Chapter 402 That was her death in her previous life

Lin Du and his group left the city, only to find out later that Lin Du was still going deeper into the ghost world.

"What else are you going to do?" Hou Cang was puzzled.

"It's an equal exchange. You have to get the Styx water for Granny Ma." Lin Du said, "What about you? She sent you down. Didn't she ask for anything?"

Ni Jinxuan shook her head. "My mother-in-law said that she doesn't want you to not be able to come back and end up losing money on the business."

Lin Du raised his eyebrows when he heard this, but did not comment.

The River Styx was outside Fengdu. Lin Du asked a ghost for directions and then headed straight for the River Styx.

The ghost who was asked for directions hadn't finished speaking when he saw the white-haired ghost running away. He couldn't help but mutter, "I haven't finished speaking yet. Normal ghosts shouldn't go to the Styx. Those are just evil ghosts who don't want to be reincarnated fighting each other. They're just waiting to die."

The underworld is always gloomy. The deeper you go into it, the colder it feels.

The group walked very quickly as they didn't have much time.

"Don't you think that the underworld city and the outside of the city are completely different?" Yuan Ye shivered, "The city is bustling, but outside the city there seems to be no sound."

"They are all ghosts, it's not normal to be so noisy, right?" Yan Qing held a book in one hand and a pen in the other, following Lin Du's steps closely.

"I see the River Styx!" Ni Jinxuan shouted excitedly, pointing ahead.

They walked for nearly two days. Although the journey was quiet, there were no surprises because they were traveling with so many people.

Hou Cang held the spiritual sword and Ni Jinxuan held the Yunpo Whip. Their intimidating power was enough to make Lin Du look like a truly frail and thin ghost.

"It's strange. This river is silent, lifeless, and not flowing." Ni Jinxuan stood close to Lin Du, looking at the river that seemed so close.

Just as they approached collectively, the extremely silent Styx suddenly surged and boiled, the evil spirits roared, and countless hands stretched out, as if they wanted to pull the approaching new ghosts directly down and climb ashore by stepping on the stairs made of the new ghosts.

Those hands were swollen and swollen, and seemed to be still stuck to the water surface when they came out of the water. The hands that broke through the tension layer of the river water began to rot in an instant, and the flesh and blood disappeared into the Styx, but it was as if they sank into a quagmire, and there was still no sound.

Ni Jinxuan stared at the scene with her eyes wide open, while Yan Qing beside her uttered a groan.

Compared to the bloody chaos in the previous demonic tide, facing this scene at this moment is indeed somewhat challenging to one's visual nerves.

Lin Du turned her head away. Compared to the direct impact, what made her more unbearable at this moment was the countless emotions. Years of heavy greed, anger and ignorance condensed into resentment, and she was now in a ghost state. Although the red rope did not follow her, her perception was completely following.

"It's better to be blind." Lin Du sighed.

Ni Jinxuan was a little worried. "This water doesn't look easy to get. Junior Master, what do you use to get water?"

"The Styx is stagnant water. It's not just the water that's not flowing, it's also time." A female voice said, "For a long time, most ghosts who entered the Styx would never come out again. They truly became dead ghosts."

Lin Du turned his head and saw the man in a scarlet gauze robe with beautiful eyes and eyebrows. He was walking in silence, like the only bright and passionate color that broke out from the gloom and darkness.

The moment that man appeared, all the hands in the Styx sank, the gloomy wind dissipated in an instant, and silence returned.

"No one from the ghost world would ever come to take water from the Styx. Those who want to live would not even get close to the Styx, for fear of being dissolved. Why would you, the people above you, want to take water?"

Lin Du turned around and said, "I am a disciple of the Supreme Sect of Dongming Realm, Lin Du, and I have seen the Ghost Emperor."

The people behind him tensed up at the same time. Ghost Emperor? What Ghost Emperor? Is it the Five Ghost Emperors who are second only to the Lord of the Underworld?

Aren't they here to deliver food? Can I still go home?

The Ghost Emperor stared at her for a while and said, "You are so brave. Aren't you afraid that I am here to arrest you?"

Lin Du put down his saluting hand and said, "I am lucky enough to meet the Ghost Emperor in this life, so it is not in vain."

Seeing Lin Du so calm and composed, the people behind him breathed a sigh of relief.

See, Lin Du always has a way.

"Oh? You're not afraid of death?"

Lin Du shook his head, "I am greedy and afraid of death, but if you really come to arrest us, we may have a chance of winning."

Before the Ghost Emperor could reply, Lin Du raised his hands to form seals in an instant. The moment the Ghost Emperor raised his hands to block the attack, he turned over swiftly, condensed an ice cup in his hand, blended it with the extremely yin energy, and instantly drew the water from the Styx into it. The lifeless water surface suddenly became rippled.

At that moment, Lin Du also clearly saw another familiar yet unfamiliar face.

That was the appearance of her death in her previous life.

Her body was broken and her face was still young, but her hair was gray. She was surrounded by a soul-trapping array, which was undoubtedly set up by her own hands. The souls were trapped for seven days, refusing to enter the underworld and giving up reincarnation.

Lin Du was stunned for a moment, not understanding how the Styx had this function, and he hadn't heard the ghost tell him about it.

The ghost below seemed to be confused for a moment after seeing Lin Du's face clearly, wondering why a person would step into a river twice. Then, out of instinct, he reached out his hand and wanted to pull her into the river.

At that instant, a strong ghost power directly pulled Lin Du back. The ghost power condensed into a thick chain, directly locking Lin Du's important joints.

"Tell me, how can you, who hasn't even ascended yet, talk to me about your chances of winning?" The Ghost Emperor's voice sounded extremely dangerous.

Seeing this, Hou Cang and Ni Jinxuan attacked the Ghost Emperor at the same time.

The Ghost Emperor simply chuckled, and his attack was dispersed before it even reached her.

She looked at Lin Du's face, which was completely different from the dead face he showed on the Styx, and raised her eyebrows slightly, "Hmm?"

"You won with one move, so let's just leave it at that." Lin Du looked into her dark eyes and answered sincerely.

Ghost Emperor: ...

Hou Cang: ???

The Ghost Emperor was silent for a moment, then loosened his hand. He didn't know what he was thinking, "Come back when you are old enough to challenge me."

Lin Du let out a cry, still facing the Ghost Emperor. He thought of the death scene he had just seen, realized something, and told the people behind him to run away.

Several people subconsciously cooperated with Lin Du and turned around and ran.

"You gave up reincarnation, imprisoned yourself in the Dongming Realm, and stole a glimpse of the heaven. Now you dare to go to the underworld. Are you really not afraid that we in the underworld will catch you?"

The Ghost Emperor's words sounded cold, but to Lin Du's ears, they did not mean anything like that at all.

"Without me, the Dongming Realm will die, the Underworld will lose a controlled territory, and the Thirty-Three Heavens will gain a Dongtian that it controls under the pretext of eliminating evil. If you are the Ghost Emperor, what will you choose?"

Lin Duyuan stood in front of her and pointed at his head. "I have another idea for that. If you win, I will settle the bill for you."

The Ghost Emperor looked at the pride and arrogance in her brows and laughed, "Lin Du, you are practicing the Dao taught by the Taoist Patriarch himself, so I will consider it as making a friend of yours in advance. In the future, remember to settle this account."

"No problem." Lin Du answered readily. Having a lot of debts is not a burden. What's more, this bill is actually very light.

The moment Lin Du climbed onto the Styx, the Ghost Emperor realized that Lin Du might not just be here to fetch water. "How could a person who gave up reincarnation be found in the Styx?"

"Lin Du, are you taking back the things you left behind?"

The time in the Styx is stopped, which means that there may be countless lines and countless people at the nodes, but they are relatively static and cannot be touched.

But the Ghost Emperor is different. She was cultivated from the River Styx and is the only ghost cultivator who has mastered the time laws of this world. She has secured the position of Ghost Emperor and is named Shentu.

Lin Du was the first person to jump out of the established long line and come back.

Shen Tu learned that Lin Du had come and had come specifically to see this heretic.

"Am I... trying to find a sword on a boat?" Lin Du looked at the Ghost Emperor, both as a test and as a verification.

What she saw was not the death of her previous life, but herself in her previous life.

The Ghost Emperor tilted his head and glanced at the Styx, "Who knows?"

Lin Du sighed, "You are making things difficult for me."

What she was most worried about was not anything else but the questioning from the kids behind her. She hoped they would run faster and not hear her.

How should I edit it after I get out?

Shen Tu was puzzled. She couldn't understand Lin Du's weird thinking.

Every word he said was beyond her expectations.

Lin Du closed his eyes and shouted to the back, "Listen to me, keep going forward and don't look back. Granny Ma has already said that when you return, don't look back. I will catch up with you soon."

Just this one sentence made the Ghost Emperor understand clearly that when Lin Du first signaled for people to flee, he did not turn around and run with them. It was actually because of this.

Once a living soul comes to the underworld, it must not turn back on its return journey, otherwise it will be discovered and devoured by evil spirits.

Lin Du did this on purpose.

Deliberately asked that group of people to return first.

"Then there is the Ghost Emperor Lao."

It was not until this moment that Lin Du truly owed the Ghost Emperor a favor.

Shen Tu would not kill her, nor would he keep her, but it was impossible for Lin Du alone to retrieve her body from the River Styx.

Shen Tu also replied, "No problem."

The woman with an almost gorgeous and dangerous face turned towards the Styx. When she raised her hand, countless timelines turned into thin threads and passed through her fingertips.

The Styx suddenly became turbulent, and a thin thread was grasped by Shen Tu. After a moment, Lin Du's reflection suddenly appeared in a silver mirror, but it was real and completely different. It broke through the mirror and appeared in front of Lin Du.

That corpse was just as Lin Du saw when he looked towards the Styx.

The mechanism is exhausted, the body is broken, and the face is filled with inextricable sorrow.

But that was indeed the style that Lin Du liked.

The child who grew up eating at a hundred houses likes the color blue very much, because no land in the world belongs to her, but only this blue sky belongs to her forever.

So she used to like blue.

It has always been like this.

That's her, that's herself.

Lin Du's memories came flooding back.

That is... a magical storage treasure that connects her soul.

How could she store all the herbs she had worked so hard to find and accumulate for her next life? The only way was to find a place where time stopped.

There is only one place in the world where she can go and time stops.

That is the Styx in the underworld.

This is the place where a dead soul should go, so after completing all the arrangements, Lin Du personally threw his body into the Styx.

The corpse was clean and dry, and looked as if it had just passed away. However, the moment it left the Styx, it began to show signs of weathering and dissipating.

Lin Du raised his hands, and his fingertips touched the corpse in the air, that self, and then he put his hands together.

In an instant, Lin Du on that timeline began to disappear.

Just like a snowman formed by the power of ice and snow in Lin Du, when winter ends and spring comes, it melts into spring water in the forest, making a tinkling sound.

The snowman melted, and the storage ring on her knuckles fell into Lin Du's hands, cold and wet.

Like... when I was making a snowman, I embedded my favorite jewelry into it.

Lin Du laughed. It was not until this moment that she understood the extent of her calculations in her previous life.

The snake poison in Mo Lin's body must be cured by Ma Po Po.

Lin Du knew from the beginning that she would meet Granny Ma, so she would definitely meet Granny Ma in this life.

Lin Du is Yan Ye's chosen disciple, and his thinking habit is based on real and concrete data.

If Lin Du wants to get to the bottom of the decline of the Heavenly Dao and find out the overall situation of the Dongming Realm, he will definitely choose to look at the specific data in person.

Therefore, when Lin Du reaches the last level, he will definitely go to the underworld, and the best person who can help Lin Du hide his anger is Granny Ma.

The reason why Lin Du knew the characteristics of the River Styx in his previous life was because it was Granny Ma who told him.

Because Granny Ma wants the water from the River Styx.

Granny Ma is beyond the six realms and is not within the five elements, so it is almost impossible for her to die completely.

There is only the soul-melting water of the Styx.

Granny Ma wants a cup of water from the River Styx so that when she has lived enough, she can leave with ease.

Dust returns to dust, earth returns to earth, soul returns, and everything is finally scattered.

As long as Lin Du finds Granny Ma, he will definitely go to the River Styx when he goes to the underworld.

At this time, Lin Du's own cultivation was definitely not weak, and the matter had been revealed to the point where only the rules of the world were left. It was almost the time when Lin Du and his spirit merged, but because of the shielding of the secrets, he could not recall his memory, let alone use the storage ring connected to his spirit.

Only entities.

Now that Lin Du has found his body, he has found his real body, and he has all the remaining medicines.

Lin Du stood there and said sincerely, "I'm really amazing."

She is really amazing. She has calculated every step, including her own thinking and timing.

Not a bad step.

Even if there is a difference in time, the node will not be wrong.

Lin Du thought that if his opponent knew how good he was at planning and strategizing, he would probably consider whether to let her sit at the table.

She bowed solemnly to Shen Tu and said, "I will repay this favor in the future."

Shen Tu stood on the shore, looking at this miracle that was the only one in thousands of years whose mind had transcended the rules, "I'll wait."

Lin Du took the storage ring and ran towards those bastards who were waiting stiffly but didn't dare to look back.

"No, Junior Master wouldn't be eaten by the Ghost Emperor, right? Or should we turn back?" Yan Qing asked worriedly.

"What did they just say? Why do I always have a bad feeling?" Ni Jinxuan whispered, "It's just that I feel very sad. Very sad."

Yuan Ye asked, "Can you make a mirror? Let's look at it."

"..." Later, he was convinced, "Have you forgotten? Ghost cultivators cannot be imaged in a mirror, and have you read too much? I know everything!"

Yuan Ye: ...Ah?

Lin Du hurriedly caught up, deciding to use his anxiety to disrupt their thoughts, "Run! I've already got my stuff, why are you just standing there! If you don't run, time will pass."

Several people hurriedly ran towards the ghost gate and towards their human world.