Volume 2: The Demonic World Chapter 595: Ghost Town
Shenyong Mountain.
Lin Qianxing and Liu Yilin, who was only ten years old, sat on the edge of the cliff watching the sunrise.
Liu Yilin held the snacks given by Lin Qianxing in his hand and ate while staring blankly at the sea of clouds.
"Big brother, have you found that person?" Liu Yilin asked while stuffing snacks into his mouth.
Although she asked the question, she was clearly in no hurry.
Lin Qianxing knew that she was going to torture him, but he was not worried. Instead, he smiled and said, "I didn't find it. The person you are looking for is a little hard to find."
"Oh." Liu Yilin was not disappointed. He nodded and said calmly.
The morning glow shone brightly, and Lin Qianxing also stood up.
"Big brother, are you leaving?" Liu Yilin asked.
"I'll go help you find someone and will be back." Lin Qianxing said with a smile.
After saying this, he flew into the air and disappeared, leaving Liu Yilin with puffy cheeks sitting there. After a while, Liu Yilin suddenly raised his hand and touched the hairpin behind his head, and suddenly smiled.
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On Qingyin Peak, Lin Qianxing looked at the three-leaf spiritual grass with purple air and asked curiously, "What do you want?"
The spiritual herb did not answer.
It was a magical herb that Lin Qianxing had accidentally encountered when he was out before.
It was nearly eaten by a deer.
However, Lin Qianxing happened to pass by and seeing the purple aura, he drove the deer away and saved it.
He thought he would be able to obtain purple energy this way, but he didn't.
Lin Qianxing thought that he needed to find another place for it to live, so he moved it to Qingyin Peak.
However, when he arrived at Qingyin Peak, he still failed to obtain the purple energy.
Lin Qianxing still doesn’t understand what the specific requirements of this grass are.
Because its spirituality is too weak and muddle-headed, it cannot express its own ideas well.
If it was an animal, it would be fine, because animals have brains and can carry more information, so Lin Qianxing could easily enlighten it.
But this is a grass, Lin Qianxing can only nourish it with spiritual energy and slowly make it spiritual.
If he wanted to rush for success, the spiritual herb might be destroyed instead.
However, Lin Qianxing felt that the possibility of this grass being able to awaken spiritual power was not great.
Because from what he could sense, this grass had probably been growing for hundreds of years, but it was still so chaotic and ignorant. Perhaps it was not the type that could have psychic abilities.
It is inherently more difficult for plants to awaken their spirits than for animals.
It can neither move nor think without a brain, and it only has the instinct to grow and reproduce.
It is common for a person to grow for hundreds or even thousands of years before his spirit is awakened.
Lin Qianxing went fishing, tended flowers and plants, and went to Shenyong Mountain to see Liu Yilin from time to time. Several years passed quickly.
On this day, a young man carrying an iron sword came to Qingyin Peak.
He bowed at the foot of the mountain and then went straight up the mountain.
I don’t know if it was luck that brought him to Lin Qianxing’s medicinal field.
Then, the first thing he saw was Lin Qianxing's spiritual herb with purple aura.
Just when he was about to pick it up, Lin Qianxing's fishing rod blocked his palm.
Ji Heng looked up and saw a handsome young man holding a fishing rod, and behind him was a beautiful woman in purple.
"You are so brave, you dare to steal the spiritual herbs from my medicine field." Lin Qianxing said.
In his eyes, Ji Heng's cultivation level had not even reached the True Realm. It was simply a miracle that he could reach this point with such cultivation level.
You know, Lin Qianxing also set up a formation on Qingyin Peak. There is fog everywhere, and there are also misleading information. Ordinary people who come in will be confused for a while and then be guided out by the formation.
Not only did Ji Heng happen to not be affected by the formation, he also went straight into the medicine field. His luck was incredibly good.
"May I ask if this is the Dragon-Slaying Immortal in person?" Ji Heng asked.
"You know me, yet you still dare to steal my spiritual herbs?" Lin Qianxing asked curiously.
"It's not stealing. It's just that I asked for instructions at the foot of the mountain before, but received no response from the immortal, so I had to come here to search alone." Ji Heng said politely.
"Then what do you want the spiritual herbs for?" Lin Qianxing asked.
"I borrow this magical herb only to save people. I hope the immortal will grant my wish." Ji Heng said.
Lin Qianxing looked at the purple air on the spiritual herb, then glanced at Ji Heng, thinking about something.
He originally thought that the purple energy was produced by the spiritual herb itself, but now it seems that it is not the case.
"Tell me what happened." Lin Qianxing said.
Hearing this, Ji Heng was silent for a while, and then began to organize his words.
"The story begins three years ago..."
Three years ago, Ji Heng was preparing to go to Beijing for an imperial examination. On his way, he passed by a post station and suddenly heard the voices of two women talking at night.
Out of curiosity, he went to check it out, and ended up in a cave full of corpses.
And that voice came from inside the cave.
It turns out that this cave was a mass grave used to bury enemies during the war of the Jiang Dynasty seven hundred years ago.
More than 100,000 people were buried there. With so many people buried, their resentment gathered, but their spirits were not destroyed. Then, they gradually grew stronger under the nourishment of spiritual energy, and finally formed an underground ghost town.
This underground ghost town is ruled by a ghost king named Zhu Quan.
He was a general in his lifetime, and this time he is constantly accumulating strength, wanting to build an underground ghost kingdom that is different from the kingdom on earth.
Of course, that's not the point.
The point is that a lot of innocent people were killed during the expansion of the ghost town.
Among them was a good girl named Ying Yuqin.
She was abducted and killed by the Ghost King, and her soul was forced to become one of the Ghost King's wives and concubines.
The conversation that Ji Heng heard was the one between her and the maid when she was out relaxing.
What happened next was just cliché.
Ji Heng and Ying Yuqin fell in love at first sight, but unfortunately, humans and ghosts have different paths, so it is difficult for them to be together.
However, Ji Heng did not give up.
After he went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, he successfully joined the imperial court and became a member of the Classics Bureau.
All the classics in the world are stored here.
He searched through it and finally found a way to allow the soul to reshape the body.
That is "Growing Skin Grass".
According to records, after this herb is made into spiritual liquid, it can repair the body. If it has enough medicinal properties, it can even regenerate severed limbs.
Moreover, the effect of this spiritual liquid is on the soul. It will reshape an identical body based on the physical information recorded by your soul.
A doctor from the Imperial Medical Bureau calculated that if a creature could grow to a sufficient age and reach the Xuan level, it could even reshape a person's body.
Then Ji Heng used the excuse of compiling a book on medicinal herbs to travel through mountains and rivers in search of the mysterious herb.
After coming here, he heard that an immortal had killed a dragon on Qingyin Peak, so he decided to go up to the immortal mountain to take a look.
I didn't expect that he actually found it.
"Ghost town?" Lin Qianxing murmured with a slightly surprised expression.
In fact, he did write down the rule that all things have spirits and that spirits can exist independently very early on.
But at that time, the spiritual energy was thin and things like ghosts did not exist.
Even for a life with a strong spirit, its soul will quickly dissipate after an accidental death.
Lin Qianxing didn't expect that the rule would actually give birth to an underground ghost town.
He looked at Ji Heng, who was slightly bowing and waiting for the result. With an idea in his mind, he used his divine sense to pull up the flesh-growing grass by the roots, then took out a wooden box from his sleeve, put it in it, and handed it to Ji Heng.
"Thank you for lending me the magic herb, I will return it double in the future."
"That's not necessary. Take me to the underground ghost town." Lin Qianxing said.
Immediately, Lin Qianxing shook his hand, and a luxuriously decorated flying boat flew out from his sleeves.
This was a gift from the Forging Sect.
Although Lin Qianxing can fly, why does he have to fly himself when he has other means of transportation?
After the three of them boarded the flying boat, Ji Heng's face was still full of surprise and wonder.
The imperial court also has flying boats, but they are rare. Normally, they are only used when the emperor travels or tours.
The flying boat took off into the sky and arrived at the Xuangui Temple on the bank of the Xuanbi River.
Lin Qianxing said, "Xuanbi, help look after the house."
A young man in green clothes walked out of the temple and replied, "Sir, you can travel without worry. I will not let outsiders enter Qingyin Peak casually."
After saying that, he entered the water and transformed into a giant black turtle, and went directly to Qingyin Peak to work as a part-time security guard.
When Ji Heng saw Xuan Bi, he exclaimed, "Is this the Turtle God who saved millions of lives back then?"
Before he came, although he had read those stories, he had not seen them with his own eyes, so he still felt that there was some fictional element in them.
However, after actually seeing all this, he realized that those were not exaggerated, and might even be underestimated.
As the flying boat driven by Lin Qianxing gradually approached the location of the ghost town, Ji Heng became slightly excited.
He tightly grasped the wooden box in his arms, imagining the scene of his beloved staying with him after she had recreated her body.
Soon, Lin Qianxing drove the flying boat to the entrance of the ghost town.
Before he even got close, Lin Qianxing already felt the strong ghostly aura.
After the three of them got off the flying boat, Lin Qianxing asked Ji Heng to lead the way, and they entered the cave together.
After entering, there was a gloomy and dark environment, and the ground was covered with countless corpses.
These bones have been eroded by time and will shatter if stepped on with even the slightest force.
Lin Qianxing and Ning Caier wrapped themselves with divine consciousness and floated forward. The only sound in the empty space was the sound of Ji Heng stepping on bones.
Soon, a little light came from the front. Ji Heng paused for a moment, then walked over in one go.
One step forward, and you have two completely different worlds.
The lights are bright, the buildings are numerous, and the sound of conversation can be heard everywhere.
What a prosperous place.
If the people moving around here weren't souls, there wouldn't be any eerie feeling at all.
However, in fact, it should be so.
Spirits are also transformed from humans.
Most ghosts will like things that people like.
Except for some defects in eating and drinking, they are actually no different from ordinary people.
The arrival of Lin Qianxing and the other two did not attract the attention of the other ghosts in the ghost town, because after the soul body solidified , it was actually no different from ordinary people, and it could not be seen simply by looking at the appearance.
Only when you get close to the other person and discover the warm breath of a living person, can you be sure that the other person is not a ghost.
Ji Heng was obviously very familiar with this place, and he soon arrived at the gate of a remote house.
The gate of the house was closed, and there was only a number "sixty-five" on the plaque.
This number represents the Ghost King’s concubine’s number.
There are many such houses around, about a hundred or so.
From a certain perspective, the Ghost King is relatively restrained, with his harem having no more than a thousand concubines in hundreds of years.
By the way, can the soul and the body really have intercourse?
The soul is just a ball of energy. Although it has emotions, its perception is all based on the spirit. It is impossible for it to enjoy sexual pleasure like a living person.
So the question is, does the Ghost King have so many wives and concubines just for the sake of symbolism?
After Ji Heng knocked on the gate of the mansion, the gate opened and a woman in pink clothes came inside.
She was startled to see two people behind Ji Heng and was about to close the door, but Ji Heng quickly stopped her and said, "Xiaoyan, these two are the immortals who helped me find the spiritual herbs, don't be afraid!!"
Hearing the voice, the woman named Xiaoyan paused, looked at Lin Qianxing and Ning Caier, and then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You didn't tell me in advance, I was scared to death, I thought it was the Ghost King's people who came. The young lady is in the room. She has been thinking about you since we last met. You should go and see her."
