Folk custom: At the beginning of the wedding, the bride takes off her painted skin

Chapter 171 News about the middle-class world and the dream of sinking

[The greedy pig butcher finally responded to the call of the ghost inn. You called out the door to the ghost inn late at night. You are about to...seek skin with the ghost! 】

Looking at the words on the panel, Li Daoxuan's heartbeat didn't even beat a beat as he slowly stepped into this deep path.

Just like before, after walking in, there was fog on both sides, except for a mud road under my feet.

At the end of the road is a guest room.

Guimao.

This is the room number.

Before Li Daoxuan had finished walking through the passage, a familiar voice sounded in his ears.

"You finally came."

The laughter of the ghost innkeeper, the flesh-and-blood human head growing on the wall.

"It seems I shouldn't have come."

After speaking, Li Daoxuan turned around to leave.

"No, no, no, I mean... you came at the right time." No ghosts were seen, but ghost voices were heard.

Li Daoxuan stopped joking with it and walked across the path to the guest room on the second floor of the Ghost Inn.

As soon as he passed through it, a stiff smile appeared on his face.

He has not forgotten that the original name of Ghost Inn was Smiley Face Inn.

No other ghosts were seen. Li Daoxuan immediately opened the door and entered. No other ghosts entered the room where the human-faced ghost was originally kept.

The smiling face of the innkeeper stood out from the wall.

"Seventh-rate [Stealer], it seems that you have become much stronger during this period."

"Otherwise I wouldn't dare come."

Li Daoxuan came to the chair and sat down, telling the truth.

"Are you sure you are here to help me deal with this ghost this time?" The owner of the ghost inn confirmed again.

Li Daoxuan did not answer, but opened the field instantly.

The dark mist enveloped the entire guest room and spread on the four walls. He originally wanted to push along the walls to see what this ghost inn looked like.

But when the realm reached the wall, they found that they couldn't get through it no matter what.

This ghost inn can actually isolate the realm!

This discovery really surprised Li Daoxuan. It seemed that the level of this ghost inn was probably very high.

But despite this, he still saw clearly the... true face of this ghost innkeeper.

The face is still the same face, but behind this face, within this wall, there is another face...a crying face!

It was completely opposite to the smiling face that stood out.

While weeping, Li Daoxuan discovered that this crying face could actually corrode the domain. Every time his domain spreads a little bit, it would disappear after coming into contact with this crying face.

There are eccentricities, many eccentricities.

With a thought in his mind, Li Daoxuan closed his domain again.

"field?"

The ghost innkeeper was still smiling, but his eyes were full of shock and disbelief.

"Those who eat grain at the seventh level have already mastered the field..."

"lucky."

Li Daoxuan twitched the corner of his mouth, and his smile became more sincere.

Sure enough, although pretending is cliché, the sense of satisfaction in my heart is unparalleled... But when it comes to pretending, don't worry about the future.

Seeing Li Daoxuan's calmness, the surprise in the eyes of the owner of the Ghost Inn slowly faded away.

It did not speak in a hurry, but after a while, it slowly said: "If you can help me deal with that ghost, I will give you three keys...all for empty rooms."

The price has been increased!

In the original price, there were three keys, and two of the three rooms were haunted by ghosts. Only by solving the ghost could one have control over that room.

Now there are three keys, and all three are empty rooms.

It means that as long as the ghost is sent in, it can be used directly.

"Because I have a domain?" Li Daoxuan smiled with a smile on his face, with a hint of sarcasm in his smile.

"That's right, mastering the field and not mastering the field... those are two different things. Since you have the qualifications to reach the top of the lower ninth-level world, it is not a loss to form a good relationship with you."

The owner of the ghost inn is also an honest ghost. He always says what he has to say.

"Is it just to climb to the lower ninth-level world? Can't you go to the middle ninth-level world?"

Li Daoxuan remembered that the Ghost Inn was also spread from the middle and ninth-level world. It was rare to meet it and it was willing to say a few words at this moment...

"I have lived in the middle-nine-level world for two hundred years. Do you know how many grain-eaters have come to the lower-nine-level world during these two hundred years?"

"Two hundred years..."

Li Daoxuan estimated and guessed: "Five?"

"No."

"Three? It can't be just one, right?"

The owner of the Ghost Inn smiled and shook his head, "The answer is none."

"what?"

Now it was Li Daoxuan's turn to be surprised. In two hundred years, no grain eater from the lower world had passed by... How difficult it must have been.

"Because I want to be promoted to a first-class grain eater...so no one can pass?"

"This is just the most basic condition. If you want to move from the lower-nine-level world to the middle-nine-level world, a first-rate grain eater is the most basic requirement."

"anything else?"

"Do you know... where is the world of the middle and ninth level?"

The voice of the owner of the Ghost Inn was faint and seemed to have a hint of deception.

"Where?" Li Daoxuan asked subconsciously, "Isn't it in the sky?"

The owner of the Ghost Inn looked above his head, with a hint of regret in his voice, "I don't know."

"No one knows where the middle-ninth-rate world is, including the countless first-rate grain eaters who have died."

"Isn't it true that after becoming a first-class grain eater, I can ascend to the middle-ninth-class world?"

Li Daoxuan couldn't help but think of the novel he had read at some point in his previous life.

The owner of the Ghost Inn lowered his eyes and looked at him with a look that didn't know what he was looking at. "Who told you this... If you want to go to the middle-9 world, you have to find a way by yourself."

Li Daoxuan was silent, it was too early to consider these things now.

I can only hope that when I reach the first-class Grain Eater, the panel will give prompts.

"Let's talk about this ghost's situation."

The shopkeeper changed the topic back to business.

"Well, you said."

Li Daoxuan didn't think about anything else, and instead cheered up and listened to the words of the ghost inn owner.

"That ghost is now detained by me in the woodshed on the first floor of the inn."

"What level of ghost?" Li Daoxuan asked.

"That ghost... has no level. You can say it is a Class C evil spirit, or a Class A evil spirit, because there is no hindrance."

Li Daoxuan frowned, already a little confused.

"What the hell is that?"

"I named it...the Dreamer."

"go on."

Li Daoxuan's frown deepened.

"I imprisoned it in the woodshed. As soon as you enter, you will fall into the dream it creates...a very real dream, almost no different from a brand new world."

"In a dream you will forget everything about you, and it will completely fit your identity in the dream."

"You can't use my grain-eater's methods? How can you kill ghosts?"

"No, you are just an ordinary person in your dream, but ghosts will also be in your dreams... Based on my previous experience of observing it, dreams are mostly in a village. You live in that village, and ghosts are the same. It was also in that village, pretending to be a certain person."

"Don't worry, I have one chance to wake you up. As long as you encounter a real life or death crisis, I can wake you up. As long as you wake up, the ghost can't deal with you... So you have to leave me a picture or say something Words or whatever, it will be convenient for me to wake you up then and let you regain your memory."

Li Daoxuan had a hint of intention to retreat. Without him, it would be too dangerous.

This ghost is really weird.

Li Daoxuan felt that it might be weirder than all the ghosts he had encountered before.

It is extremely difficult to wake up after falling into a dream. Although the shopkeeper said so, what if it didn't wake up?

Wouldn't it be like dying in a dream?

The owner of the Ghost Inn obviously noticed this and said with a smile: "Do you remember that I told you from the beginning that you are very suitable to deal with this ghost?"

Li Daoxuan hesitated for a moment and nodded, "There is such a thing."

"Because your qi and blood... Although I don't know why, your qi and blood are far more abundant than ordinary people's, so even in a dream, you will be far more powerful than ordinary people."                                      　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　**** 　　　Ghosts in dreams. , that is, the strength of an ordinary C-level ghost. If your energy and blood are strong, it cannot get on you, and most of its strength has actually been lost."

"And because your energy and blood are strong, you can be woken up easily, so you don't have to worry too much about safety."

The more logical the ghost innkeeper's words were, the more Li Daoxuan couldn't believe it.

A lot of nonsense.

He had to doubt it, but at the same time he felt that it made sense, and the three keys to the ghost inn were all keys to empty rooms. The temptation was really great.

For a moment, Li Daoxuan felt a little regretful. Why was he so greedy?

The owner of the Ghost Inn also noticed Li Daoxuan's worry. As he spoke, a piece of white paper filled with writing suddenly fell from his head and landed in front of Li Daoxuan.

He looked down and the first words that caught his eye were.

[If what I say below is even half-false, it will make me die suddenly. 】

Looking at the familiar paper, Li Daoxuan immediately recognized what it was.

Pledge paper.

The special paper made by the paper craftsmen among the believers in the world. Words written on the oath paper can have the effect of making oaths.

Li Daoxuan had seen Li Peishan leave this thing before.

I didn’t expect that the owner of this ghost inn now has one.

He looked at them one by one, and there was no difference between what was written above and what he just said.

And after Li Daoxuan read it, the oath paper burned on its own and turned into a white light that penetrated into the body of the ghost inn owner.

It means the oath takes effect.

"The store has already settled this." The smile on Li Daoxuan's face turned into a bitter smile.

All of my worries were solved by the other party, but the price it offered made me very excited. It seemed that there was really not much reason to refuse.

"I've been waiting for this day for too long."

The owner of the Ghost Inn also laughed.

"Okay, since the store is so sincere, I will accompany you this time." Li Daoxuan thought about it, and he really didn't think of anything else to worry about.

"Thank you...City Lord Li."

When Li Daoxuan heard this title, he looked at the innkeeper in front of him with a smile, stood up and said:

"I wonder where the store is now? The information is so well-informed."

"What's going on near Shanshui City? City Lord Li is planning to pay a visit?"

"Not interested in."

Li Daoxuan said as he stood up and walked towards the door. The ghostly face on the wall immediately disappeared, but when he came out, the ghostly face had appeared at the door again.

"The one downstairs next to the kitchen is the woodshed."

After hearing this, Li Daoxuan walked towards the stairs. His deerskin boots stepped on the wooden board of the gallery, making a "crunching" and "crunching" sound, as if the wooden board would collapse if he applied even a little force.

As he walked, Li Daoxuan looked at the rooms on the second and third floors.

As soon as he raised his head, he noticed something strange.

Compared with the last time I came to this ghost inn, I don’t know when this ghost inn actually had a fourth floor.

"Did the store even ask someone to repair the first floor?" Li Daoxuan asked directly.

On the walls, faces appeared.

"Haha, there are more and more customers. I have no choice but to ask a believer from Shanhehuang City to help repair the building to see if I can make more money."

"Then why don't we also repair the second and third floors? They are about to collapse."

"It's okay, it's okay, just live with the undead ghost. Ghosts don't have so many requirements, just live with it." Human Face said with a smile.

Li Daoxuan glanced at it, as if he sensed something was wrong, but he insisted on saying it, but couldn't.

Soon, he came to the stairs going down.

When he got here, he remembered something and asked again: "Shopkeeper, remember when I came here last time, this staircase was on the other side?"

The human face appeared next to the stairs again.

"No, no, you remembered it wrong."

Li Daoxuan thought for a while, and his memory seemed to be a little unclear. He shook his head, and somehow he didn't think about it again.

After going downstairs and stepping on the solid ground, he felt a lot more at ease.

"crunch-"

Suddenly there were footsteps above his head. Li Daoxuan looked up and saw that a guest room on the third floor had opened the door. Then he saw a female corpse standing in the gallery on the third floor.

Headless female corpse.

She was wearing a red wedding dress... no, it was dyed red with blood!

It seemed like it was still a white skirt.

She was standing there, headless, but Li Daoxuan clearly felt that she was staring at him.

A chill ran down my back... This evil spirit was at least a Grade B evil spirit.

"This is my guest, sir, don't worry."

The voice of the innkeeper came from the third floor.

The headless female corpse stood for a moment, then turned around and walked back to the guest room.

Then a human face appeared on the wall on the first floor, "Haha, it's okay, it's just a ghost."

Li Daoxuan ignored it and walked all the way to the kitchen door. He thought about what happened to him when he was lying in the coffin with Fang Jie last time.

He stuck his head in and took a look.

There was no coffin on the stove anymore, and it returned to its normal appearance. He asked again: "Shopkeeper, why is that coffin gone?"

"I didn't wake up before, and the inn was in a mess. I naturally cleaned it up after I woke up."

Well, that seems to make sense.

Li Daoxuan turned to look at the closed wooden door next door.

This is what the store calls the woodshed.

"It's right here. I'm imprisoning that ghost here." said the face on the wall.

"Can I just go in like this?"

"Yes, as soon as you enter, you will fall into a deep sleep."

Li Daoxuan looked around, then took a step forward, first pushed open a crack, and the domain eroded in... without any feeling.

The owner of the Ghost Inn explained: "It's always in a dream state. You can't feel it. You can only do it if you go in."

"Okay, then I'll go in."

Li Daoxuan put away his domain, and in the eyes of the ghost inn owner, he smiled, opened the door and walked away.

The figure disappeared into the darkness.

Vaguely, he seemed to hear a "thud" sound of falling to the ground, as if he fell into a deep sleep.

Outside, as the wooden door closed again, the smiles on the faces on the wall gradually disappeared.

The shopkeeper of the Smiling Face Inn has lost his smiling face.

In a daze, the surrounding space seemed to be shaken and rippled, but it soon returned to normal.

The human face frowned and murmured: "Is the second-level dreamland so difficult? Or this Grain Eater is too heavy."

Then another voice came from behind the face.

"It's okay, it's okay. He fell into a second-level dream. It's enough for him to sleep here for the rest of his life."

The smiling face on the front said again: "Without him in Hand Witch City, wouldn't it be in our pocket? Gaga gah."

Crying face said: "Don't laugh so ugly, it's like a ghost screaming."

The smiling face frowned again, "But I...am originally a ghost."

After saying that, they screamed together with smiling and crying faces, and their voices echoed in the ghost inn, making it look even more eerie and terrifying.

The entrance to the Ghost Inn.

Li Daoxuan was lying quietly on the ground, his eyes closed, his breathing steady, and a weird smile on his face.

In front of him, an illusory panel that only he could see, words appeared.

[The greedy pig butcher probably never imagined that he would be tricked as soon as he entered the ghost inn. 】

[Heresy arises in the secular world. I never thought that a ghost of thoughts would appear in this ghost inn so quickly. 】

[I hope you can understand the truth as soon as possible and wake up from your sleep. 】

[Greedy pig butcher, I wish you... good luck. 】

The text ends here.

The panel disappears.

(End of this chapter)