"I'm not trying to criticize you, but you've done an excellent job keeping secrets. I've never heard you mention anything about the underworld. How would I know that these Yama Kings are so extravagant and gluttonous? They're practically more like immortals than us immortals!" The fairy looked around the vast station and couldn't help but scold Cao Xian.
"What secrecy? I was just too lazy to explain. What's the point of explaining? Otherwise, people would say I'm jealous of those Yama Kings. The Heavenly Court has made the office's responsibilities very clear: participate but don't interfere, help but don't cause trouble. What the underworld does is up to Yama Kings to decide."
“What right does our office have to interfere?” Cao Xian shook his head.
“What Cao Xian said is true. I understand now. Actually, the position of the Heavenly Court’s offices in various realms is quite awkward. If they don’t do anything, people say they are just occupying a position without doing anything. If they do something, people say they are interfering in the affairs of other realms. It seems that there is a reason why our Immortal Lü emphasizes the practical departments.”
Wang Yao nodded in agreement.
“My husband, Lao Lü, has no choice. He has to do something in this position. I think the Heavenly Emperor is still a bit unfair to you. When I see him again, I’ll have to have a good talk with him.” After hearing what Wang Yao said, the fairy maiden spoke up for Cao Xian and her husband, Lao Lü.
"Let's not talk about it anymore. It's not easy being the Heavenly Emperor either. We need to balance the interests of all parties. Let's just focus on doing what we're doing right now." Cao Xian said, then took out his phone again.
“We don’t need that. We have the Cloud-Ascending Beast, which makes finding immortals much easier.” The fairy said, pointing to the sky.
"A Cloud-Ascending Beast? You... brought the Cloud-Ascending Beast from the Beast Garden of the Biancheng Prince's Mansion?" Cao Xian asked in astonishment as he looked at the Cloud-Ascending Beast in the sky.
"Of course! Xiao Wang and I just happened to be passing by the entrance of the Hundred Beast Garden when the Cloud-Ascending Beast noticed our presence and started calling out, which is how I found it," the fairy maiden said with a smile.
“Oh dear, King Biancheng loves taming all kinds of birds and beasts. He treasures this Cloud-Ascending Beast very much. He spent a lot of money to buy it from the God of the Sea. If you bring it here, be careful that King Biancheng will turn against you,” Cao Xian said worriedly.
"Turning against him? I don't care about that. He abandoned this Cloud-Ascending Beast in the Hundred Beast Garden and only cared about escaping. If it weren't for me, this Cloud-Ascending Beast would have starved to death sooner or later. It would have been such a waste."
The fairy maiden said nonchalantly.
She grabbed Wang Yao and Cao Xian and teleported them onto the backs of the Cloud-Ascending Beast, then used the beast to search for the immortals of the Underworld Office in other places.
"By the way, there's something I still don't understand. Su Jin was possessed by a spirit body, so he couldn't pilot an airplane. And spirit bodies aren't good at long-distance travel either. So how did they manage to cross the ocean and get to the Prince of Biancheng's residence?" Sitting on the back of the Cloud-Ascending Beast, Cao Xian suddenly frowned and asked.
"Yes! It seems that besides the spirit body and the corpse puppet, there must be something else that entered this floor, otherwise it would be impossible to explain how they left the island." The fairy frowned and began to speculate after hearing Cao Xian's words.
“It’s very likely that they are different kinds of corpse puppets. According to King Pingdeng, you encountered two kinds of corpse puppets on floor zero? One is the short, high-level corpse puppet that I encountered in the Underworld Queen Zone, and the other is the low-priced corpse puppet with two heads and four arms?” Cao Xian turned to ask Wang Yao.
“Not bad,” Wang Yao nodded.
"So it seems our adversary not only possesses a spiritual body, but is also skilled in corpse refining. I do know some expert corpse refiners who can create corpse puppets capable of long-distance flight, but the price is considerable," Cao Xian said, stroking his white beard.
“The spirit we killed had the appearance of a foreigner. Do you think this antagonist might be a foreign god?” Wang Yao then asked Cao Xian.
After hearing Wang Yao's question, Cao Xian and the fairy exchanged a glance, then looked at Wang Yao and shook their heads.
"It's hard to say. Don't be fooled by how difficult it is to deal with a spirit body. Which ordinary cultivator would want to become a spirit body? Those who can become spirit bodies are usually brainwashed fanatics who believe that they cannot achieve certain goals without doing so. Moreover, once you become a spirit body, you can no longer cultivate other methods."
"Therefore, behind these spirits and corpse puppets, there must be another being controlling all of this. Is this being the God of the Ocean or some powerful being from the Six Realms? We cannot draw a conclusion yet," Cao Xian said calmly.
"Moreover, why did that being do all this? What was its purpose in doing so? These are all still unknown. We cannot speculate before the truth is clear."
The group was chatting on the back of the Cloud-Ascending Beast when suddenly the beast roared again. They were startled and looked down, only to see that it was still a vast sea below.
After the Cloud-Ascending Beast roared, its body slowly descended. Only then did Wang Yao see clearly that there was an inconspicuous little island in the sea below, floating on the waves like a narrow line.
The Cloud-Ascending Beast, unwilling to be tainted by the corpse energy, did not descend too much. The Fairy Maiden pulled Wang Yao, and together with Cao Xian, they instantly teleported to the small island.
The three had just stepped onto the island's beach and hadn't even settled in when the fine sand around them suddenly surged up, instantly forming a sand wall around them.
The entire beach seemed to have become a sand fountain, with damp sand and seawater constantly gushing out, pushing the sand wall higher and higher. In no time, the three of them were surrounded by the sand wall, their view blocked, and they could no longer see their surroundings.
"You all go quickly, I'll hold them off!" a voice shouted from outside the sand wall.
"It's Huang Zhen!" Cao Xian's eyes lit up, and he immediately shouted, "Huang Zhen, I'm your brother-in-law! Get rid of this shady practice right now!"
"Um... he said he's the emperor's brother-in-law..." the voice outside paused, then said uncertainly.
"Don't believe that. The three of them came down together. Be careful that Director Cao isn't kidnapped by a spirit. Don't let go!" another voice shouted.
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