Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 116 Let's Act Together. (Third Update!)

Shujiabao.

Small Round Hall.

Four figures stood on three legs.

"...Please tell me everything that happened in the Ghost Cellar."

Xiao Yiyang's voice echoed in the round hall.

Upon hearing this, Li Li'an's already pale face turned even more bloodless, and his fingertips, hidden in his sleeves, were trembling slightly. Seeing that Xiao Yiyang, Jia Bin, and Jia Miaoniang were all looking at him, Li Li'an swallowed hard and dared not be negligent. He immediately replied tremblingly, "I, I just followed Wu Rushou, a total of nine people, into the Ghost Cellar."

"Inside, we encountered a ghost at the sixth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell] level, who was in charge."

"Wu Rushou, a fifth-level Qi Refining cultivator, is dead!"

"Everyone else... was also killed!"

"I was just lucky enough to escape."

"I didn't see the summoning banner in the haunted cellar!"

After saying these words, Li Li'an looked at Xiao Yiyang with great nervousness.

According to his memory, after he answered Zheng Que's question, Zheng Que's reaction was to immediately ask the Jia siblings whether they were going to the underground mine or the ghost fighting arena next.

If Xiao Yiyang asks the same question as Zheng Que just now, then...

Just then, Xiao Yiyang nodded, glanced at Jia Bin and Jia Miaoniang, and then asked the three of them, "The three of you, when you came out of the ancestral hall and the ghost cellar just now, did you encounter a cultivator named 'Li Li'an'?"

What?
Li Li'an was stunned. He was Li Li'an. He had run into himself.
At this moment, Jia Miaoniang frowned, then pointed at Li Li'an and said, "This is Li Li'an, Fellow Daoist Xiao. Could it be that there are two Li Li'ans in this Shu Family Fort?"

Xiao Yiyang was taken aback. Was this rogue cultivator actually Li Li'an?
That kid just now, didn't he give his real name?

Then, Xiao Yiyang spoke again, saying, "Just now, I and another cultivator were trapped in a 'strange' situation."

"That cultivator escaped before me. He had three ghost servants, one of which was at the sixth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell] and the other two were at the fifth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell].

"However, that cultivator's cultivation level was only at the fourth level of Qi Refining..."

Before Xiao Yiyang could finish speaking, Li Li'an immediately replied, "It is Zheng Que!"

"I have seen!"

"I just saw him!"

"He went to the Ghost Cellar!"

A ghost cellar?

Xiao Yiyang's expression was solemn. Based on the clues he had just investigated from that "strange" incident, there were only two ways to obtain the Soul-Summoning Banner.

One way is to find the original main soul of the Soul-Summoning Banner, gain the recognition of that old main soul, and help it regain its position as the main soul, so that you can control the Soul-Summoning Banner.

The second option is to find the new main soul that Shujiabao refined, gain its approval, and help it ascend to the throne, thus successfully controlling the Soul-Summoning Banner.

However, to prevent himself from being assimilated by the "strangeness," he didn't dare to stay in that "strangeness" any longer, as there was still a lot of information he hadn't figured out.

He didn't know the exact locations of the old and new main souls. As for how to help one of the main souls regain its position after finding it, Xiao Yiyang didn't know either.

However, now that Zheng Que has already gone to the Ghost Cellar, whether it is the old master's soul or the new master's soul there, he cannot go there again!
Thinking of this, Xiao Yiyang glanced at the entrances to the underground mine and the Ghost Fighting Arena, hesitated for a moment, and then quickly said, "Gentlemen, I'm going to the Ghost Fighting Arena, so I'll go ahead!"

With that, he walked directly toward the passageway leading to the arena.

Seeing this, Li Li'an dared not stay with the Jia siblings and quickly said, "Fellow Daoist Xiao, I'm also going to the Ghost Fighting Arena!"

As he spoke, he quickly followed behind Xiao Yiyang, eager to leave the small round hall where the Jia siblings were.

Upon hearing this, Jia Bin and Jia Miaoniang exchanged a glance. They had originally planned to escape from Shujiabao as soon as possible, but for some reason, they both felt a strange fear about the exit of the gate.

After thinking for a moment, Jia Bin added, "This Shu Family Fortress is extremely dangerous. It will be safer if we all act together."

"Since you two are both going to the Demon Fighting Arena, then my brother and I will go with you."

So, the Jia siblings also followed Xiao Yiyang.

Upon noticing the brother and sister walking closely behind him, Li Li'an's face paled, and he quickly took a few steps closer to Xiao Yiyang.

The four of them quickly filed into the passageway leading to the arena. The sound of their footsteps gradually faded into the distance and eventually disappeared without a trace.

The small round hall quickly fell silent. In the empty hall, the five fan-shaped doors stood quietly.

A moment later, the entrance to the ghost cellar was suddenly pushed open from the inside.

Zheng Que, his robe stained with blood, carried a rustic pottery jar in each arm and strode out quickly.

Behind him, three ghost servants followed closely. Kulan and Niannu each carried two double-eared pottery jars, while Qingli conjured four arms, holding four pottery jars of different sizes.

Niannu was holding a hemp rope, the other end of which was looped around the neck of the tall ghost.

The tall ghost was weak and listless, its head lolling to one side as it lay on the ground, being dragged along like a lump of cargo. Its long, narrow mouth was torn and tattered, as if it had been struck many times. Its entire body was slightly transparent, covered in wounds. However, despite its wretched state, its ferocity as a "fierce spirit" remained undiminished, and it would occasionally twitch and try to struggle.

Upon exiting the passageway, Zheng Que looked down at the two pottery jars in his arms. The two jars were different in appearance; one was a tall, eggshell-shaped black pottery jar with a stem, and the other was a white pottery round jar with a taotie pattern. Both jars had talismans on their seals and exuded a cold and eerie aura.

According to Niannu's explanation, these are all [Yin Vessels].

Each of the [Yin Vessels] contains a ghost servant.

Because these [Yin Vessels] couldn't fit into the storage bag and soul-nourishing bag, and given the urgency of the situation, he could only select ten [Yin Vessels], and couldn't move all of them...

Of course, with the presence of the three ghost servants, the ghost servants sealed within the ten [Yin Vessels] he selected were all the most powerful among all the [Yin Vessels] in the Ghost Cellar.

Standing still in the small round hall, Zheng Que glanced around and immediately said, "Protect me."

As he spoke, he put down the [Yin Vessel] in his hand, and then used the [Ghost Control Technique] on the tall ghost again.

Given the current situation, he needs to interrogate this ghost from Shujiabao as soon as possible.

Of course, besides this ghost, the ghost from the [Scissors Prison] has already been granted a title, and its name has certainly been recorded in the [Book of Life and Death].

He should also be able to interrogate.

Next, we need to determine the location of the summoning banner, then the number of ghosts in the vicinity, their cultivation level, and all the potential dangers along the way…

(End of this chapter)