Chapter 92 Dawn? (1)
Luo Xuanyi looked down at Dong Qi's face, twisted in agony, and confirmed one thing—he couldn't see her. More accurately, he could only see Luo Xuanyi's physical form, not the ghostly form floating around. Just now, when Dong Qi had looked down at the Mudfoot Toad's corpse, Luo Xuanyi had been standing right before him, but he hadn't noticed.
Forty years had passed since Hu Yi arrived at Changlongpo and began his retreat. Despite having a large amount of his spiritual energy drained away by Luo Xuanyi and transformed into dead energy, he had managed to break through to the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment Stage. His body, which had previously stopped growing due to the initiation, had finally synchronized with his soul, growing to the size of an eighteen-year-old. He had also mastered the remaining fragments of the Yin-Yang Rain Body Technique. However, the spiritual energy here was too thin, and breaking through to the Golden Core Stage required a significant amount of spiritual energy.
Furthermore, Luo Xuanyi's own cultivation had also reached a bottleneck. Even with the aid of a large amount of dead energy, Luo Xuanyi was still stuck at the first level of the All Evils Attracting Ghosts Art due to a lack of evil thoughts. With a powerful force flooding her body, she was forced to emerge and begin searching for a way to leave Changlongpo and reach the outside world.
At this moment, she noticed something strange happening in the dense forest. The trees, which had previously looked strange and twisted, blurred into a mass of dark shadows. Their distorted features, sensing Luo Xuanyi's presence, seemed puzzled and all turned their gazes towards her. Luo Xuanyi felt they had no ill intentions, and with a touch of caution, she suddenly approached the dense forest and asked, "What are you?"
Who would have thought that after the shadows whispered to each other for a while, a ghost really emerged and trembled and replied, "Ghost, ghost, tree ghost, sir."
"We didn't know this was also the adults' territory, sir. We can offer our food to you!"
It spoke in ghost language, and Luo Xuanyi finally realized what was happening. Previously, she hadn't been able to see the true form of the dense forest, only feeling a deep discomfort. She hadn't expected the trees to be ghosts in disguise. These spirits couldn't understand that Luo Xuanyi wasn't a ghost in this sense, but only thought she was incredibly powerful, instinctively fearing the strong.
But from what they said, it seemed there was a powerful ghost nearby. Luo Xuanyi remained calm: "I am a little hungry, but you guys are just staying here, where are the living souls to eat? I'm afraid you are just trying to scare me."
The bloody hole on the ghost's dark body curved in an arc, and it twisted its body from side to side, as if rubbing its hands and smiling apologetically. "We're just a bunch of little ghosts who huddled together. How could we possibly eat a living soul? There's a village called Guning here, and they're full of survivors from the previous dynasty, carrying the aura of a fallen dragon! There was a lot of fighting back then, and in the end we kept them captive, sucking their life energy to barely fill our stomachs. Hehe, they taste pretty good!"
Ghost cultivators and soul cultivators in this world also cultivate with spiritual energy, but they can do so much faster by absorbing vital energy. Therefore, the appearance of a powerful ghost cultivator inevitably leads to chaos, which is why ghost cultivators are so easy to detect and eliminate. To avoid being killed by cultivators, some ghosts will deliberately transform into the form of humans or spiritual plants. However, since they are essentially ghosts, the transformed forms often carry a strange aura.
As it spoke, it seemed to reflect on something, its large hole narrowing into two slits. Luo Xuanyi felt she was becoming increasingly able to discern its expressions. Just as Luo Xuanyi was examining the ghost with a playful gaze, it suddenly awoke from its memories, quickly lowering its head as if to express its sincerity, and repeatedly saying, "Don't worry, sir. We've taken good care of those people and even provided them with spiritual fruits. They're all in excellent health and can live to be two hundred years old. There's absolutely no defective ones."
A nearby ghost couldn't help but chime in, "I've tasted living souls before. About twenty years ago, an elderly couple died of old age, and it was my turn to be on duty at the edge of the village. Just thinking about it makes me drool. They were quite delicious! If I hadn't been kept well-fed for so long, I'd have eaten all three of their siblings."
"How dare you? We didn't even get a single soul from each of the two, and you, a ghost, took them all! Have some shame!"
"I'm a ghost now, so what face do I need?"
The ghosts started to quarrel and fight, looking like two lumps of mud mixed together. Luo Xuanyi ignored them and began to think about the matter of Guning Village.
Luo Xuanyi understood that the best way to acquire evil thoughts was to provoke others. After all, she had grown up in that environment. However, deliberately provoking and absorbing evil thoughts in others was new to her. Even if she could apply her own experience, the environment on the righteous side was completely different from that of the Zang Yao Sect. She was actually struggling with how to do it most effectively.
At the moment, the trapped Guning Village is very suitable.
"You have been guarding this place for hundreds of years, and no monks have come here?"
"No!" The ghosts, who were fighting each other, still had time to break free and answer Luo Xuanyi's question. "The body you are in now was here forty years ago. That's the most recent person. The one before that was six hundred years ago."
Luo Xuanyi nodded, grabbed the fighting ghosts with both hands and separated them, with a hint of impatience and coldness in her tone.
"Tell me about the current situation in Guning Village."
She wanted to conduct an experiment, so after hearing about Guning Village, her first act was to kill the brave warriors who held the villagers' hopes, to prevent their disparate strength from overwhelming the others and preventing subsequent provocations from succeeding. However, upon noticing Dong Qi had left alone to search the periphery, she suddenly had an idea and left him behind, hoping to see if anyone could detect her when she was invisible.
However, he might still be useful. Luo Xuanyi manipulated her body and smiled a friendly smile.
Dong Zhu felt an inexplicable feeling well up in her heart. Unlike the other villagers, who had dispersed to their own affairs, she remained at the edge of the altar, her eyes fixed on the sky above the Rainbow Bridge. It wasn't an illusion, she told herself, letting her heart race.
The second brother, Dong Xian, had obviously misunderstood her thoughts: "If you're worried about my eldest brother, we can just wait until the hourglass has passed a day and then come and wait. Why do you have to sit here all the time?" After saying a few words and seeing that Dong Zhu was not moved at all, he sighed and put the straw basket back on his back, taking Dong Zhu's straw basket with him. Finally, he turned around and asked, "Don't you have any other work to do?"
Just as Dong Zhu shook his head, a cheerful man's voice came from the side, "I don't have any work to do today! Dong Zhu, you just take a rest, let me take over."
The straw basket in Dong Xian's hand was forcibly snatched away by the man. Although he was wearing the same coarse straw and linen clothes as the others, he looked inexplicably shining. Perhaps it was because his cheerful smile, which was rare in Guning Village, was too contagious. However, Dong Zhu had no interest in him and only gave an apologetic smile: "No need. Today, the village chief asked me to learn things from him in the future. I will be fine after picking the cold frost fruits today. I don't need you to come and help me in the future. Thank you for your kindness, Brother Ling Yong."
"That's nothing. You've always rejected me, so how could I do that..."
"Stop talking!" Dong Xian, who had been ignored by the other two, suddenly interrupted Ling Yong loudly and pointed to the top of the rainbow bridge. "Who is that? How did you get back so soon, brother?"
"Did something happen and he got hurt?" Dong Xian immediately ran towards the altar, but Dong Zhu saw another figure on the Rainbow Bridge first, and his fingers involuntarily clenched his clothes.
"Shall we go too?" Ling Yong's gaze shifted hesitantly between Dongzhu and Hongqiao. Finally, he firmed his expression, "Don't be afraid. I'm here."
Dong Zhu ignored him. The two of them ran toward the altar, only to see their once high-spirited elder brother with a dejected look on his face, his body and knees covered in blood. Dong Xian was visibly startled and tried to check his elder brother's wound, but Dong Qi brushed his hand away.
"Go get the village chief! The immortal cultivators are here to save us." Dong Qi looked at Dong Zhu. When he said the word "save," his lips curled slightly, his eyes revealing a hint of pity and regret. The gray-clad girl standing beside him gently patted his shoulder, as if to comfort him.
"I'll go right away!" Dong Xian and Ling Yong exchanged a glance and quickly ran towards the village. A large crowd soon gathered, and the old village chief was carried over on a rattan seat. Facing the crowd's expectant gazes, Dong Qi slightly turned her head to avoid them, but the girl remained calm, even smiling.
"My name is Xuan Yi, and everyone else calls me Fellow Daoist Yi. I was sent by the Lihuo Sect to rescue the remnants of the imperial dynasty."
It's about to begin~ The narrative will be more from the perspective of others, because what Sister Yi did is not human (it's a ghost hh
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