The gate to the underworld opened, and black smoke rose into the sky. The sky within a radius of hundreds of miles suddenly darkened, and dark clouds covered the sky, blocking out all light.
Under the earth one can hear the roars and howls of billions of ghosts and gods. That is the destination of all death. Once the door to the underworld opens, countless ghosts want to rush out of the door and break into the world of the living, but they are bound tightly by the power of the ghost gate.
All evil spirits and ghosts, no one can escape from here!
There is only one way out of the gate of hell.
But the preaching jade slip is different. It itself is a sacred incense artifact of Fengdu. The sages and teachers of Xundu Academy throughout the ages have long since merged with this sacred incense artifact and no longer belong to any of the six reincarnations of heaven and earth.
In a sense, this is a divine artifact, and the sages of the academies of all generations are the spirits of this divine artifact!
The horrifying sights and sounds alarmed the area within a thousand miles. People from thousands of households walked out of their homes and saw that God seemed to be angry. Black clouds continued to roll, and horrifying strange visions rolled out from the dark clouds.
"Dark clouds cover the sky for thousands of miles! What on earth happened?" The clerk on duty in the county town looked at the sky and felt as if his heart was blocked and there was an intense sense of panic.
Although several nearby counties had already issued warnings and the county magistrate had issued a decree prohibiting anyone from approaching the ancient Xun site, and several villages that were originally inhabited had already been evacuated, everyone only knew that something had happened at the ancient Xun site, but no one had expected that this would be the scene that unfolded.
At this moment, even several county magistrates and prefects who had already received the notice from the Imperial Academy and the imperial edict from Yangjing felt panic in their hearts when they saw this scene.
"Oh my God! God is angry!" The common people had never seen such a horrifying sight. Many of them dropped their work and ran back to the village shouting. The whole village was in a panic.
"What on earth is this?"
"Close the city gates! Close the city gates quickly!"
In the distance in Yanguo County, the soldiers standing on the wall saw that the horrifying black color had spread to the front of the city wall, engulfing the entire earth.
The terrifying sound of the door opening and the roar of ghosts and gods that shook the sky scared the people in the city so much that the pedestrians on the street dispersed in an instant and thousands of households closed their doors.
There were also a large number of immortal practitioners and warriors who were spying on the movements of the academy. At this moment, they were watching the scene in the distance through various spells.
"The door to the underworld has really been opened!"
"The last time someone opened the gates to the underworld on such a large scale was during the Yangjing Demon Tribulation, when the King of Hell opened the gates to the underworld!"
"It is recorded in historical books that in ancient times there was a great witch named Yun, who set up the Ten Thousand Ghosts Witch Formation and opened the gates to the underworld on a large scale. If it weren't for Emperor Longqiu ascending to the throne of the underworld, I'm afraid the human race would have perished in the hands of the great witch Yun."
"This ancient Xundu City God is indeed worthy of being a true god. The academy spent a hundred years of merit to allow this Xundu City God to ascend to the throne, and it turned out to be for the purpose of opening up the underworld!"
At this moment, Qu Yong, the teacher of the academy, who was standing on the rooftop altar, was holding high the jade slip of preaching in his hand, braving the fierce wind and the roars of billions of ghosts and gods.
The wind lifted up the white teacher's robe, causing it to shake violently. The wooden hairpin that had originally held his hair together was blown away, leaving his head of white hair flying high.
The light of the preaching jade slip in his hand became brighter and brighter, as if it was standing between heaven and earth, holding up a sun.
Holding the preaching jade slip tightly, he resisted the pressure brought by the heaven and earth, and a sound like a huge bell came out of his mouth, which sounded like thunder exploding in the darkness.
"Qu Yong, the seventeenth generation master of Shangxian Academy! Leading the disciples of all branches of the academy!"
"Here! Pray to heaven and earth!"
"Pray to the ancestors of the academy! Respectfully welcome the return of the ancient Xundu Academy!"
The preaching jade slip flew out of his hand and rose into the sky of the ancient Xun city. The light fell into the door to the underworld that had opened on the earth and shone into the netherworld.
In an instant, above the Xundu Academy in the Yin World, a ray of light descended from the sky and enveloped the vast sacred mountain of the academy. The light fell from the Yang World, like a road to heaven, running through the Yin and Yang worlds.
Above the Xundu Academy, at this moment, in every mountain and palace, there are groups of scholars and sages wearing loose robes with fluttering sleeves, as if they have been waiting for this moment for a long time.
In front of the Palace of the Sages, the bodies of the four saints continued to extend together, transforming into the saintly images. Four images like gods and Buddhas rose from the ground. The Spring and Autumn trees bloomed with colorful clouds, and thousands of paper strips swayed, protecting the entire Xundu Academy.
Xundu Academy broke away from its original position and continued to rise upwards, following the light of the Yang world.
At the same time, above the netherworld, ghosts and evil spirits within a radius of tens of millions of miles also roared and started chasing after the Xundu Academy.
The swarm of ghosts and evil spirits gathered into a black hurricane, which rolled up into a huge black pillar. Densely packed heads and limbs poked out from the hurricane, wailing, wailing, and roaring.
There is no telling how many ghosts and gods wanted to follow Xundu Academy to escape from this underworld, but before they could get close to the light of the world of the living, they were constantly wiped out and their souls were scattered. The remaining powerful ghosts were still chasing after them.
Finally, Xundu Academy passed through the gate of the underworld and left the netherworld.
And those ghosts and evil spirits suddenly crashed into the illusory gate. A thick black light spread out, and the wandering souls that covered the sky and the sun were scattered at once, and all the ghosts were swept down to the underworld.
"Ah! Open it for me, open it for me!"
"Why can't we go out!"
"Why! Why!"
"I don't want to die! I want to live, I want to live!"
The homeless wandering souls were almost losing their sanity, but they still retained a trace of obsession and continued to rush towards the sky until that ray of light completely dissipated.
At the same time, more ghost officials from the underworld came driving divine chariots to capture these evil spirits who usually hid in various corners and were unwilling to enter the cycle of reincarnation.
Yangshi Guxundi saw that above the earth, rays of light broke out from the darkness.
The first thing that appeared was the Spring and Autumn Divine Tree that reached from heaven to earth, with millions of branches swaying like colorful clouds in the sky.
"Success! Really successful!" Seeing this scene, the master of Zhizhai Academy couldn't believe it. He said affirmative words but kept shaking his head.
It felt like the god or Buddha that I had been worshipping for a long time finally appeared in front of me one day. I was shocked, trembling, and felt a little bit unbelievable.
"Xundu Academy! This is the Xundu Academy!" The teachers and several elders of the Moral Academy knelt down on the ground at this moment. Only those of them who inherited the academy lineage from the ancient times could understand their feelings towards the Xundu Academy, and what the generations of academy disciples were pursuing.
"A thousand-year-old academy! It reappears in the world today!"
"The sacred tree of Spring and Autumn, this is the sacred tree that has suppressed the fortune of my academy for thousands of years!"
The disciples of the academy standing on the rooftop altar, who were listed as the masters of Confucius Mountain, were also stunned as they looked at the sacred tree that slowly emerged from under the earth. The branches were like the pillars supporting the heaven and earth in the legend.
Everyone was originally looking down at the earth, then kept looking up, and in the end they could only see the swaying paper strips and the dense and colorful sea of flowers occupying the entire sky.
What was even more shocking was that four saintly figures like statues of gods emerged from under the tree, lined up in a row, and gazed at the entire Great Zhou world.
Sacred mountains kept emerging, with overlapping palaces and pavilions. Thousands of people stood in front of the palaces and buildings. As the sacred mountains continued to rise from the ground, they rose little by little, overlooking the entire world.
"Xizi!"
"Call Chengzi!"
"Fox and Sheep! And the Saint Zhonghang!"
"Mr. Yuan! This is Mr. Yuan from my academy!"
The ancient sages who could only be seen in ancient scrolls and stone statues appeared one after another. The old and weathered faces and the portraits that they had to bow down to when they were children to start school were now all standing alive in front of them.
Xundu Academy has reappeared in the world, standing under the sky above the earth.
At this moment, the black clouds that were rolling and boiling above the sky suddenly broke open, as if a big hole was suddenly pierced through.
Layers of white light shone down from the big hole in the clouds. All the disciples of the academy, the sages in the Xundu Academy, the common people in the area covering thousands of miles, and the large number of immortal sects and aristocratic families who were eyeing this ancient Xun land, all looked up at the sky at this moment.
Then I saw a white figure as vast as the sun and stars sitting cross-legged above the sea of clouds, looking down at the earth, just like a god from the upper realm watching all living beings and the ups and downs of the ocean.
The god waved his hand and the black clouds thousands of miles away dissipated. The gate to the underworld above the earth covered by his hand kept closing, and as he tightened his grip, it dissipated and disappeared.