Chapter 165: Yinsha Forest

The next morning.

Chen Luo handed the refined foundation-building pill to Zhu Jie, and then left Shanyin Pass alone. This is just a short transition point. After collecting the information he wants, he will naturally not waste time here.

"Follow the Black Stone Mountain for a while, you will encounter the Yinsha Forest, and after passing through it, you will reach the corpse-raising ground."

Chen Luo rode the donkey given to him by the knife forging shop, recalling the information he bought in his mind. These information were sold to him by the Black Wind Cave Master and Madam Xuegu. In addition to the information they sold, Chen Luo also read some fragments of obsession from the brain he picked up. The strength of the Black Wind Cave Master's brothers is similar to his, both of them are in the late stage of Qi Refining. The brain is well preserved, and Chen Luo released it after reading it.

The brain of the low-level Qi Refining Realm is no longer useful to him. Whether it is Madam Xuegu or the Black Wind Cave Master, they are essentially no different from the late Qi Refining cultivators who died in the cave. The more than one hundred Qi Refining Realm brains stored in the external brain, except for those with special abilities, the rest are in a state of being eliminated.

The information about the fourth-level materials given by Ning Ling was not known to the Black Wind Cave Master and others. Chen Luo read some of the content from his brother's "obsession". They destroyed Ning Ling's family only because they accepted a task, and the person behind it pointed to a faceless evil cultivator. They just took the spirit stones to do things.

The clues stopped here.

This result is also normal when it comes to the secrets of the fourth-level spirit materials. The information that Ning Ling's family has is only the fur. The other party just wiped them out of caution, just as simple as stepping on an ant to death.

The donkey did not walk fast, and the rugged path was all sand. It made a "rustling" sound when stepped on. The donkey would stop to eat some black plants every time it walked a distance.

This plant is very short, like a weed, with triangular leaves growing on the dark green rhizome, and the leaf surface is black. After chewing, the donkey's mouth will flow out of milky white juice.

Chen Luo paid attention and found that there were a small number of cold-repelling ingredients in these black plants. The donkey resisted the increasingly low temperature outside by eating this thing.

After walking for a while.

The temperature was getting lower and lower, and the rocky path became rugged. The sand particles on the ground began to grow larger, and fist-sized stones began to appear. The terrain on both sides also became steeper, and there began to be hillsides and old forests.

Gaga

In the depths of the dark forest, some strange bird calls were heard from time to time.

"Is there something over there?"

Chen Luo sat on the donkey's back, and his spiritual sense swept over. He seemed to see a dark shadow vaguely, but when he looked again, there was nothing. The donkey ate the black leaves and continued to move forward.

"Ignorance of the world makes little living, and empty knowledge in the belly is alas."

As they were moving forward, a loud singing suddenly came from the forest in front.

It was the voice of a young man. Chen Luo looked over and saw a young man wearing a long gown and carrying a book box. The singing was from him.

Chen Luo's spiritual sense swept over and found that there was no spiritual fluctuation on this person. He was just an ordinary person.

Why would there be an ordinary person in this place?

Chen Luo was a little surprised, so he drove the donkey to chase after him. The scholar in front seemed to have heard the noise, and was startled at first. After turning back to see Chen Luo's appearance clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The man first tidied his clothes, then stood by the roadside and bowed to Chen Luo who was riding a donkey.

"Hello, immortal."

Judging from his appearance, he should have seen an immortal cultivator like Chen Luo.

"Who are you? Why are you here alone?"

Chen Luo stopped the donkey, and at such a close distance he used his spiritual sense to sense it again, confirming that the scholar was really just an ordinary person.

"I am Ning Chenye, my uncle is the owner of the Ye Family Rice Shop in Black Wolf City. I am going to seek refuge with my uncle and collect the money he borrowed from our family in the early years."

The scholar spoke very politely, with a literary tone, especially some pronunciations, which were very different from ordinary people.

"What did you sing before?"

Chen Luo couldn't see the problem for a while, so he changed the subject. After leaving the retreat, no ordinary person can be underestimated. Moreover, this evil cultivation place is not quite the same as he imagined. There are also ordinary people here, and they also have their own special order, not all chaos.

"Mr. Bai wrote the lyrics, and the student sang it randomly."

Hearing Chen Luo's question, the scholar blushed. He didn't expect that the two voices he shouted casually were actually heard by others.

"Aren't you afraid of encountering danger when you walk here alone?"

Chen Luo was talking, and his spiritual sense sensed something wrong, and looked back again.

The strange black shadow in the forest appeared again, and this time the distance was obviously much closer. When his spiritual sense swept over, the black shadow disappeared again.

The forest was quiet, and this environment was abnormal no matter how you looked at it.

"Don't be afraid, the student has a talisman given by Mr. Bai."

The scholar took out a sachet with confidence, which contained a triangular talisman with a faint spiritual power on it. It should be drawn by Mr. Bai mentioned by the scholar.

"How far is the Black Wolf City you mentioned from here?" Chen Luo asked.

The information he bought also mentioned cities and places where immortal cultivators gather, but no one had ever heard of Black Wolf City. It was unknown whether this scholar had made it up, or whether Black Wolf City was too weak and no immortal cultivators had gone there.

"After passing the hillside ahead and an old forest, it's about half a day's walk."

Scholar Ning Chenye responded quickly. In his understanding, immortals are very powerful beings and must be respected, otherwise they will be cursed by the immortals and sent to the eighteenth level of hell.

Old woods on the hillside?

Chen Luo thought of the 'corpse raising ground' in the memories of the Batu Cave master brothers. On the way to the place where corpses are kept, one has to pass by an 'Yin Sha Forest'. I just don't know if this Yin Sha Forest is the same place as the 'Old Forest' mentioned by the Book Sage.

"It happens to be on our way, so let's go together."

Chen Luo thought for a while and decided to take a closer look at the scholar named Ning Chenye. His appearance was so strange.

"Then I'll trouble you, the Immortal."

Although he didn't know what Chen Luo's purpose was, after hearing that he could communicate with the Immortal, scholar Ning Chenye still showed an expression of surprise on his face.

The two walked in tandem, with Chen Luo riding a donkey in front and Ning Chenye following behind carrying a book box. In order to take care of him, Chen Luo deliberately slowed down.

Not long after, the two reached the end of the path, and there was a fork in front of them. On the left is a dead end road leading to the cliff, which can only be accessed on the right.

After the donkey reached the intersection, it suddenly stopped and started braying loudly. Its four legs kept pacing back and forth on the ground, but it just refused to move forward. Chen Luo looked around and found a woman wearing a white gauze skirt standing at the intersection on the right.

The woman stood quietly in the woods, looking directly at them.

woman?

Chen Luo frowned.

First I met a scholar, and now I met a woman. Will I meet a bearded man next?

A familiar scene flashed through his mind.

"Do you know that woman?"

Chen Luo asked the scholar Ning Chenye who was following him.

"woman?"

Ning Chenye was walking with great difficulty carrying a bookcase on his back. When he heard Chen Luo's question, he subconsciously raised his head and looked at the old woods in front of him.

"What woman"

Ning Chenye looked around, and then looked at Chen Luo with a puzzled expression, not understanding what he meant.

"You can't see her?"

Chen Luo narrowed his eyes. Just when he was about to test, a gust of wind blew by and the leaves on the ground rustled, blurring his vision. When everything returned to normal, the woman in the white dress standing in the middle of the road suddenly disappeared, as if she had never appeared.

This scene made Chen Luo frown.

His consciousness was staring at the other person the whole time. Such a big living person actually disappeared inexplicably under his nose. Being able to affect spiritual consciousness means that the other person is at least at the same level as him. Unexpectedly, he was targeted as soon as he arrived at the evil cultivation place.

No wonder Master Wuwei didn't resist and was expelled by the evil cultivators here.

"Chief Immortal, are you sure there was someone over there just now?" Scholar Ning Chenye also became nervous. He was a little frightened by Chen Luo's question, and subconsciously tightened the talisman given to him by 'Mr. Bai' with his palms.

There are some legends about this old forest, and usually no one from the city would come here. If his family hadn't been too poor to uncover the truth this time, Ning Chenye wouldn't have risked taking this path.

"It's nothing, I saw it wrong."

After the woman disappeared, the donkey returned to normal, carrying Chen Luo down the mountain path. Upon seeing this, scholar Ning Chenye tightened his bookcase and quickened his pace to follow.

The sky didn't know when it became overcast.

The clouds were dense, and there was faint thunder rolling in the clouds, and the muffled thunder could not be heard.

Three miles of land, different sky.

After the two of them went down the mountain along the road on the right, the sky was completely covered by dark clouds. The day was as dark as the evening, and the thunder became more intense. The wind also started to blow in the woods, and the temperature suddenly dropped several degrees. Ning Chenye, who was wearing single clothes, tightened his clothes, held a charm in his hand, and kept muttering words like "bless". Know who you are praying to.

"This is the old woods."

The two walked for a while, and after passing a dead stone, Chen Luo saw an old forest that blocked the sky and the sun. The forest was filled with all kinds of Yinsha trees. Each tree grew to a height of nearly thirty meters. The huge tree crown covered the sky, and the dense leaves blocked all light, making the forest dark.

The ground was all covered with fallen leaves, covering the original path.

Scholar Ning Chenye took out the fire fold and lit the oil lamp, holding it in one hand to illuminate the path around him.

He was going to Black Wolf City, so naturally he had already inquired about the situation on the road.

It's just that after the donkey arrived at this place, he refused to go in again, life or death. Chen Luo had no choice but to release him. The donkey was very sensitive to danger and might survive after being released.

"Chief Immortal, I still have an oil lamp here."

"No."

Chen Luo walked in front. Under his consciousness, the darkness had little impact on him.

The two of them entered the old woods one after the other.

Chen Luo was looking for a place to raise the corpse, so he couldn't be scared by a forest. Ning Chenye in the back was simply because he was poor. If he had not made this trip, his old mother would not have been able to survive the winter.

After entering the woods, the light completely disappeared.

Only the three-meter area illuminated by the oil lamp in Ning Chen's hand was left, and everything further away was dark. The sky above the woods became darker. Thunderclouds kept rolling, and lightning cut through the dark clouds, illuminating two bright lights from time to time.

But these bright lights were blocked by the leaves, and the inside and outside of the woods seemed like two different worlds.

Stepping on the soft rotten leaves, the smell of rotting plants echoed in the woods.

"The promise made in front of the temple, the infatuated deceased girl waited for her lover, never forgot it in three lives, only hated her lover for being heartless." The two walked for a while, and suddenly a sad song came from the front.

The voice was sung by a woman, and the voice was sad, as if telling a story of a crazy man and a resentful woman.

Chen Luo spread his consciousness and saw a wooden building not far ahead.

"Immortal, there is light over there. It seems to be an inn!"

Ning Chenye said excitedly, holding a lantern and pointing to the front.