50. “Feng Lili”
But what happened next?
Especially after Feng Lili entered this place, why did she become like this?
These things, perhaps Yan Chuyue had still seen them in some book she didn’t know about. But when this girl talked about Feng Lili’s affairs, she was able to spout a bunch of ancient poems, which made her herself helplessly shut her mouth.
In that case, who else could she ask about this… well, there was indeed such a person.
After coming out of the past illusion created by that black shadow, Gong Yiling and Yan Chuyue immediately found Feng Liqu, who was investigating here.
“You’re asking if my sister has been away from home on a medical trip in the past few years or a dozen years?”
After listening to Gong Yiling’s question, Feng Liqu fell into thought.
“Traveling far to treat the sick, that’s definitely not her habit.” He replied, “However… a dozen years ago, my sister did indeed go on a long trip.”
A dozen years?
The time did indeed match up.
Gong Yiling thought for a moment and immediately continued to ask, “Then after she came back, did she mention anything to you?”
“Mentioned anything?” Feng Liqu crossed his arms and recalled, but he shook his head with some difficulty. “My sister usually doesn’t talk to others, and our relationship is about the same.”
“Oh, right.” He suddenly seemed to think of something. “After she came back that time, my sister seemed to be particularly concerned about the marriage problems of the girls in the clan. I don’t know what got into her during that time.”
That’s it, that’s it!
Why was she able to communicate with the red-haired woman in the illusionary memory just now? It was because the role she played in this illusionary memory was not herself at all, but Feng Lili.
So, a dozen years ago, it was Feng Lili who accidentally entered this place, happened to witness such a joyous event turn into a funeral, and also happened to meet the red-haired woman and made that promise with her.
If there was a chance in the future, she would come back here to see if the people in the illusion had realized their mistakes.
And when she came back here a few years ago, it was precisely for that promise.
“However…” Now, recalling the village she had seen before.
One day she was arguing with her daughter, and the next day she immediately arranged for her daughter to be married off. This span of time was obviously not a normal time span.
And the people here were obviously xenophobic, but after a few of them came here, these people seemed to have no reaction to their arrival.
Perhaps in their perspective, there were never a few of them, but only the Ghost Physician Feng Lili.
In other words, the illusion formation that Gong Musheng had dispelled before had probably been tampered with.
They had simply moved from one illusion formation to another created by the Ghost Essence Crystal.
The reason for doing this was probably to ensure that absolutely no one would interfere with their decisions. Even if someone really broke in, he would only have come to a place prepared for him to see.
The key to the problem was still on Feng Lili.
“You’re all here?”
Just then, Gong Musheng’s voice came from not far away. As she walked, she said, “I really didn’t find anything here. This is so boring.”
From her demeanor, she must have studied the hill caves one by one from the furthest end, but she didn’t find anything that could be considered alive.
“Of course there’s nothing here.” Gong Yiling shrugged and said, “If you, a master of illusion formations, didn’t find any problems, it means we’ve been in that illusion formation all along.”
“This place was originally empty.”
“Illusion formation?” Now it was Gong Musheng’s turn to be stunned. “Where did the illusion formation come from?”
She, an expert in illusion formations, had encountered something she didn’t understand for the first time.
“The power of the Ghost Essence Crystal, how much does Little Auntie know?”
“Besides forming a disaster-type secret realm, I don’t know what else this thing can do.” Gong Musheng shook her head. “Even in the Youcang Court, this item has never been circulated.”
“Of course, it’s a bit useful to you. This is the result of the Hundred Objects, Not Predestined by the Heavens.”
Gong Yiling said, “Whether it’s useful to me or not is another matter. But this thing, since it can be used to form a secret realm, it can naturally be used to form something with a similar principle.”
“You mean…” Gong Musheng frowned. “This Ghost Essence Crystal has connected my illusion formation with this place, so we’ve actually just moved from one room in the house to another?”
“That’s right.”
“But Lili she didn’t…” As Gong Musheng was talking to herself, she suddenly thought of something. “The thing that black shadow wanted to tell you, is it related to this?”
“Mmm.”
Gong Yiling turned around and looked at the empty space, the direction they had come from.
“There are some things we still need to ask that Ghost Physician to find out.”
As for how to ask that “Ghost Physician”…
Gong Yiling looked at the black shadow in her hand and asked, “You should be able to take us there, right?”
The black shadow floated in her hand and slowly moved forward.
“Interesting.” Gong Musheng commented on the black shadow. “This thing is quite spiritual. I thought it was just a tool.”
It was originally nothing.
However, after she said this, the black shadow turned back and began to attack Gong Musheng crazily.
The attack included but was not limited to covering her entire face with black mist, and also raising a gloomy wind.
What was this?
Gong Musheng now felt that this thing gave her a very strange sense of familiarity, but she couldn’t say to a small black shadow, “Hey, Lili, how did you end up like this, Lili?”
—Actually, it’s not impossible.
But just then, the black shadow, as if sensing something, immediately rushed in front of Gong Yiling, trying to warn them of the threat in front of them.
And the next moment, a chilling wind suddenly surged from the empty space, and then, in the swirling gloomy wind, a large hole was unexpectedly torn in space.
In their vision, a woman with a ghostly aura slowly walked out of the large hole.
She did indeed look like Feng Lili, but this Feng Lili was not quite like Feng Lili.
Or rather, the person they had met since they came in was not the Ghost Physician herself at all.
