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Chapter 342 Ghost Beard Wood (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Xu Yuan is staying at Old Man Bai's house tonight. Lord Xu jokingly asked, "Are you going to sleep in a cave again tonight?"

Last time he came to the village, Old Man Bai was on guard and made Xu Yuan and the others spend the night in the cave.

Old Bai, embarrassed, said, "You jest, sir."

Old Bai made a bed and put on a new wolfskin rug.

“These are all new hunted by me this year, and I’ve never used them before,” said the old man with white eyes.

Xu Yuan lay down and exhaled, "That feels good."

Dafu stood on the ground, craned his neck to look at the bed, and thought it would be very comfortable, so he flapped his wings and jumped onto the bed.

He squeezed the rice into the ruts.

Unfortunately, the rice dregs didn't budge.

"Gah gah gah!" Dafu cried out anxiously.

Xu Yuan then laughed and moved it a little.

Dafu lay down comfortably.

This wolfskin rug is much better than the rat and wild dog skins in my den. The fur is long and soft.

I need to figure out how to get one too.

But there are no wolves in the city, what should we do?
Bai Laoyan suddenly remembered something and said to Xu Yuan, "Sir, this afternoon Gao Guanzi passed by outside the village and told me that a few people from his village came today and offered a very high price to stay overnight in the village."

Xu Yuan: "Why bring this up?"

Merchants often stay overnight in the mountain villages.

Old Man Bai said, "Gaojia Village is deep in the Ghost Mountain, and merchants usually don't go there."

Merchants are also afraid of dying, so they mostly collect goods from outlying villages like Wangxiang Village.

"Moreover, Gaojia Village is the closest of all the villages to Guanghuo Street."

Xu Yuan frowned upon hearing this.

Those people were unlikely to be heading towards Guanghuo Street.

A living person entering the Guanghuo Street is doomed to die.

Could it be that they also came for the "true seed" of Pig Call Rock?
Did the other members of the Miao family really sell this information to others, just as he had predicted?
"We'll go to Gaojia Village first tomorrow."

"it is good."

The two then went to sleep.

Before going to sleep, Xu Yuan took out the booklet and looked at it.

A few extra lines of writing appeared on the folded document!

Jiao replied:

There are no evil spirits cultivating genuine seeds in Guanghuo Street.

However, the sixth-ranked "gangrenous crow" on the street has only appeared as its "disease shadow" for more than ten days, and its real body has disappeared.

Xu Yuan silently closed the folded document, lay down, and went to sleep.

The biggest evil spirit on Guanghuo Street is, of course, "Master Ruan Tian".

That thing has transcended the category of ordinary evil spirits.

In Ghost Mountain, simply uttering its name will bring calamity, either causing it to be corrupted and transformed, or causing it to die on the spot!
The rest, however, have a "ranking".

However, although the evil spirits all acknowledge this ranking, each of the evil spirits that can be listed on Guanghuo Street is actually extraordinary.

If Jiao were at his peak, he could rank among the top five in Guanghuo Street.

Now, however, one can only admire the last seat.

The Bureau of Exorcism knew very little about the evil spirits on Guanghuo Street.

For example, Xu Yuan had no idea what kind of evil spirit this "gangreous crow" was.

Intending to ask Old Man Bai a question, I instead heard the old mountain runner snoring.

Let's talk about it tomorrow morning.

……

Xu Yuan borrowed Fu Jingyu's pocket-sized almanac when he came out this time.

Lord Xu is not short of money now; he should have bought a copy himself long ago to carry with him.

However, Xu Yuan thought that the year was almost over, and buying an almanac at this time would be a waste.

Save when you should, spend when you should.

After daybreak, I checked the almanac; today is a day of prohibition:
Night walking, weeping, burial, farming.

Zhou Leizi and Zhu Zhanlei are both finished today.

Those ancient, ferocious zombies in the Copper Coffin Cliff.

I wonder if Mr. Wandering is having a bad day...
Old Bai prepared breakfast. Xu Yuan took two bites and found it "hard to swallow".

Xu Yuan reflected on himself: During this period, he had been spoiled by the people of the Third Sister's group.

But Old Bai had clearly brought out the best food to entertain Lord Xu, so Xu Yuan had no choice but to force himself to eat it.

While eating, he asked about the "gangrenous crow".

Old Bai said, "People who run the mountain don't know much about the situation in Guanghuo Street."

Those great evil spirits are too terrifying, and they don't usually come out.

All I know is that this evil spirit's greatest ability is to cause plagues. Besides that, it seems to have some other related abilities.

Adults should avoid provoking such evil spirits if possible. Their abilities are truly unpredictable! Often, without warning, a disease will suddenly appear on one's body, quickly turning into a puddle of pus!

Xu Yuan's expression changed. Could Old Man Bai be exaggerating? But then he thought, being ranked sixth on Guanghuo Street, it must be no ordinary evil spirit.

The old man's words may not be an exaggeration.

Once we get to the vicinity of Guanghuo Street, we still need to have Jiao or Tian Jing come out and ask them for details.

After breakfast, Xu Yuan and Bai Laoyan set off, heading first to Gaojia Village.

……

Gaojia Village is located on a mountaintop.

This mountain is quite peculiar. It is 500 zhang high, but the top of the mountain seems to have been cut off, leaving a flat area of ​​about 20 to 30 mu.

There is also a small pond in the center.

Five people came to stay in the village yesterday.

They were indeed dressed as merchants.

Moreover, they were very familiar with the village's rules and brought a large amount of goods with them.

They paid me enough for lodging.

They started trading with the villagers yesterday, so this morning they took the mountain goods they had collected and went down the mountain.

Gaojia Village has a very advantageous location, offering views of the surrounding terrain for dozens of miles around.

While trading with the villagers yesterday, the five men had secretly and carefully observed their surroundings.

Today, after descending the mountain, I headed straight for Guanghuo Street.

An hour and a half after they left, Xu Yuan and Bai Laoyan stood at the foot of the mountain.

Gao Guanzi, who was on the mountaintop, twitched his ears and heard it, so he came down from the mountain to meet him.

He habitually holds his head high, so when he looks at people, there's always a sense of disdain.

Gao Guanzi was aware of his own habits, so when he saw Lord Xu, he first lowered his head.

Like Bai Laoyan, he bowed respectfully: "Gao Guanzi, the head of Gaojia Village, greets Lord Xu."

Through Bai Laoyan, Gaojia Village sold a lot of mountain products to Qihetai Township Office. Now the village has enough grain and salt, and no longer needs to try to squeeze supplies from merchants as it used to.

Gao Guanzi only hoped that life would continue like this, that all the newborn babies in the village would survive, unlike in the past when it was often the case that only one out of four babies would survive.

Xu Yuan helped him up: "Senior, you don't need to be so polite."

Gao Guanzi was not tall, and he didn't have as many unusual items on his body as Bai Laoyan.

His name makes people wonder if there's something on his head.

And his hair was indeed unusual.

Each one is exceptionally thick, yet only four fingers long, which seems to be where the name comes from.

But on the way here, Bai Laoyan told Xu Yuan that Gao Guanzi's skills were mostly in his ears.

Xu Yuan glanced at Gao Guanzi's ears but found nothing unusual.

Gao Guanzi smiled smugly, rubbed his ears with his hands, and rubbed off a layer of skin.

The ears then spread out, opening on either side of the head like two giant seashells.

Yet it is as thin as a cicada's wing, and you can clearly see the blood vessels and veins inside.

"This little trick even fooled Lord Xu," Gao Guanzi said with a smile. "If it weren't for that, we wouldn't have been able to fool those people yesterday."

They were talking in secret and weren't on guard; I overheard them.

Gao Guanzi's expression turned serious as he said, "They are looking for a tree under Pig Cry Rock."

Xu Yuan couldn't help but ask, "A mimosa tree?"

“No,” Gao Guanzi said. “According to the leader, the tree is called ‘Ghost Beard Wood,’ but I have never heard of such a tree in Ghost Witch Mountain.”

Moreover, the leader said that the tree had legs and could run around anywhere!

(End of this chapter)