Chapter 1 Where to Go Tomorrow?

He couldn't immediately understand why Er锅头 (Erguotou) was complaining about Miss Red Wine. After all, theoretically, Miss Red Wine and Er锅头 had only met in Mingzhou before, and they were only considered acquaintances because of Miss White Wine. Theoretically, they shouldn't be that familiar.

"Yezhou."

Er锅头 laughed, "To be honest, this Transcender First Priority is really useful. Smuggling through the Gates of Hell is a big deal, but also a small one. It involves a lot of things."

"It's not easy to find someone to do it, but I used your name and asked Miss Red Wine, and someone immediately agreed. Now, Brother Wujiapi has already returned to Yezhou to wait for us."

"As long as he helps us enter the Yin realm, I can use the Yin-Yang Two Scenery Plate to take you to the City of Wrongful Deaths!"

"..."

"Wujiapi, is that also a wine?"

Hu Ma was a little puzzled, but of course, it wasn't important. He just smiled and said, "Yezhou isn't close to here. How do we get there?"

"I do know a trick from the Shou Sui Sect that's great for traveling, capable of covering a thousand *li* a day."

"..."

"Don't show off your clumsy Shou Sui Sect tricks in front of a Zou Gui Ren."

Er锅头 smiled and said, "It's a bit late today. You should rest well. When you get up, pack your things. Tomorrow after dark, come to the west gate of Mingzhou City and find me. I'll use a spell to take you there. You'll probably arrive before the rooster crows."

"Brother Er锅头 is indeed amazing..."

Hu Ma agreed, praising him sincerely in his heart. This old brother used to be too cautious and wouldn't use his abilities casually.

Now that he knew that the "Hu Family Benefactor" couldn't leave the mountain, he was obviously a bit bolder.

So, he rested that night. The next day, he instructed Li Wazi and the others to transport all the blood offerings from the manor to the blood offering mine. After that, they could consider returning to Da Yang Village for the New Year.

To be honest, he was a bit cocky now, entrusting these guys to transport tens of thousands of *jin* of blood offerings so confidently...

Of course, it was best if nothing happened to this batch of blood offerings. Otherwise, the big client, Monkey Wine, would come knocking...

Patiently waiting until dark, he used the abilities of the Measuring Heaven Boots and rushed to the west gate of Mingzhou Prefecture, to a teahouse.

Because it was dark, the city gates were closed, and there was no one around. However, a man with a thick beard, wearing a black cloth robe, was sitting in the shadows of the teahouse drinking tea. Who else could it be but Er锅头?

The two had known each other for a long time, but it was like netizens who had only chatted online and hadn't met in real life very often. They were still a little awkward.

"Is this the traveling ability of you Shou Sui people?"

Er锅头, or rather, Right Guardian Hu Shanchuan of the Red Lantern Goddess, turned his head to look at Hu Ma and smiled, "You run pretty fast, but you ruin shoes!"

Hu Ma subconsciously wanted to explain that he was using the Measuring Heaven Boots to travel, so he didn't ruin shoes.

But then he realized that Er锅头 knew much more than he did, so he smiled and said, "Then I'll have to rely on the Right Guardian to take me."

"Easy!"

Er锅头 got up and went to the pile of straw next to him. He pulled it open and saw two bamboo sedan chairs.

He smiled and said, "I usually take the path of the Yin realm when traveling long distances, but you Shou Sui people are clumsy. Taking you on the path of the Yin realm is like taking someone who can't swim into the water. So, it's simpler to have little ghosts carry the sedan chair!"

"Zou Gui Ren also use little ghosts to carry sedan chairs?"

Hu Ma couldn't help but show off a bit, "Isn't that a skill of the Xing Hun Sect?"

"One of the characteristics of the Zou Gui Ren Sect is that as long as it's useful, as long as it can be used, they'll take any skill, didn't you know?"

Er锅头 laughed. Like a magician, he pulled out two bundles of incense from his sleeve.

The key was that both bundles of incense were lit. He didn't know if they were lit from the beginning or if they were lit when he took them out. He inserted a bundle on top of each sedan chair, and facing the drifting incense smoke, he chanted a spell.

"Incense as command, gold and silver as reward, soldiers from all directions come to help me, travel a thousand *li* a day with supernatural power!"

As he spoke, he took out a handful of paper money from his sleeve and scattered it into the air. A gust of Yin wind immediately blew around him.

He couldn't see anything, but the two sedan chairs suddenly made a creaking sound as the bamboo poles rubbed against each other. Then, they slowly floated into the air, as if they were being carried by something invisible.

Hu Ma watched from the side. Seeing that Er锅头 used the same skill of little ghosts carrying sedan chairs, but the effect was different from what Di Gua Shao used...

...Di Gua Shao's was too majestic.

...He even had someone to banter with while traveling.

Er锅头 first sat down on one of the sedan chairs. Hu Ma followed suit. As Er锅头 held a yellow talisman in his hand and shook it in the air, he suddenly heard faint, indistinct "heiyo, heiyo" sounds beside him. The sedan chair flew forward quickly.

It felt like he was flying. The Yin wind rushed at his face from all directions, making it tingle.

The key was that it was getting faster and faster. Little ghosts seemed to be constantly涌 (yong) over from all directions.

Each time one came over, the sedan chair became lighter by a fraction, and it ran faster by a fraction. Even Hu Ma, sensing the dark mass around him, and the layers of Yin wind, felt surprised and thought he had really broadened his horizons.

"..."

Traveling so lightly and quickly, he felt the fields and mountains slip by quickly in the night on both sides. Birds, beasts, and some Yin creatures were startled by the commotion of their journey and drifted away in the distance. It really felt like a divine experience.

Yezhou was a thousand *li* away, but they arrived before dawn. They jumped out of the sedan chairs and dispersed the little ghosts.

Even Er锅头 was a little surprised, muttering to himself, "Before the Suppression Office was opened, the Zou Gui Sect could only use one and a half of their thirty percent of *fa li*. Now that the Suppression Office is open, they can use six or even seven percent of their thirty percent of *fa li*..."

"At this rate, will my abilities increase too quickly?"

"..."

Hu Ma nodded secretly from the side, "Indeed amazing. This scene is no less impressive than a trip of the Ten Noble Families..."

Looking into the distance, he saw a hazy mist rising from the fields ahead. He could vaguely see a dilapidated city. They had arrived at Yezhou City in the Northwest Dao.

Er锅头 didn't think much about it. He took out a banner he had prepared long ago from his bag. It read: "Miraculous Hands Restore Spring, The Hegemon of the Apricot Grove... Removes Corns, Picks Warts, Treats Sores, Especially Skilled in Treating Difficult and Complicated Sexual Matters!"

"Ah?"

Hu Ma was shocked. He felt that the banner looked familiar...

"Hey, how can you wander the *jianghu* without an identity?"

Er锅头 chuckled and said, "I got this from an old offering in the Red Lantern Society. When going out to do errands, using this banner saves a lot of trouble."

Hu Ma nodded repeatedly and tentatively asked, "Is that old offering you mentioned nicknamed Old Abacus?"

"That's right!"

Er锅头 said, "Have you met him too?"

Hu Ma immediately stopped talking. The Right Guardian was a busy person and didn't even know that Old Abacus was now in the mine he managed!

When they arrived in Yezhou City, the two had no interest in admiring the scenery of Yezhou City. They were all about the same anyway. So they found a teahouse to sit down, asked the waiter to buy two baskets of steamed buns, brewed a pot of tea, and had a good meal first.

When the sun rose, they came outside the teahouse and squatted down in a corner. Before long, a sedan chair came over and asked if they were really skilled.

Er锅头 glanced at the sedan chair with its curtains drawn, smiled, and nodded. He followed them.

Half an hour later, he returned satisfied, tossing two copper coins in his hand. He said, "There was a young lady in the sedan chair."

"Pretty, and her feet were white. If the corn hadn't been so painful and deep, she probably wouldn't have come out to find us *jianghu* doctors. I removed her corn and even gave her a foot massage..."

"..."

As he was speaking, a burly man came over and asked, "How much to remove a corn? Guaranteed not to grow back?"

Er锅头 said, "One tael of silver, no guarantee."

The other party immediately walked away cursing.

Hu Ma felt that he had opened his eyes. He looked at Er锅头 with a strange expression and sighed, "When will that brother arrive?"

Er锅头 looked around the street, "He should be here soon, right?"

They waited until noon. Then, a man dressed neatly and riding a horse came over. He had already passed them, but then he turned around and looked at them twice. He reined in his horse and asked, "Wild doctor, your banner says you treat sores, can you really treat them?"

Er锅头 raised his head and said, "I have medicine, guaranteed to be good, but it's expensive. Do you want to buy it?"

The man asked, "How expensive?"

Er锅头 said, "Ten taels of silver for a dose!"

The other party's eyes obviously changed slightly. He smiled and said, "Then come with me!"

Hu Ma and Er锅头 got up and followed behind the horse. After passing through two alleys, the other party dismounted and pushed open a door and went inside. When Hu Ma and Er锅头 also came over, the other party immediately looked excited and stretched out his hands from afar:

"I've been waiting for you for a long time. I wandered around the street twice, but I never expected you to be squatting there removing corns for people. This must be the legendary..."

Hu Ma subconsciously wanted to raise his hand, but he saw the other party directly bypass him and shake Er锅头's hand, saying with emotion:

"Brother Er锅头, right?"

"..."

"Shhh..."

Er锅头 didn't expect Brother Wujiapi to be so enthusiastic. He quickly winked and whispered, "You still have to be careful."

"No need, no need."

Wujiapi grinned and said, "Yezhou is a small place. There's no one I can't kill."

After saying that, he turned to Hu Ma and nodded, "Hello, brother."

For some reason, Hu Ma felt that he wasn't as enthusiastic towards him as he was towards Er锅头. It was as if he regarded him as Er锅头's follower. He was puzzled, since he was the one with the First Priority... But he still smiled at the other party and said:

"You are..."

"..."

Instead of saying it directly like Wujiapi, he held up five fingers.

"Genuine article, just came back from Guazhou a few days ago..."

Wujiapi nodded and suddenly remembered something. He whispered, "But to be careful, should we check the password?"

"We're under the jurisdiction of Brother Mendaolv, so the password is..."

"Crayon Shin-chan?"