You, a living person, are telling me I've served in the underworld for ten years?

Chapter 57 The Great Law of Purifying the Subtle Essence
Outside the fog.

In a room recently renovated from an abandoned primary school in Hongqi Village, Chen Yang was writing furiously at his desk.

Your Excellency is above.

Your humble servant Chen Yang...

It's a long and detailed piece of writing, over a thousand words long.

Chen Yang first introduced what he had done during this period of time to "maintain the order of Yin and Yang". Of course, these things could not be described in detail, just a brief mention would suffice. The most important thing was to talk about his difficulties!

Finally, half of the text is devoted to a detailed description of the "heavy fog" over Wulong Mountain and eight other areas today, as well as the "monster spirit".

Put pen to paper.

She got up and handed it to Gu Jinghui, who was standing next to her.

Gu Jinghui picked up a lighter and lit it.

Chen Yang quickly blew out a breath of yin energy to extinguish the fire, and said speechlessly, "What are you doing?"

Gu Jinghui: "Weren't we supposed to burn a letter for the lower ranks?"

"I asked you to check for typos and help me polish it."

Chen Yang said, "Besides, how could I possibly have the ability to burn it directly for Lord Cui!"

Gu Jinghui checked it over and exclaimed in admiration, "Wow, Chen Yang, I didn't know you had such a good writing style... It's a real shame you're not writing novels!"

Chen Yang: "I did write a book... published on the Rotten Eggplant website. I wrote over 50 words and earned more than 2 yuan. I quoted a few sentences from Baidu and people said I plagiarized. They banned my book and demanded that I return the royalties."

"I*!"

Gu Jinghui was stunned: "Did you return the royalties?"

Chen Yang: "Return my ass! Do you expect me to return the money that's already in my hands? Let's not talk about this anymore. I'll send the letter down first."

Chen Yang took off the Soul-Capturing Bell and shook it gently.

In an instant, streams of yin energy flew out from the Soul-Capturing Bell, transforming into thirty yin spirits upon landing.

Apart from the ten brought out from Wulong Mountain, the other twenty of these thirty spirits were ghost puppets that had been imprisoned in the "Soul-Binding Box" with Chen Huaiyi by Wang Jianlin.

The malevolent energy on them has been refined, they have regained their self-awareness, and they are aware of their "ordeal".

However, the ten ghosts on Wulong Mountain were still somewhat dazed and confused.

Firstly, it has only recently become a ghost, and its spirit is too weak.

Secondly, the spirits were harmed by the "mist" of Wulong Mountain.

Chen Yang performed a ritual, activating his cultivation and casting the "Rebirth Mantra." He unleashed a ball of Yin energy, within which a phantom of the "Gate of Life and Death" materialized. He then sent the ten dazed ghosts down into it.

In fact, the normal process of ghost officials and underworld messengers collecting souls in the human world does not involve this kind of "exorcism".

Instead, after the soul is taken, it is first taken to the local City God Temple to be judged by the City God and the Earth God, and then sent to the Yellow Springs by the City God Temple... But nowadays, where are the City God and the Earth God?
Chen Yang had no choice but to find another way.

After seeing off the ten dazed ghosts, Chen Yang looked at the remaining twenty ghosts and asked, "Among you, are there any criminals?"

The ghosts looked at each other, not daring to answer!
They are ghosts now, and their spirits are very weak.

When facing Chen Yang, a legitimate civil servant of the underworld, they felt a deep-seated fear, like small animals seeing tigers or lions!
"Ok?"

Chen Yang raised an eyebrow.

Snapped!
Gu Jinghui slammed his hand on the table and shouted, "Didn't you hear Lord Night Watchman asking you a question?"

One by one, the ghosts stepped forward and recounted their good and evil deeds in their previous lives.

Ordinary people certainly have their share of evil deeds, but they are all minor ones, such as stealing apples from their neighbors, cursing at elderly people in the village, or stealing from their neighbors' younger sisters-in-law...

"Sister-in-law?"

Chen Yang waved his hand, sending the other nineteen ghosts into the "Gate of Life and Death," and looked at the male ghost who appeared to be in his thirties, asking, "Can you steal from your neighbor's sister-in-law?"

Gu Jinghui asked curiously, "Explain in detail."

The ghost dared not lie to Chen Yang and recounted in detail how he stole his neighbor's sister-in-law.

"My neighbor has a younger sister-in-law who is young and beautiful..."

"That year, my neighbor was celebrating their son's one-month birthday. They had many relatives, and there was nowhere for them to sleep that night... Since it was in the countryside, and our two families were close, they arranged for a few people to stay at my house, including his sister-in-law." "That night, the moon was bright and the stars were few..."

"Alright, alright!"

Gu Jinghui understood and said, cursing, "So this is the kind of theft you're talking about... No need to say more, I understand."

"........."

Chen Yang actually wanted to hear more.

But since Gu Jinghui had already said that, he felt embarrassed to say anything more, so he spoke up:

"According to the punishments of the underworld, those who commit adultery, wicked women who murder their husbands or maliciously abort, gamblers, those who are unfilial to their parents, and those who are unrighteous and immoral will be sent to the eighth level of the Ice Mountain Hell after death."

"You had an affair with your neighbor's sister-in-law, an unforgivable crime... but now there is a chance to redeem yourself and reduce your sentence by a few years. Are you willing?"

The ghost was so grateful that it immediately agreed.

Chen Yang asked his name, burned the letter in front of him, and instructed him: "Remember, after you enter the Road to the Underworld, there will be a judgment by the City God and the Earth God. You can give this letter to them."

The ghost was sent away.

Gu Jinghui couldn't help but sigh, "The world is going to the dogs... People these days are shameless, they even steal from the neighbor's sister-in-law!"

Why should it concern you whose sister-in-law someone else is stealing?

Chen Yang asked, "Where's my dad?"

"Old He and the others have arrived. Uncle Chen knows Old He, so they went to catch up."

When Chen Yang found Chen Huaiyi, he was chatting with He Wanzhong, who had a "Heavenly Eye Talisman" pasted on his forehead.

Upon seeing Chen Yang, He Wanzhong immediately stood up and bowed.

Chen Huaiyi then asked, "How is it? Have you made contact with the underworld?"

Chen Yang said, "The letter has already been sent. Once Lord Cui receives it, he will appear in my dream."

Wei Rufeng arrived quickly and inquired about the situation.

Chen Yang gave the same answer, then asked in return, "Director Wei, what is the situation with the other eight locations in the Great Xia region shrouded in mist?"

Wei Rufeng sighed and said with a wry smile, "The situation is not optimistic... The demon spirit is extremely difficult to deal with. It hides in the mist, and the key is that both martial artists and Dao cultivators will be affected if they enter the mist. Once it is severely injured, it will immediately hide and become impossible to find."

The only good news is that all nine fog-shrouded areas are located in the mountains far from human cities and have not caused too much harm.

What can happen later?

If the fog were to spread, or even appear directly in the city, it would be a huge disaster!

Chen Yang recalled how he had injured the "Yanling" with his "fire magic" earlier that day, and said, "Perhaps we can send some powerful Dao cultivators into the mist to deal with that Yanling. They... seem to be afraid of fire magic!"

Wei Rufeng wrote it down.

Chen Yang then asked, "Since they fear fire magic... what about lightning magic?"

Wei Rufeng's eyes lit up, and he said, "Thunder magic is extremely powerful and yang, and can subdue all evil spirits. Ghosts die and become demons... perhaps thunder magic can also subdue demon spirits!"

Chen Yang hesitated and said, "Well..."

"Director Wei, I wonder if your Special Administration Bureau has any methods for cultivating thunder magic... To be honest, I have long admired Taoist thunder magic and would like to see it for myself."

Wei Rufeng shook his head and said with a wry smile, "Many sects in the Daoist world have the inheritance of thunder magic, but this is their core inheritance and they will not easily show it to others."

"Besides..."

Wei Rufeng glanced at Chen Yang again...

Can a ghost official from the underworld cultivate thunder magic?

This is like a ghost playing with lightning... Isn't it like an old man eating poison and getting tired of living?

"Lefa?"

Chen Huaiyi picked up the conversation, saying, "Chen Yang, you want to cultivate thunder magic? When your grandfather was young, he found a book called 'Qingwei Yuanjiang Dafa' by chance at a street stall, which contains records of Qingwei thunder magic!"

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