The ghost market is not located on a horizontal plane. It is composed of dozens of waterfalls, dozens of river sections, and hundreds of large and small caves.
And due to the height difference between the tributaries of the underground river, the entire ghost market is divided into several floors. In some places, you have to take bamboo stairs or dive to access.
If you are not familiar with the terrain and do not have a guide to guide you, it is easy to get lost in the hidden river system and never get out.
'No wonder the imperial court of Yu State and Zhenfusi couldn't destroy the ghost market here. Underground rivers extend in all directions and there are countless secret passages. It is difficult for the army to move in, but even if it does, the people in the ghost market can quickly evacuate and move.
to other underground river systems.'
Li Ang looked around, feeling a little surprised. The entire ghost city had such a complex terrain that it was comparable to a super giant ant nest. It could accommodate a population of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. It looked like an underground kingdom. p>
Wanted fugitives, monks who came to buy prohibited items, foreign spies with evil intentions, businessmen who are greedy for profit...
If Chang'an is a paradise on earth, then the ghost market is where the dirty water and filth of Chang'an City gather.
"It's still smelly here as always."
Wu Huo put his hands behind his head and complained: "What do the people in the ghost market eat all day long?"
Yajiu walked in front and replied without looking back: "The staple food is moss, eyeless albino fish, and earthworms. A few people can afford food."
"We can't transport large amounts of food in, so we can only eat this?"
Wu Huo clicked his tongue and said, "It's a good thing they can eat it."
"When a person is extremely hungry, he will eat anything."
Yajiu said calmly, quickened his pace slightly, and turned a corner.
"Huh?"
Li Ang raised his eyebrows, and what appeared in front was no longer the low shack seen in the river section in front, but a fair and neat villa house located high up.
There is a high courtyard wall outside the mansion, with countless ceramic fragments buried on top of the wall to guard against bandits. There are also several lookout towers behind the wall, with soldiers in armor and swords stationed above them.
Above the cave where the entire villa is located, a huge "herringbone" shaped rain shelter hangs to block the dripping water from the cave.
Under the awning, there are also long-lasting lamps hanging, which are always illuminated. The villa and the manor look spectacular and weird.
Tap tap tap.
Two bald men with the same appearance and wearing short robes walked out of the shadows on both sides of the house and cast a sinister glance at Crow Nine and the others.
"I'm here to see Kou Zhian and Kou Dalang."
Yajiu looked normal, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to the two bald guards.
The bald guard glanced at it, but still said nothing. He just turned around and motioned for Yajiu and others to follow.
Kou Zhian Kou Dalang?
Li Ang was moved in his heart. This name appeared in the last change in Shengyefang. At that time, the scholar, the dwarf and other four people were said to be the strangers introduced by Kou Zhian to Huai Rui, a doctor in the Jin Department, to help Huai Rui solve the change. p>
At that time, Li Ang thought that Kou Zhian was an intermediary in the ghost market. Looking at this battle, his status seemed to be quite high.
Local snake?
As if feeling the doubts in Li Ang's heart, Yajiu flicked his fingers and released the sound transmission technique, causing the sound to ring in Li Ang's ears.
"The entire ghost market is divided up by eleven different forces. Kou Zhian is one of them - his father, Kou Wukui, is a monk in the Zhuxiao Realm, but he has not been seen in the ghost market for several years.
Considering that the Kou family has been oppressed and invaded from their sphere of influence, he has never come forward.
He is probably dead. Or at least he fell to the Candle Sky Realm."
Kou Wukui...I seem to have heard this name somewhere.
Li Ang's eyes lit up. He seemed to have heard Yang Yu, a native of Chang'an, mention it.
When the Holy Queen was in power, she kept many handsome male favors, gave them many rewards, and even granted them official positions. Some of them were proud of their favors and behaved wantonly. As a result, after the Shenlong Coup and the Li family took over the government, they were harshly treated.
Liquidation.
(Some doctors of academic history believe that the Queen's connivance with Mian Shou was due to her cowardice in her later years. Others secretly commented that this move was a conspiracy by the Queen. She deliberately indulged Mian Shou, male favorites, sycophants, etc., pushing them to behave wildly, thereby blocking
Attract hatred in front of the Wu clan. Wait for the Holy Queen a hundred years to prevent the Wu clan from being implicated too severely)
Most of them were killed or even stabbed to death by members of the Li clan. Only a few who were completely innocent or unworthy of being liquidated escaped.
Kou Wukui is one of them - he and Shanchang Lian Xuanxiao were of the same era. When he was young, he was favored by the Holy Queen because of his handsome appearance, and even asked the Holy Queen to use the resources in the palace to help him practice.
After the Shenlong Coup, Kou Wukui, who was already a monk in the Xunyun Realm, escaped from the pursuit of the Li clan with great difficulty. From then on, he vowed to avenge the Holy Queen to the death, and he and Li Yu were sworn in.
'It was said that he assassinated many clan members surnamed Li, as well as Shenlong heroes who played a great role in the coup. Then he disappeared. The citizens of Chang'an thought he was dead, but they didn't expect that he had been hiding in the ghost market for so many years.
It has become the realm of Zhuxiao.
Well, in a sense, hiding in the underground ghost market for decades until his death, he was indeed at odds with the Li Yu court.'
Li Ang thought this way and followed Ya Jiu into the villa.
The entire villa is not much different from the above-ground buildings. It has a gate, a pavilion, a central hall, a backyard and other structures. There are also rockery flowers and plants in the backyard.
However, probably for moisture-proof purposes, the entire wood part of the villa has been replaced by stone.
"It's like a coffin."
Wu Huo curled his lips and made a comment. The bald guard leading the way immediately turned his head and glanced at him coldly. Behind him, there was a faint shadow of a jackal, staring at Wu Huo with his mouth open.
The fierce appearance of a body-refining warrior.
Wu Huo snorted disdainfully and looked directly into the cruel and sinister eyes of the ferocious wolf. Behind him, a larger, dark shadow also appeared, shrouding the opponent.
"Don't make trouble."
Yajiu glanced at him and walked forward faster.
At this time, a middle-aged man in rich clothes also walked out of the backyard.
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He is tall and burly, with sunken eye sockets and a straight nose. He looks like he is of Hu origin.
"Kou Huaian?"
Yajiu frowned slightly, "Kou Erlang, where is your eldest brother?"
"You are the distinguished guest introduced by Mr. Yuansou, right?"
Kou Erlang, named Kou Huaian, smiled and said: "My eldest brother went to Jingguo for business half a month ago. Now I am in charge of the Kou family. If you three have anything, you can tell me."
"..."
Yajiu was silent for a moment, nodded, and said, "When Kou Da left, did he tell you the whereabouts of some of the stumps?"
"Are these Buddhas you are talking about?"
Kou Huai'an nodded, turned around and walked into the central hall, "You three, follow me."
Li Ang followed Yajiu into the middle hall and saw Kou Huai'an exchanging a few words with his men. The latter walked into the corridor and disappeared for a while, then reappeared with a huge wooden box in his hand.
Squeak.
After the wooden box was opened, it contained some gray-white or waxy-yellow muscle and bone fragments.
It looks like a smashed mannequin specimen.
Kou Huai'an spread his palms and said, "Everything we collected from the underground river is here."
"..."
Yajiu squatted on the ground, checked the shape of the fragments in the wooden box, stood up, and said to Li Ang: "Come and see if these things can be put together."
"Huh?"
Li Ang was a little surprised, but he still walked forward and checked it out.
The fragments in the box are as hard as fragments of stone statues, but there are clearly visible muscle and bone lines on the fracture surfaces.
Biceps, triceps, trapezius, deltoid...
Humerus, scapula, ribs, clavicle...
It didn't take much effort for Li Ang to rearrange the fragments into their respective positions, and vaguely piece together the outline of a person's upper body.
It just lacks the head and left arm.
"Is everything here?"
Yajiu looked up at Kou Huai'an, who spread his palms innocently, "That's all we got. If you still want it, you can find someone else - the citizens of the ghost city who were the first to fish out the stumps.
Maybe I’ve dumped my stuff somewhere else.”
"..."
Yajiu nodded when he heard the words, and took out a stack of round fine gold coins like chips from his arms and placed them on the table.
This currency, similar to chips, is commonly used within the ghost market.
However, the chips used in outside transactions are all made of copper, and chips made of fine gold should be much more expensive.
Kou Huai'an nodded when he saw the gold coins, waved his hands, and asked his men to put away the coins, "Do you want to see anything else? I have it here..."
"No more competition, Kou Erlang, take care and say goodbye."
Yajiu spoke calmly, lifted up the wooden box on the ground, and threw it to Wu Huo, who was watching the show. He walked resolutely out of the courtyard.
Li Ang, who had just found a point to recognize the feel of bones, blinked and followed.
After walking out of the Kou family's mansion, Yajiu remained silent and followed the dark river to a secluded shack in the ghost market.
He placed the two boxes on the ground, opened them, and said to Li Ang: "Can you sew these parts together with thread?"
"Can is possible."
Li Ang nodded, "But there are not enough parts here, so there will definitely be defects."
"It's okay, it's normal to have a disability."
Yajiu took off a ceramic bottle from his belt pouch, poured some scarlet liquid out of it, and poured it on the fragments in the two boxes.
呲——
A puff of smoke rose from the fragments, and all the fragments re-expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming full and plump, like human-shaped statues.
"Sew."
Yajiu replaced the ceramic bottle cap. Li Ang frowned deeply, but he still opened the medicine box, put on gloves, and used mulberry white leather thread to rearrange all the fragments according to the outline of a normal human body and sew them one by one.
Soon, the fragments gradually took shape, forming an incomplete upper body.
Including the right arm in the iron box, only the left arm, head, and lower body are left.
"My part is done."
Li Ang stood up, released the spell, burned the cloth gloves directly, turned to Yajiu and said, "Can I go?"
"..."
Yajiu did not answer Li Ang's words immediately, but looked at the broken body that was missing its left arm, head, and lower body, and recited an obscure language.
"The Taiyi guards the corpse, the three souls guard the bones... the seven souls guard the flesh, the fetal spirit records the Qi... the so-called Taiyin training."
As Yajiu chanted, the same dense black text as the original right arm gradually appeared on the back of the residual body.
The whole body "came alive"
The right arm twisted and swayed, supporting the straw in the iron box, holding up the headless upper body to stand upright in the iron box, facing Crow 9 and the others.
Sha——
The right arm of the headless corpse hovers gently in front of the abdomen, with the middle finger clasping the knuckle of the thumb, and the other three fingers raised, making a lotus gesture in Zen Buddhism.
Pure and comfortable, the flowers bloom and you see the Buddha.
(There is another chapter, it’s quite late, so don’t wait)