After Lin Du and his party left the city, Hou Cang discovered that Lin Du was still heading deeper into the ghost world.
"What else do you want to do?" Hou Cang was puzzled.
"In exchange of equal value, I want to get the Styx water for Granny Mapa." Lin Du said, "What about you? She sent you down, didn't you ask for anything?"
Ni Jinxuan shook her head, "My mother-in-law said she didn't want you to be unable to come back and end up doing a loss-making business."
When Lin Du heard this, he raised his eyebrows and was noncommittal.
The Styx River was outside Fengdu. Lin Du went straight to the Styx River after looking for directions from the ghost.
The ghost who was asked for directions watched the white-haired ghost run away before he finished speaking. He couldn't help but muttered, "I haven't finished speaking yet. Normal ghosts should not go to the River Styx. That's not right." If you fight evil spirits who are willing to be reincarnated, why don't you wait for death?"
The underworld is always gloomy. The further you go into it, the colder it becomes.
The group was walking very fast and they didn't have much time.
"Do you feel that the city and the outside of the underworld are completely different?" Yuan Ye shivered, "The city is lively, but there seems to be no sound outside the city."
"They're all ghosts. It's abnormal to be busy, right?" Yan Qing held a booklet in one hand and a pen in the other, following Lin Du's steps.
"I saw the River Styx!" Ni Jinxuan pointed forward and shouted excitedly.
They walked for nearly two days, and although it was quiet along the way, it was not surprising because there were several people traveling together.
Hou Cang was holding the spirit sword, and Ni Jinxuan was holding the Yun Soul Whip. They were intimidating enough, making Lin Du look like a real frail ghost.
"It's strange that this river has no sound, it's lifeless, and it doesn't flow." Ni Jinxuan stood close to Lin Du, looking at the river that seemed to be so close.
The moment they approached collectively, the extremely silent River Styx suddenly surged and boiled, the evil ghost roared, and countless hands stretched out, as if to pull down the approaching new ghost, stepping on the stairs made by the new ghost. , climb ashore.
Those hands were hideously swollen, and seemed to be still stuck to the surface of the water when they came out of the water. The hands that broke through the tension layer of the river began to rot in an instant, and the flesh and blood melted into the Styx, making no sound but sinking into the mire.
Ni Jinxuan's eyes widened, looking at the scene in front of her, while Yan Qing next to her retched.
Compared to the bloody chaos in the demonic tide before, facing this scene now is really challenging to one's visual nerves.
Lin Du turned her head. Compared with the direct impact, what she could not bear at the moment were the countless emotions and desires. Years of heavy greed, anger and ignorance had condensed into resentment, and the yin energy was soaring to the sky. She was now in the state of a ghost. Although Red Rope didn't follow, but Perception followed completely.
"It's better to be blind." Lin Du sighed quietly.
Ni Jinxuan was a little worried, "This water doesn't look easy to get. Junior uncle, how do you get the water?"
"The River Styx is stagnant water. What is stagnant is not only the water, but also time." A female voice came out, "For a long time, most of the ghosts who entered the River Styx will never come out again. They have truly become dead ghosts."
Lin Du turned around and saw that the man was wearing a chihuahua muslin robe, with beautiful features and beautiful eyes. He was walking in the silence, like the only hot color breaking out of the gloomy darkness.
The moment the man appeared, all the hands in the Styx sank, and the dark wind dissipated in an instant, returning to silence.
"No one from the ghost world would come to fetch the water from the Styx. Those who want to live, let alone get closer to the Styx, for fear of being completely destroyed. Why would the people above you want to fetch water?"
Lin Du turned around completely, "Lin Du, a disciple of the Supreme Sect of the Dongming Realm, has met the Ghost Emperor."
Several people behind him tensed up at the same time, Ghost Emperor? What ghost emperor? The Ghost Emperor of the Five Directions, second only to the Lord of the Underworld?
Then aren't they here to deliver food? Can you still go home?
The Ghost Emperor stared at her for a while, "You are so bold, you are not afraid that I am here to catch you."
Lin Du put down his hand in salute and said, "If you are lucky enough to meet the Ghost Emperor in this life, it is not in vain."
Seeing Lin Du so calm and composed, several people behind him breathed a sigh of relief.
Look, Lin Du always has a way.
"Oh? You're not afraid of death?"
Lin Du shook his head, "Juniors are greedy for life and afraid of death, but if you are really here to catch us, we may not have no chance of winning."
Before the Ghost Emperor answered, Lin Du raised his hand to form a seal in an instant. The moment the Ghost Emperor raised his hand to block the attack, he quickly turned over, and an ice cup condensed in his hand, which merged with the Yin energy and instantly drained the Styx water. Being introduced into it, the lifeless water surface suddenly became rippled.
At that moment, Lin Du clearly saw another familiar yet unfamiliar face.
That was the scene of her death in her previous life.
The bones were broken due to illness, her face was still young, but her hair was gray. She was surrounded by a soul trap, which was undoubtedly laid by her own hands. She trapped the soul for seven days, refused to enter the underworld, and gave up reincarnation.
Lin Du was stunned for a moment. He didn't understand how the Styx River still had this function, and he didn't listen to what Gui Cha said.
The ghost below seemed to have seen Lin Du's face clearly and wondered for a moment why a person would step into a river twice. Then out of instinct, he stretched out his hand to pull her into the river.
In just such a moment, a strong ghost force directly pulled Lin Du back. The ghost force condensed into thick chains, directly clasping Lin Du's important joints.
"Tell me, you, a person who has not yet ascended, how can you talk to me about your chances of winning?" The Ghost Emperor's voice sounded extremely dangerous.
Upon seeing this, Hou Cang and Ni Jinxuan attacked the Ghost Emperor at the same time.
The Ghost Emperor just laughed softly, and the attack was dispersed before it even reached her.
She raised her eyebrows slightly when she faced Lin Du's face, which was completely different from the death appearance shown on Styx, "Huh?"
"You win with one move, so let's forget it." Lin Du looked into her dark eyes and answered sincerely.
Ghost Emperor:......
Hou Cang:? ? ?
The Ghost Emperor was silent for a moment, then let go of his hand. He didn't know what he thought of, "When you grow up enough to challenge me, come again."
Lin Du exclaimed, still facing the Ghost Emperor, thinking about the scene of death he had just seen, and realized something, so he packed up and told the people behind him to run away.
Several people subconsciously cooperated with Lin Du, turned around and ran away.
"You gave up reincarnation, imprisoned yourself in the realm of the bright, stole a ray of light from the sky, and now you dare to go to the underworld. Are you really not afraid that we in the underworld will catch you?"
The Ghost Emperor's words were awe-inspiring, but to Lin Du's ears it was completely different.
"Without me, the entire Dongming Realm will die. The Underworld will lose one territory to control, and the Thirty-third Heaven will have another Cave Heaven that is in the palm of your hand because of its purpose of eliminating harm. You are the Ghost Emperor, how do you choose?"
Lin Du stood in front of her from a distance, raised his finger and pointed at his head, "I have another way of saying what I just said. If you win, I will settle the score for you."
The Ghost Emperor looked at the arrogance and self-reliance between her brows and smiled, "Lin Du, you are cultivating the Taoist Taoist Taoism. I will treat you as my friend in advance. In the future, you must remember to settle this debt."
"Easy to say." Lin Du answered readily. The debt was too heavy to bear, not to mention that the debt was actually very light.
The Ghost Emperor realized the moment Lin Du rolled over into the River Styx that Lin Du might not just be here to fetch water. "The body of a person who abandoned reincarnation is actually in the River Styx?"
"Lin Du, are you taking back what you left behind?"
Time stops in the River Styx, which means that there may be people with countless lines and nodes in it, but they are relatively stationary and cannot be touched.
But the Ghost Emperor is different. She was cultivated from the River Styx. She is the only ghost cultivator who has mastered the laws of time in this world. She has firmly established herself as the Ghost Emperor, and her name is Shen Tu.
And Lin Du was the first one to jump out of the established long-term line and come back again.
Shen Tu learned that Lin Du was here and came specifically to see this heretic.
"Am I... carving a boat to ask for a sword?" Lin Du looked at the Ghost Emperor, both to test and to verify.
What she saw was indeed not her death in her previous life, but herself in her previous life.
The Ghost Emperor tilted his head and glanced at the Styx, "Who knows."
Lin Du sighed, "You are making things difficult for me."
What she was most worried about was not the others, but the questions from the boys behind her. She hoped they would run faster and not hear them.
How do I make it up after I get out?
Shen Tu was puzzled. She couldn't understand Lin Du's weird thinking.
Every word he said was beyond her expectations.
Lin Du closed his eyes and shouted to the back, "Listen to me, go forward and don't look back. Granny Ma has already said, don't look back when you return. I will follow you right away."
Just this sentence made the Ghost Emperor understand. Lin Du initially signaled people to run away, but he didn't turn around and run with them. It was because of this.
When a soul comes to the underworld, it must not look back on its return journey, otherwise it will be discovered and devoured by evil spirits.
Lin Du did this on purpose.
He deliberately asked that group of people to return first.
"Then, thank you, Ghost Emperor."
Until this moment, Lin Du truly owed the Ghost Emperor's favor.
Shen Tu would not kill her, nor would he keep her, but Lin Du could not do it alone by fishing out her body from the River Styx.
Shen Tu also replied, "Easy to say."
The woman with an almost dangerously beautiful appearance turned towards the Styx. As she raised her hand, countless timelines turned into filaments and ran through her fingertips.
The Styx River surged to the sky for an instant, and a thin thread was held by Shen Tu. A moment later, Lin Du's reflection suddenly appeared in the silver mirror, but it was truly and completely different, breaking through the mirror and appearing in the mirror. In front of Lin Du.
That corpse was just like what Lin Du saw when he looked at the River Styx.
All organs are exhausted, bones are torn to pieces, and there is an indescribable sadness on his face.
But that was indeed Lin Du's favorite outfit.
Children who grew up eating hundreds of meals like the color blue very much, because no land in the world belongs to her, but only this piece of blue sky will always belong to her.
So she always liked cyan.
Always.
That's her, that's herself.
Lin Du's memories came flooding back.
That's...a storage treasure connected to her soul.
How could she store all the medicinal materials she had worked so hard to find and save for her next life? The only place where time stopped.
There is only one place in the world she can reach where time stops.
That is the River Styx in the underworld.
A dead soul was supposed to be there, so in the end, after completing all the arrangements, Lin Du personally threw his body into the River Styx.
The corpse was clean and looked like it had just died. However, the moment it left the Styx, the corpse began to show signs of weathering and dissipation.
Lin Du raised his hand, touched the corpse in the air with his fingertips, and then clasped his hands together.
In an instant, Lin Du began to disappear on that timeline.
Like a snowman condensed by the power of ice and snow in Lindu, when winter ends and spring comes, it melts into spring water in the forest, making a tinkling sound.
The snowman melted, and the storage ring on her knuckle fell into Lin Du's hand, cold and wet.
Like... when I was building a snowman, I embedded my favorite jewelry in it.
Lin Du laughed. It was only at this moment that she understood how far she had gone in her previous life.
The poison on Mo Lin must be cured by Granny Map.
Lin Du knew early on that she would meet Granny Ma, so she would definitely meet Granny Ma in her life.
Lin Du was Yan Ye's designated disciple, and his thinking about things was always based on real and concrete data.
If he wanted to pry into the root cause of the decline of Heavenly Dao, and if he wanted to find out the overall situation of the Abyss World, Lin Du would definitely choose to see the concrete data in person.
Therefore, when Lin Du reaches the final level, he will definitely go to the underworld, and the best person who can help Lin Du hide his anger is Granny Ma.
The reason why Lin Du knew the characteristics of the Styx in his previous life was because Granny Map told him.
Because Granny Mapa wants the Styx water.
Granny Mapa jumped out of the Six Realms and was not among the Five Elements, so it was almost impossible for her to die completely.
There is only the water of the Styx that dissolves souls.
Granny Mapa wants a cup of Styx water so that she can walk easily when she has had enough life in the future.
Dust returns to dust, dust returns to dust, soul returns to dust, and eventually dissipates.
As long as Lin Du finds Granny Ma, he will definitely go to the River Styx when he goes to the underworld.
At this time, Lin Du's own cultivation was definitely not weak, and the matter had been revealed. It was almost a matter of the rules of the world. It was almost Lin Du's fusion with the spirit, but because of the heavenly secret, he could not recall the memory. It is even more impossible to call the storage ring connected to the soul.
Only entities.
Now that Lin Du has found his body, he has found the entity, and he has all the remaining medicine.
Lin Du stood there and said sincerely, "I'm so powerful."
She is so amazing, she calculates every step, including her own thinking and timing.
Not a bad move.
Even if there is a difference in time, the node will not be wrong.
Lin Du thought that if his opponent knew that he was so good at layout calculations, he would probably consider whether he should let her take the table.
She bowed solemnly to Shen Tu, "I will definitely repay this love in the future."
Shen Tu stood on the shore, looking at the only miracle in thousands of years that had a mind that transcended the rules, "I'm waiting."
Lin Du took the storage ring and ran towards the few bastards who were waiting stiffly but did not dare to look back without looking back.
"No, my junior uncle won't be eaten by the Ghost Emperor, right? Why don't we turn around?" Yan Qing asked worriedly.
"What did they just say? Why do I always feel an ominous premonition?" Ni Jinxuan whispered, "It's just that I feel very sad, very sad."
Yuan Ye asked, "Can you hold a mirror? Let's look in the mirror?"
"..." Hou Cang was convinced, "Have you forgotten? Ghost cultivators can't image themselves in the mirror, so they read into a dog's belly? I know that!"
Yuan Ye:...Huh?
Lin Du caught up in a hurry and decided to use his anxious moment to disrupt their thinking, "Run, I have already picked up my things, why are you standing there in a daze! The time will be over if you don't run."
Several people hurriedly ran towards the ghost gate and their human world.
