Chapter 41: Desolation
Mu Zilin's appearance, if you look at the aesthetics of the ghost clan alone, is indeed a rare beautiful man, while the appearance of the mortal race and the ghost clan is somewhat different, and the aesthetics are also very different. For humans, Mu Zilin is indeed a demon, with thin ears, long fangs, and oily green eyes, all of which are signs that distinguish humans from demons.
At this time, Yuan Bao was on the edge of this Tianyuan ghost city, so he naturally would not entangle with Mu Zilin who was more handsome, he could see that this Mu Zilin had deep feelings for Zhao Wuregret, and this kind of affection seemed to have surpassed the kind of affection that his brother had for his sister, but a kind of love between men and women.
In the early years, I had a relationship with Zhao Wuregret, but now in retrospect, it seems that on the snow under the big tree, I once told the young Zhao Wuregret that I would come back to play with her in the future.
At that time, the two of them were only six years old, where would they think about it so complicated, so when he followed his master into the Nine Dragon Valley of Mount Emei to cultivate, he had long forgotten about this matter.
Even so, Zhao Wuregret's pain in the past ten years still made Yuan Bao feel guilty.
Looking at Mu Zilin's cynical and even smug smile, he said, "Brother Mu, where is the girl without regrets now?"
Mu Zilin suddenly restrained his smile, looked at Yuan Bao with vigilance, and said, "What do you want to do?
Yuan Bao sighed and said, "I was sorry for her back then, I deceived her, no matter what illness I have, I will find a way to treat her." ”
Mu Zilin said: "She has a heart disease, not a medicine that can treat it, you go, I don't want to see you in the future." If you really think about her, you won't want to see her in the future, just now, just now, she returned to Luoshui City with a desperate face, and kept repeating your name in her mouth, I knew that you appeared and disrupted her life. ”
Yuan Bao was full of guilt and sighed again.
Master Li beside him frowned slightly, turned his head to look at Yuanbao, and said, "Since Miss Zhao is safe in Luoshui City, now our top priority is to find the whereabouts of my senior brother, two days have passed, and the consequences of any further delay will be unimaginable." ”
Chu Tianyun is an important person who is regarded as the successor of Yu Xuzi, and it is related to the foundation of Shushan for thousands of years, in case Chu Tianyun has three strengths and two weaknesses, if the Shushan faction wants to choose an excellent disciple from the disciples who can compete with the major factions in a hundred years, it will be difficult to compare with the heavens.
Although Master Li has good qualifications, he has an indifferent and withdrawn personality, and he is still a daughter, so he can't support the foundation of the Shushan faction for thousands of years.
Yuan Bao has a good impression of Chu Tianyun, and that night in the grove, Chu Tianyun was completely sure that he won himself, but he did not take advantage of the danger of others, and he was definitely a righteous gentleman. Moreover, he has been friends with Chu Tianyun God for a long time, and the two of them have been told by their masters and elders since they were children that sooner or later there will be a gentleman's battle between the two, just like the battle between Zhuge Kong Fang and Yu Xuzi on the Nine Old Peaks sixty years ago.
Of course, compared to Chu Tianyun, the pressure on ingots is much more.
His master had told him many times that sooner or later he would have eight opponents in a battle. Except for the five princes in the world, except for the Zen prince, who had nothing to do with him, the other four princes had to fight with him. The other four people, the descendants of the Demon Monarch Xingliuyun, the blood fairy, the Xisha fairy, the Tianshan sword idiot, and the free ghost fairy.
These old-timers were all defeated by Zhuge Kongfang's sword back then, so they naturally wanted their disciples to regain face.
He knew that this Mu Zilin probably wouldn't tell them Chu Tianyun's whereabouts, so he was going to leave and find a way to unravel the "Sanzhang Mountain, passing through the green mountains." Fire in the fire, eight-armed psychic day".
But at this time, Mu Zilin suddenly said: "If you want to find that Chu Gongzi, go into the city to find an old man named Shang De, he may know the whereabouts of that Chu Gongzi, as far as I know, the last person Chu Tianyun saw was Shang De Old Man." ”
After speaking, he walked towards the gate of Luoshui City, but after just a few steps, he suddenly turned around and grinned, "I hope he is not dead." ”
Yuan Bao and Master Li looked at each other, watching Mu Zilin's figure enter Tianshui City in a flash, and both of them couldn't help but have doubts in their hearts. Entering the ghost city is extremely dangerous, and if they are attacked by the masters of the ghost clan, it will be difficult for the two of them to get out of the city.
Finally, Yuan Bao took a deep breath and said, "If you don't enter the tiger's den, we will go in." ”
Master Li nodded, the hand holding the Qingying Sword seemed to be tighter, and the two walked side by side towards the city gate.
In order to prevent the ghost clan people in the city from escaping to the human world, there were hundreds of ghost clan soldiers guarding the city gate, and these people's cultivation was not high, and they had not reached the realm of the cultivator's sky at all.
The ghost tribe was actually one of the nine tribes back then, and they were no different from mortals. For example, although most of the 36 alien races living in the 100,000 mountains of southern Xinjiang are similar to humans, their ancestors are different, and their appearance and nature are also different. This ghost tribe is almost the same as the thirty-six alien races in southern Xinjiang, the only difference is that they live in the Central Plains, and the thirty-six alien races live in the mountains.
These ghost warriors didn't have much surprise when they saw Yuan Bao and Master Li coming coming, and it seemed that humans often came in and out of the ghost town.
A ghost clan man in armor in the leader walked up and said in a rough voice, "Are you two humans going to enter the city?"
Seeing that they didn't seem to be hostile, Yuan Bao said, "Yes, we are going into the city to find someone." ”
The ghost clan Han said: "A person enters the city for a thousand taels and goes out of the city for a thousand taels." The two of you pay two thousand taels to enter the city first. ”
"Eh" Yuan Bao almost jumped up, and said: "Is there any mistake, a thousand taels of entry fees into the city? Aren't you slandering? Even if you enter the imperial city, it is not so expensive." ”
The big man of the ghost clan said indifferently: "Love to enter or not, what is there to come to Luoshui City if you have no money, isn't this delaying my work, hurry up." ”
Master Li said: "In the past thousand years, many cultivators have liked to come here in order to avoid their enemies or to live in seclusion, but I didn't expect them to set up roadblocks. Give it money. ”
Of course, the ingots are unwilling to pay, if they really give it, the two of them will have to pay two thousand taels of snowflake silver as soon as they leave the city. He finally had a huge sum of eight thousand taels, and he had to cut it in half before he had time to squander, and of course he was not reconciled.
Cultivating true immortals are also human beings, not true gods. If you are a human being, you will inevitably have seven emotions and six desires, which one does not need silver for food, clothing, housing and transportation?
He turned his head to look at Master Li and said innocently, "Don't you know that I am very poor? ”
Master Li was stunned, in her opinion, one thousand taels, ten thousand taels, or even one million taels of silver were insignificant.
When Yuan Bao was seen by her, she immediately felt weak, and took out a stack of silver tickets from the treasure bag very reluctantly, her face was bitter, her heart was dripping blood, and she cursed secretly: "Bandits, robbers, this is my life." ”
The ghost clan man glanced at the ingots in his hand and said, "We only accept Shen Wansan's Kyushu ticket number, and other silver tickets are not accepted." ”
"You still know Shen Wansan?" Yuan Bao really wondered if this ghost clan general was pretending to be a mortal, and at the bottom of this abyss where there would never be light, he could still know Shen Wansan's name.
The sheer size of Luoshui City surprised both of them.
At this moment, the general of the ghost clan who was guarding the city gate changed the impression of Yuan Bao and Li Shishi on Luoshui City, and they really couldn't figure out what kind of place this was.
This is supposed to be an isolated ghost city, but it is no different from a mortal city.
Of course, there is still a difference, and it costs a thousand taels of silver to enter and leave the city.
After the two entered the city, the tall ghost clan general grinned, counted the two thousand taels of silver tickets in his hand, and smiled at the soldiers beside him: " Human cultivators really have money and nowhere to spend, they are all big idiots, there are two city gates in Luoshui City, the south city gate is close to the mouth of the abyss, the people who come and go are cultivators, and the entry and exit of the city are free, and the north city gate is trade, coming in from the thirty-mile canyon of Changling, passing through the inner belly of the Yunshan Mountain Range, are all used by human merchants to trade, and the fee for a car to enter the city is only three taels of silver, the son is really clever, let us each collect one thousand taels from each of them, and sure enough, it was really given. ”
The ghost clan soldiers guarding the city gate around them all chuckled, as if they had pitted two human cultivators, making them feel embarrassed.
Yuan Bao and Master Li didn't go far, and when they heard the conversation of those people, the corners of Yuan Bao's mouth twitched, and he turned around and rushed towards the ghost clan general, shouting: "You liar, dare to cheat me out of money, hurry up and give it back to me!"
Master Li couldn't cry or laugh, grabbed the ingot, and said, "The big thing is important." ”
Yuan Bao was dripping blood in his heart, so he could only admit it, and at the same time secretly scolded himself for being an idiot. The people of the ghost city abide by the thirteen rules of heaven that year, and they can't get out of the city at all, so many people's living supplies for thousands of years must be purchased from the outside, to say that there is only one Tianyuan import and exit, it is definitely impossible, there must be a secret tunnel that leads directly to the outside of the Tianyuan.
To the north of Yunshan is Changling, where the caves are complex, and a passage from the abyss to the outside world must have been built to transport materials.
Passing through the wide city gate, a wave of yin qi rushed in, and it was not until this moment that Yuan Bao and Master Li realized that they had underestimated Luoshui City before.
Luoshui City, which stretches for more than ten miles from east to west, and more than ten miles from north to south, should have no problem living 100,000 people. But after entering the city, I found that it was not the case at all, and a tall dome was built on the thirty-zhang high city wall, completely covering the huge Tianshui City, just like a huge egg, and Tianshui City was inside the giant egg.
There are as many as three floors, the first floor has a small number of people, and the streets and houses are still in the same appearance as they were built thousands of years ago, looking very dilapidated and shabby, the streets are dirty and messy, and many of the houses have long since collapsed.
And the city wall has huge stairways on all sides, leading directly to the city, the city is brilliantly lit, and the sound of people is boiling, which is basically no different from the mortal world.
The two of them stood on the top of the huge staircase and looked down, there were as many as three floors.
At this time, a short dwarf suddenly came out of the darkness, it seemed that he was also a ghost clansman, his eyes were green, and his ears were very pointed. ”
Yuan Bao was startled, and subconsciously held the dragon sword, this is a ghost town, it is very dangerous, as soon as the little dwarf ran out just now, he almost pulled out his sword and killed him.
At this time, many ghost people were greatly annoyed when they saw that this dwarf had taken the lead.
Yuan Bao said vigilantly: "Guide?"
The dwarf nodded and said: "The first time you come to Luoshui City, you basically need a guide, so it will be very convenient for you, believe me, my heart has already been dedicated to the ghosts and gods, I will not deceive you." ”
Yuan Bao and Master Li looked at each other, both of them were full of doubts, Luoshui City, the great murderous place for thousands of years, seemed to be completely different from what they imagined.
Seeing that the two were suspicious, Ah Man thought that the two of them would not invite themselves to be their guides, so he immediately hugged Master Li's thighs, and said with a handful of snot and tears: "The two of you invited me, I have a 180-year-old mother and 12 children, and the family has been fasting for three days." ”
Master Li was violently hugged by this four-foot-tall dwarf on his thigh, and his face suddenly turned red, and a burst of true qi burst out, directly shocking Ah Man several feet away.
Yuan Bao held the long sword and said, "If you dare to be presumptuous, I will kill you with one sword." ”
Ah Man's chubby body rolled on the ground a few times and then got up, still not giving up, and said, "Two distinguished guests, Ah Man will not be disrespectful to the two." ”
Yuan Bao said: "What's wrong with your ghost town, why is it like this?"
Ah Man was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said: "The two distinguished guests must have been deceived by those hateful humans, in fact, our ghost people are no different from the human race, here at the bottom of the abyss, although the yin qi is sufficient, suitable for our ghost people to live, but the material is scarce, these thousands of years, we have lived in dire straits, those human beings who enter the city to trade raise prices, we have to work since childhood, just for a meal, make textiles, make iron...... Ay. We old and weak people can only live on the third floor, the rich are on the second floor, and the first layer is where the young and strong clansmen work and produce, and there are often clansmen who want to escape, but the two city gates are too strictly guarded, and once they are found, they will be thrown into the river of bones outside the city......"
There are advantages and disadvantages, this ancient city of Luoshui City relies on the danger of the abyss, and the yin qi is sufficient, but it is precisely because of this that there is a lack of materials here, and it can only be purchased from the world.
For thousands of years, the ghost people in the ghost town have been seriously divided between the rich and the poor, and have almost reached a pathological bottom.
A very small number of ghost clan families live on the second floor of the bustling city, and they have no worries about food and clothing. And at the bottom is a huge processing workshop, where countless young and strong ghost people smelt the ore sent from the outside world into iron day and night, earning ** income in exchange for expensive materials transported from the world.
Gradually, I learned from the mouth of this ghost clan named Ah Man that although the ghost clan people were much more skilled than ordinary mortals by absorbing yin gas, and almost all the adult ghost clan people had reached the cultivation of the Jindan realm, there were no more than a thousand ghost clan masters in Keluo Water City who had truly reached the realm of the imperial sky, not even one-fifth of the Shushan faction.
The current ghost people in Luoshui City are not thinking about how to return to the ground, but about how to survive.
Yuan Bao suddenly felt a burst of sadness, looking at the ordinary ghost people in the distance with flashing green eyes, these people were ragged, yellow and thin, and what was the difference between them and the lowest level living in a mortal city?
There are three thousand ways of heaven and hundreds of millions of living beings. What is the difference between the ghost people and humans? Are they really as cruel and bloodthirsty as the righteous people say?
In this eternal darkness, Luoshui City has existed for more than 5,000 years, even if they were bloodthirsty and brutal and were locked up here by Emperor Xuanyuan, but after 5,000 years of vicissitudes, what sin has not been atonemented?
There was an icy wind around him, and Yuan Bao's heart trembled, was the unwavering faith he had established since he was a child really right?
Master Li beside him seemed to feel the strangeness of the ingots, and said slowly: "The ghost people have nothing to sympathize with, they practice ghost arts, control ghosts, and kill the ghost city eight hundred years ago, leaving no villages and cities behind. The suffering brought to mankind back then was more profound and terrible than that of the Demon Cult. ”