Chapter 322 Return to the CageYang Rongrong and his group quickly found a villa to the east of Yunmeng City. There was a plaque hanging above the gate of Zhuangzi, covered with dust and cobwebs. The houses in the village were dilapidated and the yard was overgrown with weeds. It looked like it had been abandoned for a long time. Since they were not planning to stay here for long, Yang Rongrong took a quick look around and found nothing unusual, so she asked Shuying to control the ghost puppet to park the carriage in the open space in the yard. They planned to spend the night in the carriage. In order to avoid being discovered by passing monks, Yang Rongrong also specially set up a formation around the carriage. This formation would confuse the eyes of outsiders. At first glance, outsiders would think this is a pond. Unless a monk above the Nascent Soul stage used his spiritual sense to carefully investigate, it would be difficult to discover the real situation inside the formation. At midnight, Yang Rongrong, who was meditating with her eyes closed, suddenly woke up. She noticed movement outside the carriage! Not only her, but also Liu Lang, Mu Tou and Tun Tun, who were originally dozing on the soft carpet, suddenly opened their eyes and looked towards the car window. Yang Rongrong immediately released her spiritual sense. The spiritual consciousness spread out from the carriage like a thin spider web and soon spread to the entire villa.

The villa, which was deserted during the day, became lively in the middle of the night. Lights were on in all the houses in the village, and a group of people were chatting and laughing in the yard. Some of them were making fire and cooking, some were forging iron, and some were mending clothes. This scene is just an ordinary life in the mortal world. But placed in this dilapidated mountain villa that has been abandoned for many years, it looks particularly strange. Many speculations flashed through Yang Rongrong's mind, and she decided to go to the village to see what was going on. She withdrew her spiritual sense, stood up and opened the door, just in time to bump into Shuying who was about to knock on the door. It seems that Shuying also noticed the abnormality outside. So the two of them walked out together, and Liu Lang, Mu Tou, and Tun Tun followed behind them. A group of five people got out of the carriage. Everyone in the village was shocked to see five strangers suddenly jump out of the "pond". Men, women, young and old, all stopped what they were doing. The screen became silent as if someone had pressed the pause button. Yang Rongrong's eyes swept across these people and she immediately realized that these were not ordinary mortals. They were probably transformed from spirit beasts or demon beasts using magic. Rokuro sniffed hard. He also discovered that these people in front of him were not human. His mother didn't allow him to eat humans, but she didn't forbid him to eat animals. Liu Lang licked his lips, and his black and white eyes were full of greed. Late in the evening is a good time to have a midnight snack. Unexpectedly, the next moment, everyone in front of him suddenly disappeared, and the lights in the village went out all of a sudden. But all the utensils used for forging and cooking were left where they were. In an instant, the entire villa fell into deathly silence again.

Yang Rongrong looked at the fish soup still boiling in the pot to confirm that what she had just seen was not an illusion. Now that the abnormality has been discovered, it must be investigated thoroughly. She called Shuying, Liulang, Mutou and Tuntun, and they all searched together. Yang Rongrong searched all the houses and found that although they looked dilapidated, they were actually quite intact inside. They were fully equipped with common furniture such as tables, chairs, beds, etc. In some houses, there was even rice and dried meat in the rice jars in the kitchens. From this we can conclude that there must be people living in this village, but in order to avoid being discovered, they deliberately hid their whereabouts and pretended that the village had been abandoned for a long time. Yang Rongrong went to look for Shuying and found him standing at the gate of the villa. When he saw Yang Rongrong coming, he pointed above the gate of the villa and said, "Look there." Yang Rongrong stood beside him, looked up, and saw the plaque hanging above the gate at a glance. The plaque was covered with dust and cobwebs during the day, but now all the dust and cobwebs have disappeared. On the clean plaque, three large vermilion characters can be clearly seen: She thought she was having an illusion and asked the special shadow who was following her for confirmation. Shuying said that she was not mistaken, it was indeed the three words "huilongjiao". Yang Rongrong still felt it was unreal, so she took out the Floating Life Mirror and aimed it at the plaque. The three words "Hui Long Jiao" were still displayed on the mirror, with every stroke correct. She put down the Mirror of Life and stared at the plaque in a daze, feeling as if fate had hit her on the head with an absurd feeling. "There really is a Huilong Cult in this world." Shuying's eyes suddenly changed, he turned his head to look at the stone lion on the right and asked in a deep voice. "Who's there? Come out!" Yang Rongrong also looked at the dilapidated stone lion. In the dim night, the stone lion stood there quietly and there was nothing unusual about it. But she could feel a slight presence behind the stone lion. Shuying moved his fingertips slightly, and a puppet string flew out from his hand, directly splitting the stone lion into two. The people who were hiding behind the stone lions then appeared. This man was thin, wearing a blue Taoist robe, and had a pair of very smart eyes and eyebrows. It turned out to be Zhao Qi, whom I had met once during the day! When Yang Rongrong saw that it was him, she immediately frowned: "Why is it you? Are you following us?" Zhao Qi didn't expect to meet them here. Hearing this, he hurriedly defended himself: "No!" He did follow Yang Rongrong for a while during the day, but then Yang Rongrong and his group suddenly disappeared, and he couldn't find them no matter how hard he tried, so he had to give up. Yang Rongrong was full of suspicion, her eyes full of vigilance: "Then why are you hiding here in the middle of the night?" Zhao Qi rubbed his hands and chuckled.

"I just happened to pass by here, and saw that there were people in this deserted villa. I was curious, so I came to see what was going on. I didn't expect to run into you. Since there is nothing to do, I won't disturb you. I'll leave first." After saying this, he wanted to slip away. Shuying naturally would not let him succeed. The puppet line flew out, wrapped around Zhao Qi's ankle, and pulled him back with force. Zhao Qi lost his balance and fell to the ground, landing on the ground in a mess. The puppet strings then wrapped around his limbs, tying him up tightly. He knew he couldn't escape, so he just shouted at the top of his lungs. "What are you doing? I'm a good person! You can't kill innocent people!" Yang Rongrong raised an eyebrow and saw through his intention at a glance. "You are tipping off others to the danger here. It seems that those people haven't gone far. They must be hiding nearby." Zhao Qi immediately stopped shouting and smiled awkwardly: "What are you talking about? I don't understand. I'm alone and I don't know anything about this village." Seeing that he was still stubborn at this time, Yang Rongrong directly drew out the Wuwang Sword and pointed the tip of the sword at Zhao Qi's throat. She threatened with a half-smile. "If I kill you now, do you think your companions will come out to rescue you?" Zhao Qi's face suddenly became extremely ugly. He gritted his teeth and said, "You can't kill me." Yang Rongrong asked calmly, "Why not?" Zhao Qi was about to say something when Liu Lang ran over. (End of this chapter)