Chapter 156: Strange First Day
Li Yi felt that his life was very fulfilling. He could practice and evolve at night, and train his marrow and blood and hone his martial arts during the day.

Coupled with the White Bone Contemplation practice and the nourishment of various powerful medicines, his growth can be said to be rapid. If it can continue for a period of time, he even feels that he can touch the threshold of spiritual perception, and his martial arts practice may really reach the level of refining the acupoints.

If the martial arts skills of Lianqiao are combined with the realm of spiritual perception, how terrifying would the two be when added together?
Li Yi felt excited just thinking about it.

"Oh, brother, we must close the doors and windows before nightfall today and stay in the room. We can't go out. Today is the first day of the new year. Night is the day when ghosts and gods travel. This day is very taboo. Everyone in the four seas and eight continents will respect this important day without any agreement."

Rong Niang practiced while chatting with Li Yi, which made the practice seem less boring.

"I know. Master mentioned this matter yesterday. By the way, where did Zhao Qian go? I haven't seen her before." Li Yi asked.

Rong Niang said, "Junior Sister went to the City God Temple in Sanyang City early in the morning to find a witch to buy door gods. Door gods can be posted on the door to avoid ghosts and gods from invading and to ensure safety. However, door gods are only effective for one night and will be useless after tonight."

"What will happen if you don't buy door gods?" Li Yi continued to ask.

"It's actually okay if you don't buy door gods, but the witch said that if you don't put up door gods on the first day of the new year, once a ghost passes by, it may take the living people in the house to the underworld, so wealthy families will buy a few door gods and put them on the door to ensure safety." Rong Niang said, "But from childhood to adulthood, I have never heard of anyone being taken to the underworld by ghosts because of not putting up door gods. I guess the witch in front of the City God Temple deliberately made up such a lie in order to sell door gods."

"But most people who can afford it will still buy it for the sake of safety."

"So that's how it is." Li Yi didn't expect that there was such a folk custom here. It sounds quite strange.

After a while, Zhao Qian came back.

Her cheeks were puffed up with anger, and she seemed very angry. When she saw Li Yi, she immediately started to complain: "It's really hateful. That fortune teller said she had something to do this month and would not sell door gods. I got up early in the morning to line up and originally wanted to put up a few more door gods for Brother Yi's house, but I was told that there were no door gods. The old woman should have told me earlier that she didn't want to sell them."

"We don't sell door gods anymore. How could this happen? This happens very rarely." Rong Niang was very surprised.

"I don't know either. I've only encountered the situation of not selling door gods a few times in my life. I didn't expect to be so unlucky to encounter it this month." Zhao Qian said.

Rong Niang said, "If you don't want to sell it, forget it. It doesn't mean you can't live without the door god. Close the doors and windows tonight and go back to your room early. Nothing will happen."

"Then I'll go close the doors and windows now." Zhao Qian remembered and ran away immediately.

In such a huge mansion, without servants, it would take a lot of time to close the doors and windows one by one.

Li Yi had no taboos. He continued to practice and cultivate the Xisui Sutra.

A day passed quickly.

Before evening, Rong Niang urged Li Yi not to stay in the martial arts training ground, but to go back to his room and not go out at night no matter what happened.

There was no other way, Li Yi could only end his day’s practice early.

However, when he stood up and looked into the distance, his face suddenly froze.

In his sight, the entire sky in the distance was gradually filled with a dark air. This dark air rose from the ground and filled the sky and the earth. Along with the appearance of this dark air, he actually saw a strange figure swaying in the dark corner of the wall.

That was the warrior who had died in the Han family martial arts gym.

Affected by the black energy, he turned into a ghost.

However, these black air quickly dissipated when exposed to the sun. However, the sun is setting, and the power of the sunlight is constantly decreasing. The black aura filling the sky will only increase with the passage of time, and will eventually cover the entire world.

Moreover, the astronomical phenomenon on the first day of the new year is also very abnormal. Two pale red moons have appeared on the left and right in the sky.

These two pale red moons are rounder and larger than usual, a bit like the full moon on Earth, at their brightest.

"Senior brother, senior brother, what are you looking at?" Rong Niang shook Li Yi's arm and asked curiously.

"The first day of every month in all corners of the world is indeed unusual."

Li Yi's eyes sparkled: "You warriors don't have a pair of spiritual eyes, you can't see ghosts, let alone the changes in the world, but I can see all this, the black ground air rises, the two moons block the sunlight and increase the growth of yin energy, at this moment there is still sunlight, but it is not enough to dissipate these auras, once it gets dark, it is hard to imagine what will happen at night.

"Is it so scary?" Rong Niang was shocked.

"It's scarier than I thought. It's a good thing that you can't see because at least you won't be scared." Li Yi said.

Rong Niang nodded slightly. She was very curious about what kind of secrets between heaven and earth the eldest brother's divine eyes had discovered.

"Let's go back to the room and call Zhao Qian over. I feel something unusual tonight. You all stay with me and don't leave. At the same time, prepare everything you need. I will block the doors and windows to prevent any danger from approaching." After Li Yi finished speaking, he immediately took action.

He put all the important things into the room, such as the powerful medicine, sniper rifle, and resurrection pills. He also prepared food and water to prevent hunger and thirst at night.

Rong Niang and Zhao Qian also helped.

Soon, everything was packed up and all the doors and windows in the mansion were closed.

In fact, they are not the only ones like this. People in the entire Sanyang City are like this. They close their businesses early and stay at home.

The sun hadn't even set yet, but the streets were already empty and silent, like a dead city.

The surroundings were surprisingly quiet, without any sound at all, even the chirping of insects and birds seemed to have disappeared.

This reminded Li Yi of the Ghost Festival on Earth. It was like that, but later on no one took the festival seriously, and coupled with the efforts to break superstitions, people stopped following the rules over time. Now it seems that these rules passed down from ancient times are useful.

"Rong Niang, you and Zhao Qian should sleep on the bed today. I will just sit here and practice." At this moment, the three of them were in the same room, and even the Eight Treasures Deer hid in, as if it had smelled the unusual scent outside.

Rong Niang and Zhao Qian felt a little restrained and nervous at the moment. It was the first time for them to be in the same room with a man. If this got out, their reputation would be ruined. However, they tacitly did not say anything. Perhaps only Li Yi could make them ignore this legal constraint.

"Well, Senior Brother, Junior Sister and I will go and rest first."

Not knowing how to respond, in order to avoid embarrassment, Rong Niang took Zhao Qian to the inner room.

Li Yi sat on a chair at the door of the room, closed his eyes and concentrated, continuing to practice, striving to reach the marrow training stage as soon as possible.

Time passed quickly.

After the sun sets, the night grows darker, and at this moment, the black earth air is rolling, filling the entire sky and earth. The whole world seems to be shrouded in an ominous atmosphere.

Although in the eyes of most people this is just an ordinary night, but in Li Yi's opinion, today is very unusual.

His five senses were so sharp that he could even feel the waves of Yin energy coming from his skin.

In this state, Li Yi couldn't even enter a normal state of meditation, let alone practice.

Sometimes it is not a good thing for a practitioner in the spiritual realm to be too sensitive. Li Yi was disturbed by the breath and could not concentrate, but Rong Niang and Zhao Qian in the inner room had stopped moving and should have fallen asleep.

"It seems that this world of Four Seas and Eight Continents also has an unusual side."

Li Yi was sitting still at this moment, his eyes shining. He looked down slightly and saw black earth energy rising from the cracks between the bricks on the ground, filling the entire room.

In his opinion, there was no difference between staying in the room and staying outside. The walls of the house could not block this kind of aura at all. If a ghost passed by, the doors and windows were just decorations. The only thing he could do was to feel at ease.

"No wonder Sister Lin said before that after becoming a psychic, at the very least, I can still read people's Feng Shui. Now I understand. My eyes can see ghosts and gods, as well as many invisible auras. I can indeed help people read Feng Shui and choose ancestral homes." Li Yi said to himself.

At the same time he took out his cell phone and checked the time.

Although I brought a power bank with me this time, my phone is running low on battery.

"It's only eight o'clock now, and there are still at least eight or nine hours before dawn." Li Yi turned off his cell phone and said to himself.

He had no intention of practicing, and didn't know how to pass the time, so he simply closed his eyes and sat in meditation.

However, Li Yi hadn't sat still for a moment.

Suddenly, his ears moved and he heard a sound coming from inside the house. It was the breathing of a wild horse.

"Since when is there a horse in my room?"

Li Yi looked in the direction of the sound, and then he was shocked.

In the dark corner of the room, there stood three tall and strong Yin horses.

At Yinma's feet, there was a sniper rifle and a modern backpack.

At this time, Li Yi remembered that these three horses were mud horses. Two of them were bought in Ghost Street, and one was found in the underground secret room of the Han family martial arts hall.

"Even the Yin Horse has taken shape. Is this Yin Qi that fills the world so terrifying?" Li Yi's expression did not change. "What if we encounter a ghost? If we are affected by the aura here, won't we become a terrifying evil spirit?"

No wonder ghosts and gods want to destroy the world. If they don’t, the yin and yang in this world will be out of balance, which will surely lead to catastrophe.

But Li Yi always felt that things were not that simple.

Why is there such a terrifying negative energy in a world where martial arts are practiced?
Without waiting for Li Yi to analyze the situation carefully.

suddenly.

Li Yi glanced around and saw a sneaky figure appearing from nowhere. He put his head into a box and seemed to be looking for something.

"Ghost?"

He immediately strode over, clenched his fist, and used the guiding technique. The cosmic energy in his body gathered together, and in the room filled with negative energy, his fist glowed brightly. Although it was not powerful against living people, it could kill ghosts.

"A little devil dares to come to my room to steal things, he is looking for death."

Li Yi shouted, raised his hand and punched out.

The little ghost seemed to sense something and immediately turned around and raised his head. At this moment, a look of fear appeared on the little ghost's face. Unlike the ignorant ghost before, it seemed to have some intelligence.

But it was too late.

With one punch, the little ghost's body immediately exploded and broke into several pieces. Then these broken limbs were eroded by the Yin energy, merged into it, and became part of it.

But just as Li Yi killed a little ghost, there was movement outside the door.

At the door, black figures were swaying, and some strange noises were heard. These noises sounded like countless people whispering, and it was hard to hear clearly, but there was no doubt that the ghosts outside the door seemed to be communicating with each other, speaking their own unique language.

(End of this chapter)