The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 531

Chapter 531: Chapter 527: The Contact Person Chapter 531: Chapter 527: The Contact Person “Let's go.”

Seeing that everyone was ready, Lu Huaming took the lead and headed towards the big gate.

He pushed open the stone chamber gate, revealing a deep passageway in front of him. There were no forks, it just extended straight forward.

Without hesitation, they quickly moved forward.

The passageway became narrower the deeper they went. At the start, two people could walk side by side, but in the end, it could only accommodate one person; and one had to stoop and bow one's head to do so.

Fortunately, the passageway was not too long. After travelling twenty or thirty feet, a circular hole appeared ahead.

Lu Huaming came to the entrance of the hole and looked out. He found that the hole was actually on the side wall of a vertical well, and below, he could see shimmering ripples of water.

He leapt forward from the opening of the hole. Before he landed, a wave of water rose up to support his feet, lifting him up to the wellhead.

With Lu Huaming's figure slowly rising, it looked like a water ghost emerging from the wellhead.

Half of his body was outside the well. After scanning his surroundings, he found that he had arrived at a long-deserted old house. Collapsed stone tables and chairs and wild grass and plants growing everywhere surrounded him.

After a brief inspection and finding no danger, he jumped out of the wellhead and sent a message to the people below.

Soon, Shen Luo and the others also emerged from the well.

Ge Tianqing glanced around and seeing no other people, he asked with a frown, “Where is our inside contact?”

“Don't worry, Elder Brother Ge. I'll contact him now,” said Lu Huaming.

With that, he rotated his wrist and took out three long green incense sticks and a small cyan bowl from his storage ring.

“Brother Shen, can you fetch some water?” He nudged Shen Luo with his elbow and laughed.

Although Shen Luo did not know what he was up to, he summoned a mouthful of well water and poured it into the small bowl.

“Thanks.”

After thanking him, Lu Huaming placed the bowl on the ground. He pinched the heads of the three incense sticks and rolled them slightly. A red light lit up, followed by the rise of three strands of light blue smoke into the high altitude.

Then he placed the lit incense sticks into the bowl filled with water. The three sticks of incense stood steadily on the water surface, and three strands of steam curled up along the incense, entwining with the smoke coming from the incense head.

The wafting smoke instantly straightened and rose up. After reaching about ten feet, it twisted in a certain direction and eventually dispersed, leaving no trace.

“Done. We just need to wait for a while. The contact will come find us,” Lu Huaming said before moving a few steps back to a not-yet-collapsed stone table. He dusted off the table and sat down.

Subconsciously reaching for his wine gourd, he remembered that his master had forbidden him to drink because of the special nature of this mission, so he didn't bring it with him.

He clicked his tongue, folded his arms, and waited patiently.

Not long after, there were some slight noises from the old mansion's front yard. Shen Luo and the others immediately got up and rushed over.

By the time they got to the intersection of the front yard, they saw a hanging ghost with a long neck and tongue sticking out, slowly drifting over.

Its face was ghastly pale, with a dark blue color around the eye sockets, its long tongue greenish black. It was quite nauseating to look at.

“This is… our inside contact?” Red Hands Master raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise.

“Did you also use Yinling Talisman? This look… rather, quite authentic.” Dan Yangzi also stroked his chin, complimenting.

“This doesn't look like what we discussed, does it?” Lu Huaming spoke with a puzzled face, murmuring to himself.

However, to be on the safe side, he still came to the hanging ghost and said, “The rain in Nine Netherworld falls harder in the evening.”

Upon hearing this, the tongue of the hanging ghost began to extend and retract as if it was saying something, but due to the huge tongue, it could not articulate clearly.

Lu Huaming couldn't understand, he frowned and had to convey the message once again using sound transmission.

Unfortunately, after waiting for a long time, there was no response. All he could hear was the muffled sound from the other side.

“Netherworld has no ferryboat, it lies across.” This time, a gentle voice suddenly came from behind everyone.

Shen Luo and the others were taken aback, hastily twisted their heads to look over.

They saw that a clump of wild grass in the courtyard was pushed apart, and a young man dressed in a black robe emerged from it.

His figure was slender, his complexion was pale and almost bloodless, only his pair of eyes were quite bright.

“You're the contact person, so who's this?” Lu Huaming asked in surprise.

“A ghost that strayed in, with low spiritual wisdom… but, it looks quite similar to you.” The young man replied.

Having said that, his gaze swept over Shen Luo and others one by one.

As soon as his voice fell, there was a crackling of electric light. It was Ge Tianqing who had already pierced through the head of the hanging ghost with a chop from his hand, turning it into ashes.

“Cough cough, I don't know how should I address you?” Lu Huaming coughed twice and asked awkwardly.

Shen Luo saw this situation and chose not to comment, smiling instead.

“Yu Lu. Now you're all ghosts. Follow my lead later and don't speak rashly.” The young man instructed.

Upon hearing this, everyone nodded, simply reported their names, and didn't say much else.

“How is the Array?” Ge Tianqing asked with a solemn expression.

“This Array is quite important to the Refining Body Altar. Originally, a Great Mahayana Stage cultivator was stationed here as an Elder. However, because the Great Tang Dynasty Government already joined the monks in the city this morning, they have launched a clean-up operation on the places where ghosts have gathered in the southern part of the city, the attacks on which are quite fierce. That Great Mahayana Stage Cultivator had to go and participate in the battle, leaving behind only his Nascent Soul Stage disciple, and three Soul condensing cultivators as reinforcements.” The young man who introduced himself as Yu Lu explained.

“One Nascent Soul and three Soul Condensation, I'm afraid this fight won't be easy.” Dan Yangzi commented after a brief period of contemplation.

“Elder Brother Yu, do you know the attributes of the Skills they practice?” Shen Luo asked.

Know yourself and your enemy, only then can you emerge as the victor in a hundred battles. If they could learn in advance the attributes of their Skills, they could prepare countermeasures effectively.

“I only know that the Great Mahayana Stage monk is a Ghost Cultivator, and most of his disciples would be as well. As for the other three monks, they were temporarily transferred, details remain unknown.” Yu Lu replied.

“This… the useful information is way too scarce.” Red Hands Master couldn't help but speak out.

“The mission when I sneaked in was to find the key Array location and figure out where its Array core is. Investigating the members of the Refining Body Altar was only a secondary task. Besides, the battle situation is changing rapidly. Our deployment is changing, and so is theirs. The previous few stationed cultivators were temporarily transferred away, so the information about them is useless now. As for these newcomers, I'm powerless to do anything.” Upon hearing this, Yu Lu's face darkened slightly and he answered somewhat discontentedly.

Yu Lu has taken a great risk to infiltrate the Refining Body Altar, we should not be overly demanding.” Lu Huaming quickly stepped in to smooth things over.

“Instead of going through the trouble of these pleasantries, wouldn't it be better to discuss what we should do next?” Ge Tianqing asked in a deadpan tone.