Chapter 165: The Dark Forest
The next morning.
Chen Luo handed the refined foundation-building pill to Zhu Jie, and then left Shanyin Pass alone. This was just a short transition point, and after collecting the information he wanted, he naturally wouldn't waste time here.
"Follow the Black Stone Mountain Road for a while, and you will come across the Yinsha Forest. After passing through it, you will reach the corpse-raising ground."
Chen Luo rode on the donkey that the knife forging shop gave him, recalling the information he had bought in his mind. These information were sold to him by the Black Wind Cave Master and Madam Xue Gu. In addition to the information they sold, Chen Luo also read some fragments of obsession from the brain he picked up. The Black Wind Cave Master's brothers were about the same strength as him, both in the late stage of Qi Refining. The brain was well preserved, and Chen Luo released it after reading it.
The brains of low-level Qi Refining Realm were no longer useful to him. Whether it was Madam Xue Gu or the Lord of Black Wind Cave, they were essentially no different from the late Qi Refining cultivators who died in the cave. The more than one hundred Qi Refining Realm brains stored in the external brain, except for those with special abilities, the rest were in a state of being eliminated.
The information about the fourth-level materials given by Ning Ling was not known to the Black Wind Cave Master and others. Chen Luo read some of the content from his brother's "obsession". They destroyed Ning Ling's family just because they accepted a mission, and the person behind it was a faceless evil cultivator. They just took the spirit stones to do the work.
The clue ends here.
This result was normal for the secret of the fourth-level spiritual material. The Ning Ling family only had the tip of the iceberg, and the other party just wiped them out out of caution, just like stepping on an ant.
The donkey was not walking fast. The rugged path was all sandy. It made a rustling sound when stepped on. The donkey would stop every few steps to eat some black plants.
This plant is short and weed-like, with dark green rhizomes and black triangular leaves. When chewed by a donkey, a milky white juice will flow out.
Chen Luo took a closer look and found that these black plants contained a small amount of cold-repelling ingredients. The donkey ate these things to resist the increasingly low temperature outside.
Walked a little further.
The temperature was getting lower and lower, the rocky path became rugged, the sand particles on the ground started to grow larger, and fist-sized stones began to appear. The terrain on both sides also became steeper, and hillsides and old forests began to appear.
quack
From the depths of the dark forest, strange bird calls could be heard from time to time.
"There seems to be something over there?"
Chen Luo sat on the donkey's back and scanned the area with his consciousness. He seemed to see a dark shadow, but when he looked again, there was nothing. The donkey finished eating the black leaves and continued to move forward.
".I have no knowledge of the world and I have little means of livelihood, and my talent and knowledge are in vain. Alas."
As we were moving forward, we suddenly heard a loud singing from the forest ahead.
It was the voice of a young man. Chen Luo looked over and saw a young man wearing a long gown and carrying a book box. The singing was from him.
Chen Luo took a quick look with his spiritual sense and found that there was no spiritual energy fluctuation on this person. He was just an ordinary person.
Why are there ordinary people in this place?
Chen Luo was a little surprised, so he drove his donkey to chase after him. The scholar in front seemed to have heard the noise as well, and was startled at first, but after turning around and seeing Chen Luo's appearance clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief.
The man first straightened his clothes, then stood on the side of the road and bowed to Chen Luo who was riding a donkey.
"I have seen the immortal."
Judging from his appearance, he should have seen a cultivator like Chen Luo.
"Who are you? Why are you here alone?"
Chen Luo stopped the donkey and used his spiritual sense to sense again at such a close distance to confirm that the scholar was really just an ordinary person.
"I am Ning Chenye. My uncle is the owner of the Ye Family Rice Shop in Black Wolf City. I am going to seek refuge with my uncle and collect the money he lent to our family a few years ago."
Scholars speak very politely and in a literary tone, especially some of their pronunciations, which are very different from those of ordinary people.
"What were you singing before?"
Chen Luo couldn't see the problem for a while, so he changed the subject. After coming out of seclusion, no ordinary person can be underestimated. Moreover, this evil cultivation place is not quite the same as he imagined. There are also ordinary people from the country here, and they also have their own special order, not all chaos.
"Mr. Bai wrote the lyrics, and the students sang them randomly."
When the scholar heard Chen Luo asking you, his face turned red. He didn't expect that his two casual shouts were actually heard by others.
"Aren't you afraid of danger walking here alone?"
As Chen Luo was speaking, his spiritual sense sensed something was wrong and he turned around to look again.
The strange black shadow in the forest appeared again, and this time it was much closer. When his spiritual sense swept over it, the black shadow disappeared again.
The forest is quiet and this environment seems abnormal no matter how you look at it.
"Don't be afraid. I have the amulet given to me by Mr. Bai."
The scholar confidently took out a sachet, which contained a triangular amulet with a faint spiritual power. It should have been drawn by the old Mr. Bai mentioned by the scholar.
"How far is the Black Wolf City you mentioned from here?" Chen Luo asked.
The information he purchased also included cities and gathering places for immortal cultivators, but no one had ever heard of the Black Wolf City. It was not known whether this place was made up by the scholar or the Black Wolf City was too weak and no immortal cultivators went there.
"After passing the hillside ahead and an old forest, it's here. It's about half a day's walk."
The scholar Ning Chenye responded quickly. In his understanding, immortals were all very powerful beings and must be respected, otherwise they would be cursed by the immortals and sent to the eighteen levels of hell.
Old forest on the hillside?
Chen Luo recalled the "corpse raising ground" in the memory of the brothers of the Black Wind Cave Master. To go to the corpse raising ground, one must pass through a "Yin Sha Forest", but he didn't know if this Yin Sha Forest was the same place as the "old forest" mentioned by the Book Sage.
"It's just on the way, let's go together."
Chen Luo thought about it and decided to take a closer look at this scholar named Ning Chenye. His appearance was too strange.
"Then I'll trouble you, Immortal."
Although he didn't know what Chen Luo's purpose was, the scholar Ning Chenye still showed a surprised expression on his face after hearing that he could communicate with the immortal.
The two walked one in front and one behind, Chen Luo rode the donkey in front, and Ning Chenye followed behind with a book box on his back. In order to take care of him, Chen Luo deliberately slowed down.
Soon, the two reached the end of the path and saw a fork in the road. On the left was a dead-end road that led to a cliff, and only the right side was passable.
When the donkey reached the intersection, it suddenly stopped and started to cry "ang ang ang". Its four legs kept pacing back and forth on the ground, refusing to move forward. Chen Luo looked over and found a woman in a white gauze skirt standing at the intersection on the right.
The woman stood quietly in the woods, staring at them.
woman?
Chen Luo frowned.
First I met a scholar, now I met a woman, will I meet a bearded man next?
A familiar scene flashed through his mind.
"Do you know that woman?"
Chen Luo asked the scholar Ning Chenye who was following him.
"woman?"
Ning Chenye, who was hurrying along with a book box on his back, had a hard time walking. When he heard Chen Luo's question, he subconsciously raised his head and looked towards the old woods in front of him.
"What woman?"
Ning Chenye looked around, then looked at Chen Luo with a puzzled look, not understanding what he meant.
"You can't see her?"
Chen Luo narrowed his eyes, and just as he was about to make a move, a gust of cold wind blew by, and the leaves on the ground rustled, blinding his vision. When everything returned to normal, the woman in the white dress standing in the middle of the road suddenly disappeared, as if she had never appeared.
This scene made Chen Luo frown.
His spiritual consciousness was staring at the other person the whole time. Such a living person actually disappeared inexplicably under his nose. Being able to affect spiritual consciousness meant that the other person was at least of the same level as him. He didn't expect that he would be stared at as soon as he arrived at the evil cultivation area.
No wonder Master Wuwei couldn’t hold on and was expelled by the evil cultivators here.
"Master, are you sure there was someone over there just now?" The scholar Ning Chenye also became nervous. He was a little scared by Chen Luo's question, and subconsciously clenched the talisman given to him by 'Mr. Bai'.
This old forest has some legends, and people from the city usually don't come here. If Ning Chenye wasn't so poor this time, he wouldn't have risked taking this road.
"Nothing, I was mistaken."
After the woman disappeared, the donkey returned to normal and carried Chen Luo down the mountain path. Seeing this, the scholar Ning Chenye held the book box tightly and quickened his pace to catch up.
I don't know when the sky turned cloudy.
The sky was covered with dark clouds, and thunder was rolling faintly in the clouds, and the sound of muffled thunder was endless.
Three miles away, different weather.
After the two of them went down the mountain along the right road, the sky was completely covered by dark clouds. It was as dark as dusk in the daytime, and the thunder became more and more frequent. The wind began to blow in the woods, and the temperature dropped several degrees. Ning Chenye, who was wearing a single layer of clothes, tightened his clothes, held a talisman in his hand, and kept muttering words like "blessing", and no one knew who he was praying to.
“This is the old woods.”
The two walked for a while, and after passing a dry rock, Chen Luo saw an old forest that blocked out the sun and the sky. The forest was full of evil trees, each of which grew to a height of nearly 30 meters. The huge tree canopy blocked the sky, and the dense leaves blocked all light, making the forest dark.
The ground was covered with fallen leaves, blocking the original path.
The scholar Ning Chenye took out a tinder and lit the oil lamp, then held it in one hand to illuminate the path around him.
He was planning to go to Black Wolf City, so he had naturally inquired about the situation along the way.
But after the donkey arrived at this place, it refused to go in no matter what. Chen Luo had no choice but to release it. This donkey was very sensitive to danger, and it might survive after being released.
"Master, I still have an oil lamp."
"No."
Chen Luo walked in front, and with his spiritual awareness, the darkness had little impact on him.
The two of them entered the old woods one after the other.
Chen Luo was looking for a place to raise corpses, so he couldn't be scared by a forest. Ning Chenye was simply poor. If he didn't make this trip, his old mother at home wouldn't survive the winter.
After entering the woods, the light completely disappeared.
Only the three-meter area illuminated by the oil lamp in Ning Chen's hand was left, and everything further away was completely dark. The sky above the woods became even darker, with thunderclouds rolling constantly, and lightning flashing through the dark clouds, occasionally illuminating two beams of light.
But all the lights were blocked by the leaves, and the inside and outside of the forest were like two different worlds.
Stepping on the soft rotten leaves, the smell of rotting plants echoed in the woods.
"The promise was made in front of the goddess temple, the infatuated deceased girl waited for her lover, she never forgot it in three lifetimes, only hated that her lover was heartless." The two walked for a while, and suddenly a sad song came from the front.
The voice was sung by a woman, and it was sad, as if it was telling a story of a crazy man and a resentful woman.
Chen Luo spread out his spiritual sense and saw a wooden building not far ahead.
"Master, there is light over there. It looks like an inn!"
Ning Chenye held a lantern and pointed forward with excitement.
(End of this chapter)
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