Kong Ju and Feng An, exhausted and dusty, climbed to the top of a low mountain.

From this position, you can see a bustling town below the hill.

Looking at the worldly atmosphere in front of him, Kong Ju took a deep breath.

This small town is the one Feng An mentioned, the place where he was ambushed twenty years ago.

After three days of long journey, they had already left the area ruled by the Cangwu Sect.

The small town in front of us is located at the border of Cangwu Sect and Mosheng Sect. It belongs to neither Cangwu Sect nor Mosheng Sect.

"A lawless area like this is often a haven for filth and dirt." Kong Ju was looking at the town and whispering to Feng An beside him.

But there was no response from the latter.

Kong Ju then turned his gaze to Feng An standing beside him. There was obvious astonishment on the latter's face as he looked at the small town.

"Senior Brother Feng? Is there anything wrong?" Kong Ju called out.

Feng An just woke up from his trance, frowned, and replied in a rather surprised tone.

"When I came here, this town was uninhabited and in ruins. I didn't expect that 20 years later, so many people have gathered here."

As he spoke, Feng An sighed in distress.

"If we really start fighting, we won't be able to stop. If we hurt innocent people, we will definitely be punished by the sect."

“It’s really troublesome.”

Feng An is not shooting in the dark.

The current leader of the Cangwu sect, Huangfu Ying, not only hates those cultivators who absorb the essence of human spirits, but is also extremely strict in disciplining his disciples.

For other sect disciples, accidentally killing a few mortals is no big deal.

But in the Cangwu sect, you will be punished, and in serious cases you may even be expelled from the sect.

After hearing Feng An's words, Kong Ju's brows furrowed deeply.

Of course, what he cared about was not the fact that it would hurt mortals.

He was quite concerned about what Feng An said, that there was no one living here twenty years ago.

It seemed that he had thought of something, which made him feel uneasy.

But Kong Ju quickly put it behind his mind and said softly: "Anyway, let's go to the town to check out the situation inside."

"It's not too late to discuss the specific plan."

"Yeah!" Feng An nodded and agreed to Kong Ju's proposal.

The two of them gathered themselves together, walked down the mountain, and slowly headed towards the town.

The people in the town did not show any surprise at the arrival of the two strange visitors.

I think it’s because this place is located at the border of two sects and there are many travelers passing by.

If you look closely, you will find that this small town is small but has everything you need, including inns, vendors, rice shops, and cloth shops.

Kong Ju felt that this place could no longer be described as a "town", but rather a small city.

The two of them arrived at an inn and stayed there. The thin waiter came up to them and greeted them warmly, "Are you two going to stay overnight or stay at the inn?"

"First, give us some food and a pot of good wine." Feng An waved his hand, then sat down by the window of the inn with Kong Ju.

Along the way, Kong Ju's eyes were always looking at the surrounding environment, including the various pedestrians in the town he saw along the way, which he observed repeatedly.

Kong Ju silently watched the waiter's expression and eyes when he was talking to them.

I didn't notice any clues.

This was not the first time that Feng An had acted with Kong Ju, and he was accustomed to the latter's observant behavior.

He said softly, "Junior Brother Kong, don't be too nervous. They are just ordinary mortals."

"Hmm!" Kong Jue hummed without comment.

He indeed didn't notice anything unusual.

However, when the waiter brought a pot of sake and placed the food on the table, Kong Ju's expression suddenly became gloomy.

When he saw Feng An was about to pick up his chopsticks, he even held down the latter's arm without leaving a trace.

"Junior Brother Kong, it shouldn't be that serious, right?" Feng An pursed his lips. He has always been the most cautious one.

Who would have known that Kong Ju's performance today would be even more stable than his.

Kong Ju smiled without saying anything, but the seriousness in his eyes made Feng An compromise.

Feng An had no resistance to the desire for food, especially after traveling all the way, he was even more greedy.

But he still trusted Kong Ju, who looked at the delicious food and wine on the table, swallowed hard, and did not move.

Kong Ju explained softly, "It doesn't matter if it's just one bite. It's safer."

As he spoke, he leaned forward slightly and said to Feng An in a deliberately lowered voice, "Brother Feng, what you said before reminded me of a story in a travelogue I read in the Miscellaneous Book House."

"What story?" When Feng An was talking to Kong Ju, he tried not to look at the food on the table, but instead looked out the window, appearing a little nonchalant.

"It was the author of that book who recorded an interesting folk rumor." Kong Ju paused for a moment, and recalled the rumors about that story in his memory, and then slowly said:

"The monk was in a hurry to travel and did not doubt anything. He ate some wine and meat and left the town."

"Because at that time he had stable business in the two markets where he was doing business, and he had to pass through that town from time to time."

“The second time I went to that inn, there was still only wine and beef.”

"For four times in a row, the monks had nothing else to eat."

As he spoke, Kong Ju pointed inconspicuously at the food on the table. The food served by the waiter was exactly two plates of beef, weighing nearly two kilograms.

After listening to Kong Ju's narration, Feng An's expression suddenly became solemn.

But he didn't ask any more questions and continued to listen to Kong Qi's statement.

"But that monk has been doing business all year round after all, so he doesn't care as long as he has food to eat."

"What do you think the ending of the story is?" Kong Ju suddenly smiled.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

"What?" Feng An already sensed that something was wrong, but he still asked patiently.

"When he passed by the town for the fifth time, all the people in the town had disappeared, including the dogs on the street and the chickens in the chicken coop. Not a hair was left."

"That monk was also very surprised, but he didn't think much about it. After all, in this world, even a city could be destroyed in a fight between monks, let alone a small town."

"But what shocked him most was that forty years later, he had the chance to walk that path again."

"What do you think he saw?"

As he spoke, Kong Ju's expression became solemn.

"The town reappeared, and the waiter was still the same waiter."

"In the inn, there is still only beef and wine."

After hearing this story, Feng An's body visibly stiffened.

He glanced at the entrance of the inn, and saw the waiter standing at the door boredly after the dishes were served, waiting for the next customer.

Feng An, after all, is a meticulous person, in order to verify whether they really encountered the strange events recorded in the book.

He rolled his eyes and shouted to the waiter at the door, "Waiter, are there no other dishes? No beef."

Upon hearing this, the waiter hurried over, nodded and said, "I'm sorry, sir, our store is small and we don't have a complete menu. We only have beef and wine."

The waiter's answer shattered the last glimmer of hope in Feng An's heart.

He waved his hand as if he didn't care, and signaled the waiter to leave.

Kong Ju quietly watched the brief exchange between Feng An and the waiter without saying a word.

His eyes met Feng An's with a hidden look.

They both saw solemnity in each other's eyes.

Apparently that story wasn't just folklore, it seemed like they really encountered it.

"Junior Brother Kong, at the end of the story, what happened to the monk?" Feng An swallowed, his voice slightly hoarse due to nervousness.

"Disappeared, that person and the town disappeared together." As he spoke, Kong Ju tilted his head to look outside the inn.

Street vendors were still shouting, and from time to time children were running wildly on the street, laughing happily.

Everything is so natural. No matter how you look at it, this town doesn't seem as weird as described in the story.

The more this happened, the more fearful Kong Ju became, and he didn't want to stay here any longer.

"Let's leave first." Throwing a piece of silver on the table, Kong Ju called Feng An and walked out of the inn pretending to be calm.

Obviously, they couldn't stay here any longer.

Kong Ju would rather sleep in the wilderness outside the town than stay in this inn.

In this process.

A strange thing happened. Just as they walked out of the inn, the moon seal between Kong Ju's eyebrows emerged on its own without him mobilizing it.

The light flashed briefly between his eyebrows, and then disappeared on its own.

Kong Ju's body stiffened slightly. He turned back and took a deep look at the door. After seeing the waiter who was still nodding and bowing to them, his expression returned to normal.

Until they left the town and their figures disappeared on the road outside the town.

In the bustling town, all the sounds disappeared in an instant, and you could hear a pin drop.

The waiter in the inn, the hawkers on the street, and even the owners of the rice and cloth shops all stopped what they were doing at the same time, and like puppets, they all turned their heads to look in the direction where Kong Ju and the other person had left.

The update time of this book is generally .

The first update will be around 10 am.

The second update will be around 6pm.

If there are additional chapters, they will be released around 10 pm.

If the monthly ticket reaches 600 today, I will update it 　　 　 (end of this chapter)