Chapter 156: The Gambler
With a light shout from Li Yanchu, the richly dressed young noblemen suddenly shuddered, their bodies jolting.
Then their facial expressions froze momentarily before slowly returning to normal.
“Eh?! How did I end up here?”
“Strange, wasn’t I at home reading just now?”
“What’s going on? I can’t remember a single thing...”
It was as if they had no recollection whatsoever of how they came to be at Wangjiang Pavilion.
Their bewildered chatter immediately drew in the surrounding crowd. After all, there was never a shortage of people eager to watch a spectacle.
Taking advantage of the confusion, Li Yanchu and the others slipped away.
Once they had walked a fair distance, Bai Hongtu exclaimed in surprise, “That young woman at the pavilion just now, was she a ghost?!”
He was, after all, a proper Daoist disciple, but just then, he hadn’t sensed anything unusual.
Li Yanchu shook his head slightly. “I couldn’t say for certain. But those wealthy young men clearly fell under some kind of bewitchment technique.”
Bewitchment Technique was what cultivators called it, but in the mundane world, there were many child kidnappers and tricksters who used similar tricks to lure victims away. The principles were the same; they were just different schools of cultivation.