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The two men dressed as ghost messengers were stunned when they saw Shen Yifei standing at the door, followed by a beautiful woman. They exchanged a glance and simultaneously crawled under the table.

Shen Yifei reacted quickly, rushing forward and grabbing both of them by the back of their collars, lifting them up like chicks.

"Why are you running? You can run away, but you can't hide. If you both run, who's going to break this formation?"

"M-My lord, spare my life!" The ghost messenger named Old Huang trembled with fear, his lips turning white. "We...we were just following orders, it has nothing to do with us!"

"Under orders?" Shen Yifei threw the two men to the ground. "Under whose orders? Judge Cui?"

Another ghostly messenger with a shrill voice hurriedly waved his hands: "No, no! It's...it's Lord Black Impermanence!"

"Black Impermanence?" Shen Yifei frowned.

"Yes, Lord Black Impermanence said that recently a living person wanted to enter the underworld, and he told us to set up an illusion array on this road to trap him. Once he gets lost, we'll lead him to the Avici Hell!" Old Huang confessed everything in one go.

"The Avici Hell? Good heavens, they're trying to lock me up in a place where I'll never be reincarnated?" Shen Yifei sneered. "Did Black Impermanence send you to do this? Did he come in person?"

The shrill-voiced ghost messenger shook his head frantically: "No, no, no... Lord Black Impermanence just sent a message saying that if there is a man and a woman, do not confront them head-on, just trap them without fighting, and wait for Judge Cui to send someone to take over."

"Just trapping them without fighting?" Shen Yifei scoffed. "It seems Black Impermanence is quite aware of your abilities."

Liu Mengli walked in from outside and saw the bronze mirror on the table. Black mist swirled around the surface of the mirror, and the image of the Yellow Springs Road could be vaguely seen.

"This must be the core of the formation, right?" Liu Mengli reached out to take the bronze mirror.

Old Huang cried out anxiously, "Young lady, you mustn't! That mirror is a magical artifact crafted by the Judge of Hell. If you touch it, the Judge will sense it immediately!"

Liu Mengli's hand froze in mid-air.

She turned to look at Shen Yifei: "Master, did you hear that? He said the Judge will be able to sense it immediately."

Shen Yifei stepped forward, took the bronze mirror in his hand, and examined it from all angles. The back of the mirror was engraved with the character "Cui," written in a hasty handwriting.

He smiled and said, "It would be best if I could sense it, so I wouldn't have to inform him when I go to find him."

Having said that, he tucked the bronze mirror into his robes. "Hey, Cui, your grandfather's here!"

The two ghost messengers lay sprawled on the ground, watching Shen Yifei take the bronze mirror away, not daring to utter a word.

Shen Yifei glanced down at the two of them: "You two still want to hold this position?"

Old Huang said with a bitter face, "Sir, we don't know where to run even if we want to. You've broken this illusion array, so we won't be able to explain ourselves when we get back..."

"Go back and tell Black Impermanence that Shen Yifei said he needs to wash his neck clean and wait for him." Shen Yifei waved his hand. "Get lost!"

The two ghost messengers scrambled out of the stone house and disappeared into the gray mist in the blink of an eye.

Liu Mengli gazed thoughtfully in the direction the two had disappeared, "Master, why do you think Judge Cui is so eager to get the Reincarnation Token back? The Reincarnation Token was lost by the Underworld King to Thirteen Sister, yet even the Underworld King didn't personally try to retrieve it. Why is a judge so concerned about it?"

"Taking it to heart? Either Hades ordered him to do it, or the judge has ulterior motives! It seems the power struggles in the underworld are quite fierce."

The two broke the illusion array and returned to the road to the underworld.

This time, the outline of a mountain range gradually appeared ahead.

That mountain range was much higher than Evil Dog Ridge, with steep slopes and jagged rocks, and the entire mountain was shrouded in a layer of golden mist. From a distance, it looked as if it were draped in a golden veil.

"Jinji Mountain," Shen Yifei said. "Once we cross this mountain, we should be close to Wangxiangtai."

Liu Mengli was looking at the mountain and was about to speak when a loud rooster crow suddenly rang out!

"Oh...oh oh..."

The sound was bright and shrill, with extremely strong penetrating power, causing the entire mountain to tremble three times.

Shen Yifei's soul was shaken, and he almost lost his balance.

Liu Mengli's face paled, and she covered her ears: "Goodness, this chicken has a really loud voice!"

Before he could finish speaking, another rooster crowed, this time closer and louder than before, shaking Shen Yifei's soul into a daze.

Then the two of them saw the chicken.

A giant golden rooster stands atop Golden Rooster Mountain.

The chicken's golden feathers shimmered with iridescent light, its comb was as red as a flame, and its eyes, bigger than copper bells, were fixed on Shen Yifei and Liu Mengli from its high perch.

Shen Yifei looked up and met the chicken's gaze, but couldn't help saying, "This... Mr. Chicken? We're just passing by, hoping to pick someone up at Wangxiangtai. Could you please let us pass?"

"Let them pass?" The rooster spread its wings and was in front of the two in the blink of an eye.

Shen Yifei then realized that the chicken was actually much bigger, like a small mountain standing in front of him.

The rooster tilted its head, its large, bell-shaped eyes scanning him up and down. Suddenly, it clucked and laughed, "The Viewing Platform? You, a living soul, holding the Reincarnation Token issued by the King of the Underworld, still want to go to the Viewing Platform? Do you know that from the moment you stepped out of the Gates of Hell, the eyes of the entire Underworld have been fixed on this token?"

Shen Yifei's heart skipped a beat. "Chicken Master, you're guarding this place, not also for this Reincarnation Order, are you?"

The rooster shook its head. "I don't care. All I know is that the Reincarnation Token has an aura that doesn't belong to the underworld. As for what that aura is, I haven't figured it out in all these thousands of years. But the reason I've lived this long is because of one thing... I never touch things I shouldn't."

"An aura?" Shen Yifei immediately thought of Shi Yan!

However, since obtaining the Reincarnation Token, Liu Mengli has not noticed anything different, nor has he felt any difference.

Shen Yifei took out the Reincarnation Token, looked at it from left to right, and carefully sensed it, but he really couldn't see anything unusual about it.

Shen Yifei weighed the token in his hand and presented it to the rooster. "You're a very knowledgeable old man, could you please enlighten me about this thing?"

The rooster tilted its head, its eyes fixed on the token. "Young man, the entire underworld is watching this, and you're just showing it to me like this?"

"I don't care what's so special about this thing; I just want to use it to go to the Looking-Homeward Terrace and rescue my mother's soul..."

The rooster chuckled, then took two steps back, raised its head high, and made an extremely disgusted expression.

"Old Chicken said he never touches things he shouldn't. Keep this token away from me, keep it away from me. If it gets touched by that stuff, Old Chicken's golden feathers will fall off three layers."

"Master Chicken, you're a divine beast, what are you afraid of?"

"A mythical beast?" The rooster clucked a few times. "Don't flatter me, I'm just a gatekeeper."

"Brother Chicken, if you don't recognize this thing, why are you so disgusted with it?" Shen Yifei handed the token forward again.

The rooster took three steps back, and Jin Yu exploded: "You brat, stop trying to annoy me with this thing. To tell you the truth, everyone thinks this is a treasure, but the karma associated with it is something most people can't bear."