Mysteries of Immortal Puppet Master

Chapter 895: Chapter 311: Crossing the River of Forgetfulness on the Empty Return Raft (Part 2)

After he queued up at the end, the ghosts and soul cultivators all shut up. Some snorted discontentedly, while others turned to glance at Sun Lingtong, eyes filled with malicious intent almost impossible to conceal.

”Little ghost, you’re not too foolish. Queueing at the back, it’s all benefit and no harm to you.”

An old man suddenly spoke. He was right in front of Sun Lingtong, originally last, now second to last in line.

Sun Lingtong cast a glance and saw it was a soul cultivator from the Human Clan, and tried to inquire, ”Elder, is there something behind this?”

The old man nodded, ”They want to accumulate virtue and goodness, seizing every opportunity to accumulate merits.”

”But true virtue and goodness, and what they’re doing, naturally there’s a great difference.”

”Like me, I am truly accumulating virtue and doing good deeds!”

The old man spoke openly, not hiding from others, nor using Divine Sense Transmission.

Hearing this, many ghosts and soul cultivators erupted, turning around with furious glares.

”Old man, quit with the nonsense!”

”What kind of thing are you, daring to teach your ghost grandpa about doing good?”

”Do you look down on us? Hypocritical!”

The old man aroused public anger yet laughed heartily, turning to smile at Sun Lingtong, ”Watch closely, little ghost.”

After saying this, he turned around, glaring and shouting at the crowd, ”What are you yelling for?! You bunch of fools, come on and hit this old man.”

”Don’t worry, I’m very weak, my cultivation level is poor, only in the Qi Refinement Realm, no different from a mortal.”

”You could kill this old man with one punch, come, come, strike my heart with your fists. I guarantee I’ll drop dead immediately!”

Hearing this, the crowd that had just been clamoring fell silent.

Sun Lingtong observed and instantly knew these people had been deeply intimidated.

The old man’s ”victory through weakness” also made Sun Lingtong realize: Even before entering Wangchuan Immortal City, he was already under some kind of city rules.

”Could it be, this Wangchuan Immortal City holds the elderly and cherishes the young, encourages virtue and goodness?” He asked the old man.

The old man nodded, ”The rules in Wangchuan Immortal City are strict, and all soul cultivators, ghosts, and the like entering the city are subject to strict scrutiny.”

”The key content of the scrutiny is whether there are sins, how many sins there are, whether there is virtue, and how much virtue there is.”

”The fewer the sins, the more the virtues, naturally the easier it is to enter the Immortal City and gain the qualification of a citizen.”

”And at this Forgetfulness Ferry, you must also abide by the rules. If you shout and scream, or cut in line arbitrarily, you might anger the reflection of Yun Xiao and not be allowed to board the Empty Return Raft.”

The more Sun Lingtong listened, the more puzzled he became, and couldn’t help but ask, ”Wait a moment, elder. What is this reflection of Yun Xiao? And what is the Empty Return Raft? Is it a ferry?”

The old man, hearing his question, was also taken aback, ”Little ghost, you want to enter Wangchuan Immortal City, yet don’t know these two things?”

Sun Lingtong thought, his inexperience already revealed, and decisively shook his head, ”I don’t know.”

The old man sighed, genuinely moved, ”Then you’re in luck encountering me, little ghost.”

”I’ll tell you.”

”All the ferries and crossings on the River of Oblivion involve two senior sages.”

”They were a pair of Dao companions, the female cultivator named Yue Yi, the male cultivator called Yun Xiao.”

”They were a perfect couple, in harmony like musical instruments, pursuing the Great Dao together, deeply in love, promising to seek eternal life together.”

”The elder Yue Yi was gentle like moonlight, pure-hearted, often doing good deeds. Then came a sudden disaster with the collapse of a virtual realm. To protect all living beings, the elder Yue Yi sacrificed herself to the array, perishing, her soul falling into the Netherworld.”

”The elder Yun Xiao was heartbroken, his Dao heart nearly shattered. Without her on the path to immortality, even if he lived tens of thousands of years, it would only be an eternal shackle of solitude.”