Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 431 The facts are clear, the evidence is conclusive! (Second update!)
The night passed quickly, and Zheng Que successfully built the shop. He also readjusted the transportation routes of the temporary ghost servants, and all the materials transported from the resource points were directly sorted and stored in the warehouse.

At this moment, he blew away a piece of wood debris and hung the unpainted signboard on the newly built shop door frame, on which were three large, charcoal-roasted characters: "Baiqi Fang" (meaning "Hundred Instruments Workshop").

The shelves in the shop were still empty. Without hesitation, Zheng Que took out the so-called "Stunning Smoke Skirt" that Shu Yunying had previously refined and placed it on the middle shelf. He then marked the price next to it as two hundred low-grade spirit stones.

In fact, the cost of forging this robe by Shu Yunying alone was more than two hundred low-grade spirit stones.

This shroud is completely useless; it can only be sold to a wicked person!

With the idea of ​​minimizing losses, this price was temporarily set.

"There are still too few ghost servants who can do the work."

"The Ghost Bride and Mu Xiangu haven't arrived yet, otherwise Xue Shuangzi could come and help."

"There aren't any other cultivators coming around here for the time being..."

After pondering for a moment, Zheng Que entered the central room, activated the isolation formation, and then sat down cross-legged on the open ground to begin cultivating the [Seed of Life Technique].

Perhaps because the Yin energy at Xue Tong Pass was too heavy, he absorbed a large amount of Yin energy into his body after only a short period of cultivation.

When I opened my eyes, all I saw was the familiar, dilapidated palace.

Zheng Que sat on the limping armchair, and with a slight thought, he immediately took out a white jade plum vase. This vase was the very one he had used to bring the withered orchid out of the underworld last time.

He first turned to the first page of the Book of Life and Death, thus beginning the Hell of Tongue-Pulling.

Beneath the red steps lay a deep darkness, where nine imposing gates stood silently.

Zheng Que got up and walked toward the nearest door.

Step, step, step...

Soon, Zheng Que entered the Tongue-Pulling Hell. Inside, it was just like before, with the sky at dusk, a vast wasteland, and the desolate Shujiabao in the distance.

The wasteland is teeming with remnant souls and ghosts, all of them dazed and confused, devoid of any intelligence, mechanically wandering back and forth.

Zheng Que casually grabbed a ghost from the [Tongue-Pulling Hell] and stuffed it into the white jade plum vase in his hand.

The ghost from the [Tongue-Pulling Hell] had no power to resist and was directly stuffed into the bottle.

Zheng Que quickly found another ghost from the "Scissors Prison" and put it into the white jade plum vase as well.

But soon he discovered that the ghosts of the [Scissors Prison] could not be put into the bottle no matter what he tried; forcing them in might even cause the bottle to burst!
Zheng Li immediately abandoned the [Scissors Prison] ghost, and then captured several other ghosts for testing.

A moment later, he discovered that the white jade plum vase could only hold one ghost at a time.

Furthermore, this bottle is only effective against ghosts in the [Tongue-Pulling Hell]. If the ghost is in the [Scissors Hell] or higher, even if the ghost itself does not put up any resistance, there is still a risk that the bottle will burst...

Besides, this white jade plum vase seems to be a ghost artifact. Under normal circumstances, cultivators cannot activate it; only ghosts can use it.

When he put the withered orchid inside, he first stunned it with an imperial edict before forcibly stuffing it in.

But now, his Dao foundation is forged with Ghost Pills, and after strengthening his true essence with the Dao foundation, he can still activate this bottle!
Once activated by the white jade plum vase, the [Tongue-Pulling Prison] ghost, which has lost its ability to resist, can be directly taken into it.

The reason Shu Yunying was imprisoned by the Ghost Bride was probably because she was first beaten into immobility by the Ghost Bride before being taken inside...

After figuring out the specific effects of the white jade plum vase, Zheng Que immediately left the Tongue-Pulling Hell, walked back to the steps, and sat down in the lame armchair.

Immediately afterward, a dazed figure appeared below him.

It was a thin female cultivator whose clothes were stained with blood. A large hole had been pierced through her chest, and her back could be seen directly from the front. Her long hair was disheveled, her face was covered in blood, her eyes were unfocused, and she stood there blankly, showing no reaction to her surroundings.

Zheng Que stroked the white jade plum vase in his hand, gazing at the female cultivator below, and nodded to himself. He currently lacked subordinates and needed more intelligent ghost servants.

This Linghu Yuniang is just right!
So he raised his hand, which bore the character "令" (Ling), and pointed it at Linghu Yuniang.

A sudden gust of yin wind arose around Linghu Yuniang, swirling around her and forming a pillar of energy in the blink of an eye, continuously pouring yin energy into her body.

Soon, the original remnant soul was restored and transformed into a tall, pale, and beautiful female ghost with a high ponytail.

In Zheng Que's view, the information about Linghu Yuniang began to change...

"Species Talent: [Night Patrol]".

"Ghostly Skill: [Bloodthirsty Ghost Claw]".

"Shadow Technique: [Shadow Step]".

As the yin energy steadily increased, Linghu Yuniang's originally dull expression began to become lively.

Soon, genuine fear appeared on her face, and she hurriedly knelt down with a thud, saying tremblingly, "Greetings, Your Excellency!"

"Your Excellency, I was wronged in my death. I beg you to do me justice!"

Zheng Que watched this scene calmly. Linghu Yuniang had died in the ghostly affliction of Taiping County.

As for how unjustly they died... well, there wasn't really anything unjust about it.

In that situation, even if the other party hadn't been affected by his calamity and hadn't died in Taiping County, they would have died on the way to Yaotai Mountain!

Ok……

Three strange things happened in a row at Yaotai Mountain, and they seemed to be related to him...

Thinking of this, Zheng Que suddenly pretended to speak and said, "I know all about your experiences."

"The events in Taiping County were your own calamity. You were too weak and died because of your own misfortune. It has nothing to do with anyone else."

"I have already thoroughly understood the whole story. The facts are clear, the evidence is conclusive, and there is no oversight."

"You died without any injustice!"

His voice was majestic and powerful, like rolling thunder, and every tone seemed to strike Linghu Yuniang's heart from afar.

Linghu Yuniang was so frightened that she instinctively lay prostrate on the ground, her forehead pressed against the floor tiles, not daring to get up at all.

Even so, she still insisted in a trembling voice, "No, no, sir."

"That's not what I wanted to say!"

"What I find most unjust is that that old scoundrel Lu Maohong actually died after me!"

"If we're going to die, we should die together!"

"Since Lu Maohong was on the same team as me, he should be buried with me after I die, and experience the pain of being surrounded and killed by a horde of ghosts!"

"And my master, Ancestor Shiqi, my senior brother Jing Zhengjie, my senior sister Yin Huier... I am already dead. The road to the Yellow Springs is so lonely. My master, senior brother, senior sister, and all the junior brothers and sisters that my master will recruit in the future should all die with me!"

"And the young lady's family members..."

(End of this chapter)