Since it started in Zhou Zhai Village, could it be that it would end in Zhou Zhai Village?
Yang Xuan, who was in mid-air, had a grave look on his face.
What he saw today had given him a great shock.
If the locust tree could also turn into a zombie, did that mean that other plants could do the same?
What about animals?
Yang Xuan did not dare to think further.
There were a large number of spirit beasts in this world. Once the spirit beasts turned into zombies, the consequences would be unimaginable.
He felt that if this news reached the ears of the real big shots, they would not be able to sit still.
Zhou Zhai Village was in sight. When Yang Xuan landed in the village, it was midnight.
The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. In the dead of night, not a single sound of insects or birds could be heard in Zhou Zhai Village. It was terrifyingly quiet.
Yang Xuan pushed open the door of a house and walked in.
Previously, Feng Shisan had reported to him that the people of Zhou Zhai Village had all disappeared overnight. They seemed to have left in a hurry. He had not thought about the mystery behind it, but now that he saw it with his own eyes, he knew the truth.
There was a stone table in the courtyard. On the stone table, there was a dusty rattle-drum. Beside the rattle-drum, there was a pear that had not been eaten in time. It had gone bad and moldy, showing a rotten color.
In the house, the half-eaten dishes on the table had long dried up in the bowls and plates. The white rice in the rice bowl had long been covered with dust.
Scattered chopsticks, bitten green onions, and a child's wooden spoon were scattered messily on the ground.
A joyous and harmonious scene seemed to appear before Yang Xuan's eyes.
Piping hot food, smiling wives and children, kind old people, crying and acting spoiled children …
Feng Shisan was wrong.
When he reported to Yang Xuan, he used the wrong words.
This was not leaving, this was disappearing.
In other words … evaporating.
These people did not leave at all. They directly disappeared on the spot, as if they had evaporated, leaving no trace of their departure.
Yang Xuan's frown deepened.
He didn't understand. What kind of power could make these villagers disappear in an instant?
After leaving this house, he wandered into a few other houses. Without exception, the situation was extremely similar. These people had all been enveloped by some unknown force while they were eating, and then disappeared from the world.
Yang Xuan thought of the big locust tree.
He wasn't sure if this was the doing of the big locust tree that had turned its body into a zombie.
As he strolled around the village, he realized that he had arrived at Zhou Shouyuan's house.
After pushing open the door and entering, the scene in the courtyard was not much different from the last time Yang Xuan had been here. The position of everything had not changed.
Yang Xuan did not stay in the courtyard for long. Instead, he went straight to the secret chamber.
There was nothing out of the ordinary. Even when he scanned the area with his Divine Sense multiple times, he still couldn't find anything out of the ordinary.
It was as if nothing had changed. The only thing that had changed was that the people here had all disappeared.
After leaving the secret chamber and returning to his room, Yang Xuan inadvertently saw Zhou Shouyuan's collection of books.
His gaze fell on the book on plants.
The last time he was here, he didn't read this book carefully, but now, he felt that it was necessary for him to take a good look at it.
"In the myriad worlds, man reigns supreme. Where is wood?"
That was the first sentence of the book.
Yang Xuan's interest was piqued, and he continued reading.
"Wood is flowers, plants, trees, and spirits! Man has a spirit, which is called the soul. What is the spirit of wood? Man often says that all things have spirits, but where is the spirit of wood? Man has a spirit, and the spirit is the Dao. It can develop the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, move mountains and fill seas. Wood has a spirit, and the spirit is the Dao. Why not develop the Great Dao? What I say is right! "
Reading this, Yang Xuan was shocked.
The choice of words and sentences in this book was full of wisdom, showing a strong sense of sourness, but the artistic conception of the words and sentences was unusually grand.
In short, the author of this book was studying how to make plants cultivate the Martial Way.
Yang Xuan continued reading. After that, it was a study of all kinds of plants. It was densely packed and recorded in a thick book.
The more he read, the more shocked Yang Xuan was.
This was because he knew that plants could cultivate completely. In the world of cultivation, there were a lot of plants that could cultivate into spirits.
However, in this world, he had never seen or heard of plants that cultivated into spirits. The person who wrote this book was simply creating a new world. It was outrageous.
If the people of this world read this book, they might think that it was simply the nonsense of a lunatic. However, only Yang Xuan knew how advanced and shocking this guy's consciousness was.
Unknowingly, he had already flipped to the last page of the book. When he saw the signature at the end of the book, his eyes suddenly widened.
Zhou Shouyuan.
The signature at the end of the book was actually Zhou Shouyuan's. In other words, this book was written by Zhou Shouyuan himself.
Lunatic? Genius?
The figure of a thin and weak scholar appeared in Yang Xuan's mind. However, the figure of a lofty scholar appeared.
At this moment, he developed a strong interest in this scholar named Zhou Shouyuan.
After putting all the books on the bookshelf into his storage ring, he was about to leave when he was suddenly stunned. His gaze fell on a corner of the bookshelf.
Previously, because the bookshelf was filled with books, he did not notice it. Now that he had put away all the books, he discovered that in the corner of the topmost shelf, there was a thin brass hairpin less than three inches long.
He slowly picked up the brass hairpin and carefully examined it.
It was an extremely ordinary brass hairpin. The workmanship was rough and even bumpy. At a glance, one could tell that it was a cheap item that could be bought on the streets for a few copper coins.
However, the difference was that this brass hairpin was as bright as new. The light shone on it. It could be seen that someone often rubbed it in their hands.
Holding the brass hairpin, he walked out of the door and headed straight for Li Xiuxiu's house.
Li Xiuxiu was married to Zhou Heizi. Zhou Heizi's original name was Zhou Xiaohei. Yu Jiu had told Yang Xuan the location of his house last time.
Zhou Xiaohei had a silk business in the city. His family was well-off. This could be seen from the furnishings in his house.
With a sweep of his Divine Telekinesis, Yang Xuan pushed open the door of a room.
From the furnishings in the room, it was obvious that this was Zhou Xiaohei and Li Xiuxiu's bedroom.
Compared to other people's houses, the furnishings in the room were more luxurious. The decoration of the vases revealed the luxuries of the commoners at the bottom of society.
After looking around casually, he went straight to the dressing table.
He pulled open the drawer. The accessories inside looked like they had not been touched for a long time. There was a light layer of dust on them.
Yang Xuan casually flipped through them. Not long after, he took out a brass hairpin from the corner of the drawer.
Looking at this brass hairpin that was exactly the same as the one in Zhou Shouyuan's house, Yang Xuan's lips curled into a smile.
He felt as if he had discovered something.
When he found nothing else, he walked out of the room.
When he came to the courtyard, he looked around. His Divine Telekinesis inadvertently probed underground.
The next moment, a strange look suddenly appeared in his eyes.
Walking to the corner of the wall, Yang Xuan lightly stomped his feet. Under the effect of his Spirit Qi, the soil under his feet was like boiling water. It began to roll up continuously.
Not long after, the soil stopped rolling. However, something buried deep under the soil was pushed out.
It was a skeleton that had already rotted beyond recognition.
"Interesting!" The corners of Yang Xuan's lips curled up.
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