Chapter 136: Fengdu Guest (Twenty-Two)
Qin Guang's meaning was very clear: "It was clearly the personal behavior of Lord Biancheng. Why should the entire underworld help him pay for it?"
Hades refuses!
Bian Cheng still held Lu Ren tightly in his hand. He shrugged and said to Si Yuan, "I have no intention of hurting Lu Ren, but..." Bian Cheng looked at the blood chain in Lu Ren's hand and said, "It seems that I have no choice now."
Bian Cheng looked at the back of Lu Ren's neck, and his eyes gradually became deeper.
"Damn it, how did the situation become like this?" Bian Cheng couldn't help but think.
Fifty years ago, because the Hades only saw the iron rule of not killing each other, Bian Cheng planned to seal Chongtong's soul in the body of the God of War, and then kill Chongtong without shaking the ten causes and effects of the Hades. In this way, the souls left by the ten witches were completely eliminated, and the Ghost King Seal of the Lord of Mount Tai returned to the Yellow Springs. But Bian Cheng unfortunately failed that time, which directly led to the soul of the God of War being split into two, and even caused half of the soul that had turned into a drought demon to drift into the Kunlun Realm.
"Alas." Thinking back to the past, Bian Cheng held his forehead and sighed, "It seems that I made things so complicated."
Of course, what happened in Xiangxi fifty years ago can only be regarded as a turning point in this story. The true origin needs to be traced back further to the birth of Chongtong a thousand years ago. After years of erosion in the bloody world, Chongtong broke out of the sea of suffering, devoured the previous Lord of Mount Tai, and became the new Lord of the Underworld.
In fact, compared to the fact that Chongtong killed the previous Lord of Mount Tai, what Bian Cheng feared more was the existence of Chongtong itself.
Those are the souls of the ten witches.
When the Four Realms Division was first established, the Nine Netherworld Division had promised that it would always stand on a neutral position in exchange for the eternal independence and peace of the Nine Netherworld Division.
At the same time, the Buzhou Mountain Realm Division believed in the Jiuyou Realm Division. That's why, after suppressing the resistance of the Divine Phoenix and the Ten Witches, the Buzhou Mountain Realm Division secretly sent the souls of the Ten Witches to the Blood Basin World which was not under the jurisdiction of the Buzhou Mountain Realm Division.
The Jiuyou Realm turned a blind eye to this and pretended not to know about this incident.
The souls of the ten witches will be reduced to ashes in the erosion over the years.
The Hades will remain absolutely neutral, neither stopping nor advancing. If the Kunlun Realm Division can rescue the ten witches before their souls dissipate, the Nine Nether Realm Division will not stop them either. But unfortunately, after the death of the Phoenix, the human world was severely damaged and had no ability to go to the underworld to retrieve the souls of the ten witches. In addition, human lifespan is too short and too fragile. Natural disasters, plagues, famine...
Before long, those who knew of the existence of the Ten Witches had died one after another, and it was difficult to find any trace of them anymore.
If left alone, the spirit of the shaman will naturally dissipate.
This is when the variables occur.
The previous Lord of Mount Tai was too confident. He thought that after so many years, the souls of the ten witches had weakened enough. And because no one had asked about it for a long time, Lord of Mount Tai, out of confidence and also out of his own interest, began to put the souls of the ten witches into his own private blood pool.
Of course, no one could have foreseen that the soul of the witch god, which had been consumed in the bloody world for so many years, could still stir up trouble.
In order to repair the broken soul, the ten witches merged into one. The ten witches eventually became ghost poisons, and the ghost poisons eventually devoured their masters. The news of the death of the Lord of Mount Tai was transmitted through the Ghost King Seal. The ten Ghost King Seals were all connected in some way, so almost the moment the Ghost King Seal of the Lord of Mount Tai changed its owner, Bian Cheng felt the change in the aura of the Ghost King Seal.
He lamented the passing of his old friend, but at the same time he understood that the death of Lord Taishan could not be blamed on the Ten Witches: Lord Taishan died because of his own arrogance.
So despite his disgust for Chongtong, Bian Cheng remained silent for a whole thousand years.
But in the past hundred years, the Buzhou Mountain Realm Bureau, which had been peaceful for tens of thousands of years, began to stir. The most obvious sign was that the Buzhou Mountain Realm Bureau began to set its sights on the immortality elixir. You should know that before that, the immortality elixir had actually been kept by the Kunlun Realm Bureau for at least tens of thousands of years.
It is obvious that the Buzhou Mountain Realm Administration's recuperation period has ended. They want to concentrate all the power in their own hands and once again put on an attitude of "I am the only one in the world."
This was very unfavorable to the Jiuyou Realm, because the dissipated soul of the Godly Witch was supposed to be a token of surrender submitted by the Jiuyou Realm in exchange for Huangquan's indifference to the world. But now, the soul of the Godly Witch not only did not dissipate, but was even split into two, and half of it even ended up in the Foreign Household Investigation Bureau.
Bian Cheng knew very well that it was only a matter of time before the Buzhou Mountain Realm Authority discovered that the souls of the Ten Witches had not completely disappeared.
Not only did the spirit of the divine wizard not dissipate, it even became the Lord of Mount Tai, one of the Ten Palaces of Justice.
Once this news is discovered by the Buzhou Mountain Realm Bureau, the Jiuyou Realm Bureau will inevitably be dragged into the endless disputes between the Buzhou Mountain Realm Bureau and the Kunlun Realm Bureau.
"Trouble." This was Bian Cheng's only comment on this possible outcome.
Bian Cheng was struggling over whether he should do something to clean up the mess for his deceased friend who had caused it.
However, several other Hades in the underworld showed indifference to this matter.
There is no way. The endless lifespan has dulled the perception of the Hades to everything. They have become silent, unable to feel the slightest bit of uneasiness or fear about the possible war.
Even other Hades including Qin Guang said, "We'll talk about it when the time comes."
The Buzhou Mountain Realm Authority does not dare to disrupt the order of the underworld at will. Even if any conflict really occurs, the only ones who will perish in the turmoil are the wandering ghosts who cannot enter reincarnation.
Bian Cheng did not have much objection to the statements of the Hades, because what they said was all true.
Bian Cheng just sat on the wall of the City of the Dead, looking at the endless sea of blood in the distance.
"In fact, dying in the upcoming war doesn't seem to be such a bad thing."
Bian Cheng, who has lived for many, many years, thought so.
Then, as if sensing something, he turned around and looked at the City of the Dead behind him.
It was silent and cold, like a huge tomb. A question came to Bian Cheng's mind: "I wonder if the next Lord Bian Cheng will be willing to keep this useless city."
Bian Cheng held his chin and quietly observed the City of the Dead not far away. He looked at the City of the Dead with an expressionless face for a whole day and night.
Finally, when another crescent moon climbed out of the horizon, the breath of the divine wizard's physical body came from the human world.
So Bian Cheng stood up in silence, his face expressionless, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.
"Forget it." Bian Cheng thought uninterestedly, "Since fate has led us here, it would be rude not to follow fate."
So, Bian Cheng came to Xiangxi, intending to make up for the mistakes made by the previous King Qin Guang.
If everything had gone well, the Rebellion of the Ten Witches should have been completely quelled fifty years ago without anyone noticing.
However, what was unexpected was that fate played a little joke again, causing a small deviation. A missionary who had died in the East left Chongtong a cross as an amulet, on which was the missionary's most sincere blessing and a protective spell.
Fate always gives the most insignificant choices the key process, just like a butterfly flapping its wings will eventually cause a hurricane. If the previous Lord of Mount Tai did not have strange hobbies, or if the underworld did not mistakenly take over the souls of Western missionaries, or if Bian Cheng did not write that ancient book out of boredom...
If there were no complications in any link, Junfang would not have been born.
But fate is mysterious. On that day fifty years ago, Junfang was born.
This also foreshadows the failure of Biancheng.
On the one hand, Bian Cheng only sent a paper substitute to Xiangxi, who was actually a useless person and might not be able to defeat Yang Qingyu who possessed the drought demon; on the other hand, Bian Cheng did not want to fight in the human world and thus attract the attention of the Kunlun Realm. So Bian Cheng gave in fifty years ago.
Human life is very short, so he just needs to wait for Yang Qingyu to die before retrieving Hanba.
What's more, Yang Qingyu was a man of bad luck. He died in the hands of the drought demon at a young age.
But when Bian Cheng wanted to retrieve Hanba, something went wrong because Yang Qingyu entrusted Hanba to Kunlun Jiesi.
Bian Cheng was not arrogant enough to think that he could kidnap Hanba from Kunlun Realm on his own, so the matter was delayed again and again for a full fifty years.
Until recently, news came that the Kunlun Realm Bureau and the Shanjian City Realm Bureau were in a head-on confrontation at Mount Xumi.
It was expected that under such circumstances, Kunlun Jie Division would certainly suffer heavy losses. Adhering to the principle of killing the enemy while he is ill, Bian Cheng began to carry out his unfinished business fifty years ago.
Theoretically, the Ghost King Seal cannot be away from the Netherworld for too long, so Bian Cheng used the same old trick and sent a paper man to the human world. He originally just wanted to catch an unlucky guy to carry the Ghost King Seal in the Netherworld to stabilize the cause and effect, at least to prevent the Netherworld from collapsing during his absence, and it didn't matter who this person was.
After making up his mind, Bian Cheng went to the human world from Guixu .
Although Guixu is below the Nine Netherworld, it also connects all the deep seas in the world. Bian Cheng took the Guixu route and his first stop in the human world was the East China Sea. He happened to catch up with the rare Dragon Palace Banquet, so he wanted to take advantage of the crowd and sneak in to catch an unlucky guy as a substitute.
Bian Cheng, who was patrolling, happened to see Lu Ren sitting at the banquet - a strange human who was protected by Yinglong and raised Xu Hai.
Such a unique existence successfully aroused Bian Cheng's interest, so he almost immediately decided to let Lu Ren be the glorious unlucky guy. Moreover, from the conversation between Lu Ren and Yinglong, it can be known that Lu Ren is from Kunlun Jiesi. Then his employee status can also facilitate Bian Cheng's actions.
But he didn't expect that he had let a wolf into the house. Lu Ren actually signed a blood contract with Hanba. Originally, during the time when he delayed Si Yuan in Biancheng, the half-souls of the god and witch who were attracted to each other should have completed the fusion long ago. But he didn't expect that the fusion process was stopped by Lu Ren's blood contract.
At this moment, Bian Cheng looked at the blood chain in Lu Ren's hand and Si Yuan who was standing opposite him with a fierce look in his eyes, and suddenly understood something.
"It turns out that the so-called unlucky guy is me."
Bian Cheng raised the corners of his mouth and laughed at himself.
