Hearing this, the crowd didn't think much of it. Right now, they only wanted to find a place to stay as soon as possible, so they wouldn't become a meal for the evil ghosts after nightfall.

Seeing that everyone had no objections, the owner spoke again, "We don't accept cash here, only ghost stones. Those who have ghost stones can come in and register."

Upon hearing this, some people's faces immediately changed.

As ordinary people, how could they possibly possess ghost stones?

However, some people did have a few ghost stones, more or less, just of varying grades.

Soon, those with ghost stones went in to register.

Yuan Mu Ye hesitated for a moment, then took out a ghost stone from his body and handed it to Feng Ge before taking him inside.

Because there were only twenty spots available, registration filled up quickly.

Yuan Mu Ye and Feng Ge shared a room.

After they registered, there were still about twenty people outside.

The owner didn't mince words and, taking advantage of the fact that it wasn't completely dark yet, led those people to the cellar.

Yuan Mu Ye felt that something was wrong, so he quietly followed them.

About four or five minutes later, Yuan Mu Ye followed the owner and the others to a small forest not far away.

At first, Yuan Mu Ye thought the owner had ulterior motives, but he soon discovered that things weren't that simple. The place where the owner brought them didn't have a trace of Yin energy; on the contrary, it had a strong Yang energy.

This proved that the place wasn't disturbed by evil ghosts.

In this case, the cellar was safer than the inn, because the inn was surrounded by Yin energy, although it wasn't very strong.

After the owner settled those people, he came out of the cellar.

Yuan Mu Ye immediately returned to the inn and went to his room.

Feng Ge was sitting on a chair, looking down at the books on the table.

Seeing this, Yuan Mu Ye couldn't help but find it strange, and casually asked, "Do you like reading?"

"No, I just found something very strange in the book. Come and take a look." Feng Ge turned to look at Yuan Mu Ye.

Yuan Mu Ye was surprised and immediately went over to take a look. He realized something was wrong as soon as he saw the first page of the book.

The book depicted a dark cellar, followed by a few lines of introduction about the cellar.

What made Yuan Mu Ye's hair stand on end was this sentence: Often, the place you think is safe is actually the most dangerous, because you never know if there's someone standing behind you!

When he saw this sentence, he subconsciously glanced behind him.

Seeing this, Feng Ge laughed, "I thought you were very brave. I didn't expect you to be such a scaredy-cat!"

It wasn't that Yuan Mu Ye was timid, but he felt that this matter was very strange.

Because there was a cellar nearby.

Yuan Mu Ye didn't say anything and continued to flip through the following pages.

The book only had twenty pages, each with an illustration and some text.

After reading the book, Yuan Mu Ye roughly understood what was going on.

It was about a god who had committed a mistake and was imprisoned in a cellar a long time ago. The god was imprisoned for a long time, and then a person came to the cellar, sent by other gods to enlighten him.

As a result, that person took a fancy to the god's immortal body, so he killed the god, seized the god's divine power and physical body, and went out to act recklessly.

Soon, other gods found out about this, but they didn't take action to capture him, even condoning his wanton behavior in the mortal world.

In this way, the originally good mortal world was turned into a chaotic mess by him.

Finally, even the underworld was affected.

However, the last page only briefly explained that the underworld was affected, without going into specific details.

The more Yuan Mu Ye read, the stranger he felt.

"Feng Ge, where did you get this book?"

Feng Ge curled his lips and said, "It was originally on the table. I was bored just now, so I flipped through it casually."

Without asking, he knew that the book must have been placed here by the owner of the inn, but why would he put such a book in the guest room? What message did he want to convey?

Ordinary people probably wouldn't take the content of this book too seriously; they would just treat it as a storybook.

"Brother Yuan, do you also think there's something wrong with this book?" Feng Ge suddenly asked.

Yuan Mu Ye nodded and said, "There is a problem. By the way, no matter what sound you hear at night, don't leave this room."

After speaking, Yuan Mu Ye set up a barrier around the room. This way, even if an evil ghost came, it would not be able to enter this room. However, if it was a person, it would be different, but if the door wasn't opened, there would be no problem.

Although Feng Ge felt a little strange, he didn't ask any further questions.

Yuan Mu Ye glanced at the time. It was only a little past eight o'clock; it was still early!

He even went to the window and looked outside, discovering that the Yin energy around them had become much stronger after nightfall.

In this situation, there must be evil ghosts around, but he didn't know if they would appear here.

Yuan Mu Ye thought that he could go out and collect Yin energy now. With enough Yin energy, he could cultivate his ghost body no matter where he was.

Thinking of this, he told Feng Ge a few things and then quietly slipped out, found a place with a relatively heavy concentration of Yin energy, and used the Gathering Yin Pearl to collect it.

After about half an hour, Yuan Mu Ye saw that he had collected almost enough. The main reason was that he didn't dare to collect too much, for fear of alerting the snake.

On the way back, Yuan Mu Ye accidentally saw the owner.

The owner was carrying a red lantern in his hand, which looked particularly abrupt and frightening in the dark night.

Strange, what was the owner going to do so late?

Yuan Mu Ye didn't think too much about it and immediately followed him.

Looking at the direction the owner was heading, Yuan Mu Ye guessed that the owner might be going to the cellar.

Sure enough, a moment later, Yuan Mu Ye followed the owner to the cellar.

What was the owner doing at the cellar so late?

Yuan Mu Ye watched the owner go in, then tiptoed to the cellar door.

Just then, the system's prompt suddenly came into his mind.

"Reminder to the host: There is danger in the cellar. It is best not to get close."

Danger?

There were quite a few living people living in the cellar!

However, he didn't dare disobey the system, so he just stood outside and didn't get too close.

Anything else was fine, but he couldn't risk his own life.

After about a minute or two, a cry for help suddenly came from the cellar.

"Boss, please let us go! We are innocent!"

Followed by the owner's sneer, "You shouldn't have come to this place at all. Now that you've come, don't even think about getting out of here alive, unless..."

"Unless what?" Someone immediately asked.

The owner looked at the person who spoke with a non-smile and said lightly, "Unless you can kill me, but I guess you don't have the guts."

When he heard these words, Yuan Mu Ye once thought he had heard wrong. How could someone say such a thing?