After a slight twist and chaos, Zong Gu opened his eyes again and was already in the underworld.
“…”
There was a dead silence around, nothing was left. It opened the boundary between the world and the underworld, and the daughter of the underworld who threw him in was gone, as if she had never appeared.
But they did appear, otherwise he would not have returned to this country of the underworld that had been wandering for two years.
"The taste of the yellow spring..."
A hating taste.
As soon as Zong Gu opened his mouth, strands of power from the underworld rushed towards him, pouring into his body, generating new power, sweeping away all the fatigue accumulated when he fought with several evil spirits.
"Ah, I am a citizen of Huangquan Kingdom."
Holding the knife's hand tightly, he could feel his strength being quickly recovered, and he didn't know whether he should be happy.
Standing there, he looked back and forth, and there was nothing.
Looking around again, I still could only see a dead silence.
This is the land of nothingness in the Yellow Springs. The power of the Yellow Springs is also very thin. There will be no spiritual body nearby. This is also the result of the intentional choice of the daughter of the Yellow Springs, in order to prevent the spirit bodies inside from taking advantage of the opportunity when opening the boundaries. Escape.
“…”
Taking a deep breath, Zong Gu closed his eyes and opened it again, and the scene around him still did not change at all.
He had ten thousand ways to prove that he was still awake at this time, and each way pointed to the same result: this was not a dream when he fell and fell into a coma.
He was really caught back to the underworld.
The tip of the knife was pressed against the ground, Zong Gu raised the blade slightly, tapped it on the ground twice, then lifted it up again, and chopped it down heavily.
bite!
This samurai sword had suffered a lot of damage during the slash against the evil spirit. At this time, he could not withstand the full force of his rage and directly broke into two pieces.
“…”
The long sword turned into a medium and short sword, and Zong Gu's anger disappeared halfway.
What we need to do now is not to vent, but to find a way to leave here and return to the world.
The only person who can save him is the owner here - the Lord of Huangquan, Yin Xie Namei.
The question is how to contact her in the underworld.
“Sure enough, no signal…”
When he put away his phone, Soya found that his hands were trembling, just like Akane Kirino and Akako who had just witnessed the murder of the evil spirit.
"It's fine."
He comforted himself, "Hongzi should have seen the process of my disappearance. Even if she couldn't understand, she told Ling, and Ling would understand that I was caught in the underworld and would definitely ask the teacher to save me... Well, it's okay. .”
Just wait for a while and let the news be passed to the Orange Emperor, and she will go into the underworld to save him.
Zong Gu forced himself to believe in this, and finally silenced the fear in his heart for a while.
"Why did it suddenly fail..."
He remembered the direct reason why he re-entered the Yellow Springs. He opened his palm and the eight-foot Qiong Goutiao appeared out of thin air.
And no matter how he controlled it, the magma in his palm was like a dead object and had no reaction at all.
"It's broken?"
Will the artifact also be broken? Or should he not have held it?
After holding it in his hand for a while, Zong Gu put the magma into his body again.
"I have to complain to Ling after I go out... I have to leave here first."
The Land of Nothingness is like an isolated island on the sea, with a small area and you can leave here no matter where you go.
Holding the broken knife tightly, Zong Gu found the half blade that flew out after the crack and walked towards the direction pointed by the tip of the knife.
After walking forward for more than ten minutes, the power of the Yellow Spring gradually became richer, and some ancient broken walls appeared around them, and you could also meet spiritual bodies.
Because he didn't know which area he was in in the Yellow Springs, Zong Gu stopped a gentler spirit and asked, "Where is this?"
"If you're not blind, you should be able to see it."
He raised the blade and placed it on the neck of the inconsistent spirit.
"...It's the yellow spring." The other party suddenly became much gentler.
"I'm asking which area is southeast, southwest and northeast?"
"None of them, this is the Central Domain."
Zong Gu was stunned for a moment. The Central Domain is the area where the Huangquan Hall is located. As its name suggests, it is located at the center of the Huangquan Kingdom and is much smaller than the four areas surrounding it.
The underworld is vast and he has been wandering for two years. He has never set foot in the Central Region. He did not expect to appear here when he comes back.
Perhaps it would be easier for Emperor Ju to find himself by going to Huangquan Hall.
Thinking of this, Zong Gu asked, "Which direction is the Huangquan Hall?"
The spirit raised his hand and pointed in a direction.
"Thank you." Zong Gu put away his knife and walked towards the other side.
After walking for a while, he encountered another spirit body. He stopped the other party and asked the same question.
"What are you doing in Huangquan Hall?"
"Pray that Lord Yin Xie Namei will send me back to the world."
"Ha, it's so interesting." The other party pointed at the direction he came, "Here."
“…”
Sure enough, I was cheated.
He still confirmed, "Really?"
"What are you doing? The Central Domain is so big. If you walk here for four or five hours, you will definitely see the Huangquan Hall." The other party said, "If you don't believe it, I'll go with you."
Zong Gu had already believed it most, but he did not refuse.
"Then please."
The most lacking spiritual bodies in the Yellow Spring is time, because the power of the Yellow Spring is maintained, the speed of consciousness dissipation is extremely slow. The actual age of the spiritual bodies that look similar to him may be ten times or twenty or thirty times that of his.
.
Wandering around in the boundless underworld is the main tone of the spirits' "rest of life" and being devoured by evil spirits can be regarded as a thick and heavy color in the rest of life.
"Did you come to the Central Region for the first time, or have you just arrived in Huangquan?" the man asked.
"All of them." Zong Gu replied.
"Just dying?"
“…”
"That's going to disappoint you. Lord Yin Xie, who is no longer in the underworld."
Zonggu shook his head, "It's good to go and have a look."
"Okay, at least you still have some pursuits now." The spirit body walking with him called himself Zuo Zuomu, who looked only twenty or thirty years old, but in fact he had been dead for more than forty years. "Now I'll send you to the Huangquan Hall,
It's my pursuit."
"Thanks."
"Where did you come from this knife?" Zuo Zuomu cared a little about the weapons in his hand.
Soya also wanted to know where the evil spirits who attacked Birui Yamaguchi at night got these weapons and "picked them up."
"You'd better throw it away or hide it." Zuo Zuomu reminded, "Some spirits will mutate when they see this."
"It's okay." Soya smiled at him, "I have the confidence to keep it."
Zuo Zuomu didn't say anything, and not long after, Zong Gu proved this to him.
With a knife, he cracked the spirit body that was rushing towards him in half. He put away the knife, and Zuo Zuomu next to him looked at him for a while, "You don't want to kill me, right?"
"……Won't."
"You are really rare," Zuo Zuomu said, "For most spirits, killing thoughts are like a key. If you open that door, you can never close it again... You are really different from them.
”
Sonogu looked ahead, "Because I'm still alive."
Zuo Zuomu just thought it was his obsession and said nothing.
The two continued to walk forward, and more and more spiritual bodies were encountered on the way.
Some people turned a blind eye to them, some came to talk about it, and some tried to attack them, just like when he was wandering here half a year ago.
"look--"
After walking for more than an hour, Zuozuomu suddenly stopped and pointed to a large group of spiritual bodies gathered not far away.
Sonoya looked over, "What are they doing?"
“‘Eat’.”
Zuo Zuomu smiled at him, "You can't understand even if you say this. Look, you will understand soon."
As he was talking, the group of spirits suddenly became turbulent.
One of the spirit bodies rushed towards the other spirit body, bit the latter's head, and began to eat.
Zong Gu frowned and "swallowed."
"So you know it too."
Zuo Zuomu glanced at him and continued to look over there, "Those spirits that don't want to 'live' are the most suitable 'food' for other spirits that want to escape from the underworld.
”
"Swallow, mutate, and continue to evolve until the power is enough to tear open the boundaries between the world and the human world, and then escape... If only such a small number of people is not enough to eat, and I don't know how many spiritual bodies he has devoured before."
"Um."
"Do you want to keep watching?"
Zong Gu looked over there, "I also want to know if he can escape."
If this spirit body could really tear the boundaries, no matter where the world is opposite, he would go out.
The two stopped here and watched the spirit body constantly devour the numbing kind of person until no one was left.
After "eating", he stood there for a while, and the flesh and blood on his body kept stirring up, and suddenly he pulled up a little bit, and his limbs became stronger.
"ha!"
Using his hand as his claw, he waved his eyes suddenly into the void, leaving behind several fleeting bright traces.
"Wow, has it reached this level?" Zuo Zuomu commented, "If you swallow tens of thousands of spiritual bodies, you can almost tear the boundaries."
Zong Gu, who was standing beside him, was much more disappointed.
Spirits that can tear open the boundaries of the two realms are extremely rare and cannot be easily encountered, otherwise the world would have been in chaos and he comforted himself in this way.
"Let's go."
"Well, he doesn't seem to want us to leave." Zuo Zuomu said.
Zong Gu looked over, and the spirit body also looked here, and his intention was already very obvious.
"Aren't you afraid?" he asked Zuo Zuomu.
"The biggest difference between me and those devoured spirits just now is that I will not take the initiative to die." Looking at the spirits approaching this side, Zuo Zuomu had no intention of escaping at all, "But someone really wants to eat my words,
I won't refuse, either."
"You're really open-minded."
"After staying in the underworld for a long time, more or less, everyone will have a little urge to self-destruct."
Zong Gu smiled, raised the broken knife, and pointed at the spirit body ahead.
"Don't seek death."
“…”
The other party really stopped, looked at him, and the blade in his hand, turned around and left.
"I actually scared away."
"I guess he doesn't want to take risks even if he finally swallows it to this level."
Zuo Zuomu looked over, "Did you really come to Huangquan just now? Why do I feel that you are quite familiar with this place?"
"Two hours ago, I was still shopping for the festival with my girlfriend."
"Wow, that's really miserable. Let's continue to look for the Huangquan Hall."
"Um."
After taking a few steps, Zong Gu looked back and saw that the spirit body had already walked away in the other direction.
"He won't leave too far." Zuo Zuomu said, "The Central Domain is where Lord Yin Xie Namei escaped from the Yellow Springs back then, and the boundaries are the weakest. Spirits who want to imitate the example will come here."
"I see……"
If the power is enough, there is no need to take such tricks. You can tear the boundaries anywhere and escape from the heavens, Zong Gu thought.
For example, the Lord Yuezhiqinzi tear opens a hole somewhere in the Eastern Region and escapes from the underworld with him.
"I must be playing games now..."
"What?"
"No, I'm talking about my friend."
"If you are lucky, he will come and accompany you after decades."
Sonoya smiled.
"I'm afraid I can't wait."
After walking for a while, when passing by a ruined wall, Zuozuomu stopped, picked up the thing on the broken wall, and threw it to Zong Gu with his backhand.
He raised his hand to catch it, it was a gray steamed bun.
“…”
After holding it in his hand and looking at it for a while, Zong Gu felt a little moved.
"Is the food from Huangquan?"
There is no chef in the Huangquan. All food is condensed by the power of the Huangquan. It is like some naturally growing bacterial orphans that appear regularly on these broken walls and remains, and cannot be taken out and will never stop.
"Eat it." Zuo Zuomu took a bite, "Although it doesn't taste much, it can at least fill your stomach."
Zong Gu also took a bite and vomited it out immediately.
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. He has a deep understanding at this moment, "It doesn't taste at all."
"Haha, just get used to it."
He didn't want to get used to it, so he stood still with his legs and threw the steamed buns away like he threw a baseball.
Zuo Zuomu didn't care. Anyway, there was food everywhere in the underworld. "It would be better if you accept it early. Although you won't die of hunger, you're still quite uncomfortable."
"Wait until the hunger is unbearable, I will..."
Gu—
“…”
From the afternoon to now, he only ate half a marshmallow and a few grapes.
Zuo Zuomu picked up another steamed bun and threw it over.
After a few seconds of silence, Zong Gu still bit him.
As long as you eat a bite of Huangquan's food, you will become a citizen of Huangquan. If you eat it or not, this result will not be changed.
“Unless.”
He swallowed, "It's so unpalatable. It's so unpalatable."
"I said, if you complain like this, I can't eat it anymore."
"It's so unpalatable!"
"I really can't do anything to you..."
"Unless... Cough cough! Cough cough!"
After a simple and tasteless meal, the two set off again and continued to walk towards the Huangquan Hall.
When they arrived at a wider ruin, Zuozuomu stopped and looked around, "Have you arrived here?... Walking here for about two hours, you can see the Huangquan Hall."
Sonoya breathed a sigh of relief, "Is there still two hours?"
"You think two hours are long now, but later you will find that this is nothing at all. Sometimes, if you are stunned, it may take a few days, and there is no difference between day and night here." Zuo Zuomu said
.
Zong Gu shook his head, "My life is limited."
"Are you still saying this? It seems that only time can make you understand this."
He smiled and said nothing.
After walking for more than two hours, climbing a small slope, Zonggu finally saw the hall far ahead like a phantom.
"It takes a lot of time to pass here."
"Past? I can't get over it." Zuo Zuomu pointed ahead, "Look at the Huangquan army, although it is still moving now, like withered, as soon as it gets closer, they will 'awake', expel and even kill to try to approach Huangquan.
The spirit of the hall.”
“…”
Zong Gu looked over and there were countless Huangquan troops forming a square formation, arranged neatly in front of the Huangquan Hall, silent and motionless, just like an army waiting for inspection.
"Is this all around the hall?"
"yes."
After looking at it for a while, Zong Gu turned his head and looked at Zuo Zuomu: "Thank you for bringing me here."
Zuo Zuomu was stunned and quickly realized that this was the meaning of saying goodbye.
"Are you going to go there?"
"I want to give it a try."
Zuo Zuomu did not dissuade him, but only reminded him: "When you see the Huangquan Army reacting, don't get close. If you get closer, they will expel them until they kill the invaders. If you flee, they will not
Will chase it out."
"Thanks."
Zong Gu thanked again, Zuo Zuomu raised his toes and pointed to the ground in front of him.
"I'm waiting here. If you go too deep, I can't collect the corpse for you... Of course, we won't have corpses."
Zong Gu smiled, then picked up the broken knife and walked towards the Huangquan Hall.
When we arrived here, the power of the underworld became even stronger.
The Senran Hall and countless Yellow Spring Army in the distance were shrouded in a layer of faint grey mist, and Zong Gu felt like he was entering the demon realm.
Continue to get closer, and after a few minutes, he can see clearly the appearance of the Yellow Spring Army, the outermost outermost.
I looked back and saw Zuozuomu standing far away on the small earth slope, staring at this side, the distance between them was about four or five hundred meters.
Now it should be close to the scope of the Huangquan Army's warning. Zong Gu slowed down and focused his attention on the natural spirit in front of him, slowly approaching.
It was just as close as the distance between the Huangquan Army and the Long Salute could stab him to death by lifting the long halberd, and they did not react at all.
Zong Gu was a little surprised and guessed in his heart that this might be related to the Eight Thunder God Power in his body, and then hesitated a little.
Although this distance is now very dangerous, he can still react. If he continues to go deeper, he will have nowhere to escape once these Huangquan troops suddenly attack.
"It's been more than four hours..."
He has fallen into the underworld for four hours, but Emperor Orange still has not appeared.
Is the news not being passed to her yet?
And where did the bell go...
"Hello--"
He turned around and Zuo Zuomu ran towards this side, "How did you do it-"
Zong Gu was stunned and quickly issued a reminder: "Don't come over!"
Zuo Zuomu did not stop and ran closer and closer, and the Huangquan army around him, who was withering like an ordinary person, finally responded.
First, they all woke up together, then they raised their long halberds and acted in a stance to drive them away, and finally smashed them at Zuozuomu.
"So you are special..."
He looked at him and then at the long halberd that was about to fall on his head.
"So I died like this."
boom!
“…”
Zong Gu looked at him silently.
After destroying the invaders, the Huangquan Army put away the long halberd and returned to him in one step, returning to silence.
“Am I 'special'…”
Taking a deep breath, Zong Gu turned around and walked into the Huangquan Army's array and ran towards the Huangquan Hall.
The Huangquan army on both sides remained silent and had no response to his in-depth development.
"hiss!"
As he kept getting closer, a burning feeling suddenly came from his arms, which made him shudder.
And the same feeling came from the chest.
Immediately afterwards, an unstoppable and strong murderous intent rushed to his ecstasy and quickly rose in his heart.
He also suddenly understood why Shizuku could not sense the Eight Thunder Gods.