"You've seen ghost cultivators?" Qin Xi tilted his head and asked when he saw Jing Xingzhi calling out without hesitation.
Jing Xingzhi nodded. "I saw them when I was wandering in Yunzhong."
Mo Tiange remembered that ghost cultivators did exist in Yunzhong, but there were very few of them and they lived in seclusion, so she hadn't seen them in Yunzhong.
"How could there be ghost cultivators here?"
Qin Xi felt more and more strange. It was one thing to put the secret storeroom and White Tiger Sacrificial Temple together, but how could there be ghost cultivators here?
Was this a treasured land of Fengshui or a place of extreme evil?
"Huh?"
Nie Wushang was at a loss when she saw the three of them looking at her. "I don't know!"
If she knew, she would've said it earlier and would've prepared for it.
A cold and gloomy aura spread quickly. Mo Tiange reacted quickly and took out the Lotus Elemental Umbrella.
The Lotus Elemental Umbrella had a restraining effect on devil aura, so it should also have some effect on the similarly negative ghost aura, right?
The Lotus Elemental Umbrella floated in the air and emitted a spiritual light when it sensed the ghost aura. However, the ghost aura only stopped for a moment and continued spreading, and the Lotus Elemental Umbrella suddenly dimmed.
Mo Tiange was shocked. The Lotus Elemental Umbrella was surrounded by a gloomy and deep black aura, silently but quickly swallowing the spiritual light of the Lotus Elemental Umbrella.
She hurriedly took out a Qiankun Bag and put the Lotus Elemental Umbrella back into the Qiankun Ring to prevent the ghost aura from corroding other magic weapons. The Qiankun Ring was a mustard seed space that could store Qiankun Bags that used spatial formations.
Qin Xi's Three Yang Real Fire Sword emitted a sword light that circled around and turned into a light shield, blocking the ghost aura.
After refining the Vermilion Bird Bow, Qin Xi's Real Fire had completely transformed into the Vermilion Bird's flame. The Vermilion Bird was the symbol of light and had a natural restraining effect on ghosts and devils.
"I'll block the ghost aura. Hurry up," he said.
Jing Xingzhi nodded and once again summoned his flying sword, which transformed into thousands of sword lights and hit the rock wall.
Although they came from Fengsha City, they had walked underground for a long time and had long been out of Fengsha City's range. Judging from the surrounding rocks, they should be inside Xiling Mountain Range.
The terrain of Xiling Mountain Range was complicated. Hopefully, they didn't go in the wrong direction. Otherwise, they would have to spend a lot of effort to leave.
Alas!
Mo Tiange sighed inwardly.
She had come here to look for Xiao Zilan's remains. Treasure hunting was just a convenience. Now that the situation had developed beyond her expectations, she could only come back later.
Speaking of which, it was strange. All the formations and mechanisms here had been cracked, so this should be Xiao Zilan's destination. Why couldn't he find any clues?
Could it be that she didn't die here, but died outside after successfully obtaining the treasure?
This was not impossible. If they found the treasure here and then turned hostile after they left, then the trail would be broken.
How troublesome!
She frowned.
It wouldn't be easy for him to come here again.
To them, ghost cultivators were completely foreign to them. If they were to really fight against them, they had no confidence at all.
"Hurry up!" Qin Xi, who was resisting the ghost aura, shouted. "Ghost cultivators are coming out."
After the Ghost Qi filled the air, the Ghost Cultivator finally appeared. That powerful and sinister aura caused one's hair to stand on end.
It was the same chilling aura, but the Ghost Qi was completely different from the Devil Qi.
The Devil Qi was dark and terrifying, but it still belonged to the human world. The Ghost Qi, on the other hand, made people feel as if they had fallen into an ice cellar. They were at a loss and lost the will to live.
Mo Tiange's divine sense also discovered the Ghost Cultivator.
To be exact, it was a mass of condensed Ghost Qi. The Ghost Cultivator had no body, so even if it formed a Ghost Infant, it was still just a mass of aura.
This Ghost Cultivator's aura was very powerful; it shouldn't be inferior to the Nascent Soul realm.
As soon as it appeared, it went to where Master Song Feng and Devil Monarch Night Frost were.
The four of them heaved sighs of relief. It was good that the target wasn't them.
But in the next moment, the four of them were stunned!
After this Ghost Cultivator appeared, many other auras gushed out. They were all Nascent Soul ghost cultivators!
One, two, three … until there were dozens of them!
Some of these ghost cultivators went to where Master Song Feng was, while others followed the auras of living people and floated towards them.
Jing Xingzhi paused for a moment, then he controlled his flying sword and crazily attacked the rock wall.
They had no experience in dealing with ghost cultivators. With so many Nascent Soul ghost cultivators, if they fought, it would bode ill rather than well for them!
However, the speed of these ghost cultivators was beyond imagination. In the blink of an eye, their Ghost Qi pressed down on them.
"Buzz!"
The protective shield Qin Xi propped up dimmed. He made a hand seal, and his dantian lit up. The Vermilion Bird's Flame hidden in his Yang Spiritual Bead gushed out and poured into the protective shield.
In a hurry, Mo Tiange turned her head to take a look and found that the ghost cultivators had already arrived.
Before she saw ghost cultivators, she thought those with this kind of evil aura would be some kind of monster with a green face and fangs. But now that she saw them, she realized that ghost cultivators looked similar to humans — it was just that their bodies were transparent.
For ghost cultivators, although they were a mass of aura, they still retained their human consciousness. Therefore, whether it was a ghost with a little bit of consciousness or a great cultivator who had formed a Ghost Infant, all of them would maintain their human appearance.
Only those Wandering Souls whose consciousness had been erased would have no appearance at all.
"Who are you?
Why are you invading our Ghost City? "After watching for a while, the leading ghost cultivator actually spoke.
Seeing that they didn't intend to attack immediately, Qin Xi said, "What Ghost City?
We came to look for treasures. We don't know what Ghost City it is. "
The leading ghost cultivator was wearing scholarly clothes and a scholar's hat. He held a scroll in his hand, looking gentle and elegant. He was probably a scholar when he was alive.
He looked at the four of them and said, "Nonsense!
Since you didn't know this was a Ghost City, how could you coincidentally destroy its foundation? "
The foundation of a Ghost City?
The four of them were bewildered.
Qin Xi said, "We didn't destroy anything. Those two people have nothing to do with us."
The place where these ghost cultivators appeared was next to the storehouse. Presumably, it was destroyed during the fight between Master Song Feng and Devil Monarch Night Frost.
"Hmph!" The scholar swung his sleeve and said, "Since you have nothing to do with us, what are you doing now?"
The four of them were dumbfounded. Soon after, they realized that this ghost cultivator was talking about how they punched through the rock wall.
Nie Wushang said, "Could it be that this West Mountain Range is your Ghost City?
There's a storehouse here, but it belongs to us human cultivators. "
"That storehouse belongs to human cultivators, but it's not yours," the scholar ghost cultivator said indifferently, "When we came here, the storehouse was already abandoned.
In the past, when you human cultivators came here, you just took things and left, and we didn't care. But today, you actually destroyed the Ghost City — we can't ignore this! "
From what the ghost cultivator said, their Ghost City had always been here. In the past, when Master Song Feng came here, they all knew about it.
In that case, these ghost cultivators weren't ruthless people. Maybe they could talk to them.
"This … Fellow Daoist." Qin Xi hesitated for a moment but still chose to call them "Fellow Daoist". "We didn't know this was your resting place. Now that we know, we won't destroy it again."
"Hmph!" The ghost cultivator stared at them expressionlessly. "You said that because you want to leave, right?"
Qin Xi said calmly, "We were going to leave anyway. We don't want to have a conflict with you."
He paused for a moment then added, "Since you can become a ghost cultivator, you must've been a cultivator when you were alive. You should know that Nascent Soul cultivators aren't easy to kill. If we fight, neither of us will benefit, so why should we create more trouble?"
The ghost cultivator didn't refuse immediately. Seemingly moved by Qin Xi's words, he turned his head and seemed to discuss it with his companions.
A moment later, the scholar ghost cultivator sent out a wisp of ghost aura from his hand and flew back the way he came.
Is he sending a message?
That was Mo Tiange's guess.
After sending out this wisp of ghost aura, the dozen or so Nascent Soul ghost cultivators in front of Mo Tiange stopped talking and just stood there quietly.
This scene was too strange. Mo Tiange felt it was absurd.
Not to mention that the appearance of these ghost cultivators was strange, but the origin of these ghost cultivators was already a problem.
For so many years, no one had ever heard of the existence of a Ghost City in the Celestial Pole. Where did this Ghost City come from?
Were they originally here or did they move here?
According to ancient records, there were ghost cultivators in the early years of the Celestial Pole, but they disappeared later. Could it be that these ghost cultivators didn't disappear but hid here and built a Ghost City?
In addition, were the Nascent Soul ghost cultivators so worthless?
There were less than a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators in the entire Celestial Pole, and they were scattered all over the place. Great sects that occupied large spirit veins usually only had Nascent Soul cultivators. Why did a Ghost City of ghost cultivators have so many Nascent Soul ghost cultivators?
Moreover, it was impossible for all the Nascent Soul ghost cultivators to come out in full force to deal with the few of them. In that case, didn't that mean there were fifty or sixty Nascent Soul ghost cultivators in this Ghost City?
Mo Tiange was terrified when she thought of this.
In that case, the power of this Ghost City was too terrifying. If ghost cultivators came out, wouldn't the Celestial Pole Immortal Alliance, which was fighting on two fronts, be in more trouble?
While she was lost in her thoughts, Qin Xi pondered for a moment then asked the ghost cultivator, "Fellow Daoist, how should I address you?"
The scholar ghost cultivator's face was pale. He said expressionlessly, "My name is Wen Si."
"So it's Fellow Daoist Wen Si." Qin Xi cupped his hands and said, "My surname is Qin, and my Daoist name is Shoujing. I'm a cultivator of Xuanqing School."
Upon hearing the words "Xuanqing School", the ghost cultivator's eyes moved, and he said stiffly, "So it's Fellow Daoist from Xuanqing School."
Qin Xi was curious. "Fellow Daoist, do you know about Xuanqing School?"
"We're all people," Wen Si said blankly, "Xuanqing School has been established for more than a hundred thousand years. Of course we know about it."
"… So you're all cultivators of the Celestial Pole?" Qin Xi asked tentatively.
Wen Si's gray eyes flashed. "What do you want to say?"
Qin Xi said, "Fellow Daoist Wen Si, rumor has it that ghost cultivators have long disappeared from the Celestial Pole. As it turns out, you moved here and established a Ghost City."
"You don't need to probe." Although Wen Si's expression was stiff, his mind was sharp. "We won't tell you about Ghost City's origin."
"…" Qin Xi paused for a moment then said, "In that case, Fellow Daoist Wen Si, may I ask how Ghost City plans to deal with us?
You previously let the cultivators who came here go, so presumably, you don't have any hostility towards human cultivators, right? "
Wen Si's gray eyes moved. He reached out to catch the ghost aura flying towards him and said, "You'll find out soon enough."
Right after he said that, the ghost aura dispersed from his hand. His gaze shifted, and he raised his scroll. "The Ghost Venerable has ordered us to kill them all!"