A thick black fog enveloped everything.
Lin Yu led Feng Jiu and Shen Manshu out of Black Stone Town and arrived at the big willow tree they had met before.
Whew! Whew!
Shen Manshu was panting heavily, her face as pale as paper. It took her a long time to recover somewhat.
"Miss Shen, are you alright?" Lin Yu asked with concern.
Shen Manshu blushed and nodded, her face full of gratitude. "Just now in the coffin, I almost thought I was going to die. Luckily, you appeared in time. Dr. Lin, you saved me again. I really don't know how to thank you!"
Lin Yu shook his head. "At a time like this, let's not waste time with these polite words. If I hadn't killed Zhu Gang, you wouldn't have been kidnapped here by Master Huang's men!"
Shen Manshu suddenly paused, then said, "Right, Dr. Lin, where exactly is this place? How did I get here? I don't remember anything at all! And this place feels so strange, there's not even sunlight! And those people, they're all neither human nor ghost!"
Lin Yu shook his head and said, "This place is called Banbuduo! It's not the mortal realm!"
"Not the mortal realm?" Shen Manshu's face turned horrified. "Are we already dead?"
Lin Yu explained the Half Step More to her again, and also mentioned the situation of the three of them.
"Master Huang led us to this Banbuduo to keep us here forever! This Banbuduo is a place of absolute Yin. If we don't return to the mortal world within seven hours, the Yang energy in our bodies will dissipate and begin to decay. Then we will never be able to go back!" Lin Yu recalled the introduction about Banbuduo that he had read in the classics.
This place is a gathering place for monsters, and it is not a place for mortals to come!
"What?" Shen Manshu's face immediately turned panicked, and she said apologetically, "Dr. Lin, I'm so sorry, it's all my fault that you've been dragged into this..."
"Alright, let's not talk about that anymore. Our most urgent task is to find a way to get out of here!" Lin Yu said, his eyes slightly narrowed.
Feng Jiu arrived at the big willow tree, touched the trunk, and said, "Young Marshal, since we came from here, can't we leave from here?"
Lin Yu shook his head. "I've already investigated this willow tree before. Although it's a passage connecting the two worlds, it requires some special secret techniques to connect them. And clearly, these techniques are in the hands of Master Huang!"
Feng Jiu clenched her fist, unwilling to give up, and said, "Could it be that he's the only one among these half-step cultivators who knows this secret technique? I'll go grab someone and ask them right now!"
Without saying a word, Feng Jiu returned to the town and soon brought back a guy with a rat's head.
This rat had clearly just begun to develop some intelligence; it spoke haltingly and incoherently.
"No, don't kill me..."
Lin Yu snorted coldly, "I won't kill you, I just want to ask you something! How can I leave Banbuduo and return to the mortal realm?"
"You, you are living people?" The rat was slightly taken aback and stammered, "If you are demons, you can travel through various passages to travel back and forth between the mortal realm and the living realm every seven days. If you are living people, in this Black Stone Town, only two people can do this to help you get out!"
"Two people?" Lin Yu's eyes lit up. He asked, "Who are these two people?"
Mouse said, "One is Master Huang, and the other is Aunt Bai!"
Aunt Bai?
Lin Yu and the other two exchanged glances.
Although I don't know what kind of spirit this Aunt Bai is, this news is simply wonderful!
After all, Master Huang couldn't possibly send them out; at this moment, they could only rely on Aunt Bai.
Lin Yu then asked the rat about Aunt Bai's whereabouts.
It turns out that this Aunt Bai lived ten miles south of Heishi Town in a place called Heifenggang.
Guided by the rat, Lin Yu led the two southwards.
Finally, they arrived at a dark and windy mountain forest, the very place the rat had mentioned, Black Wind Ridge.
The woods were quiet, with only the biting cold wind sweeping in relentlessly.
Shen Manshu was shivering from the cold, but Lin Yu and Feng Jiu, being martial artists with strong spiritual energy, were able to hold on.
After walking for a while, Lin Yu was worried that Shen Manshu wouldn't be able to keep going, so he asked the two of them to wait where they were and continued walking alone.
Squeak! Squeak!
Deep in the forest, the ground was covered with white bones, which made a crisp sound when stepped on, which was somewhat eerie.
Lin Yu clenched his fist. It seemed that this Aunt Bai was probably not a kind person either.
However, at this moment, they had no other choice but to ask Aunt Bai for help. Could they possibly go back to find Master Huang?
Finally, we emerged from the forest and arrived at a secluded valley.
Lin Yu arrived at the open space, and then, boom!
Dark clouds filled the sky, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and thick plumes of black smoke churned in the air, making it look like the end of the world.
"What is this thing? It's so evil!"
Lin Yu sensed that the black energy gradually gathering in the sky was filled with negative energy and was extremely violent, seemingly capable of affecting people's emotions.
I really don't know what kind of monster this Aunt Bai is. I'm afraid even a normal person would become mentally unstable if they stayed in a place like this for too long.
Wow!
A cold wind swept by, and Lin Yu felt something drift past him.
"who!"
He glanced at it coldly, but then heard a seductive voice come from the other side, "Handsome, are you looking for me?"
Lin Yu was slightly taken aback. He turned his head and saw a half-naked woman dressed in black silk standing not far from him.
The girl was sixteen years old, with a devilish figure and an angelic face. She looked a bit like Liu Yifei, but lacked Liu Yifei's ethereal beauty. However, she had a bewitching aura, and with her alluring figure, she really resembled the infamous Daji, who brought ruin to the country.
However, he wasn't interested in this woman. He wasn't Xu Xian, who would even lay hands on non-human beings.
"Are you Aunt Bai?" Lin Yu asked, frowning.
The woman chuckled and clicked her tongue, saying, "Today is quite strange; a stranger actually came to our door on his own initiative!"
Lin Yu clasped his hands in a fist and said, "I apologize for disturbing you, Aunt! We were just mistakenly taken to the Half-Step More by some strange twist of fate. We heard that you have a wonderful method to send us out, so we came here specifically to ask for your help!"
"Wandered in by mistake?" The woman chuckled and said sarcastically, "In the entire Blackstone Town, only Huang Er and I have the magical power to guide and send the dead back to life. Instead of asking him for help, you risked coming to me. Do you really think I'm a fool? Perhaps you've offended Huang Er?"
Lin Yu's expression froze for a moment, then he said with a wry smile, "As expected, nothing can be hidden from Aunt. That's right, we have indeed offended Huang Er! But that doesn't stop me from begging you. As long as you can send us out, I will agree to any conditions you set!"
"Agree to any conditions?" Aunt Bai revealed a playful expression. In a flash, she appeared beside him, and a fluffy white tail suddenly brushed against the back of Lin Yu's neck. She said teasingly, "It's not difficult for me to send you out, but you have to sleep with me for a night, how about it?"
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