The City of the Dead has been reduced to rubble, with only some terrifying and hideous castles and buildings left. Because the entire ruins of the Undead Kingdom have been turned into a restricted area, the practitioners who used to gather here in an endless stream are no longer to be seen here.
Because the earth veins were cut off, the land within a radius of hundreds of miles lost its vitality, and even animals no longer wanted to walk here.
Trees died in large numbers, rivers dried up, and the land became desertified bit by bit, continuously spreading and swallowing up the earth. Within just a dozen years, the yellow sand swallowed up an area of hundreds of miles in radius, and then turned the vast Immortal Kingdom Peninsula into a desert.
No matter who sets foot here again, they would not dare to imagine that this was the once prosperous and bustling place of life, the Immortal Peninsula with endless forests and flocks of birds and beasts.
At a glance, the sky was filled with yellow sand and strong winds.
The sun shone on the desert, refracting a dazzling light. A young man wearing a cloak and a scarf stepped in here. There were several dry bones buried in the yellow sand. The young man squatted on the ground and observed, and found that they were just a few ordinary monsters lost in the desert. The clothes they wore and the tattoos on their bodies all had the characteristics of the western city-state of Babylon.
Many ships that were wrecked at sea eventually drifted to the Immortal Peninsula, and those people died there before they could even walk across the desert.
A boy following behind the young man looked listless. It was his first time entering the mountain and sea world, and before he had time to see the vast scenery of the mountains and sea, he was thrown into the desert: "Jonah! What do you think the teacher wants to do by sending us here? We are alchemists, and here there is only sand, sand, and sand!"
Jonah Vogel is the next generation heir of the Vogel family, and the nephew and student of the alchemist John Vogel. In the present world, he is in charge of the Vogel family and the alchemist's business. "The teacher asked us to check the location of the Undead Kingdom again to see if the entrance is still there, and mark the location."
"The gods and demons have awakened in the Undying Country. Wouldn't it be death for us to go there?"
"It's just marking the location. The teacher thinks that he might re-enter it in the future to find the secret of becoming a god or devil."
"The teacher even wants to talk to the being who has survived from the ancient era of gods and demons."
"Talk to that person?" Another alchemist was so shocked that he couldn't speak. After the scene in the Immortal Palace was leaked, the scene of hundreds of thousands of people from the Immortal Kingdom, in groups of fourth-level people, besieging and killing the present-day extraordinary people and practitioners from the Mountain and Sea Realm, shocked the entire extraordinary world.
This immortal army of corpse demons has no souls and is not afraid of any spells targeting the soul. Their bodies can be resurrected infinitely and cannot be destroyed. No one thinks there is a chance to break through such a horrible place.
Not to mention, in the depths of the Immortal Palace, a god and demon has awakened. The Immortal Palace was immediately called the most dangerous place, far surpassing the ruins of the ancient Que City, the ancestral land of the Yanhuo Nation, and the sleeping place of the giant Kun in the North Abyss. These three dangerous places were ranked first in the restricted area.
If the alchemist John Vogel wanted to talk to such a monster, even if he was one of the strongest people in the world, he would probably be dead before he even stood in front of such a creature.
At this time, Jonah suddenly dug out a long sword from the sand next to several corpses. It was a long sword that looked somewhat gorgeous and delicate, with beautiful patterns engraved on the hilt.
"What is this? Left behind by these lost travelers?"
Jonah grabbed the hilt of the sword and picked it up. He used his mental power to carefully explore and observe the sword. He could not feel any extraordinary power, but his perception told him that this sword was not simple.
Because he couldn't recognize what material the sword was made of. As a genius alchemist born in the Vogel family and a student of the great alchemist John, he was definitely at the forefront of the world in terms of extraordinary materials science.
"Take it first, and use alchemy and the touchstone to check it when you get back."
The two young men grabbed the sword and walked away, stepping on the sand and exploring the depths of the desert little by little. At the same time, they drew a map of the desert, marking some important relics in the desert, the former city of the dead, and several entrances to the kingdom of the undead.
But Jonah had no idea that the long sword he casually inserted at his waist was the divine weapon that had once caused many fourth-level and groups of third-level transcendents to fight each other and eventually die here.
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In the underworld, the gates of Xundu Academy were wide open today. More than a dozen sages and scholars in loose robes arrived at the gate and stood in front of the stone tablet of Xundu Academy that has been passed down for generations, waiting. The figures of several of them can be seen in the portraits of sages in Xundu Academy, and the rest are at least the founders of an academy or school who personally established it.
The sun of incense enveloped the top of the academy, and the light covered an area of a thousand miles. It was so magnificent and grand that it far exceeded that of hundreds of years ago, and even exceeded that of several levels.
The entire Xundu Academy also became more spacious, like a huge city, because there were many schools of thought in the academy, such as the Zhuangjia School, the Lunjia School, the Moral School, the Agricultural School, etc. Because of their differences in ideology, the various schools competed with each other on a daily basis. Some of them were even mortal enemies in the world of the living, and denounced each other as heretics.
Therefore, the Xundu Academy in this underworld is divided into a number of academies, academies, and hilltops, and all the cultural contexts are recorded on the preaching jade slips.
Because the Xundu Academy, which was directly inherited by several saints, has long since disappeared, the one that dominates the Confucian Temple in the Yang world now belongs to the Shangxian Academy, which is affiliated with the Lunjia School. Therefore, the power and influence of this lineage is now the strongest in the academy. On weekdays, several saints generally do not appear, and all worldly things in the Yin world are also presided over by the Lunjia School and the Shangxian Academy.
After hundreds of years of being nourished by incense and refined by sacrifices, the preaching jade slip has become even more mysterious and extraordinary, and the entire Xundu Academy is beginning to show signs of becoming an independent realm.
At this moment, in the west of the underworld, from the direction of the central Yintianzi City, a huge team of chariots came towards the Xundu Academy in the gray sky, with many ghosts and gods guarding it, holding up the god tablets, and turning into light to disperse the dark clouds in the sky.
These ghosts and gods are all dressed in black, with divine patterns on their faces, and look mighty and solemn. Wherever they pass, other ghosts avoid them and thousands of ghosts prostrate themselves on the ground.
Guarded by many ghosts and gods, five ghost horses stepped on flames, and their wheels swept up Yin Fire, casting long red shadows in the sky. They pulled a bronze carriage and stopped in front of Xundu Academy.
At the same time, a group of ghosts and gods dressed in white also came from the east, riding on clouds of incense and auspicious lights. Their chariots got closer and closer to the Xundu Academy on the clouds, and finally the two groups stopped at the gate of the academy together.
The two people who came were both righteous gods from the underworld, one was Chang De, the judge of the Soul-Catching Department of Yin Tianzi City, and the other was Zhang Heming, the heavenly master under the Eastern Ghost Emperor.
The Eastern Ghost Emperor is also known as Emperor Changyue, and is on par with the Western Ghost Emperor Longqiu Emperor. Both of them occupy thousands of miles of underworld in this underworld, open up a reincarnation area, and only obey the orders of Emperor Yin.
However, although the title of the Eastern Ghost Emperor has been established, a large number of heroes who followed the Eastern Ghost Emperor to conquer the world and enjoyed the fortune and merits of humanity have passed away and entered the Emperor's Palace in the underworld to serve as officials, but Emperor Longqiu still resides in the world of the living and has not yet gone to the underworld to accept the position of emperor.
A ghost with golden divine patterns on his face and wearing a mighty black robe walked out of the bronze chariot, and opposite him, a ghost in white holding a whisk and stepping on auspicious clouds also walked down from the auspicious clouds.
The two men greeted each other after they met. They were once good friends in the human world, but later had many conflicts. I'm afraid they never thought that they would become gods in the underworld at the same time.
The past has all vanished with the wind, both of them have achieved immortality, ascended to the position of righteous gods, and gradually resolved the grievances of the past.
Judge Chang De of the Soul-Catching Department was appointed by Emperor Yin to be in charge of the Soul-Catching Department because he established the royal court of Darong in the north, sorted out the order of heaven and earth, and guarded the Ancient Mountain for a hundred years. The Heavenly Master Zhang Heming cut down mountains and destroyed temples in the world of the living, established the Heavenly Master Sect, sorted out the order of ghosts and gods in the human territory of Dongzhou, and gained the position of a true god. He passed away decades ago and went to the world of the dead to become a god.
"Tianshi!"
"Master Chang!"
Both of them were righteous gods, powerful and influential in the underworld. After greeting each other, they walked towards the academy together.
The people waiting in front of the academy came forward one after another to greet these two ghosts who possessed great authority even in the underworld.
"Don't be alone in the academy, meet Judge Chang, Tianshi Zhang!"
"Is Feng Sheng here today?" Judge Chang De of the Soul-Catching Division asked first. Heavenly Master Zhang Heming also looked at Wu Du, the first generation disciple of the academy, who had listened to Feng Sheng's lectures in the past.
Wu Du bowed and put away his hands, then waved his sleeves towards the academy. On the long stairs, he welcomed the two underworld gods to enter: "Today is the Confucian Temple Grand Festival, the culture and the way of life are flourishing, and the whole world is celebrating. The Holy Lord has descended to the academy and is waiting for you two inside the academy!"
Chang De, the judge of the Soul-Catching Division, who was wearing the judge's uniform, shouted three times: "Good! Good! Good!"
Heavenly Master Zhang Heming also showed his delight and said happily: "It's not easy to meet again today, not easy!"