The boy Xiang Tianyu looked a bit dazed. This person was clearly older than him; why was he calling him older brother?
Chen Shi's heart churned.
Granny Sha was about to go crazy looking for her son.
She once had a happy family and a fulfilling life, but driven astray by greed, she had asked her son Xiang Tianyu to help her enter the Underworld to search for the Three Lives Stone.
With that trip, Xiang Tianyu never returned.
Xiang Tianyu's father Xiang Yunfei divorced Granny Sha, leaving her completely alone and destitute. She spent her entire life suffering the agony of her son's death and searching for him.
She searched for a lifetime, from thirty to over sixty years old, until she turned into a white-haired crone, until her once-proud figure withered into the stooped frame of an old hag.
To find her son, she pioneered countless soul-related spells, offended countless ghosts and deities, and became a wanted fugitive at the top of the Underworld's most-wanted list.
Known as the Soul-Searching Rakshasa, she became one of the Six Great Evils of the Five Lakes, yet she remained stubbornly obsessed with hunting down Xiang Tianyu's whereabouts.
Chen Shi held Xiang Tianyu's hand, worried that he might be blown away by the Underworld winds like other lonely wandering ghosts, eaten by the Underworld's oxen and horses, or killed by those crazed arhats and gandharvas.
He carefully inquired about the details of Xiang Tianyu entering the Buddhist hells.
He asked particularly thoroughly about the ghost or deity who had sent Xiang Tianyu inside.
"He was a young man wearing white, looking like a young master, and he was very handsome. Behind him stood a huge ghost and deity, not wearing any clothes except for a ragged pair of shorts, with red skin,