Chapter 1072: The Dark Lord Enters the Arena
In the Supreme Primordial Heaven, at the westernmost point of heaven and earth, there is a huge crack in the void.
Even the Great Emperor Taichu could not figure out when, why, and how this crack appeared. In short, this crack just crossed the void out of thin air, from south to north, it was countless billions of miles long, from east to west, it was countless billions of miles wide, and from top to bottom, it was countless billions of miles deep.
The entire body is pitch black, emitting an ominous black and dead aura, as if a black hole was forcibly embedded in the body of heaven and earth.
This is Guixu.
This is the biggest den of filth and dirt in the Supreme Taichu Heaven.
The murderous demon, the bloodthirsty evil creature, the madman who massacres cities and destroys countries, the evil spirits full of sins, all of them are scums that cannot be tolerated by all forces, big or small, in the Supreme Taichu Heaven, no matter how serious the crime they have committed, no matter whether they are wanted by the Heavenly Court, hunted by Taimi Heaven, arrested by Taiyou Heaven, or wanted by all large and small families and sects.
No matter who you are, no matter what crime you committed, as long as you can escape to Guixu and dive in, your life will be saved.
The Lord of Guixu, 'Ming Zun', the 'biological father' of Ming Jiudan of the Great Leiyin Temple of Lingshan, also participated in the great battle that destroyed the Holy Land of Nalanda. His personal strength is enough to compete with the three great emperors Taichu, Taimi and Taiyu, and he is a giant like Lao Xiong Zun of Yunchaling who has encircled a territory and become the king.
All the leading figures of all forces, big and small, in the Supreme Taichu Heaven who knew of the existence of Guixu passed it on by word of mouth, describing Guixu as a place filled with corpses and blood, killing everywhere, and death day and night.
But only those who have truly been to Guixu know that all the rumors from the outside world are false.
The real Guixu is extremely quiet and peaceful.
There is no sun here. No matter what time it is, there is only a bright moon shining above the dark sky of Guixu.
There are twelve dark moons in Guixu, and they take turns to be on duty according to the different months. These dark moons have different properties, so their colors and brilliance are also different.
The outside world was in turmoil, with fighting breaking out in several places. White Snake was even ambushed by the Seven Arrows Book. While she was lying weak and powerless in the Imperial City of Haojing, the years in Guixu were peaceful and tranquil.
A dark blue moon was shining high overhead. Under the quiet moonlight, there were thin clouds in the sky, and a drizzle was falling all over Guixu. The soft and cold rain fell, and on the ground, on the extremely rich black soil, large patches of sapphire blue flowers of the other shore were blooming quietly. The breeze blew, and the air was filled with a refreshing and cold fragrance.
No fighting, no killing, no roaring, no cursing.
The demons, evil creatures, lunatics, perverts, etc. who killed people without restraint and acted recklessly in the outside world, after entering Guixu, seemed to have been emptied of all their hostility and sins by this quiet world, and became gentle, refined, elegant, and gentle. No matter whether they were men or women, young or old, they all had the demeanor of a "gentleman".
Just like those dynasties in the secular world outside, within Guixu, cities, villages and towns are scattered around, forming a complete entity.
If there is a powerful person who can stand in the air of Guixu and look down from a high enough altitude, he will be "surprised" to find that the locations of the countless cities, villages and towns in Guixu exactly correspond to the celestial regions and star regions under the rule of Tianting, Taimitian and Taiyoutian.
There are as many star palaces as there are in the Supreme Taichu Heaven in the outside world, and there are as many huge city communities in Guixu.
There will be as many giant cities in Guixu as there are celestial domains planned by the Supreme Taichu Heaven in the outside world.
The Supreme Taichu Heaven in the outside world has planned so many star fields, and Guixu also has so many large cities.
At the core of every large or giant city, there stands a pitch-black hall. On the plaque at the entrance of the hall, large blood-red characters indicate the name of the hall, which also corresponds one by one to the names of the star fields and celestial realms in the outside world.
There are wisps of tiny whirlwinds, the tallest ones are about ten feet high, and the smallest ones are only two or three inches high. They may be turbid or clear, turbulent or gentle, with sound or without sound. No matter what time, outside these dark halls, there are always countless tiny whirlwinds busily coming in and out.
In some small whirlwinds, vague human figures can be seen flickering.
In some small whirlwinds, you can even hear human voices from time to time.
"Shuangling Mansion, Huangmeitian, Feichong Star Region... Such and such a star... Such and such a land... Such and such a country... Such and such a city... Such and such a village... Such and such a rich man has been worshipping devoutly for several years... and is begging for a descendant for his frail and sickly only son!"
"Tiemu Mansion, Juye Tian, Dajiao Star Region... Guarding the Three Blade Pass... Tyrannical... After drinking, he beat the concubine to death... The concubine's only son hated his biological father... He cried and begged for the law, and was willing to kill his father to prove his truth, so that he could come to Guixu!"
"The barren frontier... Hongmeitian... The sky and the earth collapsed, and the land sank... The Great Emperor Taimu personally dispatched the Holy Spirit Clan's millions of troops to surround and attack..."
A moment later, in a palace covering an area of one million acres, a black whirlwind several feet high rose silently in the core of a huge city cluster corresponding to the sky region where Hongmeitian was located. In the small black whirlwind, a thin man with a clear and solid figure could be seen. He was wearing a black official robe with a strange beast embroidered on his chest. The beast was shaped like a lion, but with huge ears and nine huge, radiant eyes on his head.
The man rode the black whirlwind and silently soared into the sky, instantly passing the dark moon hanging high in the sky. He used all his strength to fly upwards, and the huge dark moon was suspended beside him, as if it was floating up with him. After an unknown amount of time, a crisp "pop" sound suddenly came from his side.
Like a soap bubble bursting, the scene in front of the man suddenly changed.
Twelve moons of different colors quietly floated in the misty void, arranged in a perfect circle. In the core of the huge circle formed by the twelve bright moons, a palace was lightly supported in the air by a huge Ganoderma lucidum-shaped cloud.
The black whirlwind swept the man, silently crossed the void, and went straight into the palace complex, arriving in front of the door of a hall at the core.
Along the way, this magnificent and ancient palace complex covering an area of unknown number of miles was completely empty. However, as the small whirlwind passed through the palaces and pavilions, whispers could be heard everywhere, and there were some or no eyes falling on the man's figure from time to time.
There seemed to be no one in this hall complex, yet it seemed as if there were all kinds of people standing everywhere.
Secretive, eerie, and unsettling.
The man stood in front of the hall door, knelt silently, and banged his forehead against the black and gold floor tiles that were polished to a mirror-like smoothness and sprinkled with silver patterns, making a "bang bang" sound.
"Buzz!"
The majestic magical power surges.
In front of the hall, which was originally empty, the air began to wriggle, and a dozen or so soldiers over three meters tall, wearing black armor and holding giant door-shaped swords, with a terrifying aura, appeared out of thin air.
On the visor of an armored soldier, two points of blazing red light flickered. With such a huge body and such overwhelming pressure, his voice was vague and feminine, like the last breath exhaled by an old zombie in the coffin, so vague that it made people feel extremely uncomfortable.
"What's the matter?" the soldier asked slowly.
"Big deal!" the man kneeling on the ground reported.
"How big?" The huge sword in the soldier's hand moved slightly.
"December!" The man knelt on the ground with his forehead touching the ground. He raised his hands high in an extremely strange posture, holding up a three-inch long black jade slip in his palms.
A ray of light rose from the jade slip, and the light curtain unfolded. Twelve thumb-sized dark moon shadows appeared one after another in the light curtain.
"Come in!" A weak voice came from the hall: "The big event in December... I haven't seen it in many years... Could it be that Taichu was chopped off, Taiming was chopped off, or White Snake had a difficult birth?"
When the word "dystocia" was mentioned, the weak voice sounded as if a thousand feathers were tickling its body at the same time, and without any warning, it burst into hysterical laughter.
Throughout the huge palace complex, people clapped their hands softly: "The master is laughing, hurry up, laugh too, hurry up!"
Then, the air in the empty and silent palace complex rolled like water waves, and translucent figures between reality and illusion emerged. The eyes of these figures flashed with various colors of dim light, and their colors just corresponded to the twelve dark moons outside. They held their stomachs with both hands, took a deep breath, and then laughed at the same time.
For a moment, countless figures in the originally empty hall were laughing together, but there was not even a hint of smile in their laughter... It was so weird and so evil that people felt like they were in a nightmare.
Inside the hall, the 'Master's' laughter suddenly stopped.
Then, the next moment, the laughter of countless figures in the huge palace complex stopped at the same time. The fluctuations in the air quietly calmed down, and the figures disappeared silently, as if they had never appeared.
Only a faint but lingering smell of incense remained in the air.
It's a very pure smell of incense, the kind that comes from the old temples and the aged altars, a smell that has been soaked in countless years of incense, candles, and lamps.
The door of the hall opened.
The man kneeling on the ground quickly jumped up and slid into the hall without making any sound.
The huge hall was empty.
Only in the middle of the hall, there was a handsome young man, about ten feet tall, slender and thin, with white and almost transparent skin, long hair, and only an open-chested coarse cloth gown on his body, lying on the ground with his legs spread out.
The young man was only about ten feet tall, but as he lay in this astonishingly huge palace, he seemed to fill the entire space.
His figure became extremely majestic, and his aura became extremely powerful.
If you stand in front of him for a long time, anyone will have an illusion that your own body is shrinking, while the size of this young man is expanding. Gradually, it seems as if this young man is the only one left in the whole world, and you are just a tiny, insignificant speck of dust floating beside him.
The man in the black wind knelt down respectfully towards the young man.
The void is vibrating.
The young man's body, and even the entire hall, began to expand outwards almost endlessly. As the young man's body expanded, his skin became whiter, more crystal clear, and almost transparent. As a result, the 480 million originally tiny acupoints in his body also expanded in size.
Gradually, the young man's body expanded to an incredible size, and each of the acupoints in his body expanded to the size of a mountain. Wisps of strange-colored smoke lingered in the young man's acupoints, and in each acupoint, a "god" could be seen sitting cross-legged, with all kinds of strange sounds constantly floating around.
Those sounds were rustling and extremely subtle, yet extremely complex.
There were ruffians who were talking about climbing over the wall to the young widow's house in the next street at night to have some fun...
There was an old landlord who was mumbling about how to occupy the land of the neighboring landlord...
There was a brothel girl, crying and complaining to her sisters that the young man she had sworn to love a few days ago had gone and never returned...
There were independent cultivators who cursed the profiteers in anger, and the herbs they had painstakingly picked were forced to be sold at a discount...
Around these gods, there were countless smoke swirling and countless noises. They were the seven emotions and six desires, all kinds of emotions. They were what they were saying, what they had said, and what they might say in the future. They were the words of their most fundamental desires, from the Supreme Primordial Heaven to the important officials of the Heavenly Court to the hooligans in the market...
"My Lord!" The man in the black wind greeted respectfully.
The young man lying on the ground with his arms and legs spread out exhaled a breath, and then, the entire hall was filled with countless sounds of crying, laughing, roaring, shouting, whispering, and yelling...even the sounds of reading, chanting, praying, and cursing...the waiter's greetings, the brothel girls' coquettish "hmm" sounds...
Countless voices rang out, countless thoughts came, and countless desires transformed into a turbid torrent of divine light, rushing out from the acupoints in the young man's body like an overwhelming force.
The man in the black wind screamed.
Before the turbid divine light torrent touched his body, the black wind outside his body had already dissipated silently. His solid body suddenly shook, and wisps of smoke spewed out from his pores. His body turned into a translucent state...
Just when he was about to be blown away by the torrent of divine light in the young man's body, the young man took a deep breath. Then, the turbid divine light transformed by the infinite desires of countless living beings was swallowed up by him in one gulp.
The young man's chest lit up, and wisps of flames burned between his chest and abdomen. Endless turbid divine light was rapidly forged by the flames. It seemed like a short moment, and it seemed like countless years had passed. Finally, the turbid divine light that was enough to submerge hundreds of places in the sky and billions of stars in an instant was refined into a palm-sized, crystal clear ball of colorful light.
Above the young man's head, a four-legged cauldron with a strange shape and large images of people kneeling and worshipping the gods was slowly flying up. The young man ejected the colorful light in his chest and directly injected it into the cauldron. There was a loud "clang" sound, and countless illusions of gods appeared on the cauldron, singing praises to the young man's greatness...
With the integration of that ball of colorful light, the aura of the furnace was obviously enhanced.
After completing this set of procedures, the young man slightly opened his eyes, and suddenly the whole hall was lit up - correspondingly, in the huge Guixu, twelve dark moons appeared in the void at the same time, and the whole Guixu was illuminated as brightly as the sun floating in the sky.
In Guixu, in cities and outside palaces, countless figures emerged quietly. Facing the twelve dark moons hanging high in the sky, they sang the same hymns to the gods on the cauldron in unison.
The young man nodded slowly and asked in a soft, erratic voice, "What's the matter? What's so urgent and important about the Twelve Dark Moons?"
The kneeling man exhaled, and he held up the jade slip high: "The Great Emperor Taimu has made a move... He has brought the main force of the Holy Spirit Clan, almost all of them have come out, and have already found the lair of the Buddhist remnants in the Lingshan Great Leiyin Temple, and are attacking them wantonly."
"However, Hongmeitian, where the remnants of the Buddhist sect housed their peripheral members, was directly destroyed... The many 'ear-reporting gods' that I, Guixu, had planted in Hongmeitian were also dispersed. Therefore, there is no news about the current situation of the battle over there."
The young man, the Lord of Guixu, Mingzun, frowned.
"Tai Li is just bored... Those remnants of Buddhism are just from various forces, recruiting some of their fellow disciples who escaped into reincarnation and escaped for life. They are just fighting and trying to survive together... Why do we have to kill them all?"
Ming Zun said calmly: "But, love is what it is, so what?"
With a sneer, Lord Ming said softly: "That's all, is it a big deal?"
The jade slip in the man's hand flew up lightly and slowly floated in front of Ming Zun. Ming Zun's eyes flickered, and he glared at the jade slip. A wisp of smoke floated out and slowly flew into Ming Zun's brow.
Ming Zun's expression suddenly froze, and he whispered, "Oh? Bai Niu was actually ambushed? She was actually, ambushed?"
Lord Ming suddenly stood up and spread his arms wide. Suddenly, sharp cries rang out in the whole hall. Turbid divine light gushed out from every acupoint of his body. The man who was kneeling in front of him, respectfully not daring to look up, didn't even make a sound. He turned into a shadow in the torrent and was swallowed up by the cauldron floating above his head.
"Bai Niu, the Death Tower is in your hands!"
"The Death Tower is in your hands!"
"My title is Lord of the Underworld... I am Lord of the Underworld, and I should be the destined master of the Deathly Spirit Tower!"
"Haha, hehe, hehe, hoho, after so many years, do you think that I don't know that you secretly got the Death Tower? Do you think that I don't know? It's just that, because of the three of you..."
Lord Ming's eyes rolled around, and countless dim lights fell from his pupils like a waterfall.
Circles of strange ripples surged out from the acupoints in the body of the Dark Lord, and surged towards the halls on the land of Guixu... In each of those dark halls, there were uniformly-designed altars, incense burners, statues of gods, etc. The ripples released from the body of the Dark Lord sank into those statues, and then they lit up one after another.
In the vast Guixu, countless subordinates accumulated by Lord Ming over countless years showed up one after another.
They knelt towards the void, knelt towards the statues, and knelt towards the Lord of Hell who was high in the void... They chanted the title of Lord of Hell devoutly. As they chanted, the ripples emitted from the body of Lord of Hell in the statues of various shapes in these halls were rapidly amplified tens of millions of times and suddenly leaped to an extremely high dimension.
In the Supreme Heaven of Beginning.
In the countless star palaces, celestial regions, and star regions directly governed by the Heavenly Court, Taiyi Heaven, and Taichu Heaven, in the stars and floating landmasses controlled by the large and small families, sects, and forces of all parties, and even in the cities, markets, border towns, and star gates in the starry sky... wherever there are mortals living, either underground, under water, in deep wells, or in tree trunks... or at the edge of the field, or in the fields, or on the shrine at the head of the bed, or in the cupboard next to the stove...
Even, in the bronze animal head door knockers on the gates of the secular cities, in the bronze door nails inlaid on the gates of the dignitaries, in the pictures of gods and spirits posted on the doors of ordinary people to ward off evil spirits, or in the mythical beasts on the roofs...
In the vast Supreme Taichu Heaven, ordinary people have no right to know. Only Taichu, Taimi, Taiyi and a few other great emperor-level supreme beings know that there is a system of 'incense and gods' hidden behind the scenes of heaven and earth, and countless gods of all sizes have been activated.
In the past, Mingzun fought side by side with Taichu Emperor, Taimi Emperor, and Taiyu Emperor. He was also the core figure in destroying the Nalanda Holy Land.
However, the three Great Emperors of Taichu became the three supreme beings in the entire world, while Lord Ming, although not as glorious as they seemed, gained benefits inside - for example, the "incense and gods" system he obtained from the Buddhist treasures of the Holy Land of Nalanda, which was incompatible with the cultivation system of the entire Supreme Taichu Heaven.
Mingzun is the supreme god.
He used his own body as his nest, with 480 million acupoints, day and night constantly absorbing the souls of living beings, or the souls of the dead, and tempered them with secret methods. After being refined into "gods", they were canonized to various star palaces in the Supreme Taichu Heaven, various celestial domains, various star domains, and on the stars, continents, countries, cities, villages, etc.
Great gods, such as the king of heaven, guard a certain area of sky.
As for the smaller gods, even in an ordinary public toilet at the entrance of a small village in the secular world, there are three or five of the most unfortunate minor gods enthroned there...
In terms of overall combat power, Mingzun's system of incense and gods is naturally not as elite as the heavenly soldiers and generals in heaven.
However, when it comes to the number of subordinates and the sensitivity of information, Lord Ming has ears and eyes everywhere. Even if Taichu, Taimi, and Taier, together with several other great men of the same level, are added together, they do not have as many ears and eyes and are not as well-informed as Lord Ming.
Normally, these gods appointed by the Lord of Hell hide deep in various objects of "sustenance", rarely come out, and hide themselves. Moreover, because of the contract reached between the Lord of Hell and Taichu, Taimi, and Taiyi, and the heavenly rules and regulations formulated by the Heavenly Court, the laws of the great way of this world recognize the existence of these incense gods, and their qi perfectly integrates into the fluctuations of the laws of the great way.
Not to mention ordinary people, even a newly promoted emperor like King Qiu Gui would not be able to detect the existence of these incense gods if he did not know the clues.
Even Lu Yu, who was a powerful being who didn't know the details, subconsciously ignored these incense gods because of the cover of heaven and earth - after all, these incense gods were too weak and their aura was very weak. It was like a traveler walking on the road would be surprised when a rabbit ran past him, but who would pay attention to the ants busy in the grass by the roadside?
The entire Haojing continent was where Lu Yi moved from. The mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans were all pieced together and integrated from foreign objects.
Among these mountains, rivers, lakes, oceans, and even in some cities, in the ancient and famous buildings that were also relocated as a whole, in those old wells, old buildings, old city walls, and old beams and pillars, as the Lord of the Underworld did, the incense gods that were enshrined here awakened.
Just like hibernating insects that are startled by the thunder of the Waking of Insects, they cautiously poked their heads out from the objects they were relying on, and exuded their extremely weak sensory tentacles, which had almost zero sense of existence.
The imperial city of Yinyuan is almost entirely made up of new buildings.
However, in the back gardens of these new buildings, there were countless ancient trees and countless rare and exotic flowers and plants, all of which were collected by Lu Yi from various places, or were presented as "tributes and offerings" by the great families under the rule of Taiyitian.
Even some luxurious buildings such as the "Golden Pavilion" and the "White Jade Cloud Terrace" were uprooted by the heads of the Linghu and Dugu families, who had the most magnificent and luxurious buildings in their own mansions and sent them to the Haojing City.
At this moment, among these buildings, these ancient trees, these extremely rare spiritual flowers and herbs, the weak, extremely weak incense and incense gods were alarmed.
Whispers were heard everywhere in the imperial city.
With sound, yet without sound.
This is the communication between the incense gods in their divine dimension using their special gifts and magical powers.
Even Lu Yu did not notice the appearance of these incense gods, nor did he hear their whispers.
"I think I know what tricks my sister-in-law used." Lu Yi looked at Bai Yuan, who was standing in front of Bai Niangzi's bed with his hands on his hips, crying like a cat crying over a rat. He rolled his eyes and said hastily, "Don't worry, brother. I will find a way to break her trick right away."
As soon as Lu Yi said this, Bai Yuan started to cry out in surprise: "Oh my, brother Lu Yi, if you try to break this vicious spell, it won't be dangerous for you, right? Oh my, you are my husband's half-brother, you must not take risks for 'our own little' 'trivial matter'!"
"Woo woo, Sister Bai Niangzi's life and death is a small matter... Brother Lu Yi's safety is a big matter!"
"Please don't put yourself in danger for her safety... Even if it's just a hair that falls off... As her sister-in-law, I feel so bad..."
Yin Yuan rolled his eyes.
Lu Yi rolled his eyes.
The corners of the Qingyou sisters' mouths drooped, and their three pairs of huge white eyes almost rolled up to the sky .
White Snake was lying on the bed, humming weakly: "Sister Bai Yuan, you are indeed my good sister... Haha, after this matter, we sisters must get closer and closer!"
Seeing that the bedroom of the Cining Palace was about to turn into a Shura field, Lu Yi turned around and left without saying a word.
Qingyou and the other two girls also felt as if their butts were on fire and they just felt that they could not stay here any longer... The three sisters hurriedly caught up with Yinyuan, and as soon as they walked out of the gate of Cining Palace, they turned into a streak of light and flew up into the sky quickly, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Suddenly, countless subtle sounds like spring silkworms eating mulberry leaves were heard in the bedroom.
The vague and feminine voice of Mingzun came faintly into the ears of Yinyuan, Bai Yuan, and Bai Niangzi: "Ah, Bai Niu, have you really been ambushed? We have been friends for so many years, I can't just watch you suffer, right?"
