Chapter 3: Real People

"Real people? Who is the real person? ”

Lin Shouxi put on a white Taoist robe handed by the girl, followed her out of the door, and walked out to the damp ancient corridor outside.

"The real person is said to be the Taoist chief from Yunkong Mountain, and the Taoism is unfathomable, so if you see him later, don't talk nonsense." The snow-haired girl walked in front with a weak posture.

Yunkong Mountain......

Lin Shouxi frowned, judging from her tone, that Yunkong Mountain should be a famous mountain, but he was sure that he had never heard of this place.

And the little girl's full white hairβ€”and now he came nearer, and saw that the white of the hair was not withered white, but on the contrary, it was as bright as new, flexible and slender, like a flowing light, which was particularly eye-catching on a rainy day.

Are there any people in this world who are born with gray hair?

He thought about it, and his eyes inadvertently glanced out of the corridor, and he was stunned.

Outside this wooden corridor that has fallen into disrepair for a long time, there is a cliff that has plummeted!

Gales swept back and forth along the cliff walls, whirring, and a large number of clouds were pouring up from below. The bottomless valley is like a crack, swallowing the falling rain and spitting out a white mist.

His mind was swallowed up by the abyss.

"This house has been soaked in water for an unknown number of years, you can walk in it so as not to accidentally fall." The snow-haired girl reminded loudly.

"I don't know how many years I've been in the water?" Lin Shouxi was taken aback.

"This was originally a big lake, called Wuzhu Lake." The girl explained softly: "Recently, most of the lake water here has evaporated inexplicably, and this sunken ancient court has been exposed. ”

The Great Lakes have dried up...... Ancient Garden in the Heart of the Lake...... Evil ......

The girl's tone was flat, as if it wasn't something special.

Lin Shouxi's heart tightened a little, and he suddenly had a conjecture: it was very likely that he had come to a new world, and this world was full of countless things that he couldn't understand!

But what kind of world is this? Is it the immortal heaven or the underworld in people's mouths? Or rather......

Suddenly, a conversation with Master came to mind.

"Our world may not be the only one." Master said.

"What?"

"Our world is infested little by little by evil, like a drop of ink dripping into a porcelain jar filled with clear water. If the clear water world of the porcelain jar is where we are, then who dripped this drop of ink? ”

"Is there a world out there? Is there anyone else in that world? Lin Shouxi felt absurd.

"Perhaps."

"Someone from outside wants to come in?" He asked again.

"Probably already in." Master said faintly.

At that time, Lin Shouxi didn't pay much attention to it.

But now, he's found the world.

In the midst of the rain and lightning of the dead city, the door connecting the two worlds suddenly opened, leading him here by mistake.

"I see."

Lin Shouxi is not only responding to the girl, but also talking to himself.

He was determined that no one else would be allowed to discover that he was an outlier.

The two stopped talking and walked together along the ancient corridor of the cliff.

Lin Shouxi looked at her quietly, except for her snowy hair, this naΓ―ve girl didn't seem to have any extra special features, her steps were light and steady, like a palace maid walking with a lantern.

After passing through the corridor and rounding the corner, the cliff was left behind.

Lin Shouxi saw a few iron-like trees, at first he didn't feel different, but when he thought that this was the bottom of the lake, he couldn't help but feel terrified in his heart - could the bottom of the lake really live in? That person still has the leisure to plant flowers and trees?

Many preconceived notions are quickly shattered.

"When we arrived, the real person was inside."

In front of an old mottled wooden pavilion, the girl stopped.

Lin Shouxi looked at the two mutilated bronze beasts at the door and felt gloomy.

He walked with the maiden into the wooden pavilion, which was dimly lit and lit with a few candles, the faint light of which was not enough to illuminate, more like he was performing some kind of ritual.

There were more than a dozen people in the room, all of them were teenagers and girls who were about the same as themselves, they were kneeling on the ground, their heads bowed, and in front of them, a young white-faced Taoist priest sat on the ground, holding a stone in his left hand and a wooden sword in his right hand.

The Taoist priest was dressed in darkness, and his white miserable face was illuminated by candles.

Mu Shijing is not in it...... Lin Shouxi glanced at it quickly.

In the crowd below, a teenage boy walked up tremblingly.

"Hands." The Taoist priest spoke.

The little boy timidly stretched out his hand.

The Taoist priest handed the stone in his left hand to his hand and asked him to hold it tightly. He looked at the little boy's wrist and asked, "What's your name?" Have you ever been married, have you ever had sex? ”

The little boy first said his name, and then immediately shook his head, indicating that he was still a virgin.

The Taoist priest nodded, but his brows suddenly furrowed.

"Huh?"

He picked up the wooden sword and swiped it on the little boy's arm, and a layer of dirt fell from his arm, revealing the skin underneath, and on the skin, there was a thin black and purple streak, as if there were bloodsucking insects hiding under the skin.

Lin Shouxi knew that he was dead when he saw the black and purple lines.

He was all too familiar with this situation, it was a symptom of being tainted by demonic breath, and once contaminated, even his master would not survive.

My guess is right, this world is also full of a lot of demonic breath, or in other words, this is likely to be the source of demonic breath.

"You are defiled with evil things." The Taoist priest's voice was indifferent.

The little boy's pupils were constricted like beans, his skin was dark, he originally wanted to use some mud to cover his hands, and get through the trick, but he never thought that this Taoist priest's eyes were like electricity, even in such a dim environment, he still saw through his disguise at a glance.

"Nope! No...... It's a birthmark, a birthmark...... I brought it out of my mother's womb! I'm not possessed by evil spirits, no...... Real people, immortals, you believe me! ”

The little boy looked up, his dark face turned white with fright, and he spoke incoherently, his body trembling like an electric shock.

The Taoist priest looked at him indifferently.

A speck of blood appeared on the boy's chest, rapidly expanding into a pool of scarlet color, the boy's pupils dilated, and after a few meaningless syllables came out of his throat, he fell to the ground like a log, and died.

The Taoist priest glanced at the two disciples kneeling in the front row, and the two disciples couldn't ignore this gaze, so they got up tremblingly and moved the little boy's body away and threw it under the cliff.

Lin Shouxi thought about the bloody hole in the little boy's chest, and his face could not hide his shock.

"Don't be afraid, a lot of people will die." The snow-haired girl glanced at him and said in a low voice.

She thought he was scared because the little boy had been killed, but what Lin Shouxi was really surprised was the sword of the Taoist priest, he was already one of the best masters in the world in his world, but he couldn't see how the young Taoist made the sword.

The girl sat down with him in the crowd.

She sat upright and hung her head, as if she didn't know anyone anymore.

Lin Shouxi's mind was unsettled, he instinctively withdrew his killing intent, quietly raised his gaze, and looked at the Taoist priest.

Another boy was summoned by the Taoist priest.

This young man is bloated, dressed quite luxuriously, and looks like he has a good family background.

"Wang, Wang Ji." He shuddered.

The Taoist priest glanced at his wrist, handed him the stone, and asked as usual: "Is it a marriage match, is it a sexual intercourse?" ”

The young man's thighs swung and he involuntarily knelt in front of the Taoist priest, trembling: "No...... Never. ”

Buzz –

The stone made a piercing sound, and everyone present was shaken, and their backs couldn't help but straighten up.

The chubby boy who sat on the ground was full of gall. A young master like him, who was born in a family, is not yet married, but there are many maids in the family, how can he be a virgin? In the past, this was a lot of money that he bragged about with the young masters of other families, but now it has become a knife that killed him.

He threw himself on his knees and shouted, "I am the third young master of the Wang family, I don't know how I came here, I heard that the real person is from Yunkong Mountain...... My family has an old relationship with a great elder in Yunkong Mountain, if you send me back to the Wang family, I will definitely do my best to repay you......"

The screams were short, blood stained his shirt, and he fell to the ground, convulsed twice, and never moved again.

The next one was the snow-haired girl.

Like the previous disciples, she had to answer those three questions.

The girl held the stone, glanced at the real person's wrist, and then replied softly: "My name is Xiao He, I have never been married, and I have sex ......."

Her words paused slightly, as if she had fallen into hesitation.

The real person glanced at her, was also a little surprised, and asked, "How old was the first time?" ”

"Eighteen." Xiao He said.

There was silence in the house.

The real person asked everyone's doubts: "How old are you this year?" ”

"Fourteen." Xiao He replied.

There was no reaction from the stone in her hand, which indicated that she was probably telling the truth.

This...... What's going on?

He furrowed his eyebrows, took out a pen, and after a moment wrote a line on the paper: Suspicion 'Spiritual Root of Foresight'.

Xiao He turned around and walked back, sitting on the ground with a cloth skirt, his buttocks pressed his little feet, and his slightly exposed ankles were delicate and white.

Lin Shouxi wasn't sure if it was an illusion, when he saw Xiao He walking back, he glanced at him casually, and the emotion in his pale eyes was like mist.

Next up is him.

He came to the front of this demon-like Taoist, and an irresistible sense of oppression naturally squeezed into his chest.

In the past, even when he was competing with his master, he had never felt this way.

He grasped the stone handed by the Taoist, as if something had penetrated the surface of the stone into his palm, causing his arm to chill, and if he lied, the stone would emit a death alarm.

The Taoist looked at his arm and made sure that he was not contaminated by evil things, so he asked as usual:

"Name? Have you ever been married, have you ever had sex? ”

"Lin Shouxi." He replied clearly: "I have never been married, I have never had sex." ”

Even though he knew that he was telling the truth, Lin Shouxi still didn't have the slightest sense of security, and even had the illusion that the stone was about to sound like a mischief.

In the past martial arts, he was considered a top master, but now in the unknown world, he is an unfathomable Taoist, he has not yet gotten used to the life of falling from the clouds, and he has to learn to look up to a new world.

The stone did not sound.

The Taoist snorted.

Lin Shouxi didn't dare to relax, his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of the Taoist's face, under the face covered with white powder, there were terrifying markings like someone being burned, he immediately retracted his gaze and handed the stone back.

When he handed back the stone, he vaguely saw something, and subconsciously looked to the right.

I saw that the window was crawling with a black shadow at some point!

The black shadows resembled babies, dragging their long tails, their half-rotted bloated bodies seemed to be glued to doors and windows, their wrinkled faces squeezed their facial features, and their crab-like pillary pupils stared into the room, glowing blood-red, and they grinned and showed their sharp teeth, as if they were laughing.

Lin Shouxi involuntarily straightened his back.

Everyone else in the room was staring at the Daoist intently, and no one seemed to notice the existence of these monsters except himself.

"What are you looking at?"

The shouting question rang out suddenly, and the Daoist's sharp gaze fell on him.

Bang!

Lightning tears.

Lin Shouxi was surprisingly quiet.

He had in his mind the image of himself taking the oath on his master's deathbed.

In the decisive battle with Mu Shijing, he originally thought that he would never have a chance to fulfill his oath again, even if it was a sword swing towards the evil god, he was holding the heart of death, just so that he could have a clear conscience when he saw his master under the spring.

But fate has led him to this world, which may well be the source of all filth, and he is still alive and has a chance to fulfill his promise.

That's lucky enough.

The tremor in Lin Shouxi's pupils faded, he looked straight out the window, and calmly narrated: "Real person, it's raining heavily. ”