The donkey walked very slowly and arrived at a small town on the outskirts of Anqing City before dark. The name of the small town is a bit strange, called Zhuxian Town.
The town is not big, with hundreds of households on one street, called Zhuxian Street.
There is only one pawn shop, one inn, one gambling house, one brothel, one drug store, and one blacksmith shop in the town.
However, the Zhuxian Street is a bit weird. It runs straight through Zhuxian Town and is very long, six or seven miles long.
In big cities, streets that are six to seven miles long are very common, and there are even streets that are ten miles long. But in Zhuxian Town, there are only a few hundred households and a population of less than a thousand. This street is extremely long, and even stretches all the way.
When we arrived outside the town, it was very strange.
Turning a small road from the ancient wilderness road, Ye Xiaochuan and the others arrived in front of Zhuxian Town. It was strange that the business travelers who were originally coming and going on the ancient road seemed to rather travel all night and walk more than ten miles than to stay in this small town.
After resting for a while, there were very few people who turned into this trail. Apart from Ye Xiaochuan and the other three, there seemed to be only a few vendors driving horse-drawn carriages.
Standing at the south street entrance of Zhuxian Town, a stone tablet with a height of more than ten feet is placed at the street entrance, with three ancient seal characters engraved on it: "Zhuxian Town". It seems that this stone tablet is some years old, at least hundreds of years old, or even older.
old.
It's not dark yet, and there are almost no people on the streets of Zhuxian Town. Occasionally, a few people pass by in a hurry, as if they are avoiding some plague. A lifeless feeling pervades the entire town.
Although the three of them also discovered that this town was full of weirdness, they were brave enough to not take it to heart.
Walking along Zhuxian Street, we soon came to the door of an inn.
This is the largest chain of inns in the world, Yuelai Inn. It is said that as long as there are human activities in the town, there will be branches of Yuelai Inn. The same name is Yihongyuan, the largest chain of brothels.
Finally, they no longer had to sleep in the wilderness. Ye Xiaochuan and the other three were very happy. They entered the inn and asked the waiter to lead the donkey behind to feed them fodder, and then ordered a table full of food.
Anyway, it was Yang Ling'er, the rich man, who was in charge of the accounts, so Ye Xiaochuan and Baili Yuan would certainly not be polite.
The inn was very deserted tonight, it was already dinner time, and except for Ye Xiaochuan and three other people, there seemed to be no other diners.
The waiter is a thin young man named Zhou, who is also a very diligent and talkative person.
Baili Yuan asked: "Brother Zhou, why does this town seem a little weird? I didn't see many people along the way. It is said that this place is beside the ancient business road, less than twenty miles away from Anqing City, so it shouldn't be so deserted.
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The waiter surnamed Zhou smiled and said: "The three of you must be outsiders."
Bailiyuan nodded and said, "Yes, does this town have any secrets?"
The waiter looked around and saw that the shopkeeper was not there and it was getting dark outside. There should be no more customers tonight.
So, he closed the store door and said somewhat mysteriously: "This place is very bustling on weekdays, but there are three times every year when it is very deserted, mid-April, mid-July, mid-December, and now it happens to be April.
In the middle of the year, traders and tourists who often pass by this place know it, so this town has been very deserted recently."
Ye Xiaochuan wondered: "Why is this?"
The waiter in the shop is also a discerning person. Ye Xiaochuan is wearing a long sword, Baili Yuan has a dagger on his waist, and Yang Ling'er is dressed as a young scholar, but he is also full of heroism. He knows that these three people are by no means ordinary people.
He smiled and said, "Are you all immortals on the path of cultivation?"
"babble?"
Ye Xiaochuan said suspiciously: "You have good vision and you have a bright future."
The waiter smiled and said: "Young master, this is a compliment to me. I grew up in Zhuxian Town, and I have seen many Taoist immortals. It is half April now, and those who dare to come to Zhuxian Town, except locals, or
The business travelers who don’t know the reason are all these immortal figures.”
Baili Yuan said: "So, there are monks coming to this small town often? Is there any rare treasure here?"
As soon as he heard about the exotic treasure, Ye Xiaochuan's eyes lit up.
Unexpectedly, the waiter in the shop smiled and said: "What kind of rare treasure is this? It's just that during these three times every year, a terrible thing happens in this town. The three of you are here tonight. It's just a coincidence, but I advise you.
You three, no matter what happens tonight, please don't go out. Your food should be almost ready. I'll go to the kitchen to have a look."
The waiter left, leaving behind three people looking at each other.
After a while, Ye Xiaochuan whispered: "Baili, do you think the waiter's words in this shop are reliable? Since monks come here often, maybe you are really right. There is a rare treasure in this place."
Bailiyuan said: "Looking at the look on the waiter's face just now, it seems like there is some exotic treasure. It's probably not a good thing. How about we leave? It's better not to join in the fun of such an unknown thing."
Ye Xiaochuan said: "What are you afraid of? The two of us join forces and we will not be afraid of any monsters or monsters we encounter."
Yang Ling'er, who had been silent all this time, looked at the two of them strangely and said, "You really don't know what's going on here?"
Ye Xiaochuan was stunned and said: "Mr. Yang, what, do you know what's going on here?"
Yang Ling'er was sure that these two people did not know about this, so he said: "This place is located in the heart of the Central Plains. Three hundred miles to the north is the Sumeru Mountain Kayaba Temple, and three hundred miles to the southeast is the Longhu Mountain. This Zhuxian
The town is located right in the middle of Mount Xumi and Mount Longhu."
Ye Xiaochuan asked curiously: "Could it be that there is something horrible and strange happening here, and it has something to do with Kaysapa Temple and Longhu Mountain?"
Yang Ling'er said: "Have you ever heard of Yin soldiers taking advantage of the way?"
"puff……"
Ye Xiaochuan only felt that the sky was filled with rain. It turned out that it was Baili Yuan who was sitting opposite and drinking tea. A mouthful of tea sprayed on his face almost without a drop.
Ye Xiaochuan said with a dark face, "What are you doing?"
Baili Yuan ignored her and said strangely: "No way, this is Yin Yang Road? No wonder Zhu Xian Street is so long."
"What? Yin Yang Road?"
Ye Xiaochuan swallowed his saliva and forgot about Bailiyuan spraying tea in his face just now.
Yang Ling'er nodded and said: "There are two yin and yang roads in the world. One is controlled by the Demon Sect. Except for a few people from the Demon Sect, no one knows where it is. The other is shared by the monks of Kayaba Temple and the Taoist priests of Longhu Mountain.
Control is here. Every year in mid-April, mid-July, and mid-December on the full moon night, the gates of hell are wide open. The long Zhuxian Street we just walked through is actually not for people to walk on.
It's for ghosts to leave, to send some lonely ghosts wandering in the world to be reincarnated. Why, you really don't know?"
Ye Xiaochuan and Baili Yuan looked at each other. They naturally knew about this, but they didn't know that the Yin and Yang Road occupied by the Zhongtu Zhengdao was actually in Zhuxian Town.
