Chapter 27: Ghosts and Monsters (2)
To the north of Fei Lou Mountain, over a hundred miles away, there are several villages with populations of over a thousand. The villagers also mostly know about the existence of Yun Fu Sect.
These past few days, in the dead of night, villagers would often be startled awake by the cries of ghosts and goblins, only to discover the next day that someone had died a terrible death in their own home. However, during the autopsy process, the village's old doctor was somehow unable to determine the cause of death.
The deceased had no wounds on his body, and the internal organs were not damaged in any way. The only unusual sign was that his face was pitch black. Coupled with the eerie cries of ghosts at night, the villagers could only attribute this to evil spirits wreaking havoc among humans, so they sent someone to seek help from Yunfu Xianmen. The Xiudao Gate sect has always been self-proclaimed as the orthodox way, and it will not coexist with evil forces. After receiving the request for help, the Floating Cloud Sect naturally could not sit idly by.
How could it be said that the ghost was also under its own eyelids making trouble, which actually harmed the face of its own sect.
It was heard that a fairy would come to perform magic and exorcise evil spirits, so the villagers who had been frightened for several days arrived early at the edge of Feilu Mountain to welcome them. At noon, three rainbow lights shot out from Feilu Mountain, with a fiery red light leading the way, followed by two yellow and golden lights on either side, about 100 meters behind it.
The arrivals were Yi Feng and his three companions from the Floating Cloud Sect, descending with their Ghostly Descent Technique. Lu Changfeng saw many ordinary people below and knew they must be there to welcome him and his group, so he slowly descended.
Yi Feng's three senior brothers all had spiritual power protecting their bodies, and the brilliant light of the spiritual power made the three of them seem like true immortals descending into the world. The villagers all knelt down in unison, calling out: "Greetings to the Supreme Immortal, Supreme Immortal please take charge for us!"
Lu Changfeng indifferently watched the crowd, nor did he ask the villagers to get up. Along with Zhao Gang and Liu Yishan, they silently received the grand courtesy of the villagers, as if all this was a matter of course. Indeed, in the eyes of Jindan period cultivators, these ordinary people were no different from ants. They remained silent, and the villagers could only continue to bow.
Yi Feng's previous life lived in a civilized legal society, and this life was also born as a beggar, deeply understanding the difficulties of the poor masses' lives, naturally not wanting to receive others' kneeling and grand courtesy, hurriedly stepping forward to help the crowd up.
Yi Feng's words, however, earned him a cold glare from his three senior brothers. He even heard Lu Changfeng mutter under his breath, "A beggar is still a beggar, truly a lowly good-for-nothing!" The other two senior brothers nodded in agreement with cold smiles.
Yi Feng is a fusion period cultivator, and he practices the top-grade cultivation technique of the Nine Spirits Mysterious Heaven God Chapter. When his golden attribute spirit root was formed, his spiritual awareness was already not weak. How could he not hear Lu Changfeng's mocking words? Although he was furious in his heart, it wasn't good for him to erupt immediately, and besides, he didn't have complete confidence in subduing Lu Changfeng, who had already reached the late stage of the Golden Elixir.
They are indeed three self-righteous little people, with such a narrow mind and yet they want to cultivate immortality. Even if they reach the Tribulation Period, they will surely be destroyed under the mighty heavenly power. Yi Feng thought disdainfully in his heart, comforted himself and didn't take the performance of the three senior brothers to heart. As the saying goes: "Different paths don't make plans together!" Why bother with three people who have no future?
The villagers took the four of them to the village, and along the way, Yifeng chatted with the villagers, as if he wanted to pour out all the words that had been bottled up in his heart for twenty years. This feeling was also very subtle. When he was cultivating on the mountain, time flew by, and Yifeng didn't feel particularly lonely. But after coming down from the mountain, seeing and hearing the worldly people's happy words and laughter, there was a kind of very familiar feeling.
It's no wonder that when a cultivator first starts practicing, after achieving some success, their master will let them go into the secular world to temper their mind. Indeed, there are many benefits to this. If one doesn't carefully comprehend the various human emotions and circumstances, the Dao they cultivate will only be a biased path, not the correct path, not the great path. This is why entering the world to practice is always emphasized in the Daoist tradition, whereas practicing in seclusion deep in the mountains is called "leaving the world" to practice.
After entering the village, the villagers gathered the bodies of those who had been killed together for Lu Changfeng and others to examine. However, along the way, Lu Changfeng, Zhao Gang, and Liu Yishan were all dissatisfied with Yi Feng's behavior, so they all kept their mouths shut, as if they wanted to wash their hands of him. The villagers were helpless, knowing that the immortals had eccentric temperaments, so they cast their eyes towards the affable Yi Feng.
Yi Feng knew that his three senior brothers were going to make things difficult for him, because he was the weakest in reality and had no experience dealing with ghosts. If he went to do it himself, he would definitely not be able to achieve anything, and then they could step in and show off their superior status.
However, Lu Changfeng and his two companions were able to fulfill their wishes with the help of Zhan Tian, and Yi Feng soon found out why these villagers died.
