Halfway through the night, the town of Heishan was already filled with ghosts, and Sir Zhu and I were also among them.

Two pills made of grave soil allowed us to communicate with ghosts at will.

We just found out that we had already entered the territory of Lanruo Temple when we came out of the external Heishan Town.

And this Heishan Town here is the first ghost town within Lanruo Temple.

Only the ghosts know the true size of Lanruo Temple.

According to rumors, a renowned Taoist once walked three thousand miles within the territory of Lanruo Temple and still didn't reach its end.

Such a massive realm of ghosts surpassed the largest ones recorded in the Monster Hunting Bureau.

However, the most terrifying aspect is not the vastness of Lanruo Temple.

In the words of some old ghosts, we heard about another terrifying aspect of Lanruo Temple.

Thirty years ago, Lanruo Temple was merely an ancient monastery.

Later, for reasons unknown, Lanruo Temple seemed to have come to life.

This ancient monastery was constantly expanding, and once a city was encompassed within it, it became a dead zone.

The people in this Heishan Town are the original residents of the external Heishan Town.

When Lanruo Temple expanded, all the people in the entire Heishan Town died overnight.

Their deaths were extremely gruesome, as if they were restrained by some force, causing their bodies to contort.

Their facial features, limbs, and organs became a chaotic mess, as if someone had peeled their skin off and discarded it randomly.

When they transformed into ghosts, they became the Heishan Town within this realm.

As for why the external Heishan Town is still bustling with human activity, they have no knowledge.

Just as we were gathering intelligence, the ghosts in the town suddenly became restless.

A dozen indescribable monsters appeared on one side of the street.

They appeared to be dressed as scholars, but their bodies were extremely twisted.

Their limbs were elongated, their facial features were disordered, and the most terrifying one had its organs outside the body, with flesh and skin inside.

Their irregular eyes emitted a pitch-black light as they scanned the surrounding ghosts.

The ghost beside me trembled and pulled me down to kneel, then whispered:

"Those are envoys of Lanruo Temple, residing in the Ghost City, demanding tribute."

After saying this, black auras emanated from the kneeling ghosts and flew towards the envoys.

The envoys opened their mouths, located in different positions, slightly, waiting for the black auras to enter.

To my surprise, even though both Sir Zhu and I are human, black auras appeared around us.

I reached out and lightly touched the black aura, feeling a suffocating sense of distortion within it.

My palm enclosed in the black aura began to change, with the five fingers arranged irregularly.

They contorted into an indescribable form, and this transformation continued spreading from my palm.

The ghosts beside me hastily held me and exhaled a breath of ghostly energy, causing the black aura to release my palm and swallow the ghostly energy.

By this time, the envoys had absorbed all the black auras into their bodies, which turned into round, rolling spheres.

The spheres grew larger and larger until they burst open, and countless black auras flew towards the distant horizon.

The burst spheres turned into piles of shattered limbs, splattering blood and flesh.

In just a few breaths of time, the shattered limbs and flesh began to recombine into different grotesque forms.

The ghosts in the town deeply concealed their knowledge of the black auras, only saying that they were an absolutely untouchable existence.

Sir Zhu and I exchanged a glance and understood that Lanruo Temple might not only be a realm of ghosts.

In the next moment, the entire Heishan Town started to tremble, and a black mist appeared on the horizon.

A massive voice came from the distant sky, filled with extreme anger:

"Yan Chixia! How dare you come to Lanruo Temple..."