From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 202: The Netherworld
It took three days of preparation to get everything ready for the underworld.

Among them, Li Zhen sent out a flying talisman. He was waiting in Chaoju City. The cold dragon from the North Sea had a relapse of its old illness. It stayed in the room and refused to come out, still waiting for an opportunity.

In the end, it was my second cousin Li Li who helped deliver it. Fortunately, the things were not complicated to refine. Both the Soul-Guiding Banner and the Mysterious Nether Pool were treasures and did not require any rituals or restrictions.

While preparing these materials, Cao Qing brought the three brothers of the grass bell worm the next afternoon, as Yu Shuyang had instructed earlier.

The three grass bell insects, like Cao Qing, all have the surname Cao, and their names are easy to remember. They are ranked from A Da, A Er to A San, and they are all fire-type grass insects with the cultivation level of the early eighth rank.

Although they were all fireflies, Cao Qing went to Chaoju City and wandered around working as an apprentice. Finally, he refined the mulberry fire in his belly into the blue flame of the furnace, and learned the skill of refining ink ingots.

The three brothers Cao and Ada learned the skills of collecting pollen, nectar and morning dew in Butterfly Valley. They also practiced the method of Fire Butterfly. They could cast spells to release hundreds of red butterflies to fly out and collect nectar and pollen.

Yu Shuyang could only smile and say nothing after seeing this. He asked Cao Qing to take the three brothers back and learn the craft of burning ink from them.

Yu's father told him that the Mofang was a joint venture between him and Cao Qing, and the profit split was set at 64%, but they had originally planned to split it 50-50.

However, Cao Qing insisted again and again, saying that there was no such division between the boss and the employee. So Yu's father did not insist anymore and thought about compensating him from other places when the time came.

Yu Shuyang originally wanted to take the candle spirit Wanjia and the tea tree spirit Yunhua to Taoliu Forest together, but was stopped by Li Taiping.

He said that Shuxian Shuihouzi did not want to publicize this matter too much, otherwise, he would not have dragged it on. He probably still feared the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance and did not want to spread the matter of Fangxian and Yuhuaxian.

He thought about it and felt that this was the truth, so he did not take the two boys with him. Because in the underworld to communicate with the dead, water and fire offerings are needed, and Wan Jia and Yun Hua are in charge of water and fire.

After putting the prepared things into the magic bag, Yu Shuyang went straight to the peach and willow forest. He was determined to create the Xuanming underworld and gain the merits of 30 million dead souls.

He took out the Dragon Carp Wanfa Bell, flew directly over the Thousand Barriers Cliff, and saw that the water spiders on the cliff had begun to weave webs, and the spider silk was pure white and reflective.

His ghost banner was made of evil silk made from water spider silk and winter wind breath, and he asked Li Taiping to weave it into the banner using the Beidou loom.

Jia Feng arrived at the peach and willow forest in a short while. Shuxian Shuihouzi was already waiting in front of the big pit. He had been here two days ago and said he would come over today.

At that time, he came to buy a flagpole for the ghost flag, and he needed a six-foot-long pole. The water monkey directly cut down a ghost-faced peach for him.

"My dear nephew, are you ready?" The Book Fairy Water Monkey rubbed his hands and said eagerly.

Yu Shuyang took out the soul-guiding banner from the magic bag. The banner was pure white, with two rows of boys holding yellow banners on the left and right. The two hammer-shaped bars outside the banner resembled a leopard's tail, and the two words "soul-guiding" were written in the middle using the Eight Spiritual Scriptures.

"Shuxian, everything is ready. I'll have to trouble you to help me." Yu Shuyang said.

The Book Fairy Water Monkey stared at the Soul-Guiding Banner. This earthly treasure and underworld artifact was really powerful. The banner had the divine power of the two stars, the Yellow Banner and the Leopard Tail, as well as the divine charm of the Xuanming Wenqu and the Black Tortoise.

"My dear nephew, your moves are indeed extraordinary. I will follow your instructions later." Shuxian was happy to flatter and naturally would not say anything to spoil the fun.

Along the way, Yu Shuyang held the ghost banner, attracting the dark death energy in the peach and willow forest to follow him, and the mysterious black energy floated on the banner.

Walking to the deep bottom of the pit, Shuxian Water Monkey opened the blessed land and invited Yu Shuyang in first. After not seeing him for a few days, he found that there were two more Yinshan Mountains.

The speed at which the dead souls gathered was truly astonishing, and I didn't know where so many wandering ghosts came from.

"Shuxian, you have to unseal a ghost mountain first. I have to cast a spell to invite the Star God down." Yu Shuyang gave the order first.

Then, he released the Dharma image. After refining Qi and neutralizing evil spirits, the Beitian Xuanwu Jinfeng Dharma Platform had both form and substance, just like a Dharma altar built of bricks and stones.

As soon as the Dharma Platform appeared, it shocked Shuxian Shuihouzi. This Dharma Platform combined the spirits of the Four Saints of the North Sky, Xuanwu, Wenqu, Fanxie Judge, and Shanggong Gou Chen, as well as the two true forms of Tianfeng and Taibai.

Yu Shuyang pushed open the axe and flag doors, and placed the soul-guiding banner beside the door. Then he entered the hall and summoned the True Lord Xuanming Wenqu.

There is no need to sing hymns or offer sacrifices this time. There is a shrine of Wenqu under the statue of Xuanwu. As for burning incense, paper money and praying, you can ask Wenqu to respond.

He explained the matter of communicating with the dead clearly, burned incense and paper money in the brazier three times, and prayed before the two gods Fanxie and Shanggong Gouchen.

One of them is the Judge of Heaven, and the other is the Celestial Qilin. They are the two spiritual gods that Li Taiping invited down to perform a spell using Li Taiping's Beidou Tiangang blanket when he was performing a spell to save the ghosts of the dead last time.

In this way, you can ask the three spirits to respond to you and use the underworld to communicate with the dead.

Before that, he had to first sense the underworld, concentrate his mind and calm his spirit, and use his mind to sense the good deeds in his body. He would be able to connect with them easily, just like knowing there was something in his pocket and reaching in to take it out directly.

Yu Shuyang attached the underworld sensor to the Dharma image, in the middle of the twelve earth pillars. This was a decision he had been thinking about repeatedly recently.

The principles of Hades and Earthly Branches are the same, and there is no problem in using them temporarily for attachment and support, but this will make the Dharma image become extremely heavy, just like using a spider's thread to hang a brick.

He took out the Xuanming Wenqu shrine from the magic bag, lit it on the ground in the middle of the earth pillar, and sent it into the underworld.

From what I could sense, I could see that the underworld was gray and only about the size of a house.

A gust of black wind blew out from the gray clouds, and with it came the Xuanming Wenqu shrine that had just been burned.

It grew ten times larger when it landed on the ground and turned into a shrine. The three spirits, Xuanming Wenquxingjun, Fanxie judge, and Shanggong Gouchen, descended into the temple.

In an instant, the temple was filled with light, and a ray of light emerged from the underworld, illuminating the gray clouds, and the space changed from a room to hundreds of miles in size.

Yu Shuyang then took out all the grains, fruits, trees, flowers and herbs, burned them and sent them into the underworld.

Suddenly, heavy rain fell from the sky of the underworld, and flowers, plants and trees grew on the ground. Some were blooming, and some were bearing fruit, and the scene was full of vitality.

Finally, the Xuanming Pool carved from water jade was placed into it. A palm-sized piece of black jade, shaped like an inkstone, had a picture of Xuanwu drinking water engraved in the ink pool.

The pool fell to the ground and turned into a canal, encircling the underworld for hundreds of miles. The canal was shaped like a turtle and a snake. The black water of Xuanming flowed in the turtle-shaped canal, and the Yellow Spring of Xuanming flowed in the snake-shaped canal.

In the future, as the underworld expands, the canal will be widened into the River Styx to defend against the ghost kings and monsters outside the underworld.

These two rivers of the underworld are also channels for communication between yin and yang. Living people cannot enter the underworld, so the transmission of physical objects between the two sides depends on the rivers of the underworld.

The first time he sensed the underworld was over. He did everything he could to the utmost and sent in all the flowers, plants and trees he could collect.

Apart from the Taiyin spiritual plant, this thing is too unpopular. Maybe the Humane Official has it. I can only ask Li Zhen to help find out about it when he goes to the inland of Kyushu next time.

Yu Shuyang walked out of the temple, picked up the soul-guiding banner, and interacted with the two Styx rivers. Black and yellow water surged on the white banner.

The Book Fairy Water Monkey also put on a robe, which was made of cotton collected from the Ghost Willow. It looked extremely funny. The black-haired monkey wore a khaki single-piece garment.

"My dear nephew, are you ready?" The Book Fairy Water Monkey asked in a sneaky tone, holding a leg bone as a brush in his hand.

"Shuxian, please wait a moment." Yu Shuyang took out an altar from the magic bag, a three-legged incense burner, two candlesticks with white wax, and three copper basins.

Clean water, steamed grains, and various flowers were poured into the copper basin, and incense, paper money, and incense sticks were placed on the table.

"Book Fairy, you can now unseal a ghost mountain."

As soon as he finished speaking, the calligraphy fairy Water Monkey thrust the brush forward and hit a ghost mountain. To be honest, he had sealed off eighty ghost mountains, which was already his limit, and the blessed land could hardly bear it.

As soon as the Ghost Mountain was released, gray smoke instantly dissipated, like the thick smoke billowing when a wildfire broke out, and thirty to forty thousand wandering ghosts were floating around.

Yu Shuyang grabbed two handfuls of steamed rice made from grains from the copper basin and threw them out directly. These were all incense rice that had been refined for offering sacrifices, and were specially used to nourish the ghost soldiers.

All of a sudden, all the wandering ghosts rushed forward. In their eyes, the two handfuls of steamed rice were like two mountains of rice and flour, and they all rushed forward.

These wandering ghosts cannot eat or drink after death and can only survive by swallowing ghost energy. How can they tolerate the fragrance of rice and flour?

"Shuxian, you come and burn the paper money. Don't be in a hurry. Burn them one by one slowly." Yu Shuyang ordered.

He did not practice the way of the gods, and could only rely on burning incense and paper money, and using the power of incense to guide wandering souls and ghosts.

Originally, he could have skipped the training and directly picked up the soul-guiding banner to lead all the wandering ghosts into the underworld.

Ever since Li Taiping told him that the underworld can be used to grow Taiyin spiritual plants, considering that the life span of a ghost is half of that of a living person, after overcoming the tribulation, the life span can be extended by three to five times.

Yu Shuyang took out the Dragon Carp Wanfa Bell to attract a spring breeze, and took out a bowl of spiritual water from the copper basin and poured it into the wind.

The Dharma bell's wind tongue made a sound like a phoenix, and used the correct rhythm of the Great Dao to pronounce the word "pure". Each sound of the bell was like the sound of dripping spring rain.

The spring breeze carries clean water to wash away the evil spirits of the dead souls, and wisps of incense smoke also follow the spring breeze and invade the wandering ghosts.

The Dragon Carp Magic Bell was shaking non-stop, and he also had to use the magic bell to cast a quiet natural wind to soothe the wandering ghosts and prevent them from rioting.

The wandering ghosts were all like phantoms. Now their sneaky aura had been washed away by clean water, and they were filled with the smoke of incense. Each of them was like a phantom in the white mist.

Yu Shuyang took a flower from each copper basin, lit it on two white candles on the left and right, and threw it into the spring breeze.

The two flowers are like two fireballs, and the fire and fragrance of the flowers, along with the spring breeze, invade the ghosts here.

All of a sudden, fire started coming out of the wandering ghosts, followed by the howling of ghosts and wolves, and the ghost wind in the ghost mountain was also attracted.

Yu Shuyang was not panicked. He lit a cigarette and inserted it into the incense burner, then waved the soul-guiding banner. The banner fluttered and transformed into a yellow tiger and a leopard.

The yellow tiger is the manifestation of the yellow flag, and the leopard is the manifestation of the leopard tail. They are both evil stars, one is the zodiac evil god and the other is the underworld evil god.

The yellow tiger and the leopard grew up as soon as they landed on the ground. Each one was about seventy or eighty feet tall. They devoured the little ghosts on the ground, swallowing two or three thousand of them in one bite.

Yu Shuyang deliberately cast a spell to scare the Book Fairy. The Soul-Guiding Banner was very simple to use to guide wandering souls. He only needed to shake the banner and release two streams of Styx water, which would directly draw the soul into the underworld.

The Book Fairy Water Monkey on the side was also afraid of the two ferocious gods by nature. The Yellow Banner Soul Guiding and the Leopard Tail Stratagem were both the nemesis of ghosts and monsters.

Before long, all the wandering ghosts were devoured, and the two beasts returned to the banner together, sending these three or four hundred thousand wandering ghosts into the underworld.

The mysterious black water swept a group of dead souls into the underworld. The originally narrow canal suddenly expanded, and the water flow turned into a big river. The underworld also expanded by four or five hundred miles.

Yu Shuyang is now extremely fortunate. He had discussed this with his junior brother Li Taiping in advance. He knew that the divine light of the Xuanming Wenqu Temple could only cover three or four hundred miles at most, and could not accommodate so many dead souls.

A ghost mountain expands three or four hundred miles. If all the ghost mountains in the blessed land are liberated, how vast will the underworld under his control be?
After thinking about it, Yu Shuyang also laughed. Thirty million ghosts is not a small number in itself. This is basically a ghost country.

"Shuxian, please unseal two more ghost mountains." Yu Shuyang said.

He has one thousand and five elements of Taoist magic power, and he only uses the Dragon Carp Wanfa Bell to cast spells, activating the Spring Breeze and the Phoenix Pure Sound, so the consumption is not great.

The Book Fairy Water Monkey would naturally not stop him, and was happy that Yu Shuyang could help more dead souls to be reincarnated so that his blessed land would not be in turmoil.

He didn't know yet that it wasn't that the blessed land couldn't accommodate the wandering ghosts, but that the blessed land was sinking towards the underworld.

Yu Shuyang followed the previous steps, first scattering steamed rice with grains to feed the wandering souls, then attracting the spring breeze to wash away the evil spirits with clean water, filling it with incense and flames, and finally lighting flowers to refine the ghosts' bodies to make them strong.

This step is the water and fire refining, which can refine the dead souls into spirit ghosts. It is the first step in cultivating ghost soldiers. It is used to prolong the lifespan of ghosts and cultivate the underworld for them.

After the training was over, two evil gods, Yellow Banner and Leopard Tail, appeared and took all the dead souls into their stomachs. These two evil gods became more and more agile, and there were vague signs of divine descent.

Yu Shuyang sent another 700,000 to 800,000 ghosts from the two ghost mountains into the underworld along the Styx. At this time, the two canals turned into big rivers.

The black water and yellow water take turns washing the ghosts aside, and the death, resentment, bad luck and bad luck carried by the dead souls are all washed away.

The ghosts in the underworld of Xuanming all became pure and spiritual ghosts. They all woke up and started picking fruits or worshiping in temples.

These ghosts are all dead souls. Even if they are refined by water and fire, and washed by the Styx like spirit ghosts, they cannot recover any of their memories in life, and they all act according to their instincts.

Yu Shuyang continued to guide the dead souls according to the law, and the Shuxian Shuihouzi was also very happy. The ghostly energy left by the wandering souls of Shuihuodu was just right for ghosts to practice.

The two of them worked together until all the incense and paper money were burned out, and they only managed to cross forty ghost mountains. Yu Shuyang felt a little unwilling.

"My dear nephew, can we continue?" Shuxian Shuihouzi asked him eagerly.

Yu Shuyang thought for a moment and shook his head. These souls would be his sooner or later anyway, so there was no need to rush.

"Without the incense and paper money, it will be difficult to continue the training. I'd better go back and prepare some more. This has already solved half of the problem, and it's not that critical anymore." Yu Shuyang persuaded.

The Spring Festival is in half a month, and he still has to take the Taoist exam, so he won't be able to come over in the short term. Therefore, when he comes up with an excuse, he leaves enough time.

"It seems that this is the only way." The Book Fairy Water Monkey sighed and took out another piece of paper and gave it to him.

"Take it to your father."

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