Chapter 369: Forbidden Zone Curse
Ye Shi and Muchen followed Bai Jixue for a while and saw a small town.
"Senior Bai, you're back." The guard at the gate smiled respectfully when he saw Bai Jixue.
Bai Jixue nodded to the guards and walked in with Mu Chen and Ye Shi.
"Senior Bai, who are those two people you brought with you?"
"It's probably the descendants of the Bai family. After three thousand years, another group of idiots and unlucky people have come in."
"Senior Bai never leaves the city. He only goes out when he senses the arrival of the younger generation of the Bai family."
"These two are really lucky. They are related to Senior Bai. They should be able to live in the city within the city."
"These two look very young! I don't know how they ended up here."
"These two guys must have achieved success at a young age and have no scruples. I don't know how long they can survive in this place."
"Don't talk nonsense, that's someone who is related to Senior Bai."
The conversations of the guards were all heard by Mu Chen, and a sense of confusion suddenly flashed through his mind.
Muchen saw that the small town was like concentric circles, and the further inward he went, the higher the level.
There are several small palaces in the center of the town.
"Don't use your soul power recklessly." Bai Jixue said to Mu Chen with a warning.
Mu Chen smiled awkwardly.
Bai Jixue said to Mu Chen and Ye Shi, "The people living in this city are all old monsters, and they all have bad tempers."
"Thank you for your advice, senior." Mu Chen said hurriedly.
Bai Jixue said nothing and took Mu Chen and Ye Shi into one of the palaces.
Mu Chen noticed that Bai Jixue had set up a nine-level formation at the entrance of the palace, which was very mysterious.
After returning to the room, Bai Jixue took out a map and showed it to the two of them.
Ye Shi's mood was up and down as he walked along, and he felt an indescribable sense of depression in his heart. When he saw the map at this moment, Ye Shi's mood became even worse.
There was a large area on the map that was shaded. Mu Chen looked a little confused and asked, "Senior, what is that black thing?"
"I don't know what it is. Everyone calls it a curse." Bai Jixue said.
"Curse?" Ye Shi and Muchen looked at each other in surprise.
"Grandpa, what is the curse?" Ye Shi couldn't help but ask.
Bai Jixue smiled somewhat blankly, his expression somewhat powerless, "No one can tell what it is, but even a Nine-Star Martial Saint would retreat from it."
"Perhaps hundreds of thousands of years ago, the curse didn't exist in the restricted area. Later, perhaps someone triggered something, and the curse appeared. As long as you are in the area where the curse appears, you will inevitably be infected with it."
Ye Shi looked at Bai Jixue and said anxiously, "Then Mu Chen and I..."
Bai Jixue looked at the two of them with pity and said, "You've been infected too."
Ye Shi bit his lip tightly. Although he didn't know what the curse was, looking at Bai Jixue's expression, Ye Shi knew that this thing was very troublesome.
"What will happen if you get infected?" Mu Chen asked.
"Once you're infected, it's impossible for you to get out. You can only live within the range of the curse." Bai Jixue drank a glass of spirit wine and murmured.
Ye Shi frowned and said, "Can't get out?"
Bai Jixue nodded and said, "Yes! Otherwise, why do you think so many people are stranded here?"
Mu Chen: “…”
Ye Shi looked at Bai Jixue and said, "There's really nothing we can do."
"Maybe there is, but no one knows yet." Bai Jixue shook his head.
Bai Jixue looked at Ye Shi. He noticed that Ye Shi frowned slightly, but he didn't seem particularly anxious. He smiled helplessly.
Bai Yanxing is only twenty-one years old, with a young mind and young success. He should be a big shot who has the final say in the outside world.
No matter how serious the curse sounded, he wouldn't believe it.
Thinking back to when he was first trapped in the restricted area, he was not in a hurry at all. He always thought that he could find a way out. But then, he could only watch time fly by and spent year after year in the restricted area.
"Senior, I have never heard of the curse of the forbidden area." Mu Chen said.
Bai Jixue glanced at Mu Chen and said, "Of course you don't know. Because those who are cursed never leave, and the news can't be passed on. Even those who are lucky enough to return don't know, so how could you know?"
"The restricted area is a magical place. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, although it was full of dangers, it had many spiritual veins, and top-grade spiritual veins were not difficult to find. Ninth-level spiritual herbs grew in profusion, and various spiritual liquids and spiritual jades were innumerable. People died for money, and birds died for food. Countless people came here in search of opportunities."
"However, after the curse broke out, this place gradually became a true restricted area. Once you step into the range of the curse, you can't escape. Over the past hundreds of thousands of years, the range of the curse has been expanding. In the past few thousand years, the speed of the spread of the curse has been getting faster and faster. At this rate of spread, it won't be long before there is no pure land left in this restricted area.
Mu Chen frowned and said, "What will happen if the curse accumulates?"
"Once the curse accumulates to a certain level in a person's body, it will drive the person crazy." Bai Jixue said.
"Crazy?" Ye Shi asked in confusion.
Bai Jixue nodded and said, "Yes! Madness to death. Once the curse accumulates to a certain level, it will periodically flare up. When it does, you'll have a splitting headache and feel worse than death. Many people can't survive the curse and die in pain."
Mu Chen: “…”
Ye Shi: “…”
"Once you are cursed, you must stay within the range of the curse. Has no one ever tried to break out by force?" Ye Shi muttered.
Bai Jixue smiled wanly and said, "Of course not. If there were other ways, who would be willing to stay in this damn place?"
Ye Shi bit his lip and said, "What's the result?"
Bai Jixue said helplessly: "Dead, exploded and died."
Ye Shi: “…”
"More than ten thousand years ago, some eight-star martial saints couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to break out. As a result, he succeeded. However, just as he broke out, he was born with a strange ability. In a blink of an eye, he started bleeding from all seven orifices, aged rapidly, and turned into a pile of bones." Bai Jixue said with a pale face.
Mu Chen couldn't help but frown, and a sense of urgency arose in his heart.
"Eight-star Martial Saint?" Ye Shi muttered.
Bai Jixue nodded and said, "Yes."
"Grandpa, before, that Martial Saint asked us for Yuanshi? Aren't there any spiritual veins in the restricted area?" Ye Shi asked with some confusion.
"Yes! How could there not be any?" Bai Jixue paused and said, "Unfortunately, the Yuanshi in the cursed area are all contaminated by the curse. Taking in this kind of Yuanshi will accelerate the speed of cultivators going crazy. Therefore, many people would rather not practice, or even regress in their cultivation, than use those Yuanshi."
"Grandpa, what did you do?" Bai Jixue asked.
Bai Jixue glanced at Ye Shi and said, "I have a formation that can purify the Yuanshi and cleanse the curse within it to a certain extent. There's a ninth-level alchemist in the house to the east. I can use the purified Yuanshi to exchange for some elixirs from him to cleanse the curse within my body."
"Is the pill effective?" Ye Shi asked.
Bai Jixue shook his head and said, "It's not very effective, but it's very expensive. However, it's good enough to have some effect."
"Mu Chen can also make pills." Ye Shi muttered.
"Oh, your guy is only twenty-two years old, but he knows how to set up formations and refine pills. He knows a lot!" Bai Jixue said with a smile.
Ye Shi nodded and said, "Yes! Yes! Mu Chen knows a lot..."
Bai Jixue glanced at Mu Chen coldly and said, "It seems you've learned a lot! However, the curse won't stop affecting you just because you've learned a lot."
Mu Chen quickly said, "Senior is right."
Seeing that Bai Jixue didn't take it seriously, Ye Shi said sullenly, "Mu Chen is very..." powerful.
"Stop talking." Mu Chen grabbed Ye Shi and said.
Ye Shi fell silent.
"The other five palaces in the center of the restricted area are home to two eight-star Martial Saints and three nine-star Martial Saints. They are all difficult characters to deal with. You should not provoke them recklessly." Bai Jixue reminded.
Mu Chen's expression changed and he said, "Thank you for your guidance, ancestor."
"Ancestor, do you know where to find books about inscriptions and talismans?" Ye Shi asked.
Bai Jixue glanced at Ye Shi and said, "This small city is divided into the city within the city, the inner city, the middle city, and the outer city. There is a grocery store in the middle city, so it should be there."
"Grocery store? What good things can there be there?" Ye Shi frowned.
"There's nothing else. There are plenty of talismans and inscription books, but no one wants the eighth and ninth level books." Bai Jixue said.
Ye Shi was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise: "Why..."
Bai Jixue smiled and said, "It's not necessary."
Mu Chen and Ye Shi looked at each other, with a hint of curiosity in their eyes.
Bai Jixue looked at Mu Chen and Ye Shi and shook his head helplessly. Many of the newly arrived cultivators were interested in high-level inscriptions and talismans, which were rarely seen outside. However, after a while, they would find that these things were useless and then give up.
Muchen and Ye Shi walked hand in hand in the city.
According to Bai Jixue, this Worry-Free City has existed since an unknown time. Worry-Free City is very strange. It is the place with the thinnest curse in the forbidden area, and it is also the only place in the forbidden area that is not affected by sandstorms.
The closer to the city center, the thinner the curse, so the closer to the city center, the higher the status of the cultivator.
Bai Jixue is one of the people with the highest status in this restricted area.
It seems that there is an old man from the Fate Clan here as well. That old man is also a nine-star martial saint. However, it is said that the man is dying of illness. Many people are waiting and hoping that he dies so that they can rob his palace. The reason they haven't taken action yet is because they are worried that the old man will counterattack before he dies.
Now, a nine-star martial saint has entered the Fate Clan, and those people’s wishful thinking is likely to be dashed.
"If I had known, I shouldn't have brought you here." Mu Chen turned his head and looked at Ye Shi with some guilt.
Ye Shi held Mu Chen's hand tightly, shook his head, and said, "No, it's not like that. I wanted to come here on my own."
"If you're the only one who comes in, and after three years, you really can't get out, and I can't get in either, after enduring three thousand years, I'll still come in to find you. I don't want to be separated from you. I don't want to go through the same life as before, coming to Central Continent alone, isolated and helpless."
Mu Chen looked at Ye Shi's panicked look, stroked Ye Shi's face gently, and said, "I'm sorry."
Ye Shi shook his head and said, "No, I'm just sorry for Dabao and Xiaobao. However, fortunately, I didn't bring them in. Fortunately, my father and mother are outside. They should take good care of them."
"What if we can't get out?" Mu Chen asked Ye Shi.
"If we can't get out, then we can live well here!" Ye Shi said while holding Mu Chen's hand.
Life must go on. As our ancestors said, many people came here and found they couldn't leave, so they took root here.
Mu Chen smiled and said, "You are right."
Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu spent their entire lives in the ancient tomb. To outsiders, the ancient tomb seemed cold and lonely. Living in it would be worse than death. However, with the company of loved ones, such a place is still a paradise.
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