Chapter 1840 Borrowing the Holy Mirror Again

"Master, look! It looks like it has been through a great war."

Shangguan Shuyun followed Lin Jichen all the way to a swampy and poisonous place and stopped.

She found the place in a mess. The land within a radius of dozens of miles was cracked into a spider web shape, with rubble and thick soil everywhere, and the corrosive smell of corpses lingering.

As the corpse qi spread, no grass grew around, and there was even the corpse of a subterranean demon dragon underground.

No one knows what happened here, but what can be concluded is that a big battle had indeed just taken place here.

Lin Ji Chen's face was solemn. He carefully scanned every area here with his spiritual sense, but he didn't find the result he wanted.

The jade pendant in his hand kept sending messages, but there was no response at all.

He realized that something might have happened to Youlian.

Lin Ji Chen felt very regretful at this moment. He should have signed a contract with You Lian in the first place.

When he brought You Lian back from England, You Lian kept expressing her desire to be his ghost servant. However, Lin Ji Chen never thought of accepting her as his ghost servant because he was thinking of Xiao Wan.

So in order to make You Lian give up and also to deal with the other party, he proposed the task of finding Guo Jie, saying that as long as Guo Jie was found, he would sign a contract with You Lian.

He originally had no hope for You Lian's trip and planned to call her back and ask her to give up the mission after he successfully passed the tribulation.

Unexpectedly, You Lian actually found Guo Jie before he broke through to the metamorphosis stage.

But now something unexpected seemed to have happened. In just one day, You Lian and Guo Jie disappeared at the same time.

Lin Ji Chen regretted that if he had signed the contract earlier, with the help of the master-servant connection, he would have been able to determine You Lian's situation and even find its exact location.

But now You Lian is missing, and there is obviously a large amount of ghost energy and dissipated ghost essence left here.

Ghost energy is equivalent to human blood. You Lian left behind so much ghost energy, which obviously showed that she was seriously injured or even dead.

Thinking of this possibility, Lin Ji Chen felt guilty. If this persistent and infatuated female ghost really died, he would be so sorry to her. He would probably have this regret for the rest of his life.

"Disciple, where is this place?"

Lin Ji Chen suddenly had an idea. He looked around and asked Shangguan Shuyun.

Shangguan Shuyun also sensed that something big was happening, and quickly replied: "Master, this is the southernmost part of Yongning Prefecture. This is the Nanyin Swamp, and the yin energy is extremely heavy. There is a demon sect nearby called the Corpse King Puppet Sect, but it was destroyed five hundred years ago."

"Corpse King Puppet Sect?" Lin Ji Chen murmured.

Shangguan Shuyun nodded and explained, "The leader of the Corpse King Puppet Sect, Li Tianfu, was a top-notch warrior a hundred years ago. He once passed by the Nanyin Swamp and discovered that this place had a very strong effect of gathering Yin, and it was even a Yin treasure land, which was very suitable for raising corpses and practicing Yin-related evil skills. Li Tianfu founded the Corpse King Puppet Sect here. At that time, masters of the Corpse King Puppet Sect emerged like mushrooms after rain, and all kinds of powerful corpse puppets emerged, causing chaos throughout the Eight Desolate Four Realms, with countless casualties. At that time, the Corpse King Puppet Sect was the first force that almost became a super sect, but because they acted too cruelly and domineeringly, they were eventually wiped out by the joint efforts of various sects, and no one escaped."

“After that, the Corpse King Puppet Sect fell into decline. Although there are similar sects now, such as the Corpse King Puppet Sect, the Puppet Sect and other demon sects, they are worlds apart from the Corpse King Puppet Sect. It was also from then on that the Corpse King Puppet Sect was discontinued, just like the Hehuan Sect back then.”

Shangguan Shuyun talked freely, but Lin Jichen had no time to think about how she knew so many ancient secrets at such a young age. His attention was now focused on one thing: the dwarves!

"As I recall, the dwarves don't seem to be far from the South Shade Swamp?"

"Master, do you also know about the dwarves? That's right, the dwarves are located six hundred miles north of the Nanyin Swamp. There is a vein of earth there, which is the treasure that the dwarves rely on for survival."

Shangguan Shuyun responded.

Lin Jichen's eyes lit up when he heard that, and he immediately handed the sect leader's token to her, saying, "Go to the dwarfs' territory right now and borrow something from them in my name!"

"What is that, Master?" Shangguan Shuyun was puzzled.

"Takuxin Holy Mirror."

The Holy Mirror of the Heart is a sacred artifact of the dwarves. It can copy everything that happened in a certain place long ago.

In the past, Lin Ji Chen and Gu Qingcheng had gone to the dwarven territory to ask for help in order to find Gu Zihan. Also, in order to try Lin Ji Chen, the Yuwen royal family had used the Tuoxin Sacred Mirror to dig out evidence of his sneak attack on Yuwen Tuo.

Therefore, this holy weapon is a rare tool for solving crimes.

It is similar to the surveillance on Blue Star, but the surveillance needs to be arranged and there are too many blind spots. The Tuoxin Holy Mirror does not require these conditions at all. It can be viewed at any time and any place.

"The holy weapon...will they give it to us?" Shangguan Shuyun couldn't help but worry.

"Go ahead. If they don't give it to you, just say that I will come here in person to 'borrow' it! But this time, I'm afraid it will take a long time to return it." Lin Ji Chen said in a domineering tone.

Gu Qingcheng had used this method in the beginning, and very "friendly"ly lent someone else's holy weapon.

He is now just copying someone else's advice and letting Shangguan Shuyun take action on his behalf.

He believed that the dwarves would know what to do.

Shangguan Shuyun took the order and left, but Lin Jichen continued to search nearby unwillingly. Unfortunately, he searched for thousands of miles but did not find any clues.

Fortunately, Shangguan Shuyun successfully returned after half a day, and indeed he was holding the dwarf's sacred weapon in his hand.

But there were a few old dwarves following her.

The old dwarves kept complaining before they even saw Lin Ji Chen.

"You keep borrowing things like this. Is this ever going to stop?"

"This girl is so bullying because she relies on her master being Lin Jichen."

"Who said it wasn't true? She wouldn't lie to us, would she?"

"She dares. If she dares to lie to us, we dwarves will not let her go!"

"What's so great about Lin Jichen? He just bullies us dwarves!"

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Shangguan Shuyun didn't say a word all the way, just flew silently with his head down.

It's not that she was afraid, but she had never done such a thing of "robbery" in her life, so she felt very ashamed and embarrassed and didn't want to speak.

In fact, she has broken her principles many times.

The moment she saw Lin Ji Chen, she felt relieved and quickly ran to report.

"Master, I brought the Saint Mirror of the Heart, but these dwarf elders insisted on following me, saying that we should return it to them after using it. From their tone, they seemed a little unhappy..."

Hearing this, Lin Ji Chen's eyes fell on the back of Shangguan Shuyun, where several dwarf elders had been talking nonstop.

The moment they saw Lin Jichen, they instantly became well-behaved and forced themselves to put on professional fake smiles, looking both pitiful and funny.

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