Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 369 - 149: Humans Are More Vicious Than Ghosts! The Artist Who Culls and Maims! (10,000-Word Mega - , Subscribe Please)_2

Chapter 369: Chapter 149: Humans Are More Vicious Than Ghosts! The Artist Who Culls and Maims! (10,000-Word Mega Chapter, Subscribe Please)_2

The merchant caravan followed Fan Wu and Yun Jiuqing as they led the way.

They gradually ventured deeper into the area.

Yun Jiuqing, naturally capable of hearing the whispers and murmurs coming from behind her, grumbled discontentedly while leading Old Blue Ox, "How can there be people among them who still doubt us, as if we aren’t cultivators? Is there any need for me, Yun Jiuqing, to lie to them about such a matter?"

"And besides... surely no one would impersonate a cultivator, right?"

"That’s not necessarily true," Fan Wu replied with a smile.

In a place like Qiulong County, there were quite a few con artists who pretended to be cultivators. He had encountered two swindlers trying to muddle through when he had been called to the Qiulong County government office to stop a nefarious ghost.

Some people, for a few pieces of silver,

had tremendous guts!

"By the way, Daoist Priest Fan!" Yun Jiuqing suddenly asked, "Do you know what’s going on here? This strange and surreptitious place must be anything but simple, right?"

"I don’t know," Fan Wu answered frankly and sincerely; he truly had no idea what the situation was.

"However,"

Fan Wu gazed ahead, "I, as a humble Taoist Priest, can see the towering anger up ahead."

Finally.

Following a weed-ridden village path, Fan Wu arrived within this rural mountain village, about a dozen steps ahead at a somewhat dilapidated, simple structure.

Next to Fan Wu was a village stele.

"Guyue Village? Gu, Yue?"

"Hu?"

Yun Jiuqing looked at the few characters engraved on the village stele and suddenly thought, doesn’t ’gu’ plus ’yue’ make ’Hu’? She remembered that among the merchants in the caravan, there was a guy called Hu Dafu, right?

That guy’s surname was Hu!

Yun Jiuqing stroked her chin, wondering whether a wicked interest had arisen as she gestured towards Zhen Zhiyuan behind her.

Zhen Zhiyuan was taken aback.

He rode his horse over.

Yun Jiuqing said, "Go ask... if that Hu Dafu knows of a village called Guyue Village?"

"Ah?" Zhen Zhiyuan had not expected that as the new master of Zhenhai Escort Agency, he would be commanded in such an authoritative tone, especially by a young woman who appeared to be about his age. This made him quite uncomfortable, yet after pondering it, he complied.

After all, in such a place, a cultivator like Yun Jiuqing was the real person in charge.

Zhen Zhiyuan knew that if his Zhenhai Escort Agency wanted to complete this escort mission smoothly, they had no choice but to listen to the expert.

Whatever Yun Jiuqing said,

he would do.

Zhen Zhiyuan rode his tall horse to the side of a rather luxurious carriage and lightly tapped the carriage with the scabbard of his sword.

Then the portly Hu Dafu carefully drew back the curtain and, upon seeing Zhen Zhiyuan knocking, slowly breathed a sigh of relief. He rolled his eyes irritably and asked, "Why have we stopped again? What happened?"

Zhen Zhiyuan spoke, "Miss Yun up front would like to inquire... does Master Hu know of a village called Guyue Village?"

"What village?!" Hu Dafu almost jumped up in shock at those three words while sitting in the carriage.

"Guyue Village." Zhen Zhiyuan noticed something off about his reaction.

But he didn’t say anything more.

"No... I don’t know! I’ve never heard of any Guyue Village!" Hu Dafu vehemently denied, then quickly tried to change the subject, "Aren’t we past that bizarre village yet?"

"Not yet," said Zhen Zhiyuan, "because... that strange village up ahead is Guyue Village."

Hu Dafu’s eyes bulged, "What? You say up ahead is... cough! Cough cough!!"

He coughed heavily and responded, "Then let’s hurry through it. If we really can’t get past it, then... then let’s turn back and find another way!"

"Alright," Zhen Zhiyuan, filled with confusion, returned to Yun Jiuqing.

He then spoke to her, "Although Master Hu keeps denying it, I have a feeling that he must know about this village."

"And..."

Zhen Zhiyuan furrowed his brow, "Perhaps our recurring encounters with these bizarre incidents are somehow related to him and this village. It’s just not clear what exactly the connection is."

He finally realized it wasn’t his own issue but that of Hu Dafu.

This wealthy Master Hu was indeed peculiar.

There was definitely some trickery afoot.

However...

He was just the owner and master of an escort agency, not some arrest officer from the government office; such trickery was not his to investigate or interfere with.

Just as Uncle Wang had told him, being overly obsessed with discovering the secrets of one’s employer was a great taboo for an escort master.

"Tch..." Yun Jiuqing muttered, "I knew there was something off about that guy, looking all nervous. He must be guilty of something. But he doesn’t seem to be a cultivator, so how could he be involved with such bizarre things?"

"Strange..."

While she mused to herself, out of the corner of her eye, Yun Jiuqing noticed Daoist Priest Fan had already ventured deep into Guyue Village.

"Hey?"

"Daoist Priest Fan, wait for me!" she hastily left Zhen Zhiyuan behind and, leading Old Blue Ox, hurried after him.

Behind her,

Zhen Zhiyuan had wanted to follow on horseback, but the horse under him was truly restless. With no choice, he reluctantly dismounted and addressed the people behind him, "Everyone dismount and proceed on foot. Horses that are too agitated might cause disturbances. In times like these, if someone gets hurt, it would be a lot of trouble."