Chapter 25: The secret of the cave is revealed

Xiao Chengqian and I turned around at the same time. We immediately determined that the sound of the laughter was not human. Human voices are produced by the vibration of the vocal cords and are very substantial. The sound of the laughter was so fleeting that there was only one possibility: it was a ghost!

This is a bit ridiculous. The descendants of the two mountain veins, even if they encounter ghosts in this cave, are naturally not afraid, even if they don’t have any magic weapons, talismans, or auxiliary tools.

After the initial panic, Xiao Chengqian and I were calm. We simply turned around and looked directly behind us to see what was there. Then, in the first instance, we saw that there was a “person” lying there looking at Xiao Chengqian and me and laughing.

Xiao Chengqian and I are not afraid of ghosts, but at the moment we saw it, our faces still became ugly, only because the “person” looked very strange, but we couldn’t say exactly where it was strange. If we had to say, we always felt that the proportions of the body were not very harmonious, and the head seemed to be a bit bigger.

However, we couldn’t see it clearly because the person lying on the ground had no limbs. Where the limbs should have been, there was a bloody mess in our eyes, and even the blood was flowing on the ground, as if the limbs had just been torn off.

Despite this, it still came toward us with a strange smile on its face…

“This should be a victim?” Xiao Chengqian’s face was only slightly unsightly by the sight of its miserable state, but he quickly recovered, put his hands on his chest, and said to me in a calm tone.

“Without any clothes, it has maintained the most resentful moment before death. It is indeed a victim.” I was in the same position, responding to Xiao Chengqian lightly.

If an ordinary person saw this scene, they would probably be scared to death. Even a Taoist priest would probably run away. Only a vengeful ghost could have such a vivid and specific form. It is not easy to deal with, but Xiao Chengqian and I don’t care. We calmly started discussing it.

Ghosts are like this: the more calm and fearless you are when you encounter them, the less chance they have to take advantage of you. If you are not their creditor, the possibility of being killed by them is very, very small.

Seeing that we were unmoved, the vengeful ghost flashed a look of resentment in its eyes, even though we had nothing to do with the person who killed it.

However, I can understand this kind of resentment. Since they are vengeful ghosts, they are bound to act in an extreme manner, seeing the world with a “hate” tint. If you say that vengeful ghosts want something very much, I can tell you for sure that it is “life.” Because they don’t have it, they are full of hatred for those who are alive, whose body temperature is hot, and who breathe with vitality.

This is what humans engrave into their souls, and they are forever agitated because they cannot obtain it? Ghosts are the same!

It’s better to say that the resentful ghosts have some reason and can accept the “restraint” of the heavenly law, but they are just a little more resentful. If this thing is a fierce ghost, a type of existence like Li Fengxian, Xiao Chengqian and I are afraid that we will have to fight.

Compared to me, Xiao Chengqian is more impatient. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the aura of a Taoist naturally came out. No true Taoist cultivates without practicing the mysterious arts, and without practicing the internal alchemy that seems to me to be too “unreachable.” After years of hard work, the realm of Xiao Chengqian and I may seem insignificant to the great powers of the past, but if the aura of a person cannot suppress ghosts, then it is a waste of time.

Therefore, at this time, Xiao Chengqian released his aura without reservation, casually pinched a hand gesture, and the eyes of the vengeful ghost flashed with fear, and there was a hint of retreat.

“Our thoughts were never on you, so it’s fine if we don’t find you, but you just have to come out and scare people, venting your grievances, and if you don’t find it, it’s fine, but if you find you, don’t even think about running.” Xiao Chengqian said seriously, and he looked like a righteous Taoist who was doing God’s work and slaying all the evil in the world.

Only I know that this kid has been ‘brainwashed’ by the organization too much, and there is no restraint between good and evil in his heart. His way in the past long years was the extreme ‘I’ way, with only the goal of the end, not the kind of fork in the road with no divergence.

I don’t think this kid has suddenly become righteous. He has a purpose.

So, I silently watched from the side. In fact, at this moment, I had already noticed that in addition to the one in front of us, there were at least four more like it in this cave.

As Xiao Chengqian made his move, the other four vengeful ghosts also appeared, all of them in a similarly “horrible” state, all appearing before us at once. Faced with absolute “pressure,” they dared not reveal their hatred in their eyes, but instead had a look of misery.

I touched my chin and thought to myself, “How can it be so painful to be without limbs? Judging from their appearance, they must have been brutally “dismembered” and then left to die here. What kind of power is suppressing them?

I was still thinking about this question when Xiao Chengqian spoke up: “But if you want to be reincarnated, isn’t it unpleasant to be haunted by resentment?”

The five vengeful ghosts nodded in unison. I realized that there were seven or eight skeletons here, but why were there only five vengeful ghosts?

At this moment, even a fool would know Xiao Chengqian’s purpose. He said, “I can grant you a passage to the afterlife, but you have to tell us what happened at least.”

Xiao Chengqian looked at me approvingly. The events in this cave were too strange, and it was very likely that this was the place we were looking for. We hadn’t found any valuable clues for a while, and it was a good thing to leave the clues with them.

Besides, it was my intention to help these poor ghosts.

Faced with my conditions, the five ghosts’ faces became even more pained, and in the next moment, the cave began to grow dim, and then brightened in the eyes of Xiao Chengqian and me…

Xiao Chengqian and I did not resist, maintaining a state of being affected that was neither asleep nor awake, accepting everything that could be seen in our eyes or in our minds.

This is a rather magical thing, because I have never met a ghost with such a “language barrier.” Xiao Chengqian probably felt the same way, so he chose this more “dangerous” method.

From the moment Xiao Chengqian started talking to the ghost, we realized that the language it was using to communicate with us was gibberish, and we couldn’t understand a word it was saying. Fortunately, communication between humans and ghosts is closer to communication of consciousness and feelings, so we could clearly feel its emotions and some of the simple meanings it wanted to express. It was as if it could understand what we meant, but it couldn’t use our language to communicate with us.

Now that we have set the conditions, they can only communicate in this way if they want to know what happened in the cave. It is like a way of “dreaming” that directly shows us what happened in their “memories,” but this method is obviously more soul-consuming than dreaming.

As for Xiao Chengqian and I, we had to completely let go of our defenses in order to accept this kind of communication.

Therefore, this is a dangerous way, and it has a great “restraint” on both sides, but fortunately, Xiao Chengqian and I are confident in all of this.

In this way, we fell into a special “dream,” only maintaining a trace of lucidity in our hearts, like two onlookers, beginning to be in the dream of the cave that brightened up.

After we had fully adapted, Xiao Chengqian was finally able to clearly see everything in the cave, but just one glance, Xiao Chengqian and I were shocked, because we didn’t expect that we would be able to see such a “shocking” scene just at first glance.

Because there were blazing bonfires in the four corners of the cave, illuminating the entire cave, and in the middle of the bonfire-surrounded area, there were people kneeling.

A strange group of people!

They were wearing bronze masks that looked a little scary, shouting strange words, and at that moment they were bowing towards the water pool in the cave!

What are they doing? Who are these people? At that moment, a glimmer of clarity in my mind almost faltered, and I realized that I had once again ‘luckily’ fallen into a new mystery!