marginalized, and then began to huddle together for warmth. Finally, under the leadership of several great Rakshasas, they left the heavens and formed the Rakshasa world.
When the Rakshasa Realm was formed, Xin Bi had not yet become the all-powerful Celestial Emperor. Later, as her power grew, the Rakshasa Realm submitted to her. It was during the ceremony of accepting the Rakshasa Realm as her territory that she made her only visit to the Rakshasa Realm in her lifetime.
After that, their interactions were essentially nonexistent. On the one hand, the Rakshasa Realm had been fully autonomous long before she became the Celestial Emperor; on the other hand, while the higher-ups in the Rakshasa Realm were generally sane, a significant number had fallen so deeply into a state of half-god, half-ghost, half-beast, barely able to communicate, their style so different from other races that everyone shunned them.
In this case, letting them live their own lives is the most comfortable state for all parties. The so-called submission is more of an attitude and ritual.
Later, she heard again that it was Di Jun from the Rakshasa Realm who came to claim this territory when he parted ways with her.
Back then, she'd claimed she'd granted the territory to Di Jun, but in reality, it was something Di Jun had discussed with the Rakshasa Realm beforehand, and she didn't need to worry about it. Furthermore, while to outsiders, her relationship with Di Jun might have seemed like a matter of "going their separate ways due to disagreements," there had been a lot of resentment built up between them, and they were both aware of it. Therefore, she hadn't intended to see Di Jun off when he left for the Rakshasa Realm, and naturally, she hadn't been able to come into contact with the Rakshasa again.
Until now, this was the second time in her life that she had seen Rakshasa.
Their half-god, half-ghost state was the reason why she felt both cold and hot, and now that they were so close, the feeling was even clearer.
Si Ling took out the Tongming Plate and wanted to call Xuan Chi down, but perhaps because their location was too far from the ground, or perhaps because of the barrier, the message could not be sent.
Just as she was considering whether to break through the barrier and call out to Xuan Chi, the stone statue not far to the left front made a cracking sound.
The sound was not loud, but it was very clear in the silence deep underground.
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