Chapter 424: The Forgotten Ghost Village (1/2)

Chapter 424: The Forgotten Ghost Village

“What are you waiting for? It’s getting dark already.” Feiyun’s voice came from afar.

“Well… fine.” She had thoughts of escaping before remembering his absurd speed and obediently followed him.

This was an old town next to the shore of Jin River and a black mountain.

Who knows how long these streets have been here for? There were many potholes around but at least the eaved roofs of the buildings on the side were still intact. When Feiyun got there, he could sense something strange in the air.

He suddenly stopped in the middle of an intersection with fires moving in his eyes. His phoenix gaze observed the qi image of this small village and noticed that there was a yin-yang energy concentrating above in the form of a fish. It engulfed the entire village.

Of course, this was only a qi image, something invisible, that ordinary eyes couldn’t see.

Only cultivators versed in reading these qi images could see them.

This was… a qi image established by an Enlightened Being.

This village that couldn’t seem any more ordinary was actually visited by an Enlightened Being. Something strange was happening here.

“What are you looking at?” Ye Xiaoxiang stared at the place Feiyun was with her pretty eyes and long, curving eyebrows but couldn’t see anything.

“Nothing.” He withdrew his gaze and continued on the street ahead.

Even before nightfall, all the villagers have closed their door. Outside of a fat rooster, there was no other living creature on the street.

Eventually, the old woman that had visited the statue returned. She was surprised to see the pair and commented: “Looks like the young is still faster.”

Under her determined request, the two had to go stay at her house for one night.

Night finally came. The entire village was devoid of light outside of this old woman’s house.

“The village isn’t peaceful right now, why did the two of you still come here?” She was worried and felt that the lamp could bring some dirty things here.

Feiyun smiled and said: “Aunty, the truth is that I’m an exorcist. Why don’t you tell me about the strange things happening here and maybe I can solve the problem.”

He thought that she would become very excited after hearing this but it was the opposite. She became worried and said: “It’s useless, even the immortals from Faith Convent didn’t return. Young man, don’t risk your life for no reasons.”

“Oh, really? Thank you, Aunty, I won’t try then. But why don’t you tell us what is going on anyway so we can at least know.” He replied.

“I’ll tell you if you don’t go.” She was still worried.

Feiyun smiled brightly and said: “I won’t.”

She was relieved and said: “There is a ghost village next to us. It has been around for a long time now. Every several hundred years, it would come out before disappearing again.” Several days ago, Old Yang from up the street on his way back saw the ghost village appearing again. It had lamps and buildings everywhere so the old man ran back and told everyone. On the second day, people came and only saw an empty field so they said that he was drunk and didn’t know what he was saying, but, but…”

A chilling wind blew by in the night.

Xiaoxiang was slightly pale and leaned her soft body closer to Feiyun.

“But what?” Feiyun asked.

“On the second night, Old Yang screamed and ran like a madman around his yard about a ghost wanting to take his life. His scream was even scarier than a ghost and frightened everyone in the village. No one got any sleep last night.”

“At dawn, someone found him dead in his yard, he had swallowed his own tongue.” The old woman’s voice was trembling.

Feiyun commented: “This ghost village appeared again later on.”

The old woman nodded: “Several nights later, someone saw the well-lit ghost village again at the same place. Who knows what actually happened later but it was another miserable death. From then on, no one dared to go outside at night again.”

“Is there really a ghost village killing people…” Xiaoxiang thought that she was a brave person but she still shivered after hearing about this bizarre matter.