Chapter 339 Goodbye Ning Chenye

As soon as they entered the inn, they felt something was wrong. They had passed by here before, but they didn't feel anything wrong at that time. It was just an ordinary inn, but now the inn was filled with strange red light, and the strange light enveloped the entire lobby.

"Something is wrong."

Chen Yu's robe floated up automatically, and a layer of spiritual light appeared around her. The clothes she was wearing were a third-level magic weapon. Judging from her behavior, this person should be a magic cultivator.

The four people were all Jindan cultivators, and their perception of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was quite keen, and they all felt something was wrong.

The first floor of the inn, which was originally empty, was now full of people. Strange faces sat in the hall, drinking and playing finger-guessing games, and the scene was quite lively.

"There are two more tables."

Gu Changkong's observation was more delicate. He was the person who came to the Fox Clan the most times. He had stayed in this inn countless times, so he naturally knew the furnishings inside. In his memory, there were only six tables on the first floor of the inn, and the corner against the wall was a staircase, but now the staircase disappeared, and there were two more tables there.

These drinkers were also very strange. They turned a blind eye to the four Jindan cultivators who came in. They were completely different from the previous cultivators. Their faces lacked fear of the strong.

There were eight tables, and four people sat at each table.

That added up to thirty-two people. This number was eleven more than the twenty-one people in the Qi Refining Realm that Chen Luo had learned about before.

"Playing tricks! Just catch someone and ask him. I want to see where these people came from."

Sikong Bo suddenly raised his hand, and a spiritual power spread out from his palm and grabbed the shoulder of the drinker closest to him.

Bang!

The shoulder of the person who was caught suddenly exploded, and the whole arm broke into pieces, and the flying parts exploded like hidden weapons. The wine, food and plates on the table were hit by the flying springs and parts, and exploded into pieces.

The three people closest to this person were smashed beyond recognition, and the eyeballs of the person opposite him were sunken, revealing the puppet structure inside.

"Puppet?"

Sikong Bo's expression changed slightly.

He didn't realize that these people were puppets.

At this moment, the lanterns in the inn suddenly shook a few times, the flames inside flickered and changed, and the candlelight suddenly dimmed and went out. The inn full of red light fell into darkness in an instant, and all the breath disappeared. Those noisy drinkers were like someone had pressed the pause button, all frozen in place, some people still had the expression of the previous moment on their faces, their mouths wide open, full of smiles, and their arms raised high for finger-guessing.

The four were all Jindan cultivators, and the disappearance of the red light did not affect them.

In their perception, a lot of dust appeared inside this weird hall, the account books on the counter were visibly old, and the abacus hanging next to it also showed a decayed smell.

"Formation!"

Chen Yu quickly took a step back and avoided contact with the wine table area.

"Go upstairs and take a look."

Gu Changkong's expression was solemn. The person who attacked them had not shown up yet. If this person was a great enemy of the demon clan, then the enemy they faced this time might be very difficult.

Several people dispersed their spiritual senses and walked towards the second floor with a vigilant look.

Chen Luo followed the three people and looked back at the frozen "drinker" below.

A familiar picture emerged in his mind. A place he had been to before, the "This Life Inn" in the Yin Sha Forest.

When he came from the Seven Kingdoms area, he passed by that area. The Yin Sha Forest and the This Life Inn had disappeared, leaving only a big pit in the original place. No one knew where the This Life Inn had gone.

"This Life Inn."

If it was that place, it was indeed necessary to be careful and vigilant. Whether it was Ning Chenye or the woman, they were repeating something. Ning Chenye was like a puppet, going to the This Life Inn over and over again, and then died there.

Repeating non-stop.

Now that the This Life Inn has disappeared, it is very likely that the "reincarnation" has ended and the inn has obtained what it wants.

There is no light on the second floor, so it can only be observed with spiritual sense. There was a room on the left side of the corridor and a wooden fence on the right side. However, at this moment, both the room and the fence were covered with mottled marks. A thick layer of dust fell on the wooden windowsill, and the window paper inside became rotten and mottled, emitting an unpleasant musty smell.

Creak

The wooden board under his feet made a rotten sound, and Chen Luo suddenly stopped.

‘The person in front has changed.’

In the external brain, the mummy brain suddenly reminded him.

Changed?

In Chen Luo’s vision, the three people in front were still the same as before, with a look of alertness. There was no change from before, even the fluctuations of their spiritual consciousness were exactly the same.

“Senior Gu.”

Chen Luo stopped where he was and shouted.

“What’s wrong?”

‘Senior Gu’ in front stopped and looked back.

Bang!

But as soon as he turned around, he saw a dark chessboard smashing towards his head. The light mixed with the fourth-level magic weapon flashed on it, and it hit him in the face before he could react.

After a muffled sound, the head of ‘Senior Gu’ exploded, and the wooden structure shattered with debris. The complex puppet veins connected to the heart, where a purple spiritual essence was flickering, providing energy for this body.

Puppet!

The three pill-forming monks were silently replaced by puppets before his eyes.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, did you discover something?"

'Senior Gu', whose head was smashed by Chen Luo with a chessboard, didn't realize it at all. The sound came from the broken neck. It still played the role of 'Senior Gu', and even the tone of voice was imitated perfectly. The same goes for Chen Yu and Sikong Bo in front. They couldn't see Chen Luo's previous behavior and just followed their previous instincts.

Chen Luo was too lazy to talk nonsense to these puppets, so he picked up the chessboard and smashed it. The three puppets were smashed into useless pieces by him in the blink of an eye. After all, they are just fake imitations of Danjie monks. As long as they are aware of their true nature, they can be easily destroyed.

After killing three people, Chen Luo walked to the side and raised his hand to push open a door.

The wooden door opened in response.

It was also full of dust. A middle-aged man wearing a gray robe was sitting in the room. There were some wine and food on the table. It seemed that the man was eating before. The changes in the inn fixed this person here. His right hand holding a side dish was hovering in the air. His hair, clothes, and the food and wine on the table were all covered with dust. It’s like thousands of years have passed, from ‘past life’ to ‘this life’.

"Not a puppet?"

Chen Luo walked over and took a closer look and found that this person was not a puppet, but an immortal cultivator who had stayed at the inn before. He had seen this person before when he scanned with his consciousness.

Chen Luo checked around the house and found nothing unusual.

After walking out of the room, he went to the next few rooms, and did not stop until he reached the room where the dead man was.

The room was in a mess, with all the tables and chairs knocked over, food and wine scattered on the floor, and a long knife mark on the wall. There was a headless corpse lying next to the knife mark. There was no blood in the wound. The dark brown blood scab was mixed with the ground and mixed with dust, which looked very strange.

‘Someone is approaching. ’

It's still the feedback from the mummy's brain. In this life inn, only the mummy's brain is unaffected. For the sake of safety, Chen Luo asked the mummy brain to put down the work at hand and concentrate on helping him pay attention to the surrounding environment.

Chen Luo withdrew his gaze and looked towards the end of the corridor.

A ball of orange light appeared at the end of the dark passage. This light group was like a moving sphere, coming up the stairs step by step.

Chen Luo stopped where he was and found that the scene around him began to change.

Under the orange light, the surrounding dust disappeared strangely, receded little by little, and returned to its original appearance. The room was spotless and the window paper was as bright as new.

A young man wearing a blue scholar's shirt, carrying a bookcase on his back and an oil lamp in his hand walked out from the end of the stairs.

"Ning Chenye?"

Chen Luo squinted his eyes and recognized the puppet he had met before at a glance.

"Brother Chen!"

Ning Chenye, who was holding an oil lamp opposite, also noticed Chen Luo. He seemed to have forgotten his previous experience and walked quickly towards Chen Luo with a face filled with surprise. There was still no spiritual energy fluctuation on his body, as if he was an ordinary person. As the light came closer, the dust under his feet and the cracks on the wall receded visibly to the naked eye.

"I haven't seen you for many days, but I didn't expect to meet Brother Chen here. Are you here to take the imperial examination too?" Ning Chenye's face was full of joy, and the joy of 'meeting an old friend in a foreign country' was written on his face.

"This year, the Emperor's 60th birthday, I specially held an Enko exam. I have been studying hard for ten years. Naturally, I want to obtain merit and serve the imperial court."

Ning Chenye said as he walked, the oil lamp hanging next to the bookcase swayed left and right with his footsteps.

Chen Luo didn't speak. He stopped where he was and looked at Ning Chenye who was getting closer. For some reason, he felt a sense of crisis in his heart. After forming the pill, he hadn't sensed a similar aura for a long time.

"The Nascent Soul Legal Domain is dangerous."

Just when Chen Luo was about to wait for Ning Chenye to get closer and capture him, the mummy brain in his mind suddenly gave a feedback...

Same hallway.

Gu Changkong looked at the seemingly endless corridor in front of him with an ugly expression, as did Chen Yu and Sikong Bo behind him.

"Fellow Daoist Chen is missing."

"The people behind the scenes are very cautious and know how to start with the weakest." Sikong Bo said.

In the understanding of the three of them, Chen Luo is just a junior who has just been promoted to form a pill. He has the weakest cultivation level, so it is normal for the enemy to treat him as a weakness.

"coming!"

As he was talking, Gu Changkong in front of him suddenly stopped, and the wooden door of the room in front opened with a creak... (End of Chapter)