Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Wei Xi hadn't expected these ghosts to be able to attack from both sides; if it weren't for her keen senses, she would have been successfully ambushed by them.

Fortunately, Wei Xi was not intimidated at all. The moment his back hit the ground, he pulled the trigger again, and the crossbow bolt, imbued with yin and yang energy, pierced the apprentice's head.

Wei Xi wasn't the only one who fell to the ground. Besides the two ghosts whose heads she had blown off, E Qiyu was also knocked down by her and lay stiffly on the ground.

This triggered something in the madman, and he suddenly began to writhe on the ground, his limbs twisting and gripping the air around him, emitting terrifying gasps.

"Shut up, you old bastard!"

With a loud shout, Wei Xi ripped the bed curtains off the bed and threw them at the crazed E Qiyu, who fluttered around like a sparrow caught in a net.

Wei Xi immediately adjusted to a half-crouching position and fired another arrow, pinning the ghost that had rushed into the room to the wall. Unfortunately, the last ghost was quite cunning, using its companions as cover to rush towards Wei Xi.

Despite the foul smell, Wei Xi made no attempt to avoid it. She coldly watched as the ghost's hideous face drew closer and closer. Just before her purplish-black fingernails touched her nose, she slammed the entire crossbow against the ghost's face. Then, a flash of cold light appeared on her sleeve, and her short knife severed the ghost's neck.

Using this force, Wei Xi sprang up from the ground and kicked the ghost's body away.

The ghost's head rolled to Wei Xi's feet, staring at her with its eyes wide open in death.

The next moment, Wei Xi picked up a stool and smashed the man's head to pieces.

Wei Xi recognized the smashed head.

It was the maid she had knocked unconscious.

Wei Xi, carrying his knife, chopped off the heads of the remaining three ghosts. Apart from the apprentice from the brokerage, the other two were also acquaintances.

One was a slave trader who should have been sleeping soundly in a dark alley, and the other was a maid who had been released by Wei Xi.

However, these four people did not seem to have much to do with humans: apart from their three-inch fingernails and protruding fangs, their bodies were also deformed in their own way, and their skin and flesh were a strange bluish-purple color, tightly wrapped around their bones.

It looks like a dried-out corpse; no wonder it's called a ghost.

The problem is, how come these things that are human during the day become ghosts at night?
This similarity reminded Wei Xi of the wandering corpses controlled by the Devouring Sun Beast, and the corpses controlled by Gu worms deep in the Nanjiang Mountains.

Once or twice, Wei Xi could convince himself it was a coincidence, but the third time it didn't seem like a coincidence at all.

Wei Xi's lips were flat, clearly indicating that he was deeply confused.

At this very moment, Eqiyu, trapped inside the tent, was still struggling.

Wei Xi suddenly turned his head, took two steps and rushed to the madman, ripped open the tent, and viciously dragged the man up.

But the madman, in a fit of temper, opened his mouth to bite Wei Xi's hand.

Although she dodged it, Wei Xi's temper flared up, and she slapped E Qiyu twice across the face.

Those two slaps were delivered with full force, and E Qiyu's face immediately swelled up.

But even a madman feels pain. The two slaps had an immediate effect. Sure enough, I Qiyu stopped trying to attack Wei Xi and just kept rubbing her forearm, looking terrified.

Wei Xi was preoccupied with the fact that he had run into something strange again, and had no patience to appease a madman who was causing him trouble. "These four ghosts are the ones I had contact with during the day. It seems they came to find me at night."

"But I've had quite a few interactions with people during the day, so why are only these four here?"

Wei Xi frowned. In her haste, she had used the Yin-Yang Qi in her Qi Palace, and the effect was indeed quite good. The upper body of the evil spirit that the apprentice had transformed into was shattered by her.

But the feeling of being watched resurfaced, and Wei Xi, fearing trouble, tried to resolve the issue with violence.

After all, according to her understanding, this place was for cultivators to form their core, so the so-called "ghosts" should not be too difficult to deal with; moreover, there were quite a few "people" in this place. The fact that they could fight against the ghosts for so long meant that ordinary methods could harm these things.

Wei Xi never expected that these scoundrels would try to trick her by crying "stop thief!"

Worried that the other "people" they had met during the day would come looking for them, Wei Xi grabbed E Qiyu and prepared to leave the brokerage.

Wei Xi understood perfectly well that Calabash Town was full of ghosts and monsters, so she might as well hide outside the town.

After all, there were still quite a few goods locked up in the brokerage, and it was quite a hassle for Wei Xi to deal with them one by one.

But Wei Xi stopped in her tracks. As she passed the area where the slaves were imprisoned, the scene she witnessed nearly made her eyes pop out.

The "people" within the fence revealed their true, monstrous forms. Their sharp teeth and claws lashed out at their kin, turning the entire arena into a gladiatorial arena, with shriveled chunks of flesh and severed limbs flying everywhere. One monstrous creature fell, and the rest swarmed over, tearing it into pieces and relentlessly smearing them onto their own bodies.

The stolen fragments would merge with the ghosts until their new owner fell and was taken away by the next ghost.

Wei Xi understood why the four ghosts she killed looked so deformed, and she also understood why everyone in Calabash Town was wrapped up with only their hands and heads showing.

The already erratic Iqiyu was terrified and started screaming uncontrollably.

The ghosts that had been fighting silently suddenly stopped, and then all the heads and eyes on their bodies turned towards Wei Xi and his companion.

The air seemed to freeze for a moment, and Wei Xi heard an undying melody, the instrument being the madman, E Qiyu.

The ghosts, like starving wild dogs eyeing a piece of meat, rushed towards Wei Xi and his companion, only to be stopped by the fence. But this did not stop them from reaching out their withered and deformed limbs to hook and pull. Some of the more gifted ones even managed to squeeze their heads out through the gaps in the fence, their turbid eyes bulging out.

Wei Xi suppressed the urge to vomit, hoisted the still-mad E Qiyu onto his shoulder, and ran into the ghost-infested Hulu Town.

This time, Wei Xi was smarter and sent Lingyin out to scout ahead.

It must be said that Wei Xi's combat ability is indeed far beyond that of his peers; even with a burden, he still managed to fight his way through.

During this time, he inevitably used magic a few times, and the feeling of being spied on became more and more real, as if the voyeur had plucked out his eyeballs and handed them to Wei Xi.

With this feeling of constant pressure, Wei Xi fought his way out of the encirclement and saw the city wall right in front of him.

At this moment, Wei Xi no longer cared about the mysterious power of secretly observing cultivators. She directly made a hand seal and jumped onto the city wall, saying goodbye to the ghosts who were trying to persuade her to stay.

Before Wei Xi could jump down, she saw hundreds of teams advancing towards Hulu Town from all directions.

It wasn't an attack on the city; rather, it was corpse drivers propelling corpses like E Qiyu toward Hulu Town. (End of Chapter)