Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 188 Xuanming Leads the Way, Seeking the Divine Opportunity Again

Cui Yunqi was unaware that Chen Xu had already made the decision to take the exam alone.

Depart early, change route, travel alone —

The wilderness of this world is quite dangerous. Short journeys are fine, and if you are familiar with the route and there are people along the way, there shouldn't be any major problems.

But for long-distance travel, it's hard to say.

Especially the journey from the remote Yunjiang Prefecture to Pingyang City, the central city of Tiannan Road, involves complex mountains, rivers, and roads, which are often beyond the comprehension of those without prior travel experience.

Nowadays, maps are often in the hands of specific social classes, and "knowing the way" is even considered an outstanding skill.

Even when aristocratic families travel together, many of whom are highly skilled cultivators, they usually prefer to travel in groups.

After all, Tiannan Road is too vast. Although there are experts among the aristocratic families, the dangers in the wild often come from the unknown.

Cui Yunqi never expected that Chen Xu would decide to go alone.

Chen Xu dared to travel alone for two reasons: first, because of the divination results of the Jade Cicada Robe, and second, because of his own supernatural power, the Netherworld.

To be honest, with such supernatural powers, he could freely travel to most places in the world.

Thinking about it this way, traveling alone might actually be safer than traveling with others.

However, the Netherworld should be used with caution, since Chen Xu's mastery of this supernatural power is still only at a beginner level.

After this period of improvement in his cultivation, he can now use the "Borrowing the Netherworld Path" technique five times a day, with each teleportation range covering approximately three miles.

On the first and fifteenth of each lunar month, he could also choose to enter any nearby ghost market.

Tonight is the first day of the lunar month. After tidying everything up, Chen Xu covered himself with a puppet mask.

This is the last puppet skin he has.

Since this was Chen Xu's first time entering the Ghost Market using the Netherworld Abyss Divine Power, he had no idea what this "randomly" entered Ghost Market would be like, whether the ghosts there were ferocious, or what the rules of the Ghost Market were...

There were too many unknowns, so out of caution, he donned the puppet mask and once again disguised himself as a ghost.

Therefore, it is naturally much safer for ghosts to enter the ghost market than for living beings to enter it.

Beneath the puppet's mask, Chen Xu has transformed into a two-meter-tall, skinny hanged ghost!
This ghost had a long, protruding tongue, a face as pale as paper, two blood-red spots under its eyes, and disheveled hair. It was truly terrifying to look at.

When Chen Xu suddenly saw his reflection in the bronze mirror, he was startled.

He could hear his own heart pounding in his ears, but through the thick mask, the heartbeat remained hidden.

The painted skin completely concealed all his "popularity," which was quite amusing.

Chen Xu deliberately carried a tattered cloth bag around his waist and wore a white burial shroud that he had prepared earlier. He stood in the room and silently performed his Netherworld Abyss Divine Power.

Then, with a flick of his foot, his figure disappeared into the side room of the courtyard.

As the night deepened, the small courtyard fell silent and peaceful.

Almost at the same time, the young Taoist priest Kongchan, who was in the inn, suddenly woke up from his bed.

The first thing he said when he woke up was, "Good wine!"

The second sentence was: "Bah! What fine wine? It's just low-grade spirit wine. How can it compare to the jade nectar that I, the Daoist, once drank?"

After saying those two sentences, it was as if his left and right brains were fighting, and he was sitting on the bed, drenched in sweat.

Sweating profusely, Kusanagi clutched his head in agony.

"No, how did I get here? This...this is...an inn in Yunjiang City?"

"The divine mechanism, yes, I came here seeking the divine mechanism. But why has it disappeared now?"

"That scholar... that scholar is rather strange. Now that I've come to Yunjiang City and encountered this person, could this divine secret perhaps be found in him?"

"But where is that scholar now?"

"Alright, let's find this person first. This scholar is somewhat mysterious; perhaps if we spend more time with him, we'll be able to glean something from him..."

Kong Chan whispered, his head in his hands, his voice sometimes clear and childlike, sometimes deep and aged. Sometimes his eyes were bright, sometimes confused and disoriented.

After a period of confusion, he suddenly rolled off the bed and started to walk outside.

As he walked, he made a sword-finger gesture with his right hand and muttered a mantra:
"The primordial purple energy illuminates my secluded gate."

Guided by the mysterious heavens, divine light shines forth...

Search!

A faint, eerie light appeared beneath his feet, and it seemed he was about to vanish from the inn using some mysterious technique, but the next moment—

"Ouch!"

But for some reason, halfway through the spell, his right foot suddenly bumped into his left foot.

The young Taoist priest Kongchan cried out in pain and fell to the ground with a thud.

The fall knocked out half of her front tooth. Kong Chan hurriedly tried to get up, but when she raised her hand, she suddenly touched a large patch of blood next to her nose.

A perfectly good nose, as if made of paper, suddenly split open with a large gash.

"what!"

In the dead of night, the child's piercing screams echoed throughout half of the inn.

The waiter on duty rushed into the room and found a young Taoist boy sitting on the floor with his face covered in blood.

The young Taoist priest raised his face, his expression stubborn yet on the verge of tears: "You, you...you go and fetch me a basin of water!"

Wow, that's saying the most cowardly things in the harshest tone.

The waiter was both amused and exasperated. "Sigh, you should have just said you wanted a basin of water. Why did you have to make such a fuss?"
Chen Xu was unaware that the mortal Taoist priest Kong Chan was casting a spell to find him, who was in the underworld.

But he discovered that his accumulated likes had suddenly increased by 300.

Based on the feedback from the Heavenly Book, it can be inferred that these 300 likes likely came from the Taoist Kongchan.

After only half a day of rest, Kong Chan, who thought she had reached her daily limit for likes, actually gave Chen Xu another 300 likes from afar.

And this "like" has even transcended the human realm and reached the netherworld—

With Chen Xu's current cultivation level, he is already able to receive likes from the entire Yunjiang Prefecture City, including the surrounding thirty miles.

But Chen Xu had only just discovered that he could receive likes from the human world even when he was in the underworld.

This demonstrates once again the concept that the human world and the netherworld are one.

If these two were not inherently one, how could Chen Xu be receiving likes across different fields?

But in essence, the human world and the underworld are one, yet at first glance they appear to be two distinct realms.

The mysteries within are something that Chen Xu can vaguely grasp through his Netherworld Abyss Divine Power, but it remains unclear and indistinct.

He wasn't in a hurry to find out the answer. This time, as a ghost, he stepped into the underworld and found that the surrounding scenery was different from what he had seen before.

The sky was a hazy yellow, and the surroundings were shrouded in mist.

Guided by the supernatural power, Chen Xu took a step forward, and then his ears first felt a burst of intense sound waves rushing towards him.

In the blink of an eye, a huge market appeared before them, its end seemingly impossible to see.

Ghosts huddled together, demons mingled together, and spirits stood side by side.

Nearby, a little imp with two tufts of hair was performing sword swallowing, and there was applause and cheers all around.

No ghost paid any attention to Chen Xu's sudden appearance, except for a short ghost with a body the size of a bucket who squatted on the ground and slid to Chen Xu's side while carrying a tray.

The next moment, the tray suddenly spoke!

"Little devil, you've never trod the road to the underworld, so how dare you enter my Underworld Ghost Market?"

(End of this chapter)