The weather had grown hotter. Summer had already arrived, and it was the Grain Buds season.
Inside Lingxu Abbey, Cheng Xinzhan was expounding the Dao with Xu Wan.
The Dao of Great Yin Ghost Seal Script.
The Daoist was deeply concerned about the stability of the Ghost Kingdom's underground palace. Although the Naraka Pearl was now displaying its miraculous effects and had stabilized the palace, this ultimately treated the symptoms rather than the root and could hardly last forever. Before this, the Ghost Kingdom had possessed many wondrous Dharma Treasures, but as time passed, they had gradually lost their efficacy. Although the Naraka Pearl was an innate spiritual pearl and should endure for a very long time, resting the foundations of the entire Ghost Kingdom upon this single pearl was inadvisable. The Daoist believed that repairing the restrictions and seal patterns left by the Underworld's Ghost Immortals and Netherworld Officials to sustain the underground palace's operation-or even adding more and strengthening the restrictions-might be the way to address the root.
He remembered telling Xu Wan this idea more than a month earlier. Xu Wan had shaken his head as he listened.
"That won't work. The characters forming those restrictions are the 'Luo Yu Secret Taboo Ghost Seal Script,' a superior script within Great Yin Ghost Seal Script, reserved exclusively for the Netherworld Prison within the Underworld Office and never taught to outsiders. Although the Underworld's Ghost Immortals helped us open up the underground palace back then, they never taught us this script. Otherwise, our Ghost Kingdom would never have been left so helpless. Ever since the Underworld withdrew from the world and the underground palace became unstable, our kingdom's advanced cultivators have been studying this script, hoping to repair some of it and shore up the palace, but they have