Gou Zi, who had mastered the 'Way of Time', brought An Ling and the other two to a dilapidated house.

The house is located on the edge of Hongliu Town, surrounded by wilderness and further away is the woods near the mountains. It is next to several dilapidated abandoned houses. The outer walls and closed windows are covered with cobwebs and dust, and it looks like no one has lived there for a long time.

An Ling stood on tiptoe and looked inside. It was broad daylight, but the house was still pitch black. Apart from the musty smell, she couldn't see anything clearly.

But her eyesight, which had been enhanced by her cultivation, still allowed her to see something vaguely. There seemed to be a human-shaped black shadow in the house, standing in the middle of the house!

An Ling made a gesture to silence the two of them, and Tang Feng understood and cast a silencing spell on the dog to prevent it from barking suddenly and causing trouble.

An Ling sneered, her heart pounding as if it was about to jump out - she was angry, she didn't expect that in such a short time, her storage ring would be picked up by someone else, what a shame! As expected, drinking would cause trouble, she couldn't get drunk again in the future... But it didn't matter, let's see how she caught this hateful thief!

"Three, two, one..." After counting down silently in her heart, An Ling took a deep breath, and then broke open the broken wooden door and shouted, "Stop!"

After the wooden door opened, the light from the outside world rarely shone into this dark room. The shadows immersed in dust and darkness twisted wildly, as if avoiding the light.

The table collapsed on the ground with one leg missing, and it looked like it couldn't stand up, so it could only lie on the ground miserably. In addition to this most conspicuous broken table, there were also a number of unwoven bamboo strips and unidentifiable sundries scattered on the ground, as if it had been robbed.

"No, where are the people? I clearly saw a figure inside just now..." An Ling looked around. The house was not that big, but she didn't see a single figure. There were only a few remaining pieces of debris that were blown up by the wind when the door was opened, and the dust was all over the room.

She always felt that this matter was strange, but she couldn't tell what was strange, so she decided to search this shabby house first to see if there were any clues.

The dog was circling anxiously at everyone's feet, but for some reason it didn't dare to go into the house. It just stared inside the house with its tail almost drooping to the ground.

Upon seeing this, Tang Feng quickly lifted the silencing spell on the dog and planned to stroke the dog's head to comfort it. However, he did not expect that as soon as he touched the dog's head, it suddenly started barking wildly towards the house. After barking for a while, it actually ran away with its tail between its legs in front of everyone's shocked eyes!

Tang Feng recalled a story he had heard before. According to folklore, cats and dogs can communicate with spirits and see things that ordinary people cannot see... So, could it be that this room...

Thinking of this, he shuddered and quickly told An Ling, who was investigating the house, and Lin Qingqing, who was standing at the door looking in but did not dare to enter.

An Ling replied speechlessly: "Brother Tang, you are a cultivator, how can you believe these unfounded things? If that's the case, then every household should just have a dog, what else do we need to do?"

Tang Feng smiled awkwardly, "After all, I've listened to ghost stories for so many years, and all these things are imprinted in my mind. I almost forgot that we can really catch ghosts..."

He took out a book from somewhere and introduced it to An Ling and Lin Qingqing: "This is the technique of Yin Yang Eyes. It can last for a stick of incense after one use. Do you know how to use it? Do you want to learn it now?"

Lin Qingqing said that she practiced very seriously and had already learned the art of Yin-Yang Eyes.

"No, I can do that too." An Ling replied, and then suddenly thought of something and asked, "Brother, since you can see ghosts, why do you still believe in those folk stories?" The first thing she did after learning to see ghosts was to verify her long-standing confusion: Are there ghosts in the world? In this alien world, the answer is yes, but as long as you don't look for them on purpose, it is really difficult to find them. Ordinary people may not encounter them once in their lifetime, so there is no need to be too afraid.

Tang Feng just smiled and replied, "You can't disbelieve these stories just because you don't want to. They exist in everyone's mouths, so even if they are false 'fantasies', they will become true because of everyone's obsession. Do you know the kind of monster called Huan Yao?"

An Ling shook her head, and Tang Feng continued to explain: "Illusionary monsters are born from human imagination, and the more people believe in this kind of monster, the stronger its ability will be. At the same time, the range it can leave its birthplace will be larger. Moreover, illusionary monsters are extremely difficult to identify. Some illusionary monsters even have no demonic aura at all due to their strong obsession. There was once an illusionary monster in Cangzhou. It transformed into a human and lived among the crowd for decades before it was discovered and killed by the immortal sect. That incident... Oh, forget it, let's get your ring back first."

An Ling learned it quickly, and the three of them used the "Yin Yang Eyes" together to check.

An Ling was surprised to find that her vision turned black and white, as if a filter was added. She looked left and right for a while to adjust, then looked towards the place where she had just spotted the figure in the house, and found that a red gaseous object appeared on the ground, extending into the house and disappearing at the wall.

"The red demonic aura... proves that a demon had stayed here for at least an hour. Let's go and catch up."

The three of them opened their Yin-Yang eyes and quickly followed the guidance of the evil spirit, chasing it out of the house.

"It escaped into the dense forest!" Lin Qingqing squatted down to check it out and said solemnly, "This is bad, the direction that the skeleton monster came from is this forest!"

The three of them looked at each other and had a bold guess in their minds: the monster that stole An Ling's storage ring was related to the skeleton soldier!

While Lin Qingqing was thinking with her head down, Tang Feng winked at An Ling and seemed to say, "Evil cultivator." An Ling nodded slightly, indicating that she understood what he meant.

The skeleton soldiers marching in a fixed direction, the tragedy caused by the evil cultivator twenty years ago, the monster that stole the storage ring...the occurrence of these things at the same time is definitely not accidental. Everything points to a possibility that can make people gasp: the evil cultivator from twenty years ago has not been wiped out, but has been lurking in Hongliu Town until today, and is about to launch a catastrophe!

"What should we do? With only a few of us, how much flesh will be left after we go in?" An Ling said dimly. It was already her limit to deal with a skeleton soldier. Moreover, she had no idea how many terrifying monsters like yesterday were lurking in the depths of the dense forest. There was also the unknown demon and the evil cultivator who was very likely to exist. She still had a clear understanding of herself...

Tang Feng, who was standing by, started gritting his teeth when he discovered that the evil cultivator from twenty years ago might be hiding inside. His eyes were red, brewing storm and flames. He looked down and saw that his fists were clenched so tightly that his knuckles had begun to turn white.

He hated it! He hated why he was so weak, why he had not been able to stop this evil cultivator from causing chaos in the world from 20 years ago to now! But what could he do? The gap between people was even greater than the gap between people and dogs. Such a gap could not be solved with passion. The gap that had been formed since reincarnation could not be made up in his lifetime. His aptitude was just here.

Everyone was silent, with only the rustling sound of leaves in the wind to keep them company. An Ling was hesitant, Tang Feng was filled with resentment, and Lin Qingqing was... um? Where was Lin Qingqing?

"Where's my senior sister?" An Ling suddenly discovered that Lin Qingqing was missing, and asked Tang Feng in horror.

After all, she was just a young girl who had just started out. She had never experienced such a dangerous and entangled situation in her past life or her present life. Without the corresponding experience, she naturally could not make accurate judgments at the critical moment.

After Lin Qingqing disappeared, the remaining two finally understood a truth: when one is unable to solve a problem, the determination and speed of retreat is also a test.

An Ling and Tang Feng looked at the dense forest in front of them, which was rustling. The treetops that blocked out the sun blocked out the entire sky, and the sun could not penetrate into the dense forest at all. There were many strange shadows in the forest, and there seemed to be the remaining death energy of the skeleton soldiers...

In the end, are they going to stay or go?

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