Since this Yin City is used to house Yin Souls, it is actually a big taboo for a living person like Shen Muzhi to come in. The living have yang energy in their bodies, and once they collide with those yin spirits, it is very likely to awaken the only remaining consciousness in their bodies, so that they can realize that they are dead.

The reason why these ghosts are able to stay in this city is that they are still living their lives day after day as they were when they were alive. And once they wake up from it, the resentment erupts, and then this Yin City will no longer be able to trap them here.

Although the master who laid down this Yin City at the beginning must have left corresponding means in this city to prevent this from happening, but now that most of those Yin Spirits have left Yin City, thinking about it, those methods have all failed.

It's just that Xuan Cheng still couldn't understand why the clay figurines and the dragon pillar stone path outside were obviously intact, but why they didn't stop those ghosts.

Judging from the scale of this Yin City, the Yin Souls who were trapped here at the beginning are probably tens of thousands. But there are very few ghosts still left in this Yin City. In other words, most of the Yin Spirits have escaped from here and gone to the surface, which will be a catastrophe in the future if no one takes care of it.

However, this is not the time to worry about this.

At the moment, the most important thing is to find an exit and get out of here as soon as possible.

In a place like Yin City, in order to be suitable for the survival of Yin Spirits, the Yin Qi is very heavy. If the living stay here for a long time, the body will gradually lose its mind under the long-term influence of Yin Qi, become a walking corpse, and finally the living soul will be stripped away and become a Yin Soul.

In this regard, Shen Muzhi and Xuan Cheng are both monks, and their realms are not low, so there is no need to worry much. But Xu Ranran and this strong man are ordinary people. Especially Xu Ranran, who is young and a girl, has weak yang energy on her body, and is even more susceptible.

This is also the reason why Xuan Cheng took the two of them to settle in this small mansion temporarily.

The location of this house is the weakest place in this Yin City, plus Xuan Cheng has posted some talismans in the room, trying to shield those yin qi from the outside, so that he can last for a while longer.

And the reason why Xuan Cheng found Shen Muzhi outside just now was also a coincidence. Xu Ranran was weak and couldn't follow him around the city to find an exit, so Xuan Cheng temporarily placed the two of them here, and then he went out to find the exit by himself. Unexpectedly, not long after I went out, I heard the copper bell from the city gate.

The brass bell will only sound when the living enter the city.

When Xuan Cheng took Xu Ranran and them into the city before, the copper bell rang once, and he paid attention to it. So, when he heard it again, he knew that someone else must be coming.

At that time, the first thing he thought of was Shen Muzhi.

Sure enough, it was really Shen Muzhi.

Shen Muzhi's arrival actually made Xuan Cheng feel a lot more relieved.

It's weird here, and it's always better for them to be together.

After the two discussed, Xuan Cheng asked Shen Muzhi to stay in this house to guard Xu Ranran and them, and he went out to find an exit. Shen Muzhi didn't object, Xuan Cheng was more familiar with these things involving the formation gods and ghosts than him, and his realm cultivation was also much higher than him, even if he encountered any situation outside, he would not be unable to get out.

Moreover, although this place has Xuancheng's talisman shielding aura, it is not foolproof. Leaving Xu Ranran and Lao Ding, who have no power to resist, here is really unreassuring.

When Xuan Cheng was leaving, he gave Shen Muzhi a few more Sanyang talismans. This kind of talisman is not very useful, but as the name suggests, this kind of talisman has strong yang energy on it, and it is a sharp weapon to deal with yin spirits.

After Shen Muzhi accepted it, he sent Xuan Cheng to the door of the small courtyard, and after watching him leave, he returned to the room.

In the room, Lao Ding was huddled on a chair in the corner, looking a little frightened.

Although Xu Ranran is a girl, she is not small. Seeing Shen Muzhi coming in at this time, she immediately stepped over, raised her innocent little face, opened her big simple and transparent eyes, and asked, "Uncle Junior, is the general on horseback you just told Master about a human or a ghost?"

Shen Muzhi glanced at her helplessly, and replied, "Ghost, are you afraid?"

The little guy blinked and said, "I'm not afraid! Master said, as long as you don't do bad things, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door! I have always done good deeds, what is there to be afraid of!"

Shen Muzhi raised his hand and rubbed her head, and after seeing her pouting dissatisfiedly, a smile flashed in his eyes.

At this time, the old man suddenly got up from the chair, and after taking a few steps towards Shen Muzhi, he stopped far away, his hands hanging down to his side stiffly, and there was nowhere to put it. His eyelids drooped, and he didn't dare to look at Shen Muzhi.

"The little one has one thing to think about...... I want to inquire with the fairy family. The strong man was more than seven feet tall, but his voice was as thin as a mosquito fly. If it weren't for Shen Muzhi's cultivation, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to hear clearly.

He turned to look at him and said, "You say." ”

"Are my companions alright?" said the strong man, a little louder.

"I don't know. Shen Muzhi replied. He really didn't know.

When the strong man heard this, he was slightly disappointed, but he didn't continue to ask, and after bowing to Shen Muzhi, he silently returned to the chair in the corner and shrank up.

Time passed slowly, and Xu Ranran probably saw that Shen Muzhi was a little tired, so he didn't keep pestering. After asking a few childish questions, I went to the side to kill time.

Shen Mu sat in another corner of the room, resting and recuperating, while taking off the jade pendant on his waist. In the past ten years, he has never taken off this jade pendant.

He Xian is the only person in the Great Sword Sect who has never had a trace of resentment from beginning to end in the past ten years.

This jade pendant, for him, is a life-saving thing, but also a thought, and it is also the connection of friendship between him and He Xian.

But now, there are cracks in this jade pendant.

In the poplar forest, the strength of the last sword still broke this jade pendant after all.

Shen Muzhi was holding it at this time, and his emotions couldn't help but be complicated. After staring at it for a long time, he hung it back on his waist.

At this moment, there was a slight jingle of bells outside the house.

It's a brass ringtone.

Shen Muzhi didn't have time to wonder why the sound of the small copper bell at the city gate could spread so far, but he immediately thought of what Xuan Cheng said before.

When a living person enters the city, the brass bell will ring.

It seems that another living person has entered the city.

I just don't know who it will be.

Most of the people who can come here will not be ordinary people.

When Shen Muzhi was secretly guessing, the jingling bell sounded one after another, continuously.

After Shen Mu was stunned, his brows immediately furrowed.

After hesitating for a moment, he told Xu Ranran and the old man a few words, and then left the room. However, he did not dare to go far, and not far from the small courtyard, he found a high roof, flew up, and looked in the direction of the city gate.

Although the angle of view is not very good, I can see some of it. I saw figures one by one, rushing in from outside the city, as if there were quite a few people.

Why did so many people suddenly come to this underground city?

Moreover, although the distance was not short, Shen Muzhi could still feel that those people were not monks, just ordinary people. Even if these ordinary people are the same as Lao Ding and Xu Ranran, they were all brought down, but it is not easy to find this underground city and go down to the city, unless someone brings them here.

Just when Shen Mu's heart faintly felt that this was not good, he suddenly felt cold, and it seemed that something was staring at him. Instinctively, he turned his head to look in the direction of the center of the city.

And behold, in the middle of the city, there was a tall tower.

On the top of the tower, there stood a dark shadow, like a human and a ghost.

The moment Shen Muzhi saw him, his heart jumped wildly. Then, without hesitation, he turned around and jumped off the roof, heading straight for the small courtyard where he was staying.

In the room, Xu Ranran leaned on a circle chair, drowsy, and when he saw Shen Muzhi coming in, his mind was relieved, and he immediately fell asleep.

Lao Ding paced back and forth beside him, looking very uneasy. It wasn't until Shen Muzhi came in that he breathed a sigh of relief, and after squeezing out a smile that was more ugly than crying at Shen Muzhi, he retracted into the corner.

Shen Muzhi saw that the two of them were fine, and his heart was relieved. But thinking of the black shadow I saw just now, my heart suddenly became solemn again.

The dark shadow gave him a familiar feeling, as if he had met somewhere. But for a while, he couldn't remember where he had met.

Time flies.

The brass bell had long since stopped, and there was still silence and lifelessness outside.

Shen Muzhi still couldn't remember where he had seen that black shadow, and Xuan Cheng hadn't returned for a long time.

After a while, Xu Ranran woke up from his deep sleep, looked in the direction of Shen Muzhi with sleepy eyes open, and saw that he was still behind, and the uneasiness in his eyes immediately dissipated. Then, after looking around, he didn't see Xuancheng's figure, frowned slightly, and asked, "Uncle Xiao, hasn't my master come back yet?"

Shen Muzhi was just about to nod, when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside the courtyard.

The footsteps were not light, and they fell on the bluestone slab in the alley outside the courtyard, and there was some dragging.

Xu Ranran also heard it, and was immediately overjoyed, jumped down from the chair suddenly, and was about to rush out of the door.

However, at this moment, Shen Muzhi suddenly flashed over and grabbed Xu Ranran, who had already rushed to the door.

"It's Master......" Xu Ranran looked at Shen Muzhi with a puzzled expression, and as soon as the words began, Shen Muzhi stretched out his hand to cover his mouth.

He made a silent gesture, and only after seeing that Xu Ranran understood, he let go of his hand, and then motioned for her not to move, while he silently moved to the window, poked a hole in the window, and quietly looked out.

There was no movement in the courtyard.

However, the footsteps outside the courtyard gate continued, passing by the courtyard gate, and walking deeper into the alley.

After Shen Muzhi hesitated for a moment, he quietly went out, climbed the courtyard wall, and secretly looked out. I saw a person in the alley, dragging his feet, slowly walking inside. The aura on that person's body was a little strange, obviously he was a living person, but the yang qi was very weak, and the yin qi was a little heavy. The way he walked was also a little strange, procrastinating, as if he was seriously ill.

This man was probably one of the people who had come in through the gates.