I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

This huge archway stood like a mountain not far ahead. There were gusts of cold wind around it, and there was no light. The directions were unclear, up and down, left and right, east and west, and north and south.

Everything I experienced on the road was different from the legend. There was no Sanzu River, no premature children piled with stones on the mudflats, and no Manjusari flowers blooming on the Yellow Spring Road.

Fortunately, I and Sakura had this golden light on them, so we could see the road clearly.

Sakurada Wakako looked at the group of kittens with faint golden light and Sakura who was walking in front and leading the way with a vigilant gait, and she was more grateful to Higashino Yu.

If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have been able to walk through such a dark Yellow Spring Road.

She quickly attracted some attention when she was wandering in front of the pass. Soon, several ghost messengers in black and red police uniforms came over.

They held chains and water and fire sticks in their hands, showing ferocious faces but with a sense of majesty, and walking in a methodical manner.

One of them approached, glaring at him:

"How dare you! Where are you from--"

"Hey, wait."

He was about to tie the chain in his hand when he was interrupted by another officer, so he frowned and asked: "Brother Zhang?"

The officer called Brother Zhang pointed at the faint golden light on Sakurada Wakako and the cats around her and whispered.

"Be careful, you just took office and don't know. This golden light is not ordinary. I will report to the judge and make a decision. You wait here and watch her, be polite."

The officer left in a hurry. Just after entering the ghost city, he met a round-faced old official in a green robe and a friendly demeanor.

Why is this person here? He rubbed his eyes and saluted: "I greet Wei Pan."

"Oh? Zhang Qian, you are on duty at the gate of hell today, right? Just right, let me ask you, did you meet an old lady and a few cats?"

"Reporting to Wei Pan, yes."

"Is she protected by golden light, so that the wind cannot invade her body and the evil spirits cannot hurt her soul?"

"Wei Pan is a divine fortune teller!"

It really came!

After hearing this, Wei Zheng knew that he was not wrong. He was overjoyed, stroking his beard and walking back and forth, and then stopped.

"Take me there!"

Several officers were waiting, and saw that he turned back soon, followed by a senior official in green robes.

"Hello, sir." The officers saluted one after another, and then came to Zhang Qian and asked: "Brother Zhang, which judge is this?"

"Don't you know the famous Wei Pan of the Rewarding Department?!" Zhang Qian scolded in a low voice.

The officers begged for mercy: "We have been in office for a short time and are not as knowledgeable as Brother Zhang, so we didn't recognize him."

"Do you recognize him now? Stand still!"

Wei Zheng came to Sakurada Wakako, looked at him carefully, and nodded.

Without saying anything, he stretched out his hand and took out a brush and a book from the void, and wrote a few simple strokes on it.

He then said:

"I am Wei Zheng, the judge of the Underworld's Rewarding Good Deeds Department. Sakurada, you fell into a lowly occupation during your lifetime, and you are a wandering soul from an island country. According to the rules, you should be sent back this time."

"But considering that you did many good deeds during your lifetime, did not do evil after death, and were saved by the disciples of Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun, you can be lenient and reincarnate nearby to avoid the pain of traveling."

"I will ask the King of Hell to send an envoy to explain to the great god Huangquanjin."

"Are you willing?"

Sakurada Wakako had never heard of the words spoken by the god in front of her, but she could understand them.

Is it because of Higashino-kun?

Sakurada Wakako thought to herself and bowed down: "Thank you, great god."

"If you want to thank someone, thank that disciple of the Heavenly Lord."

After Wei Zheng finished speaking, he ordered the ghost messenger Zhang Qian: "You take the person to the Wangxiangtai first. The Heavenly Lord of Rescue will protect you. You can do whatever you want and even give him some time."

"You don't have to go through the process. You can be reincarnated after drinking Mengpo soup. Now that the human way is broken, cats and people should all follow the human way."

After he finished speaking, he turned into a stream of light and hurried away, apparently heading straight to the Yama Palace.

The other officers looked at each other in bewilderment, "Brother Zhang, this, this is against the rules, right? If the King of Hell blames us..."

Zhang Qian patted their heads: "With Wei Pan here, even if the King of Hell blames us, he won't blame you or me."

As he said, he smiled at Sakurada Wakako and said, "Please, old lady. I have been a ghost officer for so many years, and there are only a few hundred people who have reincarnated so smoothly, including you. You are really lucky."

Sakurada Wakako just responded with a subtle smile, and then followed the ghost officer into the gate of hell.

The road was bizarre, with towering halls, swords and swords, and ghosts suffering under the cliffs from afar, and the shrill cries were as faint as the sobbing of the wind.

Arriving at the Wangxiangtai, under the guidance of the ghost officer, Sakurada Wakako stood on this unfamiliar building, looking at the night view of her hometown in Kyoto in a trance.

Those country roads, ancient temples and shrines, as Higashino-kun said, have not changed at all.

Where is the Golden Pavilion?

It is as beautiful as it was back then, except that it looks a bit tacky after being covered with gold foil. I guess the Bodhisattva would not want to see this scene.

As far as her eyes can see, her hometown is all around her. Sakurada Wakako felt a little sad for a moment.

Roses are blooming everywhere, just like the road to her hometown back then.

The old lady thought of this poem inexplicably. Now that she is separated from the living and dead, she is already on the road to the underworld and is about to be reincarnated, but she still has a chance to see her hometown.

Thank you, Higashino-kun.

Sakurada Wakako hums the nursery rhyme of her hometown, and the kittens around her stay quietly beside her.

Sakura also looked up, and the dark Sakurada family was reflected in the cat's eye.

The driver quickly sent Higashino Yu to the apartment in Ayase-cho.

Before getting off the car and leaving, Higashino Yu still shamelessly asked Jinguji Hiiragi for contact information.

At that time, she was resting with her eyes closed. Higashino Yu thought that she probably wouldn't pay attention to him, and might become a clown, but she really gave it to him.

However, the expression of Her Highness the Witch didn't seem very happy at that time.

After saying goodbye to the enthusiastic bodyguards, Higashino Yu went to Saburo to have a drink or two and bought a bowl of ramen to take away.

Back home, turn on the light switch in the entrance hall, the dim light illuminates the dark room, the furnishings are simple, it's cold, and the TV is turned off.

It was the broadcast time of the Gongming Taikoden, and it seemed that Xiuji hadn't come back yet.

Higashino Yu glanced at the time. It was almost eleven o'clock. He stretched his body, slurped the ramen in a few mouthfuls, and prepared to wash up and start practicing.

At this moment, the previously disordered system finally returned to normal.

[This gratitude rating: A-level. ]

[Reward: Shangqing Lingbao Dongxuan Zhenjing: Refining Qi and Transforming the Spirit. ]

Dongye Yu took a deep breath, took out the method from the system space, and looked at the heavy jade slip in his hand with mixed feelings.

It's been eight years, A Tong, do you know how uncomfortable I have been stuck in the level for eight years?

I was anxious before I got it, and I was even more excited after I got it!

Open the book!

Dongye Yu quickly used his spiritual consciousness to refine the jade slip, and the jade slip immediately turned into a stream of light and entered his mind.

Refining Qi and Transforming the Spirit is the second step of the Great Dao.

"Huanzhen Collection" Volume 1: "The middle pass refines Qi and transforms the spirit, replenishes the yin in the middle and becomes Qian." This stage is already a high level of the inner elixir, with perfect essence, spirit and spirit, Yin spirit, and golden elixir.

There are not many people who have achieved success in cultivation in ancient and modern times. As long as they succeed, they can basically be called human immortals. Even if they die at the end of their lifespan, they can easily switch to ghost immortals with the help of their clear and spiritual yin spirit.