Chapter 1239

"Is it different from the architectural style of ancient times?" Lu Yang seemed to have heard something interesting and laughed out loud.

"No, no way, is it not?" Mu Baiyi listened to Lu Yang's laughter and felt uncertain in his heart, after all, this person was indeed a proud son of heaven from ancient times, and had the most authority on ancient architectural styles.

"Let's talk as we walk." Lu Yang laughed and gestured for Mu Baiyi to lead the way.

"This way."

Mu Baiyi made a gesture of invitation and led everyone to a riverside.

The mist in the river gradually thickened, and a wooden boat was moored by the bank. Deputy Sect Leader Shi Shi Huagu untied the rope and ferried everyone across.

"This place is called the River of Forgetfulness, and it is also constructed according to the manuscripts left by Qin Haoran. The River of Forgetfulness surrounds Fengdu, and to enter Fengdu, one must be ferried by the boatman to cross the River of Forgetfulness."

"This river can detect what items the passengers are carrying, whether there are dangerous goods. Of course, you all do not need to undergo inspection." Mu Baiyi added this last sentence, lest Lu Yang and the others feel offended.

In the river floated some greenish lanterns, the same color as the ghost fire floating above everyone's heads, illuminating them.

"Indeed, there is a certain flavor to it." Meng Jingzhou commented casually, as if he understood these things well.

"Young Sect Leader Lu, where exactly does the architectural style of Fengdu come from?"

Lu Yang did not answer directly, but instead asked another question: "Sect Leader Mu, when do you think the ancient times ended?"

"Naturally, when the ancient immortals transformed stars into continents, and then the ancient times ended, and the Middle Heaven Emperor and others established the Great Qian Dynasty on the ruins."

Lu Yang shook his head: "Wrong. Between the transformation of stars into continents and the establishment of the Great Qian Dynasty, there was an interval of one hundred thousand years. During this period, a colossal dynasty was born, named the Xinfire Dynasty."

"What?!"

Both Mu Baiyi and Sect Leader Chi Liu Zhen were startled. The person rowing the boat, Shi Shi Huagu, upon hearing this secret, almost lost his grip on the oars and fell into the river.

They had never heard of such a colossal dynasty spanning one hundred thousand years.

"Do you remember me saying that in ancient times, the Heavenly Court and the Underworld stood side by side, one governing the myriad beings, the other governing reincarnation?"

"This Underworld, which governs life and death and reincarnation, was established during the Xinfire Dynasty period."

"Your sect's establishment of Fengdu bears some resemblance to the land of the Underworld."

Ying Tian Xian, Sui Yue Xian, Jiu Chong Xian, Qing He, and Ao Ling all experienced the Xinfire Dynasty period. Lu Yang roughly understood the appearance of the Underworld from their descriptions, which is very similar to the Fengdu before us.

It is unknown whether Qin Haoran at that time accidentally recalled the memories of his previous life, or whether he had completely awakened his memories, before drawing the Fengdu manuscript.

Lu Yang leans more toward the former, after all, if Qin Haoran had completely awakened his memories and still failed the tribulation crossing, that would be somewhat absurd.

"So that's how it is!" Mu Baiyi was convinced that inviting the Tianting Sect this time was inviting the right people. Such ancient secrets, only the Tianting Sect would know.

Everyone disembarked, and the vast and majestic ancient city of Fengdu appeared before everyone's eyes, solemn and dignified, with an indescribable ancient feeling.

This ancient feeling is not only reflected in the architectural style, but also in the building materials.

Lu Yang stroked the city wall bricks and stones and asked: "These bricks and stones are not just newly refined, are they?"

"Young Sect Leader Lu has keen eyesight. When we were exploring tombs, we accidentally discovered the ancient capital of the Great Qian Dynasty, and we moved the bricks and stones of that ancient capital here to build Fengdu."

"Are these all of them?"

"All of them."

Lu Yang fell silent for a moment. The scale of Fengdu City is comparable to that of the Great Xia Imperial Capital. The bricks and stones used to build Fengdu all come from the ancient capital, which means the ancient capital is as large as the Great Xia Imperial Capital.

Which Great Qian ancient capital could be this large? You must have dug up the Great Qian Imperial Capital.

The two city gates were heavy as mountains. Shi Shi Huagu pushed open the heavy wooden door. Inside the city, ghostly shadows were everywhere, with various forms. Some were as tall as two-story buildings, others as small as a palm. The number of ghosts must be in the tens of thousands.

At the grand completion ceremony of Fengdu, the city was decorated with lanterns and banners, large red lanterns were hung, and each ghost had a large red paper pasted on them. Although Lu Yang and the others knew Mu Baiyi's intentions were good, this scene, combined with Fengdu's gloomy environment and green ghost fire, looked extremely eerie no matter how you looked at it.

"Starving ghosts, wandering ghosts, beautiful ghosts, sensory ghosts..."

Lu Yang thought he knew many ghosts and monsters, but there were still many ghosts whose names he could not recall, whose origins he could not recognize.

Mu Baiyi proudly introduced: "Almost all the ghosts of Great Xia are here."

Originally, the Jiuyou Sect did not have so many ghosts. With the barbecue restaurants spreading everywhere, the staff, in their spare time while opening stores, would also search for ghosts locally. If they could bring them into the Jiuyou Sect, according to the ghosts' cultivation, they could receive a substantial reward.

In the past, the Jiuyou Sect was so poor that it could not possibly achieve this.

"According to the needs of the ghosts, we have also established academies, wine towers, tea houses, etc., sufficient for them to live here permanently."

Lu Yang suddenly realized: "In other words, Fengdu City is a city specially built for the ghosts to live in?"

No wonder the Jiuyou Sect is wholeheartedly determined to build Fengdu City. It turns out it's not just a matter of faith, but also for this reason.

"What do the ghosts eat?"

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As the saying goes, excessive yin does not grow, excessive yang does not arise. Although the ghosts are extremely yin beings, they still need a large amount of yang energy to maintain basic activities.

This is also why ghosts absorb the yang energy of living people.

With so many ghosts living in Fengdu City, the Jiuyou Sect cannot possibly regularly capture people to feed the ghosts, can it?

"This is all thanks to Sect Leader Chi."

Sect Leader Chi smiled slightly, raised his hand and said humbly: "I only provided a little help. The main method is still what you came up with."

"Please take a look." Mu Baiyi took out a lamp from behind him.

"Solar-powered lamp?" Meng Jingzhou wondered, aren't solar-powered lamps supposed to restrain ghosts?

"This is different from ordinary solar-powered lamps."

Mu Baiyi pressed the switch, and the solar-powered lamp lit up slightly, but it was not as bright as the ghost fire above everyone's heads.

"Ghosts absorb yang energy. If we say the greatest source of yang energy in the world is the sun."

"However, the sun is too intense. Only ghost kings can move under the sun. Ordinary ghosts, upon seeing the sun, die and cannot absorb the sun's energy."

"But the solar-powered lamp just happens to absorb the sun's yang energy. I therefore asked Sect Leader Chi to hope he could research a solar-powered lamp that is not too bright. With reduced brightness, the released solar energy is less, and ghosts can absorb it."

"Originally, I just wanted to try it out. I didn't expect it to actually work." Mu Baiyi laughed, saying he had no confidence before trying it.

Having solved the problem of the ghosts' food source, the ghosts of Great Xia will naturally come to seek refuge in the Jiuyou Sect.

The Yangyang Sect is very willing to cooperate with the Jiuyou Sect, even willing to provide solar-powered lamps for free. Their sect's tenet is to promote the great sun. Now even ghosts rely on the sun, which sufficiently shows the greatness of the sun.

"In that case, will these ghosts live in Fengdu from now on?" Lu Yang asked. This is unexpectedly a good thing.

Ghosts being difficult to manage is a problem officially recognized by the imperial court, and even whether ghosts have human rights is debated endlessly, with no conclusion reached.

If all ghosts lived in Fengdu, that would be ideal.

"Not all of them live in Fengdu; we still need ghosts to operate barbecue restaurants, and together with the Radiant Yang Sect, research new products."

"Wouldn't using people work?" Meng Jingzhou asked.

Mu Mu Baiyi waved his hand: "If we used people, we'd still need to pay monthly wages, which is too expensive. Using ghosts only requires providing yang energy."

(End of Chapter)