Daoqi Huangcheng

Chapter 42. Get out of here.
Xiaomeng is an ice block, not only because she is taciturn, but also because of her body temperature.

She was really cold.

Once, when Song Chen got a little closer, he could feel the chill emanating from her body.

Song Chen even suspected that the woman's body temperature was lower than that of a dead person.

Xiaomeng is very quiet. If you don't talk to her, she will never say anything more. If you do talk to her, she won't respond unless she feels it's necessary.

As for what constitutes necessity, Song Chen didn't know either.

He tried to elicit information, such as asking questions like "Why do we maintain such a large Yellow Spring in the northern part of the imperial capital?", like any curious junior disciple who is just starting out, but he received no answer.

But wherever he went, Xiaomeng followed, or rather, took him with her.

Song Chen felt that this Senior Sister Meng must be a supervisor.

Another mass grave.

Song Chen used his spiritual energy to maintain the [Exploring the Netherworld] secret technique, "igniting" the newly arrived corpses to gather hundreds of ghosts and attract the Yellow Springs.

Ghosts enter and exit through the rifts of the underworld.

Suddenly, a thick, viscous, pale white liquid seeped out from the soil, and the surrounding area was instantly shrouded in a thick fog, transforming into a ghostly realm.

This was a ghost realm that Song Chen had never seen before. At this moment, he even felt his mouth was dry and his heart was pounding.

Something was crawling in the mist.
Song Chen was gripped by fear and unable to move.

Xiao Meng suddenly moved.

She blocked Song Chen's path, then strode towards the center of the ghostly realm, heading towards the crawling creature.

Her figure disappeared into the mist.

A few breaths later, her figure suddenly reappeared.

She didn't move; it was the mist that moved.

The fog dissipated.

The ghost realm has vanished.
The last thing Song Chen saw her do was squat down; it seemed like Xiao Meng was stuffing something back into the underworld.

Without a doubt, what she stuffed in was that evil spirit from just now.

Song Chen slowly regained his strength and said, "Thank you, Senior Sister Meng."

Xiao Meng coldly said, "This is my job. You drag Huang Quan away, and I will deal with the evil spirits around you."

Song Chen asked, "What about the parts we didn't see?"

Xiao Meng said, "The ghosts at the third level of the White Realm can only escape when they are pulled up from the Yellow Springs by the waves. They are quite dangerous, so we can't let them out."

White three-level?

That.
And what about White One and White Two?
Are there also White Four and White Five?

or more?
Song Chen looked at Xiao Meng expectantly, hoping she would say a few more words, but Xiao Meng had already said what she needed to say, and she said no more.

This time, Song Chen finally understood why Xiao Meng had come.

Xiao Meng was not only the supervisor, but also his work partner.
More incense bait requires more spiritual energy to ignite, and attracting more Netherworld beings also requires more energy and a longer time.
When Song Chen completed the "Exploration" at the second mass grave, it was already the early hours of the next day.

He was exhausted.

Xiao Meng, however, did not.

Xiao Meng grabbed him and transformed into a beam of light, heading to the next place. A moment later, they appeared at another burial site, a graveyard.

"The Crane Demon has been on strike for several days, and these are the most critical areas that need repair."

"Senior Sister Meng, how many places like this are there?"

"Several hundred, I guess? Mainly because all the people who died in the Great Yong due to the plague and riots were sent here. That's a fresh batch."

Besides this, the former dynasty's army and the rebel army were also buried here, totaling more than a million people.

Oh, and there were also the people brought in after the massacre, and the human sacrifices used for daily rituals.
Furthermore, the imperial court guides said that this area is near a dragon vein, a place of auspicious feng shui, so many people have placed their tombs here.

Furthermore, there are countless wild animals here, so many that it would take a whole day to tell the whole story.

However, we only need to focus on maintaining a few dozen areas for now.

Xiaomeng spoke cruel words calmly in a cold tone.

She seemed to notice that Song Chen was exhausted. Her indifferent eyes stared at him through the smiling white porcelain mask, and then she suddenly threw out a dark blue spirit stone, saying, "Hurry up, we're in a hurry. You're the only one who knows [Exploration], so the workload is huge."

Song Chen took it and saw that it was actually a water spirit stone. "Thank you, Senior Sister Meng."

"Oh, you're welcome. It was originally meant to be given to you, but I was worried you might misuse it, so I'm just keeping it safe for you."

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The water spirit stone began to fade at a visible speed, and Song Chen recovered extremely quickly.

The difference between spirit stone recovery and natural recovery is enormous.

After being fully restored, Song Chen gazed at the tombstones.

The tombstones are lavish, bearing the names of this powerful and wealthy person.
The area around the tombstone is filled with large pits.

Those were sacrificial pits, used to sacrifice human beings to these powerful and wealthy people.

Xiao Meng urged, "Hurry up, stop looking. The things in the graves and pits are all consumables, there's no difference."

The sky was dark and gloomy.

Darkness descended upon the sky.

Song Chen swore that he had never been this tired, not even when he was a corporate slave before he transmigrated.

What kind of work can be done continuously for twelve hours without interruption?

But he didn't say no, because he knew that what seemed calm now, and what seemed like he had joined the Five Elements Sect, was actually a "test".

If a corporate slave fails an "assessment," at most they lose their job, but failing this assessment could cost them their life.

He doesn't want to die.

When they stopped at another place, he was completely exhausted.

In some places, it was far beyond his ability. Even if he used [Exploring the Netherworld], he could not attract the Yellow Springs there. There were too many corpses, and his spiritual energy was simply not enough to ignite them.

At times like this, Xiaomeng would tell him to do as much as he could. After all, no matter how well or poorly he did the work, or how high the completion rate was, he still had to clock in and hand it in, right? If there were any problems later, that would be another matter.

"Senior sister, how long has it been?" Song Chen had been so busy that she had forgotten the time.

Xiao Meng replied succinctly, "One month, a few more places, almost done. The main problem is the crane demons' strike; we need to prove that we can hold up this Northern Yellow Springs even without them."

"Spirit stones," Song Chen said through gritted teeth.

Xiaomeng throws out another piece.

Song Chen quickly absorbed the energy, and then Xiao Meng enveloped him in the escape light, taking him to the next location.

When tired, he absorbs spirit stones; when hungry, he eats fasting pills. He doesn't sleep, he just works. As long as he doesn't die from overwork, he works himself to death.

Song Chen went mad, constantly maintaining the burial sites and preserving the Yellow Springs.
Before we knew it, summer had arrived.

The rain poured down, sounding like the beating of gongs and drums.

My vision was completely blurred.

Suddenly, a curtain of rain swept in from the north, carrying a dark shadow, and then fell, revealing the shape of a tall, slender crane with a sharp beak and blue eyes.

With gritted teeth, a voice, uttering each word slowly and deliberately, came from the crane's mouth: "Song Chen."

Song Chen was busy.

Hearing the sound, he looked up and met the crane's gaze.

"Aunt Bai!"

He Bai stopped looking at him and turned to Xiao Meng, asking, "What do you mean?"

Xiao Meng said, "Let's go talk to the sect elders, we're busy right now."

He Bai said, "I asked you to help me find my clan's treasure, and this is how you help me?"

Xiao Meng said, "We are busy."

He Bai continued, "Before, you were always our partner. We carried Huang Quan while you dealt with the Ghost Realm. Now you're partnering with him?"

Xiao Meng replied, "I'm busy right now."

He Bai said, "Song Chen is a member of my clan. Shouldn't you give us an explanation?"

Xiao Meng raised her eyes and said, "I can get the work done without you. Junior Brother can handle it all by himself. Now get lost."

(End of this chapter)