"Ugh, it stinks! I'd better go back." The fairy's voice suddenly rang in his ears. Wang Yao looked around blankly. King Qin Guang and King Yama had arrived before him. Where were they?
"Snap!" Another sound like a snap of fingers rang in his ears, and Wang Yao suddenly realized that he was in a pile of corpses, surrounded by layers of ghost corpses, but this did not affect the warm light above him, and King Qin Guang and King Yama were right beside him.
Then Song Diwang arrived as well. Their bodies, like those of the ghostly corpses, were almost transparent and overlapped with Wang Yao's body. Wang Yao reached out to touch them but couldn't reach them.
"What's going on?" Wang Yao asked in astonishment.
"You haven't activated your spiritual senses, have you? I can tell from the way you're looking around that you can't see us. Once we enter the human realm, our ghostly forms actually take on this formless and intangible spiritual state. Unless we deliberately gather yin energy, this is what we'll look like," King Qin Guang laughed.
Upon hearing King Qin Guang's words, Wang Yao suddenly remembered that back then, in the alley next to the Grand Hotel, if it weren't for Hui Shuo chanting sutras, he wouldn't have been able to see those mountains of corpses. Later, when Hui Shuo stopped chanting, those corpses disappeared instantly.
"I'll go take a look!" King Qin Guang instructed, his figure flashing. Wang Yao watched as his ghostly form passed through the ghostly corpses, seemingly oblivious to the surrounding ghostly corpses, walls, and pipes, and quickly disappeared without a trace.
"I need to shut down your spiritual senses to prevent that Luo fellow from setting up traps nearby. He's invisible, and ordinary traps can't detect him. Be careful and don't wander around," Yama reminded Wang Yao.
Then came another snap of fingers, and Wang Yao found himself back in the dark manhole. He considered using the magic "Spiritual Sense," but decided against it, since he didn't have much spiritual power left, and activating Spiritual Sense once would require 1,500 points of spiritual power.
Although he had a Spirit Recovery Pill, he wasn't sure how much spiritual power it could restore. Besides, he would save the pill for when he needed it most. Right now, when he activated his spiritual senses, all he could see were Yama, Emperor Song, and ghost corpses.
There's nothing interesting about these living and dead ghosts, so it's better not to watch them at all.
He stood quietly in the manhole, looking up at the orange light above, listening to the sound of water around him. Sometimes there was a splash, sometimes a continuous dripping sound. Strangely, the air here was thick with the smell of corpses and the temperature was very low, yet there was no freezing.
As he was pondering these strange occurrences, a sudden burst of light shone before his eyes. It turned out that there was indeed a manhole cover above him, and the holes through which the light shone were actually small holes in the manhole cover. Wang Yao was momentarily dazed by the sudden burst of light, but soon his head blocked the light.
"Xiao Wang, is that you?" It was Ma Gu's voice.
"Huh? Ma Gu, what brings you here?" Wang Yao was greatly surprised. Ma Gu was extremely wary of his ghost-suppressing talisman being broken, so why would he come back here?
"The Heavenly Court has specially dispatched a task force to deal with this calamity, their first task being to seal off the source of the corpse energy here. I have a large group of immortals here," Ma Gu said. "What's the situation in the Underworld now?"
“The enemy is a foreign god named Robin, and a ghost god from the underworld. I reckon they’ve both run away,” Wang Yao said.
“I know that the Heavenly Court just lodged a strong protest with the Western Realm, demanding that they punish the murderers, but it seems the Western Realm hasn’t responded yet,” Ma Gu said.
"The passageway must be re-affixed with ghost-suppressing talismans and have forbidden runes drawn to completely seal it off. This is the decision of the Heavenly Court. If you have any questions, you can talk to the Heavenly Court." A celestial voice came from behind the horse.
"Then could you slow down the drawing of the forbidden runes? Once the runes are drawn, the cost of washing them off is enormous. The Underworld originally planned to expand Floor Zero and use it as a path of ritual for the human world. Once the forbidden runes are drawn, this path will be completely dead."
To Wang Yao's astonishment, what followed was actually the anxious voice of King Qin Guang.
"What kind of passageway is this? It's been used by terrorists as a gateway to your underworld, and your underworld didn't even notice. This shows that your underworld has a serious lack of management over this passageway. It would be better to completely seal it off. Please move aside, we have a lot of things to do."
The immortal's origins were unknown, and he showed no respect whatsoever to King Qin Guang.
"Little Ma! What's going on? Why haven't you put up the talisman yet?" The voice urged Ma Gu again.
"Um... let's wait until Yama goes down? Also... the Old Man of the Moon is still down there, should we call him up?" Ma Gu paused for a moment, then turned to answer.
"The Old Man of the Moon is down there? Quickly call him up. I have something to ask him. Um... Lord Yama, you're really delaying our business here. Please go back to the Underworld, okay?" the voice said.
"Xiao Wang, Director Qiu wants to ask you to come up here for questioning," Ma Gu said, turning to Wang Yao.
"Oh..." Wang Yao nodded, stretching out an arm, intending to climb over the manhole. "Give me a hand..."
"Why go through all that trouble? Hold on..." Ma Gu threw down a piece of rope, which Wang Yao grabbed. With a gentle pull, Wang Yao's body lurched out of the manhole.
He steadied himself and looked around. He saw rows of concrete pillars around him, with cars parked neatly beneath them. He was in an underground parking lot, where the light was dim, with only a few energy-saving lights on.
The orange light he saw was an incandescent bulb that had been temporarily added next to the manhole cover.
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