Cui Yunqi was unaware that Chen Xu had long decided to venture alone for the exam.

Setting off early, changing routes, traveling solo—

Originally, the wilds of this world were quite dangerous. Short-distance travels were manageable; if one was familiar with the route and there were people along the way, generally, there wouldn't be much trouble.

But for long-distance journeys, it's hard to say.

Especially when traveling from the remote Yunjiang Prefecture to the central city of Pingyang in Celestial South Dao, the complexity of mountains, rivers, and roads involved would be unimaginable for those without travel experience.

Currently, maps were often held by specific strata of society, and "recognizing roads" was even considered an extraordinary skill.

Even when a distinguished family traveled, with many cultivation experts among them, they usually preferred to travel in groups.

After all, Celestial South Dao was vast; even though the aristocracy had their experts, the danger in the wild often stemmed from the unknown.

Cui Yunqi could not foresee that Chen Xu would decide to travel alone.

Chen Xu dared to go alone, firstly because of the divination results of the Spiritual Cicada Jade Robe, and secondly due to his own Netherworld's Unbreakable Divine Power.

Honestly, with this divine power, he could freely travel through most places in the world.

Thinking this way, traveling with others might not be as safe as going alone.

However, the Netherworld's Unbreakable Divine Power should be used cautiously, as Chen Xu's current mastery of this power was only at the basic level.

With his cultivation progress over this period, he could now traverse through the netherworld five times a day, each time covering a distance of about three miles.

Every first and fifteenth of the month, he could choose to enter any nearby Ghost Market.

Tonight was the first, and after Chen Xu had everything in order, he put a Puppet Mask over himself.

This was the last Puppet Mask he had.

After all, as it was his first time entering a Ghost Market through the Netherworld's Unbreakable Divine Power, Chen Xu did not know what kind of Ghost Market this "random" encounter would be, whether the ghosts within were ferocious, or what rules the Ghost Market had...

There was too much unknown, so out of caution, he covered himself with the Puppet Mask, once again disguising himself as a ghost.

In this way, entering a Ghost Market as a ghost would naturally be much safer than entering as a living being.

Under the Puppet Mask, this time Chen Xu turned into a two-meter-tall Hanged Ghost as thin as a bamboo pole!

This ghost dragged a long tongue, with a face pale as paper, two blood-red spots under its eyes, and disheveled hair, truly scary at first sight.

Seeing his image in the copper mirror suddenly, even Chen Xu was startled.

He could hear his heartbeat pounding in his ears, but through the thick mask, this heartbeat was not revealed to the outside.

The mask completely concealed all his "human aura," which was quite amusing.

Chen Xu specially hung a tattered cloth bag around his waist and wore a white burial robe prepared earlier, standing silently in the room, activating the Netherworld's Unbreakable Divine Power.

Then he lifted his foot, and his figure disappeared from the chamber in the separate courtyard.

The night grew deeper, and the small courtyard quietly slumbered.

Almost at the same moment, Kongcan the little Daoist suddenly awoke from his bed at the inn.

His first words upon waking were: "Good wine!"

His second words were: "Pah! What good wine, just low-grade Spirit Wine, how can it compare to the Jade Liquid Nectar I once drank?"

After uttering the two sentences, it seemed like his right brain clashed with the left, sitting on the bed drenched in sweat.

Sweat poured like broth, and Kongcan held his head in immense pain.

"No, how could I be here? This, is this... the inn in Yunjiang City?"

"The celestial opportunity, that's it, I came to seek the celestial opportunity. But why is it now gone?"

"That scholar... that scholar is quite peculiar. Since I've come to Yunjiang City and encountered him, could the celestial opportunity possibly be tied to him?"

"But where is that scholar now?"

"Forget it, I need to find him first. This scholar is quite mysterious, maybe by spending time I can observe something from him..."

Kongcan whispered with his head in his hands, his voice at times clear as a child's, other times low and old.

At times his eyes were bright, other times they were inverted and confused.

After a period of chaos, he suddenly flipped from the bed and started walking outside.

As he walked, he joined his right hand into a sword gesture, muttering:

"Primordial Purple Qi, shine upon my hidden pass.

Profound Darkness leads the way, the celestial opportunity gleams...

Seek!"

Just then, a faint glow appeared under his feet, as if he was about to use profound techniques to disappear directly from the inn, when suddenly—

"Ouch!"

Somehow, midway through casting, his right foot stubbed the left.

Kongcan the little Daoist yelped in pain, crashing to the ground with a thud.

With this fall, he directly chipped half of his front tooth, and hurriedly he tried to rise, his hand suddenly touching the large patch of blood by his nose.

"Ah!"

In the dead of night, a child's heartrending scream echoed through half the inn.

The attendant on duty rushed into the room, only to see a young Daoist child sitting on the floor covered in blood.

Raising his face, the little Daoist child looked defiant yet ready to cry: "You, you... go fetch me a basin of water!"

Whoa, using the fiercest tone to say the most timid words.

The attendant instantly didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Sigh, if it was just about fetching some water, is such a state necessary?

Chen Xu did not know that Kongcan the little Daoist in the mortal realm was casting a spell to find him in the netherworld.

Yet he noticed his cumulative likes had suddenly increased by 300 points.

Through feedback from the Celestial Book, he could infer that the entire 300 likes must have come from Kongcan the little Daoist.

Just after half a day's rest, Kongcan, who thought he had reached the day's liking limit, unexpectedly contributed another 300 likes to Chen Xu from afar.

And these likes had traveled from the mortal realm to the netherworld—

As per Chen Xu's current cultivation, he could already receive likes from the entire Yunjiang Prefecture City, including a radius of thirty miles beyond the city.

However, realizing he could also receive likes from the mortal realm while in the netherworld was a recent discovery for Chen Xu.

Thus, it was further proven that the concept of the human world and the netherworld as one entity was once again confirmed.

If it weren't for them essentially being one entity, how could Chen Xu receive likes across realms?

Yet the human world and netherworld essentially one, clearly appeared as two distinct realms.

Chen Xu, through his Netherworld's Unbreakable Divine Power, began to vaguely comprehend the marvel within, yet it remained fuzzy and unclear.

He wasn't in a hurry to fully understand it either. This time, transformed into a ghost, stepping into the netherworld, he found the surrounding scenery to be different from what he'd seen before.

The sky was vaguely yellow, enveloped in mist all around.

Guided by divine power, Chen Xu took a step forward, first met by the sound of a roaring crowd hitting his ears.

In an instant, he saw before him a vast market with no visible end at a glance.

Ghosts squeezed among ghosts, demons mingled with demons, spirits jostled next to spirits.

Nearby, a little ghost with two buns on its head was performing sword swallowing, accompanied by rounds of applause and cheers.

No ghost paid attention to the sudden appearance of Chen Xu, except for a short ghost with a barrel-like body crouching and sliding a tray over to Chen Xu's side.

The next moment, the tray unexpectedly spoke!

"Young ghost, you've not walked the Yellow Springs Road, how did you enter my Yellow Springs Ghost Market?"

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