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Chapter 906: Flame and Boulder

Meng Zhe followed the guidance of the Yin Qi in front of him and soon came to the place where Yin and Yang intersected as Gu Hao mentioned. However, his face changed drastically as soon as he approached. He immediately drew out the Zhu Xian Sword and took a defensive posture, because he could clearly sense an extremely dangerous aura here...

The ferocity of this dangerous aura is not comparable to that of ordinary evil spirits. It seems to be the aura left behind by a god with immense hatred before his death. It is precisely because of the appearance of this aura that a gap has been corroded between the Yin and Yang worlds.

Meng Zhe couldn't help but feel a little fortunate for Gu Hao at this moment. If it weren't for the old ghost who had a personal grudge against him and set up a barrier to capture him, it would be extremely difficult for him to seal the gap with his level of cultivation. If he was not careful... his life would be lost here.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhe stepped into the gap. For him now, whether he could seal the gap or not was not important, because what was important was that he had to figure out how this gap came about. Otherwise, even if he sealed this gap, countless more would appear...

Unexpectedly, as soon as Meng Zhe entered, he ran into two evil ghosts with sores all over their bodies. They seemed to be the ghosts specially guarding this gap. When they first saw Meng Zhe, the two ghosts were full of joy and kept shouting, "Big brother is back, it must be big brother is back!"

As a result, when Meng Zhe came closer, the two ghosts immediately felt the divine aura on Meng Zhe, and were so frightened that they couldn't stop shaking all over and couldn't utter a word.

Actually, we can't blame the two evil ghosts for being too timid. The situation between them and Meng Zhe is no longer like that between a mouse and a cat. To be more precise, it is like that between a mouse and a tiger. Because when a mouse sees a cat, it may still struggle and run away, but when it sees a tiger, it will be frightened to death on the spot.

Seeing that the two ugly creatures in front of him were frightened by him, they huddled together, not even daring to raise their heads. Meng Zhe said unhappily, "Answer my questions truthfully, and I will naturally not embarrass you..."

One of the skinny evil spirits was probably relatively brave. He immediately prostrated himself on the ground, kowtowed, and said, "Great God, spare my life. We will tell you everything we know! We will tell you everything!!"

Meng Zhe nodded and said, "What are you doing here?"

The skinny ghost quickly replied, "Big Brother ordered us evil ghosts to take turns guarding this passage after he left, to prevent other evil ghosts who don't know the rules from escaping from here to the world of the living and ruining Big Brother's plans."

"Big thing...? What big thing? Who is the big brother you are talking about?!" Meng Zhe asked in a deep voice.

Unexpectedly, the skinny ghost was stunned by the question. He hesitated for a long time before answering, "Big brother is big brother... We don't know who he was when he was alive. Anyway, he came here under the name of evil ghost after his death. As for what the big event is, we don't know."

Meng Zhe was speechless after hearing this, thinking how could he meet these two idiots? ! So he said angrily, "Is it true that you can tell everything you know if you don't know anything?!"

When the two ghosts heard Meng Zhe was angry, they immediately trembled with fear and begged for mercy, "Great God, spare my life! Great God, spare my life..." Their voices were as unpleasant as a rusty trumpet, which annoyed Meng Zhe for a while, so he coldly scolded, "Shut up! I'll give you one more chance to answer the second question. What is this passage?"

The two ghosts really shut up now, shaking like sieves, too scared to utter a word... Meng Zhe thought this question was harder to answer than the previous one, and thought the two little ghosts guarding the gate would not know, so he decided not to embarrass them and waved them away, lest they look so ugly that he would feel sick. Unexpectedly, the two ghosts misunderstood Meng Zhe's intention, thinking he was going to kill them, so the other, more timid ghost with ulcers, quickly said, "God... God, spare... spare my life! I... I... I know a little... about... this... this... thing."

When Meng Zhe heard that the other party was actually a stutterer, he really wanted to strangle him to death, but in the end he still patiently said, "Tell me about it..."

According to this ghost with rotten sores, this passage has actually appeared for a very long time. Some old ghosts who have lived here for thousands of years said that this crack appeared about a thousand years ago, and it appeared suddenly. Along with the crack, a huge black rock and a thousand-year-old red fire also appeared.

At that time, there were also curious evil ghosts who wanted to go forward to see the excitement, but they were all melted instantly by the red flames that wrapped around the boulder, leaving not even a speck of ash... Seeing this, the evil ghosts no longer dared to go forward easily. Who would have thought that a thousand years later, the red flames extinguished themselves without any warning, and it was only then that the old ghost brother, as the second ghost called him, accidentally discovered it.

After Meng Zhe finally listened to the stuttering words of the rotten ghost, he anxiously asked, "Where is the black stone?!"

The rotten ghost was so frightened that he didn't dare to look up, so he pointed in a direction and said, "It's... it's... it's over there!"

In fact, when Meng Zhe heard the rotten ghost mention the red flames and the black boulder, combined with the aura he sensed before, he already had the answer in his heart. However, before seeing the real objects, he did not dare to believe that all this was true...

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Gu Hao looked at the crying Zhao Maimai, and with a guilty look on his face, he took out a yellow paper talisman from his pocket, and then wrapped a piece of compressed biscuit with the talisman. He pinched his fingers towards it, muttered a few words softly, then turned around and handed it to Zhao Maimai, saying, "Take it, you can eat it now."

Zhao Maimai was still a child after all. After hearing what Gu Hao said, she happily took the compressed biscuit and took a bite. She actually tasted the biscuit...

But when Song Jiang looked at the still intact compressed biscuit, he knew in his heart that Gu Hao had only let her taste the food but not really eat it... But this was already very good for Zhao Maimai.

Afterwards, Gu Hao followed the same method and let Mai Mai taste the other foods brought by Song Jiang and his men. The little girl was very happy and kept describing to Zhao Lang whether the food in her hand was sweet or salty.

Zhao Lang gently stroked his daughter's hair and said, "I'm sorry, Mai Mai hasn't eaten for a long time. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you all."

"It's okay... We brought a lot of food with us, Mai Mai, eat as much as you want! Uncle will provide you with enough!" Deng Kai said proudly.

Unexpectedly, the next second Mai Mai said with a sad face, "After you leave, will I never be able to eat these delicious snacks again?"