Chapter 106: Chapter 22: Ghost City (Second Update)

Clack clack!

Xiao Chang had not died. He clasped his throat tightly with both hands, eyes bulging to the point of nearly bursting out of their sockets.

This action did not stop the violent retching; various items like fingernails, hair, dead fish, and rotten shrimp gushed out of his mouth, quickly gathering and forming a puddle on the ground.

Dong Hongtian clenched his teeth, struggling to endure the nausea and fear, wanting to help Xiao Chang.

Su Jie promptly pulled him back, shaking his head at him.

Splat!

The puddle beneath Xiao Chang seemed bottomless. His body flailed as he gradually sank down until the water completely submerged him, and the surface became calm again, leaving only a clump of hair and fish and shrimp floating on the floor.

On the street, the woman in white had vanished without a trace.

If not for the missing Xiao Chang and the clump of hair and rotten fish and shrimp on the ground, it would seem as if everything that had just occurred was only a dream.

“I told you not to speak, not to speak. Startling those things, how can there still be a reason to be alive,” Rong Shibao’s voice trembled. A living person just disappeared right in front of him, and the chilling scene a moment ago nearly caused the old man, who was over fifty, to suffer a heart attack.

“You, you old undead, why didn’t you explain things clearly earlier, that this place is haunted…”

Gan Huren flew into a rage, drawing the long saber at his waist.

“Don’t shout so loudly. If you don’t care about your life, that’s fine, but if you attract them, it could endanger my entire family,” Rong Shibao said, as if oblivious to the blade. Instead, he covered Gan Huren’s mouth, extremely taboo about noise, which made him more frightened than facing the sword itself.

Su Jie’s brow furrowed. During the instant that the female ghost in white attacked, Su Jie felt only a strange and chilling breath drift by.

It was different from mere Spiritual Energy, unlike any Spiritual Power Su Jie had encountered before.

Although he did not know the specific details of the attack, Xiao Chang’s miserable state just now was enough to understand how terrifying the female ghost was.

“I was wondering why Nanyang City felt so strange. So that’s why, that’s why,” Dong Hongtian expressed regret in his eyes. If he had understood earlier, Xiao Chang would not have died tonight.

“Shush, don’t talk,” Rong Shibao suddenly became alert again. Seeing a red stone hanging in the room flicker a few times, emitting an enchanting red halo, he quickly gestured for everyone to be silent.

At the same time, noises came from the street outside the door.

Hiss hiss!

In the courtyard, all the horses became extremely agitated, neighing wildly as if something was attacking them.

Accompanied by the stench of blood that wafted into the room and the sound of something heavy being dragged, everything eventually settled down to silence.

When everything was quiet, Su Jie and others peeped outside through the crack of the door.

All six horses that had been tied up in the yard had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a pool of blood on the ground.

“There’s more than one here…”

Chen Yun’s face paled; this was her first encounter with a ghost.

Fortunately, she had Su Jie by her side, whose formidable combat strength provided her with some reassurance.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t just one ghost that she encountered, but an unknown number.

“The weather is dry, be careful with candles and fire,” a clanging gong sounded, and it was the voice of the night watchman.

No one spoke this time; the eerie phenomena that had just occurred were truly terrifying and fearsome.

The voice of the night watchman on the street grew fainter and fainter, as if he had left the street.

Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, an abrupt cold voice suddenly came from the doorway.

“Is anybody home?”

The door was knocked, and it was the voice of the night watchman.

Su Jie looked at the red stone; its red light was flashing crazily, just like a warning light.

Mr. Rong tightly covered his mouth, not daring to move an inch, his eyes filled with terror.

The rest were the same, including Su Jie. Right now, no one knew what was happening outside. Faced with this kind of ghostly creature they had never seen before, Su Jie was also feeling uncertain.

“Is anybody home?”

“Is anybody home?”

“Is anybody home?”

The night watchman’s cold voice repeated the same words over and over again, creating a sinister and terrifying atmosphere in the room that made one’s heart pound violently, and left them with a parched mouth and tongue. Many had their backs soaked with sweat.

Along with the questioning voice, several pale, corpse-like fingers crept through the crack of the door.

The fingers groped around for something, not touching the bolt or lock, and quickly retracted.

The questioning voice disappeared at the same time, and the red stone inside the house stopped flashing.

After several ghostly disturbances, everyone’s faces looked grim. Once the night watchman was gone, Su Jie immediately asked, “Mr. Rong, what’s really going on here? Why are there ghostly hauntings in this place?”

“Half a month ago, the city has been restless from the evening onwards. Those filthy things wander the streets, and if one inadvertently makes a sound and attracts their attention, they will notice someone inside the house, and then what happened just now occurs.”

Mr. Rong bit his teeth, his eyes filled with pain: “I used to have a grandson, just because he cried at night, the result, the result…”

He didn’t finish his sentence, but everyone understood.

“Why not leave Nanyang City? If it’s haunted here, wouldn’t it be better to go to a safe place?”

Chen Yun was very puzzled. The few ghosts that just appeared had even made her, a Demon Cultivator at the Fifth Level of Yunling Realm, feel terrified, so she couldn’t understand why these ordinary people still stayed in Nanyang City instead of leaving.

Mr. Rong sighed deeply, his face full of bitter sadness, “Leave? It’s easier said than done! The city’s top officials have already issued an order that anyone who wants to leave the city must forfeit their property and houses. We have struggled all our lives to secure a place to live here in the city, who can bear to give it up? We can only stay here, hoping that these ghosts will leave someday.”

Thinking of the scene where Dong Hongtian argued with the officials today, he gritted his teeth and said, “It’s those damn officials again. Since the government doesn’t care, why not turn to the Heavenly Patrol Department, or report it to the Righteous Sect. Surely, they can’t ignore this as well.”

“I’ve never seen any Heavenly Patrol Department, and as for the Righteous Sect, there’s a Miao Yin Temple two hundred miles away from Nanyang City. Some of the more prestigious family elders had called on everyone to send for help, but, sadly, there has been no response till now, and no one has come back.”

Su Jie’s heart jumped at Mr. Rong’s words, and he immediately had a bad premonition.

“What about the influential families in the city? They haven’t left either?”

Su Jie asked. Nanyang City was a large city, and apart from ordinary commoners, there were certainly aristocratic families and Cultivation Families.

For instance, the merchants who conducted business with Ghost Ridge Palace’s Black Market were largely from these Cultivation Families.

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These families had long legacies and also possessed Cultivation Methods, controlled vast wealth, thereby nurturing the younger generations in their clans for cultivation, or recruiting Loose Cultivators to serve as Sacrifices.

The prosperous and powerful Cultivation Families were sometimes not weaker than a Sect and could occupy Spiritual Mountain Blessed Lands, cultivate Spirit Medicine Seedbeds, open Artifact Refining Workshops and Alchemy Pavilions,

and talented individuals from these families were sometimes sent to Sects for training. Once they grew up, they formed intricate relationships with their families, engaging in exchanges of interests.

Furthermore, these families and aristocratic clans enjoyed forming marriages among themselves, intertwining relationships intricately, sharing each other’s fortunes and misfortunes, forming a massive interest group.

These households had significant influence and were no ordinary commoners; they had some means to resist.