The little girl was stunned. She rubbed her eyes, somewhat incredulous that she had such good luck today, earning so many spirit stones. "Senior, are you telling the truth?"
Lu Fuyue took out a communication bell from her bosom and placed it in front of her, "Of course it's real."
The little girl took the communication bell and looked up at Lu Fuyue gratefully. "Senior, my name is Xiaoyu. If anything happens in the future, I will appear by your side immediately as soon as the communication bell rings."
"However, if you do not have an invitation to the Ghost Market, it is best not to go there at night. Be careful after dark, and do not open the door if anyone calls you from outside."
Lu Fuyue's eyes narrowed. The Ghost Market? It seemed to be the place mentioned in the Records of Strange Things in the Cultivation World, the closest place to the Underworld, and also the most mysterious place in the entire Netherworld. Once you got there, as long as you could afford the price, you could get anything you wanted, including cultivation level and lifespan.
Her purpose in this trip was to obtain the Netherworld Token, which would allow her to enter the Netherworld from the Ghost Market.
After Xiaoyu finished speaking, she quickly disappeared.
Just then, a young woman in plain clothes emerged from the inn, carrying a large red lantern, along the path lined with incense and candles. With a gentle smile, she spoke softly, "Immortal Master, are you here to stay? If so, please follow me."
Under the lantern's glow, Lu Fuyue finally saw that the pretty woman before her was actually a mortal. Suppressing her doubts, she slowly asked, "Does the young lady have any good room recommendations?"
In the City of the Underworld, every room is different.
Cui'er was taken aback; it had been a long time since anyone had called her that. Coming to her senses, she picked up the lantern and walked ahead, dispelling the darkness and illuminating the path in its dim light.
"Just call me Cui'er, senior. Our rooms here are divided into four different levels: Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow. Heaven is the best, and each level is further divided into three sub-levels: upper, middle, and lower. The higher the level of the room, the stronger its ability to resist things outside after dark."
"Especially the top-grade rooms in the Heavenly Rank, nothing in this Netherworld City dares to approach them."
"Immortal Master, you may choose the appropriate room according to your needs."
Lu Fuyue followed behind Cui'er at a leisurely pace and slowly said, "Then arrange a top-class room for me."
Upon hearing this, Cui'er suddenly stopped and turned to look at Lu Fuyue in surprise, "Senior, the price of a top-grade room is calculated by the hour, two thousand top-grade spirit stones per hour."
Lu Fuyue looked up at her and said, "Just make the arrangements."
She has eight or nine spiritual veins in her space, and each of them has long since evolved into a top-grade spiritual vein. So as long as her space exists, her spirit stones will be inexhaustible. This small amount of spirit stones is nothing more than a drop in the ocean for her.
Moreover, these spirit stones weren't spent for nothing.
Upon hearing this, Cui'er knew that the person in front of her was not joking; he was serious.
...
Soon the two stepped through the door of the inn and went inside. Lu Fu's eyes flickered slightly. There was a reason why this Netherworld Inn was called the largest inn in Netherworld City.
From the outside, the Netherworld Inn appears to have only one path leading to the main gate; everything else is shrouded in darkness, making it impossible to see anything clearly.
Upon entering, one discovers a hidden world within, where the air contains countless different powers: spiritual energy, demonic energy, demonic energy, and ghostly energy, among others.
Lu Fuyue paused slightly as she entered, then resumed her normal pace.
She clearly sensed various chaotic forces silently surging into her body from the air, then transforming into spiritual energy and entering her dantian.
The lobby downstairs was empty, with only a few cultivators occasionally sitting at tables with their magical artifacts beside them, their eyes closed in meditation.
Along the way, among the cultivators Lu Fuyue encountered, the lowest cultivation level was at the peak of the Golden Core stage.
In particular, there was a middle-aged male cultivator whose face was covered with countless dense scars. His aura was even stronger than that of her sect's ancestor, which made Lu Fuyue subconsciously wary.
As the middle-aged male cultivator came downstairs, he brushed past her. He turned his head and glanced at Lu Fuyue's back, narrowing his eyes and a dark glint flashing in them.
Lu Fuyue followed behind Cui'er upstairs for a long time before the fiery gaze behind her finally disappeared. Although there was no abnormality on her face, cold sweat was faintly dampening her back.
Cui'er walked ahead, seemingly sensing something as well, and sighed softly, "That senior was one of the evil cultivators who escaped from outside hundreds of years ago. I heard that back then, he was hunted down by a major sect in the cultivation world because he killed his Daoist partner and child to refine evil pills."
"He fled here to escape being hunted down."
Upon hearing this, Lu Fuyue's pupils contracted slightly. A cultivator who had killed his Daoist partner and child, and had been hunted down by a major sect for hundreds of years...
In an instant, a name popped into her mind—Lu Zhengxuan, her uncle, and Lu Zhengming's younger brother.
Hundreds of years ago, Lu Fuyue was not yet born, but when she was seven years old, she accidentally walked into Lu Zhengming's study and discovered a small secret room.
Inside the secret room were three memorial tablets. The one in the middle was inscribed with the three prominent characters "Lu Zhengxuan". The other two tablets were inscribed with the characters "Lu Zhengxuan's wife, Yang Shi, late Qing Dynasty" and "Lu Zhengxuan's son, Lu Fuyang".
Just as she was feeling puzzled, Lu Zhengming suddenly walked in and discovered that she had run into the secret room. He immediately flew into a rage and punished her by making her kneel in front of the memorial tablets. She knelt for several hours, and while kneeling, she fell ill, vomited blood, and fainted.
But in that small, secret room, there was only her and the three memorial tablets. No one noticed that she had fainted.
If her mother hadn't returned and discovered she was missing, searching everywhere for her, she probably would have died somewhere and no one would remember.
After learning the truth, her mother and Lu Zhengming had a fierce argument. It is said that she personally returned two of the memorial tablets in the secret room to the Beast Taming Sect.
The other piece was cleaved in two by her mother's sword and burned in front of Lu Zhengming.
As Lu Fuyue grew up, she learned the truth about the three memorial tablets from many elders.
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