Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

"Selling?"

The vendor looked up at Chen Qiu with a peculiar gaze, "Are you new here?"

"Something like that," Chen Qiu casually replied while fiddling with the jade scroll in his hand.

"If you're new, how could you have any Yin Stones? This item is only useful for newcomers, and we usually don't sell it; instead, we give it away for free after three days of work," said the vendor.

"What's the price if you do sell it?"

"If I sell it..." The vendor pondered for a moment before hesitatingly saying, "Three Yin Stones. Do you have them?"

Chen Qiu clenched the jade scroll in his hand and, without bargaining, got up and took out three Yin Stones from within his robes, tossing them in front of the vendor. It was only when he stood up that the vendor hastily advised, "Ghost Cultivators cannot project their Divine Sense outside their body; you'll know the information inside just by crushing the jade scroll."

After Chen Qiu had gone some distance,

the vendor watched his receding figure with a strange expression. How could a newcomer nowadays directly forge a physical body? Could it be a Merit Body?

That could be possible.

With just 1,000 merit points, one can forge a body; the requirement isn't too high. As long as one was a good person in life, they could basically meet this criterion and possess a Merit Body.

But the problem is no one knows these rules of the underworld while they are alive. If they had known about these rules, they definitely would have been exceedingly virtuous.

Of course, those are the fortunate ones.

Even without much merit, they didn't have much sin either. Those with a lot of sin suffer a lot when they descend here.

"Tsk, tsk,"

The vendor shook his head from Chen Qiu's retreating back, not thinking much of it, but found it somewhat odd; it had been a long while since he had seen a Ghost Cultivator from the Dwarf Clan. He thought they might have all died out.

...

"Crow Ghost City."

In a quiet alley, Chen Qiu crushed the jade scroll in his hand, instantly accessing all the information within it – which was quite basic and contained no deeply profound messages.

Everyone who arrives in the underworld is someone who has died.

And these people usually land near various cities in the underworld. Their initial state is as Yin Souls, and at that time, they need to acquire heavenly materials and earthly treasures to forge their own bodies.

The better the heavenly materials and earthly treasures, the stronger the body forged.

Other than clothes, nothing from the Mortal World can be brought over, so everyone starts anew in the underworld, as all belongings cease to function upon arrival. Except for the clothes, everything else will be corroded by Yin Qi and destroyed after three days.

The weakest body only requires heavenly materials and earthly treasures worth roughly 100 Yin Stones.

So, most newcomers

need to work first to accumulate enough Yin Stones to forge a body.

If, during life, they had a high Cultivation Realm like Golden Core or Nascent Soul, then after forging their new bodies and becoming Ghost Cultivators, they will become Ghost Cultivators of a corresponding Cultivation Realm, and whether they explore the Secret Realms of the underworld or through other means, they will be able to earn Yin Stones much faster.

Of course—

Besides Ghost Cultivators, there's another type in the underworld: Soul Cultivators!

Soul Cultivators do not forge a body, remaining as Yin Souls, able to attack with Divine Sense and lock onto their enemies to cast spells.

Ghost Cultivators, however, cannot project their Divine Sense outside of their bodies. They mainly strengthen their physical strength and can also cast spells, but without the ability to lock on with Divine Sense, their accuracy is not very high.

This roughly corresponds to the Magic Practitioners and Body Cultivators of the Mortal World.

Both types cultivate by absorbing Yin Qi, but spells requiring Yang Qi cannot be used here; they have to learn new spells suited to Yin Qi.

But overall,

those with higher Cultivation from their previous life still have certain advantages in the underworld. Even though they can't use their spells, their Cultivation Realm remains, and after becoming Ghost Cultivators, even the most basic physical body is stronger than that of a Golden Core Cultivator.

It's just that they no longer have access to Divine Domain techniques.

Golden Core and Nascent Soul Cultivators also cannot leave their bodies. Once the physical body dies, the Golden Core and Nascent Soul are automatically obliterated, and there are no methods like Golden Core seizing.

"..."

Chen Qiu looked at the fragments of the jade scroll in his palm, calmly lifted his head to gaze at the misty sky above, though he could no longer use his spells and Divinity Transformation Domain in the underworld.

But...

It didn't seem to matter much.

According to the information about the strength of a Nascent Soul Ghost Cultivator's body that he gained from the jade scroll, it was far inferior to his Merit Body. Possessing a Merit Body that came into being through hundreds of billions of merit points meant he could act without constraint in the underworld,

and no one could do anything about him.

However, there was one thing to note; the "Continent Under Strife" version had not updated in the underworld, which meant that in the underworld, killing fellow cultivators of the Alien Clan with similar cultivation did not increase training progression.

But he had experimented, and when he killed Alien Clan cultivators of the same realm, it did indeed increase his training progression—a bit like... exploiting a bug.

After all, he didn't enter the underworld through normal means.

He had snuck in.

Wait a second...

He suddenly remembered something, glancing at an entry embedded on his Nascent Soul.

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"Entry Name": Burial.

"Entry Level": Blue.

"Entry Effect": Upon your death, a phenomenon covering the entire Continent will occur to see you off.

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His arrival in the underworld can't really be considered a death, can it? If it can, wouldn't that mean a phenomenon had occurred across the entire Continent to see him off?

What a pity.

He wouldn't be able to witness that scene for himself. He hoped that Fat Long and the others had recorded it with a Memory Stone so he could watch it slowly when he returned.

He also wondered how Fat Long and the others would react upon learning of his death.

In the underworld, entries cannot be used, and there's no such thing as an entry jade slip. The underworld, in contrast to the Mortal World, resembles a reduced version.