Chapter 1073: Chapter 739: Wooden Wedge
But in the next second, a sudden change occurred. The Black Robed Ghost with only half of his body left suddenly used his head to ram into the Japanese Female Ghost.
The female ghost lost her balance and charged towards Yang Xiao in a bizarre manner, while the Black Robed Ghost took advantage of the momentum to pull out the strange wooden artifact inserted into the female ghost’s back, and his body fell backward into the dark corner of the room.
In the end, the Green Light Cage was a step too slow. With Yang Xiao’s current strength, he was simply unable to utilize the full potential of this move. The cage only imprisoned the female ghost, and without the Black Robed Ghost’s control, the female ghost no longer moved, standing still like a puppet that had lost control.
He swiftly removed the cage, and the pursuing green aura quickly covered the corner of the room, but there was no longer any trace of the Black Robed Ghost.
The Human Bone Staff in his right hand couldn’t sense any evil intentions either, allowing the opponent to escape just like that.
As the Green Light Cage was removed, the Japanese Female Ghost also vanished, and that familiar sense of connection returned. Yang Xiao raised his arm, and the tattered embroidery on his forearm caught his eye.
It was exactly that Ghost Phone.
Being able to seize control of a Magic Artifact without killing is truly frightening, and it’s somewhat similar to the capabilities of the Taoist Great Demon on him. No wonder the young Sect Master was interested.
This encounter also allowed Yang Xiao to clearly understand this guy’s details. The anomaly of this ghost lies in the strange wooden artifact inserted into its back, which can control both humans and ghosts.
Thoughts returned, Yang Xiao thought of the old scars on the old village head’s corpse, likely caused by this object. All the villagers of Ten Thousand Immortals Village are controlled by this thing, which is the root cause.
"What a pity..."
Yang Xiao gazed at the Ghost Lantern in his hand with a sigh. It’s a valuable treasure, and the Green Light Cage is a move once praised by his uncle. Even the powerful Ming Yue could be briefly trapped, but in his hands, it takes too long to prepare. Otherwise, he would have already captured the Source Ghost.
The development also went as he expected. Early the next morning, he saw the "revived" old village head again. As before, the old village head still had a kindly smiling face, taking great care of them, as if last night’s events were just a dream.
The day and night duration of Ten Thousand Immortals Village further shortened, and this time from dawn to noon, there is only an hour left.
"There is no tomorrow. If we don’t solve the matter tonight, we’ll never get out." Lina was somewhat panicked, as these villagers’ generosity towards them was increasingly unsettling, their smiling faces making her uneasy.
"Don’t panic. Recall if there’s a carpenter’s shop in this village?" After the Black Robed Ghost left, Yang Xiao thought until dawn, finally realizing that the strange wooden piece inserted into the female ghost’s back resembled an old carpenter’s wooden wedge.
"Carpenter’s shop..." Cen Fengyang thought for a moment and shook his head, "No, I saw a pharmacy, a grain store, a clinic, a silk shop, and a restaurant, as well as a place for playing cards. It’s strange... indeed, I haven’t seen a carpenter’s shop."
"Without a carpenter, where do they get the furniture in their houses? Who fixes things when they’re broken? And who made Chai Yong’s new coffin?" Tong Han raised a question.
Regarding last night’s events, Yang Xiao didn’t hide anything. Now all four of them were aware that the Source Ghost was a peculiar creature without a lower body, using a wooden wedge as its weapon, able to momentarily steal someone’s Resentful Eye abilities.
Yang Xiao picked up a tree branch and drew a simple map of the village on the ground, asking everyone to recall the paths they have taken during this time.
During the day, except for a brief time when villagers have lunch, they were always accompanied by villagers. The routes they were led through the village were directed by villagers, and Yang Xiao guessed they must have missed a crucial place.
When they first arrived at Wanxian Village, they were on a hillside overlooking the entire village. Yang Xiao vaguely remembered the arrangement and direction of buildings within the village, which helped him draw the village map from memory.
Soon, based on everyone’s recollections, Yang Xiao completed the paths they had taken over the past two days. After marking them on the map, only three locations remained blank: under the cliff at the east end of the village, one side of the forest in the north, and the southwest direction, where Yang Xiao remembered it was right next to a river.
"They deliberately led us to avoid these places, and I think that the Source Ghost is hiding in one of these three places, possibly in the guise of a carpenter." Yang Xiao speculated boldly.
Lina stared at the map in a daze. The village is quite large, and these three places are far apart.
Now there’s at most half an hour left until nightfall, and they simply can’t explore all three places, especially while avoiding the villagers’ surveillance. It’s an impossible task.
Yang Xiao took a tree branch and marked a point on the map, "I live here."
"I’m here." Cen Fengyang reacted quickly, drawing a circle with his finger.
"This is me." Tong Han did the same.
The three of them shared the same thought, while only Lina, who was lost in panic, looked confused. It was Tong Han who finally marked Lina’s residence on the map, showing that they two lived relatively close to each other.
Relying on memory, Yang Xiao also marked Chai Yong’s residence on the map, clarifying the map further.
At this moment, Lina’s confused gaze gradually cleared, her mouth slightly opened, and in the next second, she suddenly realized, "I understand now. Since the ghost wants to hide its true location, it definitely wouldn’t live near us. Whichever of these three suspicious places is furthest from where we live, that’s the real one!"
