Sheng Xuanyuan took Qiong Yi's hand and walked towards the dark path in front of him.
Qiong Yi almost clung to his side, saying nothing and even holding her breath. The temperature here is extremely low and the wind is gusty. There is no snow on the road under your feet, but it looks like a road made of bones. It is bumpy and hard to walk on. Sheng Xuanyuan placed all the lanterns on the streets of the human world on his way here. Now he can only spend his true energy and chant a spell to create a ball of fire in the palm of his hand to illuminate the colors.
Mingfu is formed by the collision and intersection of yin and yang qi. This kind of land with thick yin qi will move and change with time and appear in the human world. At first, demons and ghosts gathered here in order to trade some shady things. Later, with the addition of Jianghu sects, it was not just ghosts and evil spirits who came here, but a mixture of fish and dragons. There is no requirement for fair and equal value in the transaction here. There is only one thing that cannot be fought. This has been the case for hundreds of years and has become a common practice.
When I reached the end of the path, I saw light. Amidst the flickering firelight, there was a fork in the road. There were moving blurry shadows beside the intersection. From a distance, they looked like pedestrians. The architectural styles on the side of the road are very different. There are ordinary-looking street stalls and houses, and there are also ferocious and grotesque caves like a demon's nest. The lights in the market place are even more colorful. In addition to the ordinary candlelight at the stalls, the red fire, green flame and faint blue phosphorus fire illuminate the place with a dazzling light, exuding some eerie beauty.
The scene in front of her was truly shocking, but rather than sightseeing, Qiong wished she could leave this ghostly place as soon as possible.
Sheng Xuanyuan kept walking and continued to walk forward, passing by several stalls one after another. "If you are afraid of seeing ghost faces, just close your eyes and I will hold you tight."
She listened and responded hoarsely in her throat. Worried that he hadn't heard clearly, she squeezed his hand gently.
The stall owner with an ox-headed and horse-faced face next to him chatted happily with the customers who came, talking about the treasures he was selling that had such talents and what they could do, leaving the customer stunned for a moment. There were people drinking and hawking, and even miscellaneous entertainers. People and ghosts gathered in a circle to applaud and cheer for them. For a few moments, Qiong Yi felt that there seemed to be no difference between this place and the outside.
Maybe it's because Sheng Kyung is by my side, she thought.
Wherever the two of them went, the ghosts there shrank away from each other, for fear of being next to them.
Sneaky really... didn't dare to come closer... Qiong Yi's remaining hand rested on Sheng Xuanyuan's forearm. The originally tense nerves relaxed a little by his side, as if as long as he was there , even if there are ghosts and monsters all around, she can still feel at ease.
Qiong also felt eyes falling on her, and vaguely caught a glimpse of a skeleton in black robes standing on the street, staring at her with empty eyes. She was so frightened that she shrank towards Sheng Xuanyuan, and was struck by him. Put your arms around your shoulders.
Qiong's heartbeat was also very fast, half because of fear and the other half because of the person beside her.
It's looking at me! Qiong Yi closed his eyes tightly: That skeleton seems to have been staring at me!
"It's... a Taoist..." The skeleton's chest made a small vibration, "A Taoist who doesn't hide his aura... could it be... that he went to Baoqiantang's auction..."
A crow standing on its shoulder replied with a charming female voice: "Have you seen that girl who is so frightened and uneasy? She has an alluring ghostly aura about her. She wants to eat. I want to eat."
"...It's just the spirit left by the little ghost... nothing special...it can only attract low-level ghosts..."
"Are you calling me inferior? Bah!"
"...Be good, don't make trouble..."
After walking for a while, Qiong Yi dared to raise his head from Sheng Xuanyuan's arms: "Sheng Jing, this place is almost full of ghosts and evil spirits... Why didn't anyone come to collect them all? We... can't... Exorcise?"
"Yes." He answered simply.
After saying that, he changed his tone: "It's okay to go out, but not here. This has been the rule of Mingfu for hundreds of years."
After being silent for a long time, Qiong Yi seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes fell on the lily of the valley around his waist: "Sheng Kyung, what is 'Shasha'...?"
"It's a very extreme fate." Sheng Xuanyuan said lightly: "There is no good or bad fate, but if you have the fate of 'killing evil', the poor will have many bad fates, and the outstanding will have their own talents and talents. Immortal fate is born to overcome ghosts and evil spirits, and it can suppress the evil spirits of one side."
Qiong was also stunned.
"The day I was born was the Zhongyuan Dynasty. The ghosts should have been restless, and the two demons who were suppressing them under Jiuyi's stage would usually get into trouble, but that night was unusually peaceful." He paused as he spoke: "Later, my father I read my horoscope and it was indeed 'killing evil'."
No wonder...no wonder that night, when Sheng Jin entered the woods, the female ghost's cries disappeared.
"It sounds like... a legendary figure." Qiong Yi said in a low voice.
Sheng Jing was originally a famous figure in Luo Yao Bai Feng... She thought, there was nothing about his appearance, cultivation, and life experience that was second to none. When I thought about it, I couldn't help but pull him tighter, and the loss and self-defeat in my heart rose like a sea tide.
"It's nothing special. Before I met you, I didn't think there was any point in ghosts being afraid of me." Sheng Xuanyuan curled his lips and said to her.
Qiong Yi paused for a moment and started to walk faster.
This market is very long, with many forked roads, and every intersection is very similar. Although the two of them walked straight to the other end of the long street, they still took a lot of detours in the middle because of ghosts and stalls. Sheng Xuanyuan stood in front of the fork in the road to figure out the direction for a while, then led her to continue walking.
"Qiong Yi, why do you attract ghosts?" Sheng Xuanyuan asked knowingly.
"I don't know. It's been like this since I was scared by a ghost in an accident when I was a child..." Qiong Yi said: "However, I haven't left Lu's Mansion in Taipa very often, and I rarely encounter ghosts after that time."
It turned out that Lu Yuhao didn't tell her, Sheng Xuanyuan thought to himself.
He thought carefully in his heart: It is recorded in the book that besides the living, the dead are ghosts, the strange are monsters, evil is evil, evil is deep and evil, spiritual things are spirits, and things refined are monsters. I remember Qiong Yi seemed to have said that he was only afraid of ghosts and evil spirits, and seemed to be...
While passing by a stall, a furry thing suddenly jumped up, which startled Qiong Yi. When he looked closely, he saw that it was a large hidden rat with the face of a child, which exuded a bit of weirdness. The thing seemed to be surprised and covered its face with a pair of claws: "Hey! Don't hit me! Don't hit me!"
Sheng Xuanyuan put down his hand blocking Qiong Yi's body and looked at the hidden rat.
The Hidden Rat took a sneak peek through the gap between its claws, and when it saw nothing happened, it quickly jumped to the high wooden chair behind the stall. "You! Look what I do!"
"It's a goblin, not a ghost." Sheng Xuanyuan said behind him. Qiong Yi looked at the childish face on the stuffed animal and felt miserable.
"That's right! I'm not a ghost!" The Hidden Rat curled its tail and said, "Stop looking at my face. It took a lot of effort for me to cultivate!"
Sheng Xuanyuan and Qiong also looked at each other and listened to the Hidden Rat saying to himself: "My face must be so beautiful that you can't take your eyes off it, eh... Huh? Huh! Don't leave!"
"Brother and girl, don't you want to change something before leaving? I have good products here, and I will never let you down."
Sheng Xuanyuan turned around: "How do you get out of Mingfu Street?"
The Hidden Mouse pointed to the road ahead with its short paws: "When the fire light dims, you can go out by walking forward with your eyes closed, but you will have to wait half an hour at the fastest." After it finished speaking, it added: "Okay, After answering, the information is also valuable. In exchange, you can take a look at my babies."
"It will take... half an hour..." Qiong Yi murmured.
"Quickest! It will take half an hour at the fastest!" Hidden Mouse put its paws on its waist and puffed out its furry belly, "Come on, I have a lot of good things!"
Sheng Xuanyuan had no intention of coming here: "Sorry, I didn't bring anything that can be traded, so I can't buy it."
"Huh? Huh?! You didn't bring anything with you to Mingfu Ghost City? Then why are you here? To see the scenery?" It muttered to itself again: "Well, no! Did you enter here by mistake? Oops Son! There are many people who enter by mistake every day, so it’s not surprising! There’s nothing you can exchange for anything else, such as lifespan, appearance, heart and lungs, etc., it’s all fine!”
Sheng Xuanyuan frowned and looked at the items on display: "These are not worth it to you."
"Don't be angry! I'm just using an analogy!" It said with a smile, "I've never seen anything like that before. It's all serious business."
"Qiong Yi, is there anything you like?"
Qiong also shook his head.
"Don't run away in a hurry! Look at this Qingxin Pill! Hmm... Forget-Worrow Grass! And the Fate Lock! Don't you need these?" Hidden Rat jumped down from the high chair in a hurry, "That's it! Look how dark Mingfu is. , you don’t have a lantern here, or...well..." It rummaged around for a while, and finally held up a small candlestick, "How about this! I’ll sell you this cheaply, and it can also light the way for you!"
Qiong Yi took out a copper coin from his sleeve: "But I only have this."
"Shiny!" Hidden Rat covered his mouth, then coughed twice to pretend to be calm, "What shiny thing is trying to attract me! I'm already a big monster. Well... come closer and show me!" He said quickly He took the copper coin from Qiong Yi's hand and looked at it carefully: "It's just a human coin, but it can be polished like this. Oh? There is some magic secret hidden in the water pattern."
"But the Five Elements Technique has long since declined, and its luster is very low. Water techniques of this weight are not worth it." Hidden Rat turned around and touched his gray-black candlestick with pride: "And this small candlestick of mine, But a candle that stays lit is an inexhaustible candle!"
"Leave if you don't want to sell it, and you'll get the copper coins back." Sheng Xuanyuan stretched out his hand.
Hidden Rat became anxious and shouted: "Don't! How about we discuss it later and sell to you." Then he muttered in a low voice: "Oh, children nowadays are really good at bargaining. If it weren't for the fear that every transaction tonight would be ruined." If I can’t do it, I won’t…”
It muttered and took out a conch from the sack under the high wooden chair, and handed it to Qiong Yi: "Girl, your voice is nice, I like it! The rest of the price, um, can you sing? No You can also read a poem to me."
"Let's go." Sheng Xuanyuan took Qiong Yi's hand and said.
"This, this, this! What's this! It's not like she wants her voice!" Hidden Mouse jumped twice. Qiong Yi looked at Sheng Xuanyuan with some confusion, but he turned away.
"Conch, do you want to sell it?" Sheng Xuanyuan asked Yin Shu.
Hidden Rat was shocked, "Sell?...Sell! But don't you have nothing to trade with?"
"Sheng Kyung..." Qiong Yi didn't know what he wanted to do.
Sheng Xuanyuan took out a short knife from his robe, about the length of a stick. The knife box was inlaid with tourmaline and the workmanship was extremely fine. "It's not a loss to exchange this for your conch, right?"
Hidden Rat's jaw was about to drop in shock, "It's no loss, no loss! It's done! It's done! You can't go back on your promise to exchange for the conch." After saying that, he immediately handed the conch over: "I've given you the candlestick as well, take it. !”
Qiong Yi took the candlestick and conch handed over by Yin Shu, while Sheng Xuanyuan handed over the short knife.
Hidden Rat looked at the gem on the knife box and was overjoyed. He waved to the two people who were walking away: "Go slowly!"
Qiong Yi handed the conch to him: "Sheng Kyung, why did you buy this?"
"I want to buy it."
"Really?"
"...Really, I've wanted a sound-storing conch for a long time." Sheng Xuanyuan said hoarsely and put the conch away seemingly carelessly.
Qiong Yi chuckled helplessly and changed the topic: "If there is still half an hour, we..." As she was talking, she saw a boy running through the crowd, holding a lantern in his hand, who happened to trick her into the ghost market. ’s child!
"Sheng Kyung!" she said, "I saw the kid who tricked me!"
"The author has something to say: The two groups of people are going to meet in the next chapter~ (Because Sheng Xuanyuan is naturally capable of defeating ghosts, and ghosts are afraid of him, so when he was thrown into a ghost cave when he was a child, it probably looked like this: the ghosts huddled together, shrinking In the corner: Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ...Although the picture may be a bit funny, it is really sad to be thrown into it alone_(:3ゝ∠)_If it were not for those childhood experiences, Xiao Sheng might have grown up into a sunshine like Su Ye Cheerful big boy...)"
