Shi Xuan stared at the guard's reaction, only to see that he vanished into thin air before he could even let out a scream.
That's interesting.
What in this world fears the intense heat of the sun most? It must be something from the underworld. The nature of these guardians seems to be becoming increasingly clear.
Shi Xuan felt that he hadn't clearly seen how he disappeared, so he asked Jin Da Da to choose another person from the formation.
This time, Shi Xuan observed carefully and found that the person evaporated instantly when surrounded by the sun's fire!
It's as if it turned into gas, as if it vaporized.
"They're ghost cultivators?!" Lu Shenzhi had already concluded: "But they don't have any ghost cultivator aura on them at all..."
Indeed, they didn't seem like the ghost cultivators they had in mind. Their figures weren't weak, and they didn't emit the yin energy that ghost cultivators should have, which is why they fought for so long without noticing anything wrong.
"So, in that case..." Shi Xuan frowned and said, "The people of Wanjian Village..."
Lu Shenzhi nodded.
If we use the matter of ghost cultivation as an example, then everything seems to make sense.
Everyone on the street was a ghost cultivator; the guards were highly skilled, while the merchants had almost no cultivation. And the demonic beasts that roamed the streets at night left no trace after being killed. If they were also ghost cultivators, that would make perfect sense.
"A ghost town?" Tang Nong exclaimed in surprise, "No wonder. But I wonder what the difference is between the cakes made by ghost cultivators and those made by human cultivators..."
"Third brother, all you do is eat all day long," Lu Wenxing stretched his arms and cracked his neck, then said, "How was my performance just now? Did you look at second brother with new respect?"
He was met with a big eye roll from Tang Nong.
At this moment, the three-legged golden crow played hide-and-seek with the guards in the formation. When it breathed fire, some guards were able to dodge quickly, while others were vaporized without any reaction.
Faced with the solar fire, these guards were nothing like Nascent Soul stage cultivators; they acted exceptionally naive and even fled in terror.
Shi Xuan gave Jin Dada an order to leave behind the last guard commander, then took out the Spirit Binding Rope, tied up the guard commander, and stuffed him into the Fate Cage.
The Fate Cage given to me by my master is a good thing for containing spirits, but it's not used often. Shi Xuan only used it once before, when he was capturing the Fire Spirit.
Shi Xuan walked up to the trapped guard captain and asked, "Are you ghost cultivators?"
The commander raised his head, his gaze fierce as he looked at Shi Xuan, and shouted, "What kind of ghost cultivators are you! You are the ghost cultivators! What exactly do you outsiders want to do here? What kind of conspiracy do you have?!"
It seems he knew they weren't locals. These guards must know what kind of people were here. They seemed to hate outsiders so much that they would kill them if they came in.
Although he was fierce, the tone of his voice didn't seem like he was lying.
So, are they really not ghost cultivators? Or are they ghost cultivators without realizing it?
Shi Xuan leaned towards the latter, and she tentatively asked, "Why are you afraid of fire? Those who were burned by my spirit pet's solar fire just now all disappeared. Don't you think there's something wrong with that?"
"Hmph!" The man roared angrily, his neck stiff. "Who knows what kind of evil magic you used! I'll kill you all!" As he spoke, he struggled violently against the ropes, as if he really wanted to rush out and kill people.
"How long have you been here? Don't you notice anything different?" Shi Xuan asked.
"This place is our paradise! You outsiders covet our secrets to immortality, trying to find the answer here. Let me tell you, stop dreaming! Without our Ten Thousand Swords Village, you will all vanish into thin air!"
He spoke incoherently, but Shi Xuan could glean some meaning from his tone.
According to him, the people of Wanjian Village are immortal, while they, the outsiders, are seen as people who came to steal their secret to immortality and must be eliminated.
These people will probably disappear once they leave Wanjian Village.
Shi Xuan frowned. If her deduction was correct, these people were no longer human, so wouldn't they be "immortal"?
Think about those people on the street, living like zombies. What's the point of living for ten thousand years? Besides, they're probably already dead.
"Who is the owner of this place? Where can we find him?" Shi Xuan asked.
"Bah!" the commander said hatefully, "You lot dare to dream of seeing the gods? How laughable!"
As soon as Shi Xuan uttered the word "god," he immediately thought of the savior of the [New Life] organization.
Could it be a god?
"Tch, as if you're something special," Lu Wenxing snorted, annoyed by his tone. "What kind of god is he? He's probably just making things up. You haven't seen him either, have you?"
"You are not allowed to disrespect the gods!" The commander was furious. If he hadn't been bound and unable to move, he probably would have rushed out and fought Lu Wenxing to the death.
"The gods are not something we can see at will! One day I will be able to see him!"
Lu Wenxing made a face at him: "The God of Plague is a god, the God of Death is a god, what kind of god is yours? Is it the God of Daydreaming?"
This guy always targets people's sore spots. Looking at the man's appearance, Shi Xuan thought that if he were alive, he would probably have been spitting blood by Lu Wenxing.
But he had no blood to vomit.
A fanatical follower who has never seen God probably has limited information.
"Is your god called the Savior God?" Shi Xuan asked tentatively.
"How did you know!" The man's expression immediately changed, and he looked at Shi Xuan with full wariness.
Shi Xuan clicked his tongue in amazement. The guards were of a higher rank than the ordinary residents, and they even had their own thoughts, unlike the dull and numb people on the street.
“Hehe,” Shi Xuan replied with a smile, “How about we make a trade? You tell me where your superior is, and I’ll tell you about your savior.”
The bound commander frowned deeply, looking at Shi Xuan with a mixture of surprise and uncertainty.
He seemed reluctant to discuss news of his superiors, yet he couldn't suppress his yearning for God. Perhaps that savior truly was their lifelong faith, making him instinctively want to draw closer.
Shi Xuan added fuel to the fire: "Hey, I know your savior all too well. I know his name, where he lives, what his life was like, and where he is now. Don't you want to know?"
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