"Then let's not delay and go up to the eighteenth floor first." Gu Qi said, and was about to lead the way for Wang Yao and the other two.
Now, not only is the entrance to the West Fifth District closed, but all the exits of the entire Zero Floor are also closed. Without his accompaniment as the building owner, even if the two of them knew where the exit was, they would probably have to go through a lot of trouble to get out once they arrived. It would be most convenient for him to accompany them.
“Wait a minute. Since you don’t dare to make a decision about Qin Su’s matter, I’ll take her upstairs with me to see Prince Pingdeng and see what he has to say,” Wang Yao added.
"Don't worry, Lord Yue Lao. This female ghost is on my floor number zero. Unless Lord Pingdeng gives me new instructions, I will not touch a single hair on her head. Think about it, it will take a lot of effort for the immortal doctor to treat her. After you go up and make arrangements with Lord Pingdeng, you still have to send her down to be reincarnated, right?"
"Wouldn't going back and forth waste time? You can rest assured and leave her here. When the time comes, Lord Pingdeng only needs to make a phone call, and I will immediately arrange for her to be reincarnated. There will be absolutely no delay."
Having convinced the two to go up to the eighteenth floor, Gu Qi no longer wanted to delay and hurriedly persuaded Wang Yao.
“What Xiao Gu said makes sense. You just need to keep that girl here. If I dare to let her suffer even the slightest mishap, it might be a bit troublesome for me to kill a Yama King, but killing a judge shouldn’t take much effort.”
Hearing that Wang Yao wanted to take Qin Su on the journey, the fairy maiden was already unhappy. She was eager to return home and didn't want to waste any more time, so she quickly spoke up for Gu Qi. However, her final threat made Gu Qi's eyes twitch.
Wang Yao hesitated for a moment after hearing what the fairy said. To be honest, he had no trust in Gu Qi at all. Moreover, in his heart, Qin Su's life was much more important than Gu Qi's. If Gu Qi really killed Qin Su, what would be the point of the fairy killing Gu Qi in return?
But Gu Qi was right. It was indeed too troublesome for him to carry Qin Su back and forth. Moreover, Qin Su was still seriously injured and he couldn't carry her upstairs. Wu Ying was now just a head... He thought for a moment and looked at the fairy.
"Please ask the fairy to tell Dean Li to take good care of Qin Su," Wang Yao said.
"You little rascal..." Fairy rolled her eyes at Wang Yao, blaming him for being nosy. She thought to herself that she had already said such harsh words, and even if Gu Qi had a few more lives, he wouldn't dare to kill the little girl.
However, she needed Wang Yao's help now, so she didn't say much. She called Dean Li to her side and gave him some instructions. Wang Yao then asked Dean Li about Qin Su's condition. Dean Li only said that it would take some time for the carrion rats to consume the corpse energy, and during this period, Qin Su would remain in a coma.
Only after the absorption process ends can the treatment effect be seen. Under normal circumstances, given that Qin Su has only been suffering from severe corpse qi for a short time, as long as she gets rid of the corpse qi and takes some medicine to nourish her ghost body, she should be fine.
Wang Yao was slightly relieved upon hearing this, and then ordered Gu Qi to arrange for a ghost soldier to summon Hui Shuo. However, the ghost soldier returned and reported that Hui Shuo was fast asleep by the corridor and could not be woken up no matter how he was called. Wang Yao knew that Hui Shuo was exhausted, so he went over and carried him on his back.
While everyone was waiting for the ghost soldiers to call Hui Shuo, Gu Qi received several phone calls, presumably from the King of Hell upstairs, and his expression became anxious.
Upon hearing that Wang Yao was going to carry Hui Shuo, Gu Qi knew that Hui Shuo was just a mortal with many physiological needs, and that it would probably take a lot of time along the way, so he immediately became unhappy.
"Lord Yue Lao, that holy monk belongs to the Buddhist sect but is also a mortal. If we go to the eighteenth floor, we will have to detour through the celestial realm. After leaving the underworld, we will return to the celestial realm. It may be inconvenient for the holy monk to follow us," Gu Qi said to Wang Yao.
“What’s inconvenient about it? It’s not like Hui Shuo hasn’t been to the Immortal Realm before.” Wang Yao insisted, but when he thought of Hui Shuo’s strange situation after arriving in the Immortal Realm, he felt a little uneasy. He was afraid that if the fairy maiden noticed that Hui Shuo was being ignored by the immortals, it would cause a lot of trouble.
He estimated that the fact that Hui Shuo was ignored by the immortals was most likely the work of the old monk from the eighteen temples of Yunling that Hui Shuo had mentioned, a classic Buddhist tactic.
Judging from what the fairy maiden said, the relationship between the Heavenly Court and Buddhism is not very harmonious. If Hui Shuo is detained in the Immortal Realm because of Buddhism's methods, or if he attracts the attention of some patrolling heavenly generals, it will be a troublesome matter.
Although Hui Shuo hadn't done anything to cause trouble in the Heavenly Court, he figured he'd probably be locked up in that iron cage of truth by the patrolling heavenly generals and interrogated. That wouldn't be a pleasant experience, so he hesitated.
"How about this? Once the Holy Monk wakes up, regardless of whether you've accomplished your task or not, I'll arrange to escort him back to the Flower Capital in the Human Realm. He'll go from the Eighteenth Floor to the Immortal Realm, but the Immortal Realm's Taiqing Immortal City is the only way back to the Human Realm. We'll have to take a teleportation array."
“It’s hard to say whether the Holy Monk, being a mortal, can withstand the teleportation array. In any case, we ghosts dare not try it. I think it would be much more convenient for the Holy Monk to go directly to the human realm from here. What do you think?” Gu Qi also urged Wang Yao from the side.
Wang Yao found what he said to be reasonable, and then thought to himself that Hui Shuo had come to the underworld to save ghosts, and was so tired that he hadn't even had a chance to sleep. Apart from killing a few ghosts at the Ghostly Entertainment Shopping Center, the underworld really had no reason to make things difficult for him.
“Oh dear, Xiao Gu is right. It would be so much better for a mortal to go straight back to the human realm from here. Just come upstairs with us; there’s no need to waste time going around in circles,” the fairy maiden added from the side.
"Then... you must guarantee Hui Shuo's safety. He's been working so hard to help you through the tribulations in the underworld. If anything happens to him in the underworld, I won't let you off the hook."
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