Apothecary

"How many people are in danger in the inn?" Lu Yang first determined the source of the threat to the inn, whether it was only the waiter.

The waiter, dressed in white, tremblingly held up two fingers. "Two... two."

"Who!"

"You two."

Meng Jingzhou forward and kicked him. "Behave yourself!"

The waiter was helpless; he couldn't lie even dressed in white, because the two of them were the most dangerous people in the inn.

Lu Yang readjusted the question, "For ordinary people, how many people in the inn are in danger?"

"I'm alone," the waiter answered truthfully.

Who is stronger, you or the innkeeper?

"I am stronger, but we have to follow different rules, and he has a natural ability to suppress me."

"Is your power the same in the top-tier room as it is elsewhere?"

"It's different. Based on the rules, I'm stronger in the top-tier room."

Are there others like you, possessing different powers in different places?

"Yes, for example, the things that are in the thatched huts during the day. They are very strong in the thatched huts and can move freely between them, but once they leave the thatched huts, their strength becomes no different from that of an ordinary person, and they lose the ability to move freely. But I don't know exactly what those things are."

"Anything else? For example, do the officials in black and the private tutors in gray have any special powers?"

"No, but they were originally cultivators, and their strength is much greater than that of ordinary people."

What was the relationship between the government officials and the private tutor?

"I suspect their relationship isn't good; there might be some competition. For example, like the constables, I need to kill a certain number of people to leave the town. I don't know the specifics of the private tutor's situation, but the requirements are probably the same."

Do you know where the mayor is?

"I heard the town mayor is in the government office; I've never seen him come out."

How to kill the mayor?

"I have no idea."

"What are the town mayor's powers and abilities?"

"I have no idea."

Where is the ancestral hall?

"The ancestral hall cannot be found during the day; it only appears at the hour of Hai (9-11 PM)." The waiter answered every question honestly.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou had made their own deductions about what the waiter had told them, and they were not much different from what the waiter had said.

With nothing more to ask, Lu Yang took action, stripping the waiter of his white clothes and piercing his body with a sword, sending him to his death.

As the leader of a demonic sect, how could he leave any survivors?

"Luckily you took it off beforehand, otherwise your white clothes would have gotten dirty." Meng Jingzhou stretched. "Finally, I can get some sleep in peace."

Lu Yang felt the same way; he had gained a lot tonight, and there was no more annoying knocking at the door.

The two searched the waiter again and found the inn's rules on him, but since they already knew the rules, they were of little use.

"Our rules disappeared after we read them once. If we didn't have good memories, we would have forgotten them long ago. They can still leave the rules behind to ensure they don't make mistakes. It seems that the waiters and other staff are treated completely differently from us."

On the third day, at the hour of Si (9-11 AM), the night watchman's gong woke the two men. They yawned, feeling that they had slept very well.

Hearing the waiter's cries for help and various noises from the previous night, the innkeeper decided to go upstairs to check on the waiter in the early morning.

He remained silent for a long time when he saw the waiter's gruesome death.

Are these two truly on the right path?

When leaving the inn, Lu Yang left a note for the innkeeper. "The white clothes look good. Can we borrow them for another two days?"

What Lu Yang didn't notice was that the innkeeper looked at the two of them with a hint of fear in his eyes.

Moreover, the tone of this note sounds just like that of a domineering Devil Cultivator refuses to pay back debts.

The feeling is like, "This stuff is nice, I'll borrow it for a bit, and return it when I'm done with it."

"Is it just my imagination?"

Clearly, the innkeeper knew very little about the Ask Dao Sect.

For cultivators at the lower levels, their knowledge of a behemoth like the Ask Dao Sect mostly comes from rumors.

Rumors are mostly unreliable.

After leaving the inn, the two found a pharmacy, where a pharmacy apprentice dressed in gray clothes was working.

The apprentice at the pharmacy, seeing customers, greeted them warmly, "Esteemed guests, what would you like to order? Did you hear a dog barking? Or did you encounter a black dog?"

"If you hear a dog barking, I have medicine ready here."

The apprentice at the pharmacy brought over a pot of bubbling red medicine. "This is made by grinding cinnabar grass into powder and boiling it for ten hours. After drinking this medicine, you will feel drowsy temporarily, and after a nap, the effects of the dog barking will disappear."

"If you encounter a black dog, then hurry up and come with me, or you will soon be assimilated by it."

"There's a well in the backyard of the pharmacy. You have to draw the water yourself. As long as you drink the water you draw yourself, you won't be assimilated by the black dog."

Meng Jingzhou wanted to say he wanted to see the boss, but Lu Yang stopped him.

Meng Jingzhou understood Lu Yang's meaning. There was no need to explain to the apprentice at the pharmacy, as he was a stranger and what he said was most likely false.

The two men sat calmly, remaining silent no matter how anxious the apprentices at the pharmacy were or how much they cared for them.

About half an hour later, the apprentice of the pharmacy went into the backyard, and the pharmacy owner, dressed in white, appeared.

"Have you two encountered any difficulties, or is there some problem?" The pharmacy owner was an elderly man with a kind face, making it easy to gain his trust and confide in him about your troubles.

The two still remembered the rule, which stated that they could not talk to the pharmacy owner.

Lu Yang handed the pharmacy owner a note: We heard a dog barking, what should we do?

"You need two qian of Tongming grass, dip it in saliva, crush it, and use the crushed material to plug your ears. Leave it plugged for fifteen minutes to eliminate the effect."

Lu Yang then wrote, "Give me four qian of Tongming grass, and also, what if we encounter a black dog?"

"Encountering a black dog is troublesome. People who encounter a black dog will involuntarily bark, and once they bark, they will be assimilated by the black dog."

"There is a way: sew its mouth shut with needle and thread, leaving no gaps, and sew it for half an hour without making any sound. Then it won't be assimilated by the black dog."

Lu Yang listened attentively and then wrote: How to leave the town?

"Leaving the town? That would be even more troublesome; I even think it's impossible."

"There is an ancestral hall in the town. Inside the ancestral hall is a half-naked Buddha statue with its eyes covered. If you take the Buddha statue out of the ancestral hall and smash it, an exit to the outside world will appear. There is a bone-dissolving wind at the exit. The wind enters through the seven orifices and exits through the seven orifices. In the process of entering and exiting, the flesh dissolves, leaving only a skeleton. When the body dies and the soul dissipates, no one can resist it."

"This is the only way to leave the town."

Their hearts sank; this rule was clearly designed to keep people from leaving.

It makes sense; if the ancient Body Integration Realm were hiding here, they would definitely not let anything be exposed.