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Chapter 16 Investigation
Li Heng chatted with old man Liu, but they talked until dark.

He heard many strange things, but in Li Heng's view, these strange things are probably caused by ghosts and spirits.

Li Heng had lived in the secular world as a mortal in his previous life, and it was more appropriate to inquire about some things as a mortal than as a god.

In the secular world, all weird things are bound to spread widely, which corresponds to the saying that good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles.

And the ghost king is so powerful, there must be a gathering together, and so many ghosts gather together, the gathering place must be soaked by the ghost energy emitted by the ghosts, making the gathering place transform into a ghost realm.

As we all know, the birth of Huangquan will inevitably make this place no longer suitable for human survival, and various changes will occur.It makes human beings realize that some kind of human transformation that is not conducive to human beings has taken place here.

It will inevitably make people panic and stay away from this place.So from the human world to inquire about the location of the distribution of ghost power, and then use the body of the gods to inquire about the locations that have been inquired one by one.

It makes it easier to investigate the various ghost forces. If you use the body of the gods to investigate directly, it will be a lot of trouble, and you will even startle the snake because of it.

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As night fell, the sky was covered with stars again. Li Heng put away the magic cards on the stall. Although he didn't sell a single magic card today, Li Heng was pleasantly surprised by what he got today.

Li Heng originally thought that it would be a little troublesome to inquire about ghosts and ghosts in the secular world.Unexpectedly, things are so simple, maybe the gods of the underworld have not appeared in the human world for a thousand years, making many ghosts think that the gods of the underworld have long since disappeared in the millennium catastrophe and ceased to exist.

That's why we are so unscrupulous and unscrupulous in this world.

However, even though the catastrophe thousands of years ago caused the gods of the underworld to perish, monks from the primordial stage monks in the human world did not suffer much damage. The monk forces shouldn't let these ghost forces be so arrogant.

Could it be that the inheritance of monk power in the human world was lost in the catastrophe thousands of years ago?So much so that the cultivator forces are unable to suppress the expansion of the ghost forces.

Li Heng put away the magic tablet, bid farewell to old man Liu, walked out of the ancient street, and came to a deserted alley, put the magic tablet in the divine book, and turned into the body of an eighth-rank ghost.

During the day, Li Heng incarnates as a wisher at the City God's Temple, collecting incense, and at night, incarnates as a ghost messenger to catch ghosts lingering in the world.It is comparable to Bao Zheng and Bao Qingtian's daily trial of the human world and night trial of the underworld.

Li Heng was going to visit the Ghost King at night, but this place was the closest to Yuansheng Temple. Li Heng was going to check around the Yuansheng Temple to see if it was true that the Lisheng Ghost King occupied Yuansheng Temple as rumored.

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In the silence of the night, the sound of cicadas gradually died down, the bushes on the forest road were dense and lush, and the path that was originally winding and winding was also covered up by the unscrupulous weeds growing on both sides of the road.

The moon is in the middle of the sky, the light and shadow are thin, through the layers of mist, the pouring moonlight is like being covered with a thick layer of window screens, hazy and indistinct.

In mid-air, a vaguely recognizable figure was slowly drifting towards him, bathed in moonlight.

When he got closer, there was a faint twilight, and he could be recognized as Li Heng.

Li Heng immediately rushed all the way outside the border city.

Not long after, Li Hengran suddenly stopped in front of a boundary marker about a hundred miles away from the city.

Li Heng's heart became alert, and he tightened his hands immediately, and saw that the hill not far away suddenly lit up, and in a short while, a few dots of flames appeared, coming far away from where Li Heng stood.

Not long after, those lights floated in front of him, Li Heng quickly retracted the chains, restrained his breath, and pretended to be a wandering soul.

When I got closer and raised my eyes, I realized that the lights were nothing but broken lanterns, with yellowed red paper wrapped around them, and bloody candles burning inside, clusters of will-o'-the-wisps clustered inside, emitting Circles of hazy fluorescence.

Walking in the front, carrying the lantern was a hunchbacked, ugly old man. He was blind in one eye, and the remaining eye was slightly squinted, scanning Li Heng with scrutinizing eyes.

"What the hell are you, wandering around here?"

Li Heng pretended to be flattering and said: "The little ghost is under the command of the bone-cutting ghost king, and he came here to inform the ghost king to discuss important matters."

"Let him go."

The other two lanterns that had been standing behind the old man suddenly lowered, revealing the figures of two fierce ghosts with blue faces and fangs. The two fierce ghosts only glanced at Li Heng with their eyes as big as copper bells, and then turned sideways to make way for Li Heng. .

Li Heng lowered his eyes, and saw the blood-colored lanterns in the hands of the two fierce ghosts, fluttering in the night wind, making a sound like wailing, and on the broken and decadent paper, there was written a The big character "Li" is dripping with blood and dazzling in the night.

Li Heng breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled obsequiously at the old man, cupped his hands and said, "This villain is one step ahead."

The old man's remaining one eye was already narrowed to the point of losing sight, he waved his hand when he saw this, then turned around and led the two ghosts away into the distance.

When the one-eyed old ghost was gone, Li Heng put away the flattering expression on his face, turned around and fled towards Yuansheng Temple.

As soon as Li Heng approached the Yuansheng Temple, Li Heng obviously felt something strange. The surrounding environment was spooky, with a thick yin that made people feel dreadful.

Passing through an ancient post road, what appeared behind a bluestone boundary marker were small undulating hills, gentle like soil slopes, uplifted like mountains, strangely shaped and varied, and on these hills, without exception Yes, there is no place where green vegetation grows, and the vigorous green scene that symbolizes the vitality of all things in summer has disappeared. Instead, there are criss-crossed and jagged rocks standing up.

Occasionally, there were no huge boulders with strange shapes, but only covered with layers of loess, which seemed to have been renovated several times. The sludge, as if soaked in blood, oozes a gloomy and strange feeling.

"Hey, hey!"

Under the bleak light of the waning moon, a few black crows flapped their wings and flew away from here. Li Heng looked around, but there was no tree in the distance, only endless desolate mounds, leaning against countless unknown I don't know where the crow inhabits and forages from strange rocks.

While sweeping away intently, a crow seemed to notice something, turned its head in mid-air, and met its gaze. In an instant, there was a trace of human-like emotion in its eyes.

Li Heng's mind moved, as if he understood something. The crow's eyes at the moment contained complex human emotions such as greed, cruelty, remorse, struggle, etc. It looked at Li Heng, and it seemed to be mocking. , It's like an exhortation, in short, the meaning is difficult to understand, and it is secretive.

Glancing at Li Heng's position, the crow croaked at Li Heng again, and then flew away.

(End of this chapter)