After death, I became the ghost emperor. I was contracted by my daughter.

"Hmm? New mission!"

The good news is that the system's mission rewards are generally quite generous.

Although the rewards for this exploration mission are not clearly stated, if you complete it well, you will definitely get the rewards.

The bad news is that the settlement time for this mission is too long, it will take a full ten years.

Doesn't that mean that in the next ten years, you won't be able to get rewards through the system?

Lin Yan was a little worried.

Forget it, it's useless to think too much, just complete the mission in front of you.

Anyway, I am now a dead soul with unlimited lifespan.

Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

Thinking of this, Lin Yan began to pay attention to the mission information.

Explore Blackwood City?

The fake ghost messenger mentioned Blackwood City before, but from his memory fragments, he knew that he had never been to Blackwood City.

Blackwood City is the only ghost city in this evil ghost wasteland. As long as you stay here for a long time, you can hear a few words about Blackwood City.

"This exploration mission is a long-term mission."

Lin Yan thought for a moment and had a plan in mind.

"As the saying goes, knowing yourself and the enemy will ensure victory in a hundred battles. Before entering Blackwood City, I can devour more undead and collect information about Blackwood City from their memory fragments."

"It won't be too late to enter the city when the information is almost collected."

According to the information obtained from the "Book of Life and Death", there are ghost king-level undead in Blackwood City, and there are more than one.

That kind of existence is not something Lin Yan can deal with now.

To be cautious, he still needs to collect more information.

Having made up his mind, Lin Yan used the ghost skill Dark Night Walker, and his whole body turned into black light and rushed towards the direction of Blackwood City.

After a while, he arrived in front of the first target.

A fifth-level ghost king.

The fifth level, an hour ago, was still an existence that Lin Yan needed to look up to.

But now, he can control it at will.

Lin Yan did not intend to waste time with the Ghost King, and directly deployed his ghost den.

"Huh? Ghost den? Who is it?"

The Ghost King roared, trying to deploy his own ghost den.

However, his ghost den was obviously not an S-level ghost den, so his ghost den deployment failed.

The Ghost King instantly figured out something, and suddenly panicked, roaring: "My lord, spare me, I am willing to surrender!"

Submit? Take a ghost brother?

The enslavement function of "Book of Life and Death" can indeed enslave the surrendered undead, and there is no need to worry about their betrayal.

But he was unlucky, and Lin Yan did not have this plan now.

He wanted to use this Ghost King to try a new way of fighting.

"Life and Death Duel, Start!"

Boom!

A huge arena suddenly appeared in the sky.

At the same moment, Lin Yan's soul left his body and appeared on the arena.

At the same time, the Ghost King's soul also appeared.

"Absolute Devour, Activate!"

Boom!

Before the Ghost King could react, the endless suction force had already torn his soul into pieces, turning it into the purest soul force flow, and merged into Lin Yan's soul.

The battle was over.

It was an easy win.

After the ghost den was put away, only a soulless ghost body was left at the scene, which was rapidly dissipating under the erosion of the cold wind.

"Huh? Is there something else?"

After the ghost body dissipated, several dark golden coins of different sizes appeared on the ground.

"This is... Soul Coin!"

Through the understanding of the past few days, Lin Yan already knew that this Soul Coin was the universal currency of the dead world.

It's just that he had been hunting low-level undead before, and no Soul Coin had exploded.

Now, after killing this fifth-level Ghost King, he finally saw the true face of Soul Coin.

"Soul Coin, it really contains rich soul power."

Lin Yan has already smelled the soul power in the Soul Coin.

This ghost king gave Lin Yan 1 soul coin worth 100 souls, 1 soul coin worth 10 souls, and 5 soul coins worth 1 soul, a total of 115 soul coins.

The soul power value of a 1st-level 1-star wandering soul is about the same as the soul power value contained in 10 soul coins.

From this, it can be inferred that a 2nd-level ghost is worth about 100 soul coins, and a 3rd-level ghost is worth 1,000 soul coins.

And so on, 4th-level ghosts are worth 10,000, 5th-level ghosts are worth 1 million, 6th-level ghosts are worth 10 million, and 7th-level ghosts are worth 100 million...

"A 5th-level ghost king worth a million has only a little over 100 in his savings!"

"Poor ghost!"

Lin Yan packed up his soul coins and continued on his way.

"It doesn't matter. Kill more people and you'll have more money."

...

One month later.

Lin Yan appeared at the gate of Blackwood City.

In fact, he had already arrived in the Blackwood City area.

But in order to collect more information about Blackwood City and save more soul coins, he had been hunting nearby for a month.

The fifth and sixth level ghosts are not as dense as the lower level ones. Even in the Blackwood City area, there are not many of them.

After hunting for nearly a month, I have only devoured hundreds of undead of this level.

I finally reached the sixth level ghost master.level.

This gave him more confidence to enter Blackwood City.

In addition,

By observing the memory fragments of the devoured, Lin Yan also learned about the general information of Blackwood City.

After confirming that there would not be too much danger, he finally decided to enter the city.

"Those entering must pay 10,000 soul coins!"

The guards stopped Lin Yan.

The two guards were not ghosts, but zombies.

Through observing the memory fragments before, Lin Yan knew a lot of common sense about the dead world.

All spirits in the dead world are collectively called dead spirits.

The most common dead spirits are ghosts.

In addition, there are corpses.

Zombies are the most common type of corpses.

In addition, there are special dead spirits such as spirit ghosts and weird rules.

Lin Yan already knew that to enter Blackwood City, soul coins must be paid, and soul marks must be left on the city gate.

Leaving a soul mark will not cause harm to oneself.

However, once a person kills someone in the city, he will be sensed by the Judgment Hall of Blackwood City, and his soul will be imprinted on the Judgment Bronze Mirror in the Judgment Hall.

The Judgment Bronze Mirror will recall the scene of the battle and make a judgment, deciding whether to arrest, expel, or even send the murderer to the eighteenth level of hell.

It is precisely because of the existence of this Judgment Hall that the undead in the huge Blackwood City can suppress their greed and live in peace with each other.

After paying 10,000 soul coins, Lin Yan stepped into the city.

Entering the city, the first thing that comes into view is a wide avenue.

On both sides of the avenue, there are all kinds of ancient buildings.

If it weren't for the various strange ghosts walking on the street, Lin Yan would almost think he had come to an ancient city.

Compared with the huge city, the buildings do not seem dense, and even a little empty.

Instead, there are various cemeteries and even adobes.

Lin Yan had learned from browsing the memory fragments of various ghosts that these cemetery adobes were the ghosts' properties in this city.

Although the cemetery adobes were inconspicuous, ghosts with properties could be considered rich ghosts.

As for poor ghosts, there was no place for them to stay in such a big city.

Blackwood City did not allow poor ghosts to stay, and ghost soldiers would regularly drive away the wandering dead.

The first thing Lin Yan did when he entered the city was to receive a place to stay.

Yes, receive.

Among the dead souls he had devoured before, there was a sixth-level ghost master.

The sixth-level ghost master was also a well-known figure in Blackwood City.

So he had his own property here, not a shabby building like the cemetery adobe, but a small courtyard.

Now that the ghost had entered Lin Yan's stomach, his property naturally had to be received.

Lin Yan quickly found the small courtyard with ease.

It was in a residential area in the southwest of the city, not far from the city center.

Lin Yan entered the courtyard, erased the soul power imprint left by the ghost master, and stamped his own soul power imprint.

From this moment on, he was also considered a member of the family with a house.

Of course, this was not enough, he had to go to the City God Administration Department to register.

Only after the registration was completed could he be recognized as a resident of Blackwood City.