121: Chapter 121 Loulan Ghost Market? This isn't an adventure, it's clearly a shopping spree!

As the surrounding scenery shifted, the originally violent wind and sand miraculously stopped.

A pale, full moon hung in the night sky, casting cold moonlight onto this suddenly appeared ancient city.

But this ancient city was not a ruin; rather, it was a 'living' city.

The streets were lined with lanterns made of human skin and bones, emitting a faint green glow.

Shops were everywhere, wine banners waved, and one could even hear the sounds of string and bamboo instruments coming from the brothels.

On the streets, 'people' were coming and going.

There were merchants in Western Regions attire, travelers leading camels, and dancers draped in thin veils.

However, the feet of these 'people' did not touch the ground, and their faces all wore that eerie, stiff smile, their eyes hollow and lifeless.

'Is... is this Transmigration?'

Reba grabbed Su Yang's arm tightly, her nails almost digging into his flesh, her teeth chattering.

'So many... so many ghosts!'

'Calm down.'

Su Yang patted the back of her hand. Not only was he not panicked, but he was also observing his surroundings with great interest.

'This is the legendary Ghost Market.'

'Under the influence of specific magnetic fields and resentment, the time here has been frozen at the moment of Loulan's greatest prosperity, just before its destruction, one thousand years ago.'

'Compared to those wild ghosts that only know how to howl, these ghosts are more cultured and also have more... value.'

Su Yang walked up to a small stall selling jewelry.

The stall owner was an old woman with only half a head, who was wiping a jade-green hairpin with hands as withered as chicken claws.

'Customer... are you buying jewelry?'

The old woman raised her head, revealing half a face oozing black blood, and grinned, her teeth completely black.

'This is top-quality Hetian jade, nourished by the heart blood of ninety-nine virgins...'

'Ah!'

Reba screamed in fright and hid behind Mary.

Su Yang, however, reached out and picked up the hairpin.

'Hetian jade? I think it's corpse-soaked jade.'

Not only was he not disgusted, but he also weighed it in his hand.

'Yin Qi has entered the bone, Evil Qi is restrained; it truly is a good item.'

'If I take this thing back and use it as the core for a Yin-gathering formation for Qingcheng or Yingxue, or refine it into a Soul-taking hairpin, the power will definitely be significant.'

'How much?' Su Yang asked.

'Money?'

The old woman was stunned; apparently, she had never encountered a living person who dared to do business with a ghost.

'I don't want money... I want your... heart...'

She suddenly reached out, trying to grab Su Yang's chest.

'Pa!'

Su Yang backhanded her across the face, knocking her half-head crooked.

'Giving you an inch and you take a mile, huh?'

'When buying things, of course, one pays money. You want my heart? That's a different price!'

Su Yang took a stack of prepared spirit money from his pocket and slapped it onto the stall.

'I'm buying this hairpin, keep the change.'

'Also this, this, and that wine cup made from a skull is not bad either. Wrap them all up for me!'

The old woman held the stack of spirit money emitting pure Yin Qi, and her turbid eyeballs instantly lit up.

For ghosts, this was the top-tier 'supplement,' even more tempting than the heart of a living person!

'Yes, yes, yes! Customer, please wait a moment! This old woman will pack them up for you right away!'

The old woman's face changed instantly, and she nimbly packed up everything Su Yang had pointed out, even throwing in a bracelet made of human teeth.

'This... this is possible too?'

Reba was stunned.

Forcing a sale in the Ghost Market? And using spirit money?

'Learn from this; this is what they call 'money makes the ghost push the mill'.'

Su Yang put the spoils into his System storage, in a great mood.

'Let's go, keep shopping! I see a herbal medicine seller over there; it seems they have a thousand-year-old Corpse Fragrance Konjac!'

For the next half hour, the scene became extremely bizarre.

The originally gloomy and terrifying Ghost Market had become Su Yang's private restocking ground.

'Boss! I want this lantern! The leather quality is good, I'll take it back and make a new skin for Dahei!'

'Hey you, let me see the sword in your hand? Whoa, a fierce weapon that has killed a hundred people? Bought! I'll take it back for Chu Ling to peel apples!'

'What is this fabric? Merman gauze? Good stuff! I'll make pajamas for Yuqing!'

Su Yang led the three women, sweeping through everything.

Wherever they went, spirit money flew, and ghosts wailed.

Chu Ling and Mary also joined the 'shopping' spree.

Chu Ling took a fancy to a huge coffin lid, saying the wood was good and she wanted to take it back to use as a bed board.

Mary bought a pile of bottles and jars filled with unknown red liquid, saying it smelled like aged wine.

Only Reba, from initial fear to later numbness, and now...

'Boss, that... that hairpin looks quite nice, can you buy one for me too?'

Reba pointed to a gold hair-step on a small stall; although it was entwined with black Qi, the craftsmanship was indeed exquisite.

'That one won't do.'

Su Yang glanced at it.

'That's a Grudge-Woman Hairpin; wearing it will make you go bald.'

'Ah?!' Reba was so scared she quickly retracted her hand and covered her hair. 'Then I don't want it! I don't want it!'

Just as everyone was shopping in full swing.

'Ding—'

A melodious and eerie camel bell sound suddenly came from the very center of the city.

This sound seemed to have a magical power, instantly piercing through the noisy market and striking the depths of the Soul.

The lively Ghost Market instantly went silent.

All the 'ghost merchants' and 'ghost passersby' stopped what they were doing, like puppets being manipulated, and turned in unison to face the high tower in the center of the city, their faces showing expressions of obsession and fanaticism.

'The Queen... the Queen is coming out...'

'Sacrifice... sacrifice...'

They muttered to themselves, their bodies uncontrollably floating towards the high tower.

'The main act is here.'

Su Yang put away a piece of meteorite iron he had just bought and looked through the crowd at the towering black spire.

He saw that a huge stage had appeared on top of the tower at some point.

Red gauze curtains fluttered in the wind.

A woman wearing a golden dance costume, a veil, and bare feet was dancing gracefully in the moonlight.

Her dance moves were extremely enchanting, every movement full of deadly temptation, and the gold bells on her wrists and ankles made crisp sounds as she danced.

'Jingle—'

Along with the bell sounds, a pink mist emanated from her body, quickly enveloping the entire ancient city.

'So... so beautiful...'

Reba looked at the dancing woman, her eyes gradually becoming unfocused, her body involuntarily wanting to walk forward.

'Beautiful my ass.'

Su Yang slapped Reba on the forehead, transmitting a Cleansing Heart Mantra.

'Wake up!'

'That is the Heavenly Demon Dance, specifically designed to hook Souls and seize spirits.'

'If you walk over there, within three steps, your Soul will be hooked away by her, leaving only an empty shell.'

Reba shuddered and came to her senses, looking at the ghosts around her who had started drooling with dull eyes, breaking into a cold sweat.

'She... she is the Loulan Enchantress?'

'Hmm, an S-rank big boss.'

Su Yang looked at the woman, activating his Heavenly Eye.

In his eyes, that was no peerless dancer.

It was clearly a giant... desert scorpion with a beautiful woman's head!

Every twist of hers was actually the swaying of a scorpion tail, and that pink mist was highly toxic scorpion venom!

'Guests from afar...'

Just then, the dancing woman suddenly stopped.

She turned around, and those charming eyes locked onto Su Yang and the others precisely from several kilometers away.

'Since you've come, why not come up and dance a song with this servant?'

The voice was soft and glutinous, numbing to the bone.

But to Su Yang, this voice was full of murderous intent.

'Dance together?'

Su Yang smiled and took the seven star dragon abyss sword out of his System storage.

'Sure.'

'But I'm not good at dancing; I only know... sword dancing.'

'Chu Ling! Mary!'

'Here!'

'Clear the field!'

Su Yang gave the order.

'Yes! Boss!'

The two female war gods, who had been holding back the whole way, finally received the order to be released.

Boom!

Chu Ling stomped the ground, shattering it, and charged towards the high tower like a cannonball; the ghosts blocking the way were directly smashed into black smoke by her.

Mary transformed into a sky full of blood bats, sweeping towards the high tower in an overwhelming manner.

'Refusing a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit!'

The Loulan Enchantress's expression changed, and her originally charming voice instantly became sharp and ear-piercing.

'Children! Tear them apart!!'

'Roar——!!!'

The ghosts in the entire city instantly rioted!

The old woman who had just been kindly selling things instantly turned into a fierce ghost with green face and sharp fangs.

The dancing women instantly turned into female ghosts with only half a body.

Tens of thousands of evil ghosts, like a black tide, surged towards Su Yang and the others from all directions!

'Well come!'

Su Yang looked at these 'experience packs' and 'Materials' all over the mountains and plains, not only not panicked, but excitedly licked his lips.

He untied the ten thousand souls banner, which had already been upgraded once, from his waist and slammed it into the ground.

'ten thousand souls banner! Time to eat!'

'Tonight, we're having... a buffet!'