The years I was in the human world

Xiao Fengzhuo turned back and naturally saw the image reflected by the dagger. He chuckled and his voice seemed to change, sounding a little feminine. As he spoke, it turned into a woman's voice: "The Taoist priest is smart. I didn't expect that there would be strangers in a place like Rongcheng."

When "Xiao Fengzhuo" turned back, his originally handsome face was even more gentle, with affectionate eyes and lips under the moonlight, red as if smeared with lip balm. He stretched out his fingers to touch Lu Zhouxue's face. His fingers were also soft and boneless, with a kind of ghost-like coldness: "Master, you are so pretty. If I see such a skin, I would also like to taste it."

Lu Zhouxue had never been teased like this before, so she immediately attacked him with great force, saying angrily, "How dare you!"

The move that should have shattered the female ghost was gently dissolved by her. She grabbed Lu Zhouxue's only remaining hand, and softly pressed her waist against Lu Zhouxue's back from behind. She pinched his jaw with her right hand and whispered in his ear: "You are actually a human-demon hybrid. Hahahahaha, Rongcheng is different from other places. If you look like this, there will be many evil ghosts who want to eat you up."

The Yin energy was strong here, and Lu Zhouxue was injured. He was held by the ghost and couldn't break free. He could feel the ghost's cold tongue licking his neck. The little ghost that crawled out of the shadows clung to his legs tightly and looked at him with a disgusting look. The cold voice of the ghost next to him kept reaching his ears: "Little Taoist, if you walk too much at night, you will encounter ghosts--"

Before the female ghost finished her teasing words, she suddenly screamed, and dense bloodstains appeared on her hands, as if they were cut by extremely fine silk threads. Ghost energy continued to leak out from the fine wounds. At the same time, Lu Zhouxue, who was originally clamped by him, softened and turned into a light piece of paper.

"I only know that the night of dark moon and strong wind is a perfect time to kill people, and it is perfect for getting rid of the evildoers." Lu Zhouxue walked out from the other side, with a silk thread as thin as a hair wrapped around the fingertips of his right hand, and a fire order in his left hand. He looked coldly at the female ghost whose face was full of resentment because of the harm. The dim firelight just illuminated the coldness in his eyes, and the black cat on his shoulder let out a shrill cat cry at the female ghost.

The female ghost was originally disguised as Xiao Fengzhuo, but now she found out that Lu Zhouxue was also using a trick to deceive her. She laughed in anger, and her skin split open from the top of her head. A female ghost in red crawled out of the human skin like a snake shedding its skin. The inner wall of the human skin was still covered with blood, and it seemed that it had just been peeled off not long ago.

The female ghost broke free from the human skin, and the little ghosts under her kneeled down in fear.

"Red Ghost." Xiao Fengzhuo felt the resentment rising from the female ghost. This time, the moon in the sky was completely covered and would never reappear tonight. "Avoid it if you can. If you kill her and summon the Ghost King, you and I may die here."

The levels of evil ghosts in the ghost den are not as complicated as those of monks. There are only five levels: little ghosts, white-clothed ghosts, terrifying green ghosts, red ghosts and killing ghosts. The white-clothed ghosts are the most common ones who died with resentment and can cause a certain impact after death. The resentment of white-clothed ghosts is generally not heavy. If they have not hurt anyone, they can still enter reincarnation after salvation, so they are not very dangerous.

Above the white-clothed ghosts are all evil ghosts with deep resentment and who have been contaminated by human lives and are unable to enter reincarnation. Among them, the Green Ghost can massacre a city, the Red Ghost can destroy a country, and the Sha Ghost can bring disaster to the world. Today's Ghost King is the Sha Ghost, and he is indeed a disaster to the world.

"Now she refuses to give in." Lu Zhouxue said. Although the female ghost in front of him was vicious, she was not impossible to deal with. The trouble was the little ghosts under her. In just a moment of talking, countless evil ghosts with missing limbs and hideous faces crawled out from the dark night.

The two hanged ghosts that were previously sealed in the voodoo doll also became restless, jumping up and down in Xiao Fengzhuo's storage ring, and were about to break the seal.

"It's four quarters past the hour of Yin. It will be dawn in half an hour." Xiao Fengzhuo roughly estimated the time. As long as they could hold on until dawn, no matter what ghosts they had, as long as they had not reached the level of killing ghosts, they would all have to shrink and not stand the sunlight at all.

This is also the difference between evil ghosts and ghost cultivators. Although ghost cultivators also rely on ghost energy to practice, they are not afraid of sunlight. After all, ghost cultivators are also a kind of cultivators and can get rid of the restrictions of heaven to a certain extent. But evil ghosts are not like this. As the souls of dead people stranded in the human world, they are not tolerated by heaven and naturally cannot see the light.

The female ghost broke free from the human skin, her long hair covering most of her face, leaving only a pair of blood-red eyes staring at the two of them ferociously. Her dress was very gorgeous, like the court dress of a royal noble, but now she was surrounded by ghostly aura, and no matter how beautiful the dress was, it would have no other effect except scaring people.

"Azhuo, look at her eyes." Somehow, Lu Zhouxue felt that the pair of eyes exposed from under the ghost girl's hair looked very familiar, "I seem to have seen them somewhere."

Hearing this, Xiao Fengzhuo also took a closer look, and then his expression became quite strange. He said in a strange tone: "Yes, he looks familiar."

That was strange. Lu Zhouxue had a good memory and would recognize anyone he had met. So far, all the people he had met were from Zhongting. Why would he feel that a female ghost looked familiar? Moreover, Xiao Fengzhuo also felt that she looked familiar, so it was unlikely that he had made a mistake.

The female ghost opened her mouth and let out a shrill scream, her mouth corners stretched almost to her ears, tears of blood flowed from her eyes, then she stretched out her sharp claws and pounced towards Lu Zhouxue. Suddenly, a cold wind blew, sand and rocks flew everywhere, and the wind and sand made Lu Zhouxue unable to open his eyes, and the little ghost under his feet was gnawing at his legs.

Lu Zhouxue hurriedly closed his eyes and pulled the silk threads in his hands. The silk threads as sharp as knife blades crisscrossed around him to form a net to strangle evil spirits. In a short while, the little ghost at his feet was cut into a ball of evil energy by the fine silk threads.

Tian Bai, who could cut the little ghost effortlessly, could not cut the female ghost. The moment her nails touched the silk thread, sparks of metal collision burst out, and then the fine mesh was torn open by the female ghost. The female ghost lay on the gap in the silk mesh and grinned at Lu Zhouxue. She said, "Little Taoist priest, you can't run away."

Lu Zhouxue was busy dealing with the endless little ghosts under his feet. He looked up and saw that there was a hole in the net woven by Tianbai above his head. His eyes flashed slightly, and the torn gap was mended by silk thread in an instant. A bloody mark was cut on the ghost girl's face by the silk thread that suddenly shuttled through. The hair that covered her face was then cut off, revealing a very beautiful woman's face.

"Li Lanyin?" The moment he saw the female ghost's face clearly, although he had guessed it long ago, Xiao Fengzhuo still hesitated. Everyone knew that the most beautiful woman in the Three Realms was now traveling around with the Sword God, so how could she turn into a red evil ghost and stir up trouble here?

When the female ghost heard the cat on the Taoist's shoulder speak in human language and easily reveal her name, although she wanted to kill Lu Zhouxue, she still stopped and moved away, looking alert and said, "Do you recognize me? Who are you?" She had no intention of hiding her identity.

Xiao Fengzhuo thought to himself, "Sure enough." When Lu Zhouxue heard the name "Li Lanyin," he realized something was wrong. Wasn't Li Lanyin Yu Zhao's biological mother? Why did she appear here and become a fierce ghost? However, he didn't know the inside story, so he didn't say anything. He just listened to Xiao Fengzhuo talking to the female ghost silently.

The black cat on his shoulder turned into a human form. The female ghost saw his appearance clearly, narrowed her eyes, and said indifferently: "I recognize you, the leader of the demon clan's intelligence organization."

"The demon tribe should be busy right now, but the demon king is willing to let you wander around outside." The female ghost chuckled. She turned her head and saw the sky was turning pale. She knew that she couldn't deal with Lu Zhouxue today, so she said, "Since you are acquaintances, I will let you two go."

"Just one word, leave quickly." The ghost's tone suddenly turned cold, and the smile in her eyes disappeared, "Otherwise I won't be so nice to you next time."

After the female ghost finished speaking, she waved her sleeves, and the little ghosts followed her footsteps and disappeared into the darkness, without giving Lu Zhouxue a chance to ask questions.

When the sun rose completely, the darkness faded, and the sky was completely bright, the two realized that they were no longer in Rongcheng, but in a cemetery. There were graves of all sizes scattered everywhere. Most of the tombstones in front of the graves had no names written on them. They were crookedly stuck in the soil, with some old paper money scattered here and there. Some of the graves were exposed to the wind and sun, and the bones inside were exposed.

Many more bodies were not buried, but were wrapped in straw mats and piled up randomly. Some even had no straw mats at all, and were left exposed in the wilderness. It looked more like a mass grave than a cemetery.

Xiao Fengzhuo said: "No wonder the negative energy is so strong. There are so many dead souls with no one to pay homage to them. It seems that they all died violent deaths. It would be strange if they don't have a lot of resentment."

"The question is, where did so many dead bodies come from?" Lu Zhouxue kicked aside a roll of rotten straw mats. The corpses inside had already turned into white bones. The love and hate, happiness or pain they once had, all turned into yellow soil, and there was no way to know. "The Dongshan ghost den was formed at least a hundred years ago. Just looking at the degree of weathering of the straw mats, these corpses were thrown after the ghost den was formed. At that time, I'm afraid that the entire Dongshan area was deserted. Where did so many corpses come from?"

"Even if they wanted to throw it, why bother throwing it all the way to Dongshan?" Lu Zhouxue said, "Unless someone deliberately used the Dongshan ghost den as a cover."

Lu Zhouxue: "But what is the purpose of killing so many people?"

"A place where Yin gathers." Xiao Fengzhuo broke off a branch and dug up the surface soil. There was also black and damp soil underneath. "Mianmian, can you lend me a fire-falling talisman?"

Lu Zhouxue took out a stack of talisman papers from her sleeve and handed it to him.

"You don't need so many." Xiao Fengzhuo took one, bit his finger and dripped a drop of blood on the talisman paper, then walked on the talisman paper to execute the fire order. However, he didn't expect that the burning talisman paper would go out instantly when it fell on the black mud. Then the talisman paper that was not completely burned out was quickly infected and turned black, becoming a Yin talisman, "Yin soil, there is a formation underneath."

"The Yang Talisman, the extremely Yang blood, plus the Fire Order, should have brought the Yang to the extreme, but it still only burned for a moment. This Yin gathering place has been refined by them." Xiao Fengzhuo sneered, licked the blood on his fingers, stood up, and said to Lu Zhouxue, "Rongcheng is probably in the formation, otherwise there would be no need to be so strict on guard."

"Go back and have a look." Lu Zhouxue tore off a corner of her handkerchief to bandage Xiao Fengzhuo's wound, and tied a beautiful knot on her finger, saying, "Be careful when you go back this time. The battle with the female ghost last night has already alerted the enemy."

"I just don't know how many people are involved in this gathering of Yin." Xiao Fengzhuo looked at the wound on his finger that Lu Zhouxue had bandaged for him, and said meaningfully. He remembered the reaction of the female ghost when she saw him last night, and sneered in his heart. If he really investigated it carefully, he was afraid that even the demon clan would not be able to get rid of it. "How virtuous, Mianmian."

Lu Zhouxue paused, thinking that this guy was talking nonsense again. How could he always suffer the loss? Lu Zhouxue thought for a moment, then looked at Xiao Fengzhuo meaningfully and said, "The blood of the Yang? So Ah Zhuo is still a virgin?"

Lu Zhouxue thought he had found Xiao Fengzhuo's weak spot, but he didn't expect that this man was so unrestrained and not only didn't care, but also teased him instead: "Mianmian looks so elegant and graceful, but you can't tell that she has experienced the world of romance." As she said this, she glanced at his waist and abdomen with a smile.

"Don't talk nonsense." Lu Zhouxue couldn't argue with him, so he turned around and picked up the human skin that the female ghost took off last night. After looking at it for a while, his brows suddenly knitted, "Azhuo, look at this human skin, it seems to belong to a monk who came here this time."

Xiao Fengzhuo always stopped at the right time when joking. When Lu Zhouxue called him, he leaned over to take a closer look. After propping up his face to take a closer look, he gave a positive answer: "One of the seven guys you hung up from the Seventh Gate."

Lu Zhouxue fell silent, and after a moment he sighed: "It's pitiful."

Although those young men were a bit arrogant, they were still young after all. Who wouldn't feel sorry to see young men who should have had a bright future die tragically? Especially when their skins were peeled off.

Lu Zhouxue carefully collected the human skin and put it into his sleeve, intending to return it to Jiang Ling after Baili Changqing and the others arrived, as a way of giving an explanation.

Xiao Fengzhuo reached out and tidied up Lu Zhouxue's scattered hair. After a night of fighting, the braid had long been undone. Xiao Fengzhuo gathered his long hair again, used a silver hairpin to tie it into a bun at the back of his head, and gently comforted him, "Don't be sad, this is a common thing. Let me pray for him tonight, which can also be regarded as sending him off, ok?"

"Thank you, Azhuo." Lu Zhouxue turned to look at Xiao Fengzhuo, and suddenly smiled at him gently, with curved eyebrows and depressed.

At that moment, Xiao Fengzhuo felt as if he was struck by spring. It was so beautiful. He thought, this is how lively it should be. Always sitting on the clouds like that, although it was also beautiful, it was too lonely and it was not good.

Xiao Fengzhuo had seen life and death, love and hate, and his mood was not very volatile. Lu Zhouxue suddenly smiled at him, and his face remained calm, but his hands paused slightly, and then he continued to insert the hairpin for Lu Zhouxue as if nothing had happened, and smiled and replied: "It's not a big deal, why thank you."

Lu Zhouxue looked at Xiao Fengzhuo calmly, and he looked at him gently, with a calm expression in his eyes. He lowered his eyes again and replied softly, "Yeah."