Everyone thought that mother and son had left, but in fact they appeared on top of the Ancient Pagoda.

Queen Flower Lady’s bestie committed suicide, so even after seven days she couldn’t reincarnate. She could only appear in the Ancient Pagoda, and her child was already a Ghost Cultivator—he looked tiny, but could transform into all kinds of blades and Swords.

Not long after Queen Flower Lady arrived at the Ancient Pagoda, she became the Ghost King here.

It wasn’t that she devoured those Spiritual Bodies; rather, they voluntarily offered up part of their soul power so she could become the Ghost King and protect all the Spiritual Bodies inside the Ancient Pagoda.

She wasn’t bad by nature. All those things she did in her previous life were caused by her muddled mind. Once she found her obsession and dissolved it, it instead had a "lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha on the spot" kind of feel.

In the end, the old man still didn’t bring Little Taotie and Hua Jinyan, but instead brought his own people to the Ancient Pagoda to continue searching for Shen Cang’s whereabouts.

Queen Flower Lady hadn’t expected to see her bestie with a clear mind again.

With the help of the eyedrops, she communicated with her bestie. With the help of the pagoda’s guardian spirit—her bestie the Ghost King—they opened another passage.

The passage was similar to the one under the black stone, but the Ghost King bestie said that one was a land of death, and the other was a land of life.

It was also for the protection of the Spiritual Bodies within the Ancient Pagoda that the land of death existed.

Through the passage of life, they finally arrived before a Cangtian Great Tree.

"It’s Shen Cang!" The old man was beside himself with excitement and ran forward, only to be bounced back by an invisible barrier.

"Leader, are you okay?" Queen Flower Lady helped him up.

The old man shook his head slightly. "His complexion doesn’t look good. The vines wrapped around him seem to be sucking out his essence, energy, and spirit."

"We can’t get in for the time being." Another colleague holding a Compass said in a low voice.

Queen Flower Lady: "I’ll go ask my bestie again."

But when she went back to the Ancient Pagoda to see her Ghost King bestie, the latter was also helpless. She said that this tree didn’t belong to the original existence in the Ancient Pagoda, but had later fallen from the sky into the pagoda.

"This should be the true body of that stick in Hua Jinyan’s hand," a colleague said.

"Looks like we still have to get Hua Jinyan over here."

"But that stick is just a split-off part, a tiny piece. It’s nothing compared to the enormous Cangtian Great Tree. It might just end up as lunch and get swallowed the moment it comes over."

"That possibility definitely exists."

Everyone was talking at once, and in the end all eyes focused on the old man.

The old man pondered for a moment. "Bring the stick here. Don’t let the two kids come over."

In the end this task was handed to Queen Flower Lady.

Who knew that Queen Flower Lady would bring not only the stick, but also Little Taotie and Hua Jinyan.

"Didn’t we tell you to just bring the stick?" A colleague pulled Queen Flower Lady aside and muttered, "You messed up again! You’re done for!"

Queen Flower Lady looked bitter. "The stick’s in their hands. They wouldn’t give it to me, and they ran ahead of me to get here. What was I supposed to do?"

Little Taotie stood in front of Queen Flower Lady in a protective stance. "Don’t blame her. We wanted to come. She couldn’t stop us at all."

The old man massaged his forehead. "Fine, you’re here already. Just stand off to the side and don’t mess around. Give me the stick."

He held his hand out to Hua Jinyan.

Hua Jinyan didn’t hand over the stick, insisting on personally going to the passage of life to see that tree.

The stick was trembling all over; even though it now had someone backing it, it still instinctively feared its true body.

Hua Jinyan reached out and patted the stick lightly in a soothing way. "I’m here."

The stick instantly stopped trembling, and you could almost see excitement on that single stick.