"The master of the palace appointed me to represent him with full authority. He said that as long as he can get back the Huangquan Dao Sword, he will do it at any cost."
"What I just said was indeed abrupt, but it is enough to show my sincerity."
The Ghost Emperor was speechless by Gu Chen's question, so he forced himself to explain.
However, the more Gu Chen listened, the more he felt that it was full of flaws. The envoy came here to negotiate on behalf of the underworld. He should not expose his bottom line before reaching the ideal conditions.
And the Ghost Emperor directly said that he is willing to pay any price to get back the Underworld Dao Sword. This does not make people feel that they are sincere. Instead, it gives people the feeling that as long as they can get the Underworld Dao Sword as soon as possible, nothing else matters.
"Ghost Emperor, don't you remember me?"
Gu Chen felt that there was no point in continuing to test, so he simply asked directly.
"What is Mr. Gu talking about?"
When the Ghost Emperor heard this, he immediately showed a look of panic on his face. It was an expression of a situation where things were developing beyond his control, to the point where everything was in chaos.
Gu Chen's eyes turned cold when he saw this, and he suddenly reached out his hand!
Since the other party still wanted to pretend, he simply revealed his true colors and found out what happened!
The Ghost Emperor was kind to him. If he didn't understand the ins and outs of the whole thing, he wouldn't be able to feel at ease!
Snap.
Before the Ghost Emperor had time to react, Gu Chen grabbed his throat with absolute strength, and his whole body was suspended in mid-air, with a look of horror on his face.
"Master Gu, as the envoy of the underworld, even if you don't agree with the conditions I propose, you can't kill me!"
He struggled.
"Tell me, where did you take my friend? If you are not him, why do you look like him?"
Gu Chen said coldly, murderous aura filled the entire hall.
The Ghost Emperor immediately understood what the problem was, and screamed from his mouth, and there was a black smoke rising from his head!
Whoosh!
As soon as the black smoke emerged, it rushed straight out of the palace. The speed was extremely fast, and it was thousands of feet away in the blink of an eye. Even the heavenly soldiers at the door did not react.
"Do you think you can escape here?"
Gu Chen grabbed the Ghost Emperor's body with one hand, and a black vortex appeared in the palm of his other hand, and a terrifying gravitational force suddenly appeared.
Buzz——
The black smoke figure that had fled thousands of feet away suddenly paused, and then the smoke-like body turned into wisps without his control, and was forcibly restrained by Gu Chen!
"No! Spare your life! Spare your life!"
It was so frightened that it was incoherent and panicked. In the end, it was taken back by Gu Chen, who sealed its cultivation and threw it in the main hall!
"What happened?"
The heavenly soldiers outside the palace were alerted, and Tang Ning and other heavenly generals also sensed this and came in one after another.
Gu Chen's face looked ugly, and he ignored the black smoke on the ground. His consciousness extended out and penetrated the Ghost Emperor's body.
After the black smoke gave up its body and escaped, the Ghost Emperor's body became an ownerless thing without any sign of the existence of a soul.
Gu Chen didn't believe it, so he searched carefully with his spiritual consciousness, but after just a moment, his heart fell to the bottom!
The original Ghost Emperor borrowed the power of Huang Quan to transform himself into a half-human, half-corpse existence. Although gloomy, he still had his own consciousness.
But now his body has completely turned into a refined corpse. Although his strength has reached the Immortal Realm, he has no consciousness at all!
The black smoke stole the Ghost Emperor's body, but what about the Ghost Emperor's people?
Gu Chen understands the ghost cultivator's corpse-refining method. Since the Ghost Emperor has become a corpse-refiner, he is afraid that his soul may have dissipated in the world!
"Tell me, where did the original soul in this refining corpse go?"
Gu Chen put the body down and questioned Hei Yan in shock and anger.
When he fought against Huangfu Wuji, the Ghost Emperor put in a lot of effort, and Gu Chen always owed him a favor.
He once promised to help him cut off the shackles of heaven when he came back from the Fairy Continent. Unexpectedly, they went their separate ways and were never seen again.
Although he had never met him, Gu Chen always remembered his promise, and he never thought about not paying back what he owed the Ghost Emperor.
However, I didn't expect that when I saw him again, his soul had disappeared, and his body was cruelly turned into a corpse!
It was unbearable for his old friend to be treated like this!
"Master Gu, have mercy on me! Master Gu, please have mercy on me! I didn't know that Gui Jue knew you. This corpse was given to me by the owner. I was just following orders!"
The black smoke turned into the soul of a short old man, who knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.
"What's going on? Isn't he a messenger from the underworld?"
The heavenly soldiers and generals who came in immediately realized that they might have been deceived.
"Who is your master? What happened in the underworld? Tell me everything. If there is any deception, I will kill you immediately!"
Gu Chen said coldly, his anger was extremely rare, which made many heavenly soldiers present remain silent.
"The young one turned out to be just a low-class ghost cultivator. Because he was clever enough, he was taken in by his master Youque more than a year ago."
"The master comes from outside the world. He is a ghost genius. He conquered the underworld, and the little boy took advantage of it. He is responsible for helping him with chores on weekdays."
"Not long ago, the news of the battle between Heavenly Court and the Supreme Being outside the world came out. The master heard that the Huangquan Taoist Sword was born, so he had a plan in mind and sent the young one here, wanting, wanting..."
The old man told the truth, but he hesitated at the end and did not dare to say any more.
"Are you trying to trick Huang Quan Dao Sword away?"
When Tang Ning, Li Shunyu and others heard this, their expressions turned ugly.
I thought that the underworld was willing to surrender to heaven, but I didn’t expect that a liar was here!
What is even more unexpected is that the dignified underworld has been infiltrated by outside forces!
"Youque? I have never heard of the name of this outsider genius. With the huge foundation of the underworld, you were defeated by him?"
Li Shunyu couldn't believe that the underworld had been robbed, and asked, "Did Mo Yanshen, the master of the underworld, surrender to this Youque?"
"No, the master said that people are not reliable, only corpses are. The master has a black jade bottle, and he has taken in the souls of all the monks in the underworld."
"Now the underworld is full of master's corpses, only Xiao Xiao and a few other slaves are there to serve them."
Hei Yan said tremblingly, fearing that he would be killed by Gu Chen in front of him after he finished speaking.
"Has all the underworld fallen?"
Li Shunyu was dumbfounded, because the underworld power was usually very low-key, and the disciples of the sect rarely traveled outside, so they had no idea that such a thing had happened.
Thinking about it carefully, if Gu Chen didn't happen to know the original owner of this refined corpse, everyone in heaven might have been deceived.
By then, not only will the Underworld Dao Sword be gone, but also if such a spy appears among the alliance in Heaven, the consequences will be disastrous!
"Fellow Daoist Gu, this matter was our mistake. I am willing to accept any punishment!"
Li Shunyu immediately looked at Gu Chen, his heart full of apology.
Tianting had just shown signs of rising with the help of Gu Chen, but they made such a big mistake, as if nothing could be done well. It was so embarrassing!
