This does resemble the Yin family a bit.
As a descendant of Yin Changsheng, Yin Meng has yet to learn how to traverse the Underworld. The Fengdu Twelve Commandments have degenerated into the Yin Family’s Twelve Skills, and now she can’t even learn those.
Fortunately, other talents in Yin Meng have been tapped into—skills for killing filthy things directly, a path Li Zhiyuan had never envisioned.
The seal reinforced, this Array can hold for another sixty years.
If upon entering, they find they cannot kill the Big Fish, Li Zhiyuan will have to retreat and head to Min’an Town or the county city to procure materials and then spend a lot of time and energy to repair and perfect the Array.
Yes, he still has to go inside.
After all, he’s already here.
Zeng Yinyin and Zheng Jiayi were left outside. Zeng Yinyin was bound even more securely on top of the existing restraints by Yin Meng, wrapped up so tightly that absolutely nothing could go wrong.
He left Zheng Jiayi with some clean water and food, instructing her that if they don’t return in two days, she should forget about Zeng Yinyin and head back the way she came. If she got lost after crossing the river, she should keep shouting "Idiot".
The reason Zeng Yinyin is still being kept now is that she is the only remaining bloodline of the Zeng family, and her blood will later be needed as a primer when repairing the Array.
The four of them passed through the stone steles and stone tables and walked in.
Arriving in front of the first house, they saw a plaque hanging above the door: Righteous Manor.
No wonder it looked so peculiar from the outside.
Tan Wenbin wondered, "Hey, why build a Righteous Manor right at the entrance of the village?"
Li Zhiyuan: "We might have entered from the back of the village."
Righteous Manor is noticeably distant from the next civilian house, and its door, as well as the path where the four of them currently stood, branched off from the main village road.
Everything here was tinged with decay, but the decay did not continue indefinitely; rather, it halted at a certain point.
This might be the effect of the Array or the influence of the corpse.
On the dam of Righteous Manor, six decaying coffins were laid out.
"Brother Runsheng, open the coffin and take a look."
Runsheng took out the Yellow River Shovel and quickly pried open the first coffin. There was no one inside, but there was a backpack, a hiking stick, and a bottle of water.
Yin Meng and Tan Wenbin joined in opening the coffins. Of the six coffins, none contained bodies, only backpacks, some tools, folded clothes, and some unopened food and water.
Tan Wenbin: "It seems that the expedition team of six college students really did enter here."
Yin Meng: "Then where are their bodies?"
Tan Wenbin wondered, "They might not necessarily be dead. The scene inside these coffins, why does it resemble the beds in a college dorm so much? I like to keep these things on my bed for convenience when sleeping at night."
From the front of the village, the sound of a bell rang.
The four of them looked toward the sound. As Righteous Manor was situated on an elevated part at the back of the village, they could see a row of young men and women dressed in modern clothing walking in line on the main street.
Each person carried a lantern in their right hand, and their left hand rested on the shoulder of the person in front of them, matching each other’s pace.
Suddenly, they stopped.
the six of them collectively turned around, gazing towards Righteous Manor, swaying their lantern-holding hands back and forth.
were issuing an invitation.
I’ve been overworked recently, leading to not being in great shape today. I need to reorganize the upcoming plot a bit, so that’s it for today. I’ll try to write more tomorrow, holding everyone tight!