Continuation of the Chapter's Effects
Morning Dew City was an enormous city, with a population exceeding a million.
The entire city was unimaginably vast. This old residence stood tucked away in the eastern corner of the outer city, an exceedingly remote area.
The old residence must once have been quite large. Even its courtyards covered considerable ground, and from its bearing, its gates were imposing and its buildings stretched on in rows.
Having fallen into disrepair over the years, many of the houses were damaged. Cobwebs sealed every doorway, dust filled the eye, and it was clearly a place no one had visited in a long time.
At this moment, after "Jin Chengliang" entered the abandoned residence, he saw several hundred black locust trees planted in the courtyard.
These locust trees had long since withered. The setting sun was red as blood, and beneath its crimson light, the branches of those old trees jutted out like halberds, resembling patches of ferocious ghostly shadows.
Part of the courtyard wall had collapsed, and knee-deep weeds grew everywhere. No frogs croaked or earthworms chirped from the grass clumps and cracks in the walls. The abandoned residence was deathly silent, its surroundings unusually bleak and secluded. It was hardly difficult to understand why the city residents called it a "haunted house."
"The immortal master gave me something earlier and said it would be useful once I reached the old residence? I just wonder whether it will really be of any use."
Having arrived here, Jin Chengliang was somewhat flustered. He had come at the orders of the "immortal master," Yuan Qing, to accomplish something for him.
Yuan Qing claimed that an immortal opportunity lay in a water well within this residence. Yet after entering the residence, he had no idea where that well was...