Chapter 223

The soul lamps flickered, and a large number of houses were shut. On the day of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a hundred ghosts were walking around Fengdu City at night, but unlike the secluded and quiet previous years, Fengdu is sinking into a tangled warfare at this time.

Since that day Qi Meng Sheng went off the rails, there has been no peaceful day in the immortal cultivation world in Jiuzhou. This war has finally reached the homes of ordinary people.

Xie Bi An and Fan Wu She had exchanged a hundred moves. There was no clear winner temporarily. Fan Wu She lost his patience and used his soul token to control a large number of ghosts, which instantly possessed the bodies of dozens of cultivators. With this barrier of living people, the ghosts' fear of Wuqiongbi will be weakened. They turned their weapons to attack Xie Bi An.

The crowd was all astonished that the spiritual power of the reincarnated Supreme Demon had become so deep that he could manipulate so many spirits at the same time. Recalling what he said previously, he must have already planned to use the spirits to manipulate the living, and with the additional support of the Shanhe Sheji Map, it would not be difficult to invade the Underworld and retrieve the Heavenly Secret Talisman.

Xie Bi An didn't want to hurt anyone, so he was trying to play it safe and was forced to keep dodging. He quickly wandered between the cultivators and used Wuqiongbi to drive out the evil spirits inside them one by one.

Fan Wu She emptied his hand, and then pinched a thunderbolt technique to attack the boundary. The vibration of spiritual power loomed in the air, as if water rippled into layers of ripples, and finally disappeared, but this vibration transmitted all the way to the feet, from the earth into the ghost realm, becoming a burst of earthquakes.

Each time the boundary shakes, there are evil spirits taking advantage of the chaos to get into the earth. A large number of Yin servants had no choice but to go all over the city to chase them, and the Underworld’s guards are constantly weakening.

Xie Bi An was burning with anxiety. If this continues, even the guards at the Yin Yang Monument will not be enough. If the Yin Yang Monument falls, anyone can enter Jiuyou freely!

Suddenly, the earth trembled again. This time it’s different from the usual. It trembled at the bottom of the feet for a long time, and there is even a vague tendency to become more and more violent.

At first, they thought that Fan Wu She was still attacking the boundary, but when the earthquake gradually became stronger until even the extremely stable cultivators were shaken into a stumble, they finally realized that something was wrong.

The surrounding Yin energy became denser and denser. This is obviously the earth, but it seems that there is no room for the living. The cold Yin energy was filling the air, poking into every nook and cranny. Even one will feel suffocating discomfort despite having spiritual power to protect one’s body. This kind of feeling is like being thrown into ten thousand corpses!

"There's, there's something."

"Fierce ghost! It's definitely a fierce ghost!"

Xie Bi An’s scalp went numb. A layer of cold sweat seeped out of his forehead. He tightly gripped his sword, gripping until the web between the thumb and forefinger of his hand felt pain. That's right, it's a fierce ghost. Such a strong Yin energy proves that there is more than one. And such strong tremors are obviously not caused by boundary fluctuations, but are truly tremors from the earth beneath the feet, most likely from ... Mount Luofeng.

Where are there fierce ghosts in Mount Luofeng? The answer is --- Hell.

The pupils of Xie Bi An's eyes shrank abruptly, and fear wrapped around his ankles like vines, then climbed up and instantly crawled all over his body. The Junlan sword slashed out the power of the seventh Chongtian with one sword blow, forcing back all the enemies in front of him. He drew his feet and ran towards the Yin Yang Monument: "Night Patrol! Official Lord Cui!"

Xie Bi An had just rushed past the Yin Yang Monument when he was hit by a huge wave of Yin energy. The extremely deep resentment caused Xie Bi An's heart and lungs to swell with pain and his limbs to stiffen and numb in bursts.

What kind of fierce ghosts can emit such resentment!? Xie Bi An had collected countless human souls. Even the cultivators who had their cores dug out have never had grievances this deep.

Accompanied by the sound of crying from far and near, they were gloomy, harsh, and mournful, as if suffering from the world's infinite grievances and death by a thousand cuts, unable to close their eyes and die contented till death.

A dreadfully pale shadow drifted towards him head-on at full speed. Before Xie Bi An could see what it was clearly, Wuqiongbi released a powerful blow with its spiritual pressure. This blow was just in time because the dreadfully pale shadow had already arrived in front of him at that moment, leaving a pulpy, distorted, bloody face in his pupils, and was knocked back by Wuqiongbi before it touched him.

The howling of misery came from the deepest part of the Underworld. It was increasing and getting closer. Accompanied by a tsunami of Yin energy, Xie Bi An watched countless fierce ghosts cross the boundary and climb to the earth.

He took a deep breath and watched the irrevocable sight. Even his fingertips were chilled.

Jiang Qu Lian opened the gates of Hell, and released the most powerful, evil, and resentful fierce ghosts of the Underworld!

They had guessed that Jiang Qu Lian would strike on the day of the Hungry Ghost Festival, but they still underestimated his insanity. As an important place in the Underworld, hell was naturally guarded by a large number of troops and a boundary that even the five ghost emperors could not easily shake, but Jiang Qu Lian had been a prison warden for a hundred years, so obviously the secret passage under the Red Palace was not the only loophole he knew. For his own private ends, he released the demons imprisoned in the depths of Hell.

These fierce ghosts are all treacherous and evil people during their lifetimes who have suffered extreme punishment in Hell. Their grievances are as majestic as the mountains and the sea. If they go to the human world, they are all evil things that can cause disasters. They didn’t know how many of them had been released this time.

Cui Jue and Night Patrol came running from the depths of Jiuyou with faces full of fear. They noticed Jiang Qu Lian’s movement, but it was too late.

Xie Bi An's face was as pale as paper. His dark pupils hid deep despair: "Official Lord Cui, I'll collect the fierce ghosts. You go and invite the Five Ghost Emperors to come out of the mountain."

Cui Jue shook his head, "I invited the Ghost Emperors long before the Hungry Ghost Festival. They refused to intervene in the 'internal affairs of the Underworld'."

"The red-clad Ghost King has released the fierce ghosts in Hell, how is this the internal affairs of the Underworld? This is a great disaster that threatens the safety of the human and ghost realms!" Xie Bi An growled.

"You still don’t understand?" Cui Jue looked at him gravely, "The five ghost emperors' power was originally in Jiuyou’s ten thousand miles of territory, but the existence of the Underworld took away their power to reward and punish human souls, so they have no other use other than guarding the ghosts citizens. They do not care about the number of deaths and injuries on earth. If the emperor hadn't come out of seclusion a hundred years ago and ordered them to resist the Supreme Demon, they would have been more than happy to see more people die."

Xie Bi An said with hatred, "I understand. Perhaps Jiang Qu Lian's actions are exactly what they want."

Night Patrol looked at the fierce ghosts that kept crawling towards the earth, and said with sorrow: "If only Heaven Master was here."

Xie Bi An’s heart ached and his eyes gradually turned red.

Cui Jue gritted his teeth and said, "I will never let Jiuyou fall. I'll go to Yanluo Hall to dispatch more Yin servants."

"Night Patrol, you protect Official Lord Cui well." Xie Bi An pursed his lips, "I can hold up for now."

"Impermanence ..."

Xie Bi An took out the Shanhe Sheji Map from his qiankun pouch, "Official Lord Cui, this is my Daming Zong Clan's greatest treasure. I didn't dare to try it before because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to control it, but I'm going to try."

Cui Jue nodded solemnly, "Bi An, be very careful."

Xie Bi An once again crossed the Yin Yang Monument and returned to earth. The yells of fierce ghosts, the screams of the living, the clashes of blades, the flashing of spiritual talismans. Humans and ghosts are fighting at close quarters inside Fengdu City. Corpses were everywhere, and the flames were rushing to the sky. Perhaps that moment when the Yin Yang Monument was opened, Hell had been connected to the earth.

Fan Wu She stood alone on the eaves. With a full moon hanging in the sky, his figure was superimposed in front of him. The black death aura was winding around his silhouette like a masterpiece of combination and contradiction between divinity and demonic nature. In the midst of chaos, he was the only silent black.

He looked at Xie Bi An from above: "Give me the Shanhe Sheji Map. I will assist you in collecting souls."

Xie Bi An stretched out his long and slender fingers, and the Shanhe Sheji Map hovered above his palm, unfolding its scroll slowly.

Fan Wu She's pupils contracted fiercely.

Xie Bi An took in a deep breath, and the rich, spiritual power poured into the Shanhe Sheji Map. His chest rose and fell violently as he saw the landscape of Fengdu City emerge one by one on the blank scroll.

Fan Wu She revealed a meaningful smile, "Indeed, you’re my big brother. I'll see how long you can last."

"My Zong Clan’s greatest treasure should be controlled by me originally." Xie Bi An noticed that his spiritual energy was pouring into the Shanhe Sheji Map like a collapse of an embankment, no, it should be said this ancient divine treasure was absorbing his spiritual energy like crazy. His eyes were scarlet, blue veins emerged on his forehead, and he roared, "First ancestor of heaven and earth, a painting opens the sky----"

This majestic and raging spiritual power made everyone look sideways, while looking around vigilantly for the arrival of a huge change.

The painting scroll only shook slightly, and the topography of Fengdu City did not change significantly, but all the soul guiding lamps in the city suddenly rose up into the air, like countless fireflies fluttering their wings at the same time, flashing with blood-red light, connecting one by one into a vast Milky Way. This bloody and cruel beauty must be rarely seen in this life.

Fan Wu She looked at Xie Bi An in surprise and vaguely guessed what he was going to do.

Xie Bi An knew he couldn't control the Shanhe Sheji Map for too long. The more complex the application was, the faster it would drain his spiritual power, so he needs to achieve his goal with minimal wastage.

Thousands of soul guiding lamps gathered in the sky, reflecting the whole Fengdu City in strange and beautiful scarlet. The moonlight was completely discolored and the darkness retreated. Everything in the world was colored blood-red, and that red immersed into the depths of everyone's pupils, contrasting finely with the hideous terror on their faces.

Xie Bi An's gaze is like a torch, silently reciting the incantation.

Countless soul guiding lamps began to converge to the center, colliding with each other, and melting. In the endless sound of explosions, a red light suddenly burst out violently and dazzling. That demonic glow was so stinging that everyone turned their heads and closed their eyes. When they opened their eyes again, they instantly saw everything turned red, and in the night sky, a huge soul guiding lamp was hanging alone, boiling like a sea of corpse oil. The lamp wick of cow blood was as thick as a thousand-year-old tree, and the flame was raging and burning, which can compete its shine with the sky and the moon.

Xie Bi An put away the Shanhe Sheji Map, and shouted: "Huangquan road, the soul lamp leads, all the ghosts and gods, open the mountains and split the sea, obey at once----"

The enormous soul guiding lamp was flickering with red light. All the ghosts, whether they were ordinary human souls or angry ghosts or fierce ghosts, lifted their heads as if listening to a holy lecture and gazed at the sky. Those ghosts with deep resentment hesitated a little, but they were still impelled.

A soul guiding lamp can only guide a few lonely souls, but when countless lamps are fused together, it will generate a power that all ghosts can hardly resist.

Xie Bi An controls the soul guiding lamp, which leads all the ghosts to retreat slowly towards the Underworld.

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Edited on 2 June 21 (Emzie)

 

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