Chapter 435: Lord of the Underworld
Time goes back hundreds of years!
"Everyone loves flowers, but flowers wither easily, only grass is tenacious and strong. You grow in the cracks of cliffs, so I'll call you Xiaoxuan."
On a cliff somewhere, a young man who looked like a dandy boy transplanted a weed from the cliff.
From then on, the weeds were placed in front of the young man's desk.
Reading, writing...
Spring goes and winter comes...
The strange thing is that this grass never turns yellow and remains green all year round.
"Xiao Xuan, today I saw a ghost harming people. I decided not to study anymore. I want to practice Taoism!"
One day, a young man walked into the study with a pale face and wrote the word "Tao" on a piece of paper.
But practicing Taoism is not that easy.
The young man had no qualifications, and he went around looking for a master, but he was either turned away or scammed. Not only was his money swindled away, he was also kicked out of his family.
It was unacceptable for the family for a scholar to give up the imperial examination to cultivate immortality, but the young man would not change his mind once he made it up, even when he was kicked out of the family.
In the end, the young man began to wander with this grass as the only companion.
Whenever he heard that a sect was recruiting disciples, he would go there.
In this way, after enduring a lot of hardships, the young man was finally accepted into a small sect.
The reason why the small sect accepted the young master was nothing else but because of the sincerity of his pleading. To put it bluntly, it was to give him points out of gratitude.
One can imagine how slow the young master's progress was in this situation. It took him seven years to reach the realm of inspiration. However, he was still very happy and continued to practice with great pleasure.
Originally according to this situation, this young man might be able to break through to the Hidden God Realm when he was old, and end his life there. However, unexpectedly, something unexpected happened in the tenth year after he joined the sect.
There was a battle between several powerful monsters, right at the gate of the sect where the young master was.
Several surrounding mountains were flattened by this battle, and the sect where the young master belonged was directly destroyed by the aftermath. All the disciples in the sect were affected by the energy and no one was spared.
The poor young man's sect has a leader who is only in the middle stage of the Hidden God Realm, while the monsters fighting him are all in the Demon King Realm. Faced with such a huge gap between them, they don't even have a chance to resist.
The battle between the great monsters ended with one of them being killed.
"You've been targeted by our Divine Blessing Organization. It's simply a pipe dream to think of running away."
The two victorious demons, wearing black robes, took away the body of the demon with a sneer. As for the mountain they destroyed and the sect under the mountain, they didn't even take them seriously.
If two elephants are fighting, will they care about an ant that is crushed to death under their feet?
What the two great demons didn't notice was that under their feet, where the rocks were pressing down, a small grass stubbornly stretched out from the cracks in the rocks, swaying towards the place where they left...
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silence!
At this moment, whether it was the eight people locked in chains, or Lin Ye and Li Qingqing below, they all fell silent after seeing the scene just now.
It seems that these eight people would never have thought that the reason for the fairy's revenge was actually because of a minor character affected by their war.
In fact, they didn't even start the battle themselves.
But in the final analysis, it is normal for this cause and effect to fall on them. After all, they are their subordinates. Just as they can ignore the life and death of ants, the demon immortals can treat them the same way at this moment.
Lin Ye looked at the demon fairy, and he understood her a little.
In his eyes, that young man is more important than any treasure. Even if time could go back, he would rather be a blade of grass accompanying that young man than become a god.
"You guys, you guys understand the truth after you die."
The demon fairy pressed his right hand in the air, and the eight chains began to shrink.
"Sir, help me!"
However, at this last moment, the eight of them roared in unison and looked towards the palace at the top.
"Is that really the case?"
Lao Shi’s voice also sounded in Lin Ye’s mind at the same time.
"Lao Shi, what do you mean?" Lin Ye asked in his mind.
"The Zodiac, I'm afraid there's a traitor."
As Lao Shi finished his words, the door of the topmost palace slowly opened, and an extremely thin middle-aged man walked out.
With a figure as thin as a bamboo pole, people can't help but worry that it will be blown away by the wind.
"You are the first living god in this era. Please give me some face. These people cannot die. I still have some use for them. If you want to kill them, wait until I have used them up. Then you can do as you please."
The words spoken by the thin middle-aged man were extremely cruel, but there was no anger on the faces of these eight people. It was only natural for them to be used by others and then be killed at will after being used.
"Haizhu, it's this guy who betrayed us." Lao Shi gritted his , and Lin Ye looked at the thin man with a slightly frown.
If the man remembered correctly, he had seen it too.
When Zhenwu was passing on his skills to the wall, this person was among the many followers of the girl.
"Lao Shi, if you don't give me a satisfactory answer, I promise that you will be sealed in my chest forever."
Lin Ye was sure that Lao Shi had lied to him. When he told Lao Shi about the scenes he had seen, Lao Shi said that he did not know the woman. But from what Lao Shi had just said, Lao Shi knew the man in front of him, so it was very likely that he knew the woman.
Lao Shi was silent for a few breaths, and finally sighed and said, "Since you have come this far, I will tell you later if I don't tell you now. Well, I will tell you clearly that the woman is the founder of the underworld. Not only this world, but also the underworld in the real world was created by this woman. She is called the Lord of the Underworld."
"But when the underworld was first created, many problems arose. One of the biggest problems was that it was difficult for the underworld to detect souls after death. Some souls would not take the initiative to go to the underworld, which caused many souls to stay in the world of the living. In order to solve this problem, the twelve zodiac signs were created."
"The main bodies of the twelve zodiac animals are in the underworld, sitting on the wheel of reincarnation. Every soul that goes to reincarnation will be marked by one of the twelve zodiac animals. In this way, the soul will return to the underworld on its own after death. Similarly, the underworld can also sense the ghosts that are stranded in the world of the living."
"Then why is this Haizhu here?"
"They betrayed the underworld and came out of the reincarnation channel. This is the real reason why many ghosts in the real world don't know where the underworld is after they die."
