Chapter 228: Lethe Inn
The speed is fastest in the dark. He quickly joined Mu Wan.
Seeing him shaking his head silently, Mu Wan only felt that his heart was as heavy as iron.
There's still some distance ahead! She gritted her teeth, ready to go over and continue searching.
At this moment, a white shadow "floated" over.
It's fragrant!
Mu Wan stopped and looked at her hopefully.
Xiangxiang shook her head gently.
Now the fifth watch will pass. In the sun, it is already the time when the rooster announces the dawn and the sky will be bright. The aura of evil is waning. The lonely ghosts by the river are almost gone.
The yin beads are also running out. Mu Wan had to find a place to hide. Otherwise, without the cover of yin beads, her yang energy will undoubtedly be exposed.
However, Mu Wan didn't care about these, and only wanted to find Uncle Shi's three main souls. She ran frantically further downstream.
The night followed her.
Xiangxiang looked up at the Huangquan ferry.
On the ferry, it was empty, and there was not a single ghost.
She looked at the ghost gate on the other side.
Hey, the ghost door is closed!
With a move in her heart, Xiangxiang cautiously tried to release her divine sense and check the memories of these weeds around her.
Yikes! They have memories too! Every weed remembers the ghosts of the past!
Moreover, she used her spiritual power, and she didn't attract ghosts!
Overjoyed, Xiangxiang sat down, hid in the weeds, closed her eyes, and began to quickly look through the weed memories in this area.
Half an hour later, she opened her eyes in disappointment and used her divine sense to send a message to Mu Wan: Sister. You can now use your spiritual power. I have checked the memory of the weeds, and the main soul of Uncle Shi has never been here.
Mu Wan received the divine sense, stumbled under his feet, and fell forward.
The eyes of the night are quick, and they pull her back.
"'Er' has checked, but Uncle Shi's main soul has not come." Mu Wan muttered in despair, "Where will you go?" Because they couldn't use their real names on the Huangquan Road, the three of them gave themselves a code name beforehand. Mu Wan is "one". Xiangxiang is "two". The night is "three".
Yellow Springs are so big! Where to find the main soul of my uncle!
Hei Ye thought about it for a while, and persuaded in a low voice: "Don't worry, with the means of 'two', you should be able to find it soon." Let's go over and meet her first. β
There is no daylight in Huangquan Road. But. Now. The ghosts on the shore are gone. If you look for it any longer, there is no point. Yes, Mu Wan had no choice but to give up.
There are two of them to protect the Dharma. Xiang Xiang tried her best to spread out her divine consciousness in order to look through the memories of the plants and trees.
After searching like this for nearly an hour, she was tired and sweating. The hard work paid off, and finally found a useful clue.
To the east of Dusk Ferry, more than a hundred miles away, there is a thousand-year-old shop, Lethe Inn. The owner is mysterious and never shows up. There was only one one-eyed old man in the shop, not a ghost, nor a demon. After thousands of years, the old man still has the same face as when he first came.
This shop specializes in doing business with the lonely ghosts on Huangquan Road - providing accommodation, selling paper incense, exchanging yin beads, and even smuggling!
That's right, it's really smuggling! This shop has a way for lonely souls and wild ghosts to smuggle across the Lethe River, cross the ghost gate, and go to the underworld. The premise is that the lonely ghosts can afford to pay the price.
Dark Night frowned: "What is the price?" "They will also cross the Lethe River. Although the ancestor said that Mu Wan has the power of faith to protect herself, she can cross the river without fear of the wind in the river, but if she can smuggle safely, why take the risk?
Xiangxiang's eyes were shining: "Yin beads." The Yin Bead is the money in the Huangquan Dao, the same as the spirit stone in the cultivation realm. The smuggling fee is 100,000 yin beads per person. β
"It's so expensive!" Mu Wan's "nourishing" pumping. Even the only yin bead they had had had been consumed and turned into a handful of ashes.
The night buzzed and said, "Otherwise, I'll go over and ask the store to 'borrow' some." "Actually, it's just a robbery. Hehe, he learned very quickly from Guangren Ancestor.
Xiangxiang also said: "Sister, let's go over and have a look first." It's full of ghosts, and it's the most well-informed place in the area. Maybe there will be news from Uncle Shi. β
There's no other way around it anyway. Mu Wan nodded.
With Xiangxiang leading the way, the three of them quickly rushed to the vicinity of the Lethe Inn and hid behind a bunch of weeds.
It was an ordinary-looking blue brick courtyard. The surrounding area is bare, all yellow sand, and not even grass grows. There were no plants in the yard either, and it looked lifeless. A large red lantern hung on the low courtyard gate, red as blood. On the lantern are written four black characters "Lethe Inn".
At this time, the lonely ghosts will not come out to walk. Therefore, the gate of the courtyard was closed. There was also a dead silence in the courtyard.
The more Mu Wan looked at it, the more creepy she felt. Mother, this shop is not weird!
Xiangxiang said: "There is not even a single grass inside and outside the courtyard, and there is no way to investigate it at all. β
The dark night wrinkled his eyebrows: "The evil atmosphere in the yard is very heavy." However, there really is no one of my kind. β
"What should I do?" Xiang Xiang poked her head out of the grass, "You have to get the Yin Bead before it gets dark." "Otherwise, Mu Wan's trouble will be big!
The night said, "You wait here, I'll go in first." β
Among the three, his cultivation is the highest, and the yin and evil qi is very beneficial to him.
At this moment, the courtyard door squeaked and opened.
A one-eyed man in his forties, wearing a black round-skinned eye patch, walked out of it and said to them, "Three fellow Daoists, since you're here, why don't you come in?" β
Oops, found out!
Mu Wan couldn't help beating the small drum in her heart.
If you can't hide, you don't need to hide anymore! She was the first to emerge from behind the weeds.
Forcing the fear in her heart, she stubbornly walked over quickly. Xiangxiang and the night followed.
After more than ten zhang of the journey, Mu Wan had already calmed down, and made a big and generous fist salute: "Forgive me for not revealing my name here, I will disturb the Taoist friends with two friends." β
"Well said." The one-eyed man returned the salute with a fist, "The little ones are the guys here, and they all call them the little 'one-eyed'." The three Taoist friends are going to be sharp. Or accommodation? β
This style is no different from the little two in the mortal world.
Mu Wan said tentatively: "We want to exchange some Yin beads, and we want to find out some news from you......"
Unexpectedly, One-Eyed grinned, revealing a mouthful of white Sensen's teeth, and said with a smile: "It's okay." The small shop is open for business and accepts customers from all over the world. As long as you can afford to pay the price, there's no business you can't make. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please, and he went into the courtyard first.
This is probably the real "money can make the devil grind". Mu Wan felt weird. Follow him cautiously. Walk into the small courtyard.
The yard is not big, and the palm-sized yard is paved with yellow sand and is neatly tied. Facing the courtyard gate is a small two-story wooden building. The east and west wings are brick houses. There are three rooms each. The doors and windows are closed.
One-Eye led them into the wooden building.
The furnishings here are similar to those of the inns of the mortal realm. The first floor is also the lobby, with several square wooden tables and long wooden benches for guests to eat. Facing the gate. The mahogany counter is the brightest in the room. There was a wooden staircase leading to the second floor, where there were at least a dozen or so rooms. The door is also closed.
It's quiet in the shop. There was no living creature but the four of them.
One-eyed walked behind the mahogany counter and asked, "May I ask the three guest officers, how many Yin beads do you want to exchange?" What do you want to find out? In business, his address to Mu Wan and others has also changed from "Taoist friend" to "guest officer".
Mu Wan asked, "Yin Zhu, what is the exchange method?" β
One-eyed showed a mouthful of white Sensen's teeth again, and said with a smile: "You can exchange it for spirit stones." A lower grade spirit stone is exchanged for a yin bead. β
I didn't expect it to be so simple, so much so that Mu Wan couldn't believe it. She tentatively took out a hundred lower-grade spirit stones and put them on the counter: "I'll exchange a hundred Yin Beads first." β
"Yes." One-eyed swept the spirit stone into the drawer, and counted out a hundred Yin beads and piled them on the counter, "This is the Yin beads you exchanged, please order the number in person, go out, our store is not responsible." β
Mu Wan took a closer look. That's right, it is indeed a real yin bead.
She yelled at the nightβthere were so many yin beads, so cold, she couldn't take them all away.
The latter stepped forward, waved his sleeves, and incorporated all the hundred Yin beads into his sleeves.
Mu Wan believed it, and asked again: "Shop, can I still exchange some Yin beads?" β
Unexpectedly, One-Eye happily refused: "No." The store only redeems the yin beads once a day. Guest, please be early tomorrow. β
"Huh?" Mu Wan couldn't help but exhale softly, feeling remorseful in her heart.
One-Eyed asked, "Guest, what do you want to inquire about?" β
Mu Wan didn't dare to test it again this time, and hurriedly asked, "Excuse me, if someone's three main souls come here, where do they usually go?" β
One-Eye grinned again: "Guest officer, are you sure you want to inquire about this?" For things like this, each piece requires ten yin beads. β
Mu Wan glanced at the night.
The latter took out ten yin beads, lined them up, and placed them on the counter.
One-eyed opened the drawer, swept all the yin beads into it with a "bang", and replied with a smile: "The little one doesn't know." β
"Then you still accept my yin beads!" Mu Wan was extremely angry, "Isn't this a lie?" β
One-eyed bared his teeth unhurriedly and smiled: "Don't worry, guest officer." Lonely ghosts can run around. How is it possible for the little ones to know where to run? However, Xiao picked up a remnant soul not long ago, and it happened to be that there were only three main souls. Since he received ten yin beads from the guest officer, the little one is willing to call him out and meet with you. To be honest, this remnant soul is so angry that he can't remember anything. The little one wanted to send him away, and he sent it several times, but he didn't give it away. If it's really what the guest officer wants to find, just settle his room money and food expenses, and take it away. β
Peak loop turn? Mu Wan's eyes lit up: "Thank you." β
"Guest, please wait a moment." There is a small room under the wooden staircase. There was also a large black lock on the door. One-Eye walks over, unlocks the lock, and pushes the door in.
At this time, the eyes of the dark night lit up, and he used his divine sense to tell Mu Wan: That's right, it's Uncle Shi's three main souls!
Mu Wan clutched her chest and stared at the small door - this shop was so weird that she didn't dare to act rashly.
Soon, One-Eye pulled out a thin figure in a white robe and a mantle from the room.
Mu Wan's eyes couldn't help but widen: This figure is about the same height as Uncle Shi, but it is too thin. It's like a bamboo pole has become fine. The wide white robe hung over him, empty. Moreover, there is a layer of gray anger all over the body. The three main souls are also very unstable, shaky, as if they will "boom" at any time and disperse.
Is it really the main soul of Uncle Shi? Mu Wan couldn't recognize it at all, so she could only use her divine sense to ask the night again.
The night replied in the affirmative: it can't be wrong.
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A certain peak thanks to the book friend for the gift of the broken tooth, thank you for the book friend star's monthly pass, thank you!
The homepage of the girls' network is more than a big seal, to! (To be continued.) )