The girls got up early, and then looked at each other in confusion. There was no movement at all last night, no one attacked, and even the innkeeper did not behave abnormally.
This puzzled everyone, but they also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go quickly. If you don't go, it will be too late."
Before leaving, the boss urged them to leave again, but when asked why, he said nothing. Lin Su and others were helpless.
"Forget it, let's go to other places to inquire."
Lin Su shook his head and was about to leave when he seemed to think of something and turned to look at the boss.
"We are planning to leave now. I would like to ask, how far is Shuozhou City from here?"
"Shuozhou City?" The boss frowned, "I have heard of Shuozhou, but not Shuozhou City."
Lin Su narrowed his eyes and said calmly, "Then which city is our biggest?"
"The largest city? Do you mean around here, or the entire Youzhou?"
When the boss finished speaking, Lin Su's pupils suddenly shrank, and the girls were also shocked.
Fortunately, Lin Su was calm after all. After all, she had already made suspicions in her heart. She coughed to tell the girls not to look strange, and then continued talking to the boss.
"What are the nearest cities around here?"
"Recently, there is Dongyang City, but it is controlled by the Blood Demon Sect. I think you should not go there."
"Then which force controls this place?"
"Okay, it's time for you to go."
The boss suddenly turned against him, making Lin Su and others look at each other in confusion, but they had already gotten some of the joy they wanted, so they didn't stop there.
"This is actually Youzhou?"
The girls were shocked. You must know that Shuozhou is tens of thousands of miles away from Youzhou, and even flying takes several days.
And they actually passed through the teleportation array and instantly traveled from Shuozhou, which was thousands of miles away, to Youzhou.
However, what disappointed them was that they arrived in Youzhou.
Although Shuozhou is known as the most remote and barren state, in fact, Youzhou is also very barren, especially for immortal cultivators, the spiritual energy here is really thin.
Moreover, the spiritual energy here is not only thin, but also mixed with a lot of yin energy, so it is not pure at all.
Therefore, Youzhou has become a holy place for ghost cultivators.
It is said that in ancient times, when Netherworld was still there, Youzhou was the projection of Netherworld in the present world, but no one knows if it is not true. However, Youzhou has a rich Yin energy, which is very suitable for ghost cultivators to practice.
This also leads to the fact that in Youzhou, ghost cultivators are the most powerful, while immortal cultivators are weaker.
"But there's no way to explain why these people don't welcome outsiders?"
Feng Xue frowned. When they passed by the small stall, those people expressed that they were not welcome and asked them to leave.
"What do they seem to be afraid of?" An Yu noticed something with her keen mind.
"Forget it." Lin Su shook his head, "Let's stop meddling in other people's business, find a shop, buy some jade slips, and learn about the situation in Youzhou."
After all, the teleportation array is nearby, and she must understand the surrounding situation and make sure that the teleportation array will not be discovered or destroyed.
In fact, she already had a preliminary idea, but she needed to see the situation again before speaking.
Entering a slightly larger store, the boss had a smile on his face, but when he saw Lin Su and the others, he immediately knew that they were outsiders. After all, the difference in their clothes could be seen at a glance, and the smile on the boss's face disappeared instantly.
Lin Su and the others didn't care. They were all used to it anyway, so they looked at the jade slips, elixirs, magic weapons and the like beside them.
Soon, Feng Xue picked out a bunch of jade slips, while Lu Ying bought some prescriptions and some unseen elixirs.
Tang Qiuyun also bought some refining materials and jade slips.
Basically, everyone bought a lot of things. The store was not very big to begin with, and almost everything in it was plundered by the girls.
The smile that disappeared on the boss's face gradually returned.
"who?"
Lin Su's expression suddenly changed, he took out the Nine Heavens Moon Ring and waved it at the boss.
The boss didn't expect Lin Su to take action without saying anything, and was stunned for a moment.
Just hearing a loud "boom", something seemed to explode around the boss, but the boss stood there unscathed.
"master!"
When Lin Su took action, the girls took out their weapons and stood in all directions, protecting Lin Su behind them and looking around vigilantly.
The boss seemed to have thought of something and recovered from his panic. He pointed at Lin Su with trembling fingers and was speechless.
"you you……"
Lin Su didn't care, "It's that thing you're afraid of, I've already taken care of it."
The boss opened his mouth, then sighed, "You are too impulsive."
Obviously, he acquiesced to Lin Su's words. After looking around, he finally whispered, "Tiangui Sect, this place is controlled by Tiangui Sect."
Lin Su was not surprised. When she came here for the first time, she saw them shouting that the Tiangui Sect was coming. Now it was just a confirmation.
"What you saw just now is the Heavenly Ghost. This is one of their methods to monitor and control us."
Sighing, he told everything.
It turns out that more than ten years ago, there were no ghost cultivators here, it was peaceful, people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and were very happy.
Who knows, one day a group of ghost cultivators came and started killing people in the city. Naturally, everyone would not sit still and wait for death, but even if they resisted desperately, they were still no match.
Because, this group of ghost cultivators has Golden Elixir cultivators.
And they, the strongest in Xingyue City, were only in the late stage of foundation building, and they were even killed not long after the fight, so the situation quickly turned one-sided.
That group of ghost cultivators were the monks of the Tiangui Sect. From that day on, they occupied Xingyue City and used it as a sheepfold, and the people in the city were the lambs to be slaughtered.
Every month, people from the Tiangui Sect would come over, and Chen would select a group of people from the city to be taken away as sacrifices. They tried to resist, but were beaten severely in exchange.
And it's not like they haven't thought about escaping. Not to mention that this place is too far away from other cities. With their strength, they may be eaten by monsters or captured by other ghost cultivators before they reach other cities.
In fact, people from the Tiangui Sect have already set up a dragnet around here. In short, over the years, it is not that no one has thought about escaping. As a result, there is no doubt that everyone who escaped will be cramped, skinned and hung at the city gate the next day.
Serve as a warning to others.
Unable to escape and with no hope of leaving, everyone can only survive. Although they are not afraid of death, they are afraid of no future.
The people of the Tiangui Sect promised not to kill everyone, but only needed a few sacrifices every month, and they would be sent back safely after a year.
After discovering that the people from the Tiangui Sect had indeed sent people back, everyone finally gave up their resistance and were willing to be enslaved by the Tiangui Sect.
"Then why don't you welcome outsiders?" Feng Xue asked the question that had always puzzled them, "Don't you want outsiders to rescue you?"
"Hope? Why don't you hope!" The man was a little excited, and then sat down slumped, "But, our place is so remote, how can there be a master coming here."
"And other people..." As he said, the man sighed, "And other people, we really don't welcome them, after all..."