Chapter 200 Nightmare Town (4)
More and more ghosts gathered around, and the soul-calling bells rang "ding ding dang dang".
Suddenly, the ringing stopped, the soul-calling bell disappeared, and 12 sharp blades protruded from the tips of the umbrella ribs, revealing a sharp murderous aura, and were about to strangle all the souls gathered around.
A black shadow suddenly broke through the air and attacked Lin Qingyue.
Dongfang Qi snorted softly, "Finally I fished you out!"
At the same time, he quickly formed seals, used his hands as a pen, gathered spiritual power as ink, regarded the void as paper, and quickly drew a huge golden talisman, which he slapped towards the black shadow.
The dark night was caught off guard and had no time to attack Lin Qingyue. He just slapped back with his palm - the golden talisman was not only not repelled by him, but instead turned into a golden spiritual net that covered him.
The souls around suddenly stood still, as if they had lost all ability to move after being caught by that thing.
Lin Qingyue walked over gracefully, holding a red oil-paper umbrella, and said with a light laugh, "It's you, after all."
Trapped under the golden spiritual net was Zhou Quan—the person Lin Qingyue met when she first entered the town.
Zhou Quan glared at her fiercely: "Who on earth are you? How could you break through my dream so easily?"
"Do you really think your methods are so clever?"
Lin Qingyue walked up to Zhou Quan and saw through his identity at a glance.
"What was I then? I was a demon without a physical body! I'm already dead, why would I still cause trouble?"
When a person dies, his soul remains. When a demon dies, if it harbors deep resentment, it will return as a demon ghost, and its strength will be no less than when it was alive.
The demon in front of us can trap the people of an entire town and prevent anyone who sets foot here from leaving. It can be seen that it is very powerful.
When Lin Qingyue first entered the town, the demon immediately sensed her presence. He also noticed that Lin Qingyue seemed quite powerful. The surrounding evil aura had no effect on her cognition, unlike those who had come before her.
Lin Qingyue exuded a powerful sense of oppression from head to toe, which was different from those who had come before.
The evil spirits around her could not harm her, nor could they drag her into a dream.
So, the demon took a risk and possessed Zhou Quan's body, talking to Lin Qingyue to lower her vigilance.
When the demon gets close, its power of deception becomes even stronger.
So, without anyone noticing, Lin Qingyue was dragged into this dream.
"If I'm not mistaken, the three people who came in earlier must have been trapped in your dream. And you think you're so clever—and you are indeed so. You even tricked me at the beginning, which led me into this dream."
Unfortunately, the demon still underestimated Lin Qingyue's strength.
"Even in the dream you created, I can still capture you easily!"
At this moment, the demon ghost was trapped in the net, and felt that the spiritual power in the net was surging like a tide, wrapping around the soul and getting tighter and tighter.
The human form it had struggled to maintain finally gave way, revealing its true form: a giant turtle. Its shell was as large as a round table, its carapace crisscrossed with cracks and streaked with blood.
Knowing that there was no escape, the giant turtle stopped struggling.
The turtle poked its head out, and its old voice spoke with a hint of helplessness: "I have fallen into your hands today, and I accept my fate. You can kill me or chop me up, it's all up to you. But...but those souls trapped here are very pitiful. Please, don't hurt them anymore."
Dongfang Qi said, "Since you don't want to harm them, why do you want to trap them here and prevent them from being reborn?"
The old turtle said, "It's not that I trapped them here. The entire town has been encircled by a formation. Not only can't the ghosts here escape, even I can't escape. We've been trapped here for ten years!"
"You were forced to be trapped here?" Dongfang Qi was a little surprised.
He had also heard the previous rumors.
Legend has it that a monster caused trouble in Ping'an Town, ate all the people in the town, and trapped the ghosts in the town, preventing them from being reborn.
So Ping'an Town became a ghost town and was completely deserted.
The road to the west of Shu'an County is closed off, so travelers have to take a long detour for several days.
Although everyone complained, they did not dare to venture into the town, otherwise they would be trapped in it and never return.
Even Zhou Quan and Shunniang, such talented people from the people, could not escape from the predicament.
The old turtle said, "I have no intention of harming anyone. It's just that the ghosts here can't leave. The large number of souls gathered together inevitably produces a lot of negative energy. Ordinary people coming here naturally can't bear it. As for those who catch demons and exorcise evil spirits... They come to destroy me, so I will naturally not show mercy."
"Since everyone outside calls this place Nightmare Town, then let's just stay asleep in our dreams..."
"Just sleeping?" Lin Qingyue asked?
The old turtle nodded: "If you don't believe me, let me out. I'll show you the real Dream Town."
Lin Qingyue's strength is far above that of this old turtle, and with Dongfang Qi beside her, she is naturally not afraid of the other party playing tricks.
She said to Dongfang Qi, "Let him go first."
Dongfang waved his hand, and the spiritual net flew into his hand, turned into a talisman, and flew back into his hand.
The old turtle was free, and its four claws stretched out from its shell. It transformed into a sixty-year-old man with white hair. He was still wearing a gray official robe and a black gauze hat.
Dongfang Qi recognized his attire immediately. "Are you wearing the attire of a seventh-rank official from Guifang Country? Are you really the county magistrate here, as the rumors say?"
The old turtle nodded, a trace of sadness falling from his dark eyes. "Yes, I was once a seventh-rank county magistrate here. I was still wearing my official uniform when I was killed, and even after I became a ghost, I still wore this attire."
He waved his hand, and the surrounding scenery suddenly came alive. The dead souls seemed to have woken from a dream, working, traveling, eating, repeating the same routine they had in life for ten years.
The old turtle looked at this seemingly prosperous town, his tone full of melancholy:
"This place is remote, with poor mountains and arid waters. Farming is fertile, fishing is unproductive, and mountain spirits often come out to cause trouble. More than ten years ago, Guifang and Fengguo had not yet established diplomatic relations. The two countries were frequently at war, and the people were living in poverty. Selling children and daughters was common. And I, too, was one of these mountain spirits..."
Once, the old turtle went out to look for food but accidentally took the wrong path and ended up on the main road, where he met a scholar on horseback.
The scholar, curious about the animal, brought it home and placed it on his desk as a pet. He fed it good food and meat, taking good care of it. He would play with it in his spare time to relieve his boredom.
The old turtle had been lonely in the mountains for decades and had long since developed intelligence. Since humans treated it kindly and provided it with food and drink, it settled down and no longer missed life in the mountains.
As the seasons changed, it accompanied its owner in studying and became increasingly intelligent.
One day, it was looking at a man reading a book with his head shaking, and suddenly spoke in human language: "Master, why do you always read books? Aren't you tired of it?"
The scholar was so surprised that his hand shook and the book fell to the ground. It took him a long time to come back to his senses.
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