Chapter 21 – Two dead cities
Goddess Jing Xin extended her divine consciousness, enveloping the two towns.
Not only was Shanghe Town a ghost town, but so was Xiahe Town!
The so-called life here was nothing more than a group of corpses moving around!
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No wonder the Red Dust Ancestor, who could shake the hearts of the gods, didn't cause a ripple when she came here. How could the dead possibly have feelings for a beauty!
She was horrified, having never seen such a scene before.
There were eight small towns near the World of Mortals Pure Land, and Goddess Jing Xin was worried about whether the other six towns were in the same situation.
The other six towns were far away from here, and her divine consciousness couldn't reach them.
Fortunately, Jiang Li quickly provided an answer.
"The other six towns are all normal," Jiang Li thought for a moment and added, "They are all living people."
Goddess Jing Xin thought to herself that he might as well not have explained.
Goddess Jing Xin's divine consciousness could cover two towns because she could only cover two towns.
Jiang Li's divine consciousness could cover eight towns because there were only eight towns.
Even if the six towns were all normal, Goddess Jing Xin didn't feel relieved.
"How long has it been since you last came here? Even a Divine Transformation stage wouldn't let this happen."
The technique to keep corpses moving as they did in life was extremely advanced, and only someone at the Divine Transformation stage could detect it.
Goddess Jing Xin explained with a low spirit, "The Divine Transformation stage has already practiced Inedia. In the eyes of the elders in the sect, the Spirit Valley is a minor matter. They don't worry about problems with the Spirit Valley, so they only send disciples who have no hope of advancing, who are only at the Golden Elixir stage, to station here. They let a person at the Elemental Infant stage manage the eight towns, and there won't be any problems."
"But now there is a big problem!" Jiang Li said seriously.
The two came to a small tavern below, and the waiter warmly welcomed them.
"Oh, you two look unfamiliar. Are you from outside? This is rare. Is this lady a fairy from the World of Mortals Pure Land?"
Seeing Goddess Jing Xin's stunning beauty, the waiter asked uncertainly. Goddess Jing Xin didn't speak, just nodded.@@novelbin@@
"Little second, I want to ask you something."
Jiang Li took out a low-grade spirit stone and placed it on the table.
"Sir, this is not acceptable, not acceptable. You two are distinguished guests from the World of Mortals Pure Land. How can I take your money?" The waiter was startled and quickly refused.
After some persuasion, the waiter finally accepted the spirit stone.
Here, transactions were made with copper coins, and a low-grade spirit stone was a very rare item.
Goddess Jing Xin raised her eyebrows slightly. The waiter's movements were natural and smooth, without any stiffness. Just by looking with the naked eye, there was no difference from a living person.
She examined the waiter carefully with her divine consciousness and found that there was a Gu insect in his Dantian and Sea of Consciousness. The two Gu insects were male and female, one controlling movement and the other controlling thought. It was a very technical method of controlling corpses.
It was a method of controlling corpses unique to the Gu tribe!
And as far as she knew, the disciple stationed here was a member of the Gu tribe!
She buried her discovery in her heart and quietly watched Jiang Li converse with the waiter.
"Have there been any particularly beautiful fairies passing by here in recent years?"
The waiter said without hesitation, "You're right, two years ago, no, three years ago, a fairy as beautiful as a painting passed by here. Everyone stopped eating and ran out to see her. But the fairy didn't even glance at us, she walked straight past barefoot. Some people wanted to follow her, but they were stopped by Fairy Yuan."
"Fairy Yuan is..."
"She is Fairy Yuan Ling who is stationed here."
"So you're saying Fairy Yuan Ling also saw the beauty like a painting. What was her reaction? Did she look infatuated? Did she go up and kidnap the person?"
The waiter was startled and quickly whispered, "Sir, you mustn't talk nonsense. How could Fairy Yuan Ling lose her composure? She was as calm as usual, just faintly praising how beautiful she was."
Goddess Jing Xin frowned slightly. Yuan Ling was a Gu person, so naturally, she wouldn't be a descendant of the Red Dust Ancestor. Why wasn't she affected?
Strange, very strange.
Jiang Li seemed to have noticed no problem, chatting with the waiter about things like this year's harvest, where Yuan Ling was now, how many spirit stones the World of Mortals Pure Land used to buy Spirit Valley, and whether there were any deductions.
The waiter thought these two were sent by the World of Mortals Pure Land to investigate and answered truthfully.
Finally, Jiang Li asked with a smile, "Do you know that you're already dead?"
The waiter was confused, "Sir, what are you talking about?"
"Haha, just a joke, just a joke." Jiang Li laughed, leaving the confused waiter to continue his work.
"Did Yuan Ling do this?"
"Don't jump to conclusions so soon. You heard it too, Yuan Ling is not affected by the Red Dust Fairy. This matter is not as simple as you think."
"Yuan Ling should only be at the Golden Elixir stage, and judging from the cultivation level of the Gu insects, these people wouldn't act like living people, not even knowing they're dead. This is not something a Golden Elixir stage could do."
"Moreover, it's not necessarily only the Gu tribe who would use Gu."
Jiang Li had been wandering the world for many years and had seen all kinds of strange things, naturally thinking more than Goddess Jing Xin, who had only symbolically wandered for a few years before returning to the sect.
Unfortunately, the Gu tribe was declining and chose to hide from the world, so Jiang Li didn't know much about the Gu tribe either.
"Yuan Ling is not here, I don't know where she went.""Let's go to Xiahe Town. I sense a female Golden Elixir cultivator there. She should be one of yours." Jiang Li scanned Xiahe Town again with his divine sense, failing to find any Golden Elixir aura in Shanghe Town.
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Du Xiner was sitting in a low-cost spirit gathering array, striving to cultivate. However, she didn't understand why her spiritual power hadn't increased at all in recent years. She felt like her body was a leaking bucket, with as much spiritual energy going out as coming in.
"Maybe I'm really not cut out for cultivation. Coming here is probably the right choice for me." Du Xiner laughed at herself. She believed that choosing to come to Xiahe Town was the right decision. "Someone like me would only be a burden if I stayed in the sect. It's better to leave."
"Who said you're a burden?" A clear voice rang in Du Xiner's ear. Only then did she notice that Goddess Jing Xin was standing in front of her, accompanied by a rather handsome man.
For some reason, there seemed to be tears welling up in the Goddess's eyes.
How could Goddess Jing Xin not feel heartbroken? She didn't have a deep impression of Yuan Ling, but she remembered Du Xiner vividly.
Her Golden Elixir junior sister thought of her as a lofty goddess and dared not approach her. Among the Golden Elixir cultivators, only Du Xiner dared to frequently ask her about cultivation knowledge.
And now, after a few years, they were separated by life and death.
In Goddess Jing Xin's eyes, Du Xiner was also a moving corpse!
"I've let you down, I've failed in my duty..."
Goddess Jing Xin knelt on the ground, hugging Du Xiner and sobbing.
Unaware of the situation, Du Xiner could only maintain her sitting posture, gently patting Goddess Jing Xin's back.
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