C73 Mysterious Old Woman

The setting sun was setting in the west, and the blood-red sunset enveloped the entire Yan City. Everyone at the city gate was rushing about, just like they were in the morning when the city gates were opened.

In the evening, when the city gates were about to close, it was the busiest time of the day. Some of the people who left the city to do business did not want to sleep in the wilderness. They rushed into the city to find an inn to have a good rest. Some of the small caravans from the villages outside the city also wanted to leave Yancheng before the gate closed.

Yan City had a curfew like many other cities on the continent that were close to the border. Wandering around the streets was not allowed at night. If they violated this rule, the light ones would be punished and thrown into the prison, and the heavy ones would be killed on the spot. If he was treated as a spy, he would not only lose his life, but also suffer the torture from the law enforcement team in the city.

At this moment, the soldiers outside the city gates were busy inspecting every single person who had entered and left the city. Those who entered the city would pay a certain amount of money and be given a badge. As long as they handed over the badge, they could leave.

Amongst the people entering the city, there was an old woman who was dressed strangely. She stood out quite a bit as they walked past her. It was still late summer, but the old woman was tightly wrapped in long pants and a robe. A long cloak was draped over her shoulders. A large hat covered her face, obscuring her entire appearance. It was possible to make out that the old woman was very old with wrinkles at the corners of her mouth and chin.

Although the old man was walking in the crowd, the surrounding people all felt an invisible force push the crowd three feet away from her. When the surrounding people saw this, they all faintly guessed that this old woman wasn't simple, so they all consciously distanced themselves from her.

As the crowd slowly moved forward, the old woman finally arrived at the city gate. When the soldier in charge of registration saw the old woman's dressing, his heart was filled with curiosity and vigilance. The old man had avoided everyone on his way here. Although the soldiers were unclear about the reason, they could guess that the old woman was an existence that they did not dare to provoke.

Coincidentally, this was the same city gate that Zuo Feng and the other men from the Zuo family had entered. Yan City had always been very strict with the soldiers under their command. Ever since the last time they had been flogged, the city gate hadn't dared to act rashly, let alone act rashly in the presence of this strange old woman.

The old woman walked slowly, as if she would fall if the wind blew her way. She reached into her pocket, took out five bronze coins, and placed it on the registration table. The soldier looked at the 5 bronze coins on the table and then looked at the old man in front of him and said awkwardly.

"Cough …" Old man, according to tradition, I need to ask you where you came from, what are you doing in Yan City, and how long you are going to stay in Yan City. "

When the old woman heard the words of the registered soldier, she slightly raised her head and looked at him. At this moment, the surrounding soldiers finally managed to clearly see the old woman's appearance. She seemed to be around seventy to eighty years old.

The old woman's face was covered in wrinkles, and there were even grey spots scattered in the corners of her eyes. Her pair of eyes also gave off a turbid and indiscernible feeling, but the skin on her face was as ruddy as a young man's. The old man raised his head and looked at the soldier in front of him as he spoke.

"I have long forgotten where I came from as I wandered around randomly in this Yan City. I might leave tomorrow, or I might stay here for a month on a whim. I can't say for sure."

Hearing the old woman's words, the soldier looked troubled before speaking again, "It's not that I'm making things difficult for you, but that we're following the rules. If we can't explain our origins and why we're here, we can only... "Please take a break outside the city."

He originally wanted to say, "If you don't know, then please leave." However, he didn't dare to say those words. In the end, he forcibly changed it to 'Please ask her to rest outside the city.'

The old woman looked at the soldier before her with her cloudy eyes. Those cloudy eyes made the soldier's heart shudder. The registered soldier couldn't help but take a few steps back, but he didn't even know that he had knocked over the chair behind him.

Seeing the soldier's fearful appearance, the old man sighed slightly and once again reached his hand into his pocket. The old man's action immediately caused the surrounding soldiers to be alarmed and they all raised the weapons in their hands.

When he saw the soldiers around him acting as if they were about to face a great enemy, the old man was first stunned for a moment, before he unexpectedly let out two "hehe" laughs. He then slowly took out a black stone from his robes and handed it over to the soldier.

The surrounding soldiers were stunned when they saw the black stone. Seeing that the elder had only taken out a single stone, the soldiers slowly lowered their weapons before turning to look at the black stone.

At first glance, everyone felt that this was just an ordinary black stone. However, if they observed it closely, they would discover that there was something different about it. Firstly, it was the jet-black surface of the stone. That kind of black made people feel that it was very pure black, so black that people couldn't seem to grasp whether its shape was square or round, or whether it had edges.

If one kept staring at it, one would feel as if one would be half swallowed by this pure black color. However, there was a white light flowing within this black. The white light seemed to be faintly discernible. Sometimes it seemed to wander around on the surface, and sometimes it seemed to flash within the stone and disappear, making people feel as if they had seen this white light in their imagination.

"Could this be …" "Black Magic Stone." A soldier that looked like a captain said uncertainly.

The moment he finished speaking, a series of gasps sounded out, and the group of soldiers looked at the old woman, who was dressed strangely, as if they were idiots.

The old woman seemed to be very satisfied with the soldier's reaction. She smiled and kept the black stone in her bosom. Then, they slowly made their way through the city gate. At this moment, the surrounding soldiers were still in shock and shock, but even if they regained their senses, they wouldn't dare to stop this old man in front of them.

A soldier trembled all over and murmured in a daze, "Oh my god, is this old man actually an existence like the leader of the empire?"

Hearing this soldier's words, the old man who was walking forward mumbled to himself, "Leader …" It has been many years since I last saw that little fellow. " With that, the old man walked into the city without even looking back.

Her casual words resounded in the minds of the soldiers like a thunderclap. A few of them, who had lost their willpower, had already sat down on the ground.

The old man's pace was still neither fast nor slow, and he still looked as if he would collapse if the wind blew on him. At the same time she stepped into Yan City, Zuo Tianlin was also knocked to the ground by the group of thugs.

A strange dark cloud suddenly appeared in the distant sky. The black cloud was so low that it seemed as though it was about to touch the ground. Thick bolts of lightning flashed in the thick clouds, but what accompanied them was not the rumbling of thunder. Instead, it sounded more like enormous beast roars.

At this moment, the entire Yan City seemed to have come to a complete standstill. Everyone put down all their work in their hands. Some waiters were even making tea for the guests, but the teacups had already been filled to the brim and the guests were completely oblivious to it. Only after half a day did the guests suddenly realize that the tea was boiling hot and flowing down the table and onto the guests' legs.

This kind of thing could be found all over Yan City. The chef looked at the dishes in the sky-pot and was unaware that they were charred and smelly. The coachman who was driving raised his head to look at the sky and took the wrong road, but he still continued on foolishly.

There were only a few places that were special. In the stone room of the largest mansion in the city, there was a bearded middle-aged man who suddenly opened his eyes during his closed door cultivation. Within the pitch-black stone room, it seemed as if two bolts of lightning were flashing across. The moment he opened his eyes, a long, shrill howl rolled out of his throat and resounded in the distance.

The sound echoed out, and even the thick stone walls were incapable of stopping the sound from piercing through. After the whistling sound, a few figures flashed out of the stone room like ghosts and appeared in a flash. They knelt on one knee and respectfully bowed while waiting for orders. The middle-aged man in the stone room only said one sentence lightly, "Investigate this phenomenon."

At the same time, the same voice rang out from inside Yan City, "Go check."

"Yes, Lord Left Commander."

"Quickly go investigate."

"Yes, Lord Right Commander!"

Similar words and answers could be heard from the two manors in Yan City. After a while, the figures of the people in Yan City began to gather towards the shop of the Zuo family village.

The moment the phenomenon occurred, the mysterious old woman also coincidentally walked out of the city gate. Seeing the strange phenomenon in the sky, her brows slightly furrowed, but there was a faint excitement on her face. When lightning flashed in the pitch-black clouds, and roars of beasts could be heard, the wrinkles on her face seemed to relax in an instant. It was as if she had become several decades younger in that instant.

Along with the rise of her excited emotions, her whole body slightly swayed before she quickly rushed towards the place where the strange phenomenon had occurred.

Although there were quite a few people approaching the place where the phenomenon had occurred, the person with the fastest speed was the old woman. The moment anyone saw the old woman move, they would feel the old woman's body sway as if she couldn't stand still. Afterwards, her body suddenly faded away before their eyes.

From the city gate where the old woman was, it was the furthest from the many people who were rushing to the place where the phenomenon had occurred. However, after a while, the old woman was the first to appear on the side street of the Zuo Family Village.

Although the dark clouds in the sky had not dissipated yet, the beast roars and lightning bolts within the clouds had gradually died down. At this point, the sandstorm gradually weakened, and everything around them became clear.

When the old woman arrived, she found the corpses on the ground, as well as the unconscious Zuo Changqing. However, what disappointed her was that other than these, there were no other gains. She frowned, and the old woman said to herself in a slightly hoarse voice: "Looking at the phenomenon, it should be here, how could it not be here …" It shouldn't be? "

At this moment, the sound of winds breaking rang out as several ghost-like figures appeared in the area. They all tried their best to hide in the shadows at the corner of the house as if they couldn't see the light.

As soon as they arrived, they turned their attention to the seemingly ordinary old woman.

The old woman's gaze scanned the surroundings faintly. Although the black clothed people had all hidden themselves, after she swept her turbid gaze across them, all of them had the feeling that they had been completely seen through.