They used an array to shield themselves while they spoke, and Zeus and the others couldn't even see the cardamom on Chongjiu's hand; they only knew that they were whispering to each other.

Zeus was curious about what they were saying, but he also knew better than to go up and look at their lips.

Shu Jianyue nodded at Chong Jiu, signaling him to dispel the formation, then looked at the withered river and asked, "What's your name, and why are you in the River of Oblivion?"

Kuhe did not answer her question, but looked at Zeus, "Judge, you... what's going on?"

Zeus laughed, his eyes cold, "I'd like to know what's going on."

"Tell me, how did you get into the River of Oblivion?"

Shu Jianyue suddenly remembered something and looked at Chong Jiu, asking telepathically, "Didn't you already take Doukou away? He still has the water from the River of Oblivion on him. Will it have any effect?"

Chong Jiu shook his head. "No, the cardamom has been on him for quite some time now; its lingering effects are still there."

Kuhe looked around, unable to understand how he had been captured while hiding in the River of Oblivion.

Is anyone allowed to enter the River of Oblivion here?

Seeing that he was looking away and not saying anything, Zeus raised his hand and slapped him across the air.

“You…” Lou Qiongshang glared at him.

Zeus glanced at him and said, "It's not even certain whether he's your master or not, so why are you in such a hurry?"

Then he looked at the dry river and narrowed his eyes, "What, do you think you can still deceive everyone, or do you think I won't get to the bottom of this?"

Shu Jianyue glanced at him sideways. The idiom he used was perfect.

Kuhe tilted his head, thinking about how to escape from them. As long as he entered the River of Oblivion again, they would definitely be no match for him.

Thinking about it, I couldn't help but check if I still had the stone on me, but to my surprise, I couldn't find it anywhere.

Kuhe panicked immediately. Without that stone, how could he enter the River of Oblivion to cultivate, or how could he escape?

He panicked and looked around frantically, then saw Lou Qiongshang. He called him "Master," and then he was with them.

"Disciple, quick, tell them to release their master."

He should have kept quiet, because as soon as he said that, Lou Qiongshang frowned.

His master never called him disciple; he called him Xiao Fu most often.

The reason was that his name contained the character "琼" (qióng), which sounds like "穷" (qióng, meaning poor), so his master gave him the nickname "小富" (xiǎo fù, meaning little wealth).

It is said that cultivators cannot be poor, otherwise it will take forever to break through to the Great Dao.

Lou Qiongshang looked up at him and said, "Since you are my master, you must know my name. So tell me, what is my name?"

Kuhe's eyes darted around as he tried hard to recall if he had heard his name just now, but he hadn't.

"Alright, stop wasting your brainpower making this up. You don't even know his master's name, yet you want to be someone else's master." Zeus saw that the water from the River of Oblivion on his body had almost dried up, so he began to search him.

He had nothing on him except a storage ring.

Zeus looked at him impatiently, "Tell me quickly, how did you get into the River of Oblivion? If you don't tell me, I'll send you straight to the Valley of Soul Scraping, where you'll never come out again."

The name "Scraping Soul Valley" itself tells you what kind of place it is.

Kuhe felt a shiver from the depths of his soul. Before becoming the Ghost King, he had been to the Soul-Scraping Valley, so he knew all too well what it was like inside.

So he immediately said, "I obtained a stone, but I didn't know it could take me into the River of Oblivion. I only found out after I was ambushed and fell into the River of Oblivion."

When Chongjiu appeared in front of him, he had already knocked the man unconscious, so he wasn't afraid of what Chongjiu said.

Besides, even if they know the item is on him, so what? Can they take it from him?

Zeus stretched out his hand towards the dry riverbed and said, "Give it to me."

Kuhe said with a bitter face, "It's not on me anymore. I just checked."

Zeus looked at Chongjiu.

Chong Jiu glanced at him indifferently without saying a word.

"You didn't take it?" Zeus asked.

Chong Jiu looked at him and said, "So what if I took it, or so what if I didn't?"

"Ahem, let me test the waters." Zeus had always wanted to know what secrets lay beneath the River of Oblivion, but alas, he was afraid of its waters.

Now that such a magical thing has suddenly appeared, I have to go down and take a look.

While he needed to find out how Kuhe, a human, became the Ghost King, he was more curious about everything beneath the River of Oblivion.

Shu Jianyue glanced at Zeus, then looked at the Dry River and asked, "How did you become the Ghost King of the Dry River?"

She didn't think much of being able to fool Zeus, but the main thing was that he had also fooled Yama, the King of Hell.

When Zeus saw her like this, he knew that the item must be in their hands, otherwise why would they try to divert attention?

He clicked his tongue and didn't ask any more questions.

If they won't give it to you, and you can't take it from them, what else can you do?

Kuhe shook his head and said, "I don't know either. When I woke up and had memories, I was already the Kuhe Ghost King."

This is going to be difficult.

Shu Jianyue looked at Zeus and asked, "With your abilities, can you discern his previous identity?"

Zeus looked at her speechlessly. What did she mean by "whether he could tell or not with his abilities"? Did she mean that if he couldn't tell, then his abilities were inadequate?

"To find out his true identity, we need to consult the King of Hell and check his birth record. If we do that, we'll know who he is. I..."

Zeus realized something and his gaze toward the withered river changed. "No, you didn't look like this when you appeared before me before. You were definitely a ghost."

"Something so easy to see cannot possibly be hidden from me and Yama."

Lou Qiongshang kept staring at the dry river during this time, and was now quite certain that this person was not his master.

However, the reason why he looks exactly like his master remains to be investigated.

Chong Jiu knew the reason, but he didn't say it. Instead, he told Shu Jianyue through telepathy.

After Shu Jianyue found out, she looked at Lou Qiongshang and asked, "Do you know if your master has any special characteristics? See if he has any."

Lou Qiongshang shook his head and said, "I don't know." His master had never changed his clothes in front of him, so how could he possibly know?

Shu Jianyue pulled Zhong Jiu to his feet and said, "Then let's go back to the Dry River Ghost City first."

They didn't care how Kuhe became the Ghost King; what was important now was to find out if Lou Qiongshang's master was the same person as him.

He didn't care about the heavy moxibustion, and prepared to leave with his arm around her.

Just as they put the chairs away, a colossal creature burst out of the River of Oblivion and landed in front of them.

Zeus reacted the most, leaping a great distance in an instant.

Lou Qiongshang reacted quickly and pulled Zhou Rong away to avoid them.

Only the withered river, because it was facing away and was under the pressure of the heavy moxibustion, did not avoid it and ended up getting splashed with the water of the River of Oblivion.

"Ah..." Kuhe immediately let out a painful howl.

"That's it, there's no point in asking now, we won't get anything out of them." Zeus clicked his tongue twice and shook his head.