Not a Witch

But the beating sergeant didn't care about the shopkeeper's long and humble apology, but squinted at the few people in white clothes aside.

At this time, anyone with a little discernment noticed the unkindness and conflicts, and began to clean up. They either went upstairs to rest or bowed their heads and left the inn quickly.

Seeing such a scene, Lorraine Hill didn't want to rashly participate in it, and went back upstairs quietly.

Afterwards, there was a burst of taunting and arguing downstairs, and the group of white-clothed men seemed to suppress their anger and leave the inn. It was only later that the downstairs gradually returned to silence.

In the early morning of the next day, Lorraine Hill got dressed and walked down the stairs. There were fewer people in the hall, only a few people were eating breakfast.

After ordering a breakfast, Lorraine Hill saw that Xiao Er was not too busy, and curiously asked about the surrounding situation.

"Do you know the situation of the Ximu Mountains?"

"Is it the Ximu Mountains? I only know a few things that the locals know." The little girl began to narrate.

"We are separated by Xiyou Continent and Mushan Continent by a barren and extremely high mountain peak. It was called Yan Luo Mountain in ancient times, but now it is called Xi Mu Mountain. This is the official name, and many locals still call it Yan Luo Mountain."

"A long time ago, there was a great sect on Yanluo Mountain called Songli Yanluo Palace. There were many envoys from the Nine Nethers in the gate, and they were good at driving dead corpses and ghosts."

"After the chaotic catastrophe, there were many heroes in the world. Naturally, this Yan Luo Palace also supported a local force and established the Kingdom of Youqi."

"After the rise of our dynasty, these countries were destroyed, and even the Yan Luo Palace disappeared, and Youji Kingdom was divided into Mushan Continent and Xiyou Continent. And those survivors of Youji Kingdom still live in Yanluo Mountain, and the situation is roughly like this." Shop Xiaoer Wiping the table, talking about common sense that the locals are basically familiar with.

And when Lorraine Hill asked other questions, the junior didn't know much.

It seems that I have to go to the Ximu Mountains (Yan Luo Mountain) to have a look, because the mission given to her by Shimen is to support a shrine in this barren mountain.

After packing up his things, Lorraine Hill didn't stay any longer. He left this small town named Youcen and continued to move northwestward, entering the dangerous mountains where civilians would not stop.

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There was a special chill in the air. When the girl looked down on the land from the air, she found that the color of the land gradually changed from green to gray and black.

The rocks and black soil on the mountain are directly exposed to the air, there is little vegetation cover, and there are few other animals. Only a few rabbits occasionally run out of the cave, looking for food carefully.

When Lorraine Hill flew across the wilderness, the tall mountains in front of him gradually became clear in his sight.

The extremely high mountain peaks are like two giant gates standing on the ground. The small towns and villages in the distance are as small as dust under this giant gate, and they can't even reach the door frame.

The continuous tall mountain peaks cut off the backward sight. When the sun sets, people can't see the setting sun at all, only the golden afterglow on the top of the mountain can be seen.

And in the hazy clouds and mist, those rays of light seemed to shine from another distant world, which aroused countless people's daydreams.

As the girl entered the high mountains, some small figures dressed in black also appeared below the field of vision. Most of their bodies were wrapped in black sackcloth and their faces could not be seen clearly. They trekked and worked hard in the mountains, and finally Black barley is planted on the poor soil.

After finding a mountain village with a lot of people, Lorraine Hill slowly dropped the wooden box from the sky and walked forward.

When the girl approached, a villager at the entrance of the village shouted eagerly, and his accent was quite local.

Under the yelling of the villager, a group of villagers ran out of the house. They looked at the strange girl with fear, surprise, curiosity, disgust, etc. in their eyes.

Seeing this, Lorraine Hill stopped slightly.

"Hello, I'm from Huiluzhou. Do you know where Qianliu Shrine is?"

Seeing that no one answered, the girl repeated it several times. After a long time, an old man with a white beard came out and asked in a trembling voice.

"Excuse me, is there something you are looking for at the shrine?" The old man had a haggard face and a black sackcloth was still wrapped around his head.

"I am a cultivator from Huiluzhou, from the Scorching Sun Xiangyu Sect..." The girl briefly introduced.

"Is that so..." After hearing the name Xiangyu School, the old man seemed to feel relieved a lot and heaved a sigh of relief.

"Then can you show me the token?" He waved his hand slowly, and some young men with weapons backed away a little.

"Is it this?" Lorraine Hill thought for a while, and took out a gardenia-yellow token from the box.

The old man didn't dare to approach, and looked carefully at it from a long distance, and then nodded.

"That's right, the same as I saw when I was young." His voice was hoarse.

"Please come with me." Then the old man walked slowly towards the village with a cane.

"I didn't expect Grandma Ge Luo to be able to contact you..." He murmured in his mouth, as if he was talking to himself.

Then Lorraine Hill followed the old man into the mountain village.

Compared with the barren land outside, the location of this village is very special. It happens to be in the lee of a mountain surrounded by three mountains, so even though it is on the mountainside, there is still a large open space in the middle.The fields in the village are in this open space, and some houses are built on the slopes of the nearby mountains.

When the old man brought Lorraine Hill into the village, some young and strong residents in the village were called aside by the old man and avoided them from a distance, preventing them from contacting and disturbing the girl.

After getting closer, Lorraine Hill also gradually discovered the difference between the residents here and the outside world.

First of all, their skin is very white, but that kind of white that seems to lack sunlight, not rosy, but a little bluish.In addition, although there are a few transcendents among the residents here, all of them are of the Necromancer sequence, and there are no other sequences.

This is also relatively rare.Generally speaking, the order of war is the most widely spread, because it is easy to start at a low level, and it can play various functions even at a low level. In addition to the promotion of the country and the spread of the army, it is also the most accessible to ordinary people. extraordinary sequence.

Following the small white stone steps, he slowly ascended to a flat land halfway up the mountain, and the old man finally brought Lorraine Hill to a half-cave-like house.

Most of this house is hidden in the mountain, only the outer circle has windows.

After entering the house, it felt much cooler than the outside world, and then the old man asked the girl to sit down.

The tables and chairs are very old wooden seats, and there are already many potholes on them, some are scratched, some are peeled off, and some are worn away.

But it looks very round, maybe it has been used for a long time, so that the corners have almost no protruding places.

"You're going to the shrine to find the shaman there, right?" the old man asked straight to the point.

"Yes." Lorraine Hill nodded, looking at the hunched and thin old man in front of him, who was sitting down slowly with difficulty.

"That should be right."

"I'm sorry, I made you laugh just now, because there are very few outsiders here, so everyone will be very nervous and uneasy." The old man explained briefly.

"Because you come from a far away place, I think, I still have to introduce you to this place." He pursed his lips, because his teeth were about to fall out, and his voice changed a little.

"We locals are somewhat different from your outsiders, that is, other people in the dynasty. Presumably you can also see that the skin color is very different."

Hearing this, Lorraine Hill nodded, and then watched him continue.

"Outsiders call us a clan of ghosts, and we often deal with evil spirits, so we have a bad reputation."

"But in fact, this is a last resort, because to live in this land, one must practice the technique of the Nine Serenity, otherwise, it will be very difficult to survive."

"You may not be aware of it when you first arrived. In fact, in this mountain and land, many ghosts and ghosts will come out of the ground every few days in the middle of the month and hunt around."

"If you don't have some means of self-protection, it will be difficult to survive, and to deal with ghosts and the like, only the technique of the nine secluded worlds is the most suitable."

"I heard that there used to be a kingdom of Chi, which was very prosperous, and there was a big door-to-door school here." Lorraine Hill repeated the description he heard from the waiter in the shop in the morning. Following her narration, the old man also carefully He listened until the girl finished speaking.

"Is this the description of us by the outside world? I'm afraid you can't bear to say that it has been beautified a lot." The old man sighed after listening.

"In fact, such a statement is generally correct. Seven or eight hundred years ago, there was indeed a country here, and it was a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters." The old man spoke slowly with nostalgia for the legend.

"At that time, due to the outbreak of chaos and catastrophe, the world was devastated, and the country was also facing various threats, so the monarch at that time asked some high-level people to help resist..."

"But all countries in the world are in danger, and the major factions are unable to help, so the monarch has not been able to find any ninth-level immortal to come to help."

"At that time, a small faction nearby volunteered to stand up. They called themselves Yan Luo Palace, and they specialized in the art of the Nine Nethers."

"Although the technique of the Nine Serenities has always been feared by people, it is indeed powerful during the war, and it is no wonder that it can dominate the world in the West. Therefore, the monarch agreed to them and gave them various supports."

The old man looked at the slanting light coming in from the window, and sat on the decayed and hard wooden chair to recall slowly.

"In this way, the disciples of Yan Luo Palace summoned the dead corpses all over the country and let them form a mysterious army to fight those distorted phantoms."

"Compared to before, the casualties have been reduced a lot, and some lost ground can even be regained."

"So the behavior of the monarch is no longer resisted and cursed by people. More and more people, no matter the nobles or the common people, are worshiping in the Yama Palace to study and become one of them."

"In this way, the war lasted year after year, and finally one day the catastrophe passed, all kinds of distorted phantoms were eliminated and cleaned up by the immortals, and the world restored a short period of peace."

"At this time, almost [-]% of the practitioners in the country of Youqi worshiped under the Yan Luo Palace. Of course, the Yan Luo Palace has also grown from a little-known sect to a top sect across several continents. Its subordinates There are even hundreds of thousands of practitioners."

"If the story stops here, it's not bad. It's a pity that it doesn't end here."

"After the catastrophe ended and the short period of peace passed, various vassals and great powers began to attack each other, and Youji, as a world-renowned powerful country, is no exception."

"A bigger war has been waged."

"With the continuous expansion of the Youji Kingdom, the Youji Kingdom, which relies on the technique of the Nine Nethers to support wars, has finally been feared by several neighboring countries, and they jointly deal with it."

"The two sides fought several battles, and the last and most intense battle was fought on this mountain and land..."

Maybe it's because I haven't told these stories with outsiders for a long time, or maybe the old man is too lonely on weekdays, and no one wants to hear these past events that disappear in the dust.

When Lorraine Hill sat at the table and listened quietly, the old man also slowly immersed himself in the narration of the past, as if it was the past that he had personally experienced.

"...After the war, nearly a million people died in this land, and the dragon veins were polluted, burst, and even became chaotic."

"What flows in the earth is no longer the pure power of heaven and earth in the past, but the magic power of the Dao of the Netherworld. Even if no one disturbs the dead creatures, they will be infected by this magic power and turn into corpses and ghosts. Walk the earth."

"So this is a cursed place, and our ancestors were also convicted for this, and they will never leave..."

After a long time, the room became silent again, and only then did the old man slowly come back to his senses.

"Sorry, my old man said some corrupt things again, alas... still can't change this habit, many young guys don't like to listen to this, and they have persuaded me, saying that if you listen too much, you will become amiable. I'm as old as I am, and I don't have the energy to do things anymore, haha..."

Dry and self-deprecating laughter sounded in the house, like an old and holed bellows, creaking and pulling.

The girl wanted to say a few words of comfort, but she didn't know where to start. Finally, the old man slowly stood up again and opened the drawer beside him.

"My lord, you are going to find Grandma Geluo, right? Her shrine is on the other side of the mountain. I have a rough map here. Please take a look."

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PS: Sorry, I was googling yesterday, 00. I will adjust my status in a few days, and try to make up for the broken day in a burst, and I will slowly make up for the owed ones... (full at once It will be difficult to make up, but it will be made up slowly)

Chapter 63 Glen Shrine

After getting the map, Lorraine Hill walked out of the old man's house and saw two children hiding under the windowsill and eavesdropping.

They have bright and big eyes, but their bodies are very thin. Coupled with their pale skin, they have a feeling of falling down in the wind.

Seeing the old man sending Lorraine Hill out, the two children also rushed away and went elsewhere.

"This is a child from the village. He is not very sensible. It makes you laugh." The old man briefly explained.

"It's okay." The girl could understand, after all, there are very few outsiders here, and it's normal for children to be curious.

"Then I'll take my leave."