Chapter 784: Return to Shouqiu
The heavier the hustle and bustle during the day, the quieter it becomes at night. With gods, ghosts, and monsters living alongside humans, this city does not belong to humans at night.
The mortals in Haozhou City all knew some taboos to a greater or lesser extent, and had heard many stories of encountering ghosts and gods at night.
After dark, there are very few people wandering outside.
Even the brothels opened at night have become commonplace.
Gong Mengbi and the five ghosts walked out of the divine domain of King Zhongli, left the huge royal city and the bustling ghost market, and landed in the city of Haozhou in the world of the living.
Standing in the streets of Haozhou City, as long as you look up, you can see the royal city shining in the darkness.
The Divine Realm and Haozhou City originally overlapped, relying on the gap between the Yin and Yang in Haozhou City. Traveling from the Yin and Yang gap to the Yang world was difficult, as King Zhongli was the absolute king of the Divine Realm, but the reverse was much easier, as the city had a fixed entrance to the Ghost Market.
This is why there is a rule in the ghost market that "you must go back and forth by the original route and you cannot go off the beaten path." If you don't go back and forth by the original route, it is easy to confuse the mortal world and the divine realm and get lost in them.
But this rule clearly didn't apply to Gong Mengbi. In his eyes, the divine realm overlapping Haozhou City couldn't possibly hide his true form. It was easy to leave the divine realm, and even easier to return to the royal city.
Gong Mengbi looked at the destiny from afar and saw that all kinds of energies in Haozhou City were mixed. Human energy was naturally the heaviest, but besides human energy, there were also other gods, ghosts and monsters.
This is indeed a rare occurrence.
Generally speaking, the City God is a human god. Especially the City God of Dagan is a human god among human gods, and is closely connected with the fate of the dynasty.
It was in Haozhou that the ancient princes like King Zhongli were granted titles and were actually practicing the way of the Divine King.
This is a very ancient way. The God King is both a god and a king, and he rules over all living things, just like the Jiu Tou clan in ancient times.
In today's Shinto, it belongs to the way of the gods in heaven, not the way of the earth.
Perhaps it was because ancient kings and nobles always aspired to lead souls to heaven, and if he could actually accomplish this, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad path. Currently, the chaos of gods, ghosts, and monsters still maintains a certain balance, but in this world, while peace is fine, once chaos breaks out, his established position as the City God will be difficult to avoid being affected.
But that is a matter for the future. Gong Mengbi is here for revenge now.
He had already identified the human presence, so he ordered Fu Xin to put down the box and reached out to open it. A faint ghostly aura emanated from it, mixed with the phosphorescent glow of fox fire and a resentful and evil aura. It was like a pool of surging black mud, struggling out of the box, rolling, stretching its long limbs and swollen tail, crying blood and wailing, with two blood-star-like eyes appearing.
This ghost fox, brewing with fox resentment, floated in the air, and what was flowing on its body was either mist or hair moving in the wind.
Gong Mengbi's eyes were cold and slightly green. He stretched out his hand, his fingertips glowing slightly, and said, "Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor. Go, go find the Cheng family!"
The black fox let out a long howl, which was echoed more than thirty times. Accompanied by the sound of the wind, it ran in the void, sniffing, listening, with bloodshot eyes, but it still could not find the direction.
A green light danced in the Skull God's eyes as he said, "It's because of the Dao's magic that they can't find it."
"You can hide the form, but you can't hide the traces."
Gong Mengbi stretched out his hand and scooped up a handful of air, as if he had pulled out a silk string, and when he plucked it casually, an echo came out.
The voice went unheeded, but the ghost fox howled fiercely and flew away along the vibrations of the silk string as if climbing a rope.
"Follow him."
Five ghosts led the way, and five tall shadowy ghosts passed through the streets and alleys. The cold wind was blowing, and wherever they passed, all the ghosts and gods were frightened.
Gong Mengbi followed behind, and Fu Xin behind him was carrying an open box, from which there seemed to be many eyes emitting green light, looking out.
The Skull God opened his mouth and laughed silently.
All that could be heard was the howling of a black fox, a combination of the howl of a fox and the whimpering of a ghost, which merged into a shrill and terrifying sound.
The five ghosts followed and saw the black fox climbing the rope land in front of a tall gate, its hair standing on end, its limbs lowered, and it kept making sharp howling sounds.
In the tall courtyard, you can see pavilions and towers, and the lights are bright.
Only when Gong Mengbi came forward did the huge black fox stop its anxious calls and pace back and forth anxiously.
There was a door god guarding the door, and a lantern with a talisman painted on it to ward off evil spirits was hung on it. The light from the lanterns shone through the lanterns, and the shadows cast on the ground turned into two fire gods, blocking the black fox's way.
"How dare the evil spirits and monsters harm people!"
The two fire gods held gourds of fireworks, and bursts of flames burst out of the gourds.
When the five ghosts came closer, the two fire gods flew into a rage, "Look at the fire!"
It was said to be fire, but it was actually light. The fire gourd turned its direction, and from it, a divine light that could ward off evil spirits was released, accompanied by red flames rising, and it flew towards the five ghosts.
Mr. Chi sneered: "You are just using a simple ritual to worship the gods, and you are trying to play tricks on me."
He was originally a ghost-god form, both a ghost and a god, and was not affected by the evil-repelling divine light. He stretched out his hand and drew a circle in front of him, which turned into a fire wheel, and directly received the evil-repelling divine light. The fire wheel suddenly pounced, knocking the two fire gods back, and transformed into two spiritual lights that flew into the talisman.
The talisman lit up, and two fire gods holding flaming flags appeared in front of them through the talisman.
"Blow out the lantern."
Gong Mengbi instructed.
Mr. Red stopped the two fire gods, and Mr. Yellow and Mr. Black transformed into two shadows and pounced on the lantern.
Shentu Yulei suddenly appeared at the gate of the Cheng family, one holding a halberd and the other holding a white tiger, and stepped forward to stop Mr. Hei and Mr. Huang.
Mr. Qing and Mr. Bai took the opportunity to step forward, each of them blowing a breath of ghost air into the lantern.
The red flame in the lantern suddenly went out, and the talisman projected by the firelight disappeared instantly. The two fire gods that were manifested by the talismans naturally disappeared as well.
Turning around, Mr. Qing and Mr. Bai went to help Mr. Huang and Mr. Hei, attacking from both sides and beating the two gods Shentu and Yulei back to the door, and they turned into the images on the two peach charms again.
Gong Mengbi touched the black fox's head and said, "Go, they have already set up their battle array and are waiting for us."
Such a small door is guarded by magical powers. How can the Cheng family be so virtuous and capable as to have such a defense?
The black fox broke open the door and rushed into Cheng's house.
The five ghosts followed closely behind and stepped into the door.
Gong Mengbi stood at the gate of Cheng Mansion, looked up at the plaque, erased the two words "Cheng Mansion" on the plaque, and used the tail of the brush as a writing brush to write "Return to Shouqiu" below.
The extinguished lantern emitted a faint green flame, and the talisman cast down was twisted and deformed, casting the shadow of a slender fox in the fox fire.
When Gong Mengbi entered the Cheng Mansion, it was more accurately said that he was on his way back to his hometown.
From the moment he wrote these four words, the entire Cheng Mansion began to fall into the depths of darkness and was trapped in the fox's realm.
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