“Accumulated Food King City has arrived.”
Qin Li looked up and saw a large, broad city in the distance.
The city walls were collapsed, the ruins were broken, and the former prosperity had gone up in flames, leaving only a thick cloud of gloom that shrouded the city.
“How eerie.”
Old Devil Doktor sensed the nostrils of heaven and earth.
He could clearly sense the grievances in the city turning into clouds, breeding great evil.
“Time flows too fast here, ten years in the blink of an eye.”Qin Li drank a mouthful of Longevity Substance to ward off the erosion of years.
The duo entered the city.
The city gates had long since shattered.
Thus it was easy to enter it.
Looking around, one realised how bizarre this place was.
As far as the eye could see, there were tired white bones that covered the ground in a ghastly white colour.
The air was filled with depressing clouds of grievances, and from time to time, a few wails were emitted, ghostly and treacherous, and within the silent city, it was even more terrifying.
“So many bones!”
Qin Li lightly touched it, and the white bones collapsed into powder.
“Chains? Something’s not right!”Old Devil Doktor found that the white bones’ wrist position had speckled rusty iron traces, which should have been bound by someone in their lifetime.
“Didn’t they say that it was the accidental digging out of the Yellow Spring that caused the heaven and earth to change, causing the city’s ten million devil cultivators to die horizontally on the spot? Why is it that the more I look, the more I feel that these people look like they were sacrificed.”Qin Li understood that this mysterious source was not simple.
The Accumulated Bread King City was huge.
After all, it could melt ten million people.
Qin Li, Dokuro Old Devil was on guard in his heart as he slowly delved deeper.
All the way through, there were house wrecks, as well as corpses and bones all over the place, as if they had suffered horrific tortures in their lives, leaving behind an undissipatable resentment that converged into a fog, emitting an extremely foul-smelling decaying flavour, completely obscuring the path ahead.
“This is ……”
Dokuro Old Devil discovered the abnormality.
It was a water canal that appeared abruptly in the centre of the road.
Qin Li also discovered a few aqueducts, and once he measured the location, it turned out to be a feng shui arrangement that was able to divert the flow of easy wind and change the geography.
“Going in along the aqueducts, we should be able to find the source of the mutation.”
The lone old devil looked at the grievous clouds in front of him.
“There’s something.”
Qin Li found a piece of formation jade.
Hidden amongst the bones of the corpse, looking at the technique it should have been left behind by the old celestial master.
Quite well preserved, and not knowing what material it was, Qin Li picked it up and wanted to collect it, after all, there were many arcane formation patterns carved on it.
Boom!
It instantly broke down.
The Formation Jade shifted, and the grievances boiled over.
“This is the formation jade that suppresses the grievance spirit.”Old Devil Dokuro explained.
The words fell.
The grievance clouds converged into vortexes.
Ear-piercing ghostly howling sounds also came from them.
“Accumulated Grain Demon King ……”
“It hurts ……”
“Hate ……”
Intermittent, noisy and ear-piercing.
All of them are the pain of a ground of white bones in life, the ghastly wind is not shared.
Countless agonising ghost faces were seen reviving, their eyes hollow, their long hair dark and narrow, intertwining with each other to form a net, becoming Dharma phase level grievance spirits.
In fact, it was a huge net that covered a hundred miles, woven with hair, each mesh was embedded with a human head, the first slight strand, millions of heads wailed in unison, the sound of pain rippled to the Qiankun, losing their souls, and it was extremely shocking.
“Really ugly!”
Qin Li drew out Tai Chu.
A sword splits down, cutting out a dao trace.
With a piercing sound, it tore through the great net of grievances, crushing countless ghost heads.
“Kill kill kill ……” However, the grievances did not subside, the grievous spirits did not die, and the large net reassembled itself again, covering the sky and the earth.
“This won’t work.”
Old Devil Solitary shook his head and instructed:
“To deal with evil spirit ghouls and the skeletons of the dead, you still need hell divine abilities.”
“Five-coloured hellfire!”
Boom!
A palm struck out.
Five-coloured rays of light shot up into the sky.
Glorious and blazing, it eventually intertwined into five-coloured flames that burned the grievances.
The great net of grievances was set ablaze, and ten thousand ghosts shrieked and boiled in the five-coloured fire, eventually turning into nothingness, with nothing left.
“Impressive!”
Qin Li couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.
Old Devil Doktor, however, solemnly admonished:
“Cultivate the Five Hells Avatar well, when you encounter a true enemy, swords and weapons can’t kill them, only Hell can restrain them!”
“Real enemies?”
Qin Li froze, not understanding the meaning.
Dokuro mused for a moment and slowly said:
“Now that you’ve been promoted to Dharma Phase, it’s time to tell you the truth about Heaven and Earth.”
“The so-called true enemies refer to the undead! Zombies, ghosts, grumbling spirits, evil spirits, and demons …… are only a part of it.”
Qin Li scratched his head and laughed, “Elder, you’re joking, we’ve encountered many undead creatures along the way and killed them with a few swords, they’re not considered to be powerful characters, so why should we worry?”
Solitary Old Devil then suddenly asked:
“Do the undead die?”
“Ah!”
Qin Li was startled.
This question was somewhat interesting.
Would the dead die?
Or rather, would one die a second time?
The Doktor Old Devil smiled, “Longevity, this is the concept of living spirits. Dead spirits are not bound, and are almost immortal. An ordinary zombie, lying in a grave and sleeping for a thousand years, not only will it not die, its battle power will also increase. Just like the resentful spirit just now, it was in the middle of this kind of time extinction domain and still survived.”
“Dead spirits don’t die!”
A lurid thought popped up in Qin Li’s mind.
The Doktor Old Devil nodded, “This is a seldom mentioned truism.”
“Imagine a cultivator’s lifespan coming to an end with two paths before him. One of which is to die with everything empty, and the other is to transform into a dead spirit and continue to survive.”
Cold sweat beaded on Qin Li’s forehead, “Wait, if that’s the case. Celestials, Nirvana, Dharma Phantoms, Kings, Saints, and even Great Emperors could all potentially transform into Dead Spirits and live forever. But why do we rarely encounter it?”
“Because the world protects us.”
“This is the world of the living, and the dead spirits can only hide in mystery and languish.”
The Doktor Old Devil was worried, “On the contrary, the World of the Dead, the living spirits can’t enter it either. They are all in the Fallen Domain, while we are in the Ten Thousand Realms Domain.”
Qin Li’s face changed in shock as he recalled Jiang Su and the others from the Shade Ridge, as well as the time when he had divinely travelled through the heavens and saw the three domains, the Upper Astral Domain, the Middle Astral Ten Thousand Realms Domain, and the Lower Fallen Domain:
“I remember the Fallen Prison, there are more than two thousand Dark Great Worlds.”
“Ai…”
The Doktor Old Devil sighed helplessly:
“At the beginning of chaos, when the heavens and earth were firmly established, there were three thousand great worlds in the heavens.”
“Nay, greed knows no bounds, and many powerful people transformed into dead spirits, annexing one great world after another, sinking and falling.”
Qin Li instantly understood the dilemma of the Heavenly Realms, “Can it be that there’s no one to organise a coalition army to completely eradicate the fallen worlds?”
The Doktor Old Devil was even more helpless, “The ten thousand realms of the heavens each have their own conflicts, so how could they be of one mind? Historically, only Immortal Emperors, Divine Emperors, and Celestial Emperors have organised joint armies to attack the Fallen Worlds, all of which ended in failure.”
Qin Li was staggered.
These three supreme existences had all failed.
From this, it was evident that the Fallen Domain was so terrifying that the Lords of the Heavens couldn’t even help it.
But on second thought, what could be done about exterminating the Fallen Domain, as long as the greed in the hearts of the cultivators could not be uprooted, sooner or later, a second Fallen Domain would be born.
“Cultivate the Hell Avatar well, it is one of the few means of restraining the dead!”
Old Devil Doktor admonished and opened the way ahead.
Qin Li resolved to cultivate properly.
At this moment.
The duo passed through the Grudge Cloud.
A few Grudge Spirits were also encountered.
However, once the Inferno Avatar was released, all of them were put to death.
“Is this the end of the aqueduct?”Qin Li looked up.
In front of him was a piece of continuous wreckage, looking at this location, it should have been the City Lord’s Mansion, imposing to the extreme, but now all that was left were broken walls and rubble.
“Go in and take a look.”
Dokuro Old Devil entered it and looked around.
It didn’t take long before he found a bunch of stone tablets, carved with magic patterns.
“This is called the City History Tablet, specialising in recording the city’s major events. The more stone tablets there are, the longer the history of the city is symbolised, which is considered an honour.”
Old Devil Doktor went straight to the last demonic stele and carefully interpreted it.
“Senior, what’s the catch?”
Qin Li couldn’t read the demonic script, and didn’t understand these ghostly symbols at all.
The Doktor Old Devil was astonished, “There was a three-year drought in the Grain Accumulation Plains, with no harvest, so the Grain Accumulation Devil King invited a yellow-robed Heaven Sealer to set up a Feng Shui Formation, as well as chiseling away at the earth’s springs and opening up water channels.”
Qin Li’s heart jumped, “This is an artificially arranged mystery.”
Old Devil Dokuro nodded, “Up ahead is the Feng Shui well he set up.”
The duo continued to advance.
Finally.
Coming to the core of the mystery.
It was an ancient and old well.
The walls of the well were all piled up with white bones, very oozy.
Qin Li saw the door and said, “It seems that this is the eye of the formation, and the mysteriously birthed supreme treasure is down there.”
Old Devil Dugu probed and saw that there was water in the well, yellowish-orange in colour and translucent with an evil nature.
If one were to catalyse the Five Elements Hellfire and burn it underwater, it was instantly extinguished without the usual half wave.
Qin Li was surprised, “Senior’s move is capable of melting through a huge peak!”
Old Devil Dokuro frowned:
“Withered Bone Well, Yellow Spring Water, ferrying the dead and drowning the living.”
