Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 597 Candles
Pu Yanlan, who had no trace of life, stood on the beast corpse. Around her were the mad beasts who were roaring and screaming, but none of them saw her. They just ran past her screaming. Pu Yanlan just stood there quietly, waiting for the moment to enter the Jiugui formation. At the back of the battlefield, in the air, there was a group of people in black robes. They were originally watching the battlefield in front of them silently. Suddenly, someone exclaimed,
"Hey...when did someone appear there?"

As soon as this person spoke, several people in black robes looked over.

"What is she doing standing there?"

Some people were puzzled. One of them, a thin man in black robe, stared at it for a moment, looked around and asked,

"Who knows her, why is she there, and which side of yours is she on?"

Everyone shook their heads.
"They are not our people!"

"do not know!"

The thin black-robed man frowned immediately, and after a moment he suddenly shouted,

"Not good, she is going to enter the Nine Returns Formation..."

Someone noticed it and whispered,

"This woman is not one of ours, stop her!"

It was too late when he said this. The vitality of the fallen animal corpse dissipated and turned into a black mist and disappeared. At the same time, the petite female cultivator who was standing on the animal corpse also disappeared.

"She's in!"

Someone shouted, and the thin black-robed man's face darkened.
"There is ghost energy around this woman. She must be a ghost cultivator. If she is not from our side, then she must be from the other side. Send a message to the people in the formation and tell them that an outsider has sneaked into the Nine Returns Formation. Tell them to be careful."

We've been planning for so long and are about to succeed. We can't let a little guy who pops out from nowhere ruin everything!

"Yes!"

Someone sent the message over there, and Gu Shiyi was taken to see Granny Lanhua.
"Mother-in-law!"

Granny Lanhua looked even older than when Gu Shiyi left. She was leaning against the wall. At this moment, she was in a stone house under the city wall, sitting cross-legged in a corner, looking like a dried corpse. The skin on her face had drooped to the corners of her mouth. When she saw Gu Shiyi, she smiled.
"Gu Shiyi, you can actually come back!"

Gu Shiyi smiled and said,

"You don't know, Grandma, that the Witch God Temple is a very dangerous place. If I hadn't thought of you and missed you, I... wouldn't have come here!"

"Wow...sweet talk, do you think I don't know what you are thinking?"

Granny Lanhua smiled and waved at her.

"Come and sit!"

Gu Shiyi came over as he was told and sat next to Granny Lanhua. Suddenly, he raised his eyebrows and turned his head to look at Granny Lanhua.

"Mother-in-law, what are you doing..."

Granny Orchid snorted,

"Did you see that?"

Gu Shiyi nodded solemnly.

"I see..."

Granny Orchid said,
"Most of my vitality has disappeared. I have only retained a small part of it after so many years of practice. I am waiting here to help that old man one last time..."

After a pause, he said again,
"Are you here to pick up your two friends?"

Seeing Gu Shiyi nod, he continued,

"Don't worry, they are fine. I just don't have enough manpower. I sent one to report the news, and another went out to get information. Don't worry..."

She pointed to the candles burning beside her.
"This is the body candle I lit for the people I sent out. As long as the candle is good, they will be fine!"

Gu Shiyi felt relieved after hearing this and asked,
"Granny, what's going on here? Why do the beasts keep attacking Yaoguang City?"

Granny Lanhua was silent for a moment, then she said,

"Let me ask you first, is the witch god dead? Did he die at your hands?"

Gu Shiyi nodded, "Yes! But it's not entirely true to say that he died at my hands. He was already in a weak period at that time, and I was just the last straw that broke the camel's back!"

Granny Lanhua didn't know what the camel she was talking about was, but she understood the meaning and sighed.

"Never mind, this is also God's will! God's will!"

After saying that, he sighed again.
"Since you're here, you should have guessed that this city is not ordinary, right?"

Gu Shi nodded,

"Are all the people in this city dead?"

Granny Lanhua looked at Gu Shiyi in surprise.
"You do have some knowledge..."

Nodded and said,
"That's right. No one living in this city is alive..."

This Yaoguang City is just as Pu Yanlan guessed. After the Great Desolation, because too many people died, the underworld sent ghost messengers to the world of the living to set up the Nine Returns Formation. After that, all the formations in the continent disappeared, leaving only this Nine Returns Formation in the wilderness. I don't know if the location is an excellent place to gather the ghosts. After the ghost messenger took away the ghosts in the formation many years later, the formation did not dissipate automatically but remained.
"Because this place is surrounded by mountains and the terrain is sunken, there has been miasma for a long time, and the Yin energy is also very easy to condense. It was originally a place to raise corpses. With the blessing of the magic array, at the beginning, this magic array only absorbed some dead souls, but since who knows when, the souls of the dead in this wilderness have begun to enter the Nine Returns Array..."

“Eh… that’s not right!”

Gu Shiyi was puzzled when he heard this.
"That's not right, mother-in-law. The souls of the witches in the Wushen Cult all belong to the Wushen after they die..."

Granny Lanhua glanced at her.
"That's a witch, not an ordinary tribesman. The souls of ordinary tribesmen enter Yaoguang City after death..."

Gu Shiyi recalled the spirits in the trees he had seen in the forest when he first entered the wilderness.

"That's not right. Aren't there still people in that tree?"

Granny Lanhua rolled her eyes at her and said,

"You are more impatient than me. I haven't even finished talking about this yet..."

Gu Shiyi smiled and bowed,

"You say, old man, you say!"

Granny Orchid said,
"Many years after the prehistoric times, the souls of the people here would be incorporated into the formation after they died. Of course, there were also beastmen, and some whose bodies did not decay after death for various reasons and turned into zombies. That old guy also entered the Nine Returns Formation after his death. It was only after he entered that he realized something was wrong..."

What's wrong?
That is, maybe it was the negligence of the people in the underworld?
Or is it that the location of the Nine Returns Formation is too special?

Anyway, over the years, none of the ghosts in the magic circle have been taken away to the underworld. All of the souls are trapped in the magic circle, unable to reincarnate or return to the world of the living. They just stay in the circle for no apparent reason!

"That old guy found something wrong, so he appeared in our dreams in the middle of the night. At that time, the other old guys were still alive, so we gathered together to discuss and mobilized all our manpower to build this Yaoguang City on top of the Jiugui Formation..."

"Hey... Grandma, why don't you contact the underworld and ask them to send someone to take away the ghosts?"

Granny Orchid shook her head and said,
"We have summoned the ghost messengers several times, but for some reason, the underworld doesn't care much about us wild ghosts. Although they promised us, they turned around and entered the underworld, and there has been no news since then. We don't know where they went wrong!"

This is really difficult to handle!
Gu Shiyi's brows tightened.

There are births and deaths every year. The souls of the dead can never return to the underworld. The longer they stay in the world of the living, the greater their resentment. They will turn into evil ghosts and will surely bring disaster to the world. At that time, this wild land will become a hell on earth!

"So you built this Yaoguang City?"

Granny Orchid nodded and said,
"That's right. We gathered the strength of all tribes to build this Yaoguang City, and set up a large formation on top of the Jiugui formation in order to resolve the resentment of the ghosts in the formation. Later, the rest of the old guys died and entered this city. There are more and more ghosts in this city, and Yaoguang City can no longer suppress them. In order to prevent the formation from being unable to bear the burden and the ghosts from bursting out, I taught the people of the Chizhu tribe a method of resurrection that I learned when I went to the Central Plains. The people of their tribe don't like to deal with others, and other tribes don't like to interact with them. It's just right for them to learn this method of resurrection and borrow the body of a tree to revive the ancestors of the tribe. In this way... it will reduce the number of ghosts in the city, which is also a good thing..."

Gu Shiyi suddenly understood when he heard this.
"So... Mother-in-law, when the Wushen Cult rose up and the Wushen absorbed the souls and blood of the people, you didn't stop it at first?"

No wonder, no wonder an old monster like Grandma Lanhua who has lived for tens of thousands of years did not suppress the power of the Witch God when it was just beginning to emerge!
Granny Orchid nodded and said,
"At the beginning, I did think that it wasn't a bad thing to have such a sect protecting this area, but I didn't expect..."

I didn't expect that the witch god's ambition was too big. He gradually devoured the small tribes and now has begun to attack the Qingmang tribe. Granny Lanhua sighed and said,
"I didn't expect that he would die in your hands, especially during this time of foreign invasion!"

If the Witch God had not died suddenly, the beast tribe would not have killed so many people, making Yaoguang City even more precarious!

Gu Shiyi asked again,

"Granny, who are these foreign enemies? Why did they control the beasts to attack Yaoguang City?"

Granny Orchid hummed,

"Who else could it be? Of course, it must be the outsiders that you Central Plains cultivators also hate. I don't know where they got the details of Yaoguang City from, and they came quietly in front. They are a group of cultivators who practice the ghost way. At that time, I was fighting fiercely with the Wushen Cult. They first spied near Yaoguang City, and then sent some ghosts into Yaoguang City. The old man was careless and didn't notice it, so they found out that Yaoguang City is now unable to resolve the resentment of the ghosts, so they took advantage of the annual beast attacks to manipulate the beasts to gather near Yaoguang City. The old man found something wrong, so he sent someone to deliver a letter to me..."