Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 157 The Treasure Vault. (Second Update!)

Some time later, Zheng Que arrived at the underground mine, where there were also two ghosts at the ninth level of the "Tongue-Pulling Hell" guarding it. The writer Ding, dressed up, ignored Zheng Que.

In the mine, the corpses that had been lying scattered about had all disappeared.

Zheng Que walked deeper into the mine, following the dim and narrow mine tunnel, until he arrived at the edge of the deep pit he had seen before, and looked down into the pit.

In the deep pit, the small mountain of bones remained, and at its foot lay the corpses of some cultivators, emitting a strong stench. Their faces and figures were still vaguely discernible, and they had not yet decomposed into bones.

Zheng immediately recognized that these unrotted corpses were all rogue cultivators who had died in Shujiabao during this mission.

These rogue cultivators' storage bags and soul-nourishing bags were carelessly thrown into the deep pit like trash.

Looking at this scene, Zheng Que understood that the deep pit, which was originally set up with the Four Symbols Soul-Suppressing and Spirit-Locking Array, had been used by the ghost bride as a place to throw away garbage.

The corpses of the cultivators who perished in Shujiabao, along with their storage bags and soul-nourishing bags, were all thrown into this place by the Ghost Bride's subordinates.

Thinking of this, Zheng Que did not hesitate and immediately jumped into the deep pit, starting to quickly search for and collect various storage bags and soul-nourishing bags.

Soon, he found more storage bags and soul-nourishing bags in the crevices of the bones, exceeding the number of rogue cultivators who entered Shujiabao during this mission.

This is because the storage bags and soul-nourishing bags of the cultivators who entered here before are also here...

After some time, Zheng Que searched through most of the corpses in the deep pit, as well as the bones on the surface of the Bone Mountain, and the storage bags and soul-nourishing bags he collected were piled up like a small mountain.

He took out a satchel from one of the unclaimed storage bags and stuffed all the storage bags and soul-nourishing bags into it.

After collecting all the storage bags and soul-nourishing bags, Zheng Que did not rush to count the resources inside. Instead, he slung the satchel over his shoulder, quickly left the underground mine, and headed to the ancestral hall.

A moment later, he calmly passed through the two guards of the Ninefold Ghostly Realm of the Tongue-Pulling Prison and entered the ancestral hall.

This was his first time visiting this place.

Zheng Que looked around and saw that it was a semi-circular cave with a naturally formed stone platform at the inside. Judging from the remaining traces, this place seemed to have originally been the location of a shrine, used to worship the ancestors of Shujiabao.

But now, the memorial tablets are nowhere to be found. Instead, a central hall adorned with flowers has been erected, with a plaque bearing the inscription "May you have a long and happy marriage" hanging above it, making it look like a wedding hall used for ceremonies.

On the mountain wall next to the stone platform, there is a very inconspicuous little door.

On the open ground below the stone platform, there was a bridal sedan chair and a complete set of gongs and drums. Eight sedan chair bearers stood in front of and behind the sedan chair, dressed in red clothes, red pants and red hats, with large red silk flowers inserted on the brim of their hats. Among the gongs and drums, there were also musicians, dressed in the same festive and gorgeous attire.

All these ghostly figures stood upright with their heads down and hands hanging limply, motionless, like strangely posed wax figures, looking extremely eerie.

After quickly surveying the ancestral hall, Zheng Que turned his gaze to the bridal sedan chair in the distance. Seeing the somewhat familiar sedan chair, he immediately remembered the ghost wedding procession he had seen on his way home from Changfu Town after successfully becoming an apprentice.

At that time, he had not yet attained any cultivation level, so he dared not stare at the team closely and only glanced at them briefly.

But this ornate yet eerie bridal sedan chair still reminds me... it was the ghostly wedding procession that passed through Changfu Town back then!

"Did the ghost bride appear in Changfu Town in search of Kulan?"

"Ku Lan was sealed in the bronze cauldron at that time, and couldn't be detected by ordinary means. Only Qing Li could discover it by using her Yin power." "The restrictions that block ghosts in Changfu Town are not very effective against a being like the Ghost Bride. It's probably because Master was in the town at the time, and the Ghost Bride didn't dare to act recklessly..."

Thinking of this, Zheng Que continued to walk inside. The ghosts around him were quiet, but they all turned their heads and stared straight at him.

Zheng Que remained calm as he walked, observing the ghostly figures. He quickly discovered that the eight sedan chair bearers, whose Yin energy he couldn't discern with his [Spiritual Eye Technique], seemed to also be [Scissors Prison]!
Soon, he passed through the bridal sedan chair, the gongs and drums, and the ghosts inside, and arrived at the door next to the stone platform.

Two ghostly figures resembling servants stood there, each holding a fan, their Yin energy level at the ninth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell].

Zheng Que observed the door on the mountain wall and a thought struck him: this seemed to be the warehouse of Shujiabao.

At this moment, the doors were tightly shut, and the atmosphere was very somber.

Zheng Que stretched out his palm and pushed hard, and the stone door immediately pushed open, revealing a very spacious cave inside.

Torches were stuck in the cave walls, their flames a strange emerald green that cast a cold, verdant glow over the entire cave.

Inside, there were all sorts of chests and boxes, as well as some cabinets, tables, chairs, toilets, and the like. Most of the items were decorated with large red silk flowers, making it look like a garden in full bloom, full of joy and celebration, as if they could set off with the wedding procession at any time.

Looking at the magnificent and joyous scene before him, Zheng Que was somewhat stunned. What was placed here was also the dowry of the ghost bride.
But soon he realized something was wrong. The boxes and lacquerware in the ghost cellar were filled with an extremely heavy yin energy. Just standing next to them made him feel as if he were in an ice cellar. They were clearly belonging to the ghost bride.

The boxes and furnishings in front of us, apart from the conspicuous silk flower that exudes a cold, yin energy, do not have that strong feeling of yin energy.

Most importantly, many of the chests and household items are engraved with the character "Shu," representing Shujiabao.

Zheng Li immediately realized that everything here must be resources left behind after the incident at Shujiabao.

However, now they've all been taken by the ghost bride and packed up as her dowry...

Realizing this, Zheng Que frowned. The Shu family was a family of cultivators, and the resources in their treasury were of no real use to a ghost like the Ghost Bride, except to add some prestige. It would be better to give them all to him!

Thinking of this, he suddenly noticed several old-fashioned and unattractive chests scattered in the corner, without any silk flowers, which seemed to be items that the ghost bride would not want.

Zheng Li immediately walked over and opened the lid of a foot-long wooden box.

creak.

The moment the lid of the wooden box was lifted, a surge of pure spiritual energy mixed with yin energy burst forth, revealing a box full of spirit stones!

Zheng Que's spirits lifted, and without further ado, he took out a storage bag and began to fill it with stuff.

Then came the second box, which contained medicinal pills...

Before long, Zheng Que had toured the entire warehouse and collected all the resources he could.

After confirming that nothing had been missed, he left the place and returned to his quarters...

(End of this chapter)