When the ship arrived at Youdu Fairy Island, a huge silver moon could be seen from afar above the island, as if it was sticking to the island and the sea. Below it were numerous towers and palaces, and the Youdu City with its thousands of lights flickering. The prosperous and bustling scene of the ancient city was already in sight.
There were also demons holding lanterns and waiting on the dock. As the tower ship approached the shore, they cheered loudly. The demon officials of the Maritime Customs held green jade lanterns and lined up in two rows. The gangway of the ship was lowered and the people on the Baigu Lingxu ship disembarked one by one.
Fang Xiu was wearing a black immortal official robe, the chief official of the Maritime Customs, with cloud patterns on the edges and embroidered cranes. He was wearing cloud-stepping shoes and walked down from the boat.
Groups of ferocious-looking demon officials wearing official robes lined up and followed Fang Xiu down from above. Then came a large number of mortals. Their clothes were even more weird, and there were all kinds of them. It was like gods, Buddhas, Taoists, demons and monsters gathered together.
Only in Youdu Fairy Island can you see such a scene. This is a transit station between various realms. All kinds of strange characters can be seen here, and bizarre and strange things may happen.
There were still many worldly people staying on the island. When they saw the ship arrive, they immediately came over to greet it. After everyone got off, the little monsters on the ship immediately started moving, and large quantities of goods and treasures began to be unloaded, along with some rare and exotic animals from South Continent, East Continent and the sea.
The entire dock was bustling with noise. Fang Xiu got on a sedan chair and passed through the cobblestone streets and several villages and towns near the dock. Under the watchful eyes of two familiar stone lions, he entered Youdu City.
Two monsters carried the sedan chair through the bustling Youdu City, went up along the stairs in front of the Immortal Palace, and finally stopped the sedan chair by kneeling on the ground. After nearly a hundred years, Fang Xiu finally stood in front of the Yougong Palace again.
"This eight-sided green lantern! It's actually being used!"
Fang Xiu followed the moonlight and the reflections of the palace walls and buildings, and walked into the fairy palace under the watchful eyes of groups of demon guards.
The first thing that caught one's attention was not the demon generals and guards emitting strong demonic aura in the palace, nor the charming maids in the inner courtyard, but the exquisite lamps hanging in various palaces.
This is exactly the eight-sided green lantern that Fang Xiu hung in his own Taoist palace. It was made using the suitcase of the time and space traveler. Heisha asked him for a lot of them at the beginning, saying that he wanted to use them in his own You Palace and that this thing was very suitable for the Youdu Immortal Palace.
At this moment Fang Xiu took a look and found that it was indeed the case.
"The inner garden of the Immortal Palace is a forbidden area! Who dares to trespass?"
Fang Xiu stood at the bottom of the porch steps, looking up at the eight green lanterns. The green lanterns seemed to notice something and actually spoke, but Fang Xiu did not reply. The green lanterns themselves had no intelligence, but were just the gathering of resentment of living beings, speaking based on instinct and the settings of their owners.
However, Fang Xiu did not expect that he ignored the eight green lanterns and walked directly towards the inner courtyard, but at this moment it was as if he had touched some kind of restriction.
Thousands of eight-sided green lanterns lit up at the same time in the Immortal Palace. The green lanterns were actually transformed into a large formation, exerting pressure towards Fang Xiu. The fire dragon souls surrounded Fang Xiu and burned him like a pillar of fire that reached the sky.
"Whose idea was this? To combine these eight-sided green lanterns with the forbidden formation?"
Fang Xiu looked up at the sky, the spiritual light crisscrossed the sky, "At the same time, it also has the ability to ban the sky, which feels pretty good!"
Fang Xiu said this, but he flicked his hand to extinguish the dragon-shaped fire column that was circling around him. He waved his sleeve and a gust of wind rose up, and the eight green lanterns went out at the same time.
This scene alarmed everyone in Youdu Palace at the same time. At this moment, the palace was in chaos, with groups of demon generals and guards running around.
At this time, a lazy voice came from the inner courtyard palace: "Nothing! Everyone go away!"
Fang Xiu saw a young girl in a crimson palace skirt walking out. She looked around gracefully as she walked.
"Please, sir!"
Passing through the three gates, the palace is brightly lit as if it were daytime.
There were a large number of gorgeous and graceful palace maids standing inside and outside, and the ground was covered with fiery red fur of spiritual beasts. Judging from its body shape, it was probably a second-level jackal mountain beast, a very famous ferocious beast in Nanzhou. Many aliens and monsters had died at the hands of this beast. No one knew when its skin was peeled off and sacrificed to the Lord of Nether City in front of the Three Realms Abyss. It ended up here and became a carpet.
Intoxicating incense was burning in the gilded incense burner, and the palace was filled with the smell of luxury and extravagance.
The thin door with carvings of dragons and phoenixes was pulled open by the kneeling palace maids. Fang Xiu's eyes passed through the luxurious bedroom and several screens with pictures of fairy palaces, and he saw the Lord of Youdu standing at the top.
This girl was getting up and getting dressed, and the two phoenix attendants were helping her put on the wide red crown and robe. She had her hair combed into a nine-branch bun with the pattern of Wangxian, and a hairpin with the pattern of the sun and the moon rising forever swayed as she turned around.
"Why hasn't Chen Jin come yet?" Fang Xiu walked in and the door behind him was immediately pushed closed, so he asked directly.
He had said before that he would let Chen Jin come down as well, but after scanning the entire Youdu with his spiritual sense, Fang Xiu discovered that Chen Jin had not left the Mountain and Sea Realm and should still be in the real world.
Heisha, dressed in the robe of an empress, walked slowly down from above, stepped on the soft ground paved with spiritual wood, and stood in front of Fang Xiu.
"She's still fiddling with her weird stuff! She even blew a big hole in the Dao Palace! She's currently furious and annoyed with her baby, so she doesn't care if you call her that!"
Fang Xiu also roughly knew Chen Jin's temper. When this guy was immersed in alchemy, she would not react no matter who told her to.
"Forget it then!"
"It's not an important matter anyway. I'll go up to her and talk to her later!"
Fang Xiu glanced at the two maids standing behind Heisha and found that they had actually broken through to the third level. The large formation of eight green lanterns outside was probably set up by them. Although they had the benefit of Heisha, being able to break through to the third level was already a manifestation of extraordinary talent.
The two of them were still as beautiful as goddesses in the fairy palace, and the noble and cold temperament of the descendants of mythical beasts emanated from them from the inside out.
However, the sense of vicissitudes in their souls could not be concealed. Their lifespans were coming to an end. Perhaps in a few decades, they would end up like the Dragon Mother Qingli, sitting in meditation and passing away. They were not like Heisha, who only came down to play for ten days or half a month when they wanted to have fun. Instead, they had actually stayed in this Youdu for more than a hundred years.
Heisha noticed that Fang Xiu was looking at the two maids behind him, and he knew what he was thinking. These two maids had been with her for many years and they had some feelings for each other.
"Hey! Is there any way?" Heisha stood side by side with Fang Xiu and asked.
"And he has the fox aspect! He's almost at the end of his life!"
"Alas! Without them, I really wouldn't be able to find a few servants who can help me manage Youdu and who can be considerate and know what I like!"
The two maids knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Fang Xiu. Having followed the Lord of Nether City for so many years, although Hei Sha never spoke or explained anything, they were close to him and could certainly guess the identity of this man.
"Please have mercy on me, Immortal Lord. It's not easy for me to practice!" The two men prostrated on the ground and said respectfully. They didn't dare to act coquettishly or have any false expressions. Facing such a first-class existence like gods, demons, and immortals, they knew that they should just say whatever they wanted to say. Pretending to be hypocritical would only make people disgusted.
Fang Xiu didn't look at the two of them, but just glanced at Heisha, then said: "The underworld will reopen, and reincarnation will begin!"
"Since the path to immortality is unsuccessful, then I will take the path of the gods! But then I will have to work in the underworld, managing the order of reincarnation. It will be impossible for me to stand by your side!"
"In a few days, I will go to the underworld. You should accompany me to take a look. The underworld will also need a large number of underworld gods. The third-level practitioners can still be used!"
The deification of the gods in the Mountain and Sea Realm has begun, and Fang Xiu is just about to go to the underworld to take a look at the changes in the Netherworld, and at the same time make adjustments to the next layout of the underworld. By then, more gods will be needed in the underworld.
Moreover, these divine positions are not something that ordinary people can hold. At the very least, they have to be powerful practitioners. If one wants to fill up the entire mountain and sea world, this huge underworld organization with all the gods and ghosts, it is probably going to take countless generations of practitioners and people of merit to come forward one after another before it can be filled.