"There's a reaction! There's a reaction!"
The old ghost scratched his white hair excitedly, as excited as a child who had lived for who knows how many years.
Seeing his reaction, Xiang Sheng could more or less guess that it seemed unusual for him to pick up the judge's pen.
and……
She held the judge's pen, her eyes lingering over the slender pen body.
She had clearly never touched this treasure before, but after her soul power probed into it, the method of controlling and using this treasure emerged in her mind, and she was extremely familiar with it.
It was as if this had originally belonged to her.
If the Judge's Pen is like this, then...
Xiang Sheng's gaze shifted to the right, landing on a gray book beside him. He looked up at the old ghost with an expectant look on his face, and released a burst of soul power.
Buzz!
The dust on the gray book surface disappeared, revealing its original black surface, on which were written three large characters: "Book of Life and Death".
really!
The rumors turned out to be true!
The old ghost was so excited that he danced with joy, which made Si Wuli feel uneasy.
What earth-shattering thing did Boss Shi do to make this old ghost so excited?
Xiang Sheng did not rush to ask the old ghost. He opened the book of life and death. There were more than billions of names written on it. The merits and sins, life span in life and death behind each name were instantly reflected in his heart.
Xiang Sheng spent a cup of tea to scan through it from beginning to end. He saw hundreds of thousands of "Xiang Shengs", but not one of them had a life story similar to his own.
This shouldn't happen.
Even if he has some unknown connection with the underworld, his life in the world of the living will not be erased.
She narrowed her eyes, closed the Book of Life and Death, looked up at the old ghost, and her eyes became sharp:
"Why am I not in the Book of Life and Death?"
The old ghost was so frightened that he fell off the table with a cry of "ouch", fell to his knees on the ground, and said quickly:
"My Lord, I don't know much, so I'll tell you everything!
You may not know this, but the underworld is not at peace. Thousands of years ago, due to some unknown event, the Eastern Ghost Gate, Yama Palace, and Wrongful Death City split apart and fell here.
The Book of Life and Death is damaged, and perhaps your name is in the missing part."
Xiang Sheng was slightly shocked. So this is how the underworld works.
"What will happen if you lose your name?"
"That means escaping the cycle of reincarnation and achieving immortality!"
The old ghost said with a wry smile: "But now that you have come to this world, I am no longer a ghost and the rules of my hometown are no longer binding on you."
Immortality...
Xiang Sheng suddenly remembered the plot he suffered in the magic weapon of the Abyss Snake Secret Realm when he was still in the small world inside his master's body. The time in that scroll flowed extremely fast, but it seemed to have no effect on him.
Could this be the reason why his name was removed from the Book of Life and Death?
A thought flashed through his mind, and Xiang Sheng continued, "You seem surprised that I can pick up the Judge's Pen and the Book of Life and Death?"
"Of course I'm surprised. Only those holding the position of a god in the underworld can pick up these two treasures!"
The old ghost smiled flatteringly, "When I was on duty at the Inspection Division, I heard a rumor. It said that the Yinlu Division had an accident, and the successor was a woman.
The woman had been a good person for nine lifetimes. She only needed to suffer in one lifetime to pay off the small grievances she had accumulated in nine lifetimes, and then she would be able to achieve success.
The little ghost was right to see that your previous life was short and miserable. You have accumulated resentment for nine lifetimes, which is only thirty years. When the time comes, you will come down and take office.
Unfortunately, something went wrong in the underworld later.
The old ghost speculated that when you came down, the underworld just happened to split and fell here, so you came down with it."
Xiang Sheng laughed when he heard this, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. "According to what you said, I should have appeared here directly after my death in my previous life. How could I have inexplicably gone to someone else's body to reincarnate?"
"The little devil doesn't know."
The old ghost shook his head like a rattle, "You have a divine duty, why don't you go see the Lord Ghost Emperor, maybe he can help you solve your doubts."
"No rush."
Xiang Sheng stopped talking, picked up the judge's pen and walked to the back of the hall.
The old ghost was sincere, and perhaps what he said was true, but who could be sure that the rumors he heard were necessarily true.
Moreover, the Ghost Emperor's cultivation is definitely much higher than that of this old ghost. It is difficult to tell whether he is a friend or an enemy at the moment, so it is better to consider it later.
She wouldn't go to see him unless it was absolutely necessary.
Thinking in his mind, Xiang Sheng came to the back hall and saw the huge word "seal" on the hall door. He raised his hand and wrote a stroke, and the word "seal" fell off instantly.
With a "clang", the strong wind blew open the door of the back hall, and an indescribable fishy smell hit the face.
Xiang Sheng dodged the wind and went to the door to take a closer look.
Behind the hall, there was a blood-yellow surging river with countless ghosts in it, and the howling of ghosts was almost continuous.
Looking more closely, all the ghosts in the river are in the form of animals, not even a human.
The old ghost seemed to have seen such a situation for the first time. He was shocked for a while before he came to his senses and said with a sad face:
"Sir, the door to the back hall has been sealed by the Ghost Emperor for a long time. I had no idea what had happened to it!"
Xiang Sheng's eyes were gloomy. "Is this Naihe?"
The old ghost nodded repeatedly: "Your Excellency is right. This should be a tributary of the Nai River, under the control of Lord Baowei.
If you want to cross this river, you'll probably need Lord Leopard Tail's seal. Otherwise, once you enter the river, you'll be devoured by the billions of Yin beast souls in an instant!"
Xiang Sheng frowned, "Can we take a detour? I just want to go to the Sea of Eternal Life Flowers."
"There's no getting around it."
The old ghost shook his head with a bitter face, "The Nai River now runs through the underworld, between Yama Palace and Wrongful Death City. If you want to go to the Sea of Eternal Life Flowers, it's in Wrongful Death City.
Without the Leopard Tail Seal, unless the Ghost Emperor awakens and uses his supreme ghost power to cut off the Nai River,
"Besides the Leopard Tail Seal, are there no other treasures that can restrain the beast soul?"
Xiang Sheng took out a white lantern and asked, "Will this work?"
"This is a soul-binding lamp. It's designed to bind human souls, and has no effect on animal souls."
The old ghost sighed, "In addition to the Leopard Tail Seal, there are also the Bird's Beak, Fish's Gills, and Lord Wasp's Seals. Although those are seals targeting birds, water beasts, and insects, they are also beast soul-binding seals and have some effect.
Unfortunately, I don’t remember those gentlemen falling into this place, so the seal is nowhere to be found.”
As soon as these words came out, Xiang Sheng's eyes fixed instantly, "Is the Leopard Tail Seal right here?"
“No.”
The white-haired old ghost simply shook his head, "Little ghost remembers that the rift back then swept this tributary of the Nai River.
The leopard tail seal that guarded it was thrown out of the underworld, and now I'm afraid it's somewhere in this world, and there's no way to find it."
"So, according to you, there is no other way except to awaken the Ghost Emperor?"
"The Ghost Emperor is on the other side of the river. We can't get there. How can we wake him up?"
The white-haired old ghost cried, "There's nothing we can do. The Ghost Emperor hasn't appeared in hundreds of thousands of years. We don't know whether he's dead or alive."
Xiang Sheng listened to the old ghost wailing and said nothing more.
She lowered her eyes to look at the surging river below, her gaze gradually becoming firm.
The road has to be paved, and now that she has come this far, there is no reason for her to give up.
Thinking of this, she showed determination in her eyes, and under the old ghost's horrified gaze, she jumped straight into the sea of beast souls.
"grown ups!"
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