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Summer.

In a private residence in Mobei City!

"careful!"

A sharp leg, imbued with a faint aura of blood and qi, sent a dark figure that was lunging at the others flying.

The dark figure disappeared as it entered the wall, while the owner of the leg stood back-to-back with another person, looking at everything around them.

Unbeknownst to the two, a dark shadow was reaching out its hands towards them from the ceiling above them.

Just as those hands were about to reach the top of the two people's heads, the person who had kicked the shadowy figure away suddenly stretched out his hand, which was wrapped in the power of blood and qi, and grabbed the shadowy figure's hand.

With a swift spinning back throw, the dark figure was slammed from the ceiling to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, a glowing stone was pressed onto the shadowy figure.

A hissing sound rang out, and soon the dark figure disappeared.

"It has to be you, Ruonan."

Li Ruonan put away the stone in her hand, ignoring the compliments from her teammates.

"Stop talking nonsense, find the real thing."

"okay!"

Not long after, Li Ruonan put a flowerpot into a specially made box.

"gone."

On the way back to the Bureau of Investigation, Li Ruonan kept looking out the window.

Even though it's daytime, there are very few pedestrians on the street.

She vaguely remembered the bustling city of Mubei two years ago when she was still an intern.

But in just two years, everything began to change because of the disappearance of the underworld.

Without the suppression of the Ghost Gate, the city was once again filled with yin energy, and there was even a sense of rebound after the suppression.

The sudden surge of yin energy created a breeding ground for ghosts and spirits.

The investigators from the Bureau of Public Opinion, who had become accustomed to the methods used by the underworld, showed signs of discomfort when they returned to their original methods.

The result of this maladaptation was that the ghostly disturbances that could have been resolved were not resolved, and incidents that would not have resulted in casualties occurred.

Furthermore, due to the disappearance of Yin Xiu in the Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau is severely understaffed in dealing with paranormal events. As a result, all the reserve agents who were originally required to complete two or more years of internship, but who had already completed more than three months of internship, were put into action.

Li Ruonan is one of them.

Over the past two years, Li Ruonan has experienced no fewer than a hundred paranormal events, big and small. Almost every time she solves one event, she moves on to the next.

She has experienced injuries, bleeding, and near-death experiences.

Fortunately, the Bureau of Polling released a new version of the exercise routine, which gave her a breakthrough in her abilities, coupled with her own talent and skills.

Now, she is just one step away from becoming a team leader-level specialist.

After the breakthrough, she will start leading the team.

She began taking on increasingly dangerous missions, and this cycle repeated until she died.

"Ruonan, we've arrived."

"Ah."

Li Ruonan got off the bus with her suitcase and was about to go inside when she saw an acquaintance who had just come out of the police station.

"Go hand in your mission, I have something to do."

After handing the box to her teammates, Li Ruonan walked towards the two people.

"Zhou Lei, Fan Chengdong."

Li Ruonan's voice made the two turn around, and they were both stunned when they saw her.

"Li Ruonan? You've changed so much!"

Zhou Lei looked at Li Ruonan with some surprise. He had heard about Li Ruonan from others before, and he had not been able to see her on several dates with his old classmates. Even Wu Mengmeng, Li Ruonan's former best friend, found it difficult to see her.

Upon seeing Li Ruonan, Zhou Lei was amazed by her aura.

Li Ruonan used to have a heroic air about her, but no matter how you looked at her, you could tell she was a girl.

But this time when they met again, Li Ruonan's heroic spirit was gone. If it weren't for her ponytail, Zhou Lei would never have believed that she was a woman from behind.

"What are you doing?"

Li Ruonan smiled and asked.

"Hehe, nothing. Don't you know? People from the Underworld used to come to the Bureau of Investigation once a month to inquire about the latest situation."

"As former Yakshas of the underworld, we have to come here once every two weeks."

Zhou Lei shrugged helplessly.

Li Ruonan had heard about Zhou Lei and his companion being demons from the underworld, but she had forgotten about it over time.

As for the Bureau of Investigation's report on this matter, it is true, but the two people should have been reported in Lingyuan City, so how did they end up in Mukayi City?

Although she had doubts, Li Ruonan did not ask any further questions.

Thinking of something, Li Ruonan asked again, "What about Chen Xin? What has he been doing lately?"

"Chen Xin? You're asking me that? I'd like to ask you something else. Aren't your two houses across the street from each other? When you went home, didn't you ask your family if they had seen Chen Xin go back?"

When Chen Xin was mentioned, Zhou Lei shook his head.

Fan Chengdong, standing to the side, showed a slight change in expression.

He knew that Chen Xin held a certain position in the underworld, but he didn't know exactly what that position was.

However, since Chen Xin's uncle, Wang Xingping, was taken away, it's likely that Chen Xin was taken away as well.

"No, we haven't been in touch for a long time."

Li Ruonan said with a somewhat dim look in her eyes.

Her joining the Bureau of Public Opinion Research was, to some extent, influenced by Chen Xin.

But who knew that after joining the Mubei City Investigation Bureau, the two never met again!

When she returned to the bureau after her internship, she learned that Chen Xin had already been dismissed.

This left her somewhat dazed. Later, she tried to find Chen Xin, but she couldn't get through to him no matter how many times she called.

Later, when she had more assignments, she never contacted me again.

"Hey, if you hear anything about him, remember to contact us. It's been a long time since we've seen each other, so we can get together."

After chatting for a while, the three parted ways.

Li Ruonan was taken to the police station.

Not long after she got back, she heard about the meeting, a general meeting.

In the past two years, the plenary session has been held many times.

Each time, it's because something important is being announced.

Soon, the meeting began, and its contents silenced everyone present.

The General Administration has decided to re-employ the Yin Xiu specialists, and half of the subsequent trainee specialists must become Yin Xiu specialists.

Six months later, the proportion of newly joined Yin Xiu specialists should reach two-thirds.

Upon hearing about this meeting, all the commissioners seemed somewhat dazed.

How did everything go back to the way it was before?
Yin Xiu is back. Will the Divine Messenger organization that was once destroyed also return?

Just as this idea was beginning to take hold in the minds of some of the commissioners, Director Bai Hongtao voiced their thoughts.

“In the past six months, supernatural events have frequently occurred in various parts of the Great Xia, but these are not only natural disasters, but also man-made disasters.”

"According to our statistics, more than a dozen non-governmental organizations have emerged within the territory of Daxia."

"Among them, Eternal Night, Blood Moon, and Sacred Tree are the leaders."

"We have already located these three organizations and will take action against them."

"As for the remaining non-governmental organizations, certain measures will also be taken..."

Hearing Bai Hongtao's voice, all the frontline staff sighed.

The days ahead will likely be even more tiring.

Why did the underworld disappear?
It wasn't just the commissioners who had questions about this; the Xia family also had questions.

Two years ago, after Xia Wuyou observed the war between the divine kingdoms, he began to have his think tank analyze the matter intensively.

After a year of planning, the Xia family used the few remaining entrances to seize control of the economic lifelines of three cities in the Divine Kingdom.

Just as they were preparing to make further progress, their few remaining entrances suddenly collapsed!
All members of the Xia family who were in the divine kingdom were expelled from it.

Even if they were to enter again through other means, they could only observe everything in the Kingdom of God as livestock.

Everything they had painstakingly built up over the past year was gone.

Xia Wuyou was furious, but there was nothing she could do.

It was only at this moment that he remembered the underworld.

As a result, all information about the underworld began to converge in the ancestral land of the Great Xia Dynasty, and in the Xia family.

Among them, Wang Xingping naturally became the focus of the Xia family's attention.

A year has passed, and although Wang Xingping has been confined to the ancestral land of the Great Xia, they have not been able to obtain any useful information from him.

Xia Wuyou had considered using methods against Wang Xingping, but he later gave up on the idea.

What he wanted was a cooperating underworld, not an enemy.

If the underworld really does return, then those who used underhanded tactics will become enemies.

If you can't return to the underworld, then all the methods used will be in vain.

Ultimately, it turned into 'protection' for Wang Xingping.

At this moment, Wang Xingping was playing chess with Xia Hong in the ancestral land of Daxia.

The two didn't know each other at first. Xia Hong only started talking after he overheard Wang Xingping mention Chen Xin's name. Having found common ground, they began to communicate more and eventually became friends.

"We lost again, Ping-ge."

Wang Xingping shook his head.

"I'm not going to stop now, it's boring. Let's go for a walk."

"Keep going? We've been all over here. Why not play chess instead?"

Xia Hong said this, but he had already gotten up.

As the two walked and talked, somehow the conversation turned to Chen Xin.

"Chen Xin left so gracefully back then. If it weren't for his resolute decision, I probably wouldn't be here."

Wang Xingping laughed and said, "Wouldn't that mean Chen Xin ruined you?"

Xia Hong shook his head.

“He helped me. If it weren’t for him, my mother wouldn’t have recovered her health. Although I’m here all year round now, I can get out if I stay here for ten years.”

“My mother was only in her early fifties at that time, and we still had another thirty or forty years to spend together.”

“If I hadn’t come, although we could have seen each other every day, I’m not sure how many years she could have lasted.”

"So I don't regret coming."

Xia Hong smiled.

"By the way, what exactly did that kid Chen Xin do after that? Ping-ge, can't you tell me? I'm quite curious."

Upon hearing Xia Hong's words, Wang Xingping suddenly recalled the scene from two years ago.

"Him? Actually, I don't know either."

"They said they went to a certain place."

Xia Hong was surprised.

“Going on a trip? No way, he’s really skilled and daring… Oh right, two years ago the situation in Great Xia was already quite good, and given his condition, traveling alone wouldn’t have been a problem for him.”

"However, I've recently heard that things aren't going well outside."

"I suppose he's already home... It's a pity his news probably won't reach here."

Wang Xingping paused for a moment upon hearing this.

"Yes, he's probably already home."

Wang Xingping subconsciously looked up at the gray mist that shrouded the ancestral land of Great Xia.

……

Meanwhile, above the gray fog, in the eighteenth level of the Netherworld, the Minotaur Lord had just opened the passage to the seventeenth level, sending the 'people' within his domain into the large hole.

Once the 'person' enters, the Bull-Headed Domain Lord must leave.

But at that moment, the domain lord suddenly saw the scene inside the large hole flashing wildly.

This anomaly brought it to a halt.

"what happened?"

Soon, the other dozen or so domain lords also arrived.

"Bullhead, what have you done?"

One of the domain lords asked the original bull-headed domain lord about it.

"I didn't do anything, I just sent someone over."

"This has never happened before. You must have done something, and you won't admit it!"

"I told you, I didn't do it!"

Just as the domain lords were attacking the Minotaur Domain Lord, the flashing images in the large hole suddenly stopped.

All the domain lords looked toward the large hole.

The scene inside the cave zoomed in, passing over the city and arriving at the main hall atop the highest mountain.

Just then, a figure dressed in black robes, with a jade belt around his waist and a crown with tassels on his head, slowly walked out of the main hall.

When the lords of the domains saw this figure, they all turned their gazes away.

Even from an unknown distance, they dared not look directly at that figure.

The lords of the realms were puzzled by this change, wondering why the entrance to the underworld would display that person's figure.

This has never happened before.

Just as the domain lords were wondering, they suddenly heard a soft laugh.

"Gentlemen, how have you been lately?"

That voice sounded familiar.

One of the trees among the domain lords suddenly trembled.

The tree looked directly into the large hole and saw the figure in front of the main hall.

However, through the beads in front of the crown, he could not see the other person's face shrouded in black mist.

Just then, he saw that person move.

The person raised their hand from behind their back, and a book with a silver cover appeared in their hand.

Looking at that book, the tree's figure couldn't help but tremble.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

The other domain lords were puzzled, but dared not make any move.

But just then, they suddenly sensed something and looked up at the same time.

The scene inside the large hole has disappeared, and two rough hands are now gripping the left and right sides of the hole.

The size of just a palm is already equal to that hundred-meter-high hole.

Amidst the sidelong glances of the domain lords, those hands slowly tore the large hole open to the left and right.

The hole, which was originally only a hundred meters wide, began to expand wildly, and when it reached a thousand meters, two more hands appeared.

In this way, four hands stretched the hole, which was 100 meters in diameter, to 10,000 meters!

Under the watchful eyes of many domain lords, two enormous figures emerged from the cave.

The first thing they saw was two heads.

One of them is the same as, yet different from, the Bull-Headed Domain Lord's.

It was a bull's head with a pair of twisted horns, its eyes blood red like burning coals, black gas spewing from its nostrils with unknown metal rings, and two outward-facing fangs reaching to the sides of its nose.

The other one was a long, pale horse face with a torn mouth that extended to the base of its ears, revealing sharp, serrated teeth. Its eyes were sunken like black holes, flickering with eerie green phosphorescence.

After the two heads appeared, there were their humanoid bodies, which were as large as mountains.

The bull-headed creature has bulging muscles, bluish-black like iron, and is covered with coarse animal hair.

The man with the horse's head was tall and thin like a bamboo pole, with skin as taut as a dried corpse.

The bull-headed creature wielded a nine-ringed ghost-headed sword, its blade wrapped with soul-locking iron chains, and its swings were accompanied by incessant wails.

The horse-headed figure wields a soul-devouring steel fork, its tip shrouded in black mist, with grotesque ghost faces constantly appearing at the tip.

When the two revealed their complete forms and stood in the void, the domain lords had already huddled together.

Suddenly, a buzzing sound rang out, directly shattering the bodies of all the domain lords.

[Decree from the Underworld]

The netherworld is vast and boundless, its divine might awe-inspiring!

【Now, 165,436,271 hell guards of the Underworld, including Ox-Head and Horse-Face, have been ordered by their Lord Yama to cleanse this defiled land and purify the demonic atmosphere! All wandering ghosts and spirits causing trouble here shall be immediately subdued; the living souls they have taken with them shall be released and returned to the world of the living!】

[Immediate Judgment:]

[This mortal realm is forever under the jurisdiction of the Underworld's 165,436,271st court! All the souls of the deceased will return to the underworld for judgment; any evil spirits or demons that dare to linger in the mortal realm—will be cast into the eighteenth level of Avici Hell, to be eternally condemned, never to be reborn!]

hum!
With a single swing of his blade, the bull-headed demon soldier shattered all eighteen layers of the Netherworld, and all the ghosts and spirits within were captured by the soul-locking chains on the demon-headed blade.

As the horse-faced demon soldier wielded his fork, the yin and yang worlds merged, and the evil spirits and yin energy transformed into black mist that swirled around the fork.

The sound of chains rang out as the shattered domain lords, bound by chains, followed the ghost soldiers towards the underworld.

The hole shrank back, from 10,000 meters to 1,000 meters, from 1,000 meters to 100 meters, and from 100 meters to 1 meter.

Just as it was about to disappear, a silver-covered book fell through the gap, plummeted, and vanished.

……

Wangjiagou, 8 PM.

Mei Huixiang is cleaning Chen Xin's room.

She paused for a moment when she saw the book that had appeared on the table.

I opened it, and it was completely blank.

With a sigh, Mei Huixiang put the book back into the bookshelf.

When there was no one else in the room, a page of white paper suddenly flew out from the silver book.

The white paper was cut into a human shape by an invisible force in the air, and flew out of the room and out of the crack in the door.

Boom boom boom!
"Who is it?"

Mei Huixiang, who was about to go to sleep, turned around and walked towards the door.

"Who is it?"

With a creak, the door opened, and Mei Huixiang froze.

"Grandma, I'm hungry, is there any food left?"

(The End) (End of Chapter)