Chapter 126 Opening a Mansion

There was a small woodshed in the backyard of the neighboring house. Li Wuxiang climbed in through the window of the woodshed, pressed himself against the roof, and only looked out with his eyes.

Less than a quarter of an hour later, there was a flurry of footsteps on the street, and then a team of about ten soldiers and four monks climbed over the wall and saw the four people standing stiffly in the yard. The monks of the True Form Sect pasted a talisman on each of their faces, and then the soldiers carried the four people out of the yard.

While they were doing this, Li Wuxiang heard the voices from his own household.

This house also had a courtyard, and the back door in the middle divided the main house into two rooms, east and west. The noise when the soldiers and monks jumped into the next room was so loud that the windows of the rooms on the east and west sides were pushed open a crack.

The woodshed where he was was closer to the east, so he saw half of a face sticking out - it was a young woman, very beautiful, with a slightly panicked look on her face, who should have rarely encountered what was happening now.

After the soldiers and monks had left, the woman let out a sigh and whispered, "Husband, what's going on next door?"

The man in the west room should be her husband, but because the windows of the coffin city were double-sided, Li Wuxiang could not see the man's face. He only heard him say, "Don't panic, my lady. It should be the soldiers who are searching for the evildoers. Yesterday, I heard that some wild men entered the city."

The woman on the east side was stunned for a moment, then smiled at the other side: "So that's how it is. Husband, thank you for answering my questions."

The man on the west side smiled slightly when he heard the voice through the window: "Madam, you don't have to be polite. It's just what I should do."

The conversation between the two made Li Wuxiang think of a phrase: respect each other like guests. However, this "respect" was too absurd, which made people feel it was evil.

The Shijie Ji said that men and women in the coffin city could not sleep together casually after marriage, and they had to get permission from the Anmin Mansion. After entering the coffin city, Li Wuxiang found that couples also lived together, and wondered how he could control such a thing?

By now he almost understood - in the world he came from, in the summer, the streets of the bustling commercial areas were full of white thighs, but if you go back a few hundred years, there were still women who felt they had lost their virginity and even wanted to commit suicide if their feet were touched by strangers.

According to this logic, the customs of the True Shape Church over the past three thousand years should have subtly caused the people in the parish to regard things like "speaking from one's nature" as outrageous and extremely shameful, right?
Li Wuxiang listened to the two of them exchanging a few more polite words and an idea came to his mind.

If they can't catch him, the restrictions in the coffin city won't be removed. He needs intelligence at this time. It's not easy for him to show up himself, so it would be best if someone in the city could come forward.

So he took a closer look at the beautiful woman in the east room. When she was talking to her husband, she looked very lively. Her original temperament should be very lively. She was the kind of person whose nature was suppressed by the evil feudal ethics.

Such a woman is actually very easy to be moved - especially if she seems to have some innate advantages. If...

But at this time, the two talked about going to Anmin Mansion to pick up clothes tomorrow. It seemed that there would be such benefits every season. So the man in the west room pushed the window open a little more, revealing half of his face.

Li Wuxiang immediately gave up his previous thought - it seemed that his advantage was greatly weakened in this coffin city. These people were selected from generation to generation, at least in terms of appearance, they were indeed ridiculously excellent, and they were 80% to 90% of his appearance, so the risk of this matter would be extremely high.

Then another idea came into his mind.

The most dangerous place is often the safest place. If you continue to stay here or wander around other places in the city, it is only a matter of time before you are caught. Wu Shanzhu is at the level of refining spirit, which is equivalent to the golden elixir of the thirty-six sects, but it is far from the "quick success" level mentioned in their worldly interpretation collection. I don't know what other magical powers he has.

However, there is one key person that I should be able to deal with - Lou He.

Even if he hadn't wasted his cultivation, he was just a swordsman in the Qi Refining Stage. He knew his own methods, but he probably didn't fully understand the magical effect of the Ranshan illusion. When he was on Ranshan, Li Wuxiang wanted to sneak attack Xu Daosheng, but at that time he had just used the True Immortal Body Dao Chapter to build his foundation, and his body couldn't withstand the cutting of the distorted space in the illusion. But now his cultivation is much better than before, so this method can still be tried.

Lou He wanted his body and the Golden Chanzi, and since he wanted something, he could negotiate... If he was really a spy sent by the True Form Sect to the Sword Sect, now that he was about to accomplish his mission and return, it would be the time to cherish his life the most. This kind of person could very likely lead him out of danger.

The first step now is to sneak back to the yard where Lou He is - I hope he is still there!

But this had to wait until dark, so Li Wuxiang returned to the illusion and began to explore the rules of movement in this space bit by bit.

The spiritual energy in the coffin city was difficult to summon, and the spiritual energy in the illusion was quite violent and chaotic, so he tried to be careful and try not to hurt himself too badly. When it got dark again, he roughly figured out how to move within ten steps around the foothold.

So Li Wuxiang escaped from the illusion, planning to wait until it got darker, and use the shadows to take a whole night to return to the guest house where Lou He was - the town soldiers and the True Form Sect monks did not notice him when they took Zeng Jianqiu and the others away, and he didn't know whether they were really powerless, or Master Wu had gotten his two sons and couldn't take care of him for the time being.

But the moment he left the illusion, a series of tiny voices immediately rang in his head, as if someone had said a lot of things to him before, but they were all blocked by the illusion, and only now did they all flood into his consciousness.

It was Zhao Qi - on the way from Deyang to Jinshui, he made a plaque to worship Zhao Qi, the "Blood God", and put it in his stomach.

Li Wuxiang immediately seized upon the sound and used his spiritual consciousness to pull it "outwards". He felt an icy chill from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and the Blood God possessed his body.

"what happened?"

He heard Zhao Qi's voice, vague and ethereal, like the sigh of a vengeful ghost, but quite panicked and angry: "Didn't we settle our affairs before? What's going on now? Li Wuxiang, you asked them to come to me!?"

Li Wuxiang was stunned: "Who? Who did I call? What's wrong with you?"

“Swordsman! You swordsman! Did you ask your swordsman to come find me? Li Wuxiang, I have—” “Swordsman? Which swordsman!? Zeng Jianqiu??”

After a while, Zhao Qi's voice was heard again: "...You really don't know?"

"Nonsense. If I were to mess with you, you would have died long ago. What's going on? Did you see Zeng Jianqiu? Who else? How many others? Two?"

"Both, good, good, good, it's not your fault." Zhao Qi seemed to be greatly relieved, "Does Zeng Jianqiu know about us? Have you told him? I broke his hamstring before, and swordsmen love to hold grudges, so he must remember it. Have you told him that I'm a good person now?"

The three of them are in Lingshan? Then they are...dead?!

Li Wuxiang was stunned for a moment. Wu Meng had gone to so much trouble to find Zeng Jianqiu, just to kill him! ?

He gritted his teeth and said, "Tell me clearly where you met them and how you met them? Only if you tell me clearly can I help you!"

"Me? I am...wait a minute, I'll stay away, it's really unlucky..." After a long while, Zhao Qi's voice came again, "Someone opened a mansion on Lingshan Mountain today! Didn't I tell you, I occupied this ancient cave but there is not much incense, oh, now there is some incense, but I am still far behind Zhao Kui before, so I thought of going over to take a look--"

"Open a government? What do you mean by open a government?"

"Didn't I tell you? You don't take my words to heart at all. Didn't I tell you that many sects would have a base in Lingshan Mountain so that their disciples could temporarily stay and find some magic materials in Lingshan Mountain? Anyone who has created such a place here is a founding father!"

"I don't know what connection I have with this newly opened mansion, but I found out about it. Oh, okay, you're definitely going to ask again. This is what's going on. Didn't I tell you that there's no such thing as distance in Lingshan? Do you understand? It's not like in the mortal world, where you're in Jinshui, I'm in Ranshan, and he's in Anqing, then Anqing must be farther away from you than Ranshan. It's not like that. There's no such thing as distance in Lingshan. If you're in Lingshan and don't know there are two places like Ranshan or Anqing, then they're very far from you, but not very far... There aren't any such places at all, do you understand?"

"I understand. Stop talking nonsense and keep talking!"

"What nonsense! Someone opened a mansion in Lingshan today. I don't know how I saw it from afar! If you see something here, it means that thing has some connection with you... That's why I can hide in the ancient cave for so long, because no one knows me!"

"As soon as the place was opened, I didn't know which sect he was from, but there was also a master who came to Lingshan and stayed in their mansion! He should be a living master who divided his earth soul and came here. The earth soul is very popular! All the resentful ghosts in Lingshan who had a connection with him went to the mansion he opened. I thought that since I could see it, there must be something in that mansion that I had a connection with, so I went over to join in the fun..."

"It seems that someone had a fight in that mansion, and then three swordsmen came out of that mansion and rushed into Lingshan! You said you didn't ask them to look for me, right? Then they are either dead, or they came to Lingshan to look for something. There is a Zeng Jianqiu! They just killed indiscriminately after leaving the mansion, but they can't kill all the resentful ghosts in Lingshan. It seems that the three of them are about to die, but they just don't go back to their mansion. That's the problem——"

"As soon as I saw it was Zeng Jianqiu, he naturally saw me! He saw my ancient cave! Then he ran towards me and wanted to take my ancient cave!"

Li Wuxiang quickly recalled the contents of the Shijieji. Shijieji said very little about Lingshan, but it mentioned the ancient cave. Lingshan was just like what Zhao Qi said, real and illusory, changing constantly. Every time he went to the ancient cave where Zhao Qi was, the surrounding scenery was completely different. If he didn't go to see it, he could only see a blood mist and a cave.

The reason why people like Zhao Kui and Zhao Qi want to occupy the ancient cave is because the ancient cave is one of the few places in Lingshan that can maintain a stable existence and cannot be invaded by resentful ghosts.

"and then?"

"Then of course I ran away! But this is a terrible thing. I know him and he knows me. I can't get rid of them! Now they are still hanging around my cave! What do you think I should do now? Does he know about our relationship?"

"Tell them to go to your ancient cave and ask them what happened to them there, whether they are dead or alive. Tell Zeng Jianqiu about us, but only tell him that the other two can't do it. Can you do it?"

"No, no, I was the one who drew my sword when they saw me just now! You know your swordsman's flying sword almost took my life--"

"I'm in the Coffin City now." Li Wuxiang interrupted him. "If I'm not mistaken, the master you saw is Wu Meng, the mountain master of the True Form Sect in the Coffin City. He just captured the three of them and is looking for me now. If I'm found, I'll definitely die. Zhao Qi, I know you, I know you are the Blood God, I know your ancient cave, think about what you would do if I were captured? Put them in your ancient cave and tell me!"

"You... are in the Coffin City? The Coffin City in the territory of the True Form Sect?" Zhao Qi seemed to be stunned for a while. "I say, Li Wuxiang, do you really want to die? My master... Zhao Kui is right. I am really stupid. Why did I accept you as my apprentice in the first place? How can you be so troublesome? First you killed me, broke up Ranshan, and now you go to the Coffin City to make trouble? What bad luck have I got into?"

"Do not talk nonsense!"

"Who's talking nonsense to you?! Just wait! I'm so unlucky... Wait, can't you come and talk to them yourself?"

"It's OK if only Zeng Jianqiu is here, but not if the other two are here."

"Well, what if..." But Zhao Qi stopped talking, and then Li Wuxiang felt the coldness on his body fade away. His mind was blank, like a person who was extremely sleepy, his head was numb, his consciousness was stiff, and there was only a vague idea in his head, but he just couldn't remember it.

He knew something might be wrong, but what!? He immediately let the roof of the woodshed fall down, held his breath, and thought slowly from the last thought he could remember, grasping that vague thought bit by bit, and then he could remember that he was talking to Zhao Qi just now, but it seemed that he still missed something...

What's missing?
Then a distant thought, which seemed so far away and empty, suddenly popped into his mind - Blood God.

Just now, he couldn’t remember the “Blood God” that Zhao Qi had proclaimed himself… The “Blood God” was gone! ?

(End of this chapter)

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