Chapter 16.2

The boy on the right replied: “We don’t know. We weren’t born yet. About this ice tomb, it’s all stories left by the seniors. Today, we saw the ice tomb was opened, so we thought he was back, and wanted to come over and get to know this old senior.”

“Since none of you are Cang Sheng, we are going to leave here.” The other boy said.

“Also, don’t let other people know about this place.”

After the two little boys finished speaking, they turned into herons and flew away.

Kong Kong took Cang Qiong’s hand and asked curiously, “Isn’t Cang Sheng the ancestor of your Cang family?”

“Well, that person is the genuine ancestor of our Cang family.”

“Is he Little White’s elder brother?”

“Yes.” Cang Qiong nodded, looked at the herons in the sky, and added, “I think… I know why our family name is Cang…”*

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Kong Kong also ran up to join them, “Godfather, I want to eat the fish here…”

“Yes! Yes! How can I forget about this?!” Pan Pan took this opportunity, and pulled Little White and Little Black together, “Let’s go! Let’s go catch fish! After we catch it, we will go home!”

After being pulled by Pan Pan, the gazes of these two met for a moment. Both of them saw the same sadness, doubts, contradictions, and expectations in each other’s eyes… But now, no one knew anything.

After everyone withdrew from the area of ​​the ice tomb, the ice reeds shrouded it again.

Little White watched his corpse gradually cover up under the reed leaves. A question he had never worried about suddenly came to his mind, “Pan Pan, my corpse is still sealed with a snake demon. Will it be safe to put it here?”

“Don’t worry too much. It’s better to put it here than put it in the lively mortal world. Not to mention that it has been left here for so long without incident. If you think it would be unsafe, I’ll send someone to set up a barrier later.”

“Oh, good…” In fact, the barrier of the Underworld was as fragile as a spider’s web, and only Pan Pan has always been proud of it.

An hour later, everyone had a good harvest and returned home.

Kong Kong and Cang Qiong carried a large ice cube into the kitchen. They started to chisel the ice bit by bit on the kitchen table. It was full of frozen ice fish. They didn’t expect that Little Black was quite good at catching fish. He froze a group of ice fish at once and took back the smashed block of ice. The legend said that Chang Mu spent ten pieces of silver to buy one ice fish, but today, they easily got more than 20 of them! They wanted to find Chang Mu and showed it off to him, but he was not at home. He probably took the child out for a walk.

After lunch, Pan Pan returned to the Underworld. Seeing that King Yama was not there, he sat down on his seat and asked the little ghost beside him, “Where did King Yama go?”

The little ghost replied: “I don’t know. There was a celestial boy from heaven who came down and sent a message, and then King Yama followed him. He looked quite happy.”

‘Oh, it turned out that he went to heaven…’ “Call the four judges. I have some business that I need to do.”

“Yes.”

The little ghost ran off. Pan Pan was left sitting alone in the Hall of King Yama, considering the issues needed to be investigated.

Generalizing the various situations that happened to Little Black, there was reason to suspect that he was Cang Sheng, and there was even a 90% certainty to confirm this guess. But——How could Cang Sheng become Little Black? If he really went to the Underworld, it was very likely that he had reincarnated through the reincarnation of the six realms and also drank the Meng Po soup. Otherwise, Little Black would have no memory of his previous life. Or was he reincarnated into Little Black in the mortal world in a wicked way? But what was his motive for doing that?

After the four judges arrived at the hall, Pan Pan hurriedly said, “Hurry up and find me some data.”

Life and Death Judge Cui Jue stepped forward and waited for the dispatch, “What data does Master Shi want?”

“I want the records of some outside intruders that happened in the Underworld shortly before and after Little White took the position.”

“Ah? My master, there are around 800 or 1,000 outside intrusion incidents in the Underworld on average within a year, ranging from the old monster of Black Mountain to the small sesame fly spirit. In addition, how many years do you mean ‘before and after’? Can you give me more details? Or a scope?”

“Heron.”

“Heron?”

“Yes, I want the record of heron spirits.”

“But… Master Shi, frankly speaking, many monsters who have broken into the Underworld don’t know their identities. It would be difficult to find out.”

“That’s right…” ‘The rough survey data really wasn’t the right way to go. I should carefully think things through before doing an act.’ Pan Pan continued to ponder: ‘There was a six-year gap between when Little White died and took the position. Little Black had a specific date of birth. The period that needs to be investigated should be after Little White’s death and before Little Black’s birth.’ “Why don’t you hand me Little Black’s life record first. I want to take a look.”

“Yes.” The four judges stepped back after receiving the task.

Just when Pan Pan was quietly thinking over, Cang Qiong brought Kong Kong down to the Underworld and visited him,”Godfather, do you know how to cook ice fish? Do you have a recipe here?”

Pan Pan immediately ordered the servant to bring the fat chef over to write the recipe. Once he got Little Black’s birth record, he started reading it. He was surprised to find that the year Little Black was born happened to be the year Little White took the position. Just at this moment, Little Black and Little White couldn’t hold back their feelings and ran down too. “Pan Pan, have you found any result yet?”

“Oops! Don’t bother me. I’m looking for evidence now. You go away first.” Pan Pan felt bothered.

Little Black and Little White shrank their heads, and had no choice but to keep silent.

Seeing Pan Pan became a little impatient, Kong Kong took out a small shiny thing from his pocket and gave it to him, “Godfather, this is something I found in Ice Reed Marsh, isn’t it beautiful?”

“What is this? Nails?” Even his daughter-in-law stepped forward to interrupt him, he couldn’t blame and be mad at him. Pan Pan felt bored and casually took it to take a look. There was actually a ruby ​​on top of this three-inch nail? ‘Looks a bit familiar…’

Little White gave a glance. When he saw the nail, his face violently changed and immediately rushed up! “Kong Kong, what did you say just now? Where did you pick up this nail?”

“Ice Reed Marsh… While you were fishing, I went to touch the beautiful little rocks and found this nail…” Kong Kong bashfully smiled and took out another. “Actually, there is another one. I found two in total, hehe…”

Little White grabbed another nail in Kong Kong’s hand and checked it repeatedly. “This is the Seven Tang Nail. It’s the soul-suppressing magic weapon that sealed the snake demon in my body. How could it fall out?!”

“Seven Tang Nails?” Pan Pan jumped up from his seat as soon as he heard this name! ‘Shit! What Little White has worried about has become a real disaster!’

“Pan Pan, quickly lend me the carriage! Little Black and I will go back and have a look!” Little White pulled Little Black, ready to go.

“Let’s go together.” Pan Pan threw the data on the table, wanting to help them in this critical situation.

“It’s dangerous. You can’t go.”

“No, only a few nails had fallen off. It won’t come out for a while. Didn’t we just come back from there? I can go and cast a spell to seal it.” Pan Pan called out the ghost carriage and was the first one to jump on. Little Black and Little White thought what he said seemed to make sense so they let him go.

Seeing that everyone was worried and vanished in the ghost carriage, Kong Kong was a little worried and asked Cang Qiong: “Is the snake demon very powerful? Will it eat the godfather?”

“No at all,” Cang Qiong shook his head disdainfully. “Godfather will make it into snake soup for us to eat.” Then he smiled again, shook the recipe in his hand, and said, “Let’s go and make some fish soup.”

“Great!”

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On the other side, the three quickly returned to the glaciers they had left just now. But the ghost carriage seemed unable to directly enter the Ice Reed Marsh; the three had to jump down and prepare to walk in. As soon as Little Black took Little White’s hand, a powerful demonic aura rushed out from the entrance of the other world, and a group of birds fled in a hurry.

“Really? It’s only been two hours, the snake demon ran out?!” Before Pan Pan finished complaining, Little Black and Little White suddenly felt that the situation was not good. The demonic energy emitted came faster and faster. They immediately pulled Pan Pan back on guard. They felt that this demonic energy was about to burst out.

“Pan Pan, you get in the carriage and go back first. Otherwise, you’ll be in danger.” Little White ordered.

“No, let me see the snake demon who had been a trouble with our two generations of Black and White Impermanent in the underworld, maybe I can persuade it to return to his righteousness.”

“Return to your head! Are you going or not?” Little White ruthlessly shook the white bone whip, “If you don’t, I’ll whip you!”

“Okay, okay, I’m leaving. Why are you so fierce?” Pan Pan pouted in dissatisfaction and prepared to get into the carriage, “Hey… Judge is the most useless one. I’m leaving. You guys must be careful. I will send more people to help you after I get back to the Underworld…”

Before the words were finished, a sudden huge, translucent shadow rushed out from the door of the other world, and its target was straight to the ghost carriage that Pan Pan was on. 

“Pan Pan! Move!”

“What?” Pan Pan was slow to turn his head. When he saw the escaped beast, he shouted in fright, “Oh my God! Is this the snake demon?!” Even his instinct to flee was lost.

At a critical moment, Little White rushed over and wanted to drag Pan Pan away. Unfortunately, it was too late. A glare of light hit, but the protective barrier was too late to open. Just when Little White felt he would be finished, he closed his eyes and subconsciously used his body to protect foolish Pan Pan. But they didn’t know that there was a black shadow shielding them.

Boom! The ghost carriage broke into pieces, the ghost flames fiercely shook, and the air current turned vicious… Pan Pan and Little White were thrown out and fell into the snow.

Little White quickly got up again and found himself intact. What a miracle! Pan Pan got out of the snowdrift with an “Ouch! Ouch!” He covered his right arm and screamed in pain. It seemed that he was injured. Just when he wanted to give a hand, a turquoise soul ball fluttered, drifting at the tip of his nose… Little Black?

“Little Blacki!” This was Little Black’s soul ball! Suddenly, Little White seemed to be struck by lightning. Little Black’s soul balls floating around told him why he wasn’t injured.

However, Little White was the strongest Impermanent ghost. He quickly regained his composure and forcibly comforted himself: ‘It doesn’t matter. As long as we have Pan Pan to help us, it won’t be a problem!’

He struggled to get back the soul balls, carefully put them in his pocket, and held them in his arms.

The snake demon soon launched a second wave of attacks. Pan Pan loudly shouted for it to stop: “Wait a minute! Wait a minute! There is no grudge and hatred between us. Why are you attacking us?”

“No grudge and hatred? You are the judge of the Underworld. A friend of that little bastard Chang. You were relishing about how to seal me up forever. He is Cang Ling, who used seven nails to seal me the second time. How can there be no hatred?”

Pan Pan smiled in embarrassment, “How–how do you know?” During his speech, he secretly looked at Little White who finished collecting the soul balls…

The snake demon smiled grimly, sticking out its thin black tongue. It didn’t know that the other party was stalling for time. It just wanted to let them die without misunderstanding: “Although I have been sealed for thousands of years, I have always been conscious, and I know everything about the outside world. Crystal clear. I have been looking for an opportunity to escape, and finally waited until the day when Seven Tang Nails lost its mana. Now, I want to take revenge! New hatred and old grudge should be paid back together.”

“Wait! Wait a minute! I have another question and want to be advised!” Pan Pan’s legs were trembling, but his voice was still firm, “You are clearly a spiritual body now. Why is your attack so powerful?”

“Actually, the Seven Tang Nails have no effect on me. It only enclosed me in one place. For the past thousand years, I have been cultivating, and with the grievances accumulated over the years, I have become an invincible spiritual body.”

“Haha! It’s amazing! Marvelous!” Pan Pan applauded like a retard.

“Pan Pan, all right, this way!” Little White whispered while holding a bag of soul balls.  He intended to hand them over to Pan Pan, and he would stay and delay the snake demon for a while. But he didn’t expect Pan Pan to say to the snake demon: “Great Divine, come here. I’ll take you to Chang Mu to take revenge. Keep up!” After saying that, he turned around and ran in the opposite direction. The snake demon opened its mouth full of fangs and chased after him.

Little White inwardly shouted that it wasn’t good. Pan Pan wanted to lure away the monster alone! But why did he run instead of fly? He became silly again! Little White hurried up and wanted to save him!

Just as Little White was digging a hole, trying to hide a bag of soul balls first. Unexpectedly, there was a sound of car honking in the air, followed by a sharp slash of air shot from the car. It sliced the air and cut the snake demon’s head straight!

The snake demon screamed and disappeared. Pan Pan turned around and saw a silver sports car slowly approaching and stopped in front of him. The demonic energy in the groceries disappeared without a trace… ‘Did he die or run away?’ He had to think about it later. What Pan Pan wanted to know now was how did King Yama drive a new BMW luxury car from the sky?

King Yama opened the car door and walked out. As soon as he opened his mouth, he accused Pan Pan: “Why did you cause trouble behind my back again? Fortunately, I arrived in time.”

“I didn’t do it behind you. It was just that it happened so suddenly, I didn’t have time to report it to you yet. The monster just ran out…”

“Forget it. You’re not hurt, are you?”

“Yes! My right wrist hurts!”

“Let me take a look.” King Yama raised Pan Pan’s right hand with concern.

Pan Pan pointed to the handsome car that didn’t seem to be King Yama’s taste, “Your car…”

Since he mentioned it, King Yama appeared very proud. He patted the car cover and said, “Oh, this car is a model that Qiong Qiong has been looking for a long time when he was reading a car magazine a few days ago. I asked Laojun to help me make a copy of it. It has the original functions of the old ghost carriage and the speed has been increased to three times as the old one. In the future, the whole family can have a trip with it. Do you think Qiong Qiong will like it?”

“Oh…” That was it. “He probably will like it… Most boys like handsome cars.”

“I think so too.” King Yama was quite proud.

At the time, Little White carried the bloody body of Little Black, using his mouth to hold the bag of the soul balls. He came up to them in misery. Upon seeing him, Pan Pan immediately went over to help and took the bag from Little White’s mouth.

King Yama was still dumbfounded, “What’s wrong with Little Black?”

“Can’t you see it? He was beaten and caused his souls to scatter! You are a big ghost who has no heart and liver. You’re only good at exploiting your subordinates, working for you until they die!! Woohoo… Little Black and I are so pitiful …” ‘This person even went here to show off his new car! It’s too much!’ Thinking about it, Little White felt aggrieved. He opened the rear door, put Little Black in, deliberately smothered the entire rear seat with blood, and then sat in the car, shouting fiercely: “Drive quickly! Go back and save his life! “

“Oh.” Seeing Little White and Little Black were so miserable, King Yama was also in a hurry and drove home without a word.

Pan Pan looked at the glaciers outside the window and estimated that the snake demon wasn’t dead yet. ‘It just fled back to the Ice Reed Marsh. Otherwise, the demonic aura would not disappear without a trace at once. But without Little Black, no one can get into the area. After his body recovers, we will go in and clean up the evil spirit!’ Imagining about it, Pan Pan asked Little White in the back seat: “Little White, Little Black’s soul balls aren’t missing, right?”

With a red nose, Little White held back his tears and counted them one by one, “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,… Three souls and seven spirits, no… eh? Why is there one more?!”

“What? More?” Pan Pan took over the bag and counted them again. It turned out there was one more! He looked carefully and found that although these soul balls were green, one was more greenish blue… After inspection, he found that this blueish soul ball was someone’s “senevie soul.” “My God, Little Black has always had four souls and seven spirits in his body. It’s a miracle that he didn’t turn out to be an idiot.”

“Then how could he have four souls and seven spirits?”

“I don’t know…” Was it possible that because of the disturbance of this “senevie soul” he lost his original memory as Cang Sheng?

As Pan Pan and Little White were still puzzled, King Yama’s new car had driven up to the door. The speed of the new model was truly remarkable.

Little White rushed into the house, holding eleven soul balls. Pan Pan hastily went upstairs to find his gourd. King Yama brought Little Black in and put him on the sofa.

Chang Mu with Xu Dian, and Cang Qiong with Kong Kong. The four were cooking fish soup in the kitchen when they heard the commotion. They all ran out to check the situation.

“What happened?” Chang Mu asked.

“Tell you later!” Pan Pan ran to Little White with the gourd. Little White was about to put the soul balls in, but the bluish ball floated out and flew towards Xu Dian, circling high and low on Xu Dian’s head.

Chang Mu’s mouth gradually opened wide. He was so excited that his heartbeat almost stopped, “Oh my God… This is the feeling of Little Ma… Could this be the soul ball that my Little Ma lost?!”

“What?!” Everyone was astounded. Xu Dian’s soul ball was in Little Black’s body all along?!