Chapter 310: Hearing of the Ghost Place Again

"Transaction amount."

"Nine times."

The Coal Seller looked at the gatekeeper before him and answered honestly.

After these Weird who go to the Present World to conduct transactions return to the Yin World, they must register their transaction counts in the records, and then have their capabilities evaluated.

"Nine times? Not bad, you old man are doing alright."

The gatekeeper in a black robe said in surprise while holding a writing brush.

"Just good luck," the Coal Seller replied hurriedly.

"Keep up the good work. Your total transaction count has now reached one hundred; you're not far from the one-thousand mark. Keep it up."

He waved the brush and recorded the number in the merit book.

"Oh, right. A moment ago, a Dharma Aspect Peak lord went through your passage. What happened over there?"

After doing this, the gatekeeper asked curiously.

"We don't know about that either. How could we possibly have contact with a lord of that level?" The Coal Seller shook his head.

The gatekeeper then turned his gaze to the Weird queuing behind the Coal Seller. Those Weird also shook their heads violently, like rattle-drums, claiming they didn't know. Just kidding—that lord was still watching from behind them; how could they dare to leak these matters?

Behind these Weird, at the end of the line.

Li Heng looked around.

The Yin World territory governed by this Yellow Springs Road is truly peculiar. High above, ghosts fly across the sky, and a cold moon hangs alone in the air, constantly oozing blood, drip, drip.

Dripping onto the ground.

How should I put it?

It is even more Underworld-like than the Yin World he had seen before.

As the queue moved forward, it was finally Li Heng's turn to face the gatekeeper's questioning. The other Weird who had passed through saw this and felt their hearts hang in their throats, terrified that some accident might occur.

They now knew just how terrifying this existence was.

Even a Dharma Aspect Peak was no match for him!

"You... you Living Dead seem to have no registration number," the gatekeeper said, constantly observing the records in his hand, feeling somewhat puzzled.

At this moment, Li Heng had transformed into a Living Dead and incidentally concealed a portion of his aura, deceiving the Heaven of the Yin World and the rules of the Yin World. As long as he did not strike with his full strength, presumably, they would not be able to detect it.

"What happens if there is no registration number?"

Li Heng asked curiously.

"If there is no registration number, then naturally you are not allowed to pass!"

The gatekeeper's expression suddenly turned cold. He picked up the Lian at his side and stood up, like a grim reaper harvesting the lives of others.

"I strongly suspect you are a stowaway. Come with me!" The gatekeeper left the counter and floated in front of Li Heng.

"If I go with you, what will happen?"

Li Heng asked with a smile.

The gatekeeper seemed not to have expected Li Heng to react so calmly, and his expression could not help but soften. Although even softened, it was still unsightly, cold and icy like a corpse.

"I am not some fool who doesn't understand Weird sentiment."

"I will first take you to the Hujichu to check and see if you truly have no registration number. If you do have one, you will need to pay a fee to replace the number."

"But if you don't, hehe."

He gave a cold laugh, and cold light flickered on the tip of the Lian.

Killing intent boiled.

"Hmm, alright then, let's go."

Li Heng nodded.

Just like that, Li Heng obediently followed the gatekeeper.

This left the other Weird dumbfounded. What was going on? He just obediently followed the gatekeeper? What exactly was this lord up to?

Yellow Springs Road, Yellow Springs Road, it really is just a road.

Yellow Springs Road is not like other major powers that center themselves and radiate out into the Yin World, with countless miles of surrounding territory as their own domain. Instead, it connects one Ghost Domain after another, forming a great net that covers the Yin World.

Theoretically speaking.

Even within the territories of the Hanging Mountain, Buying Life Money, and even the Abyss Sea, there exist Ghost Domains governed by Yellow Springs Road.

Only in this way is there a necessity for the existence of gatekeepers. In the Ghost Domains and regions governed by Yellow Springs Road, there is only one road.

Unless someone can break the rules of Yellow Springs Road, or pass through certain Nodes and checkpoints, the Weird and demons within cannot run outside the road to truly reach the vast lands of the Yin World.

Li Heng walked silently behind the gatekeeper.

They walked to an uninhabited place.

The gatekeeper finally could not hold it in anymore.

He stopped, looked at Li Heng, his expression unkind.

"I'm telling you, you Living Dead, can you be a bit more sensible?"

"What is the meaning of this?" Li Heng asked in confusion.

"Stop pretending with me. It's not like I haven't seen stowaways like you on the Yellow Springs Road before," the gatekeeper said with a disdainful laugh.

"Aren't you taking me to the Hujichu to replace my household registration and number?"

Li Heng asked.

The gatekeeper immediately became impatient.

"I'm saying, you're playing dumb, aren't you? Do you believe I'll really drag you to the Xingchang and chop you up? If you follow the rules and give me the money, I'll let you go. That's good for everyone."

"Or are you a novice who doesn't understand the rules of stowaways?"

Upon hearing this, Li Heng suddenly realized.

"Oh, I see, then what kind of money should I use?"

Upon hearing this, the gatekeeper felt a sense of foreboding in his heart.

"This guy couldn't possibly be without Buying Life Money, could he!"

In an instant, he suddenly felt as though he had been played.

He had wasted his time pulling this stowaway aside, only for the guy to have no money—wasn't he just busy for nothing? Suddenly, anger rose from his heart, and he planned to hack Li Heng to death with one strike.

"Oh, you mean Buying Life Money? You should have said so earlier."

Li Heng shook his head with a smile and took out the more than one hundred and fifty pieces of Buying Life Money he had left. "Is this enough?"

The gatekeeper was instantly stunned at the sight.

He had thought there wouldn't be any, but there was so much?

In an instant, his rage subsided, and an irrepressible feeling of wild joy surged in his heart; his breathing even became rapid. With this much Buying Life Money, it would be enough for him to squander for half a lifetime.

What kind of background could this stowaway Living Dead possibly have!

To actually have so much Buying Life Money?

Could it be that he robbed an agent of Buying Life Money!

A sense of wariness arose in his heart; being able to produce so much Buying Life Money, even if he was a stowaway, it seemed he was not someone to be trifled with.

But he observed him again.

Greed surged into his heart once more.

This Living Dead looked harmless as Human-Livestock, and his aura was extremely weak; he was an ant he could crush with a flick of his hand. Perhaps... this Living Dead was just lucky, and that was how he obtained so much Buying Life Money?

After weighing the pros and cons, he quickly made his choice.

Originally, he had wanted to hack the stowaway to death immediately after extorting him to prevent news from leaking out. But now it seemed, perhaps he should compromise?

"Yes, that's right, it's Buying Life Money. Give them all to me, and I'll let you leave immediately!" The gatekeeper suppressed the excitement in his heart and reached out his hand, seemingly wanting to grab the Buying Life Money into his palm.

At this moment, Li Heng pulled his hand back and smiled lightly.

"This matter doesn't seem to require this much Buying Life Money, does it?"

"What do you know? The market has changed now; I am stating the latest market rate. Give it to me quickly—don't tell me you want to go back on your word!"

Seeing this, the gatekeeper was instantly annoyed, his aura shaking violently.

He was shockingly a Second Heaven Peak, Half-step Dharma Aspect, his aura was incomparably Terror, and with every gesture, he could stir the surrounding Yin energy, causing the wind and clouds to surge.

"Do you intend to break the rules?"

Li Heng said, squinting his eyes.

Seeing Li Heng's expression, the gatekeeper suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and the greed in his mind instantly dropped by half.

He calmed down and revealed a smile.

"Alright then, I'll give you face; just give me half."

Li Heng shook his head and held up a finger.

"No, no, I can only give you one piece of Buying Life Money."

As soon as these words were spoken, the gatekeeper was instantly enraged.

Was he playing him!

Refusing a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit, right!

"One piece of Buying Life Money isn't even enough to grease the wheels to send you outside; do you expect me to pay out of my own pocket for you? I gave you face just now and you didn't want it, then I'll come and take it myself!"

The gatekeeper roared and raised his Lian to hack down at Li Heng.

In his eyes, this was merely a lowly Living Dead; one strike would be enough to make his head fall and his soul vanish. Even if he had some heaven-shaking background, he had to die! At worst, after obtaining so much Buying Life Money, he would just go into hiding; anyway, this much money was enough for him to squander.

"Sigh, good advice falls on deaf ears."

"It's hard to be a good person."

Li Heng shook his head and slapped down.

Before the gatekeeper could react, he was physically and spiritually scattered, exploding into a few thousand Source Power for Li Heng, which actually comforted his injured heart a little.

"Alright, the show is over, come out."

After finishing this, Li Heng clapped his hands and said calmly.

"Hehe, Your Excellency has a sharp eye; when did you discover me?"

A fat and bloated figure gradually walked out from the shadows, holding a brush in his right hand and a ledger in his left, his body surging with Yin energy, and the wailing of a Resentful Soul could be faintly heard.

"Huangquan Road, Judge, greets Your Excellency."

He walked to a distance away from Li Heng.

The Judge stopped and smiled with his eyes narrowed.

"That idiot Jia Sanwu actually dared to rob Your Excellency; he truly deserves to die ten thousand times and should be demoted to the third level of hell to suffer the pain of being skinned and having his tongue pulled out. Don't you agree?"

Li Heng raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

"Judging by what you said, you aren't here to cause me trouble?"

The Judge laughed.

"To be able to stow away through the passage leading to the Present World, Your Excellency must be a great Weird, a great demon in the Present World. We at Huangquan Road are too busy trying to befriend a figure like you, so why would we offend you?"

Li Heng smiled upon hearing this.

"I thought I had hidden well enough; why did you still notice me?" He tilted his head to look at this Judge, feeling somewhat curious.

"Actually, that was just a lucky guess. I was originally looking for that idiot Jia Sanwu, and I just happened to run into Your Excellency."

The Judge smiled calmly.

Li Heng suddenly realized upon hearing this.

So it was just his bad luck.

He had also thought that Yellow Springs Road possessed some technique capable of detecting even him while he was hidden; was it just a lucky guess?

It was no wonder the Judge had just called him a great fiend and a great Weird from the Present World; clearly, he hadn't seen through his true form, only knowing that someone had snuck in, a stowaway.

"Since that is the case, what do you want to do?"

Li Heng continued to ask.

"For a personage like Your Excellency, I, Yellow Springs Road, will certainly give face; Your Excellency may leave Yellow Springs Road and go to the vast Yin World outside."

"However, Your Excellency is, after all, a stowaway who violated the regulations of Yellow Springs Road. Therefore, if Your Excellency wishes to leave Yellow Springs Road safely and without incident, you must do us a favor."

The Judge said with a smile.

Li Heng was surprised upon hearing this; so it was press-ganging.

"What if I say I'm not interested?"

"No, Your Excellency will be interested."

"Because this matter involves that Ghost Place!"

The Judge said with full confidence.