Chapter 4: The Realm of Ghosts and Gods

Chapter 4: The Realm of Ghosts and Gods

Chapter 4: The Realm of Ghosts and Gods
The realm of ghosts and gods is the name given by monks to the incomprehensible mysterious area.

Such places are often accompanied by strange rules. For example, there is a place called Huixing Town outside the provincial capital of Xinxiang Province, which is a famous place of ghosts and gods.

Anyone who enters the ring-shaped town will repeat what happened on the same day over and over again, and will never be able to get out until they die.

There is also a realm of ghosts and gods in Nanmen County, which will turn anyone who enters it into paper people, and even the greatest supernatural powers will be completely useless.

However, these places have long been famous throughout the world, and everyone knows that they are notoriously dangerous places.

Huangpo Village is just a village in Xinxiang County, Xinxiang Province. Why is it so dangerous and unknown to the public?

"Xinxiang's big bad guy, a shameless little man!"

As soon as the purple-clothed woman thought of this, the Jinyiwei who followed her were in a panic. Some used magic to try to recover their bodies, some ran back, thinking that they could recover as before if they ran out of this ghostly realm. Some people were so panicked that they fell to the ground while running and broke themselves into pieces.

The purple-clothed woman shouted, "Don't run around! Listen to my orders!"

Gradually, everyone calmed down and gathered together again, with eyes falling on her.

The purple-clothed woman calmed down and said, "Since there is a ghost and god area here, it means we have come to the right place. This is the rumored tomb of the True King..."

At this time, Chen Shi's voice came from the front: "Big sister, why didn't you catch up? The nest of those porcelain dolls is right here!"

The purple-clothed woman's eyes were as fast as lightning. She looked in the direction of the sound and saw a small head popping out from behind a large earthen slope. It was Chen Shi, with an innocent face and clear yet stupid eyes. Obviously, he was not the treacherous man she had imagined.

"He's just a kid, I might be overthinking it."

The woman in purple felt a little guilty. She had imagined Chen Shi to be a calculating man and forgot that he was only a child of ten years old.

The woman in purple looked at Chen Shi and her heart moved slightly. Chen Shi, like them, had also turned into a porcelain doll!
"This kid obviously isn't here for the first time, so he must know how to transform from a porcelain doll into a human!"

Her eyes lit up, and she immediately ordered, "Follow him, and seize the opportunity to capture him!"

As they rushed forward, the forest in front of them gradually became sparser. The trees were no longer dense, but instead, there were many tall mounds of earth.

The mound of earth was hollow and had traces of burning, like a cave.

In addition, there are huge pottery jars, some of which are broken and some are intact. They are four or five times taller than them. They are like inexplicable giants and are very oppressive.

Everyone chased Chen Shi, weaving between pottery jars and caves. The purple-clothed woman walked at the end, looking around in surprise, and suddenly realized: "No, this is not the real king's tomb! This is... a kiln factory that fires porcelain!"

All kinds of thoughts popped up in her mind. How could a kiln factory in the countryside become a realm of ghosts and gods?
Where does the porcelain from the kiln come from?

What did Chen Shi bring them to the kiln factory for?
Just as she was thinking this, Fang He's voice suddenly came from the front: "We've lost track... There are people over there! It's those porcelain dolls!"

The woman in purple hurried forward, only to see that the porcelain doll that had just been playing by the stream was now hiding in the shadow of a still-broken cave, looking at them in horror.

One of the porcelain dolls waved at them.

A Jinyiwei laughed and said, "These little creatures are afraid of us..."

The purple-clothed woman came to her senses, her face suddenly changed, and she said quickly: "They are not afraid of us, but something else! Retreat quickly--"

Suddenly, the earth rumbled and shook, the sky and the earth suddenly became dark, and a strong wind blew. Then three giants in blue-gray clothes took steps and walked towards this side.

Those giants were tall and thin, about ten or twenty feet tall. With the purple-clothed woman and others turned into porcelain dolls less than a foot tall, the giants looked even taller.

The giant had long and thin hands and feet, and his face was like a clay sculpture, without any expression, like a kiln worker making porcelain in a kiln factory. His movements caused gusts of cold wind, and when he saw them, he reached out to grab them.

Everyone started running, but suddenly one of them was caught by one of the kiln workers, and his neck was broken with a snap. The porcelain head was crushed to pieces and turned into residue that flowed through the giant's fingers.

Seeing this, the others ran faster, but the kiln workers only took one step and were dozens of steps away from them. They easily caught up with one of them and grabbed him in their hands.

The purple-clothed woman was horrified. Although she was a cultivator and had already achieved divine fetus, she had fallen into the realm of ghosts and gods. The power of her Taoism was greatly damaged and she could not threaten these kiln workers!
The kiln worker could crush her to pieces with just a light kick!
She ran desperately, moving back and forth in the kiln factory to avoid being chased by the kiln workers. However, there were fewer and fewer people around her, and soon she was the only one left.

The others were caught by the three kiln workers.

The woman in purple suddenly thought of the porcelain dolls hiding in the caves. An idea suddenly occurred to her and she hurriedly hid in a dilapidated cave.

There were actually a few porcelain dolls hiding in the cave. When they saw her hiding in, they waved their hands and signaled her to keep quiet.

Three kiln workers bent over and looked around. One of them stuck his head out, and his huge face blocked the entrance to the cave.

The woman in purple held her breath and dared not make any sound.

The kiln worker moved stiffly, his eyes were lifeless, and his eyeballs were like porcelain, rustling as they moved. He glanced into the cave, then stood up and strode away.

The other kiln workers stopped searching.

After a while, the porcelain dolls poked their heads out stealthily, looked around, breathed a sigh of relief, and waved to her.

The woman in purple came forward, bent her waist and walked quietly along with the porcelain dolls.

Not far away, a huge cave was blazing with flames. The three kiln workers threw the porcelain dolls they had caught into the flames. The dolls struggled, screamed, and melted and deformed in the flames.

The woman in purple felt heartbroken. Those porcelain dolls were the Jinyiwei of the Zhao family in Xinxiang, and now they were dead in such a shabby place in the countryside!
She followed a few porcelain dolls and quietly left the kiln factory.

"Girl, were you also deceived and brought here by the little beast from Huangpo Village?" one of the porcelain dolls asked.

The purple-clothed woman said, "I don't understand what you are saying... Huh?"

She was surprised to find that after she turned into a porcelain doll, she could understand the bird-like language of the porcelain dolls without any instruction!

The purple-clothed woman did not hide anything and told the whole story, "He calls himself honest, but he is full of bad intentions! You..."

One of the porcelain dolls sighed and said, "We were also here to look for treasure, but he tricked us into this place, and that's why we ended up like this."

"And us." A few more porcelain dolls came over.

"And us."

Outside the kiln factory, groups of porcelain dolls came over, each with a gloomy look on their faces.

"We heard that the tomb of the True King was nearby, so we came here to search for it, hoping to find some opportunities. Unexpectedly, people's hearts are no longer the same as before. Who would have thought that in the countryside with simple folk customs, there would be such a little devil!"

A seemingly elderly porcelain doll was filled with grief and indignation. He paused with his cane and said angrily, "The little devil tricked us into coming here and turned us into porcelain! In the past two years, more and more people have been tricked by him, all at his hands!"

Some people were filled with righteous indignation: "Don't be a son of a noble family!"

Everyone echoed: "Yes! Don't be a son of a bitch!"

The purple-clothed woman also echoed, but thought in her heart: "These people are also here to look for the True King's Tomb. Apparently, like me, they also resorted to murder to silence the witnesses. Little Chengshi discovered this, so he tricked them here. This kid..."

When she thought of Chen Shi, she couldn't help but feel annoyed: "Is this brat really only ten years old? Also, how did he transform from porcelain into a human body?"

"Girl, you are..."

A porcelain doll who looked like a middle-aged man came forward, looked at the woman in purple, and suddenly said in a lost voice, "Are you the second Miss Zhao from the Zhao family in Xinxiang Province?"

The purple-robed woman was surprised, nodded, and said, "Your Excellency is..."

The porcelain doll said, "I am Li Xian from Quanzhou, Miss Zhao Er. We met before years ago!"

The purple-clothed woman was shocked. Li Xian of Quanzhou came from a famous family and had a long-standing reputation. Hearing that there were fierce bandits entrenched in Longyuan and no one could defeat them, Li Xian of Quanzhou actually broke into Longyuan alone, went in and out seven times, and no one could stop him!

When she first came to Xinxiang Province, her father asked her to go and meet Uncle Li, but she didn't expect that she would be trapped in this remote place!
"I am He Qinghe from Danjiang, nice to meet Miss Zhao Er."

The purple-clothed woman was shocked again. This Danjiang He Qinghe was also a famous figure. He had cultivated the golden elixir and was a master among the younger generation!
He also fell into this!
A porcelain doll that looked like a woman said, "I am Lin Feishuang, nice to meet Miss Zhao Er and everyone else."

"I am Long Gang from Xinxiang. Nice to meet Miss Zhao Er and meet you all!"

"I am in Huaqing Pool in the bathing capital, and I have met Miss Zhao Er."

……

These porcelain dolls announced their names one by one, and they were all well-known figures. Among them was an old senior who had achieved the Nascent Soul stage!
The purple-clothed woman was both surprised and horrified. She had never expected that these powerful men, some of whom were even treated with courtesy by the Xinxiang Zhao family, would all fall into the trap of that little guy and be turned into porcelain dolls, at the mercy of others!
"However, my status in the Zhao family is not low. I haven't been home for a few days. My father will definitely send people to search for me. As long as they find Huangpo Village, they can find our trace and rescue me!" she said to herself.

In the kiln factory, flames shot up into the sky.

Chen Shi quietly retreated to the dark corner, avoiding the three kiln workers who looked like wood carvings and clay sculptures.

There were several large urn-shaped jars in the corner. When they saw him trying to squeeze in, they quickly retracted their hands and feet and squeezed in more tightly so that the porcelain doll could not squeeze in.

However, there was a large gap between them, and Chen Shi was still able to squeeze in.

Three kiln workers with long arms and legs walked by. One of them glanced at the jars in the corner. One of the jars was frightened and suddenly grew a leg.

The other two kiln workers immediately turned around to look. Seeing that the situation was not good, the jar immediately grew two arms and another leg and ran away, with the jar lid clanging.

The three kiln workers immediately chased forward. After a while, two of them turned back, bent down, and approached the jars in the corner with expressionless faces, as if checking which other jars had come back to life.

Chen Shi, hiding in the corner of the jar, took a peek and saw that the kiln worker's eyes were gray and white, like failed porcelain.

The two kiln workers examined the jar and found that there was nothing wrong with it, so they left.

After a while, another kiln worker returned, dragging the escaped jar and throwing it into the kiln for smelting.

In the shadow of the corner, Chen Shi and the few surviving jars tiptoed and left quietly.

The few surviving jars seemed to have a bad relationship with Chen Shi. After escaping the sight of the three kiln workers, they turned around to settle the score with Chen Shi. However, there was nothing behind them as Chen Shi had already taken the opportunity to slip away without a trace.

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