Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 1008: Where did the old friend go?

"Wow..."

The lake surface was centered on the big pit, with huge waves spreading out in all directions, as if that tiny, invisible snowflake was a huge mountain, smashing down on the lake. In just a moment, all the water was pushed to the shore, and the huge waves turned into a flood, rushing in all directions. Fortunately, at this time, the villages and cities by the lake were deserted due to the war ten years ago, and there was no trace of people. The flood hit the ruins heavily and disappeared without a trace in a moment!
The lake water disappeared completely after this, revealing the huge rocks and mud at the bottom of the lake...

The faint flickering light in the center of the lake...

Then the second snowflake fell, landing exactly where the light was flashing.

"Wave……"

As if a bubble was popped, the ground exploded...

The sky was filled with pitch-black lake mud, the underground cave was split open, and a yellow light flew up from the ground and flew straight up to the sky above...

"Boom...boom...boom..."

Then, continuous sounds were heard, and the ground began to shake. After a moment, a huge crack appeared at the bottom of the lake, followed by a second crack, a third, and a fourth...

The sky was still calm, but countless cracks had appeared on the ground. The violent earthquake caused mountains to collapse, rivers to change course, the ground to sink, rocks to be exposed, and trees to fall...

The yellow light in the sky was getting brighter and brighter.
"boom……"

With a loud bang, it was as if a giant hand had suddenly blocked the light between heaven and earth. The originally clear sky suddenly darkened, from bright and magnificent to pitch dark.

"Whirring whirring……"

The hurricane came from nowhere and instantly swept up the boulders, soil, and trees on the ground. Everything that could be swept up into the sky flew into the air, and the whole world became a chaos.
"Thorn..."

A bright flash of lightning split the sky, and the black curtain seemed to be split open by a knife. In the crack, a huge eye was revealed. This huge eye was filled with endless anger and resentment, and its gaze was directed directly at the yellow light in the air.
"Thorn..."

Another flash of lightning...

This earth-shattering collapse took ten days. Even people who lived hundreds of miles away were affected. They fled their homes with the elderly and children, and did not return home until half a month later. It was another year before some people dared to go deep into the central area where the world had turned upside down. By this time, the huge lake had disappeared without a trace, and what was left was a piece of extremely fertile land. People moved back here and reclaimed wasteland and cultivated the land. In the first year alone, they had a big harvest. After that, there was no disaster for a hundred years, and there were bumper harvests every year!

"Huhuhu..."

On the top of a high mountain, Gu Shiyi stood side by side with Pu Yanlan, with his hands behind his back.

"Now...are you relieved?"

Gu Shiyi smiled and looked at Pu Yanlan who was standing beside him. Pu Yanlan nodded and said,

"I also didn't expect that after reaching the realm of refining emptiness, the heavenly tribulation would be so terrifying. It has implicated these people!"

Gu Shiyi glanced at her and smiled.

"Yan'er, the collapse of the sky and the earth in the past ten days has brought them a hundred years of harvest and joy. Go down and ask any of the common people if you want it. Do you think they would want it again? Maybe they would even kowtow and burn incense to ask you to come again!"

Yan'er is a person who is cold on the outside but warm on the inside. She can't bear to see innocent people suffer!

Pu Yanlan looked at her with a bit of a smile, but said nothing more. After thinking for a while, she said,
"I am indeed relieved now. So... let's get down to business!"

Gu Shiyi nodded, and the two turned around and disappeared. When they reappeared, they were already outside a prosperous city. Gu Shiyi stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the busy City God Temple in front of him, and smiled and said,
"So many years have passed, and the tone of the underworld has not changed..."

Pu Yanlan recalled their old friends in the underworld.
"I wonder what position Brother Cui holds now?"

Gu Shiyi smiled and said,

"That's hard to say!"

Most of the officials working in the underworld were people with status and virtue in their lifetime, or they were people with Taoism. Some of them felt tired of working as underworld officials for a long time, so they reported to their superiors and wanted to reincarnate again. When they were reborn as human beings again, the underworld would arrange their destination according to their work performance. Some of them were tired of the coldness of the human world, so they continued to work as officials in the underworld. After a long time, they might get promoted!
When they came to this world, they came through the underworld. However, that place was originally the gathering place of yin in the imperial palace. Now the terrain has changed and it is no longer a passage in and out of the underworld. Instead, the City God Temple has always been a place of connection between the world of the living and the world of the dead.

Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan walked into the hall among a group of pilgrims. No one could see them amid the noise and incense. As soon as they entered the hall, the clay statue sitting high above them suddenly shook...

Gu Shiyi raised his head with his hands behind his back and smiled at the clay statue.

"Please come down and talk to me, Lord City God!"

Just as she said this, the scene in the hall suddenly changed. It seemed that all the people in the hall disappeared in the blink of an eye. Only Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan were standing in the middle. In front of them stood a tall, thin, white-haired old man. Seeing the solemn expressions of the two, the old man stepped forward, bowed, and said,

"My two Taoist friends, there is a difference between the Yang and the Yin. The Yang and the Yin have always kept to themselves. I wonder why you two Taoist friends are here?"

Huh?
This tone doesn't sound very friendly!
Gu Shiyi smiled and moved her fingers, and the old man was brought in front of her.
"Ah...what are you doing!?"

The old man was shocked. The aura of the two people in front of him only leaked out two or three points, which was just higher than his own. If they came to cause trouble, he would probably send the little ghost to report to Yama immediately, but it would be too late!
Thinking of this, he put his hands behind his back and flicked lightly...

Gu Shiyi still smiled and said,

"Fellow Daoist, you have misunderstood! It's just that an old friend of mine is working in the underworld. We sisters have been in seclusion for many years and haven't been in touch. Now I'm out of seclusion and want to meet an old friend, so I want to ask you a few things..."

"Oh I got it!"

The old man was relieved when he heard this and asked hurriedly,
"Who do you want to know?"

Gu Shi said,
"One of them is Cui Renyuan... Although he is not from the underworld of this world, you all in the underworld are connected with each other, so he should know something, right?" "Cui Renyuan?"

The old man frowned and thought about it carefully, then rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"I was promoted to the position of City God in the last three hundred years after being recognized by my superiors. If it were our world, it would be fine. But I don't know anything about the underworld in other realms!"

"Oh?"

Gu Shiyi raised his eyebrows,
"Do you know about that, Mr. Yang?"

"Mr. Yang Shan..."

The old man tried to recall the past, but shook his head after a while.
“I don’t know…”

"What about Huang Tianming... do you know?"

The old man thought for a while and said,
"I have heard about this. The underworld has issued a list of reincarnated officials. He has already been reincarnated!"

"Oh……"

Gu Shi and Pu Yanlan looked at each other.
"Do you know where he was reincarnated?"

The old man's expression became serious when he heard this.

"My two Taoist friends, the Yang and the Yin have different paths. People in the Yang world don't care about the affairs of the Yin world. Where Huang Tianming was reincarnated is a secret of the underworld. How can we easily tell others!"

Gu Shiyi just laughed when he heard it, but Pu Yanlan raised her eyebrows, thought for a while, took out a bottle of medicine and said,

"This is the Ghost King Pill. Your cultivation will greatly increase after taking it. If you are willing to tell us the truth, this pill will be yours..."

But if you don't say it, then you'll be in trouble for not accepting my toast!
The old man looked cold when he saw this.
"How can you know the secrets of the underworld? Leave quickly if you know what's best for you. Otherwise... don't blame me, the underworld's ghost soldiers, for arresting you!"

He said this very firmly, but Gu Shiyi's smile remained unchanged. Pu Yanlan still said calmly,
"Red clothes..."

As she responded, a female ghost in red suddenly appeared beside her. Her red skirt fluttered, and she was holding a little ghost in each hand. The old man's face changed immediately when he saw the two little ghosts.
"you……"

Gu Shiyi smiled and said,

"You think... you secretly sent the little ghost to report the news, and we didn't notice it?"

She paused and looked back at the two little ghosts, only to see a flash of golden light in their eyes. The little ghost in the red-clothed boy's right hand suddenly screamed in fear.

"Ah... help..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the little ghost turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared. The old man was so frightened that he screamed,
"Ah... This is the underworld's evil spirit. How dare you..."

He had already guessed that the two were very powerful, but he didn't expect them to be so powerful that they could turn the little ghost into ashes with just a glance!

The old man's originally pale face strangely turned into a purple color, his eyes rolled back, and two ghost teeth were exposed at the corners of his mouth. Seeing this, Gu Shiyi sneered.
"You think we'll be afraid of you if you turn into a ghost?"

After saying that, he raised his hand and slapped her.

"Snapped……"

With a sound, half of the old man's ghost face disappeared. The power of her slap not only frightened the old man, but also the red-clothed people behind the two of them were shocked, thinking in their hearts,

"Miss Gu has become more powerful after so many years of training. Just a slap like this..."

Although she boasted that she was more powerful than the City God, she had no confidence that she could save her face if she were to be slapped hard!
After half of the old man's face was slapped off, he finally calmed down. His remaining eye was staring in fear, and the rest of his mouth moved for a long time before he managed to find his voice.
“Senior, please… please spare my life!”

Gu Shiyi smiled and flexed his wrist, then reached out and patted the old man's shoulder twice. The old man was frightened and his body softened, and he suddenly shrank half his body. Gu Shiyi smiled and grabbed his shoulder, lifted him up again, and turned to Pu Yanlan and said,

"Yan'er, think of a way... to make his face change back to normal, otherwise... it will be hard to interrogate him in this state!"

Pu Yanlan nodded, raised her hand in the air, and patted it lightly. A ball of black mist flew onto the old man's face. After the black mist squirmed for a while, the old man's face returned to normal. This time, he didn't even dare to glance at the two of them. He just lowered his head and said to Gu Shiyi,
"Now... you should be able to answer us properly... Let me ask you again, what about Cui Renyuan... do you know?"

“Know…know…”

"Oh...tell me about it..."

After the old man poured out everything he knew, like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube, Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan looked at each other and sighed in their hearts.

"It is true that things in this world are unpredictable. A new emperor chooses new ministers..."

But it was after they left that the incident happened. Lord Yama, whom Cui Renyuan served, treated him very well. He first promoted him to be a clerk in front of the palace. Seeing that he was capable, he assigned him an errand outside a thousand years later. He only said that he would be trained outside for two or three hundred years, and then he would be transferred back to take his place. Brother Cui Renyuan was an idle prince in the world of the living. He lived a mediocre life, eating, drinking and having fun all his life. After he came to the underworld, a Bole took a liking to him as a thousand-mile horse. He was very happy and worked hard. He did achieve some results.
"Normally... Brother Cui should have been able to take over smoothly after returning two or three hundred years later, but I didn't expect a dark horse to suddenly appear..."

It is said that after Cui Renyuan came back, he found that his big backer, Lord Yama, had been defeated. A new force in the underworld contacted a group of forces and forced Cui Renyuan's old master off the stage. Lord Yama was forced to reincarnate, and those who were originally under Lord Yama suffered. Many colleagues switched to the new master early when they saw the bad situation. Officials like Cui Renyuan who were sent out did not know what had happened in the court. When he returned to the palace, he found that he had no place to stand. He also did not know how he had offended the current Lord Yama, who sent him to hell to be a small leader, managing three or five little ghosts. This was like being exiled from the world of the living. As a result, Cui Renyuan did not know how to restrain himself and spoke rudely to his current boss. As a result, this time he could not even be a small ghost leader. He was beaten into a little ghost and is burning coal in the eighteen levels of hell!
It is also said that Yang Shangong is an old and cunning man. Long before his old master lost power, he found that the situation was not right and secretly defected to the new master. Now he is the most popular ghost under the new Lord Yan Luo...

Huang Tianming and Cui Renyuan were quite loyal and were demoted together with him. However, he was smarter and used his savings from years of being a ghost catcher to bribe his superiors, thus finding himself a chance to be reborn and no longer suffering in the underworld!
"How do you know these things?"

The old man hesitated and said nothing, which made Gu Shiyi angry. He raised his hand and slapped him.

"what……"