In Jiu Ming City, in the teahouse cellar, Song Liyou's body was shrouded in a gray-white death aura. 『Elegant*Wen*Words*Emotion*First*Posted』
There are three inheritances of Kecheng Dao in Fengdu City: The Record of Return to the Netherworld, the Record of All Things Senluo, and the Record of Nine Songs Tongyou. The Record of the Return of the Netherworld is one of the most famous classics. At that time, the city of Fengdu intervened in the dynasty change between the Tianzhu Kingdom and the Kingdom of Dajing. A direct disciple used the Record of the Return of the Netherworld to turn the world into a ghost land. There were faint ghosts on more than a dozen cities in the south. The shadow of the ghost city came, and later the holy ring of the Temple of Heaven expanded to this point, and Fengdu City quietly stopped.
The words "The Netherworld is gone" can be said to have exhausted the content of the entire inheritance. Nether means the underworld, which is the realm of ghosts that does not belong to any life. As for ghosts, they return, and the dead return to the underworld. If this inheritance is cultivated to the extreme, a single thought can turn life into death, the living earth into the netherworld, and the living into ghosts for the caster to drive.
Uncle Cha was able to pass on such inheritance casually, which made Song Liyou have a vague suspicion about his identity, but he never confirmed it to Uncle Cha.
For him, the most important thing right now is to understand the Netherworld.
Crushing the foundation and eliminating cause and effect is not difficult for him who has been practicing for a long time. The difficulty lies in understanding the netherworld.
His body has been destroyed, and he is riddled with death energy. He can also be regarded as a ghost, and he is in the netherworld all the time. But being in the Netherworld does not mean that you can understand the Netherworld, just like he couldn't say that he understood the human world when he was in the human world for hundreds of years before.
Just like Fengdu City itself, the Netherworld is also an invisible and intangible existence, invisible to sight, silent to hearing, tasteless to smell, and insensitive to touch.
Song Liyou had been sitting in meditation for three days. Apart from cultivating the true energy of the ghost path, he still felt nothing about the netherworld. There are still more than ten days before the half-month appointment mentioned by Uncle Cha, but Song Liyou felt a sense of anxiety in his heart today for some unknown reason. Song Li worriedly thought to himself that after entering Taoism, he had some natural reactions to the secrets of heaven. This inexplicable feeling was probably reminding him that his time was running out, right
He raised his head and glanced at the top of the dirty cellar. Through the walls and the roof, he saw that the barrier where the mighty aura of the dead was flowing was covered by demonic clouds and could not see any light from the sky.
A little bit of starlight flickered in Song Liyou's soul. He entered the Tao with the stars in the sky. Although his foundation had been shattered, his understanding of the Tao of the stars was still there.
This starlight was very faint, twinkling and flickering, as if calling for something. The ancient light passed through thousands of worlds, was attracted by the starlight in his soul, and began to twinkle with it.
The phantoms of stars in the sky gradually appeared around Song Liyou, but the phantoms became very dim after being weakened by the demonic clouds and barriers.
"Not enough..." He gritted his teeth, and the stars in his soul suddenly shone brightly as if burning.
One day and one night, Song Liyou finally brought enough starlight into the small room. He raised his hand to perform a series of complex spells, and his eyes reflected the twinkling stars, with a power that penetrated everything.
"Tai Shang Xuan Yi, nine stars spit out semen; three, five, and seven changes, one can peer into the underworld!"
There are many ways to see invisible things in the world, such as the Immortal family's magical weapon that burns fire and the spirit, or Yun Qing's tempering and opening of the heart. But Song Liyou had just shattered the foundation and had too few spells at his disposal, so he had to use his understanding of the Tao to guide the starlight and use specific stars to form an array, allowing him to see into the underworld in a short period of time.
Because of the obscuration of the demonic clouds and the impact of the barrier on the environment, this insight into the netherworld will not last too long.
Song Liyou opened his eyes and observed the city carefully.
The soldiers with mutilated bodies dragged their arms slowly toward the gap in the barrier. The monsters pierced by countless spears passed by them. They were both quiet and did not react at all. The soldiers who were nailed on the city wall, the child with a big hole in his forehead in the corner, the green-faced soldier who was scrawled in a straw mat, and the old man whose entire lower body was burned to charcoal. These people who seem to have been dead for a long time are walking in the netherworld as if they are alive, doing what they want to do according to their instincts.
If ordinary people die, they cannot keep the spirit in their hearts, and their vitality will be wiped out.
The difference between the dead and the living is probably that one maintains its existence with death energy, while the other maintains its existence with vitality.
The reason why the Netherworld is invisible is precisely because Song Liyou lives by the power of his soul, rather than actually being in a dead place and maintaining his existence by the energy of death. 『Elegant*Wen*Words*Emotion*First*Posted』
If you don’t understand the Tao, how can you enter the Tao? If you don't enter the Tao, how can you realize it
How can we see the underworld if we don't die of life? If you don't see the netherworld, how can you die
A bright light flashed in Song Liyou's heart, and the last bit of life in his body was cut off, and a thick aura of death enveloped him. The shadows of stars around him gradually faded, and a gloomy ghost town appeared behind him.
"Crush the foundation, resolve cause and effect, and comprehend the underworld... I did it!"
Song Liyou stood up, walked out of the cellar, and was about to find the mysterious old man Cha, when a subtle cracking sound suddenly came from the barrier.
Beyond the city walls, in the brass chariot.
Hu Hanmei suddenly stretched out her hand to lift the curtain. Her expression was not as frivolous and charming as before, but instead she felt cold and forbidding.
She said loudly: "The law of Yao Que Tower came just now, today the barrier must be broken."
"All your sons, please follow me into the city."
This charming Hu Hanmei stepped off the brass chariot for the first time in more than ten days. Her clothes were swaying, and her figure looked very weak, but she was such a beauty who looked like she would fall if the wind blew, but she made all the monsters bow down and worship her.
She walked on the clouds and was in front of the crack in an instant. She stretched out her finger and the crack expanded like a ripe fruit.
Zhu Yuansheng's expression changed drastically. He quickly ordered the catapult to stop the banshee, but before he could speak, his vision went dark and she fell down.
"This little brother, it's hard for you to stay awake for so many days. It's a pity that you can't make a comeback... Hahaha..." Hu Hanmei smiled and walked step by step into this ancient and devastated city.
Countless soldiers tried to block her with their tired bodies, but no one could get within two feet of her.
Those people stopped involuntarily when they were far away from her. Their originally ferocious expressions gradually became docile, and their eyes gradually lost their sparkle.
"Am I beautiful?" Hu Hanmei covered her mouth and smiled softly as she walked. She held up the hem of her skirt with her other hand, her expression cruel and glamorous.
Some soldiers nodded involuntarily, saliva sliding down their jaws and mixing with the blood on their bodies.
"Are you willing to fight bloody battles for me?" Hu Hanmei's ability to confuse the gods, like her beauty, makes people fearful, unable to extricate themselves, and desperate for their own safety.
Finally, someone took action. A young soldier plunged a spear into the chest of his companion. The man still maintained an incredible expression before he died.
"Compared to fighting those uncontestable monsters, isn't it more interesting and simpler to kill your companions?" Hu Hanmei stepped over the human bones and moved forward step by step with a conquest attitude.
At this moment, a bolt of lightning hit her hard in front of her.
Hu Hanmei raised his eyes and smiled slightly: "Is he the child who used the Five Thunder Methods?"
Xie Yao's heart trembled when he heard her soft voice, and he felt as if he had met a flawless fairy. He was desperately reciting the Supreme Induction Record in his mind to calm his mind, thinking that this witch was really good at charming.
The surrounding soldiers had completely lost control and started fighting each other. Xie Yao felt a sense of sadness and indignation welling up in his heart when he saw those soldiers who lived together day and night and shared the same mission piercing each other's bodies with the weapons used to resist foreigners.
So many days of perseverance, so many days of perseverance, so many people's dreams and responsibilities, so many people's flesh and blood and tears, all were destroyed by the smile of this enchantress in front of me. He hated the cruelty and viciousness of this witch, and even more hated his own inability to resist.
"One smile can conquer a city, and another smile can conquer a country. Boy over there, do you think I can conquer a country or a city?" Hu Hanmei slowly walked towards Xie Yao, with a clear smile, and he could be remembered forever in just one glance.
Xie Yao bit his tongue hard and tried to fill his mind with Taishang Induction Record.
Unknowingly, he forgot that he was in the flames of war, that he was facing powerful enemies, that he had forgotten his love and grief. His heart felt empty, except for the words of the Supreme Induction Record that flashed across his mind.
He actually entered the Mirror of Forgetting under such circumstances.
But this mysterious feeling only lasted for a short while. He suddenly felt a pain in his abdomen, and the heartbreaking pain spread from the injury throughout his body. He lowered his head and saw half of a spear sticking out of his abdomen.
He raised his eyes and looked at Hu Hanmei: "You...!"
"Don't look at me, I didn't do this." Hu Hanmei tilted his head and smiled, walking past him deeper. Behind her, because there was no one to stop them, one monster after another entered the city in an orderly manner, and the city gate was already covered with blood.
"Ah!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!" A familiar voice of horror came from behind Xie Yao, and then he felt the half of the spear being pulled out, and a large amount of blood gushes out from the wound.
Xie Yao turned around and used his true energy to repair the injury. When he looked up, Liu Shu was standing behind him holding a bloody spear.
"Thank you, boy, I'm sorry!!" Liu Shulao burst into tears and suddenly raised his hand to plunge the spear into himself.
Xie Yao grabbed him: "Why are you so crazy? Go and plug that crack. That's what you should do. What's the point of committing suicide?"
"I, I, I actually hurt you under the witch's words..." Liu Shu looked frightened and panicked. He was a military doctor, but later he also carried weapons on the battlefield. Of all the people, he has seen the most death and endured the most stress.
"I have no time to pay attention to you anymore. Either die for this little thing or die for Jiu Ming City. You choose one!" Xie Yao took off his coat, wrapped the wound on his abdomen, and pinched the magic formula while following it Hu Hanmei's footsteps chased after him.
Xie Yao couldn't keep up with the demon girl's cloud-stepping technique, and could only see a large demonic cloud gradually seeping into the center of the city from a distance.
Just as there was some sign of despair in his heart, a burst of war songs came from the North City Gate.
"The wishes of all the people are spread out like wings. The power of heaven is shining brightly. I will conquer the southern barbarians with my flesh and blood!"
A huge gap also opened in the northern barrier!
He rushed towards the place where the singing came from, and saw disciples from the inner sect of Lutian Temple, dressed in pure white sacrificial robes, walking in from the city gate and confronting Hu Hanmei head-on.
To his surprise, the person leading the Temple of Heaven was actually a young girl.
That girl was Leshu. She was holding a long sword in her hand, with countless runes flowing on the blade, which were connected with the patterns on the corners of her clothes. She raised the long sword high, and the five hundred inner disciples behind her all took the heart essence and blood and poured it into the long sword. The sword body was not stained with a trace of blood, and the holy and pure light struck straight towards Hu Hanmei.
"Stand up in vain to eliminate disasters and misfortunes! A gentleman's holy virtue can save all evil!"
Leshu had just entered Taoism and had not yet been promoted to direct disciple. The Imperial Master had not had time to teach her the Qianyuan Junzi Tao, so she had to use this combined attack method. Wei Changsong also used this method when fighting against tree demons before, because this method was quite restrained against evil things.
"He is a good disciple from Jingli's sect who is fiercely aggressive as soon as we meet him..."
Hu Hanmei's whole body was shrouded in dazzling white light, but his voice came out smoothly.
"How can you call the name of the Saint of Humanity?" Le Shu looked angry after hearing this, and he threw the long sword in his hand. The holy light disappeared, leaving only a murderous intention.
Hu Hanmei seemed to want to seal the knot, but suddenly her expression changed and she was unable to dodge the sword. The long sword collided with her body and broke into two pieces and fell to the ground.
"Lord Saint, we have conquered this city before thirty days. Why don't you remove the barrier?"
Hu Hanmei said loudly, it seemed that her failure just now was due to the restrictions of this barrier. Le Shu's face was also very solemn. Even under the suppression of the barrier, Hu Hanmei, a heavenly monster, was not something she could deal with alone. For some reason, this kind of monster could walk freely in the world. Could it be that Qingchuan Mountain Mansion really wanted to cause chaos in the world? Can't? It's okay that the sky demon is suppressed at the moment, but if this barrier is removed, the result will definitely be a loss of life. What makes Le Shu feel even worse is that according to Hu Hanmei's words, there is actually a saint hidden in Jiu Ming City. This saint has not only concealed Jiu Ming City's secrets for more than ten days, but now he has to help Hu Hanmei.
Xie Yao listened to them talking and walked closer and closer unknowingly. Hu Hanmei seemed to feel something in her heart, suddenly raised her head and pointed towards him.
The broken sword at her feet appeared in front of Xie Yao in the blink of an eye.
Xie Yao felt that all the hairs on his body stood up, and the murderous intent on the sword made him unable to move.
"Why are you calling me?" Uncle Cha appeared in front of Xie Yao, and the dagger fell to the ground as if it suddenly lost its power.
"The Saint once said that he would no longer interfere in the affairs between humanity and my demon world, so why are you protecting that kid now?" The smile on Hu Hanmei's face did not change.
Le Shu didn't expect that there was a saint actually sitting in Jiu Ming City. He didn't know what agreement he had made with Hu Hanmei or what his relationship was with the young man in front of him.
Uncle Cha smiled grimly: "I once told you that if you attack this city under my barrier within thirty days, I will no longer intervene in your disputes..."
"That's not what you told me!" A somewhat ruffian voice appeared out of thin air.
The air around Uncle Cha was distorted. Song Liyou, wearing a crane-feather cloak, said to him: "Master."
Xie Yao's eyes almost popped out of his head. After so long, he finally saw the person he met on that dream-like journey to seek immortality.
Uncle Cha said calmly: "Disciple, what I am telling you is that if they cannot attack Jiu Ming City under my barrier within thirty days, I, Fengdu City, will no longer intervene in the battle between Shiwandashan and Lutian Temple."
"Is there any contradiction between these two sentences?"
Song Liyou felt a chill in his heart. He had thought simply before. This guy not only took advantage of the human realm, but also took advantage of the evil realm.
If the city is destroyed, Uncle Cha will no longer intervene in the disputes in Jiu Ming City, but Fengdu City can.
If the city is not broken, Fengdu City will no longer be involved in the dispute between Shiwandashan and Lutian Temple, but he can still secretly add fuel to the flames in Jiuming City.
Regardless of whether the city is broken or not, ghost roads will definitely muddy the waters.
He was determined to win this.
"But... as you said, I will remove the barrier now."
Uncle Cha didn't make any move, and the barrier that had enveloped Jiu Ming City for more than ten days just disappeared.
A majestic evil spirit rushed straight into the sky, Hu Han raised his eyebrows to the sky and screamed, his face gradually covered with red lines, strange and beautiful. Nine fox tails emerged from under her skirt, and wind, fire, and lightning took turns rolling in the sky.
The ground cracked under her feet, and those weak-minded disciples of the Temple of Heaven could not dodge the screams and fell directly into the ground, dying!
"Nine-life demon fox... exit Jiu Ming City!" Le Shu was shocked when he saw Hu Hanmei's true form, and turned around and shouted loudly to the inner disciples.
Hu Hanmei raised his hand, and meteorites fell from the sky with flames. The place where Le Shu and the others stood was no longer intact. After she transformed into her true form, her natural bewitching skills were even more powerful, and even those who had entered Taoism could not support it.
Le Shu looked at the many disciples who were smashed into the ground by meteorites, and her heart was filled with anger, but she knew that she could not resist forcefully at the moment, and could only wait for reinforcements to arrive before making plans.
"Retreat? None of you can leave." Hu Hanmei's laughter echoed throughout the south, "This is my Nine Lives City!"
Countless monsters roared wildly and rushed into Jiu Ming City.
Uncle Cha looked at Hu Hanmei, who was a little crazy, and then glanced at the humane disciples who were struggling to support him, with a pitiful expression.
He said to Xie Yao and Song Liyou: "Would you like to follow me to Fengdu City for a while?"
"Of course I do." Song Liyou said calmly.
"I swear to live and die with the Mirror Kingdom!" Xie Yao's eyes turned red.
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