The villagers knocked open the three houses in the yard and after killing people, they choked. They did not know that the He Ping and his party in these three houses were not True Person, but dummies made of the Ghost Cry Sect's "Cursed Pottery Art".
After the villagers who had turned into fishmen were eaten and wiped clean, their behavior and appearance changed again. They became extremely normal again, and left the courtyard one by one. After they left, the lights in one of the rooms suddenly turned bright.
It turned out that Chixinzi and others returned to the house that was smashed into a mess. Everyone took a look at the clay debris on the floor, and their faces became a little angry.
He Ping looked around, looked at the swaying bean flames, and shook his head slightly.
"These villagers don't have the memories of today, and they don't know that they will become like this. Tomorrow, they will have no memory of today's events and will completely forget them..."
Chixinzi saw this and added another explanation.
He Ping said calmly, "It seems that the villagers of Wanan Village are not human beings, but transformed from something else. However, they are not Yao Qi, and they should not be monsters. So what are they?"
"This has nothing to do with us."
Granny Miaohua was obviously not interested in getting to the bottom of it, so she turned to look at Chixinzi.
"Chixinzi, don't hide it. Where is the entrance to the secret realm?"
"Don't be anxious yet, the time is not yet ripe."
The expression on Chixinzi's face also became a little calmer.
"We have to wait until the fifth watch at the latest. Everyone, you should make some preparations first. To enter that Narcissus Cave Abode, we also need to be mentally alert before we can do anything."
Everyone listened to his words and each found a place to rest, waiting for the opportunity Chixinzi said.
Five o'clock in the morning.
He Ping didn't stay with other people. He hid in another room of this courtyard. He didn't light a lamp, he just sat cross-legged and closed his eyes to meditate.
Suddenly, his five senses and six consciousnesses suddenly moved. At the critical moment of recharging his energy, the depths of his soul and the nine heavenly palaces illuminated by the bright moon trembled. His eyes suddenly opened and his gaze moved in the direction of the door.
He noticed that there was a fire outside the house.
He Ping stood up. At the threshold of the wooden door he approached, a thin mist came out from the crack in the door and wrapped around his feet.
He stretched out his hand and pushed the door open.
"Card--"
The wooden door opened, but he was slightly startled. The whole Wanan Village seemed to have changed. The courtyard was shrouded in a gray fog. Through the courtyard wall, he could see that there was also a layer of mist floating on the outside houses and streets. Going deeper, the gray fog became much denser...
It's so intense that you can't even see what's behind it...
He Ping sniffed and smelled a faint fishy smell, like the smell of fish in the sea.
"Junior brother, it seems you feel it too."
A dull voice sounded from the wooden door on the other side, and Chixinzi followed suit and pushed out the door. Different from before, he now changed into a green robe. Under the hood, Chixinzi's eyes were burning with fire as he stared at the gray fog around him.
"When the fog comes together, the opportunity has arrived, and today happens to be the day when the Water Mansion cave opens. Let's go, junior brother."
After saying that, he took the lead and walked out the door.
At the same time, the wooden doors of several other rooms also opened, and Wumeizi and others also walked out.
They left the courtyard and came outside. Outside, chaos, darkness, and gray mist filled the entire village.
The fog became thicker and thicker, and the visibility was extremely low. Everything above, below, left, and right turned into an extremely dull gray.
"This fog is weird..."
Old Cell Ghost came out with three disciples wearing yellow shirts. The master Ghost Cry Sect looked up at the night sky.
--The moon, the night sky, and the sky are all invisible, only thick gray fog covers it, like a black pot covering most of the sky.
"Everyone, let's go in this direction! Let's go to where Ancient Well is..."
Chixinzi called out to the people behind him, and at some point he found an ancient bronze lamp in his hand. A figurine with a snake body and a human head was coiled around the ancient lamp. The ancient lamp was mottled with green rust. When it was lit, it emitted a dim firelight.
The mist seemed to be afraid of this ancient lamp, which should be a Law Artifact. As the faint green flame like a will-o'-the-wisp lit up, the mist turned into strands and dispersed, and gradually, the fire lit up a path.
"Good stuff..."
Old Cell Ghost of the Ghost Cry Sect saw the Human-Snake Figurine Lamp held in Chixinzi's hands, and his eyes glowed green.
"This should be the soul-suppressing lamp used by the princes and nobles of the Daxian Dynasty in the previous dynasty to suppress evil spirits in tombs, break the darkness and illuminate the Youluo Realm. Chixinzi, you really got a good thing..."
Chixinzi didn't reply when he heard this, he just laughed twice.
Walking slowly in the fog, He Ping stretched out his hand and touched the floating fog threads. The fog threads were like living creatures, swimming between his fingers.
"This fog... seems to be 'alive'."
This was not his guess, but something he sensed with his spiritual power. The gray mist shrouding Wanan Village seemed to be a huge creature, and now he was in the body of a giant creature.
"I think you may be right."
Chixinzi spoke unhurriedly and said, "Any injury suffered by the villagers in the village will be repaired in the fog... This ghost fog is the source of all the weirdness in this village. No matter what happens in this village, at night, it will be shrouded by these diffuse fogs and it will return to normal."
"I have a question."
Wumeizi also followed, and at this time he also raised a question.
"What will happen if I burn this place down?"
"Nothing will happen," Chixinzi grinned and said, "I have done this kind of thing before. You have also noticed that something is not right about these gray fogs! Everything in this village, no matter how damaged it is, will return to its original state."
"Could it be a phantom formation?"
Granny Miaohua whispered.
"There is absolutely no such realistic illusion array in the world. At least in my opinion, if it can be so real, it is not an illusion array, but a big Divine Ability that turns virtual reality into reality, like matter turning into form."
Chixinzi sneered.
"With this kind of means to reach the sky, it doesn't make any difference to us whether this illusory formation is an illusion or real... Oh, here we are, look there -"
With the help of the copper lamp in his hand, he broke through the surrounding fog, revealing a green, solid floor tile.
This is a long and open road, and at the end you can see a stone Ancient Well. From the Ancient Well, gray mist surges out like spring water.
"This... this well?"
Everyone present was stunned. When they heard Chixinzi mention Ancient Well, they had already guessed that Ancient Well should be the source of this strange fog. However, the scene they saw when they came here still made everyone feel a little scared.
Both sides of this tile-paved road were filled with white shadows crawling and crawling on the ground.
Everyone didn't pay attention at first, but when they got closer, they noticed that it was a white, round and chubby "piece of meat".
The "piece of meat" squirmed like a living thing, rolling out as the mist gushes out, like a slug, slowly crawling forward.
Just half a foot away, the thing suddenly trembled its body. The short five fingers growing directly from the piece of meat were squirming, and the mouth without a tongue suddenly opened in an impossible place, and then, the head of the fish appeared.
"Flocculant?"
The woman in red who was following Granny Miaohua screamed.
Rows on the ground, crawling out of Ancient Well are foreign objects that are transforming from "pieces of meat" into fish-men.
As if he noticed that there was someone next to him, Meatloaf stretched out his hand as if asking for help, and then, the fish face began to evolve into a human face.
Chixinzi took a step forward, waved his sleeves, and the piece of meat was swept away. However, on the floor tiles behind, a piece of meat with the face of a villager stood up straight, swayed, and walked slowly towards a thatched mud house next to it.
While he was walking, his hair, nose, and mouth began to deform, and clothes appeared on his body.
Then, the villager opened the wooden door and walked into the thatched mud house. Not long after, a frightened cry came from the house.
"I've said it before..."
Chixinzi said with a smile.
"Here, every seven days, it will be completely reset. The fish-men who emerge from the well will become new villagers, and then kill and eat the old villagers. Then, they will take over their identities and complete the seven-day reincarnation. Then, this reincarnation will continue. This is also the biggest secret of Wanan Village."