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Lu Yan replaced Daisy's three-piece combat set in a few minutes, replacing it with [Negative Sin Desire], [Book of the Dead], and [Eye of the Dead].

Negative anti-sin desires can see things with souls, the number of deaths caused, and the scenes of death.

The Book of the Dead records a large number of necromancy spells, and also has a restraining effect on souls.

The Eye of the Dead can see the aura of death emanating from others and confirm the future cause and time of death of people who will die within the day.

His whole body suddenly became gloomy, and many scarlet eyes like Daisy's grew on his body, all hidden in his shirt and not exposed.

After activating the skill, he looked around with an interested expression. The scarlet pupils in his palms moved slightly, taking everything in his sight and converting it into a special sense that was transmitted to Lu Yan's brain.

From another perspective, the villagers are not alive, but corpses filled with soul energy. The dead air rising from the ground proves that the entire village is buried with many corpses.

The entire village has its own soul, and the death scenes of villagers and tourists keep appearing in Lu Yan's mind.

Receiving a large amount of information, fortunately Lu Yan's brain had a high enough speed to process information. He classified these things one by one, then turned off his skills and replaced them with the three-piece combat set.

After informing Xu Zhu of the information he had discovered, he thought about what Pure Yang Zhenren would do at this age. According to the information he had received, Pure Yang Zhenren was still a little weak at this time and would not immediately discover the problem.

"Stay overnight and wait until night. I will use the Pure Yang Sword to attack you at night."

Xu Zhu made the decision, and Lu Yan had no objection. After asking the village chief, he smiled and sent the two of them into a thatched hut where there were no villagers.

The place was very simple, but they didn't want to sleep anyway, so they sat on the bench and did their own things.

When it got dark, Xu Zhu immediately noticed something strange. Yin energy rose from the ground, and the villagers staggered out of their houses and gradually approached the two people with life.

The thing that controlled the entire village also began to press forward, but at this moment, an extremely hot true Qi destroyed the hut. The little fat man flexibly wielded the Pure Yang Sword, roared with a righteous aura, and summoned flames to sweep over the villagers' bodies.

The raging flames destroyed everything in the village, and the ghost was also hurt. It let out a silent roar, the ground heaved, and the nearby houses turned into big mouths that would devour anyone, covering the two of them.

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Chapter 250: Evil way.

A magic circle that condensed Yin energy lit up on the ground. It was obvious that this village was a man-made place to raise ghosts or corpses.

The outline of the story emerged in the mind of the idle Lu Yan. When he was young, Chunyang Zhenren traveled around to wipe out the demons. When he passed by this place, he discovered the problem.

After getting rid of the ghosts and letting the spirits pass away, he continued to look for the mastermind behind the incident according to the clues left by the spirits, which triggered a series of events.

"Roar!"

A huge ghost appeared, unconscious, full of hostility and anger, the type that was absolutely impossible to communicate with. Xu Zhu stepped forward with the Pure Yang Sword. The Pure Yang Sword emitted an extremely dazzling light when facing the enemy, and the temperature of the flame rose slightly.

The entangled flames bombarded the ghost, and it could only retreat step by step, unable to fight Xu Zhu head-on. As the Chunyang Sword pierced its forehead, the whole thing paused briefly and then suddenly dispersed and turned into points of light.

A silver card fell to the ground along with the panting Xu Zhu, and at the same time, the souls of many residents and tourists also came out.

The rescued ones were just a cutscene. They didn't attack Xu Zhu and Lu Yan, but bowed deeply. The fat boy, now dressed in a Taoist robe, maintained a righteous and awe-inspiring demeanor and said:

"Do you know who set up such a sinister formation? I, Xu Zhuding, will..."

The dying souls talked about the mastermind behind the scenes. It seemed that he was also a Taoist priest with a kind face and an immortal appearance.

His white hair was like that of a red-crowned crane, combed back in a slicked-back style, his face was rosy as if he had been drinking, and his eyes were narrowed.

His Dao He is also very distinctive. At first glance, it looks like a complete Bagua, but in fact, when viewed from the side, there are only four Yin Gua printed on it: Li, Zhen, Gen, and Kun.

"When he came to the village..."

The ghosts recounted their experiences before and during the village's destruction, and the travelers described the consequences after they entered. In short, it was all caused by this evil path.

"According to the spirit's description, he should have gone to Hongyang City, a large town far from the village. Let's go there. The peony bone should also be related to that thing and is probably in the city."

As Xu Zhu was analyzing, Lu Yan seemed very impatient: "What are we waiting for? Let's go quickly. It will probably take a long time for the other guards to arrive."

Not everyone has Lu Yan's speed and strength, and they will definitely encounter many dangers on the way to the rendezvous. The wilderness of this card area is not very stable. There are bandits, ghosts, and monsters. Card masters basically have the physique to attract monsters.

In addition, this fairyland is a bit too large, so after half a day, Lu Yan is still the only one on Xu Zhu's side. In short, they have to get to the vicinity of Hongyang City first.

"Okay, let me change the card first."

Xu Zhu had no objection. He pulled out a card from his body and pressed another one in, summoning a huge off-road vehicle that ran across the wilderness of the card domain.

Early morning two days later.

The stone castle transformed from the card stood on the flat ground. Five people had already gathered inside. In addition to Lu Yan and Xu Zhu, three others who were closer followed.

This castle naturally also belongs to Xu Zhu. Maybe there are many powerful cards that he cannot use, but the life and functional cards are almost full, and no one knows what cards he has for enjoyment.

"Give me a cappuccino."

"Ok."

The maid, wearing very little cloth, poured Lu Yan a cup of coffee, which also belonged to Xu Zhu. It was less than a day's drive from here to Hongyang City, but they couldn't just go in like that.

We must not forget that this is not the world, but a card domain, full of dangerous monsters. There are not many or even no monsters that are special, peaceful, and able to communicate like those in the duel arena.

"I hope the monsters related to Peony Bone are in there."

The house maids all disappeared after everyone left the castle, collected the cards and replaced them. As the employer, Xu Zhu called his mercenaries to get on the car.

The off-road vehicle roared, attracting many monsters. Lu Yan sat in the passenger seat admiring the scenery outside the window. He had no intention of taking action himself and relied on the remaining three people to deal with it.

There's nothing worth fighting for. It's not that strong. I always feel that the request I made is a bit unfair.

Don’t say “I got a gold card without doing anything”. As the old saying goes, a small profit is a loss.

Lu Yan sighed a little and could only hope that there were powerful monsters near the special area of the card domain.

They sped along, and by midnight in Kayu, they finally saw the tall walls of Hongyang City. The number of guards also increased to eight, and they met three other mercenaries on the way.

"Gah! Gah! Gah!—"

He braked and didn't enter the city. Looking at the Death Bird chirping on his shoulder, Xu Zhu became alert: "There are powerful monsters in there. We need to be careful, Brother Lu Yan."

"No problem, leave it to me if you get into danger."

After changing to the detection skill, Lu Yan glanced at the city. Hongyang City at night was completely enveloped by the energy of elements such as [darkness], [evil], [death], and [desire].

This is very abnormal. Such a situation is impossible given the terrain. It means that there is a huge magic circle that is gathering malicious energy, similar to the one in the village. It must be the work of the evil Taoist priest.

They stopped the car and walked forward. After releasing Lilia, Lu Yan continued to stroll leisurely, while the others were fully armed and entered the city carefully.

The city gates were wide open, which was very dangerous for an ancient city. Something was obviously wrong inside. When eight people entered the city, the entire city was filled with dead silence. Not a single sound could be heard, not even the chirping of insects.

"Be careful, there are undead creatures over there."

The perceptive woman pointed to the inn on the left. The moment she pointed, an ominous monster covered with red hair broke out of the window of the second-floor guest room. Judging from his clothes, he was a storyteller.

It howled and attacked, and the summoned knight blocked its attack, but the huge force also caused the knight's feet to scratch deep grooves in the ground.

The others only now saw what had attacked them, a red-haired zombie.

Just as it was about to howl, another mercenary raised his hand and cast a Silence spell on it, preventing it from attracting more monsters.

These four-star card masters teamed up and took about ten seconds to deal with the red-haired zombie. The silver card that dropped made everyone very excited, but unfortunately according to the contract, the card would eventually belong to Xu Zhu.

However, he now generously stated that he didn't need any of this: "If you don't mind, once I complete my mission and leave the card domain, I'll convert the value of the cards into cash and give it to you all. Of course, we'll split the money equally."

The reason for his sudden generosity was naturally because Xu Zhu sensed the danger of the city. He did not want the mercenaries he had summoned to leave one by one because of the danger, so he chose to lure them with benefits.

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Chapter 251 White Peony.

The team continued to advance carefully, making fewer noises in the process so as not to alert the powerful monsters occupying a certain area. The card master with perception ability scanned and drew a map of the area within one thousand meters and the distribution of enemies for everyone.

In the entire city wrapped in malicious energy, there are monsters both good and evil. Whether they are peerless heroes or hidden demons, they are all targets of card masters.

"Do you know which monster the Peony Bone fell from?"

Lu Yan asked, this is the most crucial point, the first goal is still the evolution material of Chunyang Sword, otherwise they don’t need to follow the footsteps of Chunyang Zhenren to this dangerous city.

"I don't know, but from the information I gathered from some cards, the Peony Bone seems to be related to something that made Master Chunyang very regretful."

"Could it be the bones of a flower demon or a woman?"

Someone mentioned it, and Xu Zhu nodded, it was not impossible.

The eight people searched carefully for two or three hours. Because they were afraid of attracting the attention of powerful monsters, they did not hunt too much. Instead, they chose to leave the city and wait until everyone gathered before making plans.

Not everyone is as powerful as Lu Yan. Four-star card masters will not have a good time in this "plot center" area, and only by traveling in groups can they ensure safety.

Fighting a monster side by side will increase its strength, but asking people to come to help is naturally not to gang up on it, but to fight in a group. In a place like this, there are more than one powerful monster, and there are also many younger brothers.

As long as each card master finds one or more surrounding monsters, a similar improvement mechanism will not be triggered.

"It's no use searching aimlessly, Mr. Xu. Isn't there a faster solution?"

Hongyang City is very large, and it is not realistic to defeat all the powerful monsters. We still have to think of other ways.

As Lu Yan listened to their conversation, he actually had a general idea in mind, but he did not choose to speak first. Instead, he planned to wait until the end.

At noon on the second day after arriving in Hongyang City, more than ten guards finally arrived. At the same time, the assassin-type combat card master who sneaked into Hongyang City to investigate last night had also returned safely.

They had many injuries and curses on their bodies, but they were easily healed by other card masters.

The relaxed people talked about what they had seen and heard. The city was clearly divided during the day and at night, and the monsters that came out were different. At night, there were mostly demons and ghosts, while in the morning, there were knights, Taoist priests, monks and the like.

The early morning hours were the transition phase, and he saw some weaker, randomly wandering ghosts fighting with knights. The two sides were not at peace, but it was because it was rare for them to meet and fight each other, especially the strong ones who had their own territories.

Dusk is probably similar to early morning. The period between day and night is when monsters are most dangerous. As for the peony bones, the thieves also have clues.

"I used soul-searching to find a few weak monsters,"

He pointed at the rough map on the ground and said, "There are knights and monsters. The monsters won't be of much help to our main mission. The main thing is the knights."

First, he explained to everyone the distribution of forces obtained from the monsters. Among them, the evil Taoist priest that Chunyang Zhenren tracked and possibly killed was called "Shan Dao Ren", and he seemed to be living in the palace in the center of the town.

What's more important is the Peony Bone. According to the knight's memory, there is a well-known courtesan in the brothel in the city, named "White Peony", who lives in the Flower Street in the west. The evolution material is very likely dropped by it.

"Okay, let's get ready and go check out the situation on Flower Street. Don't start a fight just yet, or we'll attract more monsters."

Xu Zhu made the final decision and glanced at Lu Yan to confirm that he had no objection.

They didn't wait until night to go. They were card masters, not flower thieves. This was not the real world, and breaking into the flower street in broad daylight would not attract onlookers or anything.

The sixteen people were divided into two groups and approached the Flower Street. Lu Yan and Xu Zhu searched the most prosperous area, exploring between the wooden buildings, their noses filled with cheap or floral fragrance.

Naturally, monsters rushed out, most of them were female, such as the disciples of the Hehuan Sect and many other female monsters such as Fox Charm. Most of them were only bronze, and there were a lot of them.

Fortunately, there was a summoner among the six people, who temporarily blocked them. If they had any grudges, they would fight each other, so there was no difficulty in attacking.

Apart from this, there was not much to discover. When Lu Yan and Xu Zhu suspected that Bai Mudan had nothing to do with the Chunyang Sword and was just an ordinary courtesan and not a monster in the area, a loud noise suddenly came from the search area of the other team!

Xu Zhu was not surprised but happy. He immediately led his team to rush over. The other team quickly explained the reason. A beautiful woman in all white clothes took action after they broke into the [Yanhualou] and killed many people.

Judging from the strength of the casual display just now, it was definitely at the silver six-star level. If someone hadn't used a one-time defensive skill card, they would have all been wiped out in the city.

When they arrived at the battlefield, the summoned cards were harassing an oiran. She was dressed all in white and had a white peony on her head. If Lu Yan was not mistaken, she should be emitting demonic aura.

After all, he had seen knights and Taoist priests before. The energy emitted by the oiran was somewhat different from that of humans and was closer to that of a monster.

There's no smell of blood on it, so it must be the kind of monster that doesn't eat humans.

"You all came to my territory, Bai Mudan, and attacked me openly. You really underestimate me!"

Bai Mudan shouted softly, her eyes full of vigilance.

No other powerful monsters appeared in Flower Street. Most of the monsters rushing over were already there. Xu Zhu's eyes suddenly lit up and he decisively drew his Pure Yang Sword:

"Go ahead. It looks like no one else will come to help Bai Mudan. You guys clean up the monsters, and I'll take on Bai Mudan."

Everyone had their own things to do. Xu Zhu and Bai Mudan were fighting back and forth, so they probably didn't need any help. Lu Yan sat aside to hold the fort, while keeping an eye on the attacking monsters to see if there were any he needed to pay attention to.

The battle lasted for nearly twenty minutes. Bai Mudan gradually became exhausted, and Xu Zhu, who had many powerful skills and equipment, gained the upper hand.

Seeing that the time was almost right, Xu Zhu's eyes suddenly became stern, and he raised his hand to crush a card, which was probably a special card that increased luck or targeted card acquisition.

A sword with raging flames slashed down, and the courtesan, who was a flower demon, was terrified. In the next moment, a small white shadow hidden in the brothel jumped onto the roof, suddenly rushed out, and headed straight for Xu Zhu!

He had no intention of dodging and stabbed Bai Mudan's chest with a sword. The white shadow was close at hand, but was instantly crushed by a big hand that grabbed his neck.

Xu Zhu turned around and saw the fox being pinched by Lu Yan. He was secretly glad that he was right to believe him.

When the white fox appeared, Lu Yan activated the space mark he had left on Xu Zhu in advance and caught it.

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Chapter 252 [White Fox]