Hearing this, Yan Fei's heart trembled immediately, and the thought of "ghost town" naturally popped up in his mind. He subconsciously looked at Ji Yuan and saw that Mr. Ji also looked thoughtful.
Looking into the distance from the angles of the three, one can see a city with walls. From the city gate to every place in the city, it is brightly lit with large lanterns hanging.
This kind of scene can only be seen in ordinary cities during large festivals such as lantern festivals. No wonder Yan Fei initially mistook it for a campfire of other travelers when he saw it from a distance.
"Mr. Ji, what do you think?"
Niu Batian asked Ji Yuan, and it was Ji Yuan who was the one who could really make the decision among the three. This was something that had happened subtly over the past twenty days.
Ji Yuan did not speak immediately. He looked at the city in the distance and then looked above the city. There was a layer of light clouds gathering, blocking the light of the stars and the moon in the sky, but most places were clear tonight.
"The Yin Qi has formed into clouds, but there is no obvious gas sign on the outside. It seems that it is not the spontaneous Yin Qi rising into the sky, but the work of attraction and transformation. There must be a skilled ghost cultivator in the city."
Speaking of this, Ji Yuan thought for a moment.
"The lights are bright over there, so it must not be an ordinary day. Let's wait and see. If it's not necessary, we won't join in the fun."
"Um!"
Yan Fei responded. Although he was a warrior, he was still a human being after all. He didn't want to go to a ghost town, a place where thousands of ghosts gathered.
Niu Batian was quite curious, and now he felt itchy in his heart when he heard Ji Yuan couldn't continue.
"Hey, Mr. Ji, you see, I, Lao Niu, have never been to the ghost town of the orthodox underworld. It looks like it's quite lively there. Why don't we go take a look? Brother Yan should also want to take a look, right?"
Yan Fei quickly shook his head, ignoring the look Niu Batian gave him.
"Brother Niu, I am a mortal, how can I go into a ghost town? I will never have such an idea!"
Ji Yuan shook his head and sat down cross-legged on the hill.
"Let's wait until daybreak to see what this city relies on. They are so lively now. If we rush in now, we might offend others."
Since Ji Yuan had said so, Niu Batian had nothing else to say and could only sigh regretfully.
In the darkness of the night, Ji Yuan was sitting cross-legged to rest, while Niu Batian and Yan Fei had been knocking on the city in the distance. Since they arrived, they had hardly seen anyone entering or leaving the city. What Yan Fei said before about seeing carriages and horses might have been a special case.
"Hey, hey, hey, Brother Yan, someone, no, a ghost is passing by!"
Niu Batian suddenly cried out in excitement. This was the first time he was so excited after seeing a ghost since he became a demon.
"Ah? Where?"
Yan Fei opened his eyes wide but didn't see anything. It was obvious that he couldn't see the ghost this time. Lao Niu also thought of this and hurriedly moved closer to him.
"Come on, let me help you!"
After saying that, Niu Batian stretched out his hand and flicked Yan Fei's forehead with his index finger.
There was a slight "bang..." sound, and Yan Fei suddenly felt a little dizzy. At the moment when his head was hit, his eyes went dark and there seemed to be a flash of white light.
After the situation calmed down, I looked down and suddenly saw some people who looked like soldiers riding horses far away from the city. Behind them were a string of figures tied with ropes. Some were floating, some were walking, some had long necks, and some were missing arms and legs.
"Hiss... these..."
"Hey, they are all wandering ghosts. Many people died in the outside world without any clear reason and had no relatives or friends to take care of them. In many places, the Shinto is corrupt, so the dead can easily become wandering ghosts. This kind of situation is everywhere in the land of Zuyue."
It was the first time that Yan Fei heard such a statement, and he felt horrified.
"Will these ghosts not harm people?"
Ji Yuan also opened his eyes and looked outside the city in the distance.
"As the saying goes, people are three parts afraid of ghosts, and ghosts are seven parts afraid of people. Another saying goes, if you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door. In fact, both of them make sense. Most of them refer to these helpless ghosts. Unless they have a deep grudge against their loved ones, they will dissipate if they are not careful. Unless people are extremely weak, they don't have to be afraid."
As Ji Yuan spoke, he looked in the direction of the city. He had some understanding of the composition of the ghost people in this ghost town. At least when he came from the southern border of Zuyue Kingdom, there were no shortage of wandering ghosts in many places.
"But I don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing!"
Apart from this group of wandering ghosts being sent into the city, there were no other disturbances during the night until the eve of dawn. When Yan Fei dozed off, the ghost town gradually faded and disappeared from sight.
Yan Fei was so startled that all his sleepiness disappeared.
"Mr. Ji, Brother Niu, is this city gone?"
"It's still there. You see, the dark clouds haven't dissipated yet. It's just that when the daylight shines, the Yang energy is mixed. The city has used ghost magic to create a place between Yin and Yang for hiding."
After Ji Yuan explained, he stood up, walked down the hill first and walked towards the distance, and Niu Batian and Yan Fei hurried to follow.
The three of them soon arrived at the location of the city. The surrounding area seemed more desolate than other places, and there were no tall trees. However, from Yan Fei's perspective, there was nothing special about walking here.
"Mr. Ji, look over there!"
Niu Batian pointed towards the distance and then ran quickly, while Ji Yuan and Yan Fei followed closely behind him. About a mile away, behind some huge pieces of rubble, the three of them found a carriage.
These two carriages are not only exquisitely shaped, but also very spacious. They need at least two horses to be pulled. However, at the moment, there is no one in the carriages and no horses in front of the carriages.
Niu Batian reached out and touched the carriage, then lifted the curtain and looked out, then turned back and said to Ji Yuan.
"Mr. Ji, it's quite clean, it doesn't look abandoned..."
At this point, Niu Batian suddenly noticed that there was something wrong in Yan Fei's eyes, so he frowned and asked.
"Brother Yan, what's wrong with you?"
Yan Fei looked at Niu Batian and then at Ji Yuan, then carefully observed the carriage again and answered uncertainly.
"This carriage... looks like the one I saw last night!"
"Are you determined?"
Niu Batian was also stunned for a moment, and then suddenly thought of something.
"No wonder you can see the carriage heading to the city, because this carriage is not a ghost carriage, but a mortal carriage!"
"What about the people in the car?"
Yan Fei asked subconsciously, looking at Niu Batian and Ji Yuan.
Ji Yuan also stared at the carriage with a frown, looked at the empty interior of the carriage, and then looked at the empty wooden fence in front of the carriage where there was no horse.
"Then I'm afraid he stayed in that ghost town..."
Niu Batian's eyes lit up and he immediately spoke righteously.
"Mr. Ji, these people entered the ghost town without knowing it. I'm afraid they can't get out. Moreover, they are likely to be discovered as living people. It is extremely dangerous to be surrounded by ghosts. We should take them out of the ghost town. If we encounter any evil ghosts, we can get rid of them!"
Ji Yuan was originally thinking about the feasibility of this matter. When he heard Niu Batian's words, he looked at him and smiled.
"You are kind-hearted, aren't you?"
"This is all the chivalrous spirit I learned from Brother Yan. Although I am a demon, I still have some humanity! What do you think, Mr. Ji?"
"Hmm... what about Hero Yan?"
Ji Yuan looked at Yan Fei, who was holding a sword. He shifted his gaze from the carriage to Ji Yuan and nodded.
"If I happened to see a carriage here, I might not care, but I saw it heading towards this city last night. Today I have found out the truth and I feel that I have a responsibility. If Mr. Ji and Brother Niu don't mind, please take me with you!"
"Hey, don't despise me, Brother Yan is a martial arts master. Ordinary ghosts can't be your opponent. If you meet a powerful one, I, Lao Niu, and Mr. Ji are here!"
At this moment, Niu Batian was secretly delighted. Under the current circumstances, Mr. Ji would most likely agree to enter the ghost town.
Sure enough, Ji Yuan expressed his opinion immediately.
"In that case, let's go into the city to look for people. I have dealt with ghosts in the underworld several times. Under normal circumstances, the ghosts in the ghost city are silent with ordinary people. When living people enter the city, their yang fire is suppressed by the yin energy. If they don't get too close to the ghosts, they may not be noticed. At this moment, they may not even know that they are in the ghost city."
"Then... do we need to wait until dark to see the city?"
Niu Batian asked this deliberately. Although he really couldn't find a suitable way to enter the city for the time being, he believed that Mr. Ji would definitely have a way. Of course, he could also try to attack and destroy with magic regardless of the consequences, but this would definitely not be appropriate.
"It would be dangerous for them if they delay for too long. We need to try to get in now."
Ji Yuan now has two methods to try. One is to directly use the immortal sword to split the Yin and Yang barriers of the ghost domain. After all, this is not the real underworld. With the Qingteng Sword, it is not difficult to do this, but it may alarm some powerful ghosts.
The other approach is to try to imitate the night scene and directly integrate it into the ghost town. The bet is that the laws of this ghost town are far less sophisticated than those of the fairyland and other places, and it is more affected by the outside world. To put it bluntly, it should be possible to "trick" the ghost town itself.
Thinking of this, Ji Yuan no longer hesitated. With a thought, the heaven and earth came into being. Under the control of his mind, infinite artistic conception of mountains and rivers appeared.
In the perception of Niu Batian and Yan Fei, it seemed that the world around them suddenly changed, and they had the illusion that their bodies were infinitely far away. It was even like they were in a foreign land and could see the world, mountains and rivers in the distance.
This feeling was so strong and so fascinating that while they were in a trance, Ji Yuan's mind turned and pointed to the sky of artistic conception.
In an instant, many virtual and real chess pieces lit up, like bright stars in the sky, and the color of the sky and the earth also changed from white to black...
At this moment, the surrounding scenery appeared, streets, houses, pedestrians... slowly from illusion to reality.
Yan Fei just felt incredible, while Niu Batian was dumbfounded and unable to breathe.
'The world has changed...'