Thirty miles away, under Gongsun Ji's deliberate urging, it only took the two of them less than half an hour to see the outline of the city.
Although Hongling City is not a county town, its scale is no smaller than Yingya City. There are more than 400,000 people living in the city.
The city gate is tall and the soldiers stand in awe.
But the moment she saw the city, Chai Jiangcui suddenly felt that the sky seemed a little darker. This feeling was short-lived, and it became normal again when she looked closer. She didn't know if it was an illusion just now.
Confused, he scanned the city gate with his spiritual consciousness, but found nothing unusual. While Chai Jiangcui was still thinking, Gongsun Ji turned around and cupped his hand towards Chai Jiangcui.
"Fellow Taoist, let's enter the city now."
Her thoughts were interrupted, and Chai Jiangcui simply stopped thinking about it. Anyway, with her current strength, even if she were in the early stage of Qi Qi transformation, she could escape unscathed. If there was any conspiracy, she could also break it with one force.
"Well, let's go."
Without any questioning, Chai Jiangcui entered Hongling City smoothly while riding a donkey and paying some entry fees.
Buzz~~
After passing through the city gate, the card in Chai Jiangcui's arms suddenly trembled slightly, and a very, very small wisp of strange energy rose from the ground and was forcibly absorbed by the card.
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The streets in Hongling City have obviously been cleared, and the snow on them has been swept to both sides of the road. Although there is still some ice, the little donkey can walk much more easily.
The entrance to the city for Chai Jiangcui and the others was through the west gate of Hongling City. In other words, if they wanted to eliminate the demons and ghosts, they would have to pass through several neighbors.
Walking on the broad city main road, Gongsun Ji also led the way and slowly approached Chai Jiangcui.
"Speaking of which, fellow Taoist, we have been gone for so long, and I have yet to ask for your name."
"I'm going to have a drink with you, I'll have a free cloud and a crane."
Of course, Chai Jiangcui would not tell Gongsun Ji his real name, so he shamelessly stole Jiu Jiu's name.
"Jiujiu, what a good name."
Gongsun Ji smiled and complimented, and continued:
"There is an inn not far ahead. Fellow Taoist, why don't you temporarily store this mount there? It's getting late. Let's go there on foot so that we can kill the monsters as soon as possible."
"Okay. Then we will open three upper rooms in the inn in front. After dealing with the monsters, we can spend the night here."
Chai Jiangcui nodded in agreement. She had just used her spiritual consciousness to explore the inn in front of her in advance. It was just an ordinary inn, and the sanitary environment was not bad.
After settling the little donkey, Chai Jiangcui and Gongsun Ji casually used a blind trick and started running quickly in the city as if there was no one around.
On the way, Chai Jiangcui seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly asked:
"Fellow Daoist Gongsun, this Hongling City is so big, there should be a City God in it. Since you have discovered where the demons and ghosts are hiding, why don't you tell the underworld ghosts here? I think the boundless divine light of the City God is not just a place for refining gods, demons and ghosts.
Can you resist it?"
Hearing this, Gongsun Ji smiled bitterly and said,
"What fellow Taoist Jiu said was what we thought of at the beginning. When we saw two demons, one of our fellow Taoists immediately used the power of divine communication to inform the Yin Division of Hongling City about the situation. However, we never received a response.
I also suspected that the temple was blocked by demons and ghosts using evil magic, so there was no response to the message. So when I escaped, I also used the magic to contact the ghosts and gods, but I still didn't get a reply."
‘The ghosts and gods didn’t reply? Could something have happened to the underworld in Hongling?’
Chai Jiangcui's eyes were solemn, he made a secret with his fingers, and also used the magic of spiritual communication.
The reason why the human city is so safe is precisely because there are the Yin Si City Gods from all over the world who are here to intimidate all the evil spirits and do not dare to act recklessly in the human city.
The divine way and the human way complement each other. The human way uses incense to worship the gods, and the gods drive away external demons, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years.
Therefore, whenever the human dynasty declines and heroes compete for hegemony, the human spirit is in chaos, the incense received by the gods is greatly reduced, the power of the gods is weakened, and evil spirits and heretics also take this opportunity to cause harm to the human world.
This is why there is an old saying among the people that when a country is about to perish, there must be evildoers.
Chai Jiangcui cast three magic spells in succession. As Gongsun Ji said, the news was like a stone's throw, and he could not contact any local ghosts and gods at all.
"It seems that this Hongling City is not as peaceful as it appears."
"Yes, there is indeed something fishy about Hongling City. But it doesn't matter much. As long as we rescue people, we will leave. Others in Hongling City will have to worry about it."
Gongsun Ji is now focused on saving people, and obviously doesn't take it seriously.
Chai Jiangcui nodded noncommittally. No matter what, he still had to rescue the person first. After receiving so much money from Gongsun Ji, it was unreasonable not to do anything.
The two of them walked quickly and soon came to the temple where the demon was hiding.
On the dilapidated temple door, there is a blood-stained plaque hanging - Buddhist Temple.
"This temple used to belong to Buddhism, but according to the locals, the monks here chanted sutras and chanted Buddha's name on the surface, but secretly they did some bad things. In the end, the government was punished by the government. People felt that this place was inappropriate.
It was clean, so the place gradually became deserted.”
While Gongsun Ji introduced the origin of this deserted temple to Chai Jiangcui, he carefully opened the door of the temple.
As you enter the courtyard, you are greeted by a sense of desolation.
The side halls on both sides have completely collapsed, and there are ruins and broken tiles everywhere. The only well-preserved vermilion beams are written with Sanskrit, showing the light of Buddha.
In the half-collapsed main hall directly in front, a huge Buddha statue sits cross-legged on a lotus platform, with a majestic appearance. Although most of the gold paint on the body has fallen off, you can still feel the glory of the Buddhist Temple from it.
It is hard to imagine that such a glorious Buddhist temple could decline to this extent.
"Fellow Taoist, be careful. After passing through the main hall, you will find the backyard of the temple. That's where we met the demons."
When Gongsun Ji saw that Chai Jiangcui was not nervous at all, but was actually studying the Buddha statues with great interest, he couldn't help but give him a reminder.
Chai Jiangcui looked away, but there was a trace of confusion on his face.
"Okay. Jiu is just a little curious. Since this place is a place where filth and evil practices hide, why does it have a vague light of Buddha?"
"What's so strange about this? The Buddhist Temple has existed for a long time. Maybe there were eminent monks."
While talking, the two of them entered the backyard where monks once meditated.
Compared with the front yard, there are many more traces of magic fighting in this backyard. Judging from the freshness, it should be left by Gongsun Ji and others.
Everything around was quiet, even the air seemed to have stopped flowing, without a trace of breeze.
Looking at the dark and dilapidated Buddhist temples around her, Chai Jiangcui was too lazy to search. With a thought, she released her spiritual consciousness to cover the Buddhist temple, taking in everything in the temple.
But what surprised her was that the Buddhist temple was completely empty. Not only were there no so-called demons, but there were also no living people except the two of them.