The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

Judge Cui opened the Book of Life and Death, his finger hovering over the title page, muttering incantations. He turned one page, then another. And another.

"Shen Yifei... Shen Yifei... Huh?"

He flipped through the Book of Life and Death with a loud rustling sound, turning it from beginning to end, then back again, and then from beginning to end once more.

He couldn't find a single stroke of the name Shen Yifei. Beads of sweat appeared on his forehead as he searched again, but still couldn't find it.

Shen Yifei stood on the stage, watching him flip through the mud, sweating profusely, and burst out laughing:

"Judge Cui, are you looking for my name?"

"That's strange. I looked for your name when I came here, but I can't find it now." Judge Cui muttered as he searched.

"Haha, my name isn't in the Book of Life and Death, so I'm immortal..." Shen Yifei laughed wildly. "Looks like the one who wants to kill me hasn't been born yet!"

Judge Cui's fingers trembled. "How could there not be? Where's your mother, Youlan? Surely she's here?"

After turning two pages, Judge Cui finally stopped on a page. "Haha...Found it! Youlan! Her lifespan has not ended, and her soul is imprisoned in the underworld. After a hundred years, she will return her two souls and six spirits."

With that, Judge Cui produced a vermilion judge's pen. "Shen Yifei, if I can't kill you, I can kill your mother!"

Shen Yifei was shocked to see Judge Cui raise his pen. Suddenly, his eyes widened in disbelief.

Judge Cui was startled by his appearance. Logically speaking, Shen Yifei should be kneeling down and begging for mercy or negotiating with him at this time. Why was he still putting on such a sullen face?

"Shen Yifei, kneel down now and obediently come back to see the King of the Underworld, and I'll release your mother!"

Shen Yifei seemed completely unfazed by Judge Cui's threat, simply asking, "Why are you here?"

Judge Cui was furious. "Why did I come here? It's to arrest you..."

Before Judge Cui could finish speaking, he felt a hand gripping the back of his neck. The hand was cool and soft, like a snake coiled around his neck.

"Lord Cui, tell me, between us, whose pen moves faster, yours or mine?"

Judge Cui's vermilion judge's pen hovered in mid-air, its tip only an inch from the Book of Life and Death, yet he couldn't bring it down no matter what he did.

"You...you are Thirteen Sister!" Judge Cui squinted and saw the face clearly.

"It's me." Thirteen Sister smiled gently. "Lord Cui, is my name also on your Book of Life and Death?"

Sweat rolled down Judge Cui's forehead. "Thirteenth Sister, you...you weren't supposed to be unable to leave the Gates of Hell? How did you get here?"

Thirteen Sister didn't loosen her grip on the back of his neck, and said with a smile, "Lord Cui, that was when I was wearing a mask. Now that the mask is gone, I can go anywhere."

Judge Cui's pen trembled violently, like a leaf falling from a tree: "What...what exactly do you want?"

Thirteen Sister snatched the vermilion judge's pen from Judge Cui's hand with her other hand, twirled it between her fingertips, and said, "I just want to borrow something from you."

"Borrow what?"

"I'll lend you my life to lead us to the altar." Thirteen Sister shoved the judge's pen at Judge Cui. "You heard it yourself, Shen Yifei is going to rescue his mother. Lead the way, and I won't kill you. But if you try anything funny..."

She didn't continue, but simply traced a line on his face with the tip of her pen.

Judge Cui felt a chill run through his body, and he nodded repeatedly, "I'll take it! I'll take it!"

Shen Yifei was still naked. Seeing that Thirteen Sister had subdued Judge Cui with just a few words, he couldn't help but ask, "When did you arrive?"

Thirteen Sister turned to look at him, scrutinizing him from head to toe, and smiled ambiguously: "I've seen what I should have seen, and what I shouldn't have seen. The way you fought in that skirt was quite alluring."

Shen Yifei looked at himself, still completely naked, and didn't try to hide it; it wasn't the first time he'd been naked in the underworld.

He walked up to the judge, took the Book of Life and Death from his hand, and glanced at the annotations under his mother Youlan's name.

"Judge Cui, please use your little hand to change the following sentence my mother said..."

"I...I can't change it, only Hades can say so..."

"Can't change it? What's the use of keeping you?" Shen Yifei stuffed the Book of Life and Death into his bosom and reached out to grab Judge Cui's neck.

Judge Cui was so frightened that his legs went weak. The image of those hundreds of ghost messengers being drained of their life force was still vivid in his mind.

Although his cultivation level was not low, it was still no match for Shen Yifei.

Before coming, Hades didn't say that this guy's cultivation was so high. If he had known this, he wouldn't have only brought ghost messengers to capture him.

He was filled with regret and resentment!

"Young Master Shen! Old Master Shen! I truly cannot change... That was a restriction personally placed by the King of the Underworld; anyone who touches it will die! If you wish to change, go find the King of the Underworld!"

"Since it can't be changed, we might as well get rid of this Book of Life and Death!"

After saying that, Shen Yifei used the Netherworld Cold Flame to ignite the Book of Life and Death, and threw it into the sky. The Book of Life and Death turned into thousands of ashes, which fluttered and danced in the air.

Judge Cui stared at the ashes, his lips trembling: "You...you burned the Book of Life and Death! Do you know what a sin this is! The souls of the Three Realms will have no place to belong from now on!"

Shen Yifei, shirtless, walked back through a pile of ashes: "Belonging? I don't think you're doing a very good job of managing things. My mother's lifespan hasn't ended yet, and you've locked her up here to give her acupuncture. And you're talking to me about belonging?"

Before Judge Cui could say anything more, Thirteen Sister's vermilion judge's pen was already pressed against the back of his head: "Lord Cui, lead the way."

After saying that, she released her grip on the judge's hand, pulled out a piece of clothing, and threw it to Shen Yifei. "Hurry up and put this on; you still have to see your mother later!"

Shen Yifei put it on, and the clothes fit him perfectly. He wondered if Thirteen Sister had specially prepared them for him.

"Thirteenth Sister, logically speaking, there's nothing between you and me to hide. You're my woman now, and I hope we can be more honest with each other..."

"Save your mother first!" Thirteen Sister shoved Judge Cui forward. "I'm not as cunning as you think. You'll see!"

Judge Cui stumbled, glanced back at the judge's pen in Thirteen Sister's hand, shrank back, and obediently walked ahead.

Behind the Viewing Platform lies a hidden door, concealed behind a giant rock. Judge Cui pressed two buttons on the rock wall, and the hidden door opened with a bang, revealing a downward stone staircase.

Thirteen Sister asked Judge Cui to lead the way. At this time, Su Huan had also woken up, and the three of them followed behind.

After descending about a hundred stone steps, the passage suddenly opened up before us. A huge underground space appeared out before us.

In the very center was a dark red altar, exactly the same as the one seen in the Three Lives Mirror.

On the stone pillar in the center of the altar, bound by iron chains, was none other than Youlan. Hundreds of long black needles were densely embedded in her body, each needle tip emitting black smoke.

Shen Yifei stopped in his tracks.

Even though he had already seen it once in the Mirror of Three Lives, he still couldn't bear to see it with his own eyes now.

"Mother." Shen Yifei wanted to rush over, but was pulled back by Thirteenth Sister.

"Don't rush! There's a restriction on that needle. If you touch it rashly, it will go against your blood and penetrate deep into your mother's soul, and then she really won't be able to be saved."