Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 125 Complaint. (Third update!)

Seeing Xiao Yiyang escape into the passageway leading to the Ghost Cellar, Qing Li was about to continue her pursuit when a series of clattering footsteps suddenly came from behind the door marked with an incense burner.

The next moment, two familiar figures rushed out of the ancestral hall's passageway.

The two figures, a man and a woman, bore a subtle resemblance in their features, clearly indicating a blood relationship. At this moment, they looked panicked, as if they had encountered something extremely frightening and were fleeing for their lives. They were none other than Jia Bin and Jia Miaoniang.

It's those two snacks!

Qingli perked up and immediately ignored Xiao Yiyang, rushing straight towards the Jia siblings.

At this moment, Jia Bin and Jia Miaoniang also saw Qingli. The pupils of the two siblings opened slightly at the same time, and a clear look of fear appeared on their faces.

Jia Miaoniang's lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but seeing Qingli rush over without saying a word, the brother and sister instinctively wanted to run away.

However, they had just escaped from the ancestral hall, and now dared not enter it again. In their panic, they didn't have time to think and fled towards the door marked with a pickaxe.

Whizzing……

Soon, the three figures, one chasing and the other fleeing, all rushed into the tunnel leading to the underground mine.

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Step, step, step...

Footsteps echoed through the passageway as Xiao Yiyang moved with lightning speed, heading swiftly towards the Ghost Cellar.

His original plan was to go to the residence, obtain the identity of a member of the Shu family, and then find the main soul in the Ghost Fighting Arena.

But the ghost servant Zheng Que just now came out from the passageway of the living quarters.

As expected, Zheng Que should have gone to his residence again!

The other party, like him, had likely gathered enough clues to know the situation of the two main souls of the Soul-Summoning Banner.

If he were to go to his residence like Zheng Que, he would definitely be a step slower than Zheng Que.

Therefore, he now needs to find the original main soul within the summoning banner.

This main soul is most likely in the Ghost Cellar!

Underground mines are also a possibility, but Xiao Yiyang believes that this possibility is unlikely.

Because the original main soul inside the summoning banner was a "strange" one.

The Jia siblings and Li Li'an have clearly been assimilated by the "strange" phenomenon, but none of them have been to the mine, though they have been to the Ghost Cellar.

While pondering, Xiao Yiyang quickened his pace and soon pushed open the door at the end of the passageway, entering the ghost cellar.

As soon as I entered, a strong smell of blood hit my nose.

Inside the ghost cellar, the air was thick with yin energy, and blood flowed freely on the ground. The remains of cultivators lay scattered haphazardly in the blood, with many limbs and internal organs bearing obvious signs of chewing and gnawing.

The surrounding walls and platforms bear the marks of a battle, and many broken fragments of the [Yin Vessel] are scattered on the ground. Amidst the chaos, only a few black, red, and gray pottery jars survive on a few platforms.

A long, narrow-bodied, flat-headed monster with no eyes, nose, or ears, but only a vertical mouth, squatted on the open ground not far away, staring menacingly at the exit of the tunnel.

Upon seeing a living person enter, the tall ghost immediately leaped up and charged towards Xiao Yiyang.

Xiao Yiyang glanced at it indifferently, not taking this ghost with its aura of the sixth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Prison] seriously at all. He continued to walk forward while raising his hand to throw a punch.

Bang! !

The next moment, the tall ghost was sent flying backward, smashing two empty [Yin Vessels] along the way before crashing heavily against the mountain wall and then slowly sliding down it.

Having easily dealt with the tall ghost, Xiao Yiyang wasted no time and immediately quickened his pace, heading deeper into the ghost cellar.

He quickly found the stone door. Xiao Yiyang pushed the door open and entered the stone chamber behind it.

It was immediately apparent that behind a fence made of Crimson Blood Ore, chains bound a cultivator with disheveled long hair and tattered clothes.

At this moment, the chained cultivator lay motionless on a pile of dry, rotting grass. He appeared to have an injury on his thigh, with bloodstains staining his robes and grass, which had turned a dried purplish-black.

This was clearly the body of a living person, but it was surrounded by a strong yin energy. Even without using any detection techniques, one could see wisps of black energy emanating from it.

As Xiao Yiyang walked to the fence, the locked cultivator seemed to smell the scent of a living person. His fingers suddenly twitched, and then he slowly raised his head, his emerald green eyes staring straight at Xiao Yiyang through his messy hair.

Looking at the locked-up cultivator, Xiao Yiyang was somewhat surprised, but he quickly confirmed the other party's identity and immediately said, "I am an outsider."

"Shujiabao has been exploiting the local people and harming the innocent; their actions are perverse and utterly heinous!"

"I regard him as my enemy, and I wish I could devour his flesh and drink his blood."

"I have come here today to help you seize the position of the main soul of the Soul-Summoning Banner and annihilate the entire Shu Family Fortress!"

No sooner had Xiao Yiyang finished speaking than the tall ghost that he had just slapped away rushed in and immediately said to the locked-up cultivator, "My lord, do not trust this evil and despicable human!"

"This human almost killed me just now, and now he wants to kill you, sir!"

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Shujiabao.

Living place.

square.

"...Would you be willing to serve the family?"

Zheng Que's voice rang out in the square.

Upon hearing this, the blurry figures around them paused noticeably. Then, the densely packed figures, with their raised arms still pointing at Zheng Que, all turned their heads slightly to look at the blurry figure standing directly in front of the crimson incense burner.

The blurry figure directly in front of the crimson incense burner did not immediately attack as before, but instead shouted without hesitation, "I am the head of the Shu Family Fortress!"

"As the head of this family, I will naturally serve the Shu Family Fortress!"

"Once a new main soul is forged, once the time is right..."

"The head of the clan will personally draw out the main soul within the banner and seal it with a grand formation."

"In the entire Shu Family Fortress, only the patriarch himself can accomplish this!"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Que remained unmoved. This "strange" event was a real occurrence that had happened in Shujiabao.

According to the other party, when this incident occurred, Shujiabao had not yet drawn out the original main soul from the soul-summoning banner.

The sequence of events should be: Shu Family Fort first refined the new main soul, then drew out the original main soul from the Soul Summoning Banner, sealed the original main soul, and then allowed the new main soul refined by Shu Family Fort to take over the Soul Summoning Banner...

However, because the original soul in the summoning banner was "strange," all the people in Shujiabao who were carrying out the plan were later affected and unable to complete the subsequent steps.

Ultimately, this led to the failure of the main soul that the Shu family forged...

Thinking of this, Zheng Que was about to say something more and further investigate the clues when he suddenly felt a tremor in his heart and then immediately came back to his senses.

The [Ghost Control Technique] I used on that tall ghost at the sixth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell] has been dispelled!

The original owner's soul in the ghost cellar has awakened!

(End of this chapter)