The years I was in the human world

"There is a 20-li-circle Gathering Yin Array set up beneath the entire Rong City. The center of the array is in the City Lord's Mansion. There should be no living people in the entire Rong City. Those we saw during the day have long been dead. They are able to survive in this state of neither life nor death because of the array."

The two of them avoided the patrolling ghosts and searched for the eye of the formation in the City Lord's Mansion. Xiao Fengzhuo used secret telepathy to tell Lu Zhouxue what he had found out.

"Now that the core of the formation has been broken, the abnormality in Rongcheng should be solved."

"You know a lot." A group of kids lined up neatly in front of them, carrying trays on their heads, walked over. Lu Zhouxue pulled Xiao Fengzhuo to bend over to hide his body, then turned to look at Xiao Fengzhuo seriously and said, "Azhuo, who are you? Whether it's Gu Yin or Yin Ji, many people recognize you."

Originally, Lu Zhouxue didn't care who Xiao Fengzhuo was. After all, he was just a passer-by and there was no need for him to care so much. But now it is different. He feels that they are friends and their state of mind is different, so he wants to know more about Xiao Fengzhuo.

"What's the big deal about recognizing me?" Xiao Fengzhuo didn't care that he looked familiar in front of so many powerful people. The little ghost in front of him walked over. He asked Lu Zhouxue to follow him and he led the way in front. However, he also explained the reason to Lu Zhouxue, "Mianmian, I don't have any special skills."

Lu Zhouxue was about to retort, Xiao Fengzhuo was warm and tolerant, sometimes playful and smiling, and actually very reliable, how could he be as useless as he said? Xiao Fengzhuo smiled at him and motioned for him to listen to what he was saying.

"It's just that I've lived a long life. When Baili Changqing and his people were still young, I was already working for the Demon King. At that time, I had the advantage in seniority. With my years of cultivation, I bullied them for a while."

“But just like how I bullied Lin Xiyang in the past, they are all favored by heaven, and I am just a mediocre person who has lived longer. Now they have all become powerful people who rule a region, but I am still at the Nascent Soul stage.”

"They recognize me, but that's all. It won't change anything." Xiao Fengzhuo's tone was very light when he said this, as calm as discussing the weather. He did not feel any resentment or jealousy because of his mediocrity, and he didn't even feel lonely like everyone else.

"A Zhuo." Lu Zhouxue looked at him and suddenly had a lot to say. All the words condensed into a faint light in his eyes. Xiao Fengzhuo seemed to see it, but also seemed not to see it. He smiled and said softly, "Don't think too much."

Then he turned around and continued to lead the way. No one knew when Xiao Fengzhuo had figured out the terrain of the City Lord's Mansion. Along the way, the two of them avoided all patrols and arrived outside the palace where Yin Ji had set up the center of the formation without disturbing anyone.

"This must be it." Lu Zhouxue took a quick look at the patrol outside the palace, which was much stricter than other places.

"If you and I go in like this, we will definitely be discovered." Xiao Fengzhuo said. Those patrolling were just some low-level white-clothed ghosts, and at most there were three or five green-clothed ghosts stationed there. With their cultivation level, it would not be difficult for them to hide the truth.

Yin Ji naturally thought of this, so she set up another defensive magic circle outside the palace. Unless someone with the cultivation level of Baili Changqing came, Yin Ji would be the first to get the news once anyone else approached.

"It's a bit troublesome, but I can solve it." Lu Zhouxue took a quick look at the magic circle and threw out a spirit banner in his hand. Nine crudely made spirit banners with strange totems painted on them turned several circles in the air and then fell to eight directions of the palace respectively. The last banner fell into Lu Zhouxue's hand.

The totems on the spirit flags glowed faintly, and the eight spirit flags together surrounded an additional space, temporarily isolating it from external detection.

Xiao Fengzhuo looked at the last spiritual banner in Lu Zhouxue's hand that was used to control the overall situation, and said jokingly, "Mianmian's spiritual banner really has some demonic temperament."

"Stop talking nonsense." Lu Zhouxue hit him, urging him to act quickly, "The Yin Ji's cultivation is not weak, this spirit flag can only cover it up for a while."

Xiao Fengzhuo nodded, stopped talking nonsense, and led Lu Zhouxue to where he felt the center of the formation was. The center of the formation was set in the hall, and to get there, one had to pass through a long corridor with dim candlelight flickering. Lu Zhouxue was about to jump down on the tiles when Xiao Fengzhuo pulled her back to the roof.

There were actually two figures stacked on the steps leading to the garden from the corridor. Both of them had dishevelled clothes, their arms were clasped, and they were rolling around in a ball, singing softly one after another. Without looking closely, one could guess what they were doing.

As the two were enjoying the pleasure of love, the face and clothes of the person lying below were revealed. Lu Zhouxue and Xiao Fengzhuo, who were watching the show awkwardly on the roof, were both stunned. The person who was hugging someone and lingering till death was none other than Jiang Ling's eldest disciple Qi Yu.

"It turns out this kid is not dead, and he's also very lucky with women." Xiao Fengzhuo snorted, peeling off the tiles on the roof and looking at Qi Yu and another person of unknown origin making love with a gloating look on his face, "Do you think Jiang Ling would be so angry if he knew that his eldest disciple was messing around with someone like this?"

Lu Zhouxue was helpless about his bad taste and shook his head. He couldn't go down anyway, so he had to cast an invisibility spell and wait for the two people below to finish before going down.

The man sitting on Qi Yu's body had his back to him so his face couldn't be seen clearly. All that could be seen was a piece of green clothing hanging loosely on his body. Most of his back and a pair of legs were exposed, so white that they were blinding. A suppressed low moan escaped from his mouth.

In a voice that sounded like he was overwhelmed, he asked intermittently: "You, you righteous people, huh, are you, are you just like this - be gentle - so reckless?"

Qi Yu did not say anything. He only saw that the physical communication between him and the young man in green became more and more ruthless. The young man in green, who was at a disadvantage, was held down by him helplessly. His breathing became heavier, and his feet, which were kneeling on both sides, became tense along with his toes in an instant, and he could not utter a word.

"This Qi Yu is quite fierce." Xiao Fengzhuo was still watching the live sex show below with great interest, while commenting on it without minding any trouble.

Lu Zhouxue looked him up and down suspiciously, which made Xiao Fengzhuo, who remained calm in front of the live pornographic palace, feel a little uncomfortable: "Why is Mianmian looking at me like this?"

Lu Zhouxue shook his head and said nothing. He had cut off all emotions for tens of thousands of years, so there was nothing rippled in his heart. However, he did not expect that Xiao Fengzhuo, a demon cultivator who was hundreds of years old, could be so calm. This was beyond his expectation.

While the two were talking, an ambiguous smell came up. Lu Zhouxue and Xiao Fengzhuo were both men, so they naturally knew what that smell was.

Lu Zhouxue still looked indifferent, but Xiao Fengzhuo raised his hand to cover his nose and fanned it in disdain, muttering softly, "Not only does Jiang Ling abstain from sex himself, he also lets his apprentice do the same. Look how much he has suppressed his desire, and he has no taboos when it comes to cheating."

"Please say less." Lu Zhouxue was helpless.

The two people below finished a round and then pulled each other to the dimly lit place in the garden. This gave Lu Zhouxue and the other two the opportunity to come down from the roof. There was still a strong smell in the air. The two of them tacitly said nothing and went straight to the center of the formation in the hall.

Not long after Lu Zhouxue and Xiao Fengzhuo left, the man in green who had just had sex with someone came back. He was only wearing a green robe, with no clothes underneath. There were purple bruises all over his body, some from being pinched, and some...

A white snake, with its tongue spitting out, snaked around my legs and finally fell to the ground.

He did not deal with the mess on his body. He just looked in the direction where Lu Zhouxue's back disappeared and whispered softly: "...Lu, Zhou, Xue...?"

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"It's hard to imagine that Yin Ji actually hid the eye of the formation in her own bedroom." Xiao Fengzhuo looked around the palace which was fully equipped with bedding, cups, and cosmetics. If he hadn't felt that the Yin energy was strongest here, he would have suspected that he had come to the wrong place.

"It's just a trick." Lu Zhouxue raised his hand and took out the spirit flag in his sleeve. The pattern drawn in red ink on the flag flickered for a moment, and then the red halo spread to the surroundings with the spirit flag as the center. The bright camouflage was completely removed wherever it passed, revealing its old original appearance.

The wooden boards of the bed were rotten and moldy, and the thick dust showed that it had accumulated for many years. There were tattered lanterns, yellowed curtains, a coffin under the bed, and offerings scattered all over the floor. It looked spooky from any angle.

"Wow, a haunted house." Xiao Fengzhuo exclaimed, but Lu Zhouxue solemnly gestured to keep quiet and said solemnly, "Shh, there are breathing sounds."

Xiao Fengzhuo immediately shut up and calmed down. Neither of them spoke and there was no sound. The faint breathing sound became obvious. Xiao Fengzhuo moved his ears. He squatted down and slowly approached the coffin under the bed. Finally, he put his ear against the coffin. The breathing sound came from inside.

Xiao Fengzhuo pointed at the coffin, turned around and mouthed to Lu Zhouxue: "Here."

The latter nodded, handed the spirit flag to Xiao Fengzhuo, motioned him to move aside, took out a stack of yellow paper and cinnabar from his sleeve, drew twelve talismans in a row, and pasted them on the coffin one by one. Then he exchanged colors with Xiao Fengzhuo, held the last talisman in his hand and pushed the coffin lid.

As soon as the coffin was opened a crack, a pair of sharp claws stretched out from inside, grabbed the coffin lid and pushed it, and then a hideous bloody corpse jumped out from inside. The few talisman papers that Lu Zhouxue had previously pasted on the coffin turned into ashes on the spot, and they could not do anything to it.

Lu Zhouxue dodged backwards, threw away the talisman paper in his hand, and quickly made hand gestures, pushing the blood corpse out with a burst of energy. Then he summoned Tianbai to restrain the blood corpse's hands and feet. However, he did not expect that the silk thread that Tianbai could use to bind gods and demons was unable to control the blood corpse.

"What a ferocious blood corpse." Lu Zhouxue's face changed slightly, and the fingertips controlling Tianbai tightened rapidly. The silk thread was tied into the body of the blood corpse, but what flowed out was dirty blood with a foul smell, which almost made him vomit.

"Mianmian, there is a secret passage inside this coffin." While Lu Zhouxue was fighting with the blood corpse, Xiao Fengzhuo quietly approached the coffin and saw a door made of black iron across the bottom of the coffin. There was a talisman on the door, which was probably drawn specifically to suppress the blood corpse.

Xiao Fengzhuo sent a burst of energy and the iron door opened. He hurriedly said, "Mianmian, don't bother with it, let's go through the door." After that, he helped Lu Zhouxue fight off the blood corpse that was still pestering him, and then jumped into the coffin. After the two landed on the ground, the iron door closed quickly, and only the sound of the blood corpse banging on the door could be heard from the other side.

Under the coffin was a huge altar, in the center of which was a strange stone statue. The statue had its eyes closed and a compassionate and peaceful expression, but a strange smile hung at the corner of its lips. In its left hand it held an equally creepy Smiling Prajna mask, and in the other hand it held a mourning stick.

The entire stone statue was snow-white, but someone had accidentally smeared blood on its mouth, making it look even more evil.

The moment Lu Zhouxue saw the stone statue, he was stunned. His hands hanging in his sleeves trembled, and then he saw that the stone statue seemed to open its eyes, revealing a pair of gentle eyes. He wanted to say something, but hesitated. He knelt down with a plop, and tears rolled down his eyes and fell to the ground.

Xiao Fengzhuo was also stunned for a moment, but soon came to his senses and realized that something was wrong with Lu Zhouxue. He cast a Heart-Clearing Mantra on his head: "Calm your mind!"

Lu Zhouxue blinked and regained her clarity of mind, then asked in confusion: "What happened to me just now?"

"This ghost statue is an evil creature, good at bewitching people." Xiao Fengzhuo explained, "The Yin Gathering Formation that Yin Ji set up in Rongcheng should be for the purpose of worshipping this thing. The blood corpse on top is just a guard she used to protect the stone statue. It was stained with the worship of this thing and became particularly ferocious."

"Such a large formation, so many lives, just to worship this thing?" Lu Zhouxue found it hard to believe.

"But don't underestimate this thing. It's a way for Yin Ji and other evil ghosts to pay tribute to the Ghost King." Xiao Fengzhuo said, "The so-called Ghost-Slaying Statue is actually the Ghost King Statue. Only by offering sacrifices to the Ghost King can Yin Ji get the Ghost King's protection. Otherwise, she would have been dealt with by Zhong Ting long ago if she had caused trouble like this."

"Ghost King?" Lu Zhouxue was a little distracted. When he was haunted by the stone statue, he thought he saw Xiao Yueheng. The compassion between the stone statue's eyebrows when it closed its eyes was really like Xiao Yueheng...

"Mianmian, this stone statue seems to look a bit like your cheap master." Xiao Fengzhuo stared at the Shagui statue for a while and suddenly said, without waiting for Lu Zhouxue to respond, he shook his head and denied it, "Looking at it, it doesn't look like it anymore. It's really weird."

"This stone statue should be the center of the formation. Should we destroy it?" Lu Zhouxue asked. He also felt that the stone statue was a little weird, otherwise why couldn't he bring himself to destroy it?

"Don't be in a hurry." Xiao Fengzhuo did not ask Lu Zhouxue to destroy the statue immediately. Instead, he pointed to the darkness around the altar and deliberately asked Lu Zhouxue, "Besides this statue, do you feel anything else?"

"Did you hear that? There was breathing." Xiao Fengzhuo looked at Lu Zhouxue, still smiling, but looking a little pale in the dark. "You said that Yin Ji was protecting the Ghost Statue. Would she leave only one guard, or a group?"

Lu Zhouxue subconsciously became nervous after hearing what Xiao Fengzhuo said. He moved his nose and smelled a very faint scent, then frowned in confusion: "There is blood, like it's alive."

"I smelled it, too." Xiao Fengzhuo lowered his head and lit a fire command to illuminate the area. He saw that the winding patterns carved under his feet were soaked in blood, which flowed all the way under the base of the stone statue. However, for some reason, the smell of blood was hidden very well and the two of them did not smell it at all.