You have mastered the art of thunder and you tell me that it is in a strange world?

Chapter 321: Crisis in Ghost Town
Hearing Li Yu's voice, Zuo Chen felt a little confused.

Why did Prince Jing light incense for himself when something happened in Xuzhou?
But Zuo Chen reacted immediately:

There was no communication incense for him in Xuzhou, so the only way to contact him was through the general of Yuzhou who was stationed in Xuzhou.

After a while, it turned out that it was Li Yu who contacted me.

"what happened?"

"You know there's a ghost town in Xuzhou, right?"

"Yes, I am on my way there."

"I heard from them that some accidents happened in the ghost town some time ago, and the connection was cut off. The kind-hearted master of Xinchun City sent several of his favorite disciples to the ghost town, but they never came back."

Zuo Chen held his forehead.

Sometimes he really wondered if he was destined to be unlucky, as trouble would occur wherever he went.

"I'll be in Xuzhou soon, and I'll go see what's going on then."

Without further ado, he cut off the communication cord.

He rubbed his chin in thought, but became confused.

There are peach trees that he planted in the ghost town. They are now protected by a huge hiding place. Unless a powerful person comes, they will not be discovered.

What else could go wrong?

After much thought, Zuo Chen used the method of divination, which he was not very good at, and put the fate of the unlucky ghost county magistrate into the sixty-four divinations.

After some calculation, Zuo Chen frowned slightly.

The stars are still clear, but the road ahead is blocked, as if you are trapped in a vortex of a huge tree. Judging from your fate, your life is safe for the time being.

After learning that something unexpected had happened in Xuzhou, the few of them stopped playing around. Uncle Donkey rowed the boat and the small boat moved downstream.

The speed increased a bit.

When passing the checkpoint, in order to avoid trouble and get on the road as quickly as possible, Zuo Chen simply did not show up and let the boat swim downstream through the checkpoint and enter Xuzhou.

In this way, after spending another two days on the road and completing the journey of nearly half a month, the city wall of Xinchun City finally appeared in front of everyone.

When they arrived outside Xinchun City, Zuo Chen and his companions got off the boat and quickly rushed to the city gate.

The soldiers guarding the gate couldn't help rubbing their eyes when they saw Zuo Chen coming, looking incredulous.

"Taoist Priest!"

After confirming that the person who came was really Zuo Chen, the soldier guarding the city was delighted: "Big Brother Xiao has been talking about the Taoist priest these past two days. I didn't expect that you would actually come!"

"His mumbling has reached my ears."

Zuo Chen smiled and nodded his ears.

The young soldier didn't know about the communication incense and thought it was a slightly exaggerated description by Zuo Chen.

He didn't stay at the door for long. He just gave orders to the soldiers on duty and then took Zuo Chen and his party to the small monk's temple in the center of Xinchun City.

As soon as he entered the small temple, Zuo Chen heard the old monk's voice coming from inside the door:

"How about I think of a way? At least send some merit and spiritual light over there, maybe I can eliminate all the ghost soldiers besieging the city."

"Won't this hurt your body?"

"What's the big deal? We can't just leave the city unsaved!"

"……no."

"Why not? Are you leaving so many people unrescued?"

"It's too dangerous. I can't let you take any risks."

Xiao Changcheng and the monk had an argument over some issues, and their tones were more or less angry.

Zuo Chen entered the courtyard at this moment. Xiao Changcheng and the monk heard the noise and turned their heads at the same time.

Seeing Zuo Chen coming, both of them showed happy expressions on their faces.

"Taoist Priest!"

Xiao Changben was sitting on a mat. Now he jumped up and ran towards Zuo Chen in a hurry.

After a brief exchange of greetings, Xiao Changcheng's joy faded away, and a hint of doubt appeared on his face:
"Master, I just asked the general of Yuzhou to light a message incense for Prince Jing two days ago. At that time, Prince Jing said that he had just left Kyoto not long ago. I thought it would take you nearly a month to arrive. How come you are here so quickly this time?"

"We have a new travel companion, and Mr. Donkey's Taoism has also increased a lot, so it's natural for us to hurry up."

As Zuo Chen spoke, he pointed at the donkey who had transformed into a human form behind him and introduced him to Xiao Changcheng and the monk.

The two men were obviously a little dazed.

In fact, the two of them had seen Donkey Master's complete condition. When the two of them followed Zuo Chen at the beginning, Donkey Master couldn't speak; when Donkey Master came some time ago, he couldn't transform; now Donkey Master can even transform.

As expected of an immortal by the Taoist priest’s side, his cultivation speed is really fast.

After finding a cushion to sit on, Zuo Chen got straight to the point:
"Tell me what's going on first. I'll take care of the ghost town."

Xiao Changcheng sighed upon hearing this:

“Two days ago, the ghost town lost contact, so we sent people over there, but more than half of them died, and several of them lost contact. The one who came back was a little crazy.

"He told us," A large group of ghosts and bandits came running over from the direction of Yuzhou, like a tide of troops, approaching the city.

"That group of ghost soldiers are all illusory evil creatures. Although the instructor's cavalry can fight, they can't hurt them. Xuzhou's ability to exorcise ghosts is insufficient, and Master Shanxin is trapped in this temple because of his own characteristics and can't leave. We are really helpless."

After hearing what Xiao Changcheng said, Zuo Chen's expression became strange.

Yuzhou ghost army?

The ones in the wilderness?

I once caused a group of people to be killed by lightning, so why are they coming here?
……

Next to Niujin Mountain, inside the ghost town, many ghosts were shivering in their own houses. From outside the city came the sound of horse hooves. Humans could not hear this sound, but these souls could hear it very clearly.

It seemed as if he was stepping on their souls.

Those were the roaming ghost soldiers riding large horses surrounding the city wall.

They are neither as pitiful as the wild ghosts on the roadside, nor as orderly as the residents of the ghost town.

They are a group of pathetic lunatics, a group of broken knives that slaughter people everywhere, a group of disasters that always wander on the edge of death and cannot sleep.

The former ghost county magistrate, now the ghost city lord, was leaning on the city wall, looking at the ghost soldiers wandering in the wilderness not far away.

He just felt his head buzzing.

"Master Wang, do you have any solution now?"

"I really don't have any other options."

The man called Master Wang was not young anymore. He looked tired, and it was obvious that he had not rested for a long time. "If my master were here, the golden light of his merit would surely be able to dispel the evil here."

He was one of the monk's disciples. He was neither a monk nor a Taoist, but a pure inheritor of the folk school. His name was Wang Gou, and he is now respected as Master Wang.

Having said that, the monk can only move around Xinchun City, so it is really difficult for him to run so far to support the Ghost Town.

He sighed again and murmured to himself:
"Where on earth do these fierce ghosts come from?"

"Their armor is the uniform of the Kyoto Army. If my guess is correct, they must have come from the wilderness of Yuzhou."

"Those Kyoto ghost soldiers in Yuzhou... Aren't they being stopped by the old Yuzhou ghost soldiers? How did they get out?"

A man and a ghost were discussing on the city wall, and their faces became increasingly ugly.

When the Taoist priest asked them to deal with the ghosts in all directions, he only sent a lot of ghost soldiers to Yuzhou.

As expected, no ghost came back.

At that time, the Ghost City Lord roughly realized that the ghost army composed of a group of roving bandits on Niujin Mountain was simply not on the same level as this ghost army formed by regular troops.

However, he really didn't expect that this group of ghost soldiers would wander across the border, come to Xuzhou, and surround this ghost town!
Even though he had been dead for a long time, the Ghost City Lord still felt his fake heart twitching slightly.

Fortunately, the peach fairy planted by the Taoist priest is now waving its branches desperately outside the city, which prevents the entire city from being noticed by the fierce ghost army from Yuzhou. Otherwise, if these sneaky ghosts attack the city, the ghost city lord feels that his big city may not be able to withstand it.

"Master Wang, I'm really a burden to you this time." The Lord of Ghost City felt unspeakable pain.

At that time, when he asked for help from Xinchun City, there were only a few scattered ghost soldiers. The Lord of Ghost City hoped that Shanxin, a monk with great merit and divine light, would send his apprentice to take charge and help dispel the evil spirits. He never imagined that the scene outside would become like this after just a few days.

Master Wang heard this, but shook his head disapprovingly: "Our teacher said that our duty should be to spread the spiritual light of merit to protect Xuzhou and the world. Coming here to help you is the right thing to do. How can it be a burden or not?"

Sighing at this point, the Ghost City Lord wanted to say something else, but suddenly he heard some unusual movements coming from outside the city.

He looked up and his eyes suddenly opened.

A large number of ghost soldiers suddenly appeared on the distant horizon.

However, they were wearing the armor of the Yuzhou Army and charged towards the Kyoto Army without hesitation.

The two groups of ghost armies suddenly clashed with each other, and the scene was in chaos for a while. It would be an unprecedented battle of souls.

Master Wang and the Ghost City Lord on the city wall looked at each other.

How is this going?

Both of them were full of doubts and could only stare closely at the newly emerged army.

The two groups of ghost armies fought each other, three souls collided with three souls, seven spirits collided with seven spirits, corpse dogs bit each other, and the fetal light went back and forth.

To Master Wang who was on top of the city wall, there was not even a drop of blood to be seen on the battlefield below. Although the scene was large, it was not too horrifying.

But the ghost city lord kept screaming, "It's too tragic, the beating was too fierce!"

After being a ghost for a long time, the way he sees things is indeed different from that of humans.

The battle did not last too long. The Yuzhou ghost army that came later was obviously much smarter than the Kyoto ghost army. They consciously fought while retreating, consuming the strength of the Kyoto ghost army.

Until finally, a loud roar came from the Kyoto ghost army, and the loose team gathered together and formed a large stream, retreating towards Niujin Mountain in the distance.

Only the Yuzhou ghost army was left wandering around in the same place, and had not yet dispersed.

The Lord of Ghost Town is still worried. Judging from the current situation, the crisis of Ghost Town has not been resolved.

Just at this moment, he suddenly saw a lone rider coming out from the Yuzhou ghost army under the city.

The ghost soldier came to the central open space, dismounted, and shouted loudly:
"Are there any people from Xuzhou here?"

(End of this chapter)