Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 57: Hurrying on the Road. (Second update!)

At noon, the sky was bright.

A rammed-down road crossed the wilderness, with weeds growing on both sides and few traces of pedestrians.

This is the official road.

From time to time, there were some shrill cries in the distance, like the crying of ghosts.

Step, step, step...

As his clothes rustled against the grass leaves along the way, Zheng Que activated his [Spiritual Eyes Technique] and looked around carefully while hurrying on his way.

Qingli and Kulan followed on the left and right.

Mayor Xu Houde had said before that if you follow the official road and go southwest, you will reach Taiping County.

The Immortal Master Lu, who set up restrictions on Changfu Town at that time, lived in Taiping County. There were more than one cultivators like the Immortal Master Lu in the entire Taiping County.

Therefore, Taiping County is the safest place he can go now.

His next disaster will come in forty-eight days.

If possible, I hope to ask a few more monks to help...

While thinking, Zheng Que looked at Ku Lan beside him calmly. Now there were three imperial decrees superimposed between his eyebrows, and he could confer the title on Ku Lan at any time.

However, Qingli had accepted the imperial title because she had fought against Old Lady Zhao and killed the water ghost of the Cui family with him...

And now Ku Lan has no merit at all, yet he is directly given the title. In that case, in the eyes of Qingli and Ku Lan, wouldn't their underworld be like a small workshop without any system?
Therefore, to be on the safe side, Ku Lan must have killed a few ghosts and gained a certain amount of merit before he could bestow a title upon the other party...

click!
Just as he was thinking, Zheng Que stepped on something. When he looked down, he saw a dried-up skeleton.

The flesh and blood on the skeleton had completely rotted away. It lay in the mud, sand and grass, with half of its head and most of its chest missing, as if something had bitten off half of its body.

Zheng San immediately became alert.

At this moment, Qingli, who was walking behind him, suddenly spoke up: "Human boy, there is a ghost in front. Your cultivation is too low. Go behind me."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Que paused for a moment, then hid behind Qingli without hesitation.

Then, he was still a little worried, so he waved to Ku Lan, indicating that Ku Lan should follow him to prevent any ghosts from attacking him from behind.

Ku Lan obediently walked behind Zheng Que, and at the same time looked at Qingli strangely. This woman with a head that grew backwards seemed to have a particularly strong perception ability!
The same situation happened when I left the town just now.

She hadn't noticed any ghostly presence yet, but this asymmetrical female figure said that a ghost was approaching.

Also, I was sealed in that bronze tripod for so long, and it seemed that it was this asymmetrical woman who discovered me...

The man and two ghosts walked forward for a while, and sure enough, a figure appeared in front of them. It was a hunchbacked old man in linen clothes.

The old man's body was covered with black stitches, as if he had been cut into a dozen pieces, and only by stitching them together with these black stitches could he barely maintain his intact body.

The ghost that looked like an old man was in a hurry. He was originally walking with his head down, but when he sensed the breath of a living person, he immediately raised his head. A ferocious look was revealed on his old face, his facial features were hideously distorted, and a violent surge of yin energy appeared in his body. Then he immediately rushed up.

This is a "vengeful spirit" of the fourth level of [Tongue-Pulling Prison]!
Zheng Que was stunned for a moment. Qingli asked him to hide behind her, and he thought a ghost with at least the same cultivation level as Qingli appeared, but it turned out to be only the fourth level of [Tongue-Pulling Prison]?
Although his current cultivation level is only the second level of Qi training, which is two small realms lower than the fourth level of [Tongue-Pulling Prison], but under the effect of [Spirit Descent Technique], how can a "vengeful spirit" of the fourth level of [Tongue-Pulling Prison] threaten him?
The moment the "vengeful spirit" charged, Qingli's gaze instantly locked onto the old ghost. A coarse hemp rope wrapped around its neck, instantly hoisting it into the air with immense force. Meanwhile, Kulan stood still, his hands still gripping the umbrella handle, and suddenly turned backwards.

The moment Ku Lan turned around, the old man's ghost head also twisted uncontrollably behind him.

The old ghost immediately began to struggle, and the negative energy in his body suddenly burst out, but before he could make the next move, the rope around his neck tightened instantly.

puff!
In an instant, the old ghost's neck was immediately strangled by the rope and his head rolled down.

The headless body immediately fell to the ground. During the fall, the body twisted rapidly and disorderly, and the whole body seemed to be twisted into a twist by an invisible force, twisting and turning in an extremely strange posture.

boom.

With a slight sound, the old man's ghost's head and body fell to the ground at the same time, quickly disintegrating into black smoke and turning into a thick yin energy, which scattered with the wind, sank into the wilderness, and disappeared without a trace.

A ghost at the fourth level of [Tongue-Pulling Hell] didn't even have a chance to fight back in front of the two ghost servants and was instantly killed!
Looking at this scene, Zheng Que nodded slightly and said immediately: "Keep going."

Having said that, he immediately walked forward.

After walking for a while, the official road entered a valley with steep cliffs on both sides and vines intertwined and hanging down, like a green waterfall.

Amidst the lush vegetation, the sounds of ghosts crying and wolves howling could be heard from time to time, sometimes far away, sometimes near, echoing in the valley for a long time, making the atmosphere even colder.

Apart from the fourth level [Tongue-Pulling Hell] ghost they encountered at the beginning, they would encounter various ghosts almost every once in a while.

Since it was daytime, most of the ghosts they encountered were only at the fourth or fifth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Prison]. Qingli and Kulan could quickly deal with them by working together.

[Tongue-Pulling Hell] Basically, no ghosts below the third level appeared.

And if Qingli sensed a ghost above the sixth level of [Tongue-Pulling Prison], Zheng Que would be tactful enough to take the two ghost servants and take a detour.

With Qingli's help, the journey was generally smooth.

The day passed quickly and it was dusk. Zheng Que immediately stopped and prepared to spend the night there.

The night is far more dangerous than the day and is not suitable for moving forward.

Although Qingli's Yin Duty can sense the ghosts in the [Tongue-Pulling Prison] and avoid danger in advance, it is only effective against the ghosts in the [Tongue-Pulling Prison]. If it is a ghost above the [Scissors Prison], Qingli's Yin Duty still cannot sense it at all.

But this place now is the wilderness, not Changfu Town, and there are not only ghosts from the [Tongue-Pulling Prison].

After stopping at an open space beside the official road, Zheng Que opened his storage bag and took out the bronze tripod from it.

The legs of this tripod are as tall as a man and have a wide mouth.

Zheng Que glanced at Qingli and Kulan and immediately said, "Let's stay here tonight."

"You two protect me."

As he spoke, he opened the lid of the cauldron and jumped in. After sitting down at the bottom, he closed the lid with his backhand and began to practice directly in the bronze cauldron.

(End of this chapter)