Chapter 049: Opening up to the heavens, and connecting to the darkness below
There was a reason why Li Xiang had such doubts.
Since the era of the Cataclysm, countless beasts, insects, and plants have returned to their ancestors. This world is filled with monsters and monsters.
There are even unicorns and phoenixes in myths and legends.
Those eight war gods who control the country are fifth-level atavists who have awakened the bloodline genes of the ancient times.
According to legend, the first god of war awakened the bloodline of Hou Yi, and could cut through the sky with one arrow, possessing unparalleled fighting power.
The other war gods also possess terrifying combat power that can destroy the world.
They returned to the ancient times where humans and gods coexisted, and humans possessed power comparable to the gods.
Since the characters in myths and legends all exist, then there are gods in the sky, and there should be ghosts and Yamas underground.
But human beings have been returning to their ancestors for hundreds of years, but no one has ever returned to their ancestors to the gods of the underworld.
For example, City God, Judge, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Yama, and Son of Heaven.
The academic community has not been able to give any explanation for this.
But after death, there is a soul. This is the consensus of everyone.
However, no one knows where these ghosts have gone.
Li Xiang was thinking about this issue when he saved more than 10,000 heroic souls who died in battle at the Mount of Heroes.
Those heroic spirits have gone to the Kingdom of Heaven, fallen into the Nine Nether Hells, or wandered between heaven and earth and become lonely ghosts.
He didn't know.
now.
The souls of countless monster beasts turned into light spots and dissipated, slowly floating away.
Li Xiang thought again.
However, there is still no answer.
He shook his head, put these chaotic thoughts behind his mind, and walked slowly towards Yangcheng.
At this moment, the bronze ring on the demon-conquering pestle shook slightly.
The amplitude of this shaking is extremely small and cannot be detected at all if you don't look carefully.
However, the Vajra Subduing Demonic Pestle is a psychic object, and Li Xiang can sense any changes immediately.
That evil spirit actually dared to come back.
Sure enough, a third-level ghost cannot escape so easily.
Li Xiang frowned slightly. If the ghost didn't attack immediately, it was probably observing his situation.
It's really cunning.
Thinking of this, Li Xiang deliberately coughed and spit out a mouthful of black blood, and his face gradually became haggard and pale.
He murmured to himself:
"If I hadn't consumed too much while fighting the tree demon, I should have been able to deal with that evil ghost."
"The will power in my body has been exhausted, and I don't know how many years or months it will take before I can recover."
"Cough cough cough!"
Li Xiang suddenly coughed heartbreakingly, as if he wanted to cough out his internal organs. It was extremely painful.
He had to stop, sit cross-legged on the ground, and form a flame seal.
A ball of karmic fire appeared in the void in front of him and turned into the shape of an alchemy furnace.
The corpses of ferocious beasts around him flew up out of thin air and floated into the alchemy furnace.
The flames burned, the alchemy furnace rotated, and the bodies of ferocious beasts were refined.
After doing this, Li Xiang's face became paler, his skin became wrinkled, and his body became shriveled.
At this time, Li Xiang looked less like an eighteen-year-old boy and more like an old man with one foot in the coffin.
After a while, the fire of karma dissipated, and the three pills slowly floated into Li Xiang's hand.
"It's a pity that there are only three, but let's make do with it."
Li Xiang said as he put three Jingyuan Pills into his mouth.
Just then.
A gust of wind blew by.
Before Li Xiang could react, the three Jingyuan Pills had already flown out of his hand.
The overwhelming Yin Qi swept over.
The evil ghost appeared in front of Li Xiang, holding three Jingyuan Pills in his hand. Jie Jie smiled strangely, "I didn't expect you to be able to refine pills."
"Your body is exhausted, do you want to rely on these pills to recover?"
"Unfortunately, there is no chance. Today is the day you die!"
The evil spirit tilted his head, trying to see an expression of panic or despair on Li Xiang's face.
Unfortunately, it was disappointed.
There was no emotion on Li Xiang's face, and he just said one word lightly.
"rise."
The next moment.
A lotus platform emerged from under the evil ghost.
The evil ghost was startled. Before it could escape, a pure karma fire suddenly appeared on the lotus platform.
The karmic fire burned the evil ghost's body, and countless yin energy, soul power, and carrion maggots emerged from the evil ghost's body, and were instantly burned to ashes by the karmic fire.
This karmic fire was transformed by the power of millions of merits and was purer than the previous karmic fire.
The evil ghost was horrified and fled in a hurry. Just after flying dozens of meters, he was tied up by the demon rope and pulled back to the lotus platform.
The more it struggled, the tighter the rope tied it.
The evil spirit screamed and cursed.
Its face is also constantly changing, sometimes it looks like an immature child, sometimes it turns into a kind-hearted old woman, sometimes it turns into a middle-aged man with full beard.
In just a few breaths, thousands of human faces appear.
Li Xiang unexpectedly discovered that several of these faces were Qigong practitioners from Yangcheng.
Li Hong stood up, came to the evil ghost, and asked sternly: "Have you swallowed other people's souls?"
The evil ghost let out a jeering laugh, but it was soon replaced by a painful and shrill wail.
Li Xiang said angrily, "You have committed a heinous crime and are no longer qualified to see my Buddha."
With a thought in his mind, the lotus platform turned into a swastika and was imprinted on the evil ghost's eyebrows. The next moment, golden chains poured out from the swastika and wrapped around the evil ghost's body layer by layer.
Li Xiang stretched out his hand, caught the evil spirit in his hand, and stuffed it into the Vajra Demon-Conquering Pestle.
"From now on, you will have to endure torture in this demon-conquering pestle to wash away your sins."
After Li Xiang finished speaking, he poured karma fire into the demon pestle, burning the evil ghost's body continuously.
The evil ghost was tortured and suddenly begged for mercy: "Please let me go, and I'll tell you a secret!"
Li Xiang ignored it.
"Do you know the underworld?" came the evil ghost's voice.
