Ask Sword

The ghost city is not located on a horizontal plane. It is composed of dozens of waterfalls, dozens of river sections, and hundreds of large and small caves.

And because of the height difference between the tributaries of the underground river, the entire ghost city is divided into several floors, and some places must take bamboo and wooden stairs or dive to pass.

If you are not familiar with the terrain and do not have a guide to guide you, it is easy to get lost in the dark river system and never get out.

‘It’s no wonder that the Yu Kingdom’s court and Zhen Fusi couldn’t get rid of the ghost market here. The underground river extends in all directions, and there are countless secret passages. It is difficult for a large army to come in. Even if they do, the people in the ghost city can quickly withdraw and transfer to other underground river systems. '

Li Ang looked around, a little surprised in his heart, the terrain of the whole ghost city is complicated, comparable to a super giant ant nest. The population it accommodates may be in the tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. It looks like an underground kingdom.

A wanted fugitive, a monk who came to buy prohibited items, a foreign spy with evil intentions, and a businessman blinded by profit.

If Chang'an is a heaven on earth, then the ghost market is where the dirty water and filth of Chang'an City gather.

"It's still as smelly as ever."

Wu Huo clasped his hands behind his head and complained, "What do people in the ghost market eat all day long?"

Ya Jiu walked in front and replied without looking back: "The main food is moss, albino fish without eyes, and earthworms. Few people can afford food."

"I can't bring in bulk food, so I can only eat this?"

Wu Huo tutted, "It's a good thing they can eat it."

"When people are extremely hungry, they will eat anything."

Ya Jiu said lightly, quickened his pace a little, and turned a corner.

"Um?"

Li Ang raised his eyebrows, and what appeared in front of him was no longer the low shack seen in the front section of the river, but a fair and regular villa house located on a high place.

There is a towering courtyard wall outside the mansion, and countless ceramic fragments are buried above the wall to prevent robbers. There are several watchtowers behind the wall, on which are stationed soldiers in strong and sharp clothes.

Above the karst cave where the entire villa is located, a huge "herringbone"-shaped canopy is hung to block the dripping water from the karst cave.

Under the canopy, there are still long-burning lights hanging, always keeping the lights on. Make the villa estate look spectacular and eerie.

Tread Tread.

Two bald-headed men with the same appearance and wearing short robes stepped out of the shadows on both sides of the house, and glanced at the three of them.

"I'm here to find Kou Zhi'an and Kou Dalang."

With a normal expression, Ya Jiu took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to the two bald guards.

The bald guard glanced at him, but still didn't say a word, he just turned around and motioned for Ya Jiu and the others to follow.

Kou Zhian Kou Dalang?

Li Ang's heart moved, this name appeared in the last incident of Shengyefang. At that time, the scholar, the dwarf, and other four people were said to be strangers introduced by Kou Zhi'an to Huai Rui, the doctor of the Ministry of Jin, to help Huai Rui resolve the incident.

At that time Li Ang thought that Kou Zhi'an would be an intermediary in the ghost market or something. Looking at this battle, his status seems to be quite high.

Local snake?

As if feeling the doubts in Li Ang's heart, Ya Jiu flicked his fingers and released the sound transmission technique, making the voice ring in Li Ang's ears.

"The entire ghost market is divided up by eleven different forces. Kou Zhi'an is one of them—his father, Kou Wukui, is a cultivator in the Candle Sky Realm, but he hasn't shown his face in the ghost market for several years.

Considering that the Kou family has been oppressed and their sphere of influence has been invaded, but he never showed up.

He is probably dead. Or at least fell to the Candle Sky Realm. "

Kou Wukui. I seem to have heard this name somewhere.

Li Ang's eyes lit up, he seemed to have heard Yang Yu, a native of Chang'an, mention it.

When the Holy Empress was in power back then, she kept a lot of face-faced male favorites, gave them many rewards, and even made them officials. Some face-to-face servants were proud of their pets and acted recklessly, which led to them being severely liquidated after the Shenlong coup and Li's return to power.

(Some doctorates in the history of the academy believe that the Queen's connivance with Mian Shou is due to her old age, while others secretly comment that this move is a conspiracy of the Sacred Queen. Deliberately condoning Mian Shou, male favorites, sycophants, etc., and pushing them to do anything wrong, thus blocking Attract hatred in front of the Wu clan. Wait for the Holy Queen for a hundred years so that the Wu clan will not be implicated too hard)

Most of the capitals were killed or even stabbed to death by the clan of the Li surname, and only a few who were completely innocent or not worthy of liquidation escaped.

Kou Wukui is one of them - he and the head of the mountain Lian Xuanxiao are of the same age. When he was young, he was favored by the Holy Queen because of his handsome appearance, and the Holy Queen even used the resources in the palace to help him practice.

After the Shenlong coup, Kou Wukui, who was already a monk in the Xunyun Realm, escaped the pursuit of the Li clan with great difficulty, and vowed to avenge the Holy Queen to the death, and he would not live with Li Yu.

'It is said that he assassinated many clans surnamed Li, as well as the dragon heroes who made great efforts in the coup. Then he disappeared. The citizens of Chang'an thought he was dead, but they didn't expect that he had been hiding in the ghost market for so many years, and he had become a candle sky.

Well, in a sense, hiding in the underground ghost market for decades until he died, is indeed 'at odds' with Li Yu's court. '

Li Ang thought so, followed behind Ya Jiu, and walked into the villa.

The whole villa is not much different from the above-ground buildings. They all have structures such as gates, pavilions, naves, and backyards. There are rockery flowers and plants in the backyard.

However, it should be for the purpose of moisture resistance, the wood part of the entire villa has been replaced by stone.

"Like a coffin."

Wu Huo curled his lips and made a comment. The bald guard leading the way immediately turned his head and gave him a cold look. Behind him was the shadow of a jackal, staring at Wu Huo with his mouth open.

The ferocious appearance of a body refiner.

Wu Huo gave a cold snort of disdain, and looked directly at the cruel and sinister eyes of the jackal and fierce shadow, and a larger black shadow also appeared behind him, enveloping him.

"Don't make trouble."

Ya Jiu glanced at him, then quickened his pace and walked forward.

At this time, a middle-aged man dressed in Chinese clothes came out from the backyard.

He is tall and burly, with sunken eye sockets and a straight nose, and looks like a barbarian.

"Kou Huaian?"

Ya Jiu frowned slightly, "Kou Erlang, where's your eldest brother?"

"Your Excellency is the honored guest introduced by Mr. Yuansou, right?"

Kou Erlang, whose name is Kou Huaian, smiled and said: "My elder brother went to Jing country for business half a month ago, and now I am in charge of the Kou family. If you have anything to do, you can tell me."

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Ya Jiu was silent for a moment, nodded, and said, "When Kou Da was leaving, did he explain to you where some of the stumps went?"

"Are you talking about those Buddha sloughs?"

Kou Huaian nodded, turned and walked into the middle hall, "Follow me, three."

Li Ang followed Yajiu into the middle hall, only to see Kou Huaian explain a few words to his subordinates, the latter walked into the corridor and disappeared for a while, and when he reappeared, he was holding a huge wooden box in his hand.

Squeak.

After the wooden box was opened, there were some off-white or waxy-yellow musculoskeletal fragments inside.

It looked like a smashed mannequin specimen.

Kou Huai'an spread his palms and said, "Everything we collected from the dark river is here."

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Ya Jiu squatted on the ground, checked the shape of the fragments in the wooden box, stood up, and said to Li Ang: "Come and see if these things can be put together."

"Um?"

Li Ang was a little surprised, but he still went forward and checked it out.

The fragments in the box are as hard as fragments of stone statues, but there are clearly visible muscle and bone lines on the fractured surface.

Biceps, Triceps, Traps, Deltoids.

humerus, scapula, ribs, clavicle

Without much effort, Li Ang rearranged these fragments to their respective positions, vaguely piecing together the outline of a person's upper body.

Only missing the head and left arm.

"Is everything here?"

Ya Jiu looked up at Kou Huai'an, who spread his palms innocently, "We only got these. If you still want it, you can go to another house—the ghost city citizens who first fished out the stumps, Maybe it's been dropped off somewhere else."

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Ya Jiu nodded when he heard the words, and directly took out a stack of round fine gold coins like chips from his arms, and put them on the table.

This kind of chip-like currency is commonly used in the ghost market,

However, copper chips are used in outside transactions, and chips made of pure gold should be much more expensive.

Kou Huai'an nodded when he saw the gold coins, and waved his palm to ask his subordinates to put away the coins, "Do you three want to look at other things? I have them here."

"No more, Kou Erlang take care, let's just say goodbye."

With a steady tone, Ya Jiu lifted the wooden box on the ground and threw it to Wu Huo who was watching the play. Resolutely walked out of the courtyard.

Li Ang, who just found a way to recognize the skeletal feel, blinked and followed.

After walking out of the Kou family's mansion, Yajiu kept silent, followed the dark river to a secluded hut in the ghost city,

He put the two boxes on the ground and opened them, and said to Li Ang, "Can you sew these parts together with thread?"

"Can be able to."

Li Ang nodded, "But there are not enough parts here, and there will definitely be some defects."

"It's okay, it's normal to have defects."

Ya Jiu untied a ceramic bottle from the belt kit, poured some scarlet liquid from it, and poured it on the fragments in the two boxes.

呲——

A puff of smoke rose from the fragments, and all the fragments re-expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming full and full, like a human statue.

"Sew."

Ya Jiu put the cap on the ceramic bottle again, and Li Ang frowned deeply. He still opened the medicine box, put on his gloves, and used mulberry leather thread to rearrange all the pieces according to the outline of a normal human body, and sewed them up one by one.

Soon, the fragments gradually took shape, forming an incomplete upper body.

Adding the right arm in the iron box, only the left arm, head, and lower body remained.

"My part is done."

Li Ang stood up, released the spell, burned the cloth gloves directly, turned to Ya Jiu and said, "Can I go?"

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Ya Jiu didn't answer Li Ang's words immediately, but looked at the remnant body missing the left arm, head, and lower body, and chanted in an obscure language.

"The Taiyi guards the corpse, the three souls nourish the bones, the seven souls guard the flesh, and the fetal spirit records the qi. The so-called Taiyin training."

Accompanied by Ya Jiu's chanting, the dense black writing on the back of the remnant body gradually emerged as on the original right arm.

The whole remnant "lived" over,

The right arm twisted and swayed, supporting the straw covered in the iron box, holding up the headless upper body and standing upright in the iron box, facing the three of Yajiu.

sand--

The right arm of the headless corpse is hovering lightly in front of the abdomen, the middle finger of the finger clasps the knuckle of the thumb, and the other three fingers are lifted up, making a lotus gesture in Zen Buddhism.

Clean and comfortable, flowers bloom to see Buddha.

(There is another chapter, it's late, don't wait)