I walked many twists and turns along the corridor. I don’t know how far I walked. Cheng Ling has been observing the surrounding scene with his spiritual consciousness, but except for the corridor in front, he can only see the dark lake water on both sides, and even his spiritual consciousness cannot penetrate into it.
After walking like this for half an hour, I finally saw a side room ahead. After entering the side room, the pointed-faced man walked straight to the main seat in front and sat down carelessly.
Cheng Ling glanced at it and saw that the whole room was not big, with only five seats in total. The sharp-faced man took the main seat, and the remaining four seats were arranged on both sides. He carefully put Yang Hongqiu down from his back and let him lean on the seat. He chose a seat close to the sharp-faced man and sat down.
After Su Yi took a look, he sat down opposite Cheng Ling.
The sharp-faced man glanced at the two of them and said, "If you have any questions, please ask! Let's talk first. Bai's place is not a charity. If you want to know something, you have to pay some price!"
Cheng Ling smiled slightly and said, "Understood. I would like to know what kind of price is required for you to answer our questions?"
"Hehe~, well, one hundred thousand ghost stones per question, this is the lowest price. Of course, it would be better if you pay with fairy crystals!"
"Oh? Ghost stone? It's a pity that we didn't bring it at all this time. As for the fairy crystal, I guess it doesn't need such a high price. How about 10,000 fairy crystals for one question?"
Su Yi was shocked when he heard this. Brother Cheng's price is pretty good! Have you ever been here before and know the exchange ratio between ghost stones and fairy crystals?
He didn't know that Cheng Ling was just trying to deceive someone with a sharp face. Looking at the other party's performance, he knew that the value of the fairy crystal must be much higher than that of the ghost stone. Although he had a lot of fairy crystals, being taken advantage of was a different story. It's over.
The sharp-faced man's expression changed. He had the same idea as Su Yi. It seemed that Cheng Ling was not a novice. This bamboo pole was not easy to knock! After pondering for a while, he said: "You two, it's not easy for Bai to make a living in a ghost town. I promise that the information provided is absolutely reliable. Is the ten thousand immortal crystals a little less?"
Cheng Ling closed her eyes slightly and didn't intend to pay attention to him at all.
The sharp-faced man had no choice but to say: "Okay! It's just a matter of ten thousand immortal crystals!"
Cheng Ling smiled slightly and added: "Now that we have reached an agreement, we must maintain the spirit of the contract. At least the information you provide must be true and reliable. Once I find out, no one in heaven or on earth will forgive you!"
"Your Excellency, please rest assured that Bai has been in the ghost town for thousands of years and has always been an innocent child!"
"That's good, Brother Bai, right? Before asking questions, you should at least let me know your name, right?"
"That's simple. My surname is Bai. My last name is "Qian". I am the shopkeeper of a grocery store in Ghost Town. I haven't asked you two yet...?"
Cheng Ling almost choked on his spit. The name he got was so philistine that even Su Yi beside him howled.
After calming down, he said, "My name is Cheng Ling, and he is Su Yi."
After saying that, he threw out hundreds of thousands of immortal crystals with a wave of his hand, and asked: "Where is this place?"
Bai Qian's eyes lit up, and he stretched out his claws to grab those fairy crystals. Cheng Ling raised his hand, laid a layer of ice wall in front of him, and said calmly: "Shopkeeper Bai, the fairy crystal is placed here, and I will give it to you after you answer all the questions!"
Bai Qian smiled awkwardly. He was indeed a little impatient. He put his hands on his chest, as if he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to resist grabbing them, and replied: "This is a ghost town, the entrance to the Netherworld!"
"Netherworld? What is that place?"
"The Nether World is an independent interface. It is the same as your human fairy world and the mortal world, except that the 'people' living here cannot be regarded as 'human beings'."
"Could it be that all we saw were ghosts, including you?"
"No! No! No! Ghosts are just what you call the creatures in the Netherworld in other interfaces. To be precise, the creatures in the Netherworld are the same as you humans, but there are some slight differences in life forms."
Su Yi asked curiously: "What's the difference?"
Bai Qian glanced at him and then looked at Cheng Ling, his expression seemed to say: Is this a problem?
Cheng Ling smiled and said, "Shopkeeper Bai, you can also count his problems among them."
Bai Qian immediately felt relieved and explained: "Many of the creatures in the Netherworld are natives. They absorb the Yin Qi between heaven and earth, and many are the souls of the immortal world that were cultivated after their bodies died."
"You mean those are ghosts?" Cheng Ling asked in surprise.
"You can say that, but they don't think so."
"Then why can't you see their cultivation level?"
"It's very simple. The spiritual energy absorbed by the two is different, and the life forms are also slightly different. It's normal not to see it. As long as Bai teaches you a little skill, you can see through it, or you have practiced binocular skills. You can see it too.”
Cheng Ling's heart moved, and his barrier-breaking eyes were activated again, and he glanced at Bai Qian. Soon, he discovered that Bai Qian's cultivation level was only in the Virtual Immortal Realm, but he couldn't see clearly how many stars there were. Just by glancing at it, he felt a sharp pain in his eyes again.
Bai Qian's heart trembled. He said it casually, but he didn't expect Cheng Ling to actually know the binocular technique.
Cheng Ling closed his eyes tightly, rested for a moment, and said, "Then please ask Shopkeeper Bai to teach you that little skill! Of course, we will calculate how many immortal crystals are needed together!"
Bai Qian was overjoyed and hurriedly told him a technique for cultivating his eyes.
The two of them silently memorized it in their hearts and quickly mastered it. But when Cheng Ling used it, he always felt that his eyes were very uncomfortable. There seemed to be some conflict between the barrier-breaking eye and the technique taught by Bai Qian. He was shocked and hurriedly stopped the technique.
I don’t know what the problem is. After leaving this place, I must find a way to solve it.
After pondering for a while, he asked again: "You said this is the Netherworld. Do you dare to ask if this interface is only connected to the Star Realm?"
"No, the Star Realm you are talking about should be the division of the Lower Heaven Realm! We people here call it the Spirit Realm. Although the names of the various interfaces are different and the rules of heaven are also slightly different, there is only one Nether Realm. There are connections with these interfaces, it’s just that you don’t know it.”
"This is the connection point between the Nether World and the Spiritual World. Unfortunately, something seems to have changed in the Spiritual World. No human monks have come here for millions of years."
"You mean to say that the Netherworld and the Spiritual World used to be connected to each other, and you could come and go freely at any time?"
"Yes."
"How big is the Netherworld?"
"The Nether World is vast and boundless. Therefore, it is said that there are Hell World, Underworld World, Netherworld Continent, Divide Continent, Ice and Snow Continent, Paradise Continent, Styx River, Sea of Ghosts, etc. As for the higher level interface, Bai is not aware of it. .”
"Hell realm? Underworld realm? Isn't this the same place?" Cheng Ling wondered, it seemed to be different from what he knew on earth!
Bai Qian explained: "It's different. The hell realm and the underworld realm are two different interfaces. The hell realm is responsible for punishment. There are eight hot hells, eight cold hells, wandering monk hells, and lonely hells, a total of eighteen levels of hell. explain."
"The underworld is a place that communicates yin and yang and controls the lives of all living things. The highest god is Emperor Dongyue, followed by Emperor Fengdu, Ghost Emperor of Five Directions, Yama of the Ten Palaces, etc."
The more Cheng Ling listened, the more miraculous it became. The system of the entire Nether World was rigorous and huge, richer than Canglan Road and the Star World. Perhaps it could only be compared to the legendary Immortal World.
He couldn't help but feel a sense of fear in his heart. With his current cultivation level, he might be able to become a generation overlord in the star world, but in the Netherworld, he was still far away.
Su Yi was also dumbfounded. After a moment of silence, he asked: "What do you think the grades of the Ten Palaces of Yama and the Five Directions Ghost Emperors are?"
Bai Qian smiled strangely and said: "They are very capable. This ghost town like ours looks very huge, but any king of the underworld can completely annihilate this place with just a flick of a finger."
Su Yi's heart tightened. Even the immortals might not be able to achieve that kind of cultivation!
However, Cheng Ling saw some amusement in Bai Qian's expression and said calmly: "Cheng believes that Shopkeeper Bai is so powerful, but it is impossible for these great powers to appear in the ghost town."
Bai Qianbai's face was slightly red, because Cheng Ling had guessed it. Thinking about the underworld and the hell world, they are the core places of the netherworld. How could those strong people come to hang out in the ghost city, a sterile entrance and exit.
Not to mention the Ten Palaces of Hell and the Five Directions Ghost Emperor. Judging from Bai Qian's cultivation level, even a slightly more powerful Netherworld monk would not be able to stay here.
"Shopkeeper Bai, for that matter, could you please tell me how the realms of the Netherworld are divided?" Cheng Ling continued to ask.
The white money was snatched away by Cheng Ling, but he did not dare to exaggerate anymore and explained seriously: "There are many realms in the Netherworld. Generally, ghost cultivators are called Yin Ling. Their strength may be strong or weak, but generally they are not very sane. , it takes accumulation over time to make progress.”
"After the Yin Spirit, there are ghost soldiers, ghost generals, ghost commanders, ghost kings, ghost emperors, etc. At the same time, ghost soldiers are divided into five levels, namely first-level ghost soldiers, second-level ghost soldiers, third-level ghost soldiers, fourth-level ghost soldiers, etc. Ghost soldiers, level five ghost soldiers.”
"Their strength is similar to the realm divisions of your spiritual world. The first level corresponds to the Yin Kong Realm, the second level Yang Xuan Realm, the third level Void Fairy Realm, and so on!"
Cheng Ling suddenly realized and said, "So Shopkeeper Bai is a third-level ghost soldier?"
Bai Qian said: "You can also say that, but the terms ghost soldiers and ghost generals are only applicable after entering the netherworld. Our ghost city will not call it this way."
Cheng Ling nodded slightly. He had a preliminary understanding of the Netherworld. After a while, he asked again: "Shopkeeper Bai, I'm here to look for herbs. Have you ever heard of the Resurrection Grass, Yin Yang Grass, and Six Paths of Reincarnation Fruit?"
A wry smile appeared at the corner of Bai Qian's mouth and he said: "Brother Cheng, the herbs you are looking for are not simple goods. The price of this information is not cheap!" After saying that, he winked at him. If you don't increase the price for one picture, I don't mean to say anything.
