“You son of a… You are not from the Nightwalker clan! What the hell are you? How do you know about the Mortal World?”
Grandfather Wu’s uncertain cry was full of terror.
This monster seemed as if it had seen a ghost.
Its terrified cry gave Li Muyang a feeling that if it could run, it would have already fled.
Such a reaction was unexpected for Li Muyang.
He never thought that one day he could scare someone.
Although there are few who know the secret of the Mortal World in the Ancient Resentment Well, such an intense reaction seemed excessive.
Li Muyang frowned in surprise and forcefully knocked on the clay pot three times. The reverberation of the knocks echoed inside the pot, causing Grandfather Wu to scream miserably again.
After Grandfather Wu’s miserable screams subsided, he became quiet and stopped wailing.
Only then did Li Muyang say, “What are you screaming about? Is the Mortal World something terrifying?”
Grandfather Wu cried out in terror again, “You tell me? You monster, you look at this kid next to you, do you see him understanding what you said?”
Grandfather Wu’s terrified cry made Li Muyang frown and look towards the driver, Ding Liang.
Ding Liang just chuckled and scratched his head, asking him, “Sir, is there something you need?”
Li Muyang asked, “What did I just say?”
“Uh… Didn’t you just ask Grandfather Wu to help you find someone?” Ding Liang’s answer sounded fine at first.
But on second thought, there was a huge problem.
For someone who believes they live in the “Mortal World,” hearing Li Muyang’s phrase “find someone from the Mortal World” should have elicited a strange reaction.
Ding Liang’s reaction was too calm.
Indeed, after confirming it, Li Muyang discovered that Ding Liang felt nothing about the fact that there was “a real Mortal World,” seemingly blocking out the relevant content by default in his brain.
Inside the pot, Grandfather Wu scoffed, “The people of the Ancient Resentment Well are all trapped in the Knowledge Barrier, a curse placed by Jiang Zhiwei back then.”
“Living here, they will forever forget their glory as beings from the Mortal World, eternally trapped in this place, never able to remember or hear that they come from the Mortal World, forced to hide in this dark world of Evil Spirits, coexisting with the Evil God!”
Grandfather Wu sneered, “Fairy Qinghe, Fairy Qinghe, looks gentle and kind, talks as if she harbors the world in her heart, admired by everyone. But the filthy deeds she has done are more terrifying and spine-chilling than many demons.”
“Even her harmlessly looking brother, Jiang Xiaoyu, is no good either!”
The two siblings were the biggest calamity ten thousand years ago!”
Grandfather Wu cursed vehemently, with a sullen look of someone “in the know, aware of the dirty secrets.”
If it were someone unaware of the truth, they might actually be deceived by his seemingly profound manner.
But unfortunately, the very Jiang Xiaoyu he was scolding was standing right in front of him.
As the person concerned, Li Muyang, listening to Grandfather Wu’s fierce cursing, really thought this ghostly thing knew some inside scoop when it cursed the Little Wild Grass.
But when he heard it cursing him, he knew this thing was spouting nonsense.
He might not know whether Little Wild Grass has done bad things, but as for whether Jiang Xiaoyu is a disaster… don’t I know myself?
Seeing the creature in the pot getting more excited as it cursed, starting to frighten others with fabricated dark secrets and vividly describing how the siblings, Jiang Xiaoyu, conspired together back then.
Li Muyang, being the person in question, quickly intervened.
“I’m not interested in ancient gossip, talk about important matters.”
If he didn’t stop this ghostly thing now, according to its conspiracy theory logic, Jiang Xiaoyu would soon become the scoundrel who is the Sleeping Dragon Girl, insults the Divine, knocks on widows’ doors at night, and abuses eighty-year-old women.
Li Muyang said, “Since the beings of the Ancient Resentment Well are cursed and afflicted by the Knowledge Barrier, are you also from the Mortal World?”
Li Muyang instantly thought of General Zhong.
Originally beings from the Mortal World, yet polluted by the evil spirit of the Ancient Resentment Well, they ultimately fell into the well, but ended up taking root inside it instead.
The old Mister Wu before him, could he be in a similar situation?
But then he heard old Mister Wu exclaim, “Nonsense! Did I not say? I am Jiang Xiaoyu’s elder brother! Everyone in the Jiang Family at Red Leaf Villa was shot by…”
Thud!
A muffled sound of the jar being struck resonated in the wilderness.
Although the sound was light to Li Muyang, old Mister Wu inside the jar was suddenly struck by lightning and began to scream again.
“Are you fucking sick?” Old Mister Wu cursed loudly: “You’re the one asking me questions, and when I answer, you’re not happy? Are you sick? I’m asking if you’re sick!”
Old Mister Wu seemed so infuriated that he was almost having a brain congestion, his voice was emotionally intense.
Li Muyang did not indulge him but retorted with a cold laugh.
“If you don’t want to answer, then don’t. These ghost stories might deceive ordinary people, but they’re far from deceiving me.”
“To tell you the truth, I possess a Divine Skill. When anyone lies in front of me, my instinct can discern it.”
“If my Divine Skill isn’t wrong, then among the stories you just told, at least nine out of ten sentences are false!”
Having said that, Li Muyang directly explained to this monster all the real and fake parts from the dark tales old Mister Wu had just spun.
It just so happened that the rumors old Mister Wu was spreading involved him and Little Wild Grass, and being the person concerned, Li Muyang knew the truth all too well.
Indeed, after hearing Li Muyang’s words, old Mister Wu who initially didn’t take it seriously, was utterly dumbfounded when Li Muyang accurately pointed out which of his statements were true and which were lies.
“Fuck! Are you a Divine? Or do you have divine lineage?”
Old Mister Wu was extremely shocked: “Such outrageous Divine Skills could only possibly belong to those Divines.”
“You, this ghostly creature, are you a Divine that came from the Mortal World? Are the Divines outside not extinct yet?”
Old Mister Wu clearly had a special misunderstanding about Li Muyang’s identity.
Divine Skills are fundamentally powers that only Divines or those with divine lineage possess.
To this, Li Muyang gave a cold laugh and didn’t deny it, responding, “You better honestly tell me where the person I am looking for is.”
“I don’t care about those ancient gossips!”
Li Muyang narrated the story of General Zhong.
Then he took old Mister Wu around the battlefield remnants in Red Ridge Mountain, showing him the lingering evil spirit auras present there.
At this moment, old Mister Wu was still in a state of guarded fear toward Li Muyang.
Discovering that Li Muyang could differentiate between lies and truth, he suddenly became obedient and did not dare to talk nonsense anymore.
He obediently pointed out the direction.
“… You’re talking about something that’s already dead.”
“It was originally a human, but became a conglomeration of evil spirits. After being slain by a formidable foe, its main body is destroyed, with the remaining evil creatures fleeing in various directions.”
“Moreover, what you’re looking for is not this evil spirit, right?”
“You are looking for the group of people who killed the evil spirit?”