Chapter 152: Haunted
After leaving Jiangyue Island, Zhang Yifan did not rush to start traveling immediately, but quietly went to Dujiang City.
When he came to Feihe Mountain, Zhang Yifan found that Wang Wu was still alive. He secretly observed his expression, and found that Wang Wu's complexion was ruddy, his breathing was long, and it was obvious that his martial arts had made great progress, and he was relieved to see Zhang Yifan. Then he secretly put two bottles of the best recovery pill and left.
After that, Zhang Yifan also went to the headquarters of the Lower Sanyi Gang. He found that the Sanyi Gang had long since disappeared, and that there was a gang called the Shuiyun Gang. After asking others, Zhang Yifan learned that the Sanyi Gang had been wiped out by other gangs more than ten years ago, and it is said that the gang leader Lu Nushan was killed on the spot to cover his daughter and grandson's departure, and his daughter and grandson were missing.
Zhang Yifan felt a little remorseful in his heart, he had not taken care of his brother-in-law over the years.
This Jiangcheng is still as prosperous as before, but it's a pity that things are not people.
Zhang Yifan went back to Yan County, at this time Yan County had already changed the county order, Zhang Yifan inquired and knew that Wang County had returned to his hometown to retire for a long time. He didn't know where Wang Countyling's hometown was, Zhang Yifan felt a little regretful in his heart, and he was ready to repay the favor.
After that, Zhang Yifan returned to Zhongcun and found that the old blacksmith Liu had died, and now it was his childhood friend Wang Shan who took over his mantle. There were many young faces in the village, some of the villagers he knew were no longer there, and some of them were a little old.
Once cultivating immortals is like yesterday, how can you think about decades in the world.
Time flies, everything changes, and what seems to remain unchanged is only the persistence in the heart and those images.
Zhang Yifan silently came to his mother, Zhang Songpu and his wife, Zhang San'er and Chen Danian and others, the tomb was clean and tidy, and there were some incense, candles, paper, money, melons and fruits in front of the tomb, obviously someone worshiped and cleaned. Zhang Yifan thought that it should be the people in the village who helped him get it, and he was grateful.
He worshipped the graves one by one, his faith in his heart was firmer, and he felt more clear about the goal of cultivating immortals. At this time, Zhang Yifan was well versed, and the sorrow in his heart turned into endless motivation, inspiring him to continue to move forward.
Before leaving, Zhang Yifan took out some gold and silver and donated it to Zhongcun in the name of an unknown person to improve the livelihood of Zhongcun.
After visiting the old place, Zhang Yifan felt relaxed, as if he had let go of the worldly things in the past, and his thoughts had been filled in his heart, and there were no more worldly concerns.
Zhang Yifan officially began his travels.
Along the way, he did not use flying magic weapons, but slowly and leisurely used his legs to hurry, enjoying the scenery along the way and experiencing the various states of life.
When encountering delicious food on the road, Zhang Yifan will also go to try it, but it also feels familiar and fresh. After nearly ten years of intense cultivation, it is also good to relax and regulate your mood occasionally.
And for the injustices that happened along the way, Zhang Yifan would also turn into a chivalrous man to help when he encountered it. There was still a lot of gold left over from the gold he had obtained from Jia Jin's mansion before, and seeing the suffering of the villagers, he also scattered his wealth and had a good experience of a different kind of ranger life, which he had not experienced before as a shopkeeper.
Although he is already an immortal cultivator, he is really a little happy after this trip, and he unconsciously settles down, becomes much calmer, and begins to look at everything in the world with different eyes. This is actually very beneficial to cultivating immortals, which is what the immortal family often calls the cultivation of entering the world.
Zhang Yifan traveled all the way south, stopping and stopping, and only arrived at the Huzhou border dead wood ridge about a month later. After arriving at Deadwood Ridge, Zhang Yifan prepared to rest in Requiem Town for a night before leaving.
When he arrived at Requiem Town in Kumuling, walking on the streets of the town, Zhang Yifan sighed with emotion. It was here that he really began to contact immortal cultivators, the scattered cultivator named Su Tianjue almost killed him, but it was Su Tianjue who made Zhang Yifan truly understand the immortal cultivation world and become a real immortal cultivator.
More than 20 years have passed, and the town seems to have become depressed, with houses on both sides of the street withering, many shops have been closed for a long time, and some of them are even covered with spider silk. It was evening, and the streets were sparsely populated, and most of them were in a hurry, as if they did not want to stay on the street longer.
This situation made Zhang Yifan a little puzzled, so he stopped an old man who was in a hurry.
"Uncle, what happened to this Requiem Town, how could it be so withered?" Zhang Yifan asked politely.
Seeing that Zhang Yifan was dressed as a scholar, his literary quality was courteous, and his words were also full of respect, he couldn't help but feel a little good, and he weighed it and said, "This scholar, it's the first time you've come to this Requiem Town." ”
"I came here more than twenty years ago, and Requiem Town wasn't like this at that time. ”
"Well, who's to say it's not, in fact, this Requiem Town has become this scene in recent years. The old man sighed and said with a somewhat lonely expression.
"I want to hear about it. ”
"Since you're interested, let's talk about it. Here's the thing..."The old man began to tell about the events that had taken place in Requiem Town.
It turned out that for some reason, five years ago, some strange situations began to appear in this mass grave in Deadwood Ridge, and the bodies of some of the deceased who had just been buried here disappeared without a trace.
Believing that someone had stolen the body, the locals organized villagers to keep watch day and night, but found nothing. The bodies that have just been buried will still disappear inexplicably. The villagers thought it was haunted, and invited a famous Taoist priest in the neighborhood to cast spells to exorcise ghosts.
Unexpectedly, just as the Taoist priest was casting a spell, a nearby grave suddenly exploded, and a terrifying-looking corpse appeared, which scared the Taoist priest to death on the spot, and then the corpse remained motionless. When the villagers present saw this scene, they were frightened and scattered.
On the same day, the government also sent people to check on the dead wood ridge, but nothing was found, and the body of the Taoist priest who was scared to death was also found intact in that place. Not far away was the terrifying-looking corpse, which was nothing unusual except for its terrifying appearance. The people of the government will not be gone.
However, the rumors of haunted ghosts and corpses were spread in the ten miles and eight towns near Requiem Town, and the government could not stop, some timid villagers began to move away from this place one after another, and after outsiders heard about it, not many people came here to buy paper and money, which dealt a fatal blow to the funeral industry in Requiem Town, and gradually most of the merchants began to leave, forming a scene of depression today.
Hearing what the old man said, Zhang Yifan asked where the incident happened. The old man saw that Zhang Yifan seemed to be very interested in this matter, and there was no fear on his face, and he bitterly persuaded him not to take risks.
But at Zhang Yifan's insistence, the old man finally told him the location, and told him to pay attention, and if he wanted to go, it was best to find a few more people to go with him.
It turned out that the old man was one of the villagers who experienced that incident, although he didn't know why he cheated the corpse, but the scene was indeed very terrifying, and now I still have a numb scalp and panic in my heart when I think about it.
Zhang Yifan thanked the old man for his kind words, then took out a tael of gold and gave it to the old man, and then disappeared without waiting for the old man to react.
"Immortals! Finally, an immortal is here, and our Requiem Town has been saved!" The old man saw Zhang Yifan's strange disappearance, and immediately knelt down, muttering to himself with a respectful expression.
Zhang Yifan, who had already walked away, did not see this scene, and at this time he was running towards the place where the incident occurred.
This dead wood ridge is not big, it is located in the border of the two states of Lake and Lingnan, the mountains are far away, and it is not a treasure land, and naturally there are no monks paying attention to it, and the news is very closed.
If Zhang Yifan hadn't happened to travel here, no one would have cared about such haunted things that would be staged every day in the Chu State. The so-called haunting in the mortal world is a unified name for mortals who see some strange things and look eerie and unreasonable.
The changes of yin and yang of the five elements in the world, there will be some strange phenomena that are difficult to explain all the time, even immortal cultivators cannot understand the reason, which is also the mystery of the great power of heaven and earth. Everything in the world has its way, all things have all ways, and the way is mysterious, and this haunting phenomenon is naturally one of them.
If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, this dead wood ridge is full of dead air, this is a little unusual, since Zhang Yifan has encountered it, he naturally wants to detect one or two.
Soon, Zhang Yifan came to the place that the old man said. There are dead trees here, piles of graves, and the surrounding gloomy atmosphere, plus it is already night at this time, and there are indeed points that are eerie and terrifying.
Zhang Yifan's divine sense invaded the underground search, and he found that the corpses in the grave were missing, and the coffins had been destroyed, as if the corpses had walked out of it. When he still wanted to go underground, he somehow couldn't go down when he reached a depth of three or four feet.
This made him look a little dignified, and it seemed that there were indeed some abnormalities here.
It's just that I don't know if there are evil cultivators refining corpses here or if there are really ghosts and zombies, if it's the latter, it's okay to say, if it's the former, it will undoubtedly be more dangerous.
Zhang Yifan became cautious, he took out the Golden Yuangang Shield and the Burning Golden Gun, and cautiously marched into the depths, while the Divine Mind kept on, carefully sensing and probing the surrounding situation, especially the underground situation.
Zhang Yifan felt that the two wonderful lotuses in the sea of consciousness were slowly exuding brilliance, and there seemed to be something in the dark guiding him to search in one direction, and he had always been convinced by his inexplicable intuition, so he explored in that direction.
The corpses in the graves along the way have disappeared except for those that have become dry bones, and Zhang Yifan estimates that there are about two or three hundred.
When Zhang Yifan came to a place, he stopped, looking a little weird. He found that this place was somewhat familiar to him, and after thinking about it, he realized that he had actually been here, and it was the place where he had encountered Su Tianjue before.
The yin atmosphere here was heavy, Zhang Yifan felt a chill in his heart, he released the mana shield, and then sacrificed the Jin Yuangang shield and began to patrol the surroundings.
Zhang Yifan didn't find anything abnormal, but he felt that there seemed to be something special here, and he thought that there should be a reason for Su Tianjue to refine his corpse here. Speaking of which, he still has the inheritance of the corpse chasing sect that he got from Su Tianjue's hands, but he has always resisted these ghost corpse exercises in his heart, so he doesn't think much of it. He is ready to read and see when he has time, and sometimes he can use it.
He stopped here not because he was familiar with the place, but because he had detected a cavern three or four feet deep underground. Because his divine sense is limited and he can't detect it so deeply, Zhang Yifan doesn't know what is in the cave.
In the past few years, Zhang Yifan has collected some earth escape charms, and then he took out an earth escape charm, hesitated for a moment, and finally activated the earth escape charm and cast the earth escape into the ground.