Chapter 247 Silenced

Shi Jianhao said with a mournful face, "Master Li, please don't make things difficult for me. I can't summon these ghosts, let alone get them to speak. Those ghosts are practically mutes now!"

"Hmm!" Out of curiosity, I flicked out the Soul-Chasing Rope, forcefully dragging a ghost in from outside. I raised my hand and pinched the other's chin.

As soon as I made a move, the ghosts outside surged into the cave. Lin Zhao scattered spirit charms towards the entrance, and blazing flames sealed the cave. The ghosts at the door were also blasted back.

I heard the wails of the ghosts at the entrance, but I didn't hear any cursing!

I simply used a little force to pry open the ghost's mouth. His tongue was still there, but he couldn't speak.

Did a sorcerer seal their voices? How did those people do it?

I released the ghost and said, "Do you know what's going on with Northwater Ancient Town?"

Shi Jianhao said, "I haven't inquired about the affairs of Northwater Ancient Town in detail. I only heard that ghost say that Northwater Ancient Town used to be Hua Lianqing's territory."

I couldn't help but frown slightly. Hua Lianqing and Fan Fang: one occupied Northwater Town, and the other rebuilt Northwater Town. One opened the mine, and the other restarted the iron mine.

Did Fan Fang come here chasing the clues left by Hua Lianqing, or were they actually on the same path?

It seems I have to make a trip to "Ten-Step Fall."

While I was still thinking about how to enter "Ten-Step Fall," Ye Yang and Xiao Ying had already taken a turn around Northwater Town.

I later learned that:

Originally, their attire should have had some flavor of a martial arts couple. But Ye Yang managed to make it feel like a father taking his daughter to a night market.

In northeastern terms: Ye Yang was walking forward with his hands behind his back, looking foolish, without turning his head back even once. Xiao Ying was trotting along behind him.

Ye Yang was walking fast, so Xiao Ying had to run! She had to stop at every snack stall to buy things to eat! After buying things, she had to run to catch up with Ye Yang.

When Ye Yang remembered to look at Xiao Ying, she was already holding a large handful of skewers like a bouquet, and her mouth was still working hard, chewing on something.

As soon as Xiao Ying saw Ye Yang looking at her, she immediately asked cautiously and pitifully, "Ye Yang, do you want to eat some?"

"No, thanks!" After Ye Yang finished speaking, he suddenly turned around again, startling Xiao Ying. "That… if you want to eat… you can take the squid skewer on the far left!"

The squid skewer on the far left seemed to be not fully cooked.

Ye Yang said, "I'm saying, can you still eat anything? If you can, I'll take you to eat something else!"

"Yes! Yes!" Xiao Ying then smiled, "What are you taking me to eat?"

"Follow me!" Ye Yang led Xiao Ying through twists and turns into an alley where there was only a snack stall with an oil lamp lit.

In the whole alley, there was only a bit of light from the snack stall, and it was frighteningly quiet. Xiao Ying subconsciously lowered her voice and asked, "How did you know there was a stall here?"

Ye Yang said as he walked, "This is where sorcerers gather and settle down."

The martial world is full of all kinds of people, but they are also divided into categories. Naturally, the martial world is not short of places for all kinds of martial artists to gather.

If it is not a large gathering, various martial artists rarely mix together, so they each have their own gathering places. Escorts usually choose inns and restaurants, bandits stay in deep mountains and old forests, and beggars choose dilapidated temples.

The most common place for sorcerers to gather is a small town with no one around and intersecting streets. Because this is the most suitable place for sorcerers to adapt.

Xiao Ying whispered, "Are there still such places now? I heard my dad say that sorcerers are no longer in the habit of gathering like this."

Indeed, everything in modern times is developing rapidly, so sorcerers no longer need to concentrate in one place to find news and do business. They can simply put things online, and people will naturally come to inquire about the price.

Ye Yang said, "What if Northwater Ancient Town is completely restoring the original Northwater Town?"

"Every place where sorcerers gather has its own special features. Northwater Town should be the same."

"Ben Gou asked the two of us to enter Northwater Town, just to have me see how much of it has been restored?"

Ye Yang was not wrong about this. Ye Yang and I both understand the old rules of sorcery, but Lin Zhao and the others may not know so much.

In fact, the rules of sorcery are also changing according to the times and the environment. Some outdated old rules are either abolished by the giants of sorcery working together, or gradually forgotten by the people of sorcery and finally abandoned.

The old rules are only remembered by the elderly.

I know these things because my masters are all old ghosts of many years, and they know things that even many sorcery bigwigs don't know.

I have never understood why Ye Yang knows.

Before I went to Northwater Town, I thought he had a part of the memories of the Nine Coffin Taoist in his head, but later I learned that it was not the case at all.

The reason why Ye Yang knows the old rules almost shocked me!

Of course, that's a story for later.

Ye Yang walked to the snack stall and sat down, raising his hand and knocking on the table three times. He was notifying the other party that a fellow practitioner had arrived.