"Don't worry, Brother Horse-faced Taoist. I'm not here to bring him back to life. I just want to ask him some questions and I'll leave after I'm done. I won't put you in any difficult position." Shen Luo said.
"Please don't misunderstand, Fellow Daoist Shen. It's not that I don't want to take you there. It's just that for some reason, the souls of those Chang'an citizens who died yesterday did not enter the underworld. Instead, they were transferred to a place called the Nameless Ghost City in the underworld. Many ghost gods and disciples of the underworld are looking for them there, but they haven't found them yet." said the Horse-Faced Soul-Catcher.
"So this is true! In that case, could you trouble Brother Horse-Faced Taoist to take us there and search for the souls of the people together? I have some skills in finding people." Shen Luo frowned when he heard this, and then said.
"Everyone in the underworld is worried about this matter. If Brother Shen is willing to help, I will naturally be happy to help." The Soul-Catching Horse-Faced Demon was delighted when he heard this. He took out the mourning stick, chanted a spell, and drew a line in the air.
A large amount of black gas emerged out of nowhere, circling rapidly around the mourning stick, and in the blink of an eye, a black vortex formed in the void.
"Now that all forces have gathered in Chang'an City, don't walk around. Just wait here for me to come back." Shen Luo said to Mi Su.
"Okay." Mi Su agreed obediently.
Shen Luo rubbed Mi Su’s head, and jumped into the black vortex with the Horse-Faced Demon.
Black air surged in front of his eyes and his body fell straight down. It took him a while to return to normal. He had arrived at a desolate plain in the underworld. In the distance, he heard the sound of waves and a negative energy, as if he was near the River Styx.
"Fellow Daoist Shen, follow me." The Soul-Catching Horse-Faced Guard took Shen Luo and flew away into the distance.
Everything around was retreating quickly, but this speed was too slow in Shen Luo's eyes.
"The situation is urgent. Brother Horse-faced Taoist, your escape technique is a bit slow. Let me take you for a while and you just show the way." Shen Luo flicked his sleeves and a golden light enveloped the two of them. He shot forward at several times the speed and disappeared without a trace in the distance in an instant.
The Soul-Catching Horse-Faced Demon was surprised. He once traveled with a True Immortal elder from the underworld. That man's escape speed was much slower than Shen Luo's.
"What level has Shen Luo's strength reached? Could he have reached the middle stage of True Immortal? It's only been a short time, wow, this is unbelievable!" He thought to himself, keeping a calm face and continuing to give directions.
After half an hour, the two came to a black forest.
This forest seems endless, and the trees inside are extremely tall. Giant trees that require more than ten people to hug can be seen everywhere. The thick tree canopies and leaves cover the entire forest. Moreover, these trees are pitch black in color, making the entire forest extremely dark and unable to see what is inside.
The yin energy in the forest was extremely thick and quite strange, giving people a sticky feeling, and the spiritual consciousness was greatly hindered when it penetrated into it.
"The nameless ghost town is deep in this dark forest. Fellow Daoist Shen, be careful of this dark forest. The yin energy in this place is peculiar and it affects the spread of spiritual consciousness. The yin beasts living in it are different from other ghosts in the underworld. They can hide in the shadows and attack others, and it is difficult to detect their traces." The Horse-Faced Soul-Catcher reminded.
"Master, leave all those Yin Beasts to me. I have already refined the power of the Yin Beasts absorbed in the Black Abyss Mystery Cave. I am only a little bit away from breaking through the bottleneck of True Immortal. I need a large amount of Yin Beast power to replenish it." The voice of Ghost General Zhao Feiji came from the Qiankun bag.