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Yi Chen didn't pay attention to the change in everyone's expressions; he had more important things to do at this moment.

By now, he had guessed the identity of the enormous corpse creature underfoot.

That white crane pattern…

If he wasn't mistaken, it was the Daoist Master Bai He who he had encountered at the Mu Sen Relay Station.

"Sigh." Yi Chen heaved a silent sigh in his heart and proceeded to remove the lower jawbone of the corpse creature, within which, bound in a red silk ribbon, was indeed a manuscript wrapped in animal skin.

Just as Yi Chen opened the manuscript and began to browse through it, a sudden change occurred.

Ning Feixue cried out in alarm:

"Damn it, Qing Rou girl, what are you doing?"

"Sister, what's wrong with you?" This was Zhu Sha's grief-stricken voice.

Yi Chen looked up to see that, at some point, the originally feeble Qing Rou had taken on a new appearance, with two canine teeth growing sharply, piercing through her lips, her eye sockets darkened, her complexion turned a ghastly hue of green, as she suddenly launched a surprise attack on Ning Feixue.

Fortunately, Ning Feixue reacted in time and narrowly escaped disaster.

"Has she been possessed by some evil spirit?"

"Master Daoist, please lend me a hand to restrain the girl Qing Rou, I have a method we might try."

"Mystical and profound, heaven and earth…"

Ning Feixue's voice came to an abrupt halt.

Because Qing Rou's head was gone, having retracted into her chest cavity.

"Master Daoist, why would you kill my sister? She still had a chance."

"Master Daoist, why have you done this."

The voices of Zhu Sha and Ning Feixue rose nearly simultaneously.

"They are already dead! Calm yourself."

"Daoist Ning, let's go, let's meet the master of this place!"

"You think these tricks could kill me? Not a chance."

Yi Chen said coldly to Ning Feixue; he was like a silent volcano at that moment, with an unnamed fury brewing in the pit of his stomach.

"Master Daoist, what are you talking about? What do you mean they are already dead?"

"And where are we going? What about the others left behind, Zhang Biaotou and Zhu Sha?" Ning Feixue was completely baffled at the moment.

The things Yi Chen was saying were strange and incomprehensible to him.

"Are you sure you want to stay with them? They are already people of this place, I reckon they will soon turn into corpses." Yi Chen threw the manuscript beside Ning Feixue.

In fact, as soon as Yi Chen encountered Zhang Biaotou, he had wondered why, after the incident at Mu Sen Relay Station, Zhang Biaotou dared to still travel as a convoy with only a few of their men?

And to have transported goods across provinces to this place.

Not to mention not having a single cultivator accompanying them.

This couldn't be explained even if his wife had given birth to four sons.

You must realize that the world is not a peaceful place right now, it's not just about humans robbing paths.

However, Yi Chen did not show his suspicion at that time but suppressed the doubts in his heart and stayed silently on guard.

Now, when he saw the Daoist robe embroidered with white cranes on the corpse creature tonight, Yi Chen was startled. If the person wasn't Daoist Master Bai He, then it must be someone from the same sect as Bai He.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

If Zhang Biaotou came to Yao Guan Du with him, what then was Zhang Biaotou now?

And what about the residents still living in this strange old town?

All the answers were found in the manuscript hidden in the throat of the corpse creature.

Daoist Master Bai He, valiant indeed!

He had recorded his experiences of coming to this ancient town on silk scripts, and before his death, he swallowed the scripts that held the truth, leaving them for those fated to uncover the truth about the town.

This terrifying town had long been devoid of any living souls, all ordinary townspeople who died at the hands of the evil entity were caught in their own cycles of reincarnation, from the first day of the strange incidents to the end of their lives, repeating endlessly without rest.

On the day of the cycle's end, under the moonlit night, they would crazily attack any living person in sight, then return to the rolling river waters, only to walk out the next day and repeat the cycle.

Truly never surpassing life!

And it was Bai He who had discovered this fact, and as he himself was being eroded by the evil entity and could no longer hold on, he resolutely recorded all the information onto the silk scripts, and ended his life through self-destruction.

In the end, he escaped the fate of his soul being enslaved; however, his corpse could not evade the same fate and was turned into a monstrous creature by the evil entity behind the scenes.

Miserable! Miserable! Miserable!

Ning Feixue was still somewhat skeptical about the content on the silk scripts, yet at that moment, another anomaly occurred.

The remaining Zhu Sha, Head Escort Zhang, and the other escorts, one after another, began to experience changes – their canine teeth grotesquely enlarged and punctured through their lips, dark circles formed around their eyes, their skin turned a ghastly blue, and they, in unison, turned their heads towards Yi Chen and Ning Feixue, revealing sinister smiles, which frightened Ning Feixue enough to quickly retreat behind Yi Chen.

"Head Escort Zhang, I will ensure your belongings and your brothers' ashes are transported by escort to your family, may you have a safe journey," Yi Chen said with regret.

Over a dozen dark cyan Inner Qi flame seeds were shot at everyone, and in an instant, the transformed bodies of Head Escort Zhang and the others were engulfed in fierce flames, and shortly after, only a small heap of black ashes remained scattered on the ground.

Yi Chen took out over a dozen empty boxes originally meant for food and spices from the storage ring, labeled each box with the names of the deceased, and placed their ashes inside.

Head Escort Zhang was dead.

He died within this ancient town called Yaoguandu.

This man, who had a wife that bore him four sons, fell in the journey of life.

The burly man who weighed over two hundred pounds now, along with the box, weighed little over three pounds.

In the end, Head Escort Zhang failed to overcome life's hurdle.

His brothers, some as young as seventeen or eighteen, and the eldest of the escorts barely past thirty.

Not long ago, they had amiably introduced themselves to Yi Chen and offered him drinks, calling him "Daoist" with warmth and familiarity, but now they too had fallen upon this land.

They were all strong men carrying heavy burdens.

They were, in a way, Yi Chen's acquaintances.

Therefore, someone had to pay a price for this.

Suddenly, a presence far beyond Ning Feixue's imagination emanated from Yi Chen's body.

The intensity of this aura made his heart tremble.

It was only now that he realized just how powerful, just how grandiose, this tall Daoist master before him truly was.

And how ludicrous his previous show of strength had been.

"Come out, you fiend!"

"Your little tricks are not enough, far from enough. Come out and kill me if you can!!!"

"Do you like this ancient town? Well then, let me erase it, let me see what kind of phantom you are, and where you are hiding!"

With each word Yi Chen spoke, he took a step forward, and with each step, his aura grew stronger, deep cyan Inner Qi swirling fiercely around him.

As he advanced, more and more of the dark cyan Inner Qi surrounded him.

Finally, under the astonished gaze of Ning Feixue, in the night sky above Yaoguandu, an azure sun slowly began to rise!

Nothing, no one could halt the progress of this cyan sun; everything blocking Yi Chen's path was destroyed and burned away.

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He was determined to plow through this ancient town, determined to destroy this realm of sin!

The gloomy winds above the town grew fiercer, howling angrily, but they could not extinguish the cyan sun.

From the distant banks of the Wujiang River, amid the increasingly turbulent splashes, one towering corpse after another lined up to emerge from the river.