Chapter 71: The Hardest Iron Plate on This Street

Chapter 71: The Hardest Iron Plate on This Street

Do not be fooled by the fact that this master’s strength was lacking and he was so miserable dealing with a female ghost that, in the Celestial Master world, he was only at a mediocre level, but in the entertainment and business circles he was thriving, with almost no supernatural case he could not handle.

Why?

Because he knew how to manage relationships.

Every few days, he would honor familiar underworld messengers and bribe them.

When you take someone’s food, your mouth softens, when you take someone’s hand, it becomes shorter. After receiving enough benefits from him, the underworld messengers were naturally willing to help.

He carefully took out a specially made Summon Yin Talisman and activated it.

The Summon Yin Talisman used by Zhu Chun’an was part of a strategic cooperation agreement signed between the Celestial Masters Alliance and the Fengdu underworld authorities, used to summon nearby working underworld messengers.

The ordinary Celestial Master Summon Yin Talisman is used to summon a target ghost.

The type used by this master was specially modified and used to summon a specific underworld messenger.

In simple terms, it functioned like a labor contract between a targeted underworld messenger and a Celestial Master.

There were clear differences among these types.

Some underworld messengers did not have enough salary and occasionally did side jobs, such as accepting offerings and bribes from human Celestial Masters to help them handle certain matters.

This was an unspoken rule within the underworld messenger profession.

The Celestial Master profession itself is either inherited through family lineage or through a master sect.

After Celestial Masters die, while some are reincarnated, most of them go to Fengdu departments to apply for positions.

If they belong to the same clan or sect as those underworld messengers, they can naturally enjoy some protection.

Of course, “unspoken rules” meant things that could not be made public. Bribery was strictly forbidden in Fengdu.

“Go.”

The master gave a low command and threw the talisman paper forward, where it stuck in midair.

Circular ripples appeared, and a beast faced gate wrapped in iron chains materialized amidst swirling yin energy.

Along with the sound of dragging chains, a figure in a black robe and hood stepped out from the gate.

“What is it this time?” the underworld messenger said coldly to the master, “I am about to perform soul retrieval duties. Do not delay my work.”

Accepting private summons during working hours would incur additional punishment if discovered by superiors.

Underworld messengers in Fengdu were equivalent to civil servants in the human world.

Competing for a civil service exam was already difficult, and becoming an underworld messenger was no easier.

In recent years, the quality of deceased souls had been getting higher and higher, more educated, better qualified, and more capable, making competition among underworld messengers extremely intense.

He valued the benefits from the master’s bribery, but he also did not want to be discovered by his superiors while making extra money.

The master understood the seriousness of the situation and respectfully spoke to the underworld messenger.

“I respectfully request the underworld messenger’s divine intervention to subdue this harmful vengeful ghost.”

The underworld messenger glanced over and said indifferently, “She has no blood debt on her hands.”

In theory, underworld messengers cannot arbitrarily act against souls that have not committed wrongdoing.

Even if she is a vengeful ghost, she still has ghost rights.

The master said, “She has possessed this mortal body and has been haunting him for nearly a month. It is clearly malicious intent.”

Only then did the underworld messenger become slightly more serious.

“Is that true?”

The master said, “I would not dare utter a single false word.”

The female ghost let out a shrill ghostly scream upon seeing the underworld messenger summoned, her vicious nature surging dramatically.

The underworld messenger frowned and released the soul binding chain.

As a grassroots worker in Fengdu, most underworld messengers were not very strong if they had not been practitioners before death, but they were issued soul binding chains and uniforms by the Fengdu authorities. Ordinary vengeful ghosts could not harm them, and once bound by the soul chain, escape was nearly impossible.

The female ghost’s ghostly aura surged wildly, faintly pushing back against the soul binding chain.

At that critical moment, a streak of blue lightning shot in from outside the window.

The lightning shattered the window and deflected the underworld messenger’s soul binding chain.

“Who dares interfere with official business!”

The underworld messenger often dealt with Celestial Masters and immediately recognized that the lightning came from a Celestial Master lightning talisman.

“Sorry, I am also on a mission. Perhaps the underworld messenger could be accommodating. It would be better for everyone.”

Pei Ye kicked through the remaining fragments of the floor to ceiling window glass, wasting no words, and immediately used a Ghost Binding Talisman to capture the female ghost attached to Bai Jia and pull her to her side.

She no longer restrained her overwhelming killing aura, her gaze locking onto both the underworld messenger and the master beside him.

When Pei Ye fully released her killing aura, the female ghost she had captured collapsed to the ground in fear and began crying, while even the underworld messenger was shocked and stepped back twice.

This killing aura.

Is she alive or dead?

He almost thought some vengeful ghost had escaped from the underworld.

He forcibly invoked Fengdu authority, trying to intimidate Pei Ye.

“How dare you obstruct Fengdu operations and steal a ghost that Fengdu is claiming?”

“I have never cared about first come, first served. If I take interest in a ghost, it is mine,” Pei Ye said. “This is not stealing. This is taking.”

“You, how outrageous!”

Pei Ye said, “Whether it is outrageous or not, the ghost is mine.”

The female ghost on the side: “...”

No, she felt it was safer to stay with the underworld messenger.

Ye Wei, who was secretly peeking into the room from outside the window, nearly popped her eyes out.

A master actually confronted an underworld messenger head on?

Little ghosts like them were terrified of underworld messengers, afraid that the soul binding chain would catch them. Yet this master was directly confronting one.

“Aren’t you afraid of offending Fengdu?”

Pei Ye did not even bother to roll her eyes.

“I personally believe that you are not important enough to represent all of Fengdu.”

The underworld messenger in front of her was far weaker than the Black Impermanence she had encountered before.

Someone this weak would only be a minor figure in Fengdu.

Offend a minor figure and so be it. Would Fengdu really go head to head with her over him?

Pei Ye was never afraid of stepping on a hard iron plate.

Because she was the hardest iron plate on this street.

Her appearance this time was not for anything else. It was a matter of urgency.

“This female ghost is an important witness. The employer needs her to testify that Bai Jia committed murder, so she cannot be taken away by you.”

After all, she was still a ghost. Who knew if she would be sent into reincarnation once she entered Fengdu.

“Bai Jia committed murder?”

The underworld messenger froze for a moment and turned to look at the master who had summoned him.

He could accept bribes and help with small matters, but he would never dare to engage in illegal acts, let alone assist wrongdoing.

If Fengdu found out, it would affect his year end performance evaluation.

And worse, he might even lose his stable position as an underworld messenger.

The master was also stunned.

At that moment, Bai Jia, who had finally awakened from being possessed by the female ghost, slowly came to consciousness under the torment of intense pain.

He had no memory of what happened during the possession, only that his entire body ached terribly.

It felt like being stuffed into a sack by a dozen men and kicked repeatedly, leaving him dizzy and weak all over.

Not only were his muscles sore, even his bones felt like they had been disassembled and reassembled.

He let out a groan and moved slightly, only to find that the area below his navel was swollen and in pain.

After the pain eased slightly, he lay on the ground and looked upward, finally realizing there were several uninvited guests in the room.

A man in a black hooded cloak with chains on his hands, a chuunibyou style figure; a very attractive delinquent looking girl in a short sleeved outfit and shorts with a large tattooed arm; beside her a faint, trembling, water soaked female ghost curled up; and outside the window a fat woman whose body almost blocked the entire glass.

The atmosphere was strange and silent, yet all of them were looking at him in unison.

All eyes on Bai Jia.