Above the Great Dao
Chapter 727 - 323: Lady Ling Su

Chapter 727: Chapter 323: Lady Ling Su

"The red-haired ghost chased you?"

Chen Shi stood up, pacing back and forth, puzzled, "Young Master, what is his origin? Why is he seeking the Three-Life Stone? Young lady, you were in charge of watching over me earlier, do you know this Young Master?"

The Boat Mistress shook her head: "We, the Yin Messengers, follow the orders of the Yin Commander, the Yin Commander listens to the Judge, and the Judge obeys the King Yan; we’ve never heard of any Young Master."

Chen Shi asked, "Who ordered you to suppress me and my mother?"

The Boat Mistress replied, "The Yin Commander’s order."

"Where is that Yin Commander?"

"Dead."

The Boat Mistress’s face darkened, "Chen Yindou barged into the Immortal City and rescued you. We couldn’t beat Chen Yindou, so we went to seek the Yin Commander, only to find him deceased. Then we wanted to find the Judge, only to discover that he had also died. We tried to find the master of the blue sky, only to learn that he had vanished. With nowhere left to turn, knowing that losing you would spell certain death, we immediately abandoned our true bodies and fled to the Mortal World."

Chen Shi felt a slight tremor in his heart; his death happened eleven years ago, the suppression here occurred sometime between three and eleven years ago — likely less than eight years, only around five years.

In a short span of five years, an upheaval occurred in the underworld: the Yin Commander, Judge, King Yan, all died or went missing!

A burly female Yaksha with a wine cup approached Chen Shi, drunk and squinting flirtatiously, "If you are willing, drink this cup."

Chen Shi gently raised his hand, sending the female Yaksha flying backwards, smashing through a wall, and soaring several dozens of meters away.

Chen Shi stared blankly into space, "When Grandfather brought Granny Sha and Uncle Qing Yang down to the underworld to rescue me, they also discovered severe chaos — the ghosts and gods were attacking each other, with heavy casualties. It seems that during that time, something major happened in the underworld! No, it wasn’t just during that time!"

The Three Corpse Gods exchanged glances upon seeing him send the female Yaksha flying.

Such a beauty, and yet doesn’t suit the master’s taste?

Suddenly, Chen Shi remembered — Zhong Kui and Tie Chi reincarnated over twenty years ago. This means, over twenty years ago, there was already a big commotion in the underworld!

"But the Tongue-pulling Hell disintegrated fourteen hundred years ago. The war might have lasted far longer than I imagined... Regardless of all this! My goal here is solely to rescue my mother!"

Chen Shi steadied himself and silently determined within, "Tomorrow, I’ll find a chance to rescue my mother, not worrying about anything else!"

He relaxed and began singing and dancing joyfully with the female Yaksha in the celestial brothel.

Peng Ju, Peng Zhi, and Peng Jue, seeing this, were also exceedingly joyful, thinking their plan had succeeded.

As dawn approached, the Three Corpse Gods immediately transformed into a gust of dark wind and vanished without a trace, leaving Chen Shi to settle the payment.

Chen Shi settled the bill and returned to Yuan Chen Palace, opening the front hall to find it empty, without Peng Jue.

He opened the other two side halls but found no other Corpse Gods.

The Three Corpse Gods only seem to appear at night.

Chen Shi took out the food he had prepared in advance from the small temple, ate something to fill his stomach, and then set off.

He carried the Black Pot, accompanied by the Boat Mistress, walking along the heavenly streets.

The Immortal City during the day seemed much more deserted than the previous night, with no people on the heavenly street but instead, ghosts and ghostly monsters—lower-level ones being little Yaksha, little Bull-Head ghosts, little Horse-Face ghosts, some seeking work everywhere, some doing dirty and tiring jobs.

Besides them, there were large Yaksha like Chen Shi, along with bull-headed monsters and horse-faced monsters, merely ghostly creatures, still not qualifying as Ghost Gods.

Only by receiving a commission from the underworld and becoming a Yin Messenger, with offerings of incense, could one become a true Ghost God. Without incense, one would merely be a monster.

Chen Shi walked on the heavenly street, gazing around, the boundless Yuan Chen Palace unfolded before his eyes, its end unseen, deeply shocking him.

Exactly how large is the Immortal City?

Has anyone ever reached the end of the Immortal City?

"The Yuan Chen Palace of everyone in the West Bull New Continent, all lies here."

The Boat Mistress remarked, "At every moment someone dies, equally at every moment someone is born, Yuan Chen Palaces constantly extinguish, while others constantly form."

Chen Shi raised his head, sweeping his gaze toward the endless Yuan Chen Palace, some Palaces hosting enormous Primordial Spirits, towering like Divine, presumably strong Cultivators’ Primordial Spirits.

The number of such Primordial Spirits isn’t many, possibly one among tens of thousands of Yuan Chen Palaces. However, even a single appearance is extremely shocking.

Seeing this scene, he finally understood the little Yaksha’s words.

"The little Yaksha said, the Yuan Chen Palace resembles a human body, and it’s quite right! The Yuan Chen Palace is like a reflection of the human body in the underworld, but more mystical. In the underworld, the Primordial Spirit is hidden in the Yuan Chen Palace. In the Mortal World, it’s hidden within the body. And the Three Corpse Gods are ghost gods formed from various evil and secular thoughts within the human body."

Chen Shi gained some enlightenment, during the day, human rationality exists, the Primordial Spirit leads, thus the Three Corpse Gods lay dormant; but at night, rationality wanes, influenced by the moonlight, the Three Corpse Gods take charge.

If in a dream, devoid of rationality, the Three Corpse Gods would guide the soul of the master, reveling in Immortal City, seducing one into decadence.

In other words, the entire Immortal City is actually the embodiment of countless people’s bodies and dreams in the underworld!

Countless ghost gods are attached to such an Immortal City.

"There should be more esoteric truths here, but fundamentally, this is how it is."

Chen Shi looked around, the Immortal City vast and ethereal, everything so marvelous.

Unknowingly, they arrived again at the courtyard where the red-haired ghost entered last night.

Outside the courtyard were numerous little Yaksha neatly ranked, forming a squad of hundreds.