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In its perception, Feng Zhenghao's hands seemed like a huge magnetic field, constantly drawing its soul towards them.
After more than ten minutes, Feng Zhenghao stopped, covered in sweat, and said with a look of shame, "I am not skilled enough and am powerless against the powerful soul within the Muchen Pearl!"
Both Hao Yi and Guan Shihua stared at Feng Zhenghao in surprise.
"Are there still souls that the Spirit Binding and Commanding system can't control?"
Even Feng Xingtong, who was standing to the side, felt that her understanding of the world had been refreshed.
Feng Zhenghao explained, "This spirit-binding and commanding technique is like fishing with a fishing rod. You can easily catch small fish like crucian carp and grass carp in the pond!"
"Similarly, you can also catch tuna weighing hundreds of kilograms with your superb fishing skills!"
"But you absolutely cannot catch a shark weighing several tons, or even a whale weighing tens of tons, with a fishing rod!"
"In my perception, the powerful soul within the Muchen Pearl is a blue whale swimming in the ocean!"
There was silence.
After a moment, Hao Yi, the head of NaDuTong's Southwest region, sighed softly.
"So it seems that the Muchen Pearl truly hides the soul of a Chaos Serpent God!"
"The loss of the dragon vein's power in the Kunlun Mountains is indeed related to this!"
Hao Yi looked up, his gaze sweeping over everyone, and said, "What I'm about to say is top secret among official top-secret intelligence. After you hear it here, you must not tell any third party or discuss it with each other!"
For a moment, everyone's expression turned solemn.
Hao Yi began by saying, "You all should know what Kunlun Mountain is, right?"
"That is the ancestral home of the Chinese nation, and all mountains and rivers originate from Kunlun Mountain!"
"At the same time, everyone has heard the saying that the dragon veins of the world originate from Kunlun, right?"
“As early as a thousand years ago, our extraordinary ancestors discovered that the power of the ancestral dragon vein in the Kunlun Mountains was slowly dissipating!”
"At the time, I just thought it was normal air movement!"
"But in the thousand years that followed, all the extraordinary people who came to Kunlun Mountain to cultivate could sense that the power of the Ancestral Dragon Vein was being lost at an accelerated pace!"
"At first, the extraordinary ancestors thought that a new dragon vein was being formed, but then they discovered something was wrong!"
"Judging from the power lost from the ancestral dragon vein, the newly formed dragon vein is enough to protect the nation's fortune for eight hundred years, on par with the Great Zhou Dynasty!"
"But as everyone who has studied history should know, which dynasty after the Zhou Dynasty lasted for more than eight hundred years?"
"The Han Dynasty, including the Eastern Han and Western Han, lasted only about four hundred years!"
"Until the Ming Dynasty, a powerful and extraordinary sage appeared out of nowhere, preparing to investigate the truth behind the loss of the power of the Ancestral Dragon's vein!"
"He is none other than Liu Bowen, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Has anyone heard the legend of Liu Bowen severing all the dragon veins in the land to protect the Ming Dynasty?"
"Actually, this legend is true, but there are slight discrepancies!"
"Liu Bowen did indeed travel all over China, exploring every dragon vein and using a special method to mark the power of the dragon vein as an accurate value!"
"Then, he added up the values of all the dragon veins and compared them with the value of the ancestral dragon vein to see how big the gap was!"
"As it turns out, this gap is huge!"
"There is an unknown entity that has been secretly devouring the power of the Kunlun Mountain Ancestral Dragon Vein for thousands of years!"
"Unfortunately, no one knows what that unknown entity is!"
"After the establishment of Nadutong Company, the headquarters also spent a lot of manpower and resources to investigate where the power of the Kunlun Mountain ancestral dragon vein had been lost, but to no avail!"
"Until Li Yang, you told me about the Muchen Pearl and the history of the Demon Kingdom!"
Hao Yi looked at Li Yang.
"You said that the ancestors of the Demon Kingdom were the first group of people to go to Mount Zaglama, and that they discovered the remains and soul of the Chaos Serpent God in the Ghost Cave!"
"Then take the Muchen Pearl, which contains the soul of the Serpent God, and travel to Kunlun to establish the Demon Kingdom!"
"Then, a question arises!"
"Thousands of years ago, the Western Regions were not a vast desert, but a lush and pleasant land beyond the Great Wall!"
"Why didn't the ancestors of the Demon Kingdom establish their kingdom in the Western Regions and enjoy a better living environment? Why did they have to run to the bitterly cold Kunlun Mountains to establish their kingdom?"
"That doesn't make sense!"
"But the appearance of the Muchen Pearl makes a reasonable explanation for this!"
"The ancestors of the Demon Kingdom must have reached some kind of agreement with the Chaos Serpent God. The Serpent God needed them to help him open an imaginary space passage in Kunlun Mountain in order to obtain the power of the Ancestral Dragon Vein for resurrection!"
"And the reward the Demon Kingdom's ancestors received was the extraordinary power bestowed upon them by the Chaos Serpent God!"
"They can use this power to rule the entire Tibetan region!"
After Hao Yi finished speaking, the scene fell silent.
Li Yang remained calm. Although this was not part of the original Ghost Blows Out the Light storyline, in this world where film and comics have merged, the explanation was surprisingly reasonable.
then.
Hao Yi looked at Li Yang and said seriously, "Since Senior Guan and President Feng have confirmed that the Muchen Pearl does indeed contain the soul of the Chaos Serpent God..."
"Then, as you head to Kunlun Mountain to search for Evil Luo Sea City, we, the All-Knowing Alliance, will provide our full support!"
"We have only one request: to close the Serpent God's imaginary space channel in the shortest possible time, and to prevent it from devouring the power of the Ancestral Dragon Vein again!"
After discussing it for a while, Li Yang, Hu Yifei, Hu Bayi, and others agreed to Hao Yi's request.
There's strength in numbers, and official power is working for us for free, so why not take advantage of it!
then.
The group braved the heavy rain to return to the capital of Yunnan Province, intending to rest for a day before heading to Kunlun Mountain to search for the city of Evil Luohai.
That night.
Li Yang encountered an unexpected person at the hotel.
Zhao Li!
This guy somehow got Li Yang's room number and knocked on Li Yang's door in the middle of the night, shouting from outside the door, "Sir, your room service has arrived!"
Li Yang said he hadn't ordered room service, and the guy got even louder.
"Sir, six hundred per session, no discounts on the full service!"
Li Yang was about to open the door and kick them out.
To everyone's surprise, it was Zhao Li standing outside the door!
"How did you come?"
Li Yang was quite surprised, as the Soul Ferrymen all have their own jurisdictions and generally do not handle cases across regions.
Zhao Li is the soul ferryman in charge of a certain area of the capital, and should not be in Yun Nan by right.
Zhao Li walked into the room, plopped down on the sofa, and said irritably, "Do you think I wanted to come?"
"I was assigned a task late at night, and I had to take a four-hour flight from Beijing to get here. My body is practically falling apart."
"It's all because you made too much noise here!"
"Because of you, the entire underworld's relevant departments are now in complete chaos!"
"And you, you're actually enjoying yourself here!"
Li Yang was a little confused.
"What did I do?"
Zhao Li crossed his legs and looked at Li Yang with curiosity.
"Where did you find these hundreds of thousands of antique items from the Qin and Han dynasties?"
"You have no idea, when these old guys appeared in the underworld, even the judges in charge of household registration were completely dumbfounded!"
"They searched the server thoroughly but couldn't find any information about these hundreds of thousands of old souls!"
"I was thinking of asking these two-thousand-year-old souls, but they all seem to have dementia and can't get anything out of them!"
"The only soul with a clear consciousness was called King Xian. Before he could say anything more, he was torn into hundreds of thousands of pieces by those old souls, and he's still fighting for his life!"
"The people in charge of household registration could only search the server using the two characters 'Xian Wang,' but they still couldn't find anything!"
"As you know, the technology of the underworld has been developing alongside that of the human world."
"The underworld server records all the souls from the Ming and Qing dynasties onwards. The fact that the information of those souls is not on the server only proves that they were born before the Ming dynasty!"
"So Hades ordered a large group of underworld police to assist the census takers in tracing back the household registration records from the Sui, Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties!"
At this point, Zhao Li laughed gleefully:
"Before the Ming Dynasty, household registration records were all on paper. Searching through them one by one would have blinded you!"
"We still couldn't find it, so we had to keep searching!"
"What about the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Three Kingdoms? In the end, we found the information on those hundreds of thousands of souls by pulling out bamboo slips from a corner of a data warehouse!"
Done.
Zhao Li looked at Li Yang with a hint of amazement.
"You've solved a thousand-year-old mystery for the Underworld this time! I heard the King of the Underworld plans to reward you handsomely!"
Chapter Thirty-Six: Acha's Video Call!
Zhao Li's throat was dry from talking. He saw a refrigerator in the room, opened it, and found all kinds of alcoholic beverages and soft drinks.
He casually opened a bottle of beer, took a few leisurely sips, and then said:
"According to those ancient bamboo slips, more than 100,000 souls mysteriously disappeared back then. The underworld dispatched hundreds of soul ferrymen to conduct a thorough search of this area, but they found nothing!"
"Many people believe that a great demon is hiding here, cultivating evil arts with his soul, or forging the Myriad Soul Banner, but these are just speculations, and there is no evidence to support them!"
"This search lasted for over a hundred years, but to no avail. Left with no other option, the underworld had to seal the data away until now!"
"So, I'm here today to ask what exactly happened?"
Zhao Li stared intently at Li Yang.
"The underworld needs a detailed account of what happened before they can close the case, and you are the one in charge of this matter, so tell us!"
Li Yang countered, "How do you know I was the one who orchestrated this?"
Zhao Li spread his hands, "Originally, I didn't know. Those old souls were not in their right minds, and we couldn't get much useful information out of them. They kept saying that a god descended to earth, with graceful bearing and golden light all over his body, and saved them."
talking.
Zhao Li looked Li Yang up and down. "I don't see anything special about you. You're just a little handsome!"
Li Yang chuckled, "Are you sure I'm just a little handsome? I'm devastatingly handsome, okay!"
Zhao Li rolled his eyes; he couldn't stand Li Yang's arrogant attitude.
But he also had to admit that Li Yang was really handsome, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to get into Hades Acha's bed!
He thought that to himself, but he wouldn't admit it to himself.
"Alright, stop bragging and let's get back to business!"
"The underworld didn't know you were the one who started all this until Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's divine beast 'Di Ting' suddenly appeared and said your name. Only then did the judges realize it was you!"
After saying that, Zhao Li chuckled.
"Your fame in the underworld is now comparable to that of an international superstar in the human world. No one is unaware of your name, and even your past scandals have been dug up."
"Those lewd magazines in the underworld call you...the biggest gigolo in history!"
Li Yang was a little confused.
"What dark history do I have? Why should I be a gigolo?"
Zhao Li gloated, "I wonder who leaked the news that you and Hades Acha were having an affair. Now, a large group of male ghosts in the underworld admire you like a surging river, never ending!"
Li Yang rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Damn it, my lifelong reputation... no, is it because you're jealous of my handsome looks and amazing talent that you deliberately revealed my secrets?"
Zhao Li gave him an even bigger eye roll.