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Chapter 137: Mysterious

Chapter 137: Chapter 137: Mysterious

All sorts of thoughts flashed through Wang Zijia’s mind as he surreptitiously surveyed his surroundings.

He found himself in a typical market square, presumably a street stall area. People were setting up various street stalls and many stall owners were shouting to attract passing pedestrians.

It was similar to the street stall areas Wang Zijia had seen in the sect, except that the wares here were of lower quality, similar to those in the legend of the Loose Cultivator’s Market.

"Fellow Daoist, would you like to purchase some elixirs?" A greeting was heard by his ear.

Wang Zijia quickly turned around to find the call came from the stall owner in front of him who noticed Wang Zijia standing and observing the surroundings.

"I’ll look around first," Wang Zijia replied, starting to move forward with a hint of caution.

"Hey, hey, don’t be in such a rush. My stuff is much cheaper than those in stores..." The stall owner’s call echoed from behind, but Wang Zijia did not pause at all.

As he slowly walked past each street stall, listened to the surrounding bustle, felt the faint mixed smells in the air, and observed the diverse crowd around him, Wang Zijia’s brow furrowed deeper.

Leaving the street stall area, he entered a main commercial street where numerous shops stood side by side, ready to welcome customers.

Wang Zijia constantly looked around. After walking through several streets and visiting a few shops, he was warmly welcomed.

In the end, he walked out without buying anything.

...

After this brief observation, he could confirm that he had not fallen under any illusion technique.

Because everything seemed too real. Low to middle-level illusion techniques were completely unable to create such a scene.

This increased Wang Zijia’s confusion. He almost lost his train of thought, just like when he entered the Ginseng Garden and suddenly lost several days’ worth of memories.

He took out his Identity Card, opened the information about the Hundred Demon Bewitching Domain, and conducted a detailed search, which indeed lacked any recorded information about his current location.

In the end, Wang Zijia’s gaze landed on the background introduction of the Hundred Demon Bewitching Domain: After the failure of the Mortician to transcend the Blood Demon, the Mortician changed bizarrely and contaminated a large area around Nanfei Market Square. It eventually became the Hundred Demon Bewitching Domain.

’Could this place be the core of the Mysterious Domain, Nanfei Market Square?’

’But according to the sect’s records, didn’t Nanfei Market Square undergo severe changes and the entire city turned into a Grade A Spiritual Field for growing meat?’

’It has been harvested for a dozen or twenty waves in a thousand years, right?’

Thoughts flashed through his mind. According to the information provided by the sect, Wang Zijia quickly found his direction and headed towards the city center.

Suddenly, Wang Zijia arrived at his destination: Nanfei Square.

According to the sect’s records, Nanfei Square was the core area of the bizarre transformation, being the center of the Dharma Assembly and where the transformation was most severe. It is also the top grade spiritual meat field in this Mysterious Domain producing earth blood spiritual objects: Meat Zongzi.

It was one of the goals Wang Zijia was most concerned about this time!

But when Wang Zijia arrived at the square, he saw a very ordinary large square. There was no sign of the bizarre fleshy coffins mentioned in the records. It was just like Nanfei City before the bizarre transformation.

In the center of the square, a huge stone stele stood erect. The four characters ’Nanfei Square’ were engraved on it.

Seeing these characters confirmed Wang Zijia’s speculation.

However, there are so many things that remain unresolved. If this really is the city of Nanfei Market Square, then where are the meat fields?

Am I bewitched?

Wait, bewitched?

Could it be...

Suppressing the doubts in his mind, Wang Zijia immediately turned around and headed towards the outskirts of the city.

Nanfei Market Square used to be a very prosperous market for cultivators, almost a city in its own right. But unlike a modern city in his previous life, the further out you went, the more it felt like a suburb.

Of course, unlike the boundless cities of his previous life, as a market for cultivators here, there were still Arrays present that prevent mortal entry and operate for twelve hours.

When Wang Zijia arrived at the edge of the Array wrapped in a fog, he took a deep breath and promptly stepped into it.

"Fellow Daoist, would you like to purchase some elixirs?"

The familiar sense of daze surrounded him, and the familiar greeting once again rang in his ear.

However, Wang Zijia’s face suddenly darkened!

He had fallen into a mature Mysterious Domain, a proper one!

It simply could not be compared with that of the Prince Qi’s Mansion in the Wanyu Fairy City nor with the meat fields set up by the sects outside.

Speaking of it, the Hundred Demon Bewitching Domain outside is probably just the outer ring of this Mysterious Domain, just a result of the explosion by the Blood Demon.

This here should be the core of the Mysterious Domain - the real Mysterious Domain area.

But what Wang Zijia couldn’t understand was why there was no record of this in the sect, as if they completely overlooked it!

There was no time to contemplate this. The truly concerning matter for Wang Zijia at this moment was how to break out of this predicament.

Within the Mysterious Domain, rules hold their ground. If he can’t find the key to break the rules and escape, he will be trapped inside for life, until he unknowingly morphs into part of this Mysterious Domain.

But to encounter a proper Mysterious Domain was something only elders from the middle Third Boundary could do. Even the most trashy ones required at least the peak cultivators from the lower Third Boundary, known as "Perfected," to handle.

For Wang Zijia, a newbie just starting down the path of cultivation, he had not even been privileged enough to take on the task or even access relevant information.

Therefore, Wang Zijia was metaphorically in the dark at this moment.

After being in a daze for a short while and feeling completely clueless, Wang Zijia remembered his experience in the Prince Qi’s Mansion last time. He felt the active fluctuations of mana within his body and decided not to suppress them and let them churn.

With the mana surging inside him, Wang Zijia turned his head to look at the central area of the city.

If his senses were not mistaken, there seemed to be something in that direction attracting Wang Zijia’s mana.

After looking around and seeing the market as before, he decided to check it out since he had no other leads.

Settling on this thought, Wang Zijia hoisted himself up again and headed towards the center of the city.

"Thud, thud..."

Just moments into his journey, Wang Zijia’s progress was halted when he spotted a troop of children, donned in uniform, high-quality, Advanced Magical Weapons standard equipment, rushing hurriedly from the distance towards him on the street ahead.

Ten of them in total, and by judging their skills, all of them were at peak cultivation levels; they were focused and had profound skills.

Wang Zijia watched them carefully, standing off to the side on the street, his body taut like the surrounding pedestrians.

"Thud, thud...!"

The group of ten rushed past Wang Zijia without a pause, disappearing into the street corner.

Wang Zijia quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Subconsciously, he wanted to lightly leap onto the rooftop to check out the direction of the patrolling team.