Chapter 48: Dragon Stone Town (1/2)
Chapter 48 : Dragon Stone Town
A heavenly deer pulled the eight wheeled bronze ancient carriage like a courageous assault team; they quickly left Violet Firmament Ancient City, and they headed towards the northwest at a speed that caused the road-side leafs to start flying.
The Hidden Dragon War and the Military Strategy Iron Council were drawing near, and the heavenly defying geniuses of the fifth generation would soon show themselves. Once they appeared, they would surely shock the whole world.
If Fei Yun wanted to shine amongst these natural talents and open a new road for himself, then he had to seize this opportunity and to increase his cultivation.
This trip to Jing Huan Mountain was imminent!
Dragon Stone Town was located in a vast wilderness to the northwest, close to Jing Huan Mountain. This was the only small town within a radius of a few hundred miles. Because Jing Huan Mountain had a lot of spirit stones and mineral veins, Dragon Stone Town became the transfer station; thus, this small town was quite well-known at Violet Firmament Ancient City.
Many practitioners knew about the existence of this small town.
When Feng Fei Yun arrived at Dragon Stone Town, the night curtain had already fell. The sound of the wheels rolling on the small street broke the serenity of the small town.
The bronze ancient carriage had just come to a complete stop. A boy wearing a melon hat quickly came to greet them, and he ingratiatingly smiled.
“Esteemed guest wants to visit Jing Huan Mountain? Right now, the sky is dark, and the mountain is very dangerous. If you aren’t going right now, you should go to our White Horse Inn to rest for the night; it would be much safer to go with the party tomorrow.”
The little boy had seen numerous groups that have beautiful men and women like Feng Fei Yun and Feng Jian Xue. They seemed to be the younger generation of a clan coming to patrol the mines or to train in Jing Huan Mountain. They could also be some disciples from an immortal sect coming to the mountains to find medicines and magical treasures.
These types of guests were always quite generous because they weren’t short on money.
Feng Fei Yun glanced left and right, and they analyzed the entire small town to each end; this even included the pitch black mountains in the far distance. He felt a cold breeze with a pine tree scent from the mountains, giving others a comfortable feeling.
“Little Brother, why is the night in Dragon Stone Town so desolate with not even an oil lamp light around?”
Feng Fei Yun smelled that something was unusual around here.
It just became night time. Even if the small town didn’t like loud commotions, it still shouldn’t be lacking in lit up oil lamps.
The little boy seemed to be accustomed to such strange matters. He lowered his voice, and he whispered:
“I heard that recently the Yin Gou family had dug up an ominous item from the mines.”
Within Jing Huan Mountain, there were many spirit stone caverns. The clans and immortal sects all have their own mines for extraction in the mountains and share the resources with each other.
Jing Huan Mountain was like an Immortal Spirit Mountain. This used to be the burial ground of many powerful cultivators. The ancestral burial grounds of many grand families of Violet Firmament Ancient City were all situated in this mountain.
The remains of cultivators, because of cultivation, had long become something different from ordinary people. The transformation was great, and this change was usually referred to as “Human Transformation.”
After death, they would be buried in a special place. These locations would give birth to “Earth Transformation.”
When “Human Transformation” and “Earth Transformation” resonated together, the remains buried under the earth would also undergo changes. These changes were quite complex, and the end results were usually different.
For those that came back from the dead were, it was called “Rebirth Transformation.”
For those who became vicious blood corpses, it was called “Corpse Transformation.”
If the surrounding aura condensed and change the atmosphere of an area, it turned into a murderous forbidden ground; this was called “Ominous Transformation.”
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Anyway, there were many different kind of transformations. Each would frighten the secular world; the Jing Huan Mountain, itself, had underwent an Earth Transformation. When the ancestors of the great families died from old age, they would be buried in these kinds of places; they hoped that they could borrow the power of these lands in order to come back from the dead.
However, many thousand years had passed, and the dead coming back to life lessened in number. On the contrary, the number of vicious evil corpses that appeared were too numerous to count.
Within the eight hundred mile radius of Jing Huan Mountain, there had never been true serenity. Even during the day time, meeting an old man’s corpse playing chess was completely plausible.
“What ominous thing?”
Feng Fei Yun’s curiosity rose.
The topic seemed to be taboo for the boy, so he didn’t want to say many words; however, after Feng Fei Yun threw him a gold coin, his hesitation was long gone.
“In recent days, I heard that the Yin Gou family dug out a basket of bloody mud from their mines, and, within the same day, many people mysteriously died. No one else dared to continue digging until several days later. When a big character from the Yin Gou family came, then the digging started again. As for what they dug out later… this is not known.”
The boy was very careful; there were many things he didn’t dare to say as he was afraid that he would offend an ominous thing.