Do not engage in underworld operations in the human world!

Jiang Lu didn't know what the true identity of the ancient artifact was, but he had a hunch that it might have an inseparable relationship with him.

The manifestation of the ancient artifacts in the spiritual realm, and the points of travel back and forth all coincide with Jiang Lu's childhood life trajectory. This is really too coincidental, and there is almost no second possibility to explain such a coincidence.

what is that?
Could it be something I carried with me as a child?

Or is it some creature that always stays with you?
Jiang Lu has lived a wealthy life since he was a child. His parents gave him many good things. He also raised many pets, including animals and plants, and he kept many of them with him. But he had no idea what they were.

But it didn't matter, because his intuition told him that he would know the answer soon.

Because just as he expected, the last turning point in the spiritual realm was in his home, or to be precise, his childhood home.

This is a large mansion located on the top of a high mountain in the center of Huangquan City. Halfway down the mountain is a forest park.

There was no one living in the house anymore. There was no light at all in the rows of magnificent buildings. The heavy wooden door, like a city gate, was tightly closed and covered with dust. It seemed that no one had cleaned it for some time.

"Is this your home? It looks older than the royal palace in Yinjing City." Lucifer did not think much about it and just thought that this was one of the palaces built after Jiang Lu became famous.

"Of course it's older than that." Jiang Lu smiled slightly, "inadvertently" showing the confidence of being a rich second-generation: "This is the ancestral home passed down from my ancestors. It existed before Yinjing City was built."

"Ah?" Lucifer was a little surprised: "So you are actually considered a noble in the underworld?"

"You can say that, but we usually call them landlords here. To put it more nicely, we can also call them aristocratic families." Jiang Lu scratched his head: "You look like you find it unbelievable?"

Lucifer sighed and said bluntly: "Because in my opinion, nobles are generally well-educated, and I don't see those qualities in you."

"The people in my family do fit what you said." Jiang Lu shrugged, "But it doesn't matter to me. Besides, I think that not bullying others when I was a kid was the best upbringing I've ever had. Otherwise, have you ever heard of any noble being expelled from school where the parents beat up the child instead of the principal?"

“Two different things.”

Jiang Lu was too lazy to explain anything. Time would prove everything. A truly kind person would not emphasize his kindness all the time.

After jumping over the high wall and into the courtyard, a sense of familiarity hits you.

However, Jiang Lu soon discovered something wrong. There was a gap on the east wall that was supposed to be closed, and two steel wires protruded from the east wing and extended down the mountain.

Jiang Lu walked into the east wing curiously, only to find that there were several cable cars parked inside. The cable cars made of cast iron were already mottled in many places, and the pulleys hanging on the cables had rusted and fused with the cables. It looked like they had not been moved for a long time.

"Take the cable car to and from school? So awesome?" Lucifer exclaimed in amazement and shook the cable car with his hand.

It didn't matter that there was a flash, a person suddenly jumped out from inside.

Seeing two more people outside, the man was horrified: "I'll leave right away, right away!"

This was a very sloppy man. Through the window of the cable car, one could see some trivial daily necessities placed inside. At this moment, he looked very scared, as if he had some psychological trauma.

Jiang Lu grabbed him by the back of the collar, frowned and asked him: "Who are you? What's the matter with this cable car?" Lucifer glanced sideways, it turns out that this cable car has always existed?
The man realized something and asked cautiously, "Are you not ghost soldiers?"

"I'm from out of town, and happened to pass by here to take a look." Jiang Lu said evasively.

"I was so scared, I thought it was the ghost soldiers." The man breathed a sigh of relief, then complained with a sad face: "I am a homeless man, nearly 40 years old, my parents just passed away, and I was fired by the company. I filed a lawsuit, not only did the plaintiff become the defendant, but I also owed the company a lot of debts. My wife also ran away with someone and divided up the house. From then on, people kept asking for debts around me. I really had nowhere to go, so I thought of coming here to deal with it for a while and avoid the limelight. When I saw you, I thought my whereabouts had been discovered, and the creditors were looking for the ghost soldiers to take my life."

"I didn't ask you that." Jiang Lu waved his hand, not interested in listening to a story he had heard eight hundred times before: "I asked you why it became like this, even the cable car is here."

"Well, you guys really look like you're from other places, or you haven't been to Huangquan City for a long time. This place has been like this for a long time."

The man looked at the two of them and explained:

"I heard from the old people that ever since the original owner of this house became the Lord of the Underworld, the house has been inexplicably vacated and no one lives there. Then, someone developed the Jiang Family Courtyard into a scenic spot, calling it the Former Residence of the Lord of the Underworld. The cable car was installed at that time.

Later, something happened to the Yin Lord, and the current Yin Emperor came to power. Many things that were previously promoted became topics that could not be discussed, and then the Yin Lord’s former residence was also used as a typical example of a crackdown, so it was abandoned and became what it is today.”

After hearing this, Jiang Lu was suddenly a little dazed and confused.

Although he never returned to the underworld for various reasons after becoming the Lord of the Underworld, he never expected that his happy hometown would become like this.

My parents would occasionally send me letters, so how come they were no longer at home after I left? Where did they go?
Seeing that Jiang Lu didn't say anything, the homeless man might have felt a little embarrassed, so he asked for something to talk about:

"Come to think of it, the roads leading up from the park should be blocked. Where did you get up from? Did you climb up along the cable like me?"

"Did you climb up here?" Jiang Lu raised his eyebrows: "You are such a ruthless person."

At this time, Lucifer asked with some concern: "Since it was developed, someone must have come in and renovated it all. Are the things still there?"

"It's hard to say." Jiang Lu shook his head: "Let's go in and take a look."

Having said that, Jiang Lu was about to walk towards the main house.

The homeless man saw that the two men ignored him. He was curious about what they were doing but didn't dare to ask more. He wanted to ask them not to reveal their whereabouts but was too embarrassed to ask, so he could only stand there at a loss.

Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Jiang Lu waved his hand to tell him not to worry: "I won't tell anyone that you are here, so just stay here peacefully."

The homeless man breathed a sigh of relief and showed a grateful expression to Jiang Lu.

"So generous?" Lucifer smiled and said, "After all, this is your home. It was okay before, but now there's a stranger under your nose. Won't you feel uncomfortable?"

Jiang Lu disagreed: "If you think so, it only shows that we have different views on aristocratic cultivation."

Lucifer was speechless for a moment, and then he burst into laughter. (End of this chapter)