From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

"It smells so good!"

At that moment, the aroma of food wafted from the streets of Beiguo County, making the soldiers' mouths water.

Let's look at Beiguo County again—

The dilapidated houses and courtyard walls that were once overgrown with weeds and shrubs have now been completely transformed, and the moss on the streets has disappeared.

The entire Beiguo County seemed to have traveled back in time, returning to its most prosperous moment.

Were we originally standing on this street?

Lu Jin snapped out of her daze and called out to Hong Guniang, Zhao Xinchuan, Boss Cha, Li Muxuan, and others who were still immersed in the events that had occurred in Beiguo County.

"no!"

Looking down the street where they were, Li Muxuan saw what appeared to be a palace surrounded by rosy clouds in the very center of Beiguo County. His brows furrowed. "Our second group's mission is to explore the terrain of Beiguo County! The entire Beiguo County has not only been renovated, but also become luxurious!"

Looking at the rows of new and peculiar houses, some two or three stories high, and even some seven or eight stories high, lining both sides of the street where he was standing, Li Muxuan paused for a moment before continuing, "Is this the kind of scale only found in the imperial city? And this style... is it a combination of our local architecture and Western styles?"

These houses feature both Chinese-style fish-scale tiles and European-style balconies, and some even have a small courtyard in front of them.

"Could it be an illusion?"

Gao Huan pondered.

"Does an illusion exist that can trap everyone in a dream world?"

Smith suspects that Lu Jin and his associates are behind all of this, with the aim of extracting the antidote for "Genesis" from him and Stephen Whitey.

But since the Smiling Tiger had given Lu Jin and the others a day, he couldn't lash out and could only resort to sarcastic remarks.

But no one paid any attention to Smith.

His face immediately darkened!

"It's real! It's not an illusion!" A soldier walked up to a stall that had appeared out of nowhere, picked up a strawberry the size of a fist, and popped it directly into his mouth.

Instantly!

A sweet taste hit his mouth, and the soldier could no longer resist stuffing it into his mouth.

Seeing this, the other officers and soldiers looked at each other, swallowing hard, and joined in, grabbing buns, fried dough sticks, beef, pastries, and some fruits they had never seen before from the deserted stall and stuffing them into their mouths.

"Damn it! What are we eating?"

The smiling tiger was not tempted. His eyes were filled with anger. He pulled out his pistol, fired a shot at one of the soldiers, and cursed viciously, "Was I too lenient with you before? Where is your integrity as an officer?"

boom!

The moment the gunshot rang out, a soldier fell.

However, the other officers and soldiers only glanced at the soldier lying in a pool of blood before continuing to stuff food into their mouths, completely ignoring him.

They all look like reincarnated starving ghosts!

At this moment, even the most foolish Smiling Tiger realized something was wrong.

The enticing aroma of the food made him dizzy, but he immediately slapped himself twice to wake up. He gathered the soldiers who had not yet eaten the food on the street to his side, numbering more than thirty, and ordered ten of them to wake up the soldiers in the tents, giving them a death order.

That means you absolutely cannot eat any food from within the county town!

"go!"

Seeing this, Lu Jin realized that they had entered the "Ghost Realm". Without hesitation, he activated his eight meridians and his magnetic field surged, instantly knocking Smiling Tiger and the others to the ground. He then called to the people behind him and quickly disappeared into the alley.

Hong Guniang, Zhao Xinchuan, and Boss Cha reacted immediately and hurriedly followed.

Li Muxuan followed closely behind.

Seeing Lu Jin suddenly make a move, Si Chong's eyes widened, but he reacted quickly, realizing that if he didn't run, he would really be fighting with Smiling Tiger's men, so he immediately chased after him.

The others reacted a beat slower, but with their agile skills, they all escaped the sight of Smiling Tiger and his men, slipped into the alley, and ran with Lu Jin towards the outskirts of the county town.

"Damn it! You little bastard!" Smiling Tiger was so dizzy from the fall that he hit his forehead and fired two shots into the air in anger.

After the gunshots, Smiling Tiger watched Lu Jin and the others disappear into the alley, then shouted without turning back to the guy who had helped him up, "Go! Take ten men and kill those damned bastards!"

However, the guy didn't reply.

Are you deaf?

The smiling tiger turned his head and shouted loudly, but suddenly fell silent.

The reason was that the one supporting him was not a human, but a frog standing upright, 1.8 meters tall, wearing a blue robe and a felt hat, with webbed hands holding a folding fan with the seven large characters "Talking about a bountiful year amidst the fragrance of rice blossoms" written on it.

"what!"

Upon seeing such a strange-looking, upright frog, even the most daring Smiling Tiger was so frightened that he fell to the ground and kept crawling backward.

Those soldiers who hadn't eaten any food on the street didn't dare to go forward!

This was because a group of strange and eerie beings had quietly appeared on this street: some were animals that stood upright and could speak, some were strange people with human bodies and snake tails who moved in a serpentine manner, and some were invisible monsters with transparent bodies and white masks...

"There's a ghost!"

"There's a ghost!"

Finally, they abandoned Smiling Tiger and ran into a nearby alley to hide.

The upright-walking frog in front of the smiling tiger scratched its head, muttered "weirdo," and turned to walk towards a stall selling braised pork trotters...

# Chapter 385 "Heavenly Palace City"

"Why did you suddenly turn on that smiling tiger?"

Catching up with Lu Jin, he seemed to be scolding, "Are you asking us to start a war with a smiling tiger?"

With such a small number of people, how could we possibly kill all 20,000 of them?

Even if Smiling Tiger is dead, if even one soldier goes to inform his other generals, our San Yi Sect will be threatened!

"Lu Jin, this isn't how you learn from Jiang Liu, is it?"

Li Muxuan also arrived in front of Lu Jin, slightly puzzled, then clenched his fist and said excitedly, "But you did what I was thinking of doing!"

He then noticed the gaze that seemed to be directed at him, immediately regained his composure, and said in a deep tone, "But what you did was indeed wrong."

"Junior Brother Li."

However, Lu Jin's words broke Li Muxuan's defenses, causing his deep expression to vanish instantly, replaced by a distorted look. But Lu Jin continued to speak to himself, "I am now certain of one thing, that is, we have entered the Ghost Realm."

The 20,000 men under Smiling Tiger's command also entered the Ghost Realm.

Look—

At this moment, they were on the city wall that had inexplicably appeared outside "Beiguo County".

Everyone looked down.

Outside the city:

The white tent is triangular in shape, and the campfire still shines brightly.

The rice in the pot smelled delicious, but there was no one there.

Those 20,000 troops have vanished without a trace.

Only the camp tents remained.

Didn't they come in?

They've even brought in the camp tents!

The only one who didn't come in?

Totally impossible!

Looking inside the city:

Inside the shop, golden pheasants attract customers; outside, deer make human-like noises.

They carry wild boars on shoulder poles to make a living, and cunning rabbits open doors to earn a living.

In the streets and alleys, there are demons and monsters who seem to have attained human form or half-human form, and they open shops and run businesses just like people.

Most of the soldiers who had eaten food on the street had disappeared. It wasn't until Li Muxuan noticed a soldier eating roast chicken at an empty stall that he began to grow fatter, bursting his official uniform and popping the buttons open. His hands were swollen like pig's trotters, and his hair was thinning, turning into a tuft of bristles. He had turned into a big wild boar!

The wild boar was still eating when a black figure quietly appeared behind the stall, wearing a white mask and with simple features.

Then it picked up a frying pan and smashed it hard on the wild boar's head.

Boom!

The wild boar then fell backward to the ground, its limbs trembling.

Then, the figure carried the wild boar into the stall, slaughtered it, cleaned its internal organs, and began cooking it, creating a "roast chicken"!

A person who ate roast chicken turned into a wild boar...

The wild boar was killed and made into roast chicken...

Strange! Bizarre!

Are all tales of gods, ghosts, and the supernatural not like this?!

"Could it be that those 20,000 people have already become food on the streets of Beiguo County?" Suppressing his nausea, Li Muxuan's eyes trembled as he exclaimed in surprise.

A sense of fear also arose in the hearts of the others.

"Is this the Ghost Realm?" Upon seeing this scene, Si Chong's body trembled three times, and he understood why Lu Jin suddenly changed his expression towards that smiling tiger.

In this eerie place—

They might be struggling to protect themselves, so why would they need to worry about that smiling tiger?

"Out of the city?"

Someone suggested.

"Don't act impulsively."

Lu Jin stopped the man and advised, "The camps outside the city are empty. Where did those 20,000 troops go? Did they not come in? Or were they teleported into the city and turned into food and goods at those stalls once they were outside? We have no idea. We can't take that risk!"

I've been practicing under Brother Jiang's guidance, and I've actually gained some insights into the flow of energy within a qi system.