Chapter 65
"Worked for Wuchang for three years?!" Xin Yue didn't expect Luo Hengzhi to say such shameless things. "You're ignoring labor laws. I'm going to report you to the labor bureau."
Luo Hengzhi chuckled dryly, refusing to back down: "The Labor Bureau only cares about those with ID cards; your fox clan are unregistered!"
"you..."
You fucking unregistered person!
Xin Yue was so angry she wanted to bite the unscrupulous merchant, but she held back for the sake of reviving her entire clan. She gritted her teeth and said, "Fine, as long as my fox clan is revived, I'll work for three years."
Luo Hengzhi: "Words are no proof."
"What, you want to sign a contract? Didn't you say the labor bureau doesn't care about us unregistered residents?" Xin Yue retorted.
"No need for a contract, I want you to swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao!" Luo Hengzhi still knew the rules of the cultivation world; only the Heavenly Dao could control these monsters.
Xin Yue pointed at Luo Hengzhi and asked Ye Zi, "Do you know that you have such a scheming and calculating partner?"
Ye Zi: "You're wrong, this is clear thinking! Well-reasoned logic!"
Luo Hengzhi readily agreed, "Thank you for the compliment, my dear wife!"
Looking at the two people opposite her, who were acting like a loving couple, Xin Yue murmured, "It's true that you can't have two kinds of people sleeping in the same bed!"
Fire Phoenix corrected: "Wrong, it's not the same quilt."
“Yes, my master doesn’t know how to cultivate dual cultivation yet,” Long Bao shouted.
Luo Hengzhi: "..."
Suddenly I don't want this dragon anymore!
"Hahaha, Luo Hengzhi doesn't even know how to cultivate dual cultivation." Xin Yue was overjoyed and mocked Luo Hengzhi, "What, are you still a virgin!"
Looking at the gloating Xin Yue, Luo Hengzhi calmly held up four fingers: "Four spiritual veins."
"You..." Xin Yue's smile vanished instantly.
The smile didn't disappear; it shifted to Luo Hengzhi's face: "Keep smiling, there's still one more thing to do."
Xin Yue said no more and immediately made a Heavenly Oath. However, she still mentioned the original three spiritual veins as an opportunist. Luo Hengzhi did not mind adding more, as they could not go too far and had to leave some for others.
"The whole process takes quite a while. I need the fairy to protect me during this time. When I control the Yin Soul Pearl to open the passage to the underworld, the dragon and phoenix will go to the underworld to ask for my fox clan's soul."
Luo Hengzhi: "Explain clearly all possible risks and unexpected events."
"Actually, it's nothing. The most important thing is that the King of Hell might not release a soul easily," Xin Yue confessed truthfully. "Because I once caused a scene there and got blacklisted."
Longbao: "Then you're setting me and Huofeng up!"
"You are the high and mighty Dragon and Phoenix clans, so the underworld will give you some face." Xin Yue began to flatter Long Bao and Huo Feng.
"What are you going to do if we don't show up?" Ye Zi asked.
Xin Yue: "But let's try to rob it again."
"There's another question: are they all the souls of little foxes?" Luo Hengzhi pointed towards the tombstone, where the fur clearly indicated that they were all from young foxes.
Xin Yue: "Yes, a thousand years ago, all the people in the clan who had cultivation disappeared overnight, leaving only these little foxes."
"As for me, I don't know why I don't disappear!"
Longbao: "So what exactly happened a thousand years ago?"
Xin Yue shook her head; she truly didn't know.
"What power could wipe out the cultivation world? The dragons have prophetic abilities that allow them to leave in advance, while my phoenix clan is annihilated," said the Fire Phoenix.
“As a survivor of that catastrophe, Master Yunqing of Lingju Temple should be well aware that it was a force that no one could rival.” Xin Yue looked at Ye Zi.
Ye Zi: "Master did mention the thousand-year massacre, but he didn't know the reason."
Upon hearing about the millennium of massacre, Luo Hengzhi finally understood why the once magnificent Lingju Temple had fallen into such a dilapidated state—it had suffered a thousand years of decline: "For a thousand years, only Master has guarded Lingju Temple?"
Ye Zi nodded: "After the destruction of the sect, Master wandered the world alone for a thousand years, but never saw a single cultivator again. The Lingju Temple was originally called Lingju Sect a thousand years ago, and the Lingju Sect plaque has always been kept in Master's room."
Luo Hengzhi now understands why Ye Zi and her junior brothers were so determined to earn money to repair Lingju Temple back then—they wanted to recreate the prosperity of Lingju Sect a thousand years ago!
"Now that you've finished asking, can we start working?" Xin Yue urged.
"Although we didn't find out anything, Long Bao and I will make a trip to the underworld for you," Huo Feng said grandly, looking at Long Bao and saying, "I wonder if there are any rare and precious treasures in the underworld? We'll take a good look then, and if there are any, we'll bring some back with us."
Long Bao nodded repeatedly: "I know about the Underworld Bewitching Butterfly. It's said that it's the ancestor of illusions and a great helper in battle. We can get one back."
"Wait a minute, let's find out what else is there first, we can't have made this trip for nothing." Fire Phoenix took out the Encyclopedia of Heavenly Treasures and flipped to the Underworld section. "This fruit is also good, Master can use it to refine Soul-Summoning Pills; this Boundless Wood can be used to refine puppets; and this one, the Longevity Fruit, can be used to refine a Hundred-Year Life Extension Pill!"
“Okay, let’s just bring the books. Anyway, our storage space is empty, so we’ll bring them all back.” Long Bao hugged the Complete Collection of Natural Treasures to his chest.
"Don't forget the important matter!" Xin Yue watched as the dragon and phoenix discussed plundering the underworld without any attempt to hide it from others. It was true that favored children follow their masters; they were exactly like their greedy master who made exorbitant demands.
"Don't worry, don't worry, let's begin." Long Bao was getting a little impatient thinking about all the good stuff waiting for them.
Xin Yue released her inner core, next to which was a bright pearl emitting green light.
"The Yin Soul Bead isn't black?" Fire Phoenix and Dragon Treasure went over to examine the green-glowing bead.
“It was originally black, but after this one underwent a transformation, the black color was stripped away, revealing its true green glow,” Xin Yue explained.
Fire Phoenix: "This green light is even more sinister, eerie, with a color scheme straight out of the underworld."
"If you two are ready, let's begin." Xin Yue sat cross-legged, placing the Yin Soul Pearl in front of her.
"Once the gates to the underworld open, you will have only one hour, which is two hours now. If you do not return within this time, you will have to stay there."
Fire Phoenix: "Why didn't you say that sooner? How could an hour be enough to find rare and precious treasures?"
Xin Yue pretended not to hear and directly injected spiritual power. A green light from the Yin Soul Pearl shot towards the tombstone, and the gate to the underworld appeared.
"The fox clan is cunning!" Long Bao cursed, then pulled Huo Feng along and transformed into their original forms to enter the underworld.
"It's so cold here, Fire Phoenix, light a fire so I can warm up." Dragon Baby circled around Fire Phoenix.
"Don't be afraid I'll burn you." The fire phoenix watched the dragon baby approach and flung out a bunch of small flames around the dragon baby.
Ye Zilu Hengzhi, through the image transmitted via the Gate of the Underworld, kept watching the movements of Fire Phoenix and Dragon Treasure.
Xin Yue watched as the dragon and phoenix leisurely played with fire and became a little anxious: "Are those two reliable? They're just wandering around like they're on vacation. When are they going to find the fox clan's soul?"
Luo Hengzhi: "You didn't find the soul last time you went, so you caused such a scene?"
"Yes, I searched the entire underworld but couldn't find any fox spirits, so I went to ask the King of the Underworld. But he was very uncooperative and just said the time wasn't right."
Luo Hengzhi and Ye Zi knew that although Huo Fenglongbao had successfully transformed, he was still a child at heart. They exchanged a glance, feeling somewhat worried and uneasy.
"Can we still go in now?" Ye Zi asked.
“Yes, you can come and go as you please for an hour.” Xin Yue didn’t know why Ye Zi asked this.
Luo Hengzhi set up a trapping array and a spirit-gathering array around Xin Yue, ensuring that spiritual energy was plentiful while ensuring that no one could get close to Xin Yue.
Xin Yue noticed the spiritual energy around her suddenly becoming denser: "Is this a spirit-gathering array?"
"This is a spirit-gathering array and a protective barrier." After Luo Hengzhi finished speaking, he took Ye Zi's hand and entered the underworld directly.
"I never expected Luo Hengzhi to have such abilities!" Xin Yue could tell that this was not the barrier Luo Hengzhi had mentioned, but a formation with both defensive and offensive functions. "Appearances can be deceiving; no wonder she can make the descendants of the dragon willingly submit."
Seeing Luo Hengzhi and Ye Zi enter the underworld without hesitation, Xin Yue sighed that Long Bao and Huo Feng had chosen the right master.
Luo Hengzhi and Ye Zi quickly caught up with Long Bao and Huo Feng.
"Master, why are you all here too?" Long Bao Fire Phoenix asked happily as it transformed back into human form.
"Take the pills." Ye Zi took out a bottle of pills.
Longbao and Huofeng each swallowed one, and instantly felt warm all over, no longer cold at all.
"Master, we've just discovered the treasure's location and are about to head there," said Fire Phoenix.
Ye Zi: "Let's go, take all the good stuff we see with us."
"Okay!" Longbao replied happily.
Xin Yue looked on with amusement: "A perfectly good immortal has been corrupted by Luo Hengzhi, and he's even learned to plunder the underworld."
Fire Phoenix pointed to the various dark and sinister fruits: "Master, these fruits... pick them quickly, they can all be refined into pills."
"You guys pick the fruit, I'll go to the riverbank. I saw Boundless Wood floating there." Long Bao leaped over there.
Luo Hengzhi stood there, looking down at the black jade stones covering the ground: "There really is such a thing."
Luo Hengzhi waved her hand and collected all the black jade stones on the ground into her ring, leaving not a single one behind!
These black jade stones, upon closer inspection, are dark red, with flowing reddish-brown liquid inside, resembling blood. These are burial jade!
Burial materials can be made into puppet hearts, which can give puppets consciousness!
When Luo Hengzhi read the description of consciousness puppets in the book, he was deeply impressed. Consciousness puppets only serve their creators, so they are also known as the guardians of puppeteers!
However, the book makes no mention of the origin of the burial jade, so who would have thought that this thing was actually in the underworld?
"They didn't even leave a single stone on the ground!" Xin Yue exclaimed as she watched Luo Hengzhi loot the ground clean. "This banditry leaves no survivors. If they anger the King of the Underworld, will my fox clan ever be able to return?"
Ye Zi had a fruitful haul. She walked over to Luo Hengzhi and saw Luo Hengzhi staring at a stone, examining it: "Something good?"
Luo Hengzhi nodded: "Yes, it's good stuff. I'll show you how to use it when we get back."
Fire Phoenix: "Master, let's go to the next place. There's a bigger space and more treasures there."
"There's more?" Luo Hengzhi hadn't expected the Netherworld to be so rich in resources, and that no one would bother them when they harvested them.
"Because these things are useless to ghosts and underworld officials, they've just been left here unattended," Long Bao explained.
"Get down to business! Half an hour has already passed!" Xin Yue shouted towards the underworld, but Ye Zilu and Hengzhi couldn't hear her at all.
Upon arrival, just as Huo Feng had predicted, longevity fruits, soul-summoning fruits, and soul-replenishing fruits hung heavily on the trees as if they were free. The Boundless Wood was no longer floating in the river; it was piled up in heaps, as if it had been arranged and was waiting for Luo Hengzhi and the others to come and collect it.
Ye Zi still took the Fire Phoenix to pick fruit, Long Bao collected Boundless Wood, and Luo Hengzhi did his old job of collecting Burial Jade, putting it all into his spatial ring regardless of size.
It's great to find money everywhere! Luo Hengzhi Ye Zi Huo Feng Long Bao is having a blast. This trip to the Underworld has been a huge success!
"Let's get down to business!"
"Let's get down to business!"
Xin Yue was really anxious. The gates to the underworld would close in less than an hour, but Luo Hengzhi and Ye Zi were still picking up useless things and had no intention of looking for the fox clan's souls.
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