I have a book of salvation

For the first time, Yu Chen saw the legendary Imperial Master, a being in the fourth realm who was one of the three with Wen Sheng.

He tried his best to ignore the gaze, bit the bullet and walked towards the city gate.

——Because the old man Literary Saint told him that there were many strange things about this Imperial Master.

One of them is that when he appears in your field of vision, what you see is always him facing you, staring at you.

No matter how you change your position or direction, as long as you look at him, you will see that he is also looking at you.

You can never see his back.

So at this moment, the Imperial Master was just standing on the city wall, but when Yu Chen saw him, he had the illusion of being stared at.

——That feeling, to be honest, is not very good.

Following a group of traders, Yu Chen came to the city gate and accepted a routine inspection by the city guards.

It has to be said that although Zhou Xiu, the benevolent king, withdrew from the battle for the heir, the token he gave to the retainer was still very valuable, which saved Yu Chen and Shitou a lot of unnecessary trouble and passed the inspection at the city gate.

——Otherwise, he would have to come up with a fake identity. After all, he and Shitou's original identities were both from Jinling, Jiangzhou. And now, after Jiangzhou mysteriously disappeared, anyone or anything related to Jiangzhou would be enough to touch the sensitive nerves of the top brass in the capital.

After passing the inspection, we walked into the dark city gate that was three to five feet deep - this is also the thickness of the capital city wall.

The further you go, the darker the darkness becomes, and the feeling of depression becomes stronger.

Until a certain moment, after completely walking through the city gate, it was like a bright future after the mountains and rivers were restored!

A prosperous scene crowded into Yu Chen's field of vision, making him dizzy.

Just look at the street in front of you. It is paved with bluestones and is extremely wide. Even with twenty riders riding abreast, it doesn’t look crowded at all;

On both sides of the street, there are many majestic blue-tiled wooden buildings and a number of dazzling shops. On the left, there are luxurious cloths and silks hanging in the golden brocade house, and on the right, there are antique harp and harp instruments in the Boya Pavilion on the right. On the street, there are noisy cars and horses. The bustle and bustle are like the random flowers that dazzle people's eyes.

Yu Chen and Shitou were like two country bumpkins who had never seen the world. They were stunned for several breaths before they realized what they were doing. They walked forward and blended into the endless flow of people.

People were coming and going, and it was very lively.

Judging from the revolving lantern of the old man Literary Saint, the entire capital city is divided into three parts-the outer city, the inner city, and the imperial city.

The outer city, where Yu Chen was standing, was divided into four districts: east, west, south, north, and west. They were named after the four great beasts of green dragon, white tiger, red bird, and black basalt. They were the places where the people of the capital lived their daily lives.

The outer city and the inner city are separated by Luoshui. The inner city is mainly the residence of various departments of the imperial court and some dignitaries. It is heavily guarded inside, with a sentry every 100 steps and a post every 1000 steps.

As for the imperial city, there is no need to say more. The place where the True Dragon Emperor is located is the imperial city. The place where humanity and destiny gather is extremely prosperous.

Yu Chen walked around the outer city, found an inn for a meal, and asked for a room. He planned to stay one night before making any plans.

Needless to say, his plan was to find a grave and watch.

Because only with graves can there be dead people, only with dead people can there be last wishes, only with last wishes can there be rewards, and only with rewards can one be capable.

But this matter can't be rushed. It's already getting late now, and the Department of Funerals and Funerals of the Ministry of Etiquette, which is in charge of funerals, may also be closed, so we'd better wait until tomorrow.

In the inn room, Yu Chen took out eighteen copper nails from the mustard seed bag.

The nail was one foot long, with no cold gleam. It was dark red and mottled all over, whether it was blood or rust. It was filled with an ominous and strange aura.

It’s called—Eighteen Nails for Soothing Souls.

It was the reward given by the Book of Saviors after the last wish of Lang Qing and others was fulfilled.

It is not difficult to use. It can be used after pouring in the life Qi. It is like the art of controlling a sword. The eighteen soul-suppressing nails are directed like an arm. The copper nails are driven into the ground. The ground can be drawn as a prison to lock the soul of the formation. The copper nails are inserted into the ground. The body is cut off from vitality, and there is no life for ten deaths.

After playing with it for a while, Yu Chen put it away, sat cross-legged on the bed, and practiced breathing.

At this moment, in the spirit court, the spiritual golden body was still expanding, and the sky of the spirit court was already bursting with cracks.

Yu Chen knew that as long as one side of the spiritual sky was completely shattered, the realm of the divine sprout would be opened up. The spiritual phase would break into the void, soar into the sky, and reach the third realm of energy refining.

Just around the corner!

A night of silence.

The next morning, Yu Chen asked Shi Shi to wait at the inn, and went down to order a bowl of porridge. He sat in the tea shed outside the inn, sipping and looking out at the streets.

At this moment, the genius is bright, but the capital is already bustling with activity. The hawkers carrying their shoulders are heading to the market; the storytellers are setting up the stage with cloth bags on their backs; the handymen from wealthy families who get up early to go to the market are in a hurry...

After eating the porridge, Yu Chen headed towards the inner city.

The inner city and the outer city of the capital are separated only by a river, which is called the main stream of Luoshui River.

Luoshui is also a major feature of the capital. The mainstream is the shipping route to and from the capital. Huge ships dock and depart day and night.

And those tributaries have become a grand scene in the capital. During the day, scholars and literati boarded boats for sailing, cooked tea and poems, and scolded Fang Qiu; but at night, when the lanterns were lit, they stayed up all night and floated around on flower boats, which became Those nightclubs where dandy boys are free and happy.

Closer to home, there is no land route from the outer city to the inner city. There are only thirteen celestial bridges across Luoshui. The name of these bridges also means that after crossing the bridge, it is the land of heavenly beings.

The fact is indeed true. In the inner city, most of them are the various departments of the imperial court. The residences of the princes and wealthy merchants are indeed like clouds and mud and difficult to reach for ordinary people.

With King Rende's retainer token in his hand, Yu Chen passed through the gate of the inner city quite easily - Zhou Xiu was not exaggerating. In addition to not being able to go to the imperial city at will, his retainer token can be found everywhere in the capital. Unobstructed.

Come to the Ministry of Rites, the funeral director who specializes in funeral matters.

When the officials of the funeral department saw the token of King Rende's retainers, they immediately transformed themselves into good public servants of the common people, being affable, flattering and smiling.

But after hearing that Yu Chen wanted to find a job as a gravekeeper, he looked embarrassed.

——In the capital city of Daxia, there are a total of four mausoleums open to the public, corresponding to the four cities in the outer city.

And the position of the tomb keeper is also a formal one established by the imperial court. Although there is no official establishment, he is still a public servant. It is an iron rice bowl, stable and free.

So even though it sounds like a low-level job, it is still fought over by the common people. There is no vacancy at all, and those who can squeeze their heads to become the guardians of the tomb are basically related to the officials under the imperial court.

But at this moment, Yu Chen came with the token of King Rende's retainer, saying that if he wanted to find a job as a guard at the tomb, he would have to kick out one of the tomb guards.

This official has a headache.

After hearing this, Yu Chen didn't want to steal someone else's job, so he asked if there were any other tombs.

The official rolled his eyes, hesitated to speak, and finally said for a long time that in addition to the four large mausoleums, there was another one in the capital.

It's just that the mausoleum is called "No Return", and you can tell from the name that it's not a good place.

It's not even inside the capital, but outside on Mount No Return.

Although they are also under the management of family funeral directors, the corpses buried there are either those who died violently, those who were deeply resentful, or those who have no names or surnames and come from nowhere.

Others were competing to be the guardians of the other four tombs, but the Tomb of No Return was so sinister that the guardians were replaced one after another. The longest one didn't even last three months before he quit. .

So at this moment, the position of the tombkeeper on the No Return Tomb is vacant.

But after the official made it clear, he did not recommend Yu Chen to go there because he heard that there were unclean things.

After Yu Chen heard this, his eyes lit up.

——Don’t you touch the pillow when you feel sleepy?

What we, the gang of dead men, want is the dead body with a dead eye and a lot of resentment?

As for the official's mouth, which is full of yin, unclean, and haunted?

What's that?

It's not an exaggeration for Yu Chen to say that he is a ghost ancestor now!

After his repeated insistence, the official just completed his duties for him, and emphasized again and again that once the second watch of the night passed, he must stay in the house and not wander around.

Yu Chen agreed wholeheartedly, took the sign, clothes, bedding and some sundries, and left.

The funeral director was left with a confused look on his face.

You said that with the token of King Rende's retainer, other than those with official positions in the court, other jobs are not randomly chosen?

Why is this young man so determined to plunge headlong into that pile of dead people?

Can't figure it out.

But Yu Chen ignored him and returned to the outer city with his things. After picking up the stones at the inn, he was ready to leave the city and go up the mountain.

The streets were still very lively.

Yu Chen bought a few bunches of candied haws and some pastries, planning to take them to the underworld for Qing Huan to taste later. This girl liked these snacks.

The capital city is also very big, and the two of them walked for most of the day, but they still didn't reach their destination, Mount No Return.

It wasn't until the sky darkened and dusk approached that I saw a dark and eerie mountain under the setting sun outside the city wall from a distance.

——That’s it!

But just when they were about to leave the city, there was a commotion at the city gate, which caught their attention.

I saw a lot of people gathered there, crowded and extremely noisy.

Yu Chen and Shi Tou were just about to gather around to see the excitement.

I heard someone in the crowd exclaim!

"The dead! The dead! The lame horse is dead!"

So everyone was panicked, and they couldn't stop talking about what you said and what I said.

From the comments of those people, Yu Chen just knew what probably happened.

Let’s say that the streets and alleys near the city gate are where the lowest and humblest people in the capital live.

——The layout of the capital is like this. The closer it is to the imperial city, the more prosperous it is; the opposite is true, the more impoverished and desolate it becomes.

The people living in Qingwa Street, where Yu Chen and his wife are currently located, are the poorest of the poor. They are basically old men and women who are helpless and waiting for death in a muddle-headed manner.

And the dead man being watched by everyone was an old man in Qingwa Street.

His real name is unknown and no one knows it.

But because he had a broken leg and was holding an old horse all day long, he was called "horse lame".

He said that the horse was lame. Although he was lame, his body was still strong. Over the years, he had relied on his old horse to bring some herbs from outside the city into the city and sell them in the city.

But when he came back from outside the city today, everyone didn't see his old horse. The lame horse himself was covered in bruises and limped back, leaning on a tree branch.

There was something muttered in his mouth, but no one heard him clearly.

It wasn't until dusk that the neighbor found him lying in front of his house.

When he touched his neck, he found that he was already out of breath.