In a mountain town like this, where the townsfolk lived off the mountains, hunting large game was perfectly ordinary.
Zhong Kui Jingyi and her party paid it no mind and walked straight past.
After winding through the alleys for a while, they arrived at the entrance to a household.
This house was better kept than the others in town.
Its spacious courtyard held five large tiled-roof houses standing in a row.
There were also two thatched huts to the side, apparently used for storing odds and ends.
At that moment, the courtyard gate was shut tight. The aroma of food wafting from within had a faint meaty tang, something none of the households they had passed along the way had offered.
Zhong Kui Jingyi stopped at the gate. Based on her Spiritual Sense probe just now, this was the home of Baicao Town's mayor.
Although her Spiritual Sense had detected no trace of the First Prince a moment ago, the Cicada Tower's information could not be wrong. Something related to the First Prince had surely happened in Baicao Town.
In a remote place like this, the townsfolk were often timid and ignorant, and the mayor wielded more power than people did elsewhere. If anything unusual had happened in Baicao Town, the mayor would surely know best!
With that thought, Zhong Kui Jingyi stepped forward and knocked on the gate.
Knock, knock, knock.
The dull-sounding knocks echoed through the gathering dusk.
Soon, hurried footsteps came from inside.
Creak!
The gate swung inward, revealing a weathered, weary face lined with deep furrows.
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Baicao Town.
The town entrance.
Eight Ghostly Beings carried an ornate Ghost Sedan, drifting past the stone stele carved with the town's name and swaggering into town.
Inside the sedan, Pei Ling, transformed from Zhou the Ghost, sat with