In the netherworld, a divine edict from heaven emitting a thousand-foot-long golden light fell into the underworld and turned into a ray of sun illuminating thousands of miles. In an instant, the underworld turned into daylight, and the world changed.
In an instant, billions of ghosts and gods in the entire underworld looked up at the same time, feeling an infinite pressure pressing down on them from the sky. The few large words on the divine edict suppressed the entire underworld.
Endless rays of light refracted down along the divine edict, sweeping across the vast land and the sea until the end of the sky.
The land is full of ghosts and gods. The blessed places and tombs form villages, and the large blessed places form ghost towns. In a city called Guiling, the ghost king wears a royal dragon robe and stands on the top of the city, letting the light shine on himself. He is also a duke in this life, and has been the lord of this ghost city in the underworld for a hundred years after his death, but he has never seen such a scene.
"This? What is this? Could it be the secret decree from the underworld of Emperor Yin?"
In the center of the underworld ghost towns is the Emperor's Palace. Dragon pillars rise into the sky, suppressing ghosts and gods from all directions, forming a blessed land of thousands of miles. It is these existences that have formed the huge underworld dynasty and reincarnation order.
Emperor Longqiu rode on a dragon chariot and traveled across the sky, inspecting the cities under his seat to intimidate ghosts and gods. One hundred thousand ghost generals and ghost soldiers who followed him turned into black clouds and dragged the imperial throne up. Emperor Longqiu's divine body, as big as a mountain, sat on the throne. Passing by the sky of the underworld, he stopped when he saw this scene.
Beside him was a ghost god wearing a black and red priest robe, guarding the royal dragon chariot. His figure was not even as tall as the wheels of the chariot that were emitting divine fire, but the power emanating from his body and the golden ghost god facial patterns had already frightened all the ghosts, who dared not look directly at him.
"Emperor! There is a secret decree from the underworld. It may be that the Emperor Yin has issued another decree to enthrone ghosts and gods!"
Emperor Longqiu sat on the dragon chariot, slowly opened his eyes and looked towards the sky, his gaze was as deep as water and as powerful as the sea: "The Yin Emperor's edict contains the law of reincarnation and the seal of reincarnation, which is very different from this thing!"
"Return to the Imperial City as soon as possible!"
Not only here, but also the imperial palaces of all parties, Yuanjun of the South Sea, Ksitigarbha of the West, and the God of the Underworld of the South were all alarmed, not knowing what had happened.
Ghosts and gods from all sides discussed the matter and made various speculations.
"This thing fell from the sky, as if it came from the upper world!"
"world?"
"How is this possible? How can the human world be called the upper world? And who in the human world has such power!"
"It's not the human world! That's the only possibility!"
Many ghosts and gods quickly thought of what this thing might be, and rushed to their respective Emperor's Palaces, the Underworld, and the Ksitigarbha Temples in horror and panic.
Even at this moment, when the emperor had not yet returned to the throne, the Dongyang Emperor's Palace City, which belonged to the Great Zhou Dynasty, felt something. Ghosts and gods from all sides gathered together, the imperial city was closed, and ghosts and gods surrounded it to guard it.
At this time, inside the largest ghost palace city in the underworld, the bronze temple at the highest point suddenly shook and turned into black circles of light that spread out.
"Buzz!"
A strange sound rang out in front of Yintianzi City and the Ghost Gate, like the sound of the avenue, or like the sound of bells and tripods, making ghosts recall their present lives, and even vaguely see the shadows of their past and future lives.
Endless darkness rose from the corners of the underworld, quickly wiping out the light that illuminated the world from the earth and space.
The black shadow continued to spread, finally covering the entire sky and every corner of the underworld. Black smoke spread out, flowing and dancing.
An arm that could grasp the sun, moon, and stars stretched out from the darkness and grasped the divine edict that illuminated the entire underworld. It was held in its hand, and the black smoke condensed into a sleeve that accompanied its hand.
All the ghosts and gods looked back along the sky, and finally saw a being wearing a nine-dragon ghost crown robe appear in the sky.
Throughout the entire underworld, all the roaring ghosts fell silent at the same time, and millions of ghosts and gods were stunned.
Because the figure was so huge that it was beyond everyone's imagination, stretching from the east to the end of the world. This divine body alone was probably tens of millions of miles long.
It seems that it is not within the world, but outside the world, sticking to the whole world, holding the huge underworld in its arms. With a single stroke of its palm, it may be able to directly penetrate the entire underworld, and with a single raise of its hand, it can grab the human world of the living.
Even those beings that were powerful enough to be close to immortals and gods were frightened when they saw this scene. Those evil spirits hiding in the underworld were desperately hiding their breath, for fear of being discovered by the beings above the sky.
"Yin... Emperor Yin!" Even Emperor Changyue felt a strong shock when he saw this scene. Some people had guessed how powerful Emperor Yin was, and believed that he was at least an immortal or god-level being. However, only by seeing this scene at this moment could people truly understand the power of the Lord of the Yin World.
"The Lords of the Underworld are immortal gods who have survived from the ancient times. No wonder they were able to survive the great catastrophe of the ancient times. Such power is enough to destroy the underworld. What kind of catastrophe can kill them!"
"The secrets in this underworld are probably more terrifying than the mountains and seas in the human world." Under the earth in a dark corner of the underworld, King Yama Che Shao felt the existence in the sky. Just a trace of breath revealed froze his power. He quickly lowered his head in horror, not daring to look at the sky. He trembled and restrained all his breath, hiding deep underground.
Emperor Longqiu's eyes were burning as he prostrated himself before the being in the sky. Yin Tianzi was the ruler of the underworld, the master of billions of ghosts and gods, in charge of the reincarnation of all living beings, and the master of all of them: "Yin Tianzi has lived in Tianzi City for thousands of years, and he has appeared in the world this time. Is that really a divine decree from the Heavenly Court?"
"Could it be that the Heavenly Palace from the ancient times still exists?"
The Ghost Dragon Emperor's robe fluttered in the wind like a swirling cloud, swallowing up everything.
The ruler of the underworld who grasped the sun in his hand swept his eyes towards the underworld. In an instant, billions of ghosts and gods bowed their heads and knelt on the ground. No one could look up at that existence.
Yin Tianzi retreated, and it did not seem like he was leaving. Instead, he kept himself close to the world, and from the outside, he spied on the entire underworld that was about to squeeze in. Even though he did not radiate any power or make any movements to display his power, this horrifying scene frightened billions of ghosts and gods kneeling on the ground.
At this moment, they felt like ants in a tree hole, and Yin Tianzi was the god outside, spying on them in the tree hole. As long as he wanted, he could destroy the entire world along with them with a stretch of his hand.
After Yin Tianzi left, ghosts and gods from all directions appeared at the same time. The Emperor rode on the imperial chariot and rushed to Yin Tianzi City. The golden Buddha in the west flew across the sea. The Jellyfish Yuanjun, wearing a divine robe, also left the palace.
Ghosts and gods from all directions passed through the Ghost Gate, and the mighty underworld officials and emperors were waiting together at the steps of the bronze temple. A large number of powerful ghosts and gods wearing ghost robes knelt down.
The bronze hall opened, and a judge came out holding a divine edict.
"The road to immortality will soon be opened in this world. The emperors, lords, ghosts and gods from all directions in the underworld will all be qualified to overcome the calamity and become immortals."
As soon as these words were spoken, many people below showed expressions of ecstasy. Countless people working in the underworld as ghosts and gods had been looking forward to this day, and finally this day has come. Although there are restrictions at present, at least it is better than searching for a way out before. Now it can be said that a road to heaven has been pointed out to people.
Shinto is also the path that leads directly to immortality and a life span equal to that of heaven and earth.
Especially the two emperors, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Jellyfish Yuanjun, as well as a Hades god wearing a black robe and hiding among the ghosts and gods of Nanzhou, these people all possess the status of emperors.
Originally, according to the status, the Emperor of the Underworld should have been a being ranked among the immortal gods. However, because the underworld was just established, the gods were needed to stabilize the order of reincarnation, so they took on this role.
And now this is considered to be the completion of their last procedure and link. All of them, taking advantage of the era of the rise of this great world, have the great fortune to occupy the position of god. If it were to wait until later generations, I am afraid that no one would be able to repeat their great fortune and great merits, and ascend from mortals to the position of immortal gods in two steps.
The judge in front of the bronze temple held the divine edict and shouted loudly, and everyone understood what this god was.
A cultivator transcends the three disasters and six calamities and his physical body ascends to heaven, becoming either a free and unrestrained immortal, a celestial immortal, a ghost immortal, or an earthly immortal. As for the immortals, they follow the way of the gods, transcend the nine levels of thunder calamity, and their golden bodies are transformed into the bodies of immortals through incense and burning.
After going through the tribulations, one will be transformed into a god, with a lifespan as long as the heaven and the earth. With the divine command from heaven, one can ascend to heaven and become a god, or one can stay in the underworld and become an emperor of the underworld or other godly position, with immortality.
Above the Heavenly Palace, the Immortal Emperor who was sitting on the throne stood up and transformed into two people. One remained on the throne of the Heavenly Emperor, while the other left in a hurry and rushed to the mortal world.