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"The main material of the Ghost Gate is the millennial Forgetful River Stone. This stone has been washed by the River of Oblivion water for ages, and it contains a rich aura of the river. It is precisely because of this aura, used as an anchor point, that it can remotely draw the River of Oblivion to descend."

"We don’t have the Forgetful River Stone, but we do have the Yin Spirits. The Yin Spirits also possess a rich aura of the River of Oblivion; otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to activate the Netherworld Ferry."

Inside Thousand Lanterns City, Chen Mu closely pondered the Ghost Gate materials in his mind, his face alight with excitement.

"Yin Spirits aren’t stones, even if they can serve as anchor points to connect to the River of Oblivion, they can’t fuse into one, right?" Shen Yan frowned intently.

"Therefore, we’ve got to thank General Lan!" Chen Mu chuckled with a hehe.

"The Mountain-Carrying Scripture?" Shen Yan’s eyebrows shot up in an instant.

"First, pile up the Netherworld Ferry Secret Technique on each Yin Spirit, then use the Mountain-Carrying Scripture to connect all the Yin Spirits into one piece."

"With an anchor point and the Netherworld Ferry Secret Technique, and even becoming one entity, apart from not looking like the Ghost Gate, the other conditions are completely the same!" Chen Mu’s face brimmed with excitement.

Shen Yan couldn’t help but scratch his head.

The Ghost Gate is actually just a fixed altar for the Netherworld Ferry Secret Technique. It solidifies many complicated ceremonial procedures, additionally overlaying other protective Secret Techniques, making the teleportation through void more stable and safe.

Using Yin Spirits to form the Ghost Gate might seem a bit odd, but it could indeed be considered a variant of the Netherworld Ferry altar and genuinely could count as a Ghost Gate.

A living Ghost Gate!

...

When you think about it, just do it.

Chen Mu spent a full two days, transmitting the Fifth Rank Jade Gate Curse Secret Technique to the Yin Spirits one by one.

Shen Yan watched with his mouth agape.

The Ghost Gate Refining Method is a secret passed down by the City Lord Mansion, and throughout the entire Netherworld, it’s considered a precious Dharma. Yet the guy in front of him was like a prodigal son, scattering it carelessly and heartlessly!

"You have an objection?" Chen Mu glanced sideways at Shen Yan, "Why can’t I spread the Secret Technique I comprehended with my own abilities?"

Shen Yan’s eyebrows twitched violently.

Fine, fine, you have two heads and two mouths; you call the shots!

Chen Mu snorted and transmitted the Jade Gate Curse Secret Technique to the last Yin Spirit.

If I don’t pass on the Jade Gate Curse to everyone, how am I supposed to be lazy?

Just passing the Jade Gate Curse to these five or six thousand Yin Spirits took a whole two days, and just thinking about stacking several layers of the Netherworld Ferry Forbidden Law on each of them made his scalp tingle.

The workload is too massive!

Now, every Yin Spirit knows the Jade Gate Curse. For their self-interest and safety, they will pile on as many Netherworld Ferry Secret Techniques as possible, refining themselves toward the direction of a human-shaped Ghost Gate.

All Chen Mu had to do was wait until the time was right, activate the Mountain-Carrying Scripture with a combination, and the job would be done! Read exclusive content at NovelBin.Côm

Moreover, each of these Yin Spirits had the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed planted in them, and they were all his leeks. What’s wrong with passing on a Secret Technique? Don’t you have to water and fertilize when planting vegetables?

Chen Mu looked at Shen Yan with a smug expression, "I think you plant too few vegetables. You can loosen the soil, sow the seeds, and water them, but can you pull up the vegetable leaves to make them grow taller? You have to let them grow on their own!"

Shen Yan’s face twitched.

So laziness also comes with reasons now?

...

With a new task at hand, the Yin Spirits of Thousand Lanterns City became busy like wind-up toys.

The Three Yin Phosphorus Fire Curse and the Jade Gate Curse were practiced in turns; the entire camp would shine with green light one moment and yellow light the next. If a red light was added, it would become a giant set of traffic lights.

Chen Mu himself was not idle, either; he strove to... live his own little life.

Aside from the daily routine of nurturing the Divine Fetus and brushing experience for the Jade Gate Curse, he still hadn’t given up trying the food of Nether Demon Heaven.

If tired, he would lie in a rocking chair to sleep soundly; if annoyed, he’d run to the wooden hut on a small island outside Thousand Lanterns City and stay for a couple of days. If he weren’t afraid of the perilous Blood Sea, he would even consider building a small boat to go out to sea for fun.

In short, everyone’s life was very fulfilling and busy.

Two months went by in the blink of an eye.

That day, Chen Mu called all the Yin Spirits to gather in front of the wooden building. He took a deep breath, and the power of the Mountain-Carrying Scripture spread out and filled the area.

The Yin Spirit Divine Powers resonated and trembled, immediately turning into black smoke. In the blink of an eye, a cotton-like dark cloud appeared, with pale green fires flickering amongst the surging smoke.

Chen Mu immediately activated the Jade Gate Curse, and a weak but familiar aura emerged in his heart.

"How goes it?" Shen Yan asked anxiously.

"How goes it? Of course, it’s a success!" Chen Mu couldn’t help but grin broadly.

Though the aura was weak, its state was almost no different from when he initially got in touch with the Ghost Gate of the You Camp, proving his concept of a human-shaped Ghost Gate was completely correct!

Dispelling the Mountain-Carrying Scripture, he waved away the equally excited and cheering Yin Spirits. Chen Mu felt an immense sense of relief.

Ever since he arrived in Nether Demon Heaven, the strife had never ceased, forcing him to hide away in Thousand Lanterns City all day.

Compared to before, despite not having spent long in the Netherworld, and despite the somewhat ghostly environment, he still found himself missing it immensely.

"We can start to establish the Bottomless Pool now and hunt demonic creatures to store Spirit Mechanisms," Chen Mu said with a smile.

Once multiple layers of Netherworld Ferry were stacked on the Yin Spirits’ bodies and enough Spirit Mechanisms were accumulated, they could attempt to return to the Netherworld.

With a viable plan in place, looking forward to a promising future, the heavy stone that had been pressing on Chen Mu’s heart finally touched down.

...

Amidst a range of rolling mountains, gray fog flowed slowly between the peaks like endless ocean waves.

Eleven flagpoles, as tall as thirty to fifty-story buildings, were scattered among the mountains, appearing and disappearing within the mist.

At the foot of one mountain, a gray-white stone archway abruptly emerged from the void, instantly expanding into a massive gateway linking to the ether.

A large flag, bearing a huge silver "丙" symbol, trailed mighty black clouds as it snaked out of the dark curtain-like portal that rippled with waves.

Throughout the mountains, the fog that had been moving slowly suddenly accelerated, converging around the thousands of Yin Soldiers who had just touched down.

Boom!

With a thunderous explosion, a bright silver light shot out of the fog. Like branched lightning, it densely struck amidst the group of Yin Soldiers.

Most of the Yin Soldiers remained unfazed by the flashing silver threads, indifferent to the thunder. However, over a hundred of them changed their expressions abruptly, transforming into streaks of blood shadows to avoid the celestial lightning, swiftly scattering in all directions.

The lightning, as if anticipating this, surged in both quantity and intensity, enveloping the entire forest in silver flashes. The blood shadows had no escape and were systematically struck by the lightning, dissipating into black smoke.

On a nearby mountain peak, a muscular man wearing a dark purple robe trimmed with gold threads, and an impassive face appeared. He watched the blood shadows turn to ash with an icy expression.

A sturdy man in black armor stood behind the man in purple, his voice laced with mockery, "City Lord, this Lan Zhang is really insatiable. He’s got his eyes on the elite Yin Soldiers of our Main Camp, huh?"

"Shall I go and exchange a few blows with him? I’ve long found that lazy fellow an eyesore!" His eyes gleamed with eagerness to try his strength.

Jian Chan, however, did not respond immediately, intently sensing and scrutinizing the Ghost Gate before slowly nodding and looking away.

"Before we depart, I can allow you to go find Lan Zhang and play some tricks on him."

"But the pressing matter at hand is to quickly absorb the essence of Nether Demons and refine the Soul Summoning Banner!"

"If you neglect what’s important..." He cast a slight glance at the massive man behind him.

"Rest assured, City Lord, I understand!" the man in Black Armor promptly bowed and answered with a serious face.

Jian Chan turned his head to gaze at the large flag drifting in the sky and couldn’t help but reveal a hint of a smile.

A few Yin Soldiers were nothing to fret about; they were trivial. As long as he could refine the twelve large flags, he wouldn’t feel any pain even if Lan Zhang devoured all of Antiquity City’s Yin Soldiers.

A City Lord? Heh...

With those twelve flags, I could become a Nether Spirit King!

...

At Thousand Lanterns City, right beside Chen Mu’s wooden building, a pool about half the size of a soccer field appeared on the open ground.

More than three hundred Yin Spirits gathered together, sitting cross-legged beside the pool, their Yin Spirit Divine Power flowing slowly, maintaining the Bottomless Pool, which was smooth like a mirror.

Chen Mu looked at the Bottomless Pool with keen interest.

This device, one of the attached abilities of the Ghost Gate, seemed like a dark and bottomless deep pool, but in reality, it wasn’t even as deep as one’s fingertip. It was more like a portal, connected to a hidden space.

According to the enlightenment hints bestowed by the grey wall, this was a segment of the deep-space of the River of Oblivion, captured by the Ghost Gate.

Depending on the Ghost Gate, it could store the souls of Exotic Beasts and demonic creatures, assist the Cai Yuan Department in absorbing Essence, help the Medicine Stone Sect refine Precious Medicine Decoctions, and also aid the Military Provision Department in tempering soldiers and ghost troops, with many varied and extraordinary uses.

"What a fine thing," Chen Mu couldn’t help but marvel.

He then waved his hand to open Thousand Lanterns City, and a squadron of Yin Soldiers manipulating black clouds dived into the city. Without dispersing, they flew directly above the Bottomless Pool and threw one blood sea monster after another into the pool’s waters.

Even with a large number of demonic creatures thrown in, the surface of the pitch-black pool that seemed bottomless remained calm and as still as a mirror.

Taking from the leading Yin Soldier the Exotic Beast prey specifically saved for him, and waving them off to return to camp and rest, Chen Mu continued to sense the Bottomless Pool.

However, it wasn’t long before he sighed.

"It is still not enough."

The Bottomless Pool, connected to the Ghost Gate, could vaguely determine the minimum amount of Spirit Mechanisms needed to activate the Ghost Gate.

Nether Demon Heaven belonged to Beyond Heaven, and there was endless void between it and the Netherworld. Even though they were few in number and small in size, the required Spirit Mechanisms were still significant.

Five to six thousand Yin Spirits had been rotating to capture Exotic Beasts and demonic creatures for over a month, and all of them together could already stack up to form a small mountain, but this was still far from meeting the threshold of Spirit Mechanisms needed for teleportation through the void.

The main issue was that the Yin Spirits were not strong enough; the creatures they had captured were the weaker Exotic Beasts, which may have been large in size but contained insufficient Nether Demon Spirit Mechanisms.

"Gather the strength to catch a big guy to bring in?" Chen Mu thought for a moment and then shook his head, "Forget it, let’s not take that risk."

"If quality is insufficient, we’ll make up with quantity. It’s just waiting another year or half at most, safety comes first."