Seeing her curiosity, Meng Po explained, "The Cliff of Ten Thousand Ghosts doesn't mean there are ten thousand ghosts inside. Rather, it means that even if ten thousand ghosts went there, not a single one of them could return intact. If this is the case for ghosts, then for humans, not even a single soul can remain."
Qin Yunie stared wide-eyed in shock, gasped, and looked at Meng Po in disbelief, stammering, "Is this Ten Thousand Ghosts Cliff... really that terrifying!"
Meng Po looked at her with a deep look in her eyes and said slowly, "It is said that Taotie is imprisoned inside. Anyone who goes down from the Cliff of Ten Thousand Ghosts will be eaten. However, this is just a rumor. No one has ever seen it with their own eyes."
Upon hearing this, a huge and ferocious figure appeared in Qin Yunie's mind, and a chill ran down his spine.
“Taotie??” she stammered, repeating the name, her eyes filled with shock and fear.
Taotie, one of the four mythical beasts?
Qin Yunie felt like her brain was about to stop working.
Is Wan Gui Cliff related to Taotie?
If that's the case...
It seems possible that if someone is thrown down there, their body will be completely obliterated...
Meng Po nodded, confirming her guess, "It's the Taotie you're thinking of."
Qin Yunie's eyes widened as she asked the question that had been bothering her, "But how could Taotie be imprisoned here?"
Meng Po smiled and explained, "Because the Taotie can devour everything, including gods. And the area beneath the Ten Thousand Ghosts Cliff is filled with miasma. Imprisoning it there can prevent it from causing even greater harm to the world."
The more Qin Yunie listened, the more she wondered, "Is it really necessary to send something to the Ten Thousand Ghosts Cliff just for stealing it?"
However, Meng Po was not one to act recklessly. Since Meng Po said so, she must have her reasons, so he remained silent.
When the thief heard that an ancient ferocious beast, Taotie, was hidden beneath Ten Thousand Ghosts Cliff, he panicked even more. He quickly looked up at Qin Yunie and, seeing that she didn't speak, assumed that she had agreed to send him to Ten Thousand Ghosts Cliff. He was so frightened that he burst into tears.
He kept kowtowing to Qin Yune and Meng Po, his tone filled with extreme fear, much more sincere than before, "My lords, please don't send me to the Cliff of Ten Thousand Ghosts. I'll do anything as long as you don't send me there."
Meng Po lifted her eyelids and glanced at him. "Don't want to go? You'll do anything I ask? Then tell me everything you know."
Upon hearing this, the thief froze. "Sir, I don't understand what you're saying."
Meng Po impatiently reminded her, "I have limited time and don't have much time to play around with you. Since you don't understand, go to Ten Thousand Ghosts Cliff and figure it out before you talk about it."
Ultimately, he still harbored immense fear of Ten Thousand Ghosts Cliff, caught between the possibility of dying if he spoke out and the certain death if he remained silent and was thrown off the cliff.
So he quickly said, "I'll talk! I'll talk!"
The thief closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said, "It's Master Li Changqing."
A hint of doubt flashed in Meng Po's beautiful eyes. "Who is Li Changqing? What is his purpose?"
He looked troubled and hesitated for a moment before answering, "He is the new leader of the Quanqing Sect. He asked me to find a pure and beautiful young girl like this gentleman to enhance his skills."
Meng Po asked thoughtfully, "Where did he ask you to take them? Do you know his exact location?"
The thief shook his head, indicating that he knew nothing about it: "He only told me to lead the person to a pavilion, and he would take care of the rest."
Qin Yunie felt a chill run through her body. She had originally thought it was just a simple theft, but she never expected that such a thing was hidden behind it!
She couldn't imagine what would have happened if she had chased after him, and Meng Po hadn't been there, and her newly bought talisman had been stolen, and it had fallen into the hands of that "master".
Meng Po continued, "How many have you brought over already? Are they all girls like her?"
“A dozen or so.” He paused, looking at Qin Yunie’s expression as if he wanted to say something but hesitated, and said, “This gentleman is the purest among them. The gentleman wanted all the girls who had just taken the Marrow Cleansing Pill, whose bodies were pure, but who did not have any spiritual power.”
"Just now, when I saw the two of you enter the Willow Shade Shop, I hesitated about whether to lead this master over, because she had an aura that frightened me, and she wasn't traveling alone, so I was worried something might go wrong. But she is too pure, and she perfectly meets that Xuan Master's requirements. If I take her over, that master will definitely be very happy, so I waited at the door for you to come out."
He said with a wry smile, "I didn't expect this..."
Meng Po frowned and asked, "Where are they now?"
He opened his mouth, his voice trembling as if something was stuck in his throat, and managed to utter a few words: "Dead...they're all dead."
Meng Po pressed, "How did you know?"
He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, but he still couldn't hide his fear.
His lips trembled as he recounted, "Once, out of curiosity, after being led there, I didn't leave. Instead, I secretly followed that man to an underground storeroom. He arranged the women's corpses in various strange poses, displaying them like exhibits. They were arranged in a circle, with a bright lamp in the center, and each person was holding a red thread. The whole scene looked both eerie and mysterious, as if some kind of ritual was being performed. But at that time, I was so frightened that I didn't dare to continue watching."
By the end, his face was ashen, and his whole body was trembling uncontrollably.
Upon hearing his words, Qin Yune felt a chill run down her spine.
If she didn't have the protective charm given to her by Meng Po and the others, or the jade pendant of the King of Hell, would she have ended up like those other girls?
Thinking of this, Qin Yunie felt a wave of fear wash over him.
Meng Po didn't notice anything unusual about her. Instead, she stared sharply at the thief and asked a few pointed questions, "Since you said you went there once, how come you don't know the exact location? And how did you manage to follow a Xuan Master to his secret base without being discovered?"
He opened his mouth, his voice a little hoarse, as if he was trying to restrain himself, and slowly said, "It's because I happened to have an invisibility talisman on me at the time. That lord set up a Bagua formation in that area. Perhaps he was so confident in himself that no one could break his formation, so he didn't notice that I followed him in. Afterwards, I also tried to find it based on my memory, but I returned empty-handed."
Meng Po frowned upon hearing this, a hint of doubt and suspicion in her eyes, but she still asked, "Since you know he's doing this kind of thing, why are you still helping him?"
He lowered his head and remained silent for a while, then raised his head, a trace of pain flashing in his eyes. "Because, I have no choice. He put a drug in my body. If I don't take the antidote on time, my whole body will fester and I will suffer unbearable pain until I die."
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