Wumeizi, who calls himself "White-Bearded Guest", is a powerful master of the Purple Armor Hall, one of Nine Evils of Longevity. His aura is deep and mysterious, and his strength is unfathomable.
This man's appearance is also quite strange. There are no eyebrows on his face, but his hair and beard are all dull white. His whole face is like a porcelain mask, without much expression.
Wumeizi is strong enough to make He Ping feel the pressure. Compared to him, the other two people who came here, namely "Old Cell Ghost" and "Granny Miaohua", also have extraordinary origins.
Old Cell Ghost is an older generation figure who was born in the Ghost Cry Sect, one of the Nine Evils. Ghost Cry Sect, a sect that is half human and half ghost, has always been a very evil sect. It is said that Ghost Cry Sect's introductory method is derived from the Daoist sect's Dongyuan Department <Supreme Cave Abyss Divine Incantation Scripture>. Its method is known as "to control the flying demons above, to control the five qi in the middle, and to eliminate all demons below."
<Supreme Cave Abyss Divine Incantation Scripture> This ancient scripture has twenty volumes, including Vow Ghost, Send Ghost, Bind Ghost, ghost-killing, ghost-forbidden, and ghost-killing products, as well as various ghost-controlling talismans.
The founder of the Ghost Cry Sect doesn't know how he got the three grades of <Vow Ghost>, <Send Ghost>, and <Bind Ghost>, supplemented by an unknown skill <Heaven Abandoned Scripture>, and founded the foundation of the Ghost Cry Sect on his own.
The disciple of this sect, Divine Ability, has very strange magic techniques. He claims to use his body as a tomb to calm souls and refine ghosts, and use ghost ways to extend his life. It is an alternative method of immortality.
However, Ghost Cry Sect's disciples will most likely become half-human and half-ghost after they practice. Not to mention extending their lifespan, they will most likely not live long. Longevity is extremely rare, but short lifespan is more common.
This old country farmer-looking "Old Cell Ghost" and his three disciples all give people a dark and ghostly feeling.
He Ping just glanced at the old man smoking a dry pipe. Looking at the old face like pot ashes and the deep wrinkles that looked like knife cuts, it was completely impossible to guess the age of Old Cell Ghost. It can be seen that this old monk Ghost Cry Sect is not easy to mess with.
As for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, that is, "Granny Miaohua" and the woman in red, He Ping doesn't know much about them either.
Granny Miaohua should be a member of the Qi Soul Sect. Qi Soul Sect is ranked lower among the Nine Evils and is also named Soul Eater Sect. The name of this sect's entrance to the Tao is <Treatise on Dao Vessels>. It is also the original Daoist sect, but I don't know how it derailed the cultivation of people of this sect.
At first, Qi Soul Sect did not value human skins, focused on divine will rather than Qi, and cultivated one's nature rather than one's life. He pursued the path of flying immortals by "traveling to the eight extremes, filling the heaven and earth, and ascending to the sky". Later generations of disciples and disciples even went astray, treating the skin as a house, and often exchanged it.
Later, hundreds of years ago, this sect produced a powerful figure named "Yin Wulei" Ke Yihan. This man rose from humble beginnings and became the leader of the Qi Soul Sect from a servant. After he became the leader, there were still many opposition forces in the sect.
Ke Yihan is extremely talented. After entering Daoism, he realized a strange Secret Method from <Treatise on Dao Vessels>. The disciples of the order gave up their souls and souls. On the one hand, they used this method to blackmail and suppress hostile forces; on the other hand, they also used this method to develop an astonishing Divine Ability technique.
Those disciples also lost their souls and had to go around preying on other people's souls. From then on, the disciples of the Qi Soul Sect began to feed on other people's souls and became a group of soul-eating monsters. For this reason, the practitioners also changed it to "Soul Eater Sect" out of ridicule.
"I have limited knowledge about the Qi Soul Sect, but this Granny Miaohua will be selected as one of the collaborators by Chixinzi, and his strength will not be any weaker..."
The inside of Water Immortal Ruins is very dangerous. People who are not strong enough will not be able to help, but will become a burden to their own side. This is why Granny Miaohua and Old Cell Ghost were opposed to the temporary entry of this person at first.
"White-Bearded Ghost," Old Cell Ghost suddenly flicked the remaining leaves in the dry tobacco pipe in his hand and suddenly spoke. The old man with gray beard and hair squinted his eyes slightly and grinned.
"You have been walking around outside for a long time. You must not be bored, right?"
"Nothing, it's just that this village is a little weird, so I walked around a little bit."
"White-Bearded Guest" Wumeizi found a chair and sat down.
"I picked a farmer, kidnapped him into the dense forest, and used my own punishment methods. Although I tortured him in every possible way, I didn't get any useful information from this person..."
As a member of the Purple Armor Hall, Wumeizi is by no means a kind person. He noticed that the villagers in the village were a bit strange, so he caught one of them without hesitation, found an opportunity, robbed him in a hidden place, and tortured him to find out the news.
"Chixinzi... What is going on with the people in this village?"
Wumeizi's eyes looked solemn, and he asked in a deep voice, "Also, why did you choose to meet here, and where is Narcissus Cave Abode?"
Chixinzi smiled happily.
"Wumeizi Brother Daoist, why are you so impatient? Everyone has already arrived, so there is no need for me to keep hiding. As Brother Daoist said, I will definitely tell you everything about this village and why we chose to gather here."
Then, the old guy started talking. He said that he discovered this place twenty years ago. At that time, he and Cheng Tianyou of Cheng Family Ranch explored the ruins in depth. Later, because Narcissus Cave Abode's taboo was triggered, Cheng Tianyou was seriously injured, and Chixinzi was also seriously injured. The two had to escape in panic.
"Cheng Tianyou died of serious injuries. After I recovered from my injuries, I conducted many explorations of the Water Immortal Ruins. After many investigations, I found out that this Anping Village was actually built at the entrance of Water Immortal Ruins..."
"In other words, underneath this Anping Village is the ruins of Narcissus Cave Abode?"
He Ping asked quickly.
"No, Narcissus Cave Abode is naturally not here, but is hidden in a Ancient Well in front of the Anping Village ancestral hall. Strictly speaking, Ancient Well is just a passage that leads to a secret realm where Narcissus Cave Abode is located.
The Narcissus Cave Abode in the secret realm is opened every ten years. This year happens to be the period in ten years when cave abode is opened. During this period, if we want to enter Narcissus Cave Abode, the first step is to use this Ancient Well to try to enter the secret realm."
Chixinzi looked at the people around who were gearing up and quickly reminded them.
"However, it is not easy to enter that secret realm. The person who opened that secret realm was an expert from the Sanyuan Devil Palace. He set up extremely complicated restrictions. If you don't understand the secrets, you may just fail."
"Please explain in detail."
Wumeizi asked in a calm tone.
"This restriction is the village itself. By the way, Brother Wumeizi, I'm afraid you've also noticed that the villager you tortured before noticed that he was tossing and turning and could only say a few words. No matter what you did, he remained indifferent. Isn't that true?"
When Chixinzi asked this question, Wumeizi remained silent. His bare brows furrowed into a frown. His silence was also a kind of affirmation.
"I think everyone here is more or less aware of the doubts in this village," Chixinzi, dressed as a salesman, grinned. "The reason is very simple. No matter whether the villagers in this village are upright, there is no living 'human being' among the men, women, and children in the village."
"What do you mean?"
Granny Miaohua stretched his neck, and although his eye sockets were full of wrinkles, his eyes flashed with a strange light.
"Old lady, I also feel that there is something unruly in this village, but if the people here are not 'human beings', then who are these villagers?"
Chixinzi shook his head and did not answer. Instead, he asked the old man Ghost Cry Sect: "Old Cell Ghost, you were the first to come to this village. You must have noticed it with your ability?"
"No, I don't see any problem either."
Old Cell Ghost replied indifferently, "However, after I entered this village, I smelled a very strange smell. The smell is very weak and difficult for ordinary people to identify. The smell is a bit close to the smell of fish..."
--Fishy smell, after hearing this, He Ping also realized that the unusual atmosphere he experienced after coming to this village, indeed, seemed to be a very bland smell.
"The villagers of Anping Village do look like human beings from the outside."
Chixinzi raised the corner of his mouth slightly and sneered, "But if you want to say that they are human beings, then I don't agree. I know every person in the village. Compared with twenty years ago, their appearance is not the same as that of twenty years ago. They will not age or increase in age. It is as if their lives have been fixed.
Also, if they are human beings, I have never seen a 'living person' who is killed and will not die, but will resurrect on the same spot the next day, and will repeat his own action pattern year after year, day after day."