Traveling through the Immortal Realm: Starting from Becoming a Top-Level Furnace Cauldron

The setting sun.

The entire Tao City was unexpectedly silent, with only the sound of the wind blowing in Lu Yuguan's ears.

He looked at the rice monk in front of him nervously, not daring to breathe.

The monk made of straw in front of me was standing at the city gate in a stiff posture.

His body was covered with wild thatch, and under his yellowed monk's robes, he was wrapped in thick cotton wool.

The rice monk's facial features were painted with something like cinnabar.

Blood-red eyes, vermilion lips, and powdered cheeks.

"What evil thing?"

Lu Yuguan swallowed and muttered.

[Host, perhaps this is some kind of sacrificial custom?]

The system prompted.

"It's hard to say. We have to wait and see."

Lu Yuguan frowned and carefully examined the rice monk's body, but found nothing unusual.

Just an ordinary scarecrow.

"Could it really be that simple?"

Lu Yuguan did not dare to trust his own judgment.

He looked at the high city wall, activated the Beginning of Spring Breeze, and used the grooves on the wall to jump onto the roof. The open view allowed him to see the entire city at a glance.

"how come……"

Lu Yuguan looked at the empty streets in astonishment.

Not only were there no pedestrians, but even the shop buildings on both sides had their doors closed. Some shop signs were blown by the wind and seemed to be about to fall down.

The entire city forest was in a state of desolation. The trees in the area surrounding the houses were short, and most of the branches had no leaves. Even if there were any leaves, they were all withered and scorched yellow.

This Taocheng.

It is no exaggeration to say that there is nothing.

An ominous premonition arose in Lu Yuguan's heart. He had never seen such a bleak scene.

"Is the whole city deserted?"

Lu Yuguan turned over and jumped off the city gate. His light movement did not make any sound on the bluestone ground.

Broken pottery jars and rags were scattered at the city gate, and there were even traces of black smoke left by the fire on the ground.

A closer look at the ground reveals many holes and scratches, likely left by years of erosion by rain.

Lu Yuguan looked back at the inside of the city gate and saw no guards guarding it.

"The most urgent thing is to open the door first and don't let them wait anxiously."

Lu Yu thought about it with concern and walked forward to check the door lock.

Unlike the usual door latches, the door lock in front of him was made up of a pair of bronze fish, which intersected head to tail, locking the city gate.

A red-painted wooden board was placed on top of the city gate, with chains wrapped around both sides. The huge board was large enough to accommodate more than a dozen people walking side by side.

"Found it. This task isn't that difficult," Lu Yuguan said in surprise. "Just open the door and lower the chain, and we can let the soldiers into the city."

Lu Yuguan raised his eyebrows, stepped forward, grabbed Shuangyu's body with his hands, and forced it apart.

Rumble…

The rusty Pisces lock was slowly opened, and the two ancient city gates slowly shook off the dust. The heavy sound was like the howling of a giant beast, echoing in the city.

Just as the door gradually opened, a pair of vermilion eyes looked directly into Lu Yuguan's pupils.

"It's the Rice Monk—"

Lu Yuguan took a deep breath, slid his hands away from the door lock, and immediately took a few steps back.

Without Lu Yuguan's help, the door slowly opened on its own as if a mechanism had been triggered.

The figure of the Rice Monk emerged alone.

"Something's wrong, something's wrong!"

Lu Yuguan was sweating profusely. According to the direction he was looking, he should have seen the back of the Rice Monk.

Why did I see the face of the monk Dao?!

"It turned around!"

"This is not a scarecrow, it's clearly a living thing—"

Lu Yuguan did not dare to slack off at all. With a loud shout, the green bamboo stick appeared in his hand resolutely.

The sun sets slowly.

Eventually fell behind the stone forest and valley.

Li Chonglin and others on the opposite side of the river saw the city gate open from afar and were overjoyed. However, when they saw Lu Yuguan and the blurry monk looking at each other, they suddenly felt nervous.

"Yuguan——"

Li Chonglin shouted from across the river.

The setting sun quickly set, and the sky immediately became gloomy. The clouds above suddenly gathered extremely thick, as if hiding something terrifying.

Lu Yuguan stared at the rice monk in front of him, his eyes fixed on him, not daring to act rashly.

Just as the last ray of light faded away.

The rice monk's cinnabar eyes lit up.

stab-

A sharp tearing sound came from the rice monk's abdomen.

Two pairs of dry black hands pulled apart the tightly bundled straw, and a small, hunched, dried corpse slowly crawled out of the rice monk's body.

"what!?"

Lu Yuguan held the green bamboo staff in front of him and quickly took a fighting stance.

There were no eyeballs in the corpse's eye sockets, and the corners of its mouth were cracked all the way to its ears, revealing empty gums filled with rotten flesh.

"Giggle cluck..."

The mummy made strange cries.

The screams were like the echo of bones knocking against each other, which was extremely terrifying.

Each strange cry was accompanied by a foul-smelling wind that almost suffocated Lu Yuguan.

"Hold!"

"What the hell is this!?"

Lu Yuguan's heart suddenly felt cold.

[Ding! Host swearing detected]

[Deduct two points of civilization value]

"Damn it! It's already this late, and you're still deducting my civilization value!"

Lu Yuguan had no time to pay attention to the system prompt sound. Looking at the dried corpse wandering there, he could only silently recite the Qingming Mantra and try his best to keep himself calm.

The mummy twisted its head with difficulty, and as its skin and bones were scraped, countless fleshy maggots were born and fell to the ground.

"vomit!--"

Lu Yuguan finally couldn't help but vomit.

With the blessing of the beginning of spring breeze, his six senses were exceptionally superior, so he could more intuitively feel the horror of the mummy in front of him.

The mummy seemed to have heard Lu Yuguan vomiting and turned its pomelo-sized head curiously.

It was stunned for a moment, then suddenly shook its two black hands excitedly, and made the same strange cry as before.

"Giggle cluck..."

The mummy took a step forward, its legs like bamboo sticks left after burning incense, striding towards Lu Yuguan in an extremely deformed posture.

"Damn it!"

"A thousand trees and thorns!——"

Lu Yuguan shouted.

Countless vines instantly grew out of the ground, trying to trap the mummy.

Unexpectedly, the mummy stepped flexibly in the gaps between the vines and avoided being entangled by all the vines.

"Does it have eyes on its legs?!"

Lu Yuguan shouted in horror.

Seeing that the mummy was about to approach him, Lu Yuguan had no choice but to continue to avoid it. Before fully understanding the origin of the mummy, he didn't want to have any contact with this disgusting thing.

"Giggle..."

The mummy kept waving its black hands, but it couldn't touch Lu Yuguan at all, and it was so angry that it kept screaming.

The battle between one man and one corpse quickly attracted everyone's attention.

The sky was extremely gloomy. From afar, Li Chonglin could only see Lu Yuguan being harassed by a skinny and short guy.

"Yuguan, retreat first!——"

Li Chonglin shouted nervously.

"It's too late!——"

Lu Yuguan's cold sweat flowed down his hair and stuck to his skin.

The tension, accompanied by the fishy wind in the darkness, was like falling into a terrifying purgatory, making the hairs all over his body stand up.

Li Chonglin punched the car body.

He wanted to go over to help, but he had no way to cross the river, so he could only watch Lu Yuguan fall into crisis.

"No, I must go!"

Li Chonglin said with gritted teeth.

Suddenly, the hilt of the sword at his waist began to feel slightly hot.

Li Chonglin pulled out the dragon-patterned sword, and the runes engraved on it flashed golden light in the night.

"Your Highness, I have a way to cross the river!" Chen Xian said breathlessly.