Chen Shi looked back and saw the dugout canoe they had seen earlier following them at a distance, staying neither too far nor too close, with the Yin Messenger on board holding a lamp and not continuing to guide the ghosts.

Chen Shi withdrew his gaze.

Black Pot continued to compare the geographical map with the surrounding landscape, tirelessly searching for newly emerged mountains.

They gradually ventured deeper into Lingzhou.

The wooden cart passed through a county town, where the city gates and towers had already collapsed, and most of the houses in the city had been damaged. There were no living people in the city, only some ghost monsters busy at work.

Chen Shi parked the wooden cart in the distance, activated the transformation charm to transform into a small Yaksha, and entered the city, where many small Yakshas were repairing houses.

"Kwa ga ga?" Chen Shi asked.

The small Yakshas told him that an internal strife had erupted here, with people in the city causing chaos, burning, and looting, forcing many to flee, gradually turning it into a ghost town.

Chen Shi inquired, "Have you seen any mountain peaks or temples suddenly emerging from the ground nearby?"

"There's a temple that seemed to come out of nowhere over there!"

The small Yakshas, eager to help, pointed the way for him, saying, "If you go in this direction, down to Shenmu County, you'll see the Yue Wang Temple."

Chen Shi remembered, thanked them, and gave them some incense money.

The small Yakshas, simple-hearted, seeing that he had money, gathered together to plan to rob him.

"We toil for the landlord to earn incense money, but how long will it take to earn enough to become gods? We might as well rob his!"

Once they made their plan, they charged out of the city, brandishing steel forks, cleavers, and dung forks, but Chen Shi's cart was too fast and had long vanished from sight.

The small Yakshas, dejected, returned to the city, shoving and blaming each other when suddenly, one small Yaksha exclaimed, "We're all poor, but if we pooled our incense money, we wouldn't be poor anymore!"

Another small Yaksha asked, "How do we pool it?"

"By killing you all, we can pool it together!"

They were delighted and started fighting each other with clangs and crashes.

Chen Shi inadvertently looked back and saw that at some point more dugout canoes had appeared behind them, each with a Yin Messenger on board holding a lamp, slowly and steadily following them.

He frowned slightly and continued on his way.

After the Yin Yang Two Realms merged, the geography expanded several to dozens of times compared to before, becoming extremely complex. Luckily, with Granny Sha's underworld map and the Mountain and River Map, it was not difficult to avoid getting lost. However, others would definitely lose their bearings, unable to tell east from west.

Chen Shi arrived at Shenmu County and from afar saw a giant tree reaching the sky, its shade extending for hundreds of miles, extremely imposing.

Shenmu County was known for a divine tree in the county. The divine tree reached a height of a thousand zhang and a girth of three hundred curves, requiring three hundred people to encircle.

But in the underworld, the grandeur of this Divine Tree was beyond imagination, incredibly large, as if climbing to its top would allow one to reach out and touch the Moon.

Beneath the Divine Tree was a vast plain, with little undulation.

The only variation came from the roots of the Divine Tree, which burrowed into the earth like earth dragons, occasionally trembling and causing the surrounding ground to shake, as if the earth dragons were turning over.

The land was fertile, with villages every dozen miles or so.

Chen Shi wandered and stopped, inquiring from passing little ghosts as he made his way toward the Yue Wang Temple.

"Little Ten, the person enshrined in this Yue Wang Temple might be Yue Wumu."

Scholar Zhu's voice came, "I have read some remnants of unofficial histories about this divine figure."

He began with Yue Wumu's loyalty tattoo on his back, meticulously recounting Yue Wumu's life, his northern expeditions, his great victory at Zhu Xian Town, the twelve gold badges, and the Fengbo Pavilion, saying, "His unparalleled loyalty earned him divine enthronement after death, eternally enjoying incense."

Chen Shi listened for a long time, then said, "If this Yue King were to be revived, he would certainly guard a region. But why haven't Yue Wumu's deeds been passed down?"

Scholar Zhu sneered, "Why pass them down? To tell the world about loyalty and valor? The Thirteen Families are neither loyal nor filial, so why let Yue Wumu's story spread? Wouldn't that be slapping their own faces?"

At this moment, a bone dragon chariot was moving across the vast plain when suddenly a glow surged around it, and the four bone dragons pulling the chariot grew flesh and blood rapidly, developing internal organs, scales, and manes, letting out an invigorating dragon roar, speeding toward Shenmu County.

Yin Commander Xia Xiude sat inside the chariot, his expression as calm as water. With a gentle wave of his hand, two squads of Yin Messengers split apart to the left and right, forming a flanking posture, heading straight toward Chen Shi's location.

Lingzhou belonged to the Xu Family's domain, and as a Yin Commander of the Xia Family, he had the obligation, both emotionally and logically, to inform the Xu Family before killing in Lingzhou. However, having finally obtained news of Chen Shi, he feared that delays in negotiating with the Xu Family might allow Chen Shi to escape.

Thus, he decided to take action first and inform later.

Under the Divine Tree, many Heaven Listeners flapped their wings and landed, gathering information that was eventually delivered into the hands of the young Wu Xie by the Heaven Listener Venerable Lord here.

"Master, we've found it!"

Wu Xie jumped up excitedly, climbed onto the tree, and swiftly ascended to a height of several thousand zhang, shouting loudly, "Master, we've found a temple of the foreign god!"

The child-faced elder was standing on a leaf at the time, watching from afar as Yin Commander Xia Xiude led his people to intercept Chen Shi. He smiled and said, "With the Xia Family intercepting Chen Shi, no one will disturb us as we clear the foreign god."

His target was also the Yue Wang Temple!

Chen Shi relied on inquiries with little ghosts, while he relied on the information gathered by the Heaven Listeners!

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