“If you don’t go out and see the world, you’ll think this is all there is to it,” the guide ghost said again. “The tenth floor here only offers small views, like scenes from a movie. To truly see the vast grasslands, towering mountains, great lakes, and oceans, you have to go upstairs.”
Wang Yao blinked, feeling that his imagination was really lacking. Look at these guys, they managed to decorate the monotonous and boring building into a paradise-like scene.
The group emerged from the shade of the banyan tree and came to a small path paved with gravel nestled among the trees. Across the path, the ghost by the fountain looked up at them indifferently, only raising its eyebrows slightly when it saw Wuying.
The guide stood in the middle of the path, put two fingers in his mouth, and gave a loud whistle. Everyone heard the sound of horses' hooves, and soon, a quaintly decorated carriage slowly approached from around the bend in the path, its hooves clattering.
The carriage arrived beside them in the blink of an eye. Wang Yao saw that the driver was a burly, fierce ghost with a thick beard. However, he had a wooden expression and was neither surprised to see Wuying nor showed any unusual expression when he saw Wang Yao and the two immortals, Fairy Maiden.
"Peach Blossoms Everywhere, Peach Leaf Ferry," the guiding ghost said to the fierce ghost driving the chariot.
"Wait a minute, could you send me to the Samsara Dao creative group to take a look?" Wang Yao raised his hand and asked.
"Creative group, what are you doing there?" Before the guiding ghost could speak, Gu Qi turned his head and asked first.
“Didn’t I tell you that there are still many things to do in the Underworld? Right now, there’s a task that needs to be handled by the creative group,” Wang Yao said.
"What mission?" Gu Qi frowned.
"Fairy, one of the important things I did in the Underworld was to complete this mission. It was a task personally assigned by Fairy Caixia from the Heavenly Court's Bureau of Prosperity and Development. If I go up to the eighteenth floor, I'll have to come back down. Do you think I should do the mission here while I'm at it, or go up to the eighteenth floor and come back down?"
Wang Yao ignored Gu Qi and instead turned to ask the fairy.
Knowing that the fairy was anxious about her husband's affair with Wei Cai, he intentionally changed the Lonely Man's fate here, so as to avoid going upstairs to meet those Yama Kings and having to argue for half a day, and those Yama Kings might not even agree to his request.
Why not just use this opportunity to intimidate others and leverage the fairy's influence to get things done?
“Since it can be done here, why don’t you hurry up and do it? Going up and coming down again, where do you find the time to spare?” the fairy said as expected.
"Life is full of surprises, and even the kite you hold in your hand can... suddenly break its string." The guide ghost raised his eyebrows, reciting his lines, and turned to look at Gu Qi.
“Um…that…” Gu Qi frowned. He knew that Wang Yao’s trip to the creative group would not be good, and he really did not want to go. However, the fairy had already spoken, which put him in a dilemma. He was thinking about how to persuade the fairy to give up the idea of going to the creative group.
"What are you dawdling about? Hurry up and go, there's still so much to do!" The fairy maiden urged Gu Qi as he pondered.
"Your Honor, since the Fairy is here, she can handle even the most important matters. She is in a hurry to go to the Heavenly Court to urge the reinforcements to deal with the spirit body. If you delay here and hinder her important business, you will become a sinner in the Underworld!"
Wang Yao also threatened Gu Qi from the side.
"Yes, yes, that's it. Hurry up, or I'll be late in getting help. Your underworld has been taken over by spirits, so don't blame me." The fairy nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.
Gu Qi's face darkened, and he cursed inwardly, "If you know time is of the essence, why the hell did you even bother going to the creative group? Why didn't you just go to the 18th floor? You wasted your time going to the creative group, and now you're trying to pin the blame on me. It's utterly unreasonable!"
Despite his annoyance, Gu Qi knew that lingering here was not a good idea. He regretted that Wang Yao had initially hinted at wanting to find the creative group, but he hadn't taken it to heart and hadn't made preparations earlier.
“Then… let’s go to the creative group… and then go to Taiqing Immortal City.” Gu Qi stammered as he spoke to the guiding ghost.
"Then let's go to the Vertical Film and Television Base." Without saying a word, the guiding ghost called out to the puppet-like fierce ghost who had been sitting stupidly in the carriage, and jumped onto the carriage first.
Gu Qi invited the fairy maiden and Wang Yao to get into the carriage first, and then he and Wu Ying jumped on afterward.
Wang Yao climbed into the carriage and found it surprisingly spacious. The five of them sat down comfortably without feeling cramped. The carriage was surrounded by sofas, and screens hung from the ceiling in the middle. The guide ghost sat on a sofa, stretched out his hand, and dragged one of the screens in the middle in front of him.
"It'll be a while before we get to the vertical film studio, so everyone should hurry up and study." As he spoke, the guiding ghost tapped on the screen, browsed around, and started playing the movie he had just been watching in the screening room.
"Reverence the gods in heaven, love your woman, protect your country..." The voice of the character in the play immediately came, and the guiding ghost put on a pair of headphones hanging on the side of the screen, and the sound on the screen immediately disappeared.
Wang Yao was greatly surprised by the way the ghost was beckoning him; this ghost was actually a movie fan.
He lifted the curtain behind him and saw that the carriage had already started moving, and its speed was extremely fast. The scenery outside was already too blurry to see clearly with the naked eye. It felt that it was not much worse than the speed spell of Wuying.
But they didn't experience any jolting in the carriage, and they didn't even realize that the carriage had started moving.
"Going up to the tenth floor is like this. This is the center of our underworld's cultural creation. Before the ghosts came here, they were basically outstanding beings in the literary and artistic fields of their respective realms. Our underworld has always attached great importance to cultural development," Gu Qi said with a smile.
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