"It's a 'ghost gate'! It turns out that there really is this place......

As soon as he saw the black and white archway standing in front of the mountain road, Lu Xingyue's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly pulled Jiang Yao forward quickly, carefully hiding behind the procession, observing the movement ahead.

The noisy suona sound disappeared abruptly, and only the ghost-like wind whistled in the forest, and the marchers in red hats stood silently with their heads bowed, carrying all kinds of paper coffins, without saying a word.

"What's wrong with these people? Why don't you leave?" Jiang Yao looked at the marchers who stopped in place, and his heart was full of doubts, but he didn't dare to rush forward, so he could only stay behind for the time being, looking at the huge black and white archway.

I saw that although the width of the torii was limited, it was as high as a two-story building. Black porch, black cornices, black wall...... In the ink, only the three words "Ghost Gate" written on the plaque are bright and miserable white, and under the strong contrast, people can't help but be afraid.

"Since we are in a different space, this 'ghost gate' should be different from the attractions in reality, so it's better for us to be careful. ”

Lu Xingyue said, poking her head out and looking ahead, and suddenly found that there were many people in the silent team one after another, and judging from the costumes of these people, it was obvious that they were not part of those marchers, but rather that they should be the same as Jiang Yao and Lu Xingyue, the survivors who blended into the team and successfully escaped the catastrophe of "ghost music".

"Look, they seem to have gathered at the 'Ghost Gate'?"

Jiang Yao also found those guys with different looks, and saw those people sneaking through the procession, and the goal went straight to the doorway under the "Ghost Gate Pass" archway. And the marchers in their hats still turned a blind eye to all this, as if they were allowed to move freely.

"Let's go up and have a look. After a moment of silence, Lu Xingyue and Jiang Yao glanced at each other, and then the two of them cautiously stepped forward, walked through the crowd of parades, and gradually approached the "Ghost Gate" archway.

The huge archway is getting closer and closer in the field of vision, and the archway is already feeling terrible when looking at it from a distance, and it makes people feel uneasy when they look closely. Jiang Yao tried his best to suppress his uneasiness and moved his gaze to the scattered crowd under the archway in front of him, but he soon noticed that the behavior of those people seemed to be a little strange.

I saw those people groping at the entrance of the torii gate, while constantly peeking into the doorway, but they stopped as if they were afraid of something, with a confused and unwilling expression on their faces.

"Bastard, didn't the intelligence say that you could meet at the 'Ghost Gate' with this bullshit team!??

"Hehe, I'm not wrong, we've really arrived at the 'Ghost Gate', but ...... You can't just "get in". ”

Another man on the side, who was oily and powdery, and whose body was as thin as a bamboo pole, mocked in a strange manner, turned his head and glanced at the dark archway door in front of him, and the corners of his mouth drooped. "Hmph, after running so hard, I was blocked out by this barrier, and I was just one step away...... It's so infuriating!"

Enchantment?

Jiang Yao was stunned when he heard this, and his eyes moved to the doorway in the middle of the "Ghost Gate Pass" archway. Like the common archway structure, the middle of this "ghost gate" is also open, theoretically speaking, through this door hole should be able to directly see the mountain road behind the archway, but the strange thing is that this "ghost gate" door hole seems to be surrounded by a black fog, making the scene behind the door hole appear blurred. What's even more bizarre is that the entrance of the door is still shrouded in a translucent spell light mask, once someone tries to touch the light mask, it will be instantly bounced open like an electric shock, which is obviously the most scruple of everyone present.

"Hmph, who said before that even if this 'Ghost Market Invitation' is not his own, he can follow the 'Ghost City Sacrifice Team' into the 'Ghost Gate Pass'?"

The T-shirt man's eyes widened in anger and he angrily crumpled a black card in his hand and made two touches on it.

"The special Lao Tzu spent so much money for this piece of paper, and almost took his life, and now he even told me that he couldn't even touch the threshold of the 'ghost market'?!"

The man in the T-shirt gritted his teeth, and suddenly as if he thought of something, he turned around viciously, pointed at the two men in black next to him, and scolded angrily:

"You two! This invitation was bought through you, and even the news that you can follow the sacrificial procession up the mountain to the 'Ghost Gate' spread by you! Now you tell me what you need to do to break this barrier!?

As the T-shirt man reprimanded loudly, the twenty or thirty people gathered at the entrance of the door moved their unfriendly gazes to the two men in black, one fat and one thin, and the atmosphere was tense for a while, but on the other hand, the two of them, in the face of such a public target, they still seemed unhurried. I saw that the short and fat man with a goatee among them smiled coldly and took the lead in speaking:

"Hmph, huh, hehe, originally this 'Ghost City Invitation' was attached to a special spell, and only when the invited object instilled mana into the invitation through a "special method" could it be automatically teleported to the 'Ghost Gate' in another dimension, which is the so-called 'Special Challenge Meeting Point', which you should have known for a long time. ”

The short and fat man glanced at the angry crowd and said slowly.

"You guys can't find out about the 'special method' of automatic transmission to the 'Ghost Gate', so they turned to our 'Black Shark Brothers' for help, if we hadn't told you that there was still a way to 'follow the 'Ghost Market' sacrifice team', let alone touch the threshold of the 'Ghost Market', and even whether you could find it here is two words!"

"......!" the man in the T-shirt froze, apparently sore in the foot, and was speechless for a moment.

"Besides, if we hadn't warned you in advance that this sacrificial procession would be accompanied by 'ghost music', you would still be standing here?" The short and fat man squinted at the T-shirt man's face, and the sneer on the corner of his mouth became a little thicker. "If it weren't for us, I'm afraid you would have entered the real 'ghost gate' like those unlucky people behind!"

"Hmph, the previous things aside, what we want to see now is the result!"

The man in the T-shirt didn't seem to be willing to be ridiculed like this, so he immediately came back to his senses and began to hold on to the matter of the enchantment in front of him.

"If we can't enter this 'ghost gate' and reach the 'Special Challenge Meeting Point', you won't be able to eat and walk around!"

"yes, we spent so much money to buy invitations from you, we can't just leave it at that!"

"We have to be given an explanation!"

"That's it, that's it!"

……

Looking at the indignant looks of everyone in front of him, Jiang Yao was more confused than surprised.

The "Ghost Market Invitation" really has an identity authentication function, which he had expected before. As for the "special method" that can activate the invitation transmission function, he hadn't heard of it from Chen Siyi before, I don't know if Chen Siyi didn't study it himself, or deliberately concealed it from him out of consideration for Jiang Yao's safety, so that he would give up participating in this "ghost market". But what he couldn't figure out the most was that Lu Xingyue didn't know anything about this, which really shouldn't have happened to a 'Otherworldly Merchant' who sold intelligence and treasures from the Three Realms.

"Xingyue, this invitation is related to the ghost market sacrifice procession...... Haven't you heard about it before?" Jiang Yao lowered his voice and asked Lu Xingyue in a low voice.

"As I said before, my stepfather didn't allow me to meddle in the affairs of the 'Ghost Market', and since I came back from the Netherworld, I have been confined and forced to recuperate by the Three-legged Black Gate, so I don't know more information about the 'Ghost City' than you. In addition......"

Lu Xingyue paused, and a trace of entanglement seemed to flash in her eyes looking ahead.

"In addition, because of 'some reasons', it is not convenient for me to go to the underground rivers and lakes to inquire about things recently......"

"Is it ......" Jiang Yao nodded slightly, but then caught the complicated emotions in Lu Xingyue's eyes, he turned his head and looked forward along Lu Xingyue's line of sight, only to find that in front of Lu Xingyue's line of sight were the two men in black who were known as the "Black Shark Brothers".

"Huh?"

seemed to be aware of Lu Xingyue's gaze, and the tall man in black who had been silent suddenly turned his head and shot his knife-like gaze at Jiang Yao and Lu Xingyue.

"Oops!"

Lu Xingyue's face changed, and she subconsciously pulled Jiang Yao up and tried to hide in the procession of marchers behind, but she seemed to be a step slower, only to hear a hoarse and cold voice suddenly pass through the crowd and echo over the team:

"Hmph, how long do you want to hide? Lu Xingyue!"

“！？”

In the reprimand of the tall man, everyone's eyes were focused on the two people behind him, which also made Lu Xingyue's footsteps freeze in place all of a sudden.

"Yo, I haven't opened my mouth yet, but I've sent it to the door. As if he had also discovered Lu Xingyue's figure, the short and fat man snorted coldly and looked down at Lu Xingyue's vigilant face condescendingly.

"Hehe, I even deliberately used a spell to cover up the discoloration of my eyes...... But what's the use? Even if you turn to ashes, we know you...... The thief who stole the 'Dragon Bone Key' - Lu Xingyue!"

"Is ......that the 'keel key'? A treasure that can break through any spatial barrier!?"

"Wait, if there's a 'keel key'...... Isn't it easy to remove this 'Ghost Gate' barrier?"

Everyone suddenly looked at Lu Xingyue's eyes with a little more wolf-like fierceness and greed, while Lu Xingyue frowned, looked back at the two black-clothed men silently, and didn't say a word.

"Your stepfather abandoned you back then, if it weren't for the protection of our 'Black Shark Gang', you kid would still be where you are today?

The short and fat man stretched out his hand and pointed at the tip of Lu Xingyue's nose, and the threat in his tone was self-evident.

"I'll give you one last chance to put the 'keel key'...... Hand it over to me!"