The sudden discovery of the facts disrupted Jiang Li's original plan.

Originally, the highly expected Gui Deng Leng Yan only caused a small disturbance at this time. He didn't even hurt anyone.

But in fact, this situation is not difficult to understand. In fact, it should be said that this is more reasonable.

If the broken root that Beiyin Diling mentioned was really from the mother tree of Jiuyou Wood, it would be even more impossible for it to give birth to spiritual intelligence.

This is because the will of the spiritual root, the Nine Nether Wood, was wiped out by an ancient powerful being. After so many years, even its body cannot regain intelligence and can only survive by instinct.

What's more, it was a last root cut off in the shady mountain.

At the same time, it is not only the Nine Nether Wood that can master the Nine Nether Spirit Qi.

Jiang Li himself is a living example.

When he doesn't use the Nine Ghost Spirits Qi, the Ghost Lantern Cold Flame will also have no effect.

He even relied on the blood patterns of the ghost lantern fish to control this innate spiritual fire.

It can be seen that the other party probably obtained some of the power of the Nine Nether Wood by chance.

He shook his head helplessly. Since he couldn't rely on her fatal weakness, he could just get rid of Grandma Mingshan directly.

Then Jiang Li could no longer act openly. That would be tantamount to committing suicide.

At this moment, he remembered the scene when Grandma Mingshan appeared before.

You should know that this grandma’s hobby is not listening to opera, but singing opera!

At that time, the old lady of Mingshan was not just standing there and watching.

Instead, she dressed up as a Hua Dan and personally played the role of the tragic female ghost who was sentenced to the animal realm in the cycle of reincarnation.

The redness on her face, which even the heavy stage paint could not cover, made her easy to identify.

Plus, her initial reaction to the four-handed child.

Jiang Li believed that this Ghost Mountain Grandma, who was most likely a powerful ghost, might have an obsession with children.

Unlike humans who can let go of the past, ghosts are held together by obsession. If one completely lets go of all obsessions, then this ghost will probably be gone.

So no matter how powerful they are, ghosts are basically paranoid.

After inquiring privately, Jiang Li discovered that the scene of losing a child into reincarnation had a high chance of being performed on the stage of Grandma Mingshan.

The scene should have taken place in ancient times, when Yama's reincarnation still existed. None of the characters in it have a chance of being alive today.

But a similar story could indeed happen again.

Moreover, it seems that the Grandma of Mingshan has been mobilizing her forces to search for the whereabouts of the City of the Dead.

However, since the underworld is still in a fragmented state, no matter how hard his men search, they cannot find it.

But even though others may not be able to find it, Jiang Li, who holds the key clue, may not really be able to find it.

It's just a death card in the city of wrongful death.

Now Jiang Li's Fengdu City has the addition of the reincarnation of Ksitigarbha who imprisoned Shui.

He had tried it before and was able to mass-produce the death cards himself. He just had to cut a piece of wood, paint it white, and write key information on it, and then he could be attracted to the City of the Dead.

Jiang Li also has a sign in his hand that was tailor-made for him.

Even if he gave away this death card seized from the City of the Dead, he would not suffer any loss.

Soon, the chaos caused by the sudden violent attack of the Stone Demon King returned to calm.

Except for the unlucky guy who was pierced by the nail and lying on the ground, for everyone else, this was just a minor episode.

The flames, which had no temperature, didn't even cause any damage to the stage.

After cleaning up the battlefield casually, it was the turn of the purple vine monster Shi Pan, who stepped forward to present a gift.

A long white wooden board was squeezed out from the gap between the vines.

Held in a pair of large vine hands, it was handed to the white ghost figure whose cold flames had been extinguished.

"Master Shi Pan, what is this?"

The white ghost was stunned for a moment, then asked for the first time.

The white ghost, who was quite knowledgeable, did not recognize the origin of the wooden board.

In his eyes, although this piece of wood had some slight fluctuations of yin energy, its strength was not even as strong as a branch broken off from this shady mountain.

There were no runes carved on the surface, but there seemed to be some words written on it originally, which were later erased.

But he didn't believe that anyone would dare to be so perfunctory to Grandma Mingshan, so he thought it was because he was short-sighted and asked Jiang Li.

He did not hide anything and started to explain.

"This thing is called the Death Plate. It is used to guide the souls of the dead in the underworld."

"As long as you write your name on the wooden plaque, you can lead the ghosts who died before their lifespans are over to the City of the Wrongly Dead!"

Jiang Li had just finished speaking when a cold wind blew and Grandma Mingshan, who had been sitting in the rocking chair without moving since her appearance, suddenly appeared in front of him.

"You said it! It's true!"

This powerful overlord of Beiyin Mountain was so fast that even Jiang Li couldn't react.

He grabbed the wooden sign and asked Jiang Li excitedly.

This grandma is not good-looking and her voice is very unpleasant.

When the hoarse throat spoke, it was as if he was using two millstones to grind a handful of nails.

Among them are hundreds of completely different voices, including those of the elderly, rough men, women, and children.

Its level of complexity is comparable to the thousands of faces of the god's incarnations.

If Jiang Li had not been practicing the Heart Sutra of Guanyin, she might not have been able to understand what she said.

"This thing is absolutely true, and I dare not lie in the slightest."

Grandma Mingshan stared at the vine figure in front of her as if she wanted to see through people's hearts.

But the slowly crawling vines had no eyes, and the invisible fire well concealed Jiang Li inside.

Grandma Mingshan looked for a long time but couldn't tell whether Jiang Li was lying.

Then she began to scratch the wooden board with her sharp black nails, scraping off a handful of powder from it bit by bit, and rubbing it carefully in her hands.

There was indeed a smell inside that she had never seen before, which at least proved that this piece of wood did not come from this piece of netherworld fragment. This made her believe it even more.

At this time, Grandma Mingshan made a strange seal in her hand and struck the ground downwards.

Immediately the ground began to shake again, and something else was drilling out from the depths of the mountains.

What finally broke out of the ground was not some big thing, but two roots!

The lines on the surface of the roots looked like fossils, revealing a long-lasting flavor. But it was also that fossil-like skin that sealed the breath inside, making it impossible for Jiang Li to feel it clearly.

The roots protruded from the ground, and one of them wrapped up a child in the steamer.

On the other side, Grandma Mingshan grabbed a ghost from below and wrapped it around another root.

As the two roots entangled with each other, a strange thing was drawn out from the four-handed child and poured into the ghost's body along the roots.

Although that thing could not be seen or touched, Jiang Li knew what was happening in front of him.

The thing that was taken out of the child and poured into the ghost's body was lifespan, or life span.

Of course, ordinary ghosts can only take away the life span of ordinary mortals. And the methods are very crude. Sometimes they only take away a few years or even a few months of life, and then the mortal will die of a serious illness after returning home.

Later, Jiang Li obtained a broken bowl magic weapon from the Beggar Ghost King in Fengdu City.

That thing can extract the lifespan of cultivators below the level of Earthly Immortals and turn it into copper coins. Jiang Li also used it to open a very busy casino.

So Jiang Li didn't feel strange when he saw this method of extracting lifespan.

But the efficiency of this tree root in converting lifespan seems to be amazingly high, far exceeding the broken bowl in Jiang Lifeng's capital city, and even more powerful than his two Nine Netherwood trees.

Although there was no breath or spiritual energy emanating from it, Jiang Li was 90% sure that this was the root of the Nine Nether Wood.

Therefore, the old lady of Mingshan Mountain revived and controlled this root through some unknown means, and through it, she mastered the nine ghost spirits and her current power.

As the child's life was continuously drained away, wrinkles gradually appeared on his face, and his skin and muscles became loose and weak.

However, there was no change in the ghost.

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Things like longevity are precious indeed.

However, when it comes to ghosts, it is difficult to achieve real effect without any special methods.

In ancient times, an unfinished life span would hinder reincarnation.

But Grandma Mingshan didn't care about all that. She grabbed the ghost that had been infused with decades of life and stuffed the powder of the Death Card in her hand into its body.

Then grab the ghost with both hands, roll it into a ball and rub it repeatedly.

The second most unlucky guy was crushed into ashes on the spot and thrown into the air.

Ghost powder fluttered down, and as the soul fragments evaporated and dissipated, they emitted a little fluorescence.

In it, an illusory city appeared vaguely.

"Really! It really is the City of the Dead!"

The excitement on Grandma Mingshan's face was beyond words, and she reached out her hand to grab the illusion.

But it was just an illusion after all. Once she grabbed it, it was stirred into chaos and then disappeared.

After verifying the authenticity of the Death Card, Grandma Mingshan regarded the piece of wood in her hand as a treasure.

Some things don't necessarily require precious materials.

Especially for official documents, even if they are just a few black words on a piece of white paper, they may be worth more than priceless treasures.

"Good! Good! Good!"

"Wisteria Shipan, you did a great job!"

Grandma Mingshan came back to her senses and looked at the purple vine monster controlled by Jiang Li with admiration in her eyes.

She simply produced a small basin from somewhere and placed it next to the two roots.

After a few breaths, two streams of turbid yellow springs flowed out from the two roots.

He took a full basin before handing it to Jiang Li.

It was a whole basin of Yellow Spring water.

When Jiang Li attacked the Stone Demon King just now, he secretly took away the cup of Yellow Spring Water that the other party had not yet drunk.

I was feeling smug just now, but now I see that it is my poverty that makes me feel despised.

Moreover, the other party used what Ben Jiangli had been looking for, which was to despise him.

There is no moon in the sky above, and there is no moon in the night below.

Extracting Yellow Spring Water from the Nine Netherworld is basically the ability of the Nine Netherworld to cut off its roots.

Jiang Li has long been determined to obtain everything related to the Nine Nether Wood.

Now, the root of an ancient innate spiritual root was controlled by others, which really made him unhappy.

However, Jiang Li naturally couldn't show it on his face, and he had to thank Grandma Mingshan.

Jiang Li was carefully collecting the Yellow Spring Water.

Grandma Mingshan spoke again to the evil spirits below.

"This full moon banquet is cancelled. Zi Teng Shi Pan, you can take ten away."

This person doesn't care about the feelings of the monsters and ghosts on Beiyin Mountain.

Because she still needed the lives of these children, she simply cancelled the banquet.

Although the gift was accepted, what did it matter? However, Jiang Li, who had offered his life card, was given some special treatment and was allowed to take ten away.

"Thank you, grandma."

Jiang Li thanked him reluctantly, thought for a moment and continued.

"Grandma left these children behind for the sake of their longevity, right?"

"These children cannot survive for long on Beiyin Mountain. It will be extremely inconvenient to take them across Beiyin Mountain."

"I have a method that can convert life span into copper coins. Please watch it, grandma."

Jiang Li walked to the iron cage and stretched out vines to grab ten children.

The vines on his body squirmed and swallowed up the ten children from every corner of his body.

In fact, he just tightened the space in the coffin for these children.

There was another round of friction and wriggling between the vines, and after a while, dozens of longevity copper coins emerged from Jiang Li's hand.

The quality of this longevity copper coin is naturally far inferior to that of the one extracted from the Nine Nether Wood, which is easy to absorb.

But for Grandma Mingshan, the quality of her life is not important at all.

As long as she can regain her life and be attracted to the City of the Dead, it will be enough.

And it would be great if Jiang Li could turn his life span into copper coins for easy storage.

He immediately waved his hand and threw all the remaining children to Jiang Li.

The wisteria monster transformed into a vine giant again, and took in all five hundred children in the envious eyes of the other monsters.

More than two thousand longevity copper coins fell out of his hands.

These longevity copper coins were all harvested from the Fengdu City Casino some time ago.

This kind of low-quality lifespan is fine when used for the first time, but the effect will become worse and worse with subsequent use. If used for a long time, it may even cause loopholes in life and cause lifespan to be lost for no reason.

Jiang Li looked down on this kind of stuff, but still carried a lot of it with him.

This is a good time to pretend.

I breathed a sigh of relief; the goal of rescuing these children had finally been achieved.

Find an opportunity to send them away secretly.

The next step is to cross the Beiyin Mountain and turn yourself into a dead man!

With this Grandma of Mingshan leading the way, he might not be unable to visit the City of the Dead.

(End of this chapter)