Chapter 55: Human Tide, Corpse Tide

With a movement of his mind, he activated the Ten Thousand Mile Soul-Chasing.

He looked at the Yin Source Bead in his hand, preparing to use it as a foundation to lock onto the Qi and trace the residual aura, thereby finding the original sealing grand array.

However, he soon frowned.

There were too many people shouting and yelling around him, throwing the entire street into chaos, which caused the auras to become complex and jumbled, making them difficult to track. Furthermore, this Yin Source Bead was also very Weird, as it could only allow him to track the general direction.

And around the Sanshan Gathering, there were dense mountain forests.

But what use was a general direction?

Deviating by even a single angle would lead to a vast difference.

Li Heng pondered for a moment, then casually pushed aside the chaotic crowd, forcefully carving a path through the middle of the road. He intended to find that family of three and ask them for information.

At this moment, the streets of the Sanshan Gathering were surging with people.

There was no other reason; fear and anxiety are contagious.

It was said that everyone had fallen into a deep sleep just a moment ago. It was said that over a dozen dried corpses had appeared on West Street. It was said that several people on East Street had lost their heads, and the eyes on the heads were still moving...

The rumors became more and more outrageous as they spread.

In the end, it was directly rumored that the Sanshan Gathering was about to be destroyed, and the earlier deep sleep was a warning from the gods.

This further intensified the fear and anxiety of the common people.

Most of the people who had been sleeping soundly at home were also woken up by this commotion, and after asking about the cause of the matter, they could not help but feel afraid and ran out of their homes one after another.

Some who ran fast had even already run out of the Sanshan Gathering, fleeing toward the nearby mountains and wilderness to wait for dawn. Some who were wealthy or noble, and clever, were already on boats.

The crowd was all surging out of the Sanshan Gathering.

Yet Li Heng was extremely conspicuous, moving against the current.

The human tide is like a corpse tide; it can swallow lives.

Li Heng felt this emotion while in the midst of it. With such a panicked crowd and fearful chaos, he feared that even more people would die. Amidst the trampling and crowding, people might truly die.

Looking down from above.

One would see.

The dim Sanshan Gathering had already lit its lamps; it was incomparably noisy, with the sound of gongs and drums filling the sky. The roads, which extended in all directions and were laid out in a grid, were also packed with people, blocked completely!

The surrounding villages and towns heard the commotion and were completely bewildered. What were they doing at the Sanshan Gathering? Would they not let people sleep?

In a corner.

The family of three, Lu Dafu, was hiding here.

They did not follow the general trend, because they knew that if they just squeezed in like that, they would easily be trampled to death by others; it was better to hide first.

Moreover, Lu Dafu had some faint guesses in his heart.

Perhaps the trouble at the Sanshan Gathering... had already been solved by that lord. Lu Dafu looked at Lu Xun, who was exhausted in Tang Rong's arms, and felt some emotion in his heart.

Could this child have a connection with that lord?

After all, when it rained during the day, this child had clearly gone out to play, but when he returned, his clothes were dry... unless the child did not go to play in the water, but was that possible?

As an antique merchant, one's eye must be sharp, and one needs to pay more attention to subtle details. If one lacked a sharp eye, one would have been cheated or had things snatched away long ago.

Then he would not have saved up such a large family fortune.

"Sigh, these are truly troubled times."

Lu Dafu showed a worried expression, feeling immense emotion. "Waa—", suddenly, the crying of a child rang out. The expressions of Lu Dafu and Tang Rong changed; in the crowded throng, they saw a little girl who had fallen to the ground.

But the people around would not stop their steps because of anyone's crying; in fact, because of this kind of crying, they thought it was the wailing of evil spirits, which intensified their panic, and their pace became a few points more hurried.

Originally, they had also unconsciously wanted to step over that obstacle on the ground, that little girl, to avoid falling themselves. But after the panic and haste, they could no longer care about that much and stepped directly onto that obstacle, that little girl.

It's over! The two thought to themselves, sensing disaster.

The two immediately stood up, wanting to pull the little girl away, but the distance between them was too great, and it was too late to save her. By the time they ran over there, this little girl would have already been stepped on a dozen times, and a child's body was inherently fragile.

Just at this critical moment, a vigorous and powerful arm reached out from the crowd and directly lifted the little girl by the back of her neck, avoiding the Fate of being trampled.

Li Heng held the little girl with one hand, his body like a giant rock in a river, directly splitting the surging crowd in two and appearing before the three members of the Lu Dafu family.

He walked close to the three of them, expressionless.

"Is this your child too?"

"No, no, this child just fell to the ground, and we wanted to save her. We are truly grateful for the lord's intervention, otherwise, this child would likely have met with disaster."

Lu Dafu hurriedly denied it, speaking with emotion.

Li Heng frowned; this was truly troublesome.

"What is your relationship with that Ye Qing? Is your surname also Ye?" He spoke indifferently.

Mentioning Ye Qing, Lu Dafu was stunned.

"Lord, may I ask what happened to that Ye Qing?"

He swallowed his saliva, shrinking his neck, feeling somewhat timid. Because he had more or less guessed the identity of this lord before him; he was likely the Demon Exorcist from the rumors!

"I punched him to death; the cause of death was involvement with the Weird. Speak, what are your names? What is the True Reality of Ye Qing's background?"

Lu Dafu's expression was panicked, and he hurriedly began to explain.

"Lord, my surname is Lu, and my wife's surname is Tang; we have not been in cahoots with that Ye Qing, please judge for yourself, Lord!"

He quickly told Li Heng the information about Ye Qing.

Li Heng frowned.

He did not suspect that this family of three was in cahoots with that Ye Qing; after all, in his field of vision, this family of three had no Yin energy at all, and they also had no foundation in martial arts.

They were completely and utterly ordinary people.

At most, they were just a bit wealthy.

Unless... this family of three could deceive the Heavenly Eye of the True Lord of the Clear Source and Wonderful Dao. Although the state of the Heavenly Eye he was using for Visualization was only a temporary Visualization, its essence had not been weakened too much.

Using the Heavenly Eye to observe things and look at others, there would only be two results. One is that the level of Visualization is too low, and one cannot see through or see clearly. The other is that one can see through and see clearly.

There has never been any such thing as being deceived.

At least at this level, it is impossible.

His expression softened, and he set the little girl down.

"Keep an eye on her for now, don't let her run around; wait until this group of people calms down, then take her to find her parents, otherwise she will nine times out of ten be trampled to death."

Lu Dafu nodded; this was what he should do.

"You say that Ye Qing is from Jing'an Village? Usually wandering around village ruins, looking for antiques?"

"Yes! I know that Ye Qing, we met during an antique trade." Lu Dafu nodded hurriedly.

"In which direction is Jing'an Village?"

"To the southwest."

Li Heng was lost in thought; this was more or less the same direction he had been tracking. Could it be that the sealing Great Array was in Jing'an Village, or in the mountains and fields near Jing'an Village?

After asking Lu Dafu some things and confirming there was no suspicion, it was near dawn; the Yin Qi began to recede, the Yang Qi began to rise, and the world returned to the human realm.

During the day, the Yang Qi is dense, so he did not need to worry too much about the Sanshan Gathering. Such matters were better left for those in Bei'an City to get a headache over.

Li Heng intended to leave and head to Jing'an Village.

As he was about to leave, he looked at Lu Xun and spoke.

"Does this child have any nickname or childhood name?"

"Reporting to my lord, she does not." Lu Dafu replied.

"Then I think calling her Zhou Shuren would be quite appropriate."

Li Heng's words were meaningful as he turned and left.