I, the transmigrated villain, please wait, gentle master.

Chapter 234 Luo Feng Ziwei Palace

Just as Li Tingyun was about to kiss him.

"Ahem! Ahem!"

Suddenly, someone coughed twice.

Damn it, the perfect atmosphere was ruined!

Mei Shiyu reached out and pushed Li Tingyun's face away from where it was close.

The movements were very swift.

Li Tingyun's forehead twitched.

He wanted to kill someone.

The visitor was none other than Xue Li, the Tenth Prince.

"Why don't you guys set up a barrier?"

Xue Shi was quite embarrassed, gesturing wildly with his hands, looking very busy.

He didn't mean to disturb us.

He had already tried his best to sneak up and hide close to the wall.

I wish I could walk through the sewers.

He sneaked back because he wanted to go upstairs and take a look.

But these two... just happened to be blocking the stairwell...

"Oh right, Yuan Che and Yue'er!" Mei Shiyu slapped her forehead, realizing how forgetful she had been and forgotten the important matter. "What's your plan to get them back in their places?"

"I brought two helpers with me," Xue Shi called out, turning around. "Little Black and Little White?"

He summoned the Black and White Impermanence, two people, but Mei Shiyu only saw a gray shadow.

Ah, it's the "Grey Impermanence" combined! Mei Shiyu had seen them in this form in her past life.

Five hundred years ago, during the chaotic battle of the "ghost tide," Black Impermanence took a heavy blow from his master in place of White Impermanence. His spiritual core was damaged and he was supposed to disappear, but White Impermanence somehow managed to "share" his spiritual core with Black Impermanence.

It's not much different from having two souls in one body.

They are fine when they are apart, like two sides of the same coin, with a tacit understanding. But once injured, they are forced to merge.

The Black and White Impermanence were quite afraid of Li Tingyun, and quietly followed behind Xue Shi. However, Mei Shiyu's gaze fell on them, looking them up and down, and Li Tingyun also stared at them, his expression naturally not very good, making the Black and White Impermanence even more afraid.

Mei Shiyu unconsciously touched his chest, and Li Tingyun suddenly grabbed his wrist, "Are you not feeling well? What did they do to you?"

Black and White Impermanence: "???" Wrongfully accused?!

Li Tingyun's face was gloomy. He glanced at it, his killing intent hidden, and knew that there was definitely something wrong with this grayish thing!

He almost struck, but Mei Shiyu quickly said, "I'm fine. I just... remembered something..."

Recalling his past life when he exchanged a piece of blood marrow for the dream interpreter doll of Wuchang, he thought of the nightmare woman Yun Feiyan and Si Wuyou.

He knew only a part of many things, including but not limited to this woman, but not the whole picture. Moreover, the part he knew was insignificant. Li Tingyun kept it from him too well, and he was always confused and bewildered.

Mei Shiyu originally wanted to bring up the matter of the Dream Interpreter and the Nightmare Woman directly, but then she thought that this matter involved too many things and was too far-reaching. If the Black and White Impermanence knew some inside information, then what about Xue Li? How much did Xue Li know?

Furthermore, in his previous life, he only gradually came into contact with these things a hundred years later. With a hundred-year time difference, the Impermanent Ghost and the Ten Kings of Hell might not even know as much as he does now...

In short, this is not the most important thing right now. Mei Shiyu pulled Li Tingyun behind her to make way for the stairwell and said to Xue Shi, "Then I'll leave it to you to go up and take a look at Yue'er and Yuan Che."

In addition, he had another question: "Why is the area under lockdown, and when will the lockdown be lifted?"

Unexpectedly, Xue Shi glanced at Li Tingyun, as if hesitating whether to speak.

Mei Shiyu also looked at Li Tingyun, "You knew? You did it?"

Li Tingyun: "..."

He chuckled, "Am I omnipotent in your heart?"

Does he even have jurisdiction over matters of the underworld? How would he know where the ban came from? Anyway, it couldn't have been issued by him.

However, Xue Shi winked at him, as if to say: You don't know? You really don't know? How could you not know?!

Li Tingyun: "???"

"Speak your mind, or shut up!"

Xue Shi said helplessly, "The underworld closes its gates every forty-five years. During the period when the Gate of Hell is closed, the living and the dead are not allowed to communicate, and the markets are emptied. This is an imperial edict issued by the Ghost Emperor five hundred years ago. All the underworld officials know about it. Have you forgotten this too?"

Li Tingyun: "But I'm not a ghost messenger?!"

Xue Shi: "But you've already taken the Nine Netherworld Imperial Seal for yourself!"

You are certainly not a ghost messenger.

You're about to ascend the throne and become the sole ruler.

Mei Shiyu gave a soft "Oh," knowing this, and then said to Li Tingyun, "I heard that you made a bet with the Ghost Emperor, won the bet, and took the Imperial Seal."

Li Tingyun laughed heartily, "As expected of me! But I forgot?!"

Xue Shi thought to himself, "If you remembered what bet you made with the Ghost Emperor back then, you probably wouldn't be laughing anymore."

Li Tingyun asked, "Then how can the ban be lifted?"

Xue Shi replied, "You can just issue the decree directly."

Li Tingyun: "..."

Xue Shi: "Did you bring the Nine Netherworld Imperial Seal?"

Li Tingyun didn't know.

There probably isn't one.

As he reached into his pocket, he asked, "What does that 'Imperial Seal' look like?"

Mei Shiyu used the Binding Immortal Rope to transmit her voice to him: "When you were in Lingxi Village, you turned into a child and lost all your magic power. Did anything fall off your body at that time? If not, it means that you never carried the Imperial Seal with you from the beginning."

He muttered to himself, "You usually don't keep anything in your personal space; that's your habit."

Indeed, after searching Li Tingyun's person for a long time, he found a Qiankun bag, a hammer, and several scrolls.

The Qiankun Bag was given to me by Mei Shiyu, while the hammer and painting were obtained from a swindler.

Mei Shiyu's expression changed. "Why do you still keep these paintings? These..." disgusting things?!

Li Tingyun quickly hid everything into his personal space, pretending not to hear Mei Shiyu's words, and questioned Xue Shi: "Is there any other way?"

Xue Shi said, "One word: wait."

"How long?"

"It will take anywhere from three to five days to half a month. The time is not long, simply because the Ghost Emperor's decree itself goes against the order of reincarnation..."

"understood."

Li Tingyun was impatient. What's the point of saying so much? We're just going to wait anyway.

"The Ghost Emperor, for his own selfish reasons, issued such a 'royal decree' to use living souls for healing and cultivation... Is the Nine Netherworld Imperial Seal really that powerful? A single decree can remain unchanged for five hundred years? Even if it goes against the cycle of life and death, it doesn't matter?"

Mei Shiyu grasped the crux of the problem.

Xue Shi sighed, "Immortal Venerable, as you know, the four words 'life and death cycle' are linked together."

"The human world represents 'life,' and hell represents 'death.' There can be no death without life. To maintain the order of reincarnation, we rely not only on the eighteen levels of hell, but also on the nine provinces of the human world."

"The Way of Heaven, the Way of Humanity, and the Way of Earth are all interconnected. Let's leave aside the current state of the Way of Heaven for now, but the chaos in the Way of Humanity is obvious to all. How can the Underworld possibly maintain its former order?"

Mei Shiyu pondered, "Can't the Ghost Emperor's decree be abolished?"

Xue Shi neither denied nor admitted it, saying, "If someone is willing to give it a try."

Mei Shiyu then asked Li Tingyun, "Why don't we give it a try?"

Only then did Li Tingyun realize Xue Shi's cunning. He had deliberately said so much nonsense just to get Mei Shiyu to persuade him with this one sentence.

If he could truly wield the Nine Netherworld Imperial Seal, then abolishing an unreasonable imperial edict would likely be a piece of cake for him. But what would that have to do with him?! Given his personality, he wouldn't voluntarily do good deeds like helping an old lady cross the street.

Xue Shi said, "Aren't you concerned about your own merits? Although I don't know why you suddenly care about this, doing good deeds and accumulating merits is a very easy thing for you. Even just abolishing the Ghost Emperor's decree can save countless souls in the border town. Why not do it?"

"What's next?" Li Tingyun sneered. "Should I then rectify the Underworld, set things right, and bring blessings to all living beings?"

Xue Shi said somewhat nervously, "To be honest... you really do have the ability, but you just don't have the will."

Li Tingyun walked straight toward him. Mei Shiyu subconsciously wanted to follow, but seeing that he had his hands behind his back and no murderous intent, she stopped in place. Li Tingyun walked up to Xue Shi, leaned slightly, and exuded a strong sense of pressure.

Xue Shi felt a chill run down his spine; the Black and White Impermanence had long since abandoned him, their "boss," and hid several feet away.

A bead of cold sweat trickled down Xue Shi's forehead as he heard Li Tingyun say in a low voice, "I'm warning you, just say what you mean! Don't try anything funny, especially... or I'll skin you alive!"

Xue Shiduo was very clever. He knew that he had deliberately led Mei Shiyu to say those words, which displeased him. He immediately assured him, "I understand, and there will be no next time."

Li Tingyun turned around and said to Mei Shiyu, "Come here, let's go."

Mei Shiyu was still a little stunned: "Go? Where to?"

Li Tingyun said, "Luofeng Ziwei Palace."

That is, deep in hell, atop Mount Luofeng, in the palace of the Ghost Emperor.

Behind the imperial palace, on the shady side of Mount Luofeng, lies the Demon Abyss.

It just so happens to be on my way.

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Luofeng Mountain and Fengdu are actually two "incompatible" concepts. Luofeng Mountain is a Taoist term, while Fengdu is a folk legend, both referring to the underworld. I've combined them here, treating Luofeng Mountain as the core of Fengdu, like the center of the inner ring of the underworld, hahaha~ It's just online fiction, so I won't be too particular~