I gather power with my gift of God and build the heaven.

After making sure that the blood-red moonlight from the outside world did not have much impact, Ye Jianxing carefully stepped out of the inn.

When everything was exposed to the bloody moonlight, Ye Jianxing felt an endless chill coming over him, seeping into his body continuously.

Fortunately, he did not find any bad effects. Instead, he felt his spirit was refreshed and became more ethereal and clear.

The true energy in the body seemed to be constantly being purified, becoming more and more refined.

If he continues like this, it won’t take long before he can go one step further and break through to the middle stage of the innate realm.

Could it be that he had really overthought it?

In fact, these blood-colored moonlights do not have any disadvantages?

Seeing that Ye Jianxing did not have any problems, the rest of the people also walked out of the inn and bathed in the blood-red moonlight.

Feeling their minds becoming clearer, the true Qi in their bodies was being purified bit by bit, and everyone couldn't help but show a look of surprise on their faces.

"I didn't expect that the blood moon would have such an effect."

“I feel that I only need two or three days under this blood moon to break through to the innate realm.

By then, I can also become a small flag.

When the time comes, you will be the general flag bearer, and I will be a small flag bearer under you."

In the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei, only those who are stronger than those with innate abilities can truly hold powerful positions.

Just like Ye Jianxing, who is a strong man in the early stage of innateness, he can serve as a small flag or even a general flag, commanding fifty Jinyiwei.

If one reaches the middle stage of the innate realm, he can serve as a trial centurion or a centurion official.

In the late stage of Xiantian, one can serve as a thousand households.

A strong man at the Grandmaster level can serve as assistant commander, deputy commander, and commander-in-chief.

Of course, this was a rough division in the early Ming Dynasty.

By now, many rules have actually been broken.

In particular, many Jinyiwei positions were passed down from father to son.

Naturally, there are many generals who simply do not have the corresponding strength.

Of course, although these people inherited official positions and received corresponding salaries, they did not actually have much power to restrain their subordinates.

After all, if you let a person with acquired talent give orders to a person with innate talent, even he himself would probably be scared, right?

One wrong move can result in someone being slapped to death.

As a result, many Jinyiwei who inherited their father's position were unable to even fill the required number of staff.

It is still relatively good for small flags and general flags. Even if they are only acquired, most of their subordinates are also acquired. They can still be suppressed by the reputation of the Jinyiwei.

But if it is a higher position, if you don’t have the corresponding ability, you will definitely be alone.

Of course, there are also many people who have reached the corresponding level of strength but have been unable to get promoted.

After Wei Zhongxian came to power, both the Eastern Depot and the Embroidered Uniform Guard regained some of their former glory.

However, many of these drawbacks are still difficult to completely eliminate.

In other words, many of these problems were also caused by Wei Zhongxian.

All in all, today's Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty no longer has the glory of the past.

Otherwise, with Ye Jianxing's merits and strength, he is more than qualified to be the general flag bearer.

For ordinary people to be promoted, corresponding strength and merit are just the most basic requirements.

In other words, if an ordinary person wants to be promoted to a small flag, he or she must at least be at the innate level and have sufficient merits.

As small flags who climbed up from the bottom, most of the Jinyiwei under Ye Jianxing have made sufficient contributions.

The only thing lacking is strength.

As long as your strength improves, it will be easy to get promoted.

At the Xiantian realm, one is already considered a strong person. Even if he is not as good as the Grand Master or Grand Master, he is still worthy of being won over by the Jinyiwei with a small flag position.

In fact, it is only now that the Ming Dynasty is relatively stable and the Jinyiwei is gaining popularity again.

Otherwise, it would be a bit petty to just use the position of a small flag to win over the innate strong ones.

If placed among some sects and families, they would at least be the backbone.

On the other side, after realizing the benefits of the blood-colored moonlight, it took a long time for everyone's excitement to calm down.

Then, everyone began to look around.

The whole town was dead silent. There was not a sound or movement. There was no noise from the day, not even the chirping of insects or birds.

A hazy blood-red moonlight was shining, and the streets and houses were all covered in blood-red, looking eerie and extremely dark.

Looking up, I saw a blood moon hanging in the sky, which seemed to be dripping blood. It was surrounded by thick dark clouds, and only where the blood moon was, there was a thin layer of mist.

It was as if it was done this way on purpose, specially reserved for the blood moonlight to shine.

Overall, it looks like a single blood-red eye, looking down at the town from the sky.

After staring for a long time, Li Jianxing and others even felt that the blood-red eye seemed to blink slightly, revealing a hint of teasing.

Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but rub their eyes hard and look at the blood moon in the sky again.

The blood moon hung quietly in the sky, as if nothing had changed.

"Hoo~!"

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Immediately, Ye Jianxing directed everyone to form groups of five and began to carefully check the inn.

After checking, everyone was shocked to find that not only the innkeeper and waiter, but also the surrounding residents had all disappeared.

It seemed as if all the people in the town disappeared in an instant.

This strange situation immediately alerted Ye Jianxing and others.

"Ah~!"

Just when Ye Jianxing was about to leave the town as soon as everyone had returned, he suddenly heard a scream from the back door of the inn.

"Hmm~?"

After hearing this, everyone immediately looked in that direction. Ye Jianxing quickly mobilized the internal energy in his body, jumped onto the courtyard wall in a flash, and rushed towards the back door at a high speed.

Seeing this, the others also jumped up and ran quickly towards the back door.

When Ye Jianxing arrived at the back door, he saw three Jinyiwei running towards the front yard in panic.

Ye Jianxing flashed and instantly appeared in front of the three people.

"Ah~! Ghost!"

In an instant, the three of them screamed again, turned around and ran away.

"it's me!"

Frowning at the three embarrassed people, Ye Jianxing couldn't help but yell in annoyance.

After hearing Ye Jianxing's voice, the three of them relaxed a little, stopped running, and turned around nervously to look.

Seeing that it was indeed Ye Jianxing, the three of them finally relaxed completely and hurriedly stepped forward, saying in a panicked tone:

"grown ups!"

"What's going on? What happened to you? Where are the other two? Didn't I tell you not to separate?"

"Disappeared!"

"Melted"

"There are ghosts here, invisible ghosts"

"Being eaten by silver"

"Dead, dead, they are all dead"

Hearing the incoherent answers from the three people, Ye Jianxing couldn't help but frown. What's wrong? What was eaten by the silver?

Ye Jianxing couldn't help but take a deep breath and shout out again.

"Be quiet! Come one by one, speak slowly, and tell me from beginning to end, what happened?"

"Yes Yes Yes!"

After being shocked by Ye Jianxing's innate true energy, the three of them finally calmed down a little, and then they told each other the whole cause and effect.

Just now, a group of five of them were investigating the situation at the back door and entered a house opposite the back door.

Then they found dozens of taels of silver in a secret compartment. The two men, greedy, took them.

Originally, they were going to share some among the three people.

However, before he could distribute the money to them, the two men had just walked to the door when a burst of blood light suddenly burst out from the silver and quickly enveloped the two of them.

Under this blood light, the bodies of the two people quickly melted away, and soon they also turned into blood light, and then merged into the silver.

The remaining three people immediately ran away screaming in fear, and then met Ye Jianxing.

Hearing this, Ye Jianxing couldn't help but feel a little moved, and said in a deep voice:

"Where? Take me there."

"This"

After hearing Ye Jianxing's words, the three of them looked at each other with hesitation. None of them wanted to go back to that weird place.

However, as members of the Jinyiwei, they did not dare to disobey Ye Jianxing's orders.

In the end, after Ye Jianxing's face suddenly darkened and a vague innate aura locked onto the three people, the three people still hesitantly led Ye Jianxing and the people who followed, towards the courtyard opposite the back door of the inn.

Sure enough, the back door of the inn and the courtyard opposite were all open, which was obviously what the few people had just done.

"Hoo~!"

Taking a deep breath, everyone stepped into the courtyard carefully. Right in front of a bedroom door, they saw the dozens of silver coins that the three people had mentioned.

But at this moment, they were scattered all over the ground, shining with a metallic blood light under the blood-red moonlight.

but

After careful observation, Ye Jianxing suddenly asked the three people.

"Are you sure it's several dozen taels of silver?"

"Ok!"

"Of course. In a small town like this, it is already rare for a family to have dozens of taels of silver."

"Anyway, it will definitely not exceed one hundred taels."

"is it?"

Ye Jianxing pointed at the silver scattered on the ground in front of him and spoke in a serious tone.

"Look carefully, does it look like there are only a few dozen taels of silver?"

"Uh"

When everyone heard this, they were not only slightly startled, but also began to look at him carefully.

"Hmm? I feel like that's at least two hundred taels of silver."

"Yeah, how could it be only a few dozen taels? It must be more than two hundred taels, right?"

"Could it be that the two people from before lied and wanted to take the lion's share?"

Someone couldn't help but speculate.

"It's indeed possible!"

Many people nodded in agreement.

Well, that's more than two hundred taels of silver, so it's not impossible for such a thing to happen.

It can even be said that most people will retain a part of it.

At least, that's what they think.

However, Ye Jianxing expressed a different opinion.

"Well, could it be something else?"

"Other cases?"

For a moment, everyone was confused.

Looking at everyone, Ye Jianxing spoke slowly in an inexplicable tone.

"For example, the silver grew in size after it devoured two people."

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The moment Ye Jianxing finished speaking, everyone fell silent. A chill ran down their spines and rushed straight to the back of their heads, and the hairs on their bodies instantly stood on end.

After a long while, someone secretly swallowed his saliva, pulled the corner of his mouth with difficulty and said:

"Ha, ha, how is this possible?"

"How is this impossible?"

Ye Jianxing glanced at the courtyard shrouded in blood-red moonlight and retorted calmly.

"Uh"

Everyone was speechless as they looked at the bloody world.

Think again about what the three said before, that the silver swallowed up the two of them.

So in this strange place, it doesn't seem impossible that the silver can increase by devouring humans.

After a long silence, Ye Jianxing spoke again.

“Let’s go back to the inn and check the situation there.

Be careful not to take things carelessly.

Then we just need to see if there are any precious items dropped underground."

".yes!"

When they heard Ye Jianxing's order, they were stunned at first, and then they reacted thoughtfully.

Ye Jianxing thought that perhaps the person who had disappeared before had messed up the valuables here and was then swallowed by those valuables.

Thinking of that situation, everyone couldn't help but feel a chill.

Who could have thought of this?

Given the Jinyiwei's past style, it was perfectly normal for them to collect some money and items while performing tasks.

If they had not focused more on searching for missing persons and clues earlier, they might not have failed to collect gold, silver, finances and precious items.

After returning to the inn and searching for a while, they indeed found some places where gold, silver and precious items were left behind.

After gathering together again, everyone fell into silence.

I didn't expect it to be true.

Some of their past bad habits actually harmed them at this moment.

However, as long as you don't take things randomly, nothing will happen.

So, after some thought, Ye Jianxing finally decided that everyone should go to different places in the town to check the situation.

Watching everyone leave, Ye Jianxing looked towards the restaurant opposite where white paper lanterns were hung.

With the internal Qi circulating, Ye Jianxing's figure flashed and he instantly jumped into the restaurant through an open window.

The restaurant was quiet, without any human presence, like a haunted house that had been deserted for a long time.

After checking everywhere and finding nothing, Ye Jianxing went to other places again.

However, there were no signs of anyone in several places, including where the mayor of the town lived and the outermost houses in the town.

It was around five o'clock in the morning when Ye Jianxing and others returned.

After communicating with each other, they finally confirmed that the entire town was completely empty, as if everyone had left.

Just when Ye Jianxing was thinking about whether to leave the town, the sound of a night watchman suddenly came from a distance.

"~!!"

One long and four short, the fifth watch has arrived.