Although this statement sounded a bit wrong, Lu Zheng's surprise was serious.
A dozen scholars have disappeared in this town at once. No matter how you look at it, most of them are probably dead.
Ji Zizhen also disappeared for four days. Logically speaking, the possibility of survival is unlikely.
but……
Since he was alive, Lu Zheng didn't mind minding his own business. After all, he was just kidnapping some scholars in a remote town. At most, they were just some little demons and little ghosts. How much good deeds could he have?
"It's about ten miles north and west of the town. Where is it?" Lu Zheng turned to the innkeeper.
When the shopkeeper with a mustache heard this, a hint of fear flashed in his eyes, "Ten miles north and west of the town?"
"Yes!" Lu Zheng nodded, "What, is there a problem?"
The shopkeeper swallowed, "That's the Li Family Fort...it's been abandoned for decades..."
It is probably the story of a wealthy clan in Xiahe Town a hundred years ago, and then gradually declined, and finally the descendants dispersed and the clan fell into decline.
"It is said that seventy years ago, the last dozen or so people who lived in Lijiabao suddenly disappeared. Because of the remoteness of the terrain, no one has ever been there again. People who have been there occasionally say that the place is eerie and scary when they come back.
Seemingly kind…”
"Okay, I got it." Lu Zheng nodded.
He didn't run away. It's probably because foreign ghosts found out about this geomantic treasure and occupied it, or the ghosts from the Li family's past became successful in their cultivation.
"Let's go and have a look!"
The four of them said goodbye to the shopkeeper and immediately left the town and headed north.
…
"Where does this ghost come from? It dares to compete with me for a man!" Hu Cainiang curled her lips. She also left her own breath on Ji Zi Zhen's body. Logically speaking, most foreign objects can see it.
"Qingyan, please don't take action for a moment. Let me see how powerful that ghost is!" Hu Cainiang said confidently.
"Okay..." Liu Qingyan agreed, but did not insist.
However, just as a few people arrived at a mountain col, they saw a group of people walking out of a ruins not far away.
"Master You? Sister Du?"
The two leaders turned out to be You Che and Du Huanzhen from Yizhou Town Yisi.
Behind them, there were four or five scholars with pale faces, weak bodies, and unsteady feet. Noriko was really among them.
"Master Lu?"
Du Huanzhen's eyes lit up, he came up to him with a smile, glanced at the three women beside him rather ambiguously, and then winked at Lu Zheng, "Why are you here?"
"Cai Niang?"
When Ji Zi really saw Hu Cainiang, tears welled up in her eyes and she wanted to rush forward, but she almost fell down after taking one step.
Hu Cainiang shook her head helplessly and stepped forward to support him.
"Huh?" Du Huanzhen looked at Hu Cainiang and Ji Zizhen, and then looked at Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng first took Liu Qingyan and Shen Ying to meet the two people, and then, in a long story, he roughly explained the true relationship between Hu Cainiang and Ji Zi, and then asked, "How can a mere hundred-year-old ghost come to the rescue with Sister You and You?"
?”
"It's a misunderstanding." Du Huanzhen shook his head, "We thought they were from the Southern Xinjiang Goddess Cult."
"ah?"
"Recently, southern Xinjiang has been restless. Many sects have sneaked into the Central Plains to cause trouble, and one of them is the Goddess Cult." Du Huanzhen said, "The behavior of this ghost is a bit similar to the Goddess Cult. We thought that the Goddess Cult had sneaked into the ceremony.
We are in the state, so we came here together, but I didn’t expect it to be the case.”
"Oh!" Lu Zheng nodded.
If it was an invasion from southern Xinjiang, it would make sense.
Their base camp is not in Jingchao, so they can mess around without any scruples. Didn’t you see that the Yuan Sheng Sect came to find a substitute for the saint, and the Yi Suppression Department dispatched a large number of people.
The Yuan Sheng Sect is looking for a substitute for a saint, and the Goddess Sect is looking for a man to absorb the yang. How come they all rely on external objects?
"It's just a hundred-year-old ghost that killed a dozen scholars and was killed by us. These are what's left. Yuanyang has also lost most of it. It won't recover in a year or a half. Don't worry about having sex with the same bed."
Think about it."
Du Huanzhen looked at Hu Cainiang and Ji Zizhen with a pointed look.
…
After all, Hu Cainiang and Ji Zizhen still have one day to fall in love, so they send Ji Zizhen away first.
Lu Zheng and Du Huanzhen sent the scholars to Xiahe Town and then left together.
"There was the Yuansheng Sect in the past and the Goddess Sect in the later. Do the sects from southern Xinjiang often sneak into Dajing?" Lu Zheng asked with some confusion.
"I usually stay in the south and rarely go deep into the Central Plains, unless I don't plan to go back or there are extremely important things, such as the last search for the body of the saint who took away the body."
Du Huanzhen said, "Although southern Xinjiang is relatively chaotic, and most of them are at odds with us, their competition and hatred between them are not small at all, so the pressure on us is much smaller than that in northern Xinjiang.
It’s just that the southern border is a smoky land with dangerous terrain and sparsely populated areas. Whether it’s the barbarians in the mountains or various evil ways, the threat to ordinary people is not small at all.”
You Che suddenly said, "There seems to have been an accident in Southern Xinjiang in the past few years. Many important figures died or fell into silence, but they have recovered in recent years."
Lu Zheng blinked, "Dajing Dynasty doesn't have spies in southern Xinjiang?"
Du Huanzhen said with a smile, "You have read too many picture books, right? The leaders of the major sects in southern Xinjiang are all figures who have practiced Taoism for thousands of years. Who can find out what happened between them?
You know, even the leader of our Zhenyi Division in Zhongjing does not dare to go deep into southern Xinjiang."
Lu Zheng couldn't help but was speechless. Okay, he was with Meng Lang, but he didn't care. After all, what did the affairs between the big forces have to do with him, a little layman?
In addition, Lu Zheng's eyes flashed. He is a great man who has practiced Taoism for thousands of years. Is this the upper limit of this world?
Lu Zheng still had many doubts in his mind.
When did the way of cultivation in this world begin?
Are the first group of people or demons who started practicing cultivation still alive?
Why is this world so similar to ancient China, and why is there still Buddhism and Taoism?
Do characters in myths and legends exist? If so, where are they?
These problems are actually not problems in modern times, because modern times are a technological society.
Put alone in this world, it's actually not a big problem. It's just the ancestor of cultivation.
But in Lu Zheng's eyes, this situation was a big problem.
Although there were still many things he didn't understand, Lu Zheng almost subconsciously realized that there was a higher existence above the earth and this world.
so……
A smile appeared at the corner of Lu Zheng's mouth. After looking at it for a long time, it seemed that it was not a dream?
In terms of vision, he may be able to see farther than many masters in this world.
What's more, he is a genius!
after all……
"Jade Seal, when I get stronger, I will take you to see higher scenery to see if there is Fan Tianyin in this world, and then let's have a clash and see who is more powerful between you and Fan Tianyin!"