Chapter 51

That day, Master Ye Xiaotian left the interrogation room and locked himself in the room. He did not open the door until the next day when Master Li came.

"Okay, Lao Li, stop knocking on the door and let the kid be alone."

Master Fang beside him looked at Master Li and couldn't help but persuade him.

"This kind of thing is hard for someone like you who has been through so much to accept, let alone a child who is only 22."

Master Fang was a little shocked when she got the news. How could things have become so twisted in just one day?

All the enemies and close friends from the previous life have come to this life, and even bring with them extremely twisted emotional entanglements.

However, Ye Wangxing had no place to complain, after all, it was Ye Wangxing himself who caused this result.

Although it was from his previous life, it was obvious that Ye Wangxing's way of thinking had not changed, otherwise he would not be able to understand so smoothly what he did in his previous life.

"But I am his master after all, and I am afraid that this kid will do something stupid."

Master Li said anxiously.

When he received the news that a large number of evil spirits had erupted in the old execution ground, he already felt that the situation was not good. When Vice President Ding called for people, he immediately followed, fearing that his apprentice would encounter an accident.

Fortunately, nothing happened to his apprentice - it was just that there was a problem with his emotional entanglement.

Li Guanzhu actually sent a text message to Ye Wangxing, and Ye Wangxing quickly replied to Li Guanzhu.

He didn't mind that Li Guanzhu typed slowly or could only send voice messages. He read every message Li Guanzhu sent him carefully and replied seriously.

"Master, I'm really confused. Why did those two fall for me? Besides, I'm only 22 in this life. I'm not the Ye Tianshi who went through all that with them in my previous life. It's impossible for the mainland to not be able to tell the difference."

Ye Wangxing's doubts were revealed directly in his words.

"Did I do something that caused them to misunderstand?"

Master Li fell silent after looking at his disciple's words.

Recalling that Ye Wangxing had saved Lu Shi and promised to protect the Ghost Emperor in just these two days, he even recognized that this Lu Shi was not the same Lu Shi as before.

——How did he find out that this person’s own mother didn’t even recognize him?

Master Li Guan felt that if his disciple continued to treat people around him in this way of thinking, and continued for several years, and finally left the world in such a tragic way.

...It's not hard to understand why those two are so deeply in love.

Although Master Li was already somewhat accustomed to it, after hearing the whole process, he still couldn't help but wonder whether he should let his apprentice go to Yonghe Palace to pay homage and see if he could get rid of these two peach blossoms.

But thinking about the glorious record of Yonghe Palace, Master Li was afraid that after his apprentice went to Yonghe Palace to pray, Yonghe Palace would allocate him a few more peach blossoms, or directly cut off all his peach blossoms.

"You're just too concerned. With Xiaoye's personality, he can't understand why those two people in his past life fell in love with him."

Master Fang said helplessly that she had met Ye Wangxing several times, and with her keen eyesight she could naturally see the child's true nature.

"I know," Li Guanzhu wiped his eyes and sighed, "I just feel sorry for this child."

"I can't even imagine how difficult the situation must have been in his previous life. He had to cooperate with the Ghost Emperor, and..."

Li Guanzhu smiled bitterly, pointed at himself and said, "What about me? Where was I in my previous life? Let this child face that monster alone."

Master Fang did not say anything. She knew very well that based on the religious association's usual style of doing things, if it was just an ordinary matter, it would always be these young people who would go first to gain experience, and these old guys would follow from behind to support.

...Only big events will cause these old guys to take action.

If you want to touch the young masters in the association, you have to wait until all these old bones are dead.

But neither the Ghost Emperor nor Lu Shi mentioned these old guys, they only said that Ye Wangxing went to deal with the monster alone.

It is obvious what happened in the previous life.

In the end, it was Master Li who pulled himself together and said, "It's no use for us to sit here and complain. I'm going to go and ask Vice President Ding if there's any solution to this problem."

Master Fang also sighed and nodded, and her eyes looked at Master Li with determination.

...Then she saw Master Li take out a plastic bag from his Taoist robe.

"I'll send a text message to my apprentice first, telling him to have a good rest. After all, I, the master, will take care of everything."

As Li Guanzhu spoke, he untied two plastic bags and then two handkerchiefs, then took out the mobile phone inside and sent text messages with great effort.

Master Fang: …Shouldn’t she be thankful that Master Li is a Taoist practitioner and doesn’t have to worry about presbyopia?

Otherwise, she really thought that Master Li could take out another glasses case from his Taoist robe.

"How can someone in their seventies look like they're in their eighties or nineties?" Master Fang muttered to herself, grumbling to Master Li.

The conversation between Master Li and Master Fang was reported to Ye Wangxing by Yijiu. Ye Wangxing felt a little guilty, after all, he was the one who made up the tragic death in his previous life.

But thinking about the situation of Li Guanzhu and his original body in the original plot, he sighed again.

In the original fate, after the original owner was expelled from the religious association, Li Guanzhu worked hard to get the original owner an opportunity to take the civil service examination. However, Zhou Tianning's words later ruined the original owner's future.

Yuansheng wanted to hide it from Master Li, but Master Li eventually found out about it from Zhou Tianning. Master Li was immediately disheartened and left the religious association, spending the rest of his life guarding his small Qingfeng Temple.

Ye Wangxing felt sad when seeing this.

[Yijiu, besides being busy with the script and the Taoist temple, it seems we should also start preparing.]

Ye Wangxing took a deep breath and said.

Yijiu would not refute his host's opinions. He found various business cases and planned to find a few agents to help Master Li run the Taoist temple when his host was free.

However, Ye Wangxing had other plans.

[Yijiu doesn't need this, and whether Li Guanzhu actually has the initial capital is another matter.]

Ye Wangxing looked at the script, then pointed at a place on the script and said.

[Since we've already arranged so many people, it would seem a bit of a waste if we don't make full use of them.]

Yijiu looked at the spot where Ye Wangxing was and remained silent.

'Host, are you sure this is a human?'

Xiao Wu felt that her two days were too exciting.

It was even a little too stimulating, and she began to miss the days of working overtime.

First, the Religious Association suddenly informed them yesterday that the Ghost Emperor had been born. Then, while she witnessed the Ghost Emperor, she also witnessed his love for his natural enemy, Master Ye Xiaotian.

Although it was one-sided, it did not prevent Xiao Wu from singing a song for the other party: "The Wolf Falls in Love with the Sheep, the Crazy Love."

However, even though this relationship seemed crazy, at least it did not cause much harm to Xiao Wu and her colleagues. On the contrary, it provided them with gossip material.

They were all quite curious about how Master Ye Xiaotian knew the Ghost Emperor, and why the Ghost Emperor was so obsessed with Master Ye Xiaotian?

Unfortunately, the law that excessive joy leads to sorrow seems to be timeless everywhere, at least for Xiao Wu.

Before she could gossip for even one day, she was captured by Master Zhou Tian, the person she feared the most in the entire association, and taken to the mission site.

Xiao Wu almost thought he was going to die there, but fortunately Master Ye Xiaotian saved them, and he himself rushed to the mission location.

At that time, Xiao Wu felt that this was probably the most exciting thing she had ever encountered in her life.

——But the facts proved that she was still too inexperienced.

"Is the Ghost Emperor... planning to propose marriage?"

Xiao Wu looked at the densely packed ghosts standing in line downstairs in shock.

These ghosts have faces that look modern and ancient, and their hairstyles are also varied, but their clothes are all the same black shroud.

This is also why Xiao Wu recognized that this was the Ghost Emperor's man at a glance.

...After all, could it be that these evil spirits are tired of living and that’s why they come to the relevant departments?

Xiao Wu's colleagues were also shocked. Given the Ghost Emperor's situation, they all had a bad feeling.

But this time they guessed wrong.

"...Your Majesty, the Prime Minister and the ministers have arrived, and the guards are in place."

Looking at the leader of the ghost guards kneeling on one knee to report to the Ghost Emperor, Xiao Wu and his colleagues finally realized that the Ghost Emperor was His Majesty who controlled a quarter of the ghosts in the underworld.

But how did this person manage to become a comedian despite having such power?

Xiao Wu really couldn't understand it, but no one cared about what a small follower like her thought. After all, no one looked at her face.

Vice President Ding and Minister Li put on harmonious official smiles and received the Ghost Emperor with the highest etiquette they could.

This time, the Ghost Emperor did not come in a private capacity, but came to negotiate with the official. The matter of the black mud can be regarded as a three-party negotiation, so naturally the treatment must be maximized.

The Ghost Emperor seemed to know that this was a formal occasion, so he didn't cause any trouble and didn't bring up any topic of marriage in front of Master Li.

Apart from his somewhat bored expression, all matters were left to his ghost prime minister, and everything else was normal.

Even when he met Lu Shishi, he just sneered and didn't cause any trouble.

Xiao Wu breathed a sigh of relief. The Ghost Emperor was back to normal, so there shouldn't be any big problems with this tripartite meeting, right?

It turned out that she was too naive.

The more important and serious the meeting is.

...and the quarrel became more intense.

Xiao Wu, who watched helplessly as the three-way talks turned into a three-way brawl, said: …

But no matter how much they fight or quarrel, they still have to discuss serious matters.

The first thing is what the black mud is and what kind of crisis it will bring to them. In this case, all the previous little scandals are like drizzle.

The important thing now is to suppress that black mud-like thing.

However, after a careful investigation, he found that the situation was not optimistic.

According to the Ghost Emperor and Lu Shi, and after the official used the system to test it, they found that this thing would only appear in places where negative energy and resentment were concentrated.

Moreover, he seemed to be like a fish in water in these places, enjoying the atmosphere here more than ghosts. Even some ghosts would not go near places where resentment was concentrated for fear of being eaten by the evil spirits inside, or being blown to pieces by the evil spirits and resentment.

However, this thing will only appear in places with extremely heavy yin energy and resentment.

But the strange thing is that he will not actively attack those evil spirits. Only when these evil spirits actively attack him will he suddenly swallow them up.

Things like tentacles would extend from those black mud-like objects, and even the evil spirits that clearly had no physical form would be pulled into the black mud-like bodies by those tentacles.

after……

The black mud-like object will become bigger.

When they received this report, they thought that this black mud-like object would only grow by eating evil spirits.

——Until they saw this black, slimy object grow one centimeter in size after passing a high school and a company.

Now they finally figured out what this black mud-like object feeds on.

but……

Vice President Ding and Minister Li, who already knew the news, looked at each other, then slowly raised their heads to look at the staff who were still working overtime outside the office door.

When I turned around and looked out the window, the tall buildings in the distance were still brightly lit.

Those are some of the local internet companies that are major taxpayers.

Vice President Ding and Minister Li both widened their eyes.

“Marula!”

The talks lasted for more than a month.

The official and the Ghost Emperor are refusing to give in to each other, while the religious association is trying to survive in the cracks.

In the end, the official revealed Lu Shi, the Ghost Emperor took action personally, and the Religious Association... chose to sacrifice Ye Wangxing.

Religious Association, win.

Finally, with the three parties having equal military strength, they were able to come up with a plan.

The minions don’t know the specific plan. They only know that the official will be responsible for commanding the overall situation, and the other two parties will contribute manpower and effort, but the official will also give corresponding rewards.

In addition, the government will send people to manage the Ghost Emperor and the Religious Association.

But it is not full management. It is equivalent to sending someone to assist them in the special management of the heavenly masters and ghosts below.

In this case, it was foreseeable that the religious association would be under official management after this incident.

This was also tacitly approved by Vice President Ding. After all, the current religious association has long wanted to return to the official position, and today is just the right time to use this opportunity to step down.

The old-fashioned people were unaware of the twists and turns involved and thought that the government had sent them a steward so that they could enjoy a peaceful life in the future.

This matter might be a little unbelievable to the Ghost Emperor. After all, the Ghost Prime Minister doesn't seem like a ghost who can't see through these things.

It doesn't seem like the Ghost Emperor is in love, after all, Ye Wangxing went to persuade the Ghost Emperor specifically.

Later, after the agreement was signed, the Ghost Prime Minister happily explained the reason.

It turns out that after the revival of spiritual energy, not only will the various natural treasures in the human world increase in large quantities, but even the number of ghosts in their ghost world will increase in large quantities. The reason is that after the spiritual energy increases, the possibility of those people becoming ghosts is much greater.

Now the management model of the entire underworld is still the same as it was hundreds of years ago. They really can't manage it anymore, so it would be great if someone could share the burden.

Anyway, there is no need to worry about these people turning against the human world.

"We will all be the same ghosts in 100 years, so why should we worry about them turning against us?" The ghost prime minister said with a smile.

"You are going to live in the world of the living for 100 years, but you are also going to live in the underworld for several hundred years. You should be able to tell which is more important."

This conspiracy shocked the official and Vice President Ding, and they couldn't help but cast their eyes on the Ghost Emperor standing beside them.

How did the Ghost Emperor manage to suppress such a ghost prime minister?

Vice President Ding thought it was probably because of the fighting power.

But she immediately put the matter behind her because the first task after the trilateral talks was about to begin.

This time, Vice President Ding was still in charge, while Master Li and the others were guarding the base camp to prevent the black mud-like thing from stealing their home.

Ye Wangxing must be one of the candidates for this mission, and as for the rest...

Vice President Ding looked at Lu Shi and Ghost Emperor beside Ye Wangxing in the rearview mirror and nodded with satisfaction.

She is indeed a genius.

Throw Ye Wangxing out like bait, and the remaining two will bite the hook directly like black carp.

Vice President Ding still values Ye Wangxing, but it is normal to use her own staff occasionally... especially when she can't find any reliable members for the mission she is responsible for.

Didn’t you see that she brought Tang Fang and Zhou Tianning along?

If there were anyone available, would she bring Tang Fang and Zhou Tianning, who had already made a mistake?

She even had less mission funding than other mission teams.

...Of course, it was also because the black mud monster had never appeared in the area they were exploring this time.

However, she had already greeted Ye Wangxing, and Ye Wangxing himself didn't mind.

"After all, it's for the mission."

As brightly as Ye Wangxing smiled at that time, his expression now looks as embarrassed as ever.

However, it seemed that Ye Wangxing had no ill feelings towards the two of them, he just thought they were a bit annoying because of their clinginess.

After Ye Wangxing got angry several times in the past month, they finally got the hang of it and would only have some contact with Ye Wangxing with his consent.

——By the way, they also discovered the secret that Ye Wangxing is soft-hearted and does not respond to tough measures.

However, rather than cooperating, they would rather have the best of both worlds, which means that whenever someone is about to win, there will always be another person who comes out to destroy this good situation.

So Vice President Ding was relieved and began to doze off in the car. She was exhausted during this period of time and had to take some time to rest.

While Vice President Ding rested peacefully, Zhou Tianning was still worried.

Zhou Tianning really didn't know why Vice President Ding brought him and Tang Fang along. Even though he was willing to use this incident to enhance his reputation this time, the black mud monster that he had never heard of in his previous life made him extremely frightened.

The so-called black mud monster looked very similar to the one he encountered at the old execution ground, the monster that helped him block the evil spirit.

But Zhou Tianning didn't dare to say it at all. Once he said it, he would definitely be asked why he had contact with the black mud monster.

He had barely escaped from the endless interrogation and had not told them why he had gone there.

Even though two people have already told others about his past life, he doesn't want his identity to be exposed.

After all, the official policy has always been to presume the guilty to be innocent. Even if other members of the Zhou family wanted to drive away the evil spirits and raise stronger evil spirits, and gather all the evil spirits together to torture each other, he did not do such a thing. He even saved Pei Si.

However, if his reincarnation is exposed, it is unknown whether the authorities will recognize him as the same person as in his previous life and punish him, so his identity must be concealed.

but……

Zhou Tianning glanced at the two people who were fighting openly and secretly behind him, and immediately turned his gaze away. Cold sweat broke out all over his body. He held the soul-nourishing jade on his neck and prayed that the situation would pass quickly.

...acting together with two people who were very likely to have known about his rebirth was simply a great torture for him physically and mentally.

"Now I just need to wait until I check into the hotel tonight, cultivate my relationship with Pei Si, and obtain the magic weapon in the secret realm that can only be obtained by a partner working together. My strength will increase, and I may even achieve good results in the next mission."

Zhou Tianning no longer had the arrogance he had before, and he just wanted to get the magic weapon as soon as possible and complete the mission.

Fortunately, the two of them were always paying attention to Ye Wangxing, and Zhou Tianning did not hear any investigation into the Zhou family, which gave him a temporary relief during the day's journey.

He was deeply grateful that he followed Ye Wangxing this time.

However, when he checked into the hotel at night, all of Zhou Tianning's relief disappeared.

"I'm staying in the same room with Ye Wangxing???" Zhou Tianning's incredulous voice echoed throughout the hotel.

Vice President Ding sighed and said, "There's nothing we can do. You know Ye Wangxing's situation is special, so it wouldn't be easy for him to live with anyone. Tang Fang is a man who has redeemed himself for his crimes. Besides, there were rumors in the association that he likes men."

"Even if Tang Fang was negligent in his work before, his crime is not punishable by death. For his life, Zhou Tianning, you should work harder. You also declared that your evil spirit is your husband. It's like you are the only married person here, so they won't be jealous of you."

Zhou Tianning really wanted to say that she didn't want to work hard, and she also wanted to say that she had previously declared that she loved her ghost husband in order to be kicked out of the Zhou family to avoid being implicated by the Zhou family.

But the others had already been paired up, and Vice President Ding no longer had the money to upgrade their rooms. He actually wanted to take the initiative to give Ye Wangxing money so that he could move to a higher-level room.

But Ye Wangxing didn't wait for him to speak and hurriedly pulled him towards the room.

Zhou Tianning already felt as if his back was on fire from being stared at by two pairs of eyes. It was a burning pain.

Fortunately, Ye Wangxing is still a normal person. He did not mention anything related to the Ghost Emperor and Lu Shi throughout the whole process.

The Ghost Emperor and Lu Shi did not knock on the door, which allowed Zhou Tianning to gradually return to normal. He even whispered to Pei Si while holding the jade gourd in the middle of the night.

Then Zhou Tianning gradually fell asleep. Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.

Because Zhou Tianning woke up three times in one night.

Every time he could hear some movement nearby, followed by Ye Wangxing's incredulous voice.

But Zhou Tianning didn't dare to speak at all.

"Why are you here?"

"Why are you two here?"

"Wait, why do I feel like there's a third person???"

Zhou Tianning looked at the quilt which had turned into a huge ball and which definitely contained more than one person, and closed his eyes silently.

I dare not open my eyes, I hope it is my hallucination.