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Chapter 254: Ancient House in the Ruins

Time flies.

Like an invisible giant hand, it suddenly pulled down the curtain of darkness.

This is a village that has long been abandoned.

Similar abandoned buildings are not uncommon on the ruins island.

Countless people have entered the ruins throughout the ages. Each village carries the styles and stories of different dynasties, but in the end only these buildings remain, and they are the only traces left by those who once entered.

At this moment, several figures appeared silently in front of the village.

They looked solemnly as they stared at this gloomy abandoned place.

If Lu Yue were here, he would definitely recognize that one of them was Zhang Chao, the one that the legless old man was taking care of. And at this moment, Zhang Chao looked like the leader of this team from his position.

One of the team members said, "Captain Zhang, are we really going to act at night?"

Another person also said worriedly: "The risks of the ruins at night are unknown, why don't we wait until dawn?"

Zhang Chao clenched his fists, stared at the map in his hand, and said through gritted teeth: "What you can think of, others can think of too."

"You saw it during the day. Dozens of people were fighting for one rare treasure. The battle was fierce. Only at night was the competition smaller. Only then did we have a chance."

"It's marked on the map that there are natural treasures here. I have my reasons for wanting to get them, and this is my private matter. You don't need to follow me."

"Captain Zhang, you are being too polite. You saved our lives. Your business is our business. Let alone entering the village, we will go through fire and water without hesitation!"

The other team members expressed their opinions one after another, looking very enthusiastic.

They all chose to be the extraordinary people in the central area on the first day they entered the ruins. After struggling for several days, they almost lost their lifespan. Fortunately, they met Zhang Chao, who gave them some rare treasures and saved their lives.

Otherwise they would have been in negative territory long ago.

After getting to know each other, they formed a team to search for natural treasures.

Zhang Chao actually knew the risks of acting at night, but his master's condition was getting worse, and he urgently needed these rare treasures to prolong his master's life.

This is also his main purpose for entering the ruins.

The teammates refused to leave no matter what, so they slowly walked into the village, paying close attention to their surroundings and not missing any details.

"The style of the wooden houses in this village is more like that of more than a hundred years ago. It's a bit strange that they still look like new after such a long time."

"Not only that, look at the color of these wooden houses, don't they look like blood?"

"There was no one inside, and all the cabins were clean."

Along the way, the group did not find any danger for the time being, but they felt an indescribable weirdness. The more unknown something is, the more frightening it is.

"There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. Everyone should be careful." Zhang Chao reminded.

A few people nodded, and then searched carefully again, but did not find any rare treasures until they gradually came to the end of the village.

A quaint Chinese-style house suddenly comes into view.

In this village, this ancient house looks particularly out of place.

The group stopped moving forward, staring at the ancient house, waiting for Zhang Chao's order, but Zhang Chao weighed the pros and cons in his mind and said, "I'll go in first to check it out, you wait outside, if I don't come out within ten minutes, you evacuate immediately."

"Captain Zhang, why don't we go together?"

"Yes, there is strength in numbers."

Zhang Chao waved his hand to refuse.

"It is a blessing for me, Zhang Chao, to know you. I cannot let you take risks with me. If I really encounter an accident, you can go to my eldest brother."

"His name is Lu Yue, he will take care of you."

After Zhang Chao finished speaking, he took a deep breath and stepped into the gate of the ancient house.

The remaining few people outside cheered up and provided support.

However, after Zhang Chao went in, he disappeared without a trace and there was no news of him since.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the ancient house remained silent under the night.

One minute, two minutes... ten minutes passed.

Zhang Chao still did not appear.

The team members' eyes changed from anticipation to solemnity, and then to horror.

"Retreat!" a team member suddenly shouted.

"But the captain is still in there..." another person hesitated.

"Don't you understand? With the captain's strength, he didn't make any noise when he encountered danger. This can only mean that the danger is far beyond our imagination."

"We can't die in vain. Let's leave here and find a way to save the captain. Didn't the captain say that he has a big brother named Lu Yue? Let's go find him and think of a way."

"No matter what, we must ask an expert to rescue the captain!"

Several people agreed and began to evacuate from the vicinity of the ancient house in an orderly manner.

The whole process was unusually quiet, with only the sounds of hurried footsteps and heavy breathing. However, when they passed through the villages again, they were shocked to find that the road ahead, which had been unobstructed, was blocked by a suddenly appearing wooden house.

"There was clearly a road here before, how come there is an extra wooden house?"

"I remember this wooden house. It should be at the entrance of the village. How did it end up here?"

Several people looked at each other, their expressions instantly became nervous. They stood back to back, maintaining a battle formation, but did not act rashly, because in this unknown environment, acting rashly would be tantamount to seeking death.

Finally they decided to take a detour, but a horrible thing happened. No matter where they went, a wooden house would appear on their way. This abandoned village seemed to be shrouded by some mysterious force that did not allow them to leave.

The night was getting darker and the atmosphere was becoming more terrifying.

The fear of the unknown strikes everyone's heart.

"No matter how hard I try, I can't get out. Is this a ghost wall?"

"It's possible."

"The essence of the ghost wall is that the five senses of a person are affected, which is equivalent to a thin film covering the whole person. Non-professional extraordinary people can use the purest and most yang blood from the tip of the tongue to break through the barrier."

Everyone present was not a rookie, and without hesitation, they bit their tongues hard upon hearing the words, and their blood spurted out, filling the surroundings like mist.

puff puff!

What's creepy is that the scene before my eyes remains the same.

A chill quietly invaded everyone's body, and at this moment, several people discovered that the wooden houses that were originally standing still were slowly approaching them.

"It's not the ghost wall, it's the wooden houses... they are moving!!!"

"Be careful not to get swallowed by the cabin."

"Attack one point with all your strength, and one person must escape!!!"

Under the cover of night, in the abandoned village, it seemed as if a hand of God was constantly moving the wooden houses, squeezing everyone's living space.

There were bursts of energy sounds coming from inside.

But in a flash, everything returned to silence.

The surroundings began to become quiet and silent, the blood-red wooden house in the abandoned village returned to normal, and even the previous traces of the battle disappeared without a trace.

And those figures fell to the ground one by one.

The main gate of the village was like a ghost from the underworld with its mouth wide open, swallowing everything.

The night wind blew slowly, and an eerie cold air filled the village.

.........

On the other side of the middle of the ruins.

At this time, it has been almost half a month since the ruins fragments were opened, and a small village that was originally unknown suddenly became famous.

The focus of all this comes from a newly opened Peace Hotel in the village.

It can circumvent the rules at night.

The most widely circulated rumor is that the boss holds a longevity statue in his hand.

The longevity statue is no secret.

There are other large villages as well, but unlike those villages that are firmly controlled by supernatural organizations or bloodline descendants, the threshold here is extremely low.

Just one serving of heavenly treasures every night.

The whole process is transparent, with no hidden costs.

Because of the Peace Hotel, this village is also called Peace Village.

This news spread like wildfire, attracting the attention of countless extraordinary people from the public. People came here every day, making this small village extremely lively.

It's a new day again, with the morning light shining.

Lu Yue withdrew from his practice, exhaled the foul air in his chest, stretched his body, and at the same time, looked through the window at the busy streets outside and nodded with satisfaction.

With the renovation work done by Zhao Wentao and his two companions, the Peace Hotel is expanding every day.

Now, Lu Yue’s hotel covers most of the village.

Moreover, in just four days, Lu Yue's inventory of natural treasures had reached nearly three hundred pieces, with a harvest of nearly seventy pieces every day, not including the fairy peaches.

The amount of source energy also climbed to 286 strands.

In terms of practice, the progress of heart nirvana has been increased to 36%.

Lu Yue has not been idle these days. As more and more people gather in Heping Village, he has also learned about some situations in the outside world, such as who is the person behind the map and the ancient man-eating temple marked with a red circle.

There are many different opinions about the source of the map. Basically, everyone says something different, as if the other party has many identities.

This further confirmed Lu Yue’s previous thoughts.

The fugitive dismembered himself and sewed himself onto other people.

Scattered maps, intentions unclear.

However, the bloody battles caused by the map resulted in deaths every day, and someone discovered a secret: as the death toll increased, the frequency of the appearance of rare treasures also increased.

This is actually very easy to understand. The extraordinary people who can enter here are at least at the fourth level of the Divine Hidden Realm, and have a large amount of spiritual energy in their bodies.

After a person dies, he or she is absorbed by the rules of the ruins and used to cultivate natural treasures.

Just like the old bacon in the Bigan ruins.

The corpses of extraordinary people also serve as nourishment for the ruins.

Even why those rare treasures come with lifespans can be explained, because those lifespans come from other extraordinary people who died accidentally.

Once someone dies, not only is the spiritual energy in the body recycled to stimulate the birth of natural treasures, but so is their lifespan, which is fed back to other extraordinary people.

In addition, there was a lot of news in the ruins during this week.

For example, many people used the spiritual energy of the ruins and the treasures of heaven and earth to break through to the fifth and sixth levels of the Shenzang Heaven. There are almost more than a hundred people like them. You should know that according to rough estimates, the number of extraordinary people who entered the ruins is only around 600.

The ruins are a place for overtaking on curves, and their reputation is well-deserved.

During this period of time, many talented people emerged.

There was a man dressed in white, with an elegant demeanor. He monopolized a treasure tree that continuously produced natural treasures. He was also discovered to have an extraordinary bearing. He gave natural treasures to people whose lives were about to end and helped the weak, which attracted everyone's admiration.

There were also people of the same level who fought one against three, and hung the heads of the defeated people above the village gate to show their majesty. They called on everyone to unite and fight the enemy together, which attracted many people to worship and join them.

Some people even discovered a thousand-year-old corpse and refined it into a golden armored corpse.

And so on.

This is an era that belongs to the strong.

As long as you have the ability, you can leave your own legend here.

The same is true for Lu Yue.

Although he is not well-known in the fighting world, he has taken a different approach and is known as "the last conscientious boss in the ruins" for his fair and selfless management methods.

Of course, there is good news and bad news.

Every day there are people who are unable to pay for their lifespans but are unwilling to leave. So they think that since they won’t die even if their lifespans are reset to zero, they might as well sign a contract and continue to stay, gaining a chance to become rich by plundering the lifespans of others.

As a result, the team of negative people who signed the living contract began to grow.

These people swept through the extraordinary villages, and some small villages were not spared.

In short, in these turbulent times, a lot of news happens in the ruins every day.

However, no matter how strong the wind was, Lu Yue remained unmoved. The fighting outside did not affect his business. In fact, his business was getting better and better.

Seeing that there was enough source energy in his mind, Lu Yue began to work on improving the quality of "Nine Heavens Breaking Mountains and Thirty-Six Axe Sutra".

We were poor in the past, so we had to be very frugal with our resources.

But now that I'm rich, it's time to upgrade again.

Directly consuming two hundred strands of source energy, the "Nine Heavens Mountain Breaking Thirty-Six Axe Scriptures" was synthesized into the third version. As expected, it directly became the ultimate version.

The last level of the "Domain Locking the Universe" practice method surfaced.

Just when I was about to read it carefully, Zhao Wentao and two other people knocked on the door.

After getting the approval, he came in with a large box of rare treasures, indicating that these were the rooms that the guests had booked in advance for the evening.

Ever since the boss became known for his conscientiousness, people have been very active in booking rooms.

Lu Yue nodded and accepted it.

Then he took out three bottles of special cola and handed them to Zhao Wentao and the other two.

This is a recognition of the hard work of the three of them.

It is because of them that Lu Yue can be a hands-off boss and count money while lying down every day.

After Zhao Wentao and the other two left, Lu Yue absorbed the energy from the box of natural treasures and put them into the medicine box, leaving only a few fruits for breakfast.

However, the moment he took the fruit, Lu Yue's expression became strange.

The life on the wrist is not increased.

what's the situation? ! ! !

Is someone using counterfeit money? ! ! !

Lu Yue couldn't believe it and quickly ate another one, but his life span still did not increase.

These are indeed natural treasures, and they also bring in energy.

Why did the lifespan disappear? ! ! !
Lu Yue's face was solemn. After a random check, he realized one thing: a very small portion of these natural treasures had lost their lifespan.

Are there any changes to the ruins rules?
Aren’t all natural treasures able to prolong life?
This possibility is very low. What happened in the past few days can confirm one thing: after the death of the extraordinary people in the ruins, their lifespan and spiritual energy will give birth to new natural treasures, and the cycle will continue.

Life does not come into being without reason, nor does it disappear without reason.

The appearance of a natural treasure with no lifespan in Lu Yue's hand meant that someone had secretly taken it away, but how did the other party do it?
Without destroying the internal source energy and spiritual energy of the natural treasures, simply taking away the lifespan is illusory and cannot be achieved by human power.

Apart from God, Lu Yue couldn't think of anyone else who could do this.

He suddenly remembered the existence of a self-proclaimed God of Longevity that appeared in the minds of some extraordinary people in the ancient cannibal temple. He was also suspected to be the God of Longevity who had signed a contract with the negative people.

You have already become a god, what is the point of having all this lifespan?

Who is that god?
(End of this chapter)