Chapter 134

"Senior Sui Lei Yuanzi, you are an immortal consultant specially hired by the Prince of Qinghe Commandery, and you have also given your loyalty to Western Shu and Great Qin; you should go find them!" Xiao Yu advised.

Sui Lei Yuanzi said resentfully, "Do you think the Prince of Qinghe Commandery is like the Red Sleeve Workshop, where anyone can enter, and enter at will?"

Xiao Yu's eyes flashed, she bowed respectfully and said, "Please clear up my confusion, sir; why can't you go find the Prince of Qinghe Commandery?"

"The Red Sleeve Workshop is a place of pleasure, the filthiest place in the world. Immortals pass by holding their noses, gods do not bother to take a second look, ghosts and demons often haunt it, and gods and immortals do not care or ask.

The Prince of Qinghe Commandery, however, is a noble person.

Even ordinary government offices have door gods guarding the gates, duty gods patrolling the courtyards, day-wandering gods and night-wandering gods managing the treasuries, and kitchen gods guarding against evil spirits sneaking into every part of the government office; there are gods guarding everything, making it difficult for ghosts and demons to get close.

Noble people are even more extraordinary; they may even have heavenly generals protecting them personally, and all evils cannot invade.

I, a mere ghost from the underworld, how can I go to see the Prince of Qinghe Commandery?"

At this moment, although Sui Lei Yuanzi had recovered some of his sanity, he had completely lost the cultivation and temperament he had when he was alive, and had quite a tendency to fall into becoming a fierce ghost or resentful spirit.

Xiao Yu said, "Do you know that the imperial envoy of the upper state is conferring gods in Luodu tonight? Perhaps you can go and beg to see the imperial envoy; he—"

"That bastard scolded me for being incompetent and told me to get lost, otherwise he would make my soul fly away and scatter." Sui Lei Yuanzi twisted his ghost face and shouted excitedly.

"Uh, even if you, sir, have no merit, you still risked your life for Great Qin; the imperial envoy is too unreasonable."

"Why didn't you confer me as a god, why, why?" Sui Lei Yuanzi became manic, stretched out his ghost hand, and wanted to grab her shoulder.

"Senior, don't be excited!"

Xiao Yu gave a low shout, the "Proud Immortal Blade" was ready to be unleashed, leaking only a little aura.

Sui Lei Yuanzi's ghost body stiffened, he retreated two zhang away with a "whoosh," both shocked and angry, and shouted, "Little barbarian dog, what do you want to do?"

——He has Samadhi True Fire, Samadhi True Fire, Samadhi True Fire is of extraordinary value.

Xiao Yu recited silently in her heart dozens of times before she could extremely arduously suppress the murderous intent and evil fire, squeezed out a smiling face, and said, "Senior, don't be anxious. You can stay in the small courtyard for now. When dawn comes, I will go find Aunt Liu and let her take you to see the Prince of Qinghe Commandery.

I believe the Prince will definitely not chill the heart of a meritorious official."

The green light in Sui Lei Yuanzi's ghost eyes flickered.

After a long while, he lowered his voice. For the first time, there was no resentment in his tone, but rather some embarrassment, "That day I didn't protect the Daoist boy Daoist Qingsong well... Zong Zong Erbu called Lang Lang Fuyun (Great Sage Tongtian) and Li Bibo Qinglong (Bibo Green Dragon).

Fifty years ago, I was miserably defeated by Lang Lang Fuyun.

Facing the three of them, I had no chance of surviving.

So I let them let me go, and I promised that I could ignore the life or death of the Daoist boy Daoist Qingsong.

They forced me to set up a 'letter of intent' and I had to spray a mouthful of Samadhi True Fire at the Daoist boy Daoist Qingsong..."

His expression twisted again, and his voice was once again filled with resentment and hatred, "I sprayed it, but Zong Zong Erbu went back on his word, attacked from behind, and plucked away my brain!"

Several doubts in Xiao Yu's heart were instantly answered.

Why did Sui Lei Yuanzi fall so quickly, clearly he could spray Samadhi True Fire at will, how could he not drag it out for a while...

Why did he die miserably in the assassination case, and why did Lord Dongfang Shuo scold him so harshly.

Why did he prefer to come to the Red Sleeve Workshop rather than find his former colleagues.

The Prince of Qinghe Commandery is a noble person; could it be that everyone in the Prince's Mansion is a noble person and has always stayed in the government office?

So this guy deserted in the face of battle.

——And had his brain plucked away by the Thousand-Hand Saint Thief... I think it was the garbage in his head that was plucked away.

Useless things, if they aren't garbage, what are they?

"It's not your fault at all, sir; you just made the best choice, but you encountered the most shameless people." Xiao Yu said.

Sui Lei Yuanzi nodded repeatedly and said resentfully, "What did I do wrong? I didn't do anything wrong at all!"

Xiao Yu looked at him with encouraging and trusting eyes and said, "As the saying goes, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river; do not bully the young because they are poor!

You, sir, were not young when you were alive, but after death, your age instantly returned to zero.

At this moment, you are like a newborn baby, possessing infinite future.

Why not turn to cultivate the Ghost Immortal Dao? Perhaps you don't need thirty years; you could be promoted to Ghost Emperor in three years.

By then, you can stage a grand drama of 'The Ghost Emperor Returns,' and the Prince of Qinghe Commandery will inevitably be shocked, terrified, awed, and extremely regretful, and the imperial envoy of the upper state will also lower his arrogant head and express repentance and submission to you."

A look of yearning and intoxication appeared on Sui Lei Yuanzi's ghost face.

The fierce and resentful aura on his body actually faded quite a bit.

After a long while, he hesitated and said, "Turning to cultivate Ghost Immortal is too bitter and tiring, and I can't see a future; it's not as happy as the Divine Dao..."

Xiao Yu said sternly, "Sir, you are a genius who has practiced Samadhi True Fire; you can lack anything, but you cannot lack self-confidence. Believe in yourself, you really can do it."

The next morning, the small canteen in the backyard of the Red Sleeve Workshop.

"Bi He, last night I seemed to have dreamed of little Jin Gui..." Miss Cui Liu held her bowl, somewhat distracted.

Bi He had originally lowered her head, using a spoon to scoop porridge to eat. Hearing this, her eyes flickered and she said, "We all dreamed of it; little Jin Gui, Bi Tao, Ying Chun, and the others have become gods."

Cui Liu was shocked, "Could it be that it wasn't a dream?"

"It was a dream; little Jin Gui and the others entrusted us with dreams..." An "old girl" approaching thirty on the side said bitterly, "Shou Ju and I have been friends for more than ten years. She came to find me alone last night to say goodbye... We were dreaming, but what they said in the dream was all true.

Because of the dream last night, I woke up at the fifth watch.

I found several acquaintances, and they all had similar dreams."

"But how is this possible? How can prostitutes become gods? And so many of them..." Cui Liu muttered.

Qing Luo at the side table sighed, "Little Little Fengxian even beheaded five immortals! At least four immortals left their corpses behind; you have all been to the front yard to see, right? It's absolutely true."

"Where is Little Little Fengxian? She didn't come to eat today?" Cui Liu turned her head and looked around, "Zi Ying, have you seen her?"

"Eight out of ten, she's holding her bowl again, going to the soy sauce alley behind to brag with the old ladies and old men."

Some girls muttered, "These past two days, there have been twenty or thirty guests who took off their clothes but didn't do any proper business, only asking me about things like 'Gods and Demons Fear, Immortals and Buddhas Terrified Great Shift,' 'One Blade Slash of Investiture,' 'Demon God Scream Fist,' 'Arhat Falling to the Street Stick'... I knew it was nonsense as soon as I heard it.

But Little Little Fengxian is the only one who survived, and she even beheaded five great immortals; even if she talks nonsense, others believe it."

Bi He said gloomily, "Perhaps Little Little Fengxian didn't talk nonsense, but was conservative instead. At least she didn't reveal anything about conferring gods on her dead sisters before."

The crowd was silent.

"Hehe, since all the neighbors have heard the ghost wailing, I don't need to go into detail."

The girls of the Red Sleeve Workshop really didn't guess wrong; Xiao Yu was really bragging in the back alley at this moment.

But today was a bit special; she wasn't holding her bowl, nor was she taking advantage of Widow Huang and Aunt Li's house to get some pickles.

She hadn't even had time to go to the canteen to get food.

As usual, she was practicing sword on the roof. Widow Huang was holding Ergouzi, and approached with a strange expression, asking her if she had heard the shrill and terrifying ghost wailing last night.

Xiao Yu had just explained a few words when more neighbors surrounded her. Even the house of Squire Wang across the street rarely opened the back door, and Squire Wang's two daughters-in-law stood behind to listen.

"Little Little Fengxian, you must tell us in detail. Although we heard it, we didn't hear it clearly, and we didn't see anything." Aunt Zhang shouted at the top of her lungs.

"Actually, it's nothing. Too many girls died in the assassination case a few days ago; their resentful spirits didn't disperse, so they came back."

Xiao Yu didn't really want to talk about the conferring of gods; it was too flashy, had no benefits, and was instead easy to anger the "Eight Immortals of the West."

Moreover, involving the secret of the Investiture of the Gods list might make the imperial envoy of Great Qin dissatisfied.

So today she didn't intend to talk in detail, only using the excuse of resentful spirits returning home to fob them off.

"Little Little Fengxian, come back~~ eat breakfast~~~" Before she finished speaking, someone called out from behind the wall again.

It wasn't anyone else, it was Aunt Liu calling personally.

Xiao Yu's heart moved, and she whispered to the neighbors, "The dead are the greatest, and ghosts and gods are ominous. It's best to talk less about this kind of topic. After all, everyone doesn't want ghosts to wail in the back alley every night, right?"

The neighbors' expressions changed, and they all closed their mouths, looking around vigilantly.

"Should we burn some paper money at the intersection?" Widow Huang said cautiously.

Aunt Zhang pondered, "Burning paper money alone is not enough. The souls of the elderly and children are unstable and prone to accidents. It's best to invite a monk or Daoist priest to perform a ritual."

Squire Wang's eldest daughter-in-law, Nie, nodded repeatedly and said, "A ritual should be performed. Let's pool our money to go to the Shuiyue Nunnery outside the city and invite the 'Immortal Grandmother' to come and take a look.

That fierce ghost last night wailed too creepily, scaring our old grandmother awake, and she hasn't recovered until now.

If it comes every night, how can we live!"

"Immortal Grandmother, is that Feng Feng Nipo? Is she okay?" Aunt Li's granddaughter-in-law, Xiao Zhang, muttered.

Nie said, "Don't you know? Squire Wang's Jin Jin Lian, do you know her? She invited the Immortal Grandmother once, and within two days she met a noble person from the upper state.

It is said that she has already been taken into the room by the noble person from the upper state, and will at least be an aunt in the future.

Being an aunt to a noble person from the upper state, what kind of glory and wealth is that?"

"That's right, this matter has long spread in Qingshuiwan. The Immortal Grandmother has boundless magic power!" Widow Huang nodded.

"We are not looking for someone to tell fortunes. When it comes to driving away evil and ghosts, it has to be the dog-meat Daoist from the Xianyunguan.

I once saw with my own eyes that he drove away evil for Squire Wang of Toad Street, and a red-haired wild ghost was vomited out directly from Squire Wang's mouth.

And he is very cheap; killing a dog and making a pot of fragrant meat for him is enough." Li Daye said.

"We can't just look for cheapness, and we can't just have us pay. The Red Sleeve Workshop should also... eh, where is Little Little Fengxian? Let her pass a word to Aunt Liu."

"Still looking for Little Little Fengxian? She has long flown away."

"Chief Clerk Li, you're here!"

After Xiao Yu returned to the Xiaojingxuan, she saw a table of breakfast: yellow millet porridge, small steamed buns, crab roe dumplings, deep-fried leek and egg rolls, osmanthus rice cakes, a dish of stinky tofu, a dish of peanuts, a dish of spicy beef jerky, and a pot of wine.

Li Dan was sitting at the table enjoying the food.

"Did you see Sui Lei Yuanzi last night?" Li Dan's expression was a bit exhausted, and the dark circles under his eyes were relatively obvious.

Xiao Yu said, "Not just me, the neighbors in the back alley all heard the ghost wailing of Mr. Sui Lei Yuanzi."

There were quite a few ghosts and gods who came to find her at the Xiaojingxuan last night, but other ghosts had obtained divine positions and were gods, not ghosts, so they could stabilize their own aura and not let others notice their existence.

Sui Lei Yuanzi, however, had no concealment and was full of resentment, with a tendency to fall into becoming a fierce ghost.

With his realm before he was alive, if he really became a fierce ghost, he would inevitably be a great fierce thing.

It was he who woke the neighbors from their night dreams!

"I know Sui Lei Yuanzi came to the Red Sleeve Workshop; I'm asking what you said to him."

Li Dan put down his small wine cup and squinted at Xiao Yu's face.

Xiao Yu sighed, "He blamed me for not conferring him as a god..."

Li Dan had long known that she used the Investiture of the Gods list to forcibly capture the souls of four human immortals, so there was no need to hide the conferring of gods from him.

In fact, Xiao Yu guessed that Li Dan was at the scene when Lord Dongfang Shuo conferred gods on Beishan in Luodu last night.

This guy hadn't slept all night, traveled hundreds of miles from Luodu to Tianmen Town, and was exhausted.

"Sui Lei Yuanzi found the Prince last night and said some strange things..." Li Dan frowned and asked directly, "Besides explaining the Investiture of the Gods list, what else did you say to him at that time?"

Xiao Yu said in surprise, "The Prince of Qinghe Commandery is a noble person, and Mr. Sui Lei Yuanzi is a ghost; how could they meet?"

"You know quite a lot about ghosts and gods." Li Dan glanced at her and said, "Sui Lei Yuanzi first went to find the consultant Cheng Cheng Daolin, and Cheng Cheng Daolin went to the Prince's Mansion to find the Prince overnight.

The Prince is a person who cherishes old friendships, so he immediately went out to meet him..."

Seeing him stop with a gloomy expression, Xiao Yu asked curiously, "What strange things did he say to the Prince?"

"Answer whatever the Chief Clerk asks; don't ask blindly." Aunt Liu whispered.

Xiao Yu explained, "If I don't understand what strange things Mr. Sui Lei Yuanzi said, how can I answer the Chief Clerk's question?"

"Tell the original words in detail; don't have the slightest concealment." Aunt Liu said.

Xiao Yu said helplessly, "I don't want to hide anything; it's really that Mr. Sui Lei Yuanzi has a lot of resentment.

He said a lot of things that are not good to repeat, for example, complaining about the Prince, insulting the imperial envoy Dongfang; should these be said?"

Aunt Liu looked at Li Dan.

Li Dan said with a gloomy face, "Sui Lei Yuanzi was eroded by the fierce aura of the Investiture of the Gods list and lost his sanity, so he only talks nonsense."

Xiao Yu nodded repeatedly, "Indeed."

Li Dan struggled for a moment and then said, "Sui Lei Yuanzi parted on bad terms with the Prince; he wants to be the Guan Chenghuang of the capital, which is absolutely impossible to achieve.

The Investiture of the Gods list is in the hands of the imperial envoy Dongfang; it's not whatever the Prince says.

The Prince has been benevolent enough to him, promising that once a vacancy appears in the position of civil and military judge in the Guan Chenghuang Temple within the Shu Kingdom, he will immediately let Sui Lei Yuanzi fill it.

He was rebellious and actually insulted... In the end, when he left, Sui Lei Yuanzi made a harsh threat, saying that thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, do not bully the young because they are poor, and pointed at the Prince's nose and told the Prince to wait."

Xiao Yu lowered her head, her expression somewhat twisted.

She now truly agreed with Li Dan's statement: Sui Lei Yuanzi's sanity was eroded by the fierce aura in the Investiture of the Gods list.

Li Dan looked at her and said, "I'm worried that Sui Lei Yuanzi will be detrimental to the Prince; do you know what he wants to do?"

Xiao Yu said sheepishly, "Chief Clerk, don't worry; I estimate that Sui Lei Yuanzi just decided to turn to cultivate Ghost Immortal."

"You estimate?" Li Dan frowned.

Xiao Yu smiled awkwardly and said, "Mr. Sui Lei Yuanzi kept pestering me, shouting 'Why didn't you confer me as a god,' he kept shouting, it was very terrifying, and the old lady of the Wang family in the back alley was haunted by him.

I had no choice but to persuade him to think openly.

He has the supernatural power of Samadhi True Fire; even if he turns to cultivate Ghost Immortal, he still has a great future."

Li Dan sneered, "He has become a ghost; where does he still have the Samadhi True Fire that is extremely rigid and extremely yang?

Even when he was alive, his Samadhi True Fire was not pure; it was made up by absorbing the volcanic earth vein fire."

Xiao Yu said, "I don't understand; I only persuaded him to be a Ghost Immortal, I didn't incite him to go find the Prince."

Li Dan said coldly, "He has now entered the devil's path and holds a grudge against the Prince; if he achieves something in the Ghost Immortal Dao, he will inevitably..."

Xiao Yu wanted to complain: I could appease him, the Prince's wrist should be more sophisticated, how could they talk until they broke up?

Even setting up such a very ominous flag as "Do not bully the young because they are poor."

Aunt Liu said, "Sui Lei Yuanzi, Chief Clerk, is already dead; the ghost messengers should take his soul to the underworld!"

"You think no ghost messengers came to find him? They were all beaten away by him."

Li Dan put down his chopsticks and no longer had the interest to eat breakfast.

Judging from Sui Lei Yuanzi's performance last night, it was obvious that he held a grudge against the Prince.

With his realm before he was alive, turning to cultivate Ghost Immortal will inevitably achieve something. By then, if he takes crazy revenge on the Prince...