My daily mountain driving, I met a fox at the beginning and got married

"I can beat him with my bare hands! You try! I'll go find the center of the formation!"

The entire barrier can be seen as a huge formation. As long as the center of the formation is found, the barrier can be broken.

For a cautious man like Lao Tao, the center of the formation would definitely not be a conspicuous talisman or on his own body.

As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest. Perhaps, we should start from our own perspective and do the opposite?
Thinking of this, Zhang Hao returned to the place where he had met the villagers before.

However, the villagers have disappeared without a trace, there is no trace of life here, and the entire village has become a dead silent cave.

A gust of wind blew, and Zhang Hao suddenly smelled a strange smell.

It's the smell of decay, the smell of death.

He looked in the direction where the smell came from and saw the monument without any words on it.

Although this is within the barrier, my real self should still be in the underground palace.

Thinking back carefully, it seemed that all the strange things started from seeing that tombstone.

——Take a gamble!
Zhang Hao walked over quickly, picked up a stone and smashed it hard on the tombstone.

At the same time, the glutton who was struggling with the Qilin's blood on the other side suddenly changed his expression, and then he covered his stomach with an extremely painful expression on his face.

He was already ugly, and now he looked even more horrible. Even Zhang Qilin couldn't help but frowned slightly.

"Oh no...someone touched the tombstone..." said the Taobao in a trembling voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared on the spot.

Zhang Qilin knew that Zhang Hao had found the key, and Lao Tao must have gone to find Zhang Hao!

Oh no, he can't protect himself now. If he can't destroy that "sister" (here referring to some kind of support or clone of Lao Tao) in time, he may never get out again!
But where did Zhang Hao go? Where was the center of the formation that he found?
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"Don't move! Don't move that thing!" Lao Tao appeared in front of the tombstone without words. Seeing Zhang Hao smashing the tombstone desperately, he stretched out his hand and approached carefully, "Don't move..."

"Don't come over!" Zhang Hao held up the stone and sneered, "I was wondering why the man in black was so respectful to this tombstone. After finding the underground palace, I thought he was worshipping the people inside the palace, but I didn't expect that he was worshipping this tombstone?"

"No, he is worshiping me! The person in the crystal coffin in the underground palace is me!" Lao Tao said hurriedly.

Zhang Hao could see that he just wanted to delay time, even at the cost of exposing the location of his physical body.

He was looking for an opportunity to get rid of himself.

Since he had come to him, Zhang Hao felt it would be a waste if he didn't ask.

"I'm very curious, why would the villagers' ancestors be willing to make this agreement with you?" Zhang Hao asked.

"Human nature is selfish..." Although Lao Tao was answering Zhang Hao's question, his eyes were still fixed on the tombstone, like a beast ready to pounce.

"Don't talk about this. Most people's ancestors would definitely not agree. I want you to tell me the original words of the agreement, otherwise I will destroy the tombstone now, but it's just a matter of seconds!" Zhang Hao threatened.

"No, no, no, no! I said!" Lao Tao subconsciously took a step forward, "I told them that I would make their descendants live in happiness for generations to come... I didn't break my promise, and they are indeed very happy now!"

Zhang Hao was stunned.

The scenes he saw before, in which the villagers were happy and peaceful, he thought they were illusions, but he didn't expect... that this was actually the real world!
The villagers had their memories of death wiped out and lived in the glutton's enchantment. If they were not eaten, they would be happy forever. He really kept his promise!

It was the first time that Zhang Hao encountered such a shameless guy, and he felt angry and furious.

"You really don't deserve to exist in this world!" Zhang Hao shouted angrily.

"I was just a little greedy..." The glutton actually cried.

Turbid tears flowed from his hollow, bell-sized eye sockets.

Do ghosts shed tears?

meeting.

But Zhang Hao didn't believe that the ghost in front of him would shed tears. He hoped that the ghost would bleed!

"It's better for trash like you to die!" Zhang Hao said, smashing the tombstone to pieces with all his strength.

For a moment, the old glutton's body seemed to freeze.

Then, the surrounding space began to distort.

The withered flowers and plants, dry land, and dim sky around him were torn into pieces bit by bit along with the glutton's body.

A black hole appeared in the void, sucking Lao Tao's body and everything around him in. Finally, the black hole also disappeared.

After the world spun around, it took a long time for the four people's vision to return to normal.

Zhang Hao looked around and suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

This is still a village, but it is completely different from what I have seen before.

It is not an empty city, but a completely dead city.

The walls were falling apart after years of neglect, and the muddy dirt road seemed like one would sink into hell if one stepped on it. Everything around was very quiet, not even the wind could blow in, and time seemed to have stopped.

Fatty Wang hugged his arms and shivered as he said, "Why do I feel so cold here?"

"The breath of death here is so strong that it's close to the underworld. It's normal to feel cold." Zhang Hao explained.

As he spoke, he bent down and drew a formation diagram on the ground.

Zhang Qilin saw what he was going to do, and stepped forward to dissuade him, "There are no souls here anymore, so it's useless for you to perform the salvation ritual." Zhang Hao paused for a moment, but still did not stop.

"What if? What if there are still some broken souls hiding in the grass or under the bricks? As long as I recite it, those who can hear it will definitely hear it, and it will definitely be useful." Zhang Hao said firmly.

“But… those souls should be broken into pieces, right?” Hao Xie was a sentimental person. When he said this, he couldn’t help but wrinkled his nose. “Too… too miserable.”

"I want to drive away the breath of death here and turn this place into a normal human world. If they are nourished by the heavens and the earth, many years later, they can return to the earth. After many more years, they can enter reincarnation. Even if they are just fragments, they were once human beings." Zhang Hao said.

After hearing this, several people stopped persuading Zhang Hao, and stood silently at several corners of the formation, ready to protect Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao understood the tacit understanding, walked to the center of the formation, sat down, and began to chant silently.

His clothes and hair moved without wind. At this moment, his whole body radiated a faint golden light, giving him a sense of majestic appearance!

After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Hao stopped and the clothes floating in the air slowly fell down.

After he stood up, his legs went weak and he almost couldn't stand.

"Be careful!" Hao Xie, who was closest, quickly came over to support Zhang Hao, "Are you okay?"

"...It's okay." Zhang Hao said, panting.

In fact, he was not feeling well. Zhang Hao's forehead was covered with sweat.

This was the first time he felt so tired in all these years.

The breath of death here really can't be driven away in a few moves. Fortunately, Lao Tao let them live in a dream and environment from the beginning, without any resentment. Otherwise, this place would become a dangerous place instead of a dead city.

If it really becomes a dangerous place, he might not be able to handle it well given his current level.

"Let's go back to the inn and rest first. I'm tired..." Zhang Hao said weakly.

"Okay, let's go back to the inn." Everyone echoed.

On the way back, Zhang Hao was still thinking about a question.

If all the villagers here were trapped in an illusion by the glutton, then where did the woman who came to entrust the client come from?

Why do all the people have to stay there forever waiting to be eaten, while this person knows that something is wrong there and comes out to report it?

At the same time, deep in the pitch-black cave, a man in black slowly stepped onto the steps, his steps steady and powerful. The woman walked to the bottom of the steps, knelt on the ground without hesitation, and kowtowed several times, the sound echoing in the cave.

"Sir, I have delivered the message as you instructed. Can you grant me eternal life as you promised?" The woman's voice was filled with anticipation and nervousness.

The man in black snorted softly, his voice cold: "You are quite punctual."

The woman responded hastily: "Please be sure to keep your promise!"

"Okay, this is easy." As soon as the man in black finished speaking, he waved his hand and a black shadow flashed by. The next moment, the woman was shocked to find that her body was separated from her head. She still kept the posture of bowing, but her face was full of shock and confusion. She didn't even have time to think about what happened, and her life ended abruptly.

The voice of the man in black sounded faintly in the cave: "As long as we live, we will die. But as long as we die, we can exist forever."

At this moment, Zhang Hao was in a black fog. He vaguely saw a door. The door had distinct colors, half of it was bright red like blood, and half of it was pitch black like night. The red door was half-open, revealing a hint of mystery; while the black door was tightly closed, as if hiding endless secrets. Waves of black fog seemed to escape from the crack of the black door and permeated the entire space.

"Zhang Hao, it's time for you to wake up." A voice suddenly sounded in Zhang Hao's ears, like thunder, awakening his consciousness from chaos.

"Awake? I'm awake." Zhang Hao responded in a daze. It seemed that the sound did not come from his original intention, but was a natural reaction of his body.

At this moment, a figure appeared vaguely behind the red door. The person was wearing a red cloak, almost blending into the color of the door. However, for some reason, Zhang Hao could see the outline of the person at a glance. The figure was both strange and familiar to him, as if they had met before at a certain time and place.

Zhang Hao felt an inexplicable throbbing in his heart. He tried hard to see the man's face clearly, but he couldn't. He couldn't help but shout in his heart: Who is it? Who is standing over there?
"Who? It's me, your lovely Old Wang!" A loud voice came from the sky, shaking Zhang Hao's internal organs awake.

Zhang Hao opened his eyes suddenly, and what came into view was the familiar roof. He was stunned for several seconds before he realized that this was his bedroom, not that strange place.

It's strange to say, although he had just woken up, he seemed to have forgotten what that place looked like. The scene in his memory was like a flower in the fog, gradually becoming blurred.

The memory faded so fast that he felt powerless to stop it. He tried to grasp the remaining fragments, but it was in vain.

“What are you staring at?” Fatty Wang patted Zhang Hao on the shoulder, then shouted downstairs, “Hao Xie, come quickly! Zhang Hao is really stupid, he is really stupid!”

Zhang Hao rolled his eyes, barely sat up from the bed, and muttered, "I just lay down for too long, and I feel like I haven't adapted to it yet."

“Oh, that’s not easy. Before you fainted this time, you actually knew that you had been lying down for a long time.” Fatty Wang teased.

Zhang Hao frowned and asked, "Hmm? Did I really lie there for a long time?" What he meant by "a long time" was that he had been awake in a certain place, but he could not feel the passage of time. At that time, his body should have been lying on the bed.

At this time, Hao Xie also went upstairs. Seeing that Zhang Hao seemed to be fine, he said, "It seems that you are really tired this time. You have slept for three consecutive days. Come down and eat something. I have a commission."

"It's really not a good place to relax..." Zhang Hao complained, but he still got up quickly and went downstairs to wash up. He didn't even have time to eat before he hurried to meet the customer.

This customer looked very special. He was wearing ancient clothes but his hair was in modern style. After seeing Zhang Hao, he asked politely, "Hello, are you the boss? Are you still taking orders?"

Zhang Hao looked at the customer and hesitated, not knowing how to address him. In the end, he decided to address him as "Guest": "Guest, you should know where we are, right?"

The customer nodded: "I know." Then he took out a worn business card and handed it to Zhang Hao, "This is Yin Yang Inn. I've been looking for you for many years and finally found you."

Many years? Zhang Hao was a little surprised. His inn had only been open for a short time? He took the business card with doubt and found that it was indeed worthy of the title of "many years".

The business cards they use now are all black characters on a white background, simple and clear, with only the name, address and contact information written clearly. After all, they have become famous, so there is no need to introduce the business too much. In addition, sometimes, the business introduced on the business card will limit the customers to a certain extent.

However, this business card was obviously from the previous generation. It was yellow and wrinkled, with serious curling and various unknown stains. The words on it were barely legible. According to Zhang Hao's many years of experience underground, this kind of paper would have to be buried underground for at least a hundred years to reach this state.

But the question is, where did the Yin Yang Inn come from a hundred years ago? Zhang Hao looked at the man and asked, "Where did you get this business card?"

The man replied: "In the grave of my love." (End of this chapter)