Chapter 28: Ghost Street

"When is it not good to open the Spirit Medium, but at this critical moment, isn't this playing with me? Now I am in a haunted street area. Once I open the Spirit Medium, it means that I may be targeted by the ghosts here. At that time, the danger will be even greater."

Li Yi gritted his teeth at this moment, wishing he could forcibly interrupt his body's evolution.

But this is impossible.

The life-and-death tempering just now allowed Li Yi to take that critical step on the path of cultivation, and the reason for this is thanks to the fact that his body usually absorbs too much cosmic energy.

It's just that these energies usually accumulate in the body and are not stimulated.

So at this moment, Li Yi opening the Spirit Medium is not a coincidence, but a matter of course.

"Taking advantage of the fact that my Spirit Medium is not fully opened, maybe there is still a chance to leave here." Li Yi carried this thought and ran crazily away from this quiet street.

But the further he went, the more 'people' there were around, and these people became more complete and clear in his line of sight. Even several cold figures had already seen him, their gazes rotating slightly with Li Yi's running, but those few figures did not do anything.

But even so, Li Yi felt more and more hair-raising.

He even smelled some strange corpse odor, and his skin could perceive the bursts of chill emitted by those figures passing by his side.

The people on the street were getting denser and denser.

At first, he could ignore these strange figures and walk straight through them. Those illusory figures had no reaction at all, but later, Li Yi dared not do so anymore, and could only avoid them carefully, because he had a feeling that if he walked through them again, he would definitely bump into the other party.

"I can't get out, I'm trapped here."

Soon, Li Yi stopped his footsteps suddenly. He stood on this strange street and completely lost his direction.

Strange figures came and went around, and the nearby buildings also became different from before. Scarlet lanterns were hung high above his head, emitting red light. Besides that, various strange sounds came from his ears. He couldn't understand these sounds.

It was like someone whispering in his ear, and it also seemed to be a special dialect.

At this moment, Li Yi had a feeling of being in a strange world, no longer the danger zone he was familiar with.

However, just at this moment,

Suddenly.

A passing figure stopped suddenly beside him, and then stared at Li Yi with those dead grey eyes without any light.

Li Yi was hair-raisingly stared at. He felt that the person was not a living person, but a cold corpse.

And not only that.

The second, the third... strange 'people' stopped one after another beside him, and then all looked at him in unison.

It seems that Li Yi, a living person, appearing here seems particularly out of place, and the aura on his body attracted the attention of many strange people.

Li Yi also realized that he seemed too conspicuous when he mixed in here.

He wanted to escape, but had nowhere to go, and could only be trapped here.

"I'm afraid I'm going to die here too. No wonder Brother Tao wanted to avoid this area before."

Li Yi's heart jumped wildly, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He saw that a dead and lifeless strange person was walking towards him.

Subsequently, the second, the third, the fourth... more and more ghosts gathered, and the target was all him.

Nowhere to go, nowhere to escape.

At this moment, Li Yi was trapped in a desperate situation.

However, just at this moment, suddenly, a cold figure wearing paper burial clothes approached rapidly, and stretched out a rough palm full of wrinkles to grab Li Yi's arm.

"Hmm?"

Li Yi, whose whole body was tense, resisted subconsciously, his whole body's strength erupted, trying to shake off that palm.

But strangely, that palm still grabbed him tightly and couldn't be shaken off at all.

"What great strength, are you crazy, junior? Just standing on the Ghost Street like this? Are you not afraid of death? Quick, follow me." A low middle-aged man's voice sounded. His accent was very strange, like an unknown dialect, but Li Yi could understand it.

Li Yi's pupils condensed. At this time, he noticed that this figure wearing paper clothes was not a ghost, but a living person, just that he had disguised himself.

"Okay."

He didn't hesitate at all and agreed immediately.

Subsequently, that person wearing paper clothes threw something over: "Put on this mask, cover up your living person's aura, otherwise the ghosts here will keep staring at you. If you meet Yin soldiers again, you will die. Alright, don't talk anymore, if you talk again, I will be stared at by ghosts."

Li Yi received this mask subconsciously.

The touch was soft, but extremely cold, and it also emitted a stench of corpse decay.

This is not an ordinary leather mask, it looks like a leather mask made from skin peeled off a dead person's head.

But now Li Yi couldn't care so much. He didn't want to die here in a muddle, and immediately put on this mask.

Strange to say.

As soon as he put on this leather mask, those strange gazes around him were withdrawn, and those ghosts no longer approached him, but dispersed gradually after a brief observation.

That person wearing paper clothes pulled Li Yi and walked rapidly on this street.

Li Yi did not resist.

This person took Li Yi and turned left and right, and then entered a small alley. And very strangely, this small alley clearly did not exist in the danger zone, and the style of this small alley did not look like a modern building style. The surroundings were all blue bricks and grey tiles, as if he had suddenly entered ancient times.

Li Yi did not speak, and while observing, he secretly remembered the route, so as not to get lost and not be able to go back.

Soon, this person brought Li Yi to a gate in the small alley and stopped.

The door was an old double-opening wooden door, with two severely faded door gods pasted on it. The appearance of the door gods was a bit special, not the Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong that Li Yi was familiar with, but the more ancient Shentu and Yulei. And the characters on the door were not modern characters. As for what font it was, Li Yi didn't know, after all, his cultural level was not very high, and he hadn't studied this aspect.

"Dong, dong dong!" This person wearing paper clothes knocked on the wooden door.

After a while.

The wooden door opened, and a woman of about seventeen or eighteen years old stood behind the door. This woman was combing a hair bun and wearing a Luo skirt.

She didn't speak, just immediately made way for a path.

Subsequently, this person immediately dragged Li Yi into the courtyard.

At this time, the young girl hurriedly closed the door and then put down the door bolt.

"Father, are you okay?" Closing the door, the young girl dared to speak.

"It's okay, I came back after a turn, didn't find anyone selling medicine, but picked up a junior with a not very normal brain." The middle-aged man said while carefully taking off the paper clothes on his body, fearing that he would tear them if he used too much force.

After all the paper clothes were taken off, at this time Li Yi saw this person clearly through the holes in the mask.

This was a thin, slightly hunched middle-aged man, with an ordinary appearance, full of wrinkles on his face, and he had hair and a beard, looking like an ancient person's attire.

"It's okay here now, the door gods at the door haven't completely faded, and can still protect the peace here. The ghosts outside can't get in. You can take off the mask." The middle-aged man said.

Hearing this, Li Yi immediately took off the mask, and then took a big breath. He was smoked by the smell of the mask.

"Tsk tsk, it's really strange, no soul wandering, no wearing burial clothes to pretend to be a dead person, such a big living person just broke into the Ghost Street, and is still alive. How did you do it?" The middle-aged man circled Li Yi a few times at this moment, tsk-tsking in wonder, and kept looking at him.

"This matter is a long story. I was chased and killed by a fierce beast, and accidentally ran here. When I came, this place was not a Ghost Street, but as I walked, I fell into it and couldn't get out." Li Yi explained briefly.

"Accident?" The middle-aged man nodded: "It's barely justifiable. Junior, what is your name?"

"Li Yi."

"Do you have a courtesy name?" The middle-aged man asked again.

"Courtesy name?" Li Yi was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.

Ancient people not only had names, but also courtesy names.

Having a courtesy name means that this person has a certain family background and knowledge, and is not a commoner.

Li Yi hurriedly made one up: "Courtesy name: Meng De."

"Meng De? The meaning of bravery and virtue, good courtesy name. It seems that the person who took the courtesy name for you when you came of age is not ordinary."

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up slightly, and then he nodded: "Old man, Zhao Ge, this is my little daughter, Zhao Qian, ordinary people, not yet having a courtesy name, laughed at."

Subsequently, he bowed and cupped his hands, looking ashamed.

"Don't dare, don't dare." Li Yi immediately followed suit and bowed back. At the same time, he was thinking in his heart, did he really come to another world?

Or is everything here fake, an illusion produced before he died? *** ### Chapter 29: Illusion Before Death?