Chapter 64: Go Down And Fetch The Person
Let’s say that in this day and age, it’s really impossible to get by without some strength.
Take the matter with Huang Santaiye as an example.
If my own strength wasn’t strong enough, why would they talk principles with me?
Sometimes, the thing called principles requires strength to back it up, otherwise, when something happens, you won’t even know how you died.
After parting ways with Huang Santaiye,
Old Dog and I returned directly to his home, while Jin Buque went back to the well to continue his efforts on his tadpole-creation plan.
That night, someone from below came to pick up Wu Sheng’s soul.
I originally thought this matter could be put to a temporary end.
I didn’t expect that the efficiency of those handling matters below was very fast, much faster than above.
Before Wu Sheng’s soul could return on the seventh day, Xue Pan was captured and taken below.
The Ghost Messenger had also gone to find Jin Buque, but Jin Buque, having cultivated for over three hundred years, was difficult for ordinary ghosts to apprehend.
Upon hearing that Xue Pan had been captured, I appeared exceptionally calm.
Because it was inevitable; originally, we had tormented Wu Sheng until his lifespan was over, and when he died naturally, the matter would have been settled.
But due to the intervention of the female skin, the situation took a turn, and the karma directly fell upon us.
Old Dog and I were fine, as we hadn’t directly harmed Wu Sheng; under my instruction, these actions were carried out by Xue Pan and Jin Buque.
Since things had already happened, there was no use in talking about anything else.
When Jin Buque found me that day, he explained the entire situation.
I asked him and Old Dog to guard me. I then prepared to go down to retrieve the person.
Tsk tsk tsk! Making a joke, my fourth brother was captured, could I, as his big brother, not care? Forget about people from below coming to arrest him, even if people from above came, I would have to go!
Whether you’re being a human or cultivating immortality, if you don’t even uphold loyalty, what’s the point of living?
After giving a few instructions, I sat cross-legged and recited an incantation;
“Heaven and Earth Without Limit, Heaven and Earth Borrow Law, Indestructible Golden Body, Primordial Spirit Departure!”
“Om!”
A roar echoed in my mind, and in a moment of daze, my primordial spirit detached from my physical body.
After a normal soul is taken to the Underworld, it must first pass through the Ghost Gate, which is the mandatory checkpoint to the realm of ghosts, guarded by the sixteen great ghosts.
After passing the Ghost Gate, the departed soul will enter the Underworld and be interrogated in the ten palaces. Based on their actions in life, the departed soul may receive different judgments and punishments.
If my guess is correct, Xue Pan would have already been brought to the interrogation stage by now.
If the verdict is delivered and he is sent to the eighteen layers of hell, it will be too late to save him then.
Without delay, I flipped my hand, grasped the Demon Subduing Pestle, and forcefully thrust it into the ground. With a “bang.”
The earth began to crack, and a passage to the yin and yang realms appeared before me.
Without a second word, I jumped in.
Upon arriving in the Underworld, I first disguised myself. Following behind the captured wandering souls, I feigned a dazed and foolish demeanor, intending to slip past the first checkpoint.
It’s not that I wanted to feign foolishness, but all souls brought here are missing a part of their soul, meaning they only have three souls and six spirits, so normally, this is how it is.
At the Ghost Gate, there will be a manager to register the deceased’s detailed information. Of course, this wouldn’t be difficult for me.
“Name? Age? Birth? Origin? Home address? Cause of death?”
Watching the souls being questioned ahead, I turned back and quietly asked the soul behind me,
“Buddy, where are you from? You look so familiar? Do we know each other?”
The soul I questioned was dazed, clearly somewhat at a loss, and answered questions purely based on instinct.
“I, I’m from Northeast China, what’s the matter?”
“What’s your name and where do you live?”
“My name is so-and-so, and I live in so-and-so…”
After obtaining the information I wanted, it was my turn before long.
“Name?”
“Wang so-and-so.”
“Age?”
“So-and-so.”
…
After I registered my information, I smoothly passed the first checkpoint.
However, before I could get far, I heard the ghost messenger behind me shout;
“Halt!”
Damn it! What kind of joke is this? This little trick I played, why am I so stupid? I was asking for information, I should have asked someone else, asking the person behind me, wouldn’t that reveal me immediately?
Hearing the shout, I stopped in place and looked back.
Holy cow! How close. It turns out they weren’t calling me. The brother I had just interrogated was detained and was being checked for his IQ, the ghost messenger thought he was mimicking me due to a mental defect.
Looking to the left, I saw two monks and Taoist priests with some cultivation, arguing with the ghost messengers, wanting to pass without registering.
“Damn it! I am Xu Deliang of Longhu Mountain! How dare you, a mere ghost messenger, block this true person?”
“Amitabha, this humble monk is Zhìtōng, from Da Xiangguo Temple. Please, benefactor, be accommodating.”
“Unrestrained! Is the Ghost Gate a place you can just enter as you please? Let alone a monk or Taoist priest like you, even if you were an immortal, why would you act so arrogant here? Go, stand in line over there to register!”
Hearing this, the Taoist priest named Xu Deliang immediately became angry and pulled out a talisman, fighting with the ghost messenger.
Of course, the monk was not spared either.
However, it wasn’t long before five of the ten great ghosts arrived at the scene.
They gave the monk and Taoist a thorough beating!
“Damn your mother! Who the hell dares to be unrestrained at the Ghost Gate? Beat them to death! After killing them, rescue them and send them to the eighteen layers of hell to be put in the oil pot! Grandmother’s!”
Seeing this, I turned my head and quickly wiped the cold sweat from my forehead.
I mean, being in this place and still acting tough? These ghost messengers below are minor matters; those sixteen great ghosts are not to be trifled with. Each of them must be at the Nascent Soul level!
If divided by cultivation realms in the mortal world, there are nine major realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Human Immortal, Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Great Luo Golden Immortal, and Saint.
While these sixteen great ghosts are two realms lower than me, they are still not to be provoked by ordinary people.
These two idiots, they’ve become foolish from cultivating immortality, they didn’t do any research before coming.
No wonder there’s a saying, “Many monks and Taoists at the gates of hell,” it turns out it describes these idiotic cultivators who have become foolish.
To avoid getting involved and exposing my identity, I quickly quickened my pace. While feigning foolishness and speeding up, my appearance, cough cough cough, would be easily recognized by anyone who has played Plants vs. Zombies; I looked like the lowest-level zombies in the game, swaying and foolishly inching forward.
After passing the Ghost Gate, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It’s not that I didn’t dare to breathe at the Ghost Gate; wouldn’t breathing then reveal me?
Have you ever seen a ghost that breathes? Damn it!
