“How many people in the inn are dangerous?” Lu Yang first determined the source of threat in the inn, whether it was only the waiter.

The waiter in white clothes tremblingly stretched out two fingers, “Two, two.”

“Who?”

“Both of you.”

Meng Jingzhou stepped forward and kicked, “Behave!”

The waiter was helpless. He couldn’t lie while wearing white clothes. Among the people in the inn, the two of them were the most dangerous.

Lu Yang adjusted the question, “How many people in the inn are dangerous for ordinary people?”

“Just me,” the waiter answered truthfully.

“Who is stronger, you or the innkeeper?”

“I am stronger, but the rules we need to follow are different. He can naturally suppress me.”

“Is your strength the same in the special room and in other places?”

“No, based on the rules, my strength is stronger in the special room.”

“Are there others like you who have different strengths in different places?”

“Yes, for example, the things in the straw house during the day are strong there and can freely shuttle between the straw houses. But once they leave the straw house, their strength becomes the same as ordinary people, and they lose the ability to shuttle. But I don’t know what those things specifically are.”

“Are there others, like the official in black clothes and the private tutor in gray clothes, who have enhanced strength?”

“No, but they were originally cultivators, much stronger than ordinary people.”

“What is the relationship between the official and the private tutor?”

“I guess their relationship is not good, there may be competition. For example, like me and the official, we need to kill a certain number of people to leave the town. I don’t know the specific situation with the private tutor, but the requirements are probably the same.”

“Do you know where the mayor is?”

“I heard that the mayor is in the government office. I have never seen him come out.”

“How to kill the mayor?”

“I don’t know.”

“What is the mayor’s strength and abilities?”

“I don’t know.”

“Where is the ancestral temple?”

“The ancestral temple cannot be found during the day. It only appears at midnight.” The waiter answered every question honestly.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou speculated based on the information provided by the waiter, and it was not much different from what the waiter said.

The two of them had no more questions. Lu Yang took action, took off the waiter’s white clothes, and stabbed him with a sword, sending him on his way.

As the leader of the demonic sect, there was no reason to leave a living witness.

“Fortunately, you took off the clothes beforehand, otherwise they would have been stained.” Meng Jingzhou stretched and yawned, “Finally, we can sleep peacefully.”

Lu Yang also felt the same. They had gained a lot tonight, and there would be no more annoying knocking on the door.

The two of them searched the waiter’s body again and found the rules of the inn. However, they had already figured out the rules of the inn, so it was useless.

“We read the rules once and they disappear. If it weren’t for our good memory, we would have forgotten them. They can still leave the rules behind and ensure that they won’t remember them wrong. It seems that these people, like the waiter, are treated completely differently from us.”

At the third hour of the third day, the sound of the night watchman woke them up. They yawned and felt that they had slept comfortably.

The innkeeper heard the waiter’s cries for help and various noises last night, so he decided to go upstairs to check on the waiter’s condition in the morning.

When he saw the waiter’s tragic death, he fell silent for a long time.

Are these two really righteous?

When leaving the inn, Lu Yang left a note for the innkeeper: The white clothes are effective, borrow them for two more days.

What Lu Yang didn’t notice was the innkeeper’s eyes filled with a hint of fear when looking at them.

And the tone of this note, why does it sound like that of a domineering demonic cultivator who owes money and doesn’t pay it back?

“Nice stuff, let me borrow it, and I’ll return it to you when I’m tired of playing.” It felt like that.

“Is it just an illusion?”

Obviously, the innkeeper knew very little about the Seek Tao Sect.

For bottom-level cultivators like them, their knowledge of the Seek Tao Sect mostly came from rumors.

And rumors are mostly unreliable.

After leaving the inn, they found a pharmacy where there was an apprentice wearing gray clothes.

The pharmacy apprentice warmly approached them as customers, “What can I do for you? Did you hear a dog barking? Or did you encounter a black dog?”

“If you heard a dog barking, I have ready-made medicine here.”

The pharmacy apprentice brought a pot of bubbling red potion, “This is made from grinding cinnabar grass into powder and boiling it for ten hours. After drinking this medicine, you will feel drowsy temporarily. After a good sleep, the influence of the dog barking will disappear.”

“If you encountered a black dog, then it’s troublesome. People who encounter black dogs can’t help but bark like a dog. Once they make a sound, they will be assimilated by the black dog.”

Meng Jingzhou wanted to say that he had seen the innkeeper, but Lu Yang stopped him.

Meng Jingzhou understood Lu Yang’s meaning. There was no need to explain to the pharmacy apprentice. The pharmacy apprentice was a stranger, and what he said was probably false.

The two of them sat there calmly, ignoring the anxious behavior of the pharmacy apprentice.

After about half an hour, the pharmacy apprentice went into the backyard, and only then did the pharmacy owner in white clothes appear.

“Are you two facing any difficulties or do you have any questions?” The pharmacy owner was an old man with a kind face, making it easy to trust him and confide in him about their difficulties.

The two of them remembered the rules and the rules stated that they couldn’t talk to the pharmacy owner.

Lu Yang handed a note to the pharmacy owner: We heard a dog barking, how should we deal with it?

“You need two qian of transparent grass, moisten it with saliva and crush it. Plug the ears with the crushed residue, and the influence will disappear after fifteen minutes.”

Lu Yang wrote again: Bring four qian of transparent grass. Also, what should we do if we encounter a black dog?

“It will be troublesome if you encounter a black dog. People who encounter black dogs will involuntarily bark like a dog. Once they make a sound, they will be assimilated by the black dog.””There is a way, which is to sew your mouth shut with a needle and thread, leaving no gaps. Sew it for half an hour, and don’t make any sound during this period, then you won’t be assimilated by the black dog.”

Lu Yang listened attentively and then wrote: How to leave the small town?

“Leaving the small town, huh? That’s even more troublesome. I even think it’s impossible.”

“There is an ancestral hall in the town, and in the hall, there is a half-naked Buddha statue with its eyes covered. If you take the statue out of the hall and smash it, a portal to the outside world will appear. However, the portal is filled with bone-dissolving gales. The gales enter and exit through your seven orifices. In the process, your flesh melts away, leaving only a skeleton. Your life and cultivation path will be extinguished, and no one can resist it.”

“This is the only way to leave the small town.”

Both of them felt a chill in their hearts. It was clear that these rules were designed to prevent anyone from leaving.

It made sense. The ancient cultivators at the Unity stage who hid here would definitely not want their secret to be exposed.

(End of the chapter)