Chapter 308: Rule Radiation

"Is the Yellow Springs Road behind you? What do they want to do?"

Li Heng asked curiously.

According to the fragments of information he understood, this Yellow Springs Road could be called the most mysterious force in the Yin World, drifting between life and death, even more weird than the Weird.

"Please, my lord, buy a piece of coal."

The Coal Seller Weird revealed a pleading expression.

He had already revealed too much just now; if he could not facilitate this transaction, he would certainly be punished, his form and spirit scattered.

Li Heng narrowed his eyes.

"Fine, I'll buy a piece of coal from you."

As soon as the words fell, the Coal Seller Weird's expression turned joyful, and he hurriedly took a blood-red piece of coal from his coal basket and handed it to Li Heng.

"Please, my lord, accept it."

Interesting.

Li Heng took the piece of coal and could perceive that this coal was not coal, but a crystal condensed from essence, energy, and spirit, though it was mostly essence and blood-Qi, roughly at the Innate Level.

In an instant, he felt the rules of transaction strike again, informing him of the price for buying this piece of coal: anything would do, a pebble, a breath, a leaf, anything at all.

Looking at the Coal Seller Weird's ingratiating yet pained expression.

Li Heng roughly understood the underlying cause.

"Since you are so sensible, I won't let you suffer a loss."

With a wave of his large hand, the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi of the Present World tore through the Void and arrived in this sub-world, subsequently condensing into a crystal in his hand.

"This Origin Qi crystal shall serve as the exchange."

Li Heng tossed the crystal to the Coal Seller.

"Many thanks, my lord! Many thanks, my lord! Many thanks, my lord!"

The Coal Seller Weird held the Origin Qi crystal in his hands, sensing the surging Heaven and Earth Origin Qi within the crystal, and was instantly overjoyed, realizing that this was absolutely a good thing.

Originally, he had thought he would suffer a heavy loss.

He had not expected this living person to be so kind.

"Speak, tell me what you know."

Li Heng did not care, getting straight to the point.

Anyway, this sub-world had nothing; extracting Origin Qi from Reality to form material crystals was the simplest thing for him. Moreover, this thing had no great use; it was just highly condensed Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, it just looked intimidating.

"Yes, my lord."

"The place we are in is called a Ghost Realm, connected to other Ghost Realms by some hidden passages, woven into a large net. It was actually opened up by that Yellow Springs Road, using the Yin World as a base, extending toward the Present World, and finally covering the entire Present World, with the intention of creating a Yellow Springs Road and Reincarnation Path that covers both the Present World and the Yin World."

"The dazed souls you see, my lord, are actually drawn here by these Ghost Realms, passing through this spatial Rift to enter the territory of the Yin World's Yellow Springs Road."

"As for the reason why the Yellow Springs Road does this, we do not know. However, there is a rumor that the Yellow Springs Road drawing so many souls from the Present World into the Yin World seems to be an attempt to test something."

"But recently, for some reason, the souls being drawn by the Ghost Realms and entering the Yin World have become fewer and fewer, causing the Ghost Realms along the way to also start shrinking slowly."

Li Heng nodded upon hearing this; so that was it.

He roughly understood why there were fewer and fewer souls.

Naturally, it was because Reincarnation had been established.

This Yellow Springs Road was truly bold, actually daring to snatch people?

Seeking death!

"Then what are you? You are quite different from those dazed souls," Li Heng asked.

The Coal Seller hurriedly spoke upon hearing this, fearing Li Heng would lose patience.

"We were actually members of these dazed souls before, but after entering the Present World, we were selected by people from the Yellow Springs Road and signed a Contract with something, becoming the Weird with intelligence that we are today."

"The Yellow Springs Road ordered us to return to the Present World, to walk through many Ghost Realms, and even the Present World, to trade with others. The people of the Yellow Springs Road said that as long as we trade up to a certain amount, we can return from the dead and be resurrected as humans again."

The Coal Seller Weird revealed a look of longing when mentioning this.

"So that's how it is; that is truly a clever scheme."

Li Heng was expressionless, murmuring to himself.

In the vision of his Heavenly Eye, he could perceive the power of the transaction rules contained within these Weird radiating into the surroundings and embedding themselves into the surrounding Void.

If it were truly as this Coal Seller Weird said.

They walked through many Ghost Realms, Ghost Domains, and even the Present World, spread everywhere, which meant that the power of the transaction rules on them had already radiated to many places.

This meant that the Yellow Springs Road, or the thing that signed the Contract with these Weird, had grand designs, attempting to inscribe its own transaction rules everywhere in Heaven and Earth, tainting Heaven and Earth.

The Coal Seller Weird, seeing Li Heng's expression, could not help but be startled; could it be that he had said the wrong thing?

"Then I ask you, why are you kneeling and bowing toward this stone stele?" Li Heng asked.

"I don't know the specific reason for this either, it's just that some time ago, it suddenly spread among us Weird that the stone stele standing at this spatial Rift was not simple."

"Some Weird even tried to trade away this stone stele using the transaction rules, but ended up being backlashed by this stele and dying."

The Coal Seller Weird answered honestly.

Li Heng smiled slightly upon hearing this.

It would be a miracle if this group of Weird could trade away this stone stele.

This stone stele contained the Great Sun True Intent and Earth True Intent; although it was of no use, its status was extremely high—how could these Weird be qualified to trade it?

Once they traded, they would be backlashed by its status.

However, this did not seem to be enough to be the reason for these Weird, and even those dazed souls, to kneel and bow.

There must be some other secret within this.

Perhaps the existence of this stone stele had already entered the field of vision of the high-level members of the Yellow Springs Road, and they wanted to use this stone stele to do something?

Although Li Heng knew this stone stele was of no use.

But thinking about it carefully, there are still some uses.

For example, as a coordinate, used for a descent?

The souls and Weirds kneeling before this stone stele possess extremely dense Yin energy; it is possible to leave a brand on this stele, and by relying on that brand, they would gain a new coordinate in the Present World.

Or perhaps, wanting to create a god?

With so many souls or Weirds kneeling before this stele, the power of vows generated within it would very likely cause this stele to become sentient, or perhaps, in the mysterious depths, give rise to a deity named You.

Li Heng cannot think of a reason for them to do this.

And if they were doing this, he would have sensed it long ago.

Because his divine path avatar is "You".

The most likely possibility.

He feels that someone has set their sights on the Great Sun and Earth true intent contained within the stele, using so many souls to kneel before the stele to let it become tainted with Yin energy, and subsequently refine the stele.

"What is the thing that established a Contract with you all?"

"Is it a copper coin?"

Li Heng continued to ask.

These Weird trading rules reminded him of the Buying Life Money he encountered back then, which was also a trading-type Strange.

"This little one does not know either."

"Before we established a Contract with that thing, we were just like these bewildered souls, muddled and without intelligence. Only after establishing the Contract did we possess intelligence."

The Coal Seller Weird shook its head.

"Then do you know?"

Li Heng looked toward the other Weirds.

The other Weirds shook their heads violently.

"My Lord, considering how much this little one has revealed, can you protect me? I have revealed so many secrets; the Huangquan Road side must have already sensed it."

At this moment, the Coal Seller Weird swallowed its saliva and said.

"Do you mean to say that Huangquan Road is afraid of people coming to kill you?"

"Yes, although I just completed a transaction with you, my Lord, and could tell you information within the rules without suffering a backlash from the rules, this does not mean that Huangquan Road is willing to see it."

Li Heng narrowed his eyes upon hearing this.

It can tell him information within the rules, but Huangquan Road is not willing to see it? Does that mean the one who established the rule constraints for these Weirds is not Huangquan Road itself?

Otherwise, right from the beginning when these Weirds leaked the secrets.

They would have long since died from the backlash.

In this way, the thing that signed the Contract with them is even more likely to be the Buying Life Money; after all, Buying Life Money does not belong to Huangquan Road, at most they just have a cooperative relationship.

For example, Buying Life Money helps Huangquan Road establish the so-called Reincarnation.

Huangquan Road helps select Present World human souls to become Proxies for Buying Life Money, and lets them walk throughout the Present World, spreading the trading rules of Buying Life Money, mutually benefiting each other.

Perhaps this is the truth?

Of course, Li Heng also knows that this is all based on deduction, with no evidence to prove it. To truly verify this point, he must go and see for himself what is going on.

If he wants to go and see, he must enter the Yin World.

But the Yin World is not his home turf, and he is also on the Yin World's blacklist; once exposed, he could be struck by lightning from the heavens.

Speaking of this, he has a bit of a headache.

"By the way, let me ask you one more thing: does the place this spatial Rift leads to contain many wandering souls?"

The Coal Seller nodded.

"Reporting to you, my Lord, that is indeed the case. What Huangquan Road's territory does not lack is wandering souls; these wandering souls flying back and forth in Huangquan Road's territory is nothing strange."

"However, there is a rumor that once mentioned the origin of these wandering souls; the appearance of those wandering souls seems to have been caused by an attempt by Huangquan Road. As for what that attempt was, this little one does not know."

The Coal Seller shook its head.

Suddenly, the spatial Rift in front of them became chaotic, an armored thigh stretched out from the spatial Rift and stepped into this Inner World, and a Weird clad in armor crossed over.

This armored Weird looked around at the Weirds present.

It quickly locked onto the Coal Seller.

"Bing-1345, you violated the Huangquan Road regulations by leaking information to a living person from the Present World, you shall be beheaded!"

Then it looked at Li Heng again, revealing a cold expression.

"A living person from the Present World stepping into a Ghost Realm belonging to Huangquan Road, die!"

As soon as the words fell, this armored Weird brandished the great blade in its hand, and Yin energy and baleful energy erupted, causing the Void here to become chaotic; it was clearly a Daxian Realm Peak.

The other Weirds were completely dumbfounded at the sight; it was over.

The one coming to kill the leaker this time was actually an adult of this level!

It seems this Coal Seller and this living person are both dead for sure. Even if this adult is angry, even they will be in trouble; this level of existence is simply impossible to contend with!

Their bodies could not help but tremble.

Li Heng narrowed his eyes slightly.

"You Weird are quite arrogant."