If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 252: Geology of the Underworld
Although Prince Fu’s name sounds very “lucky”, he doesn’t look “rich” at all – unlike the fat white man Xiaoyu had imagined. When she saw him for the first time, she immediately thought of the “Shadow God Picture” drawn for her by the Saint of Painting.

Prince Fu is like a male version of the "Beauty in the Shadow God Picture".

He is in his early thirties, without a trace of oldness or immaturity. His eyes are clear and gentle with a convincing determination. His temperament and appearance are the best among the men Xiaoyu has ever seen. In terms of appearance and outward demeanor alone, he has indeed surpassed Lieyang Hou and Dongfang Shuo.

"Fairy Yu, you are finally here!" Prince Fu was enthusiastic but not abrupt at all. "I have heard of your beautiful name for a long time. Today I finally get to see you. I am so lucky!"

Before Xiaoyu saluted, he stroked his wide sleeves and bowed to her.

Xiaoyu was puzzled by his attitude, but she looked flattered and quickly responded with a bigger gift - bowing even deeper.

"Your Highness Prince Fu, you are too polite. Xiaoyu is extremely honored to have the opportunity to enter the blessed land today and to be entertained by you."

Prince Fu also understood that his attitude was a little too enthusiastic and could easily cause misunderstanding, so he smiled and explained, "Fairy Yu, I loved the Nine Flower Sword when I was alive, and I have been practicing diligently for hundreds of years after my death.

In the past, whenever he met a master of Nine Flower Sword, he would send a carriage and invite the master to the palace to drink and discuss the philosophy of Kendo.

The fairy has pushed the Nine Flower Sword to an unprecedented level. I have longed for today's meeting.

I finally saw the fairy, I can't help but feel excited! "

If her bloody aura had not been too terrifying, he would have sent General Mingqi to her residence and invited her soul to visit the Fu Palace.

Xiao Yu showed a look of realization at first, and then asked curiously: "From what I see from your Highness's spirit, it seems that you have already mastered the Nine Flower Sword.

And your Highness's fellow descendants, such as Princess Li Manman and Princess Li Qianyue, are all sword geniuses, and they are both very good at the Nine Flower Sword. "

Wen Zhiruo also told her that she had vomited after watching the Nine Flower Sword.

Prince Fu shook his head and said, "You are different from Li Manman, Qianyue and Fairy Yu. They just practiced according to the sword manual. It was difficult for them to create a new flower sword. But you can easily use the charm of various flowers, and even created the Lord of Flowers.

This kind of unprecedented talent and talent is incomparable to them."

Xiaoyu likes to hear this.

There are many people who praise her for her potential to catch up with Li Manman and Li Qianyue and become the "second of the Five Sword Masters". The only one who bluntly says that her talent and ability far surpass those of the two women is this old ghost.

"Your Highness, you are too kind. Everyone has his or her strengths. I just happen to have some experience in the Nine Flower Sword." Xiao Yu said with a smile.

Prince Fu was about to say something else when Li Xianzhi walked out of the inner hall quickly and said, "Xiao Fengxian, come with me quickly. The Seven Hells Pond has been opened and everyone has gone in."

Prince Fu opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he finally sighed with regret, "Fairy Yu, please take care of your business first!
When the matter of the Ghost Country in Guaizi Mountain is over, I will send General Sun to Tianmen Town to invite the fairies to come to the blessed land to discuss the method of the 'Lord of Flowers'. Don't refuse then!"

Xiaoyu agreed with a smile, followed Li Xianzhi through the inner hall, and continued walking along the corridor.

As she walked, she asked, "Where did everyone go? What is the Seven Hells Pond?"

Li Xianzhi said: “You have seen along the way that this is the blessed land of King Fu, and it is also the underworld.

After entering Guaizi Mountain, we will probably see similar scenes. At least the environment in the underworld is similar."

At this point, he tilted his head to look at her and asked, "Have you ever been to the paradise of the underworld before?"

"I've only been to the ghost world before, and today I'm fortunate enough to see the blessed land for the first time." Xiao Yu said.

Li Xianzhi said: "The ghost road is actually the 'road between yin and yang', and it cannot be considered the real underworld.

But once you are familiar with the ghost path, as long as you walk the ghost path more and see more, you will encounter the blessed land sooner or later. "

A blessed land is actually a "graveyard" with good feng shui, which is the underworld corresponding to the graveyard in the world.

Xiaoyu spends most of his time in Tianmen Town, and there is definitely no cemetery for burying the dead in Tianmen Town.

If she lived outside the city and often used the Yin Gui Sword Escape Technique to travel around, she would have encountered the blessed land long ago.

However, the blessed land she encountered was most likely just a cemetery for ordinary people.

“The ghost path is indeed like a crack. Although you can walk anywhere without any direction restrictions, it feels like you are sandwiched between the world of the living and the world of the dead.

I had never been to the underworld before, and I thought that although the ghost path was for ghosts to walk on, the surrounding scenery seen on the ghost path were all scenery from the world of the living.

Now I understand that by walking on the ghost path, one can see the scenes of the world of the living and the world of the dead.

But most of the time, there is no blessed land near the ghost road, and the scene of the underworld is almost blank. "Xiao Yu sighed.

The ghost world is the "gap dimension" between the world of the living and the world of the dead.

Theoretically, the scenery of the underworld and the world of the living can be projected into the ghost world.

However, the underworld is mostly a gray land, which is equivalent to an ineffective landscape and is difficult to be distinguished by living people walking on the ghost path.

"Since this is your first time entering the blessed land, you should go take a dip in the 'Seven Hells Yin Pool' of Taoist Shuilong, to at least ensure that you don't get lost in the underworld." Li Xianzhi said.

"What kind of pool is the Seven Hells Yin Pool?" Xiao Yu asked curiously.

"There is indeed a pool, but it is essentially a formation that opens a gap in the ground veins of the blessed land."

Li Xianzhi frowned and thought for a moment, then continued to explain: "It's like digging a well in the underworld!
By digging a hole in the ground in the world of the living, you can dig through the earth veins and find the underground water veins.

The Seven Hells Yin Pond is equivalent to digging a "well" on the ground of the underworld. After digging through the veins of the underworld, you can't find the underground water veins, but you can dig out a Yin vein that spews out Yin Qi.

The Yin Qi emitted from the Yin Veins was trapped in a pool by the magic circle, called the 'Seven Hells Yin Pool'."

Seeing Xiaoyu still looking puzzled, he sighed: "It's better to go down and experience it for yourself.

The Seven Hells Pond is just ahead, we're almost there
You should be able to sense it, the yin energy ahead is particularly strong."

Xiaoyu did sense it.

But the entire Fuwang Palace looks bright on the outside and gloomy on the inside, and it’s hard to tell which part is more eerie.

The two walked out of the corridor and finally entered a large garden and came to the pond in the middle of the garden.

The pool was supposed to be a square pond, but now it seemed like there was a major earthquake. A huge crack appeared on the ground, and the water in the pool flowed into the crack, causing the pond to dry up.

As a result, a large amount of negative energy gushed out from the crack in the ground and filled the pond again.

"This is the Seven Hells Yin Pond, just go straight down." Li Xianzhi said.

"Is everyone in there? The pool is so small."

Xiaoyu looked around and saw only a few "immortals" including Taoist Shuilong, Bikongzi, and old fairy Yuchen sitting cross-legged by the big crack. There was no one around or inside the pool.

But the garden pond is not big, at most two hundred square meters. Not counting the martial arts masters from Tianmen Town, there are more than five hundred chivalrous men in the "Ghost Slayer Squad".

"The Fuwang Palace is a piece of prime blessed land. The 'Seven Hells Yin Pond' dug here is as deep as the ten layers of hell. Let alone a few hundred people, it is more than enough to cram all the people in Tianmen Town in." Taoist Shuilong said lightly.

The Taoist looked to be in his forties or fifties, wearing a dark green Taoist robe. He was tall and thin, about two meters one hundred feet tall, with eyebrows half a meter long, which, together with his sideburns and beard, hung down to his chest. His eyebrows, beard and hair were all azure green, like water plants in a river, and growing on his clumsy face, really looked a bit like a dragon's head and tentacles.

Xiao Yu saluted to several immortals, and then bowed to Taoist Shuilong alone, and asked: "What do the seven hells and ten levels of hell mean? Is it that the eighteen levels of hell below are connected to the underworld?"

"The answer is in the pool. No matter what I say on the shore, you won't understand. Go down and soak for a while. You don't need me to explain. With your intelligence, you can figure it out yourself." Taoist Shuilong said.

Xiaoyu didn't have any sense of crisis at all.

She bowed again and strode into the pool.

The Yin energy coming out of the cracks in the ground was suppressed by several immortals within the range of the pool. It looked very shallow, but once a person stepped into the Yin energy, they would immediately disappear, just like a lone boat sinking into an 800-mile quicksand river.

Xiaoyu also seemed to have returned to the feeling many years ago when she first fell into the Quicksand River.

She was caught in the undercurrent and it was pitch black and she couldn't see clearly around her.

I lost my sense of direction and couldn't control my body. I could only go with the flow and keep sinking.

Soon Xiaoyu felt that she had sunk to the bottom, but unlike the quicksand river where she stopped immediately after reaching the bottom, she continued to sink.

She touched bottom once, then continued to sink. She touched bottom a second time, and continued to sink. After touching bottom five times in a row, Xiaoyu felt herself floating up.

After all, the Seven Hells Pond is not a quicksand river where even goose feathers cannot float.

The yin energy around her was boiling and surging like a rapid current at the bottom of a river, carrying her upwards.

She hit the "ceiling", continued to rise, and hit the "ceiling" again without any hindrance. Just like the previous continuous sinking, she continued to float upwards. After touching the ceiling three times in a row, the torrent of yin energy carried her down again, once, twice, and this time she touched the bottom seven times.

She touched bottom five times, touched the ceiling three times, and touched bottom seven times, which meant she sank nine floors!
Xiaoyu thought of the "Ten Levels of Hell" that Taoist Shuilong had mentioned before.

"Xiao Qiang, did you feel it?" Xiao Yu patted the jade bone bell on her waist.

"I feel it. We are floating up and down in hell. Could it be that the underworld really has eighteen dimensions?" Xiaoqiang murmured.

"It doesn't seem like a dimension," Xiaoyu felt conflicted.

Every time she hits bottom and the ceiling, if it is explained by crossing dimensions, it will become very simple and clear: there are eighteen dimensions in the underworld, and at this time the "Seven Hells Yin Pool" has drilled through the blessed field and dug to the tenth dimension, and she is going up and down in the "ten-story elevator shaft".

But she felt that every time she hit bottom and the ceiling, time and space did not change.

At least the change of time and space is not as obvious as when the human world turns to the divine world, or when the human world turns to the ghost world.

"If it's not a change of dimension, then what is it? I feel like there's a sense of layering between the ups and downs." Xiaoqiang said.

Xiao Yu thought about it and said slowly: "Is it possible that the underworld here is in a semi-chaotic state, and that great magic power can be used to open up ten dimensions and ten levels of hell, just like the underworld opened up eighteen levels of hell.

If a great god came to the Fuwang Palace and dug down, could he open up ten layers of hell at most?"

"That sounds reasonable, Master. You can go find those immortals. They opened up the 'Seven Hells Yin Pond' and they must know what's going on." Xiao Qiang said.

"But it's so chaotic here, how can I find the exit——"

As soon as he said this, Xiao Yu suddenly had an epiphany - the exit was at the top, and as long as he swam upstream and out of the "first level of hell", he would be able to return to King Fu's Palace.

Perhaps this is also the purpose of using the Seven Hells Yin Pool to train the heroes of Shudong.

(End of this chapter)