Following Emperor Xudu, Shi Xing and others came to a palace, and there were eight people waiting in the palace at this time.

"I've seen the Emperor." The eight people were the remaining eight ghost kings, and when they saw Emperor Xudu walking in, they immediately stood up and said hello.

"I've been waiting for a long time, so let's all sit down." Emperor Xudu glanced at the eight people, waved his hand, and motioned for everyone to sit down.

"Now that you're here, you know what I'm trying to say today." Emperor Xudu, who was sitting at the top, looked at everyone with a smile.

"What the Emperor means, Fu Bo has already told us." A middle-aged man in a white robe sitting at the front nodded, this person was Wang Zhenren, one of the ghost emperors in the West.

"Wang Zhenren is right, we just want to see what to do." An honest-looking man sitting under Wang Zhenren touched his head and said with a smile.

"You are also like Wang Zhenren and Zhang Heng think?"

"Exactly."

"Okay, in that case, I'll give you my opinion." Emperor Xudu paused, cleared his throat, and continued, "The mysterious death of the Southern Ghost Emperor, although I am also very sad and incomprehensible, but the country cannot be without a king for a day, and the family cannot be without a husband for a day, for the stability of the southern territory, so I have decided to choose one of the eight of you to succeed as the Southern Ghost Emperor." ”

Subsequently, Emperor Xudu introduced the punishment to the eight ghost emperors and informed the ghost emperors of the method.

"If you want to succeed to the position of the Southern Ghost Emperor, you must participate in this competition, and the winner, I will recognize his status."

A man with a grim face sitting in the far corner suddenly asked, "Emperor, I want to ask, will you intervene in this battle?" ”

Emperor Xudu shook his head, "As long as you don't disturb the stability of the underworld, I won't interfere." ”

The grim-faced man smiled after hearing this, "Since this is the emperor, I, Yang Yun, have decided not to participate in this competition, and I am comfortable enough to carry it in my own fiefdom." ”

It was Yang Yun, the Northern Ghost Emperor, who spoke.

"Of course, we don't force you to participate, and the reason why we set up a competition is just to minimize the harm caused by your fight."

Yang Yun nodded and stood up, "I, Yang Yun, have no intention of fighting, so I will retire first." With that, Yang Yun left the palace without looking back.

Zhang Heng, who is also the Northern Ghost Emperor, glanced at Yang Yun who left, and then looked at the Ghost Emperors sitting above him, and slowly stood up, and waved at the Emperor Xudu, his honest face was full of smiles, "Emperor, I, Zhang Heng, still have self-knowledge, and there is an obvious gap in strength with everyone here, so I have also decided to withdraw from this competition." ”

"Absolutely. If any of you still want to quit, you can leave now. Emperor Xudu did not refuse, but gave the right to choose freely for the Ghost Emperor.

"I, Wang Zhenren, also give up this competition."

"I only like art, and I really don't have any interest in fighting and killing, so I quit." Ji Kang, one of the Central Ghost Emperors, also decided to withdraw from the competition.

Emperor Xudu nodded, and after seeing Wang Zhenren's three ghost emperors leave, he told the remaining Eastern Ghost Emperor Yu Lei and Shen Di, Western Ghost Emperor Zhao Wenhe, and Central Ghost Emperor Zhou Qi, "Since the four have stayed, then they are the ones who have decided to participate in this competition." ”

Eastern Ghost Emperor Yu Lei said with a smile, "Emperor, you also know a few of us, we usually like to have a good exchange, this time is another such a good opportunity, how can you give it up." ”

Shen Di, who was sitting next to Yu Lei, sneered, "You rough man, this time is not a simple exchange. ”

Yu Lei seemed to be accustomed to Shen Di's ridicule, and said indifferently, "It's all about the same, but this time the reward is greater." ”

"Okay, okay, you two don't quarrel, since it's been decided, then let's do it, today you will rest in my house, and tomorrow we will officially start." Emperor Xudu interrupted the quarrel between the two and arranged for Fu Bo to take the four of them down and arrange them in the empty room that had been prepared long ago.

After all the ghost emperors left, Emperor Xudu picked up a cup of tea, blew the tea powder slowly, took a sip lightly, and said to Shi Xing, "You have also seen the eight ghost emperors, what do you think of the four who are leaving now and the four who are left." ”

Shi Xing shook his head, "If the murderer of the Southern Ghost Emperor will really do it when you are supervising the competition, then the four suspects who remain are the least likely and the four who leave are the most likely." ”

Emperor Xudu nodded, "I think so too, but everything may change, have you ever wondered if the murderer will do it when the new Ghost Emperor takes office." ”

"It shouldn't be possible, if they did, wouldn't they have taken your account into account."

Emperor Xudu smiled, "This time I really didn't make any explanation, I only said that I recognized that the victor was qualified to succeed as the Southern Ghost Emperor, but I didn't say it, I accepted my fate." ”

"Oh!" Shi Xing immediately nodded clearly, "You said this on purpose, just to tell the murderer that you can do it, but why are you sure that the murderer will definitely do it." ”

"I'm not sure either, but there's one thing that could prompt the killer to do it again."

"What's the matter?"

"Do you know that Jiuli was born again?"

"Jiuli? Did they reach out to the underworld? ”

Emperor Xudu nodded, "That's right, and the death of the Southern Ghost Emperor is likely to be due to the cooperation between the people in the underworld and Jiuli." ”

"Why?"

"Because under the city of the Southern Ghost Emperor, there is a thing buried, which is what the descendants of Jiuli want to get very much."

"What's that?"

"Chiyou's skull."

"Chi You's skull is in the underworld?" He was a little surprised, because since Chi You lost to the Yellow Emperor, his body was divided by five horses and scattered all over the place, but he would never have thought that Chi You's skull would fall into the underworld.

"That's right, so I think that the position of the Southern Ghost Emperor is fake, and what they really want is this skull."

"In that case, then I have to go to the southern ghost town."

"Of course, isn't that what we originally planned, okay, rest for a while, after we set up the space, I'll let Faber take you to the southern ghost town."

In the afternoon, after lunch, he followed the Emperor to a wasteland on the outskirts of the city, surrounded by deserts, without a trace of ghosts.

"Well, even here."

Shi Xing nodded to Emperor Xudu, and gently stroked the sand of time on his wrist, and the sand of time suddenly glowed in black and white, turning into a ribbon around Shi Xing.

"Fortunately, I got my father's true biography, otherwise this space would not be so easy to get." Shi Xing slowly closed his eyes, and sketched in his heart as he hoped.

The Sands of Time, who was surrounding Shi Xing, suddenly sensed Shi Xing's thoughts, and scattered in all directions, turning into a sky full of stars, covering a large space in front of him.

In fact, the matter of opening up space has been done in the past, when the husband of Tianhu Qiu Qing was arrested, in order to protect Shen Qianqian from being hurt by the self-explosion, he opened up an independent small space, but this time it was bigger and stronger than that time.

Soon, as the space in front of Shi Xing was distorted, a black crack suddenly appeared out of thin air, Shi Xing opened his eyes, looked at the crack, and said to Emperor Xudu with a smile, "Emperor, it's successful, I'm reinforcing the entrance, and it can be used tomorrow." ”