Chapter 1 I'm Called Li Po

As I looked up at the auto repair shop across the street, I leapt into the air, tapping my toes on the ground to gain momentum and jump to the entrance.

A man dressed as a mechanic came out of the door to greet me: "What's the rush? No one's waiting for you. Aren't you afraid of scaring people in the shop by jumping around like that?"

I looked at him: "Friend, your joke isn't funny."

The mechanic said: "You're looking to go to the underworld, aren't you?"

I was slightly taken aback and said, "You can take me to the underworld?"

The mechanic looked at me strangely: "If you're not going to the underworld, what are you doing at the Tongyang Relay Station?"

I hesitated for a moment before saying, "I want to go to the Great Dreamland."

The mechanic smiled: "It's been a while since I've been there. Please, come in!"

I followed him into the shop, and he casually opened the door to a garage.

Inside, there was an antique counter. Hanging on the pillars near the counter were horse whips and halters. At first glance, it looked like an ancient relay station.

The mechanic naturally sat behind the counter: "Do you have a luyinzi (travel permit)?"

"No!" I became curious about the mechanic: "Are you talking about something you need to go to the underworld?"

Luyin, to put it bluntly, was a pass from ancient times.

In ancient times, information wasn't as readily available as it is now. To control the movement of the population, the government set up travel permits. Ordinary people who wanted to travel from one city to another had to have a travel permit.

It recorded in detail the person's place of origin, the city they were going to, and their purpose.

Without a travel permit, you couldn't enter the city and might even be taken away by the government for questioning.

The mechanic looked at me strangely: "What exactly are you here for? You don't know this, you don't know that. Are you here to make fun of me?"

Ye Yang stepped forward and held a sword to the man's forehead: "Call out the person in charge!"

The mechanic seemed amused: "Dare to cause trouble here? Don't you know where you are?"

"Boss, there's someone here acting tough."

Without another word, Ye Yang unleashed his sword qi, piercing the man's head.

The man died with his eyes open, seemingly unable to believe that Ye Yang would suddenly kill him.

At this moment, an elaborately dressed old man walked out from behind the counter.

He looked at the corpse in the pool of blood and said to Ye Yang with a frosty expression, "Young man, do you know the consequences of killing someone here?"

Ye Yang took out the Provincial Governor's Seal and slammed it on the table: "See for yourself!"

Ye Yang's palm strike wasn't light, but the Provincial Governor's Seal didn't sink into the table. Instead, it trembled slightly on the surface.

That was Ye Yang sending a signal. He was mobilizing the ghost guards of the Two Worlds Hall.

The old man leaned forward to look at the Provincial Governor's Seal and sneered: "Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren?"

"Let me tell you the truth, today, even if the boss of Wu Sheng came here, he would have to kneel down and apologize for killing my man, let alone you two ordinary Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren."

"Is that so?" I said with a half-smile: "Just now, that guy said I was acting tough. It seems like you're about to pee on the roof, huh?"

I stepped forward and said: "Today, I want to see how you're going to make me kneel!"

The old man raised his hand to clap, but his expression changed—the ghost guards of the Two Worlds Hall had arrived.

These ghost guards still wore the uniforms of the Underworld Embroidered Uniform Guard: embroidered clothing, long sabers, and cold expressions.

The old man stammered: "Embroidered... Embroidered Uniform Guard? How could you possibly summon the Embroidered Uniform Guard?"

I took a few steps forward: "I am Li Po! Have you heard of my name?"

The old man was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a thud: "This servant, Zuo Ming, greets... greets the young master of the Embroidered Uniform Guard."

Ye Yang and I exchanged glances, and I said, "Seal off this place. Anyone who approaches the repair shop within fifty steps, whether human or ghost, shall be killed without mercy."

Several ghost guards responded and left. I pulled up a chair and sat down: "Zuo Ming, now, am I asking you, or are you going to tell me on your own?"

"The nature of me asking and you telling is quite different."

I learned this trick from TV. The secret agents in TV shows don't really have any evidence before they catch people. They don't know what secrets the other person knows, or they only know a limited number of secrets.

During interrogation, they don't say anything themselves and let the other person confess.

If the other person gets scared and starts blurting everything out, many secrets that others don't know will be revealed.

"This... I... Young Master Li, I really don't know what to say!" The old man Zuo knelt on the ground and stammered for a long time without saying a word.

Ye Yang said coldly: "Tongyang Carriages transport living people to the underworld, so naturally they can also bring the dead back to the Yang world."

"Recently, a large number of earth souls have been smuggled into the Yang world from the underworld. We haven't been able to find the channel for smuggling earth souls. Your repair shop is not bad..."

Old Man Zuo's face turned pale: "Young Marshal, please understand! This humble one would never dare to do anything that involves smuggling people across the Yellow Springs. That's a serious crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of relatives. This humble one doesn't have the guts!"

I sneered: "I see that you not only have the guts, but you have a lot of them. Since you don't want to tell us brothers, then go to the underworld and tell them!"

"Someone, seize his soul!"

"No!" Old Man Zuo was really frightened this time: "I'll talk, I'll tell you everything."