Chapter 196: Trip to the Underworld 21

After Qing Yanrou hung up the phone, she walked to the table and took out the badge given to her by Judge Cui from her bag.

Suddenly, a negative energy rose in the room, and a two-meter-high ghost door appeared in the room. Cui Jue, dressed in a suit, walked through the door.

Qing Yanrou: ???

"What are you doing? Where did you find these clothes?"

She was really shocked by his well-tailored expensive suit and neatly groomed hair.

"Rou girl, how is it?"

Cui Jue, the black-faced judge who had served in the underworld for tens of thousands of years, now had a hint of uncomfortable shyness on his face.

Fortunately, his face was dark, and Qing Yanrou didn't see that his face was already slightly red.

"Don't tell me, I really feel like a successful industry elite."

Qing Yanrou walked around him several times and looked at him carefully. His official robes were more modern than before.

"But who prepared this for you? Why did you think of changing the style?"

"It's that candle. Chu Tingbai had someone arrange it for us."

He originally wanted to talk about Zhu Qingyuan, but when he thought about his human identity in this life and she didn't remember what happened before, he changed the subject.

Qing Yanrou raised her eyebrows. Zhu? The man in the dream was called Chu Tingbai Qingyuan, so his name in his previous life was Zhu Qingyuan?

"Hmm..."

"Rou girl, what's wrong with you?"

Judge Cui suddenly heard her groan, her hands covering her chest, her little face wrinkled. He walked to her side and asked with concern.

"fine."

She rubbed her chest, which was now fine, and fell into deep thought. She had just thought of his name in his previous life, so why did she feel a dull pain in her chest?

She suppressed the suspicion in her heart and said to Judge Cui with a smile.

However, do the people in the underworld also know about his past life?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but chuckle. She must have been possessed by a demon. The underworld controls the reincarnation of the mortal world, so how could she not know about it?

If Cui Jue knew what she was thinking, he would definitely refute her. If the ancient black dragon was really dead, then it was dead and would not fall into the cycle of reincarnation in the secular world.

Moreover, they belong to the upper realm and are not under the jurisdiction of the underworld, so Chu Tingbai does not need to go through the underworld if he wants to come to the human world.

But he didn't have the ability to read minds, so of course he didn't know what she was thinking, so he couldn't tell her.

"Are you really okay?"

Seeing that her face was still a little pale, Cui Jue frowned and asked.

"Well, I called you here because I want to ask you something."

"you say."

"Hasn't the underworld received any ghosts who died in Yanshan?"

"received."

Cui Jue could sense her expression instantly turning cold, and quickly continued speaking:

"But the underworld cannot interfere with the human world—"

"So the underworld allowed hundreds of people to die at the hands of the wild goose spirit from Yanshan?"

Qing Yanrou interrupted him with a cold face and a deep voice. If the underworld could have warned the Taoist sect about the Yanshan incident, so many people would not have died.

"As long as it's not an evil ghost or a haunting, the underworld can't interfere."

Judge Cui of the underworld, who has always been feared by thousands of evil spirits, is now explaining in a gentle voice in front of a female mystic from the human world.

If the ghosts in the underworld knew about this, they would be horrified.

Qing Yanrou just had a cold face. She knew the truth, but the way things were done in the underworld was really too rigid.

"So this time it's also the work of a demon. Can't this give us a clue?"

Cui Jue heard the displeasure in her tone, and twitched his lips a few times, but ultimately remained silent.

"I'd like to ask King Qin Guang why your underworld is so rigid in its work."

Having said that, Qing Yanrou opened the ghost gate herself and walked in, without giving Cui Jue any chance to react.

"Hey, Rou girl——"

Seeing that the ghost gate had not yet closed, he followed in without hesitation.

I think King Qin Guang was happy about her arrival.

——

The Ghost Gate opened on the bank of the Forgetful River. When she walked out of the Ghost Gate, what she saw was the underworld as bright as day.

She had only been to the underworld once when she was a child, to send her mother to be reincarnated. At that time, the underworld was pitch black, not like it is now.

However, the evil ghosts struggling in the Wangchuan River have not changed, and the reincarnated ghosts standing in line with no expression on their faces to drink Mengpo soup on the Naihe Bridge have not changed either.

"Come on, he asked me to take you there."

Cui Jue, who was half a step behind her, saw her observing her surroundings, walked up to her and said.

As soon as she appeared in the underworld, the people in the Yama Palace noticed her presence, and King Qin Guang specifically sent him a message to bring her over.

Qing Yanrou followed behind him, looking at the modern houses and shining street lights along the way, and couldn't help but sigh at the changes in the underworld.

However, although the lights came on and dispelled the long-standing darkness, the gloomy atmosphere of the underworld did not change, but this could not be changed.

Looking at the evil energy that was constantly flowing towards her, she frowned slightly and used her spiritual energy to disperse it, preventing it from getting close to her.

Along the way, many ghosts smelled the human breath on her and showed greedy faces. They floated over following the breath. But before they could be happy, they saw Judge Cui in front of her and were immediately frightened and fled in all directions.

Judge Cui brought her to an antique place that looked like a yamen in a human costume drama. It was completely different from the modern buildings she had just seen along the way.

The plaque above the gate is inscribed with three powerful characters: "Xuanming Palace". Just one look at it and the majesty it exudes makes people want to surrender.

Qing Yanrou withdrew her gaze, and the spiritual power in her body circulated to protect her spiritual altar, ensuring a clear consciousness.

The man sitting on the upper floor noticed her movements, but had forgotten that she was now a real human being. He sighed inwardly and silently withdrew most of the energy from the plaque.

Feeling the pressure on her body suddenly relieved, she looked up at the three big characters on the plaque in surprise, and then followed Judge Cui into the gate.

Sitting upright on a high-back chair behind a fine mahogany table was a middle-aged man with leopard eyes, a lion nose, a long beard, a square crown on his head, and a long robe.

As she looked at King Qin Guang, his leopard-like eyes were also watching her.

"Qing Yanrou?"

He remembered that this was her name in the human world, but his tone still held a hint of uncertainty.

She had secretly run away and mistakenly entered the upper realm, where she stayed for thousands of years and then fell into reincarnation. By calculation, he had not seen her for 1,300 years.

He felt bitter in his heart, but did not show it on his face.

"His Royal Highness Prince Qin Guang, hello. I'm here because I have something I'm confused about."

Qing Yanrou didn't know what he was thinking, she just looked at him and spoke fearlessly.

"you say."

A chair appeared out of thin air at her feet. Judge Cui had quietly retreated after sending her in.

Qing Yanrou didn't think anything was wrong, she sat calmly on the chair and said:

"On my way here just now, I saw that the underworld has changed a lot now, and it is becoming more and more modern and closer to the human world."

"Well, this is Cui Jue's opinion. It seems to be working well so far."