“I’m saying, I think we’re lost.”

Lawyer An said as he threw dry branches into the fire.

Geng Chen was placed on the haystack next to him, holding a grilled fish in his hand, eating slowly and methodically.

“If we’re lost, that means we’re on the right track.”

Geng Chen put down the grilled fish in his hand, looked at Lawyer An, and continued, “Is there any salt left?”

“No, and I’m telling you, even the Banksia flower oral solution is almost gone.”

Geng Chen nodded and continued to eat the fish.

Lawyer An was a little restless. He had fled all the way from Yangzhou to outside the pass, originally thinking he could soar freely, but he listened to Geng Chen’s instigation and plunged straight into this deep mountain forest.

For some people, the old forest might just be a forest, but only those who have truly experienced it know how terrifying it is.

Of course, purely natural environmental problems wouldn’t pose much of a difficulty for the two former Yin Si inspectors. They weren't worried about food and drink, but their destination was much more dangerous than that of ordinary people.

“You should understand the principle of ‘no venture, no reward.’ Complaining and impatience are meaningless at this time.”

“But if this continues, I’m going to go crazy from repression.”

Lawyer An stood up and kicked a few unprocessed fish next to him. Looking at their wide, dead eyes, Lawyer An sensed a kind of mockery from the dead fish.

“An Buqi, you need to calm down.”

“It’s easy for you to say. It’s been three days since we stepped into this area. This place has a strange suppression of my spiritual perception.

“Here, I’m like a deaf man, like a blind man, walking in the dark with my eyes open.”

Having possessed something before, and then suddenly losing it, this sense of insecurity is really tormenting.

Even when Lawyer An was stripped of his origin text and fled from Hell, his strength greatly reduced, he didn't lose his spiritual power.

“Just get used to it, just get used to it.”

Geng Chen continued to eat the fish.

His body was indeed small, but his appetite was astonishing, no different from that of an adult.

“What about your puppets, still no news?”

Geng Chen shook his head. “I’ve already made more than fifty grass and wood puppets, but none of them have returned.”

“Is she even here?”

“It’s only been three days, and you’ve already lost sight of your goal?” Geng Chen sighed helplessly, shook his head, and smiled, “An Buqi, your love is really fleeting.”

“I just don’t want to waste my effort!”

“For the one you love, even wasting effort is a sweet delight.”

“Do we have to hurt each other here?”

The implication was, ‘Don't we all know what you did to your wife and daughters?’

Geng Chen reached out, grabbed a branch next to him, and began to make scouting puppets again.

“Why was she buried here?”

Lawyer An sat down again and asked.

“You’re not the only one who liked her.”

“The way you phrase that makes me very uncomfortable.”

“You haven’t exactly been celibate all these years, so why do you care so much?”

“Hey, I’m saying, will you die if you don’t mock me!”

“Hehe, it’s said that after her death, a purple-belted judge buried her, and he specifically chose a place she loved most in her lifetime, which is here.”

“A purple-belted judge?” Lawyer An picked up a processed fish next to him, stuck it on a branch, and put it on the fire to roast. “A judge of that level is only one step away from establishing his own government office. How could he…”

“Weren’t you, An Buqi, a golden badge inspector back then? You were still able to become enraged for the sake of a beauty.”

“How can my inspector position compare to his?”

“It’s about the same, although there’s a difference in rank, let me count, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue…”

Geng Chen clapped his hands, and a small puppet made of a tree fork ran out on its own,

“I won’t count anymore, but you can’t demand that someone with a high official position doesn’t have the right to become enraged for the sake of a beauty, can you?”

“Then how do you know? His official position is so high, and you’re so… um, let me count for you too, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan…”

“He was later exiled to the land of seals, and then he fell, in order to deal with a giant demon about to break out of the seal.”

“That’s a real pity.”

“He told me about this. Before his soul collapsed, he told me about this place, saying that if I had the opportunity to be reborn, I could go here to see her, because he was afraid she would be lonely.

“You see, his love is indeed much more beautiful than yours.”

“It’s not a movie, what’s the point of being beautiful?”

“At least it’s better than you, a nobody that she doesn’t even know, right?”

Lawyer An moved the grilled fish closer to himself, checked it, and said, “Are you still eating?”

“Yes.”

“I’ll eat you to death!”

Lawyer An threw the grilled fish to Geng Chen, took out a cigarette, lit it, and after a while, asked:

“Was that purple-belted judge also implicated because of her matter?”

“He deserved it… During that arrest, he signaled his subordinates to deliberately release a gap, which almost led to the collapse of the arrest operation.

“Later, King Songdi became angry and issued an edict condemning his crime, which led to him being demoted several levels and finally exiled to our dangerous and boring middle-of-nowhere place.”

“Serves that old guy right for having his lair hit by the moon.”

Geng Chen heard this and raised his head slightly, glancing at Lawyer An.

Lawyer An pursed his lips at him. Some things, he hadn’t really explained to Geng Chen, because it wasn’t time yet.

Just then,

A puppet, more than half of it missing, ran out of the bushes in front.

“It’s back!”

Lawyer An became excited.

The puppet staggered to Geng Chen. Geng Chen grabbed the puppet’s body with his hand, squeezed it gently, and then stood up, very consciously and skillfully climbing onto Lawyer An’s neck to sit, like a son sitting on his father’s shoulders.

“Do you know the location?” Lawyer An asked.

“I know, I’ll direct you, you walk.”

The road wasn’t actually difficult. Although the old forest had a lot of gullies, it really wasn’t anything to Lawyer An and the others, but the rhythm of stopping and going and having to go around in circles was really unbearable.

Several times, Lawyer An almost wanted to directly ask Geng Chen if he was deliberately controlling him for fun or if there really were so many arcane formations, but he held back.

Who told him he wasn’t proficient in formations? He could still see a thing or two about ordinary formations based on experience, but for more profound ones, he was really about as clueless as his boss.

Finally,

After jumping over the stream ahead,

Lawyer An smelled the fragrance of flowers.

But when he came along the other side of the stream, he didn’t smell anything at all.

“We found it. A place where cherry blossoms are in full bloom. That purple-belted judge said she loved cherry blossoms the most, so in the place where she was buried, he specially planted a sea of cherry blossoms.”

“I still think lilacs rhyme better.”

“There are no more formation blockades ahead, you can rest assured.”

“It’s finally over. Was that purple-belted judge also on the formation route? He can make such a big formation just to bury someone in the Yang world.”

“That level of existence is already the peak of judges. Going up, they can sit on an equal footing with the Ten Kings of Hell. To be honest, their level of strength is no longer something we can窺觑 and understand.”

“Heh, show off, I’ve seen even more awesome people.”

The master of the Nether Sea sits and drinks coffee with me every day,

Lord Taishan goes out with me to find massage parlors every now and then,

Did I brag? Did I show off? Was I proud?

You know a purple-belted judge, and you think you’re so great.

Lawyer An put Geng Chen down,

He put his hands on his hips,

Huff…

Rest for a while,

Rest for a while;

Lawyer An pursed his lips, parted the bushes in front of him, and suddenly, a gloomy feeling came over him. Lawyer An quickly retreated, but his body still flew out as if he had been hit by a whip.

With a "plop" sound,

He fell into the stream.

“F*ck…………”

Lawyer An climbed out of the stream, a bloody wound appearing on his chest.

“Didn’t you say there were no restrictions here?” Lawyer An asked, very dissatisfied.

“There shouldn’t be, but I don’t know what’s going on…”

Geng Chen wasn’t very sure either.

It took about a quarter of an hour for Lawyer An to bandage the wound. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and was only grazed a little. If he had been slower, his body would have been cut in half.

“Be careful,” Geng Chen said.

“Hehe.” Lawyer An glared at Geng Chen unhappily.

Next,

As they moved forward in the cherry blossom valley, the two of them were extremely cautious. They passed several more restrictions, but Geng Chen discovered them in advance and avoided them.

Finally,

The two came to the deepest part of the cherry blossom valley,

To the edge of that cold pool.

“She’s under the cold pool. I don’t know if there’s a physical body or just a tomb with clothes, or maybe just an inscription.”

“It’s useless to say these things now. Even if there’s only an ID card thrown at the bottom of the cold pool, I have to go down and get it out to see.”

“Don’t move!”

"What's wrong?"

“In the middle of the pool, there seems to be someone.”

"Where? Hiss... There really is someone. That person is standing up."

“He seems to have discovered us.”

“Yeah, he’s so excited, the pool is boiling, damn it, this aura, it’s too terrifying, when did the Northeast Immortals become so sturdy?”

“It’s demon energy, but it doesn’t seem like a celestial being, this demon energy is too alarming.”

“Did we disturb him?”

“Maybe, he seems to be in a lot of pain.”

“Listen, he seems to be talking, what is he saying?”

“It seems like he’s saying... saying,

Hit people,

Hit people!

Damn it,

We really disturbed him, he’s going to hit people!”

………………