I can't be a demon.

Chapter 127: The Bone Cave
Before we knew it, Yanliang Town became overcrowded.

A city area with a population of 30,000 to 40,000 was suddenly swarmed with 200,000 to 300,000 "relatives", making it even more bustling than a New Year's market.

It was bustling everywhere, and through the windows you could see people toasting each other.

The strangest thing was that no one, including the Jinwu Guards, noticed anything unusual, which plunged Yanliang Town into an indescribable atmosphere.

Their consciousness seems to actively block out unreasonable things.

Father, like son.

A large number of Jinwu Guards were gradually stationed on the official road outside Yanliang Town, but they did not enter the city for the time being. After all, the disaster that had occurred was far beyond expectations and involved the White Bone Cave.

If it was just Yanliang Town, it might not have attracted so much attention from the court.

A total of five towns have experienced frequent funerals after people went missing.

Because it is subtly different from the previous appearance in the White Bone Cave, the situation is still under investigation and it is impossible to determine whether the relatives are non-human.

"Stupid~"

The starling quietly flew over the temporary base of the Jinwu Guards, its eyes showing some interest.

Unlike its previous attempts to protect its own children, it did not seem to have any intention of intervening immediately. Instead, it landed on the top of the city wall and hummed an opera in a strange tone.

"Ahhh~~"

When a Jinwu Guard noticed the cry of the starling.

The starling flapped its wings and disappeared, allowing the situation to continue to develop.

.........

Wang Xin frowned and staggered to the Shen family pawnshop.

People along the way kept greeting Wang Xin. His mind was in a mess. He kept circulating his internal energy along his meridians, trying to stabilize his body and soul.

When Wang Xin walked into the pawnshop, Shen Hansheng quickly signaled the clerk to serve tea and water.

"How did you find time to come to visit, Lord Wang? I heard from Captain Hong that you were recently promoted to a captain of the Jinwu Guard. Congratulations."

"Shopkeeper Shen, you're welcome."

Wang Xin responded with a smile, but the sadness between his brows could not be erased.

For some reason, he felt uneasy all the time, and even his mood was fluctuating, as if he had encountered a disaster but was unaware of it.

As time went by, the anxiety grew.

The internal skill that Wang Xin mastered is called the [Holy Infant Sutra].

After cultivation, there is a wisp of the ember of the Three Flames True Fire in the heart. When facing danger, the ember will burn the internal organs, just like a sudden impulse.

"Shopkeeper Shen, I wonder if the young master is available now?"

"I brought two martial arts with me, and by the way...I wanted to talk to him."

"Master Wang, wait a minute. I'll go and inform Ah Lian."

Wang Xin used his surplus merits to exchange for two volumes of inner alchemy techniques. He originally planned to have Zhu Yihong deliver them to the pawnshop, but because of his inexplicable palpitations, he decided to meet Shen Lian in person.

It is said that Shen Lian is protected by ghosts and gods, and maybe he also has a premonition that a disaster is about to happen.

Of course, maybe I'm just worrying too much.

After the Bi Bo Lake was sealed, there should be no more cave monsters within a thousand miles of Yanliang Town. The mortals who disappeared before were not killed or injured, so they would not cause the White Bone Cave to appear...

Bone Cave?
Am I forgetting something?
Wang Xin watched Shen Hansheng disappear into the courtyard and took out two secret books from his storage bag.

Suddenly, he noticed that there was an unfamiliar page of paper in the storage bag. His face changed drastically and he quickly took out the paper.

The paper looked tattered.

There were several lines of handwriting on the first page, all of which were written not long ago.

They are fake

[The White Bone Cave has been revealed, and they are going to die! ]

[I must be careful, quickly...]

"Bone Cave?"

Wang Xin's pupils dilated, and it seemed that the memories hidden in his mind were revived.

"Something's wrong. Could it be that the appearance of the White Bone Cave is related to the frequent funerals?!"

Wang Xin gently stroked the third line of words, the ink had not yet completely dried.

It should have been written before going out, but the handwriting stopped abruptly. From the twisted strokes, it can be seen that he was trying hard to express himself completely.

"Be careful? Be careful about what?!"

Wang Xin recalled carefully that he had lunch with his wife and children, chatted with the groom for a while, and then rushed to the pawnshop.

"groom?"

"Hiss, where did the groom come from?"

"My residence is just an ordinary courtyard allocated by the government, with only three bungalows in total. Why would I raise horses?"

Wang Xin was terrified when he thought about it, and he was a little confused. If the groom was a demon, wouldn't his wife and children be in danger at home?
He even suspected that his wife and children were not real!
Fear came over me.

Once he began to doubt, Wang Xin's spirit fell to the brink of collapse. He picked up the pen and ink behind the counter and tried to complete the handwriting.

at this time.

A smiling man came closer and whispered, "Sir."

Wang Xin looked up at the clerk, who looked somewhat like Old Wang. He had the impression that he was Old Wang's distant nephew, who was staying at the pawnshop.

"Mr. Wang, I heard that your wife gave birth to another daughter. I wonder how her health is. I know a recipe for health preservation..."

Wang Xin was in a trance, and gradually forgot about the White Bone Cave.

He forced himself to put the paper back into the storage bag. After all, the hint in the handwriting might be his only chance to escape from the unknown taboo.

Wang Xin's frown relaxed, "Mother and daughter are safe, they were born the day before yesterday... at midnight."

The waiter filled the teacup.

"Lord Wang, do you need a wet nurse? She can give your ladyship a rest on weekdays." While Wang Xin was hesitating, a woman dressed as a wet nurse appeared beside him unknowingly.

The nurse said, "Master, the baby girl has been fed by my milk and has fallen asleep. Madam asked me to ask you what name to give her."

"Let's go back first."

Wang Xin placed the Neidan manual on the counter, shook his head and said, "Please pass the things to the young master for me. I will treat you to a birthday party another day. Please come and show your kindness."

There was good-natured laughter in the lobby, but how could one tell whether it was a human or a ghost?
Wang Xin hurriedly left the pawnshop, with his wet nurse following closely behind him.

The taboos in the White Bone Cave are extremely strange. Even if some people can come to their senses occasionally, they will find it difficult to extricate themselves once they come into contact with non-human beings.

Not long after, Shen Lian appeared in the lobby, his eyes falling on two volumes of inner alchemy secrets.

The secret book was stained with sweat, and it was obvious that Wang Xin was extremely nervous when he held it. Even the secret book itself was deformed by the pinching.

"Where is Wang Xinren?"

Shen Hansheng looked around and asked doubtfully, "Maybe something is wrong?"

Fugui smiled and explained, "Madam Wang gave birth to a baby girl the day before yesterday. Lord Wang should have gone back to take care of the family."

Shen Hansheng hesitated and wanted to agree with a few words, as if it were true.

"What a mess."

"Why haven't I heard that Wang Xin has married?"

Given the demonic physique of the Jinwu Guards, they are probably reproductively isolated from mortals, and their lifespan is not comparable to that of mortals.

As soon as Shen Lian said this, the pawnshop fell silent.

Everyone looked at Shen Lian, and after a breath, the scene became lively again, except that someone would stop outside the door from time to time.

Shen Lian felt something was wrong.

People around him started talking again, but the topic avoided him.

"demon……"

Shen Lian walked into the courtyard with a gloomy face. There were three or four waiters cleaning the corridor leading to the lobby. There were also figures moving around at the windows of the wing rooms, and hawking sounds came from the remote alleys.

When they saw the banyan tree, they all showed reverence on their faces.

Shen Lian slapped the ground, raising dust as he crawled into the hole in a branch tree.

As soon as he arrived at Gao Village, he felt the damp and cold resentment coming towards him, and he couldn't help but let out a long breath.

"Damn it, it's the Bone Cave!!!"

Only after Shen Lian left Yanliang Town did his confused thoughts calm down, and the unreasonable parts of his memory were verified one by one.

Of course, he was very familiar with the story of the three attacks on the White Bone Demon.

The White Bone Lady transformed herself into a mortal and asked Monkey King to kill her in order to deceive Monk Tang. She then performed the act of corpse transformation and escaped in an extremely skillful way.

"Are all the relatives in the city transformed from white-bone demons?"

"It shouldn't be a demon. Or it shouldn't be a demon yet. Otherwise, the food supplement wouldn't have no effect at all."

"Besides, the number of relatives is too staggering. If all nearby towns have been badly affected, there must be at least a million people, and the number is still increasing."

Shen Lian felt a chill down his spine.

He suspected that his relatives were the taboos before the White Bone Cave was about to be born, and the scale was horrifying.

There are very few relevant records in the classics that Shen Lian obtained, but it can be seen that the emergence of the White Bone Cave should not cause the fall of the town.

"Why is the taboo of the White Bone Cave so subtle to me?"

"The taboo didn't try to affect me. My confused thoughts were more like being affected by it."

"Is it because of the Danxian Corpse? That's why I received the recognition from the White Bone Cave?"

Shen Lian had a lot of thoughts in his mind, and was ready to bring a few people he knew to Gao Laozhuang first. Who knew how the emergence of the White Bone Cave would develop.

"I'm afraid that the White Bone Demon has been strengthened to an epic level after the collapse of the Journey to the West world."

In fact, the White Bone Demon's performance in Journey to the West is quite ordinary. She has not even transformed into a human form, and her true form is still a skeleton.

The method is nothing more than a corpse-reincarnation method of escape.

But there is one very strange thing, the White Bone Demon is the first demon in Journey to the West who proposed that "Tang Monk's flesh can make one immortal", and she also knew that Tang Monk was the Golden Cicada who had gone on a journey to obtain Buddhist scriptures for nine lifetimes.

The White Bone Demon was transformed from an unidentified corpse on Baihu Ridge. It has no backing at all and is not capable of recognizing the big demon.

Logically speaking, the White Bone Demon has no access to the secrets of Buddhism.

Shen Lian guessed that the corpse's origins might not be simple.

As a result, after becoming a demon, the White Bone Demon awakened some of her innate wisdom and foresaw the three people led by Tang Monk going to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

Now it is a thousand years later, and the times are different from the past. The White Bone Demon has obviously become more powerful.

The scene of the White Bone Cave's appearance this time also gives us some clues. The White Bone Demon can definitely be counted as being in the upper middle level of the 81 difficulties.

"Speaking of which, since the Huandan Lead Corpse is related to the White Bone Demon, the special professions in the White Bone Cave are likely to be more than 90% compatible..."

Shen Lian suppressed his distracting thoughts. Now was not the time to consider career advancement, and his Huandan Qianshi was still a long way from having full experience.

He returned to Yanliang Town, his thoughts seemed to be stuck in a quagmire.

Fortunately, he had moved the Hunyuan Inner Dan to the Niwan Palace, and the taboos of the White Bone Cave did not apply to him, so Shen Lian quickly woke up.

"First, take the old man and the others to Gao Laozhuang to avoid disaster, so as to avoid..."

Bang bang bang.

The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground came.

Shen Lian noticed belatedly that more than a dozen relatives in the pawnshop fell to the ground as if they had suddenly fallen ill.

Immediately afterwards, two or three hundred thousand relatives died suddenly one after another.

The corpse was kneeling on the ground facing the banyan tree, as if in worship.

(End of this chapter)