"The offerings for the rituals were sometimes made from villagers, and sometimes from explorers who strayed into the village."
"The mutilated skeletons you see in the village are the offerings from past sacrifices."
"These offerings were originally buried at the foot of Yuexia Ridge."
"But a hundred years ago, a landslide unearthed many of the buried and suppressed remains."
"I also escaped from the destroyed formation during that landslide."
"That landslide destroyed many of the suppression runes and formations that existed here."
"The souls of those cruelly murdered sacrificial victims were originally sealed and refined by the villagers using special methods."
"But that landslide caused many of the souls that had not been refined to turn into vengeful ghosts."
"Of the villagers in the five villages, 80% were killed by those vengeful spirits and ghosts, and only 20% escaped."
"But even if they escaped, they were still cursed with extremely vicious curses by many vengeful ghosts."
"All the villagers' descendants will also die tragically within ten years, and in various horrific ways, mainly leaving them crippled."
"If nothing unexpected happens, now that decades have passed, those villagers who successfully escaped, and their descendants, should all be dead and extinct."
Upon hearing this, the viewers in the live stream all gasped.
[My God! So this is the truth! What is this? Cause and effect, karma is inevitable!]
No wonder the rumors about Moonlit Ridge have become increasingly fantastical, and not a single villager has stepped forward to represent the five villages and answer all the questions—they've all died long ago.
If I were inexplicably and cruelly murdered, and my soul were to be tormented and never reincarnated, I would want everyone in the village to be childless and wiped out!
[Why does this female ghost seem to know everything? She doesn't seem to be a villager; it feels like she's lived in Moonlit Ridge longer than the original inhabitants there?]
...
Jinshangyue also noticed it.
She didn't ask too many questions last night, only hearing the female ghost tell her her name.
Now it seems that this white-clad ghost bride certainly has a lot of stories to tell.
"You know so much? It sounds like you've been here longer than the villagers in those five villages?"
Lin Shuchong bowed slightly to Jin Shangyue, offering a respectful greeting.
"In reply to you, sir, I have been dead for over seventeen hundred years."
"Below Moonlit Ridge, two thousand years ago, there was originally a prefectural city. I am the legitimate daughter of the city lord's family."
"When I was eighteen, a group of mercenaries came to the city. They not only occupied the city, but also slaughtered all 30,000 residents."
"The leader's favorite youngest son was tragically killed by the city's people. When they were slaughtering my family, they saw that I was about the same age as him and was beautiful, so they arranged a ghost marriage between me and that dead youngest son."
"I was brought to the wedding in a grand sedan chair carried by sixteen men. They buried me, along with the sedan chair, and my youngest son alive."
"My family and I, along with more than 30,000 city residents, are trapped in the city, our vengeful spirits lingering. However, because the other party is so skilled, we are unable to take revenge and are even sealed away."
"It wasn't until the eerie resurgence, with its dense ghostly aura and the appearance of countless strange occurrences, that we were able to break through the seal and revive amidst the chaos."
"Then find those enemies and kill them."
"Later, after hundreds of years of strange times, all the strange things were finally suppressed. Our city, along with all the strange things, was suppressed underground."
"After that, villages were built here, those five villages."
"Several ghosts at the level of ghost kings were also suppressed here. They pretended to be gods and were worshipped by the villagers of the five villages."
“My family, the city dwellers, and I were also suppressed underground, and there was nothing we could do.”
“We tried to stop them, but the villagers believed in the gods and completely regarded the ghost kings as masters who could grant them immortality and lead them to godhood.”
"They've all gone mad. We can't stop them at all. We can only watch helplessly as those villagers perform rituals to provide nourishment for the ghost kings."
"Until a hundred years ago, several ghost kings broke through the suppression and left this place. Some left directly, while two ghost kings entered Moonlit Ridge."
"The villagers lost their protection, which is why they were later attacked and killed by those vengeful spirits in the flash flood."
"After we came out, we couldn't be reincarnated in the underworld, and we might even be sent to the eighteen levels of hell for punishment, so we wandered around the human world."
"Everyone was curious and longing for the outside world, so they went their separate ways."
"I didn't want to leave, and besides, the dense ghostly energy in Moonlit Ridge was perfect for cultivation, so I stayed in this village and turned it into my own ghostly domain."
Upon hearing this, Jin Shangyue asked, "Since Moonlit Ridge is suitable for cultivation, why don't you go in?"
Lin Shu shook her head: "I can sense a terrifying and powerful aura deep within Moonlit Ridge, at least at the level of ghosts and gods."
"Moreover, there were too many ghosts inside. At that time, I was just a red-clothed vengeful ghost. There were far too many ghosts of my level inside."
"The competition is too fierce. I don't want to take any risks. I just want to live a peaceful life and cultivate quietly."
With great interest, Jin Shangyue looked down into the depths of the ridge.
At the same time, divine sense spread out, enveloping the entire Moonlit Ridge.
Deep within Moonlit Ridge lies the entrance to hell, a city built underground.
The City Lord's Mansion.
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