The Sealed Beasts of the Divine Realm, Part 17

"You really didn't know?" Wu Long didn't believe him. "Then why did you take it by surprise and insert the characters into its body?"

"Isn't it normal to hold back a trick when dealing with them?" Xie Guijin stared at Wu Long with innocent eyes: "It's better to be safe than sorry."

Wu Long looked at Xie Guijin, his lips twitching.

Xie Guijin grew anxious, thinking to herself, "Just say it already."

Just as she was about to urge him, Xue Linchuan cupped his hands and said, "Please enlighten us, Star Lord."

“Tsk,” Wu Long turned his face away and said, “It’s because you only have a superficial understanding of magic arrays, and it’s also because you didn’t expect that chaos would infiltrate the crowd in advance.”

Seeing Xie Guijin and the other person's puzzled expressions, Wu Long continued, "The magic array you set up was meant to be triggered when Chaos entered the manor after you left. However, it arrived inside the manor before you set up the array, so the array is ineffective. You need to activate it during the fight."

"As for why it became more powerful?" Wu Long, ever the good guy, continued, "There's a saying among the people that the land of China doesn't support idle gods. Our righteous gods need to receive incense offerings to gain magical power. Evil gods like Chaos, on the other hand, rely on crooked methods and listen to slander to increase their magical power."

"So, I chiseled open its seven orifices and then used its hated calendar and laws to trap it. Only by doing both could I seal it away," Xie Guijin said, clapping his hands.

Wu Long nodded, a pleased expression on his face, saying, "That's right. Chaos, formless and without shape, fears things that are clear and orderly..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xie Guijin and Xue Linchuan had both disappeared, and the original divine general and goddess returned to their positions.

Wu Long was still not satisfied.

Xie Guijin was unaware of Wu Long's feelings and was currently standing on a main street in a town.

It was already midnight, and the curfew had long been in effect; the streets were deserted.

Xie Guijin looked around and felt that the buildings in the town were very similar to those in Cixi Town, except that they looked taller, bigger, and newer.

Just as she was puzzled, a group of people rushed over; they looked like a city patrol.

Before she could figure out how to explain her appearance here in the middle of the night...

The group seemed not to see her, and walked right past her; some even passed right through her body.

"System," Xie Guijin's lips trembled, and for the first time she truly felt panicked: "What's going on? You, you've teleported to the wrong place again?"

"No, no," the system hurriedly clarified, "Let me see, don't worry."

Xie Guijin stood frozen in place.

"Host, this time it's the Ghost Realm. You are the Ghost Messenger responsible for the communication between the Ghost Realm and the other realms."

"What the hell is this 'Crossing Realm Ghost Messenger'? Where am I now? The Ghost Realm? Does the Ghost Realm look the same as the Human Realm? What is this mission?" Xie Guijin's shoulders slumped upon hearing this, and she breathed a sigh of relief, asking repeatedly.

Before the system could respond, the original owner's memories flooded into Xie Guijin's mind.

Since the Three Realms split into the Six Realms, and after a long period of change, the Six Realms now exchange goods and services, and commerce is thriving in all realms.

The Ghost Realm is the only one where the ratio of income to expenditure is too disproportionate. Apart from special items that can flow into other realms, there is no other output. As a result, income has been insufficient to cover expenditure for a long time, and the Ghost Realm urgently needs to solve this problem.

Therefore, the new position of "Crossing-the-World Ghost Messenger" was established to be responsible for business dealings with other worlds.

The original owner was sent to various sectors to negotiate business, but made no progress and faced the risk of unemployment.

The original owner, standing on the streets of the human realm in the middle of the night, felt very aggrieved. The other realms didn't want anything from the ghost realm, so what could she do?

Xie Guijin sighed and said, "No one has it easy, no matter where they are. Let's go back to the Ghost Realm."

"Host, aren't you going to conduct some research in the other realms?" the system asked, puzzled.

"What is there to research?" Xie Guijin said irritably, "Anyway, the task you gave me is to sell houses. If I sell the houses in the Ghost Realm to other realms, wouldn't both the original owner's task and my task be completed? Let's go and check out the real estate situation in the Ghost Realm first, and then report to the original owner's superior. Otherwise, if I sell the houses here, it will be terrible if they don't allow buying and selling there."

“Oh,” the system suddenly remembered that someone was missing: “Host, Xue Linchuan isn’t here.”

"He's probably in the ghost realm," Xie Guijin guessed.

"You just gave so many reasons, why didn't you say that you were going to the Ghost Realm first and then looking for something?" the system asked, puzzled.

Xie Guijin readily admitted, "Yes, I'm going to the Ghost Realm, and I'll also go see him while I'm there."

"By the way?" the system chuckled.

Xie Guijin ignored it and brushed her fingers across the Six Realms Jade Talisman at her waist. This jade talisman could temporarily open the Six Realms passage, eliminating the need to use the special passage for ghost messengers. After all, the ghost realm was special, and ghost messengers were not allowed to roam freely under normal circumstances.

Xie Guijin went directly to the fourth palace of the underworld, which is the legendary Tianzhao Sinful Qi Heavenly Palace, in charge of judging sins, coordinating the three realms, and managing the Book of Life and Death, and is overseen by the ghost official Beidou Jun.

It was also the department where the original owner worked.

She first went to see the ghost official, Beidou-kun, who was a female ghost official.

Xie Guijin felt that the face looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it before. She bowed respectfully and then told her about her idea of ​​selling the house in the Ghost Realm to other realms.

After listening, Beidou Jun pondered for a moment and said, "Although there are properties in the Ghost Realm, they all have owners. To sell a property, you must first build one. If we want to undertake large-scale construction in the Ghost Realm, it is not something that our four palaces can decide. You should first visit the other realms to confirm whether there are any target groups willing to buy houses in the Ghost Realm, and then come back to me."

"Yes," Xie Guijin acknowledged the order and withdrew, but did not rush to the other realms.

The original owner was a ghost messenger who crossed the six realms and was in charge of matters related to travel between the six realms. Naturally, he also had several ghost messengers under his command.

Xie Guijin first summoned several ghost messengers and instructed them to go to various realms to do their work.

After arranging his ghost messengers, Xie Guijin toured the four palaces, meeting with the ghost officials and messengers on duty, but found no trace of Xue Linchuan.

She returned to her residence but did not see Xue Linchuan.

The system asked in surprise, "Could it be that you guessed wrong before? His appearances in various realms are not to follow you?"

Xie Guijin thought for a moment. Xue Linchuan from the human realm was the Prefect of the Capital who was in charge of Xie's father's case. He had Xie's complete childhood memories.

In the demon realm, he possessed the body of Bi Luo Ji's fiancé, Xuan Tang Jin, and remembered things from the human realm.

In the divine realm, he is a divine general responsible for judging goddesses, and he remembers everything that happened before.

This shows that Xue Linchuan can indeed possess the bodies of people she interacts with.

So where is he now?

Xie Guijin had no clue what to do, so she decided to put it aside for the time being and activated the jade talisman to go to the human realm to find the Empress.

The Empress is protected by the aura of Heaven, and ordinary ghosts cannot get close to her.

Because of the special nature of the Crossing-the-Boundary Ghost Messenger's position, Xie Guijin's meeting with the Empress was not affected.

Upon seeing Xie Guijin, the Empress smiled and said, "I figured it was time for you to move to another realm. It seems this time it's the Ghost Realm."

"Your Majesty, your eyes are discerning," Xie Guijin said, scratching her head. "No matter what I look like, Your Majesty can recognize me immediately. I admire you greatly."

"You're selling a house in the Ghost Realm this time? I wonder what houses there look like? And if a ghost pays for it, what happens to the house after reincarnation?" the Empress asked with a smile.

Xie Guijin then revealed her thoughts in detail.

“I see,” the Empress nodded. “When the house is built, I can buy one and help you complete one-fifth of the task.”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xie Guijin quickly bowed and expressed her gratitude.

"No need to be so polite," the Empress looked up and asked, "Why are you the only one here? Where is Ji Ming?"

“I don’t know either. I couldn’t find him in the Ghost Realm either,” Xie Guijin said with a deep sigh, her brows furrowed.

The Empress asked, "Have you searched the entire ghost realm?"

"What does Your Majesty mean by this?"

"If what you two say is true, then Ming is also a visitor from another world, and he has lost his memories of that world." The Empress rubbed her forehead and said slowly, "Humans have three souls and seven spirits, and the three souls are all related to memories. Perhaps his soul was damaged when he came from another world."

"Your Majesty means that if the broken soul is in this world, it should be in the Ghost Realm." Xie Guijin quickly followed the Empress's train of thought and said, "Xue Linchuan went to the Ghost Realm with me, but was restrained by his three souls, so he was unable to appear in the four palaces of Fengdu."

"This is just my guess. Since he is extremely intelligent, it is unlikely that his soul is severely damaged. I think even if his soul is damaged, he wouldn't have lost all three souls." The Empress looked into Xie Guijin's eyes and said sincerely, "I don't know anything about the Ghost Realm. This is just a speculation. You will have to verify it to find out the truth."

“I understand,” Xie Guijin said, bowing. “Thank you for your guidance, Your Majesty.”

After bidding farewell to the Empress, Xie Guijin went straight to the Ghost Market.

There was still some time before dawn, and the ghost market was still open.

There are only two or three medical clinics in the Ghost Market, and those who can establish themselves here are naturally not ordinary people.

The ghosts in the clinic didn't take the original owner, a ghost officer who had only recently joined the job, seriously, but there was no need to make things difficult for him.

Xie Guijin was particularly humble, stating that she only wanted to see the sick man, which was not an unreasonable request.

So she was left to her own devices at the clinic.

The Ghost Market opens at midnight and closes at dawn.

With time running out, Xie Guijin navigates among all sorts of ghosts.

With so many ghosts around and dawn approaching, she still hadn't found a clinic.

The clinic told her to come back tomorrow, but Xie Guijin couldn't wait any longer and tried everything to persuade her.

Xie Guijin clung to the door frame of the clinic and said, "Just name your price, I'll agree to anything, as long as you let me in. Besides, what does the Ghost Market closing down have to do with me going in to search? My going in won't stop you from closing."

Such a commotion attracted many ghosts to watch the spectacle from outside.

A little imp in the crowd, who had no eyes, looked up and asked, "Why is this lady going to the clinic instead of getting medical treatment?"

"I don't know," said a middle-aged female ghost. "I've never heard of her having any sick relatives or friends."

"You recognize her?" asked a ghost whose body was charred and still steaming.

The female ghost slightly avoided the burning ghost to prevent sparks from falling on her, and replied, "I recognize her. Isn't she the former inter-departmental ghost messenger? I heard that she hasn't accomplished anything since taking office and is about to be removed from the list."

"That's really strange. Why isn't she on official business in other realms? What's she doing here?" a hanged ghost asked, tugging at his tongue as he played with it.

"Who knows?"

Xie Guijin, at the center of public attention, lay sprawled on the door panel in an extremely undignified posture, declaring her determination to go inside.