There is no sun or moon in the sky, and no vegetation on the earth.

Everything has yin and yang, and the same is true in the human world. This dark and silent land under the yang world is called the Netherworld. For the living beings in the world, including most practitioners, this place is just a legendary existence.

A place where lonely souls and wild ghosts gather, but it is absolutely impossible to come into contact with it.

Only some special people, such as those who have understood the Dao of Xuanming, can peer into the Netherworld with their yin and yang eyes, and those who control Xuanming can enter the underworld with their yang bodies, and can even cooperate with the ghost king of the Netherworld to provide assistance to each other.

In fact, Xuanming Dao is not an evil path. There is no distinction between good and evil in the world. When the Tianxing Divine Sect still existed, the master of Xuanming Dao had a very high status. He was more like a middleman between the yin and yang worlds, and could walk between the two worlds.

Promote communication.

However, after the Tianxing Divine Religion split, the Pluto Sect fell into the devil's path and began to use their control over the ghosts to kill innocent people indiscriminately to strengthen themselves. This caused the Xuanming Avenue to go astray.

In the past, Master Xuanming had intercourse with the ghost kings of the ten halls, but now the master of the Pluto Sect, even if he uses blood sacrifices, can still only invite the ghost kings of the two halls, it is because the Pluto Sect has fallen into the devil's way, and most of the ghost kings are no longer willing to help it.

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In the underworld where stars shine brightly, two incompatible bodies descended on this day.

The first one is Taoist Master Xuanming, Lin Poyun, the leader of the Pluto Sect, who has united his thoughts of good and evil. However, now that the Pluto Sect has been destroyed, he has also lost his true form of Ksitigarbha, and he no longer has the arrogance of the past.

In the days after the fusion of good and evil, he would sometimes become a pure-minded monk without any evil, and sometimes he would become a self-centered leader of Pluto. After experiencing quite difficult tearing and reorganization, he gradually stabilized in his current state.

In the past, Lin Poyun could kill himself for revenge, which shows that he was a ruthless and decisive person no matter whether he was good or evil. Now he has an indifferent expression and is difficult to distinguish.

Behind him is a rather old-looking figure.

The old man is dressed in white linen monk clothes and has a long beard. He is the Venerable Wanfa who was previously on the Holy Mountain in the Northern Territory. However, he was clearly killed by the demon god in the battle of Tianbei Prison, and he appeared here again for some reason.

Lin Poyun didn't know either.

He only knew that he could walk in the underworld by controlling the great road, but he didn't know why the Venerable Wanfa could act so casually.

"You must be really dead, right? Only then can you be so comfortable in the underworld." Lin Poyun wondered: "It's just that there is some secret method that makes it difficult for people to see that you are a ghost."

"People in the world only know that the Tao of Immortality has a long lifespan, but they don't know that if you practice this Tao to the extreme, you will be 'immortal.'" Venerable Wanfa chuckled and said, "Sect Master Lin doesn't have to worry about this at all. I am still far away from turning into a ghost.

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"Even if you are immortal in the human world, you should not be able to walk in the underworld." Lin Poyun was puzzled.

If a random person has such power, then what is the significance of him as Taoist Master Xuanming? That is why I am a little suspicious.

"The ability to walk in the underworld is another opportunity." Venerable Wanfa said leisurely: "The longer people live, the more opportunities they will naturally have."

While they were talking, the two of them had arrived outside a flat wasteland. Hundreds of miles ahead of the wasteland, there was a huge mountain towering into the clouds, shaped like the head of an evil ghost.

"You said..." Lin Poyun looked up at this mountain, "The spirit of Ksitigarbha was suppressed here? I have been driving Ksitigarbha's true form for many years, but I have never heard of it."

"Compared with the history of the Hades Sect, it is still a little too short." Venerable Wanfa looked at the giant peak on the top of the mountain, seeming a little excited, with bright eyes.

"Back then, in the land to the west of the extreme west, there was a land not much smaller than the land of Kyushu. There was also a prosperous civilization there, and the practice of Buddhism appeared here. A compassionate country that highly worshiped Buddhism was established there, but later a generation of kings

, mourning that he had worshiped the Buddha for hundreds of years but had never seen the true Buddha, he built a large altar and prayed for the true Buddha to come to the upper world."

"But what came was an extremely powerful Jizo Jizo! Its cultivation was comparable to that of a saint. The entire land of the Far West was destroyed by the destruction of the Jizo Jizo."

"Seeing that the entire human world was about to be destroyed by it, fortunately, an unknown ancient Buddha appeared at this time. At the critical moment, he killed his demonic thoughts, became a saint in his body, and entered the ninth realm of Tongxuan. But even with the power of the unknown ancient Buddha,

He was unable to completely suppress this extremely evil Ksitigarbha, who was not much weaker than him. He could only divide this evil Ksitigarbha into two. The soul was suppressed in the Nether World and was guarded by the Ten Palace Kings. The real body was suppressed in the Yang Realm.

, suppressed by the immortal sects."

"I don't know how many years later, Ksitigarbha's true body was unearthed and used as a divine weapon. But Ksitigarbha's soul has always been here and has not been touched."

"There are legends in the world today that the evil Ksitigarbha was bound and suppressed in the underworld by the gods. In fact, it was born out of this incident. There is also the truth hidden in the rumors."

"But this truth is already an ancient secret, how did you learn about it?" Lin Poyun looked at Venerable Wanfa strangely, "Could it be that... you are a person from that era?"

"Haha." Venerable Wanfa smiled, "How is this possible? That happened tens of thousands of years ago. I just got the inheritance of the unknown ancient Buddha by chance."

"That doesn't matter." Lin Poyun waved his hand and turned to look at the giant mountain again, "You want to dig out the suppressed Ksitigarbha spirit? There are ten halls of ghost kings guarding it. It is impossible for us to do it alone.

Right? They are in the underworld, but they are all critical beings. As long as there is a little movement here, they will rush over immediately. "

Venerable Wanfa just replied calmly: "Sect Master Lin, everything depends on man-made efforts."

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"Who would have thought of this?"

At this time, Chu Liang in Shenxu Temple was also faced with a shocking scene. The appearance of the leader of Shenxu Temple who came over was exactly the same as his senior brother Yuan from Shushan.

If there is any difference, it's probably that they have a more detached temperament, are more majestic and have three more beards, that's all. It can still be seen at a glance that these are two exactly the same people.

"Don't worry yet." The middle-aged man opposite waved his hand and said with a smile: "I am not the person you know. Please take a seat."

He sat down at the table, picked up the teapot first, poured himself a cup, and then poured another cup for Chu Liang. The rope on Chu Liang's body automatically fell off and was put into his sleeve.

"Could it be that..." Chu Liang got free, stood up, rolled his eyes and said, "Senior, did you travel to the Shushan area forty years ago?"

"Ahem." The middle-aged man was about to drink tea. He almost choked when he heard these words. He put down the tea cup and said, "What are you thinking about? How can we at Shenxu Temple be free... You guys from Shushan are just three of us?"

It’s just one of a thousand incarnations.”

"Clone?" Chu Liang was surprised.

"It can be understood that the Shenxu Temple is isolated from the world, and it is inevitable that it will not understand the situation in the world. The masters of the Shenxu Temple in the past generations have to travel around the world in their incarnations to understand the development of the world. Especially the top immortal sects like Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, even more

You must pay attention to it." The viewer explained: "But the incarnation is different from the clone. The senior brother Yuan Zhuo you know has never known my existence. He only thinks that he is an ordinary Shushan disciple, different from ordinary people.

It's just the same life and cultivation. But everything he knows will be known to me."

"Is Senior Brother Yuan Zhuo really the same as ordinary people?" Chu Liang laughed softly.

Thinking about it this way, it is understandable to understand the various peculiarities of Senior Brother Yuan. Why is his cultivation not high, but his brain power is amazing. He may seem dull and unreasonable, but he is almost omniscient about worldly affairs.

If you think of him as a being who specializes in storing memories, it would make sense.

It's just that there is such a square head in every immortal sect in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, but no one has ever noticed it? Thinking about it, it is possible that just like the magical powers practiced by the guardian elders, there are such causal magical powers in the world.

It can directly change people's cognition.

Thinking of this, Chu Liang's expression suddenly changed: "Not good."

"What's wrong?" the viewer asked.

"If everything about Senior Brother Yuan can be known to you, then wouldn't it be true that the accounts of Hongmian Peak..." Chu Liang hit his left palm hard with his right fist, "Defense day and night, but I have never been able to guard against this move."

"..." The viewer showed a speechless expression.

After a long while, he finally said: "Do you think I care about your accounts?"

"That's true." Chu Liang chuckled, "But this junior is really curious about what the senior is interested in in the Shenxu Temple."

This is what he's always wanted to know.

Shenxu Temple is extremely powerful and mysterious. In this isolated place, a group of strong people have been gathered to pass it on from generation to generation. What is the purpose?

The viewer looked at Chu Liang, paused, and then replied: "I can answer all your doubts."

Then he told: "The existence of Shenxu Temple is actually to protect this human world."

"Guarding the human world?" Chu Liang was a little confused when he heard this extremely lofty rhetoric, "Then why did the Shenxu Temple never seem to appear in the past great catastrophes in the human world? For example, in the chaos of demons and gods three thousand years ago, if it weren't for the predecessors of Shushan,

Wouldn't it be possible to destroy the enemy with death force..."

"You're not talking about the human world." The viewer shook his head slightly, "It's just the Kyushu human race."

Chu Liang said nothing, waiting for the other party's explanation.

Just listen to the viewer continue to say: "Whether it is the human race, the demon race, or the earlier Jiuli, sea race... they are all existences derived from this world. The world is turning, and the replacement of the races that dominate the world is actually a historical necessity.

.No matter how this master changes, it will not actually deplete the heaven and earth at all. It is just that the spiritual energy comes and goes, gathering in the heaven and earth and dispersing in the heaven and earth."

"The human world that the seniors mentioned refers to this big world?" Chu Liang understood what the other party meant, "rather than some lives in the world?"

"This is natural." The temple master said: "On weekdays, you practitioners often think of yourself as exterminating demons and defending the Tao, and you often praise the feats of the predecessors in Shushan to save the world. But why do you need to save the world? Even if the demon clan has dominated the world for thousands of years, it will still be lost.

It's just another kind of living being. Even if all the living beings die, this world will not be damaged at all. As long as the spiritual energy is not lost, in tens of millions of years, new living beings will be born."

"Senior, the damage to this world means the loss of spiritual energy?" Chu Liang captured the information mentioned by the other party.

"That's right." The viewer smiled: "There is only one way, which will lead to the destruction of heaven and earth."

"Ascension?" Chu Liang guessed.

"Exactly." The viewer nodded.

"So the existence of Shenxu Temple prohibits ascension?" Chu Liang was a little shocked.

Could it be that this Taoist temple hides some kind of power that can suppress the sacred power of the ninth realm? That would be amazing.

"It's not forbidden." The temple owner replied: "Shenxu Temple was founded before Li Sheng ascended to the throne. He put down three prohibitions in Shenxu Temple, which are called the Laws of Ascension."

"First, to ascend to the Nine Realms, you must achieve something and replenish spiritual energy for the world."

"Second, after ascending to the Nine Realms, you must leave your physical body behind to complete the path for the human world."

"Third, if the ascension fails, resurrection will never be allowed in this nine realms."

Chu Liang felt quite shocked when he heard these three laws of ascension. In the endless years ago, Li Sheng, as the first person to ascend, set rules for all the saints of the ninth realm in the future.

It sounds very domineering.
To be continued...