Chapter 32: Lifespan

Li Yi, wearing the leather mask, rushed out of the small courtyard at this moment, and then walked rapidly in the small alley according to his memory.

He left so impulsively for two reasons. One is that he didn't want Zhao Ge, who was his master, to delay buying medicine and healing because of teaching him to practice punches, and the other is that he also wanted to find a way to leave the Ghost Street.

"The route is correct, it seems that there has been no change here."

Li Yi turned left and right, and soon he walked out of the small alley and came to that gloomy and strange street again.

Coming and going, they were all some terrifying ghosts and cold people wearing burial clothes. This place is like a special zone where Yin and Yang intersect. There are both dead souls wandering in the underworld, and living people disguised as dead people. And no one can distinguish whether the things appearing on the Ghost Street come from where.

It's just like Li Yi, clearly living in a modern city, but bumped into the martial arts practitioner Zhao Ge who lived in ancient times.

Is it an illusion?

Or is it a collision between reality and another world?

Li Yi doesn't know. He only wants to buy the medicine for master, repay his life-saving and martial arts teaching grace, and then leave here alive and return to Tianchang City.

Looking left and right.

Both ends of the Ghost Street are shrouded in fog and cannot see the end at all. I don't know where it connects or where it leads.

"I should look in the direction I came from. Maybe there is still a chance to find the way out." Li Yi thought secretly in his heart.

Just when he took a step and prepared to take action, a hurried footstep sound came from behind him. Zhao Qian, Zhao Ge's daughter, who was dressed like a paper girl, chased over in a hurry.

"Yi brother, you don't know the medicine, I will go find it with you." Zhao Qian said carefully, suppressing her voice.

"It's too dangerous, you should stay with master, I will go alone. I also want to find the way home. If you get lost on the Ghost Street, it will be finished." Li Yi wanted to persuade Zhao Qian to go back and take risks alone.

Zhao Qian said: "Father's illness is also because of me. If I don't contribute to filial piety, I will feel uneasy in the future. Yi brother has only been an apprentice for less than an hour, and is willing to take risks. It is difficult to think that father has raised me for more than ten years, and I don't think about repaying. Isn't it no different from a beast?"

"Yi brother, don't say anymore, let's act together."

Li Yi didn't persuade anymore when he saw this, just nodded: "Okay, then let's act together, be careful in everything."

"Hmm." Zhao Qian responded in a low voice.

Immediately, the two walked into the Ghost Street, and then moved forward slowly along the strange crowd on both sides of the road.

"There is only half an hour left. When time is up, no matter if we get the medicine or not, we must return to the small courtyard just now, so don't go far." Zhao Qian reminded in a low voice.

But as soon as she spoke, the living person's nasal breath leaked out, immediately attracting the attention of some ghosts around.

Li Yi remembered the scene where master Zhao Ge saved himself before. He immediately covered Zhao Qian's mouth and nose, and then hissed.

Zhao Qian reacted immediately, hurriedly holding her breath.

Seeing the cold gazes peeping at them around dispersing, she breathed a sigh of relief slightly.

"It's really dangerous, leave here quickly, don't be targeted." Li Yi let go of his palm, and then pulled Zhao Qian, and left this area rapidly.

Zhao Qian looked at Li Yi holding her hand, and her face couldn't help but blush, and a touch of shyness surged into her heart.

Li Yi didn't care so much at this moment. He pulled Zhao Qian and walked through this strange and bizarre street, his gaze rotating under the mask, paying attention to the situation around him.

"The medicine master Zhao Ge wants is called Coffin Ganoderma. It sounds like a special Ganoderma. Since it is a medicine, it must be sold in a pharmacy, or sold on a roadside stall, so I have to look for it in this regard, not wandering around on the street."

Although he didn't understand many things here, he could still understand some meanings.

After walking for a while.

Soon.

Li Yi stopped when he passed a fork in the road. He looked at that fork in the road, and a special street entered his line of sight.

That street was also lively, with people coming and going, and there were some special vendors on both sides selling all kinds of things. Through observation, he found that although the people on this street looked cold and strange, in fact, they were all living people who entered here through some means like Zhao Ge and Zhao Qian.

"Go inside and look, this should be a market."

Li Yi didn't even think about it, and drilled into this unknown street.

His arrival immediately attracted the attention of many vendors.

Don't look at Li Yi wearing a leather mask, but this thing is just to fool ghosts with low intelligence. Living people recognized at a glance that Li Yi was a normal person.

"Where did this brat come from? Such disguise means are too simple. Isn't he afraid of being targeted by some fierce ghosts and Yin soldiers?" Many vendors showed strange eyes.

Li Yi was ignorant and fearless. He said in a low voice: "I don't know Coffin Ganoderma, Zhao girl, keep your eyes bright, see if there is any on these people's stalls, must find it quickly."

"Okay, Yi brother." Zhao Qian nodded slightly.

The two searched rapidly.

Li Yi saw many mind-boggling things here. There were human skulls placed neatly, and there were limbs of strange creatures. He even saw some paper people, paper clothes, and most excessively, some people put fresh corpses on the roadside for sale.

"This place really dares to sell anything." He was very surprised in his heart, feeling that he had broken into a black market in an unknown illegal zone.

Walked for another section of the road.

At this time, Zhao Qian suddenly grabbed Li Yi's arm with excitement, and then pointed to a stall beside her, and then said in a low voice: "That is Coffin Ganoderma."

Li Yi looked over.

It turned out that the person setting up the stall was a grey-haired, thin old man. He sat cross-legged in front of the stall, his whole body dead and lifeless. Those who didn't know would think it was a dried corpse that had been dead for a long time.

But on this old man's stall, there were several strange things placed, one of which was a black mushroom-like thing, which was the Coffin Ganoderma in Zhao Qian's mouth.

Li Yi walked over immediately. He looked left and right, and then squatted down, pointing to the thing on the stall and said: "Boss, how do you sell this Coffin Ganoderma?"

"Sixty." A hoarse voice sounded.

"So expensive?" Zhao Qian's face turned pale, and her expression was a bit trance-like.

"Zhao Qian, is the money not enough? I'll think of a way to scrape it together." Li Yi asked, suppressing his voice, and then touched his body.

He only had a smartphone on him, and he didn't know if these ancient people in another world would accept it. Besides that, there was half a cut knife coin. This thing is a mystic object, it should be worth some money. If Zhao Qian couldn't take out this money, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and sell this incomplete mystic object.

Although mystic objects are very precious, Zhao Ge has the grace of saving his life, and Li Yi cannot ignore it because of his own greed.

"Yi brother, things on the Ghost Street are not bought or sold with gold and silver..." Zhao Qian wanted to say but stopped, seeming difficult to say.

Li Yi asked: "Not accepting gold and silver, then what do you accept?"

He had to observe the situation around him every time he said a word, but it seemed relatively safe in this market. There were very few ghosts nearby, and he was not targeted even if he opened his mouth.

"Accept lifespan." The thin old man at the stall said coldly.

"Ah? Can lifespan also be bought and sold?" Li Yi was shocked immediately.

The thin old man glanced at him and couldn't be bothered to explain to this layman.

Zhao Qian lowered her head and said helplessly: "I have not practiced martial arts to a high realm, my lifespan is no more than sixty. I am already sixteen years old, and my remaining lifespan is no more than forty-four. And this Coffin Ganoderma opens its mouth to sixty, even if I spend all my lifespan, I can't afford it..."

"How do you know your lifespan is only sixty?" Li Yi asked: "The lifespan of ordinary people is at least eighty or ninety."

"Yi brother doesn't know, the people of Xingzhou, the lifespan of ordinary people is no more than fifty. My lifespan is sixty after practicing martial arts, and father's realm is high, he can have eighty years of life." Zhao Qian explained.

Li Yi suddenly realized, so that's how it is.

This is really ancient.

Lifespans are not long.

"If you can't afford it, stay away, don't wander here." The thin old man said hoarsely.

"You sell this Coffin Ganoderma too expensive, it used to be sold for about fifteen." Zhao Qian gritted her teeth and said.

The thin old man hummed: "That is an ordinary Coffin Ganoderma. My Coffin Ganoderma comes from an ancient tomb of a thousand years, and its efficacy is extraordinary, so it is naturally expensive, and there is no bargaining."

"Yi brother, let's go look elsewhere." Zhao Qian could only pull Li Yi away when she saw this.

Sixty years of lifespan, this thing can't be bought even if a life is thrown in, it is simply forcing people to do things.

Li Yi didn't leave, just said: "Boss, if I buy it, how do I pay?"

"Draw a pledge with blood, and after seven days, the debt-collecting ghost will come to collect the lifespan." This thin old man took out a white talisman paper with characters he couldn't understand written on it. He stretched out his finger and pointed to the blank space on the white talisman paper.

"Just press a handprint? So convenient? Aren't you afraid of defaulting?" Li Yi asked.

The thin old man snorted coldly: "If the debt-collecting ghost can't collect the debt, there will be Yin soldiers coming to the door. If the Yin soldiers can't collect the debt, there will be Yin generals coming to the door. If the Yin generals can't collect the debt, there will be Yin gods coming to hook the soul and take the soul. Can you default?"

"Since you said so, then I'm relieved. I'll buy this Coffin Ganoderma." Li Yi waved his hand immediately, intending to buy it.

What a joke.

I am an Earthling, afraid of your ghosts from another world coming to collect debts?

Let them come over first.

"Yi brother, don't be impulsive, sixty years of lifespan will kill you." Zhao Qian was anxious immediately, holding Li Yi.

Li Yi said: "Don't be afraid, I have a hard life, and saving people is urgent. If I miss this place now, I might not be able to find Coffin Ganoderma if I keep looking. We don't have enough time either. You don't have to persuade me, master saved my life, I buy this Coffin Ganoderma as repaying the grace."

"Alright, that's it. Boss, draw the pledge."

After speaking, he directly shook off Zhao Qian and bit his finger without hesitation, preparing to sign and draw the pledge.

"Drawing the pledge is fine, first let's see how much lifespan you have left. I don't want to do a loss-making business." The thin old man blocked Li Yi's hand that was about to draw the pledge, and then took out something similar to a compass.

He grabbed Li Yi's finger and pressed it on the black compass.

"Don't be nervous, this is a life compass, measuring your lifespan."

The pointer on the compass shook, and soon pointed to a number: One Hundred and Fifty.

"Lifespan of one hundred and fifty? What a long lifespan." The thin old man was shocked.

"Can I live that long?" Li Yi looked at the compass and felt it was incredible. Can this thing really measure a person's lifespan?

However, cultivators can indeed live for more than a hundred years after their bodies evolve and without illness or disaster.

It's just that in the eyes of these short-lived ancient people in another world, one hundred and fifty is already considered very long-lived.

"Your capital is quite sufficient, draw the pledge." The thin old man suddenly made a strange laugh, took out the white talisman paper, and handed it to Li Yi.

Li Yi didn't feel the pressure of debt, and pressed it down without hesitation, leaving a bloody handprint: "Is this okay?"

"Not bad, this piece of goods is yours."

The thin old man was also fair in doing business, carefully put away the white talisman paper, and handed over the Coffin Ganoderma, without the so-called black-eating-black phenomenon.

Li Yi handed it to Zhao Qian after receiving it, and it was considered to have settled a favor in his heart.

"Yi brother."

Zhao Qian looked at the Coffin Ganoderma in her hand, and for a while didn't know what to say, just the tears of gratitude swirled in her eye sockets.

That is sixty years of lifespan, sold just like that.

Even if father saved him and taught martial arts, such repayment is too heavy.

Li Yi looked indifferent, instead chatting with this boss: "Boss, can I ask you something."

"Say."

The thin old man's attitude was much better at this moment, after all, he just did a big business.

"I entered the Ghost Street unintentionally, is there any way to leave here?" Li Yi asked.

The thin old man said hoarsely: "You mean the way back is broken? That's not difficult, buy this thing and you can go back."

After speaking, he pointed to something on the stall.

That was a small horse made of mud.

"What is this?" Li Yi picked it up, looked at it, nothing special.

"This is a mud horse." The thin old man grabbed the thing in Li Yi's hand, fearing that this brat would break it.

"Mud horse?" Li Yi looked at him strangely.

"Not bad, this is a mud horse."

"Mud horse, how much?" Li Yi said.

"Mud horse, sell for ten years of lifespan." The thin old man said.

"Mud horse, so expensive?" Li Yi said.

The thin old man's face sank immediately: "Mud horse, if you want to buy, buy it, if not, don't talk nonsense."

Li Yi said: "Mud horse, if it were cheaper, I would definitely buy it, but your mud horse is too expensive."

"Are you buying things, or scolding people?" The thin old man couldn't bear it a bit.

"Isn't it you, boss, who took advantage of me first? What name is not good to take, called mud horse." Li Yi said.

"..." The thin old man's face twitched, wishing he could slap this brat to death.

"This thing sells for ten years of lifespan, no bargaining."

He took a few deep breaths, letting his mood calm down.

Li Yi said: "How do I use it after I buy this thing?"

"Drip a few drops of blood on it, mud... this horse will turn into a Yin horse, as long as you sit on it, it can take you to the person closest to you. If you have no relatives in the world of the living, then I haven't said this." The thin old man said.

"You have no relatives. Come, draw the pledge." Li Yi stretched out his finger and said.

The thin old man saw this, and his face looked a little better. He took out a white talisman paper and handed it over.

Li Yi didn't feel the pressure of debt, and drew the pledge without hesitation, and then thought about it, and pointed to another piece of goods: "I want this mud horse too."

"You have a lot of lifespan, you can buy as many as you want." The thin old man said.

"Better safe than sorry, who knows if I will suddenly enter the Ghost Street again one day."

Li Yi drew the pledge again and took away two mud horses. *** ### Chapter 33: Returning to Reality