Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 1010 Letters
Pu Yanlan said lightly,

"After a person turns into a ghost, he loses his five senses and cannot taste sour, sweet, bitter, spicy or salty. That's why everything here has no taste..."

Gu Shiyi gave up immediately after hearing this and poured the bowl of noodles to the beggars who were kneeling on the side begging. The beggars immediately swarmed over and ate the noodles on the ground like dogs without even using their hands. Gu Shiyi looked like an old man on the subway again. Pu Yanlan also frowned, but the man in red said,
"These ghosts must have no one in the world of the living to burn some money for them, so they have fallen into such a state..."

In theory, no matter how you died in the world of the living, as long as someone buried you and burned paper money, then when you enter the underworld you will have to have a handful of paper money to bribe the underworld messengers. Once you enter the city, the underworld messengers will arrange a place for you to live, and then take you to the temple according to a booklet to check your past life and evaluate your merits and demerits in the world of the living. After that, you will just do what you are supposed to do according to the process!
But if they don't have money to bribe the ghost messengers, and the city is overrun with ghosts and has nowhere to settle, these ghosts will be driven out. They can't leave the City of the Dead and can only become beggars in the city. When there are too many ghosts with nowhere to go, the underworld will send people to clean them up. Or when it is Ghost Festival, the gates of the underworld will be wide open, and they can go to the world of the living to steal some paper money that people in the world burn for the lonely ghosts, and then come back to bribe the ghost messengers!
Gu Shiyi raised his eyebrows upon hearing this.
"It seems that being a ghost is not that easy..."

Pu Yanlan sighed,
"People suffer in the world of the living, and they also suffer in the underworld. It goes on and on, and there is no end in sight. Otherwise... why would anyone risk their lives to defy the will of heaven, just to escape the cycle of reincarnation!"

Gu Shiyi sighed when he heard this and gave all the stolen money to the boss.

“Go as many as you can!”

The boss cooked three more bowls of noodles as he said, and Gu Shiyi gave them all to the beggars on the street. The beggars were lying on the ground, fighting for those bowls of noodles. Gu Shiyi couldn't help but shake his head.
"Let's go!"

This commotion attracted the patrolling ghosts. The three ghosts saw that it was just beggars fighting and didn't care. They turned around and glanced at Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan, and saw the man in red. "Are you the new ghost in the city?"

Red nodded.

"Sir, I am indeed a newcomer to the city..."

The ghost frowned when he saw her in red.
"You died wearing red clothes, but you didn't turn into a ghost?"

After turning into a fierce ghost and entering the underworld again, the path taken is different. This kind of ghost is considered a troublesome person in the underworld and is difficult to manage!

The red-clothed man said calmly,
"I almost turned into a fierce ghost, but fortunately I met a master who passed by and resolved my evil spirit, so I was able to enter the underworld smoothly..."

The ghost heard this with doubt, thought about it and said,
"You... follow us and go to the main hall to ask the clerk to check your life and death record!"

The man in red didn't say much after hearing this, and followed them obediently. Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan looked at each other, and followed the three ghost messengers silently. When they turned around an alley and saw no ghosts around, Pu Yanlan stretched out her hands and knocked gently.
"when……"

The crisp sound of the golden rings hitting each other was heard, attracting the three ghost officials to look back. They saw two golden lights approaching their faces, and then their bodies tightened. Two of the ghost officials stiffened and stood there motionless. The remaining one was shocked and shouted,
"How dare you attack the Yinchai? Do you want to be thrown into the eighteenth level of hell?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the red-clothed female ghost beside him attacked, and one of her claws grabbed his throat. The ghost was startled, and reached for the mourning stick on his waist, but his waist was empty, and the mourning stick fell into the hands of the red-clothed female ghost.

"You...you actually dare..."

The equipment carried by this ghost messenger is actually similar to that of the ghost messenger in the mortal world. However, the equipment carried by the ghost messenger in the mortal world can hurt people if it is snatched away by the wanted criminal, while the equipment carried by the ghost messenger all bears the imprint of the underworld and has magic talismans on it. If an ordinary ghost dares to touch it, his soul will be burned and he will not be able to control it at all!

But the red-clothed female ghost not only took it, but also waved it in her hand as if nothing had happened. Then another tall female ghost came up with a smile, stretched out her hand and gently patted his shoulder.
"Brother...can we...talk?"

Tell me, which job in the underworld is the easiest?

The job of guiding souls, receiving new and old ghosts, not only allows them to travel between the Yin and Yang worlds, but also allows them to collect bribes from the families of the deceased and earn some extra money. If an old ghost messenger has been around for many years and has gained some skills and got a vacation, he can also transform himself into a person in the world of the living and return to the world of the living to enjoy himself for a few days. Of course, this is also a peaceful and prosperous event in the world of the living, when there is no large-scale war. If a war breaks out, these ghost messengers will be so busy that they will be running around!

But even so, they are much better than the little ghosts in hell. These little ghosts in hell repeat monotonous work day after day. Many of them are physical work, which is tiring and hard. Not to mention extra income, they don't even have vacations. If they accidentally encounter a fierce ghost who has been driven crazy by the torture of hell and fights for his life, they may be injured or even killed to death, without even a chance to reincarnate!
And now Cui Renyuan is doing such a job. Every day, he stands next to the boiling hot oil pan that is hot enough to dry out ghosts, holding a shiny three-pronged steel spike, and stabbed back those ghosts who were screaming loudly and struggling to climb out of the oil pan. The ghosts screamed very miserably and struggled desperately. Cui Renyuan was also very careful. The oil in the oil pan was not ordinary oil, but sin-slaying oil. These ghosts who had done bad things in the world and owed sins needed to be fried in this oil repeatedly before their sins could be removed. These little ghosts had very shallow Taoism, and the only difference between them and these ghosts was that they had stayed in the underworld longer, and their sins had been eliminated. But if they were splashed with this oil, it would also be very painful. So Cui Renyuan had to be very careful, stabbing hard while cursing in his heart.
"Damn it, Gou Laogui is trying to trick me..."

This is also the case of a tiger in dire straits being bullied by dogs. When he was in his prime, these little devils working in hell would bow and scrape and try to fawn on him when they saw him. But now that he is in trouble, they take advantage of the powerful and bully the weak and try to exclude him!
Normally, each of the little ghosts doing this job should be given a protective talisman to prevent burns, but that old ghost Gou deliberately withheld the talisman from his hair and forced him to guard in front of the pot. He didn't let any other little ghost replace him for three months!
Cui Renyuan was now exhausted and in a state no better than the man being fried in the frying pan.

“Ahh…Help…”

A fat ghost screamed and popped its head out of the oil pan, swam to the edge of the pan, and splashed Cui Renyuan and several ghosts around him with the oil waves. The ghosts screamed in pain and anger, and stretched out their steel forks to press the ghost back...

"Ah ah ah..."

The obese ghost screamed, and all the fat on its body was blown out, and its body quickly shrank by two circles...

The ghosts were relieved when they saw this. They were working hard when a ghost messenger came with two ghosts behind him and called out by name.
"Where is Choi In-won? Where is Choi In-won?"

A little devil heard it and pointed over there.
"Next to pot number two!"

Cui Renyuan actually heard the call of the ghost messenger, and his heart was startled, thinking,
"Oh no! He's here to cause trouble for Grandpa again!"

After he was demoted here, with the instruction of the new Yama, these ghost messengers would come to trouble him whenever they had nothing to do. That was why the old ghosts, big ghosts and small ghosts here would also look for opportunities to make things difficult for him. He was now as low as he could go and could only act like a scoundrel. However, he was very annoyed in his heart, so he pretended to be deaf and pretended not to hear the ghost messengers' calls. When the little ghost next to him saw this, he kicked him in the waist.

"The master called you, and you dared not listen!"

Cui Renyuan glared at the little devil angrily, then threw away the steel fork in his hand and walked towards the evil messenger.
"Sir, what can I do for you?" As he spoke, he glanced at the two ghosts behind the ghost messenger. He was stunned at the time. The ghost messenger pointed at the two ghosts behind him and said,

"These two masters need you to serve..."

Cui Renyuan blinked, seeming a little bit unbelieving, but the ghost was getting impatient.
"Hurry up and get over there!"

"Yes Yes Yes……"

Cui Renyuan hurriedly responded and went over to pay his respects.

"My Lord, I am polite!"

When Gu Shiyi saw Cui Renyuan, he felt sad. He thought back to when he first met Cui Chenghuang, he was also high-spirited, arrogant and proud. But now in this hell, the ground was covered with blood, flesh and limbs were flying everywhere, his ears were filled with screams and wails, and there were countless oil pots of all sizes boiling. The steaming hot air, let alone the ghosts in the oil pots, even the ghosts of all sizes around the pots were all grinning, their faces were greasy, and their hair was sparse. They looked so irritable and pitiful!
Gu Shiyi sighed secretly.

"Luckily... we thought of coming over to see our old friend here, otherwise... I'm afraid we wouldn't know that he's suffering here!"

Gu Shiyi didn't show it on his face. He nodded coldly at Cui Renyuan and said with his hands behind his back,
"You...come with us!"

"Yes!"

Cui Renyuan suppressed his excitement, bowed his head, and followed behind Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan. When the three figures disappeared, an old ghost who was familiar with the ghost came over and asked,

"Sir, I wonder where those two came from?"

The ghost rolled his eyes when he heard this.
"Old Gou, is this something you can ask?"

After saying that, he turned around and chased after him. The old ghost was stunned and muttered,

"It's strange, why is this gentleman so angry today?"

He naturally didn't know that the evil messenger had already changed his mind. After catching up with the three people in front, he followed behind them respectfully, without any arrogance as usual. After the three people were far away from the place where the screams were heard, Cui Renyuan couldn't wait to say,

"You two fellow Taoists are finally here. It's been so hard for the two of us waiting here!"

Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan raised their eyebrows when they heard this.
"From what Brother Cui said, it seems like he has been waiting for us?"

Cui Renyuan also sighed upon hearing this, reached into his arms, took out something from his tattered clothes, held it in both hands and handed it to Gu Shiyi.

"Friend Gu, please take a look at this thing first!"

Gu Shiyi took it and saw that it was a letter. He was even more surprised. He glanced at Pu Yanlan and opened the letter in front of the three people. The first sentence he saw was,
"Fellow Daoist Gu and Daoist Brother Pu, it's as if we're meeting in person. The magic array was accidentally transferred, and we've been separated for many years, and we've never seen each other again..."

Ah!
Gu Shiyi's eyes widened in surprise and he looked at Pu Yanlan.

"This... this... this is actually a letter from the pretty boy..."

Pu Yanlan was also greatly surprised. The two of them hurriedly read on and saw that the letter roughly talked about what happened after they separated, which was similar to what they had inquired about. Mu Tiangang died in a conspiracy with his allies, and Mu Xun also died at the hands of his own people. After entering the underworld, they found that their ancestors had already taken up a position in the underworld. So Mu Xun did not reincarnate, and followed his ancestors to serve. Later, Mu Tiangang was transferred to this world to become Yama, which led to his meeting with Gu Shiyi.

Gu Shiyi looked confused.

"Yan'er, when we first entered the underworld, Mu Xun was there, why didn't he come out to meet us?"

Pu Yanlan lowered her head and thought about it carefully. She understood Mu Xun's thoughts and said,
"Can you take a look at what's written below?"

Gu Shiyi took another look and saw that the letter had another message, saying that Mu Xun had been with Mu Tiangang in the underworld for many years, and then a new person came to power. They were defeated in the fight, but at least the new Ghost King left some dignity to them and promised Mu Tiangang to take Mu Xun to reincarnate. However, Mu Xun was unwilling to reincarnate because he did not know how Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan were doing in the world of the living. He had no choice but to write a letter and entrusted it to Cui Renyuan, asking him to bring it to Gu Shiyi when he had the chance. The letter was considered finished here, and Gu Shiyi saw that the last sentence in the letter was,
"This reincarnation is long, and we will never meet again. I dare not express my deepest feelings, but I only wish you to live as long as the sky, be as blessed as the earth, and be free from now on!"

Gu Shiyi was stunned.
"...I dare not express my feelings...from now on I will be free..."

She murmured in her mouth, how could she not understand in her heart, and suddenly fell silent. Pu Yanlan sighed, knowing that this was Mu Xun's final confession!
He reached out and took the letter that was about to fall from her fingers, read it again, and folded it carefully, and asked,
"Brother Cui, do you know where Senior Mu and Brother Mu were reincarnated?"

Cui Renyuan sighed,

"I did check when I was in office. Senior Mu was reincarnated as the daughter of a farmer's family. She worked hard every day and was often beaten and scolded. After that, she was sold to a wealthy family as a maid... Brother Mu became a young master of a wealthy family. He was weak since childhood and reincarnated again before he was ten years old. The second time he was reincarnated, he was reincarnated as a woman. He died of hemorrhage when giving birth to his fourth child... After that, I was demoted here, and I have no news about them since then!"