Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 205 The Right to Use One's Surname. (Second Update!)

The former site of Shujiabao.

Eight ghosts from the "Scissors Prison," dressed in red with silk flowers tucked behind their ears, wandered the barren wasteland, barely daring to breathe, as sedan chair bearers.

Behind each sedan chair carrier followed a group of strangely shaped, wandering ghosts.

They were like scavengers, searching and digging everywhere, turning the once relatively flat ground into a mess of holes.

These ghosts have dug up every inch of Shujiabao, but they still haven't found the lost dowry.

Just as they were busy, a figure dressed in a phoenix coronet and wedding robes suddenly appeared not far away.

All the ghosts suddenly sped up their movements.

After glancing around and confirming that she had left the underworld, the ghost bride immediately unleashed a terrifying aura of yin energy.

The dowry still hasn't been found!

Moreover, the female cultivator from the Heavenly Artifact Sect who was last time was able to escape from the other party!

Now, she has only eight sedan chair bearers left of her original subordinates. The ugly and unsavory ghosts and wandering spirits are all people she has captured again during this period.

As she pondered, the ghost bride, her expression beneath the veil, had to forcefully suppress her anger.

That powerful figure in the underworld is terrifying!
The orders he issues must be obeyed.

We can't keep looking for a dowry. We'll make them compensate us after we rescue that human cultivator.

However, she knew about Yaotai Mountain and had even stayed at an inn there before.

But Baozhen Valley wasn't a particularly famous place, and she wasn't sure of its exact location; she'd have to find it carefully...

So the ghost bride immediately gave the order: "Let's go!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the ghosts around him immediately dropped what they were holding and quickly gathered around.

The eight brightly dressed, elegantly dressed ghostly sedan bearers slowly carried out a simple palanquin. This palanquin was made of two slightly bent, burl-covered tree trunks, with some ropes stretched between them, which had been washed as clean as possible, forming a ladder-like shape. There was no roof, no walls, and no curtains. Only a large, incongruous red silk flower was tied to the two tree trunks, trying to create a festive atmosphere.

The ghost bride sat down with a somber expression, and the other wandering ghosts joined the procession in a daze. Some carried half a piece of broken iron, which they banged hard with a stone to make a gong; others held newly made bamboo flutes and played them mournfully; still others carried light loads stuffed with all sorts of odds and ends...

Most of the ghosts were empty-handed, shuffling along behind the palanquin, without even a decent set of clothes.

"Thump thump thump... Waaaaah..."

Amidst the incongruous music, the shabby wedding procession slowly made its way into a thick fog and disappeared from sight.

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Baozhen Valley, bamboo forest, caravan.

"...there will always be an opportunity for me to marry into one of the collateral branches of the Shu family!"

Beside the banner of summoning souls, Shu Yunying ignored Niannu not far away and spoke with a reserved expression.

A bestowed surname?

housekeeper?

Bringing in a wife?

Zheng Que fell silent. Could it be that this Shu Yunying was treating him, her master, like a slave?
Just then, Qing Li's furious voice suddenly came from the summoning banner: "How can you, the newcomer, be so disrespectful!"

“This human brat is nothing but my dog. If he’s going to change his surname, he should change it to ‘Qing’ and be called ‘Qing Que’!” “And you, you rude newcomer, from now on you’ll have to call me, Grandma Qing Li, just like Nian Nu!”

Upon hearing this, Shu Yunying turned to look at the soul-summoning banner stuck in the ground beside her and replied contemptuously, "The soul within this mere banner is not even a living person, yet it dares to spout such nonsense in front of me, this young lady?"

"I, this young lady, will now teach you a lesson on behalf of Shu Que, you arrogant and ignorant main soul!"

As he spoke, the yin energy around him surged, and his aura became extremely terrifying.

Qing Li was not to be outdone. The surface of the Soul-Summoning Banner rapidly flipped up, and gusts of soul wind surged and brewed. At the same time, her icy voice rang out: "A newcomer dares to talk back to this old lady!"

"This old lady will send you to hell!"

Seeing that his two ghost servants were about to start fighting, Zheng Que quickly stopped them: "Stop!"

As he spoke, he immediately stood between Shu Yunying and the Soul-Summoning Banner, and said in a deep voice, "Now is not the time for infighting."

"From now on, if anyone dares to lay a hand on my own people, I will go to the underworld and file a complaint against them!"

Upon hearing Zheng Que mention the underworld, both Shu Yunying and Qing Li in the summoning banner immediately became obedient.

Immediately afterward, Zheng Que turned to Shu Yunying and quickly said, "Let me first explain our current situation."

"Right now, we are all trapped in a 'strange' situation."

"This 'strange' event was an elegant gathering in Baozhen Valley of Yaotai Mountain."

"Are you aware of the details of this gathering?"

Upon hearing this, Shu Yunying thought for a moment and immediately replied, "I have heard of this gathering, but I rarely go out and have never been here."

"What I do know is that people with outstanding looks have a hard time surviving in literary gatherings."

"Those who are ugly have a much higher chance of surviving."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Que frowned. The information Shu Yunying had given was completely inaccurate.

If someone is exceptionally good-looking, they really wouldn't survive. I would definitely have been the first one attacked by the "weird"!

Just then, a figure dressed in indigo with triangular eyes and bushy eyebrows strode over from the convoy ahead.

The newcomer had just come into Zheng Que's view when he shouted, "Fellow Daoist, I just saw Fellow Daoist Yuan suddenly run towards the car in front. Has something happened?"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Que snapped out of his daze and immediately used his [Spiritual Eye Technique] to scan the other party, but he couldn't see anything wrong.

But he remained vigilant for a moment and asked Niannu directly, "Is he a living person or a ghost?"

Normally, he would ask the same question to Qingli and Shu Yunying.

However, with Niannu present, Qingli prefers to put on an act before answering such simple questions, as it's too inefficient.

As for Shu Yunying... she does indeed have a ghostly job now, but the problem is, she's a "wicked person" and keeps treating herself like a living person!
He couldn't even tell whether he was alive or a ghost, so he really didn't dare let the other party help him identify the target in front of him...

At this moment, Niannu immediately replied, "My lord, it is not a living person."

Zheng Que nodded slightly, then without wasting any words, he said directly to Shu Yunying, "Miss Shu, kill him!"

"Avoid direct contact; use long-range attacks..."

puff!
Before Zheng Que could finish speaking, Shu Yunying raised her hand and pointed, a condensed stream of black energy burst forth like an arrow, instantly piercing through the newcomer...

(End of this chapter)