The world of mountains and seas, the underworld.
The banks of the surging Sanzu River were filled with gorgeous red flowers. The poppy-like flowers had an ultimate beauty, but none of the dead passing by the Sanzu River paid any attention to this beautiful sea of flowers.
There is a bridge in the distance, it is the Naihe Bridge. The stone bridge is very wide and long. Every day, the underworld messenger leads millions of dead souls across this bridge.
There is a solitary rock in the center of the river under the Naihe Bridge. It is visible for only one hour a day and will be submerged as the tide rises.
For thousands of years, there has always been a prisoner with disheveled hair sitting on it. In the past, when Emperor Longqiu passed by this place in his imperial chariot, he locked the prisoner under the Naihe Bridge and ordered the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons to guard him.
It can be seen that he was originally a person with great cultivation. After his death, all his strength turned into black obsession that dyed the entire river surface black, and continuously overflowed outwards.
Chains were passed through his scapula, hands and feet, locking him in the center of the Sanzu River, making it impossible for him to go ashore. He suffered from the river water washing over him every day. To the dead soul, the river water was like a steel knife cutting his bones.
Day after day, without rest.
The prisoner was dishevelled, his body stained with black blood, not a single trace of his original appearance could be seen, even his true spirit was polluted, his three souls and seven spirits were in chaos, and he had long forgotten his past. However, in the deepest part of his soul, a wisp of obsession turned into darkness, and even after tens of millions of years of washing by the Three Ways River, it could not dissipate.
As long as this trace of obsession and resentment disappears, the chains will collapse immediately, and the prisoner will be able to flow along the river to the end and enter reincarnation.
Although due to his heinous sins, even if he cannot be reborn as a human again, he can still escape the pain that he cannot escape for thousands of lifetimes.
However, the prisoner was filled with resentment, and his obsession was firmly imprinted in his soul and refused to dissipate. Over the past hundreds of years, it had not weakened in the slightest, but instead grew stronger day by day. If it had not been for the Naihe Bridge suppressing him, he would have probably turned into a vicious god long ago.
He just sat cross-legged on the solitary rock, as if he would stay there alone until the end of time, allowing the resentment and obsession to consume him bit by bit, unwilling to give up even if his soul was torn apart.
And one day, a Taoist passed through the sky of the underworld and when he entered Yin Tianzi City, he saw the prisoner sitting under the Naihe Bridge.
As the Taoist passed by the river, the millions of dead souls howling on the river and the ghost officials passing by on the bridge seemed not to see him and let him stand beside the prisoner.
The Taoist looked at the prisoner locked under the Naihe Bridge and sighed, "Qingyun, all the past events have long gone with the clouds and smoke, why do you refuse to enter the cycle of reincarnation?"
As if hearing a familiar name and an unforgettable voice, the prisoner's body, which had not moved for thousands of years, suddenly trembled as if it had received a strong stimulation, and turned around in disbelief.
Taoist Qingyun looked at the Taoist in white clothes and silver hair. His cloudy eyes suddenly became clear, and he recovered a trace of himself from the chaotic and disordered memories.
It was as if he had been dead for thousands of years, and among all his obsessions there was this figure, a memory that he was unwilling to give up.
Black tears slowly flowed out of the two cloudy eyes.
The rope made a rustling sound, and he suddenly stood up, then knelt in front of the Taoist, crawling on the ground, without any pleading, as if he knelt in front of the Taoist just as a conditioned reflex.
"You are so obsessed with this and so full of resentment, how can you be reincarnated as a human?"
"In your previous life, you committed heinous crimes and killed all living things. If that's the case, you should enter the blood sea and become a blood sea creature! Maybe one day you can also enter the Tao through killing and become a local ancestor."
The silver-haired Taoist waved his hand, and the chains and the rocks disappeared like smoke. The prisoner was thrown into the river, and flowed towards the end with the rolling waves, starting his next life.
The silver-haired Taoist did it casually, and then turned into a ray of starlight again, falling into the Yin Tianzi City.
This time he specially rushed from the heaven to the underworld and entered Yintianzi City because the gods who had been thrown into the mountains and seas in the past had completely merged with the mountains and seas, turned into creatures of the mountains and seas, and were about to be reincarnated.
The silver-haired Taoist priest rushed to Yintianzi City in advance just for the coming of the true god.
The first feeling that everyone who comes to Xizhou has is desolation, extremely desolate. There are thousands of miles of desert, and it is rare to see a trace of green. The desert is full of all kinds of ghosts and strange beasts unique to Xizhou, and there are dangers everywhere.
And if you come across an oasis, don't be too happy, because every oasis must be occupied by a powerful demon or mythical beast. If you dare to step into it, don't even think about returning alive.
Decades have passed since the 72nd generation Xu Xiake discovered Xizhou and drew it in his map of mountains and seas.
The next story is about the Buddhist monk Hongyuan who traveled to Xizhou more than 40 years ago. He searched in the desert of Xizhou for more than 20 years, traveled to all the deserts, big and small, and every oasis in Xizhou, and even fought with the big monsters that occupied the oases. He converted and subdued many of the big monsters in Xizhou.
Finally, deep underground in a desert, buried under the yellow sand, he found the remains of an ancient temple that resembled the Buddhist sect of the past, but the Buddha in the temple was not any Buddha he knew.
Only broken walls and ruins remained of the temple, and the Sanskrit inscribed inside was like a heavenly book that even the well-traveled and knowledgeable monk Hongyuan had never seen before.
However, Monk Hongyuan found a huge golden Buddha deep underground and three rare treasures in the temple. After painstaking study, he gradually understood the true meaning of the Sanskrit inscriptions, obtained the ancient Buddhist heritage, and obtained several true scriptures.
Next, Monk Hongyuan found an ancient spiritual root, the seed of a Bodhi tree, in the temple. After planting it in the temple, as a spiritual root, it naturally had the function of repairing and evolving the earth veins. The earth veins within a hundred miles radius revived little by little, and the earth became green again.
Because of the defeat of Buddhism in Shenzhou, many Buddhist disciples began to board the Buddhism's third-order treasure ship. Thousands of people rushed to Xizhou and rebuilt the temple. Monk Hongyuan named the temple Leiyin Temple, intending to open up a pure land of bliss in Xizhou.
Afterwards, many Buddhist believers also began to take large ships to Xizhou to recuperate and, under the protection of Leiyin Temple, they built a paradise home.
It was at this time that everyone knew that Monk Hongyuan had found an ancient Buddhist inheritance that led directly to the Great Road in Xizhou and had opened up a Buddhist land.
The whole world was shocked. A large number of practitioners took boats to Xizhou to seek opportunities. However, to cross the sea to Xizhou, they had to pass through the forbidden sea. Even for a third-level treasure ship, there were many dangers when crossing the sea. Many practitioners were eaten by fish before they even arrived in Xizhou.
However, there are still many practitioners or powerful people from major sects who have arrived in Xizhou, wanting to see what kind of secrets this mysterious Xizhou contains and whether there are any opportunities for them.
They believe that such a vast continent will definitely not have only one relic, and there must be more ancient secrets hidden in it, waiting for the arrival of the destined person, and everyone believes that they are that destined person.
In an instant, the desert-like Xizhou seemed to have become a treasure land, attracting a large number of practitioners to cross the sea.