After leaving Liuhuo City, Styx inquired, "Are we going to Extinct Heaven City now?"
"No, to Yellow Spring City," Xu Zii shook her head and said.
"Are you going to help Old Wu find his son?" Styx was taken aback and instantly reacted.
"You go and get Old Wu’s Heirloom Stone, and then tell him I’ve accepted his request," Xu Zii replied.
"But he definitely won’t give you the Heirloom Stone in advance if you don’t help him find his son," Styx replied.
"That’s why I asked you to get it," Xu Zii responded indifferently.
...
The legend about Yellow Spring City has been around for a long ti.
This place was once a normal city too.
About a few hundred years ago, almost half of the city’s residents died tragically in one night.
Since then, the entire city seed cursed.
Besides the remaining half of the residents, anyone else who entered the city would perish.
Not a trace of them remained, silenced and erased.
At the beginning, there were people who deliberately ca to live in Yellow Spring City, hoping to walk out alive, breaking the curse in the legend.
But ultimately, as the number of dead increased, this place gradually beca a perilous land.
Listening to Styx’s explanations along the way, the two had already arrived at Yellow Spring City.
Xu Zii obtained Old Wu’s Heirloom Stone, which Styx had snatched from Old Wu’s hands.
Although it was stolen, Xu Zii didn’t just walk away; she still planned to take a look at Yellow Spring City.
...…
Looking at the gloomy city in front of her, Xu Zii felt sowhat oppressed in her heart.
The city gates were wide open, with no guards on either side.
The two entered the city, finding the streets sowhat deserted.
Apart from the occasional townspeople moving about, there was hardly any sign of life.
It was broad daylight, and yet it seed everyone was hiding in their rooms.
"Are you scared?" Xu Zii looked at Styx and asked with a smile.
"What’s there to be afraid of for soone at the Divine Vein Realm, unless these demons and monsters have stepped into immortality," Styx shook his head and responded.
"Besides, I have you with ."
Hearing Styx’s words, Xu Zii smiled and the two continued walking into the city.
Xu Zii looked around and found nothing suspicious about Yellow Spring City.
Aside from being rather deserted, there wasn’t much difference from other cities.
The residents of the city who saw Xu Zii and her companion would take a brief look from a distance and then quickly avoid them.
After wandering around the city for a while, they didn’t notice anything unusual.
Before long, it was already the afternoon.
In the entire vast city, there was only one inn.
"Yellow Spring Inn."
Xu Zii walked into the inn, and the shopkeeper hurriedly ca to greet them.
"Are you two guests staying at the inn?" the shopkeeper quickly asked.
Xu Zii nodded, and after they had arranged for rooms and als, they started chatting with the shopkeeper.
This shopkeeper, surnad Sun, had lived in Yellow Spring City for over a hundred years.
"Manager Sun, your inn is really quite deserted," Xu Zii said with a smile.
"With the whole curse affair brewing up such a fuss, who would co here to stay?" Manager Sun looked up and said.
"Having lived here so long, haven’t you noticed anything unusual?" Xu Zii asked.
"No, just that anyone who cos here disappears, no clue how," Manager Sun shook his head and replied.
"I’m looking for a person; did a young man co to stay here a month ago?" Xu Zii said.
"There’s only your inn in this city, so if he ca to Yellow Spring City, he would certainly have stayed here."
"Yes, you’ve co looking for him, haven’t you?" Manager Sun smiled and said.
"Don’t ask ; he stayed here for a night and disappeared the next day; I know nothing about it."
"Is that so?" Xu Zii said thoughtfully with a smile, "You seem quite calm."
"I’ve seen it so often I’ve gotten used to it," Shopkeeper Sun said, shaking his head.
"Ever since the curse appeared, none who have co here have left alive."
"How much do you know about the curse?" Xu Zii frowned and asked.
"The city’s original inhabitants die if they leave, and strangers from outside die if they co in; it’s as simple as that," Shopkeeper Sun said with a smile.
"You guys should be careful too; it’s been a long ti since I’ve seen any returning custors at this inn."
Watching the shopkeeper’s retreating figure, Xu Zii smiled with interest.
"Interesting."
...…
The setting sun dipped below the horizon, and the yellowing skyline gradually darkened.
As darkness enveloped the area, the Yellow Spring Inn began to bustle with activity.
Many of the local residents ca here to eat.
Compared to the eerily quiet and strange city outside, the atmosphere inside the inn was quite lively.
"Old Sun, I heard your inn took in so newbies today; make sure you take good care of them."
At the adjacent table, a man in a black long robe laughed loudly.
Another man, drunk and staggering, ca up to Xu Zii’s table holding a jar of wine.
He bead at the two of them and said, "Let interview you two.
What brought you to our Yellow Spring City?
Are you tired of living, or just plain curious?"
"Read my lips," Xu Zii smiled and said, "cnm!"
"What do you an?" The burly man’s face changed instantly, and he said sharply.
Xu Zii grabbed the wine jar from the table and smashed it against the man’s head.
There was a loud "bang,"
The jar shattered, and the wine spilled all over.
Styx, taken aback, seed not to have caught on to Xu Zii’s behavior.
"What are you doing?" Shopkeeper Sun asked, sowhat puzzled.
"Are you still pretending?" Xu Zii laughed and said.
"Scum of the Undying Race."
Hearing Xu Zii’s words, everyone in the inn was taken aback.
"So you’ve found out."
All the people in the inn revealed eerie smiles on their faces.
The skin on the surface of their bodies was torn apart, and monsters crawled out from inside.
These monsters had short, grey-brown skin.
Their palms were twice as big as those of normal humans, with sharp and long fingernails.
Among these monsters, so were thin, and so were very plump.
Even Shopkeeper Sun from the inn slowly shed his own skin at that mont.
Styx looked outside the inn to see a large group of monsters surrounding it.
All the residents of the entire Yellow Spring City had turned into monsters.
"How did you find out? I didn’t notice at all," Styx said, looking at Xu Zii in surprise.
You should know that he, with his Divine Vein Realm presence, had not previously detected anything unusual.
Xu Zii smiled and said, "Let’s deal with these guys first."
How he had discovered these people was, of course, sothing Chaos had told him.
The Monster Race and the Undying Race were two major races of the Wild Desolation era.
To Chaos, who had truly seen the Undying Race, it could instantly recognize the aura of the Undying Race on them.
Furthermore, Chaos had told him that the Undying Race in this city were all but puppets, and the real puppeteer was hidden in the shadows.
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