"That's possible. It depends on how much essence that foreign god surnamed Luo has. If it's a lot, we can't rule out the possibility that he'll cause us some more trouble. If it's not a lot, he'll have to consider conserving his strength for his next operation."
King Yama nodded, then turned to look at the fairy.
"There will be a spatial collapse ahead, so this place is no longer suitable for teleportation. Be careful when you walk."
"I've seen spatial collapses before, just keep going," the fairy said impatiently.
Yama, the King of Hell, didn't care and turned back to continue walking forward.
"I just don't understand, where could that foreign god escape to with those spirits after leaving the underworld? Especially that Eunuch Wei, if he leaves the underworld, isn't he also likely to become a vengeful ghost?"
After listening to Yama's analysis, Wang Yao thought to himself that the foreign god surnamed Luo had only brought 12 spirits with him, and he had already killed two of them. He probably couldn't bear to send the remaining 10 as cannon fodder. He looked at the empty corridor and felt puzzled as he walked.
"You really need to brush up on your knowledge as an immortal. If an immortal can travel through the six realms, then what about the God of the West? How come he has nowhere to go?" the fairy said irritably.
“But the immortals didn’t cause any trouble, did they? This foreign god has made such a huge mess, won’t the Heavenly Court’s patrolling generals hunt him down? Besides, those spirit bodies are not easy to hide, are they?” Wang Yao said.
"Capture is inevitable. Even in the Underworld, we will not allow him to roam freely. We will definitely send ghost messengers to capture him in the Six Realms. But how can he surrender so easily? Moreover, the ways to conceal his whereabouts are no less than those of immortals. As for his essence, you have seen it. Once he sheds his physical body, he is even harder to detect."
"Moreover, even if a ghost has equipment, it doesn't necessarily become a vengeful ghost. Especially that guy surnamed Wei, he's already a Ghost Lord. Even without equipment, he won't easily become a vengeful ghost in other realms. It's just that without the nourishment of Yin energy, his cultivation will stagnate," said Yama.
After walking a little further, Wang Yao noticed that cracks were starting to appear on the walls on both sides of the corridor. Some cracks were just a single line, while others were as wide as a finger, resembling wounds on the wall.
These large cracks looked very strange. They didn't let in any light, and you couldn't see the building materials inside the walls. Instead, they were egg-white-colored and indistinct, making it impossible to tell what they were.
As you move forward, the cracks in the wall gradually grow larger, some reaching the size of an egg, and they appear in more and more locations, sometimes even appearing on the ground beneath your feet.
At this point, the Yama Kings and the Fairy Maidens would carefully walk around the cracks from the side. But as they walked, large cracks began to appear on the walls, and even the space in the middle of the corridor was filled with clusters and clumps of various egg-white-colored spots.
It was as if someone had poured out a whole bowl or basin of egg whites, which then floated in the air, filling the entire corridor in front of everyone.
"Fourth Brother, activate the Skeleton Array and thoroughly explore the construction area," Yama said, stopping in his tracks.
"King Yama, I've heard that there's a deadly path leading to the human world in this construction area. The pile of corpses I saw in the basement of the Grand Hotel in Zhidu should be the one leading to that deadly path," Wang Yao reminded him.
“Our soul lamps do not reveal information about the Death Path. Only specific ghosts know the exact location of the Death Path. There are many forks in the road here, and the structures are widely distributed. Since we cannot teleport, we can only explore slowly using the skeleton array,” said Yama.
Emperor Song then unleashed a skeleton formation. A skeleton crawled out of the ground, swung its knife forward, and another skeleton rose up. Soon, three or five skeletons appeared in the corridor.
The skeletons first went forward along the corridor, passing through a crack in the middle of the corridor. Wang Yao watched as the first skeleton passed through the crack, and the skull broke off cleanly as if it had been cut by a sharp blade, with one piece sliding to the ground.
The remaining part of the skeleton walked through the crack and collapsed to the ground with a "whoosh," turning into a pile of broken bones.
The first skeleton to emerge continued to swing its sword forward, but the skeletons that followed avoided the rift and continued forward. However, these summoned skeletons were eventually killed one by one by the spatial rift.
Only after all the skeletons in that direction, large enough for one to pass through, had fallen, did the wielding skeleton turn around and begin swinging its blade in the direction you had come from. The summoned skeletons then changed direction and turned to walk towards the other side of the corridor.
"The skeleton formation is too slow, let's take a walk." King Qin Guang looked at the skeleton formation for a while, shook his head impatiently, and called on everyone to get moving. Everyone was also getting impatient. If they continued to work slowly like this, who knew when they would finish exploring the entire construction area.
So they followed King Qin Guang down the stairs one by one to search for him.
They returned along the same route, turning into any forks in the road they saw. They couldn't see the cracks with the naked eye, but Yama, the King of Hell, would occasionally use his spirit guides to take a look. Once they turned into a fork in the road, they would see the cracks, so they simply relied on walking.
After searching for about three or four hours, in a fork in the road that looked particularly long and stable, Yama, after using the Soul-Guiding Technique, nodded: "That should be the Death Path."
For safety's sake, everyone continued walking forward. After walking a while, they saw that the corridor ahead was completely filled with layers of ghostly corpses. The dense corpse aura made the air ahead appear dark blue, as if everyone were walking in the sea.
"This is a tomb of corpses!" King Qin Guang gasped as he looked at the scene before him.
Even with the protective shield around him, Wang Yao still felt the biting chill in the air. He stared in astonishment at the ghostly corpses that filled the corridor, which had completely blocked the way to the dead end. He wondered how the spirits were moving back and forth.
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