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"Okay, let's learn this for today." Liu Da closed the book and announced that the get out of class was over.

Yu Qi stretched his waist and asked, "What time is it?"

Liu Da took out the ghost mirror and looked at it: "It's four o'clock in the morning."

The time flow of the underworld is different from that of the human world. It is divided into two absolute time domains here, one is the dawn time domain where ghosts cannot move freely, and the other is the evening mist time domain without any restrictions, and the two time domains are divided into two. eight o'clock.

Yu Qi looked at Liu Da's ghost mirror enviously. She had already talked about the ghost mirror in the basic knowledge class a few days ago. Now she is using the ordinary ghost mirror distributed by the underworld, which only has basic functions such as storing items and identity information.

And Liu Da's is a higher-level ghost mirror that has been upgraded by the underworld. In addition to the basic functions, it also adds permissions to time, check information, send messages, and access the underworld database.

It is simply a hell version of the phone.

"Drip." Liu Da's ghost mirror made a clear sound of water droplets, and he opened the ghost mirror and took a look.

Mao Ci: The task has been completed, return after more than a month, and prepare the report file.

This was the first time Yu Qi heard Ghost Mirror make a sound, and couldn't help asking curiously: "What's wrong?"

After spending more than a month together day and night, the two ghosts are considered familiar. Liu Da simply replied to her without revealing the mission information: "It's nothing, it's just that Master Maoci and the others are coming back soon."

Although Yu Qi doesn't know Maoci, she knows that Maoci is following Shuanglang to do tasks, so: "Shuanglang is coming back soon?"

Seeing Liu Da nodding her head, Yu Qi felt relieved, and she hadn't seen her for almost a month, and she still missed the little girl Shuanglang very much.

Yu Qi coughed lightly: "Cough, can your ghost mirror send a message?"

Liu Da frowned slightly: "What do you want?"

"It's nothing, it's just... can you help me ask if the Shuanglang mission is going well, and when will I be able to go to the underworld? And the one who agreed to treat her to dinner before, if possible, can you come again?" Ask me what she likes to eat?"

Liu Da raised his forehead a little speechlessly: "The communication function of the ghost mirror is for the convenience of communication tasks, not for homework. And Master Shuanglang is the boss of my boss, my ghost mirror is only connected to the curse seal of Lord Maoci , can’t contact Lord Shuanglang.”

Yu Qi was a little disappointed: "That's it, then okay."

After hesitating for a while, Liu Da sighed softly, forget it, it’s not a big deal anyway: “I just have to report to Mr. Maoci on work, since you have been very serious about your studies recently, I’ll help you ask Let me know if Lord Maoci knows, but I can only ask one question, tell me what do you want to know?"

Yu Qi immediately leaned forward: "Well, let's ask Xiao Shuanglang what he likes to eat."

It’s okay if you don’t know when you’ll come back. At worst, she’ll go shopping that day, but you have to know in advance what you like to eat. Yuqi doesn’t know how to cook many dishes, so you have to practice in advance.

The two ghosts discussed how to send this message, and soon, Maoci, who was treating Shuanglang's wound, received this message, frowned slightly, and handed the potion to Snake Qu.

Snake Qu naturally took the potion from Maoci's hand, took over from her to apply the medicine to the severely burned wound on Shuanglang's back, and asked casually, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, the ghost messenger under him is reporting to work." However, after reading it, Maoci handed the ghost mirror to Shuanglang with a solemn expression.

After taking the Ghost Mirror, Shuang Lang raised his head and glanced at her.

"My lord, this subordinate suspects that there may be something wrong with the ghost messenger under his command."

Shuanglang then lowered his head again, and glanced briefly at the content displayed on the ghost mirror. They were all recently sorted out documents, which tasks had been completed, and which applications were about to be approved, etc. , Seeing her frowning slightly, she directly handed the ghost mirror back to Maoci: "Say it straight."

Originally, she was too lazy to deal with these trivial matters, so she agreed to bring a few ghost messengers by her side. If Mao Ci couldn't handle these things by herself, then she should consider looking for a ghost messenger again.

"The content of the report is normal, but Liu Da asked what you like to eat, which is very abnormal."

Snake Qu was taken aback when he heard it, what does Mao Ci mean by this ghost?While thinking about it, she glanced at Shuanglang calmly, could it be what she thought?

Although to be honest, Master Shuanglang is quite good-looking, and his fighting ability is one of the few in the underworld. This ghost underling is very ambitious, it seems that he is doing great things!

Before Snake Qu could think more crookedly, Mao Ci had already started to explain: "It's really rude to inquire about your lord's personal affairs, but Liu Da usually does things with discretion, so my subordinates wonder if he has been threatened or someone You want to hurt the adults, but Liuda has no choice but to draw our attention in this way."

After pondering for a while, Shuanglang reached out again to take back Maoci's ghost mirror, and patiently read it word by word.

Shuang Lang's eyes suddenly lit up when he turned to the sentence Maoci suspected to be wrong.

Liu Da: ...The above is the recent work report. In addition, does Master Maoci know what Xiao Shuanglang likes to eat?Or is it sweet or spicy?

But all the ghosts who have stayed in the underworld for a long time will quit eating such things, and the ghosts who will naturally ask the question of what they like to eat must be new ghosts who have just arrived in the underworld.

And this ghost messenger named Liu Da seems to be making up lessons for his sister recently...

And that sentence... Xiao Shuanglang?

Shuang Lang raised the corners of her mouth slightly.

The second floor of the underworld, the dwelling stone.

After Liu Da sent the news, he went to the guest room to write a report. He has been in the underworld for a long time, so long that he has lost many human habits, such as eating and sleeping.

Yu Qi cleaned up the guest table full of books as usual, and she was almost used to the life of studying every day.

In the guest room, Liu Da's ghost mirror sounded again.

Mao Ci: Sister?

This was the first time he had received a communication message from his boss, Mao, who had resigned from a mission, and it was such an unknown message.

Hesitating, Liu Da slowly replied.

Liu Da: Mr. Mao Ci?

Mao Ci, who was summoned by Liu Da, didn't know what happened at this time, so he watched Shuang Lang's slightly raised mouth collapse instantly, what's wrong?

Cat Ci: Shuanglang.

Liu Da has been following Maoci for some years, and he is still very familiar with his boss, and even privately called "Little Maoci" by other ghosts.

So he knew very well that when Shuanglang was mentioned, Maoci would always respectfully call her a lord, and when he was anxious or angry, he would just call her Shuanglang lord. It had never been called Shuanglang directly. So he guessed who was holding the ghost mirror almost immediately.

Liu Da: I wonder what Master Shuanglang wants to tell Liu Da?

At first I thought it was my sister who didn't remember her anymore, but I didn't expect the news of her return to be even worse, and it wasn't Yu Qi who was holding the ghost mirror.

Shuang Lang's face turned completely dark.

Maoci (Shuanglang): Ghost mirror, sister!

Looking at the news, Liu Da couldn't react.

Isn't Master Shuanglang without relatives or reason?Where is her sister from?Move your fingers quickly, and access to the database of Yan Luodian to search.

After waiting for a long time, Shuanglang impatiently sent another message.

Maoci (Shuanglang): Hurry up!

Liu Da is having a very headache now, he just searched all over the database and there is only one sentence: Devil May Cry Shuanglang has no blood relatives.

What should I do if I can't find it?Do you want to ask Lord Shuanglang directly?

After waiting for a while, Shuanglang completely lost his little patience. After sending the last message, he returned the ghost mirror to Maoci.

Maoci (Shuanglang): During class, give my sister a ghost mirror.

Attend class?elder sister?

Liu Da suddenly thought of a possibility. When he opened the door, he met Yu Qi who was about to go back to sleep in the room after clearing the table: "Yu Qi, does Master Shuanglang call you sister?"

Yu Qi nodded: "Yeah, what's wrong?"

Liu Da immediately guessed the cause and effect. It must have aroused Master Maoci's suspicion when he first asked Master Shuanglang what he likes to eat, and then Master Maoci reported the matter to Master Shuanglang, and Master Shuanglang found out It was actually Yuqi who asked this question.

Now that he had thought it all over, Liu Da handed the ghost mirror directly to Yu Qi: "Take it, do you know how to use a mobile phone? This thing is similar to a mobile phone. Master Shuanglang has something to ask you. After you enter what you want to say here, Just click on the teleportation array next to it."

Yu Qi looked at the ghost mirror in his hand, then at Liu Da who had already returned to the guest room, and hesitated to send a message.

But in the demon world, Shuang Lang, who had been obediently cooperating with Mao Ci on the medicine, suddenly lost his temper for some reason, and refused to let Mao Ci on the medicine.

Mao Ci could only persuade her earnestly like an old lady: "My lord, although you are a demigod, you are still a ghost in essence. If you don't treat the place corroded by the holy light well, the wound will not heal, and..."

"drop."

The crisp beep interrupted Maoci's persuasion.

Maoci frowned, so news at this time?Is it someone from Yan Luodian?

As soon as he took out the ghost mirror, a small hand stretched out in front of Maoci: "Give it to me."

Maoci opened the ghost mirror and handed it to Shuanglang. By the way, he quickly glanced at the ghost mirror, and it showed that it was Liu Da's message.

After seeing the received news, Shuanglang's restless mood disappeared.

Liu Da (Yu Pray): Little Shuanglang?

Maoci (Shuanglang): Elder sister.

Liu Da (Yu Qi): Does Xiao Shuanglang have anything to do with her sister?

……

Ghost mirror's method of sending messages is very slow, not as fast as the speed of sending messages from mobile phones. After chatting slowly back and forth like this for a short time, Yu Qi fell asleep while waiting.

On the other side, Shuang Lang waited patiently until the last message was received.

Liu Da: Master Shuanglang, Yu Qi has fallen asleep.

Shuang Lang frowned, this sentence made her very unhappy, very unhappy!

Perhaps anger helps to think, Shuanglang finally reacted belatedly, and glanced at the time with frowning.

It's four o'clock in the morning, but Liu Da was able to quickly deliver the ghost mirror to Yu Qi under the prohibition of dawn... That means he not only spends the morning at Yu Qi's house, but also enters her room? !

Maoci (Shuanglang): Get out, immediately!

After deleting the message and returning the ghost mirror to Maoci, Shuanglang asked coldly: "Is there any space in the Great Hell?"

"Yes...why did your lord suddenly ask this?"

Chapter 15

The fiery red Bianhua swayed gently with the wind, and the milky white Wangchuan River roared silently, and the resentful spirits in the river kept jumping up, trying in vain to overturn the spirit boats that ferried people on the river.

Po Meng sat on the bridge of Naihe Bridge above the River of Forgetfulness and drank tea leisurely. Recently, the River of Forgetfulness has become restless. Maybe it's because Xiao Jiu has been away for too long, and her residual chaotic power is almost gone.

Speaking of which, there are fewer and fewer ghosts who have been reincarnated recently, and she even has time to watch the excitement of the God Realm.

I heard that the fairies in the sky have jumped to the human world in groups in recent decades. Those who don’t know think that the heavenly world will move to the human world. It’s really interesting.

The squinted eyes suddenly opened a little bit. Isn't it her little Shuanglang who walked down the Naihe Bridge?

The long ink-like hair was loose, and the hair crown used to fix the long hair was nowhere to be seen. The cute doll's face was stained with dried blood, which seemed to have been wiped hastily.

The most conspicuous thing was her pair of small hands, her left hand was a little stiff, and she was not used to holding the bone whip, while her right sleeve was empty, and the half of the empty sleeve fluttered gently with the breeze blowing across the sea of ​​flowers on the other side, The black clothes on his body were also torn several times.

However, Shuanglang's embarrassed look was actually made by her before entering the underworld.

And behind her, a man in his twenties was tied to the other end of the small whip held in his left hand. His hair was also disheveled, and his snow-white robe was almost stained black by ghost blood. There are many dark meridian lines, which are the characteristics of being possessed by demons.

Mao Ci and Snake Qu also looked embarrassed, guarding the boy in white on the left and right respectively, in order to prevent him from escaping.

Walking to Granny Meng, Shuanglang nodded slightly: "Grandma."

"What kind of mission is this? I haven't suffered such a serious injury in decades." Meng Po's always kind face was full of distress.

"Catch Xiao Huairan, the defected Rakshasa." Shuang Lang briefly stated his mission.

Glancing at the distraught man in white, Meng Po sighed softly, and continued to care about Shuanglang. She touched her empty sleeve and asked, "Where's your hand?"

Maoci immediately stepped forward and handed over a white and tender little hand. The stump of the ghost body couldn't fit into the ghost mirror, so she specially made a small bag and carried it back all the way.

Taking the little hand, Granny Meng casually threw a bowl at Xiao Huairan, and as soon as the bowl got close to him, it turned into a huge transparent cover and locked him inside.

"Go, mother-in-law will connect your hand." Studying the broken arm, Granny Meng walked back as she spoke, stepping into a huge stone tablet behind her.

Shuang Lang walked up to Snake Qu first, and handed over the bone whip in his hand.

Snake Qu took the bone whip respectfully, and when the bone whip was in her hand, a bone-eroding cold air hit, which was the resentment of various ghosts attached to the bone whip. In order to avoid being eroded by the resentment and become a resentful spirit, she could only mobilize her whole body to counter the resentment on the bone whip.

After gradually adapting to confronting the wraith on the bone whip, Snake Qu had time to look up, only to find that Shuang Lang had already disappeared.

"This is a Rakshasa possessed by demons. Why did Master Shuanglang leave it to us to guard? What if there is a mistake?" Snake Qu was a little worried.

Maoci sat down to rest in front of the booth on the Naihe Bridge: "What level of ghost are you, Mrs. Meng? The sleepy spirit array she created with her own hands would have to spend a lot of effort even the ghost kings to come out, let alone It's him, what can a Rakshasa who was smashed into a ghost spring by an adult do?"

Humans have fatal points of heart, gods also have fatal points of primordial spirit, demons are inner alchemy, and ghosts are ghost springs, but apart from humans, the other races will only become weak and will not die if they lose their fatal points.

But the taste of the broken spring is not comfortable. The broken ghost spring will always suffer from the impact of ghost energy from itself and the outside world, but it can never solidify, like countless sharp blades slashing around in the body, the taste can be described as It is better to die than to live.

"By the way, I heard that Lord Shuanglang is the adopted daughter of Lord Po Meng?" Snake Qu felt relieved and stopped paying attention to Xiao Huairan.

Mao Ci nodded: "Well, when Lord Shuanglang first arrived in the underworld thousands of years ago, he was a two-year-old baby who couldn't walk steadily. Thanks to Mrs. Meng's careful care, he has grown into what he is now."

"Aren't ghosts free from birth, old age, sickness and death? Master Shuanglang can still grow up? No, how do you know this?" Snake Qu was quite surprised.

Maoci avoided his relationship with Po Meng and only answered her one question.

"Ghosts are not born, aged, sick, and died, but Lord Shuanglang is different. Have you heard of the innate god? That is a divine body that appears only once every ten thousand years. As long as you live well, you will be able to ascend to the God Realm. Master Shuanglang was born before God, if he hadn't died at such a young age... hey."

Snake Qu felt a little regretful when he heard it: "How did such a good innate capital die? It's really a pity."

You must know that although ghosts and gods can exist forever, their nature is completely different. Gods are immortal, and their bodies can be revived after thousands of years of cultivation. But once ghosts die, they disappear forever in the world. , and there are many restrictions on the eternal life of ghosts. For example, they must stay in the underworld to be nourished by ghost energy to maintain eternal life, but gods can freely enter and exit within the five realms.

"However, even though she is dead, Master Shuanglang's ghost is still very special. Because her nature is close to that of the gods, she is not afraid of any evil and resentment. In the demigod state, she can temporarily transform the ghost body into a god body. There is only ghost energy, and the ghost energy consumed to maintain her divine body is dozens of times that of ordinary Rakshasa."

"It's no wonder that Master Shuanglang has a special restriction against her, that she is not allowed to release demigod souls in the underworld." This was the first rule that Snake Qu received when she first took up the post.

"Will Master Shuanglang still become a god in the future?"

Mao Ci glanced at her very unhappy: "You don't even pass the first-level ghost test with bribes, do you? Have you ever learned the first-level ghost test 'Life and Death'? Any species, as long as it dies Then you will never be able to go any further, for example, you snake clan, if you live hard and practice hard, you can transform into a dragon, but if you die in the catastrophe of transforming into a dragon, do you think you can transform into a dragon again?"

Snake Qu was speechless when asked, yes, even though he was only one step away from the door, as long as he died, no matter how hard he tried, he would never be able to cross this last step before he was alive.

Although there are many ghosts in the underworld who are still alive, life is life, and death is death. Life and death are a wall that can never be crossed.

"Not entirely true, there are four races that can continue to practice after death." Shuang Lang suddenly appeared, and the cold child's voice took over Maoci's words.

"grown ups!"

"grown ups."

Snake Qu respectfully handed back the bone whip.

After receiving the bone whip, my right hand was still a little stiff, but there was no problem holding things anymore.

Meng Po also came out of the stone tablet: "Go to the business, and by the way, help me to send a message to King Yan Luo, let him come to Naihe Bridge, I have something to discuss with him."

Shuang Lang, who had already changed into a suit of clothes and had her hair tied up again, nodded, and then escorted Xiao Huairan back to Yan Luo Hall with Granny Meng's message and the Mao Ci Snake Song.

At this time, Yu Qi in the underworld was in class, and what he said happened to be "the front line of life and death".

After listening to Liu Da's analysis, Yu Qi asked a question: "So, although I feel that there is no difference between living and living, there are still many differences, right?" big difference.

Liu Da also had a hard time talking about this question: "Yes, and fortunately you are a human soul. When you encounter this question, you can only test the difference between life and death of a human soul. If it is a demon soul, the scope will be wider. I I heard that Yaohun used to select three of the various races of the entire Yaozu for the "Life and Death Frontier" test, which is called a ruthless one. If you don't memorize those three races, you will not get a single point. Well, the change is the same as the human soul, as long as you can write what you know about the difference between life and death of the monster race, most of them will still know a few, at least you can get some points."

Hearing this, Yu Qi was quite happy for the demon soul at first, but when he thought that they were in a competitive relationship, he immediately lost his mind: "You said before that the last big question will be awarded according to the amount of writing, right? There are so many races, as long as you are willing to memorize, isn't it destined to have more points than human souls?"

Liu Da nodded: "Have you become smarter? That's right, and the memory of demon souls is better than that of human souls, plus what I said before about the restraint of resentful spirits, remember what I said, most of the resentful spirits In fact, they are all transformed by demon souls, and demon souls knew something about other races before they were alive, so it is easy to understand the restraint of wraith spirits."

Liu Da paused for a moment, and then hesitantly told some anecdotes: "Did you know that the ratio of ghost souls to human souls is always above 8:2 in ghost messengers?"

Yu Qi didn't quite understand: "Why?"

"Demons are inherently stronger than humans, so most ghost palaces are more inclined to recruit ghosts and ghosts."

"It's so unfair!" Yu Qi was a little indignant.

Liu Da took a longer view: "Actually, there is no fairness at all. Do you know why most of the ghosts you see in the underworld look like humans?"

Yu Qi shook her head, she noticed this, but she didn't know why.

"At the beginning of the chaos, the sky was the father and the earth was the mother. The heaven and the earth gave birth to three kinds of initial spiritual power, demon energy, fairy energy, and ghost energy. Although other spiritual forces were born after that, the chaos transformed by these three spiritual forces Biological beings are recognized as the ancestors of the Three Realms, because they created the Three Realms." Liu Da got off topic and talked about history.

"so……"

"Then it came back to the issue of fairness and injustice. It is said that people look exactly like the ancestors of the Three Realms."

"Could it be that human beings are the descendants of the ancestors of the Three Realms?"

"There is indeed such a speculation, because compared to the form of ghosts and demons, the human form is easier to absorb the aura of heaven and earth than other forms. It is said that it is easier for the human race to pass through the catastrophe than other forms, so the demon began to imitate the appearance of humans. , also known as an incarnation."

"Then are we really descendants of our ancestors?"

Liu Da shook his head: "I read an ancient book, which said that the seven emotions and six desires were created after the appearance of the innate gods, and there were no so-called seven emotions and six desires at the beginning of the chaos, so I think the fact that the ancestors would have offspring should be mostly false. "

Yu Qi was a little disappointed: "Hey, I thought I also had some ancient blood."

"Obviously they all work the same way, but human beings are naturally more likely to become gods than other creatures. In the God Realm under the God Realm, the ratio of human gods to other gods is 7:3, and this ratio is still increasing. What do you think? How is that fair to you?"

Yu Qi didn't know how to answer this question, perhaps fairness itself was difficult to measure.

"Okay, the historical facts of the Three Realms are the content of the second-level ghosts. Let's talk about it later. Go to Mingshu Pavilion tomorrow to find the records of human souls on the front line of life and death. I can recite as much as I can. I will come back in the afternoon and talk to you about the next big topic." .” Liu Da stopped talking and began to pack up his things and prepare to leave.

Yesterday, I received the news that Mao Ci said that he would arrive today, and he had to welcome the return of the three adults.

"Well, you go." Yu Qi was still sitting where she was, and she planned to read what she just said for a while.

There are only eight days until the ghost test. Recently, she has stopped setting up a stall in the lattice shop for the time being, and is concentrating on preparing for the test.

Before going out, Liu Da looked at the time, um, Lord Maoci and the others should have handed in the task in Yan Luodian at this moment, he turned around and said to Yu Qi: "By the way, Master Maoci is back today, I I think Lord Shuanglang should be back too."

Yu Qi's eyes lit up, Xiao Shuanglang is back?