The crooked way can also lead to heaven

In the dilapidated house, Ye Ran raised his wrist and glanced at the time.

Two hours had passed since the start of the second round, and there were already piles of corpses outside the broken house.

Coupled with the fact that night falls, those who want to be careful will flock out.

"Go and patrol the area."

Ye Ran took out a resentful spirit doll and tapped it lightly on the head.

The wraith doll immediately jumped to the ground and ran out of the house swinging from side to side on its short legs.

"It's time to make some noise and come out. It's not good to wait for people to come over."

Ye Ran stood up and stretched, then walked out of the house and came to the pile of corpses.

Lao Wu didn't say a word, just watched quietly from behind.

He also wanted to know what kind of technique the martial arts champion would use to end the game. It would be great if he could learn one or two moves.

Ye Ran raised his head and glanced at the starry sky, then scanned the surrounding area, and then said: "Old Wu, is it okay to drive a ghost stake?"

Old Wu immediately responded: "Of course, but what's the use of driving ghost piles?"

Driving ghost stakes is no different from what the world calls living stakes, except that the former uses corpses, while the latter uses living people.

When building houses in some places, in order to change the feng shui of the place, living people will be stuffed into the ground pillars and then buried and sealed with cement.

Use this to change the Feng Shui pattern or suppress evil spirits.

Driving ghost piles is similar, but it is generally used to gather evil spirits.

"Don't worry about it. With my feet as the center and the five elements as the basis, just lay ghost stakes within a radius of 500 meters. I will be of great use."

Ye Ran didn't waste any time talking to him. After speaking, he randomly picked some food from his satchel as a tribute and lined it up on the sand.

After waiting for a moment, Old Wu's figure appeared next to him.

Ye Ran immediately started doing it and quickly formed seals with his hands.

"Wandering souls, where can they stay? Three souls have descended early, seven souls are coming, riverside wild places, temples and villages, palaces and prisons, tombs and mountains, and boys from thousands of miles away have sent their souls. I invite the Supreme Lord, as urgent as a law or order. !”

At the same time as the spell fell, the originally peaceful desert began to feel windy the next second.

Old Wu knew that this was a ghost-hunting technique, but he still didn't understand what Ye Ran was trying to do. Attracting all the evil spirits around him would only add to the trouble. What's the benefit?

But it’s not easy to ask questions now. We can only wait and see what the next step will be.

Ye Ran looked left and right, then walked to the nearest corpse in front, tore off three heads and brought them back to the tribute.

Then he sat cross-legged and muttered some obscure incantations.

This time Old Wu couldn't understand it at all, because the spell Ye Ran was chanting was very ancient and not from this era at all.

Soon, there was a sparse murmur in my ears.

Since Old Wu was now half-human and half-corpse, this spell also had a certain impact on him. Unknowingly, he felt his mind begin to spin, and his eyelids opened and closed again and again.

After a while, a large amount of evil energy suddenly emerged from the pile of corpses in front, accompanied by roars.

Old Wu tightened his mind and shook his head vigorously. As soon as he woke up, he was shocked by the scene in front of him.

The pile of corpses suddenly began to move and struggle, but in the blink of an eye, their souls were forcibly separated from their bodies.

At a glance, the souls he saw were so densely packed that it was impossible to distinguish the number.

"To force the souls of these people out of their bodies, could it be...the Hundred Ghost Array?!"

Old Wu was shocked and immediately guessed what Ye Ran wanted to do.

But now there is one biggest problem. Using the Hundred Ghost Formation is only moderately difficult for evil cultivators. The most important thing is that it takes a lot of energy.

But there are more than a hundred ghosts in front of you. Once the technique of manipulating people is even slightly unstable, they will backfire in an instant.

"Aren't you afraid of accidents?" Old Wu couldn't help but ask more.

Ye Ran smiled disdainfully: "Afraid? What Xie Xiu does is to stimulate!"

"This is my first time using the Thousand Ghost Array. I want to see if those evil cultivators can handle it."

Old Wu's eyelids were twitching, thinking that it would be strange if someone could handle it.

Not to mention a thousand ghosts, even a hundred ghosts, ordinary evil cultivators can only temporarily avoid the sharp edge.

Going head-to-head with so many souls is simply because of something wrong with your brain.

"Take this medicine and follow me to hide in the broken house."

Ye Ran threw him a small porcelain bottle and took one himself.

Old Wu raised his head and poured the medicine into his stomach, and asked in confusion: "You don't want to control this formation?"

Ye Ranran got up and walked to the small shabby house, shrugging and saying: "I have a bad brain and I will try my best to control these ghosts. Of course I let them move independently."

Old Wu quickly kept up with him. The man in front of him was really frightening people all the time.

It’s enough to create a Thousand Ghost Array and not control it, but you actually have to untie them?

Even evil cultivators can't do such a thing, right? !

After the two of them got into the broken house, Ye Ran immediately snapped his fingers.

I saw the three black talismans previously placed on the ground instantly burst into flames.

At the same time, the group of ghosts lowered their heads in unison and made no movement.

In just a few breaths, they raised their heads again, their ghostly bodies surging with ghostly energy, scurrying around like headless flies.

"Sometimes I really admire you."

"Not only did we create the Thousand Ghost Array, but we also set up the Five Elements Ghost Stake Array around it to gather evil energy and strengthen these souls."

"If you notice the presence of a human being nearby, you will probably be torn to pieces by these beasts in an instant."

"It's like a swarm of locusts passing through a border, leaving no grass behind."

Old Wu stood at the door with half of his face exposed to observe the speech, then turned to look at the man opposite.

Ye Ran's face was expressionless. The number of contestants who remained in the competition must be an extremely astonishing number.

Now there are less than nine hours left before the end of the competition, and these people must be motivated.

Thousands of ghosts are parading. If they don't want to die, the only way is to join forces to fight.

This is exactly what Ye Ran wants.

If they don't join forces, they will be hunted to death by these ghosts.

If they join forces, once they survive this crisis, these people will immediately fall into a situation of killing each other.

No matter what the result is, it makes no difference to Ye Ran.

Because the progress of the competition will be accelerated.

Evil cultivators don't just rely on brute force, they need to use their brains more.

All that is needed now is to wait.

Time is passing rapidly like an hourglass.

In the central city, countless people gathered here, waiting for the final result.

Their eyes were fixed on the big clock in front of them, watching the pointer jump one by one.

Ye Ran also raised his watch. There was less than an hour left before the end of the game.

The sky had begun to brighten slightly. Soon, the thousand ghosts would be completely exposed to the sun and turned into ashes.

After a while, Old Wu looked up at the sky and silently wrapped himself tightly.

After turning into this ghost, the sun also had a certain effect on him.

"It's over."

Ye Ran put down his arm and walked out of the broken house slowly.

At the same time, the bell rang, announcing the end of the game.

Ye Ran picked up his identity wooden card and took a look. The mechanism on it was not triggered, which meant that there were exactly two thousand people who survived.

"The last round of competition will give the contestants a day to prepare. When the time comes, you will go to the central square and wait. Someone will take you to the ancient house."

Ye Ran hung the token on his body and left without looking back.

Old Wu didn't say much. He stood there for a while and followed him.

At this time, the city gate was already surrounded by people, and everyone wanted to see what the survivors looked like.

Some of them came here specifically to recruit people, after all, being able to pass two rounds of brutal screening has proved their strength.

The two thousand people who survived have the right to choose not to enter the ancient house, but the ranking has nothing to do with them.

Unless those who come to recruit people offer generous and attractive conditions, generally no one is willing to quit halfway.

After all, as long as they can get out of the ancient house, their own evil cultivation ranking will definitely rise to a large level, and then they can get much more than now.

But the prerequisite is that they can survive.

Looking back at the previous evil cultivation conferences, less than three hundred of the two thousand people can walk out of the ancient house.

People are greedy, and everyone knows that if you want to rank high, you must go to the second floor of the ancient house.

As the saying goes, greed is insatiable, and the snake swallows the elephant. The final result of these people who think highly of themselves can only stay in the ancient house forever.

There is a registration officer at the city gate who collects wooden signs for registration. Just hand in the wooden signs and make a record.

Ye Ran was waiting in line, but the registration officer in front of him immediately came over with a smile and said in a very humble tone: "You don't need to queue up, please go back and have a good rest."

Many people in the central square had seen the duel between Ye Ran and the champion before, so they were deeply impressed by his face.

Ye Ran nodded slightly and walked into the city.

"Ye Ran! Ye Ran!"

As soon as he entered the city, he heard someone calling his name. When he looked back, he found Mo Qingyu in the crowd.

Ye Ran frowned: "What are you doing here?"

"This... Actually... Can I get an autograph?" Mo Qingyu hesitated for a long time before telling his purpose.

Ye Ran was even more confused after hearing this: "You ran out just to get an autograph, such a ridiculous reason?"

Mo Qingyu put his hands behind his back a little embarrassedly: "I'm afraid that if I ask you for an autograph in the hotel, Xiao Beijing will be jealous."

Ye Ran sighed: "You are crazy, what kind of idol is the evil cultivator worth pursuing? It's ridiculous."

Mo Qingyu didn't dare to look up, and she looked very at a loss.

The reason why she took the risk to come to the central city was to see the spirit of the champion, but this dream was soon shattered.

The champion injured Xiao Beijing and others, so he couldn't still flatter the champion, right?

The only way to replace the spiritual pillar of the evil cultivator was to change to Ye Ran, after all, the man in front of him was the legendary martial arts champion, no worse than the other champion.

"Don't be so pretentious here, ten copper coins, I'll sign for you." Ye Ran immediately stretched out his hand.

Mo Qingyu was stunned: "Do you still need money?!"

Ye Ran raised his eyebrows slightly: "What else, will you pay me? If not, leave immediately."

"Give me money!!!"

Mo Qingyu quickly took out his purse from his waist, counted out ten copper coins and handed them over.

Oh my God!

How could he even kill his brother's wife!