The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 360 - 358: High-tech Underworld

Chapter 360: Chapter 358: High-tech Underworld

"Gui Ling, I won’t let you die."

Chai Longgui entered the house and picked up the urn from the table.

He left his home from the back and came to another household at the entrance of the village. The house was dilapidated and inhabited by a seriously ill widow, yet she was somewhat attractive.

Chai Longgui, holding the urn, heard several bouts of violent coughing as he entered.

"Gui Ling, are you all right!"

He stepped forward, concerned, and asked while Yuan Guiling’s face was extremely pale. She lay weakly on the bed, her fragile appearance a pitiable sight, her beautiful features contrasting sharply with the rundown mud-brick house.

"I’m fine."

She whispered, "Did you find the urn?"

"I did, but I can’t get in touch with Lao Chen."

Chai Longgui, not well-off, had remained single for many years, and had always longed for a wife.

By chance, he rescued the injured Yuan Guiling while chopping wood on the mountain and learned that she was a young widow living alone—since then, Chai Longgui could not stop thinking about her.

He had wanted to marry Yuan Guiling, but she fell ill.

A local barefoot doctor who passed through the village examined her for free and diagnosed her with a terminal illness, incurable. Later, they saw a doctor in town who confirmed the diagnosis.

Chai Longgui, finally about to marry such a beautiful woman, couldn’t bear to let Yuan Guiling just die. He spent a lot of money trying to cure her illness, but nothing worked.

Recently, he ran into that barefoot doctor, Lao Chen.

Lao Chen also knew some mystical techniques. He suggested finding a soul born on the exact same day, month, and year as Yuan Guiling so the Netherworld Envoy might mistake it for Yuan Guiling’s soul and not come to take her soul, which could potentially cure her illness.

And coincidentally enough,

Chai Longgui soon heard of a girl in the neighboring village who had died.

Upon investigation, he discovered that the girl shared Yuan Guiling’s birthday, so he stole her ashes to bring back for Lao Chen to perform the ritual.

"Why can’t you contact him? Don’t you have his number?"

"The phone isn’t getting through."

Chai Longgui frowned, unsure of what to do.

In truth, this barefoot doctor, Lao Chen, was a sorcerer who had helped an old couple with spirit reincarnation. He was dealt with by Qin Zhao, so naturally, Chai Longgui couldn’t reach him.

Yuan Guiling’s eyes flashed darkly, "Maybe he’s in some urgent situation and can’t be contacted. Just put down the urn for now, and we’ll talk once he is reachable."

"Could keeping this thing here bring bad luck?"

"I’m already a dying person."

"That’s all the more reason to avoid such things."

Yuan Guiling seemed impatient, "Just put it down when I tell you to, and hurry up to contact Lao Chen."

Chai Longgui paused, having never seen Yuan Guiling lose her temper like this.

Realizing what was needed, he managed a sheepish smile, "Alright, I’ll go ask around the village."

Not long after he left, Yuan Guiling, who had been confined to her bed, suddenly rose. In an instant, she appeared next to the table and caressed the urn, her eyes flashing a bloody red.

"I still have something to tell..."

Suddenly remembering something, Chai Longgui turned back home.

The sight of Yuan Guiling in the house made his eyes widen in shock.

"You, you..."

His words stuck in his throat, his eyes filled with terror.

Yuan Guiling’s feet were floating off the ground, her lower half semi-transparent!

"Heh, so you’ve found out."

Yuan Guiling sneered, not expecting him to return.

Since she had already acquired the urn and was discovered, it didn’t matter anymore. Black vapors emanated from her body, and her hands transformed into claws, swiftly lunging at Chai Longgui.

"Ah! Help!"

Chai Longgui turned to run away, but a chilly wind blew, and the courtyard gate closed automatically.

He crashed into the gate and, turning his head, he saw Yuan Guiling and met a pair of crimson eyes.

Yuan Guiling’s appearance was no longer the frail beauty from before. Her face was covered in blood, her complexion ghastly pale and eerie, and there was a large hole in her stomach, with intestines spilling out.

This was her true appearance after death, all previous images were false!

"Don’t come near me!"

Chai Longgui collapsed on the ground, backing against the gate, shivering uncontrollably.

Just as he saw himself about to be killed by the Evil Ghost, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in the courtyard.

She raised her hand, and Yuan Guiling’s soul involuntarily drifted backward, then was squeezed into a ball by the woman and thrown into the corner of the wall.

"Again with the Evil Ghost causing trouble, and this one even escaped from hell; the underworld’s oversight seems to need strengthening lately."

Qin Zhao clucked her tongue and kicked the Evil Ghost by the wall.

"You actually brought a Heavenly Master here!"

Yuan Guiling glared hatefully at Chai Longgui, but dared not do anything.

Already terrified by Qin Zhao’s intimidating aura, she cowered in the corner, not daring to move, completely devoid of her earlier fierceness.

When Chai Longgui saw Qin Zhao, he opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say.

"Idiot."

Qin Zhao gave him a cold glance, even though Chai Longgui hadn’t revealed the truth, she could guess the general situation.

This guy was probably deceived by the Evil Ghost, which led him to dig up someone else’s ashes.

And this Evil Ghost had some tricks; it should have been punished in the underworld, still carrying the underworld’s aura, but it ended up causing chaos in the Mortal World.

Qin Zhao had also heard the earlier conversation between Chai Longgui and Yuan Guiling.

She wanted to find a soul born on the same year, month, and day as her, presumably to let that soul take her place in hell, to avoid being captured by the Netherworld Envoy.

The Book of Life and Death in the underworld recorded all matters concerning the soul when alive.

Only by dealing with the possessions from when alive, could one deceive them.

And the most fatal item to a ghost from when they were alive was their cremation ashes.

Qin Zhao used the Yin Summoning Spell to summon the Netherworld Envoy, "Is this Evil Ghost one of yours from the underworld?"

"It really is," said the Netherworld Envoy in surprise, "There is an aura from hell above her, she should be punished in hell, how did she escape from there?"

"That’s for you to answer."

"Let me check which hell she belongs to."

Qin Zhao was taken aback as the Netherworld Envoy pulled out an iPad.

"Is the underworld so advanced?"

"What’s so surprising about that?"

The Netherworld Envoy said blandly, "Whatever you have in the Human World, we have in the underworld. And we have some high-tech that you don’t even have yet."

"Which ghost genius invented this?"

"Did you forget that the inventors of these things are all dead? And when they died, wouldn’t they come to the underworld?

The Netherworld Emperor thought this device could improve the efficiency of the underworld’s affairs, so he kept them here and had them develop similar things for the underworld."

"..."

Qin Zhao suddenly found it so reasonable, she couldn’t argue.

"There’s news from our side saying some programmers died suddenly from overworking.

So after they die, will the underworld still have them write code?"

"Yes, of course, otherwise who would maintain our programs?"

"..."

That’s just too tragic.

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